First of all, I have made a concerted effort to paint up my tactical marines, and have completed ONE WHOLE SQUAD. I know, its impressive, 10 space marines in two months, but hold your applause; I also painted one additional sergeant. In my defense, I have been spending an inordinate amount of time with zenithal highlighting/shading, and trying to perfect my wet-blending techniques. This results in an average paint time of 12 hours per marine, usually over the course of three days or so.
I started out with the Henry Ford process--an assembly line that cranked out finished, but uniform, models--but wasn't really satisfied with the result. I slowly added more and more wet-blending, and was eventually forced to reconcile the fact that if I am to be happy with the outcome, I need to paint each model as well as I possibly can.
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| The dearth of highlighting on models in the back transformed into an inordinate abundance by the time I made it to the fellas up front. |
As you can see I've also been experimenting with battle damage, mostly on shoulder pads--usually to cover up imperfect decals.
Moving on...
I received a fantastic present for christmas from family and girlfriend; I am now the proud owner of an impressive Harder & Steenbeck Infinity airbrush (and amazingly silent Iwata compressor), so I'm experimenting on something I don't use very much (but depending on how they come out, maybe I'll start).
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| Arms are all magnetized on these guys so they can be switched to lightning claws |
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| Graveyard earth base-coat for what will eventually be bleached bone Deathwing termies |
...and since I started on those guys, I thought I might need this:
And then, on a whim, I decided to use some spare parts to put together some objective markers:
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| From left to right: teleport homer with servo skull, decorative holy book and stand, las cannon-based searchlight, and field communication set up. |
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| The shape of things to come... |
