tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50726532206198863062024-03-14T03:49:27.138+00:00Forged at a Painting DeskBlog for sharing my progress as I try to Build, Paint, and generally make my collection of games workshop stuff table worthy, as well as some battle reports and other hobby fun along the way.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-64887366519515242162018-08-06T13:20:00.000+01:002018-08-06T13:20:56.062+01:00A welcome change. Lord of change showcase.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the last time I shared anything like the full model he looked like the above, since then I've been sharing the progress on parts and promised the next post would be the big reveal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As predicted though it's taken me a while to get the next post up and I think I covered the reasons well enough in the last post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When the galaxy was young and the first races were making their mark on the galaxy the desire of sentient races to progress began stirrings in the warp, from the minds of those driven to explore science and unveil the truths hidden in the universe. Yet as with all chaos and the aspects of the dark gods this was twisted as races warred throughout the heavens, dark jealousies brewed in the hearts of many and the desires for success and recognition outweighed the search for truth.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Dak'tali delights in leading astray the most gifted and ambitious of scientists and engineers whispering of the possibilities if only the victim would look deeper or experiment further. Distracting it's victims with the promise of results gently encouraging them to cut corners, ignore protocol and take risks beyond safety and sanity. </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A whole library on titan holds journals, research logs and the recordings of Mechanicum Adepts who have overstepped the boundaries laid out and descended towards the path of the Dark mechanicum thanks to the whisperings of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Theoretician's Muse.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And with that is the finished lord of change.<br />Now I've been working an a fair bit these last few months and could probably put posts together without to much effort, once again giving a short flurry of posts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My problem is really the motivation, I'm not usually one to beg of responses or go down the like and share guff that you see on You tube. However it would be nice to know that people are reading and like my work because I'm seriously considering just letting the Blogg die and sticking with posting on the bolter and chainsword.<br />If I make that decision I'll throw together a last post or if not I'll be sharing some of the little things done after the lord of change before the latest big project for the B&C ETL contest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until then TTFN</span>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-90474367293151935902018-03-27T13:24:00.006+01:002018-04-17T16:00:06.819+01:00Change of Pace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up to this point all the work had been on large sections of the model but with them all finished it was time to start working on the small bits. For a start I knew I wanted to keep pushing myself and I've also never done the Light/Dark cross hatch often used on magic or power weapons before. See how they came out along with the other bits after the break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent some time considering colours, since I already had fire and lava in both the base and Tzeench runs on the wings, orange was a fairly solid choice. Then I came across the 'Eavy Metal Fateweaver from the box and instructions and </span>the black -Orange/yellow looked like a good plan on the sword as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After some trial and error I had narrowed down how to do the dark side. For the blend to black I played with ways to darken Orange by mixing it but decided it wasn't working as the tone and shade where doing odd things. However due the the brighter orange helping to keep the vivid colour browns worked perfectly without mixing. Bestial Brown and Scorched brown provided the mid tones from the black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that it was just a matter of carefully and slowly building up and refining the highlights to get the thin orange edge. With the first half done the same careful process was used to highlight the brighter side before adding the finishing touches with gold and the gems. next up was sorting the hand and hilt out before sticking them back together ready to tidy up and fully finish the Blade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having taken the best part of two days to paint (which for a bit that size was a bit of a personal record) I moved onto the head. I'd been quite intimidated by the head as it is a little confusing what bit of detail is what. But with the GW web page open with the model pictures up it actually proved fairly easy to get a rough basecoat down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With that in place there was very little new to consider, and beyond some blending of a few purple wash layers for the tongue and bits around the mouth, it was all straightforward repeats of previous colours. I did take the blue highlights up to Ice Blue to help the face stand out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the head done it was time to go back to some orange and work on the staff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had the Fateweaver images onscreen again, which helped me block out the colours and work out a rough idea of the transition points for the blending.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that it was time to get into the fine detail, starting with the flame in the center and very slowly adding edge highlights of the browns and orange to the black. Just like the sword blade but working to trim the highlights narrower and finer with each pass before moving slowly down the haft with the layers. Gently changing the base colour and highlighting up higher as I worked to</span>wards the base. I then switched to a yellow base and reverse highlight to get the hot fire effect at the very bottom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the haft was finished from the middle down it was a matter of doing the gold on the base before adding all the gems to finish the lower half.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that I had a plan the top half (while still slow and careful) went smother with a bit less need to keep redoing areas just making sure the colour transition balanced with the lower half. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hand followed the same process as the rest of the model and the only real question was what to do with the staff top. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had plans to do more flames but having looked at it's final position on the model I soon realised it would draw focus away from the face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also the gold was much quicker and to be honest I really like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the staff completed there was just two small belt ornaments to go with the dagger and the pouch. The dagger was straightforward as it meant replicating the same techniques already used several times. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last piece to fall into place was the little pouch of spell components. Most of it used repeats of colours from elsewhere on the model with bone, gold and some pink for tentacle and in the holes. For the bag I didn't want white so just started with scorched brown and worked my way up to screaming skull, after that careful use of red wash and agrax earthshade helped to give a darkened damp zone to the lower portion.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And with the Bag finished the model was complete and ready for a final photo shoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now obliviously I've let posting slip a bit and I've had this post in progress for several weeks now. Back at the end of February I started a new job and I've also had assignments due which has impacted me getting sat down and typing done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How things go forward will depend on a few things</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">firstly sorting the final pictures to share is tricky at work as I don't have my google Drive set up on the work laptop </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">secondly I only get a half hour lunch to get things written and that can be burnt up just getting photos uploaded.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">finally I have 2 more assignments and an exam all before the end of May so I'll be having to work on that little lot.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will try to sort photos out and since I've spent several posts talking about the lord of change I shouldn't need much text to go with it. Then it's gone a bit quite on the modelling front right now so it could be a bit of a gap again before the next post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So until next time whenever that is TTFN.</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-39188478773298042752018-02-15T13:00:00.000+00:002018-02-15T13:00:43.935+00:00A body of change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Around working on the base the body was also completed so today I've got a quick one to share how it was finished off.<br />
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The blue skin was treated in the same way as the main blue on the wings starting with regal Blue then a drybrush a wash and finally highlights. due to wanting to avoid finger marks and rubbing the finished blue the other areas where completed after the initial drybrush and wash.<br />
The Pink was finished first with a purple recess wash over pink horror, then highlighted up to Fulgrim pink. Then the rest of the colours where blocked out.<br />
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It was during the gold work where I changed it up a little having planned to use silver as the final highlight to get a really bright gold. Starting with Retributor Armour washed with Agrax Earthshade the first highlight is Auric Armour Gold and initially I planned to finish with Stormhost silver. But it just didn't really work for me, and went on a little heavy in places, so to test I hit it with some yellow glaze which worked well to bring back the colour to a rich antique gold.<br />
With the gold finished the Brown bone areas where also worked on so I could use Agrax Earthshade on it at the same time as the gold. <br />
Next up was the gemstones and belt before finishing the blue skin and gluing the wings on.<br />
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With that all done it was onto the small parts I got a bit carried away and finished the loincloth without and pictures but don't worry I have plenty to share for the weapons and other bits next time round.<br />
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Until then TTFNDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-50839368998868280472018-02-08T13:00:00.000+00:002018-02-08T13:00:07.928+00:00I Choose You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having revisited the black legion last week I figure that sharing the whole force as it stands isn't a bad idea, and my that's a fair amount of grey plastic. But in the middle towards the back you can just make out the unit of six chosen. So today after the break I'll share how they where built and take a closer look.<br />
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Based on the chosen from Dark Vengeance, bits from possessed and a few MkIII bits I'm happy with how this little unit has turned out.<br />
Now I have KrautScientist to thank for his brilliant work with the chosen kit over the years, most recently his work <a href="https://eternalhunt.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/the-state-of-the-hunt-week-252017-the-grandfathers-embrace/">using leftovers to build plague marines</a> helps show just what can be done with these seemingly mono pose kits.<br />
