Crazy Isaac's Unfinished Project Emporium

This is turning out so good!

I haven’t taken a lot of risks and spent this much time on a model in a while, and it’s so much more fun this way.

The little damage spots are something I’ve put off trying forever but they’re easier to get than I expected.

I’m also doing way more layers of more intense highlights here than I normally do, since he’s probably my big warlord unit for the foreseeable future.

I tried brush applying Rhynox Hide into some of the recesses for shading, fairly successfully I think.

I finished another three Heavy Intercessors, finally wrapping up the 5 man squad I started back in May. Gravis armour isn't really any different to paint, but the kit was surprisingly annoying to put together compared to standard Mk X Tacticus armour on standard intercessors.

I only noticed after taking the photos that the most recent two of these are missing transfer, so I'll fix that now. I tried cutting a few corners on one of these, leaving off a bunch of edge highlights. I can't really tell the difference at a reasonable distance, so I might not bother in the future.

Magnetizing bases was a good idea. This rules.

The inner compartment beneath the tray is tall enough for Sternguard Veteran Sargent with a banner, but not quite enough for a Gladiator or Dreadnaught sadly. If I had not glued on the turret, and magnetized the waist it would probably work.

I want to start playing some, which means moving guys around. I bought a little yellow metal toolbox to use, which will get here in a couple days. Combined with magnetized bases, they should stay put well enough.

I had a few hundred 6mm by 2mm (really 1.75mm) magnets kicking around from trying out magnetized Gridfinity. Turns out those are a bit too thin for the under a GW base. Most of the advice I saw online was to use mullliput and glue magnets in after but that seemed annoying. Instead I printed a whole pile of 8mm by 0.8mm cylinders to use as shims.

Done my first tank.

I went with stripes to look like a school bus. The sponsons are red like those flip out stop signs.

Finished both veteran squads I picked up months ago.

I like the idea that the Sternguard with the Bladeguard helmet is someone who wanted to be a Bladeguard but wasn’t any good at it and got kicked out.

Finished the batch painting experiment. It’s a lot faster, and now that I have a better idea of what I want to do and I’m not learning as much with each model, this might be the way to go when not experimenting.

I haven’t finished the Sargent yet, since I built him with the banner and I’m really not sure what I want to put on it.

I kind of rushed this guy out. I could have been a lot more careful with the highlights and stuff.

Trying to find a reproducible way to take model photos. Not that I’ll only ever shoot like this, but I thought the idea is cool and it lets me compare them better. Here are a few older models set up the same way, or zoomed out a little for vehicles.

I do this with a camera stand and MagSafe adapter. Framing things with 3x, landscape (cameras up) but square crop, and the edge of the cutting mat at the bottom third line.

I only found out about the old Kill Team Cassius set after painting a space marine from each first founding chapter/loyalist legion. I figured it can’t be in production for much longer as a first born set, so I grabbed one. I built and primed them this week. I’m not sure when I’ll actually get around to painting, but it’ll be a fun follow up project to the one I already did that hangs out at my desk at work.

I haven’t posted in a bit, but I haven’t stopped working on stuff. Here’s a Gladiator Lancer, with magnetized main guns. I overdid it with the pink undercoating, so it’s way too orange. I don’t have pics of my attempt to fix it but I just sprayed a bunch of phalanx yellow to lighten it up, which didn’t work great, so I put more IF contrast over that and is better but still pretty orange. I’ll post more when it’s further along.

An ancient symbol of purity, new beginnings and vitality on Old Terra, Daisy is perfectly fitting name for an Imperial Fist dreadnaught.

I almost forgot to post the little hidden easter egg that’s forever glued shut.

I tried blue eyes on this one, next to the usual green and the one red guy I did a while back.

Wow, these things take forever. Still so much to do, but he’s (literally) coming together. I’ll post more when it’s done.

So here you can see me touching up a spot a rattle can didn’t cover well when priming.

Here are a couple of the first attempts at using a pink undercoat at the antipode of where I put highlights. Sort of a zenithal shadow. I was still getting the hang of the airbrush at this point so I just covered the whole model.