Deployment of the Spectral Sicarii (homebrew RG)

[thewarriorhunter]

Tangental Hobby Progress update.  We started painting the house in May but I've had to put off doing my office since I WFH and it would have to be torn apart for a few days. I had last week off for the company holiday shutdown and was finally able to tackle my office's facelift. Got the whole thing painted, new blinds installed, got rid of some old furniture and added some shelves into the closet for more storage. The closet shelves are the best thing because a bookshelf was thing we got rid of so I now have room for a display cabinet. Moved my desk to provide more room and everything is just easier to get too now.

 

The discerning eye might see that there's an AI box with my 40k stuff. I got a stupid good deal on it so tiny planes are somewhere in my future now. :D

 

[WAR]

Nice, I've been painting inside the new house and finally got my desk in. Still some other things to do like build glass cabinets and bring paint and models over still. But your set up is super nice!

[duz_]

Impressive work! I'm in a similar situation currently redoing the basement so hobby is a mess everywhere. I'm close to finishing so can reorganise my hobby space and really need to invest in some vertical paint storage!

[thewarriorhunter]

Well for the first time in a couple months I finally put paint on a marine. Have painted some Blitz Bowl teams and got my tiny planes primed but up until this weekend I've not had the desire to touch my marines. It wasn't much since I had just finished working on some BzB models but I got a base layer for skin on an infiltrator and started working on a base for my converted Librarian. He needs a new one because his was one of the first I did and I was using air dry clay then. It's started cracking and looks pretty bad.

 

[thewarriorhunter]

Really happy with today's progress. I finished the head on the aforpictured marine and also worked on the head for the Sgt. I am really happy with how the faces came out and glad that I finally decided to give painting skin/faces a shot.

 

[WAR]

Skin looks great. And excellent job on their eyes

[thewarriorhunter]

I like when I only have to paint one, lol.

[WAR]

Lol

[thewarriorhunter]

Worked on my Eradicators today to try and get them presentable for tonight's game. They've got a ways to go but I'm ok with putting them on the table as is.

 

[thewarriorhunter]

Last night's game was great, didn't end up using my Eradicators, lol. Quick write up here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/332882-what-have-your-raven-guard-done-lately/?p=5657953

[thewarriorhunter]

Progress! I think this is the fastest I've ever painted any models. I'm really trying to care less about perfection and lean into getting it 'good enough' because I'm planning to start adding weathering to my models. That will hide a lot of imperfect edge highlights or rough transitions. They need another blue highlight, the weapons are washed but need highlighting and weathering (first thing I decided to practice on), and the helmets need a bit of work.

 

[WAR]

Looking really good

[duz_]

Looks great

Agreed if youre going to weather them less important to have a clean crisp look

[thewarriorhunter]

Hoping to have these wrapped up tomorrow since I'm off work. I'm going to try something new with the guns which is to only weather them and not do any edge highlighting. I think if I 'chip' enough edges that will sell the effect and save me a step of edge highlighting everything and then going back and weathering.

 

Question: Not really sure how I want to handle the cross on the left wrist. It's a 'veteran' thing from Indomitous but I'm struggling. I was going to paint it the same color as the chest emblems but with a base coat it feels to 'samey'. Not sure if I should just do it anyways or consider a spot color on it. Any thoughts?

 

Edited January 29, 2021 by thewarriorhunter

[Tavus Wrack]

Maybe do the cross as a metal part than a gold part. That way when you come to do your weathering you could (if so inclined) add rust to it!

Edited January 29, 2021 by TheJester

[thewarriorhunter]

Yeah I'm going between silver or washed blue or purple. Gold looks bad with scheme and silver is usually reserved for captain bits. I might have to do up one of each to see what I like best.

[thewarriorhunter]

Done! Fastest I've ever painted a squad up. I decided that 'less is more' with the veteran symbols and went for my edge highlight color of Silvergrey. I think that was the right call. They stand out without being bright or distracting. I got some varnish to try through my airbrush so after I run that on a test model I'll get these sealed up.

 

 

 

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Impressive work.

[WAR]

Very impressive

[duz_]

The black and silver with the weathering really compliments your scheme and the weathering is just the right level :tu:

[thewarriorhunter]

I forgot to take a picture of the chaos but Saturday night I tried varnishing with my airbrush and it was amazing. I've used Dullcoat up until now but a recommendation in one of my Discords led to be Vallejo's Matte Varnish 26.518. I was able to varnish ~40 models in a couple hours. So much faster than Dullcoat, and cheaper as well. It probably would have taken me two cans of Dullcoat to do that many models, maybe a little less time with going in and out, etc. The bottle was ~$10 and I barely used any of it. I'm planning on picking up the Gloss 26.517 to spray on the models before I decal and to provide an extra bit of paint protection.

[Shadow Captain Vyper]

Your work continues to improve and the added touches in decals and now weathering really push this to the next level my dude 

[thewarriorhunter]

Thanks! At some point I'll go and weather the armor. I got some pigments and oils I want to try out. I'll give them a go on my Aeronautica Imperialis stuff first though.

[thewarriorhunter]

Not a marine update but a terrain update. I have discovered the world of TinkerTurf and am SOLD hard. I bought a couple sets off a guy who got way too much during their kickstarter and oh baby, swoon. This stuff assembles well, looks good, and doesn't need paint. It's not even close to being on par with GW terrain but I think the fact that it's pre-printed, goes together fast, and costs lest is a fair enough trade off for me. I'm in on their current kickstarter as well and can't wait to get it all on a table.

 

[WAR]

Looks good