+++E Tenebrae Lux IV - Astra Militarum Strategium+++

[elmo]

Fantastic work everyone - keep up with the progress

[WarriorFish]

I'm not sure I'd say leading the charge, but if that were so everyone would be but a step behind! Let's keep our momentum going - let the others squabble about being in the lead now and we'll concentrate on going for the lead at the end ;)

[elmo]

More updates from the Commissariat...

After winning my battle against Nurgle, father of disease, well of pollution, source of despair.... I got down to starting on the fiddly bits. The rear shrine area is about 90% done.

More work will take place tomorrow but then I have a family holiday away from the painting table so will have to take another break :(

[Vel'Cona]

Great detail work! I wish I could get my lights to "shine" like that.

[WarriorFish]

Excellent detail, but then we expect no less ;) Good work, maybe Nurgle will know not to bother next time :P

 

Vel - try a gloss varnish and cheat :lol:

[elmo]

Vel - try a gloss varnish and cheat

It is not cheating... It is careful use of available resources ;)

[vampyrerodent]

Ok, correct me if I am doing this incorrectly.

I have two Sentinels at 85pts that I just completed. The rest are just repaints, so I am not including them. If we need the points, I won't mind upping my score!

Before:

WIP May 1st:

Competed May 10th

Please reprimand me if this has not been completed to Imperial levels of demand.

Dare I say, I like the way your butt looks?

More updates from the Commissariat...

After winning my battle against Nurgle, father of disease, well of pollution, source of despair.... I got down to starting on the fiddly bits. The rear shrine area is about 90% done.

More work will take place tomorrow but then I have a family holiday away from the painting table so will have to take another break

[wulfgar hammerfist]

Finished the Lord Commissar. You can find the picture within the spoiler tag contained in the post found at the link below. I have begun work on the two vendettas but it will be a bit before I can finish them since I have a very busy week ahead of me.

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306921-e-tenebrae-lux-iv-astra-militarum-strategium/?p=4036058

[Father Mehman]

Finished the Lord Commissar. You can find the picture within the spoiler tag contained in the post found at the link below. I have begun work on the two vendettas but it will be a bit before I can finish them since I have a very busy week ahead of me.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306921-e-tenebrae-lux-iv-astra-militarum-strategium/?p=4036058

Just stop, Wulfy. You're making me look bad !

[Captain Semper]

I, librisrouge, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX and vow to complete two Leman Russ Demolishers and two Leman Russ Exterminators, from Codex: His Imperial Guard, of total value 645 points on or before August 1st, 2015. Success will bring eternal glory to the Hammer of the Emperor and failure will doom me to bear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

I've got a tournament army to paint.

Welcome librisrouge - you're in! Good luck with your vow!

@ vampyrerodent: I'm not entirely sure here... Are you submitting a vow?

UPDATED TO THIS POINT!

[elmo]

Captain Semper: I have updated the points value on my first post as I was using an OOD book (we need every point we can get ;) )

 

For a first vow total of 1115pts

[Captain Semper]

Done! ;)

[scatmandoo]

Good news all, The mighty 171st have beaten the Dark Eldar in a 1k fight tonight which now leaves me free to focus my attention on the Blade.

 

And to remind me of my penance until it's completion it is sitting on the dresser opposite the sofa staring at me whenever I am in the house......

[Father Mehman]

Good news all, The mighty 171st have beaten the Dark Eldar in a 1k fight tonight which now leaves me free to focus my attention on the Blade.

And to remind me of my penance until it's completion it is sitting on the dresser opposite the sofa staring at me whenever I am in the house......

Huzzah, Scats! Now, we rule the world, er, worlds!

[vampyrerodent]

@ vampyrerodent: I'm not entirely sure here... Are you submitting a vow?

@Captain Semper

I guess I am dong this wrong then.

I Vampyrerodent, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX and vow to complete a Sentinel Squadron from the Astra Militarum of total value 85pt on or before August 1st, 2015. Success will bring eternal glory to the Kanak Skulkers and failure will doom me to bear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end

Does that make it official? Work with me here, please

[Father Mehman]

Looks good to me for an oath!

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Alright gents, and any ladies we might have, here's a question: should I drybrush my Knight's Exoskeleton?

