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I personally like your modifications to your shelf. If building display space onto that wooden back section is your favorite, then it makes sense to pursue that one. And hopefully in the future you will need to make the one along the back wall too

 Syro_ wrote:
I personally like your modifications to your shelf. If building display space onto that wooden back section is your favorite, then it makes sense to pursue that one. And hopefully in the future you will need to make the one along the back wall too

Thanks syro, the shelving unit gets better with every mini that occupies it I think you’re right, though the wooden area will be a more challenging project… and yes, ultimately I’d like to do both!

My building spree carried on tonight with some work on my Terminators. I finished cleaning them this afternoon but, boy, do they need plenty of work! The person that built them used a strong glue, but put them together with the sprue tabs still on in places. That means as well as getting the legs off to try for a better pose I’m also having to split the torso, both of which are proving tricky! I’ve got a few torsos separated and rebuilt, but I decided to concentrate on some of my duplicate Space Marine Heroes;

The Thunder Hammer duplicate has become the regular Terminator squads Sergeant by getting the other duplicates’ Storm Bolter and the eBay rescue Terminator Sergeants Power Sword. I quite like the pose, it keeps some of the dynamism of the Heroes range but is a bit different. The other duplicate will be getting some Lightning Claws from the rescued Assault squad. I’ve also mocked up a running rescue Marine with the duplicates Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield. I still have a duplicate Power Fist to throw in to the regular squad.

I’m then not sure what to do sight the remaining rescue Marines. I think I’ll do another Squad to go with the Cyclone Missile Launcher Hero, but need a couple more Storm Bolters and a Sergeants weapon. I’d also like to use the Sergeant legs hiding in the back of the pic, but I need to get his head out and find a helmet as I can’t seem to separate them from the torso.

I’m still struggling for Zoat motivation, so will probably carry on building for a while, and don’t be surprised to see something else getting paint first.

Thanks for looking

I’ve been continuing to fettle with the Terminators, adding a few bits to the Space Marine Heroes twins. I think they’re far enough away from their originals now, but will be getting some basing work done too. I also threw together a Sergeant for the extra squad I’ll be building too.



The new Sgt is using a sword I had got in a bunch of Dark Angels bits I got a while back. I also solved my Stormbolter shortage and found an extra pair of legs to mix things up some more.

I was hoping to have more to show, but the rescue of these eBay terminators is taking quite some effort. Thankfully I got them at a good price!

Rescues are always interesting.to witness.

What type of glue do you reckon the person used?

Not Online!!! wrote:
Rescues are always interesting.to witness.

What type of glue do you reckon the person used?

Thanks NotOnline, to be honest I’m not sure what glue they used. At first I thought it was poly cement, but it seems to be a layer on top of the plastic, not welding the pieces together. It also seems to leave a residue that my poly cement is not working on, so I guess some kind of super glue?

Carrying on the theme of terminator builds I have now finished off the build of the 3 squads;

First up is the Assault Terminators. Thanks to my bad photo composition you can’t see one of the Thunder Hammers, but I think he has a decent running pose, well, as much as a Terminator can run!

Second is the regular squad. These guys had a little more work, and I’m pleased how the regular marine came out. His legs had the sergeant crux on them, but I shaved it off and filed it down as he’s just a regular Terminator.

And finally here’s the squad to go with the Cyclone launcher dude. The guy at the back and the guy on the left have a few extras from the Dark Angels bits I got a while back. In fact the guy at the back has legs from that kit too, albeit with the DA icons shaved off. They’re not as dynamic as the SMH boys, but I’m happy enough with them.

Looking through my bits I think I’m 1 body and 8 arms from having enough bits for another squad… maybe when this lot is painted?

No pics as yet, but I’ve also started make the master mould for their shoulder pad icons. I’ll try to remember pics next time. That might be a while though as I’m away with work next week (Zoat will be travelling with me) and at the weekend I’m helping my brother in law destroy their kitchen and rip up their floor (if we don’t get it done, I’ll probably be back there the following weekend too!) ready for builders to arrive.

That’s it for now, thanks for looking!

