brother_b Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 How did you produce that nice dark bronze colour? Are those GW paints? I really like the contrast between the armour and the bright glowing parts. My Adeptus Mechanicus are too saturated to get a contrast like that. I used GW paints. I'll look them up when I get home and post it up. Thanks! You're making me very angry as that Skitarii scheme is like the one I was going to do and it looks awesome Thank you man. Join the club of bad ass bronze skitarii! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 Okay, the dark bronze/brass color is: Screaming Bell, Fleshshade, Hashut copper, Sycorax bronze. I drybrushed over a black base coat with screaming bell. I then shaded the whole miniature. I then drybrushed hashut copper, followed by a more directed drybrush of sycorax bronze on the most raised/expposed parts of the miniature. I then would go and pick out some of the most prominent features with a touch of sycorax bronze. And here's my first completed vanguard squad with a Techpriest Engineseer HQ. Vanguard Leader: Arc rifle: Tarxus, Arch-excavator and Technoarchaeologist of Stygies VIII The whole crew: I have 2 plasma Calivers, and 3 more vanguard with rad rifles to complete a 10-man squad in the works. After that, I'll probably dedicate some time to finish the building of my first Onager, as well as two 5 man squads of vanguard. Then, I'll look into building and painting my Dominus. Cheers! Magos Valkamar, Prot, Vel'Cona and 5 others 8 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Come on man, you've even got Red Arc weapons! God dang it this is my old scheme. Â Happy to know the recipe for the bronze though, looks cool as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 Come on man, you've even got Red Arc weapons! God dang it this is my old scheme. Â Happy to know the recipe for the bronze though, looks cool as. Haha, I take it more as great minds think alike! Â I really wanted to try and get a pulsing effect on the arc weapon, with a lighter "pulse" of energy moving up the coils. I didn't achieve that, but I'm thinking a white coil, glazed, may pull it off. Charlo 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prot Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 I love the progress. Stygies is so fun too. There’s just something very sinister looking about red plasma. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magos Takatus Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Â I really wanted to try and get a pulsing effect on the arc weapon, with a lighter "pulse" of energy moving up the coils. I didn't achieve that, but I'm thinking a white coil, glazed, may pull it off. Â I can see the pulsing effect on the Arc Rifle. It's lighter in the front half of the battery and quite a bit darker towards the rear. That's pretty much what I tried to do with my Plasma weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtle Discord Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Normally I really don't like dry brushing. Don't get me wrong, it has it's place and I completely understand why people use the technique, but I personally dislike the finish it gives many times. In this case however, it's perfect, adding a subtle pitted and aged effect to the bronze that makes it look very authentic. Wonderful! Keep it up, and thanks for confirming that green Rad Carbines look excellent. :) MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Normally I really don't like dry brushing. Don't get me wrong, it has it's place and I completely understand why people use the technique, but I personally dislike the finish it gives many times. In this case however, it's perfect, adding a subtle pitted and aged effect to the bronze that makes it look very authentic. Wonderful! Keep it up, and thanks for confirming that green Rad Carbines look excellent. This is really the first time I've tried it as the main way of painting a miniature. It has been fairly simple, and I can still pick things out and add "painted" parts to the miniature as needed. I'm a little bit torn on how I should paint my Onager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBoiKyknos Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Those look great, especially the right one with a bit of face on his head! brother_b, Xisor and Link2edition 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Well I haven't done much painting in a while, but figured I'd work a little more on some plasma vanguards. Two more of these guys with rad rifles, and then a painted Onager and I'll have a patrol ready to go! Xisor, Tyriks, Pearson73 and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyriks Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Man, those are very nice vanguard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearson73 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 The metallics look great on the Vanguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Thanks fellas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Well, played my first points game of 40K 8th and decided to add in a patrol contingent of Adeptus Mechanicus to my main army, the Blood Angels, Sons of Sanguinius. We just started a campaign, and this game was to test drive some stuff, and have some fun. After our introductory mission we played a 1500 point game, Black Templars and Blood Angels against Khorne/Nurgle, an invasion of a 3-planet system. My patrol was a