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Congrats on reaching 100 for the year. Nice work on the elves, the army is looking great. Have you got any silver helms to complete the classic look?
The cloak on the crusader is really well done, really nice texture there

Crusader is great. The cape really works. I like the Aquila on the cape, too. Turned out really nice.

Good luck with the Necrons, and I like the walkthrough.

Congrats on finishing the elves and nice work on the Crusader, he is a lovely sculpt, I had fun painting him last year.

Top right pic of test necrons is my favorite pic, the dark metal and the glow contrast grey. A squad of those will look amazing!

Congrats on finishing the High Elves, gobert! They look stunning together mate, like something out of an old White Dwarf. There's a group to be proud of

The texture work on the Crusader's cloak stuck out to me as well, really nice work there. The way you've painted the armour makes the filigree pop. He's a nice piece!

The cron experiment is looking good so far. I think an army painted in the bottom left scheme would be very visually striking.

As always, admiring your constant productivity! You are an active inspiration mate.

Great work with the Crusader! Steel and red always works, and that red cloth is absolutely wonderful!

Also, on shading gold with purple: lots of people do it. It works rather well as purple is the complementary color to yellow.

Great work on Gotfret De Montbard. Congratulations on passing 100 painted models in 2020.

Cheers,

CB

MegaDave wrote:I'm a little late to the High Elf lovefest, but they turned out really nice. Hits me right in the feels!

Crusader is coming along nicely, I like the highlights on his cloak.

Can't wait to see where all of your necron experiments end up

Cheers MegaDave, glad you liked the Elves. There’ll be more at some point!

youwashock wrote:Solid work on the Crusader! Texture work on the cape is a great touch. You have consciously chosen a limited pallette, but have not omitted any detail in the process. Nice job. Necron tests look cool, too. Can't say which I prefer yet.

Cheers, he was pretty straightforward with plenty of drybrushing on the metal that came out pretty well. I too am undecided on the crons, probably erring towards bottom left for now

Maharg wrote:Congrats on reaching 100 for the year. Nice work on the elves, the army is looking great. Have you got any silver helms to complete the classic look?
The cloak on the crusader is really well done, really nice texture there

Thanks Maharg, I’m pretty happy to break 100 again, I’ll push on for a few more. I do have a small unit of Silver Helms, they’re mostly done with just their Horses and the Banner Bearer to do. I hope to get them done before the year is out. If we don’t escape the building site it might be a nice Christmas project.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Crusader is great. The cape really works. I like the Aquila on the cape, too. Turned out really nice.

Good luck with the Necrons, and I like the walkthrough.

Thanks Jeff! I love it when a happy accident occurs!

Viterbi wrote:Congrats on finishing the elves and nice work on the Crusader, he is a lovely sculpt, I had fun painting him last year.

Top right pic of test necrons is my favorite pic, the dark metal and the glow contrast grey. A squad of those will look amazing!

Thanks Viterbi, I think the top right is my least favourite, I probably should highlight it as it was my original plan but I’m not sure how best to do the blades.

tzurk wrote:Congrats on finishing the High Elves, gobert! They look stunning together mate, like something out of an old White Dwarf. There's a group to be proud of

The texture work on the Crusader's cloak stuck out to me as well, really nice work there. The way you've painted the armour makes the filigree pop. He's a nice piece!

The cron experiment is looking good so far. I think an army painted in the bottom left scheme would be very visually striking.

As always, admiring your constant productivity! You are an active inspiration mate.

High praise tzurk, thanks very much! The Crusaders armour was just dry brushing, so the filigree credit should go to the GW designers . I think bottom left is my favourite so far too, I’ve a couple of other bits I’d like to try, but he’s nearly the one. If you are in admiring my productivity, you should check out ListenToMeWarriors’ plog, now that’s impressive!

mcmattila wrote:Great work with the Crusader! Steel and red always works, and that red cloth is absolutely wonderful!

Also, on shading gold with purple: lots of people do it. It works rather well as purple is the complementary color to yellow.

Thanks mcmatillla, doubly so for the red recipe! Having used Gold and Purple a lot this year I should’ve twigged on the gold for shading purple sooner! I’ll have to try it again some time

Captain Brown wrote:Great work on Gotfret De Montbard. Congratulations on passing 100 painted models in 2020.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown, 100 is a good number for me, not a prolific as some but enough for me to be happy!

