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Post by judcottrell on Dec 22, 2022 6:18:50 GMT -5
I’ll let you off as you bribed me with the Cannon!
Hopefully the rumours about the Old World coming back are true, I’d love to do a Tomb Kings project at some point.
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Post by Walk on Dec 26, 2022 21:48:23 GMT -5
Sweet, that army pic looks great, and the cannon is a nice addition. I kind of assumed you were building an army from Nuln based on the colours, but a custom city is also a good option. Thanks man! Itll be a while before anymore updates. Relationship ending means a move and a move means no painting for a while. I always thought nuln was just pure black with yellow accents. Do they use red too? And thanks jud, i have one more cannon I need to strip but like I said it might be a while. I want to get another one to round out a three gun battery as well as a few mortars and then some of the Warlord Games Handbuchse light guns to round off the artillery train for now. Yes i know the latter doesnt have rules in fantasy but Im going for more of a theme rather than a playable army
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Post by nutty on Dec 27, 2022 22:43:30 GMT -5
I always thought they did, but a quick google revealed that black and yellow are there main colours. But the nuln page from 'uniforms of the empire" has quite a bit of red on it, so maybe that's how I got the idea.
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Post by judcottrell on Dec 28, 2022 17:50:17 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that mate, I’d just got used to regular updates!
Hopefully you’ll get things sorted soon.
All the best.
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Post by Walk on Dec 28, 2022 21:01:04 GMT -5
Cheers man, christmas present was a plane ticket out of chicago haha
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Post by judcottrell on Jan 1, 2023 19:58:09 GMT -5
I hope things pick up for you soon.
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Post by Walk on Jan 18, 2023 12:52:17 GMT -5
Friend sent me a late christmas present. Any tips on tackling this beast? Also came with 5 more deathwatch guys and his chapters custom etsy shoulder pad so his guy can join the watch
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Post by treadiculous on Jan 19, 2023 12:22:21 GMT -5
Given the size of the model you could really go to town with some cool camo design!
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Post by judcottrell on Jan 21, 2023 13:09:06 GMT -5
I’m with treadiculous, a camo scheme would look amazing on it!
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Post by Walk on Feb 13, 2023 5:19:16 GMT -5
Friend sent me a deathwatch squad he had built but never painted along with the big action figure guard guy. I played with the poses and weapons as much as i could (they alwere glued pretty hard) and added new chapter to the watch. He also sent me one of the shoulded pads he had an etsy seller design and print for him, so thats pretty cool having him in my army. We have a Marines Errant, Ferrymen, Black Dragon, Blackshield, and a Star Phantom. Need to go to the store to get blood paint for the lenses but other than that they are done. Star Phantom An old grizzled blackshield. Buddy had done a big gs mane of hair and a pelt so not alot of room to customize this one. A Ferryman, this is my buddies own homebrew and are based around Charon, the death-like oarman across Styx. So i added a hood and scythe and a little beard so it looked like my buddy. Marines Errant, i just liked this pose. Any finally a Black Dragon. These are the guys that have a mutation where they grow random bone extrusions.
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Post by judcottrell on Feb 14, 2023 17:26:40 GMT -5
Glad to see you back on the Deathwatch.
I’m always impressed how you give every bloke the feel of his Chapter!
My personal favourite is the Marine Errant. Like you say he’s got such a dynamic and threatening pose.
What’s next?
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Post by Walk on Feb 15, 2023 3:36:11 GMT -5
Painting up a regular guard squad. Just kinda painting stuff in the backlog. But yeah thats definitely the fun of deathwatch. I typically just try to make a cool pose then flip through cannon chapter to see which one he feels like he fits haha. Its a very scientific process.
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Post by judcottrell on Feb 17, 2023 9:01:05 GMT -5
Haha! Scientific or not, it’s definitely working!
I know what you mean about the backlog, at this point I have a pile of shame of around 100 models!
I’ll still probably buy more though!!
