so TabletopXwingPilot showed us his rusted out Firespray, which was something that i wanted to do to my own, and inspired me to start on my own. this is a WIP

the victim:

step one was to put down a warm brown for my rust. i used Mournfang Brown from the citadel range:

then i picked out some sections with Altdorf Guard Blue and a few panels with Averland Sunset, i alsobuilt up some shading by drybrushing and highlighting the browm panels with Skrag Brown

next i picked out a few fiddley bits with black and over the black i applied Ledbelcher silver, i gently highlighted the blue panels with Cargar Blue and Yriel Yellow (i didnt snap a pic of that stage) then i washed the entire model with Argax Earthshade.

after the wash dried i went over the model with a Sakura Pigma Micron 005 micro pen. i cannot stress enough how easy this is and how it makes all your panels pop. the 005 size pen is small enough to do panels on all ships

when i use washes and glazes i never just drown the model, i use them mostly as filters to soften highlight transisions. in this case though i let the wash run a little heavy in places to add a little more dingy effect

so at this point i was happy with the results so far and decided to take it outside to hit it with a couple of coats of testors dullcoat. after the first coat of dullcoat. the dog got a little crazy and bumped the table, which knocked over the model and broke the peg slot in the ship. no worried though, easy fix....until plastic glue dripped on the hull and ate some paint away.

ohs noes!!!!! easy fix though.

now stage one done. im wondering if i should take the rust up one more shade before i start weathering.

what y'all thing

love it

i also wanted to say, i really really really think it is completely unnecessary to strip or prime these models. wash them in warm soapy water and let it dry. some of the colors will actually act as a preshade, and the acrilic paints adhere to the painted plastic just fine.

thanks Vimnock. my next victim will be a YT-1300 (thanks to dojimaster). i think i'll paint that in a similar way...all rusty and whatnot

Love the Blood Angel in the back ground

gah....dont even get me started on that....i have 6k+ pts each in space marines, orks and dark eldar....plus another 1k in heresy era emperors children to paint.....and here i am painting models that already have paint on them....its a sickness

i keep telling myself i'll pant all my GW stuff when i get another airbrush setup.....yeah, thats what i keep telling myself.....

i also wanted to say, i really really really think it is completely unnecessary to strip or prime these models. wash them in warm soapy water and let it dry. some of the colors will actually act as a preshade, and the acrilic paints adhere to the painted plastic just fine.

Yup I did stripe a few for some conversion work and it is not needed. The paint on these is so thine it is not going cause anybody any issues.

Nice work I think it might be worth taking the rust highlights up one more level before starting to weather it, to avoid having it all end up too dark across the hull. The mottled colour on the blue sections works well - is that just a single layer of wash on the highlighted blue?

Pretty cool, I wanted to get a Kath Scarlet paint job for a Firespray but I would have to get another Firespray and I am holding off an buying doubles of large ships. But I found these from Google.

This is my Kath Scarlet Firespray

I painted it up for my wife's force as she always uses Kath Scarlet. I went for a greyer tone than most as it looks grey in the card art to me.

Nice. Totally agree that stripping is unnecessary with repaints for these models.

I love the blue!

I like your Kath more than mine Gadge!

Love the Blood Angel in the back ground

+1

Pretty cool, I wanted to get a Kath Scarlet painjob for a Firespray but I would have to get another Firespray and I am holding off an buying doubles of large ships. But I found these from Google.

That's a nice deviation from the usual Kath repaint.

Nice work I think it might be worth taking the rust highlights up one more level before starting to weather it, to avoid having it all end up too dark across the hull. The mottled colour on the blue sections works well - is that just a single layer of wash on the highlighted blue?

yeah only a single wash, just played around till i got the "splotches" where i liked them. agrax earthshade is probably the single best product in the Citadel paint line, although i havent used any of the painting products they put out after the last "mega paint bundle"

after staring at the model for a few hours i agree that one more highlight would make it pop a little more.

i was on the fence about either doing a Kath or Krassis, and well, since i never use Kath im obligated to do Krassis

I love the blue!

thanks man

I like your Kath more than mine Gadge!

Kind of you to say so , thanks chap

Love the Blood Angel in the back ground

+1

An old school 90s one at that. I had a full squad of ten these with jump packs in my old blood angel army.

Love the Blood Angel in the back ground

+1

An old school 90s one at that. I had a full squad of ten these with jump packs in my old blood angel army.

Yep. But any Space Marine is awesome, old or not.

Older the better for me. I only game with and collect pre 1990 miniatures.. you know like when you could *choose* how to decorate their armour with a brush and a modicum of skill.

These days marines look like they have had their armour covered in glue before being dipped in a vat full of skulls and purity seals.

I dont really like plastic minis in 40k so i stick to all the old Rogue Trader era stuff. I've not painted it yet but i've about three squads and command elements of 80s lead 'beaky' marines, couple of 80s rhinos and an 80s landraider.

No interest in the modern stuff at all but that assault marine was from around the era I last bought a 40k model from a store at full price. I loved those assault marines at the time.

(mainly because shortly after that I worked for GW so usually got free or at cost /lead weight stuff)

Awesome ships, I love all, looks awesome all, greettings.

Awesome ships, I love all, looks awesome all, greettings.

thanks man.

started playing with my x-wing colors, ignore the mess.....the model was in horrible condition when i opened it from the pack, grainy, almost like it was from a 3d printer....anyway its all about the colors on it. im pretty sure i like the black and purple. i'll get a better picture when i get the model a little cleaner.