This guy was 3rd edition or later, and had the power sword 010111102 and storm bolter 010111103. The Terminator banner pole which apparently fits him is 010111104. This guy didn’t come with one.
No idea what year that is on the back. Can’t find who sculpted it either!
This guy was part number 010120501 and had the weapon options of a bolter arm (010119902), a storm bolter (010110302) or a combi-melta-bolter (010120502). This guy came with the latter.
1999 as the sculpt date on the back, and either nothing on the front or it was filed off by a previous owner. No idea who sculpted him – the catalogues I have found showing this miniature don’t state. He looks very Black Templars-y – may end up not doing him as an Ultramarine.
A Jes Goodwin sculpt from 1997, as per White Dwarf #235! This one was new in the blister, and the body is part number 010109101, the gun 010109102 and the bipod 010109103:
More pics to come once painted.
A Jes Goodwin sculpt, part number 010109002. This guy has been partially stripped – pics:
Another Jes Goodwin sculpt.
Found one of the boltgun guys – part number 010111301. He’s a Jes Goodwin sculpt as per White Dwarf #235. From 1997! Pics:
Designed in 1997 by Jes Goodwin. More pics to come once painted!
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base coat: Scale75 Artist Cobalt, shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue
Black: Scale75 Art Black, highlighted with a mix of Pastel Blue and Black
White: Scale75 Art White, shaded with a mix of Pastel Blue and Art White, highlighted with Art White. Didn’t like how close that was to the blue, so re-did with Off White, then Buff, then shaded with a mixture of Buff and Burnt Sienna Umber.
Red: Scale75 Red Ochre, brought up to Crimson, then a highlight of Primary Red, then a highlight of Orange. Shaded with Dark Violet.
Skin: Scale75 Art White, then Light Skin, a light coat of Light Skin/Crimson around the eyes and mouth, then some Pink Skin, highlighted again with Light Skin, shaded with watered down Burnt Skin, eyes a mixture of Violet Grey and White, pupil Art Black, iris a mixture of Prussian Blue and Primary Blue
Shells: Decayed Metal
Gold: Necro Gold, shaded with Chestnut ink, highlighted with Elven Gold and then Citrine Alchemy
Hair: Burnt Sienna Umber followed by Raw Sienna, highlighted with Yellow Ochre
Silver: Scale75 Black Metal, shaded with a mix of Prussian Blue and Green Grey
Pigment: Scale75 Soilworks Reddish Brown
Work in progress:
This guy pre-dates 2nd. Edition and is a Jes Goodwin sculpt, part number 070268/1.
More pics to come as he’s painted! He can be found in White Dwarf #170 as a conversion – no painting credit alongside the pic, unfortunately:
Following one of our printers suffering a bearing failure and trashing the linear rod, we replaced them with the following:
PSFJ8-370 x2
PSFJ8-330 x2
PSFJ8-320 x2
LM8UU x10
With freight it ended up being about $200AUD for the lot.
These have close to 10K print hours on them with no issues, and they’re less noisy than the stock ones.
Today I am reviewing the Scale 75 Artist Skin Tones set, which contains six paints and as you might expect is aimed at skin tones.
The set comes in a thick cardboard box. The contents are on the back:
SART-07 Pink Flesh
SART-08 Golden Flesh
SART-09 Light Skin
SART-10 Crimson
SART-11 Moss Green
SART-12 Burnt Skin
They come in tubes rather than droppers, and the paint itself is very thick – think toothpaste consistency. Definitely requires thinning before use!
They’re pretty well held fast in the box, and the foam is solid enough that you can keep on using it as storage without it disintegrating. There’s also a colour guide, which is pretty decent from a beginner’s perspective:
Following the guide proved reasonably easy, although the paint feels very chalky if not thinned enough! You really have to work with several thin coats here to get smooth coverage, and my initial attempts with it were fairly frustrating. Once thinned enough, though – just with water was fine – and with a bit more patience the results improved quite a bit. The first face I tried with it was a 1994 Techmarine metal miniature:
With less than a dozen faces under my painting belt I was reasonably happy with loosely following the guide and having a go. If you have been painting with Citadel/Vallejo/etc. and have not been thinning paints these will probably feel like there’s a fair bit of a learning curve to them, but if you get past that they’re quite a joy to use and the matte look is one I really appreciate.
The colour palette provided appears to allow a pretty good range of colours, although I am far from an expert on painting skin tones and have not tried anything darker than a Caucasian colouring.
I have been primarily brushing them on but I did try them through an airbrush and had mixed results until I used the Scale75 thinners specifically, which seemed to work better. There must be a good mix of the flow improver/thinners/whatever else in the Scale 75 stuff, as I wasn’t managing to get it going as well it using Vallejo’s thinners and flow improver.
The Skin Tones set is around $60AUD on eBay AU – so $10 per tube – and given that they’re 20ml tubes that compares favourably with buying Citadel base or layer paints, which are $6.40/12ml – which works out to be $10.66/20ml. You probably won’t end up using the green nearly as much as the other tubes if you’re doing human skin, but it’s quite a nice green on it’s own and it’ll certainly find use in other areas.
Overall – I have really enjoyed using the Scale paints and it has been a good learning experience having to play around a lot more with thinning and mixing to achieve the results I want. If you prefer to prime/zenithal/contrast or base coat/wash your way through skin tones, this probably isn’t the set for you. Otherwise, though, I think it has promise! Recommended.
Scale75’s Instant Colors came to my attention as an alternative to Citadel’s Contrast colour range or Army Painter’s Speedpaint range. How does it review?
The set I got was the wooden Mimic Chest which contained the full range:
It’s not terribly space or weight efficient but it does look fancy.
One removable tray with half of the paints, and below that:
A second tray with the other half of the paints, along with three primers (which I have yet to use) and one bottle of acrylic medium. Also inside:
A colour wheel – which I have used far more often than I would have expected. Also included is a palette:
It’s little plastic palette – not much to say there – works as you’d expect. There’s also two synthetic brushes:
I haven’t used the brushes a great deal yet – I have been more focused on the paints.
So, the paints. There’s 48 17ml dropper bottles, not including the 60ml primers or medium:
SIN00 Shadow Black
SIN01 Werewolf Brown
SIN02 Dragon Blood
SIN03 Health Red
SIN04 Love Affair (Carmin Red)
SIN05 Life Red
SIN06 Ragweed Orange
SIN07 Drain Life (Pale Orange)
SIN08 Full Healing (Strong Yellow)
SIN09 Estus Yellow
SIN10 Zucchini Skin (Bluish Green)
SIN11 Dead Flesh (Grayish Brown)
SIN12 Fairy Blood (Dark Grayish Blue)
SIN13 Zombie Skin
SIN14 Phoenix Feather (Brownish Orange)
SIN15 Human Flesh
SIN16 Undead Dragon (Pale Blue)
SIN17 Phoenix Egg (Brownish Ivory)
SIN18 Paralyze Blue
SIN19 Evil Root (Pinky Orange)
SIN20 Toad Green
SIN21 Sulfur Yellow
SIN22 Belladonna Green
SIN23 Corrupted Stamina (Green)
SIN24 Rotten Pus (Mixture of Yellow and Orange)
SIN25 Acid Green
SIN26 Remove Mana (Dark Blue)
SIN27 Arcane Purple
SIN28 Elixir Green
SIN29 Replenish Blue
SIN30 Mana Regeneration (Blue)
SIN31 Magic Blue
SIN32 Grey Spell
SIN33 Ancestral Blue
SIN34 Grizzly Brown
SIN35 Endurance Brown
SIN36 Rage Brown
SIN37 Frenzy Orange
SIN38 Ogre Brown
SIN39 Salmon Fury
SIN40 Wild Beast (Desaturated Orange)
SIN41 Savage Beige
SIN42 Golem Grey
SIN43 Basilisk Green
SIN44 Demon Brown
SIN45 Dark Kraken (Dark Turquoise)
SIN46 Leviathan Blue
SIN47 Spectral Wolf (Reddish Gray)
It’s honestly a pretty good spread of colours, and each of them is individual – you will get a clearly different result between any of the browns or reds, for example. Each comes in a sealed 17ml dropper bottle which you will have to pierce the end of with a small drill bit or similar before use, and they have agitators inside them.
I attempted to use them in a similar way to Citadel’s Contrast range at first – undercoating in a grey with a zenithal highlight of white, then applying Instant paint over the top. The results weren’t really pleasing – getting the Instant paints to look smooth escaped me on the first few attempts, so I changed tact and started using them as pre-made glazes and was convinced of their worth in the first painting session. When combined with the provided acrylic medium to dilute them they’re very controllable and it’s very easy to build up shades – this Stormcast had the gold shaded with diluted Arcane Purple, with several coats in the most shadowed areas which progressively reduced when moving towards the light:
The yellow on this retro Space Marine Flamer was Full Healing to knock back the brightness a little with a couple more diluted layers at the bottom, working towards none at the top. The right kneepad was also done in white and shaded with diluted Paralyze Blue, and Arcane Purple was used to shade the recesses of the eye lens:
Overall I am a huge fan of them when used as pre-made glazes and have been incorporating them into every miniature I paint. I still use Contrast paints when I want punchier colours – the Instant paints I have used so far have tended to be more muted which I like for most applications. I don’t view the Instant range as being an alternative to Contrast, but something good on it’s own.
In terms of value, the Mimic Chest is $430AUD on eBay AU currently which equates to $8.95 per paint, not taking into account the medium or primers. I think that’s good value, considering that Citadel’s Contrast range is $11.50 per 18ml pot, and that’s even when you buy the whole set at once.
Highly recommended as pre-made glazes.
This guy came in the RTB09 box set. He’s the Captain with Storm Bolter, Powerglove with Grenade Launcher and Force Sword.
He needs some mold lines/flashing removed and perhaps stripping – will depend on what he looks like when his arms come off. More to come…