Rusted Boltgun's WIP

[Rusted Boltgun]

It has been a little while since I updated my WIP. Since the last photo, the Dread has been primed and basecoats have (mostly) been applied.

 

 

It felt like a lot of green (as the torso and the arms are also mainly green) but was it was worth it to reach the point where I move on to the red.

 

Separately, I recently purchased a Tyranid Winged Prime and some warriors from eBay so I have primed the Prime. I'm going for the blue/black scheme I tried out on the VRL a few pages back. 

 

I also had a bit of a tidy up and sort out. No photos as the shed is still a hideous mess. Good news - I found the Impulsor parts I had been missing for ages - they'd fallen down the back of a rack.

More good news - I found the box of Blanche Möderin I had put in the shed at the end of last year.

Not such good news - I haven't located the  Inceptors I need to complete my Combat Patrol. I reckon they are in the box with the aforementioned VRL test model so at least I know what I'm looking for.

 

I really need to sell some stuff so I can make some proper space in the shed for my minis!

[W.A.Rorie]

very smooth layers! 

[Rusted Boltgun]

Unfortunately, my other layering hasn't been so smooth @W.A.Rorie and I had to completely remove the paint from a panel on one of the shoulder pads and start again. 

 

This did, however, provide the opportunity to prime 10 Hormagaunts and assemble a Parasite of Mortrex. Unfortunately, the PoM was incomplete - missing the lower jaw. I don't know if it came incomplete and I missed it or whether the piece is in the storage box. I had a couple of spare heads so I got the clippers and green stuff out

 

 

 

Not as creepy as the original but at least it will have a whole head!

[Rusted Boltgun]

And on the body

 

Perhaps I should have reshaped the whole of the front of the skull to make it one smooth area? Hmm. 

Edited February 25 by Rusted Boltgun
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[W.A.Rorie]

41 minutes ago, Rusted Boltgun said:

Unfortunately, my other layering hasn't been so smooth @W.A.Rorie and I had to completely remove the paint from a panel on one of the shoulder pads and start again. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That sucks. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I like the jaw and think it looks great.  No sure about the nose, though - maybe if you shape it into a beak, or extend the teeth up to have it be the upper part of the mouth?  At the moment its kind of weird combination of the two.

[Brother Christopher]

I agree with @Dr_Ruminahui - not that it's bad, but I think extending the beak/nose part will improve the mini's 'face.' Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Tyranid bits but is there anything that could work as a pair mandibles? (e.g. bits of talons or anything else that's spiky). You could attach them by filling in the empty space between the jaw and throat. 

 

Regardless of these remarks, I think that what you have now works well enough, too.

[Rusted Boltgun]

The proper model actually has mandibles @Brother Christopher so good call. I could see whether any of the surplus spikes that appear around the Tyranid feet could be repurposed. Let's see how I get on with the beak first!

[Rusted Boltgun]

A little bit of progress with Fred today and here he is mocked up so far

 

 

I have magnetised his base along with the Winged Tyranid Prime, a Barbgaunt, a Warrior and 10 Hormagaunts.

 

The Warrior is being used as a test for my paint scheme so got a layer of Temple Guard Blue to start him off. 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I received my Maelstrom: Lair of The Tyrant books today. First impressions - brilliant, love them. I'm sure there are flaws but I'm not experienced enough to detect them.

 

One question I'm left asking though, why on earth are they produced at the end of an edition? There is so much material here (and the other books recently released and to come) that surely mid-edition would make more sense?

[W.A.Rorie]

Yeah it makes more sense. But would it make James $? Just sucks that new book is getting dropped with IW probably gonna be previewed Sunday with preorder Saturday then out in 2 weeks. 

[Rusted Boltgun]

Fred the Dread is inching along. The shoulder pads are taking a lot of layers to get a decent red and I'm nearly there. 

 

The Tyranid Warrior test model has three layers of blue.

 

 

And it's non-warrior brethren have all been primed and had their bases magnetised.

 

 

I know, I know. I still need to finish the bikes....

[W.A.Rorie]

Looking good @Rusted Boltgun

[Valkia the Bloody]

I am really looking forward to seeing what you will do with these tyranids!

And I also like Fred!

Weird, just today I was thinking that the GW red that I am using as a base of the red on my models took twice as many layers as the other paints...

(luckily, I am doing Night Lords, not Blood Angels....)

What is it with the red?

Are they using less pigment in them? 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I had thinned my Mephiston Red on my wet palette so it went on nicely @Valkia the Bloody but I use German Grey or Black Vallejo brush on primer which definitely makes it harder for reds, yellows, etc. The blue basecoat on the Warrior took three layers!

I really ought to look at getting an airbrush for priming as when I tried it last, I was able to prime quite nicely in lighter colours. 

 

I've (more than) enough models now for the Vardenghast Swarm Combat Patrol. Too many to pledge for a Call To Arms at my work rate but hopefully some will go towards it this year.

 

The Warrior has now had a Wraithbone dry brush and I'll attempt some contrasts tomorrow to see if I can nail down my scheme.

 

I really need to press on with Fred and get some washes on bit there are still some small details that need attention. It doesn't help that I have broken his power fist elbow joint again.

[Firedrake Cordova]

9 hours ago, Valkia the Bloody said:

What is it with the red?

Red (and yellow) are relatively transparent pigments, so they'll take more coats to cover in general.  

