30k Hobby Chat

[Hfran Morkai]

What a splendid Drop Pod!

[Marshal Vespasian]

Some great speed on here.

I'll have to watch the third drop pod video, the first two ones were pretty cool.

I like the summary at the end.

 

Currently my breachers are stuck in the ugly Phase. Feels like the yellow is fighting me, but getting there. I had the week off from work and so did some hiking, art galleries and stuff like that at home.

[Lovecraft0110]

Some great speed on here.

I'll have to watch the third drop pod video, the first two ones were pretty cool.

I like the summary at the end.

Currently my breachers are stuck in the ugly Phase. Feels like the yellow is fighting me, but getting there. I had the week off from work and so did some hiking, art galleries and stuff like that at home.

Thank you!

 

Ugly phase? Never actually painted yellow myself, come to think of it. Funny!

 

I went on an ebay spree lately despite having a huge backlog of models...don't tell ny wife! :

 

So...I got 2 Dracosans and a Malcador Infernus. I also have two Minotaurs. My idea is to combine them with the 2 Medusas, 2 Bombards, and 2 Macharius I already have and make a sort of Solar Auxilia Panzer battalion. Until now I had played them as Militia tanks commandeered by the Ordo Reductor.

 

I have doubts as to how to paint them, though. Would you guys care to respond to a little poll? If so, how do I make one?

[Pearson73]

@Aztek The Interemptors look ace, really cool sculpts too, you first legion boys are spoiled by FW!

 

@Lovecraft0110 Great job on the drop pod and weathering, I really need to give your videos a watch and practise some of those skills. A poll would be a fun thing to do for the armour pool, what colours are you thinking at the minute, something to offset the Eaters' white and blue?

 

@Marshal Vespasian I'm looking forward to seeing those Breachers, a really thematic, cool unit, especially for the Fists.

[Lovecraft0110]

Hi Pearson73,

 

Thank you very much, glad you like it.

 

The tanks would be for a separate army, and I was thinking of having them match the pairs of Macharius, Mardusas and Bombard I already have. I thought I had posted them here, but it was on Instagram; will do tomorrow.

 

Anyway, they're all German grey, but I was thinking of doing camo stripes, and then a winter whitewash and mud effects. Basically like German tanks in Stalingrad, with military modelling techniques. If I went for that, I would have to apply the camo whitewash, and mud to my existing tanks, which could be tricky (they're already weathered and varnished).

 

The alternative is to go with a more conventional Solar Auxilia scheme, which uses gold/bronze trim. Or a third option which I haven't yet figured out.

 

Does this make any sense? These are for an army I want to play, but I would also make tutorials with them for my little channel.

[Lovecraft0110]

Ok, so here are the 6 Solar Auxilia/Imperialis Militia tanks I painted up last year. Now I just bought two Dracosans and a Malcador Infernus on eBay, all brand new. 

 

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmNPrvRQ

 

So, the options are: 

 

1. I paint the three new tasks in German Grey, like these ones, but I add: camo stripes (probably in German Red Brown), a whitewash winter camo, and mud effects. This will allow me to learn new techniques, but it will also force me to add these steps to my existing tanks in order to make them a coherent force. This could be tricky - I just don't know how well it will work with all the existing weathering and varnishes. 
2. I paint the three new tanks in a standard Solar Auxilia scheme: dark grey with gold/bronze trim. However, I am not sure I would like to put them together with the existing 6, given the disparity in aesthetics this would create. 
3. I go for something entirely different - feel free to make suggestions. 

Any voters?

 

WWII reference tank: 

[LameBeard]

Beautiful tanks, seems a shame to paint over any of it! And it’s difficult to picture the whitewash camo.

 

What about choosing a bright colour that fits your Solar Auxillia and goes well with the grey? Then add a big stripe of the grey to the new tanks and maybe a stripe or panel of the new bright colour to the old tanks?

 

Obviously this is more ‘30k legion’ inspired than WWII ...

Edited June 23, 2020 by LameBeard

[MegaVolt87]

Beautiful tanks, seems a shame to paint over any of it! And it’s difficult to picture the whitewash camo.

 

What about choosing a bright colour that fits your Solar Auxiliary and goes well with the grey? Then add a big stripe of the grey to the new tanks and maybe a stripe or panel of the new bright colour to the old tanks?

 

Obviously this is more ‘30k legion’ inspired than WWII ...

 

Doing white wash on grey is easy to do with white scar, I use it for historicals. Its notoriously thin anyway, you just keep adding water to the pot until its quite thin, then do multiple staggered layers etc to build it up. These tanks will look great white washed. 

[Indefragable]

Got some more details and the basing started for 5x more Tac/Support dudes.

 

Made major headway on Raldoron.

 

Also got serious work in on a kitbash Primus Medicae/

 

...all while finishing off Mephiston for the lockdown painting challenge.

 

I’ve been on a roll lately. Apparently when the world falls apart painting models is something that really takes your mind off it all.

[Lovecraft0110]

@Lamebeard, MegaVolt87: thanks, guys! I've decided to go the harder but hopefully more rewarding route, i.e. camo, whitewash and mud.

Edited June 15, 2020 by Lovecraft0110

[No Foes Remain]

Just ordered Loken and Abaddon as well as some Sons of Horus heads and transfers. Going to use the models as a base for my PA and Termie Praetor versions, got an idea for the PA version but not sure where to go with the Termie option.

[Marshal Vespasian]

Made some progress on my breachers yesterday. Now I have to fix the yellow on some parts of the models were the masking was kind of gnarly. Still not really 'feeling' the squad.

