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[Razblood]

Well I've primed the dread and found that some of the gs work needs some more smoothing.

 

Once I've done this I'll touch up the primer and start painting.

 

I'm also gonna take a crack at Watercolour washing since I cant afford to pick up any mineral spirits till next month.

[Razblood]

Well I've done the watercolour wash, after putting down a layer of gloss varnish.

 

Used Paynes Gray followed by Burnt Umber and it's looking promising, just need to let it dry and then clean it up before I can judge properly.

 

This is not on the dread btw. It's on something a bit meatier :devil:

[Razblood]

And here it is :D

Watercolour wash followed by some carbon marks on the exhausts using a black pastel and finally sponge weathering using P3 Pig Iron mixed with a little glaze medium.

Not quite done yet as I'm waiting for the matt varnish to dry before adding some highlights to the gold and metal areas before a final agrax earthshade wash.

First time I've tried these methods of weathering so please let me know what you think :)

[Razblood]

Got the dread glossed in preparation for the watercolour wash, which I will be doing in the next few minutes.

 

Once it's dry I'll do before and after clean up pics.

 

With the ETL III looming I'm currently considering what to do for it, I don't have any DA stuff left to paint nor FT and my DIY stuff is almost done for now. Perhaps Chaos?

[Razblood]

When last we saw our hero it had improved drastically from how it previously looked...

...to this state...

...and now here we are after watercolour wash, but before clean up.

There's plenty more to do, but I think this is already looking a million times better :)

Comments and criticism welcome.

[sockwithaticket]

Sterling work on the vindicator, really good weathering. The repair job is starting to take shape too,  ust have been a hell of a job to get it to that point.

[Razblood]

Thanks, I'm really happy with how it's come out :)

 

As for the dread it was mainly just clean, repair, prime, find stuff I missed, strip and repeat until I felt I'd done as much as I could. (took about 3 runs).  I'm happy with it so far. :)

[helterskelter]

That repaint is looking pretty neat. Grey knight incinerator(?) representing the heavy flamer I like yea verily.

[deathspectersgt7]

Great save on the Dread,and great job on the Vindicator.

[Razblood]

@helterskelter - Cheers & yup it's an incinerator, dread was previously part of a GK army before I rescued it 

 

@deathspectersgt7 - Cheers mate

 

Almost took the tip off one of my fingers tonight (slicing bread of all things) so progress may be a little slow on these. But I do have some after clean up pics of the dread which I'll post later, as well as some pics of another repair job which I've started putting the pigment to

Edited April 21, 2014 by Razblood

[Razblood]

Here I am again with pics of the dread post clean up.

The effenct from the watercolour wash is confined mostly to the metal areas, but it has added a slight filter to the white and in places I have left traces to suggest wear and grime.

I'll get better pics once it's done.

As for the other repair job, some of you may remember this unfortunate soul donated to me by a friend.

Well I fixed him up a while ago and randomly decided to paint him whilst waiting for the dread's wash to dry, so he he is as he currently stands...

Blue is done, got the base for most of the other colours down, gold has been based with Humbrol Antique Bronze which is a lovely colour with a really rich tone.

Chapter badge will be on his right knee, hence why it's been based in dark grey, which will be glazed down to black. Challenge will be getting a nice smooth yellow on the tabard :lol:

C & C welcomed and appreciated :)

[Razblood]

Libby is done, bar base drybrush and jump pack exhaust.

Though the jump pack is pretty knackered around the bottom so I'll replace it at some point.

Let me know what you think? :)

[Razblood]

Got bored, felt like a change so decided to try a new scheme...well new for me anyway :lol:

Wanted to do the classic grey and feel I've got pretty close. Few more details to do, but unfortunately this wasn't a great cast as could happen with the old lead models so some of the detail is lost.

Also not too happy with my freehand Chapter Badge, but I can practice that as I have another 4 of these with various armaments :)

Comments and Criticisms if you've got em ;)

[deathspectersgt7]

The Libby looks Great. WOOF !!!

[Razblood]

Cheers :)

[Razblood]

After getting distracted quite a bit I finally buckled down tonight and finished the dread, here are the pics to prove it :lol:

Also finally got a fine enough pen to do this -

So overall I'm happy with the recovery effort, it's still quite rough in places but I feel that to put anymore time into it would probably end up with me abandoning it :lol:

Comments and Criticism if you please ;)

[deathspectersgt7]

Well I like the rough spots it makes look Ancient. 

[Razblood]

Thanks :) Just glad it came out as well as it did.

On to new things though as I have just acquired a bottle of this -

Known by many names including Klear/Future and the primary ingredient in "magic wash" for those unaware :)

I'll be giving this a test run over the next day or so to see how it works.

[Aqui]

Nice recovery of the Dread!

[Grizzly_bear]

Loverly work on the dread bro. Nice to see you back on these guys

[Razblood]

Cheers guys :)

 

Not got too much more to do for them, got a Landspeeder coming next week hopefully and after that the army is pretty much done except for iconography and weathering.

 

Got some DA stuff on the horizon and will probably do more to my FT at some point, also got a bunch of CSM stuff that I could do with getting on with. Seriously considering starting a small Wolves force as well and have a platoon of IG that could do with some paint.

 

Plenty more to come on here :tu:

[Razblood]

Well my first experiments with "magic" wash have been completed and I have to say I think it's a winner.

Used the Pledge/Klear/Future with various colours of Vallejo ink at various levels of dilution.

The black received multiple washes of black ink, the robes and pauldrons got flesh ink washes and the gold got a combination of flesh and very diluted purple ink washes.

An interesting thing with the purple is that it was an empty bottle which had dried out an age ago and I was planning to use it to store some ready mixed water/Klear, however the mix seems to have revived the dried ink and now it works beautifully :)

I've found you can get some really nice effects with different levels of dilution and this will definitely be one of my go-to's in the future.

So let me know what you think?

[Razblood]

Another brief update after I realised that I still have some character models to paint, so here's a WIP Techmarine :)

White is ceramite white washed with heavily diluted black magic wash, which I think makes it look grimy and oily.

The rest is just base colours at the mo.

Comments would be appreciated :)

Also planning for the ETL, currently hoping to make my first vow on the 30th May and my fifth vow by the 5th June (yes, I plan on getting 4 full squads completed within 6 days followed by a character for the last vow) :devil:

[deathspectersgt7]

The Tech Marine looks good. Magic wash huh! will have to give it a try.

 

What was the ratio did you use.

Edited May 9, 2014 by deathspectersgt7

[Razblood]

Ink:Klear:Water = 2:6:10

I was a bit haphazard about it but believe that was around the right ratio, if necessary you can add more water as it holds it's surface tension extremely well.

 

If I get the time during the next week I'll do a ratio guide/tutorial/exhibition and post it in painting tutorials :)