Always great to see new Panthers! I'm very impressed by that plasma glow on the sarge's pistol. Looking forward to seeing that command squad painted!

 mcmattila wrote:
Always great to see new Panthers! I'm very impressed by that plasma glow on the sarge's pistol. Looking forward to seeing that command squad painted!

Thanks mcmatilla, the glow was just following the recent Midwinter Minis guide. It was pretty simple but gives a decent glow effect, particularly in the photos

I’m currently away with work, but have brought a few bits with me to get some progress on the Zoat.

Last night I decided to layer rather than dry brush her scales… because I’m crazy! That and ultimately I want different shades of red in different areas. To be honest, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting, and so far looks quite good. I’m thinking of oranges for the scales and bone highlights for the chitinous areas. Depending what time I get back from dinner I might throw some paint at her tonight too.

Thanks for looking


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I got back from dinner at a sensible time and managed to make some good progress on the Zoat.

First I took the mix of reds up from Mephiston, Adding Evil Sunz Scarlet, Blood Angels Orange and Fire Dragon Bright. I kept the same pool of paint and added lighter colours, with each layer being smaller and covering fewer scales each time.

Most from this view have had the lightest colours applied.


Next I start d a new mix, working from Mephiston, adding more and more Zandri Dust for the solid looking scales on her legs and the under belly chitin.

In this pic it’s easier to see that I applied a base layer over the armoured areas before calling it for the night. It needs another few layers, but im feeling the motivation the get her done now!

Thanks for looking

Fupping excellent Gobert! Really nice contrast on the zoat skin. Terminators look great too, always love to see them. Such cool minis.

 Olthannon wrote:
Fupping excellent Gobert! Really nice contrast on the zoat skin. Terminators look great too, always love to see them. Such cool minis.

Thanks Olthannon, she’s turned out better than I had hoped. I’d stalled on ideas for quite a while, and I’m nearly at the limit of ideas I had. I’m edging towards turquoise as her 3rd colour now. I saw someone doing a Space Marine Heroes Terminator on instagram, and it’s got me keen to do something with mine.

A productive week away for work and hobby came to a grinding halt in the ridiculous queue at Köln/Bonn Airport yesterday. Arrived in plenty of time but the queue was longer than the time available and about half of the passengers missed the flight! So if you’re thinking of flying from CGN, check for other flights or arrive about 4 hours before your flight. On the plus side I always enjoy train journeys, it’s just a civilised way to travel even if I’m getting home 20 hours late!

Anyway, rant over, here’s some hobby… I got a good bit done on the Zoat, you saw my last post getting the skin done and on the last intended evening I highlighted the armour;



Next will be highlighting the black bits and then to tackle the tummy glass which I will do with a turquoise glow if nobody has better ideas. That’ll probably have to wait for next weekend as I’m knackered and not home yet!

That is an awesome Red and scales.

Great work, gobert! The armor is looking really good paired with that lovely red. I think going teal/turquoise is a good call for the belly plate.

Ah a red Zoat, I'm so used to seeing the green one I never consider other colors.

Zoat is looking good gobert.

Cheers,

CB

That cream armour looks spot on, lovely contrast.

Not Online!!! wrote:That is an awesome Red and scales.

Thanks Not Online, they were fun to do, if slower than drybrushing.

youwashock wrote:Great work, gobert! The armor is looking really good paired with that lovely red. I think going teal/turquoise is a good call for the belly plate.

Cheers youwashock, it was somewhat inspired by the red Zoat on warcom, and as you’ll see i swapped the OGs green with turquoise.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Ah a red Zoat, I'm so used to seeing the green one I never consider other colors.

Yeah, they’re a rare breed the red ones! Rumour has it they’re faster too…

Captain Brown wrote:Zoat is looking good gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks cap!

Olthannon wrote:That cream armour looks spot on, lovely contrast.

Cheers Olthannon, I’m liking the tinting of everything with purple, it helps with the contrast a bit too I feel.

