The Great, Perpetual Work

[Dr_Ruminahui]

The model looks great - I can see why you are happy with the power blade, its fantastic, and provides a great bit of colour to a largely silver model without distracting from the overall look.

[BadgersinHills]

Very cool painting and conversions!

[W.A.Rorie]

I maybe biased, but I love the Grey Knight! 

[Casual Heresy]

Afternoon all.

 

House move is completed and I've been able to set up some work space and do things again!

 

And I've now made a start on the one and only Xenos army I'm ever planning to make: Aeldari Exodites. I promised myself that if Exodites ever came out I would dive in so I of course nabbed the kill team box and I've made a start. Please excuse the bad images. Lighting set up on my desk isn't the best.

 

 

 

Dragon Masters are built and paint has been applied to the Drakolithes to test the scheme for the first pack of Dragons. Going for a scheme based on the Raptors for The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

 

I basecoated wraithseer followed by a 1:4ish mix of skeleton horde and contrast medium. The orange starts with a 1:2 mix of Gryphhound orange and medium, the pure gryphhound further up. Then the pattern down the spine is a 1:1 mix of Wyldwood and Skeleton Horde, with some of that mix diluted further with medium for some light stripe markings on the non-feathered parts of the hide. Everything is highlighted with a light drybrush of screaming skull.

 

The Exodites will be a slow grow. I'm currently planning to only build one kit at a time and will only buy and start the next one when the last unit is fully done and based. I'm not aiming to build an effective army, instead it will be as many Dragon Riders as possibly backed up by a few Craftworld kits that I really like. 

 

The Clanblade is up next, and after them I may do a space marine of some description as a palette cleanser.

[Dr. Clock]

I find having a 'clean palette' is a great way to stay engaged and productive... Considering the number of dragons you intend on, I'd also suggest throwing a craftworld unit into your workflow for every ~6 dragons you get through lol.

 

My initial objective is a mere 9 dragons, but I'm not letting myself start the first 3 until I get through (hopefully) my Imperium and Heresy Vows for Call to Arms. 

 

Glad to see you starting things running with this : )

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Casual Heresy]

Thanks @Dr. Clock .

 

next unit will be a unit of Rangers to test out my Yme-loc scheme. From there it will most be Craftworlders for this collection until the solo Exodites release, which could be anytime between next week and Christmas!

 

 I’m also planning to keep things fresh by changing the mounts scheme for every group of nine knights and masters. Currently it’s a toss up between a scheme inspired by the Jurassic Park 3 velociraptors or the original Walking with Dinosaurs Utahraptors for the next group. 
 

 

[Casual Heresy]

Evening all,

 

Big life things have happened, soon after the house move, we got married! So hobby took a bit of a back seat. But now I have free time again so it’s time to commence operation ‘clear the decks’. The goal is simple; paint models without any pressure to meet deadlines or to chase the meta. Without a single goal, I can freely flit between projects and experiment. 
 

So today’s experiment was sponge painting and tone pro. The armour on this rhino and another took me about an hour this afternoon. 
 

 

Started from chaos black spray and sponges up to Ultramar blue 3 (with a subtle mix of 3+4 on the highest and most prominent points), then dry rushes highlights of 4+5. 
 

It was fun, easy and achieves the long sought after goal of easily painting a vehicle that looks more consistent with my infantry. 

[The Pounder]

Congratulations on your marriage!
 

I haven’t tried the pro tone paint yet but from the look of your Rhino it looks good.

[Casual Heresy]

Thank you @The Pounder!

 

Yeah I'm quite impressed so far with it. it's by no means a miracle wonder paint that solves every problem, but it is proving to be a useful tool. 

 

Today's little update is the results of the sponged Deathwing experiment, which I'm declaring a success.

 

Armour came out smoothly and quickly so I feel I could easily replicate this over all the Deathwing I have to paint in an afternoon, and be happy with the result. Other colours are just one coat of contrast over wraithbone at the moment so still plenty to do, but for me the longest and most mind numbing part is done.

 

 

 

With this working as I hoped I should be able to blaze through that backlog of Terminators, a deathwing Land Raider and a Redemptor and reduce how many models I have in the pile of potential.

 

What's that? A local hobby shop still has a Deathwing Assault box which would perfectly cover some Deathwing expansion plans I've been mulling over when combined with spares from the bitzbox and another kitbashed Terminator project?

 

I'll be right back!

 

[space wolf]

Congratulations! and your painting is turning out well, also!

[Lysimachus]

Congratulations! I've not tried the sponging technique, but your minis look great, especially that blue on the tank! I'm working on a Venator atm, might have to give it a go for the highlighting...

Edited 12 hours ago by Lysimachus