This might be difficult without pictures but we all need to expand our minds . I've basecoated the whole model in Leadbelcher. Some areas and doodads were picked-out in Warplock Bronze but that's really beside the point. Anyway, a wash of Nuln Oil followed by Agrax Earthshade was then applied. It has to set for a while since I'll be sleeping. After the sleeping bit, should I go back and drybrush the Exoskeleton with Leadbelcher to bring it back up or just leave it the way it is? Personally, the darker the better but I'm open to suggestions.

If memory serves, the other Knight in my collection was drybrushed with Ironbreaker to bring the edges and other areas back up to shiny. He likes his Knight to be clean, I guess. This pilot, though, doesn't care. The honoured Knight he commands is eons old and I guess the original pilot didn't like to scrub behind his ears or something and it got imprinted to every other pilot.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi Imperial Guardsmen, you're my only hope!

Or, you know, maybe I could go ask the AdMech guys .

[Marshal Argos]

Man, you guys are just knocking out the points...  I'm quite jealous.  But I've added the WIP shot to my oath on the first page, so progress is advancing. Just slowly.  

[UltraRich]

Looks good to me for an oath!

EDIT: Content found below

Alright gents, and any ladies we might have, here's a question: should I drybrush my Knight's Exoskeleton?

This might be difficult without pictures but we all need to expand our minds . I've basecoated the whole model in Leadbelcher. Some areas and doodads were picked-out in Warplock Bronze but that's really beside the point. Anyway, a wash of Nuln Oil followed by Agrax Earthshade was then applied. It has to set for a while since I'll be sleeping. After the sleeping bit, should I go back and drybrush the Exoskeleton with Leadbelcher to bring it back up or just leave it the way it is? Personally, the darker the better but I'm open to suggestions.

If memory serves, the other Knight in my collection was drybrushed with Ironbreaker to bring the edges and other areas back up to shiny. He likes his Knight to be clean, I guess. This pilot, though, doesn't care. The honoured Knight he commands is eons old and I guess the original pilot didn't like to scrub behind his ears or something and it got imprinted to every other pilot.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi Imperial Guardsmen, you're my only hope!

Or, you know, maybe I could go ask the AdMech guys .

Id go back with lead belcher and give it a dry brush but use a big flat brush. That way you only get the raised areas. Id then pick out any rivets or high spots with what was mythral silver. If you then give it all a final wash of medium/badab black in a 80/20 ratio it will flatten it but still show the highlights through the wash.

[WarriorFish]

Well done scats, those pointy ears should know their place! Now you can celebreate by painting a big tank ;) I agree with Rich, a dry brush would help give it some dimension which can help on larger areas you've washed.

 

vampyre I think your vow can't be made because you've got to start with the models ready to be painted?

[Vel'Cona]

Probably blasphemy, but when I did my Knight Pally I drybrushed him with the Citadel Necron Compound paint.  I know, I'm a sucker for specialist paints.  To be fair, it did a really great job of only catching the raised areas, and it really tied the frame together nicely.  Just throwing it out there!

[Toxichobbit]

So maybe I shouldn't have vowed my Baneblade just yet. I came to start painting it and looked at my recently build Chimera and realised, something is wrong. The Baneblade was naked, not a piece of stowage in sight! Can't have that, it'd stick out like a sore thumb among the rest of my vehicles*. So I set to work with what stowage I had to hand. Alas, the Baneblade is a beast and I had nowhere near enough for it, so now I'm stuck waiting for more supplies to arrive (tissue paper, medical gauze, cigarette carton foil my girlfriend is borrowing from her Mum and various Tamiya kits). The result of this is it's going to be next week before I can get any paint on the Baneblade, as I won't have all the stuff I need to finish the modelling until at least this weekend, probably a bit later. I should have vowed another single character first .

* the rest of my vehicles currently being imaginary, aside from that one Chimera and some very old stuff that is, like the Baneblade, completely starkers and in need of some work before being re-painted in a newer scheme.

@ vampyrerodent: I'm not entirely sure here... Are you submitting a vow?

@Captain Semper

I guess I am dong this wrong then.