So it’s been a while. Last weekend was spent beasting myself by helping my Brother-in-law rip out their kitchen and lift what must’ve been a few tons of tiles. As a result no mid week painting happened and tonight was the first night I felt like it. I ended up getting the Zoat all but done too. I started with the greys, building them up to an off white, sticking with the mixing the lighter colour in to the previous colour and having a bit of druchi purple to keep the tones similar. I went quite pale for a high contrast, but didn’t stray to NMM. Then I had fun with the belly plates, vials and gems. Starting with a turquoise wash, then adding white in a squiggly pattern and repeating, before finishing with an even lighter turquoise wash. The final touch was to paint her toe nails, first brown then adding Zandri Dust;




Th belly glow isn’t what I’d originally envisaged, but I quite like it, so it’s staying. Hope you guys like her!

Thanks for looking

I like the belly glow. It gives the impression that there’s lots of motion going on in there. Lots of little lights floating around in there as opposed to one big glowy glow. Great work.

Amazing work on the Zoat! Always fun to see all the different color schemes on such a great mini.

Hot damn, love the glowy tum tum, it looks galactic!

I have to say I love the mini, it looks so alien, especially the gun. Your colour scheme is so impressive, I'm glad you went with this in the end instead of the green.

Great job on the belly indeed!

Love it. You really killed this one, gobert. The armor, the red, the belly plate, the back of the glove. All around awesome work.

 gobert wrote:

The Red Hobbit wrote:Ah a red Zoat, I'm so used to seeing the green one I never consider other colors.

Yeah, they’re a rare breed the red ones! Rumour has it they’re faster too…

Hopefully 3x faster

I like the belly glow on the Zoat. And I can comiserate with the tile work, nothing quite destroys the knees like replacing tile.

theCrowe wrote:I like the belly glow. It gives the impression that there’s lots of motion going on in there. Lots of little lights floating around in there as opposed to one big glowy glow. Great work.

Thanks theCrowe, I had originally intended to go for bigger gloss, but somehow ended up with smaller ones that looked a bit like they were moving and leaving a trail so stuck with them.

Viterbi wrote:Amazing work on the Zoat! Always fun to see all the different color schemes on such a great mini.

She’s a really cool mini, I really wasn’t convinced to begin with, but glad I pushed through

Olthannon wrote:Hot damn, love the glowy tum tum, it looks galactic!

I have to say I love the mini, it looks so alien, especially the gun. Your colour scheme is so impressive, I'm glad you went with this in the end instead of the green.

Thanks Olthannon, I like how she’s a throwback to being a Tyranid emissary in this colour scheme… maybe I should take a snap of her next to my gaunts?

Not Online!!! wrote:Great job on the belly indeed!

cheers Not Online

youwashock wrote:Love it. You really killed this one, gobert. The armor, the red, the belly plate, the back of the glove. All around awesome work.

Thanks youwashock, I hoped you would like her, given your Zoat affinity. She’s been fun and relatively quick (for me!)

The Red Hobbit wrote:Hopefully 3x faster

I like the belly glow on the Zoat. And I can comiserate with the tile work, nothing quite destroys the knees like replacing tile.

Definitely! . Amazingly the knees were just about ok, it’s been my right hand and elbow from all of the hammer blows. The concrete under floor went down on Thursday, so I imagine I’ll be heading back some time in November to help lay the tiles.

Mrs gobert is away this weekend, so I got stuck in with some hobby work and got the Zoat finished! I also rebased the Escalation explorers on 3d printed bases. It’s the Zoat we’re all here for though, so full fat pics incoming;






I’m really pleased with this colour for the base too, it’s probably my favourite colour I’ve done. It started with deadly nightshade, then ultramarine blue, enchanted blue and a final highlight with white mixed in. She’s been a great mini to paint, trying a few new things.

Here are the Escalation explorers now they have their new bases;






With those guys all done I only have the 2 guardian drones to paint for a complete Blackstone Fortress set including the expansions. That said I’ve just started printing the terrain for the expansions, so that’ll keep me on the BSF fix for some time to come.

