My Ironblaster WIP

Making these for my "Grim Winter" Army.

I will be working on my ironblaster. Been busting tale on this, I doubt I'll have this big an update anytime soon.
The dry brush on the Rhinox is: Vallejo Dark Rubber, Codex x2, Fortress x2, a 20% dark rubber to 80% white mix, white.


Then added some snakebite leather and dwarf bronze. teeth are bleached bone. Not completed but a start. I also used watered down white to pick out each hair. That removes the "powdery" look you get from dry brushing. I did less of this and the final dry brushing on the underside and inside of legs in an attempt at playing with some light sources.


Platform. again a WIP



Verdigris cannon. I used the technique outlined in the White dwarf article about painting the Astromancer's Manse. The trick was to really water down the final wash. The dry brushed metals under it create the differences in intensity once you add the green.


It's a start. The size of these pictures REALLY makes me want to redetail some things. I'm very pleased over all.

It all looks really good, but WOW on that cannon!!! Love it!

Since I don´t own that number of WD, would it be too much to ask about a quick walkthrough. It looks ace!

PS. Have a gnoblar for that cannon! +1 !

EDIT: Hmm... don´t know if I just messed that up. Accidentally clicked the "gnoblar comment" window away and now I can´t redo it... >.o  (pwnd!)

Great ageing on that cannon!

Cannon Technique:
I prime gray but I'm sure black or white would work here as you are covering it with a bunch of metallics.

1) Basecoat everything with tin bits.
2) Heavy dry brush of shining gold. If you want to generate a bunch of differences with raised portions you can actually paint raised portions. I chose not to do this. Having seen similar cannons in St. Petersburg I decided I wanted a fairly even cover of verdigris
3)Drybrush everything Burnished Gold
4)LIGHTLY drybrush Mithril. It grabs the edges and lightens them up. When you add the wash it will have pop off these areas. Think of it spilling a green drink on your table. On a darker table the color of the drink may not be visible. Once you lay a white paper towel on it the color appears.
For the same reason don't worry about having areas where the MIthril is heavy because you left extra paint on the brush. With the wash it appears to be a different level of aging or weathering.
5) The Wash: equal parts Hawk Turqouise and Dark Angels Green. Add a LOT of water. You are making a wash and want it to run everywhere. If equal parts doesn't look right add whichever color you think you need to get it right. Add more water every time you adjust the paint color.
6) I found this to work best when applied liberally. I tried "targeted" use on my leadbelcher cannons to practice and found it to look...not right... Once I added the wash to everything it really popped as  being right..

Like I said I practiced on my leadbelcher cannons first. It is cheaper to repair them than the sky cannon.
Two final things about this: The dry brush adds the the different values on the cannon and the wash is closer to the consistency of water than milk.
Good luck!

Thank you for the walkthrough! The outcome really draws your mind to something that have been suspended in water for a loooong, long time! Ace stuff!

And I guess lucky for me I have a couple of spare Leadbelcher cannons lying around somewhere... *hmmm*

I have made decent progress on the Ironblaster in the last week.

Started on the Gnoblar driver but decided to go a different route and use this guy. He doesn't have the drivers prod and his telescope isn't going to see much. But it seemed so...Gnoblar to me...
Skin is orkhide shade then Goblin green with camo green highlights.


Went for purple clothes as it is going to be an accent color throughout the army appearing on banners and Ogre belts. Paints are just Khemri brown

The big horns that hold the cannon.. I based Necron Abyss, then dryburshed on Vallejo Andria Blue then Vallejo Sky Blue. The metal will be getting a wash of Tamiya Smoke (it reeks to much to do when wife and kid are home). The straps at base of horn have to match those on the platform. The other straps are the accent color again.

Cool colours so far. Will be keeping my eye on this.