Friday 21 June 2019

Ad Mech - Ferron Proxima Forge

Since their creation I've always had a fondness for the Ad Mech range. Back when I was disciplined enough to stick to just my Dark Angels and Tyranids as armies I said to myself if I ever had a third it'd be Ad Mech. Then along came Genestealer Cults and as is their insidious nature it was such an easy step to build a complimentary force to go with my Tyranid Genestealers. Deathwatch Overkill also supplied a Deathwatch Kill Team [but that's not REALLY another army is it...] and my one Imperial Knight, became two which became six! And the Forgebane box that gave me the Warglaives finally provided me with the beginnings of my Ad Mech force. As time has gone on it seems I want to paint them too and as they make a more reasonable CP 'farm' than my Dark Angels for the Knights I may need to paint them as well.

Ad mech have already featured briefly in the history of Ferron Proxima and I always had an idea they would be yellow, how that fits with the yellow parts of my GSC I don't know. Despite being my favourite colour I'd not wanted to contemplate a yellow army [until the GSC] purely because my Elf Blood Bowl Team was yellow [sadly a lot of those image links seem to have come undone ☹️]. This has nothing to do with the almost universally known difficulty painting yellow, because the chevrons on my Imperial Knights convinced me I can do it no bother. So I wanted to use that as a basis - instead of red with white cogs I was going to go more construction - yellow with chevrons and wanted to see what that looked like - Photoshop! I probably wouldn't do that much chevrons on the edges and on occasion would increase the scale but I was reasonably impressed with my rendered vision.


I also was considering trying out the new contrast paint to achieve the yellow because the results for that colour look great and it would be so easy. The hard part is accepting that process when in my head I have my yellow recipe and I'm not sure I want to compromise on it. It would save time but would I feel the result is as good? I know these figures are fiddly to paint so time saving would be a good idea but would I 'feel' I'd not put my best into it? Then again how awesome does that yellow look?


And then I considered an alternative. If I was going down the Contrast route why not go full Grimdark - oily brown leather overcoats, with dark weathered oil-stained armour and clothes with faded orange markings. Finally trying to do some Blanchitsu...?


I've no immediate plan to follow up on these concepts, I may build some if I can settle on their load-out but it's either go with something that totally fits my existing 'world' and painting or go completely left-field [not to mention does not have the same impact visually for the likes of painting comps...]. Lots to think about still but at least I have two interesting opportunities to explore.


9 comments:

  1. I say Yellow! That would look striking on the battlefield, yellow Dunecrawlers, Kastelan Robots etc

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    1. Oh I would love to have a bit of everything. Kastellan Robots are a given as they're so killy. I also fancy the Forgeworld transport but this is a totally slow burn project and whatever I do I think I should limit it to 2000pts

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  2. Definitely yellow. Crack out that contrast paint!

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    1. It would be fun to give them a go and thankfully as there's no urgency to start they'll probably not be sold out when I do crack on with them!

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  3. A third for yellow Dave you have the skill to pull off the bright army!

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    1. Cheers DOC, it's definitely much more within my style of doing things - high contrast bright armies. I think the consensus means my grim dark grunge is still a long way off.

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  4. Yellow looks like a winner, though the grim/dark scheme is sinister as heck; would make for a great Kill Team scheme with some Sicarian Infiltrators... Also, the yellow contrast paint pools orange, it will be interesting to see how that looks with your bases.

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    1. I also have these as a reference http://30kplus40kequalsinfinity.blogspot.com/p/the-legio-cybernetica.html

      I loved Robs models and although it wasn't the reason for me doing this it must have been high on my list of influences as I suddenly remembered how good they were.

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