I got off to a great start on the pirates but now they're really starting to push back. I've finished the blue, red, grey, and skin tones on all of the Sea Dogs, and now just have to finish them up by doing the metal, leathers, and bits of detailing (why are they all holding rum bottles?)
I think i've decided that i'll work with the solos next and save the jacks for last. The solos should mix it up nicely and make me feel like i'm accomplishing something if i do them one at a time.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Project Talion - Update!
All the pirates save meg and the commodore have been based, primed, and are ready to rock. Due to a lack of brown paint I only painted Shae last night. I did make good progress though as now everyone is ready to rock! Shae should be completely finished by this evening, and I should have made good progress of all of the priate Solos.
Shae is basecoated and inked - i'm considering doing him and my nomad first just to get the hard models out of the way before i have to start trudging through the infantry.
So, basically switch the vow backwards. I'll do the pirate solo's first to get rid of the more detailed models first, and then just trudge through the infantry in my painting fatigue. I'd rather keep all my positive energy for the great solos I have rather than the infantry.
Shae is basecoated and inked - i'm considering doing him and my nomad first just to get the hard models out of the way before i have to start trudging through the infantry.
So, basically switch the vow backwards. I'll do the pirate solo's first to get rid of the more detailed models first, and then just trudge through the infantry in my painting fatigue. I'd rather keep all my positive energy for the great solos I have rather than the infantry.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Project Talion - Pirates in one Month
So I've decided that by the end of the month of May I'd like to have a fully painted pirate army. So far I have Bart and his battlegroup painted as well as a few solos, so now i'm going to have to get started getting everything else finished and together. The month will reach a pinnacle of a tournament on May 31st!
Bartolo Montador (750/750)
- Freebooter
- Mariner
- Mule
Hawk
McNalie
Grogspar
Rockbottom
Doc
Sea Dogs (x10)
- Mr Walls
Press Gangers (x10)
Aiyanna and Holt
Shae (750/750) Alternate
- Freebooter
- Vanguard
Hawk
Grogspar
Dirty Meg
- Mariner
Rockbottom
Doc
Sea Dogs (x10)
- Mr Walls
Press Gangers (x10)
Aiyanna and Holt
The Commodore Cannon! and Crew
I have planned out how I will paint that which I still need to get finished.
Week One - Units:
14 Sea Dogs + Mr. Walls (need a few extra for good measure)
Week Two - More Units:
10 Press Gangers
Week Three - Characters:
Hawk
Doc
Rockbottom
Grogspar
The Commodore Cannon! (I always feel the need to postfix this with an exclamation and really don't understand why)
Week Four - The Final Countdown:
Shae
Buccaneer
Bartolo Montador (750/750)
- Freebooter
- Mariner
- Mule
Hawk
McNalie
Grogspar
Rockbottom
Doc
Sea Dogs (x10)
- Mr Walls
Press Gangers (x10)
Aiyanna and Holt
Shae (750/750) Alternate
- Freebooter
- Vanguard
Hawk
Grogspar
Dirty Meg
- Mariner
Rockbottom
Doc
Sea Dogs (x10)
- Mr Walls
Press Gangers (x10)
Aiyanna and Holt
The Commodore Cannon! and Crew
I have planned out how I will paint that which I still need to get finished.
Week One - Units:
14 Sea Dogs + Mr. Walls (need a few extra for good measure)
Week Two - More Units:
10 Press Gangers
Week Three - Characters:
Hawk
Doc
Rockbottom
Grogspar
The Commodore Cannon! (I always feel the need to postfix this with an exclamation and really don't understand why)
Week Four - The Final Countdown:
Shae
Buccaneer
Friday, May 2, 2008
Alright hey guys! Painting white always a pain in the but right?! Well i am here to save everyone from the impending doom of trying to get a nice tabletop quality army out there. Just so happens that my latest project involves eKreoss and Amon So they will be featured in this article. Now I have started a couple steps ahead because getting here is easy.
PREPERATION!
Step 1: Build your model easy right don't worry its tabletop so noone will see where you can't reach with a brush!
Step 2: Prime your model! We shall use chaos black spray from GW. The old alcohol based stuff not the american garbage with no Japan dry.
BASECOATING! The hard painfull part...
Step 3: COVER THE MODEL in scorched brown! it makes a nice base for all of our other colours.
Step 4: Mix dheneb stone with scorched brown 3:1 and cover all of the areas that are to be white with it. This provides a nice base and allows us to block out what will be what colour.
Step 5: I use dark cloth as a theme for my faction so for this I use a base of Charadon Granite.
Step 6: Base coat everything to be silver with boltgun metal!
Alright so after playing a little CS and eating some food taking a shower and sleeping since last night lol I have decided it was time to continue. I spent an additional 20 min painting and it is starting to seem like making these posts takes just as much time as painting the actual model lol
Well I have finished the base coats:
Step 7: Dwarf Bronze goes on everything that is to be gold such as trim and his mouth piece and symbols
Step 8: Mechrite Red makes a great basecoat for fast and simple reds which I also used on parts of trim.
Step 9: Any left over cloth you aren't sure what to do with? I paint it hormagaunt purple!
