Wednesday Hobby Session

Squad so far

I spent a couple of hours working on the Terminators for my army muster as promised.

Im really happy with how the armor turned out. Everything that you read describes Ultramarines as being a cobalt colour.

The armor is done by the following steps:

1. Chaos Black Spray undercoat
2. Mordian Blue through the spray gun
3. Ultramarine Blue drybrush. Very lightly and selectivly targeting the sharp edges and areas of the model where I expect more light (top curve of shoes and kneecaps)
4. 50/50 Azureman Blue/Badab Black wash
5. Edge highlight with 2:1 skull white/mordian blue (I cant promise its not 3:1, that is why I keep a painting journal with my gear. I have it written down and will check and update if necessary).

Rear of Sargent

Sargent

Being the grim dark future I usually prefer to stick with darker colour schemes. Also as mentioned the Ultramarines are described as being a cobalt colour.

This means that ultramarine blue (or the mordian/skull white mix that I prefer) is the final highlight since I am not using extreme highlighting on these guys. This is a general principle I use for painting 40k; If you want something be be colour x then colour x is the highlight.

The marines that I have painted so far do look darker in person than the pictures above. When I get around to taking up model photography I will do some research on proper colour balance etc.

I have been thinking about replacing my phone recently (current phone: iPhone 3g) and the ability of the phones camera to take good pics of minis is a serious consideration. Just to creep out some mobile phone dealers I'm thinking of taking some models and rulers and a lamp into a phone shop and hamming it up with a photo-shoot (ruler runway etc :P)

On a side note I have also been seriously considering getting a Harder Steenbeck Infinity 2 in 1 Airbrush for finer detail work. I have heard amazing things about this airbrush. To quote Scotttard "Its red...red is betta cause red goes faster!!!"


Seriously though it looks sweet.


One of the things that I completely forgot about for the terminators is that the helmets are supposed to be white. Next time I sit down and work on them I will have to fix that up.


To finish them off I need to:

1. Fix helmets, paint sarg's head
2. Drill and blacken barrels on the guns (i forgot to earlier)
3. Gem effect the targeters
4. Add a bit to the eyes
5. Highlight the white/grey bits
6. Highlight the metal
7. Do the base