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First up is the champion with power sword and combi plasma,<br />
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Made from MkIII legs and a chosen body I'm tempted to lean him forward a little when it comes to final basing as his back leaning pose is a little off.<br />
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The first of 2 combi plasma gunners his gun was spliced together from Kranon's plasma pistol and a second pistol for the longer plasma coils onto a chaos bolter. This time using Chosen legs the possessed kit provided a Torso, head and at least on pauldron.<br />
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2nd Combi Plasma gunner spliced together from another pair of the dark vengence legs and this time MkIII Torso and head. a simple plasma pistol mounted on to of a bolter this time but the join was covered by a toothed skull detail shaved off something.<br />
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I didn't want to go all combi weapons as they aren't exactly common. Even if these guys are a lords chosen there is limits to his armoury.<br />
Full legs and body from dark vengeance I feel has worked well with CSM arms and a head from the possessed kit. The Plasma gun is as yet unmolested by chaos being from a loyalist kit so it may get painted in dark angle colours as recently liberated.<br />
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Much like his plasma wielding brother this one was another arm and head swap.<br />
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Lastly the bolter marine and squad bullet magnet is basically stock beyond a possible backpack swap.<br />
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The Possessed kit also provided some alternative backpacks and pauldrons for the whole squad and the chosen backpacks where swapped about. All in all they have done quite nicely on the battle field and I'm in two minds about expanding the unit to a full ten, in many ways I'm more tempted to put together a melee unit so that when I swap out Abaddon and his terminators I can have some heavy hitters maybe in a land raider.<br />
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As for the Lord of change He's very nearly finished so next week should see some more pictures of him as I progressed and maybe full pics the week after as I have a lot of individual details to share before the final reveal. So until next time TTFNDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-83529561636423001632018-02-06T13:00:00.000+00:002018-02-06T13:00:24.079+00:00I Lava this base.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bad puns aside I was a week or so back cracking on at quite the rapid rate with the Lord of Change's base. Built and ready for paint, after the break I'll show how the fiery Lava pits and cracked earth came to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy with the results I moved onto the other rocks bringing the lava round them through Troll slayer Orange, Fire dragon Bright and finally some Wild Rider Red. At the same time I took slight breaks from the Lava to work on the cracked earth as a tedious task I split the passes into chunks to start with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the 'Hot' colours finished Black was used to basecoat the lumps of 'solid' rock and worked into the smoke along with finishing the Brimstone horrors. Greys were then used to Highlight the rock lumps and tops of the smoke. The skulls where painted up and some very basic dry brush OSL was finally used on areas of earth and rocky lumps above the fire to finish off the base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm really happy with how this came out in the end and am almost certainly going to use a number of the lessons learned here on this bad boy </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at the earliest </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it will be a few weeks</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> before that comes to fruition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next time though I'll look at how the body was painted, wings attached and the test shots of the model standing on the base.<br />I also have the chosen Picture to show off if I get chance to write it up before Thursday.<br /><br />So until whatever comes next TTFN.</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-52023624388720731552018-02-01T13:00:00.000+00:002018-02-01T13:00:27.008+00:00Leaders of the Pack <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last time I covered anything about my chaos army I shared my starting point for my chaos sorcerer stand in, I'm not 100% happy with him and along with the promised pictures of my chaos lord I'll go into some more detail </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">after the break</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Based on a metal terminator space marine captain I got for a Christmas or birthday present some years back he served me well as a Tzeench sorcerer back in 3rd ed. In need of an update I hoped to use him as a solid base for a new era of 40k.<br />Alas it wasn't to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now a quick side by side with the old metal captain shows that he clearly isn't big enough and would be over shadowed by the other models which isn't the worst thing and it could be explained by fluff but the newer arms would look silly on him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I cleaned up the plastic model and took the cloak off him as well and now it look like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I write this up and look at the two pictures side by side I'm still not happy. I wonder if the cloak works better filling in and giving him more presence. For now though it works as a gaming piece but I think I'll be looking round for more insperation and digging both through my bitz box and possibly raiding the thousand sons Terminator set I have and not sure if I'll ever use.<br /><br />Along with a sorcerer I need a Chaos lord with Black mace and combi Plasma to foot slog with my core of marines. Since I had 2 Kranons it seamed like a good place to start. The Combi Plasma is from the Space Marine Commander kit and an arm from a WFB Chaos Knight finished the weapon options. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The head wasn't to difficult to dig out and obviously had to be replaced to differentiate from Kranon. While the Chaos space marine champion helmet with it's big horns was originally intended as temporary, I actually quite liked it and feel it works so well with the model so it's there to stay.<br /><br />With the two characters completed I had made solid progress towards my goal of a fully coordinated army, instead of a mishmash of different units slung together from years of random model building.<br /><br />This big build also included;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sorting out properly 2 full tactical squads including increasing <span style="text-align: center;">Bel Zaidu's heart rippers to a full ten and swapping the Zaidu's bolter for a combi plasma.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choosing a unit of 5 havocs from some older builds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two units of terminators previously show.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abaddon who has a little bit more work to be done.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Finaly a unit of 6 chosen tooled up with plasma fun.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the Dark Vengeance Cultists and the hellbrute this all rounded out to a 2k list and a lot of grey plastic. At least I can get games in using one case and know what I can play without having to dig through a ton of excess models.<br /><br />I recently took a bunch of photos of the primed chosen so will be sharing them next time I visit the Black legion. This may even end up being next Thursday at this rate and I'm planning the next instalment for the Lord of change to be Tuesday, not sure I've managed so many posts in (6 in 4 weeks) for a long time so I hope people are enjoying them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So until next time, once again TTFN.<br /> </span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-8406343942138970662018-01-30T13:00:00.000+00:002018-01-30T13:00:03.457+00:00All about the base<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last time round I shared the completed wings and spoke about building a base for the whole model. I had already started on the body and at the point I decided to move onto the base significant progress had been made. However today's post is dedicated to the base build and then the body and base painting will be handled in the following post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a basic plan worked out I needed to try out some of the ideas. I'm not a fan of using cork to increase the base thickness and wanted to try out digging into the base. So I cut out a shape to match the rock platform and used chopped up bits of sprue to fix it in place. At the same time using greenstuff and bits of broken up plaster to bulk out the underside of the rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of the work at this point was on the first rock as I wanted to get a proof of concept before doing anything further. Building up greenstuff around the edge of the crater and on the underside of the rock section before gluing it into place. One trick I found* is to role balls of greenstuff and when they are set cut them into two uneven bits to glue down as bubbles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By making an uneven cut and not perfect halves you can make the 'bubbles' appear from just beginning to form to Just about to burst.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further research lead me to <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/165513312">this Getty image</a> and the splash effect, so I had a go at replicating it as part of the process for hiding the attachment point between the base and the rock. Above the hot lava splash came rough outlines for smoke, these would later be covered in flock to get a good texture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Typical that now I want to share this cool trick and the source that I can't find it again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even in all the different colours pre undercoat I could feel that it was going to work and it wasn't long before the second two where well underway and a few skulls added for interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this point a deep 2-3mm layer of crackle paint (Agrellan Earth) filled out a chunk on the back of the base. Now the flock used is intended for use as foliage such as <a href="http://www.modelscenerysupplies.co.uk/scatter-flock-ground-cover-trees-and-bushes/fine-turf-and-foliage-cover-burnt-green-flock">the stuff here</a> and feels like finely shredded upholstery foam and is a bit of a faff to get in place. <br />Before starting I soaked it in watered down (about 50/50) PVA and then brushed undiluted PVA onto the greenstuff. Using tweezers, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sculpting tools and a brush </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the damp flock was carefully applied to the sticky glue and encouraged into the right place and shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the base constructed I added the second brimstone horror, levelled the lava pools with a good dose of 'ard coat and then once fully dry gave it a blast of grey primer before painting begun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next time I visit the Lord of Change I'll show off how I painted the base. I also have a post nearly ready to go with the chaos sorcerer and chaos lord for my black legion so I may sneak that in on Thursday.