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Post by Walk on Feb 20, 2023 4:16:11 GMT -5
Yeah i just broke down a week ago on Etsy and bought a few phase one republic clone squads, clone commandos and a hooded dual wielding starkiller thats going to be the base of my shameless jedi self insert. 3d printing has just become insanely detailed.
Then I realized it was coming from Madrid Spain and wouldnt be here til mid march. So naturally i went to amazon and got a kit from Perry Brothers for my empire. Their renaissance era light cavalry kit will fit perfectly as a road warden/constable type unit of light cav. And it comes with 12 guys for less than anything gw or even the 3d shops sell for.
Edit:copying this from Juds thread so I remember. Please ignore
They shall be the newly formed 96th Tracian Shock Infantry Regiment for the infantry, 98th Medium Armor Regiment for the newly built armor and 99th Field Ordance Regiment for the batteries. And now to copy and paste that into my blog so i remember haha
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Post by judcottrell on Feb 21, 2023 4:22:16 GMT -5
Printing really has come a long way in such a short time.
Looking forward to more Empire stuff soon!
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Post by Walk on Mar 2, 2023 14:09:21 GMT -5
The empire stuff and the clones came on the same day somehow so now Im in the condrum of do i paint clones, renaissance cavalry or finish the squad of guard. So naturally ive done nothing
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Post by judcottrell on Mar 5, 2023 17:24:12 GMT -5
Haha! I know that one!
Just remember painting is 9 tenths procrastination 1 tenth inspiration!!
Hope you can decide what to do soon.
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Post by treadiculous on Mar 14, 2023 16:19:57 GMT -5
Just remember painting is 9 tenths procrastination 1 tenth inspiration!! Oh how I wish that was true!... too often I'm just too tired after work, or my hands are too shakey from caffine / sugar / not enough food, or the lights not good enough for the details... Its kinda why my painting has become more basic over the past years, colour schemes based on prime coat and wash, with maybe one or two other colours that get washed too (since the wash will hide my mistakes if its heavy enough!) I do love seeing good painting and you always produce great stuff... it is inspiring and occassionally I will take that inspiration onto a single character and put the work in just to show I can. So keep producing the awesome stuff please!
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Post by judcottrell on Mar 16, 2023 5:47:39 GMT -5
Cheers Treadiculous!
I don’t want to derail Walk’s thread.
How’s your project coming along Walk?
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Post by Walk on Mar 17, 2023 14:30:22 GMT -5
Well I've got 9 clone commandos and two squads of phase ones primed and washed black but I've been working on my self insert jedi. Needs some final highlights and I'm going to change the orange lightsaber to a bigrant purple instead but Im liking the almost comic book vibe this armys taking on. Edit: I found a mini story i wrote in 2008 at 16 when I first found this board. Not much has changed apparently in my lore other than the 91st being demoted from a ranger regiment to medium infantry haha. Still do the shameless self inserts commissar.proboards.com/thread/4080/trench-life
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Post by judcottrell on Mar 20, 2023 8:59:39 GMT -5
Looking good!
Any idea of how you’ll do the glow of the lightsabers?
Haha! Great backstory. I wish I could write fiction, just not in my skill set.
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Post by Walk on Mar 21, 2023 0:06:23 GMT -5
Sp its hard to tell in picture but i used metalic colored paints for the blades so they shimmer in a cool way in person. Decided that was easier and i liked it better than doing offset lighting. Heres his purple blade
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Post by nutty on Mar 21, 2023 10:27:34 GMT -5
Looks good, osl on a lightsaber would be a pain in the rear, so I like your solution.
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Post by judcottrell on Mar 22, 2023 20:45:39 GMT -5
The purple looks much better than the orange.
Keep up the good work!
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Post by Walk on Mar 22, 2023 23:10:34 GMT -5
It was a toss up between my usual kotor 1 and 2 color combos but the orange just wouldnt pop so Kotor 1 won the argument. Now i need to find more uses for all these metalic paints i bought
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