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Showing posts with label space marine. Show all posts

Monday 29 January 2024

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - Bone highlights 2

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing slow but steady. I know the blog hasn't been active but I've struggled to fit in hobby time. It's not the usual post-Christmas malaise. My eldest is home permanently so we're continuing our nightly TV viewing and it's hard to fit in the Deathwing, when they're not the easiest to paint in the first place. And with limited progress on the hobby there's even less motivation for the blog, which is a shame as I really wish I was posting more often.


But I've got half the 2nd highlights done here. I may have done a bit more of the cream than I usually do, which makes the process slower and in some places the results aren't great. 


All fixable and I'm far from disappointed but it doesn't help with keeping motivated.


You can see the variety in the butt plates here, the middle one in particular went too far. But I can easily hide that with some tribal markings.


Here we are with the remaining upper half of the highlights. Still to do the shoulder pad on the shield arms, but want them glued in place so they're highlighted correctly.


But I'm OK with the results even if they're still less consistent than I'd normally prefer.


And the rest of the Terminators have got done too - just in time for many of them to be excised from the Codex, or so I believe. 


Good job I didn't put a Cyclone Missile Launcher on one of these. A common load out gone from the Codex.


I think the Apothecary and Champion have gone also, but again I remind myself I was never going to play with them anyway!


They're just figures I needed to paint and poses I wanted to create.


Lots still to do, just about half-way through the spreadsheet but the hardest parts done so far I think.


I even decided to do the bare heads and I was really pleased with the results, that is until I looked at the close-ups - they look shocking. 


Which is a shame as they look great from a gaming distance. I was genuinely chuffed and then gutted when I saw their squints and patchwork skintones.


I mean I love seeing a brushstroke but these just look like blobs in places.


I'll get over it once they're in place but it's a little disheartening as I was convinced these were some of the best faces I'd done, only to realise I was way off the mark. 


Nevermind.

Tuesday 9 January 2024

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - Bone highlights

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity and a happy new year to you all! I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing. I last worked on these 'properly' in July, before that I'd started them in February last year! Of course, they're now all being updated with new bigger Terminators, but much smaller maces.


I still prefer these in design. Hopefully, when I do get round to making the new terminators if I just glue them to the base, no bits of slate, the scale difference might not be too noticeable.


So this is the first set of Skelton Bone highlights, the most laborious and tedious aspect of the painting and it's not even 25% of the tasks I have to do! But it feels great to have got them past this point. 


There are so many bits that still need doing, but nothing as demoralising as this set of highlights. It's all the detail bits and some might be fiddly [especially those banners] but they will make interesting challenges.


It's just getting the bone done then it's the greens, reds, greys and blessed verdigris and everything else is just detail work.


And that bit is really fun, because all the embellishments, like the eye lenses, blade effects, plasma glow and tribal markings just make the figures so much more interesting.


It's the personality that I'm adding and once these are all done I'll be satisfied with my Hobby Season, whatever else may come.

Friday 28 July 2023

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - Shades and metals

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing Knights and Terminators. Another peak behind the curtain - this was February!


Whether it was just finding time to blog or too busy doing other things but I threw on all the usual shades and metals here while I was working on my Haemotrope Reactor and Halfling Blood Bowl star players.


This usually becomes a 'save point' anyway - get the metallics done and then it's the bone highlights. 


I don't mind doing the blending for the highlights but it is laborious and takes a lot of time so I didn't want to start down that road when i had other projects I wanted to tick off.


I still think I have enough time to do them but I wanted the quicker wins before I tackle them in earnest. 


I think there was just the final brassy bronze highlight to do at this stage, which was just put off for ages but I did it eventually.



Last time I did Knights Army Painter Soft Tone was too dark and it put me off progressing with them for so long.


This time Army Painter Angel Green had a similar effect. I mean just look at that coverage! Maybe I didn't shake it enough, I need one of those vortex mixers. But this looks almost like Contrast and therein lies my issue with contrast.


When you've been told for years that multiple thin coats for good coverage is the way to go a paint that actively shows the undercoat, but tinted to create a highlight still feels like poor coverage to me.


The irony being - I never do multiple thin coats for good coverage. I either do one coat so I get an uneven coverage and see my undercoat [yes, the exact negative issue I have with Contrast, but somehow it's a positive when I do it] as texture, or I do a thick coat and damn the consequences.

Anyway, a second coat made it a bit better but it was the Dark Tone wash that actually made it look like it was Dark Angels green in the end. So, when I get some other little projects out of the way I am good to go for these. Definitely the Knights will be finished before the end of the season and hopefully the rest of them too. I've just checked back to my previous Knights and it takes 40-60 minutes to do that first bone highlight so I have some clue how long it'll take to do now... maybe not so definite now!

Monday 10 April 2023

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - base and prime TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing Terminators, here they are all primed with Halfords Red Oxide Primer.


Then Army Painter Skeleton Bone, with a slight zenithal highlight to keep some of that red oxide underpaint. The sepia wash will help eventually help blend it together.


Meanwhile, I had another Terminator body, legs but no Thunder Hammer and Stormshield, or at least not a Dark Angel one. I did have Space Wolf shield and hammer, so I took a Dark Angel upgrade symbols and bent it with pliers across the wings [you can see the white sterss points]. I then shaved the front of the shield.


I then glued it and held it in place with crocodile clips.


Which gave me this fella.


Based, with sand and slate.


A better shot of the Storm Shield, and while the Thunder Hammer still has a Space Wolf skull on it I'm hoping it won't be too apparent when it's painted.


 Great Big Big Build RUSTY Stamp of Approval for the build.

I then primed and based the terminator.


As well as all the other terminators, which I haven't taken pictures of but they look like this.


Which gets me a Great Big Big Build BASE RUSTY Stamp of Approval. 



Friday 10 March 2023

Dark Angels - Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes - White pics

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my remaining #Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes. Obligatory white backdrop pics.


Black Knights


I think if I was ever going to play my Dark Angels I probably would want to run a Ravenwing forces


I do like the bikes but even with all this effort I probably still don't have enough


Molten lava sword


I mean it's alright and it shares the colour of the Plasma Talons rather than adding fancy blue power weapon colours into the mix.


Moar close-ups of his blade.



2nd Black Knight



Radar screen.


3rd Black Knight


The shoulder pad was from the Dark Angel Veteran sprue, which certainly made it easier to add the company number underneath it.


I'm not sure if my highlights have improved. I just think I've become more tolerant of the brush strokes I make. 


Happy just to put enough on there to define what I want and then move on.


And the last 2 bikers




Together with their other brother. 



Sergeant





I wanted some Chainsword wielding bikers for this squad as I think they're a fair bit better than they used to be, but what do I know?