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Diary of a Newbie Painter
Published on 06 July 2011 - 16:42:09
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Reply #331 | Published on 18 May 2012 - 23:41:55

While I'm at it, here's a little something I'd neglected to photograph before. We use a house rule that when a tank is destroyed, it leaves in its square a bit of wreckage that works like an ammo crate. When one of the allied medium walkers is destroyed, I simply pop the head off and leave it on the board (it's a pretty disheartening sight). But for some of the other walkers it's not so easy to pop parts off, so we use some of the leftover pieces from the walker boxes. Here are some of them, which I played with to be more like proper wreckage:

Suck my Mickey

Reply #332 | Published on 19 May 2012 - 05:12:13

 Excellent house rule. They look great but what is that gloss?

Siouxfire

Reply #333 | Published on 19 May 2012 - 09:04:52

Siouxfire said:

Excellent house rule. They look great but what is that gloss?

You mean the scratches and holes with metallic paint?

Suck my Mickey

Reply #334 | Published on 19 May 2012 - 11:44:51

Loophole Master said:

 

You mean the scratches and holes with metallic paint?

LOL - In the photo it looks like you've used the new GW line of washes.

Siouxfire

Reply #335 | Published on 19 May 2012 - 11:59:07

Haha, no, it's just the light reflecting right off the silver paint.

Suck my Mickey

Reply #336 | Published on 22 May 2012 - 22:54:36

Finally went ahead and finished the Punisher by doing the weathering:

Please excuse the picture overdose. This took a while and I'm quite proud of it. 

Anyhow, did all sorts of things here. Sponge chipping with different combinations of gray and red, quite a bit of heavy drybrushing with a reddish colour for some rust, some metallic touches to some corners… After all was said and done, I'm quite pleased with the end result. It made me appreciate this unit a lot more.

Suck my Mickey

Reply #337 | Published on 22 May 2012 - 23:45:15

Each mini (or in this case, maxi) you paint looks better than the last, loopy.

Truly badass.

"Lesson number one: trust no one. The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them!"

                                                                                                                               -Col. Hunter Gathers, The Venture Bros.

Reply #338 | Published on 23 May 2012 - 15:45:03

 Ach great job as always, i love the rust on the dozer blade… It makes me sad to think you runned out of minis to paint:(

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Reply #339 | Published on 24 May 2012 - 21:21:55

Are you thinking of starting up some SSU Loophole?

Honor, Duty, Valor…all good but I need my payment if you want some lead flying towards your enemies…

 

Reply #340 | Published on 24 May 2012 - 21:25:17

Well, I ain't buying SSU units. But it seems a friend of mine will pick them up, so I'll probably end up painting them.

Suck my Mickey

Reply #341 | Published on 30 May 2012 - 08:45:26

Here's the bit of work I did on my Premium Sturmkonig. It's not much, and I really should have taken a "before" picture so that the changes would be more obvious.

What I did was apply some sand highlights to most of the upper body, making the edges more visible, painted the leg hoses black and washed the legs a bit, and added some metallic highlights to some components like the legs, antenna and searchlights.

Suck my Mickey

Reply #342 | Published on 30 May 2012 - 13:44:52

 Hmm for such a big beast they schould give him more camo. Looks too common ;)

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Reply #343 | Published on 30 May 2012 - 14:11:43

Well, yeah. Specially compared to my Punisher. I must admit I'm a bit disappointed in the heavy walker premium paint job. The walker is so large that they seem to gloss over big parts of it, without adding any detailing and texture to several bits. The parts they painted are great, but there should be more of them.

Suck my Mickey

Reply #344 | Published on 30 May 2012 - 14:57:15
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 Great picture! and great army! just a little question, why different colour for the axis walker? why not searching uniformity of camo?

 

Without Signature

Reply #345 | Published on 30 May 2012 - 15:02:54

This was something I decided from the very beginning. I love the personality of all the Dust units, and I wanted that to shine through. I didn't want to be uncertain for a second whether that squad was the BBQ or the Hell Boys, whether that walker was the Mickey or the Hot Dog. That is why I don't play with multiples of the same unit, and that is why I don't care for colour uniformity for each faction. I do have some overall themes that the factions tend to stick to, like the blue-gray armor for the allies and the dark gray armor for the axis. I really don't like it when I see those pictures of uniform armies and it's just a mass of olive soldiers and gray tanks. Really uninspiring.

Suck my Mickey

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