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Count me in! Been working on some speed painting techniques lately and would love to go head to head with 'em. 

Karl Payne here, captaining the Imperial Fist Bumps!

I really like the force.  Excellent execution.

 

I will take a different stand on the contrast discussion.  I would agree that the color of your bases does tend to blend with the miniature, reducing impact.  The highlight/shade points are valid, with the exception of personal intent.  Did you intend to have a more realistic look to your scheme, thus a flatter contrast overall?  When I painted my orks I made the decision to have a flatter scheme that relied heavier on technical weathering.

 

Is either right.  Nope.  Art.

Honestly, the more realistic look was what I was after when I started the force. I was reading a lot of the Foregworld painting books and adopted the weathering and painting tecniques from that. It wasn't until I had the army pretty much done and on the display board that I realized that the scheme just didn't have the impact I was hoping for. Honestly it was my mistake, I should have just picked a brighter scheme to begin with, I was just looking for something different (my last army was imperial fists, which are pretty much as bright as it gets). 

Despite my wanting a darker army, I'll probably go back and brighten all the reds and change the base color to something that will provide better contrast. 

Thank you for the honest criticism, it's really appreciated. It's very difficult to coax criticism out, and I find it extremely helpful. Been gunning for a best-painted award for some time and find myself falling short.

Kremmet, I've seen the crosshatching done on the finished product, but never found tutorials how how to do it properly, and place I can find a good tutorial? 

Forgeworld is literally the worst. ;)

Yup, those land raiders are pretty abusive. 

Because we will have an official 30K event going on those people wishing to play 30K lists are directed there.

 

there should be an event packet published soon

Guess I'll be playing 40k w/ Forgeworld models then.

I'm not usually one to speak up about this type of thing, but the team aspect of OFCC is the main reason me (and my team) participate in this event. We play itc and braket tournaments often, and OFCC is a nice breath of fresh air from the bracket / pairing format. I would hate to see that uniqueness go away.

I'm sure the new format will be fine, but I am concerned about the change.

No worries on time, LVO was quite a weekend, definitely will need to recover. Thanks for getting back to this!

Unfortunately the 30k event isn't a team event. I would encourage the TO to allow 30k lists, most of them won't be any kind of overpowered and allows for cool models to be fielded.

QUESTION:

Will 30k lists be allowed this year (as it was last year?)

Hey all! Had a blast at OFCC, figured I'd share some of the pictures I was able to take. Didn't get a ton, unfortunately, but enjoy nonetheless!

More progress! The modeling is mostly done at this point, so the next update should include some paint. :)

Did some more work on the torso. Still needs internal lighting, but the top os sufficiently ad-mechy. Probably gonna leave the shoulder pads open to paint on, still need to figure out what I want to do with the head.

So, picked up a Knight from the new board game, and am working on a fairly massive project based around it. My end goal is to have a nicely converted centerpiece for my war convocation, with an awesome (overly complex) paint job. Rather than get in to specifics right away, I'll just start off with some pictures of the progress thus far.

Finished the cockpit today. I plan on painting it a lighter tone and using some subtle internal lighting to show it off on the display board.

As the person who designed the model, definitely no conspiracy going on here. :) The dimensions on this were taken from the actual model, so it matches up quite nicely. 

As a gift to a family member (who loves hot wheels and mad max), I did these up to go in a display case. Thanks for the inspiration! I've enjoyed everything in this thread immensely.

Yup, it's actually the same company I got my buggies from. :)

Slow but steady progress on this army. Got the buggies all assembled, ready for bits and some grey-stuff work.

Well, now that tshft is over, I can finally get back to working on this project. Re-did the color scheme a bit, think it looks much better now. Also got a pair of buggies constructed.

I would love some brutally honeat critique on the paint scheme.

I used a thin layer of elmers wood glue to assemble em, that seems to dry pretty quickly and gives a good solid hold. :)

Kap, I can re-ship them to Him in ireland if you are hesitant. IMP will pick up the shipping, so it is just an issue of time.

That would be awesome. Imp- would that work for you?

I have them and they are nice and sturdy.  Only area to be area of is that the top and bottom of the pod are different sizes, so the bigger one goes on the bottom....only made that mistake on the first one as the doors would not quite fit right.  I highly recommend if you dont mind the lining up and glueing of the pieces as each layer is a separate piece

Glad they worked out for ya Burk. I'll adjust the instructions to make that part clearer. :)

USPS international isn't horrible, gunna run $10-15.

Maybe you can point me in the right direction. Every quote I got was 60-80. I would love to ship these international. What service do you use?

With the release of the new marine dex, I figured people would be in need of drop pods, so I through together a small run of these mdf pods I built. They're the same profile as a plastic pod, but is made entirely of mdf.

I'm asking $20 a piece, with discounts if you buy a bunch.