Spagunk Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Hello everyone. A little late on this but thought I would start a progress thread for this year finally. As the ETL post shows, here is where I started; With that, I made only a bit of progress in the past week. Base coat of red on everything and a spot of black on some stuff. So some progress. Not as much as I would like but I do have a bit of time to get this done. My hope is to have at least 3 total vows to match last year. Hoping for a fourth but I want to make sure I complete things before getting too ahead of myself. Here is what I am planning to get done; Vow two: Vindicator with another 5 man Melta assault squad Vow three: 4 man grav biker squad plus sanguinary priest Vow four: ??? Anyway, some of the delay was due to the fact that the nozzle on my white primer was clogged. I soaked it in gum spirit (turpentine) to see if that would unclog it but to no avail. As such, I had to improvise: Yes, that is an average everyday sprayer head connected to a cocktail straw that is connected to the pin on the top of the can. This brand, though pretty decent, uses an inverted sprayer so that the actual sprayer is not connected to a stem. Anyway, I have a lot of work ahead of me as I still need to finish with my black paint. Today was a lot of bulk painting/second base coating but I have plenty left on the main tank body before hitting the fine detail black paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 I think the assault cannon barrels should be all black, to hide the soot that'll inevitably cover it. You may also want to consider heat staining the gun barrels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evildrcheese Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Good luck Spagunk. I really enjoyed painting my Baals for From Rage to Salvation last year, have you made the weapons swapable or is it dakka all the way. Â EDC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont-Be-Haten Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 The Baal Pred is one of my favorite favorite tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 Good luck Spagunk. I really enjoyed painting my Baals for From Rage to Salvation last year, have you made the weapons swapable or is it dakka all the way. Â EDC It's swapable but I haven't glued the magnets on them yet. I think the assault cannon barrels should be all black, to hide the soot that'll inevitably cover it. You may also want to consider heat staining the gun barrels. Â The black is the base coat that I will apply a dry brush of metal on. I don't have the paints for heat staining in the proper way but soot will be applied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted June 21, 2016 Author Share Posted June 21, 2016 Bit of an update on this one. RL have really gotten in the way and so I am trying to make what progress I can. Really getting nervous about second and third vows. After taking this picture, I ended up almost completing all the detail and highlighting to the chap in the top right. Since all of the 3 base colors are already on these guys, I figured that I spend time on each one individually for the detail work instead of bulk/assembly lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LutherMax Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Looking good man, keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted June 24, 2016 Author Share Posted June 24, 2016 Another update. Just about done with dude 2. I am taking a bit longer than before to finish them which means that I am in jeopardy of not being able to vow a 4th time with a 3rd time being sketchy. Anyhow, here is what I got: Here is what I have left to finish... /Sigh... As a side note, the guy in the first picture on the right has lost his left arm. It went missing about the time I took the before picture and I have not been able to find it. That means I will have to dig through my bits to find a suitable replacement. Probably will do that once everything else is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 Another update. RL issues are still getting in the way of completing this vow. If I do another vow, it will have to be small to ensure I don't nullify my work. For now, here is what I have: The body and tracks are still being worked on. I need new glue so my guys aren't put together yet even though they are finished with their paint. One mistake I figured out late is that I neglected to pain the helmets yellow. Since they already are done, I don't want to paint over them again. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calistarius Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 They look good, regardless of the helmet color! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LutherMax Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 They do indeed! Look forward to seeing them all put together! Â If the helmets aren't glued on yet you could keep them for tactical marines and paint up new ones for these guys. I have seen quite a few red helmeted assault marines though and they still look cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 My first two assault squads from way back when had red helmets with yellow stripes instead. Since my main army is 6th company my fluff reason is that they are all tactical marines who will arm themselves with weapons as befitting the role and would just pain stripes to tell their squad mates what role they are doing that battle. Â Since these guys are going to be 2nd/3rd company assault marines (since I already have 2x 6th company assault marines) I wanted to paint them in codex approved colors. The chest eagle being yellow was a throwback to 2nd/3rd edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jønke Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Love the yellow chest eagels. Solid work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LutherMax Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Agreed, I like the old school cool of the yellow aquillas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted August 7, 2016 Author Share Posted August 7, 2016 My vow is completed. Will be taking some better shots and individual pictures overtime to see what all I have done. Here's some prelim shots to tide everyone over: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LutherMax Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 They look really cool man, liking the blue-shaded white accents! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jønke Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Looks awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evildrcheese Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Awesome work dude, they look brilliant! Â EDC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Very cool and characterful - love the bold painting style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spagunk Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Thanks Charlo and everyone else. The new paint process started with last years terminators and continues on. I haven't painted their company insignias or put any decals on but I intend for this to be either 2nd or 3rd company marines. I may go back to using Vallejo colors when doing more 6th company guys so that the red is darker but I haven't decided yet as I dig the brighter orange/red of the Evil Sunz a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoridon Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I like the red you have there, it has a good shade to it and certainly doesn't look too bright to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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