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Post by Nick P on Mar 13, 2017 13:25:07 GMT -6
Oh and I also have to make 2 display boards, one for necrons and one for 30k thousand sons. And I'm out of town Friday/Saturday/Sunday effectively giving me 8 total days. WHOOO
I've got some 10mm MDF so I'll be doing it the old fashioned quick way, by laying down a couple of hastily-carved polystyrene hills and texturing the whole thing with spackle!
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Post by Nick P on Mar 14, 2017 7:45:44 GMT -6
OK - nothing got finished last night, but a lot of progress was made overall to get everything but the rhino up to the same level, ready for a wash on the armor before the line highlighting can begin. The rhino wasn't primed or preshaded or sprayed red yet, since I decided to use filler to smooth out one of the doors so both sides could easily take a large 1k Sons decal, rather than have the ladder on one side per usual. That is now dry as of this morning, so that will be brought up to red like the rest tonight and then everything will be given an Agrax wash and then overbrushed with Mephiston to bring the armor plates back up and line highlighted with Evil Sunz Scarlet and selectively highlighted with Wild Rider Red to pick out the sharpest details. Then it will be a matter of blocking in the gold with Retributor Armor and silver with Leadbelcher, then a wash of reikland fleshsade and nuln oil respectively, then a final highlight of Liberator Gold and Ironbreaker respectively. Then transfers, details like the eyes and glowy bits of weapons, and blacking out the casings on the guns. And transfers. And bases. Piece of cake right? Here's where everything stands today - including the finished characters (one of which I'm doing a weapon swap on to be more thematic, since he used to just have a boring normal power sword like a LOSER), and the finished dreadnought (who needs transfers). Tactical Squad 1: Tactical Squad 2: Veterans: Cataphractii Terminators (already had their pin wash and overbrush, just need the armor highlights and metallics): And bonus footage - the start of the display base! Its a 15" x 18" MDF board that's 6mm thick (I think). The debris and tiles and hill aren't glued down yet - need to do some sanding on the hill first, and might try to dig out some craters and such before I texture the board. Picking up more sand paper, wood glue, and super glue tonight after work to get this all stuck together so I can begin the texture phase tomorrow. TALLY HO!
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Post by daniel, why on Mar 14, 2017 11:15:59 GMT -6
Damn dude, good luck! That is a monumental task.
If I were you, I'd get the bases done first because it's fast and, if all else fails, you are one color closer to a 3-color minimum. They look more complete, and if you don't get around to highlighting you can always come back to it after Adepticon.
Also props on getting anything done after the birthing class/hospital tour. We did the shorter 2-day one and it was exhausting!
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Post by Russell on Mar 14, 2017 11:23:30 GMT -6
ha, babies am i right
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Mar 14, 2017 13:55:57 GMT -6
Damn dude you're converting your conversions with that praetor. That's some inception shit.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 14, 2017 13:57:36 GMT -6
Hahaha I know man, I chopped off his chainfist for a power sword, then didn't like the power sword so added a khopesh. At this rate might as well swap out his combi-melta for a volkite charger too! Anybody got a spare? haha
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Post by Nick P on Mar 15, 2017 10:02:17 GMT -6
Not as much progress made last night as I hoped, in terms of visible results - but it was a lot of busy work that needed to be done that will make the next few painting sessions MUCH easier. I took Daniels advice and did every single models' base, so that if worst comes to worst I'll still have 3 colors on the models even if I would prefer them to have more highlights/depth for my personal standards. I also finished the Praetor conversion, replaced his weapon and painted it/touched up the armor, and redid the tassels on his armor (they were too white, too washed out for my tastes): Probably will do a burn pattern on his melta, since right now it looks very clean and pretty, and I also want to do some tattoos on his face to match what the Thousand Sons cult leaders had (but will only do so if I actually have TIME next Wednesday when all is said and done), like this: Also spent a good portion of last night sanding down the foam, gluing it in place, and then clamping it in various spots to keep it even/prevent warping (if you plan on building boards with different hill/cliff features - BUY CLAMPS), and ultimately ended up screwing in from the bottom of the board into the foam to keep it flush/tight while the glue dried. Also beveled/damaged the tile portions that were then glued in place, and tonight I'll be adding the filler/spackle to seal and texture the entire thing (and mask the edges of the tile areas so they blend into the rest of the board as sand-swept ruins of Prospero) so its ready for painting tomorrow night:
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Post by daniel, why on Mar 15, 2017 10:32:30 GMT -6
Love the tattoo idea.
Keep the train rollin', man.
