Dave's OGPurchases Plog

[cunningmatt]

Yeah blue gems amazing! I'm always scared at the thought of painting anything near those transparent windows - there isn't a transparent to paint over your mistakes with!

[Dave]

Thanks for the feedback guys, always appreciated. James, any idea where I get 60mm bases from?

Yeah blue gems amazing!

And fairly simple, hawk turquoise base, then just add white as you lighten the lower half.  Spot on a couple of pure white dots at the top and once the model was coated in matt varnish I went back over them with a couple of coats of gloss (worth having a pot just for this reason alone).  If the layers aren't blending in too well, which happened on a few, I put a glaze of hawk turquoise over the whole thing to homogonise it all a back together again.

I'm always scared at the thought of painting anything near those transparent windows - there isn't a transparent to paint over your mistakes with!

Ah but there is instead a far simpler solution, take one fingernail and scrape.  Because there is no undercoat the paint doesn't actually adhere all that well and you can just scrape it off.  Made even easier in my instance as I gave both sides of the plastic a layer of Klear floor polish (US guys refer to this as Future Floor Polish)



It's basically a varnish  but lots of people use it as a medium for diluting their paints, not really gloss or matt and dries totally translucent.  Added benefit that if I spill it my study has a wooden floor so I can just spread it around and it counts as cleaning...

[Meals]

Um, no idea Dave. I usually buy Resin bases so its easy, but for straight Plastic bases the best I can offer is to find someone who has bought Bloodcrushers for their fantasy army, as they come with both 50mm squares and 60mm rounds...

[CraigM]

For larger bases nowadays I find it easier to just make them using a compass circle cutter and some 1.5mm Plasticard. If you stack a couple on top of each other then you have a nice solid base to drive a brass rod through, too.



Also, you can buy them from GW online.


That's interesting to know that we can get Future over here, heard lots of people mention it online.

[Dave]

Eeek, so I've now gone 10 days without progress.  How the mighty have fallen.  Well, it's not actually all static.  I've been messing about with my airbrush and achieving lots, whilst getting nothing done!

Basecoated a wave serpent (fleabay), basecoated 10 dire avengers, played about with blending 5 fire dragons.  Not sure I've got the airbrush down well enough to do any real blending on the scale of infantry (partly because all the various plates on the armour need done individually.

So some progress but not much.

Other things I've been working on, Woodies got 3 character figures finished off - Lord, BSB and Mage (but not yet pictured) and I did a bunch of movement trays for the army to fit the new unit sizes I'll be taking to Tempest.

Buying spree has continued now having ordered 4 more Eldar tanks and I also picked up half a dozen jetbikes off Ebay.  Think I'll now ban myself from picking anything else up unless I happen to see an amazing deal on Warp Spiders as the £20ish GW pricetag seems a bit steep for 5 figs.

[Dave]

Ok so I got a bit bored of painting a small number of eldar and the lack of progress that represented.  Combine that with playing at Tempest 3 over the weekend and I got the warhammer itch again.

A quick look through my boxes turned out a load of skaven which were just begging for a quick dip job (becoming my norm of recent).

Here's the pic of them basecoated up and ready to be dipped, I'll be following the same scheme as the ones I put up here previously.  All incredibly brown until I get them based up but that tends to be the way with dipping so not going to get stressed about it. 



This is the first 47 (random number) of these models I think I've got a further 80 odd still on sprue to follow, these guys will be used as slaves as I think the lesser amount of fabric and armour on them suits it.  I've then got another 100+ of the new clanrat models which will be my clanrats in the list and then once I've done all that stuff I'll start painting up the fun toys to go with them.

Of course as with all my projects I'll doubtlessly be jumping back and forwards between them, I've not forgotten the lizards and just finished cleaning up another 25 saurus to be done with HW&S as I've not got a unit of them yet.

[cunningmatt]

Looking forward to seeing the finished horde!

[Dave]

Probably have them done tonight.  Got them all dipped yesterday then bases sanded and painted this morning.  Just need matt varnish and then I can finish the cloth.

[Dave]

Very quick and simple dip job with some touch ups on the grey and a couple of washes on the red fabric

Steps:
1. Basecoat - Airbrush Mud Brown (Vallejo Air range)
2. Flesh - Elf flesh (GW)
    Weapons - Chainmail (GW)
    Straps - codex grey (GW)
3. Dip - Antique Pine (B&Q own brand)
4. Bases - course sand (GW), Panzer Grey (CD'A), drybrush tank blue grey (CD'A), drybrush white (GW)
5. Matt Varnish (army Painter)
6. Highligh straps with codex grey:white then straight white.
7. Wash straps with badab black (GW)
    Wash fabric with Baal Red (GW) x 2 washes.

[CraigM]

Simple but very effective, Dave. I think you chose a good colour for the bases to break up the brown, too.