Go on, show us your minis (painted miniature gallery thread)[also Ultramarines movie "review"]

[Zykon TheLich]

Amusingly, that's the same sort of thing you get from the expensive GW white primer. Know a way to strip paint from old plastic minis without damaging them? I want to re-do my old school plague marines with a black UC.

Love the Imperial Fleet so far. Some really nice work you've done there.

Ok, thanks for the warning, guess I'll stick with the cheapy £2.50 cans of primer instead of GW's £8 money sinks.

Fairy Power Spray. It's super effective! Put the mini's is a jam jar or old ice cream tub, spray liberally and leave for 24hrs. Anything that's not totally immersed in the goo when you take them out might need another soak for the crevaces but otherwise a bit of light scrubbing with a toothbrush will clean em right up. I'd been using carburettor cleaner for metal mini's and I thought there's no way anything that wouldn't harm plastic would make an easy job of it but IMO it cleans paint of plastic better than carb cleaner does off metal.

EDIT: Oh...you're Australian...dunno if you have that then...Dettol? I think that's British too, and it allegedly makes the mini's smell vile for a while. Otherwise I've heard Castrol Super Clean (Now just 'Super Clean') works but it's foul stuff, don't get it on your hands if you like them to be covered with skin. It's a US thing I think but u might be able to get it in Aus.

Thanks, I'm starting to get the hang of painting the BFG models now, plus I've read a few issues of Warp Rift and GW's BFG paint guides so it's getting better and easier, when I painted the 2 BFG cruisers I didn't have a clue as to the best ways to paint them. Space fleet are much more like traditional models to paint.

PS: Hey! You were born same year as me, we're both Rogue Trader era oldsters! I should have realised when you posted the Rogue Trader Renegades.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

It's another painted spaceship! Who'd o' thought it?

Spoiler: Space Fleet Imperial Annihilator Battleship

Unfortunately the turret was very poorly moulded and a lot of the detail on it wasn't really distinct enough to pick out with different colours. I'm not sure what my excuse was for the superstructure...lazyness probably.

[http://img638.imageshack.us/i/annihilator.jpg/]

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

This is the only one i can find right now. Its a grey knight justicar. I have the death cult assassin i entered in golden deamon last year somewhere around here.
I'll try and find the photo. Its the best thing i have ever painted and i'm quite proud of it

Spoiler

I couldn't find it, but i found my Inquisitor lord

Spoiler

 

[Zykon TheLich]

This is the only one i can find right now. Its a grey knight justicar. I have the death cult assassin i entered in golden deamon last year somewhere around here.
I'll try and find the photo. Its the best thing i have ever painted and i'm quite proud of it
*SNIP*

Thanks for posting, nice work. Have you got any better pictures of them? Closer and in better light? Lighting is always a pig.

We've had quite a few people post in this thread now. If everyone keeps posting this thread might actually keep going without my help. That'd be nice. But for now...

Spoiler: Thunderbolt Cruiser painted today

[http://img580.imageshack.us/i/thunderbolt.jpg/]

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Thanks for posting, nice work. Have you got any better pictures of them? Closer and in better light? Lighting is always a pig.

We've had quite a few people post in this thread now. If everyone keeps posting this thread might actually keep going without my help. That'd be nice. But for now...

Spoiler: Thunderbolt Cruiser painted today

[http://img580.imageshack.us/i/thunderbolt.jpg/]

I will do my best. But first i need to try and find my camera XD
And I have a unit of Empire knights i have been painting on and off for months, i'm nowhere near done, but they are taking shape quite nicely.

And is that an Epic scale miniature? I'm always amazed by people who can paint on that scale

Amusingly, that's the same sort of thing you get from the expensive GW white primer. Know a way to strip paint from old plastic minis without damaging them? I want to re-do my old school plague marines with a black UC.

If you leave them to soak in brake fluid overnight it works a treat. It may sound crazy, but trust me it works miracles.

 

[MoonPenguin]

Nice job on the Justicar and the Inquisitor. Looks sharp.

I like the color scheme you've got rolling on the fleet-stuff, scum. Shame about the poor molding on the turret.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

And is that an Epic scale miniature? I'm always amazed by people who can paint on that scale

No, it's one of the old space fleet models, it's about 4.5cm long. I have a pic of most of my epic stuff here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.191553.6212144

If you leave them to soak in brake fluid overnight it works a treat. It may sound crazy, but trust me it works miracles.

No, no, no, no NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He said plastic mini's. Soaking them in brake fluid is a good way of ending up with a pile of melted sludge. I've already answered him for plastic. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.191553.6746819

I like the color scheme you've got rolling on the fleet-stuff, scum. Shame about the poor molding on the turret.

Thanks, it looks nice and is quick and easy to do. I'll have to buy another Annihilator. They are prety rare but I know a man with a couple for sale...

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

If you leave them to soak in brake fluid overnight it works a treat. It may sound crazy, but trust me it works miracles.

No, no, no, no NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He said plastic mini's. Soaking them in brake fluid is a good way of ending up with a pile of melted sludge. I've already answered him for plastic. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.191553.6746819

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Ah, didn't see that. And fairy power spray you say, i shall have to give that a go.
And none of my plastic models have melted in brake fluid. I use it quite a lot (I came into a large supply of the stuff for free two year ago)I know it sounds ridiculous but it does work.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Ah, didn't see that. And fairy power spray you say, i shall have to give that a go.
And none of my plastic models have melted in brake fluid. I use it quite a lot (I came into a large supply of the stuff for free two year ago)I know it sounds ridiculous but it does work.

Odd, I've heard from numerous sources that brake fluid melts them, maybe I'll give it a go. I know for a fact that carburettor cleaner turns 'em gooey.

