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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.

Tommygun1918,

Painted terrain always make a war-games so much better. Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Tommygun1918,

Painted terrain always make a war-games so much better. Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain, I have more terrain in the works.

Well, I have been painting, here is my Phobos Librarian. I've been wanting one for a long time and I finally have him.
He is just a cool looking mini and one of my favorite ones from the Primaris range.
I also have more scatter terrain and intercessors coming in the next few days.
Bye for now.

The scatter terrain for the ancient spaceport is done. I still need to start painting the three largest buildings and one large spacecraft.
Theses buildings are big with interiors too. I know the colors I want, but I haven't had the motivation to start them. There is still a large market area and walls to print as well.

Well if the plants are any indication, when you inevitabliy start in the buildings they will look amazing!

Lovely garden mate!

Not Online!!! wrote:Well if the plants are any indication, when you inevitabliy start in the buildings they will look amazing!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Lovely garden mate!

Thank you both. I have more alien plants to do eventually.
OK, since I came back to 40k modeling I have picked up around sixty Intercessors from various box sets.
Out of those sixty or so, I have fifteen left. All the others got turned into captains, lieutenants, Sternguard, bikers or various characters, etc.
So now, I have finally painted them up. I kept them based like all my others, but I did play around with a little water effects on one squad.
I also managed to get 30 or 40 other models primed up before the weather gets too cold for priming outside.
Hopefully that will keep me busy through the winter.
Thanks for looking.

Titus is now done, just in time to go to legends...
There is a special place in the Cicatrix Maledictum for the Tzeentch marketing team at GW who plans this all out.

Up next is a squad of Assault Intercessors.
Hopefully they will not go to legends when GW brings back all 20 primarchs and all new custodes/psyker space marine armies.

Very nice Tommygun1918

Cheers,

CB

Appreciated Captain.

Next group up, assault intercessors. It's a group of eleven with a second Sergeant, so I can field them as a 10 man squad or a as two 5 man teams. I made up some simple cork bases and modeled them to look like broken concrete. It's very simple, but I think looks nice. More marines coming in the next few days as well. After that I think I'll go back to painting buildings to try and get the starport finished.

Nice! When was the last time you got an army shot? You keep adding squads.

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice! When was the last time you got an army shot? You keep adding squads.

I live in fear of that question. That's a bunch to unpack and repack. I'll see what I can do in the coming week, but Thanksgiving is also next week so it might get delayed.

So, I got to thinking about what's left to do with space marine models I have right now and here is my list:
15 Sternguard.
15 Infiltrators
10 Incursors
3 Suppressors (very low priority as I think they are going to Legends)
2 Redemptors They are going to be fully magnetized with some 3D printed parts so they can be made into the three current variants.
1 Librarian
2 custom Lieutenants with shields and power swords. They were originally going to be company champions before the rules for war gear changed for those. That is, no more shields for champions.
5 or 6 old unmade Firstborn bikes that I can mod into Primaris bikers.
I also have two unmade Whirlwinds I am going to set aside for now. If they go to Legends, they my get turned into burned out terrain, as I have a large number of magnetized Rhino variants.

The first half of next year may see me working on Sisters and Krieg. I printed up a number of nice Chimera proxies I'm excited to paint up in First World War French colors. There is also those custom cavalry Sisters and Zephyrim I converted I need to get back to.

It only took me 3.5 to 4 hours last time I got my Ultras out for pics, and some of that was spent dusting the display cabinet. There are worse ways to spend a lazy weekend morning.

I feel you are right about the suppressors. I like em, but they are on a shared sprue that’s how old now?
I need to make some Lt.s myself.

Looking forward to seeing what you paint next!

Those are some crisp looking ultramarines !

I for one am all for an army shot as well !

Keep up the great work