Right then, having spent most of the year knee deep in the dead I thought it was time for a little bit of a change.
For a while now I've had a load of Doug's brilliant 'not' terminators on the desk. Had a little spurt of activity converting and undercoating over the summre but then nothing.
So, after a few reads of the Terminator Salvation artbook, a trip to the musuem of film on the south bank in June and the dvd release of Terminator Salvation, I thought I'd sort this one out and move it from the back burner.
Terminators:
So far going for:
Endoskeletons, (T600's or T800's take your pick).
Skin jobs, (T600's with rubber masks, tattered rags spot them easily
).
T800 infiltrators, (fully skinned up but with battle damage).
What I'd done so far:
10 endoskeleton terminators, (8 stock, one 'skin job' (will do more convincing ones later) & one battledamaged, missing legs but still coming!).
1 infiltrator: E4M trooper with Light Assault Cannon. (Bareheaded Ref: 0009): Converted with use of a pin vise, scapel and the lower part of the leg from old crawly above, drilled and pinned to the knee, then GS'd skin and tattered fatigues.
So armed with my trusty Artwork of Terminator Salvation book, DVD and my quiver of paint brushes I set to work.
Colours:
Well the first three films had the terminators all shiney, that doesn't work for me and the post apoc setting so mine are darker, dirtier and more deadly!
From a black undercoat I went for successive coats ranging from VJ German grey (which is almost a black) grading up through the darker greys to lighter greys, (will check the pots later for a colour check). After that work they were washed with a thin badad black wash.
Once dry, successive dry brushing of boltgun metal, with tiny amounts of chainmail, to give a really subtle hint of metallic. The eyes were highlighted in white, (yup, stay with me
). The painted gold. Finally, Tamyia clear read was applied as a glaze over the gold, making the cold red eyes pop!
Weapons were painted back and highlighted with greys and gunmetal, (slightly different to the endo's) then washed several times to give them an almost carbon look).
Bases:
Well I've got a load of Ian's (Fenris Games) resin bases and decided on the most post apoc ones I had, (DS toppers) but mounted them on standard slotters. It's a marmite kinda thing but I like it). I also robbed my GW basing kit for all the resin skulls I could find and mounted them on the bases randomly. An enduring image from all of the future shots in the films is the amount of skulls crushed underfoot. (Not that I'm going down a Khornate route of course!).
Bases were painted with a very muted palet of greys, keeping it dark. Skulls and gravel picked out and washed with delvan mud.
Once painted the figures were cut from their tabs, drilled to accept pins and mounted on the bases. Edges were then repainted black and there we go!
Finished at 1:30am today, very pleased indeed. Might dig out the MG weathering powders but we'll see.
Pics:
T600 Skin job: (more planned).
Infiltrators to do today plus some pig iron miniatures to work up as T600 skinjobs, then onto the resistance, though I've plans for a bike or two too!
Enjoy
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