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And finally, old watchers of the thread might remember this guy: Since the Dusk Raiders idea was long dead, I decided to make this into an IF contemptor. I cut away the icon on the torso and printed a new one to go in its place. The plasmacannon has gone missing but I plan on printing several new weapons for it. He also got some paint tonight. Just base coats post-masking and looks a little odd in a few spots, but I was having so much trouble supporting and printing Garadon and then fething with the airbrush for days, I needed to post something to keep my motivation going.
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Been a while and I have been working on some stuff and first up I some parts to modify the sarge and the sarge double because I didn't like the way the flamer sat on the hip. And the airbrushed basecoats. I also wanted to print my own Tor Garadon and it was the most complex digital conversion I've done so far, mixing a pre-made parts and some of my own that I modeled myself. The blue bits are all from one creator, the green bits are from various others, and the orange bits were all made by me. The legs, torso, tabard, right arm/cables and backpack (minus gun and cables) I decided to print as one solid piece because I wasn't sure the cables and all the other bits would line up afterward if printed separately. Garadon looked like he was a larger than a normal gravis marine so I made him up 15%, which didn't seem that much bigger in the 3d program, and then I printed him and realized I made him yuge. Oh, and the gravis head I modified wouldn't fit in the collar after printing and I had printed some of these knightly helmets to swap out the terminator heads... which wouldn't fit in their collars. And after several days of trying to diagnose why my airbrush wasn't cooperating, I finally got some base coat layers on him.
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Aaaaaaaaaand I bought the Levithan box. I'm weak and I apparently have an addiction. Terminators and dread are prepped, inferno squad prep almost done, and I still need to make a few decisions on the libby and captain before they're ready for paint. Speaking of the terminators, I've never liked the look of the storm bolter all that much and I wanted to use an assault bolter without the gun shield or handles in its place and had trouble locating some official ones -- none I was willing to shell out for on eBay or digital ones to print -- so I made my own. There's a few details I want to clean up or change, but I'm really happy with it and it's the first thing I completely modeled. And instead of wasting any more time with a custom chapter paint scheme that I can't seem to be happy with, I'm stealing one. Not sure if I'm going to say they're Imperial Fists or make up a successor. Test on a 3d printed terminator that was scaled too big to fit in with the plastics. Custom heads for the inferno guys. And some reinforcements for after I finish the Levi box contents.
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In the context of them not being in the Index and why only Azrael appears. The lore is a different topic, yes. The models are going away though. GW is finally beginning the first steps of culling all the firstborn from the game.
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The Lion accepted all the Fallen back into the chapter if they didn't actually turn to chaos. Gets rid of the whole need of Interrogator Chaplains from the lore, and retires the short marine minis at the same time.
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There is a similar head on the plastic banshees sprue, but it's not the same. It's not as tall, doesn't have the same sweeping curve on the upper part, doesn't have the 'blades' that come off the side of the helmet, and worst of all is it has the same ugly nose-less face plate as the other plastic banshees. The mouth goes all the way up between the eyes and is just... hideous. Looks more like something out of Hellraiser than 40k eldar to me. It may not be easy to see what I mean about the type I like so here's an art piece that shows off the mask really well.
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The group of folks my brother and I are going to start playing 10th with want to begin with Combat Patrol rules and go on to the normal game from there. It also gives some of the people starting a new army (or their first one) to build up their army. I've decided to go with Eldar since I already have everything that comes in the Combat Patrol box (though I did get 6 of the new Windrider bikes) and I want to continue my progress on the Corsairs anyway. Dragging out what I think is all my eldar stuff - I'm terrible at organizing my minis and there could still be stuff in other boxes - I started to take an inventory and look at what options I have for expansion beyond the contents of a Combat Patrol. I knew I had a lot of the old jetbikes on sprue, but 41 is more than I thought. Seven Vypers, too. I had big plans for a Saim-Hann jetbike army back in the day when Bartertown was where a lot of folks sold or traded 40k stuff and anytime I saw some jetbikes for a good price, whether is a few or as many as 10-12, I grabbed them up. As for aspect warriors, I have some Artel W alternate models for Scorpions and Warp Spiders but some old metal versions of a few others. Dark Reapers: 4 really old ones, 2 kind of old ones, and only launchers for 2 of each. Since the new Maugan Ra is so different from this old model maybe I could use this model as the exarch. Banshees: I do have the arms for them, they're just not pictured. I also have 5 of the new plastic ones, but I don't like the heads on the new ones at all. I've tried to find a 3d modeler to commission making some of these 'squid' banshee heads I could put on the plastic bodies but the three I've talked to that even agreed to hear what I was interested in said 'no' for various reasons. So these might get painted up sometime soon. Fire Dragons: Old metal again (better than Failcast!) with the exarch being my most recent tester for the corsair paint scheme. Not sure what I'm going to do if Aspects can only be taken in squads of 10 like some of the marine units. Sure as hell aren't buying failcast. For my two old FW Wave Serpents, I found some 3d replacement parts for the shield generator bits I printed out because the previous owner of them used so much superglue to attach them to the hull that it oozed out around them and few of them look like he didn't get it seated right and smeared around for a second or two. I removed all the old generator bits (most had damage anyway) and got the superglue residue off but I still need to do some sanding and maybe put some filler in a couple spots. But DAMN do these replacement bits look good! And in non-xenos news, I printed a skull base for Khârn by taking a blank base, a few skull models, a whole lot of time copying, pasting, and adjusting a whole bunch of skulls.
