After messing around with a dodgy latin translator for a while, I now have a chapter name. woop
Chapter Name: N
ocens Nidores.It roughly translates to 'The bad smell'.
I try not to take things too seriously...
Second marine has been brown washed, just waiting for a black wash then details.
Rhino:Painted the front stowage area.
The metallic surface was painted Chainmail then given very heavy treatment with some brown oil paint. I may add a slight bit of blueish-green to get that oxidized look. Depends how it turns out. This is the treatment I'll give to all areas of added armour where you can see the back. This is to imply a hasty coat of red paint by some random techy just to cover up the bare metal, but only painting the outside facing areas.
I'm going a little crazy with the weathering this time - I'm going to try and layer up a wet mud effect, starting off with a couple of different washes: green, yellow, brown - then getting a little bit heavier with the dry brushing, before hopefully building up a shade not dissimilar to graveyard earth. We'll see how it pans out. First layer is a wonderful sickly green.
Force commanderA couple of new additions to the army:
I'll start work on the land speeder probably after the scouts. Hopefully I'll build up a 3 strong squadron over time.
The commander is a terminator armored librarian, which for now will be on his own, although I may later kit him out with a command squad. I decided to be a little adventurous with the base and use a technique I dreamt up of while board in a maths exam: blue-tac and plaster sculpting. Is this madness, is this insanity? It certainly isn't sparta, but here goes anyway:
Scrounge yourself a 40mm base of the nice guys at the GW shop, flip it over, fill it with blu-tac then plaster that with PVA and let dry.
Step two is to wait for this to dry, then mix yourself up some more of that plaster I used for the rhino mud, this time just plaster and water. Stir all around and then use an old brush to stick it on the base, getting a nice textured effect.
Steps 3 and 4 will include painting it then decorating it with flock, sand, static grass, persians, the whole 9-yards.
Comments welcome as ever.
Chris