Deathwing Army WIP

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Yup, I rounded up the last 15 of my wood elf heads that I thought would be ok. I don't like the ones with the leaves over the mouth so all of them are either cloth over the mouth or nothing. Thanks for the comments. Keep 'em coming!

Cheers,

AJ.

 

++EDIT++

I won't revela my dirty secret for bone until I write the tutorial, but as said, the heads are wood elves. The Chaplain has a sculpted hood.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Alright, here is an update with slightly better pictures. The bone really isn't that dark in real life, nor is it that thick. I used a better camera this time. All the models are only on their basecoats.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver010-1.jpg

 

This is the Deathwing Grandmaster I had Marshall Barbarossa sculpt me last year. He hasn't been painted yet, I need to strip him and reprime him, he will also be on a different base.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver011-1.jpg

 

Here is the Chaplain, he is hard to see, but I tried my best.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver013-1.jpg

 

This is squad number one, with two assault cannons, this squad deals the most firepower so far. On our left of the sergeants armour you can see what the real color is. I don't know what happened with the rest.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver014-1.jpg

 

This is the second Terminator squad, armed with two heavy flamers.

 

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver015-1.jpg

 

Finally the Terminator Assault Squad, three of the models haven't even been basecoated yet, but they will be soon! All five have lightning claws, because it is my prefered weapon, hence the handful of them in the army!

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver016-1.jpg

 

 

 

Venerable Dreadnought, basecoated with the brown. Not much else to say except for the fact that it is hard to stay together at the waist.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver017-1.jpg

 

Last dreadnought, primed white and needing to be worked on. The paint looks thick, but it really isn't that bad. Plasma Cannon and Missile Launcher, deadly combo, but I miss the strength 10 with the Power Fist.

 

Comments and crit. welcome.

Cheers,

AJ.

[==Me==]

:devil:

 

Where did that plasma cannon come from?

 

Good work so far :D

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Forgeworld, just like the dreadnought! Birthday present last summer.

[Damo1701]

Some nice work there mate. I assumehat you are using the brown ink to basecoat your white primer. I tried it but had only chestnut ink. The one thing I found that helped was a little washing up liquid in the ink, and to make sure you cover the whole model. Only saying that cos I saw white spots that I think you missed?

 

After all, I aint no professional, just offering what I see.

 

Cheers mate.

[Shinobi_soldier]

Is there going to be more step by step stuff?

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Of course Shinobi Soldier! I have to find time off work this week to do a step-by-step, my boss left for Alaska yesterday and so I am pulling 9 hour days instead of 6. But I should get a chance tonight, I get off at 4 and will start doing a step by step using one of the assault terminators.

 

Gregor, yeah mate. Brown Ink. It flows real smooth and when it is dry all I need to do is highlight is for a nice bone color that didn't come out in the pictures! lol.

Cheers,

AJ.

[Shinobi_soldier]

Cool, i was thinkin it would be hard to paint deathwing with no experience based on the guide so far. I knew there's gonna be step by step, just making sure. Its looking good so far, ill have to try your technique on a terminator and compare it to John Thompsons storm ghots tutorial...

 

Keep up the good work.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Oh my technique is in no way better than Mr. Thompsons, his is amazing, where as mine is simple! lol

Well it is off to work for me now.

Cheers,

AJ.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Ok, so I looked at my scheadule for the week. I work longer tomorrow but should be able to write the tutorial at work and email it to myself to add the pictures. So look foreward to that tomorrow. As for tonight, I did some work on the hoods, painted all the flesh, and did the chaplains skull. I couldn't get any detailed pics sorry, but I got an army shot, it should be abit better than the last ones.

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver020.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver018-1.jpg

 

Comments and crit welcome.

Cheers,

AJ.

[GM Matthias]

Your project is truelly inspiring me to paint some deathwing. I cant wait to see what you have coming tomorrow.

 

Wood Elf heads eh? pure genius :wub: which set did they come in?

[VtrAxX]

You make me proud MCA. Now Push yourself to PAINT...more..

