Sure. INCOMING WALL OF TEXT! So for the Rhinos it's pretty straight forward. I primed them with Vallejo Model Air Grey Primer (all of my paints are either Citadel or Vallejo Model Air (if it's for the airbrush), will link them all below, although I still go off of the old Citadel paint names as I've just returned to the hobby from a few years break so you'll have to translate that to the new ones yourself ^^) and covered the whole thing to be ready for painting. Then Started by using NATO Black to shade areas that wouldn't be hit by much light (like below the exhaust stacks etc) which just gives it a little more shading when you layer the green up. This step is super quick, did both rhinos in under a minute. Then I based the Rhinos with Cam.Olive Green, which takes a few coats as you're spraying a dark green onto light grey so you've got to let it dry and build it up or it'll be bright green like ork skin. This is probably the longest step of painting it purely for the drying. When you're happy with the darkness of the green I then moved on to using Field Green and sprayed that onto any big flat surfaces without detail as a sort of highlight. This means that rather than the whole rhino being a block flat colour you get a nice shading from green to dark green, you can see it easiest on the photos around the side and roof hatches. At this point the Rhino's already shaping up with very little effort (but a fair bit of time due to waiting for paint to dry as mentioned). As I was waiting for the previous steps to dry I was doing the storm bolters (one of which isn't glued on yet in the pics). For this I primed them again, and base coated them with Hull Red, let that dry, and then picked out the front and the ammo drums with Scarlet Red. Then using a brush for the first time I used Chaos Black to base parts of the gun I wanted to be metal (I like a very dark metal effect, not shiny silver) and then highlighted it with a light grey (any will do). Then I brushed on Vallejo Black Metal, which is an airbrush paint so very thin but it's essentially a super dark metal. Because it's so thin it's sort of in between a wash and paint so it's easy to apply over the black and the highlights show through but still get 'metallised'. Then just highlighted the edges of the red with Blood Red and bob's your uncle. Back to the Rhino, I painted the exhausts with Boltgun metal, washed them heavily with both Badab Mud and Nuln Oil, and then simply sprayed them and the vents below with Armour Brown and then NATO Black. For the headlights I took Vallejo MA Blue and mixed in Vallejo MA White until I was happy with a light blue colour (around the colour of Ice Blue, or whatever it's called thesedays) sprayed that on liberally around the headlight and down the front of the armour (used masking tape around the headlight so that the whole area wasn't sprayed), then added more white, sprayed a bit more, more white sprayed a bit more, applying less and less and working my way back to the light. It's actually pretty easy with an airbrush but has a really nice finished effect if you like OSL. For the red gem/glass things dotted around they're super easy. Just took Blood Red and Chaos Black, watered them down, based them black and then worked my way up adding a bit more red each time, the first super dark red layer should cover the whole gem except the top left corner (or right, whatever, just keep them uniform) and then as you add more and more red make your way further and further to the bottom right of the gem and finish off by adding a litte bit of orange into the red and do a little line along the bottom. Then just dot on some tiny sun reflection on the opposite side to wherever you've put your deepest red using Skull White and you're done. For the Tactical Squad I & II symbols on the back I just used a scalpel to cut out two arrows from paper, masking taped them down (make sure you take some of the stickiness out of the tape first or you risk pulling paint off of the model when you remove it) and sprayed it with IDF Sand Grey, and then sprayed the upper half with Aged White. Then just peeled off the masking tape, did a Chaos Black border on it and painted on the roman numerals. Then you should pretty much be up to the stage I'm at now. Can't really tell you what my next step will be when I do some painting this evening as I kinda make it up as I go along so I'll do a followup post later with the finished minis. ^^ The Space Marine Captain. If you can do NMM then this is a pretty easy miniature, if you struggle with non-metal metallics then (like me) it'll take you ages. This was my first attempt at NMM so it took me a while and there's definitely better NMM out there but I learned a lot from doing it. So I started as usual priming it with Vallejo MA Grey Primer, and then based it with Hull Red and then did a top-down spray with Scarlet Red to simulate the armour being lit by the sun above. (same steps as the Rhino Stormbolter). For the NMM gold and silver it's a bit hard to tell you how to do it, if you were to paint the same captain then obviously you could jsut copy my mini but doing it on another model you have to work out what the gold and silver would look like in your imagination and then paint it like that (I struggle with this). I looked through CoolMiniOrNot.com for ages, saving pics of good NMM models before I began painting so I could reference them if I wanted to see how they did gold at a certain angle or whatever. So for the gold I essentially used Steel Legion Drab as the base colour and then using a pallet and watered down paints just mixed in either Skull White or Scorched Earth to go lighter or darker, and then used a very very watered down Yriel Yellow around half way between the darker and lighter parts of the gold, where it's mostly still Steel Legion Drab colour, this make it look more like gold and less like NMM brown. Then, the important part, is using Bleached bone/Skull White mix to highlight the gold to make it look metallic. So I did this around the top of the leaves on his laurel/shin, along the edges of the gold on his pauldrons and leg, around the tips of the feathers on the shoulder pad/chest wings, the top left of the skulls and around their nasal area and on the most raised bits of gold on the loin cloth thing he's got going on. That's definitely the hardest part. In hindsight I've learned a lot from NMM and I could definitely do it a lot better if I did it again now, I'll possibly do it on my Dark Angels HQ, but I'm going to make my Dark Angels force very weathered and more 'grimdark' instead of bright pristine classic 40k colours, so wont be much gold on him. For the helmet I sprayed it IDF Sinai Grey, matt varnished it and used a mix of thinner and Nuln Oil (the combo of matt varnish and thinned wash causes it to go straight into the recesses much better rather then having blotchy marks on the flat surfaces). Then I gave it a very light dusting of Aged White from above, and painted the Blood Red strip on with a brush. The eyes are easy, I used Catachan Green (I think, can't remember, but a fairly light green anyway) and then used a very watered Dark Angels Green (watered to the point that it's a wash essentially), blobbed that into each eye socked, removed the paint from the brush and then used the clean brush to remove the excess Dark Angels wash from each eye socket. This left it green with a dark green shaded boarder, and then finally just did a little skull white dot or two in the corners. The cape was based with Aged White and and highlighted with White around the top, and the loincloth was based with Aged White and then darkened with some thinned wash and highlighted slightly with Aged White/White mix. Hope that helps, the list of Vallejo MA paints are bellow: Surface Primer - Grey (70.610) Cam.Olive Green (71.007) Field Green (71.093) Hull Red (71.039) Scarlet Red (71.003) Blue (71.004) White (71.001) IDF Sand Grey (71.141) Aged White (71.132) NATO Black (71.251) Armour Brown (71.041) Black Metal (71.073) IDF Sinai Grey (71.142)
These are amazing. My eyebrows literally raised when I saw these. After being in the hobby for 17 years, that doesn't happen often for me. Well done.
Here are some news. First, a Dark Angel sergeant : http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/9vt8.jpg http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/3a08.jpg http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/lfbz.jpg An Iron Warrior w/ plasma gun : http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/n2jf.jpg And, last but not least, Ork Rider : http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/xjcm.jpg http://zupimages.net/up/15/35/9c1f.jpg Sorry for giving some links, but we're not allowed more than 6 images per post, and I didn't want to make a double post
