Space Hulk, Blowing off the dust
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About the Project
So when the Space Hulk Tactics competition was anounced I decided to dig out my old second edition and see if I had a project. Turns out I had barely scratched the surface on my set. See way back in the day when I played Spacehulk with my mates, they all had their own copies, so my copy never got to see the light of play. So I have a nice simple painting project to put up which might not be as inspired as some other entries but it's a great game and worthy of getting finished especialy now I have a little motivator and a deadline to get stuff done. In terms of inspiration I do have a little idea brewing that I may try and tackle if time permits, if not then maybe after the comp is over with. Its a mod adding chaos terminators and some new map pieces that sees the Imperial Terminators trying to pry out some Blightlord Terminators whos presence has greatly deteriorated sections of the hulk and created nasty pitfalls and sharp rusty obstacles.
Related Game: Space Hulk
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Completed
Blowin' of the dust
Enyone experienced time travel before? I dare you to open the games workshop catalogue.
No longer h..armless. Mostly
So I sat down with my young son and assembled the Geanstealers and it turns out there is price to pay for waiting 2 decades to finish this project. A pair of arms is missing.
So, first time for everything, I take a shot at making my own.
After stripping a bit of electrical wire I rough in a skeletal shape and cover with green stuff. The green stuff is difficult to work when tacky so I wait a little for it to firm up before finessing the shape and finishing the hand with a bit of tissue soaked in PVA and a few beads of super glue gel for the knuckles. A few hours later , once the green stuff has set hard I take to it with a rotary tool for final shaping.
Though I’m generally happy with the result I think next time I try something like this I might look for something a little more forgiving than green stuff.
I'm a gifInfecting the infection
A quick preshade while under coating with slightly yellow green tinge. Though I plan on the fairly traditional purple & blue colour scheme I do want them to tie in with the Blightlord mod if I get that far.
Genetic experiments
So after the base coat I’ve done a little test to determine exactly how I’m going to tackle the next step. I don’t want to screw them all up making the same mistakes.
1. Is a raw base coat
1a. Has a little pale yellow 3/4 dry brushed onto fleshy areas
2a. Is 1a with a wash, 1 part magenta ink, 1 part matt medium 1 part flow improver
and 1 part Vallego blue wash.
3. Is 1 with with the wash from 2a with 1/2 water
3a. Is 1a with diluted purple wash as above. (and new arms)
For now 3a is closest to moving in right direction for me.
Mwahahah
It so cool keeping to track of progress with these project blogs
Still experimenting. Focusing on the carapace with a pale green drybrush followed by a semi opaque blue glaze, the guy on the bottom left also has another coat of lightly dry brushed pale green followed by a navy blue wash.
Geanstealer factory
Each row is a different step in the process and this just the base carapace, there will be similar lineups for detailing the fleshy purple areas, the claws and a few other highlights.
Batch Painting does not equal speed painting.
Exoskeletons are almost done, then to touch ups, and claws and figuring out what to do with the 10 terminators. I want to bring the terminators up a little closer to the current sizing but with out being too destructive or preventing them from being recognisable as 2nd edition Spacehulk . Hopefully my next update will shed some light on what I’m thinking.
Final colour solution. Waiting for 18 more before mass matt sprayGeanstealers done
Blipish bases to give some contrast to the minis yet flow with the board.
Very happy to be done with these ugly, detailed, fiddly, repetitive, horrible beasts.
