Valkyre Diary - Entry 2

I started airbrushing with a thin coat of Kommando Khaki. I usually have a self-made thinner containing 1 part of alcohol to 9 parts of water. I mix this 1:1 with the paint.
I use a 0,2mm noozle so things need to be really thin when spraying.

I then mixed some Ivory (VMC) in my color (any white will do if you don't have this particular one) and sprayed a second coat over it, trying to leave the recesses out, which didn't really work too good, since I'm still a little clumsy with my airbrush. ;)


Now it was time to start weathering the interior. I made a mix of Scorched Brown and Chaos Black (1:1) and used a sponge to apply little chips to the basecoated pieces. The Paint needs
to be watered down with about 50% water for this to work. This technique is very easy and straightforward. It just needs some trys to get te amount of paint on the sponge right.




I painted the lights(?) on the ceiling. I didn't want them to be on, so I painted them as if they were gems. Looks nice, but maybe it's a bit too flashy...

Then I painted all the buttons black, they'll be gems as well.

Furthermore I fixed the gunners on corks and primed them (this time with a white overspray).

I'm going to the movies now, but I'll continue work later! :)

CU

Valkyre Diary - Entry 1

Hi Folks!

I came up with the idea to make a little step-by-step diary for the valkyreI'm currently working on. This should help to motivate myself and I'll try to show some techniques that might be interesting for one or the other.

Right now I've started to work on the interior. I'll assemble and paint this first, since it would be too difficult to do it once the valkyre is fully assembled.

Here's what happend so far:

The gunners are a little tricky to build without glueing them to the floor, but in the end it worked.
The interior parts, cleaned up and primed black. Normally I would make a second, dusty layer of white to define details and get more "grip" for the paint. But in this case I'll only use black because I'll continue with the airbrush. A black undercoat helps the get basic shadows when airbrushing over it. Once this is dry (in about 5 minutes :)) I'll start with the first layers of paint. So expect to hear from my in the next couple of hours. ;)

Regards,
n00byfied

News for Wayland Games

Hi there!

Just got a mail that Wayland Games has now also the Elves from MANTIC GAMES new range Kings of War.

If you know these miniatures please post your thoughts.

Regards

Duke

Cadian at the Campfire

Here's a little piece I did for a german painting competition.
The theme of it was "Feeling of security". I put a question mark
behind it though...


It's also on Coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/229362

and again... Imperial Guard

Did some work on the IG again. This time it's that robeguy from the 3 advisors.
I begin to like wetblending. ;)

Coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/229361

Weapons team and Lord Commisar

I did some work on the IG today. I plan on doing a little diorama
with a heavy weapons team and St. Celestine with removable minis.
Here's what I've done so far:



Furthermore I started painting the Lord Commisar. I'm trying to keep larger areas
desaturated. I used grey with a tiny drop of liche purple for the clothes.
Maybe I'll do NMM again on this one.

Bye , n00byfied

Converted Nurgle Dread

Hi! This piece was really great fun for me to build and paint. A lot of cool ideas and new techniques that I learned on a very inspiring evening of painting with Jarhead and Muhani (WHHolic). I really went crazy with making the model "dirty". It may be a bit too much though. Painting time was about 8 hours.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/229113

Regards,
n00byfied