Step 10: Now considering we are painting at the speed of light go back and get those things you missed! lol it always happens to me i'll be painting red and come across a blade i missed with silver. whoopsies! lol just go back and fix those spots that you noticed. Don't fix each one on the go or else you will find more just remember where they are and fix them after.
As you can see most of this is just slopped on so not to worry the magic will happen soon! As I always say don't be afraid of your paint let your paint be afraid of YOU!
Next making the magic happen! Some call it dipping... I just call it an ink.
Step 11: Mix 1:2 black and brown inks together with a few drops of future and a bunch of water. Apply it evenly throughout the entire model! MAKE SURE YOU GET EVERYTHING! lol for me its been a gigantic pain in the butt if I come across a spot that I missed with the ink so try to get it all.
What this is going to to is shade every colour for us! We don't have to go and shadow things because the shadows are already there! Now why do I mix the brown and black together. Well the brown is there obviously as I stated in my first post for the same reason we cover the entire model in scorched brown. All of these colours either could be shadowed with brown or look good with brown. The black is there for any colour that wouldn't shadow distinctly brown such as the silver or the purple. Another fantastic thing about this step is that all of our details become really defined! WOOT again proving less work for us in the end.
Alright easy as pie right? Yes sir you betcha!
now i'm off to the gym to "pump some iron!"
and if you think we are done you are WRONG SIR!!! ahahah we are just getting to the fun part!
Alright continuing on! Now I didn't finish them last night as I said because I got distracted by David Cronenbergs "Crash" weird movie let me tell you I just simply could not paint and watch that movie lol
REBASING
Step 12: Rebase all of the white areas with dhened stone. This will be an exercise in brush control because you want to leave those dark lines between all of the recesses To help with out shadow effect on our white.
Step 13: Rebase the cloth using straight charadon granite. Same Explanation.
Now something to remember in general about rebasing is its normally only neccessary on larger and more dominant colours... notice i didn't do the red silver or gold. Mainly because the areas are small enough that we can just highlight rght on them and noones the wiser
heres the pics:
I will return with more! We ain't done yet ladies!
PREPERATION!
Step 1: Build your model easy right don't worry its tabletop so noone will see where you can't reach with a brush!
Step 2: Prime your model! We shall use chaos black spray from GW. The old alcohol based stuff not the american garbage with no Japan dry.
BASECOATING! The hard painfull part...
Step 3: COVER THE MODEL in scorched brown! it makes a nice base for all of our other colours.
Step 4: Mix dheneb stone with scorched brown 3:1 and cover all of the areas that are to be white with it. This provides a nice base and allows us to block out what will be what colour.
Step 5: I use dark cloth as a theme for my faction so for this I use a base of Charadon Granite.
Step 6: Base coat everything to be silver with boltgun metal!
Alright so after playing a little CS and eating some food taking a shower and sleeping since last night lol I have decided it was time to continue. I spent an additional 20 min painting and it is starting to seem like making these posts takes just as much time as painting the actual model lol
Well I have finished the base coats:
Step 7: Dwarf Bronze goes on everything that is to be gold such as trim and his mouth piece and symbols
Step 8: Mechrite Red makes a great basecoat for fast and simple reds which I also used on parts of trim.
Step 9: Any left over cloth you aren't sure what to do with? I paint it hormagaunt purple!
Step 10: Now considering we are painting at the speed of light go back and get those things you missed! lol it always happens to me i'll be painting red and come across a blade i missed with silver. whoopsies! lol just go back and fix those spots that you noticed. Don't fix each one on the go or else you will find more just remember where they are and fix them after.
As you can see most of this is just slopped on so not to worry the magic will happen soon! As I always say don't be afraid of your paint let your paint be afraid of YOU!
Next making the magic happen! Some call it dipping... I just call it an ink.
Step 11: Mix 1:2 black and brown inks together with a few drops of future and a bunch of water. Apply it evenly throughout the entire model! MAKE SURE YOU GET EVERYTHING! lol for me its been a gigantic pain in the butt if I come across a spot that I missed with the ink so try to get it all.
What this is going to to is shade every colour for us! We don't have to go and shadow things because the shadows are already there! Now why do I mix the brown and black together. Well the brown is there obviously as I stated in my first post for the same reason we cover the entire model in scorched brown. All of these colours either could be shadowed with brown or look good with brown. The black is there for any colour that wouldn't shadow distinctly brown such as the silver or the purple. Another fantastic thing about this step is that all of our details become really defined! WOOT again proving less work for us in the end.
Alright easy as pie right? Yes sir you betcha!
now i'm off to the gym to "pump some iron!"
and if you think we are done you are WRONG SIR!!! ahahah we are just getting to the fun part!
Alright continuing on! Now I didn't finish them last night as I said because I got distracted by David Cronenbergs "Crash" weird movie let me tell you I just simply could not paint and watch that movie lol
REBASING
Step 12: Rebase all of the white areas with dhened stone. This will be an exercise in brush control because you want to leave those dark lines between all of the recesses To help with out shadow effect on our white.
Step 13: Rebase the cloth using straight charadon granite. Same Explanation.
Now something to remember in general about rebasing is its normally only neccessary on larger and more dominant colours... notice i didn't do the red silver or gold. Mainly because the areas are small enough that we can just highlight rght on them and noones the wiser
heres the pics:
I will return with more! We ain't done yet ladies!
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