Gerrie Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I've been lurking around the forums for a couple of weeks now, sometimes posting some stuff in the painting area mainly. This is my first post where I show some of my own work, and it's meant to be a placeholder for all my work in progress on my Ultramarines army. I'm also preparing some stuff for the Golden Bolter competition so be sure to see some non-Ultramarines stuff from me very soon. The army is quite basic at the moment: there are two tactical squads and some loose marines with special weapons and bolters, and a Space Marine captain. There's no real plan on how I want to expand the army, I guess I'll just add models based on what I want to paint (since I'm more of a painter than a gamer). I try to stick to the official paint scheme simply because I like it. The only real difference is that I use a blue which is a lot darker than how GW paints their Ultramarines. Today I want to show you a picture of my drop pod (which is almost done) and my Assault on Black Reach dreadnought. http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/CorvusMiniatures/work%20in%20progress/20091105-droppod.jpg I've been working on this drop pod for way too long :) The painting of the outside took some time, but after struggling with the warning stripes (the yellow paint kept running over the blue on the outside of the pod) I got seriously demotivated and banned this model to a corner of my desk for 2-3 months. I picked it up a few weeks ago, fixing the stripes. I've progressed a little further since this picture was taken, it's actually nearly done. http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/CorvusMiniatures/work%20in%20progress/20091105-dreadnought.jpg I'm testing out a new paint recipe for my Ultramarines on this dreadnought. Basically he's basecoated using Heavy Blue from the new Vallejo Extra Opaque range. It took two (dilluted) coats to get a nice finish. After that I washed it with Vallejo Black Wash with a lot of water added, and when that was dry I shaded the stuff like the edges with additional Vallejo Black Wash, only slightly dilluted this time. After that I started highlighting using Vallejo Model Color Prussian Blue (which I use on all my Ultramarines) and White. I did this in three steps: 2:1 blue:white, then 1:1 blue:white and finally a 1:2 blue:white highlight to finish. The highlights are mostly painted on, not drybrushed. Anyway a fun model to paint, but he soaks up a lot more paint than I expected :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtNACHO Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Good looking Blue and nice Pod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingo Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Very nice work so far: I'm looking forward to seeing more. And I applaud the neatness with which you keep you paint bottles :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerrie Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 thanks :) I cleaned up my desk a while ago and built a bigger paint 'stadium' as I call it. Here's how it looks without miniatures on it: http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt212/CorvusMiniatures/other/desk-sept2009-1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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