<br /><br />but until next time TTFN </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So last week I introduced my latest project with a lord of change having decided to use it to get my mojo back and left you with a picture of the basic colour blocking out. From this I've gone on to paint up both wings and today after the break I'll share that progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent some time re-highlight the blue feather with the 50/50 mix (I have a pot of it as a vital part of my nids) before moving onto my pot of enchanted blue/Ice blue which had some slight improvements made to the tone as I always found the Ice blue final highlight quite stark and the 3 stages of the two mixes with enchanted blue in the middle too similar and not enough difference to warrant all three. After my initial tests with the blues the pair of wings turned out like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From this point I moved onto doing a single wing at a time and having visited GW to sort my selection of purples out I started with Xereus Purple then genestealer Purple with a final of Dechala Lilac towards the edge. One of the things I try to do is something new for each project and with this one appropriately enough it was feathering. Having worked on edge highlights I figured it was time to also get feathering down or at least passable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I'd finished on the purple I went back to the blue for a final finish of the previous stages and then a band of Ice blue final highlights on the largest of the blue feathers to help distinguish them from the smaller ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After this, the first wing was completed fairly quickly and I moved onto the second. It had already had a few stages so didn't take long to get moving along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AT this point (mid December) things stumbled a bit due to and assignment and Christmas coming up but I managed to keep chipping away slowly here and there. Then o</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ver the new year I finished the wings moments before the countdown to new year. with my parents over we had been chilling and watching TV so not the most exiting celebration but I was happy to call the wings finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WIth the wings finished I moved onto the body, however I'd had some issues with paint rubbing off the tips on the wings and similarly with the body, this lead to me contemplating the base and so about two weeks back I made my first cuts to convert the base how I wanted it. SO next time I'll go through the base build as it ended up quite details (and also no that useful for holding the model as you'll see).<br /><br />Until then please let me know what you think and TTFN</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-3434133837581339142018-01-16T13:00:00.000+00:002018-01-16T13:00:48.442+00:00All Change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my last post I lost my job after the probation period didn't work out. While I wasn't happy and it wasn't the best role for me losing it was a bit of a blow which scuppered getting posts up and generally doing hobby. I also feel it's also important to talk more about mental health in the open which will explain the sudden change of direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a long time I've had a tendency towards depression and after losing my job it was really kicking me in the teeth. Add this to my natural hobby butterfly (just check through the number of unfinished projects I've start on the blog) and the effort of painting an army wasn't been something I was able to face. <br />I did however have all of the black legion models assembled at least and can field a 2k 8th edition list. This has seen the gaming table a few times so I don't feel to bad about taking a pause from that while I sort myself out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to get some Mojo back I grabbed a model that I felt like working on and got to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The assembled model didn't take long to put together and I even changed I few details stock model using parts from Kairos Fateweaver's options. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a shame the head isn't more poseable as It would have been nice to follow the line of the weapons and look towards the sword. <br />However I didn't want this to get bogged down in conversion work and greenstuff so I've stuck with the slight compromise. Still the day I built it I moved on outside as the weather was reasonable and got both this guy sprayed, my unit of chosen and the lord with mace all nicely undercoated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After taking him indoors I dismantled the sub-assemblies which had been lightly stuck together for spraying and from there it didn't take me long to block out the main colours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This supplied me with plenty of tiny skulls and other details largely from the various chaos fantasy kits.<br />First up was to get the right sized skulls for Abaddon, with his belt, chest centre and leg pistons needing various sizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I've had a couple of days off sick from work and on Wednesday afternoon I had come out from my hibernation for a few hours and put some more greenstuff on along with wire pinched from the spare coil of string at the top of my guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The problem is now that the belt makes him look chubby and almost like a Nurgle belly plate. I think I may have to make some further modifications to him around the waist and hips for some better proportions and make him stand out a touch more alongside the other models. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Guys have 2 Tartaros pattern, 2 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">chaos</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Indomitus pattern and 1 C</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ataphractii with plenty of chaos additions to the Horus Heresy era armoury and custom combi plasma guns </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I have a significant threat to heavy infantry I also need to have an answer to armour or big wound critters so a second unit of terminators fleshes out the strike</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Armed with 4 Combi Meltas and a heavy flamer these guys can drop in nice and close ready to ruin a big monster or Tank's day. Made up of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 C</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ataphractii</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pattern, 2 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">chaos</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Indomitus pattern and 1 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tartaros this time I also added some Cataphractii arms to the heavy flamer in </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Indomitus pattern armour to give the feel of being former </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Justaerin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Melta armed terminators may not be in a position to really benefit from Abaddon depending on enemy positioning so they have their own </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Terminator</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sorcerer</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> to come down with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The S</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">orcerer currently uses up the spares from the Lord kit that built Abaddon's new body and the remaining Chaos Terminator. Along with a Chaos lord in power armour he rounds out my characters for the 2k list I'm working on. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sorcerer has been through a couple of iterations and I'm still not 100% happy with him, so I'll give the pair of them a post of their along with plenty of pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have individual picture of the Terminators after they each had gun barrels drilled and final tidy ups. All giving me plenty more to share and until next time</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> TTFN</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-40591908254116642682017-09-08T13:00:00.000+01:002017-09-18T17:06:02.863+01:00Bath Time for Baby Abaddon. <div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So like the butterfly I am I've flitted away a little from the Primaris. This is largely because the hotter weather has been playing up with my painting when I had chance the other week. Though typically it's now cooled off with more rain (this has been a wet year in the UK) just as I start to sink my teeth into some building. See who and what after the break. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After wiping a Predator off the table the Terminators got taken out fairly quickly, but Abaddon went on to slaughter over a dozen Space Wolves including at least 2 characters and a Dreadnought making him deserving of a new model (especially since his arms keep falling off).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So with the new codex in hand I reassessed my collection and decided that two units (one combi melta, one combi Plasma) and a sorcerer in TDA is the way to go. These will form an elite core to accompany the big man himself who will be getting the deserved upgrade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the Nightlord terminators above came from Ebay already painted I've had these fellas </span>from my earlier days in the hobby in world eater colours, painted long before I combined everything into the Black Legion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the intention to get myself a solid terminator core I put an order in for the Chaos Lord and terminator box set along with a couple of other bit for later down the line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It arrive this weekend and work began in earnest. </span>First up was a mass dismembering that made my work space look like a horrific slaughter had happened, mound of arms, heads and bodies littered the cutting mat ready fro stripping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even from this basic start point the size difference can be seen with the new body at least half a cm taller than the original. Mind the level of detail on the old metal is definitely better and the thighs on the plastic are actually really bad. With odd proportions and that weird left hip position and ribbed under armour, along with the lack of pistons or any detail beyond odd shaped flat bits the hips are going to need some serious work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also went with a standard terminator chest plate since the simpler crest wouldn't interfere with putting the original trophy racks in place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I now have the arms selected and matched up to the metal weapons with the rest ready for the main assembly while all of the metal from the Terminators and Abaddon went for their Detol bath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have since come out and with the aid of some acetone nail varnish remover I now have </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the full metal </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abaddon and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all of the Terminator Bodies </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stripped clean</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have a jar of arms, trophy racks and heads sitting in acetone waiting for the final clean up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll probably do that tonight so I can call it finished before moving onto the building phase next week which I have off work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Abaddon I've tried to get some press moulds of his skulls and details to transfer over to the new model, at the least I want to match his chest details to the old model along with the belt in addition to sorting those rubbish legs out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully I can get the clean up finished, the problem is that once you start on one bit it's easy to get carried away with 'just one more' until time has run out or as has been the case pack up time is long gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I've been rubbish in the past managing to fit in a post when off work so next week will likely be a bit quite, however I have big hopes for getting plenty done so at least I should have lots to share next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until then though TTFN.</span><br />
