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Post by Nick P on Jul 24, 2018 7:12:58 GMT -6
Back from vacation and took some time last night to get the brushes back out and paint up a different type of undead model - I call it "Peace Among Worlds": I gotta figure out a light box or something - the LED lights in my gaming basement dungeon thingy are real harsh on minis.
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Post by kingwalnut on Jul 24, 2018 7:53:14 GMT -6
I love that paint scheme. They feel very new and fresh compared to how most Necrons are painted up. For some reason, I thought of Power Rangers when I first saw the Overlord (in a good way)!
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Post by Nick P on Jul 24, 2018 8:27:20 GMT -6
Thanks man! Yeah I love the red and white scheme on my necrons - I was drawn to it back when the 7th edition codex came out and they started to go into the different characteristics of the different dynasties, and the Novokh dynasty caught my attention - prior to the creation of the necrons, they were a tribal dynasty that would cover their faces and bodies with the blood of their enemies, and now in unlife they paint their armor red to echo those brutal times.
Now they actually have official rules as well in the 8th edition codex which is a blast - although its mostly aimed at close combat, of which my Necron force has very little lol but its getting better! I've got flayed ones and lychguard to paint up.
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Post by kingwalnut on Jul 24, 2018 8:34:31 GMT -6
I am ALL about more Melee-crons
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Post by Nick P on Jul 25, 2018 9:39:57 GMT -6
More projects this week - a little bit of terrain, a little bit of converting, still haven't gotten stuck back into my Nighthaunts, I keep getting distracted. When Russell and CJ came over back in June, one thing we realized was that my table set up and terrain didn't have quite enough line of sight blocking material. So I decided to dig into my foam pile and rectify that by making some giant rock face type cliff thingies: And they're nice and chunky and big - big enough for Unyielding Vengeance to hide behind (though she would NEVER hide - glory for the imperium!): I plan on covering these with some spackle to add texture, and painting them in a brownish gey scheme, so they're like "desert rock pillars" but with a more earthy scheme so they fit my forest game mat. Might add some static grass/tufts to the top flat surfaces to add more variety, similar to these guys. I'm also working on creating more AoS friendly terrain since most of my stuff is ruins, pipeworks, shipping crates, etc. So I busted out the warhammer castle I bought off of Eric last year, and got out my jigsaw and hobby knives, and got chopping. The result (currently in rubber bands as it finishes gluing up): Some nice ruined castly terrain that could just as easily fit into 40k with the right gubbins like barrels and ammo crates added, and I plan on creating some kind of attachment for the ramparts that can hold the leftover turret guns from my knight kits, maybe magnetize them, not sure yet. I plan on making a 2nd corner ruined castle piece, and then a larger, longer, gate piece with 2 towers attached so I can build long wall sections, square fort sections, split them up around the board, etc. And finally, I got to converting some of my leftover soul wars characters - I don't have any need for 2 mounted knights of shroud, but I would love to have an on foot knight of shrouds since his ability is super useful. But I hate spending $35 on a 4 piece monopose model, so I made a deconstructed KoS and slapped him on a 32mm base: Which gave me an almost complete ghost horse too, that I have no idea what to do with - maybe paint it up like a bestial Necron C'tan Shard? Maybe make a chaos character on daemon steed? Suggestions welcome.
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Post by Nick P on Jul 26, 2018 8:30:05 GMT -6
Another tiny conversion to add variety to my Nighthaunt force! I'm going to Coheed and Taking Back Sunday tonight because I forgot its not 2002, and I'm at a bachelor party this weekend so I won't have any hobby time till next week again. But I'm going to refocus on painting these buggers, and make sure I finish the heroes from the Soul Wars box and the Myrmourn Banshees, plus Lady Olynder at the very least.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 1, 2018 9:24:53 GMT -6
Question for you guys - does anyone know the best way to get a design transferred to felt? I picked up a $3 pine box at Michaels to use as a dice tray, and I've picked up some black felt to use as the inlay for more satisfying dice rolling (and quieter!).
I want to put the CST hotdog on the felt, but I don't know what the best way to do that would be other than maybe making a stencil and using my airbrush? Or having a 3rd party print the design onto felt and then using that? Or going one better and having it printed on mousepad material?