 

Vtraxx Out

[Master Chaplain Astador]

The wood Elves came in the Fantasy started box that I got for free last summer at Games Day Chicago.(lowest player score in the GT, I was about 300 points below 1850 and got slaughtered twice, I almost beat one guy but lost. It was sad, my Third Company failed me!) Anyway, I'm getting ready for work, so there will be more tonight. I will try and get a shot of the chaplains face, if not I'll be sure to do it when he is completed!

Thanks V, I have to, I'm going back up Friday and buying a LRC, two LR's, and another Terminator Assault Squad. I know I need to finish what I have but they have a build your battle force deal going on where you buy three boxes and get the fourth free and that ends soon, so I need to buy most of it now, I get my paycheck today and after buying my brothers birthday present, getting him The Producers with Will Ferrell in it, I'll save the rest for the army.

Cheers,

AJ.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Ok guys, we're coming up on the last couple of updates before this part of the army is complete. Tomorrow I shall be returning to GW to buy another Terminator Assault Squad, two(2) Land Raiders, and a Land Raider Crusader. So lets review the project before moving on. This is the timeline I have made for the first stage.

 

Friday, July 14

I bought one(1) Chaplain in Tactical Dreadnought Armour, two(2) Terminator squads, one(1) Terminator Assault Squad, one(1) Space Marine Venerable Dreadnought, and stripped one(1) Forgeworld Venerable Dreadnought.

 

Saturday, July 15

I made my first post about the project with the first of the long log into making the army. This first part included all the photos of the army in the box, all of the tools and items I would use to assemble and paint the army, all the paints I would need, and the piece I used to organize the army.

 

Sunday, July 16

I began work on the basing tutorial. As it stands now it is not yet done. But the rest of the army will be finished before the basing is, so we'll say that that is the last step in this log of the project. The basing was done simply, and the pictures weren't great, so there will be new ones, consisting of a single base for making the tutorial. I already know who the base will be for and am planning it out already. That will be the last step in the project as it will also include the painting of the bases in the army.

 

Monday, July 17

First game with the army was that night and they had alot of work to go before I would be anywhere near happy to put them on the table top. Unfortunatly I ran out of Brown Ink that morning, but still had money left over from buying the army. While I waited I sculpted the rest of the Tabbards that I hadn't done the night before. When my mom got home we ran out to Hobby Town USA, only two minutes from my house so it wasn't far, and I bought a new pot of Brown Ink. I hurried home and began working on the rest of the army. I made sure atleast one model was white before I left to do a tutorial with. While I waited for all the Terminators basecoats to dry, I worked on the army list for the night, I ran about 1484 points or so, because of the loss of the third dreadnought, I had to find a way to make up for it, thus the inclusion of a Deathwing Grand Master with lightning claws, sculpted by Marshall Barbarosa about a year ago. I did some highlighting on some of the terminators and ran out of time. I packed them up picked up the crew for Veterans Night at GW and headed up to Grapevine, the fourty-five minute car ride was a full of tension as we had one new player with us and we didn't know who was going to play who. In the end, I ended up playing against one of the guys with us. I didn't allow him to see my list or the army before the game, it wasn't until all but one Terminator squad came in on turn three that he realized what he was dealing with and asked for my list to see how many points it was. The worst part is, he set up for a frontal assault, all his units with Disruption Fields were on the opposite side of his Monolith, which never saw action as the Venerable Dreadnought held it in combat the rest of the game. He failed to kill a single unit, and the normal dreadnought suffered the loss of its Plasma Cannon to a disrupter field, but that was all.

 

Tuesday, July 18

I updated the thread to keep it from dying with some individual shots. Not the best pictures, but more detailed than most the previous ones. I hadn't done much more painting work, abit of highlights on some models, but that was it. The project dropped speed with the loss of a whole day of work and no updates. But the next update should change that as I made up for the loss of a day.

 

Wensday, July 19

I updated the thread again, as the last update was just the same as the one before for the most part. This time it wasn't individual pics, it was the first real pics of the army as it stood at the moment, all the tabbards and hoods had been started, some finishes, all the faces were done besides the grandmaster, and the chaplains face mask was done. Payday is the next day, and so after buying my brother a birthday present I should still have enough to buy the next part of the army, Transportation.