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-69087491197364172232017-08-25T14:04:00.000+01:002017-08-30T12:42:40.187+01:00Painting time, Challenge 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So it's not the 21 day challenge that has long bean and gone, but I've labelled this up as a series so I'll stick with that and go for a starter box army challenge. We're still getting downstairs gone 8 even 9 most nights after kid bedtime so I've not progressed much in the week I do however have a pair of finished Primaris to show off though after the break along with some waffle.<br />
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Having picked up Temple Guard blue a while ago for the AOS Stormcasts from the core box set. I never got round to doing anything with the and so decided to go with a turquoise/Teal scheme on these guys instead. To go along side this I had a play with colour wheels and suggested a brown shaded Orange would make an excellent contrast colour.<br />
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I wasn't 100% sure how this would work since slight tweaks to the shade in the colour wheel could throw the suggestions off. I also wanted to try out different undercoats to see how they went. Starting with some Storm paladin Aspirants (ie. bretonian- errant knights) I sprayed one white, one grey and the final one used a zenithal spray of Black-Grey-White.<br />
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Now the white didn't go on that great and coverage wasnt brilliant leading to me overdoing it a bit on the knight, the grey when on a bit thick too whereas the coverage of multiple stages was excellent.<br />
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After this the first colours went on and look something like this.<br />
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As you can see the grey is much duller than the other two, but the white one actually took more coats to stop it being streaky so I've settled on a grey base with a strong white zenithal to bring out the brightness of colour and as the black wasn't adding anything I skipped that stages.<br />
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When it came to painting the first Marine I wanted to try some new techniques, instead of highlighting up from the darkest colours I want to start bright and shade down (just to see how it goes more than anything else) before finishing off with edge highlights.<br />
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So after a few session this is what I ended up with .<br />
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Now after the tests models I was happy with the bright orange and had played around with some bone colours. It had been a while since I last tried marble effects so after a couple of Duncan videos from warhammer TV I decided it would make an interesting pauldron effect. Starting with a base of Screaming Skull I then washed with Snakebite leather and carefully built up the colour along the lines while still damp.<br />
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However I wasn't quite happy with the result since the edge highlights didn't quite give enough contrast so on the second model I decided to start with the mid tone of Sotek Green shaded with Dark Reaper then end Highlighted with Temple Guard Blue followed by Baharroth Blue.<br />
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Which gave a much more striking effect and after a couple more sessions meant I now have two finished models (if you ignore the one missed Highlight on the bolter decoration.)<br />
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With the second marin finished I revisited the first as well, tidying up and darkening down with a bit more Sotek green and an extra highlight on the Bolt Rifle with a base of Abaddon Black then a 50/50 mix Black and Mechanicus Standard Grey before Mechanicus Standard Grey and finished with elf grey.<br />
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So far I'm actually very happy with the results the three stages on the orange<br />
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Jokaero Orange<br />
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has provided a bright and great contrast to the blue/green along with the Black weapon, meanwhile there is a good texture mix thanks to edge highlights of the armour and gun, border less sharp highlights of the pouches and ribbing with the marble finishing of the look.<br />
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Now I still have to spray them with varnish and then select transfers for the chapter badges and markings.<br />
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Painting the rest is going slowly, along with not having the time to get the paint sets out most evenings, the base Sotek Green is taking a while. I'm still going to try and get the rest of this unit painted up in the coming week then I'm planning on setting my airbrush up for the remaining base colour as doing the rest of the models without sounds like hell.<br />
I'm also feeling the build bug building up again after playing some 8th ed. I'll see where the mood takes me as I roll into next week.<br />
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So until next time TTFNDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-89356730937071869312017-08-15T12:57:00.000+01:002017-08-15T12:57:03.283+01:00Progress and Build part 2, Challenge 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The other week I missed my post due to a visitor at work from our parent company, on the up side I got to skip lunch and leave at 2 instead of the normal 3 finish on a Friday, picking up white dwarf on the way. Then last week I didn't quite manage to get everything written Friday lunchtime so today I've grabbed a few moments to finish the post and after the break I'm going to look at the remaining assembled models.<br />
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When building the army the first unit I worked on was actually the Inceptors. Since their cowls cover up the top of the helmets I replaced them with Mk3 and then put the crests on top the the cowls.<br />
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The crests all used winged beasts to fit with the jumpacks and some slight pose tweaks for the arms on the two matching squad members made sure they weren't just clones.<br />
Lastly the sergeant was given some streamers from the cowl to allow for some colour and to help him stand out. I actually built the squad before the plan for swords on unit leaders but I don't think with twin guns he needs it.<br />
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Next up with the four squads covered I can get onto the characters for the army, starting with the ancient.<br />
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Since the picture was taken there has been some greenstuff clean up but the basic form is here with the Bretonnian banner, helmet crest and pauldron shield.<br />
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For the two Lieutenants the first problem was how to handle the removed helmet of the rifle armed one.<br />
This was handily solved by using a head with significant bionics, the intention is that he lost his orrigional helmet when he took the wound. Along with his head I also cut away his left pauldron and replaced it with one from the dark angle sprue (I think) to represent one from his original wargear. Now I'm currently waiting for the official release of something that confirms that space marines can be upgraded to Primaris so fluff may well change if that doesn't come we'll have to wait and see.<br />
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For the second lieutenant I going to have to find a better less Roman sword but he has been a bit of and experiment splicing press moulded crests to create unique options. <br />
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I still need to touch up the crest and then work on the captain but for now it's a good start.<br />
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Next time I'll be looking at the first painted models and hopefully if this week goes well (kids with sensible bed times) I might maybe even finish the first squad as I'm two models down already.<br />
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So Getting a post a day written was technically down the list of priorities and I've obviously not managed it. But something has obviously happened as can be seen above with only a single empty base. I'm going to split it into a couple of posts so as not to be to long and after the break I'll go through the 3 core units.<br />
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I'll start with the simplest unit, which was actually my third full unit to build and the second of the Intercessor units. However it also has the simplest conversion work with the chapter shields added to the right shoulder pad read for the chapter symbol.<br />
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Along with the sergeant getting a sword at his belt.<br />
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The idea behind this unit is that they are made up of Primaris marines that where created by Crawl and served in the Indomitus crusade. Serving as one of the unnumbered sons from a mixture of genetic lines the whole squad was assigned to the Storm Paladins. When genetic testing failed to identify a single primarch as the Paladin's sire the squads and individuals that formed strong bonds with the chapter volunteered to join them and return to their home world.<br />
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Next up is the first unit of Intercessors built and unlike the second they have a number of orrigional Storm Paladins who where elevated to Primaris marines.<br />
The plan is to cover more background later but for the Paladins elevated parts of their old wargear have been incorporated into the new MkX armour including the individual crests and heraldry.<br />
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Now the models in the above picture had a couple of tweaks after with the stag horned marine getting a head swap. <br />Along with the shield on the right pauldron for the chapter symbol three of the squad have had their helmets replaced with Mk3 from the "burning of Prospero" and crests from the Bretonian Knight sprues.<br />Like the first squad I added a sword to the sergeant as a badge of office, partially because I was always a fan of the Storm Wardens and their Claymores and because of their association with heraldic Knights. Due to availability of parts adding one to every model was to much to achieve so I'm going with anyone of rank getting a blade.<br />
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Last up is the Hellblasters, at the front the sergeant received the antlered helm from the previous intercessor who now sports a unicorn, the small shield between the antlers was upgraded to discourage a chaos vibe from the helmet look and a second marine gained a lion crest made from a greenstuff press mould.<br />
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All in all I'm happy with how they have come out and while not everyone is sold on the crests they actually look much how I envisioned them.<br />
