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TRI - PALATINATE will be a feudal theocratic order.
Loosely inspired by a 40k

Kits acquired from (Irene^_^) store at the AliExpress.









Got 9 orgyn-style armored brutes. Kit comes with many weapon options.



Decided to mold/cast the bodies to save the arm bits.




Casting using (SilCast II) inspiered by

33 are almost ready.
I am very happy with how these turned out, because my casting experience is Lvl - noob.
Big Brain move was to cast these with the bases, big win for me.



Cleaning up the bases flat.

Two 5-man squads done

looking great! Seems a very interesting project you got going.

Thanks and I hope it will be when finished.
Ready for priming.



Bodies primed.

Progress.

Wasted time learning that metal rattle can is too hot for primer and have to go over naked plastic.

White primer was a BIG mistake.
Some times metal looks cool, other times there is no contrast, hope I can figure out how to fix it.

Need few bases, have lots of popsicle sticks.

Working on the bases.



Twig Time



Chalk dusting

Are you using an acrylic or an oil based primer? Generally oil based spray paints hate going over acrylic primers.
If you want the silver to look shinier a glossy primer can help. I personally have never had any luck getting under colors to show through with rattle cans.
They put out too much paint. Duplicolor auto paints do make spray cans with good spray tips that might give a fine enough spray for under colors to show through.
Otherwise, it's time for an artist's spray gun.

Acrylic.
But it should not matter, because metallic rattle can is not an oil based paint, it is a solvent-based.
Gesso is an acrylic based primer for oil classical paintings and not the other way for a reason, acrylic over oil will flake off over the years. Less important for miniatures because the amount of paint is so thin that I don't think it would matter. Still, I would hesitate using acrylic over oil.

I did end up putting 2 coats of gloss varnish before the metallic, that is a good tip
Especially for 3D prints, the tiny micro layers dull the shine and the varnish smooths out the surface.
Unfortunately I forgot to do that for the arms/helms, and so had to drybrush silver afterwards.

There is red under-color showing through a bit, not because of the coverage but of the Zenithal application of the metallic from the top and sides.
Thanks for the Duplicolor tip, I will check them out

2 more steps left. Enamel silver to highlight the metal, and oil-raw-umber-pin-wash

Took a while, but finally finished. Not super clean casts but over all, bases tie it all together. Took extra pictures.

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Tower Shield Range (6)





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2 vehicles are next.
This one is bit of a turd: Warped track prints, 6 left arms and 1 right arm, some weapon options have ball joints that don't seem to go anywhere, and I think open transport is missing troops. Maybe bad batch.
Thinner pieces are too brittle, will use those for bases and terrain.

The colours on these infantry are so strong, I love the vibrant power blades too! They mob up splendidly!

That's annoying about the missing bits but I suspect the price was right at the time You have a scary level of modelling skill and I'm confident you will sort something out with them!

 Ragsta wrote:

The colours on these infantry are so strong, I love the vibrant power blades too! They mob up splendidly!

That's annoying about the missing bits but I suspect the price was right at the time You have a scary level of modelling skill and I'm confident you will sort something out with them!

Thank you sir.
Indeed.
I got mine 3 years ago, this is the current one with current price, yeah 2-3 years back it was a bit less.


The only thing to do is to cake the gap with mud and cover it in dry pigment. I was hoping to cast the tracks for later scratch builds, but can't do that if its warped and misaligned.

Not a fan of brittle resin. Other than that love ball joins for the Sentinels.



Dug out 10 bodies and heads from the bit box, bought these early resin models years ago. (Stalker Troopers Bodies - Puppetswar - Resin Cast)
This is the reason I do not buy or support kickstarters that have only 3D renders without images of the actual plastic.
Poor mold quality, air pockets, clumped details, lots of flashing. Want to try Less-is-More approach for these guys.



ready for priming.

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First layer pattern.
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Second layer pattern.
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Warband done

Prisoner is from Reaper (Townsfolk: Prisoners 3 SKU: 07122) model, fits feudal guard theme



Realized these suppose to be chaos themed, with skulls and chains. But decided to fit them into Tri Palatinate feudal crusade as zealots.




Crushed Chalk dust-pigments doing the heavy lifting for me.

That's disappointing about the quality of the Puppets War sculpts. I've used heads from them before and those were good. I wonder if things have improved since you got these?

They've painted up lovely! The prisoner is a good fit too- very nice flesh tones on him.

 Ragsta wrote:

That's disappointing about the quality of the Puppets War sculpts. I've used heads from them before and those were good. I wonder if things have improved since you got these?

They've painted up lovely! The prisoner is a good fit too- very nice flesh tones on him.

Thank you!
I bet the quality has improved but I have no way to verify that. Getting resin prints was a disappointing experience overall, misleading 3D renders instead of actual pictures and brittle resin casts, air-bubbles or jank, warping, ets. Last resin prints I bough are these feudal units from Aliexpress, ONLY because they had real pictures, but even those are jank.
Also, isn't PuppetsofWar site down or moved or something? I was trying to find that kit and noticed their old site is not around anymore.

The prisoner took me like 2 mins to paint, but looks way better than the others. I just dabbed flesh-color with a makeup sponge over redish base color and called it done.

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The last of the units for this project are:

9 Riflemen (with 10 bases, 1 probably missing)
5 Command squad
9 Monks (some hands and backpacks missing)
1 servo scull

And no instructions, and that particular listing is gone from the store, and I did not save any images from the store page for reference later.




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Progress:
Dirt and Modpodge to fill in the crack

Progress.

DONE
forgot to paint base trim black... not retaking the pictures.

Saint Sentinels










Troop transport 1






Troop transport 2

Dude! Those vehicles look feckin great! I love that scheme. Did you freehand the icons on the Sentinels there? They are gorgeous!

Dirt was a good solution to fixing the track cracks. Mod podge then watered down mod podge to seal it?

Again, lovely paintjobs! Exalted.

 Ragsta wrote:

Dude! Those vehicles look feckin great! I love that scheme. Did you freehand the icons on the Sentinels there? They are gorgeous!

Dirt was a good solution to fixing the track cracks. Mod podge then watered down mod podge to seal it?

Again, lovely paintjobs! Exalted.

And epic lvl praise, you honor me sir.
I am surprised how easy camo was to do. Was not very careful with masking, just putting down pieces of tape, a bit sloppy with overspray, but it came out way better for the minimal time/effort.
Dirt it was! Did not seal it with watered down mod podge, though it was extra step I could skip.

Icons are freehanded, Sentinels provided large flat surface area, I had to do something, there was no choose.

Glad you linked your blog in the painting comp because I'd somehow missed them.

The army is absolutely fantastic, really creative with all the different minis. Your latest vehicles are top notch. That teal camo is a brilliant choice, so eye catching.

 Olthannon wrote:
Glad you linked your blog in the painting comp because I'd somehow missed them.

The army is absolutely fantastic, really creative with all the different minis. Your latest vehicles are top notch. That teal camo is a brilliant choice, so eye catching.

Thank you sir, glad you liked it. I got inspiration from World War 1 French Renault tank for the camo, and teal was a good call, I am pleased.