Recent content by Hasdrubal

After a rather long painting hiatus, I've took up the brush again :D I'm pretty pleased with the mini, not quite with the pictures I managed to take, lots of the details having been lost. I focused on - shading and highlights of the armor panels - battle damage...

The model is completed, and available for voting here: http://www.coolminiornot.com/314095 I like it OK, wished I had managed to kill the decals shine, but I didn't succeed on each and every transfer.Overall, a very enjoyable kit on work on. Comments are welcome!

A quick project, up to tabletop quality, to have fun with Kromlech's Orc War 2 bits. It also was an experiment on a quick and fast way to paint ork skin, namely: - Vallejo Dark Yellow primer over the whole models - Iyanden Darksun (or its newer equivalent) airbrushed from a 45° angle - 2 coats...

Hi all, I'am loking at suitable paints to shade the old GW Iyanden Darksun yellow tone, which was a nice muted yellow. I use references from GW, Vallejo and P3 paints, but getting access to P3 is difficult from France, so I'd rather rely on your advice and suggestions rather was taking chances...

Hi all, After a nearly 1-year painting break, I've found the drive to go back to the painting table again. I've started working on hte latest GW Ork kit, the dakkajet, by assembling and painting the pilot: As it will be inserted in the cockpit, I've obviously placed more emphasis on zenithal...

Now that Necrons, have a new rulesbook available, I'm going to dust off and expand my army. I wanted to go fo something less usual. I quite like the turquoise, but I'm not so sure about the yellow used for the pads. Maybe I should keep them blue as well?

My summer WiP is done, this is what the model looks like after completion: The idea is a represent the flyer in the misdt of, or returning from mission, hence the scratches and chips received from incoming fire. Being an Imperial vehicle, it is supposed to be rather well maintained, so no...

In my quest for better and cheaper hobby supplies, I've purchased a bottle of Tollens Amsterdam 155 matt varnish on the recommandation of the art store' clerk. This tuff is thinned with turpentine, and tools need to be cleaned with turpentine after use too. Since I'm planning to spray it through...

This is the first valkyrie/vendetta I’m painting for my elysian airborne army. Being a gaming project, this is painted up to my tabletop standard for vehicles, ie. I’m not going the extra mile or pushing my limits on each and every details. Gotta want to play that army, and still have plenty of...

A first attempt at digicamo using Artool stencils. I've kept the weathering in check in order to get the look of a vehicle returning from a mission. This is my vehicle tabletop standard as I have 3 other Valks/Vendettas to apint, it isn't intended as a display piece...

I've been working on the first Valkyrie on my Elysean army for some time now, the project is shaping up nicely: I've used Artool stencils for the digicamo effect, great design but tricky to use on angled surfaces. The color transition on the edge highlighting was not hard enough, most of...

This is my first real attempt at blending and directional lighting. I realize I did not take enough time to maintain the same level of quality all around the mini, ans certainly took a wrong decision by doing edge highlight on the left shoulder pad. I focused my attention on the right-hand side...

Halo-inspired helmet visor: colors + blending question Hi all, I'm currently painting an FW Elysean force in a urban camo scheme (light tan, light grey, light grey green, brown), this is a very WiP shot (the lasgun and armor cabling have been painted with Charadon Granite since). To...

I'm looking at the moment for a paint that could replace Iyanden Darksun and be in a similar dark yellow tone. Ideally, it would be conditioned in a dropper bottle format, since that will make dilution for the airbrush much faster. I was thinking of either VMC Flat Yellow, VAC Gold Yellow. Any...

This is a project I've been working on for a couple of weeks now in order to try salt weathering techniques. The salt weathering in itself went quite quick, sprinkling salt over wetted areas, letting them dry before spraying the next paint layer, then brushing it off once the final coat had been...