Sadly no painting updates, but I wanted to reply to everyone. Here’s a couple of pics for the page rollover;

That Crusader looks great, as do the High Elves, but I adore the necron the most. That is a gorgeous test mini and use of contrast.

Also congratulations on the century for the year.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
That Crusader looks great, as do the High Elves, but I adore the necron the most. That is a gorgeous test mini and use of contrast.

Also congratulations on the century for the year.

Thanks man, the Necrons have been fun so far, I’ll dip in and out of the tests as the mood or timings allow.

During a meeting today I did some mods to my bikers. I was noticing that I’d rubbed a bit of paint off them on their base layer, so I decided on a slaaneshi paint handle

I tried with blutac at first but they were too wobbly so I super glued them on place. To get them to stay in the handle I drilled a small hole whilst the clamp was pulled back. This seems to hold the marines and their bikes in place pretty well. So much so that got on with painting them.

I tidied up the black on the bikes where I’d missed with the spray and to Matt the bits that will be black. The Marines with their weapons out got them painted black . Then I broke out the Retributor Armour to tidy up the bikers and add the gold trim to the bikes. I finished with a spot of Leadbelcher where appropriate on the Marines.


I’ll get the leadbelcher on the bikes next time out before breaking the purple out then washing with Nuln Oil.

Someone asked for a side by side with one of my original marines and the one I drybrushed the other day;

In my head I’d begin to think maybe the dry brushing wasn’t too far from the original, but side by side the layered Marine looks much brighter. Hence I’ll be sticking with the layers.

Thanks for looking!

Gold riders, go! Looking good, man. You could always experiment with a mix of the two gold methods. Build up with drybrushing then go back in with a few whacks of the brightest layer on the highest points/areas you want emphasized.

Riders are looking golden Have you thought about a spot of silver on your highlights? I’ve tried it a few times with some success.

youwashock wrote:Gold riders, go! Looking good, man. You could always experiment with a mix of the two gold methods. Build up with drybrushing then go back in with a few whacks of the brightest layer on the highest points/areas you want emphasized.

Cheers bud, I might give that a go, probably not on the jump marine as he’s too washed out with the silver dry brush I think.

Yorkright wrote: Riders are looking golden Have you thought about a spot of silver on your highlights? I’ve tried it a few times with some success.

Cheers, yeah the brightest spot of the finished marine is highlighted silver. I wasn’t sure when I first did it, but it looks pretty good in the end.

Spent this evening getting everybody ready for a nuln oil wash. I did the metal parts on the bikes, the purple on the marines and the bikes tanks. I gave the seats a nice Zandri dust coat as well, then I got the nuln oil out and they just need to dry now;


And now it’s time for bed! Thanks for looking

Bikes looking aces mate. Zandri dust seating fits well, reminds me of the seating in my parents' starwagon growing up...

My eyes must be going (wouldn't surprise me...) because I think the drybrushed mini stands up to the old one, bar missing a few shadows around the joins. Either way the gold is glorious. I still double take at how striking this scheme is. Inspired colour choice mate.

Good to see that the bikers sprang for the C-level upholstery Love the purple color dose on the bikes, looks perfect!

Good progress gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thos ebikers are shaping up nicely. I liek the non metal heads, that really makes them stand out in contrast against the metallic paint.

It's crazy how old these SM bikes are in 2020, yet they're still holding their own. Back in the GorkaMorka days I always wanted to do a really bad-ass ork biker gang using lots of SM bike parts. That was before they redid the ork bikes, which shows you how old these kits are! Crazy that the basic SM bike has never had a redesign in all these years. All time classic.

Nice job on them all so far. You've laid down some solid work.

If you're gonna ride, may as well do it in style. Looking forward to the group shot you will take after finishing the bikes. Nudge, nudge.

tzurk wrote:Bikes looking aces mate. Zandri dust seating fits well, reminds me of the seating in my parents' starwagon growing up...

My eyes must be going (wouldn't surprise me...) because I think the drybrushed mini stands up to the old one, bar missing a few shadows around the joins. Either way the gold is glorious. I still double take at how striking this scheme is. Inspired colour choice mate.

