Dark Angels – Deathwing Land Raider Redeemer
Afternoon #warmongers I’ve been #paintingwarhammer Dark Angel Deathwing Land Raider Redeemer. I keep chipping away at all these different projects – a little here, a little there. If we go back to the middle of April we’ll see a rather anemic looking tank that I was steadfastly trying to hang onto the original bone colour. But I don’t paint that way and I saw this video by Artis Opus showing how to paint a Rhino and said to myself – “why yes, that’s how I should approach the Land Raider”
I’m still highly wary of the next step, but this is a much more comfortable starting point. I need to not think to hard about it as it doesn’t matter in the long run. I just wanted a painted tank, it doesn’t need to be perfect so just need to crack on with it!
Dark Angels – A pair of Deathwing – TO DONE!
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – TO DONE! White pics
Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity whenI finish #paintingwarhammer I used to take a number of pictures – the quality pics with a digital camera and then some highly filtered shots on my phone – because they look cool. Nowadays the phone shots seem to suffice, thanks to my home-made light box, I mean they could be better but I think they’re OK.
Anyway, hope these additional pics get to show a bit more detail. Obviously it highlights some of the bad bits too but overall I think they transcend their deficiencies and ultimately I’m pleased with the outcome and my efforts to finish them off.
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – TO DONE! Red pics
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – GREENS and stuff!
Afternoon #warmongers and I am still #paintingwarhammer Dark Angel Deathwing Knights. It’s felt like quite a chore to be honest, and I know it’s advisable when it stops being fun to stop but these NEED to be done and sometimes it’s worth pushing through.
Anyway, verdigris next and we know how well that goes…
Oh, and they got featured on the Hobby Roundup on Warhammer TV as well, unfinished! Which is great but also a little sad because they will be better at the end…
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – BONE 2.0
Again I have a pot of 50:50 mix of white and Bonewhite that doesn’t seem to run out, although it is getting a bit gunky in the bottom now.
I managed to put on a single drop of paint onto my Pringle’s mini-palette and a drop of Instar Water+ [that came free with my order, and will no doubt pay off to Instar]. I then stippled the mix on to get a textured blend, although clearly not quite as effective as I’d hoped in places.
I’ve no idea what Water+ actually does, it did make the paint more fluid, but without thinning it too much so the paint broke down. There were some areas where it seeped into the recesses, which I’ll have to fix, but it was handy to have.
There may be some pure white spot highlights I’ll do on these too.
The bone is definitely working, it’s not perfect and not quite the stippling I hoped for but it’s much more than I had hoped for after the washes set me back.
Knowing when to accept a model, even when it doesn’t quite meet expectations is a lessone we all need to learn I think.
Green’s still need doing here, although that didn’t quite work out as I expected on some of the others, hence why I hadn’t done this one.
But again it’s being patient with yourself, not too critical. I’m trusting that some additional bits will help to pull these together.
Alongside finished the greens, skin, verdigris, tribal stripes and lenses they should be busy enough that anomalies in the bone may be less noticeable.
Then again, looking at the shading on the shoulder pad – it looks odd, but the viewing angle will normally be higher than this and I’m sure it’ll make more sense.
I really need to decide what I’m doing for the Genestealer skull, perhaps need to go white on this instead of bone, even though my nids have red faces – but that’s when they have skin over the skull…
This might just have the best chance for the verdigris to look cool on those head wings.
Think the white purity seal ribbons/parchment will be the best option here. If I wash them like I’ve previously done they may become completely lost.
I’ll perhaps know better when I’ve done the script on them. Not to mention pick out the debris on the base.
Last we have my old skool Grey Knight terminator that has ha some bone highlights done. He’s mostly up-to-date, although I don;t know if those red claws are working.
I actually have to do all the metallics on the back here. Most of the bone was done back in the 90’s on a base of yellow, with a very poor black ink wash. Then I used brown paint in places, it was really only the right shoulder pad that had to be done, hence the difference in how they’ve been shaded [well the left one isn’t…]
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – CRUX!
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – SHIELDS!
Dark Angels – Deathwing Knights – BONE!
A lot to do and as my pace is so slow it’s also frustrating because this highlight covers so much of what had just been added in the wash and the original primer/basecoat.
I wish I was either a little braver to keep more of it or less impatient and applied wash more sparingly – a line wash where needed.
As it is I’ll probably go back in and apply a line wash to achieve better shading.
With 5 days work under my belt, but still the shields to do I’m also predicted the second set of highlights will take the same time/effort.
But thankfully, despite all the negatives, I finally have the motivation to crack on and complete these.
Even though the 2nd highlight takes up less area it requires more finesse so whatever time savings I make in reducing coverage is made up in being more careful – actually painting.
I need to do all the reds, greens, grey/white, skin, verdigris and glow FXs on the mace’s. So much to do it, feels like the opportunity to get stuff done in lockdown isn’t quite getting there for me because this is so laborious and slow, but in actual fact these haven’t been awaiting completion for 4+ years for no reason.
And here’s the other terminators I’m doing alongside.
This was the Dark Vengeance sergeant, that I kitbashed as Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield, when they were highly popular for Terminators and before we got Knights which always seemed better. Still, he looks cool.
And my odd Space Hulk Terminator. You can still see some of the Blood Angel iconography . I cut some away but left the rest as I’m confident they won’t detract form the model if I don;t draw attention to them – painting the blood drops as gems for instance
He’s got a load of purity seals that’s for sure