SESSION TWO:

Well, I've been busy again. I've thrown myself into weird and wonderful projects because I can, and I have the time. It has also served me to look at something other than a bloody computer scream (no, not a typo), and has allowed me to just get lost in a project, no matter how much hair it still causes to fall out. It has been a bit of trial and error, but I got where I wanted in the end. Looking at the RT WH40K Compendium is absolutely lethal.

Now it just so happens, I do have a Diemos pattern Rhino from FW, the resin hull and front plate one that builds onto the plastic Mk IIc.

Unfortunately, that one was already half way through a lick or two of paint, but the current WIP (right) is pretty impressive with the Howling Griffons Night World Battle Livery. Look at that sucker POP.

It's a like a trolley of Battenburg Whoopass (TM)

The Badab War Khymara Campaign does have it's advantages, one being I can drybrush the hell out these tanks and it looks pretty good, since the FW art has them very, very messy. I'm still working on how to replicate the 'heavy micrometeorite strikes' you can see on almost all the images of the Griffon's armoured vehicles, but I'll get there. Maybe.

Now, to business.

Here's my more modern rendition of the RT Ambulance, (there were some problems with the model too, since it is a 'reclaimed' hull from another army I no longer have), but I have glue, plasticard and bad eyesight, so...

Lighting in my workshop is...patchy, so the full glory of the slopped around paint isn't really in your face, but trust me it's there. I must confess, I only sprayed the medicae vehicle with Grey Seer, then slapped Agrax Earth over it, and drybrushed it white. I regret I had no Griffon decals, but with colours like this, well, I think I just want the pretty for now, and I wasn't going to splash out on stuff I might not get full use out of.

Colour scheme choices were a bit of a bind, since I wanted to have the maroon/pink markings on the vehicle to demonstrate that, besides the colour of the hull, it was a medicae truck, as with the RT inspiration model. I also decided to use the Battenburg instead of the body colour as a Tactical Recognition Flash (TRF) so that overflying Marines air/void craft wouldn't blow it all to hell. The pictures aren't great but it's weathered a lot too.

The discolouration is sponged or scrubbed on black mainly, but the moon of Khymara is an airless, dusty ball of rock, like our own Luna, and so the weathering powders and brushing I would use (Mud, sand), doesn't work on a white-hulled vehicle, in this environment.

I did have the advantage of buying several sets of weathering powders many years ago, which were boxed into 'themed groups'. One of these is snow, dirt and the crud that can be found in winter cities, and the very nice Terra Vert Gris - a grey-green powder just the job for splodging. I took the liberty of also using the carbon black to smear everything in range that fell under my eye.

If I didn't have a paint, I mixed it. I have no idea to the ratios, but I whipped up a small puddle of grey-green to do the track skirts and flanges with. You can see the effect better on the finished black rhino above. I highlighted nothing on the white tank, except the scuffs and dings. I also experimented with contrast paint. I have discovered I can't use it for toffee, but I can use the contrast medium for heavy glazing to improve colour depth.

I did plan on doing a little medical diorama, and I still might, since I've got a cool idea which likely will never work, but some joker on ebay wanted $99 for the SM Casualties set, so I made my own, but I will say no more...

The project continues.