sword brethren Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 be right back, changing my pants... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calgar101 Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 It is a very good jump my paint scheme is very simple then, an air brush wouldn't work in this case :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirax Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 calgar101, you're just downright insane.Why did we ever stop working together? tongue.gif  Well you disappeared :D Like an enigmatic shadow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canis Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 There's a lot of mold line shavings in your future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igotsmeakabob!! Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Wow, so... this is real dedication to the hobby. I like your moxy, kid; it's crazy moxy, but moxy all the same! Good luck, and the Blood Angels are proud to have someone as Raging Thirsty for glory as you sharing their gene seed. I hope you fulfill your goal of getting into White Dwarf.. if you get all that done, I'm sure you will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Legion Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Oh Yes!!! You're on The Blood Angel side! Alright, you have my utmost respect to your dedication. I don't know how much that cost, but that's what i'd do if I won the lottory too :) I will certainly be watching this thread for many years to come! Good luck, but don't forget to have a life as well...Being cooped up for that long isn't always good for us crazies :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Insanity! :) It will be truly outstanding once it's done and I wish you the very best of luck. Â You're not going to use an airbrush? You paid for not only a few thousand marines but also a slave army of painters? I only hope their dungeon is well-lit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam-AoD Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Holy :cuss You sir are insane :P I hope you finish this and appear in WD mate :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caliban Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 It is a very good jump my paint scheme is very simple then, an air brush wouldn't work in this case :P  I don't really have words to express the magnitude of taking on this project. I like the back story and I like that this has been your vice, your 'healthy' drug to get you through rough times, complete escapism. Exaggeration not this could become unhealthy. Keep good balance.  FOR GOODNESS SAKE LISTEN TO THE FORUM AND BUY A FRIKKEN AIRBRUSH!!  Do not profess to have some secret technique or so... if you do not see it now you will see it in the future when you have £3000 of models with shoddy paintwork. Airbrushing is the way forward with these. Invest ina good one. No negotiation here. You cannot keep up a decent painting consistency by hand for that many models.  As is the scale of your purchase I feel only compelled to say so.  But... in the words of a famous Frater "There your models do what you like with them".  Rant over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naysmith Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Wow thats a lot of minis there! Its sad to say but its true, you just wont be able to acomplish that task without a serious amount of planing! I myself have two painted armys of about 2000 Points and two armys about 1500 points where comission painted. All that in the last three years. Thats 5000 points in three years or 1666 points per year. The modelcount may have been 500 +- 50 i think. Thats 0.45 minis a day. Â So a planing help: (If you have a regular life with work and sleep :) )You will be painting and building your chapter for about 6 (+-2) years!! Be sure of that!! Â 1. Buy an airbrush! 2. Reduce the modelcount to about Chaptersize (that would be 1000 - 1050 minis) sell the rest. 3. Batchbuild and Batchpaint about ?30? minis (try what you can manage to much and you will just stop). 4. Hell buy an airbrush!! 5. Keep you patience. Â Thats an hell of a task and i am quite sure you wont be able to manage it! But you are insane and maybe that helps. Good luck! Â Â cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdannan Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Wow that is epic. I don't feel so bad about purchasing 20 terminators now. Wish you all the best for your endeavor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawain Veteris Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I hope you succeed, because if you do you will have started something truly beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhg033 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 impressive - hope you can keep at it. Â do you have a plan for how you intend to build/paint? e.g couple of squads then a vehicle then a character as a reward? or a company at a time? etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbabyjesus Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 with a bit of dedication, a simple one colour scheme and a decent airbrush you could easily get a company a month painted. Hell Army Painter wouldn't be too bad an idea in this case, it's simple enough to do and you can fire out hundreds of minis in a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injek Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Holy mountain of plastic, Batman! Â I could never do that. I think I'd