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Thanks for the kind support, brothers! I'm really happy with Ravenwing 2.0 to this point.

  On 12/12/2016 at 10:55 AM, Brother Arkley said:
Love it, how the hell did you do the canopy on the flyer? smile.png

Brother Arkley, I carefully masked the canopy in order to continue with the airbrush.

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At this point, I essentially had a dark gray basecoat, onto which I began spraying very diluted layers of red and black inks. Dilution was accomplished not with my usual airbrush thinner (75% matte medium; 24% distilled water; 1% flow improver), but with 90% distilled water; 10% flow improver. This seemed to work very well as the inks behave more nicely than paints over a longer time. I treated this as a glaze in the same fashion as the black armor was handled. I started with pure red, and slowly added more and more black to the mix. Were I to do it again, I would only change the locations of the highlights. The technique worked quite nicely.

  On 12/12/2016 at 10:53 PM, CardinalVirtue said:
Any progress on Sammael's speeder? After seeing the other stuff I'm interested in seeing where that goes.

I think I just got called out on Sammy! CardinalVirtue, thanks for asking a direct question. I've dug him out of storage, dusted him off, and plan to (re) spray him with the command squad. The first attempt resulted in a very gray speeder, but I didn't have the (air) brush control to get it right; furthermore, I hadn't had my eureka moment of ink glazing which occurred during the Nephilim. I've learned enough from the Nephilim to move forward with this step. No excuses; the Ravenwing must be completed. Sammy was returned to a black base coat many moons ago, so the timing is perfect.

Thanks.

  • 3 weeks later...

Thanks, deathspectersgt7.

Here's a quick progress pic.

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I'm continuing to get better with painting metallics, but photographing them isn't quite right yet.

Sableclaw received a good start, but I ran out of paint. He's up after these bikes, however.

I wanted to clean up the black on the bikes from the last squad. The previous ones were a bit too blue. I think I achieved the effect I was after, but I lost more contrast than I would have liked. These three are coming along well; I'm very pleased with the results.

Thanks.

FC

  On 1/5/2017 at 1:39 AM, FinylCut said:

Grand Master Belial:

 

I base coat with Vallejo Model Color black green (70.980), then mix in a bit of VMC Ivory (70.918) for a thick highlight. I then reverse the quantities for the edge highlight. It's probably 3:1 if I had to guess.

 

Thanks.

FC

 

Thanks, I have been running VMC and VGC for a while now and love these two colors.

  • 3 months later...

Brothers:

Here's a quick progress pic.

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I've got a plan for the banner. I've got lots more work on Sableclaw. There are plenty of command squad details which may get completed at some point in the future. I had to bring Librarian Vega up to the new basing standards.

Slow and steady...

Thanks.

FC

  • 2 weeks later...

Brothers:

Thanks for the continued encouragement.

This is the final push. A foot of snow this weekend lead to the backside getting a good amount of attention:

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The list of must completes for Sableclaw is rapidly dwindling.

  • Starboard side arch (matching the port side)
  • The cross on top
  • A few lights (three needed on the rear)
  • More depth and/or cleanup in spots
  • A base! This guy was started a long time ago, preceding my must-have-a-completed-base-for-priming rule.

The list of nice to haves is big. One of them is rather... ambitious. I've two weeks to finalize this project for a local competition.

Thanks.

FC

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