Here’s a bucketload of additional pictures, they were all done in my light box. As you can see the Ferron background was a bit washed out, my digital camera struggles a bit with it but the Drop Pods look alright.
Anyway, hope you like the pics.
Here’s a bucketload of additional pictures, they were all done in my light box. As you can see the Ferron background was a bit washed out, my digital camera struggles a bit with it but the Drop Pods look alright.
Anyway, hope you like the pics.
Quite a variety of pics here, first up my digital camera in the daylight. The colours are pretty accurate but you can see how the sunlight casts quite the shadow.
Here’s my Big Purple Stamp of Approval as these are well and truly TO DONE!
Thats right I get another one because I been and gone and done two of the beggars! 😉
The final push and I couldn;t not do the company marking in each fin. That’s the thing about ‘freehand’ even when it’s not perfect you can still see the effort involved and it makes it al worthwhile.
Essentially these are complete, just need to varnish and Tamiya Clear and I can do the To Done pics. Really chuffed to have got these completed, I’ve even put them both in my Birthday Bash list just for giggles.
Another quick one, you see, I can paint those holes neatly [or at least neater]. I’ve pretty, much brought the pod up to the weathering stage now.
Progress is swift [unfortunately I appreciate the pics don’t really show just how much I’ve done – caught up in the moment, sorry] with just one more update and then I can get them varnished alongside my completed Genestealer Cult.
Despite feeling confident to leave pod 1 well enough alone I felt the urge to add numbers. The original plan was awesome massive numbers on the door but I threw that idea out the window when the chapter markings looked alright as is. So instead it was numbers on the top fins, but how to make them consistent? Decals were the obvious choice but aside from not having enough vehicle decals to do all five fins I know I can paint that gothic swirly number 5, it’s just it tends not to be consistent size wise. So I created a tiny stencil [without the line up the middle]. It took me two goes to cut it out of paper without destroying it.
I’d had the opportunity to get a good few hours concerted effort in resolving the edges on the doors but moreover I was happy with the result. However, the process wasn’t without a new issue in overspill from the orange getting on the green outside of the doors, not to worry though as the doors were to receive some weathering that would potentially hide all my sins [until some Interrogator Chaplain tortured them out of me for his little black pearl].
The fact is the pods, Aquila Lander and Euronymous run a fine line between process, effect and consistency. There have been slight deviations in process – choices in green and weathering that are completely different. The effects and how they’re consistent across the army was always a concern, not helped by the pod being started before I went all Verdigris Bronze on everything. And yet the inconsistencies are still valid as in reality not all materials are made at the same time so there will be differences in colours, some armour will be scuffed and reveal an undercoat, some will reveal bare metal. Some metals will be steel, some will be bronze etc.
I think 100% colour matching is really effective and I’d love to have that but for the most part my nids deliver on this front. As much as I’d be happier for the Dark Angels, who I consider rightly or wrongly, to be the army I put more effort into; they’re also the army I agonise over more intensely so I have to take success where I can find it. There’s little left to do on this, I considered litany markings before the damage but wanted it left without extra paint breaking up the strong green. There are some yellow pipes inside that I also don’t think should be black and yellow striped. They’re so small breaking them up with black would disturb their ‘silhouette’ in the model. There’s quite a few more details I could pick out but I need to remind myself this is just a pod, I’ve another one to do and this is pretty much better than I expected anyways. So, it just needs varnishing and some of the dials/radar need Tamiya Clear Orange X-26 and it’s done…
One of the reasons why the drop pod was put to one side involved the doors. The standard is usually to put yellow and black chevrons done the side/inside and although I love a good chevron [yellow and black in particular] this was never what I wanted. Orange was my plan but having put the orange down the side I panicked and tried it inside as well. When I say panicked I mean I had a thought to photograph it and then Photoshop the extra orange on the inside and ask everyone’s opinion but when I cam to do a successive coat of orange I just started painting the inside regardless [covering up the blended green I’d painstakingly done already].
So I’m now really pleased with the result, it may not be the crisp clean orange of the Aston but the end result is something so much more and much mor ein keeping with what I’ve done in the army already. With this hurdle over it was full steam ahead and it looks like it’s almost the home straight.
As the motivation begins to kick back in I decided to crack on with the drop pods. I’d tried the Green Glaze on one of the fins to compare it with my Vallejo Angel Green, the fact was there was very little difference. It went on OK but the Angel Green was blending the Caliban and Waaargh Flesh a little better, it is a pant afterall and not a glaze.
I think I’m back on track again with these, I just have to ensure I don’t flit to something else so that the ‘fires of motivation’ don’t go out or ‘strike while the iron is hot’. But I’m getting there and it is progress so that’s a win.
Progress is very difficult to showcase at the moment, n top of that I’ve been preoccupied with the seasonal madness, the prospective new job interview [no word yet on how it went down] and just general fatigue from being anxious about what a new job could mean and then nervous for a week about getting the interview. Anyway, it’s all done now and after it I ‘crashed’ [metaphorically] with fatigue and a tension headache. I’ll either get it or I won’t, there’s nothing I can do now.
However, I did crack on a bit with my current projects, applied some Warplock Bronze to the Assault squad and more importantly advance the second drop pod with it’s first set of highlights and bronze effects. You can see there’s a subtle difference in the bronze effect but nothing I can’t live with. Also noticeable is the pod 1 fin that’s been ‘glazed’ with the Valejo Dark Green I have. It’s certainly more vibrant but it seems to have left an uneven effect so I’m a little disheartened by the result. I’ll be looking to get the green Citadel glaze to see if that gives a better result.
So stuff is happening, just difficult to share because it doesn’t seem like much. Anyway, don’t forget the Birthday Bash, I know Christmas is still hectic but should you get any Crimbo funds, set aside some of it to join us in Feb, we’ve already seen quite an interest 🙂 www.wargamesuk.co.uk/events
“I do think they should really be approached in ones from what I have heard/read.”
But as it was I did stall for a while on this, it’s odd really as the process is highly predictable and although I can’t say I feel the need to gnaw my own face off as I would a dozen Genestealers there is something emotionally null about it. I don’t dread it or fear it but it just fills me with no pleasure whatsoever as I finish shading the inner parts of the fins.