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Progress wise I managed to build nearly all of the models and have even painted a couple, however on returning from Falmouth I've been crazy busy. Trying to get my loft fully sorted out so I can get all my hobby stuff back from the storage locker and back where it belongs. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and things have begun to move but with that I've managed about an hour in the last two weeks.<br /><br />As for posting though, changes in my job means I'm hoping to get at least one post a week going as I spend lunch at my desk surfing the net and typing away.<br /><br />So until next time TTFN. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now there are two things to note, yes that is my knight standing on the miniature box from Dark imperium, however the plague marines have been left at home for a number of reasons, including;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) Me being a Black legion player and needing to get my stuff in order and see what I can use on the table. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b) Wanting to get some additional stuff (blightkings for instance) to make a suitable size balance between the old models I have and the new.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c) The daemon Knight is for the blood god so I should really work on them as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've set myself a challenge while away for approximately 3 weeks in Falmouth and as</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've wanted space marines for some time (since playing Chaos Gate way back when) and have numerous kits ready and un-assembled and I keep buying box sets and they get packed aways to barely see the light of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Between now and heading home on friday for the weekend to build and convert up the contents of Dark imperium's Primaris marines as Storm Paladins a home brew chapter that will combine old and new and play with the friction between these new boys and the old marines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) Spray undercoat the lot at the weekend</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) On returning next monday start to paint up the primarius marines with a mind to have them finished before heading home on friday the 14th of July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) do some more sculpting work on the knight and do the primarius while the GS hardens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6) write a summery Storm Paladin blog post each day to share the fruits of last nights labours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I've already made a start tonight as I arrived monday and am getting a selection of pictures ready, but as a little teaser these sprues feature in the conversions I'm making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So 21 models in 21 days wish me luck and until tomorrow TTFN.</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-19538907390168894232017-06-23T13:37:00.003+01:002017-06-23T13:38:09.206+01:00The Foot bones connected to the ankle bone. Daemon Knight 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well so February was the last time I really covered anything on the knight beyond the sneak peek above and to be honest he's not been out of his transport box, mostly I've been painting bolt actions with a few nurgle minis thrown in. Beyond a somewhat out of date look at the back and spine.<br />
So today I though I'd try to bring everyone up to speed before delving into a long winded tutorial.<br />
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Now when I first built the knight pose some time ago (all the way back in October 2015) the intention was to have it running with arm back ready to punch something into oblivion.<br />
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However things have clearly evolved since then and thanks in part to stability and the sheer quantity of greenstuff and conversion work that has evolved over the last 20 months and a fair amount of feedback over at <a href="http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/forum/62-works-in-progress/">Bolter and Chainsword</a> I've clearly had a rethink. Don't get me wrong I love the running pose and will definitely revisit it on a future knight (maybe around 2030).<br />
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So having scoured Ebay for a cheep and rough wraithknight I made the decision to do a full re-pose.<br />
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Now the Dino bones are kicking round my bitz box and have been since I last used them along with the tail of the Stonehorn so some tinkering later gave me this.<br />
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Now I'm very happy with this as I think it really finished up the sweep of the spine nicely, Various details where then added around the whole waist section with stages involving the building of a Sacrum round the back<br />
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and detailing the pelvis round with the addition of boney ridges and the start of some chaos markings.<br />
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which to me definitely has the beginnings of more interesting and suitable decorations.</div>
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Now there is still a lot of work to be done but next week I'm off again on work trips (Falmouth this time) and hope to get some evenings to work on this along with some other bits, at the least I'll make sure the box is in a prominent place to really nag me into some progress. I'm really exited about 8th ed and can't wait to arrange some games but for that I really should get a solid base for a force worked out and my first knight of the black ruin should do the trick nicely.</div>
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So I've already talked about getting a couple of games nights in so today I'm going to share some game pictures with a bit of a commentary. More of a story telling than a full on battle report and hopefully an insite to how the game plays as well.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />So a few months back we ventured across to Wayland games, Nick had lent us his terrain as he couldn't make it and so we eagerly set up for our first game.<br />
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Roling for scenario we got no mans land which is basically kill points, and obviously driving the enemy away from a small village was the objective.<br />
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Winning to select sides the british then set up on the edge of town taking advantage of the sandbags and cover.<br />
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With the brits already at the edge of the village the germans opted for a 2 pronged attack, predicting the crusader's intent to dominate the middle of the field with it's howitzer the Panzerjäger sets up with a unit of supporting infantry behind the sand dune on their left flank looking across the village centre.<br />
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Across on their right flank the infantry and weapon teams take up position among the trees and dunes with outflanking plans in mind.<br />
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So the stage was set for our first skirmish and at this point we both discovered a grave tactical errors as the preliminary bombardments began to fall among our whole force.<br />
As the smoke cleared there where few casualties but with pin tokens aplenty across the two forces it could well cause significant issues for the commanders wanting their men up and moving.<br />
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The early game saw the Crusader take a cautious approach to dealing with the Panzerjäger and bravly hid behind a building in a game of peekaboo.<br />
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To the amusement of both players both opposing infantry units with plans on the british right flank failed order tests as they recovered from the preliminary bombardment. While german machinegun teams and their central unit made a cautious attempt to take the sandbags at the edge of town, slow progres by the squad left the machine gunners over stretched as they tried to set up and a prime target for the brits and their tank. Not only that but having recovered from the preliminary bombardment a punishing artillery strike called in meant they failed to take the centre ground.<br />
Meanwhile the Germans began their march down the field in an attempt to outflank the british left with the mortar team taking up position along the village outskirts.<br />
After a couple of rounds casualties had been taken but the germans had moved up while the british recognised a defensive position when they had it.<br />
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At this point the germans had mostly lost the anvil of their attack and their left pincer had come into contact with the enemy while the right lagged behind and needed to get a hurry on.<br />
Having called in his air strike the forward observer and accompanying tommies proceeded to show the somewhat shaken squad how things are supposed to be done consistently scoring more hits and wounds than the much larger unit, a unit that for the first two turns had failed to move forward.<br />
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Shots where fired and the german push slowed on their left thanks to the observer and his men while their commander hurried the german right hand pincer onwards. <br />
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The Crusader poked its nose out for some better shots and to finish off the central German infantry which had managed a few wounds on the plucky brits holding the centre while the officer moved to support both squads. Taking advantage of the crusader's position and having finished the boys antitank team the Panzerjäger moved further up hoping to cripple the british tank but alas failed.<br />
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The German left flank crumbled as wounds and pins took their toll but the right flank had finally arrived.<br />
Taking to the perceived safety of the buildings the german officer bravely maned the window.<br />
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Unfortunately what seamed like a safe house was soon revealed to be a brutal death trap as the Crusader promptly backed away from the Panzerjäger's line of sight and fired it's howitzer, incinerating to two occupants with a single HE round.<br />
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Still not all was lost surely as the last DAK infantry unit arrived into position.<br />
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And the british mortar gunner promptly found himself out in the open and glad of the brown trousers for the few remaining moments he had left.<br />
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Sadly it was too little too late and the remaining Brits took revenge on the DAK unit driving off the german forces.<br />
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The cost of their failed attack high as the dead pile showed with a final score around 6-2 to the british.<br />
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Overall it was a cracking game and I've even got a bunch of pictures for the second game we played, bolt action has many advantages over 40k for balance since the benchline troops for everyone is the same. It felt largely like the win came from tactical choices, deployment and target priority instead of simply having the more powerful army. A couple of errors on lesters part helped as well the positioning of the Panzerjäger under the assumption I intended to move up further was unfortunate as was the more scattered arrive of his units to the fight but over all we both enjoyed ourselves and definitely learned to appreciate the effect a mass of pins from a preliminary bombardment can have on the game.<br />
