Zak's-Haks [003f]: The Phantom - Dusty but still on display

So... anyone have any great ways to safely clean all the dust off these models?? Still fun for me to look at as it's on display all the time, but yeaaa probably time to get a tiny vacuum...

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Battle Report [40K-005]

2017 Apocalpyse Battle Report

Great game and looking forward to next year already!

DZC [001u]

Finally the little buggers are done :). 

So ends the dropzone forces at this time. 

For the Aged Ones I just left off the blood red, cloak highlighting. Same scheme but a little darker and left off the squad markings on the back packs. Just gives them a bit of a different appearance and a little more grungy look.  Now on to other NOVA forces. 

Until next time :)

DZC [001t]

Next batch of models for final detailing. Adding the orange vents, green eye/gems, blue plasma hoses, squad markings etc. This finishes the vehicle models for my next fleet expansion. Now just have the six basic infantry bases to paint and this round is done!!

Load em up!

DZC [001s]

Just a minor update.  Finished the final details on these guys tonight. Moving pretty quickly which is nice for once. 

DZC [001r]

So still on that road to NOVA... Next step equals about an hour of dry brushing Dawnstone to add those metallic highlights.  I think I'll be mass producing these so that they are all done at once. So I'll be doing large chunks of one color at a time. Definitely trying to just bang these DZC guys out this month. Hopefully can finish these in May or early into June and then I'll have about three months for a few 40k dudes and a bunch of Infinity minis as well.  

Next step is orange for the louvers and engines.

DZC [001q]

So...have to add some things for a legal 1500 point force for NOVA this year.  Here's the next batch :)  Yay Dropzone!  Primed with Vallejo Black Surface Primer with the airbrush again and then two or three coats of Hexed Lichen followed by a few highlight coats of Warlord Purple. 

After this run I now find myself out of black primer and airbrush cleaner!?! Gasp! Guess it's time for another order...

DZC [001p]

It's done!!! Last up were the UCM Condor transports :). Been fun drop zone. Until we meet again. Now just have to get someone over to play!

I did forget that these had separate plastic clear canopies that I had to find in the original box. Then sticky tacked them to some card board for quick black primer then shades of red to white for the canopies and then some grey highlights on the black.  Not sure that the red looks the best but it kind of became my screen color on the tanks earlier so I kept it here. 

Same gray and rust for weathering and highlighting here on the bodies. But then did shades of black to blue to white for the thrusters. 

Overall it's been a good project and finished about a month earlier than my goal. Now on to the next project...maybe some of these other board games laying around with models to paint. Until next time. -Zak out

DZC [001o]

Bear APCs and the Kodiak armored command vehicle were up tonight :). Similar techniques were used for a speedy and decent scheme to match the other tanks already painted.  

I found it interesting that the Kodiak has a very strange mold line as the bear style body in resin comes split in half, long ways. I thought about filling this earlier on but totally forgot and was stuck with this. It probably would not have filled well on the back engine area either but I think that I would have liked to fill the front part at least. Oh well. Not going back now, but just something to watch out for if anyone else decides to build one of these. I might have taken the extra bear that came with the starter set and just added the back extra pieces that came with the Kodiak kit. Easy conversion for slightly different aesthetic with the detail level on the resin model versus the plastic model but may have looked better overall. 

DZC [001n]

Next off the line...UCM Rapier AA tanks. Same painting scheme as the Sabres. 

DZC [001m]

UCM Sabres!  Gotta love rail guns. Watch out you objective-laden buildings :) I re-blacked the gun and treads from the gray  overspray. Then quick dry brush with Dawnstone for some metallic edging effect. Then added ryza rust to create the rusted and weathered look for the treads and portions of the vehicle body, and gun tip. Then added a little gold to the gun tip. This really didn't do anything but give a slightly higher sheen to the tip.  I then painted warlock purple to red gore to blood red to white to the visor viewer thing. Orange to yellow for the little light was next. 

Finally I used dawnstone to highlight some of the vehicle body and side edges. This actually, as a darker color than the grey shades I used for the body, turned into a sort of camo look and sort of a weathered look. This was not what I was expecting to paint tonight but I think it's a pretty repeatable scheme and looks decent.  The weathered look was made a little more weathered by the fact that I was a few beers in, painting these super small models tonight :x

View of the comparison between just based and then final body scheme. 

I did a little shadow grey squad marking thing on the front quarter as well to finish these off. Tried for the UCM symbol but ended up with a smeared number one ish symbol...looks ok...ish :)

DZC [001l]

The Scourge are done!!! Woohoo! Halfway there :).  Same process tonight for painting these items:

Marauder drop ships

You guys know these actually can stow their vehicles right?  Pretty sweet...

Unloaded:

Desolator command aircraft

The crew :)

Until next time...

DZC [001k]

Nothing new here, just progress. Scourge Invader APCs. 

DZC [001j]

Scourge Hunters

Scourge Reapers

Dry brush dawnstone over the purples to give a slight grey metallic edge. Then few green shades for the eyes/sensors/gems. Oranges(rust) for exhaust intakes and engines.  For the Hunter's plasma guns a few shades of blue and final white highlights.   On the way...

DZC [001i]

Got to airbrushing two to three coats of the base colors for each force tonight and then two coats of highlight per the colors described in the last post.  The hexed lichen on the black base coat took like four coats to start to show a little of the dark purple over the black but I'm pretty happy where each force us going tonight :). Some of the pictures show the base coated version next to the highlighted version to see the difference.