wow, on the gw blog again!

Hi again guys, i ve just accidentaly found out another of my models made it to the pages of gw blog. I ve just wanted to watch alien movie to continue prometheus experience from friday and then i realized i did not checked gw pages for a while. Im pretty surprised they chose my model as it was first piece i ve painted using airbrush, but if bw blog editor likes it, then why not?;-) It reminds me i ll have to build few ig pieces again, to see if i improved my self at least a little and ll be able to use new experience i ve got while painting necrons on ig stuff, but still, with 6ed around the corner i dont want to spend money on model i ll not play becouse of rulles changes. Have to wait for couple more weeks and then i ll start working on my ig again. Maybe its time to read another part of Gaunt ghosts to get some extra motivation;-) Till then i ll continue working on fow army, today i painted mortar platoon and have to finish bases for them and next month i ll probably add tiger tank to have army rdy for 1500 points games and by then there should be new 40k rulles allready in stores.Thanks for reading and support guys, see you soon!

Painting vendetta - finished

Hello everyone! Finaly, after about 20 hours of work on this piece its finished. Since yesterday i sprayed delvan mud wash around rivets on the wings and darkened oil streaks. Then finished few details like lenses, never fitting canopy and few things i cannot remember about. Last step was adding decals while wathching adventures of sherlock holmes series and aplication of vallejo decal softener. Still have to make base but i dont have any idea for it yet, so i guess i ll left base unpainted till i got idea as i dont want just glue sand and grass to it. Still having unpacked box of cadian & chimera as it was for great price, but i ve got an apetite to paint few more marines. Unfortunately no more space wolves as i sold all of them at discount price to my neightbour as i dont like packaging and going to post office with dozen of packages. But i ve seen couple of inspiring blood angels lately so im playing with idea of painting furioso dreadnaught just for fun of painting and then sell it as i dont have room to store all the models i would like to have in my collection:-/ Hope you like lates addition to my imperial guard army and see you next time. Probably with cadians & chimera combined box or maybe blood angels?;-)

Painting Vendetta - part 2

Hello everyone, still working on vendetta today. As on pictures i masked what was needed to spray camo pattern and other details like stripes and nose. As model look awfuly clean at this moment i started sponging with mix of black and brown all the edges and worn surfaces. Then everything started to be a bit wild with oil paints. To achieve somethink like i did is very simple, however not ideal. Anyway if you are interested in somethink like this all you have to do is to paint a few dots where you want streak to begin and then drag them down with dry brush. You can help the paint with bit of turpentine on brush but be careful with that. Last step i did today was shooting washes through airbrush to add more color variations to model. Still much to be done, and actualy im in mood i might rework wings completely as weathering did not turned as well as with last valykrie i ve done. We ll see tommorow;-)

Painting Vendetta - Part 1

Good morning all, while drinkin my morning coffe i decided to upload first wip pictures of vendetta/valkyrie kit im currently working on as begining of new campaing in our local wargaming club is every day closer and closer and i hate playing with unpainted models. This is first of about 4 stages im going to post in following weekend and in the end we ll see vendetta painted to my standart.

First step:

I primed whole model with vma grey primer, then preshaded it with black and white colours as i want to avoid flat looking surface at all cost.  Firs i sprayed panel lines with black and then started adding white in direction from light should be hitting the model and always masked the oposite side of the panel. Its hard to say by words but you can see what i mean on the first picture, especialy on tail wing. With model preshaded like this i covered bottom part of model with vma pale blue. And upper parts with vma german grey. Especialy german grey was thinned to 1:1:1 ratio(paint:vallejo thinner:vallejo airbrush cleaner)as i wanted the coat to be semi-transparent. Shades and highlights were paritaly visible after this but not as i would like to, so i decided to help them with some highlighting.

Highlights:

You can see on first picture how i masked off the panels to create somethink simmilar to this. But not that strong as all of this work ll be later covered by camo, all the chiping, rusting and washing. I started building up highlight with vma german gery with a drop of vma light grey. Aprox ratio was about 5:1. On the second picture you can see the ressult of this method. You dont have to mask everythink by tape and can help your self with piece of plastic card or piece of harder paper(i used empty rolling papers). However i ve tried this kind of highlighting for first time and i quickly noticed mistake i did. If you ll attempt this as well please keep in mind its good to build highlights in one chosen direction, not as i did on second picture. However i left highlights like that as everythink ll be cover by another layers later.