For the Emperor!
I'm hoping this will be of vague interest to at least simonmarshall since it covers something we were talking about a few days back...
So I recently decided to fulfill something that I'd wanted to do since I was a kid, which was to get in to Warhammer 40,000. Back when I was young I lived with my mum and we didn't have all that much money, so it was a hobby that I couldn't get in to pretty much purely due to the expense. So fast forward nineteen years and a grinning chump (me) hands over £1,000 for a bunch of plastic, paint and a few tools. The best bit? I need to spend another few hundred before I can field an army... To be fair though I've not skimped on anything, I've bought some scenery and buildings, and I basically bought the entire paint range off the bat.
Anyway, most of the models are supplied on sprues which anyone who's ever assembled an Airfix kit will be familiar with. So to begin with you decide what you're going to build so that it fits in with your chosen army and deployment based on their codex (I'm fielding a Blood Angel army because they're as hard as nails and are slightly mental). Each unit costs a certain number of points, and based on how you're deploying them you get access to additional options (Wargear) which costs more points but yields benefits in enhanced or added abilities. I've fucked up a few units along the way by getting excited and building a squad using a wargear configuration deployment that's not valid but now that I know to check the codex before I start clipping and assembling it's all good.
Assembly is more of less a case of clipping components out of sprues, filing down rough edges and mould lines, then carefully glueing them together. You then prime the model with a spray basecoat of paint, then layer paint up to your chosen colour scheme. Apologies for the poor picture quality, I can't find the charger for my digital camera so I had to use my phone instead.
So after assembly an unpainted model with no basecoat will look something like this...
Once I've basecoated and painted them, mine look something like this (Please bear in mind this was my first attempt!)...
There is no flash on my camera (I was using my 3GS) so the metallic/reflective effect is meant to be worn paint over the metal of the Tactical Dreadnought armour. It's applied by "drybrushing" which is literally painting with a virtually dry brush with a metallic paint which means it only catches on the raised areas.
Death Company Assault Marine - I was talking to SimonMarshall the other day after he left me a massively useful response about painting/modelling tips about highlighting so this will give him an idea of just how bad I am at doing it! To be fair though this model is 28mm tall, and when it's not viewed at maximum close up it doesn't look too bad.
simonmarshall: I've just assembled a team of Assault Terminators and I'm waiting for my Army Painter red base spray to arrive so that I can base them with it. Really looking forward to how that turns out as opposed to the Chaos Black Spray / Mechrite Red base / Scab & Mechrite / Scab / Blood Red I've been using so far. I'll take some pics as I go so hopefully it'll give an indication of progress.
The only problem is that once you think you're getting ok at this, you view the work of others and it makes you want to quit...
(None of these are mine, they're all images I've found online from other enthusiasts)
Technically these aren't valid but the guy who painted these Assault Terminators in Death Company colours is going to field them as a regular Elite choice. I'm toying with the idea myself actually since they look awesome. I'm going to try and use this as a reference for edge highlighting my Death Company troops.
The detailing here is awesome.
I saved the best for last...
Fuck. Me. Not only is this the best paint job I've seen, the guy airbrushed the reflection of the glow from this marine's plasma gun on to his power armour :O Awesome isn't the word!
So I recently decided to fulfill something that I'd wanted to do since I was a kid, which was to get in to Warhammer 40,000. Back when I was young I lived with my mum and we didn't have all that much money, so it was a hobby that I couldn't get in to pretty much purely due to the expense. So fast forward nineteen years and a grinning chump (me) hands over £1,000 for a bunch of plastic, paint and a few tools. The best bit? I need to spend another few hundred before I can field an army... To be fair though I've not skimped on anything, I've bought some scenery and buildings, and I basically bought the entire paint range off the bat.
Anyway, most of the models are supplied on sprues which anyone who's ever assembled an Airfix kit will be familiar with. So to begin with you decide what you're going to build so that it fits in with your chosen army and deployment based on their codex (I'm fielding a Blood Angel army because they're as hard as nails and are slightly mental). Each unit costs a certain number of points, and based on how you're deploying them you get access to additional options (Wargear) which costs more points but yields benefits in enhanced or added abilities. I've fucked up a few units along the way by getting excited and building a squad using a wargear configuration deployment that's not valid but now that I know to check the codex before I start clipping and assembling it's all good.
Assembly is more of less a case of clipping components out of sprues, filing down rough edges and mould lines, then carefully glueing them together. You then prime the model with a spray basecoat of paint, then layer paint up to your chosen colour scheme. Apologies for the poor picture quality, I can't find the charger for my digital camera so I had to use my phone instead.
So after assembly an unpainted model with no basecoat will look something like this...
Once I've basecoated and painted them, mine look something like this (Please bear in mind this was my first attempt!)...
There is no flash on my camera (I was using my 3GS) so the metallic/reflective effect is meant to be worn paint over the metal of the Tactical Dreadnought armour. It's applied by "drybrushing" which is literally painting with a virtually dry brush with a metallic paint which means it only catches on the raised areas.
Death Company Assault Marine - I was talking to SimonMarshall the other day after he left me a massively useful response about painting/modelling tips about highlighting so this will give him an idea of just how bad I am at doing it! To be fair though this model is 28mm tall, and when it's not viewed at maximum close up it doesn't look too bad.
simonmarshall: I've just assembled a team of Assault Terminators and I'm waiting for my Army Painter red base spray to arrive so that I can base them with it. Really looking forward to how that turns out as opposed to the Chaos Black Spray / Mechrite Red base / Scab & Mechrite / Scab / Blood Red I've been using so far. I'll take some pics as I go so hopefully it'll give an indication of progress.
The only problem is that once you think you're getting ok at this, you view the work of others and it makes you want to quit...
(None of these are mine, they're all images I've found online from other enthusiasts)
Technically these aren't valid but the guy who painted these Assault Terminators in Death Company colours is going to field them as a regular Elite choice. I'm toying with the idea myself actually since they look awesome. I'm going to try and use this as a reference for edge highlighting my Death Company troops.
The detailing here is awesome.
I saved the best for last...
Fuck. Me. Not only is this the best paint job I've seen, the guy airbrushed the reflection of the glow from this marine's plasma gun on to his power armour :O Awesome isn't the word!