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I've now got 4 games under my belt and may even get some more in this evening, I'll be sharing the pictures of the second game at some point but will probably look at the flames on the Knight next time and some more showcases of finished models. Until then TTFNDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-35489246719302203582017-04-27T13:00:00.000+01:002017-04-27T13:00:05.578+01:00Boils and pustules (Plague marines 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I wanted to share something I've been playing with in the last week or so as a sort of run up to finishing my unit of nurglings and showing them off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last time we saw this chap he looked like this and was basically declared finished after the break I'm going to take a look at some minor modifications to him.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been unhappy with the paint scheme for my plague marines for some time as I;ve felt they lack the contrast to make them stand out. When I came across an image of pustules on the relic new forums I had finally found my answer. Unfortunately I can't find the images anymore and I think an overhaul of the relic forums for Dawn of War III has lost the post. Still inspiration had struck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the first thing I needed was a water filter cartridge and after some looking and procrastinating I dropped into my local Tesco and grabbed a single <a href="https://www.tesco.com/direct/3-pack-water-filter-cartridges/209-2958.prd?skuId=209-2958">pack of these</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now in store they are about £2.50 each so not knowing if they would have the same contents as an official BRITA one I took a punt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Careful cutting later (as I'll be using the case for some terrain at some point) and I had a little tub like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the black bits are charcoal flecks and beyond some use as a basing material they need to be separated from the white balls that we're after.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately we can take advantage of the balls as the roll nicely and the flakes don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By using a long paper funnel gentle nudges with a good size brush allows for the balls to roll down while the flakes stop higher up and can be brushed out of the way. the flakes are very light so can be swept down hence the longer the gap between ile of stuff and the end the better. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now this is all very interesting but what do you get out of it at the end. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When applied to a model it looks a little something like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see there are lots of different sizes and alone they look quite good, however I chose to try and get more from the crackle effect paint and splodged some of that around the groups of pustules. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then trying to get the craks to stand out more against the black I painted over the crackle effect (agrellan earth) with a watered down Ceramite White before washing with the old GW red ink.<br />Then painting the armour again and some technical paints later and this is his final incarnation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some layers of the nurgle's rot had a bright green added and the pustules where painted up in orange which should act as an army wide spot colour like on these guys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've since applied the effect to the other 6 plague marines and should have some news on them in an up coming post. But for now it's nice to get a second post in two weeks so fingers crossed I'll get the assignment due friday all sorted and able to have an evening or two doing hobby stuff next week.<br />Wish me luck and till next time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TTFN</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-66215183346567966652017-04-20T13:00:00.000+01:002017-04-20T13:00:12.584+01:00Into the Jeraboa Nest. Desert Rats 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I've already spoken about the basic starting point for the whole army in "<a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/getting-started-desert-rats-1.html">getting started desert rats 1</a>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To start with a layer of the very old GW fleshwash applied to all the skin before being cleaned up and highlighted with bronzed flesh. After that it's about breaking up the three main elements of the uniform; shorts, shirt and straps/pouches/canteens. To do this I use the following selection of glazes and washes used in different orders on different models to add a tint to the basecoat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For instance the use of the green glaze on the shorts and socks of the mortar team, yet variation between the two is added buy using an agrax wash on the loaders shirt and the yellow glaze on the straps of the other man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise the difference between the yellow and green really stands out on the officer with yellow shorts, green socks and an Agrax wash on the shirt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following on from this it's a matter of tidying up and final details such as boots painted black or brown with two layers of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reikland</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fleshshade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The best discovery was that with the variation in colours could be balanced out with a simple drybrush of Underhive Ash, which thanks to it's yellow green tone works as well over the green or yellow glaze. I've even used the same techniques on my nurglings, getting to the same bleached bone stage and then using washes to pick out different nurglings is then followed by dry brushing the whole pile with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Underhive Ash to bring them back into line.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact I'll be doing the same on all my nurgle daemons and sharing progress there in a later post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first models to be fully finished were the two weapon teams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with the Underhive Ash, Eldar Flesh provided the final highlight for the skin tones, Bleached bone for anything shaded with the two brown washes and areas that didn't get a tint can be highlighted with Pallid Wych Flesh for a bleached out appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Final details include a 3 shade brown for wood work (scorched earth, beastial brown and snakebite leather), black with a light Mechanicus Standard Grey dry brush for metalwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bases used sand painted with snakebite leather, then a liberal layer of Agrellan Earth in patches. Washes of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reikland Fleshshade and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Agrax Earthshade help to blend the two base colours before a highlight drybrush of Bleached bone was applied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I even painted the eyes on the two of them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then I have added some grass tufts for a bit more colour on the base but I don't seem to have a picture so I'll leave you today with the group shot of everything finished at the time of these photos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've got a load of pictures to share from our bolt action first games night which I may try to write up and also </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the nurglings</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and another model </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have moved on towards finishing. Adding to that I have a bunch of pictures for a flame sculpting tutorial</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I do however have a masters degree to submit assignments for, a 2 year old that's not sleeping well and a busy job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Combined I've really struggled to get up the mojo to write stuff up so I can't promise any sort of schedule in the coming months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So until next time TTFN.</span><br />
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-19289937228151137372017-02-27T15:32:00.001+00:002017-03-11T12:15:28.185+00:00The Iron Butcher, History of the seven blessed. (part 3)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a slight diversion from my planned posts while I sort out a number of pictures after the break it's time once more to delve into the blood soaked history of the Knight that would one day be known as the 7 blessed.<br /><a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/history-of-seven-blessed-part-1.html">Part one.</a><br /><a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/finding-eightfold-path-history-of-seven.html">Part two.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the waking of the blade more images crossed the eyelids of the pilot, grey and dead a warp travel centuries after his dedication to the blood god. Kharn and his band had separated and a new lord offering riches and glory to those who would follow him out into the galaxy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The images sharpened as the great steed’s machine spirit was slowly waking, a bonding ritual much like this and focus on a chronometer. Over 6000 years ago the dial read for the first time 888 and little was the pilot and machine back then aware of just how much that year would mean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time I was eager to get started but with winter at hand outside priming wasn't going to be an option, no problem though as at the time I was working out of the company's old building which had a large warehouse and a lot of scrap cardboard.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one else would be around to get in the way and there wasn’t anything else to do at lunch times, so I packed up the full 3 squads, 2 weapon teams and HQ with a plan in mind.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was at this point disaster struck, now when I was convinced to start bolt action I really wanted to get stuff painted and in use quickly and having seen a number of fellow hobbyists use washes and glazes successfully I wanted a go myself.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting with a zenithal highlight I aimed to then get every model to a base level where the whole model would be the same colour. Washes and glazes would then provide the details with some slight highlights to finish off.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when I primed them I went with my trusted Halford's black and some army painter desert yellow. However I not only failed to make sure there was enough light to see clearly but the army painter went on way too thick, ruining a lot of the details.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the light was my own fault the weather was crappy and I got impatient looking for the various light switches (which didn’t all work anyway), however I'm not convinced that I was that bad with the light zenithal spray, so the army painter has been relegated to terrain duty till I have chance to properly play with it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took a while to get round to it but I eventually stripped and resprayed the whole box worth, around the same time as spraying up the <a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.kr/2016/08/progress-review-because-i-made-list.html">nurgle start collecting box</a>. This time I picked up some Halford’s filler primer for the zenthial and while tricky to ensure a thin coat I was working outside on a relitivly clear day and it was good enough.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the mean time I heard whispers and advance publicity for a <a href="http://www.rubiconmodels.com/products.php?i=20">plastic Crusader by rubicon</a> so while flitting between Korea and the UK I eagerly awaited the model's release and then got to work in fits and starts, assembling and then undercoating using the same black/brown as the infantry.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now obviously last year involved a fair bit of upheaval bouncing from the UK to Korea with nearly half the year abroad so I can't remember the exact order of getting the various models undercoated as things got delayed and projects stalled. However in early December I’d arranged a game of bolt action with Lester, since the Tank needed a significant amount of work before I could field it on the table it became my priority.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting out with the various bits all sprayed I gave everything a shade wash using a base of acrylic brown umbra ink diluted with water and some glaze medium. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a technique I first saw used by<a href="http://www.feedyournerd.com/greggles-tabletop"> Gregg on feed your nerd</a> and is intended to add depth to the shadows before the later stages add colour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up was to ad wear and tear to the transfers so that the number was disguised and could be interpreted as a variety of numbers along with blending the other markings in as well. Simply adding a light drybrush of bleached bone was enough at this stage to keep with the sun bleached and streaked look of the paintwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately my keen was interrupted by a combination of Christmas and a short Korea visit in the new year. However I still had a painting itch to scratch on my return and I'll be talking about that in a coming post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only that but we both managed a number of pictures of the games between me and lester so I'll be sharing those and my thoughts on bolt action as well. </span></div>
