A Mordian march to glory

[duz_]

Another BSF characters done

Really enjoying the technique of painting the Cape recess with darker shades of the base colour

Gives more control and depth and you don't have to be super precise!

Not sure what I'm painting next...

[GreenScorpion]

Nice work :)

 

Not sure what I'm painting next...

 

Well I think you have your own answer from before:

 

 

I'm slowly feel the urge to go back and paint some Mordians

[duz_]

Well I think you have your own answer from before:

 

 

I'm slowly feel the urge to go back and paint some Mordians

:lol:

 

Well funny you should quote me on that. I do have a single Mordian from that batch sitting on my desk for some reason... So I was contemplating just finishing him off to get an idea how much longer each one will take.

So maybe I will do that :P

[The Pounder]

Looking great duz_!

 

The purple is a very regal shade and is nicely layered.

 

Now, get on with the Mordians!!

[UltraRich]

Great work. Thats really neat

[duz_]

Thx all

Well I did pick up that lone Mordian sitting on my table this evening to see how long it would take to finish. Turns out about 30-40 mins. That's not to bad assuming the rest are in a similar state of completeness.

Mostly happy except for the skin. Struggling to find a pale skin tone than isn't to peach or blue. I found the GW apps recommendation after the fact and would probably have attempted something similar if I could locate my flayed on flesh. I found it after packing up <_<

I will try this tone next

Edited March 9, 2021 by duz_

[GreenScorpion]

Looking good, although the skin tone as you mentioned could be better.

Does this mean that your other Mordians will march to glory in nice colours soon?

[MedicMike0708]

YAY Mordians!

Looks great!

I’ve long ago accepted that my painting skill level means my troops will either look like intern-drawn comic book characters or drag-queens with lasguns when it comes to painting skin and facial features. The good news is that 1 in every 10 I produce actually looks pretty good, so at a distance they look like humans with faces.

 

More tournaments need to run an “impressive at 10ft especially if you don’t look too hard” painting and modelling award, I would have a lock on the field.

Edited March 10, 2021 by MedicMike0708

[duz_]

Fixed the skin

Put down some flairs one flesh then a diluted mix of sepia with a hint of nulin seemed to do the trick

Might add a touch of white to the flayed one flesh next time

[duz_]

Hi my name is duz_ and I have a problem

 

I had been saving for one of the larger Ikea display shelves for my hobby area. However they sold out as soon as they came back in stock and now on back order.

 

So I did a thing instead:

 

I went in FW to see if there was anything that was in stock that tickled my fancy. Apparently FW NA just got restocked because there was a bunch of stuff.

 

I'd been toying around the idea for a while. So I pulled the trigger. Now with the 2nd Baneblade I have in a box I can run a super heavy detachment which might not be a bad thing. :lol:

Edited March 13, 2021 by duz_

[The Pounder]

Well they say the road to recovery starts with admitting there’s a problem!!

 

My wife bought me one of these for Christmas! I’m hoping to build and paint it soon.

 

It’s definitely the best looking of the Macharius Heavy Tanks. I think it’s the length of the cannon!

 

It’s rules are pretty good too. Also at 345pts fully loaded it’s easy to fit into lists.

 

Let me know how easy it is to build (if I don’t get mine done before)

[duz_]

We shall have a race to the bottom to see who procrastinates least and builds it first :lol:

 

Well see what the FW dispatch time is...

 

The new rules were definitely what sealed the deal the cannons do look good. I really like the heavy tank too but mere dual battle cannons without double tap are underwhelming.

[The Pounder]

 

 

Well painting is 10% sweat and 90% procrastination!

 

The dmg 9 does seem very appealing on paper.

 

I have a Hive Tyrant to paint for my Tyranids, after that I’ll work on my Macharius!

 

Hope you don’t have to wait too long.

[MedicMike0708]

Very jealous, that’s number 2 on my current Forgeworld-want-to-buy-but-it’s-a -mortgage-payment list, that and the plasma blast gun stormblade.

 

I can’t wait to see it all painted up. (And built, first steps first, even the holy emperor did things incrementally)

[walter h]

I have been to a couple of meetings, and admitting you have a problem is a good start. I am sorry however that there is no recovery. You can quit for awhile but you never willbreak the addiction to plastic minis.

[duz_]

It's here! Took a while to ship then got lost then had to calm UPS and GW but it finally made it! So did its commander ;)

So beautiful! Currently having a bath so I can start assembly!

Oh and finally got a 2nd layer on my tbolt!

Having learnt from my mini planes that pure Vallejo metals on this can be a bit much I add a hint of blue grey to the mix. One of our fellow frater in the AI subforum mentioned that pure metal planes look ok in real life because the blue sky tones down the reflection. We don't have this on the TT and adding the blue seems to have helped. Much better than just applying a blue glaze which I also attempted

Edited April 3, 2021 by duz_

[The Pounder]

It arrived! That Tank Commander is going to look awesome with the Macharius!

It’s quite a decent model to build I didn’t have too many problems (for a change!!!)

 

The Thunderbolt is coming along nicely too!

[duz_]

Not a lot of IG progress lately

My motivation for them is suffering given the current state of them in 9th and not actually playing any games

I have some time off at the end of the month I might attempt to build my Macharius though :D

Meanwhile some of my other hobby related work has been kitting out my game room with a display shelf! Took 3 months of waiting and missing out several times before I finally went and lined up at Ikea before opening to get one <_<

It was worth it though (I looked for alternates that whole time and the Milsbo is still the best bang for your buck if you're looking to upgrade from a Deltof). I added some lights which really make a difference too.

Now for my next room project:

The portrait ones will be easy since I have a bunch of post cards from the BL celebration set. The landscape ones might be trickier...

[WarriorFish]

The sort of "peripheral hobby" things are important too, easy for us to forget sometimes. A good display cabinet goes very far indeed :tu:

[Tallarn Commander]

Most impressive!

[duz_]

Things have been quiet on the guard front of late. I have been very slowly working on another 40k project but I don't have a wip for it yet.

However I did just do this, this evening

Its not the Macharius but they're awesome sculpts despite being a bit pricey

The new DKOK models announced today also looked great. Although I like my Mordians and I don't think they're going anywhere a box of the DKOK for display could be an option. If they do plastic death riders then I'm definitely getting some though!

[brother_b]

Which display case is that? It’s very nice (milsbo?).

Great looking astropath too.

 

Are gaunts plastic ghosts much bigger than previous guard?

 

Thanks!

[duz_]

Yes the Milsbo looks great but you definitely want to add the lighting for the extra pop. Took 3 months of waiting it kept selling out. The day I got it I waited for the store to open and by the end of the day when I checked online it was sold out again. They had just been restocked with 13!

 

I don't have any cadians to compare with. They are dfinitely larger than my Mordians. They're also just as tall as the new sisters and they're base is slightly higher and the GGs are more imposing than they are in part armour. They also come up to the top of a Primaris Lt shoulder pad.

So definitely a good chunk of scale creep in there. They come on 28mm bases too.

[The Pounder]

The case is really nice, wish I had space in my house to have a proper hobby area.

 

Plastic Deathriders would be amazing! I think every Guard player would be all over them!

 

Still waiting for that Macharius!!

[duz_]

No IG progress though a DKOK KT for KT2.0 is getting very tempting...

Got distracted from my other project for a strong urge to build this Canis Rex model I've had lying around for literal years (since they were released...)

Was a fun exercise in magnetising learnt a few new tricks. Not sure when I'll paint it though.