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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 2, 2017 10:01:20 GMT -6
Sup Guys. Doing some solid painting, feel like I am leaps and bounds better than my first army a few years ago although there is always room for improvement along the way. Finished painting my first real model that wasn't just a tac marine. Welcome to the table Painted Furioso. I still need to base him, but I want to practice my snow bases before I dive in on him.   Also here is my Budget Mephiston. (His cape and skirt thing are felt)  |
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Aug 2, 2017 11:56:56 GMT -6
Is that right arm magnetized? It looks different in both pics. Good job though. Solid red.
Also the mephiston actually looks very accurate. Im sure people on here will have ideas for good substitutions for the felt. You may be able to harden it with pvc glue
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Post by Russell on Aug 2, 2017 12:02:28 GMT -6
I did a little kitbashing myself to make Mephiston. I used the robed bottom half from the old Dark Angels veterans kit.
I like the color on the Dread. Maybe it's just the lighting in the photo but that red would really pop with a second line highlight. Personally I use bone followed by crimson wash to give it an almost pink look. Granted this is for (not) flesh tearers so that mught not be the color you're going for!
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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 2, 2017 12:33:30 GMT -6
Is that right arm magnetized? It looks different in both pics. Good job though. Solid red. Also the mephiston actually looks very accurate. Im sure people on here will have ideas for good substitutions for the felt. You may be able to harden it with pvc glue Naw, it's just a weird angle with the lighting. I never thought about hardening the felt with glue thats a pretty good idea. I may end up just buying his actual model when I am at gencon, or converting a primaris dude into him since he's supposed to be huge. |
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Post by Nick P on Aug 2, 2017 14:45:56 GMT -6
Wait, that right arm is in two different positions lol so its not *just* the lighting right?
I would recommend not hardening the felt with glue - honestly you should use some greenstuff to sculpt some robes instead; the felt just isn't going to give you the look you want, or be paintable, or look like it fits the aesthetic of the game even if hardened with glue. Using bits with robes already on them, like Russell suggested, is also a great idea.
Honestly the official model is cheap, and really cool still and a ton of fun to paint - that would be your best bet, unless you convert a primaris librarian into him and give him some dope long flowing locks from an elf head
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Aug 2, 2017 16:09:35 GMT -6
What did jesse do for his dark angels champion? Those robes were great and werent plastic
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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 15, 2017 19:37:00 GMT -6
New Project is to make a dreadnought drop pod (The Lucius Pattern), I'm going to try and work off of this post [ www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/223693.page ] but there are some things I am not really sure about, should I use thicker plasticard for this? or perhaps really thin foam board? Where do I even source plasticard, would amazon be my best bet? |
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Post by Nick P on Aug 16, 2017 6:54:48 GMT -6
I'd use plasticard, and yeah amazon is a great place to get cheap sheets of it in A4 size or smaller/larger, whatever your needs are. Foamboard would maybe work if its really thin, but I just think that's more trouble than its worth trying to keep it from warping with the glue, and trying to figure out how to glue it to the plastic pieces without it melting the foam with super glue, etc.
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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 21, 2017 19:07:44 GMT -6
Ended up coming up on some super cheap models at Gencon, picked up a mephiston, corbulo, and lemartes. Also grabbed the below fella who I am super excited to run eventually.  Dreadnought drop pod progress incoming as well. =D |
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Post by Nick P on Aug 22, 2017 7:13:44 GMT -6
Hell yeah dude! Leviathans are so cool, I'm mighty tempted to get a 2nd one for my thousand sons. Question - are you painting the head/knee pads/top armor plate separately? That's something I wish I would have done with mine, it was a pain to do different colors/airbrush effects/stripes on those panels once it was all connected.
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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 22, 2017 7:23:05 GMT -6
Hell yeah dude! Leviathans are so cool, I'm mighty tempted to get a 2nd one for my thousand sons. Question - are you painting the head/knee pads/top armor plate separately? That's something I wish I would have done with mine, it was a pain to do different colors/airbrush effects/stripes on those panels once it was all connected. Yeah I am doing those separate, it seemed to be the largest regret most folks had online about painting. And I am not the strongest painter so I need all the legs up I can get. =D |
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Post by Nick P on Aug 22, 2017 7:27:11 GMT -6
 And now that you've got a Levy, its only a matter of time until you succumb fully to the pull of 30k and start collecting a heresy blood angels army....  |
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Post by vaktimusprime on Aug 26, 2017 11:32:20 GMT -6
Progress on the dreadnought droppod, hit a bunch of snags, but slowly they are working out here and there. Currently I am having a huge problem closing the gaps between the doors and the spars.  |
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