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Looking good Nevelon.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks guys

Hey look! Finished models!



I forgot how irritating my camo nid pattern is to actually execute. It’s the same contrast paints, but diluted with water and intestinally applied for a pathcy/mottled/marbled look. Which is a lot more work than the bang one coat on straight from the pot. And touchups require more effort.


This should be the last camo phobos Ultra for a while. I think I’ve got a spare one on sprue, but no space in a squad for him, so he can sit. I do have 10 of the new scouts incoming, the question is if they join the snow force, or stick with the woodland camo of the rest of their older brothers. But that’s a decision for later.

Did I mention that I ordered the KT box with the scorps/scouts? I know I talked about it. It will be here Monday.

Up for next month is a pair of librarians.

Which will tick a few boxes. Getting the new lib ready for the combat patrol, and the old one for the old stuff from the bench goal. Speaking of which, the VRLs click a patrol box themselves.


Almost to the weekend

Nice work, Nev. The blood on the knife is a great detail. I like the camo pattern on the leapers. Subtle and cool. Upcoming guys look cool, too. The old guy looks so little.

Scale creep is a helluva thing. When I finish these 2 I’ll get a pic of the, with the old RT librarian. He’s small.

Good luck in the competition, with the marine and Nids.

Cheers,

CB

So despite being Sunday, the postman swung by and dropped this off. Well technically just the KT box, the brushes showed last week, but I wanted to document my spending here. Between the KT box bundle deal and the online discounter price I couldn’t pass up this option. I’ve alway like the concept of the scorpions, and the old plastic scouts have always been mediocre at best. Primary build is going to be 40k focused, but I’ll glance at the KT rules. Going to be 4x5 mad squads, but we’ll see what the scouts look life from a build. I might do a trooper that can count-as a sarge to have a 10 man unit on the shelf.

And the next big question after the build is how to paint. Do I keep the scouts in the forest camo of their peers, or switch to the new arctic? And for the infiltrating aspect warriors, do they camo up like the rangers? Or stick to their classic aspect bright green? Still a ways from that point, but something to think about.

For the Scorpions, you could always split the difference and go for a more natural range of greens. Still sort of Aspect-y, still sort of camo? Either way, looking forward to how they turn out.

 youwashock wrote:
For the Scorpions, you could always split the difference and go for a more natural range of greens. Still sort of Aspect-y, still sort of camo? Either way, looking forward to how they turn out.

I’ve seen camo scorps, but in desert patterns. Which are way more appropriate for scorpions. Who are generally not noted for living in snowy areas. I could do them in my woodland camo, which would match the rest of my Eldar on their green bases. Or something more subdued as you suggest, like a darker green and not the bright emerald.

So many ways to go. One thing about aspect warriors is that they do not conform to any of my normal schemes.

I'm looking forward to seeing those librarians.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
I'm looking forward to seeing those librarians.

third of the way through the month, put the first basecoat on last night.



I need to get moving and figure out where my motivation got off too...

Finished (probably) the terminators. I might go back and add some purity seals or tilting shields, but all the main work and magnetizing has been done. Not to figure out what to build next. Thinking something from the KT box.

And, you know, get some paint down...

Feel the paint fatigue. Gotta build build build!

Have to double take on the termy libs - the scale creep really hits you in the face hey.

For the scorps - split the difference - tundra camo?

 tzurk wrote:
Feel the paint fatigue. Gotta build build build!

Have to double take on the termy libs - the scale creep really hits you in the face hey.

For the scorps - split the difference - tundra camo?

My latest thought for the scorps was a goblin green basecoat (which is pretty close to an olive drab), with yellow and brown tiger stripy camo. Although maybe a grey instead of the brown. This would keep them close to their classic aspect colors, but more subdued.

Personally I think it's nice to take a break from painting and put stuff together once in a while. I've actually been doing it myself recently as I was able to snag the Deathwing Assault box. As for your Striking Scorpions, personally I like the gaudy green the artwork shows for them. Brightly colored Aspect Warriors are always striking in a Craftworlds army.

