Ultramarines Rhino Finished

Here's a bunch of pics and a video of the first tank for my Ultramarines army. Its also the first airbrushing I've done for them, so I made sure to do a video tutorial to show how that progressed. There's some weathering as well, but a lot of it disappeared when I did the matte spray... I need to do something to fix that.

The paints used are after the break, and a full explanation is in the video.

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Phoenix Guard WIP 2

I'm getting closer to finishing these guys... still working on the grey/white steps, then its on to the non-metallic gold and small details. I'm glad I only did 15 of these guys in this batch. If I had done more each step would have been a bit overwhelming and would have slowed things down a bit too much.

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High Elf Phoenix Guard WIP

I had a request to do these guys a while back, and they finally have made it up my queue to get painted. I decided to do 15 of them at once, and judging by the length of time its taking to get the base coats done I'm glad I didn't do more. They are kind of fiddly, but I think I'm past the hard part.

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Flamespyre Phoenix Finished Pictures and Tutorial video

Hey, after last week's distraction with those technical paints I'm back with another tutorial. I finally got my airbrush out to get this guy done, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Keeping the wings detached helped a lot and the design on the mini really lends to using this sort of technique. The airbrush part is shown in the video at 4x speed with commentary, then still images for the rest as usual.

More pictures, video and painting guide after the jump.

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Review: New Citadel technical paints UPDATED

So I zipped over to GW today and picked up all six of the new technical paints so that I could give them a try and post up a review. I've done that in the video below, and summarized it in print here.

UPDATE:
There seems to be lots of controversy about Agrellan Earth... apparently its not working for people and GW is saying its a bad batch. The GW I purchased mine at now says that they are out of stock, which I think means they pulled it off the shelves. Anyway, I was able to get mine to work and have posted a picture below of what I was able to achieve.

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Rogue Idol Finished (plus tutorial video)

Here's that Rogue Idol that's been showing up the in the background of some of my pictures. This guy was a fun distraction from some of the other projects, mostly because its basically dry brushing stone and adding some extra depth. I'm glad to add this to my Orc and Goblin collection... now I just need to paint up some more Orcs (and goblins).

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A little airbrushing (Ultramarines tanks and Flamespyre Phoenix)

I finally had a block of time where I was able to get my airbrush out and get some serious work done. I managed to get a rhino and landraider done before moving over to the Flamespyre Phoenix. I'm happy with how those turned out, and once I have a chance to add some details and weathering to the rhino and landraider they will be ready to go. I really enjoyed working on the Flamespyre, so it jumped right onto my painting table for finishing because it looks so cool. Now I want to get another kit so I can make up the frostheart and paint it up as well.

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Ultramarine Terminators Finished and Tutorial

Got these guys finished pretty quickly. Its nice to have small squads instead of huge 30 man boyz mobs... things go so much quicker and are much less tedious. Now that I've done a bunch of Ultramarine things they are painting up faster as well, so that helps as well. I'll have to get some vehicles done soon, and maybe another tactical squad so that I'll have a usable army. I also have a bunch of stuff on order (including legion of the damned!) so once that arrives I'll have some fun stuff to do as well. Anyway, video of the whole process (one guy, 4x speed) below as well as a bunch of pics.

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Orc Rogue Idol WIP

I've had a lot of comments on my youtube videos lately noticing this guy in the background.... so here are some more pictures. I've been doing some painting on this guy in between projects, and he's pretty simple overall. Basically doing a rock drybrushing on most of the stuff then some moss and weathering...

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Forgeworld Mega Dread Finished

Here's that Ork Mega Dread that I've been working on. I wasn't sure how the weathering would go, but in the end it was pretty simple, and I think it turned out quite well. I basically painted him up quickly and jabbed 4 different weathering powders onto different areas. With all the different panels and bits the weathering powders really do all the work. They to forgeworld scale models what devlin mud is to figures (liquid talent).

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