See I was going to agree with Viterbi and the C-level upholstery, but it does kinda have that 80s/90s beige leather kinda look about it! I wish I had some crackle paint to really go for the effect! I had another look at the gold on the drybrushed guy now I’ve re layered the Retributor on the bikers. He seems to have lost the golden yellow/brown of the base colour, possibly from the other colours being applied too heavily.

Viterbi wrote:Good to see that the bikers sprang for the C-level upholstery Love the purple color dose on the bikes, looks perfect!

Tzurk spoiled the C-level upholstery idea, it has to be beat up plastic leather now! . Though really the Emperors finest and heavily belonged marines really should have the best for their ceramics posteriors! As for the purple, I’d seen a few others do a spot colour on the tank and had to follow suit.

Captain Brown wrote:Good progress gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers CB, slow and steady is how I roll!

Mephistoles20 wrote:Thos ebikers are shaping up nicely. I liek the non metal heads, that really makes them stand out in contrast against the metallic paint.

Thanks Mephistoles20, welcome to my plog. I’m glad you like how the old marines are shaping up, the non-metal helmets was really from ListenToMeWarriors’ Celestial Lions, they made me want to do similar, and after always following Chapters that others had conceived, I wanted to make them my own. It’s been fun bringing them about!

theCrowe wrote:It's crazy how old these SM bikes are in 2020, yet they're still holding their own. Back in the GorkaMorka days I always wanted to do a really bad-ass ork biker gang using lots of SM bike parts. That was before they redid the ork bikes, which shows you how old these kits are! Crazy that the basic SM bike has never had a redesign in all these years. All time classic.

Nice job on them all so far. You've laid down some solid work.

Yeah they’re really ancient! I remember them coming out way back in 2nd. They stand up pretty well I think, though when I break out the outriders from Indomitus I’ll probably change my mind! I like the idea of using SM Bikes for Orks’, a job lot off eBay came with a few partial SM bikes.. and I still have a few 2nd addition Ork bikes to complete... ideas! Thanks!

youwashock wrote:If you're gonna ride, may as well do it in style. Looking forward to the group shot you will take after finishing the bikes. Nudge, nudge.

Exactly! These guys have been fun to bling up, I’ll definitely get a group shot together. Though knowing my rate of paint, it’ll be November sometime!

Whilst it doesn’t look much I managed one of the more time consuming bits of these guys tonight; reapplying Retributor Armour over the Nuln Oil Stains areas. I’m not sure why but the last two Panthers I did cake out less vibrant than the first bunch. Happily these guys are coming out bright! I did the trim on the bikes too;


Liberator and Stormhost next I think. Then the Leadbelcher through iron breaker to Stormhost, then purple and black highlights before breaking out the green! Which just made me realise that these guys don’t have any purity seals yet. I might have to rectify that, they’re not complete Heathens... yet!

Thanks for looking!

I can live with beat-up plastic upholstery, still very fitting

Are the viewscreens on the bikes going to be that sweet green like the other lenses?

That's a lovely strong gold on those marines, the finished bikers will no doubt look great! And I can't help but love that excellent block of old school High Elf spearmen

Green view screens would be awesome! But, I have no doubt that the bikes will be awesome either way; because they already are!

Nice work.

 DJJazzyJeff wrote:
Green view screens would be awesome! .

I second that motion. Green sat nav for the win.

Imagine a SM Mod on a scooter but instead of all mirrors and lights on the front it's all purity seals! Ha ha, Who are the most Mod SM chapter?
Not Void Panthers really, They're too glam rock.

Viterbi wrote:I can live with beat-up plastic upholstery, still very fitting

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only beat-up plastic upholstery! . Those the bikers’ hasn’t changed since last pics yet!

youwashock wrote:Are the viewscreens on the bikes going to be that sweet green like the other lenses?

Yeah I was planning on green again. I hope I do a better job than the scanner on the last Panther I did!

Ragsta wrote:That's a lovely strong gold on those marines, the finished bikers will no doubt look great! And I can't help but love that excellent block of old school High Elf spearmen

Cheers Ragsta, and welcome to my plog! Everyone loves a bit of old school every now and then! It’s been fun revisiting the Elf scheme I chose many moons ago!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Green view screens would be awesome! But, I have no doubt that the bikes will be awesome either way; because they already are!

Nice work.

