Come Fly With Me

So in the great Hobbypocalypse switcheroo, I was just congratulating myself on handing off all my Sororitas vehicles to another painter when I discovered would be painting...

... and even bigger vehicle!

This was the Month 3 tithe for Brapscallion's Krieg army - although for this month, he wanted a rough and ready crew of Tempestus Scions and their ride, so I could let my imagination run.

My imagination, in this case, involving a lot of decals!

I couldn't resist adding a WWII pin-up to the nosecone art, but before things got too racy, I painted a gasmask on her (safety first). The freehand name 'The Gravy Boat' was all my doing.

Taking of the inspirations from Aliens, the Ferro-style aviators head is from Statuesque miniatures - although it is slightly larger than the standard one, meaning I had to shorten her torso just to get the canopy to fit.

Speaking of the transparent canopy, it's not shown here, but I did add it. I've heard nightmare stories about superglue misting over clear plastic, so I got some Hi-Tack Very Sticky Glue which acts like PVA but holds like superglue, so I got away with it.

And, despite karma wanting otherwise, I really enjoyed the experience of painting the Valkyrie. Once it was undercoated black and misted with Mechanicus Standard Grey, the rest was just a case of finding bits and painting them.

However, I had doubts that I would enjoy painting the Scions. Having already painted a small army for Mr AP Burn (which I will post once he lets me!), I love doing these special forces guys.

This was a black undercoat, with an Iron Hands Steel drybrush to pick out the details. The armour was Thunderhawk Blue, with a Agrax Earthshade wash and most of the work was done!

Most of the rucksacks were military standard, but the guy with the heavy hot-shot got a tartan bedroll (because camouflage is for wimps).

The guns were Gal Vorbak Red, to give them some flare (I though about adding tigerstripes, but I don't think there was enough of a canvas to make it work).

One bit of flare was to give the masks a scratchy 'painted-on' skull look (a bit like Crossbones from the MCU). The trick was to make it look rough enough to appear that they had painted it on (not me).

And finally the Tempestor Prime: Col. JC 'Smoking' Aces! This is an inspired conversion by Brapscallion, using a Palanite Enforcer as the basis, to bulk up the boss man. There was just enough room on his chestplate to mirror the hand of cards that is shown on the wings of the Valkyrie too.

 And so we have the Cindarr Hell Dogs! If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, they were probably the ones who caused the problem.