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Thanks!  I enjoy messing with bases although sometimes I think i get a little carried away.  Either I feel like it's too much to be bothered to paint or too much detail to detract from the mini.

 

Well after 5 minutes of submitting my last post here  I already CAVED IN and ordered more paints and supplies.

I did remove all the xenos and terrain pieces from my cart so that should make the wife happy when she sees the bill.  ( I try to for-warn her of any big hobby purchases - I learned my lesson when I bought Space Hulk off ebay for an extortionate amount a few years ago. )

 

Anyways my new goal is no new minis until DV set + the DA Dread are finished and I post at least ONE Battle report here even if it's a small one.  

thats a worthy goal Space Truckin. GW website is crack....especially for a recently former smoker like myself...other day I had like $900 worth of stuff in the cart that ill never order :( and deleted them one by one as I realized im married...and broke...and have kids..and poor...haha

 

 Im working on another tac squad, an AoBR Venerable Dread conversion(complete with scratchbuilt autocannon/time sink), a belial conversion...an assault squad...and the more I work on..the more ideas I have and try to get started! Asmodai...devastators....an interrogator chaplain...balthazar conversion...  two more DV termie squads...piecing together deathwing knights from eBay...  and I already have a bunch of stuff thats only primed!  and I've still never had a battle to batrep yet :( stupid kid soccer ruining my saturdays >.>

thats a worthy goal Space Truckin. GW website is crack....especially for a recently former smoker like myself...other day I had like $900 worth of stuff in the cart that ill never order sad.png and deleted them one by one as I realized im married...and broke...and have kids..and poor...haha

Im working on another tac squad, an AoBR Venerable Dread conversion(complete with scratchbuilt autocannon/time sink), a belial conversion...an assault squad...and the more I work on..the more ideas I have and try to get started! Asmodai...devastators....an interrogator chaplain...balthazar conversion... two more DV termie squads...piecing together deathwing knights from eBay... and I already have a bunch of stuff thats only primed! and I've still never had a battle to batrep yet sad.png stupid kid soccer ruining my saturdays >.>

Pretty much the same situation here. I had $200 worth of paint in the cart I had to knock down to 50.

My wife told me it would be cheaper if I had a drinking problem instead. wacko.png

There is always a glimmer of hope. I managed to get her to play 2 games last night. Not counting lots of Space Hulk - it's my first 40k game since the mid 90s! To be fair I wouldn't even call it Kill Teams as it was so small. We just played 5 tac marines vs. 12 cultists on a small desk. ( i let her play marines ) Still it was good enough to show her ( and remind me ) how the mechanics of the game work. Maybe I can taunt her into a rematch this weekend. devil.gif

Got to remember baby steps though!

Other than that not much to report paint wise. New needle and spring for the airbrush plus paints should be in this week.

10 more tactical marines primed and waiting.

  • 1 month later...

Getting ready for ETL4 got my bases prepped!

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-1.jpg

 

I'm still not sure what vow #1 will be but I'm going by the keep it simple stupid rule and keeping vows to single units.

I have a tac squad, ravenwing squad and 2 characters primed and ready to go.  More ravenwing are on the way.

I guess going points per amount of effort I should start with the Chapter Master & Chaplain, then the Tacs and then Bikes since bikes take forever.

 

 

 

I'm a bit disheartened to see that the grimdark future 40K millennium still has double yellow and single yellow line parking restrictions ( :D ) other than that: awesome sauce bases!

 

Cheers

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The 2nd company is never afraid to 'cross the line'!

Even if it means more points on their license / higher insurance rates etc.  Ok maybe I'm stretching that joke a bit far.  

 

I've been stupid busy with work need to snap some photos for my ETL vow.  Got more ebay bits on the way + more Ravenwing.  After reading Prot's thread on Hurling Gigantic toys  and no new rumours on a codex/campaign my next hobby purchase maybe a Knight. 

Little ETL4  WIP update

 

Getting a few basecoats down while listening to Descent of Angels. 

Took some quick cell phone pics

 

blurry sergeant rapha  looks like he could use a cup of coffee this morning. 

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-2.jpg

 

 

Int-Chappy Seraphicus.  Really happy with the way this turned out.  Been thinning my paints to wash consistency and couldn't be happier with the results.

 

Used Warpstone green for the lenses.  It's hard to tell in the pic.  I was thinking about making more of a glowing effect but at this point I'm really happy with how he looks.

Check out my jersey barrier background.  Made it out of porcelain lol!  