Any of the graphic design type folks out there have any ideas?
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Post by Nick P on Aug 2, 2018 9:19:28 GMT -6
Some more hobby this week - got stuck into my kill team terrain from the starter set. This stuff is really cool - its extremely modular, with each building slotting on top of other buildings using the octagonal "pins" at the top of each column. The pics below are actually 4 separate ruin pieces - the bottom floor is all one, the second floor is one piece, the ruined corner on the 2nd floor is one piece, and then the ruins at the top on the 3rd floor are one piece. Real snazzy, can't wait to get a game on this and the mechanicus terrain I recently put together (though line of sight blocking is neither's forte unfortunately).
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Aug 2, 2018 9:32:31 GMT -6
Those ruins look so goddamn good.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 8, 2018 11:57:16 GMT -6
$5 pine box from Michaels, $4 felt from amazon with a sticky back, stencil made from thick paper and the CST hotdog logo, and my airbrush = Wow that's a huge picture. Sorry. But I now have a legit dice rolling box with which to remember all the fun times I used to have actually playing this game instead of being stuck in Glenview in my dungeon alone!
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Post by Nick P on Aug 14, 2018 7:19:19 GMT -6
Back at it again! I've got a somewhat eclectic update today - did some more nighthaunt painting, some more knight house painting, and some modeling of the kill team set into what ends up being a quadruple threat (tm) First up - finished my unit of Myrmourn banshees - and my first 500 points of Nighthaunts! I ended up going with the white scheme on these vs the black scheme I was toying with, in the end I think it just fits the models better even though the rest of my force is also all white. I am still thinking about making Lady Olynder herself a bit more dark and subdued though for contrast. Up next for the Nighthaunts - I'm painting my spirit torment and chainghasts. Next - a still WiP but technically "3 colors done" knight armiger helverin - I just have to do the decals and the final ulthuan grey highlights on the armor plates (mine dried up), but he's good to go for gaming at least. This gives me just shy of 1000 points of knights so far, there's a family picture as well below: Third - I've done some light conversion work on the kill team models to get the most mileage possible out of them. I cut off all the GSC cult icons off the neophytes, gave them all shotguns and autoguns, and used the vanguard helmets from the skitarii kits to make these guys: They're usable as helmeted neophyte hybrids for when I expand my GSC with the upcoming codex, they double as Astra Militarum reserves for my Knight Household, and then obviously I can use them in kill team as either AM or GSC models. I'm currently sourcing a handful of spare bodies on eBay so I can build some special and heavy weapon variants to really give them options in both kill team and 40k. Bonus - the guy with the aggressive stance and combat knife doubles as a devotee of the four armed emperor!
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Post by cj on Aug 14, 2018 8:51:59 GMT -6
Superb
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Post by Nick P on Aug 15, 2018 7:13:53 GMT -6
Thanks CJ! Update - finished the armiger; added 2 stripes coming down the carapace, highlighted all the grey, and added decals. Done! Here's a quick shot of the Branchwych I also finished yesterday that has been sitting on my paint table at about 80% completion for like 6 months. Nothing special, but it feels good to have it done so I can replicate the scheme across my other sylvaneth models (when I get to them...eventually...probably...) And another WIP that has been sitting primed ready for paint for the last 6 months or so - my 2nd leviathan dreadnought for my heresy thousand sons legion. The red is done, I'm going to be adding some airbrushed black or gold (or both!) stripes to the shoulders or the torso carapace (or both!), and I have to do all the silver metallic details (which is roughly 50% of the entire model, not sure why I decided airbrushing the entire thing red was the smart move instead of just the armor plates), but its coming along!
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Post by Asyrean on Aug 15, 2018 8:05:17 GMT -6
Hey Nick,
Everything looking great, as usual! Two questions:
The stripes on the armiger, you do that free hand? Or tape it off?
Second is kind of a stupid question that your Leviathan picture reminded me of. So, you have the helmet on a cork and the head pinned for easy painting. My dumb question is, how do you do this? Heat up a straightened paper clip and jam it into the plastic? Always wondered how folks do this. (And I've got a bunch of terminator heads coming up which I've been debating how I should handle.)
Again, everything looking great!
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Post by cj on Aug 15, 2018 8:08:56 GMT -6
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