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Orks Marauders¶

The last mob is done, getting the yellow face as mob sign that you can find on Warhammer Fantasy Battles 3rd edition Armies. Also, this mob contains the scratch build plasma gun I tried to model after the iconic Rouge Trader style plasma gun - and gave it the flaming tip.

Only the Waaagh! Boss left now!

Published 2014-04-17 21:35:00

28mm | Mantic Games | Orks | SiFi | Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules

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Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

With the Orks nearly finished, I prepared their opponents, by doing all the airbrush steps on them today. The opponents are of course the classical ones, Space Marines. I choose the Knight models from Alternative Armies for them, the Chapter is named "Imperial Flush" (which will more sense when you see their iconography) - a non-codex chapter as you can see from their organisation in the pictures below.

As with the Orks, I bought these models quite some while ago, in November 2011. They are ready build (well, except one flag pole which I forgot to build) since January 2012. They are as they came, except that all the leader models were equipped with Mechanical Hammers from MaxMini.eu and I added flag poles to the leaders from plastic rod.

When painting them, I roughly followed "How to paint Blood Ravens Space Marine" by Lester Bursley as published on his YouTube channel "Awesome Paint Job". For colours I used:

After a basecoat of the surface primer, the models were sprayed black (forming the deepest shadows), then from a 90Â° angle with Mahagony in downward strokes, then with half Mahagony/half Carmine from about a 45Â° angle and finally with Carmine from the top and in selected spots (like shoe tips, extended hips, etc).

Then the models were sprayed in gloss varnish.

Now the brush work can begin.

Published 2014-04-19 22:24:00

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[SiFi]¶
More Vehicles¶

Finally some progress on the 15mm ConServ vehicles: I painted the windows and applied washes to the metal area on the excavator.

Published 2014-04-19 22:28:00

15mm | Die Cast | SiFi

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Orks Marauders¶

The Waaagh! Boss is done:

With all the bosses done, it was time to cut the back banners and glue them on.

I hope to finish the models this weekend with the Quick Shade and static grass.

Published 2014-04-25 23:00:00

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Orks Marauders¶

The models were brushed in Army Painter Quick Shade Dark Tone. Here is a group and a single photo before:

After the Quick Shade was brushed on and dried, the models looked as follows:

No comparison to manually shaded and highlighted models, but as a quick and dirty method good enough.

The models are quite shiny now, after the static grass is added to the bases, they will receive a coat of Army Painter Anti Shine Varnish.

Published 2014-04-26 21:52:00

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Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

The first fire team is painted in the basic colours. The ammo pouches were painted leather brown; the tubes, elbow and knee joints etc. were painted black; the eyeslits were painted dark green; the shoulder pads yellow; the weapons in a light wood colour; the metal areas a dark metal.

Time for shading...

Published 2014-05-05 22:22:00

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[FullThrust]¶
Space Game Mat¶

Today I fetched my FullThrust game mat done by Hotz Mats from the customs office. It has some slight smell from enamels on it, but this is a good sign to me because it indicates it was freshly made for me :-)

I ordered a double-sided enhanced deep space game mat without any grid markings. One side I ordered as the regular coloured nebula/space dust, the other side as the alternative coloured nebula/space dust.

I am really happy with what I got. The mat was folded in a package, so I will need to iron out the wrinkles which you can still see in the above pictures.

Now I just need to finish all the started miniatures, then handle the GZG space ships...

Published 2014-05-08 21:34:00

FullThrust | Hotz Mats | SiFi | Terrain

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Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

I shaded the models. Black for the metal, black/brown for the red areas, SSW yellow snow for the shoulder pads and Woodgrain for the... wait for it... wood.

Published 2014-05-15 22:04:00

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Orks Marauders¶

Only four weeks after I planned to, the Orks were finished today with static grass and a coat of Army Painter Anti Shine Varnish.

The final group shot:

Published 2014-05-18 16:23:00

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More Vehicles¶

This Friday I visited Michael, a friend owning a 3d printer. After all, my vehicles are still without wheels. I brought along the wheels I designed in SketchUp, Michael converted the .stl to the format needed by the printer, and off it went.

The result was this:

Yeah... well - not as it should look like. As it turned out, SketchUp is missing the feature of boolean operations (at least in the free version), which lead to the wheel rim not being recognized correctly and thus not printed.

Michael then introduced me to OpenSCAD which does include boolean operations, and quickly tried to reproduce my design. The result looked much better :-) The small wheel was also reproduced using OpenSCAD, and I went home with two feels to fit to my vehicles.