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Post by Nick P on Mar 5, 2018 10:49:08 GMT -6
Test model for both my tzaangor unit and for the tzeentch discs: I forgot how little detail is sculpted into the muscles of these old beastmen - the abs just look painted on rather than sculpted on, but from a distance and in a big group its going to look fine. I went pink on the fur to tie in with the of magnus, but I might switch it up and do some purples as well on some of the beastmen so they're not all uniform. Did the armor in the same was as on the demon prince, and did the eyes the same as well (nihilakh oxide wash over ulthuan grey highlighted white) to try to tie them together. Any cloth on the beastmen are also going to get the same treatment as magnus' cloth - celestra grey, nihilakh recess wash, ulthuan highlights, white scar edges. The disc I'm super happy with - did a blue wash on the silver to make it feel magical, did the ghostly warp magic effect the same was as I did on the demon prince and on magnus, which will help tie them all together. I'm going to do all of the discs in the exact same scheme, but with some having purple washes on the silver, some having green washes on the silver, some having red washes on the silver, just to mix it up and have them all on slightly different but still recognizably similar flying discs. Now only 17 more tzaangor, 10 cultists, and 8 disc riders/7 discs to go before the 23rd.....doing them en masse instead of painting a single model in full as a test will help tremendously though. As will using an airbrush now that I know what colors I'm using, to mass produce basecoats.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 9, 2018 9:42:53 GMT -6
Another update! I have successfully completed my test cultist and my tzaangor shaman but didn't get pics. Will get pics tonight. I've primed all my cultists, all of my tzaangor enlightened, all of my discs of tzeentch. I will be priming all of my tzaangor tonight, so that I can marathon paint as much as possible tomorrow and sunday. Plan is to knock out all the discs tonight (they're real, real easy to do), and then get the cultists done tomorrow. That would just leave the rest of my tzaangor to do, which I think I can take a huge chunk out of sunday (should be able to do all the enlightened at least, possible even up to 1/2 of the remaining 17 walking tzaangor). In the meantime while everything was drying from the primer last night, I decided to knock out one of the floating islands for the display as a mock up/test piece so I knew what I was aiming for with the other 3. 3 layers of 1" white foam, liquid nails, 1 more broken hot wire, and a 1/2" drill bit later and we have: Right now its just propped up against my drill battery and some foam to make sure its level; it will eventually be secured to an actual base of 3/4" hardboard (seen here acting as my work surface). It just needs a layer of filler to smooth out the transition between layers and to fill gaps, then it will get sand texture added and some ruined pillar details glued on top, before being primed and painted. After painting I'll use liquid nails to glue the acrylic rods into place. I'll be cutting out the hardboard base with a jigsaw and then beveling it with my circular saw before sanding. Then I'll use liquid nails to glue the rods into that piece as well (after drilling of course). Ideas as for what to do with the bases? Painted like earth, browns and tans with static grass? Painted just black and speckled to look like space? Airbrushed all crazy to look like the warp? Painted to match the surface of the floating island? HELP!
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Post by Nick P on Mar 12, 2018 9:56:07 GMT -6
Sick Kids = Not a lot of painting time this weekend like I had planned; the 10 cultists are almost done, they just need final highlights and basing and they'll be done, so plan on doing those tonight since my daughter is finally feeling better today and should actually sleep. But here's the pic of my test cultist and tzaangor shaman that I promised from last week, finally got around to uploading/editing them! Shaman: This guy is a bitch, and still not "done" - but for my enlightened and shaman, I'm not going to pick out ALL the detail in their leg armor just yet, leaving it mostly gold for now until after the tournament. Cultist: The cultists are surprisingly quick to paint, sine they're mainly skin + gold lining; so priming them grey, painting the basecoat on the gold and skin, then washing the entire thing with reikland fleshade, means that you just need to (carefully) drybrush the gold and then overbrush the skin tone in select areas, before moving on to the feathers/tentacles on the heads, sword, blue armor plates, and loincloth, all of which are just base + quick highlight.