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-3.jpg

 

 

Primed another head.  I've decided to do a head swap on Balthazar.  I'm not a huge fan of the massive winged helmets.   Robes yes,  ridiculously tall helmets no.   I keep thinking of these guys running around a Space Hulk  smacking their heads on every bulkhead door.   Anyways got plans to use the helmet with a Watcher / P-relic.

 

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-4.jpg

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.  I'll try to slap some more paint on tonight.

small update -  broke out the Khorne Red and started bolter production.  Not crazy how my plasma turned out so may revisit that later on.

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-5.jpg

 

Chapter Master Balthazar's new head

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-6.jpg

  • 2 weeks later...

Its been almost a week without painting - I have officially reached a state of 'slack' that would make Bob Dobbs proud.

Got some green out today and also started black lining the tac marines.

Also got some robes painted. Looking back at my previous post I just realized I forgot to paint the plasma gunners arm. wallbash.gif

Also f'd up the power sword because i took the masking tape off too soon. Another face palm move.

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-8.jpg

respect the beak

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-7.jpg

that's all folks. ploggin it. msn-wink.gif

It's funny how if you take a break it feels like you are a complete slacker ;) Nice work on the minis though regardless of the face palm incident; keep up the momentum ST, it's really easy to lose but really fun and exciting to keep.

 

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Thanks Brother Stobz.  

Managed to squeeze in more brush time while the wife was working yesterday.  Things are starting to shape up.

Shaded the rest of the squad and then got out the Khorne Red and U. Bone.   I went back and painted the stuff I missed.  Seems like I'm always missing something - painting a arm or a mold-line I missed. 

Highlights, Eyes and Metals and the squaddies will be done - hopefully this week.

 

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-9.jpg

small update

I got some highlights completed. My plan is to knock out the tacticals by the end of the weekend and finish up Seraphicus and Balthazar next week or so... and complete vow 1

All depends - going to try to get a kill teams game in this weekend.

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-10.jpg

Getting hard not to be distracted by all the rumours and new releases.

I'm going to do my best to hold out till we find out about a possible summer campaign box. thumbsup.gif

  • 3 weeks later...

Small update on that old ETL thing... seems there is a painting competition going along with all the new codex excitement! 

So I'm finishing up my 5th company markings and highlights when I came across  the new White Dwarf...

 

Now one of us has the 5th Company Badge backwards and I sure hope it ain't me!  

 

 

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/paintsplatter.jpg

 

 

Just another case of GW art dept needing to wake up.

 

edit: shpellin'

Squad Raphael is finished. Need to set up the photo booth for better pics - will have to happen another day.

I ended up repainting all the plasma in a fairly standard manner.

http://www.sinofdamnation.com/images/shared%20pics/etl4/etl4-11.jpg

Still have Balthazar and Seraphicus to finish up on my ETL vow. Mainly just the details left on those two.

I have some ravenwing lined up for a 2nd Vow but with Work / Wife it'll be tough to finish 3 bikes in 2 months. unsure.png

Out of curiosity, how do you achieve your green with an airbrush? Do you use vallejo? I've been having a hard time getting the right color of green and just stumbled upon your thread. I really like your color green.

Thanks man.   Yeah it's all airbrushed  I am slowly switching over to vallejo paints but for the greens it's all GW.

 

1) base of Caliban Green,  

2) 45 deg. zenithal highlight using  Caliban Green / Loren Forest  50-50 mix.  

3) Top highlight of Loren Forest.

4) Wash with Nuln Oil

5) edge highlighted with Elysian Green. 

 

 I'm not a fan of the neon moot green edge highlights.  For these last guys I've gone back and darkening up some areas after edge highlighting.  Not sure about the lighting in the photo  but I did this for the Sgt. above.   For this I made a glaze with Caliban Green, glaze medium and a drop of nuln oil mainly because I don't have  a store nearby.

 

I've been experimenting with Vallejo Heavy Black Green and I plan on swapping that for Caliban as soon as I finish off what I have.    I'm really digging Vallejo paints - to me they are a bit more consistent and almost half the price.

Thank you for the detailed reply. I've used VGA Dark green with bad results, just not opaque enough. VMA Midouri green is a little too yellow-green, so I need to see if I can find a proper Vallejo equivalent for Caliban. I love the caliban colour, I just hate working with it through an airbrush. Once you thin it it works great, but it's hard to dose out of those stupid GW paint pots.

 

I'll add Heavy black green to my shopping list and try that out, other than that I've heard Olive green can be similar to Caliban over a black basecoat.

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