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Dark Angels Land Raider Pre-Heresy Style
This is the second, more refined pimped-out rolling Shrine'O'War. This one I started just after I finished the 1st one (Crusader), that is in December 2004. I finished it in July 2005. This time I took more patience and made all the scratchbuilt parts from better material, so that no corrugated cardboard makes itself visible on the sponsons, as none was used. I also thought out the layout of the internal and external detail much more, with all the little icons having their places. I also took the advantage of my growing Greenstuff skills and just sculpted a lot of detail, which allowed me to really stick to painting when painting - I had all the places for freehand details prepared and I could just not think about them when wetblending the armour. Yes, the armour is wetblended this time (also used what I have learned through the last year). On the sides the armour is from pure black at the top to Goblin Green at the bottom (though the dirt slightly obscured the exact tone - that's a good thing, I don't fancy goblin green on his own). I also went for a shiny, blinking look, like it was polished just prior the battle and just happened to dust itself a bit as it cruised through the battlefield. I also refined the dozer blade - the niches have curved angles now, and the mechanisms at the sides are much more complicated than just sticks-and-bolts. All the interior is scratchbuilt, as I wanted it to represent a chapel, thus I needed more room inside - and there should be more room as the lascannons and generators are fully outside - so I made my own walls surrounding the wider interior. I wanted to get a bit monochromatic look, as there's so much detail that if there were too many colours it would just hurt the eyes. So I made all the details in the shades of green, singling out only the weapons and engine housing as red to fit the rest of the army. Comments welcome!
Posted: 14 Sep 2005
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