Sukigod's All-In-One Painting Log
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Quick update. Masked off the metallics and based with an airbrush using Mephiston Red Base. Darker than I had anticipated but it worked well.
Then a coat of Tamiya X7 flat red and topped off with Blood Red.
I snapped a panel off during painting so I'll need to reattach it of course. I ran out of Blood Red after the first gun so a trip to the local hobby shop for one of the new reds is in order to continue.
Later!
Then a coat of Tamiya X7 flat red and topped off with Blood Red.
I snapped a panel off during painting so I'll need to reattach it of course. I ran out of Blood Red after the first gun so a trip to the local hobby shop for one of the new reds is in order to continue.
Later!
Sukigod
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Long weekend gives me some time to work on the guns!
I finished up airbrushing the other guns with Evil Sunz Red and I think this is a better top-end red than Blood Red was, not so orange. I also cleaned up the overspray with black and marked out the areas that will get metallic treatment, mainly where the gouges in the metal are.
I don't think I can say this enough either.... CERAMITE WHITE IS THE BEST PAINT IN THE NEW RANGE - PERIOD.
I wish they had come out with this years ago. Granted, I did do two coats but that was because I thinned it down a bit for outlining the white areas first. This covers so well it's ridiculous. Anyway, on to the paint
Next is the chipping, followed by metallics, a dirt wash and final dry brush highlights and I can seal them and call them done! Woohooo!
Later!
I finished up airbrushing the other guns with Evil Sunz Red and I think this is a better top-end red than Blood Red was, not so orange. I also cleaned up the overspray with black and marked out the areas that will get metallic treatment, mainly where the gouges in the metal are.
I don't think I can say this enough either.... CERAMITE WHITE IS THE BEST PAINT IN THE NEW RANGE - PERIOD.
I wish they had come out with this years ago. Granted, I did do two coats but that was because I thinned it down a bit for outlining the white areas first. This covers so well it's ridiculous. Anyway, on to the paint
Next is the chipping, followed by metallics, a dirt wash and final dry brush highlights and I can seal them and call them done! Woohooo!
Later!
Sukigod
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Did get the chipping and metallics done today. The primer level is a sponged on mix of Chaos Black and Scorched Brown. The metals are only Boltgun Metal at this point, also sponged on. I've also gone back through and filled the deep scratched and large crush areas with a brush as the sponge doesn't cover those spaces well.
Here's a closer look at the chipping.
Next is a wash with airbrush, highlights with a dry brush of a Blaze-y Orange color for the reds, Mithril for the metals, seal with Dulcote and them wrap the grips with hockey tape and I can call them done!
Later!
Here's a closer look at the chipping.
Next is a wash with airbrush, highlights with a dry brush of a Blaze-y Orange color for the reds, Mithril for the metals, seal with Dulcote and them wrap the grips with hockey tape and I can call them done!
Later!
Sukigod
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Sukigod
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Ok, been a crazy six months since I've posted anything. I took a second job as an adjunct instructor at the local technical college teaching web design and development. Although I've always been told "You would make a great teacher!", I've never been one, until now. Sooooo….
All of my free time has been taken up with learning how to be an effective teacher and what my teaching style would be/is like. I also needed to generate all of my own content as the previous instructor was not forthcoming with their materials. Double drag there. This, all on top of my normal 40+ hours job at the advertising agency.
Granted, I'm only teaching 3 credits this semester but will be picking up more in the spring. I know there is more time in the first year or so in "getting things set up" so the first class will already have been established. Now that I'm getting into the swing of things I can start settling down a bit and move slowly back towards doing some of my hobby stuff! Yay!
Besides, I can't let Uberdark be the only one to have a "comeback" from the Big Mek graveyard - even if he is including Tau…. (btw, this all started with Uber asking if I was up for another Big Mek Showdown…..)
Since it's bad practice to resurrect a thread without photos, I have to admit I wasn't completely stagnant in the intervening months. I was "commissioned" to paint a very special gift for my best friend. His little brother, who I know as well, retired from the Marines this last summer after 22 years of service. (F#&% I'm old..) He also plays 40K as Blood Angels. My friend got ahold of a T-hawk and asked me to paint it for him. So that 's what I'm working on now. I haven't touched it in three months and will be trying to complete it by Thanksgiving. Here's the pics I have so far…
I know, sorry for the flood of shots. These were taken over the course of a couple of months. I have completed the metallics but haven't taken pics yet. I need to do the iconography and the front set of heavy blotters (which I forgot to do at the same time (face-palm) ).
