++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Petitioner's City]

Was asked on Instagram and Facebook what the paint recipe is for the terrain, so here it is for your viewing pleasure as well:

 

BLUE

- Basecoat GW The Fang Spray can

- Shade with a light airbrush spray of VMA Insignia/Signal Blue or GW Kantor Blue

- Highlight spray with GW Russ Grey

- Edge Highlight with Molotow ONE4ALL™ 227HS 4mm Ceramic Light Pastel

- rivets with Molotow 1,5mm Metallic Silver marker (that's about 2500 dots in two days....)

METAL PARTS

- 1:1 mix of AP Gun Metal and AP Rough Iron

- highlight with Molotow 1,5mm Metallic Silver marker

- wash with GW Agrax Earthshade

HAZARD STRIPES

- GW Averland Sunset and AP Matt Black

WEATHERING

- grime under-layer is a light airbrush spray of a 1:1:1 mix of GW Rhinox Hide, AP Matt Black, and VMA Rust

- chipping damage is a sponging with GW Rhinox Hide, then to simulate exposed metal, add a stripe or dot with a Molotox 1,5mm Metallic Silver marker

- Streaking with Molotow 1.5mm markers in Lobster and DARE orange colours

LIGHTS

- Green: airbrush GW Moot Green, mixing in with and up to GW Flash Gitz Yellow

- Red: airbrush GW Mephiston Red mixing in with and up to GW Flash Gitz Yellow

Cheers!

 

 

@ hushrong: Thanks a lot for everything! Glad you like the necro stuff.

 

@ Gederas: I have a tile that says (translated to English): You don't stop gaming as you get older; you get older when you stop gaming. 

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Thank you!

 

@ Noctus Cornix: Cheers, buddy! Thanks for stopping by again.

 

This is a great recipe, thank you!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Well, hello there. 

It's been almost three months, guys and gals. Not strange: my second son was born early March! Hurray! Downside is he had a weird cranial deformity. Long story short: we had two months of major worries, had about a thousand tests performed on him, and it eventually turned out to be non-syndromal, non-genetic, and harmless except that a piece of his skull had to be removed in a simple surgical procedure to allow for his head to develop and grow normally. That operation has been performed succesfully and now we can breath again. Few!

As you can imagine, we didn't know all this at the beginning of March, so tons of worries. I decided very early on that it'd be better if I had more time to spend on my family and so I cut into my hobby time and plans. Therefore I cancelled No Retreat XI, which was a bummer and in hindsight I could have still made it but as it was back then, it was the right decision and I stand by it. 

I was lucky enough to be able to take two months off, so that was a relief and it also allowed me to get some R&R in between diapers, worries, and sleep. I did update my instagram, but not here, and so I intend to rectify that with a ton of posts over the next couple days, in which I summarize my hobby progress.

​Let's start with what I already announced here: the second incarnation of Captain Eight Legs, as a commission for none other than Mini Wargaming Dave!

 

 

Pretty amazing how after more than seven years and having no access to the figure because I've sold it off, I could still make this thing pretty much from memory - weird how memory works that way!

Well, I hope you like the pics. Thanks for looking and stay tuned for more upgrades. :)

Cheers!

Replies:

 

@ ChazSexington: Cheers bud! The MkII bodies are from the aptly named Ukranian company called Tortuga Bay. They've basically created their own, truescale versions of all the armour types, but better. There's even legion Specific bodies, like these World Eater lookalikes.  

 

@ Pearson73: Cheers! I can't believe I'm still answering your company after three months, but as you can see above: no, I'll not change very much about Captain Eight Legs' pose. :)
 

@ DuskRaider: hey buddy! Long time no see. I hope youre doing well and have gotten the hobby mojo back a little after that house fire. 

 

@ Gederas: Heyhey, well those are all good reasons. I hope you've found a car and also your mojo back a little. Take care, bud!

 

@ BadgersinHills: Thank you! It's an OOP GW produced one. 

 

@ Teetengee: Thank you! I have indeed made more crests!

 

@ Petioner's City: Hey man, I ahven't seen you comment on this thread before so welcome! Glad you found good use of the tutorial. :) 

[Tankus Wokus]

Amazing work as always

[DuskRaider]

He returns! I was actually going to message you and see how you are. Congrats on the second child and I'm glad to hear everything worked out! Sad to see you had to rescind the invitation, but now you have all the time in the world to make your World Eaters exactly as you want them instead of rushing to make the date.

