Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I'm quite possibly biting off more than I can chew, but I'm gonna try to paint my Stormraven Gunship for this challenge, as I need to paint it for a list I'm running anyway. Proof:

Wish me luck!

 Nevelon wrote:
Those are way better and more dynamic then the offical models. Well done kit bash

Thank you!

I got them undercoated and drybrushed yesterday, and painted the rider's heads. I always do the heads first - no idea why!



Tonight I did one of the beasties. Not totally finished; I'm trying highlighting with short marks, as a way of giving texture, but I think it needs a glaze or two yet, to try and blend it together a bit.



I was planning to really crack on with these over the weekend, and get them as far along as possible. But I've just got some Cities of Sigmar stuff for my wedding anniversary, and I might swap to doing the Cavalier Marshall from that. I fancy going for a conversion to being an Ulric worshiper rather than a Sigmarite. But there's a lot of Sigmar iconography to remove!
I'll see how it goes...

Cheers,
Michael

Progress
I do not have large round bases, but I have PerfectCast!
It worked for the mouselings, should work for the demolishers.



Impress rock in dirt - pour PerfectCast - wait for best bases.



Shinies, for now.



Faded pilots into shadow.

Progress
Some cage bars are put together facing the wrong way, should be facing forward, and won't fit into the slots. Because the kit is push snap and glue was not needed, the pieces are taken apart and snapped back together.
Trivial thing, but I am so happy I don't have to do extra work converting pin direction.




Bases cleaned.
Modpodge to seal the surface, and acrylic ink is used because I want to test out new ink that I recently bought.




Perfection!



Heat gun is overkill for this, just cutting few mins of drying time so they can later be used on procresing and sharing a picture that illustrated how few minutes are saved of the drying time.



Want to test alcohol inks for this as well.

So been gorewashing my nurglery "ride" and then redoing the pale light grey skin in such a way the crevixes still show an oxblood muck, looks pretty gruesome.

Will be making all the horns dark grey toward glossy varnished wetlook black.. currently are red to gradient from their bloody base.

This piece really makes me switch up techniques though, can't wait to detail paint the thing.
(no pics today sorry)

How would everyone feel about me painting up the monster from Wrath of Kings nicknamed "taxi crab" along with the squad of four that would hitch a ride on it?

 Syro_ wrote:
How would everyone feel about me painting up the monster from Wrath of Kings nicknamed "taxi crab" along with the squad of four that would hitch a ride on it?

I have no clue where that is from, but anything from anywhere that has an actual rule on their card called “Hitching a ride” is 100% OK for this month.

Edit:
It and the squad he’s lugging around.

Mothsniper - great models, especially the crew look cool. I remember having something similar when I was a kid in the 90s .

Lovejoy - great conversion, much better than the original.

I will be building Aethon Heavy Sentinel from the Solar Auxila set. I plan to build the whole set as the French army from the steampunk First World War. I want to build the smallest vehicle first to test the camouflage. I will use preshading, but with the main color painted with brush like Lovejoy showed. Proof picture:



I plan to use cammouflage like this (large picture in the spoiler):

So, it being May the 4th...

Terrain from the shatterpoint starter set. I mean, yes, I *should* be painting Mandalorians for the contest but still...

Started to work on the under-suit and bone armour plates. Really love this mini!

Great, thanks Nev! Here's my proof picture before I start and building. I'm hoping to do this quickly, since I may get to play several times this week.

 halfling84 wrote:
Mothsniper - great models, especially the crew look cool. I remember having something similar when I was a kid in the 90s .
Lovejoy - great conversion, much better than the original.

Thanks. Here is some nostalgia for ya then they apparently had animated cartoon.
http://robogear.ru/eng/
When I was a kid I missed all of it, I played with Army-men mostly, and on birthdays I would sometimes get transformers. So now I am catching up on the rest of the 90tities!
____________________________________________________
Progress
So, I like mars-red dusty pigment bases, and wanted to do a blue-dusty-pigment base for something.
And these guys are a good opportunity to do just that.
Because pigments are expensive and don't come in blue.
Because I am afraid of getting French/Italian artist pigments of possible toxicity. Although that is a suuuuuuuuuuper good deal for those who are interested https://www.earthpigments.com/french-mineral-pigments/
Because pastels are also not cheap.
I went to local dolla store for some chalk.