Not sure what I’ll paint next, in the primed drawer I have the second half of my jump pack assault squad, Space Marine Heroes Series 3 plague marines, some khorne chaos warrior dudes and the Tiranoc Chariot to finish off my High Elves. I’m away again with work, so it might be good to have something easy to take with me.

Thanks for looking

As promised, I managed a little more hobby time tonight as well. I settled on the Void Panthers assault Squad;

So far it’s just been the purple and gunmetal over the airbrushed gold. I’ll hopefully get some more stuff done when they come away with me next week.

Thanks for looking

Great job Gobert on the Zoat and the explorators.

And as always the void panthers look overly snazy

Brilliant stuff Gobert. All of the Blackstone Fortress models are excellent.

Looking forward to more Panthers!

Not Online!!! wrote:Great job Gobert on the Zoat and the explorators.

And as always the void panthers look overly snazy

Thanks Not Online, I’m pleased how they came out. The Panthers in their current state are a bit less snazzy…

Olthannon wrote:Brilliant stuff Gobert. All of the Blackstone Fortress models are excellent.

Looking forward to more Panthers!

Thanks Olthannon, Blackstone Fortress has been a really enjoyable painting journey for me, it’s a shame that the official minis are nearing an end… just had a thought that I should look up the minis for the White Dwarf missions in the meantime, the void panthers are here!

I’m currently away with work again, this whole post covid thing is getting things almost back to normal. This time I’ve brought a bunch of assault marines with me and tonight i got them to the wash stage;

I do like their dirty look at this stage, maybe when I get to their mid corruption units I’ll do some in similar colours to this? I’ve also just realised that I hadn’t done the wash on the jump packs, so will do that before heading to bed

Thanks for looking

That Zoat looks awesome, you really worked some magic with that colour scheme, mate. Nice basing effort too, I like the highlighting work on those floor ‘gems’.

Really digging the colors on the Zoat!

And the Escalation Explorers look absolutely stunning with those bases

Keep up the good work!

 Ragsta wrote:
That Zoat looks awesome, you really worked some magic with that colour scheme, mate. Nice basing effort too, I like the highlighting work on those floor ‘gems’.

Thanks Ragsta, I’m pleased you like the Zoat. I was dubious for a while, but really like how she’s turned out in the end. And yeah, the gems on the floor look better for a bit of extra highlighting work, thanks for noticing!

 Ezki wrote:
Really digging the colors on the Zoat!
And the Escalation Explorers look absolutely stunning with those bases
Keep up the good work!

Thanks Ezki, the scheme came out nicely in the Zoat in the end! What I love about the printed bases is how easy they are to paint; a few dry brushed shades and a bit of black and their mostly done, unless I add blood splatter!

So I’ve been absent for quite some time. Later the night of my first post I was taken out by a bout of food poisoning that floored me for nearly a week. Then I got smashed with a cold that got in to my sinuses and that took care of the next couple of weeks too. I’m still suffering, but had a day off yesterday so I decided to play with my airbrush and base coat the rest of my Necrons but what a faff I had!

I managed to get them done, but with lots of clogging and splattering I don’t think I saved any time compared to just brush painting. I think Ive got a decent routine to clean it now at least! I’ve watched quite a few videos, but it’s still quite frustrating. It could be that the paint didn’t help (Leadbelcher air), as I hear metallics are quite fussy with airbrushes. At first all I got was splatter, but when I thinned it 50:50 with thinner it would work for a while, but with a very tight arc so basecoating still took a while!

I was thinking of a zenithal of iron breaker or Mithril silver, but not sure I can handle the faff, so I might just go for good old fashioned dry brushing. Similarly I had though of applying the contrast by airbrush, but I might go with brush of that too. The Monster brush that came with my speed paint set is really great for that sort of thing.

As ever, thanks for looking!

It seems that I’m back on the wagon, and threw some drybrush highlights at the Necron. The iron breaker heavy dry brush added some shine to them;

As they’ll be getting a good contrasting, I added a more zenithal dry brush of Mithril Silver;

I’m pretty happy with their shine now, so they’re ready for the John Prins mix of contrast. I reckon I’ll split them into smaller groups for the next stages

Thanks for looking