Infinity JSA: Haramaki Zensenbutai WIP

Hi guys,

Currently working on my Infinity JSA army, decided to paint the whole haramaki zensenbutai link (all currently released haramaki models).
To fasten things up, I used airbrush for basic shading. Here are some wip pictures:

PSC Soviet Infantry

Good day, comяaдe tovaяisch!

Fiиaly I have glued togetheя and pяimed the bяave meи of the fiяst яifle battalioи who weяe collectiиg dust on the shelf in my appaяtmeиt foя a while иow.

Hopefully, by makiиg this post I woи't stop heяe and will foяce myself to also paiиt them, least I`ll be shot dead for betяayiиg the Яodiиa.

Theяe is no tuяиiиg back now. Foя motheя Яussia! Hurrraaah!

"Crisis" suits again.

They are giving me real crisis. At least I feel how do pain an alcoholick sergeant space marine, or a druggo dark eldar... but theeese...

take 3: ww2 russian uniform green as the main theme (yes i do play world of tanks at times, next on the silly idea plan - german grey)

45th Highlanders done.

Finally finished highlander fire team. Took a little more time than anticipated, but, well speed comes with practice. Overall, I am happy with the results. A solid tabletop quality. Enjoy.

From now on, I will post on 8th , 18th and 28th of every month, and i strongly advise to distribute the dates between the authors, to cover more days of the month. Otherwise it looks pretty silly, that almost all of the posts are made in the same day.

Stormboyz.in.progess and Scorp

Good evening, people!

I've recently joined the Dojo, so here goes my first post. :)

Last week i started painting stormboyz. Unfortunately i didn't take exact time spent on airbrushing and manual painting, but its about 6-7 hours.
There are five of them: two are partly base coated, so i'm not showing the process for them.

And few details for the first one:

But, thats not all :)

On weekend we had played Deathwatch RPG. It was looooootz of fun and a I was extremely exited and inspired. So, took one of my old AOBR marines(unfourtunately it was in poor condition, repainted for 3-4 times, but it did not stop me xD ) and painted him in Red Scorpion pattern.

This guy took me 3 hours. For mass production airbrush should be used of course, but i'm satisfied with a result for this prototype. And damn - he is cool xD

For the next few iterations I'll be finishing 3 stormboys.

Happy paintin'!

See ya!

Nobles of Bretonnia

Here's a few shoddy pictures of my latest commission - the Green Knight, a Grail Knight and a Damsel. They're all metal and come from the era where GW modeled just the banner poles and the flags needed to be cut out from paper, so enjoy the sight of naked poles.

 Whole gang together, ready to give the forces of Chaos a very bad day.

 Damsel alone. My soapbox camera refuses to properly focus on her face - it seems it likes the scenery more.

 Grail knight from the other side.

Green knight solo. The original shield was not available, so I had to improvise with a regular shield. I am moderately satisfied with the freehand design I came up with on the fly, but it along with the markings on the horse's ornaments are mostly un-canon.

WIP: Flesh Tearers vehicles

Recently I made a bet with my comrade. Paint 1500 pts army until Easter. My choice was simple Blood Angel successor chapter - Flash Tearers. I bought models few years ago, but their where unused till now.

At this moment I'm working with Rhino. Model is almost done, need to paint smoke launchers, hatches, fix some weathering mistakes(visible on photo, but not so obvious to the naked eye). Find below WIP photos (also Storm Raven and Drop pod). CnC welcome.

Dark Angels: Deathwing command squad finished

Proudly presenting you finished deathwing command squad with all bling and bases.

More individual pics below:

Tau XV8 Crisi Suit. Stage One all over again.

Short update on the Crisis Suits. 
And on this stage my minds start revolving on a specific thought of hating Tau crisis suits... They kind of look good, maybe they even play good... But I hate painting them.

(Re)Painted So far:
Primer is gray.
Coated with dark green, then washed with proper black wash.
Highlighted with moot green. And some moot green / white mix.
One of them got some plating painted white.

More after the cut...

