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First weekend off in a month! Update time!

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Man this last month has been a right pain. Sickness, travel, other crap… No time to paint at all.

Well Saturday was free and I was finally able to finish some stuff I started!

Terrain Tile

With some help from the Corvus Belli forums, I was able to figure out what to do with these blasted tiles. I have additional changes in mind for them but I’ll need to have all of them done before I can work that out.

Office Main Floor

This monster took forever. It’s basically a 2-3 buildings combined. Took days to finish. And I have 4 more to do…

I added a few shots with one of my universal buildings on top and with a Naga for scale.

Scatter Terrain

Made one of the large boxes from my order. These will make for some nice scatter terrain.

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Forgotten OSS post

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Forgot to post this here. I finished these troops months ago! Sorry people!

Dart, Optimate Huntress

Love this mini. Apparently there are  3 version of this character. I may have to get them all…

Posthumans Proxy Mk.4

Alternate load-out of the Rocket Launcher/SMG trooper. Don’t know if I’ll ever field this guy. He needs something to make him more interesting.

Dasyu

This model is a Spec-ops Proxy Mk. 2 kit-bash. Very cute.

What’s commin’ Group Shot

Here’s some of the minis that are next on the docket.

I’ll be swinging back around to this project soon. I just need to scratch my terrain itch until it stops bugging me.

Shawn G. (Soul)

 

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Cerberus terrain tiles

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With my order from LosBlock picked up a bunch of the city tiles. These things are so damn cool! But there’s a problem…

These things have a lot of detail on them and they cause some of the obsessive elements of my personality to rear up. Remember when I mentioned my desire to pump ‘visual interest’ (excessive detail) into what I’m working on? Yeah… Trigger’d

I’m trying pretty hard to restrain myself. I don’t want to go over the top and uber-paint these tiles. I’m trying to keep them clean. Here are the first 2 I started working on:

With this scheme I think a black/white or grey layout would look good. The white tile is the one that is really triggering my OCD. All those little check marks around the boxes demand to be painted! With some of these tiles that equates to 400 check marks each. Ugh!

The black tile is way easier to do, but is low in detail. I’m afraid I’m not taking advantage of all the cool bits etched into the sheet. Needs moar visual interest!!!!

In the end I think I’m going to go with the black design. I like the red glowing lights and its minimal look. Here’s it finished with some terrain on top. I’ll have a better impression when I’ve finished 4+.

More to come as I progress.
Shawn G. (SoI)

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New Table Time!

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So, I took a long break from painting. I found myself exiled to Wraeclast and just found my way back home. Now I’m back and I have a painting itch to scratch. I will be returning to m OSS force here after a while, but for now I’m going to focus on terrain.

Back in August of last year I bought a table from one of the hottest Infinity terrain manufactures on the market, LosBlock. I picked up the City 3000 Armotek Corporate Unit bundle along with some other bits. The spark to paint it hit me on Monday and I’ve decided to get cranking.

Trying to find a scheme to do this terrain justice was a real bother. Here’s my first attempt:

I stole this scheme from the Warsenal (another badass manufacturer) Cosmica line. I tried the scheme out on an objective piece I got from Wild Land and expanded into one of my Universal Module buildings from the LosBlock set.

My good friend Robert reminded me that I initially purchased this bundle to be my Aleph table and I was going down the damaged weathered look again. I already have a table that looks beat to hell with my Yu Jing compound, and I should go in a different direction. I needed to paint ‘clean’.

Let me tell you something, that “painting clean” concept was/is a real struggle to understand for me. I have this infatuation with applying ‘visual interest’ to everything I paint. This infatuation can get WAY out of hand and I can end up going too far like I did with the Yu Jing Compound. Don’t get it twisted, I love that table, but looking back at my work I can see I went overboard with the colors and weathering. The hunt for ‘Visual Interest’ consumed the whole project. I found myself slipping back into that with this scheme.

Robert reminded me that the LosBlock terrain does not need help to look good. I needed to restrain my desire to pump detail into this project and let the architecture speak for itself. Don’t ‘Gild the Lilly’ if you will. No weathering. No layered highlights. No dark shading. No excessive detail. So, I went back to the drawing board…

And here’s where I ended up:

This scheme is stolen from my favorite game(s) of all time, Mass Effect. Cerberus to be precise. I like this scheme so damn much I’ve decided to turn the corporate plaza look I was envisioning to a paramilitary bio-research facility. APCs parked on the road (Puppets War Brick). Unmanned Atlas (Puppets War Enforcer). Perhaps some specimen tanks. The occasional automated turret. It’s going to be awesome!

I’m in love with this scheme. It’s become my new obsession. The pics are going to be ‘raw’ for a while. The images will get better as I move them to my gaming table.

More to come as I progress.
Shawn G. (SoI)

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More OSS Goodness – Andromeda, Dactyl, Naga, Deva

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Been stacking up minis for an update.

Andromeda

Love this mini. It had SO many little details to work on. Cetus (kitty) was really easy to do. I will say she was a right pain to get on the base though.

Dactyl

I’m continuing my trend on using some SP minis to fill in some missing troops or to replace models I’m not the biggest fan of. Painted the doctor Dactyl to represent a Proxy-1 doctor. I’ll be using the other one for the engineer. Still learning how to work flesh. Getting better.

Naga

The hair on this chick! Anyway it was an easy paint job. I spent some time on the thing she’s standing on. Took a shot at NMM bronze. Don’t think I got it quite right but it looks good.

Deva

Tried something new with the Deva. In retrospect the colors for the pants and vest should be reversed. The face details are lost in his shirt.

Group Shot

Here’s a group shot of all the minis for this army. I’m closing in on finishing the Coldfront boxset. Glad to be working again.

Shawn G. (Soul)