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So in my last post I showed the current state of the knight, now obviously this was quite a change from the previous post <a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/body-work-daemon-knight-9.html">Daemon Knight 9</a> and too much to deal with all in one go.<br />
As planned in that catchup post today I'm going to go over the pauldrons and share how they evolved and since a WIP shot of the first Pauldron has already been shared, instead of just showing the finished thing I though this would be a good time for a bit of a tutorial/discussion of how went about sculpting them.<br />
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First up was the basic design plan which evolved from playing with parts and greenstuff along with some of the inspiration research I'd carried out at the beginning and in particular this Knight<br />
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Now this was found before I even brought the Knight and part of the order was a box of wargames factory skeletons (possibly out of production now) because there are a lot of skulls in the kit, however not long after I made a start, Games workshop released the Chaos Dreadhold so with plans involving the heads from hold (which obviously didn't happen) and a long held ambition to make a chaos fortress I picked up an overlord bastion.<br />
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Part of the intention was to utilise the kit to provide details to add to this knight and future members of the black ruin. So after the application of a bowl of hot water and some instant mould I was ready to mix up some green stuff.<br />
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The next morning I eagerly peeled the hardened putty of the the moulds to see what I had and how well the details had been captured.<br />
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Overall it's not bad, the big skulls have gone into a baggy for a later project and I began to play with the mass of smaller skulls on the Knight's first shoulder, it wasn't long before I had something to show.<br />
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Now at this point it was clear I needed to fill the gaps and it wouldn't be as clean to do as Troy's Knight, i still had plans to use the bits of the warshrine but began thinking about my options. Also the front crown of horns had been worked on for the main body along with the spine section.<br />
Wanting to continue that theme and having had success in the past with flayed skin I decided to look at the various hooks from the Stonehorn kit along with a bony ridge along the outer edges.<br />
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With the plastic bits glued in place the next stage was to begin fleshing out the areas over the gaps and trying to make it look like stretched flayed flesh with holes in, forming shapes that seem realistic based on the attachment points. <br />
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Now it took a number of green stuff batches to get to this point while I was working on the main <a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/while-back-in-ol-blighty-belated-daemon.html">torso and exhaust stacks</a>, usually with the little bits of left over from other tasks. Having already played with torn flaps and some signs of stitching the progress continued with the addition of the bony ridge and further detail.<br />
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During the final stages I had begun work on the right hand pauldron, both inspired and inspiring the story I was writing showing how the 7 Blessed received the Mark of Khorne starting down the <a href="http://paintstationforge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/finding-eightfold-path-history-of-seven.html">8 fold path</a>.<br />
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During the writing process I quickly determined that the centre mask was from the Matriarch of the household that gets slaughtered in the story and needed chaosing up a bit. the various smooth areas of the pauldron where infilled and textured, bony ridges roughed out along transitions and finally the crown of horns idea was matched with the other side.<br />
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Hopefully seeing the step by step process is useful for anyone considering expanding their greenstuff skills beyond just filling gaps. I'm by no means an expert and these two Pauldrons alone have taught me an awful lot. </div>
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Both are now finished so I'm going to leave you today with three shots of each and if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask in the comments.</div>
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<b> Left Pauldron- Fist arm</b></div>
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So we're into a new year again and 2016 became a very quiet year for me on the hobby front mostly dominated by the big fella on the left above. Repeat visits to Korea and a limited amount of progress in between scuppered most of my plans. So after the break I'm going to look over what I've been doing, update my to do list and set out some plans for the next 3 months,<br />
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<li>While in Korea finish the Torso Sculpting work.</li>
<li>Move back to the carapace for the final touches and finish the pauldron's last layer.</li>
<li>Once home Finish the three bases of Nurglings.</li>
<li>Add the last touches to the Plague marine and move onto a second model.</li>
<li>Undercoat the finished Knight Torso</li>
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<b>While in Korea finish the Torso Sculpting work.</b></div>
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<b>Move back to the carapace for the final touches and finish the pauldron's last layer.</b></div>
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<b>Undercoat the finished Knight Torso</b></div>
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Well since the list post was put up I did manage to get some work into the big beast and even managed a few posts, the last progress I shared had the torso at this point.</div>
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As of right now though he looks like this.</div>
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<li>The Melta Gun needs it’s mount and shield adding, the original bits don’t fit round the bone ridge of the carapace so will sculpt a bone one.</li>
<li>Revisit the carapace with my new skills as it were but that's just very thin edging of the spine to bring it in line with the wound on the back and the flayed flesh on the pauldron</li>
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With these bit done I could go on to get some undercoat on and start to paint, but will have to see,</div>
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<b>Once home Finish the three bases of Nurglings.</b></div>
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I think I may have managed a slight session on these little guys but nothing to really write about. </div>
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Well this one is partially done.</div>
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The champion is complete and I managed to get a little more colour onto him which is good, as for a second one we'll have to see.<br />
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With only 11 erratic posts for the whole of 2016 and not even some form of monthly schedule. </div>
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There are also a couple of things off the list that I'll look at in a later post though it include those british lads in the first picture.</div>
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So like last time I'm going to aim small, I have a real but for painting right now but I would like an evening or two on the Knight. Having pinned his ankles and been able to stand him up it definitely acts as inspiration to get more done,</div>
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<li>Finish the Nurglings</li>
<li>Finish the Bolt action models I've started.</li>
<li>Write up 4 blog posts to schedule every other week (Knight Pauldrons, Knight Braziers, Bolt action progress, Nurglings).</li>
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Once that's all finished I will review again and set out the next batch. No Idea what sort of time scale I'll manage on this but hopefully I'll be able to do it over the next two months. However with a Distance learning Masters degree, 2 kids, a level 3 BTEC and work trips that might just be a pipe dream.</div>
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spiralling back, the Chronometer still read 888 years and impatience boiled the
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surveyed the meters and dials surrounding it with bestial eyes. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Reflexive signals and a blurt of scrap code echoed around
the arming chamber in response, muffled by the machine’s shell. Sluggishly the
war machine responded to those commands, its fist striking out at the clumsy
adept that had triggered the pain response. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A muffled scream and a thump as the Dark adept hit the wall,
a feeling of warmth on the back of his hand the moment blood splattered across
the war machine’s massive gauntlet. Once again memories began to surface and
the being passed back into the coma of bonding as he and his steed readied for
battle.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Centuries had passed since first hearing the discordant
music, hundreds of battlefields millions of deaths. How naive had he been back
then, believing these brothers and sisters of the music would be true, but it
had been a lie. Thrown into the frontlines, used as a distraction, treated like
a dog. No matter how many veterans of the house passed while he survived, no
matter the odds he overcame, no matter the foes he defeated he couldn’t impress
them.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>They called him Proditor, gave him the scraps of the armoury
and dregs as his Sacristans yet that would all change.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>On a back water Mining world the Household had joined up
with traitor Marines of the Iron warrior legion. Resistance had been light and
there had been little worth unleashing their trained dog on. The household had
terrorised the citizenry as the Warsmith’s troops had efficiently dealt with
what little resistance they encountered.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Yet one last fortification stood in the way of total victory
and the real spoils, the Mine Gates. Defended by two mighty macro cannons it
was time for Proditor to once again charge into the jaws of death. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Yet the Household weren’t the only Mercenaries of the Iron