Tohaa Gao-Rael (Spitfire), p3

Painted the backpack today. I know, the pace is kinda slow, but people who know me should know that this is way faster than I usually paint :D
Also, tried to go NMM for the first time. A bit messy, a bit too bright colours, but I like how it started. The irony is, only when I saw the photos I realised what I did wrong :]

UPD: corrected the colours, so now pictures are closer to reality.

45th Highlanders WIP part 2.

During last 10 days almost finished a team of 4 highlanders. Have to deal with faces, blades, boots and bases, and their done. Hope to finish in a couple of days. Sorry for the quality of the photos, took them with my fridge. Will post good quality pics as soon as the boys are finished.
regards,
George

T-34-85 1/100 scale, Flames of War

This is my first T-34-85, for Soviet Union 3rd Guards Tank Army.

Also it was my first atempt to paint 1/100 scale.

Next few weeks I will paint other tanks, and post them with mini tutorials about weathering, paint chiping and more.

Tohaa Gao-Rael (Spitfire), p2

Didn't have any time these 10 days, so not so much progress. But some progress is still better than no progress at all! This time I continued to add shadows and highlights on the cape.

45th Highlanders

Started applying base colors to my 45th highlander regiment. After the first experience with tartans, decided to make the kilts "tactical", for now. Need more brush control.

Tau XV8 Crisis Suit mockery

Well, honestly i had higher expectations and hopes for it. But on the scale of craptasticeness of gluing process... crisis suit foot to leg joints come 3rd place on my list, right after any dark eldar  infantry model with 2 handed gun, and eldar wraithguard hand - palm joints.

My hands cant bear the base -> paint -> glue process with this model... so the next batch is going to be glued right off the bat, then based and painted... screw lost details.

Starting tau as a weaboo grimdark comunists vietcong style... Crisis suits were to be painted green.
But as my only green experience are a few shiny dark angels a year back, and i never painted any historicall / tank green model - this was my first time trying to imitate green colored metal piece of machinery.

Came out below average as i used too many washes and too little layers of paint to give distinctive colors.

So any friendly advice about painting green metal machinery is very welcome.


Stuff to do till next time:

- come up with lightning effects (undecided on plasma/melta color to use yet... )
- try different wash / layer options on the other 2 suits... choose the best suit as the commander :D
- finish the squad and get to work on some other unfinished models...

Options for other models are:
- squad of dire avengers to match the serpent form previous posts,
- dark eldar squad in light colors which is half done
- newly ebayed tau infantry.

Oh yeah more pictures of glue heresy below the cut...

Dark Angels: Deathwing Command squad WIP

Today is 10 January and that means a brand new update.
I've been working lately on my Dark Angels Deathwing command squad, ignore the sergeant, he will join other squad as DW Com. squads don't have sergeants in them. :)
The squad is 80% done, figures require some final touches, bases and some small bits like daggers, purity seals, a deathwing banner and other knowots. So here they are:

Also wanted to share Master of the Deathwing, Belial:

So, have fun and happy painting!

Infinity JSA: Oniwaban revisited and other stuff

Hi guys,

Finally took some photos with a decent camera of my oniwaban, just as I sweared:

Looks much better, huh? Finally colors are close to what they are on a minuature.

Didn't wanted to make a post with only one picture so here is the bonus.
Aragoto bikers in distinctive "kawasaki" paint scheme:

Girl biker, check the kanji freehand.

Spitfire MF, check kanji freehand on a bike too :)

Next one is domaru butai heavy infantry with dreaded chain rifle:

And the last, but not the least, a HMG wielding keisotsu, ready to backup frontline troops with a hail on bullets.

Also, bought myself a moto.tronica scenery pack, pretty neat cardboard scenery and a paper mat. Not bad for the price:

Kempeitai with a keisotsu butai link, chilling on the top of moto.tronica building.

Hope you enjoyed it guys, C&C welcome.

TIP: Cork enlargement

For stone imitation on bases I prefer to use vine and champagne corks. After x-mas and New Year celebrations you definitely have some.

Did you know that regular champagne cork is bigger that it is? Let's enlarge!

1) Take corks;
2) Put corks in boiling water;

3) Boil them for 10-15 min;
4) ....
5) PROFIT!!!

So what you get?! Bigger round shaped cork.
See picture below, left cork before boiling, right same size and shape cork after 10 min boiling.