My first Ghostkeel finished, really liked this kit
Posted May 4, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC
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I feel I speak for everyone when I ask, do you got any more pics ?
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Hey yeah! Just took some proper photos of it:
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Nice clean work there! Good work varying the greys--very high-tech and polycarbonate feeling, evokes all the space age materials the Tau would be using.
Cheers!
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Thanks man! That’s the vibe I was going for
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Loving the 2 different greys, looks great!
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Can you explain the process and colours that you used here please.... About to start Tau and love this scheme.... Would love to do it for my army
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Started off priming the torso + legs / arms / head separately and applied 2-3 thin layers of Eshin Grey for the main panels and Dawnstone for the smaller panels.
Highlighted the prominent edges with Dawnstone on the Eshin panels and Ulthuan Grey for the Dawnstone panels (although I wish I used Grey Seer, might redo those highlights). Also put nuln oil in all the recessed parts of the panels to give it some depth.
For the lens I based it with Warpstone Glow, added a wash of nuln oil and highlighted it with Moot Green then just a little white scar dot for a catchlight.
Also highlighted any main edges of black armour with Eshin Grey but also did a light dry brush with the same grey to make it less flat.
Glued it all together and magnetised the guns and bam.
Hope that helps!
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That is really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explain the process.
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That's incredible! How did you get the finish so smooth and even? It looks like the plastic was molded in that colour to start with =D
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Cheers! Just a lot of thin layers of paint, takes 3x as long but looks loads better for it
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I really REALLY like the Ghostkeel. My FLGS didn't have any instock but I wanted to experiment with making a conversation with some parts made out of transparent 3d prints so I just printed the whole thing. Definitely no where near the quality of the actual kit though.
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Those transparent Ghostkeels are cool, I’d love to see someone cut a regular and transparent Ghostkeel in half and glue them together to make it look like it’s decloaking
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That's the plan my man! Well not exactly "cut in half" but I'm going to print some of the parts in transparent PLA as soon as I figure out how to make it extremely transparent (it didn't come out perfect but this is how it looks on the first run ) and put those parts in when I build it. Then, after it's all assembled I'm gona use painters tape to cover most of the clear parts. Prime and paint like the rest of my army then pull of the tape. Hopefully it comes out right. If it does, then I'll just go over the transition line with some metallic silver, then white and blue paints for effect.
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Sounds like a good idea, hope you post it when you’ve made it!
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So industrial, and clean. Love it!
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Looks great! Are the armor plates painted with dawnstone? Or what is that medium grey?
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The main colour is Eshin Grey and the lighter colour is Dawnstone
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May I ask how you get the dawnstone so smooth? I've got a similar scheme and really struggling to get an even application of colour
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Sure! I start off with priming with chaos black spray and doing two/three pretty thin layers of paint, I used an xs artificer brush for it if that helps. Think it helps that all the parts excluding the arm panels I painted in Dawnstone are fairly small.
Probably easier to paint lighter grey if you’re priming with Corax White but all the examples I’ve seen of that the spray is kinda lumpy.
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That is really crisp! Nice work! I hope mine comes out something close to this. And great color scheme!
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Holy shit that's clean! Good job
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Looks slick. Welcome to the Grey Ghostkeel Owners Club. You too picked the best colourscheme 😁
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Ok, fuck off, I wish I could do this, I’m never dry brushing ever again
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Nice looking model, very clean!
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Good job! I like the subtle details what did you use for the neon orange?
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Really nice colorscheme
Thanks! The rest of my army is all Grey Seer with red accents, painted this and my stealth suits darker to give it a stealthier vibe ..even if the Ghostkeel is the size of a house.