[Sherrypie]

That is some pretty neat cable braiding in his underbelly, not shabby at all.

[BadgersinHills]

The Captain looks amazing!

 

Congratulations on the birth of your second son. :) So glad he's ok now. 

[Shovellovin]

Good to hear that your son had some complications but he has pulled through and things are looking up. Hobby time can a,ways wait when family issues arise. 
 

That monstrosity you’re building looks awesome! Excellent idea and execution. Will you paint it the same as your previous creation or do something different?

[Augustus b'Raass]

Cheers, everyone.

Captain Eight Legs has been shipped to a painting service in the UK, and when deliverd to MWG Dave, I'll share some content here, for sure!

Meanwhile, I've tackled a big project: my second Brass SCorpion of Khorne - I bought this thing years ago, back in 2016 I think, for a youngster at my local FLS so we could combine shipping and save some cash. He never picked it up (and never paid me) so it's been in my pile of shame since hten. Becaue I combined paternity leave and child care days with some vacation weeks, I had eight weeks of essentially paternity leave after the birth of my 2nd son, so I thought I'd use that time to tackle a big project. On average I could manage about an hour a day of hobby time between sleep, diapers, and managing the 2-year old. So Greater Brass SCorpion it was!

Pictures of the building process:

I decided to exchange the Scoprion Cannon with the muzzle of a Forgefiend's Hades Autocannon

 

Pinning the legs:

 

Hanging skulls strapped to chains from the armour plates

 

Gave it a proper 160mm official GW base with some treebark and a LOT of skulls:

 

Finished build:

 

Detail Shots


I hope you like! Thanks for looking.

I'll continue to post stuff to get back o track and up to speed with my hobby progress, so stay tuned. :)

Cheers!

Replies:

@ Tankus Wokus: Thank you man! I can but try ;) 

@ DuskRaider: Aww, thanks man, that's sweet of you! I wouldn't have rushed the paint and building jobs if I had gone to NRXI, but it'd certainly put a heavty toll on my off hours, and so this does give me a bit of leeway. And more sleep.

 

@ Sherrypie: cable braiding  Yeah it's a lot of work but well worth the effort in the end. 

 

@ BadgersinHills: Thanks buddy! Iappreciate it :) 

 

@ Shovellovin: Absolutely. Family first. Captain Eight Legs was just a building commission, so someone else is painting it as we speak. 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Augustus b'Raass

[DuskRaider]

Whoa, that looks awesome! You took a great model and made it better. I love the pistons on the weapon as well, makes it look much more realistic and like it could handle all of that weight up high but I REALLY like the skulls all over it. What did you do, buy out every Vampire Counts skeleton kit in your country? :P

[Sherrypie]

Liking the skull ornaments as well, he's a festive one.

[BadgersinHills]

That's a really beautiful murderous daemon engine. 

[Mechanist]

Back once again with the renegade master.

 

And with not one but two massive builds, so happy for you and your family now the stress is over for now enjoy those cuddles from both the baby and the tot. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Lemme post somethign very recent: the (intended) Chaos Cultist Champion for my World Eaters. I built it last year and it has been sat at my desk for quite a while, but I suddenly had some inspiration to tackle that large area of flesh and finally painted him. 

His backstory is he's such a fanboy of the World Eaters he scavenged a shoulder pad from a dead Ultramarine, defaced the inverted omgeon Chapter icon with a blody khornate rune, and strapped it to his shoulder. :D

 

I say *intended* champion, because right after finishing this guy, I had a further burst of inspiration and decided to make an entire ten-man cultist squad using only fat guys from the citadel range - this Nurgle Lord of Plagues, but also the Nurgle Lord of Blights, the AoS Bloodstoker from the 1st edition starter set, and of course the two different Bloaters from the Nurgle Blood Bowl Team! Two of each individual of these miniatures will give me a ten man squad and plenty of conversion opportunity. I'm super stoked about it! It's quite a spendy project (the Lord of Blights alone costs EU22.50 and I need two!), but the level of excitement I feel about is at about the same level I had when I started my poxwalker building and painting spree and we all know how that went.  (for those of you who don't - I built and painted 105 unique poxwalkers in 11 days) 

Anyhoo.
 

I REALLY like the skulls all over it. What did you do, buy out every Vampire Counts skeleton kit in your country?

