Non ST modelling projects

[RCgothic]

Is this a case of "holy shizzle my Reaver is coming soon and I need to look busy" ?

Yep.

[RCgothic]

Had a mild panic just now. Have been assembling it next to a window for the good light. It's also quite hot, so the window was open. So when I knocked it over the damage was thus:

Broken piston x1
Out of window into building site next door Hatches x3.

Luckily they were quite visible and one of the workmen was able to give me back the bits that fell out of the window and the piston glued together nicely and is hidden behind the shin armour anyway.

It could have been much, much worse. Have moved my workspace.

[Aeries]

Oh, lucky! O_O;

[Armondikov]

I hope this teaches you to be more careful with your FW purchases young Padawan  :lol:

[RCgothic]

Oh yes, I forgot. legs assembled.

[Glempius]

My renegade ogryns and chaos guard command squad arrived today. Now if only I had the time to fiddle with them

[RCgothic]

I haven't actually glued the hips onto the legs yet. I mean to magnetise them and I've lost my magnets.

[RCgothic]

I came to my senses and just pinned it.

Fully assembled pics!


It also disassembles into 9 handy bits. Have yet to add shin, thigh and groin armour.

[Glempius]

My current project, been painting it off and on for about a week

Still haven't quite worked out the focus settings on my camera

[Aeries]

Kewl. I always wondered how you guys can paint such puny little things. O_O;

Almost looks like somethin' out of Quake 4.

[Armondikov]

Not suprised it's taken a week, that's some good work.

[RCgothic]

Wow glemp, that's really impressive. I've spent the last week figuring out how to do yellows, which involved three attempts on a very unfortunate space marine biker and two more-successful attempts on a cheap russian T-80 tank that I didn't fully assemble, before I felt confident enough to basecoat the cockpit.

[Glempius]

Thank you one and all

My next project in the works is a chaos on a juggernaut (which will bring me up to 6 lords or there abouts), I'm going to try modelling it so it's rearing up. Need to pick up some magnets too so that I can swap weapons between the halberd I'm making for it and a power fist (I cannot say no to the 5 or 6 str 10 attacks that would offer). I'm cannibalising one of the storm shields I've got kicking about too. Not sure on what to use for his head though, I was thinking of something a bit more knightly than the normal lord heads, something like the one on this model http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99060107044&orignav=10 but I've got know idea if the head's integral or not, intend on finding that out when I pick up my juggernaut.

[RCgothic]

Progress! Have taught myself how to paint yellows. Here's a step by step of how it went:

This is attempts 1, 2 and 3.
Starting on the front mudguard, undercoated white, basecoated golden yellow and then drybrushed sunburst followed by badmoon. Complete disaster. At this stage I asked for help.
One of my store staff suggested Tausept Ochre drybrushed Iyanden Darksun, so that's on the back driverside mudguard. Nice, but sandy rather than yellow.
He then suggested Iyanden darksun mixed with golden yellow, and highlighting up from there. Passengerside mudguard. Didn't really work.

I realised I was going to have to test this out on a different miniature. I wasn't willing to spend much, so I bought a cheap T-80 and had my way with it. I started airbrushing as well, as it's fairly different to brush painting. As you can see, vast improvement.

I started with a white undercoat, then sprayed golden yellow. I shaded with firey orange wash. I went over again with golden yellow, and then 2 more coats with increasing amounts of skull white mixed in. This obliterated the shading, so I went over it with another wash of firey orange. It ended up a bit dark.

So I did the whole thing white again and re-did it, this time with lighter shades and washes at the end. I slightly overdid the highlight in the middle of the turret, but it was a vast improvement over the SM Bike.

Finally, I painted the head of the titan. I wanted something a bit richer, so I started with Sunburst mixed with firey orange and highlighted from there. At the end I shaded with the same mix diluted into a wash.

I'm very pleased with how it came out, and am now moving onto detailing.

[Glempius]

That is amazing, yellows are a royal pain to paint and that's come out marvellously crisp

[Armondikov]

I just don't touch yellow, not that I've found a need to use them for anything other than painting small dots. But good finish regardless, the practice and experimentation paid off, at least you didn't trash the titan.

[RCgothic]

Yellow certainly wouldn't have been my first choice if I hadn't seen it look so cool on someone else's titan. The experimentation definitely paid off, am very happy with the result. Here are some more detail pics of stuff that I did in the last week:

[Glempius]

The current progress on the project I last mentioned

[RCgothic]

Wow, I like. Note to self, set uber-cc-librarian of Doom on that guy!

[Glempius]

Strictly speaking this model's got terminator armour which you can't normally have if you take a juggernaut, but I thought it'd look better than a standard marine model. The storm shield is a bit I've had knocking about for a while now, chaos normally can't take storm shields so I'm just having it count as an additional cc weapon. The plasma pistol/bolt pistol is represented as an integral weapon in the cc weapon (like old school grey knights) as the gargoyle head between the blades. Still need to add some reins going to the shield bearing hand too.

From a rules perspective this guy gets 6 str 5 attacks, 7 on a charge (if my calculations are correct), if I have his cc weapon as a bloodfeeder that hops up to around 18 attacks. There's also the temptation to say it counts as a power weapon so that I can have 6 str 10 attacks which I think's pretty nifty.