Here you go although I'm sure you've already got them

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An idea I'm toying with at the moment is to paint up a few extra units and switch between playing skitarii and minervan lists as I have quite a sizeable collection of tanks which I bought a few versions of the list back and now can't use. I think that'll mix things up a bit and give me an oppurtunity to use my 5 super heavy tank platoons.

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thanks man!

Hey all,

I got my basecoating done this weekend so the painting is back on. I have a question for all though.

Does anybody have a good example of technique for painting a scorched crater. Mine sort of looks like a primary school childs drawing of the incey wincey (that's itsey bitsey for you folks in the colonies ) Spider.

thanks for anyhelp, I really want to get this looking good

Not pretty huh?

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Hey All,

So here's my nearly complete first objective, a backfired valdor. Still to do is tidying up the clumsy green highlights and then sort out a column of smoke from the crater/torn holes. Plus I need to add some rock pules/scrub to break up the rater boring desert base.

I can't really take any credit for this as it's a blatant rip off of a similar conversion by a far more skilled modeller on this forum and the model I received was a fortunate miscast which looked exactly as it does below. Trouble is I can't find his original post so if anybody wants to provide a link feel free.

I like my objectives to have a little story or name thats appropriate to them. I'm thinking "Hey..Watch this!!!" or "Oh, the red button there kid, don't ever, ever touch the red button!"

Any other suggestions?



The next project I'm working on is a company of macharius tanks (plural anybody???) which I hope to get finnished by the weekend.

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Lovely objective marker. :-)

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Yeah, the story around it is really odd.

You see I have this slightly geeky hobby which is collecting various types of bubble wrap and polysyrene. So one day I'm chatting on a specialist forum to some guy (I forget who) with some polystyrene peanuts he's made himself. He agress to send me some and when I finally unwrap his parcel I find that he's stuffed the box with some odd shaped lumps of resin to keep the packaging safe. Turns out that they were exactly the right shape to use as epic tank models which seem to closely resemble the 40k Forgeworld models. What a stroke of luck huh?

I gotta say I'm extremely grateful to my unknown benefactor.

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Hey, I think I know that guy!

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Ok so slight hiccup in the schedule. I was due to finish off the macharius tanks tonight but I've been seduced by the vine and wouldn't trust myself with the camera let alone the brushes.

Looks like I'll have these finnished tomorrow, especially as there's now no more wine.

Why is the wine gone?

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Missus gone out to do the food shopping?

Ok so got a much clearer head tonight and I've been productive.

First I've finnished off my objective marker



And Secondly I've managed to paint up a heavy tank platoon of Macharius battle tanks. I've actually painted 4 as although I'll normally be running 2 standard and one vanquisher as command, I actually really like the look of the Vulcan and so may sub it in occasionaly.





so by my reckoning this month I've painted 800 points so far and an objective, TOEG has done no end for my productivity, long may it continue.

Next on my list of things to paint will be a squad of praetorians and a gorgon

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smoke column sorts that crater out. could be good to add in a bit of white smoke to contrast? The grass also breaks up the desert base.

Looking forward to seeing more vehicles!!

Ok so no pics in this update.

Me and my girlfirend have just exchanged on our first house (renting at mo) so everything is getting packed away for a little bit at the moment. I've started on a squad of praetorians plus gorgon and I've also got my supreme commander conversion to paint up, what I'll try and do is leave these out as long as possible and pack them near the top when we move. Any progress before moving day is looking doubtful as I've knackered all of my detail and drybrushing brushes though.

The models mentioned above will probably be my entire contribution for September but as they total 425 pts and I went over this month I don't feel so bad.

Thanks for all the comments so far and I'm sure I'm going to miss working on this army for the next few weeks until we're settled.

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Wow, those Macharius tanks look very spiffy!

How did you do your reds?

Thanks,

The reds a bit complicated, mostly because I wasn't quite sure where I was aiming at when I painted my first model and to keep things consistant I've just followed the same method. Even though it is totally ounter intuitive. It does look pretty nice in person though, my camera skills just mash the subtle shades into one though

1/. Chaos black basecoat
2/. coat of dark flesh (or in my case an equivalent coat d'arms colour - Red Brown)
3/. 50:50 drybrush of mechrite red (foundation) and dark flesh
4/. drybrush mechrite red
5/. drybrush 50:50 mecrite red and blood red
6/. heavy wash of badab black - This brings the highlights down a bit but seems to create a more graduated effect, still leaving the lightest highlight shinning through
7/. light drybrush mechrite red
8/. painted highlights in blood red
9/. (optional) Another fairly heavy wash of red to tie the colours together a little more on larger, flatter areas

Most importantly though I use a wet pallete which is made from an avatars of war blister pack, the foam from the same and a roll of grease proof paper. With all the mixing of colours I do it keeps them fresh and useable for ages. I swear I've returned after 24 hrs and still found paint wet.

It's obviously over complicated but I've never experimented to see which steps I could get away without and without knowing any local painters it's a bit hard to bounce ideas.

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Hi All,

So just a quick update as I've been busy packing, managed to paint up a single stand of praetorians as a test, what do you think?



Please excuse the poor quality of the photo, that paper is white but it's gone yellow as my camera adjusts for light levels I think?

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