3 buks




Wanted to spray glue, and tumble the model in powder. But the glue spray was too old, so I didn't get to test that out, but brushing on Modpudge and bathing the model in dust works great.







Automatically Appended Next Post:
Bases got same Modpudge - pigment dusting. The purple alcohol inks are showing through a bit, very interesting tool, will include it into future terrain projects for sure.



Drilled a small hole in the plaster to pin the vehicles with a small nail.



2partEpoxy curing now. I will glue in more connection points, and work on the terrain around the tracks.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also

This is what the plaster bases looked like with with that alcohol ink. It dries almost instantly, and needs a bit of Iso to help it seep.


Also, I never change water during the project!

Progress on the Stormraven:

Hoping that decals will break up the sea of dark (angels) green somewhat, as otherwise the model is going to be a little boring.

Here's some imges on the progress of the skin, don't mind the red spikes they will be dark grey to black, didn't like the red.. I need everything to be chromatic and bleached to pop the agapite (red lilac) armor on the mortal.


-

Started to experiment with gold NMM on the feet

I’m really enjoying your progress reports, Mothsniper. You’re using so many unfamiliar materials and techniques that it almost feels like you have a different hobby from me!

I'm in for this month, going to be giving the one on the left a sweet Evil Sunz sunset fade.


Which means that for next month's challenge, I'll be doing the one on the right. For themes, I would suggest:
No Muckin' About
Da Tuffest
Two Tone
Mess wiv da Bull... (you get da rokkits!)

Going to paint this up 6mm Vampire Lord on a skeletal dragon.

 Pariah Press wrote:
I’m really enjoying your progress reports, Mothsniper. You’re using so many unfamiliar materials and techniques that it almost feels like you have a different hobby from me!

Glad you enjoying it
Last touch to remove nail tips.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Done

Assembled

Lotsa fun stuff so far...

A little WIP on the Strider:

So, although I've already started on my Stormcast rider dudes, i'm thinking of maybe switching to a different model...
I've got it built now - so if I can get it undercoated before the weekend, I *should* have time to paint it. Or maybe I'll just stick with the Stormcast!

Anyway, it's a Cities of Sigmar Cavalier-Marshal. I decided to convert him to be a bit more 'Ulric'-y, more like a Grandmaster of the White Wolves. I know Ulric isn't a god in AoS, but I just like White Wolf cavalry!

So I started by identifying on the sprue all the 'Sigmar'-y bits I needed to fix:


Then I got the basic bits ready; I needed a weapon, a head, and to re-sculpt the horse's front armour.


I replaced the 'Sigmar' wording with a wolf, made a hammer and a head (I was a bit nervous about the head, as it's been a while since I sculpted something that wasn't Burrows & Badgers!):






Then I built the horse....


...and the rider:


The head looked a bit weird at that point, as I had to leave space around it for the cloak edging and the hair/beard.
But once I'd sculpted those bits, he was done:


Finally, a close-up on the face:


So - this guy *might* end up as my entry for the month, or I might stick with the Stormcast Fulminators... we'll see!

cheers,
Michael

Well That's stunning.

I've got to say Lovejoy, I think its highly unfair that you can do stuff like that and its probably for the best all round if you're just banned from entering any competitons in the future so that us mere mortals stand a chance.

Nah, just kidding, that looks absolutely *expletive* amazing! Great idea, great execution, and I for one hope you get it painted up for this month's competiton!

Agreed, very charachterful knight there! Though I will admit part of me read "hadn't done non-burrows and badgers" and thought the wolf theme is right there :-p

Made some progress on my minirat steam tank:



I'm happy with the checker, less so the white and the cross, hopefully finish it off this week.

Nice progress Vejut. I like the way the yellow panels are with slight orange gradient on them.

@Lovejoy
Thank you for sharing that! I absolutely admire and envy sculptors. And hate my self for missing 3 écorché classes during my school days.
The rider is Epic

Stunning sculpts @Lovejoy

Looking forward to see the rest of the work!

 Lovejoy wrote:

Finally, a close-up on the face:

I feel like I would need to get an AI-driven augmented arm to ever be able to sculpt as intricately a detail as these amazing bits.

My proof pic: Two sentinels and a squat sky surfer.

I've got another Ork vehicle collecting dust on my shelf. I'm going to try and practice with my airbrush my giving the engine a heat glow.