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Post by cj on Mar 15, 2017 10:45:47 GMT -6
I'm confused as to when Ben Kingsly joined the astartes.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 15, 2017 11:01:32 GMT -6
Right?? Like that had to have been on purpose right? Like the design team just got done watching Iron Man 3 and goes "oh shit we need an ethnically ambiguous figure head that seems vaguely middle eastern looking...ish" and thought "aha, Mandarin"
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Post by Nick P on Mar 15, 2017 13:27:15 GMT -6
Goals for tonight (to be struck through upon completion!):
1. Agrax wash on all 30 infantry 2. First layer of sealing/texture on display board (while washes dry) 3. Agrax pin wash on Rhino 4. Overbrush Mephiston red on all 30 infantry 5. Completely finish the terminators to 3 color standard (gold + silver + cloth basecoats)
That will get me some room on my paint bench, give the display board time to dry to be painted tomorrow, and will mean the 30 infantry are in a position to have gold and silver applied. Once the gold and silver are applied, they will technically be "done" for 3 color standards, which will give me time to work on the highlighting squad by squad (veterans first) until the deadline.
I'm in Ohio Friday - Sunday, but I'm driving and have no plans on Saturday (Jen's having a baby shower, no boys allowed), so I am very seriously debating bringing my paints and a box full of marines so I can toil away on them during the day as time permits. Might be the difference between getting everything highlighted vs just having the base coats.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 16, 2017 7:45:23 GMT -6
WELP last night got away from me - thought using the spackle to get texture on the board was going to be easier than it was, but it didn't work out the way I thought it would so needed a lot of my attention throughout the night. I ended up messaging the terrain tutor and getting his advice, and he recommended that I just put another layer of filler down to get a really good seal and basecoat on it, then going back in after it dries to add the texture, so that's what I did: I did manage to get the wash on all the infantry and the rhino, but the board took all my time and so I didn't get to get the terminators finished or the overbrushing on the other infantry finished. Goals for tonight are going to be a bit more realistic: 1. Texture the board 2. Finish the terminators 3. Cut out the display for my necrons and texture it (no hills, just straight up filler texture, nothing fancy...boring but necessary) Then I'll have to really just focus on getting 3 colors on the infantry over the days I have left. Here's my plan for getting to the finish line, and I just have to really stick to it and move with speed: Saturday - paint the two display boards while I'm in Ohio (should be easy to lay down a basecoat, come back after a few hours and drybrush, basically lazy painting rather than focused painting while I'm with my family) Sunday - 10 thousand sons veterans - 3 colors up Monday - 10 tacticals - 3 colors up Tuesday -10 tacticals - 3 colors up Wednesday - finish the rhino and decal as much as possible squad by squad Thursday (after adepticon) - paint the lone destroyer I need for my 40k Friendly list
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2017 6:54:07 GMT -6
UPDATE TIME! So I basically threw my plan out the window, in terms of what I was going to accomplish each day. BUT I have made some serious progress yesterday, and feel really good about my ability to finish the army by Thursday. Yesterday I managed to finish the display board: And bonus - its just barely lighter than the bases for my necrons, so after the games on Thursday I'm just going to smuuuush this thing with Agrax and glue down some static grass and BOOM - instant 2nd army board! It'll be cramped, but it'll fit. Talk about time saver. I also managed to finish the rhino - took these pics while the hatch conversions with the 30k bolters were still drying, but here's the beast in all her glory. Used the FW decals to add some flavor, and I like how they turned out overall. Feels very VERY red to me, so I will need to go back and find ways to extend the black and gold spot colors throughout the rest of the model, but that's for after adepticon. For now, apart from some pro-paint airbrush OSL (I'm so sick you guys), she's done: I went back over this decal in particular a few times with the hobby knife so the edges of the doors would show through, but it didn't quite come out how I'd hoped. Regardless, looks pretty dope after the weathering, so will make a fine rhino for my veterans to roll around sniping dudemans in. Also did the decals on my dreadnought, and I love how they turned out. The gold on the white with black accents really pops, I'm going to go back and do this on all my other dreadnoughts post-adepticon as well. And finally, I "finished" the terminators. Not pleased with where the white of the tabards are (literally just basecoated it and called it done), so that will be the first thing I fix when adepticon is over or, Duncan willing, I actually have extra time this week when its all said and done. Also needs decals, and I feel like they're super red so will probably do a thick white stripe with black edges (similar to the dread) on their pauldrons before putting the legion symbols on them. But, here we are for now - 5 cataphractii with force swords, 4 combi plasmas, and a plasma blaster. Suck on some AP2 mofos! Now I just have to paint 30 infantry in 3 days. Luckily they've all got the red finished, so its just adding silver to the weapons/pipes on the backpacks, and gold to the pauldrons/helmets/literally 1000 rivets on the MKIII armor.
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Post by cj on Mar 20, 2017 7:21:56 GMT -6
You're doing great getting these cranked out with table top acceptability.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2017 8:46:27 GMT -6
You're doing great getting these cranked out with table top acceptability. Thanks CJ, that's the goal for the tournament - afterwards I can go back and add details/depth to the rank and file, and bring them up to the same standard as the characters so far, but for now I'm content with the depth on the red armor and just adding the spot colors to get them to acceptable quality. They very much feel like blood angels to me right now though lol so I need to do something post-adepticon to differentiate them.
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