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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: dicnar on June 27, 2012, 07:50:56 PM
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Hi. Just a teaser pic of a really big project i' ve been making for years. I finally menage to put it together and hope to finish scratchbuilding & painting to enter Gothicomp 2012.
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7277/jihgh.jpg)
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Ooh colour me excited - I love the corsair Eldar models, and really hope to get some on eBay sometime, but warmaster comes first at the minute. = )
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let me guess: the corsair in the front is NOT the project.
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I thought I saw a pussycat.......
oops no. it isa craftworld !
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Yes and yes :) Here's some more pics of the scrachbuild. It literary waited years while i collected various parts than can be used. When i saw few craftworld models, including the one in planet killer magazine i always thought they all looked to much like a submarine while I always imagined the craftworld to be like in John Blanches ilustration. More like a scrambled mess of shapes and structures. That makes it look more "alien" and not made by puny humans :) So i tried to follow this theme also a list of "Eldar terrain tips" by ironhands.com was very help full. I hope to finish just to enter Gothiccomp 2012 but it depends on few thing . I got to have instant mould to duplicate some tiny cities for the details. If not there's always next year ;). Oh, the craftworld suppose to be Iyanden, like my craftworld fleet, because I always wanted to re-create the battle with hive fleet kraken.
John Blanches ilustration.
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4805/20120629120923.jpg)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5892/dsdsdfsdf.jpg)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg696/scaled.php?server=696&filename=img2930zz.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg163/scaled.php?server=163&filename=img2932i.jpg&res=landing)
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When i saw few craftworld models, including the one in planet killer magazine i always thought they all looked to much like a submarine
lol every craftworld model ive seen has been built using the Seaquest model
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PH3CoBSS9k8/TiBVr7bridI/AAAAAAAABQU/gDM4_YYtiZY/s1600/DSC07896.JPG)
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That is an impressive array of waterpistols and other "kinky"stuff that you have brought together !
Are you going to "coat" the outerlayer in places to facilitate deltailing and painting ??
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That is an impressive array of waterpistols and other "kinky"stuff that you have brought together !
Are you going to "coat" the outerlayer in places to facilitate deltailing and painting ??
Hmm i don't know if I understand correctly but i say: Yes. I'm going to coat it, but nothing fancy just some spray paint under layer, the rest will be painted with airbrush, details will be painted by hand :). But it's still a long way to first paint layer. Meanwhile some progress on the overall shape.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg338/scaled.php?server=338&filename=img2938d.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg805/scaled.php?server=805&filename=img2941o.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg542/scaled.php?server=542&filename=img2939e.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg803/scaled.php?server=803&filename=img2940o.jpg&res=landing)
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What I meant is that the plastic you used for various parts of the model is sometimes prone to resist painting, without preparing it.
I know for a fact that most spraypaint will have trouble creating a functional layer too, at least one which wont peel away.
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Well i had this problem once with some proxy tyranid spores but when one spray failed the other one worked just fine. There's always acrylic paint and a brush if something would be really paint -repelant.
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I may build also my own this winter, but It will be Saint-Han ;).
I´m not sure if your were thinking in doing it but try to add towers and cities,
You just need evergreen sticks
(http://www.jugueteriatecnica.com/catalog/images/219.jpg)
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I may build also my own this winter, but It will be Saint-Han ;).
I´m not sure if your were thinking in doing it but try to add towers and cities,
You just need evergreen sticks
Well actually I was thinking a lot about what to use as cities. I And I ended buying an OOP "Spacefleet" game for models that would be perfect for it. Also i have quite a collection of various eldarish bits, like cocktail glass markers that would be perfect for representing spires ;)
here's a pic of an old gothic cruiser with perfect city structure, not my pic.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa290/banichinz/DSC00064.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa290/banichinz/DSC00061.jpg)