Back to GUNDAM!!!!!!

As I start to pack up and organize for my move back the US, I have gone back to that hobby I missed Gundam!! I am working on a small resin kit as that will take up a lot less space, and resin requires fewer saws, and other things that I use for my MG builds. I am also prepping for when I can get my hands on Thehelmosengine's Drehksturm Assault type. (thanks RC) I have been waiting for this kit to be completed for a long time now and I am super excited to get my hands on one.

But enough of that for a minute. To build a 1/144 RT1590 Neo Geo version of The O Gundam. As you can see in the pictures below. The completed kit is of course not mine.

This is the completed version in the colors suggested. We all know how I feel about suggested colors on Gundam. (:

And here is the newly completed box art for the Drehksturm. Killer work by all parties involved in building this kit!!!! I am excited to get my hands on one.

Well, a small update I know. But a Gundam type update none the less. As always thanks for stopping by. T.G.

Chaos Rhino, and some conversions

I will start with the conversion...nothing major, almost a proxy change. I am taking some Death Angel Veterans, and turning them into a Stern Guard Veteran Squad for my Space Marine Army. But of course I am not going to paint them just any regular paint scheme. This is a SGV Squad from the Angels of Hate! I went with the SGV idea of preferring distance to close combat. Not a lot done here, just built, and initial wash has been done.

Onto finished works. My weekends project. A Chaos Space Marine Rhino. I am using the Emperor's Children colors. I know the name doesn't make sense, but it is the name of a CSM Chapter. So, breaking from all the black, which is really boring and overly easy to paint...not something I am into with $60 models. I spent the money, they might as well look great. Or as great as I can get them. (:

You can see I didn't put the outer doors on, I thought with the chains hanging down, the doors just looked crowded, and how would they open? So I went with a they can jump out the door look.

I built this so I would be able to store it very easily in my foam casing. So I am height limited. Taking a page from my resin building knowledge (very limited knowledge indeed) and pinned all the upper pieces in place.

As always thank you for stopping by. C/c are always welcome. T.G.

Fire Wasp Space Marine Terminator

Warhammer update time again.
 This time I have completed what will end up being the first of my Fire Wasp Terminator squad. I have decided not to stick with just one single chapter...after all what would be the fun in painting all my Space Marines the same. After all they all serve the same Emperor, and thus should work together towards a common cause. Now I know that some chapters despise other chapters and will only help them because they have too. But I don't really care about that when I am choosing what ones to paint, and how.

Now that I have painted a few of these I decided to show the steps I used to paint a Fire Wasp Terminator.

1. Prime it white. I didn't show that, but you can guess what it looked like. The same pretty much only white (:
2. I used Baby Poop, and Yellow snow 50/50 mix with about 3 drops of water to create the wash base for  the model.

3. Here I used the darkest yellow I had mix with a light grey. Yellow has terrible coverage ability. That being said if you add a drop of grey the coverage greatly improves. So That's what I did.

Below you can see a side to side comparison the left one is wash only, the right one is 1st layer of color.

Yes that is a collector Gundam Ramen cup in the background...what better cup to use?

Same comparison, just this time left is wash only, and right is 2nd layer of an even lighter yellow.

After that I forgot to take pictures of the parts I painted black. Sorry, Basically straight black, then on the metallic parts a 50/50 mix of black and tin to give it a very dark black metallic look. I used a glazing medium in the red, yellow, and orange for the flames. By using glazing compounds the paint becomes very viscous and wet blends very well with other paints. But it doesn't thin the paint out like water would.

I used a long hair brush to  make the stripes allowing me to just pull across. Not a bad job for my first time free handing stripes on a round surface. Oh and you can see the 2 layer dry brush on the bolter.

Hand painted arrow. Lesson learned there was to draw it with a pencil first. Not perfect, but all right.

Close up of the flames.

Base isn't finished I know. Needed to let the paint dry tonight then I will base him up. As I am learning the game of WH40k, I don't intend anything fancy that makes it so he isn't playable.

As always thanks for stopping by. C/C welcome,
T.G.

Space Marine Fire Wasps Razor

As I finish my first Fire Wasp Razor, I figure I should show you where I am getting the color scheme from.  This link will take you to the place that I have found for the Space marine Chapters. I am not saying its the end all be all list, but its a good list none the less its a pretty thorough one for me to use.

The one I want you to pay attention to are the Fire Wasps. The other ones are nice too, but not being painted by me right now.

And here you go! A Fire Wasp Razor. Stripes one the left I didn't want to paint the right black, so I did the flames in the center.

A little weathering where the exhaust would be.

The model was too large to do weathering on. I used my airbrush...I missed using it. To get a really nice even yellow color. The Vallejo colors yellow is very slow to cover requiring a lot of layers. That isn't a big deal on a Space Marine, but this thing is a little bigger, and thus multi-layer isn't really something that fits into my lack of patience personality.

I used the flame idea on the crest of the tail section. And added a rifle, and some extra fuel to break up the plain lines.

Here you can see the stripes. All hand painted by the way. I wanted to practice my hand painting for the lines, especially because the space marines are a lot smaller and going to take a lot of steady painting.

Well, I have been working on this for a few days now. Hope you like it. As always thanks for stopping by.  T.G.