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An Imperial Manticore prepares to fire a salvo of its deadly rockets on enemy positions in the heart of a ruined Imperial city.
This Epic model is one of the more difficult models to put together with four separate rockets which really don’t want to stay on their firing rails.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I now when giving my models a wash, add paint to the ink which removes the gloss you can see in the photograph.
Epic Ork Trukk in the ruins of an Imperial city.
This is a conversion, it used an Ork Flakwagon and the Ork Buggy Gunnerz from two buggies. It had a white undercoat, I then painted the metal parts black, drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal. The red parts were painted red, I then gave it a wash of Chestnut Ink.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I now when giving my models a wash, add paint to the ink which removes the gloss you can see in this photograph. You can see that effect on these models.
The wash has given them a matt look which looks more “realistic” than the gloss finish of the Trukk above.
Workbench feature on how I painted those Gunwagons.
Having finished off the red wax on my Grey Knights Landspeeder I set about adding writing to the paper parts of the purity seals.
I used a watered down Chaos Black for the writing.
I am okay with the end result, but would have liked to have done some finer writing, so I may try again.
I also took the opportunity to paint the Inquisitorial book on the front with a red foundation paint.
This needs some tidying up as well.
As part of the Helidays in Weston-super-Mare I managed to get a chance to photograph a few old army trucks. This is an old Bedford QL.
An Epic Ork Battlefortress moves through the ruins of an Imperial city supported by other Ork vehicles.
This has been converted. The front turrets were replaced with flak gunz from Ork Flakwagonz. A Pulsa Rokkit was added on the left, whilst Ork Buggy Gunnerz were added on the right. It was undercoated black, drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal with some parts picked out in red.
My Daemonhunters Inquisitor is going to have an entourage, one of whom will be an Inquisitor Acolyte. I started this model sometime ago, but have (as with all my Daemonhunters models) been revisting them in mind to get them finished.
At this stage I had done some work.
I painted the parchment and books with Bleached Bone and highlighted with Skull White.
This is the rear view.
I did start to highlight the cloak, but this didn’t work out too well so the paint was quickly removed, it looked too pink!
Having painted the paper parts of the purity seals on my Grey Knights Landspeeder I highlighted the seals with Bleached Bone and Skull White.
I then painted the wax seals. I used the red foundation paint for this (as I had used a black undercoat). I then highlighted the seals with normal Citadel Colour, Blood Red.
I will need to do the writing next.
GW have published a picture of the Ork Mek with Big Shoota.
Looks good.
As part of the Helidays in Weston-super-Mare I managed to get a chance to photograph a few old army trucks. This is an old AEC Matador with a trailer nearby.
A close up of the Matador.
Another view of the Matador.
I always liked the Airfix kit, so it was nice to see a real version up close.
I purchased my Ork Bommer way back in 2003 at GamesDay and I am still working on it nearly four years later, though it did spend some time as an Epic Transport plane for a while…
It has taken a while but I have now finished the base coat…
You can see how (poorly) I filled the gaps in the model, however this is an Orky plane and I wouldn’t expect it to be perfect!
The next stage will be to give the whole thing a ink and paint wash.
I must get the Traktor painted as well for it.