Reviewing the aspects in my gallery most of them are more subdued then the normal candy colored brightness you can get from aspect armies. Not that certain colors are not there, but for example, the FDs are bight orange on black, SHs are yellow over blue/grey, etc. So a splash of the aspect color, but more practical, muted palette.

Slow. sloppy. but moving.




Also the new scouts have a more upright stance, but are otherwise the same scale as the old guys! /sarcasm

Gah! Get down! They can see you from all over the battlefield!

Librarians are looking good!

I have a bunch of the old scouts I never painted or put on bases.
Been tempted to try and enlarge them by chopping them up and adding spacers.
I guess I have nothing to lose in trying.

Scouts seem like they would be hard to upscale. But I’m not much of a kitbasher, especially when the GS needs to come out. And the old plastics were not the best base to start with. The snipers were not horrible, but the bolter/shotgun/CCW scouts were not good sculpts. An issue compounded by replacing the excellent 2nd ed metals. I need to build the rest of the ones I piked up, at least a full squad. One issue is if I build them for KT or 40k. Probably a silly question, but looking at the KT squad rules, you can’t get the 9 man KT and 2x5 man 40k squads with the right gear. I guess I could always sub in a old scout if I needed to actually play WYSWYG KT.



So some good progress this week. Helped a little by the fact I’ve been off work since midday Wed due to an ongoing IT issue that required us to all log off and stay off out computers. Progress hindered but Cyberpunk 2077, which is eating my time pretty hard.

The gravis captain is getting there. Needs his edges highlighted, and some more work on his cape. I still have the aggressors to finish as well. I knew they were going to be an issue, as I’m not a fan of the sculpts.

Unfortunate about the sculpts killing motivation. It happens, hopefully you can find a way through it--I imagine the gaming helps! Progress looks pretty good so far!

Captain is done, waiting for decals and baseing, which he’ll get with the librarians.

Libs are getting there. Doing a lot of cleanup.

Nice, are you going to do "glowy effects" on the librarian's armor?

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Nice, are you going to do "glowy effects" on the librarian's armor?

I thought about it. Put silver down all the runelines. It would be a major PITA. Was going to skip it, but you are right, I should.

It'll be pretty sweet. Looking forward to the result.

You're in the homestretch. Keep at it!

So the silver runes were pretty much washed out by the blue. I suspected this would be the case, but worth the try. I know I do not have the brush control to go back and re-do them, so stopping there. New guy just needs touchups and base/decal work, almost done. Old guy needs his blue, a lot of cleanup, and the head/staff finished.

Going to do 3 company heroes for March. I should probably rebase the rifleman and HB guy on 40s. I think they are just pushfit on the ETB peg bases, so should not be hard. I was debating if I should do a TDA squad, but wanted to do a light squad so I had room to play catchup on old projects. Thought about just doing a single model, but wanted to push a little harder for progress, as this year has been off to a slow start.

The librarian is still looking very good. I just used light blue and that water with panel lining technique. Then cleaned it back up with the base color.
My photographs of it came out badly, as my camera exaggerates light colors too much.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
The librarian is still looking very good. I just used light blue and that water with panel lining technique. Then cleaned it back up with the base color.
My photographs of it came out badly, as my camera exaggerates light colors too much.

One of the issues is that I use a dark blue glaze as the final step for the armor of my Ultras. With a little edge highlighting on top of that. So it’s real hard to go back and tidy up the blue.

Almost done:


Need to flock and decal. And final pictures for the 2 in the comp.


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Done.

Also done:


The psychic might of the Ultramarines:


Scale creep? It’s a myth.


Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

That's just...uh...perspective, yeah.

Nice work, Nev. The group psyker pic rules. The new guy's axe is quite slick.

That's a very rich blue, reminds of the Chaos Gate '98 Blue for the Ultramarines.