I Vampyrerodent, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX and vow to complete a Sentinel Squadron from the Astra Militarum of total value 85pt on or before August 1st, 2015. Success will bring eternal glory to the Kanak Skulkers and failure will doom me to bear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end

Does that make it official? Work with me here, please

If I understand this correctly, you're vowing the Sentinel Squadron in this post? If so, then I'm afraid the vow will not count. The vow must be made before you begin painting the models (although undercoated models are fine). So as you made the vow at the same time as posting the completed models it's an invalid vow, even if the models were painted within the time frame of the event (May 1st - August 1st). That is unless Captain Semper allows for special dispensation, but that is a very rare thing so it's not something to expect.

This is to stop people doing stuff like saving models up that they have painted over the year and vowing them, or painting models during the event and only vowing them at the end, thereby incurring no risk of failure. The risk-reward of making a vow and trying to get it completed in time is the heart of the event and what makes it exciting. Do you make a small vows that you know you can complete and play it safe, or do you risk all with bigger vows? It also encourages people to spur each other on to complete their vows and look at each others work in progress, as you can see in this very topic.

If the vow is for a completely new Sentinel Squadron which is unpainted and that you intend to work on during the event, then it will count.

I hope that helps .

[CoffeeGrunt]

I often use Leadbelcher as a base for metals, then a Wash with a highlight of Necron Compound to pick out the raised areas. The Wash you use before highlighting will dictate the tone of the metal. Seraphim Sepia gives a very well-maintained, clean-oiled look. Nuln Oil simply shades it slightly, still looking clean. Agrax gives a dirtier, greasier feel, and Typhus Corrosion gives the feel of metal that's been exposed to some tough weathering for a long time. 

 

My personal preference is a mix of Agrax and Nuln Oil, giving a "realistically" dirty look that doesn't look too OTT. If you were making a swamp or woodland force, I'd definitely use more Agrax and a bit of Typhus Corrosion to sell the muddy, dirty look better. It's all up to you, really.

 

The really good stuff to use is oil paint. They need a bit more prep-work and are quite different from normal paints, but they can give you an excellent metallic look no acrylic paint can hope for. Check out this before an after on the metallics of this tank:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/coffeegrunt/WP_20150505_01_56_18_Pro.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/coffeegrunt/WP_20150510_23_12_29_Pro.jpg

 

Again, it's all up to you and how you want it to look, but personally I love Oil Paints, they bring a visual texture that can't be mimicked with acrylics. :)

[Father Mehman]

Cheers for the replies, guys! I think a drybrush of Leadbelcher is what it needs. A light drybrush. The other doodads that were Warplock Bronze will be layered with Hashut Copper and then will be glazed with Waywatcher Green. It makes the Copper colour lose its red tint and gives it a weathered bronze look whilst adding some much needed verdigris.

 

Coffee, oil paints, especially Burnt Umber, look fantastic! I use this for my HH Death Guard and it makes them look...dirty. Also, a Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade mixed wash looks great on metals. My next Knight will have this combination on it.

[vampyrerodent]

If I understand this correctly, you're vowing the Sentinel Squadron in this post? If so, then I'm afraid the vow will not count. The vow must be made before you begin painting the models (although undercoated models are fine). So as you made the vow at the same time as posting the completed models it's an invalid vow, even if the models were painted within the time frame of the event (May 1st - August 1st). That is unless Captain Semper allows for special dispensation, but that is a very rare thing so it's not something to expect.

This is to stop people doing stuff like saving models up that they have painted over the year and vowing them, or painting models during the event and only vowing them at the end, thereby incurring no risk of failure. The risk-reward of making a vow and trying to get it completed in time is the heart of the event and what makes it exciting. Do you make a small vows that you know you can complete and play it safe, or do you risk all with bigger vows? It also encourages people to spur each other on to complete their vows and look at each others work in progress, as you can see in this very topic.

If the vow is for a completely new Sentinel Squadron which is unpainted and that you intend to work on during the event, then it will count.

I hope that helps .

Sounds like a fair objection.

I can pull the vow. It should actually work in the Militarum's favor as two Sentinels are not much in the way of points.

Previous sentinel Vow has been officially rescinded.

Another vow to be issued within the next day or so...

[WarriorFish]

We welcome any vow no matter how small. My first vow was 50pts! The only vow we don't welcome is an incomplete one ;) Looking forward to seeing your contribution to the war effort vampyre :tu: