Shelf Queen: ATHENA Steampunk Airship

[Quaralane]

Excellent stuff, Klaus

 

[Grendels]

Well done!

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thank you guys!
@uromomo - thanks
Well, it wasn't that bad - as it is more a "paint for effect" pretty simple.
I have here a little Tutorial on how I did them:
http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.de/p/skulls.html


Well, as I stated in the last post, I don't want to paint the HERMES in any of the Dencara camouflage patterns.
So I started out with a dark red and a parchment/cream color pattern.


Together with bronze highlights and metal drybrush it keeps the menacing dark appearance,


but also the VIP style.


Since this is the personal shuttle of Governess Felicitas zu Hammerstein it needs her coat of arms.


Her house is also symbolized by the golden Griffin.


Which is needed on both sides.


For the VIP I decided on a more Inquisitorial symbol.


The whole shuttle.


For the other side too...


And this is now the finished HERMES shuttle - VIP version.


On the ATHENA deck



With the Dencara background.




And her current residence in my office.


With this now completed I began painting the crew.
First is of course the piper.
Here's the start of the tartan pattern.


And the finished pattern.




I hope you like the look so far.

While I still have a lot to do - painting the 23 crew characters that is - I'm already thinking forward to the next projects.
Plenty lot of ideas

Aurelius 12 Reborn on Warseer suggested:

Dare I open up the floodgates by asking if you're considering modular cargo as your next project.

Which re-kindled an old idea I already had.
An Airborne Assault!
And with the HERMES I think I have a nice delivery vehicle.
Probably based on something like this here:


Even though I think of an "almost touch down" of a militarized version of the HERMES maybe on a hilltop and the troopers leaving the assault pod - more seats, bigger doors.
I hope I can restraint myself from starting until I have the 23 painted

Cheers
Klaus

 

[Quaralane]

Excellent work, Klaus

 

[urumomo]

Indeed ;D

It's all pretty righteous .

-- Plaid IS ubiquitous throughout the Cosmos 8)

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thank you guys!

Well, I'm trying hard to finish the project in time, but progress is slow right now and this is just a little update.


I was able to finish Felicitas zu Hammerstein last night.


She's the visiting VIP on the ATHENA deck.


I think the colors work pretty good.


Yes, it's a bit of black-red-gold ;-)


I also finished the Piper last night.


Amazing to see how plump those WH40K models are when you compare them to the TGG and Eisenkern models.


After the washes the tartan pattern is tones down, but still visible.

I hope he'll look good on the ATHENA.

Well, last not least I worked a bit on her entourage.
These guys still need some love and I'm considering adding the golden griffin to the shoulder pads.


But other than that, I think I won't add any other details, or should I?

I hope you like today's update.
Cheers

Klaus

 

[urumomo]

The wash really brought the Piper's tartan colors together -- that came out great . ;D

What are the 3 blue things hanging from Hammerstein's right hip ?

 

[Quaralane]

Looking good

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Thank you guys!

@urumomo - honestly, I have no clue
I put a blue shining Energy Drink in

Well, I hope you had a great weekend with lots of hobby and family time - and for my US friends I hope you had a great 4th of July!
I spent the weekend in Munich with my wife and friends and we had a blast despite the ever changing weather - what happened to summer again???
Nevertheless, I did get some work done

I still had to work on the Eisenkern bodyguards. And one thing I wanted was a good crest for the shoulder pad.
Since they belong to Felicitas zu Hammerstein I wanted to have a griffin.
Here you can see the development of the crest from left to right.


Once pleased with the design I tried it on the first trooper, using Bubonic Brown as base color.


With some minor adjustments I applied it to all the bodyguards.


For the other shoulder I wasn't sure at all. I tried to do something with the Inquisitorial colors - white, red, black, gold - Red, white, black was out of the question, as it resembles the German Kriegsflagge. Red, white, red is the Austrian flag, which I didn't want to use either.
So I experimented with red, white, gold a bit.


But that didn't work out either.
So in the end I used the red, white, red with a black Inquisitorial "I" superimposed.


Still a touch too much WWII Germans for my liking, but without historical legacy, it looks great.
So here are the finished bodyguards.


I'm quite pleased with the result.


I wasn't quite happy with Felicitas zu Hammerstein and some of the color transitions.
So I reworked some areas - especially the face.
She acquired an eye-patch and I think it looks better now.


So here's the visiting party on the ATHENA deck.


I can't suppress a grin.


The piper.


And last not least I started with the ATHENA reception party.
They're all in Dencara Navy Blues.


Still a long way to go, but I'm actually pleased with the progress.
What do you think?
Cheers

klaus

 

[urumomo]

Pretty cool , Klaus !

Eager for some close-ups of all that fig painting .

" Bubonic Brown " ;D heh heh . like "weed brown " ? , surely not the boil-brown .. . :-\ ? ewww




BTW , if you're short on summer , give me an address and I'll send some extra your way - we have plenty of it here


Ciao !

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely liking where you've taken this

 

[Klaus not Santa]

THANKS!!

wow, almost there

Amazing feeling to see this project on it's final stretch.
So here's the ATHENA reception party.


Unfortunately the Praetorian from Lord Gordon's 20th Praetorians has to wear Dencara Blues, as I have lost the color scheme.


Also I rearranged my hobby room to give the ATHENA a new home.


She now sits on a separate shelf about 150cm long and 60cm wide, with the landscape canvas as background and it is at standard desk height (90cm I think) so you can look at it from top without problems.

It is also furthest away from the windows, so it won't be bombarded by UV any more - the plastic card is already old and pretty brittle.


I pinned the characters in their final position.



And this is the final batch of figures to paint.


I did some minor changes last night.
The "painters" received paint tanks and connecting hoses, and received orange coveralls - they are on disciplinary detail after all.


I hope I can wrap it all up over the weekend

Cheers

Klaus

 

[urumomo]

Those are pretty cool paint-packs .
I could use something like that !

 

[Grendels]

Very nice!

 

[Klaus not Santa]

THANK YOU!
I still owe you some final images

Another scale shot of the Eisenkerns with the WH40K troopers and the TTGG officer.


Finally done with painting, I cleaned the desk.
And set up everything for the images - the ATHENA is really huge


The Welder,


Painter


Reception


Flight deck


ATHENA's lights


the rear mural


flight deck and conference room


conference room


and another of the flight deck.


And some daylight images of the ATHENA.
Enjoy!








And a final scale shot


Thank you!

 

[Quaralane]

Excellent work on this, Klaus.
This thing is frigging HUGE, but the scale definitely works