Sunday, February 26, 2012

Apoc Project: Cobra WIP

Along with my purchase last year of my Scorpion I also bought a Cobra. This tank looks pretty devastating and I can't wait to see the look on my friends face when I pull out a 10" template.

Here is an early picture. This is just after I got all the green shading done but before the extreme highlights.



Now here are some pictures since then, I've completed the thorns, the main Biel Tan rune and the extreme highlights. I'm going to rework the canopy as I'm not satisfied with it. Also the Brightlance is going to be swapped out for a EML so I could afford to include the Nightwing into my apoc list.

There's something wrong with how this picture was uploaded to imageshack. Even though there is no thumbnail you should be able to click on it and you'll be taken to a larger picture.





This picture may be a bit blurry however the colour in this picture is also closer to that of the actual tank (no flash).



I still need to clean up some edges here and there. Also the top of the tank next to the main gun housing looks a bit plain so I might incorporate a smaller Biel Tan rune, or perhaps more thorns.

Along with this I've been doing touch ups on my Warp Hunter, Falcon, Night Spinner and Hornet. I still need to paint the rune on these vehicles and something about the hornet doesn't look right so it'll need more work. I've got to run down to the local hobby shop to grab more dark green paint before I can start work on my other hornet and falcon.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

An unexpected turn of events.

I've never really been interested in fliers in game before (titans for that matter either) but just lately, since getting excited for Apoc... I've had a niggling to acquire say 4. I'd like, eventually, 2 nightwings and 2 phoenix bombers. I decided to check ebay just dreaming, and what did I spy? A custom built nightwing for really cheap. The photo looks great it's lacking some of the detail compared to the FW one but for less than half the price of FW before shipping I'm not complaining one bit! Only wish the seller had more for sale.

I'm really really excited for this!

To fit it into my apoc list - which is oddly bursting at the seams - I'm going to drop star engines off all my serpents and tank hunters off my fire dragons.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Apoc Project: Scorpion!

Ever since I first saw it I've wanted a Scorpion type 2 and over Xmas with the release of IA 11 I bought one. I've yet to test it out in game but I thought I'd upload some WIP pics.

Here is one of the earliest pictures I took. This was with flash indoors so the colour is somewhat jaded. The EML and turret are both magnetised. I got the rune idea from the artwork in the IA11 book.



Here is a photo I took today. You can see how rich the greens are now in natural sunlight. I still need to finish the EML, the base and need to do touch ups on some of the white (and the bottom as well). Also have to add gloss to the gems.



Here you can see the heart rune more clearly.



I've also started work on my Cobra. It's about halfway done so I'd better take some pics to record my progress :)

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Apoc Project: January updates.



So January has come to an end and what have I done in the mean time? Well I've almost completed 5 vehicles! I think that's a pretty decent rate for me. These are all works in progress.

You'll notice that the individual pics are a different colour to the first this is due to my "fantastic" photography skills. The colours are closer to the original picture than the individual pics.

So here's the first it's my Craftworld Wave Serpent.



Having painted my other Serpents in aspect specific colours I feel wrong putting warlocks or guardians in one of them as they clearly don't belong there. In my apoc game this serpent shall be carrying my Seer council to the front besides the Aspect Assault Wave. I still need to complete the turret and the twin linked shuriken catapults. Also the base.

Next up is the Night Spinner.



I've only used this in one game so far and was happy enough with how it went. I'll be using it to slow down my opponents troop movements when he tries to reinforce his flank. Assembly went together pretty well it was the first time I had worked with the new fire prism/spinner kit and I think it went together better than the older falcon/serpent kits. Maybe it's just all in my head? I'm going to redo some of the vines, need to paint the shuriken catapults, the base and the canopies.

The next vehicle along is the Warp Hunter.



The stats for this vehicle look amazing! It'll be flying close by to my Cobra and blowing apart my opponents centre. Its D-Cannon also bypasses void shields much like the Cobras does which I thought was a nice addition should my opponent finish his titan in time for our game.
I tried to magnetize the cannon but made a mess sawing one of the joints and the cannon was all crooked so I levelled it out with greenstuff. I need to paint some vines, the canopy, the Biel Tan rune, the shuriken cannon and the base still.

Up next we have a falcon I got second hand off a friend.



It was in horrible condition when I got it so I'm really happy with how it's coming along. You'll notice it has smaller antenna than other falcons, this is because when I got it they had snapped off and all I could find in my bits box were smaller ones. No biggy. Once again, runes, vines, shuriken cannon and base need painting.

Finally is one of my Hornets



This was so simple to put together I think it came in 5 pieces total. My hornets however probably required the most amount of work cleaning and preparing them there was lots of excess to file down and I need to re-sculpt some of the back bits. I'll be running both hornets with 2 pulsars and holo-fields. They come out quite expensive but they have BS4 and 4 shots at str8 48" range. For what armour I do face outside of AV14 these guys should be able to do a number on.

That's it for now, coming up later I'll have WIP pics of my Scorpion and I'll be talking about my plans and formations for the battle.