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 gobert wrote:
Welcome to the world of 3d printing! Looks like you’ve already got it working well, but I hear the Bambu Labs printers are pretty awesome out of the box with minimal tinkering. Are those plants 3d printed? Mighty impressive if they are

Thank you, It's fun and addictive. The Bambu mini is stupid simple.
I found a bunch of free plants on Cults if you want to look.

https://cults3d.com/en/users/GrimGreeble/3d-models

Hey all.
I've been painting a lot, but I haven't been posting. My camera sucks, so I have had little motivation to take bad pictures with it.
So, I did get around to it though. I have a few statue pieces here that I tried using different under colors to achieve different looks to white stone.
I think it came out well. I'd use it again in the future. I'm also working on several buildings for a spaceport. Here are the first two of around a dozen maybe when done.
That's it for now, so glory in my mediocre photonic illustrations.

THe pics ain't bad and the rune sculptures are really very good- me likey.

 Meer_Cat wrote:

THe pics ain't bad and the rune sculptures are really very good- me likey.

The pictures are sharp, but the colors are faded out. I'm looking into buying a new cell phone made during this decade, so I have some hope.

I have a few more buildings and terrain pieces painted up, plus almost done with some Blade Guard. So maybe more pic next week.

Really nice terrain, love the purple effect on the carved writing.

Yep, love the rune statues, they look great!

Olthannon wrote:Really nice terrain, love the purple effect on the carved writing.

gobert wrote:Yep, love the rune statues, they look great!

Thanks, I like doing the statues and I'm looking out for a few more.


OK, I have a new phone camera. It's an upgrade over what I used to have, but the whites are still washed out.
I need to look into what settings it has to see if I can fix that or maybe look into adjustable lights for my work area.

Blade Guard are finished as well as Calgar and his body guard.
I also have a bunch of terrain done, but I don't have an area large enough to photograph it.
So, I may need to invade the guess room to set up a photo shoot.

This is what I have been painting this last month or so. The first picture is the modular terrain.
The walls and terraces can be rearranged as needed. The dome buildings can also be taken apart and changed, although I will not be changing them myself.
The next two building are pretty straight forward. They all have basic interiors, but nothing elaborate. I did very minimal painting of the insides, so nothing worth taking pictures of. I still have three very large buildings to paint as part of the ancient starport. They are like 6 times the surface area of these small buildings, so it is going to take a while to get them done.

That's it for now..see you in 6 months...Oh god I hope it doesn't take that long...

Wow is it 3d printed or scratch build? And what you recipe foraged bronze on the roof?

 kabaakaba wrote:
Wow is it 3d printed or scratch build? And what you recipe foraged bronze on the roof?

Thank you, I printed it on a filament printer. The bronze was done with Army Painter paints.

1) I start by putting down Amulet Aqua base for the green verdigris.
2) Then apply a very dark bronze color called Death Metal as a very heavy dry brush.
you want to leave the Amulet Aqua to show in the low areas and crevasses.
3) Next a lighter dry brushing of True Copper.
4) Optional: If you want a brighter finish then do more light dry brushing with gold over the copper.
5) Also I used a torn up sponge and stippled on the metallic colors in places to get a better transitions of the colors.

Nice work on the Ultramarines and the terrain. Some really cool designs.

The city looks really good, kudos.

Olthannon wrote:Nice work on the Ultramarines and the terrain. Some really cool designs.

Thanks, I just picked up some new STL files for more buildings.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:The city looks really good, kudos.

Thank you, I'm trying to motivated myself right now to get the three big buildings painted.


...and this just happened...
Calgar and his honor guard get new models...

6 days!!! six friggin days since I posted my Calgar and his guard...

...god damned son's of bitches, all of them...

But those new HG models? /swoon.
nice work on the Ultras and the buildings.

 Nevelon wrote:
But those new HG models? /swoon.
nice work on the Ultras and the buildings.

But that's just like seeing your "EX" going out with a hot new guy.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
But those new HG models? /swoon.
nice work on the Ultras and the buildings.

But that's just like seeing your "EX" going out with a hot new guy.

It will be interesting to see if they keep gravis Calgar in the rules, or he and the sword and board guard get discontinued and swept off to legends. With the way 10th attaches characters to squads, having both available makes some sense.

Time will tell.

 Nevelon wrote:

It will be interesting to see if they keep gravis Calgar in the rules, or he and the sword and board guard get discontinued and swept off to legends. With the way 10th attaches characters to squads, having both available makes some sense.

Time will tell.

Well, if they purge the First Born in 11th, hopefully out of that carnage GW will feel they have room in the codex for both.