 

Thursday, July 20

That brings us to today. Ah today! The day when I reveal the secret on how I achieved my armys bone. I suppose yall are abit bored reading this so sounds like it is time to move on to the tutorial. So I'll log that as todays achievment, I painted a whole terminator, completely, just to write the tutorial for my Deathwing Terminators.

 

I know the tutorial isn't here where it should be, but I don't want to post it without pics, if you desperatly want it without pics, let me know and I will put it up now.

 

Well this is my Painting a Deathwing Terminator Tutorial, perhaps mods this project can get stickied or the tutorial saved somewhere?

If you have any questions or anything, anything I skipped over or you need clarification of, let me know, I will be happy to answer any of your questions. If this project has taught me anything yet, it is that you have to take your time be patient, even when your speed painting an army, you have to be patient. Even if people tell you 'you can't do it' try anyway. If it is something you want to do and think you can, go for it. My friends at GW said they didn't think I could do the army as fast as I am, but hell, where's the fun in it if you don't have a challenge? There is a doubles tournament coming up at the GW, I'm going to have this army painted and a Third Company Army painted for it, so me and a friend can enter. Or I'll just have 2000 points of Deathwing ready for it, and we'll each play 1000 points. I plan on playing a few games next monday with the same army, unless I can convince them to let us play a 2000 point game. Well I will update this thread with photos as soon as I get home. I couldn't wait to get this to all of you who have supported me, so I'll post the first part without pictures and the pictures are already in the thread for that part.

Cheers,

AJ.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Sorry for the triple post, but I have a update! haha, no not the tutorial. I am ashamed to say, I am not sure about the bone reciepe. I'll post pics of a squad with the armour finished for your comments, if you like it, then I will write a tutorial for this bone, if not, I will try up a new recipe on some spare models. Anyway, onto the pics.

 

 

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver030.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver029.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/Golden_Palace/Painting%20Guide/BestPaintingGuideEver028.jpg

 

The pics don't do the models justice I'll try and get better pics tomorrow during the day. I have 5 more terminators to do before I decide if I will continue to use this recipe.

Comments and Crit. welcome.

Cheers,

AJ.

[Jansuh]

Awesome! I like the bone, looks really grim and dark :cuss

 

One thing though: Please drill out those stormbolter/assault cannon barrells, it will look so much better.

[Sara]

It started off well, but I think you are falling short of the 'Best ever painting guide' target you set yourself. I don't like the bone, it's too brown I think.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Thanks for the comments. Don't worry, the barrels will be drilled. I don't have any money at the moment to replace my pin vice bits. Sara, I am going for a darkerbone than regular Deathwing, but I see your point. Maybe another layer of Bleached Bone mixed with Skull White. THe more I look at my own models, the lestt happy I am. I am going to try another recipe on a plain white termi. I'll post the pics of it later.

Cheers,

AJ.

[The Angelus Sanctus]

Lookin great MCA, well done on the work thus far :(

 

Just a MINOR nit pick, but in one of the pics, unless my eyes are deceiving me, i think you missed a mold line ;)

 

That aside, this lil project of yours is turning out great. Lookin forward to seeing more updates as they come in :)

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Thanks, I think I am going to mix the recipe I used for that squad with one I used on another terminator and see what I can do, as this squad is to grey and brown, and the other one takes me four hours to paint half a terminator, which is not what I am going for with this army, although I like the result, I'll post pics when I get home from the ApparellMart in Dallas, restocking Invintory at work so I get sent out there of all people on my day off.

Cheers,

AJ.

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[Shinobi_soldier]

The bone is looking metalic :P

[Master Chaplain Astador]

Yeah, I couldn't figure it out because it doesn't on the model, unless the camera picked up specks that I didn't, it shouldn't be there. anyway, what do yall think of the picture in my last post? lol

Cheers,

AJ.

[frontierpediatry]

You should always change your water after using a metallic paint, since the metal flecks get in the water and end up on your brush and in your next colours.

[Master Chaplain Astador]

I know, I was using multiple pots of water and multiple brushes. So I still haven't figured out how this happened, but I don't plan on leaving them like that, I plan on redoing them with my new color recipe. I am working on the tutorial for it, the last stage of the armour is all thats left for it. No comments on the link in the last post?

Cheers,

AJ.