Outstanding work Jangalak, love the Chimera, fantastic work on the weathering! I like how the photos of your pics turned out, its like they are in some fog/mist. :grin:
The Emporer's Feth - IG Army
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Hey all,
I have been 'blogging' with my buddy for a couple of years as we build and paint our armies but I want to get a bit more feedback as I go and see if I can slowly build up to getting a best army nomination (which we were going for at the last 40k Doubles Tournament).
This project log will see me take the army from a four hundred points to a thousand hopefully over the next year, I am not going to be too ambitious as having played against IG for a couple of years I know what kind of units work well for me so I can take my time painting and borrow from my mates horde when we wanna play tournie sized games.
I started my IG army last November and now have a Vendetta, a Chimera and a demolisher/executioner.
I will post some pics later today of what i have so far, any comments would be gratefully received, I spent some time on doing an Aquila head and wings on the Vendetta so I will do a quick tutorial on that as there were a few people asking how to do it and it took me ages to figure it out.
Here is how the Vendetta came together...
I cant seem to write next to the images but the Vendetta project goes like this (i did the head and wings in same way):
1. Draw the design in pencil
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2. Trace the design onto something you can then use as a stencil to spray over (I used my sons 'messy mat' which I thought had seen better days and was due a change)
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3. Get bollocked by my wife for using son's messy mat
4. Spray the wings white (I wanted to spray the model as much as possible as you get a nice clean, flat surface - I could free hand the design but i wanted to try this and see if you got a better look from it)
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5. Tape the stencil onto the model
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6. Spray it grey! ( I used Tamiya German Grey - after much research this was the 'look' i was going for - an army fighting in urban areas so dirty grey was my goal)
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7. Remove the stencils and check out your handywork!
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You will see that I also did some bits on the tail plane - I sprayed these white and then put masking tape over before spraying grey again.
8)I then went over the edges of the fuselage where there was white and added some grey weathering
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9) there will be some white 'blocks' around the stencil outline where the tape was, just a bit of brush painting with grey to do here
10) A bit more weathering, and picking out the areas that would be worn by use and its nearly done.
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I will post some close up photos of the finished article later...
I have been 'blogging' with my buddy for a couple of years as we build and paint our armies but I want to get a bit more feedback as I go and see if I can slowly build up to getting a best army nomination (which we were going for at the last 40k Doubles Tournament).
This project log will see me take the army from a four hundred points to a thousand hopefully over the next year, I am not going to be too ambitious as having played against IG for a couple of years I know what kind of units work well for me so I can take my time painting and borrow from my mates horde when we wanna play tournie sized games.
I started my IG army last November and now have a Vendetta, a Chimera and a demolisher/executioner.
I will post some pics later today of what i have so far, any comments would be gratefully received, I spent some time on doing an Aquila head and wings on the Vendetta so I will do a quick tutorial on that as there were a few people asking how to do it and it took me ages to figure it out.
Here is how the Vendetta came together...
I cant seem to write next to the images but the Vendetta project goes like this (i did the head and wings in same way):
1. Draw the design in pencil
2. Trace the design onto something you can then use as a stencil to spray over (I used my sons 'messy mat' which I thought had seen better days and was due a change)
3. Get bollocked by my wife for using son's messy mat
4. Spray the wings white (I wanted to spray the model as much as possible as you get a nice clean, flat surface - I could free hand the design but i wanted to try this and see if you got a better look from it)
5. Tape the stencil onto the model
6. Spray it grey! ( I used Tamiya German Grey - after much research this was the 'look' i was going for - an army fighting in urban areas so dirty grey was my goal)
7. Remove the stencils and check out your handywork!
You will see that I also did some bits on the tail plane - I sprayed these white and then put masking tape over before spraying grey again.
8)I then went over the edges of the fuselage where there was white and added some grey weathering
9) there will be some white 'blocks' around the stencil outline where the tape was, just a bit of brush painting with grey to do here
10) A bit more weathering, and picking out the areas that would be worn by use and its nearly done.
I will post some close up photos of the finished article later...
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You're description about the psyker squadron makes me think about this guys conversion for a psyker battle squad:
That thread over all is amazingly inspiring for many reasons. Rulewise such a miniature would probably be a disadvantage for you when playing but wickedly cool as a miniature.
I think the biggest challenge for you would be to make it look Imperial, seeing as the vehicles of the imperium has a very particular look to them. You should probably have a look at some of the Mechanicum artwork for inspiration to get the right feel.
If you where up to it you could include magnetized components that you could remove as the squad suffers wounds (either the "psyker-bits" themselves or some kind of vital parts to the machinery).
Just tossing out ideas basically
EDIT:
I must say that I like your pictures being a bit "foggy". Gives a real nice touch to the finished pieces. If you had some scenery behind them it would look like a diorama picture taken from an IA book :grin:
That thread over all is amazingly inspiring for many reasons. Rulewise such a miniature would probably be a disadvantage for you when playing but wickedly cool as a miniature.
I think the biggest challenge for you would be to make it look Imperial, seeing as the vehicles of the imperium has a very particular look to them. You should probably have a look at some of the Mechanicum artwork for inspiration to get the right feel.
If you where up to it you could include magnetized components that you could remove as the squad suffers wounds (either the "psyker-bits" themselves or some kind of vital parts to the machinery).
Just tossing out ideas basically
EDIT:
I must say that I like your pictures being a bit "foggy". Gives a real nice touch to the finished pieces. If you had some scenery behind them it would look like a diorama picture taken from an IA book :grin:
Lovin' teh Fagin idea Hocky! that could be pretty cool, if not, at least it would throw your opponent off for half the game while they try to understand the concept
Jangalak, have you seen this guy? I always thought about converting him to be an Imperial psycher, and might still do so with Grey Knights coming along:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Chaos/CHAOS_RENEGADES/RENEGADE-ROGUE-PSYKERS.html
Jangalak, have you seen this guy? I always thought about converting him to be an Imperial psycher, and might still do so with Grey Knights coming along:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Chaos/CHAOS_RENEGADES/RENEGADE-ROGUE-PSYKERS.html
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