Finished chaplain!

Not that much different from the earlier post. Some more line highlights and touchups here and there. 

Glow effect in the jumppack got a little "not that glowy". I need to work on that on other minis that have a properly molded jumppack. The innards on the jumppack was rather diffuse.

Stuff I learned: Painting marble is a b*tch! The amount of glazes I put on the base was borderline silly. Leaves from PlusModel are awesome for adding that extra touch on the base. Oil paints are awesome. Need to delve deeper into using them for "normal" painting.

Ok, I'll admit it. I'm a hoarder.

Today I got this from a nice fella from eBay – or nice... he/she got a lot of cash and I got this. Together with the reprint of Insignum Astartes. The thing is, I have 1500 pts+ of Space Marines. And of all that a Razorback and 5 marines are painted... But I still buy more stuff. Just to have it when I finally finish with the orks.

And you have to admit that using this model, with a jumppack, together with a chappy and 10 ass. marines would be a pretty awesome mini death star?

This dude apparently

Oh, and I almost forgot that I also have 750pts of Eldar just sitting there... Good thing I have a can of Army Painter dip for them. It'll probably dry out before I ever get to paint the eldar.

So, what do you hoard? Are you like me or are you a person in control of your urges and spending habits? Please let me know I'm not the only one out here... :)

UPDATED. Ultramarines: Scutum storm shields

Since I decided on doing the 2nd company of Ultramarines instead of the 4th – I didn't like the green trim on blue, no contrast – I've looked at ways of making the marines more roman-esque to fit in with Captain Sicarius.

One way of doing it is using a roman shield, scutum, instead of the normal storm shields on TH/SS terminators.

Looking at countless threads on Dakka, B&C etc. I didn't really find any good off the shelf shields. Most of the ones out there are for 25 or 28mm and would look really tiny on terminators.

So, here's my solution for it. In plasticard.

Boomo suggested I'd tone down the details on the shields and just use an etched brass crux terminatus on it. Which saved me some hassle finding and cutting spheres for the center of the shields. I decided to add some hassle and put on some rivets on the trim.

And… I get an excuse to order more etched brass from Forge World since there's only four of them on each sprue. Bummer! ^_^

UPDATE: Mounted on a terminator. The v2 shield is 4mm longer. Making it more in-line with how it would look if it was terminator issue / made for an 8ft tall dude.

Ultramarines Razorback

Ready to roll! A bit of orange skin effect on it due to me not cleaning my airbrush properly. >_<

Ultramarines Razorback WIP

I'm really in a blue mood nowadays. So I decided to paint up one of the four Rhino / Razorbacks for my Ultramarine army.

Using an airbrush to paint tanks is almost mandatory. I finished the blue coat, with shading and highlightning in about 2 hours. Of course, I didn't do anything fancy. But doing the same thing with citadel paints & washes would've taken forever. I remember being fifteen years younger and painting a Rhino. It took me a week!

The Razorback in the picture has just gotten the first layers of oil based weathering over a gloss varnish. Next up is to paint up all the details (prisms and stuff) & find a name for it. Then it's a final layer of pigments/weathering, touch ups and a flat coat and. After that it's "tabeltop ready".

On the workbench

It's more Ultrasmurfs!

I tried out the new Vallejo Polyurethane primer (more on those later) on some AOBR marines that I use to learn how to paint marines quickly (harder than it looks). While I had the airbrush assembled and running I decided to try out zenital highlightning which has been covered in a bunch of tutorials lately.

All in all, it's a pretty straightforward technique and it yields really nice "blended" highlightning. Check Awesome Paintjobs tutorial on 13th Co. Space Wolves for an indepth look at how to do it.

The new Vallejo primers are nothing short of awesome. As you can see in the picture, the black is black, and the grey is a lighter shade of grey. Kinda inbetween white and the grey Games Workshop use on their plastic sprues. Which I find really nice. Colors don't get as muted as they do with The Army Painters "Grey Uniform".

They dry to a matte surface that's not chalky. Which takes paint really well.

What I really liked about the primers is that they're consistent. No more mishaps due to a bad batch of primer, blocked nozzles etc.

Oh, and of course, you don't have to run outside. \o/

Click the picture to see a full size example of the primer applied. Another layer could have been applied to the leaves without any significant loss in detail.

Pinned and ready...

Washed, pinned and ready for priming.

Ultramarines Venerable...

Finally my crack arrived from Forgeworld.

An Ultramarine venerable dread and a multimelta for the AOBR-dread. Got a bunch of their weathering pigments and the Model Masterclass book as well.

After a brief looking through the book is really nice. Nothing that isn't covered in various places on the internet. But it's nice to have it all in one place.

Another nice thing about the book is that they don't try to pimp their stuff as aggressive as GW does in general. There's a lot of stuff used in the tutorials that isn't GW/FW produced.

Drop pod!

#1 of 2. To transport my precious dreadnoughts. Without the harness stuff it kinda looks like it could fit a dreadnought. I'm so not shelling out £55 just to have the dreadnought one from Forge World...