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    A few days on and the weathering is at 60% I'd say For the Deimoses at least.
    The Xiphon has had its engines given some heat discolouration, and then I glued its rocket engine into place. I based myself off off that Su-35 reference photo but I didn't want to push the colours thąt hard either. What do you guys think?
    I'm also doubting a bit whether I should give do the hull streaking/weathering with acrylics or oil paints, but I'm leaning towards oil paints as they can be adjusted and corrected easier. but it is a lot messier and time-consuming.




    The Vindicator is the furthest along.
    Model was coated with a 5:1 mix of sating:matte Vallejo airbrush varnish.
    -I gave the barrel some colour glazing with acrylics but that needs some work still.
    -The hull was sponge-stippled with a mix of boltgun metal and dark grey, another layer of dark grey, a light layer of tin bitz, and some silver
    -The hull damage was also highlighted using some metallics.
    -Most edges and rivets were given a wash of thinned black & brown oil paint, feathered a bit when almost dry.
    -Some other edges and rivets (mostly on the black part) were given a careful wash of thinned Burnt Umber oil paint with some rust-coloured weathering powders and also feathered/streaked when almost dry.




    The Rhino/Razorback was given the same treatment.




    The tracks need work, also the exhaust pipes and Vindi barrel. After that the lenzes need to be painted in, and it's on to soot and dirt.

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    These photos were taken an hour or two ago and since then the Deimoses have received a second layer of dirt, and the top of the Xiphon has been outlined and streaked with oil paints.

    That means that the Deimoses are actually very close to the finish line. Once the weathering powder fixer is dry, I'll have to rub some metallic edges with a soft pencil or some scratched-off graphite, give them a good coat of varnish to completely seal in the powders to the models can handle being handled for gaming. And maybe I'll need to do some light touch-ups, as varnish tends to darken the weathering powders quite a bit.

    Oh, and lenzes... They'll need their lenzes painted in.




    Once the Xiphon's oil paints are dry and to satisfaction, all it needs is some black weathering powder here and there, and then it's also almost done.
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    I like the grunge. Too bad Adeptus Mechanicus keep their mechs so clean.
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    Oh, I'm pretty sure you can get away with some wear & tear during lengthy campaigns.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Here are some high-res galleries of the WIPs so far.
    [URL="http://imgur.com/a/L0ACo"]http://imgur.com/a/L0ACo[/URL]
    [URL="http://imgur.com/a/RwlwZ"]http://imgur.com/a/RwlwZ[/URL]
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    It's been a while and didn't manage to get much painting time in the past few weeks. but over the past two weekends I managed to finish up the two Deimoses, and the Xiphon is 99% done, needing just some lenses painted in.

    In the end I didn't go full-out with the weathering powders on the deimoses as i wanted them to be playable without leaving powder marks every time you set it down. So they received a big coat of varnish to seal in the powders, but that turned them really a lot darker than intended. I guess I should have gone with a very, very light mix of powder to keep the medium brown mud look after the varnish. On the other hand, while it is a tad dark right now, it doesn't look too bad, looks sufficently muddy, and it doesn't rub of when you pick up the model.

    On the Xiphon, I saw I'll need to go back on some decals and stab them profusely with a needs and try to rub in some gloss varnish to get rid of the film shine that is present in some lighting angles. Mainly the pilot's name on the front section, and the signs on the left hand side just behind the cockpit.

    Whadayathink, guys?






    More photos in high-res:
    [url]https://imgur.com/a/L0ACo[/url]

    [url]https://imgur.com/a/RwlwZ[/url]



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    Nicely done, I should you you to paint my titans.
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    Frankly, I'd be a joy to paint 'm.
    but shipping across the pond to and fro might be a tad risky, as well as expensive.

    Next up, Boaty McBoatface! I got a plasma cannon set for him as well, so I though it best to magnetize the lot. The top weapon, and side weapons have been fully magnetized, and I just need to magnetize the little under-slung weapons.
    Once I have the main body pose in place, I can decide on the position of the main weapons so I can bend the ammo/feed belts accordingly. I magnetized the ball joins and the ammo pack and I feel it might be best to paint the ammo-belt-weapon assembly in one piece. Still there's a chance that the assembly won't be sturdy enough and I'll be forced to paint the ammo, belt, and weapons separately. Ah well, we'll see...

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    Aaaalrighty then. And with the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed. I haven't completely been sitting still, well, almost. I've been staring at minis a lot.

    The Derereredeo has vexed me as on how to magnetize the arms with a decent transportability in mind, and still have a good-looking pose. The whole arm setup is rather complex, yet easy to set up, but it's the ammo feeds that further complicate matters. In the end I went with a standard pose setup as it still is a cool pose, but it won't compromise structural stability. As for now the 'armpit/shoulder' part is still separate as it will be easier to paint, but once done, I'll glue the gun assembly into the armpit, and the whole gun arm(s) will be easy to remove and swap.




    The tempest is stuck together. And whilst it does come equipped with a fully detailed cockpit and pilot, I decided to leave those out. I didn't feel like scratch-building a hinge mechanism for that small canopy, so I just glued it it on and called it done.
    the gun and bumper will be painted separately, and I swapped out the standard wing-tip antenna with some copper detailing as I think it looks neater. The resin Forgeworld antennae were a bit to thick, and not 100% straight, and on antenna like that I though it crucial to have a clean look. Even when straightened out manually, the resin bits would never be 100% straight, and very prone to breaking off.

    I also lost a lot of time coming up with a paint scheme for the tempest, but I'm not quite done with pondering... I thought to perhaps add a straight black bar length-wise, as wide as the cockpit, and smaller length-wise stripes on the wings. Or perhaps a broad, diagonal stripe across the whole of the model, much like this:
    [url]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/draken/draken_02.jpg[/url]
    What do you think? Any alternative ideas?




    And then... I decided it was time. After a lot of thinking and brainstorming I couldn't come up with a definitive plan of approach, or even design, for the reworked Storm Talon, so I decided the best way would be to glue one together, and then attack it with a saw and a bitz box. And then the whole road ahead became clear.
    Larger wings, canards, a smaller gun turret, less building-sized weapon sponsons, and an overall stretched look. I didn't feel like meticulously planning the conversion, and I wanted to use as many plastic components as possible, as they are very easy to adapt and glue. I felt that to have as much structural strength as possible, that the melted bond of plastic cement would be the way to go. So the main conversion will be done by hacking, cutting, and sanding various plastic bits, and I'll use plasticard and greenstuff to fill in any structural short-comings.

    What do you think so far? Any thoughts or suggestions?

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    I don't understand what the magnets are for as it appears 'the conduit' and 'ammo belt' restricts aiming movement?
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    Well, the ball socket in combination with the jaw articulation on the 'elbow' do allow for quite a bit of movement of the gun (some jaw, but a lot of pitch), but it would require a reshaping of the ammo belt. For the plasma cannons this would be rather easy as the cabling is relatively thin, but the ammo belt of the cannons would require some more extensive resin-bending.

    The magnets are inserted in the ball socket and on the ammo box so the whole assembly can be swapped out easily.
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