Wednesday 31 May 2017

There has been some hobby progress - Showcase Death Guard Medusa

Evening All,

Doc here, I have been trying to write this blog post for a few days now and life seems to get in the way.  Anyway I please to be able to showcase my newly completed well since last Friday finished Medusa. This is my first tank for my death guard and I am happy with it.

This tank is on my Hobby Season list so I will also be awarding myself a giant purple sticker for the first time in quite a while hoorah....

I also snapped some work in progress pictures which I will share first up followed by the completed model.  Before I start though my first picture is my motivation to paint this army


This is a picture of a game played against Boss Bludtoof in Feb and boy has it got my goat.  This isnt me I paint my armies.  This will serve as a reminder forever more to get this army up and running!


So first off a build shot before priming and I admit they are slight pain with the canopy and the hair dryer was required to bend pieces into shape but we got there in the end.


Car park photo is next as I primed two of them, plus the scorpius and the LD vindicator at the same time.


I followed the same method of painting on this as my infantry prime vallejo grey wash agrax and 45 degree spray white.  I found this gives me a simple white armour to work from.  The photo above shows the washed stage and also sneak peaks another future project.


This shot shows the white applied and me starting to work up the metal, track work and the obligatory green stripe.



This shot is much further on with decals applied highlighting done, inside gun area completed.  For the most part this is a clean shot prior to weathering


This shot was just before completion and I lined up an infantry model for some comparison.  I think they work well together.


Completed shots here follow.  Only difference from above is crew added and weathering on the tracks plus a coat of Matte varnish.  I will say that is one thing I am not happy with the matte varnish dulled and in some cases removed the powder work.  So if anyone out there has any tips for sealing powders without loosing the dry effect please let me know in the comments.






I hope you like this completed model please leave me love below or constructive scorn.  On this basis I award myself a major  sticker as it is my first death guard vehicle.


Cheers DOC OUT......................................

6 comments:

  1. Fantastic work, nice to see something complete and perhaps there's incoming reinforcements from the new edition?

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    1. Thanks Dave, looking forward to the new edition of 40k but no new armies planned at present plenty sat to finish. In fact about 10 years at current output................

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  2. Lovely job, good amount of weathering, nice rust streaks and not over the top.

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  3. Those look great, man! Really digging what you're doing with 'em!

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