I can't wait to wrap this one up and get back to reds on orks instead!
Later!
All of my free time has been taken up with learning how to be an effective teacher and what my teaching style would be/is like. I also needed to generate all of my own content as the previous instructor was not forthcoming with their materials. Double drag there. This, all on top of my normal 40+ hours job at the advertising agency.
Granted, I'm only teaching 3 credits this semester but will be picking up more in the spring. I know there is more time in the first year or so in "getting things set up" so the first class will already have been established. Now that I'm getting into the swing of things I can start settling down a bit and move slowly back towards doing some of my hobby stuff! Yay!
Besides, I can't let Uberdark be the only one to have a "comeback" from the Big Mek graveyard - even if he is including Tau….
(btw, this all started with Uber asking if I was up for another Big Mek Showdown…..)Since it's bad practice to resurrect a thread without photos, I have to admit I wasn't completely stagnant in the intervening months. I was "commissioned" to paint a very special gift for my best friend. His little brother, who I know as well, retired from the Marines this last summer after 22 years of service. (F#&% I'm old..) He also plays 40K as Blood Angels. My friend got ahold of a T-hawk and asked me to paint it for him. So that 's what I'm working on now. I haven't touched it in three months and will be trying to complete it by Thanksgiving. Here's the pics I have so far…
I know, sorry for the flood of shots. These were taken over the course of a couple of months. I have completed the metallics but haven't taken pics yet. I need to do the iconography and the front set of heavy blotters (which I forgot to do at the same time (face-palm) ).
I can't wait to wrap this one up and get back to reds on orks instead!
Later!
Sukigod
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More like the Bounty Squad! The Quicker Picker Uppers
(heh, I think I'll leave it that way too - funnier!)
Sukigod
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All right. Been gone a while, lotsa things going on in my life keeping me away from the bench. I took a second job teaching web design and development and I've never taught (professionally) so I've been teaching myself how to teach (head spinning yet?). I did lie a little though, I Wasn't completely idle. Although I didn't spend much time at my modeling/painting bench, the time spent there was doing something special for a friend.
My best friends brother has retired after 22+ years in the Marines so my friend acquired a Thunderhawk and asked me to paint it for them. It is now finished and I can give it back so it can be presented to the retired Marine by Christmas (maybe even Thanksgiving). It was an interesting challenge painting something this large but I learned a lot and these lessons can and will be applied when I tackle the blasta bomma.
Without further delay, the T-hawk...
The acquisition was of a less than perfect casting so there were many issues and small details that are gone, this is the reason why I didn't absolutley kill every single detail on this. We talked about it and we were both fine with a very nice tabletop quality job.
I do have one other non-orky project in the pipeline but at least it will have some green. I'll be flip flopping between this and picking back up on a bunch of projects I had going for the last year or so and need completing (yes, like the bomma).
It's good to be back.
Later!
My best friends brother has retired after 22+ years in the Marines so my friend acquired a Thunderhawk and asked me to paint it for them. It is now finished and I can give it back so it can be presented to the retired Marine by Christmas (maybe even Thanksgiving). It was an interesting challenge painting something this large but I learned a lot and these lessons can and will be applied when I tackle the blasta bomma.
Without further delay, the T-hawk...
The acquisition was of a less than perfect casting so there were many issues and small details that are gone, this is the reason why I didn't absolutley kill every single detail on this. We talked about it and we were both fine with a very nice tabletop quality job.
I do have one other non-orky project in the pipeline but at least it will have some green. I'll be flip flopping between this and picking back up on a bunch of projects I had going for the last year or so and need completing (yes, like the bomma).
It's good to be back.
Later!
Sukigod
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Sheeze, three days back on the bench and it shows me what for... Did something today I haven't done in nearly 20 years - drove an exacto deep into my finger. One of those stupid things where two seconds before it happens you're thinking... "YA know, if that slips it's gonna go deep and hurt a lot..." SLIP! And in the 1/10th of a second it takes to go in and come back out, you're already thinking, "Yep, that's gonna bleed like a sonofabitch. Probably hurt too." Well, it did both. Pre-drilling pilot holes in gun barrels with the exacto to make sure it's nice and centered. The hole was a little off so I tried to push the blade to the side to correct and WHOOP... off the precariously balanced barrel tip and deep into my finger.
