WIGDTM: January 2011 Edition

Welcome to the first episode of the monthly "What I've Gotten Done This Month" feature (I've just made that up). Let's get straight to the beef.

1. Five Noise Marine test models: Assembly + 75% painting

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I'm happy to have finally made some real painting progress, but those still need to be properly finished off. Scroll down for a list of steps already done on them, and what I have yet to do. By the way, the alibi basing was done for the Custodes Motivational Challange 2011, and they'll be stripped off as soon as I get my Dragonforge ones.




2. Vindicare Assassin Assembly, Basecoat

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I found was a badly mauled Micro Art warmachine skull base, which fit him well for the ork skull that is part of the sculpt. So I hacked and filed away the remaining borders and did some GSing where the base was already broken, and, ta-dah, here he is. Got a black basecoat in the meantime, nothing special.



And here's a quick breakdown of steps for the Noise Marine scheme above. As a rule, I apply 2 thinned down coats of the respective colors per step.

1. Basecoats, pre-wash highlights

1a) GW Black Primer + thinned down GW Chaos Black
1b) Foundation Dheneb Stone as a basecoat for the pink, bone/leather/wood and blue
1c) GW Skull White highlights for bone/leather/wood - the parts that are supposed to remain boney.
1d) Vallejo Squid Pink and Electric Blue for pink/blue surfaces
1e) Vallejo Silver for the metals and golds, GW Burnished Gold afterwards
1f) highlight the blue with a mix of Electric Blue and Dheneb Stone, 3 steps (20:80/40:60/20:80), a touch of pure Dheneb Stone as a finish

1g) Dheneb Stone basecoat for the bases
1h) slight Skull White drybrush on the sand

2. Washes

2a) massive layer of slightly thinned Vallejo Red Shade for the pink, manual flow control for larger surfaces, overspill is okay.
2b) thin GW Badab Black wash to dull down the golds
2c) thin GW Asurmen Blue wash on the silver and blue
2d) some brush tips of unthinned GW Asurmen Blue on the more contrasting metal/blue parts (like surface transitions, deep cracks...)
2e) quite thin GW Devlan Mud wash on the bone/leather/wood

2f) Devlan Mud wash for the sand on the base
2g) Dheneb Stone touchup for the base trim
2h) glue patches of grass on the base

3) What I still have to do

- steps 1e) to 2d) on the models yet missing them
- touch up bone and pink with slight drybrushing where the washes misfired, using 1-3 shades mixed with the respective washes
- highlight the pink with pure Squid Pink, clean up the eyes, highlight with dots of lit up electric blue
- finish highlighting metals and golds with their pure respective base colors
- clean up the black, highlight up to Vallejo Wolf Grey on the sharpest edges, dull down with thinned Badab Black where neccessary
- if needed, re-wash transitions between pink and black with Red Shade to give it a good glowing look
- varnish
- order, paint, and apply Dragonforge bases


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