[Rusted Boltgun]

Magos Purple over the blue to go into the recesses, Volupus Pink on the weapon.

 

 

When I did the Von Ryan's Leaper, I did a Basilicanum Grey was over the plates and I'll be doing that again, I think. 

 

I do need to get some Wraithbone / Volupus Pink into the soft joints but I wanted to get A bit of colour on the weapon to see whether it works.

[Rusted Boltgun]

Not a lot of painting activity since my last post. I got the Wraithbone on the soft joints of the Warrior but not farther. The Dread has had a wash on (most of) the metallics) and I've had further diversions in the form of one of the Möderin. This is a very rough pic

 

 

Lots of tidying up to to do and another layer of Rakarth Flesh before a wash, I think. The tendrils are AP Heavy Metal, the head is Vallejo Model Air Silver (also used on the conduits).

 

The tendrils have since had a wash of Grimdark Shadow which is quite green, not sure I'll use it elsewhere - I'll have a look at Voodoo Shade instead.

 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I snatched a few minutes of painting after work and got carried away with Apollonia.

 

 

Poor lighting and rotten phone camera but hopefully you get the idea.

 

 

I had dappled Skavenblight Dinge and  Thingummy* Fur on her skirt but an application of AP Strong Tone has really dulled it down - though it may be better in daylight.

 

Plenty of work to be done but pleased so far with my attempts to incorporate some elements from the artwork.

 

*Placeholder name

[Rusted Boltgun]

OK, time for a little rant and a nostalgia hit to off-set it.

I got the Crucible of Champions book and it got me thinking. Looking through, I saw the Nurgle Chaos Lord datasheet and the ability to take terminator armour.

Hang on, I thought. Here's an opportunity to update the mini in my profile pic. So I duly purchased the Death Guard Codex (cheaply) and a box of Chaos Terminators (also cheaply).

I've just popped up into the loft to dig out the original mini and....I can't find it.

This is where I get cross with myself for buying too much Warhammer (so much I can't move around properly up there) and not organising it or taking greater care.

I ought to have the mini on display downstairs with my Genestealer Patriarch.

What I did find was more

- Epic scale stuff than I thought I had

- most of the original plastic Ork Battlewagon

- this receipt 

 

 

Now, I don't remember having an Elder War Walker or anything Space Wolfy but I did have a pot of glistening green, I'm sure.

This receipt may have come from when I bought a load of stuff from (or maybe traded with) a kid at school rather than being my own.

Pudding Lane in Maidstone was our local GW - and that wasn't local!

 

I really need to find the Terminator though as I want to replicate (at least in part) the colour scheme I used (which had different panels in different colours - it was the '90s!) and a freehand Nurgle symbol on the shoulder pad (the blending is so bad you can see the layers but it kind of works being Nurgle).

 

Rant over!

Edited Friday at 06:42 PM by Rusted Boltgun
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[W.A.Rorie]

I would love to see you redo that your Nurgle lord

[Rusted Boltgun]

So I can't lay my hands on the mini...bit I took that avatar photo, didn't I?!

Of course, on a work iPhone that didn't connect to anything. But now my son has an iPad. One air drop later, emailed to my personal email and....

 

 

 

 

[W.A.Rorie]

Nice

 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I've been looking over these photos on and off all afternoon, wondering what paints I could use to replicate the OG, wondering what I used at the time. I have a bunch of Cote D'arms and Warcolors paints I bought a while back to use on an Oldhammer quest (that I haven't started as I felt my painting needed to get better first (afraid of failure)), otherwise I'll consider getting the fourth John Blanche AP Fanatic set (I already have one and two) as the greens and red in there are quite a good starting point, I think. I doubt I used washes on the OG.

 

I haven't decided how much (if any) converting to do on the new model. 

Do I just try and replicate the paint job of the OG on a new model, built at current spec?

Do I do some mild converting to 'evolve' the character?

 

I have started to sketch out a backstory

 

Spoiler

Our (anti-)hero has a tragic tale. Sent to a world following a planetary distress call, a small force of Terminators land on what appears to be a bucolic agri- world.

 

The Astartes are met with fanfare, a small parade of locals who shower them with flowers, one maiden rushes up to jump and plant a kiss on the cheek of the leading marine as he strides helmetless towards the town 

 

As her lips caress his cheek, it is as if all the colour in the world slips away. The birdsong is replaced by the droning of flies as the sun slips behind grey clouds.

 

The marine looks towards his would-be admirer as her skin sloughs from her face, her smile replaced with a fixed skull-grin.

 

He looks to the sky. It has been a lie, he thinks. He can see it now. There is so much beauty and laughter in the world. Everlasting life is achievable, through death they will be reborn. He turns on his compatriots, raises his assault cannon and begins to fire.

 

Maybe I should start blogging my adventures and leave this thread to painting WIP.

[Rusted Boltgun]

I appreciate that these models have to do double duty as faction specific Terminators but I miss the kneepads from the metal model and even the big eight pointed star on the left pauldron 

 

 

 

I went for this torso / leg as there is the skull hanging from the waist and the skull on the right knee for some continuity. The left pauldron is the most Nurglish from the set, I think.

 

I'm undecided about the head. I really don't like the tusks so they would be removed.

 

Trophy racks don't feel right for this mini either (they are too Khornate or Night Lordish for me) - might try something different.

Edited Saturday at 04:29 PM by Rusted Boltgun
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