Welcome back to the bench!
Oh well, direct pressure and three band-aides later I'm ok. Typing is a little awkward but I'll handle. So if I'm making a post like this that means there's updates and pics. I've got both for ya all. It's amazing how much you can fit on a workbench when there isn't a Thunderhawk on it! There are four main projects I'm working on, all of them are green of a sort but not all are orks. First up is a kit my wife wanted me to make and paint for her. From Moebius it's the Bride of Frankenstein 1/8 scale model kit. This is a great model, well done. Also my first large format model with human(oid) figures. I've assembled, cleaned, puttied, sanded and primed the sub assemblies. Here's where it's at with all the parts in place. It's about 10" across and 9" high.
He's green, right? Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I've brought the blasta bommer back out and staged it so I can think about things while I'm working on other things. Working on my new dakka jet (below) I came up with some solutions that will allow me to move forward with this beasty. I'm starting to feel excited by this project again instead of the creative block I've had for some time.
This will segue nicely into the next portion of the new Red Jack Air Farce. I needed to create two rokkit paks for my new stormboyz mob as I sacrificed a number of important parts bashing my Wazzdakka model last year against Uberdark. Here's the new packs made from the bitz box scraps and some styrene tubing and channel.
This leads to the expansion of the original new-model stormboyz squad I started about a year and a half ago. I've added 10 more to the squadron and assembled a dakkajet today to go with'em.
So, this should give me (when completed) and aerial force of 1 blasta bomma, 1 dakkajet, 2 fighta bommas and two 20 strong stormboyz squad, 1 lead by a PK nob and the other by Zagstruk. There are four toy plane fighter bommas and some grot egg-plane fightas in the long range plans but nothing to show yet...
And for my last bit of green project.... (I'm bracing for screams of "traitor!....")
Yes, they will be green. I'll be starting small alliance force if 'umie. I've already got a skyshield landing pad and a bastion. I'll be adding just the standerd HQ Command Squad and two regular troop slots to start. Yes, I plan to add more, probably in the 7-9K points range when I'm all done so I can add super heavy tanks and the like. Expect lots of tanks
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Welcome back to the bench!
Oh well, direct pressure and three band-aides later I'm ok. Typing is a little awkward but I'll handle. So if I'm making a post like this that means there's updates and pics. I've got both for ya all. It's amazing how much you can fit on a workbench when there isn't a Thunderhawk on it! There are four main projects I'm working on, all of them are green of a sort but not all are orks. First up is a kit my wife wanted me to make and paint for her. From Moebius it's the Bride of Frankenstein 1/8 scale model kit. This is a great model, well done. Also my first large format model with human(oid) figures. I've assembled, cleaned, puttied, sanded and primed the sub assemblies. Here's where it's at with all the parts in place. It's about 10" across and 9" high.
He's green, right? Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I've brought the blasta bommer back out and staged it so I can think about things while I'm working on other things. Working on my new dakka jet (below) I came up with some solutions that will allow me to move forward with this beasty. I'm starting to feel excited by this project again instead of the creative block I've had for some time.
This will segue nicely into the next portion of the new Red Jack Air Farce. I needed to create two rokkit paks for my new stormboyz mob as I sacrificed a number of important parts bashing my Wazzdakka model last year against Uberdark. Here's the new packs made from the bitz box scraps and some styrene tubing and channel.
This leads to the expansion of the original new-model stormboyz squad I started about a year and a half ago. I've added 10 more to the squadron and assembled a dakkajet today to go with'em.
So, this should give me (when completed) and aerial force of 1 blasta bomma, 1 dakkajet, 2 fighta bommas and two 20 strong stormboyz squad, 1 lead by a PK nob and the other by Zagstruk. There are four toy plane fighter bommas and some grot egg-plane fightas in the long range plans but nothing to show yet...
And for my last bit of green project.... (I'm bracing for screams of "traitor!....")
Yes, they will be green. I'll be starting small alliance force if 'umie. I've already got a skyshield landing pad and a bastion. I'll be adding just the standerd HQ Command Squad and two regular troop slots to start. Yes, I plan to add more, probably in the 7-9K points range when I'm all done so I can add super heavy tanks and the like. Expect lots of tanks
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