 

Lovecraft:

Those tanks look great, be sure to film your process once you have everything figured out.

[Cadmus Tyro]

Today I found the time to magnetize the weapons on my first super-heavy: the Falchion. Since it is not the most common model, I'll post some thoughts in addition to a picture of the beast.

 

....Some details on magnetization: The barrels are held in place by two 2x3 mm magnets each, positioned on their central axis as well as shifted toward the top. I had hoped one central would do ok, but I realized two 2x3 mm rather is the minimum to hold them safely in place. Sponson weapons use one magnet each and rotate horizontally freely. The finder sight is attached with a magnet, too, for ease of painting (some day…), as is the unmagnetized shield that I will glue in place after painting, same with the diesel (?) barrels – the only aspect of the tank's design I do not like much. The doors sadly are a bad fit and i either have to file them down or find some Iron Hands rhino doors for almost half the cost of the tank :rolleyes:

 

 

I had a similar issue with my armoured proteus. I ended up using plastic rhino doors, which were a surprisingly much better fit than the original resin ones.

 

Cadmus

[Lovecraft0110]

Hey guys,

 

I've had a hobby hiatus this week; I've spent every minute of my free time working on a video on the history of the Forgeworld style of painting. It's something I always wanted someone to discuss...so in the end I took it upon myself to do it. It's more like a dissertation than anything, but I hope you give it a try.

 

@Vespasian: absolutely! I just haven't decided which to do first! I also have two Titanicus Warlords to do, and I have a full-sized Reaver on the way...so if we can't go on holiday, I will have plenty to entertain myself with! :p

[Marshal Vespasian]

Well you say that, I had dedicated vacation time last week and didnt manage to do a lot paintingwise.

 

 

Titanicus looks pretty interesting to me, but sadly theres not many people playing it around here. I'd love to paibt some big stompy robots. But there is knights and dreads in conventional 30k as well.

Edited June 19, 2020 by Marshal Vespasian

[No Foes Remain]

Just ordered a Sons of Horus dread with two lascannons and the havoc launcher, this will round out my SoH 1,000pts quite nicely.

 

Also sorting out my 1,000pts Ultramarines force and I was wondering would this power fist be suitable in the Horus Heresy? I can file down the 'crux' symbol and replace it with a small

Raptor Imperialis which I have some symbols for from shapeways.

[Indefragable]

My personal take on using 40k bits in 30k is “make it work.”

 

That might be too lenient for some folks (especially the kind who spot that one MkVII knee pad on a model from across the room), but like any sort of art, if you tell a story with it and it shows some intent and effort, I think it’s cool. This hobby is too expensive as it is to be sticklers about every little thing...but also setting expectations is important. If you are just trying to get stuff on the table to play with, then I think you have more elbow room. If you’re going for super accurate stuff and are hunting for golden daemon praise or something, then well that’s on you to get every fiddly bit perfect.

[Lovecraft0110]

Well you say that, I had dedicated vacation time last week and didnt manage to do a lot paintingwise.

 

 

Titanicus looks pretty interesting to me, but sadly theres not many people playing it around here. I'd love to paibt some big stompy robots. But there is knights and dreads in conventional 30k as well.

 

Yeah, that happens to me a lot. 

 

My take on AT was exactly yours, but lots of people have been telling me I must give it a try...so in the end I took the plunge. I have yet to even assemble the two Warlords that came with it, but it shall be done during the summer. Whether or not I will be driving down to Spain with my family remains to be seen, but it looks like we will. If we do, it'll have to be a socially distanced holiday...so I will have more time than normal for the hobby. it is quite hilarious how I always end up carrying lots of hobby supplies with me every time I go on holiday...sometimes I do a LOT, sometimes I do like virtually nothing and all the stuff goes back in the same condition it was. 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Lovecraft0110

[Marshal Vespasian]

I put decals onto my breachers today and they suddenly stopped looking like absolute garbage.

Still kind of unmotivated to paint, but its only the white bits left to do so I can kind of see the end of the tunnel on that squad.

 

Jeah I heard very good things about at as well and the getting started box seems to contain a nicely sized force already. I would want a warlord and a nemesis tho...

Edited June 21, 2020 by Marshal Vespasian

[Hfran Morkai]

I've had 12 weeks of doing far less work than normal (I've been volunteering with my Search and Rescue team providing deliveries instead) but I've done hardly anything in that time, assembled 20 Marines and assembled most of ten more. I keep putting off the painting so now have 60 Marines ready for paint haha.

 

Back to work tomorrow.

 

And I think the specialist game that would definitely reel me in would be BFG, especially if they did a Battlefleet Heresy campaign too (technically you could get away with just a book expansion and I'm sure it'd sell) as I'd love to campaigns with space battles, you could throw in some Zone Mortalis boarding actions before a planetfall mission and so on.

 

The Warhounds do look adorable though (my favourite Titan by far) and I'll probably pick it up soon, especially after Ursus Claws are released

[Marshal Vespasian]

I feel like every honnyist I talk to dreams about battlefleet heresy at some point. I'd be all over that.

Also: necromunda lools fun as hell

[m0nolith]

Did a whole lot chipping to a Leviathan claw and drill. If any part of a Dread is going to have a ton of chipping, its going to be the CC weapons ;)

[Lovecraft0110]

@m0nolith: great work! 

[Pearson73]

@m0nolith The chipping looks ace, great job.

[Marshal Vespasian]

Those claws look fantastic Edited June 22, 2020 by Marshal Vespasian