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Post by mike on Mar 13, 2018 22:32:14 GMT -6
Can you put the malort label on the shaman's potion?
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Post by mike on Mar 13, 2018 22:32:46 GMT -6
Nothing more grimdark than a bottle of malort.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 14, 2018 8:41:46 GMT -6
Forgive the somewhat fuzzy picture, took this at 11 last night after a 4 hour painting session to get these cultists finished. I still have to do the bases obviously, but I'm calling the actual models done for now - after adepticon I'll go back and do the highlights on the shields, an a fine highlight on the shoulder pads/vembraces, as well as highlights on the cloth so its not so flat and to get rid of that "washed" look. But for a 40 point unit that is going to get wiped in turn 1 each game, I think they look pretty good!! Goal for tonight - now that Adepticon is about a week away - is to knock out 10 of my 20 tzaangors as quickly as possible. I'm going to be relying on washes and drybrushes almost exclusively just to get them "done", and then like the above unit I'll go back and do actual fine highlights and more detail work after the tournament to get them up to my standard. The tzaangor are primed light grey, so I'm going to be airbrushing them Russ Grey and then washing them drakenhoff nightshade before drybrushing them fenrisian grey, then washing the fur naggaroth night and drybrushing the fur with xereus purple. Then its just picking out the gold trim details, and painting the cloth in celestra grey, then basing. I'm hoping by keeping it super simplified I can knock out 10 tonight and 10 tomorrow, so that I can have the weekend to work on the 7 enlightened with a little bit more detail, and then I can finish the 4 display bases monday/tuesday. I've got the Tzeentch display ready for primer and drybrushing, and now that I've got the technique down for securing the plastic support rods, for using filler/sand paper to fill the gaps and create texture, I can churn out the other 3 and get them to the primer/drybrush stage quickly.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2018 8:39:33 GMT -6
Welp, 3 days till Adepticon, that means its about time for I was visiting family over the weekend so didn't have enough time to paint as I was hoping for, but I did manage to get the disc riders finished (sorry for quick crappy pic, no time to waste with proper lighting and composition!): The last piece of the puzzle for thursday/saturday's events are the 20 tzaangor - all of which have the basecoats applied, and are awaiting washes and highlights. So at the very least, they're currently game ready as they stand - they just aren't anything to be proud of (yet). If I don't get them to where I want them for Thursday, that's OK - the main event is the team tourney on Sat/Sunday, so I'll have time Thursday night and Friday night to touch them up if I want to. For the tzaangor in order to make them quicker to paint, I primed them with vallejo light grey airbrush primer (its dope), then simply washed them drakhenhoff nightshade all over. Instant "fenrisian grey" skin tone, complete with shade in the recesses. Its not pretty up close, but in a horde across the table, it'll look fine. Then I blocked out all the fur in screamer pink, all the bone in rakarth flesh, all the gold in retributor armor, all the silver in leadbelcher, and all the leather and the beaks in abaddon black. Tonight I'll be doing a reikland wash to the gold, a drakenhoff wash to the silver, carroburgh crimson to the fur, and an agrax wash to the bone. If I have time, highlights will go in this order as far as priority: 1. Liberator gold on all the gold 2. Pink Horror on all the fur 3. stormvermin fur/Eshin Grey on the leather/beaks 4. Screaming Skull on the bone 5. Runefang steel on the silver blades All the displays are done being constructed, including the 1" MDF bases and holes drilled and set to the right height for the acrylic rods. All have been sealed and spackled; the slaanesh and nurgle ones need to be sanded in a few areas and then have texture applied, but mine and CJ's khorne ones are textured and ready for primer. It takes like 10 minutes to apply the texture so I'll do that tonight to the other 2, so they're ready for priming, and after that its DRYBRUSH CITY with NICK as the MAYOR. CJ's is being primed black, appropriately, and then drybrushed with adminstratum grey and skavenblight dinge, with red/orange/yellow airbrush OSL from below the floating rock to look like lava. Mine is being primed black, then airbrushed Dyrad Bark, then heavily drybrushed with zandri dust and screaming skull. Daniel's will be primed light grey, then painted steel legion drab, washed heavily with agrax and nuln oil, then drybrushed zandri dust and screaming skull. Finally, Kyle's will be primed black, drybrushed dawnstone, washed agrax, and then have spot colors of green slime added to tie in with his bases. WISH ME LUCK GUYS I REALLY NEED IT