Hopefully they’ll be doubly awesome with green screens

theCrowe wrote:

 DJJazzyJeff wrote:
Green view screens would be awesome! .

I second that motion. Green sat nav for the win.

Imagine a SM Mod on a scooter but instead of all mirrors and lights on the front it's all purity seals! Ha ha, Who are the most Mod SM chapter?
Not Void Panthers really, They're too glam rock.

Green it is guys! Sounds like they’d be rivals with the Goff Rockere! Maybe an Angry Marine bike perhaps? Though they’re not, glam, but they do love a good purity seal! Damn, I meant to fish out a purity seal each for these guys! Hopefully I remember now!

Some solid progress tonight, the gold and silver bits are done, I tried going more for the highlighting volumes approach and I think it looks great from head on, but I’m not convinced from the side. Maybe my 2 light source approach for the fire bunch was better? I also cleaned up the purple and black bits ready for highlighting.

The Black will get a hint of purple, and both colours will finish up with pallid wych flesh highlights. Then it’ll be on to the green and bases. Then I need to figure out how I’m going to affix them to the bases if they’re to lean and not break. I might have to try my hand at pinning, anyone got any pointer?

Thanks for looking

If there's space under the base you can add extra weight to offset any lean but the base should be wide enough not to need it. To pin with added strength you can put a hole right through the base for a longer pin wire to loop it underneath and back up into the bike. That's how my big forest dragon in a tree stays... In his tree. Two loops of paper clip wire go up about an inch into the tree trunk from below and then do a big loop under the base in oposite directions and then back up into the tree. I could show you a pic but honestly you don't need quite that level of extra support for a marine bike. 5mm of a hole is all you need really. Its just to strengthen the joint.

I am working on the new outriders and though I like them the old school bikes have a lot more character to them, in my opinion. Going to be a great addition to your army Gobert.

Gold looks pretty darn good from here. Pinning may not be necessary if you are using plastic cement. If you are concerned, just a quick pin through the tire will be good. After glue, pin, paint and basing material, it should hold.

theCrowe wrote:If there's space under the base you can add extra weight to offset any lean but the base should be wide enough not to need it. To pin with added strength you can put a hole right through the base for a longer pin wire to loop it underneath and back up into the bike. That's how my big forest dragon in a tree stays... In his tree. Two loops of paper clip wire go up about an inch into the tree trunk from below and then do a big loop under the base in oposite directions and then back up into the tree. I could show you a pic but honestly you don't need quite that level of extra support for a marine bike. 5mm of a hole is all you need really. Its just to strengthen the joint.

See, I figured your dragon was half way up the tree by magic! Thanks for letting us behind the curtain . My concern wasn’t about toppling, just being able to secure them to the bases at a funny angle. I’ll give paper clips a try for the turning dudes. Cheers for the pointers

Yorkright wrote: I am working on the new outriders and though I like them the old school bikes have a lot more character to them, in my opinion. Going to be a great addition to your army Gobert.

Yeah, the new bikes are cool and all, but the Old school ones are still pretty rad!

youwashock wrote:Gold looks pretty darn good from here. Pinning may not be necessary if you are using plastic cement. If you are concerned, just a quick pin through the tire will be good. After glue, pin, paint and basing material, it should hold.

Does plastic cement work through the paint? I’ve always been dubious, though I have t experimented that much. Both base and wheels have paint on them which has given me cause for doubt. I’ll try a paper lip pin just for added piece of mind and something new to try.

As ever with me, they’re not quite finished yet! All of the main colours are done so it’s just accent colours on buttons and the like left to do. Tonight was highlighting and neatening up the blacks and purples, I also tried a bit of contrast on the bases. Nothing special, just Basilicanum Grey and Black Templar on the tiles and tarmac bits. Then instead of going to bed at a sensible time I decided to do the greens. I did the view screens and a button on the bikes.


As my memory always fails me, the Black was highlighted Liche Purple and then Dawnstone. The purple was highlighted Genestealer Purple and Dawnstone too. I should probably add an index of recipes to my first post! Once again I forgot to find some purity seals for these guys. Question though; one for the Marines only or 1 for the Marine and one for the bike?

Bedtime now, thanks for looking!

The bikes need purity seals too, can‘t let the machine spirits get any wrong ideas