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Black Templar Storm Talon WIP and Air Brush Adventures!

5/28/2014

Welcome back internet warriors! Instead of complaining about things in 7th edition, I continued painting. Well as much painting as I could do until my power went out! My main objective this week was using the airbrush a bit more.

So I went to town with the airbrush. I layered on lighter greys, followed by some white highlights. I like to call them highlights. In reality they are more like "oooh it sprayed close to where I wanted it too!". My skills with the airbrush are pretty low at this point, but I figure terrain is very forgiving, considering I haven't even tried to paint any of this stuff since I've had it.

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Black Templar Hunter "Artemis" Finished. Bat Rep Snapshots

5/23/2014

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Do you find yourself constantly going back and working on the same section of a tank, over and over again? I found myself doing that yesterday. I think it's quite possible that you could spend hundreds of hours working on just one of these small rhino chassis models, and still not finish. I decided to call a stopping point, before I burned myself out.

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Black Templar Hunter/Stalker Progress

5/21/2014

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It's amazing how much time gets sucked up by this hobby. I spent the weekend playing games with Macuthu and Shantz, and working on the Hunter Stalker. There won't be a full bat rep this time, as I forgot my remote shutter, and the game ended early. So you'll get some photos and humor of that Friday (with hopefully a finished Stalker/Hunter!)

Where we last left off with the Hunter/Stalker , I had just done the initial primer and base coat/wash. Then followed up with a very tedious codex grey line work.

I'm very happy with how this base layer of chaos black + vallejo grey spray + vallejo black wash really dirtied up the base. It looks really gritty and very different from my previous tanks.

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Build, Spray, Paint! A Busy Hobby Week Full of Projects!

5/16/2014

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Hey Guys! Hope you are having a blast reading about 7th edition that, and 7th edition this. I've been taking this time to try and build/paint as many things as possible. (to distract myself) It's been a very busy few days. I've worked on orks, necrons, dark eldar, and black templar...and tried an airbrush for the first time!

I finally got some time to start experimenting with the airbrush I got over a year ago. It's your bog standard amazon 17 dollar airbrush + compressor. I figured I'd cut my teeth on something cheap and learn the ropes before going for a really nice model.

I started with using some vallejo air grey, and just did light passes over the buildings. I somehow jammed up the nozzle for awhile, till I figured out it was my own stupidity. This was a really dark grey, but I was amazed at how it started pulling detail out so quickly. I'm going to do another pass with a lighter grey to add further details, then probably a wash. Anyone have suggestions on a good bulk wash? I was thinking army builder dark tone, since you can get it in the big can.

I was also amazed at the painting efficiency of an airbrush. Used 1/3 a bottle, did 6 buildings and two vehicles.

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Sniper Scouts and Delivery From Dragon Forge and Chessex

5/14/2014

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Welcome back! This week I've been finishing up my neophyte sniper scouts for my ETL vow. I also got a nice delivery from Chessex with some custom dice, and some new bases and goodies from Dragonforge Design!

As part of my vow for the bolterandthechainsword ETL competition, I had to paint my ten sniper scouts. I was originally aiming for a tabletop quality...but I seem to be unable to prevent myself from constantly going back and adding more details to the model. As such I always seem to end up with "tabletop plus" quality. I guess they'd call that level 1.5 in the painting field.

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Master of the Forge Completed!

5/9/2014

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The model with never ending detail. Every time I thought I was done, I'd find another bit that needed work. Took me quick some time, but I'm calling him done for now!

From the last stages, I basically worked on the servo harness, and swapped out his bolter for a plasma pistol. The nice thing is that since the entire model is magnetized, I can pose him in different ways, or if I want, remove a limb for further detail work later. I would like to get a templar cross on his right knee, and his left shoulder. I had some brass etching, but no matter what I do, I can't get it to lay correctly on the shoulder pauldron.

So that leaves me with free hand. I need to practice a bit before I go back and work on the model further.

Hope you like him! Now I'm off to work on the scouts!

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Black Templar Master of the Forge WIP and New Tools!

5/7/2014

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Finally working on my own army again. Painting the Master of the Forge (techmarine with servo harness). What an enormously detailed model. I just love this sculpt. The layers of detail are both amazing, and frustrating at the same time (I'm using the smallest brushes I have!)

It took me awhile to settle on the scheme for him. I wanted him to share in the standard scheme of techmarines from mars, but also have black armor. I settled on the reds from the rest of my armor as the highlights to the black armor (instead of standard grey/white armor highlights). It came out extremely menacing. It's been quite a chore to get the lines on there sharply. I've done by best with the tools available to me!

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ETL Painting Competition Begins! Dragonforge Bases Painted! ZEAL!!!!! Greggles is Excited!

5/2/2014

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The yearly painting contest on bolterandchainsword has begun! Every year each subsection of the forum pledges to paint a particular amount of points for their faction. I'm painting for black templars, and my first vow is around 560 points of units.

My vow consists of...

Storm Talon (typhoon missiles) [145]
8x Sniper scouts with camo cloaks
1x camo cloak heavy bolter with hellfire rounds
1x Vet Sniper sarge with camo cloak [162]

Master of the Forge with Digital Weapons and Power Axe [115]
Hunter [70]
Stalker [75]

When i finish this vow, I can make another. If I fail to complete the vow, I have to wear a badge of dishonor on the forums, and the points are removed from the Templars total. It's a fun competition, and everyone really gets into it. I got a little carried away and put a sword in my vow, so everyone started putting maces, and light sabers in theirs. So much fun. Highly recommend it (it goes on till august 1st), if you need a bit of friendly competition to get painting!

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