A Long Time Comin' ! Tank Update.

GOOD GOD! Its been nearly a month since my last post! YIKES!  Lots going on in these parts, but I have managed to get some stuff done on the tanks.  First, we have some basic undercolors blocked in.

Basic black and brown-black over metal areas and gribbly areas.

Blocked in base colors on the Demolisher. Now the layers and layers and layers of fun begin.....

Phase One of the Weathering/Detailing on the right compared to the blocked in colors on the left. Drybrushing of mud colors, rusty colors on the hull. Also a light wash in brown to bring out details. More drybrushing and washing to come, but you can start to see how it "tames" the brilliant camoflage down to something more realistic. Here's some more shots of some of the details. Still lots to do.

You can see how it dulls down the rust red bow panel too. There is still more dust,mud,paint chipping and battle damage(in some places) to be done, not to mention the rusty Chaos corruption. There will be fun with weathering powders, chalk pastels,washes and paint galore....b-but,wait.....w-who...what?..w-where'd this guy come from!....

Cheers Ya'll!

The Winds of Chaos and Real Life

Isn't it irritating when the real world interrupts your hobby time? I mean, seriously! The nerve!  Well, due to a series of fortunate and unfortunate events, none of which allowed for time at my hobby desk I will be in for a solid scolding from the Commisars at Boot Camp for missing my hobby vow for May. Unless I can figure out how to stop time in the next few hours... that is.

Here are the remaining Cultists/Penal troops in their varied states of completion. I haven't had a chance to touch the tanks since my last post.

 

The upside is I can do a couple mini tutorials that some of the guys around the web have asked for on how I've gotten some of the 'realism' with a could easy applications of washes on these guys. I'm still planning to get them done in the next couple weeks before the school year ends and my wife is off for the summer... and the "Honey-Do" list grows. Hopefully, next school year will bring a job change for yours truely, as I'm hoping to get back into the classroom again myself and get paint all over me with the rugrats, if possible...even if its only part time. Which would be better than what I'm doing now.

Either way, we'll forge ahead on the Sons of DOOooom and their allies.... and who knows what else. I'm itching to build something that flies once these tanks are done. That much is certain. I'll do my best to get an update in around the weekend.

Cheers Ya'll!

From the Workbench # 3

The camoflaging continues! One tank hull is completely done, the other will be finished up tonight, both turrets are done along with a full compliment of main guns. I'm concentrating on the ones I need to finish for the painting vow I took, with the third being a bonus I can finish after April 30 if need be. Here's the basic colors on the turrets and main guns.....

Demolisher,Executioner,Punisher and Exterminator(Old School Gatling style) The dark brown on the back of the turrets is a base for all the rust and general corruption to follow, which I plan to do after the basic weathering of the whole tank.. since much of it is, well..... alive. Icky.

Here's what the whole package looks like together at this stage.

Next up, detail and weathering. But that's it for now....

Cheers Ya'll!

From the Workbench #2

Procrastination. Procrastin-a-a-tion. Its making you wait. Its keeping you wa-ai-ting.

Yup. Typical. 20 days left on my 4 month "challenge" and I still find myself with 14 of 20 cultists to finish painting and two tanks to finish.  At least they are assembled and its down to a matter of details. Fully achievable, but.... ideally I should be finishing up the tanks right now. I'm betting I'll be posting my "Finally, I'm finished!" photos somewhere between April 28-30... though I'm setting a personal deadline for April 26 (the challenge deadline is "by May 1").... Anyways.... on to the pictures.....

I went with a Reaper Pale Olive. I'm kind of thinking a grey of similar tone would have also been a good choice, but this color reminds me of sage and the faded color of palmettos, so I thought it kind of works with the desert/dry scrub look.

The contrast color, instead of Chardon Granite this time, is Army Painter Oak Brown, which I think will look sharp once its all weathered down. It looks a bit garish when first applied.

Now comes the fun part of the Oak Brown freehand on the rest of the lot. I also now have a pallet for some uniform camoflage on some of the cultists- that should be about as fun to paint as a colonoscopy.

Eagerly awaiting my Tau Codex  YEAH.... you heard me right! What of it!  I need allies..... yeah, that's it.  Is it still considered bandwagon jumping if you've had a few boxes of minis collecting dust for literally years? I've got some paint scheme ideas in mind (one of which makes the insanity level of the one above look like child's play) but I must say I'm intrigued by the N'Dras paint scheme in the last White Dwarf.  I've always wanted to do an army in blues and greens. At the same time, the Tau scream for camoflage.... so I'm waiting on the new book.