@ DuskRaider: Erm..... you have heard about the Citadel Skulls Kit, haven't you? I've gone through six since it came out, three of which in the last year building World Eaters, and exactly one of those three was for Brass Scorpion. I completely ran out of skulls at the end (which probably explains the lack fo jawless skulls, as I tend to favour those). So I ressupplied myself. Tadaaaaa:
 

@ Sherrypie: haha festive indeed! He'll happily crash any party!

 

@ BadgersinHills: Well thank you! Let's see you say something similar about the above cultist

 

@ Machanist: Calling me 'the renegade master' is a very much appreciated compliment. Thank you! I'm honoured and humbled. Also thanks for your commiserations. 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Augustus b'Raass

[DuskRaider]

Yeah, I just remembered that kit after I posted. The funniest part is that I have used that kit myself before too... sigh...

[Shovellovin]

If you're looking for another chubby cultist, I recommend the leader of the Mercator Sanguis Slaver Entourage. Pricey because it's ForgeWorld but is a really cool model. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Some WIP shots of the Brass Scorpion's armour plates:

 

 

In addition, I did some work on a Khorne Berzerker. 

The rumours are real: big chainaxes are going to be a thing. So I doubled down. :D


Hope you like ;) 

Cheers

Replies:

 

Yeah, I just remembered that kit after I posted. The funniest part is that I have used that kit myself before too... sigh...

Haha no worries, bud! Also, you know there's an button to edit your comments, right! ;) :p

 

 

If you're looking for another chubby cultist, I recommend the leader of the Mercator Sanguis Slaver Entourage. Pricey because it's ForgeWorld but is a really cool model. 

Haha that's a good one! Funny thing is, guess what I used as a base for the Chain Lord of my homebrew Mercator Sanguis - back when the FW miniatures hadn't even been leaked, let alone released yet?

[BadgersinHills]

That Cultist might not be pretty, but he's really quite brutal. Love it.

 

The painting on the Scorpion looks really nice. The Berzerker is lovely, I really like the pose. 

[Smoke Frog]

Wow the brass scorpion plates are exquisitely painted! Looking forward to seeing that thing assembled. 

[Doghouse]

Great work on that cultist champion mate! :tu:

[YannTheMad]

The brass scorpion looks awesome so far, I'm kindda jealous XD

 

Mine crushes my moral each time I look at it, so I never work on it

[Augustus b'Raass]

Woop! Finished a Berzerker! 

I heard Bererkers are going to get the big chainxes too, so I anticipated. ;) 

And in case the same happened with CHainswords, here is one with a giant chainsword. If not, he's still WYSIWYG because he has a chainaxe strapped to his back., 

 

I hope you like them! Thanks for looking and for your comments.

Cheers

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@BadgersinHills: Well you don't know him. He might have a very cute hobby. Like knitting. ;) 

 

@ Smoke Frog: Hey man, I've never seen you comment here (or have forgotten) so welcome to the thread. I'll post the scorpion tomorrow. :)

@ Doghouse: Thanks bud! If Astartes got chubby this could be a ruescale version ;) 

 

@ YannTheMad: Hi buddy - I don't remember seeing you comment ehre ever, so welcome to the thread. :) If I may give you some advice on big, morale crushing projects, is to just chip away at it, consistently. So do something about it every day and do that one thing to completion. Even if it's just something small like 'I'll paint the the base metal colour on its third leg today' - that's achievable in five minutes and then you'll have that done, never to be needed to be done again. If you keep that up, you'll quickly get into a rythm on 'completing stuff' and that's when inspiration hits. There's nothing like consistency to get your morale up. You don't need inspiration or high morale, you need consistency. :tu: 

[Majkhel]

Hey Aug, great to hear from you again!
Congratulations on fortunate solving of the son's problems! I can only imagine it must have been tough for you guys!.

Loving how the Scorpion is coming along! Great base and a sweeeet blend of clean vibrant looks with scratches and weatherig. It's gonna be a sight to see all the nice details on that piece!
Great work on the Berserkers and ogre too! 

[Valkia the Bloody]

Oh wow.

This Berserker is absolutely amazing.

Great work!

[Brother Carpenter]

Nice to see you progressing again.

Congrats on you second child +1 on the worries and relief when things seem to be wrong but turn out ok in the end with newborn.

Really liking the scorpion, but that cultist is ace as well!

Keep it up.

Edited May 28, 2022 by Brother Carpenter

[Khornestar]

Happy to hear about healthy baby, storm weathered. 

 

Loving that scorpion in particular, really cool way of attaching the skulls to the chains with that sculpting. The posing and the base are awesome, as well.