3D Printing Journey

 

I have not done as much printing as I would have liked, the journey is definitly a bit rocky, as most people will tell you.

I tried the next model back in November 2020 and a couple after that, none worked properly. 

After much frustration I quit.

After about 4 months I started to look at various youtube videos on what the cause may be. After many hours of searching, I came across what I believed was the main issue - Why my model would not stick to the build plate - the evidence pointed to the temperature of the resin.  My journey began in October during a warm spell and as the weeks past it grew colder and my prints failed in line with the weather, unbeknownst to me at that time). 

I waited for the hot weather and in the UK it has only just realy come around (not counting week days as I work and cant print on those days - it has to be the weekends) I put me theory to the test and low and behold perfect prints appeared as if by magic.

Here are some prints of a Heresy era Emperors Children Marine and a second print of a Nightlord Raptor.

Both are great and I am hooked again.

I went for broke and printed two Proxy's of Primarchs, coming up in the next post with some bad news as well.

Vitor

Pre Heresy - Emperors Children - Finished

Unfortunately I have been struggling to find enough time to get this guy finished until the last couple of days when I managed to get a few hours free.

I painted the gold areas with a 50/50 mix of Dark Brown and Shining Gold as a base then followed with a pure Shining Gold layer, next a wash of Ogryn Flesh a tidy up with Shining Gold. The final gold highlights with Burnished Gold then a few strokes of Mithral Silver on the upper most edges.

The Tactical Arrow symbol that I cut up to look similar to the roman numeral two worked out pretty well after it was painted up.

The Blood Angels Wing also turned out really well.

Hope you enjoyed watching this model come together as much as I did. I really like the colour scheme!

Vitor

Pre Heresy - Emperors Children - On the Painting Table

The next chapter on my journey through the Pre Heresy Space Marine Legions is the Emperors Children Legion. Here I have added a wing from my Blood Angel Bits box with the blood-drop cut off. I chose not to sculpt the wing because you don't have to reinvent the wheel sometimes. This looks pretty cool as is.

Now this Marine, and yes I know the armour mark is wrong, had a Tactical Arrow on the shoulder pad from a press mold I did for another paint-job so rather than cut it off and sculpt the Roman type numeral 2 on it I cut out sections of the tactical arrow to leave behind what I hope will look like a Roman type numeral 2 when painted up.

I primed the model with a black primer then a light coast of black as the base followed by a even coat of Liche Purple darkened with a bit of Black.

Next up was a coat of Liche Purple followed by a custom wash of Red / Blue / Black to the recesses.

I then did some blending of a mix of Liche and Warlock Purple on the raised areas that would catch the light.

The final layer was pure Warlock Purple with a touch up of the wash to ease any of the blended areas.

I think the look I managed to get so far is pretty good. Now to finalize the details.


Vitor