I also have to apologize for the lack of comics (and posts) Part of it has been due to an unfortunate medical issue, the other a temporary dismantling of my art area. But I'm off to IKEA tomorrow to look for some handy dandy new lighting, so hopefully I can finish up some comics in between painting tanks and cultists. Keep a weather eye. The Ol' Rednekk is BACK!!

Cheers Ya'll!

From the Workbench! #1

Where the HECK have I been?!?! Yeah, I know. Unusual for me. I took a bit of a holiday. A couple days in hospital and a couple days in Sarasota, unannounced and unexpected. But, the Ol' Rednekk is back!  And here's what's on my workbench....

The Leman Russes are reprimed in their military brown... a color my ol' pappy would lovingly call "Hen Sh*t Brown" The Front panels of the tanks, including the captured one have been given a nice base of Model Master Acrylic Rust.  I had thought of a nice half Chaos Star ala the Vraks boys, but I'm leaning more towards half of a Nurgly Fly. Any votes?  You can see the 20 cultists/penal troops in varied stages of completion (anybody with a black base is done)
***I should probably mention.... I wasted 6 hours.Yes, 6. Trying to get the lozenge camoflage right Not as easy as it might look. To work, you have to be very rigid and stick to the color distribution. Something that is EXTREMELY hard to do when drawing in pencil on a Leman Russ. Can it be done? Yes.  But, you do it before you put on any stowage and as frightening as the idea of decal sheets of printed camoflage material sound, I think I'd rather give that a try than painting it... thus I started over. BUT... I managed not to lose my sh*t and throw any of the tanks against the wall, even after trying to paint them. Lesson learned... even at my age.**

"Now Kiss!"  These two have fixed sponsons. All Main guns on the new tanks are magnetized and interchangable. :)

This one kind of gives you an idea of what the finished paint scheme will look like though I keep playing with the idea of "tweaking" it a bit for these three. The logic being its from another region of Crixus, more barren and dry (like all my bases are) ...which is why the Iraqi Sand splotches are kind of sparse (see the pattern photo below) I'm thinking of adding in splotches of a color like Rotting Flesh. Then, either use Chardonite Granite, a dark brown or grey for the contrast/shadow color.

The plan for the front panel, is to "rust it up" a bit and put the Icon on there which will be in a muted sickly tanned green. Since the Sons of DOOooom do use the rusted Iron Fly icon I am really leaning towards that. Its a bit more original that the Vraks Chaos star and these guys are pretty much devoted to one God.... the stinky one.  For those that may not have looked into the archives, here's a pic of how this camo pattern comes together, though I may be adding a step this time around and tweeking the colors.

On the left is STAGE 1:British Military Brown with Iraqi Sand- then STAGE 2: Chardonite Granite
Time consuming? Yes. But simpler than it looks once you get the pattern in your head. But as you can see, the light colors are blocked in a lot heavier than on the Leman Russes above. Meaning I will either block in More Iraqi Sand or add the Rotting Flesh tomorrow.

 ONE MORE THING.... the SENTINALS!

They have all received their three tone rust overall schemes and the detailing will likely begin once the Russes and cultists are done since I made a vow to finish them over on the Boot Camp site and I hate being whipped by Commisars.

That's it from the Workbench of now! Still have to finish some artwork for ya'll, but there's likely to be more progress on the tanks before then. Not to mention, if you are as big of a geek as I am, this weekend's TV viewing will be AWESOME... and I ain't talking about no freekin' basketball. The Ol' Rednekk will be looking for Time Lords,Zombies,Dragons and my favorite short person named Tyrion. :)

Cheers Yall!

Blessings of the Grandfather

I've been 'blessed' by Grandfather Nurgle of late, with my semi-annual sinus infection (Florida and I don't get along very well anymore), so that's the only excuse I have for not posting.  I don't have a ton of progress to show, though I have been laying in base colors on all the penal troop/cultists.

One thing I've been agonizing over is the paint scheme for the Crixus military, which would later be corrupted/taken by the Chaos forces.  Maybe its the sinus headaches. Maybe its the whispers of the Dark gods. maybe its just too many meds. But I've decided on this classic...

Not those exact colors, but the lozenge pattern.  Or maybe I'm just crazy.

More work over the next couple days, should have some actual pictures of models up Wednesday night.

Cheers ya'll!

Warzone: Crixus #2.

Reposted from the Artwerks to its new permanent home, here's the second installment of Warzone:Crixus "An-anomory!"

"Just try to read it in the most outrageous, overblown Chinese delivery guy accent from a bad comedy movie you can. Yes,yes..... I know, terribly politically incorrect. But if you have any issues, you can blame the Playstation 2 game "Firewarrior" Its  all their fault, by golly.*wink*" JFS

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