Neutronager (WIP), Techpriest Engineseer, and 10 man squad of Skitarii Vanguard (2 plasma, 1 arc rifle). My neutronager had potential, but really the twin stubbers did more work on account of my poor rolling for shots and wounds. I think two of these bad boys will be the bare minimum. It was nice rolling that D6 for damage, and the worst I would roll to wound was 3+ during the game. The Vanguard were amazing, their rad carbines decimated the remains of a suqad of blood letters, and their plasma/arc rifle did a surprising number on a wounded maulerfiend, taking it out of action (arc rifle d3 against vehicles was a pleasant surprise, I forgot about that). All in all, a great battle and a really fun little patrol. In the narrative portion it works out as well, as there is a forge world in the system. Stygies VIII held the middle, who knows what xenotech they were really after, but their guns were welcome vs. the ruinous powers! Ammonius 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 My patrol is now gaining some heavy support in the form of a nuetronager. I still need to finish those two dang vanguard and I'll have a fully painted patrol. Now, I've bought a lot of goodies for my admech, but for my sanity the Brother B forgeworld works at a slow pace. I've decided that I'm going to finish one squad before moving onto something else. For instance, I'm finishing up a squad of BA intercessors before moving on. I'll then probably move on to finishing my BA scout squad (2 more models to go), my SG (3 more models to go), and finally a tac squad (4 more models to go). In the mean time, I'm going to have to fit in the vanguard. I'll probably do that first before moving back to the Blood Angels. Now, the real question is what to build for Admech when I'm done, since this is the admech blog. I'm thinking of two more squads of troops to fill out the mandatory 3 for the brigade (batllaion? The smaller one). I'm probably going to do two 5 man squads of rangers. After that, we'll just have to see. I'm thinking Tech Priest Dominus and a couple of robots. Yeah. Robots. Anyway, cheers! The forgeworld lumbers on... All I need to do is add a transfer or two, and my buddy the transfer master is going to help me with that. Subtle Discord, Vel'Cona, shandwen and 6 others 9 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Nice. Love the name of Nuetronager too. Â He looks suitably grim! brother_b 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Cona Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 That glow! For some reason, I like your paint scheme, too (looks in own gallery . . .) :D brother_b 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 That glow! For some reason, I like your paint scheme, too (looks in own gallery . . .)  Well you've got quite the amazing admech army there my friend. Very nice. How have they done on the battlefield? Vel'Cona 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Cona Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018  Well you've got quite the amazing admech army there my friend. Very nice. How have they done on the battlefield?  Thanks much, it was a real labor of love for the new models and spurred on by ETL that year (miss those so much). I honestly only played a few games with them in 7th before the swap to 8th and haven't come back since then (been focusing on the IG), though I've heard mixed results. There's still a lot of folks pining for Fires of Cyraxus (sic) and a lot of rumbling about the possible IK expansion, so I'm sort of holding out on buying anything new for AdMech at the time.  But I do still love the models and theme, and I'm super glad to see new armies hitting the table. If you're looking for specific gameplay tips, though, try messaging some of the more active AdMech players around this forum. Good luck with the new army! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyriks Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 That Onager is amazing! brother_b 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 That Onager is amazing! Â Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burias-Drak'shal Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Looks like a very good army in progress. Great colour scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 The weathered look really comes into its own on the larger canvas, very nice work indeed :tu: brother_b 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_b Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) Finally finished the last two of my vanguard. I now have a full 10-man (machine?) squad. I've adorned one of them with a kill marking as the squad defeated a maulerfiend the one and only time I've run my admech patrol. Next up? Hard decision. Probably build their counterpart in the form of either 1 x 10 man squad of rangers or 2 x 5 man squads. Decisions, decisions. Yes, those are two separate data smiths in the background. Bots incoming as soon as I get the requisite members built for a battalion (that's the +3 cp army right?). Oh! I almost forgot. Here is my finished Neutronager for a fully painted patrol! Edited March 6, 2018 by brother_b ImperialSquishiness, WarriorFish and Bjorn Firewalker 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Great work on the Neutronager, comes together so well with the transfers - when do we get an army shot? ;) brother_b 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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