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30-40 minutes of sponge chipping on Ghaz. And making some updated Fire Prism turrets for myself.
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I've always liked greenskins but stayed away as much as possible because I could easily get sucked into converting every single model in a horde army and I have enough trouble finishing models as it is that I don't want to do conversions on every one of them. The yellow on the orks that I painted for the original owner, probably 8 years ago now, was a Reaper color that is no longer made (I was using it for small Imperial Fists force at the time), but I had this idea of thinning down some normal thinned green paint to go over it. Even that approach was still too much work for the friend and we gave it another go in 2019 when Contrast came out, but some folks just can't do the mini painting side of the hobby. The newer yellow I'm using for Ghaz was initially Vallejo Model Color Flat Yellow, but it was... well... too flat and boring. A 50/50 mix with AK Interactive Volcanic Yellow got me that hint of golden yellow I was looking for without going full Imperial Fists. I still want the Bad Moons yellow to reflect the sort of caution yellow that construction vehicles have. The shading is with Vallejo Xpress Color Martian Orange - their Contrast-like paint line - which I airbrush from below and then in a few specific spots from above. Where needed, I filled in areas that the airbrush didn't get to or pulled it back with the yellow mix if it got where I didn't want it.
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A fresh coat of paint in a different yellow and I'm on my way with a lot of slow glazing work to start adding some shading and one of the worst experiences ever trying to paint a part of a model - Gaz's face - because it's behind all the huge protrusions from the gob and his own tusk. I knew it was going to be a pain even before I printed it, but damn.
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My brother wanted to try out some Bad Moons contrast so I airbrushed some of the monopose nobz from Assault on Black Reach as well as the Fungus Chungus, with a basecoat of a medium brown, white zenithal, and then Bad Moons on top of it... and neither one of us really care for the greenish tinge to the color and prefer the golden yellow I originally sprayed on the figures years ago for the first owner. The yellow is a lot brighter in this pic due to my desk lamp, and I was finally able to get the arms to stick long enough for a pic.
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That's a nice looking combo for ork skin and I'll pass that along to my brother, thanks! In other news, you ever vastly underestimate the size of a model that you want to strip the paint from and the container it will go in? Probably not very often. How many times do you need to paint strip a gargantuan squiggoth though? New 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot? NOPE! Not wide enough and if I placed the big hunk of resin in there vertically, it would take probably 5 gallons of Super Clean to cover it and I would want to cover it completely and not have to worry about flipping it over and resting it on its face and pointed tongue. That thing is a solid lump of resin and is quite hefty. Big square container that a huge amount of cat litter came in? Also nope. I didn't want to spend $30-40 on a container just for this, or that much in Super Clean to use one of those two options, and set about trying to find something in the house that would work. Ended up using a plastic drawer from a cheap little storage container in the garage but it would only accommodate one half of the monstrous resin hunk when laying on its side and took nearly two days to get the old paint properly loose. Turned out well in the end, though. I'm definitely using a rattle can to prime this thing and not my airbrush!
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Welp, looks like my brother has decided he can't paint the sisters to a standard he's happy with right now, and returned the boarding patrol and the whatever box set he also got. Around the time we were doing that, a friend who got out of the hobby gave my brother all of his 40k stuff which is mostly orks. There's a lot of stuff - and a good bit of it is pewter - but the last time the guy played a game his orks still had a Mob Up rule and there's almost 100 assembled boyz in various states of paintin, and around 70 more in loose parts and stuff still on sprues. My brother is really liking the greenskins and I came up with a way to quickly paint some Bad Moons for the friend a while back but never got around to trying it. Which is paint the skin and tunic/armor yellow (airbrushing in my case) and putting green Contrast over it to try to get the lighter, more olive/lime skin shade I like. Left is the yellow airbrushed on, middle is 2 layers of the Vallejo Xpress Color Orc Skin, and right is one layer of Contrast Orc Flesh I like the Xpress Color in the middle best, but my brother likes the Contrast better. Good news is that he seems have a much easier time with less than amazing results on the orks compared to the sisters he was painting and there will definitely be more ork stuff to show off in the future. Like a Gargantuan Squiggoth I currently have soaking in paint stripper, or this alternate Ghaz model I found and printed. I'm painting those last two. :) On my end, I think I'm going to try going into 10th with Eldar instead of marines. On the super-heavy side of that, I've been wanting to get a better distortion cannon for my Cobra grav tank for a long time, and I tried digital kitbashing something from mostly d-cannons used on the heavy weapons platform or the like 'cause the one Cobra scale gun I found looked all kinds of wrong. So I modeled it myself, taking measurements from the real thing with calipers, and with some pointers by a friend when I got stuck in the modeling program. The render: The print next to the real thing. And on the tank itself. IT'S SO PRETTY!
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