finish a squad, in about two weeks. Then, I'd turn around and see all this boxes. I think I'd just flip over my desk and go live in the forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Hawk Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 You, good sir, are clinically insane. If you finish that, then you might just achieve sainthood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annunaki 23 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Did you get some kick ass one of a kind freebie space marine with that? Â Because you should for that much coin spent. Hell I feel obligated to give you my Army box exclusive crested helm marine since you just bailed out GW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calgar101 Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Right, this will be a general reply since too many of you to reply to individually! There is one hell of a lot of plastic involved and will be a lot of spares and left over sprues! My plan for now is to build/paint what I'm using in an Apocalypse game in Feb, most of it is built (just some Vindicators to build)but it then needs painting. Â My colour scheme is nice and simple, especially using army painter sprays. Platemail silver, the inlay of the shoulder pad will is mechrite red whilst the trim is chaos black. I am unsure what wash to use then. I like the idea that the Sanguine Exemplar's are from a feudal world with knightly orders. An airbrush would not work for this scheme I'd say. Â None of this army will be sold, the phrase "Over my dead body" is very appropriate here, I did not spend all that money just to sell some of it. Also 85% of this was not bought from Games Workshop, although some of the more expensive elements of it were. I'm not anti Games Workshop but it would've taken me longer (perhaps that would have been better with hindsight) to do this. Â The goal is to hopefully have my very own WD article and use this in one hell of an Apocalypse game. Â Was going to spray the rest of the battle company today along with its transports but the weather had other idea's, all those mould lines removed for nothing. Work and hockey training will take the bulk of my time up tonight but I do intend to get a Vindicator or two built tonight and hopefully some pictures of them up here. Â Thanks every one. Â Ave Imperator! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbabyjesus Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I agree that while an airbrush won't really help with the metallic parts of the scheme, they are extremely good at applying washes evenly to large areas... would make the 'base colour' almost impossibly fast to paint: Â Army painter platemail (LOL, this is going to cost you a fortune!) with shoulerpads seperate and sprayed black. airbrush on a load of badab black to get the shading going, paint the shoulder pad rims and misc details (eyes etc), stick on shoulder pads, profit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly_bear Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 First thing i said to my self was "f*** that's one hell of a pile"  second thought was: "if that was pile i would crumble and proberbly end up quiting the hobbie" ....  so my hat comes off to you fella and i wish you all the best with this monumental task you have set your self, i thought i had alot left to paint but you have taken the biscuit.  WOW lol  Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Perdo Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 And I thought I was mad :eek  Good luck brother.  As some have said an Airbrush will help, even with metallics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Good luck, brother. And yes, post pictures! :eek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandmaster lisander Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 man i envy you, ive been collecting for 10 years, and im only up to about 700 some odd marines. you sir, are freaking sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarklordobsidian Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Have you considered entering the stuff from that first picture in this years LPC? :P Â Seriously though, I look forward to following this until the end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calgar101 Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 I think I would miss the LPC deadline by a bit ;) On a few occasions I have nearly crumbled but I've always found the resolve to carry on, this WIP is to be my motivation. The position of having so much is both a curse and blessing, it doesn't help when I open a box and don't finish it before opening another... Tonight I've managed to build and spray 2 vindicators and I've sprayed four tactical squads. Sorry if the pictures are not the best of quality, it is night time, using my phone and not got a decent area set up for photo's. The goal for this week is to have everything sprayed silver really, well everything that I am using in the Apocalypse in Feb. That is Marneus Calgar and some Honourguard (need to find a way to un-Ultrafy them), 50 Terminators, a drop pod, 10 Dreadnoughts, a Battle company and its transport, Land Raider Redeemer, 5 Vindicators, 2 thunderfire cannons, 2 Baal Predators, Astorath the Grim, 20 Death company, Lemartes, Dante and an Honour Guard, 20 Sanguinary Guard (I do not want them gold, maybe red?) and then 3 Baneblades and a Warhound. Going to be a busy few weeks. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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