warriors, a warband of the XII lead by the legendary 8<sup>th</sup> captain
fought by their side.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>There was nothing more to do now, the Warsmith was impatient
and this world held no challenge. It would not be a siege, no prolonged
standoff, just brute force and cannon fodder. In the middle he stood surrounded
by the slaves and chaff the IV legion would drive into the guns of the
defenders. Behind them came the daemon
engines, experimental constructs of the legion and their dark mechanicus
allies, barely controllable fusions of warp steal and flesh. Thirsting for
blood these beast would chase after the rabble in front, like flesh carrots
dangling just out of reach, ever driving them forward for the guns of the enemy
held so much less to fear.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The insult was obvious, the household held failed daemon
cursed wrecks in higher esteem than an ancient steed with a pilot of centuries
experience. Fuming at this damnation the engine began its march among the
rabble towards the imperial fortifications. As the beasts behind where
unleashed what was a fearful cautious approach became a rout, thousands of
captives and slaves poured forwards toward the enemy guns. Many of them shouted
prayers of salvation pleading to be let in and away from the traitors, others
cried out to the dark gods hoping to be heard and elevated in the eyes of their
masters. It mattered not; the imperial filth would slay everyone without mercy
all seen as traitors no matter how they came to be there.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>As the rabble closed the defenders opened up, las shots and
the chatter of heavy weapons coming for the closest fire points. But the macro
cannons remained silent. The horde closed closer and closer yet the guns stayed
silent and the fire from the guardsmen lessened, screams and the revving of
chain blades could be made out over the din of the slave cattle. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This was no glorious charge into the guns of the enemy the
battle was already happening and was drawing to a close. When the first macro
cannon exploded the charge faltered and collapsed into uncertainty, the masses
stunned into silence as the daemon engines leapt on the stragglers. When the second cannon detonated the
mechanicus beast drivers pulled the engines back and the slave mob stood still
totally lost as to what to do.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Yet the Iron warriors where obviously ready for this, a
spearhead of rhinos and land raiders made their way up from the rear crushing
anything to stunned or stupid to move out of the way. By the time they
approached the fortress all fire had ceased and silence reigned within its
walls. Coming to a halt by the main gates the Warsmith and his retinue
disembarked from the lead land raider and the fortress doors opened to greet
him.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Warriors in red stepped out with chain axes in hand, led by
the unmistakeable figure of Kharn. Those watching couldn’t hear the initial
exchange and the household had made its way forward to stand ahead of their
hated brother closer to the gathered marines.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Something was obviously wrong and when Kharn engaged his vox
to an open channel it was clear that the bloodshed was far from over. Across Vox and speaker grill the champion of
the blood god condemned the cowardly actions of the Iron warriors, the weakness
of the imperial forces and the affront to the blood god. Blood was needed blood and skulls, only then
would the lord of the brass tower look upon this world with anything beyond
contempt. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The bloody champion raised his axe in a salute to the sky
before burring it deep into the warsmiths face. For a moment nothing happened,
silence rang across the field as even the daemon engines stopped momentarily at
the actions of the berserker. Yet it was but a moment, a fraction of a second
before warriors of the twelfth legion charged. Explosions rang out as blasting
charges shattered the walls and more crimson warriors launch into both flanks from
the beaches. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>With the words of the betrayer ringing through his mind
visions of greatness and glory swam before him, Proditor they had called him
then Proditor he would be. No more scraps, no more chaff, glory or death was
all that mattered. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Blood for the Blood god<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Seconds later and the engine of war had closed the gap to
the household’s matriarch blood and oil pumping round the symbiont of man and
machine as rage fuelled the vengeful strike. <br />
Powerfield crackling with a storm of lightning the thunderstrike gauntlet tore
the reactor clean from the Matriarch’s spine and launching it at her second
with a volley of melta fire. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Attacked from behind the pair stood no chance, the
matriarch’s steed collapsed lifeless while her reactor detonated on target, of
the Baron nothing remained beyond the smoking fragments that slaughtered Iron
warrior and slaves alike. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Such a sudden loss of the household’s command left the
remaining pair faltering unsure where to focus before with screams of daemonic
rage and hate the warp cursed experiments broke free and rampaged.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Absolute chaos erupted; with Berserkers on all sides, the
hordes of slaves and chaff everywhere and daemon engines running riot the
forces of the Iron warriors resorted to simple self-preservation. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Proditor warhorn shrieking praises to the blood god leapt
onto the smoking ruin of the Matriarch’s steed as a stepping stone to fresh
kills. Launching from the platform at the back of a rapidly retreating
landraider gauntlet smashing clean through the engine, the raging warmachine
once more used his kill as a missile crushing a rhino desperately trying to manoeuvre
away from the rushing Berserkers. Surviving passengers desperately tried to
scrabble free of the wreckage only to be met by rage incarnate, chain blade
scything the warmachine scooped up the Iron warriors it his gauntlet crushing
them over his carapace and anointing the engine in the gene rich blood.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Blood flowed, riping through slaves, cannon fodder and Iron
warriors alike and with equal ease nothing could stand the wrath of Proditor
unleashed. With little sport in the running and screaming humans the war
machine turned its attention to a pack of daemon engines charging them head on
smashing and cutting warp infused flesh and steel.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>As the last of the daemons crashed to the ground the pilot
took stock of his surroundings, the battle field was awash with blood and ruin,
the Berserkers where slaughtering everything that remained with only small
groups of retreating Iron warriors as any resistance. Blood hungry eyes searched the data feeds and
screens for a worthy foe, 400 meters to the west a remaining member of the
household battled a pack of quadrupedal engines of destruction with clawing
fists and tentacles writhing from their flanks. It was clear the Errant was
finished, metallic tentacles grasped from all sides while claw and fist ripped
armour and cables. It had moments left at best.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Irritated at the lack of sport a searching for more the
ground nearby erupted in a pillar of flame and debris before a second shell
pummelled into the carapace and puldron of the steeds right hand side.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Swinging round and redirecting the Iron shield to the fore
the warrior faced the last remaining household member. A paladin of insignificant
rank it had survived the centuries by hanging onto Proditor’s tail and claiming
his glory. Rage boiled and the blood god’s latest follower charged, Iron shield
flared as the paladin fired again and again. Standing over the ruin of its
matriarch the last remaining member of a forgotten household finally grew a
spine before death took it.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The paladin like so many before it simply could not stand up
to the rage incarnate unleashed so raw and fresh. Blocking blade on blade the one known as Proditor pummelled the paladin’s face plate. Staggering back the
paladin desperately tried to bring the battle cannon to bear but was simply to
slow. Swatting the cannon aside with fist the warrior of blood rammed his blade
into the others chest, tearing it out through the top of the carapace bisecting
the pilot in the process and showering the field with blood, oil and plasma.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The battle was over stepping back from the fight and
allowing it’s hatred to cool the pilot once again took stock of the field.
Something on the edge of conciseness brought his attention to focus, there
before him stood Kharn, gorechild in hand.
At his feet the smoking ruin of the Matriarch’s steed lay dented and
broken. A moment of destiny perhaps, leaning down and ripping the carapace and
hatch open revealed the half dead and wounded pilot, coughing up blood. With a
skill and care hardly imaginable for such a massive war machine the leader of
the household was ripped from her steed and thrown half dead at Kharn’s feet where
gorechild unceremoniously took her skull for Khorn’s throne. Mirroring the
blood champion’s actions the warmachine hacked the head off the knight’s
wreckage before the two turn and go in search of the last prey. Exchange
complete a mighty blaze enveloped the knight’s ruined pauldron and the rune of
Khorne blazes brightly the dedication is complete. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The seven blessed twitched in his throne and the images
reseeded, after the battle he had claimed the best of the household’s Sacristans
and ship and joined Kharn’s rampage across the eye of terror and beyond. Years passed; lesser battles and slaughters
flickered in his mind, Shadows of time between wars were dull and grey as the
bonding ritual continued.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072653220619886306.post-76500799464481465902016-08-31T20:54:00.003+01:002017-01-27T09:32:18.724+00:00Body work, Daemon Knight 9 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I'm back home from Korea and Your safe from Tingle pictures today, last time I showed how the spine along the back was mostly finished. Today After the break I have the finished body work for the torso. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After bringing the spine to a mostly finished point I needed to begin blending in the rest of the torso, starting with the Left hand side I bulked out where mutation and corruption has spread along with fleshy piping and blending into the brazier stack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with this going well I focused largely on this side until I had basically finished it, adding fur for consistency with the head and neck along with a few more layers of texture ready for painting with different effects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this point I was back out in Korea on my latest trip and I managed a fair bit out there, I'll be sharing more later as I've been moving onto other sections but I have story to share first for those. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However the Torso didn't get left behind and I moved onto the right had and managed to compleate that as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This side has less mutation on as I do want some of the original knight showing. At this point I had to finish the braziers and flames and I still have a little work to do around the Ion Shield and the melta gun. Next time I;m going to visit the fluff again as it impacts the next stage and then I'll share that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a quick one today though so until then TTFN</span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08753322658562952859noreply@blogger.com0