Tanks

And here are some pics of the various tanks OI've been working on. They are the same painting scale as above, but as well as this i've used some dirtying/weathering techniques I've notused before.

I've used pastels to add dirt and footprints to the tanks. I airburshed gryhonne sepia around the tracks, then added a mix of weathering pastels and and vallejho plastic putty as mud, with static grass added in clumps to simulate turf that has got churned up by the tracks.

The rust weathering powders were a little underinspiring when mixed with water, and so I've ordered some mig pigments, which I've heard work better.

The chimeras were quite important to the look of the army, which is basically a mech grenadier list, with a platoon of drop troops - and the overall theme is blitzkrieg in the 41st millenium. As these are a high tech army i ordered predator turrets, which give a much cooler silhouette to the tank.

Sentinels II

Ok - so spent about an hour air brushing these guys. They're looking much better already. Currently in 'rough' airbrush shape. Initial black undercoat, charadon granite base, then adeptus battlegrey, then astrononicum grey and then dots of black and afew more bits of Charadon Granite.
The red/white colour markings are the same as the tanks, and the red is the same base as the kasrkin's armour red.

next steps will to be to drybrush the sentinels, and paint in the markings and guns etc. And then the bases. I've modelled some green stuff to be a splash, and looking forward to working out how to paint this.

Sentinels

Wanted a break from tanks and decided to get these guys out and ready. They've been sitting in detol for a couple of weeks and now ready for sending back out to the battle front.

Wanted them interacting with the terrain in an interesting way: so one is splashing through the goop, while the other is dashing to get a good shot in.

Weapons and missiles are both magnetised.

These are forge world drop sentinels.