The 4th entry I put in this year was more 30k Death Guard to expand my force so that I can contribute more to our groups rather large number of 30k battles that rage at least monthly.
I
have a pile of figures to get done for the 30k version of the Death
Guard this year, including several transports as my force so far has
been almost exclusively foot based with little mobility. However,
before getting onto that, I needed to get some more infantry done
(mainly due to the fact that I want to do all the vehicles at once and
ran out of chipping solution so am waiting for it to arrive).
The
command stand is made up of a pack of metal Spartans from Warlord and
the quality is much better than the plastics. Even though they still
managed to get the arms wrong. The arms are once again in a throwing
motion, rather than an arm over spear for thrusting motion. Oh well...
since I am painting a lot of the figures that have leather armour as if
they had bronze armour, I probably shouldn't complain that much about
things that most people wouldn't notice anyway.
I
spent a lot more time on these, doing more blending and more
highlights, which don't really show up in the pictures, but show up in
person. My thought being that the command stands will be looked at
closer than the mass infantry units and should therefore get a bit more
attention.
I then moved onto a second unit of Greeks, that are un-armoured.
Once
again since they are meant for mass effect on the tabletop, they got a
fairly basic treatment. I blocked in colours, washed, then
highlighted. I then went over the shields and painted various colours
and then applied decals. After that is was a simple matter of basing
them and they were done. Not fancy but effective I think.
So another 18 Greeks done, only about 200 left to go...
My sixth submission was more Castellax Class Battle-Automata and a transport for my 30k Death Guard. The Castellax were armed with multi-meltas, flamers, and close combat saw blades this time around.
The
bases are hand made using liquitex, cork board, cut up sprue, guitar
wire, and copper pipe bits. I tried to give them an urban rubble look
without going overboard as I find a lot of cast resin rubble bases have
too much on them and you wonder how the hell the model is moving through
it.
I
also kept with the blue glow as a colour accent to keep in theme with
the last batch, even though I tend to think of melta as a red/orange
glow. My thought being that it just would look like more of the same
base red armour colour if I did that.
Next
up is a Death Guard Anvillus pattern drop pod that I had started doing
up for this weeks "flight" theme just in case I didn't get the piece
that I really wanted to get done completed. I did though, so here is
the drop pod as a regular submission.
The
drop pod was painted the same way I have been doing all of my Death
Guard vehicles, making heavy use of Mig products. I base coated it
black, applied chipping solution, painted the off white colour with an
airbrush and then once dry wet it with water and started chipping the
paint off. It gives a completely random and organic look to it, you
just have to give up control though as you can go light or hard on the
brushing to control it a bit, but sometimes it just comes off in big
sections and sometimes it sticks and you can't get any chips, so you
just go with it. I then apply decals and clear coat it, then come back
with Mig streaking products and oil brushers and make it a mess with
multiple different browns, blacks, and rust colours. Apply a bit of
each, let set for a bit, then use thinner or white spirits to spread it
around and cause the streaks, or to clean up areas that got to much.
There we go, a whole pile of stuff off my painting shelf, but I already have it filling up again as stuff comes in to replace it.
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