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Post by jesse on Mar 20, 2018 9:55:21 GMT -6
What are you using to texture the bases? Last night/this morning I textured about 50 bases with the Vallejo earth/ground texture stuff and it has been pretty pleasant (if messy) to work with.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2018 10:12:51 GMT -6
I'm gluing down sand pre-primer, then using the primer to help fix it in place, then after the models are actually painted I go back in with watered down dryad bark, apply that all over, then drybrush with zandri dust and screaming skull. Its quick, mindless, and a great "brain reset" I find after furiously completing 20 models lol
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Post by jesse on Mar 20, 2018 10:37:28 GMT -6
Same method for texturing the floating islands? Can't wait to see how they turn out.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2018 10:57:12 GMT -6
Yup! brushing pva all over the surfaces, hitting it with rocks/gravel/sand for texture, then painting each island up in theme with the army it will hold - black rock/magma for khorne, sandy desert ruins for my tzeentch, grassy pasture for dan's slaanesh, and gritty slimy city feel for kyle's nurgle.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 21, 2018 7:17:45 GMT -6
Tzaangor are now "finished" - that is, they have all their basecoats and washes applied. They aren't pretty, but they'll do the job! Tonights work is finishing the display bases - or at least finishing mine for tomorrow's event, and getting the other 3 primed and basecoated so I can work on them tomorrow after the event and friday after the event in time for Saturday.
I ran out of rattlecan primer last night (classic!), so started in with the airbrush to prime the displays - but it just isn't going to work. The foam is too thirsty, the spray diameter is too small, and the coverage is too inconsistent for that large of a piece. So, I'm running to Blick today on lunch and getting some big ol' pots of black primer, and paint colors to match Steel Legion Drab, Zandri Dust, Screaming Skull, Administratum Grey, and Dawnstone.
Wouldn't be Adepticon without rushing to finish stuff at the very last minute right? YAY LETS GO
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Post by Nick P on Mar 21, 2018 9:19:57 GMT -6
Oh and I forgot that for my alternate list for tomorrows event I for whatever reason wrote in 2 rubric marines with soulreaper cannons that I don't own. I'm an idiot.
Looks like I'm ALSO going to be painting (read: spray red primer, wash agrax, drybrush red, basecoat silver on weapons) 2 heavy bolter MkIV marines for tomorrow too. Why don't I ever paint things until I have to? FML
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Post by Nick P on May 23, 2018 9:17:47 GMT -6
I don't know why I never updated this with the actual finished pictures of the adepticon models on display (probably because daniels pictures are way better), but here we go: I am now finally fully moved into my new house, and am starting to unpack my hobby stuff and get everything set up in my nerd dungeon. I haven't built or painted anything in almost 2 months so as soon as I had a surface set up, I whipped out my hobby tools and got converting - behold! A new archon with dramatic flair and a succubus boi for my dark eldar: Russell points out, rightfully so, that I already have a bunch of Archons. To which I say none of them are armed with a venomblade and splinter pistol, until now! And this gives me a 2nd succubus so I can run a wych battalion as well, giving me more options. And I've been eyeing both these models for a couple years so finally getting to paint them is going to be a treat.
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Post by cj on May 23, 2018 11:07:24 GMT -6
I haven't painted anything in two months either, but that's because I've been having really bad hobby ennui.
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