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Post by quozl on May 2, 2012 6:58:57 GMT -5
Here's some WIPs of my Crusty force. I've got a full-time job, twin toddlers and doing a physics master's at night, because I'm an idiot. So this is going for speed over beauty. Still trying to make them look nice enough that I'm not embarrassed by them though! 32 infantry including 8 heavy weapons and 4 leaders finished except for a spray of matt varnish over their gloss varnish. Different colour sashes depict grunt/leader/heavy weapon - though it's easy enough to see the heavy weapons even at this scale as I gave any heavy weapons at least one red panel. Plus 6 power armoured crusties with jetpacks. Also finished except for a dusting of matt varnish. All with the same weapon but I've painted the jetpacks to show leader, grunts and specialists, in case I want to use them as having mixed weapons. I also got a chance to assemble two 8 legged walking APCs for them - they're really cool models IMO. And 2 light walkers - each with a crusty pilot in them, and four different weapons between them. Thirty-eight 15mm models finished in about 8 hours. However, I went and ordered another 80 infantry and 4 more APCs from GZG. So as to have big Crusty and UNSC forces. Oh dear
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Post by inrepose on May 2, 2012 7:17:36 GMT -5
Looking amazing. I am very disappointed with myself for not having extended my Crusty force. I have those nice walkers but really should get them painted up. These photos are giving me miniature envy.
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Post by quozl on May 3, 2012 4:21:36 GMT -5
I got my Crusty Vehicles primed and ink washed. I think I'll paint the walkers up with red plates, like I've done the power armour. I might actually leave the APCs like this, I quite like the look and don't really know what to do with them!
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Post by inrepose on May 3, 2012 5:50:13 GMT -5
The APC's might benefit from some markings or decals. Something to give them that Crusty movie cool technology look like a spot-colour addition or odd stripe.
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Post by quozl on May 3, 2012 6:43:38 GMT -5
Maybe some carefully drawn cat-food tins, ala the pin-up girls on WWII bombers.
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Post by evilevan on May 5, 2012 7:08:58 GMT -5
These are looking really nice.... any chance you can spill the beans on your technique.... what are you priming with? You Ink wash over primer?... what are you using for basing material...
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Post by quozl on May 5, 2012 17:17:44 GMT -5
I've finished the two walking APCs and light walker mechs that I have for my 15mm Crusty force. I've got another one of these APCs en-route and I've pined and primed 3 Nomad remotes for use as 2 tanks and 1 flyer for them. The APCs were ridiculously quick to paint - prime white, wash with PP armour wash and then a couple of free-hand symbols in Khador Red Base just to make it look a little less plain. The walkers were prime white, wash with armour wash. then paint each plate individually with khador red base, then highlight plates with khador red base with some heart fire (orange) mixed in. Slower, but I like the look, and I want the offensive vehicles painted red, as my Infinity Nomad remotes are going to be red to fit in with my Infinity force, so if I want to use them with my Crusties too, then I need red vehicles to fit in with the non-infinity models too.
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Post by quozl on May 5, 2012 17:23:56 GMT -5
These are looking really nice.... any chance you can spill the beans on your technique.... what are you priming with? You Ink wash over primer?... what are you using for basing material... Thanks, and sure. I started quickly noting down the colours I use on models a few months ago. Makes it much easier to add more guys to a unit at a later date. So here's my notes All the colours are privateer press unless otherwise noted. Crusties - light infantry prime white, base brown (not sure which one! maybe rucksack tan?) sashes heartfire, beaten purple or arcane blue eyes - GW red gore weapons - PP armour wash over white primer heavy weapons - one panel with thin GW red gore wash flesh with seraphim sepia (new version of GW Gryphon Sepia) Power Armour Crusties prime white, wash with PP armour wash, incuding weapons. pick out panels with Khador Red Base jump-packs (to represent leader, SW etc) - heartfire, beaten purple or arcane blue Walker Crusty bipedal mechs prime white, wash with pp armour wash, including weapons. pick out panels with Khador Red Base highlight with some heart fire mixed into khador red base. APCs white primer, wash with pp armour wash, few minor khador red base free-hand symbols to add some interest. All bases are white primed sand/pvc, painted with thinned umbral umber. I added a few army painter tufts of grass to the various bases, two colours, winter and highlands.
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Post by fjodin on May 5, 2012 19:00:29 GMT -5
Amazing army! Love the gloss on Crusty' carapace
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Post by quozl on May 8, 2012 3:47:16 GMT -5
Amazing army! Love the gloss on Crusty' carapace LOL thanks but d'oh! I couldn't make up my own mind either way about the gloss and decided to matt spray them in the end. I'm still not sure either way - with the matt spray you can see more detail as the gloss kind of makes it harder to see detail, but the gloss does look kind of cool and alieny
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Post by quozl on May 8, 2012 3:48:55 GMT -5
Here's some almost finished tanks for my Crusties. They're Infinity Nomad Tsyklon remotes, and will do double duty between 15mm and Infinity. I could totally see a pilot sitting behind that visor looking part of the main body.
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Post by inrepose on May 8, 2012 4:34:45 GMT -5
I have just purchased a couple of those amazing infinity remotes, not the same one as shown but I think the full range are excellent and great models to be able to use in Gruntz and Infinity games.
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Post by quozl on May 8, 2012 5:11:14 GMT -5
Almost all the Infinity models are gorgeous IMO. Here's one of the Infinity TAGs (big stompy robots) that I painted up a year or so ago You can get an idea of scale in the 2nd photo compared to normal Infinity 28mm guys. i think he'd make a good big mech walker for 15mm. Though he's a bit too humanoid for my Crusties. I prefer their vehicles to look stranger.
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Post by quozl on May 16, 2012 9:07:08 GMT -5
No more painting but I did up some cards for use with my Crusties. I've not seen any other Crusty cards online. I still need to take some photos of my squad attachments and do up some cards for them. Plus figure out what I'll use as a commander. I was considering using one of the power armoured guys, but then I'd only have 5 guys in the PA squad, so I either buy more PA or figure out something else for a commander. I guess I could use one of the basic Crusty infantry leaders but I want an epic commander. Perhaps I'll make one of the walkers be a commander instead of a light mecha - that could get confusing though.
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Post by papabees on May 16, 2012 12:07:57 GMT -5
Looks good. What program did you use to make your cards?
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