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Flakjacket's endless war of attrition; Guard, FOW, Square basing,Warmachine, WWW2 and Boltaction!
Topic Started: 22 Jan 2008, 08:54 PM (11,696 Views)
flakjacket 22 Jan 2008, 08:54 PM Post #1
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 welcome one and all to the fiasco that is my painting war. Before you get all excited i must warn you that updates will be few and far between. As a married teacher i have little free time, it's not all long holidays i assure you :P
This log will mostly contain my ever increasing guard stuff, from the ongoing Cadians to the still boxed and unassembled DK and Vossies, it will also be the home of any such thing that takes my fancy (and i'm easily distracted ).
To start this log off here's a pic' of the last thing i painted :
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A new commissar with friends
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and with some more less important friends

I'll chuck some more junk up at some point, let me know what you think :)
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vincent1989 22 Jan 2008, 08:57 PM Post #2
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 pretty nice i have to say ;)
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flakjacket 22 Jan 2008, 09:01 PM Post #3
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 Thanks, here's some more random stuff :
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My AI navy wing so far, again i've more in a box somewhere in pieces awaiting a wash and some glue :rolleyes:
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vincent1989 22 Jan 2008, 09:07 PM Post #4
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 once again, nice stuff, i really want to get into AI, but doubt many in my area play :( i was thinking of starting either imperial or eldar
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# KayvaanShrike 22 Jan 2008, 11:19 PM Post #5
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 Awesome stuff.

I had a game or two of A.I a while back, and plan on getting an Eldar fleet when I get some cash, was a good fun game to play.
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bram kuijpers 23 Jan 2008, 08:28 AM Post #6
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 nice officers and priest,
priest : look at my vacation picture!
commissar : the bgb says habalabla
officer : *scream*

an the rocket guys looks pretty good to, thought the rocket launcher guy looks strange holding a rocket launcher in one hand
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Lord Commander Eidolon 23 Jan 2008, 12:06 PM Post #7
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 nice to see more stock cadians on this forum, they look great flackjacket
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flakjacket 24 Jan 2008, 10:08 AM Post #8
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 While being off work striken with a stomach bug i have become distracted :D

By dese guyz, dey is well ard and kool :D
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And da Boss wiv iz bitey squig
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I've become bored painting my guard, and decided to knock up a small ork army just for fun, the guard are still my passion, but a little diversion never hurt anyone, did it?
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☺Sheep 24 Jan 2008, 12:04 PM Post #9
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 Hey mate, they look great, don't forget the guard, everyone strays but we all come back :D
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bram kuijpers 24 Jan 2008, 01:02 PM Post #10
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 hehe , im in ur armory looting ya stuff :lol:

nice lootas ,up your grot boss ,and da bigg old ork squigy boss, any thoughts about the ork clans tatoos or strange paintjobs?
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flakjacket 24 Jan 2008, 01:13 PM Post #11
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 I was thinking to go with deathskulls for the lootas, not sure whether i want to stick to just one clan, or mix 'em up a bit?
I quite like the idea of lots of different brightly coloured units to make a change from my sombre shadow grey/black guard :)
I,ve managed to undercoat the lootas, just got to touch where the spray has missed. I'm not intending to go over board on the paint jobs, just a basic gaming standard :P
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bram kuijpers 24 Jan 2008, 01:22 PM Post #12
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 ever thought about half tatood faces?
like the savage orcs from fantasy, that would look realy realy freeboot
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flakjacket 24 Jan 2008, 03:35 PM Post #13
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 oooh a PIP pic of a loota boy, i've basically put down the base colours on this test mini, loving the foundation paints. My guard didn't relly let me use them apart from the commy.

Dis mob iz gonna be deffskullz, wiv loadsa 'lucky' blue threads and stuff
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The pic's aren't too great as the ink isn't quite dry and the flash picked up on this.
What do you think so far? The last greenie i painted was a 2nd ed goff from the main box over a decade ago :D
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bram kuijpers 24 Jan 2008, 07:26 PM Post #14
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 looks alright thought the skin could be a bit brighter
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Princess 24 Jan 2008, 07:37 PM Post #15
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 I think its just a base colour so far!

Looking very cool, i love orks! Just never got off my arse and done them!

AR
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flakjacket 25 Jan 2008, 06:01 PM Post #16
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 Thanks guys, it is indeed just the base coat. I wanted to give my foundation paints a workout, so i primarily just used them to see if they worked :D
I'm quite happy with the base colours, but the ork flesk will indeed be highlighted a lot :)
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de Selby 25 Jan 2008, 11:02 PM Post #17
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 Looking great so far.

What's the mix on the ork's loota gun? Drybrush tin bitz and boltgun metal? Looks nice as-is (at least in the pics).
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flakjacket 26 Jan 2008, 10:07 AM Post #18
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 To be honest, i couldn't be bothered to dig out the tin bitz or bgm, it's simply a savage dry brush using chainmail, followed by a copius brown ink wash :D
I will probably go back and add more variation to the colouring at a much later point, but to be honest i want a fairly simple quick scheme so i don't get bogged down. Even a small mob is going to be number heavy, and i'm already failing miserably to do my huge guard army justice :(
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Splod 26 Jan 2008, 10:05 PM Post #19
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 Looking very nice.
Your guard scheme looks very similar to one I knocked up a while back. If you're enjoying using Foundations it looks like Fenris Grey would be useful for speeding up your guard a bit. Thats what I used and it came out ok.

I'm a die hard imperial but that box set looks so sweet...
God damn you Mork and Gork...
At least it'll be blue :)
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flakjacket 28 Jan 2008, 03:37 PM Post #20
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 very slow going i know, but thats me i'm afraid. I present a PIP mekboy;
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dat iz a snazzy kustom shooty fing
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an ere iz me lucky blue pantz, nevva go ta war wiv out em :D

The rest of the lootas are in varying stages of paint, once i've got them all base coated and washed then the fun will start, highlights and details.

I'm not sure how the skin is going to turn out, i usually paint a medium base then shade and highlight. i've started dark this time using orkhide, not sure whether to go for goblin green or gretchin green for the highlights (building up from orkhide of course), any suggestions?

Cheers :D
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