 

[MoonPenguin]

Carb. cleaner and brake fluid tend to eat up just about anything other than metal in my experience. I have found, however, a bit of carb. cleaner strategically placed on a tank makes excellent melta damage

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Carb. cleaner and brake fluid tend to eat up just about anything other than metal in my experience.

Now you see, that's what I'd been told as well. I use carb cleaner for metal and fairy power spray for plastic, and I have to say I think Fairy does a better job on plastic than carb cleaner does on metal. I don't have any plastic models that I'd be willing to sacrifice to try out the brake fluid thing, so I guess I'll just stick with Fairy.

PS any suggestions for my next paint job?
I should give the ships a break now but I haven't got round to getting the right paints for the steel legion chaps...and all my ships succesfully made their warp jumps from their respective start points and arrived safely at the mustering point at Lannoweth III, although one patrol group was caught in a minor warpstorm and arrived a day late.

 

[CrazyMedic]

I have never been much of a modeler but my grandparents got me afew catachan guardsmen afew months ago and I decided I would dive into the pool that is over priced models and people using latin to make things seem cool, I went down to the games workshop by my house and picked up some brushes and paints and went to paint and then the last few months ago when the blood angles codex came I decided to pick up what seemed like the best force ever and traded my models around to pick up the stuff I needed and I am very annoyed that my blood angles keep coming out pink, does anyone have any advice on that and modeling in general.

(ps once I get my camera working I will be posting picture of dante the only model I got right)

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I am very annoyed that my blood angles keep coming out pink, does anyone have any advice on that and modeling in general.

Painting them orange would probably help...seriously now, basecoat them blood angel orange, maybe a wash of baal red and then extreme highlight with hobgoblin orange and bad moon yellow.

EDIT: Great, just gone to look at GW's site and they don't make a single one of those colours anymore barring the baal red wash.
Basecoat of Macharius solar orange, baal red wash, then extreme highlight with blazing orange (assuming it's lighter than Macharius, it's hard to tell from the colours they put on the net), blazing orange mixed with sunburst yellow and just sunburst yellow.

 

[CrazyMedic]

I am very annoyed that my blood angles keep coming out pink, does anyone have any advice on that and modeling in general.

Painting them orange would probably help...seriously now, basecoat them blood angel orange, maybe a wash of baal red and then extreme highlight with hobgoblin orange and bad moon yellow.

EDIT: Great, just gone to look at GW's site and they don't make a single one of those colours anymore barring the baal red wash.
Basecoat of Macharius solar orange, baal red wash, then extreme highlight with blazing orange (assuming it's lighter than Macharius, it's hard to tell from the colours they put on the net), blazing orange mixed with sunburst yellow and just sunburst yellow.

thanks I will try that and again if I can get my camera to upload to the interwebs I will post the results.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

thanks I will try that and again if I can get my camera to upload to the interwebs I will post the results.

No problem and please do post, I assume you know how?. Out of interest, what were you painting them in before to get them to turn out pink?

Also, decided I'm going to paint another battle sister, this time it's one with a storm bolter and full helmet, cause I think the helmets look cool (and avoiding the nightmare I had last time with painting the face.

 

[MoonPenguin]

Sisters look better with the helmets on anyway

Further clarification: ....while spewing flaming gouts of death at the enemy.

 

[CheeseSandwichCake]

I should take a picture of my Tyranid Prime and Old One Eye conversions that I did.

I made Old One Eye out of a normal carnifex but I made him look damaged the crap out of and I gave him the mandible thingies, I guess it was because I didn't want a second metal monstrous creature (Fucking hive tyrant...)

Pity the camera on my camera phone broke and I don't have another camera.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Sisters look better with the helmets on anyway

Further clarification: ....while spewing flaming gouts of death at the enemy.

Yup, someone ought to tell them that the Joan of Arc cuts are really not flattering in any way...

Also I'm going on hols in a couple of days and I got loads to do between now and then so it's unlikely I'm going to be able to finish anything before I leave. It will probably be a fortnight or so before I post the Battle Sister, despite the fact that there's not much more to do.

Pity the camera on my camera phone broke and I don't have another camera.

Then buy or steal another one! Honestly, do I have to think of everything for you people?

 

[Jaythulhu]

I am very annoyed that my blood angles keep coming out pink, does anyone have any advice on that and modeling in general.

Painting them orange would probably help...seriously now, basecoat them blood angel orange, maybe a wash of baal red and then extreme highlight with hobgoblin orange and bad moon yellow.

EDIT: Great, just gone to look at GW's site and they don't make a single one of those colours anymore barring the baal red wash.
Basecoat of Macharius solar orange, baal red wash, then extreme highlight with blazing orange (assuming it's lighter than Macharius, it's hard to tell from the colours they put on the net), blazing orange mixed with sunburst yellow and just sunburst yellow.

thanks I will try that and again if I can get my camera to upload to the interwebs I will post the results.

To be honest, I think they'd look more like sunburnt imperial fists using the orange. I've thrown it on some Daemonettes, and it really is bright, specially once ya highlight it. I'd go a Mechrite Red basecoat, blood red layers, devlan mud wash, and use blazing orange as a highlight mix and for extreme edge highlighting.

Sadly, the colours GW has out now really aren't as good as the ones from when scumofsociety and I first started(Rogue Trader baby, yeah!). I do know some people that are using the dark orange from Vallejo's (not quite sure of spelling there) paint range as a base for BA, but that stuff is really hard to get in Australia, and damn expensive to import, so I've not tried it.

Sisters look better with the helmets on anyway

Further clarification: ....while spewing flaming gouts of death at the enemy.

You mean while they're being crushed under the feet of a Chaos Dreadnaught, surely.