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That's a nice-looking base. :)

I'm just going with the cobbled city street ones for the Dark Angels. Simple, but a nice touch, I think.

After an afternoon airbrushing, I can safely say that using a light primer such as grey or white on Finecast is a bad idea. It is very hard to see where you've primed and where you haven't! The stripped models don't look too bad with a coat of black on them, but they're not super-smooth like new models are. Not gonna complain about that. Will complain about the size of the painting pile now, though...

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Haven't even built the DV Tactical Squad, Ravenwing Bikers and Company Master yet, either. :(
 
Once the primer is all on, it's not a problem. But I started spraying the AK Interactive grey on and was just thinking "Erm, the model looks exactly the same...". It's lucky I found a small bit of the old paint still hiding in a recess so that I could actually see it cover the model! :p

Oddly, now that it's dried, it's a darker-looking shade of grey (more like Codex Grey). :confused:

I need a couple of GW Shades but I really, really don't want to have to go into the store on a Saturday... :(

Edit: Okay, the AK stuff really is tough. Just went at a piece of sprue as hard as I could with my nail and all it did was dent the surface... :eek:
 
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Right, just looking at my DE tournament list (hoorah for BattleScribe Mobile!), I need to do something about the Wracks and Hellions, which are the two units I immediately want to replace. Trouble is, I'm not really sure whether some Scourges with Heat Lances or Blasters would work as a cheap, sacrificial deep-striking anti-tank unit, or if I should look to add another Ravager. As for the rest of the points, I dunno what to do. :/
 
Just the forgefiend to finish and I can take a break from painting pink for awhile! Should get it done over tomorrow/monday and finally start getting games in. Theres a few units I want to add eventually but ill run with what I have for the time being. What I really want to add is more Noise Marines but I dont want to have to use more of the GW parts as they end up being very static. Im pretty much banking on forge world doing some heresy era ones I can use at some point.
 
WIP picture time. It's crap, and my desk is a mess (since been cleared up, I can assure you - I had to stop myself looking right too often to avoid flipping out and stopping painting to have a cleaning session :o), but it should give you a bit of an idea of how Reaper Forest Green looks. I think it's a decent alternative for Dark Angels Green/Forest Green; it's also made me reconsider my decision to do a Disciples of Caliban army and just stick with Dark Angels, which unfortunately means I'll have to repaint Turmiel's robe so that it's bone like the rest of the army... :mad:

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If you zoom in, you can sadly see that the finish isn't super-smooth because of my job stripping off the last paint job. Thankfully, it's not really noticeable from a few inches away. :)

So the salvaged Tactical Squad is now green, the Terminators are now brown (decided I'm going to paint the Deathwing bone colour by hand, so wish me luck!), second Librarian is blue although I forgot to prime the sword arm for Turmiel again and I just couldn't be bothered with the Helbrute because I'm hungry. Spent about six hours airbrushing today and neither of the airbrushes nor the compressor complained, so that's looking good. I am still considering one of the Harder and Steenbecks so that I can have a couple of these set up at a time to do different jobs. Having to wait to fix a mistake can be pretty annoying.

Definitely glad that I went with the choice of satin varnish, it gets rid of some of the annoying shine and leaves a very nice finish, but it's not too flat-looking. I will be using this again when the minis are completely done. Took a while to get it right, though. I can't spray it neat with either airbrush, unfortunately, so had to water it down a little. I had some trouble with frosting, which I think was partly down to the distance I was spraying from, so after spraying more on, from much closer and with some drying retarder added, things got a lot better. Bonus was that I didn't know you could fix the frosting by just spraying more varnish... :)
 
Thin!

They're really nice to work with, but as they're already loaded with flow improver and a bit of drying retarder, you need to be a bit more careful with what you add to them. Great for building up smooth finishes from thin layers, so I imagine they'll also be good for wet blending techniques. Coming in triads is also a nice touch, but not really unique. If there was more than one store selling them in the UK, they'd probably be more popular over here.
 
Never thought about using an electric toothbrush! :p

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The day was saved by an airbrushed layer of VMA Yellow Sand, then a rather heavy wash of Gryphonne Sepia (is Seraphim Sepia close to this or will I need to look elsewhere for a match? Don't have much left...). I'm not going to leave any of the Yellow Sand visible once I'm done, but I will say that if I ever end up doing a Tomb Kings army, then it would be the perfect colour for ancient skeletons (the picture doesn't show how light it is now that the wash is on)... :)

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Tactical squad following the satin varnish. I think that looks better than the glossy finish I posted further up.
 
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