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Red Scorpion plog
Hey all,
Since i got a really nice offer on my blood ravens i decided to seel them an start something new. I was reading stuff about the badab war and soon decided that it was time for me to go for a red scorpions army. Sinc my local gamesshop group only has alot of "regular" marine players i really like the plan of starting something out of the box.......again
I started to run into a slight problem even before i started planning on my army. I dont have access to a credit card, so ordering stuff from FW is out of the question which will call alot on my crafting skills. To solve the Red Scorpion iconography i decided to go for the waterslide technique. Lucky for me there where sheets available for download. but for some reason the all looked a bit basic. so out came the designer programs and i started to make my own version of decalsheets.
This is the result of a few days work:
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...CTER_SHEET.png
Standard sheet to be printed on white decalpaper
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...T_inverted.png
Vehicle sheet to be printed on white decalpaper
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/..._scorpions.png
Random stuff to be printed on transparent decal paper
I really enjoyed making these things, and gave me a good reason to finally buy me a printer.
If you like the decals and want to use them for your own army please let me know so i can give you the download link to them.
[due to picture limit continue reading my blog in the next post]
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With the decal problem solved it was time to find out what colours to use and after a few test runs on the cheap marines i found out that this looks the best for my army:
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3537.jpg
Terminator vetran sergeant
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3539.jpg
Terminator vetran sergeant
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3565.jpg
Terminator vetran sergeant
The colourscheme im using is pretty simple and for some reason looks pretty good
Armour:
Base: 50/50 Abadon Black/Mechanicus Battle Grey (airbrushed)
Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Layer: 50/50 Abadon Black/Mechanicus Battle Grey
Highlight: 50/50 Mechanicus Battle Grey / Dawnstone
Yellow:
Base: Lyanden Darksun
Highlight: 25/75 Bleached Bone / Lyanden Darksun
Edge: Bleached Bone
Reds:
Base: Merchrite Red
Highlight: Blood Red
Edge: Blood Red/ Sunburst Yellow
Bone:
Reaper bone triad
again a problem solved
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yet another challenge to solve;
I really wanted to use the characters in the books so that meant i really needed a commander culln model, or at least a model looking pretty close to him.
time to get creative again and this is the result
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3558.jpg
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3561.jpg
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3563.jpg
Really proud of how the chest came out, the circle even has room for a mini scorpion transfer. His sword should be a bit bigger tho....
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so every self respecting Red Scorpion player should have at least one landraider helios in his arsenal so guess what...
Yep i made one myself
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3541.jpg
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3540.jpg
Couldnt resist to try out a new technique i borrow from my dad.
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3546.jpg
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3547.jpg
not: this is an older photo of my helios i need to make a new one since the missile launcher is different
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well challenges, my next challenge make some extra armour for my rhino APC's
i absolutely love the FW version of the extra armour so i got out my scalpel and plasticard and started to fix some armour:
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3574.jpg
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_3573.jpg
Still needs alot of work but the result looks nice enough to continue building this.
im currently not working from a template, for some reason nobody ever tried making a template for it but since im keeping all my scraps ands messurements i think ill be making one.
im even thinking about making some molds for personal use sinc i ned to replicate the armour for at least 3 more rhino's and fixing a pressmold saves ALOT of time
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Very impressive work so far, you should well be proud of the greenstuff work on Culln!
Great work on the extra armour as well - how'd you come up with the template? And what've you used for the rivets? They're suitable chunky to bolt on the plates, very nice.
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thx for the compliments!
to answer your questions:
- the template i made from just eyeballing the FW version took some time but working on a templated version so you can download it pretty soon.
- the rivets are actually a funny thing, they are dresspins i had laying around, just drill a hole, cut the pin to size (watch for the eyes) and tac them with a drop of super glue
hope this helps :D
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Looking good. Love the Big eagle on the chest of the termy :)
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Very impressed by this, I love the conversion work.