Today in the hobby I....

[Vykes]

They asked me to do another one in the near future with my Luna Wolves Bryan Blaire, and that is definitely question #1 from me :P I might have to make an offer and bribe them with some of my terrain to keep the Nostal-cacti alive and well. 

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

-laughs- as an Albertan who lived in Queen's Valley when he was younger, oh no worries I definitely get it It is Kinda funny as there's a vague story behind the cacti thing, Warriorhunter mate!

Our camera crew utterly hated the cacti too, but me and my opponent both started 40K gaming in 2nd edition. Likewise, our armies are using updated models from Space Crusade and Rogue Trader/2E, and guess what particular piece of terrain was in those original How to make table terrain sections of the rulebook? -laughs- Even when we told them that, the response from one was, "Soon as you turn your back I'm throwing those out."

Oh, and for my "Today in the Hobby" I quickly finished up a experiment model using contrasts over vallejo metal, contrast, and some contrast medium with a wash or two using Ahriman as a test. Turned out to be a lot of fun.

The color scheme reminds me of the Sons of Horus; seems too dark. Maybe it was the lighting? Regardless, that's just my opinion. Paint job's excellent, though, nice job.

[Magos Takatus]

Oh god, those Cacti are so old school! They may not look too realistic, but my rose-tinted specs don't seem to notice. 

[Vykes]

Ah it was just a test mini to see if the contrast turquoise would work for Alpha Legion, Zephaniah.  Ahriman is just the unfortunate victim.  Turns out the colour is too dark for me, I was hoping it might be more aqua-coloured.  May have to go snatch a pot of Aethermatic blue to see if that might be closer for my 30K era stuff. 

 

Magos Takatus, oooooh man, y'ain't wrong.  It hit me pretty hard as something straight out of the old rulebooks that I just had to use. 

[BitsHammer]

Well I fell victim to my own choices.

 

Basically I was finding the colors a bit wrong (the blue was too dark for how I do gold basically) and decided to go back and fix it...by tossing a quick coat of primer over him so I could fix it over an even base coat.

 

And Guilliman fuzzed up so bad he sheds pigment if you just hold him.

 

So he's gone into a stripper bath. In the meantime I'm thinking a Lord of Contagion could be fun to paint.

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

TITHI primed the rest of my ETL vow black, then pulled out my brand-spanking-new silver rattlecan only to discover that despite the fact I got the can with the same product code (just above barcode) and the same color cap, I get different results. Bloody hardware paints.

 

Livid does not begin to describe my anger here.

[Baron Sebas]

TITH i made some progress after a slow week for my ETL vow. Tomorrow i intend to do some harder stuff of my vow. (and i'll show pics of the progress) I think i can finish the vow by the end of the week.

[BitsHammer]

With Guilliman going back to square one I decided to rebook at what I wanted to do with his armour. My original blue was too dark on it's own so the answer is of course that it will be brighter, and with that I started to retry a shiny blue surface effect to try and make it feel more polished (he's a Primarch, half of his armour save comes from polishing wax after all). After a failed attempt with a smother glaze method I decided to give a brushed metal NMM technique a try.

 

The highlight was miles better, while having a good pop at arm's length:

 

And better yet it still looks decent up close:

 

Not an especially long time was spent on blocking in colors and hitting it with a glaze, but I like the look for Imperial armour more than the smooth look I'd gone with in the past.

 

So the shiny armour is back (and the technique can work over brighter blues with less fuss which is nice too).

 

I'm going to likely be tweaking my gold recipie next to try and make it pop a bit more as the old chest eagle showed some problems with the shadows blending into the blue. It's probably going to end up a much brighter color to stand put better and let me do more with less.

[Baron Sebas]

So as promised i made some more progress today (faces done ,2nd set of legplates done and skull shoulder done)

Here's a pic of my ETL vow so far. (also got some bits and bobs done for the guns not showed in the picture)

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I finished getting my Adeptus Titanicus battlegroup off sprue and most of the sub assemblies and magnetization done. It is so nice not having to drill holes for magnets (in most cases).

 

[Ace Debonair]

Today in the Hobby I have decided Contrast paints are my favourite paints.

One coat of contrast did all this green:




Warp Lightning over Stormhost Silver is absolutely GLORIOUS and I cannot wait to finish this squad.

[Vykes]

Man, Ace Debonaire, I'm glad the green worked that well too. Looks awesome. I know the turquoise is fantastic and I'm hoping that some of the other colours (notably aethermatic blue) turns out like that. Quick, easy, and awesome metallics.

As for me, I got Luna Wolf version Maloghurst the Twisted mostly worked up. Just gotta add a few glazes for transitions on the flesh and then a transfer or two on the standard.

