15 Shades of Grey, A new start.... with Primaris,

[Burias-Drak'shal]

All looks good

[Dantay VI]

With ETL done, time for a wee side-project..

 

The Iron-Wolf.

 

[Dantay VI]

                                                                                        

                                                                                       

                                                                                       

 

Re did the steel on his legs, the wash made it look terri-bad.

Used a mix of black and leadbelcher.

Really wish GW would do a black metal.

 

Need some advice.

He is looking more Iron Warrior-y than Space Wolf.

 

Besides a bit of knot work on the armour any thoughts on what I can do to make him more obviously a son of Fenris?

 

Let me know what you think?

Edited August 17, 2016 by dantay_xv

[SW1]

Vallejo black metal is your friend for dark metals.

 

Bit of the old knot work should wolf him is a fair bit as well. :tu:

[Dantay VI]

My only worry about Vallejo paints is that they contain alcohol or other stuff in them.

 

The big reason for sticking with GW is that the paints are water based acrylics and are therefore safe for me to take to work.

 

I am a bit war of using other brands, in case I cannot take them with me.

 

I'll give the knot work a go tonight and see how it looks.

 

Will also try to get pics on a picture site as BnC is great but tiny images

[SW1]

Vallejo are water based not alcohol based.

 

The only ones which are not are the liquid gold line which include silver colours as well. But these are not in the dropper bottles:

 

http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/m/en_US/liquid-gold/family/11

[gnenthaal]

Hum. I like him a lot.

I guess he's meant to be a 30k SW, or am I wrong. ?

So, maybe you could try to make the golden/brazen armor plates on the legs and arms in red ? And let just the one over the top being golden/brazen ?

And / Or maybe paint black the (I Don't know the english word for that piece of armor in french it's "rondelle") little shield ner the pauldrons. With a marking in it ?

 

I think that could be enough to cut the IW comparison.

What do you think ?

[codyrstuart]

maybe do some yellow or red on the top of the knee pads? Some form of pre-heresy spot colors.

[Dantay VI]

G: I have done 1 shield red, the other black.

 

Quite like the red shield.

 

The gold came out quite copper. I have done several washes of sepia mixed with varnish and it looks much better.

 

Will post pics tomorrow.

 

He is for both 30 & 40K.

 

Cody. I am trying to avoid yelllow as a spot colour as yellow black steel are iron warrior colours.

 

Using blue in the metallics along with red for now.

 

Got a few ideas to consider tomorrow.

 

Sleepy timw.

[codyrstuart]

Duh, should've realized that about the yellow. Sprinkle some red in there and you should be good.

[Kassill]

Lovely work as always brother. 

[Dantay VI]

 

Progressed a bit more.

 

I like the rondelles (mini-shields).

Not sure if I should go with one red and one black or choose just a single colour.

 

Thinking I quite like the red :)

 

Tried another ay of doing the gold and it came out very copper-y.

 

Gnenthaal, tried your idea with the washes, however I went with a satin varnish instead of gloss, so it is not too shiny.

It still doesn't look like a typical gold, but it has a yellow almost tobacco colour to it. Quite deep, and I like it, so it can stay for now.

 

Still undecided on the lower leg. I tried one idea for knotwork to see how it would look.

Not too bad, but I will try something a little more intricate on the other leg and see how it goes.

 

Still debating whether to make that lower leg grey instead of steel.

The upper leg armour will stay as steel, as it is how I do all my cataphractii, so I want to keep it failrly uniform

 

Cody: the yellow is not a major issue, but putting yellow alongside black would be. In 40K Egil Ironwolf had black pauldrons with a silver wolf head.

The only reason I am wary of the yellow is because of the amount of metal colours I am using. If e were wolf guard tere would be less colours in use and so less of an issue. I have used a wee bit more red on him to see how it goes.

I am using blue washes on some of the metals to give a little contrast as an extra spot colour, but I will also use a small amount of green, such as te sensor lenses and such like.

 

Kassill: Thanks for the compliment.

 

SW1: I will certainly look into tat black metal colour. I just had a fear that the metallic would not be allowed to travel. Now to find a stockist north of the border as postage is as expensive as the paints which makes buying the stuff a little prohibitive. I might wait until something big coms up and order it online from a gaming company and get the paints at the same time.

 

Still need to work out what I am going to do with the face.

I just applied some flesh wash to it for fun after doing the drybrushing and it looks kind of cool.

Not too cartoon-ish, but not realistic either.

 

Let me know what you think..

 

 

 

[Dantay VI]

 

Been having fun with this.

 

Did he hammer from black to runefang, then a wash of guillemann mixed with ardcoat satin varnish.

Looks not too bad, paint went on a bit thick in some places, but overall pretty happy.

Will go back and sharpen the highlights with runefang tonight.

 

Also got the knot work done on the legs, again needs a tidy p but on he whole pretty happy.

 

Just got to work out what to do with the vambraces, shoulder guard and chest.

 

I do not want to make him look too busy

 

Let me know what you think.

[codyrstuart]

That dude is BAD. ASS.

[Dantay VI]

Thanks Cody... Hope you like what I have done with him last night.

 

So, made a wee bit more progress on my siege breaker.

 

 

Managed to get a start on the combi wolkite, painted the face to a halfway decent standard

 

 

Got inspired by Betrayer to give tattoos a go!

 

Tried to do a Wolf

 

Did some battle damage

 

 

And for some weird reason got inordinately happy over the hammers shiny red button :D

 

 

Gonna just dump pics here, sorry for repeats.

 

 

Need help though.. Does battle damage look okay? If so I will try some on the legs.

 

Also any design ideas for the chest and dangly thing?

 

Thanks for looking

[Dantay VI]

As nobody has suggested an alternative to photobucket for picture sharing I shall persist with it for now.

