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Tanks & Fireblade Update!

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Little bit of painting, little bit of modelling today. Started to fill the gaps on the Hydras with some plasticard, and to give you an idea of the gap here’s before and after:

Before & After

Before & After

As you can see the plasticard does a rudimentary job, gonna need to do a wee bit of greenstuffing to smooth the whole thing over.

I also found myself distracted by the Cadre Fireblade, that’s been sitting on the table for a wee while now, and managed to add a few colours to the chap. Didn’t really realise how much of the model is armoured, this makes things a little easier on the model and means I can dedicate more on the cloak and the sept markings. These elements more than anything help to distinguish him from any old firewarrior. Anyway enough rambling, here’s a picture:

Cadre Fireblade

Cadre Fireblade

And just because they look cool :D, the tanks again:

Tanks!

Tanks!

 

 

Tanks! Tanks! Tanks!

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So the next lot of Death Korp has changed slightly as the customer needs a few of his tanks built and undercoated for a tournament this Friday. The Tanks in question are two hydras and another basilisk:

Tanks!

Tanks!

I have been struggling with these all afternoon as they are a fair bit of work to put together. The Basilisk I already knew would be a bit of trouble (primarily due to warped parts), but I never once thought the Hydras would be as much trouble as they are. The kit does not fit together without leaving some quite considerable gaps at the back sides and the bottom, which I would not expect from such an expensive kit. Usually Forge World kits fit together superbly.

So tomorrow will be spent with the plasticard and the greenstuff out trying to fix these sections, and get these tanks looking top notch (hopefully :D)

Harlequins Finished!

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The Harlequins are now complete, and if you’ve been following my progress on them you’ll notice the Deathjester has yet to make an appearance, other than being undercoated. This is because he’s my favorite of these models and I wanted to save him for last. So without further ado, here they are:

Deathjester

Deathjester

Harlequin Squad

Harlequin Squad

Troupe Master

Troupe Master

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Shadow Seer

Shadow Seer

I’m very pleased with how they have turned out, but will wait on the judgement of the customer before I call them a success ;P.

Next up to the modelling table though is going to be even more Death Korp! It’s funny how bored I can get of painting the same thing over and over again for my own army, but if its someone else’s I get really into it :/

Harlequin Progress – Almost There!

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The Harlequins are progressing at a fairly rapid rate now, and I’m very happy with how they are looking. Today has been spent mostly on adding the gold to the models (belts, shoulder pads, hilts etc), and beginning the bone on the masks, weapons and accessories, plus a couple of ribbons here and there.

Troupe Master

Troupe Master

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Shadow Seer

Shadow Seer

So whats left? I hear you ask (if its not you I’m hearing voices :P). Well finishing off the bone sections is the obvious answer, but following that I will have the hair to and lots of bits and pieces on the shadow seer. For the hair I’m thinking Turquoise and another colour striped, but think I’ll have to try it out to see how it looks. On the Shadow seer I want to add a pattern to either side, crrently thinking moons and suns to go with the emblems dangling from the hood but need to figure out the colours I wold like to use.

Harlequin Progress

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I never realized how much work was involved in a squad of Harlequins, but am loving working on this squad :D. Each one has a silly amount of detail on them, making it feel like I’m doing a squad of characters, so I’m continually trying to keep them coherent and look like they should be fighting together.  So here is each one individually;

Troupe Master

Troupe Master

Troupe Master back

Troupe Master back

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Harlequin

Shadow Seer

Shadow Seer

Harlequins Update

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Been crackin on with the Harlequins over the last few days, and am feeling a lot more in tune with what I want to get as a result. This is the progress so far:

Harlequins WIP

Harlequins WIP

I have kinda finalized where I want what colours and patterns to be, and have the foundations laid down for them. The next stage is going to be adding a few highlights and darker shades to get the effect I’m looking for.

Harlequin Progress

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Progressed a little bit with the Harlequins, but only a little bit.

Harlequins WIP

Harlequins WIP

I’ve decided this will be where the main colours are, with diamonds and stripes to be added next. Most of the black cloth areas are going to be black/bone diamonds/stripes to keep a link with the Ulthwe army they are for. I will be adding some more colours at a later stage (once these colours are done), to brighten things up if need be, but only if its not gonna make them too garish or muddled.

Next Projects; Harlequins, Cadre Fireblade and more Death Korp!

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I’ll be starting my next lot of jobs soon, and I have a few on the go now.

First up will be a squad of Harlequins for an Ulthwe army. I’ve been given free reign on these (except bone and black masks to tie into the army). This is both good and bad, on one side I get to experiment and do what I think will be cool. On the other hand I am notoriously indecisive, which may mean it takes a while for me to settle on a colour scheme, layout etc.

Harlequins

Harlequins

Following these guys I have the next lot of Death Korp to paint. For this round we have an engineers squad with heavy flamer and commissar, to be used as a veteran squad, another Basilisk, and a standard squad of dudes. Looking forward to the engineers, as from the brief look I’ve had they are some really crackin models.

Death Korpsy Goodness

Death Korpsy Goodness

My lovely wife also treated me to some models this week, in the form of a Cadre Fireblade and a box of Fire Warriors. Having to wait until next week to get the FW means I get to focus on the Fireblade first, and I dont mean to sound like a broken record, but again, what a crackin model. Bit expensive for what it is, but the detail and character is outstanding for a plastic mini. GW are out doing themselves on the plastic clam characters!

Cadre Fireblade

Cadre Fireblade