[sarabando]

Tith I decided that I am quiting the hobby. GWs recent price hike has done me in. I've got plenty of minis to paint to keep my painting bug slated and game wise I've never enjoyed playing so it's not a biggy to me not having the latest minis

[Panzer]

Tith I decided that I am quiting the hobby. GWs recent price hike has done me in. I've got plenty of minis to paint to keep my painting bug slated and game wise I've never enjoyed playing so it's not a biggy to me not having the latest minis

 

As long as you are painting, you are not quitting. Not really. There is no requirement to buy something all the time. ;)

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I finished magnetizing my Reaver for AT:

 

[BitsHammer]

Past few days I've been practicing shiny blue armour methods and trying to get some downtime in.

 

As much as I enjoy painting with less than three weeks of crunch left I figured I'd try and keep my head above water before I start crunching out a complete model starting Friday.

[Ace Debonair]

Man, Ace Debonaire, I'm glad the green worked that well too.  Looks awesome.  I know the turquoise is fantastic and I'm hoping that some of the other colours (notably aethermatic blue) turns out like that.  Quick, easy, and awesome metallics.

I haven't got any of the blue Contrast paints yet, but I can confirm Blood Angels Red, Dark Angels Green, Wyldwood and especially Iyanden Yellow also work great over a bright silver base - I posted a picture of them over in the Contrast Experiments thread in the PCA Questions forum if you'd like visual proof.

 

I've got some more colours - in particular greys, oranges and a really nice dark purple on the way, and will probably do another test painting on the spare arms from my latest reiver squad.

 

That white armour you've done looks incredible, by the way. Very nice!

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I did a test color scheme for snow bases and got my warhound frames base coated.

 

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

TITH, I pretty much just woke up. YITH, I picked up a box of Khorne Berzerkers, built three of them from the waist up (I'm kitbashing them with the current CSM kit and I had to scratch the building itch somehow) and built two nondescript Berzerker Characters which are effectively vanilla Berzerkers with redundant weapons. I figure I only need so many bolt pistols out of the Berzerker kit, and since the kit makes 12 models and I only need 10...

 

...We all know I'm just going to end up building vanilla Zerkers and using these two as sergeants or something...

[BitsHammer]

TITH, I pretty much just woke up. YITH, I picked up a box of Khorne Berzerkers, built three of them from the waist up (I'm kitbashing them with the current CSM kit and I had to scratch the building itch somehow) and built two nondescript Berzerker Characters which are effectively vanilla Berzerkers with redundant weapons. I figure I only need so many bolt pistols out of the Berzerker kit, and since the kit makes 12 models and I only need 10...

 

...We all know I'm just going to end up building vanilla Zerkers and using these two as sergeants or something...

You could always use the left over guys as Aspring Champions.

[BitsHammer]

TITH I used on of Guilliman's legs to try something out. Basically the idea was to have the gold and blue to follow the same lighting since they're both the same cylinder. I also wanted the light to be stronger towards the primary light source than the secondary, hence the stronger highlight on one side.

 

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

Today (legally yesterday in my time zone) in the hobby, I painted Lord Thrax, First Son of Traditorio.

[RikuEru]

TITH I got roughly half of my Vow #2 done!

 

 

All of that in one day! Even though I spent all day on them, that's quite the accomplishment for me.

 

Now it's just 10 more models, that I will do in smaller badges/pairs over the next couple of days.

(Yes, I did all of these as one row. Every step. Every colour. I was so focused today... thanks Jes Goodwin and other Voxcast guests!)

 

 

Also:

Fine Brush and Contrast Paints is an AMAZING combo for Tattoos and the like!

[treadhead]

YITHI Picked up my fourth box of allarus custodes

 

TITHI Finished them off, two as allarus and the last as a vexilla, next on the list is some venatari as i really like the way they look

 

[BitsHammer]

TITH I ordered Guilliman 2: Everchosen Boogaloo, tossed a Noise Marine and the new Imperial Fists book into the cart and then ran errands.

 

So now I have some extra fine brushes, pipettes and a magnifier headset that does 2-3x magnifiers.

 

I also had an idea for a chapter of Primaris whonwear skull masks everyone (I plan on kitbashing the Chaplain and Captain for a power armoured Captain for example, and basically everyone wears Reiver helmets/masks) with some lore that they recruit solely from Death Cults making them a chapter that worships the Emperor as a god, plus they sup from their kills. As such I plan on running them as Blood Angels, but I'm struggling on finding a color scheme I like.

 

So the Knights Mortis are my post Guilliman army project, if I can find a scheme I like first.

Edited July 12, 2019 by Fulkes