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[Brother Agatone]

My full complement of Astartes of the Salamanders Chapter
Units:
Ten man tactical squads 6x
Ten man devastator squad 1x
Five devastator squad 1x
Ten assault squad 1x
Five man scout squad 1x
Five man terminator squad 4x
Five man fire drake squad 1x
Five man command squad 1x
Thunder fire cannon with tech marine 1x

Armor:
Land raider redeemers 2x
Rhinos 2x
Predator 1x
Vindicator 1x
Land speeder storm 1x
Drop pod 1x
Venerable dreadnoughts 2x
Ironclad dreadnought 1x
Dreadnought 1x

Independent characters:
Primarch Vulkan
Vulkan He'Stan
Company Captain

[JC 042]

Nice.

 

Do you do anything special for green? Or just stick to the one layer? It's hard to tell with model size vs picture.

 

I know a great method for tarnished bronze/gold with slight silver highlghts if your're interested.

[ebonybrotherhood]

That's a really cool army, shame it's not 100% usable, but it's really nice nonetheless. 

[CruciasNZ]

Loving the paintjob mate, very well done

[Brother Agatone]

Normally I use a green from Revel for the basic units and heavy armor. I used because I thought the green used on the salamanders from some of the pictures in the codex was too bright. I wanted a dark gritty green. For any special characters I usually use GW paints, but I use a mixture of different greens, that I'll use over a black primer, and then I'll add another layer to solidify the color, and then a black wash goes over it. After that I dry brush or dabble some more of the mixture over the edges of the armor plates to get a gritty pearlescent effect. For painting I gold, I layer on different metallic gold colors from darkest to brightest, and then throw another black wash over that and then highlight with a bright gold color, or I'll use a dark brown metallic color (watered down) to add a sort of bronze finish.

[JC 042]

I'm not sure on the modern paint names, but for gold I did this:

 

1. Basecoat 50:50 mix Scorched Earth  with Dwarven Bronze
2. Layer of Dwarven Bronze. Minus the most deep recesses
3. A highlight/layer of Shinig Gold on slightly more raised areas 
4. Wash 30:70 Devlan Mud with Gryphon Sepia, or just Gryphon Sepia. Optionally can be watered down a bit.
5. Fine highlight of 50:50 mix Mythril Silver with Shining Gold

 

Afraid I don't have my collection available to me to show a picture of my Sanguinary Guard, they were the last thing I painted and were stunning.

 

If 3D Printing becomes commercial and forces Games Workshop to charge fair and reasonable prices I might get back into the hobby, but never the game.

[Brother Agatone]

I have a squad of sanguinary guard. While painting them I learned how to get that grey to white effect with the wings and shoulder pads

[JC 042]

For that I remember using a black basecoat followed by that new white foundation paint avoiding the recesses, then layering that with skull white. Seriously hard not to let it spill into the recesses.

[CruciasNZ]

I know someone who has an entire army mostly consisting of 3D printed Orks and they work quite well for him. Buy single models off Ebay, scan and reproduce. It's legal unless you ever sell or gift it onwards, so legally your army has no resell value but who gives a fuck - orks never change

[JC 042]

 - orks never change

WAAAAGH.... WAAAAAGH never changes...

[Brother Agatone]

With 3D printing though, the surfaces aren't entirely smooth though

[JC 042]

Depends on the printer I bet.

 

No intention of getting one, just want to see it drive Games Workshop's prices down, I may get a 3D Printer if they get cheaper than the models currently are. I'd still purchase GW's paints and etc however if I do pick the hobby back up.

[CruciasNZ]

With 3D printing though, the surfaces aren't entirely smooth though

True, but good for bulk armies like Nids and Orks

[Brother Agatone]

What would be cool, is CADing a badass special character, and 3D printing it

[JC 042]

My lecturer just showed off his new toy (he shows off a bunch of expensive crap to make students cry...) a nano 3D printer, he made a replica 20p to perfect detail.

 

Considering it's £200 and can likely replicate small GW models/parts perfectly I'm getting more and more tempted to buy one...

 

EDIT: wait but then there's the high cost of a detailed 3D scanner... anyone think someone has made scans of GW's entire product line publicly available?

Edited by JC 042, 04 September 2015 - 01:09 PM.

[Brother Agatone]

I hear the materials used for printing is expensive too

[CruciasNZ]

http://3dprintingind...ammer-40k-army/

 

Predator and Drop Pod were < $5 each in filament cost. That's $US and a fuck ton less than even ebay

 

Some 3D printed models are actually better looking that the mass produced models sold by GW, I remember seeing a Forest Dragon that looked better that some of the Fantasy models

[Brother Agatone]

Little more detail on vulkan in these pictures

The main base isn't quite done yet

Edited by Brother Agatone, 06 September 2015 - 03:25 PM.

[An_A10_Pilot]

That is a Badass looking army. Ill be using your and JC's paint tips if I ever get into Salamanders. But soooo much orks left to paint. 

 

Vulkan looks especially awesome! I love that you gave him the proper onyx skin and red eyes. A lot of salamander players shy away from doing the skin properly. or just use helmets.