Hate the damnable ads getting in the way & my bucket is almost full :(

 

Talking of persistence. My chopper home is delayed, so with nothing better to do I broke out the paints.and continued on with trying out battle damage.

Think I went a bit "In Extremis" in a few places.

 

I have never tried out battle bamage before. If it goes well, I may try updating a few others or go on to experiment with vehicles.

 

Reason for trying it is because with so many flat surfaces the temptation is to try and put runes or knots everywhere. If I do that he'll look more like a patchwork quilt than a Space Wolf, so damaging the armour adds some visual interest without going blingy

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160822_152524.jpg

 

Done the lower leg, the plates on the thigh and the hands/forearms.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160822_152543.jpg

 

Looks a little blotchy, but I'll put that down to lighting

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160822_152557.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160822_152604.jpg

 

Is it okay, or a little in extremis?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160822_152634.jpg

Okay 2 questions.

 

Do I make both shields red, or black or leave them as-is?

Any ideas for design to go on the chest, knee & shields?

 

These 2 things will be my main hold-ups now I think...

[codyrstuart]

For the shields, I say leave them, put the Roman numerals on one, and maybe "proto" pack mark on the other? Other than that, do not alter anything on that splendid model.

 

As for photobucket, I also back my photos up on Google drive, so if you need to make room in your bucket, you still have a full resolution digital copy handy.

[Dantay VI]

Thanks Cody, it would certainly be a simple & elegant answer to the problem.

 

So, I got home last night and started to unpack my stuff.

 

Started looking at what I have got half built and unpainted

 

Actually sat there for quite a while wondering where to even start.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144657.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144708.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144715.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144731.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144742.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144750.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144801.jpg

 

To be truthful, a lot of enthusiasm has been kicked out of me.

Feeling a bit like I cannot face the infantry for a while.

 

That and Betrayers stuff makes mine look plain and frumpy!! :p

 

Hoping it is not a phase of burn-out as I still have a bunch of stuff to work through

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144903.jpg

 

This is me having scrubbed down the Atrapos, the Leviathan talon, Corax and a vindicator laser destroyer.

 

I have a few options.

 

Try and plough through the infantry, even though I am not feeling it.

 

Do the Leviathan talon and vindi, for a change of scenery

 

Do the Knight Atrapos & Lancer for a change in colour schemes

 

Corax & Fire Raptor 2

 

Besides that maybe start a small traitor force to go with these guys

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_144835.jpg

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160823_145004.jpg

 

Thoughts?

[codyrstuart]

You painted enough grey. Hit the Atropos and give yourself a break. BTW, anot Atropos AND a Leviathan talon? Color me Dark Angel green with envy.

[Dantay VI]

Yep,

 

 Going with doing the Knights, although this is also what is literally on the slab.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160829_235751.jpg

 

My small Grey Knights army which I plan to paint up & sell off.

[Dantay VI]

Okay,

 

So got the desk all straightened out

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154344.jpg

 

A few bits need finishing off on the desk, but awaiting a bits drop

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154353.jpg

.

Just not feeling it with them, so rather work on them 

As you can see I have begun on the Knights

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154419.jpg

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154428.jpg

 

This will be the Lancer, pouncing forward ready to skewer an unwary opponent. Hopefully it will look suitably dynamic.

 

The Atrapos is still in a bit of a concept stage, but I have run a pin through the pelvis and knees so I can move the legs around and find a suitable pose.

 

In the past I have just glued the legs and found it does not work. Case in point is the Acheron which is why the rear leg is up on a platform.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154441.jpg

 

Got 2 of these, but not sure if I will use them, after all do you often take the top off?

 

It would also mean halting the project to paint up the interior.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160903_154556.jpg

 

Should I do the interiors or just leave it and do the exterior, and not use the pilots?

 

Thoughts???

 

Thanks for looking

[Kassill]

Pilot looks too cool not to do! Just my personal opinion of course. How hard is it to magnetize or leave unglued (the top part) ?

[RikuEru]

It is far too cool, not to do. And, we're Space Wolves, all or nothing is one of our mottos, I believe.
And I entirely trust that you can pull this off, easily!

And imagine the effect to the masses! "Have you seen my knight?" *people in shock and awe* "...and its pilot?!" *as you pull of the 'helm' and reveal the pilot, people fall over or start to cheer loudly*
 

[Dantay VI]

Okay, so painting the pilot it is!!

 

Still leave me a spare one though ;)

 

As to the 2 drunk knights!!

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160906_213407.jpg

 

Finally got all the pistons etc in place.

 

It took a good bit of force but I accidentally got the Lancer off the rock, which may help with priming etc.

 

I plan to get the knight pilot painted up, so I can get all the sub-assemblies done before going offshore.

 

The Atropos will look something like this when done

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160906_213300.jpg

 

Still not sure how to pose the arms for this one.

 

And yes I took mt cookery blow torch to a spare armoured panel

(great for crisping up creme brulees!!)

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160906_213321.jpg

 

And my wee side project?

 

Typhons baby cousin :D

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160906_213253.jpg

[Dantay VI]

So last night I spent a bit of time with the missus AND got some modelling done

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20160907_191949.jpg

 

Vindi is about done for sub-assemblies and ready for priming

 

Decided not to do the Atrapos interior, so am pushing on to get the sub assemblies finished for priming at the weekend

 

Lancer is stalled out as I will prime and do the Pilot  along with the rest.

 

So made a start on the Leviathans and have the weapons mostly done and bodies built, just need to do the lower body leg sub-assemblies and we are on our way.

 

Also found a Glaive in the garage that I had forgot about :D

 

Happy days indeed.

 

Going to watch some tutorials on weathering for ideas, as I have a ton of vehicles to work on and they cannot all look pristine!!