BadgersinHills Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 (edited) The gorget looks great. Edited December 24, 2021 by BadgersinHills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus b'Raass Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 Looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted December 25, 2021 Author Share Posted December 25, 2021 Last week I tried out some of the Vallejo metal color paints I have - Gunmetal Grey, Dark Aluminum, Dull aluminum - and when applied with a paintbrush there is quite a noticeable difference with GG being very dark, Dark Aluminum kind of a midtone, and Dull Aluminum being almost white. Now that the hose adapter arrived for my new compressor I had a go at spraying them through my airbrush and the results are a lot more similar than I expected (or wanted). Left mini is Dark Aluminum, right is Dull. There is a slight difference to be seen with the Dull being a brigther and more 'white' color, but not by much. In fact, I sprayed the second figure with Dark first and then tried a zenithal spray of Dull to see how it would do as a highlight and there wasn't much contrast at all so I just sprayed the whole thing in Dull to see what its coverage was like. In fact, when I was carrying both of them back to my hobby desk to take pictures, I couldn't tell them apart in normal room lighting and had to get them under my incredibly bright lamp to do it. BadgersinHills and Khornestar 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus b'Raass Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Yeah... Vallejo has a great range of colours but they're not known for their metals. In fact, their metals are atrocious. They have the problem you highlighted (pun intended), have bad coverage, and they clot over time even when in use, and they spray horribly. After mostly ditching GW metals I tried a ton of brands and my top pics are now Army Painter and Scale 75. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 I read up on Vallejo Metal Color paints after that last post and discovered I made a mistake by adding a drop or two of flow improver which is most likely to blame for the spotty finish noticeable on the chest and abdomen armor, and are supposed to be airbrushed straight out of the bottle. I'll give it another go with that method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 Sooooooooon. Very soon. Was going to print it tonight but it was too damn cold. Monstra Sumus, Augustus b'Raass, Majkhel and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I've been tempted to print that one myself, looking forward to seeing it :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 I would love to make one that's like... a foot long or more, but I'd have to re-do all of the supports and there's so many of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus b'Raass Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I would love to make one that's like... a foot long or more, but I'd have to re-do all of the supports and there's so many of them! Worth the effort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 It's not just scaling it up, which breaks all the supports, and then copying them over from the normal size one - bigger parts weigh more, produce greater suction force when the build plate moves up and down, and even hollowing the part isn't a sure fix. All of which can mean failure after failure before you finally nail the sweet spot. And that's on one part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space wolf Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 This will be supercool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 She printed up nice, brothers! And in that empty spot on the build plate just to the right of the hull section I was able to squeeze in a Rapier escort with a Voss prow. The grand cruiser is going to need a bit of work before I can assemble it; the backs of the weapon bays are slightly rounded and won't fit flush and there's a similar issue where the aft section joins the hull piece. Naryn, Quixus, Valkia the Bloody and 5 others 8 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naryn Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Lovely prints, looking forward to seeing what you make of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechanist Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 The grand cruiser is going to need a bit of work before I can assemble it; the backs of the weapon bays are slightly rounded and won't fit flush and there's a similar issue where the aft section joins the hull piece. That just gives you the authentic feel of the original White metal kits. Though should be easier to fix than having to cut or bend the metal. Looking good so far a nice clean print, probably a good thing I don't have a resin printer yet I don't need more BFG with no one to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 When taking the pics of the assembled Grand Cruiser I was trying to use some poster tack to hold the rudder fin on and apparently cured resin doesn't want to stick to it very well, and I think I like the look of the ship better without it. I'll need to print a couple more of the dorsal lance turrets because even though I knew they were going to be fragile and handling them as gently as I could, the barrels still got broken on two of them and I left them off for the time being. Lexington, ranulf the revenant, Majkhel and 6 others 9 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majkhel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Looking regal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Ohhhhhhh yyeeeaaaahhhhhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hero Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 That is nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I like it without the fin as well, I think it’s a bit sleeker and more battleship this way. That large fin can’t really have much of any function in space anyway, it just looks a bit silly dangling there IMO. I always imagined the concept of the dorsal lances differently, I guess, not as gigantic actual water navy battleship cannon turrets. Hope the reprinting goes well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 I never realized how much it resembles a Star Destroyer until these pics with the rudder decoration removed. This 3rd party version is longer and thinner than the GW Grand Cruiser, but the arrow shaped nose, the bridge set way on the back, and the overall shape of it is very reminiscent. In Templar news, some goodies have arrived in the mail to spruce up my new plastics, most important of which is some tasty armor veneers for the Redemptor. BadgersinHills, Majkhel, Augustus b'Raass and 2 others 5 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus b'Raass Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 I'm in the #tailfingang and thing the #notailfingang are chumps. ;) Those redemptor goodies look delicious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 I found some nice 3d models for my not-black templars and printed out some for a test. Aeternus, Dr_Ruminahui, Lexington and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Forgot to mention that these were intended for Gravis armor and if anyone out there wants to print similarly sized pads to fit on regular Primaris you'll need to scale them down to 95%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hero Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Looking good BCK. Brother-Chaplain Kage 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Thanks! Just got some new stuff to put up as well. A couple of printed heads to try out and I think I might use the 2nd one here on my three bladeguard. I printed out a primaris marine split into legs, torso, arms, and head, and I also printed a set of gravis templar legs just see how they looked. Not really caring for the gravis torso design, I tried out the primaris chest on the gravis legs and tacked on a GW arm and head and I think I might be on to something here. The chest is obviously too small for the legs and I would simply print the chests larger to go with them. Sagentus 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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