spring jam day

So yesterday, friday, I came home at 1:30pm, because I dropped the class I had at 2pm, I failed a midterm in, so I withdrew from it. Anyway, my girlfriend had work from 5-10 yesterday, so I decided, hey, my dad is home, lets go buy some death squad guys, and build them. So I go to the games workshop dealer in woodbridge mall, they have none. So I stand there, "how much do I want to spend, ooo this is nice." So I walked out of there 81.50$ poorer, but well stocked on glue, green stuff, those clippers that GW makes cause I really needed a pair and couldn't find a good equivalent anywhere else, and an attack bike squadron. Super fun happy time! (started drinking about half hour ago, finishing this now, mmm Navan cognac).

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Anyway, point of this is, posting pics from ben folds and pics of my latest bikes, 1 ready for paint so far.

School is the biggest Hoover© I know...

So yeah, school (6 classes worth of college) is sucking the time right out of my day. I should be doing some Process Modeling right about now, but since I instead wanted to search for jobs last night (another very important thing that will make me either happy or sad in the future) I am not even done with my History readings yet.

Anyway, last night I did find time to glue my LeMartes to his base, and filed him down a little more. I figure I'll get the main body done by the end of May (along with several other tac marines, maybe even my assualt vet sgt) and then figure out what I want to do with adding some "Death Mask" features to him, along with his left shoulder pad, which I'm probably going to steal the design from someone on the Bolter and the Chainsword Blood Angels forum.

Anyway, time to go read history, lay out what I need for process modeling, and enjoy the rest of my day!

Oh, and good news, I finally finished that one assualt troop u see below, he looks pretty damn good.

One week later

So I started class again, so that means less time for painting... OR DOES IT!!!

No, it does, so I finally finished that assault troop, took forever, cause I didn't know what exactly I wanted. Anyway here are the pics

3 hours laters (production time)

Well, this bitch took 4 hours to paint, but i tried some new tricks, here are the results

Some 1hr at a time pics

Figured I'd show pics of how I get paint onto the guys.

1 hour

just a long post I made on my guild's website

Mal asked me a question that I answered with a ridiculously huge post, so I thought I'd add it here too.

Whats the blue putty it looks like your using for assembly? or is that just for test fitting?

hat painting style do you use? i prime/undercoat black, basecoat dark angels green, and give a 80/20 DA green/White mix for highlights on the armor(either edges, or overall, depending on how bright i want the model to be). Then its on to the other parts which generally get 2 coats, a base and highlight, and then its done.

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=prod...1201&lpage=none

They call is bluestick, I call it funtac, or at least thats what we called in when I was in elementary school. Its reuseable sticky putty, cleans off real easy, its sitting in a little ball on my desk currently.

I use it to pose the guys, see what things look like together, hang wall posters in my dorm. I carry my spare pieces in a little tubberware box, and always keep the ball of bluestick in there. On the one pic of my atk bike, you can see I was just using it to hold everything together, just to make sure I had all the pieces the way I wanted them, then I took pics so I can try to put it back the way I had it in the first place. So far its working out very well.


Painting wise? Thank god I live with 2 art majors, they've been really helpful in giving me good ideas and showing me some nice ways of getting low build-up. I've been priming with delta ceramics white gesso (You can se the bottle in the backgorund of one of my pics). I add black ink (i'm using standard higgins waterproof, hah, waterproof my ass, it's not waterproof) to my gesso so I get a nice dark grey base on my models, a little darker than what they start as. I add a lot of water to it, and just slap it on, it dries and sticks to the surface nicely, doesn't leave any bumps.

You might have noticed, I superglue my guys to the base, then glue the base to a bottle cap, so I can paint easier and have a heavier base.

Basecoat I use a medum pigment standard acrylic paint, but now I'm spray painting with GW chaos black, god it's so much easier. I didn't prime my last 2 guys, and they came out fine, the other guys I primed I didn't lose any detail on, so I'm split on that decision.

For my red, I'm dry brushing a high gloss red, rinsing my nylon flat brush often in a water/brush cleaner mixture to keep build up from forming. I don't paint anything red I don't want to be red later, like the brown waist bags, or the chest peice (tho I'm not worrying about spill over so far, I just go back and black it). When I say dry burshing I'm really taking my time, like 2-3 hours per model (I can do 1 guy from sprues to finished in 5 hours, at least that what the first test blood angel was, probably shorter now that I'm spray painting 3 guys and their guns at a time). Side note, for the tac troops, I basecoat guns and backpacks off, my assualt troops I'm spraying with jump packs on, just so I dont have the difference paint strokes).

One note on the black I'm using, since it is a medium pigment black, I thin it with the black higgins ink, gives great cover, thins just like water http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...c=119231&st=100

Progress

Well here are some of my guys finally with the right color paint on them, progress is slow, but it's all coming together now that I'm at home and not working. Hopefully I have 3 more guys completed before I leave for school tomorrow.

Also, what do we think about this pose?