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Mi piace Piace a una persona. Di' che ti piace
  General prima di tutti i tuoi amici. sort by date
by Klaus, not Santa
  Painting
Published on 10-25-2010 06:29 AM 5 Comments
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  Sculpting In late June I began to build a space helicopter for my Imperial Guard, mainly as a How to make a cheap yet
display piece.  effective spray booth.
I wanted to loosely base it on the UH‐1 Iroquois, or “Huey” as well as on the Hello everyone. I'm here to
show you how to make a nice
Avatar’s choppers. The chopper is to secretly insert IG special forces (the so called spray booth for airbrushing. I
Tiger Teams) deep behind enemy lines. Compared to real life, this would be a “Pave took what I learned from
Low” mission, and for this the basic color of the chopper would have to be black. watching different videos and
came up with what worked
To go along with the theme of my IG army I named the model aퟓ�er a Greek God – best for me. After collecting
CHARON, the ferryman in the underworld. The actual display piece would consist all the items, the job of
putting everything together
of the CHARON together with several members of the Tiger Team and a Callidus
actually only took me about
Assassin on a sec༅on of an aircraퟓ� carrier deck, depic༅ng the last briefing and 30 minutes. Below is the list
assembling of the team before they launch their night mission behind enemy lines. of items you will need.
The special forces would be painted in the standard camouflage pa埃�ern of my IG 1.) Plastic storage tub
units, while the CHARON would be painted black, but as a li埃�le highlight it would $6-$10 (Mine was free

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carry a ༅ger image on the fuselage, emphasizing the “Tiger Taxi”. because I found it in the

  garage).
This was the plan. 2.) Ventilation fan $18
   
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It began with some pieces cut from plas༅card gunrunr 04-07-2017, 07:00 PM
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and ended in this li埃�le bird
   

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Aퟓ�er the ini༅al build of the CHARON, I applied a black paintjob
   

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Aퟓ�er conduc༅ng a internet search for ༅ger images I came across a stunning and
gorgeous face of a growling ༅ger.
 
So I started to sketch it out with pencil on the fuselage of the CHARON
   

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Then I painted the basic eye color with Snot Green
 

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and used Scarab Red for the mouth and tongue.
 

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In the next step I applied Tallarn Flesh for the nose and gum
   

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which was followed by a 1:1 mix of Tallarn Flesh and Solar Orange as base color for
the orange fur.
   

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With Fortress Grey I did the base color for the white fur parts.
   

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In the next step I sued Bleached Bone for the teeth
   

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and then Chaos Black for the mayor black areas concluded the basic paintjob.
   

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For the details I started with shading the orange fur areas by adding some
Scorched Brown to the Tallarn/Orange mix.
   

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The give the eyes more dimension I used Gnarlok Green for the lighter areas and
snot Green with a li埃�le Scorched Brown for the darker areas
   

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To highlight the orange fur areas I mixed Bubonic Brown to the ini༅al
Tallarn/Orange mix and applied it to the higher areas of the orange fur areas.
   

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Using a 1:1 mix of Skull White and Fortress Grey I applied the first highlights to the
white fur areas as well as spotlights on the nose and eyes
   

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With pure Skull White I added the final spot‐ and highlights to the whiskers, teeth,
tongue, lips, and eyes
   

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The final result (s༅ll with masking tape and sans the rotors)
   

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with the rotors
   

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and a final shot of the current state of the project.
   

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And the final collage for CMoN
   

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I hope this li埃�le step‐by‐step was helpful and entertaining to you.
Cheers  
 
Klaus, not Santa at Dei Greci 
 
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1 Comment
Papah - 12-02-2010, 04:59 PM Reply

Really cool diorama, you did a very good work on the detailing of the
helicopter and characters, and also painting. Good to see how this kind of
personal ideas come to life. Cheers!

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