Painting tutorial: Power weapon effects, simple version two

Hello!

I´m going to show you how to make simple looking power sword by painting it somewhat like blending technique.

Materials:
GW goblin green (you can use blue, red, yellow or any other color you like)
Any acrylic white paint
Standard brush

Materials:

Undercoat with black
I´ve painted goblin green directly on black primer:

Now mix green with little bit of white and brush half of a sword with it like shown on picture (dont bother your self with untidy look, it gives more power effect in the end):

Repeat the procedure by adding more white to green. (paint everytime closer to the tip of the sword):

At the end, paint the tip with white to finish it and to represent effect of „power“ in sword:

And here it is...ready to kill Emperors foes... =)

What can I say.....CHAAAAAAARGE!!!

Gallery - Random terrains

Aloha friends!

Here we have some terrain pieces I´ve made, trees are homemade (I will put a tutorial in few weeks), flock is also homemade (tutorial will also come in a few weeks).

If you have some questions like 'how did you' or 'why did you' feel free to ask! =)

those streets above are still unfinished terrain, will post it when I´m done =)

Some of this terrain is going to have their own tutorial when I find time to make them so stay tuned.

Tyranids - Trygon

 

The Tyranids are a sinister intergalactic horror, a menace from beyond the stars that seeks to devour everything in its path....

 

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Scratchbuilding: Making a Leman Russ - Dredo style :-)

Greetings boys and girls!


In this tutorial I'll show you how to build something a little different......
I'm a guard player (naturally because I love tanks :-D ), but although a GW Leman Russ is a good tank model, I wanted to make my guard army look more modern.While I do own three GW Leman Russ tanks, I designed some new tank models to represent a Leman Russ. I drew my inspiration from Forge World Macharius which I think is a great tank model.

 Hope you'll like it :-)

So let's start!

Things you'll need:
ruler, scalpel, liquid superglue (reccommend Loctite superglue), PVA/Drvofix glue, 300g/400g paper, 1mm cardboard paper, regular paper, various IG tank bitz.

1. Glue the parts on corresponding paper and cut them:

2. Start combining outer track panels:

.....and building tracks:

3. Next is the hull:

4. The Turret:

5. Then combine track, hull, and turret:

6. Next comes the weapon. For now I'll just make a battlecannon, when I start making more Russes, I'll make every weapon available:
Take a regular size brush and wrap a normal paper around the handgrip (note. the paper tape is 7,5 cm wide and 210 cm long)

7. Wrap a 2,5 cm paper tape around one end of the battlecannon tube and another 1 cm paper tape around the other end of the tube:

8. Set the cannon tube on the turret and draw out the line and cut it out:

9. And position the turret on the hull:

10. Next come the tracks; cut out a wide cardboard strip (cca 1 cm in width):

............and cut out the strip into small chunks (cca 1cm width, 5mm length), you'll need lots of them:

11. And glue these strips on tracks:

12. The tank is finished! I glued some various tank bitz to better represent the model:

13. I didn't put any sponsons on the tanks because I'm not a big fan of them, but if you want to you can glue the Leman Russ sponsons on the track panels:

You can get the template here.