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I am a big fan of the blue that you used. I'm curious to see how your guard look in that colour assuming you have the black with it.

No more Ice Blue I see.

OH QUESTION. QUESTION.

Long time no posty, everyone. Hello all.

But I'm wondering how you get the wavy camo lines on there?

And aye, kudos on the blue.

I've recently got back into 40k with having nothing else to do in life (Vostroyan vets with Valhallan cons) and I ordered a tank (conqueror) off eBay with that style camo-ing. It's a great paint job, so I won't be going over it, but I'm figuring I should stick to the same scheme on all my other tanks too, if I've got one like it.

http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/store_maelstromgames/images_product/mae_usd_bat_003_org_409_01_large.jpg

And ja, it's green. Not too Vostroyany, but we're going to be doing city fight and I figure it works well enough for that. Being uh.. dark.

Aye, masking and having a steady hand are the ways to go. Though masking and having a good airbrush are the best options for such camo. If you're sticking to brushes you could just go the easy road of using a pencil to carefully draw the lines across the surface, then go over those lines with a detail brush and finally fill in the lines with a basecoat or dare I say, tank brush.

Whoever said Vostroyans should be red should be ashamed. Just because John Blanche hasn't discovered blue and green doesn't mean that they can be those colours.

Thanks for the advice. Drawing on with a pencil is a good idea, I like that one. I'm no good with smooth lines free hand, and I'm even worse with masking tape. When I paint window frames I leave the tape off because it turns out better just slapping it on.

I thought about different colour schemes for them, but I guess my imagination isn't that good when it comes to colour. I see the big battles and such in my head, but they're all in sepia tone. It'd be cool to do a grey city fight look for them. I'm actually working on city terrain at the moment, made out of small stone cast blocks stuck together with one coat plaster. Any suggestions on schemes? I don't really want to do them green.

P.S

If you're interested, actually, here is my first throw-together. The walls actually being plastered, and accidentally the plaster turned out nicely grained. And I had a drip of stone cast whcih made a perfect sort of vine plant base you'll see there. I'm waiting to buy a dremel next week to grind the plaster pasted on the base so it'll look more like rubble than a swamp.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/Marcus_McFlufferson/IMG_0225.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/Marcus_McFlufferson/IMG_0226.jpg

Aye. But this is for looking good, not for practicality. I'm a bit buggered if I can't see my own minis.

That method works best with sprays.