Trekkie
04-07-2013, 03:05 PM
Over a year ago, I bought the Black Reach starter set because I wanted to play the game, and the universe of stuff intrigued me.
I promptly assembled, and then spray coated with black paint the pieces. I bought a ton of little jars of paint, for various paint schemes, and then. Well then I set it all on a desk and stared at it for over a year thinking I'll mess it up.
Today I sat down and base coated the marines. I wanted to try the dark angel paint theme so after about 20 or 30m of flicking a brush around I got this.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8394/8629500740_6079cb95c1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/trekkie/8629500740/).
I think I need a light as after the flash on my phone went off I can see where I missed spots. Longer term I will probably airbrush a base coat on but I just wanted to get started and test out the things I've studied in the 'how to paint' stuff for over a year now. iPad paint book, the physical book, watched the movie. I have this weird anxiety thing where I build it up to the point of paralysis (see my first post...what..six months ago?).
The Ork's look a lot more involved, not as much common area. Plus I don't have a paint by numbers guide as much with the basecoat/etc that they do for the dark angels.
Should be interesting to see how badly these come out.
I promptly assembled, and then spray coated with black paint the pieces. I bought a ton of little jars of paint, for various paint schemes, and then. Well then I set it all on a desk and stared at it for over a year thinking I'll mess it up.
Today I sat down and base coated the marines. I wanted to try the dark angel paint theme so after about 20 or 30m of flicking a brush around I got this.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8394/8629500740_6079cb95c1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/trekkie/8629500740/).
I think I need a light as after the flash on my phone went off I can see where I missed spots. Longer term I will probably airbrush a base coat on but I just wanted to get started and test out the things I've studied in the 'how to paint' stuff for over a year now. iPad paint book, the physical book, watched the movie. I have this weird anxiety thing where I build it up to the point of paralysis (see my first post...what..six months ago?).
The Ork's look a lot more involved, not as much common area. Plus I don't have a paint by numbers guide as much with the basecoat/etc that they do for the dark angels.
Should be interesting to see how badly these come out.