Chimera Miniatures paints an ATTACK CHOPPA- For our Son Dante!

For my sons first Birthday My Fiance Danielle and I bought our son among many other presents a remote control rc helicopter!

Figuring him and I would spend a week or so playing around with it and breaking it after extreme use, we've been shocked at how amazing the little helicopter actually is. The helicopter is built extremely durable, will last ages, you can order and replace parts and is designed phenomenally for both enjoyment and practical helo-choppa aeronautical flight simulation! Hes been having a great time with it, but like with anything of the such I'd prefer a more "custom" paint job,and for my sons first Helicopter its a must. I'm a big history buff and with the love of all things miniature, and this is about 1:35 scale, I figured id do a miniature style flake rusted chipped camouflage affect, with German ww2 camo, and some bad ass decals:

Heres a Completed  a completed Photo:

So lets begin an overview of the the "build":

Unlike with miniatures i build, and more in the fashion of cars: we do a tare down to get all the "to be sprayed" pieces from the helicopter, followed by making a "map" of all our screws.

Shes been primed:

I taped (green painters tape, get it at hardware stores on the cheap) the cockpit out

Then the parts are sprayed  a hashnut copper/mournfang brown, with mithril silvers sprayed in areas to give off the apearance of rusted metal.

we seal this layer with testers dullcoat, and then begin the German camouflage.

this technique ill explain in each step:

First spray the entire cockpit and tail rutter an wing, a dark green,

followed by stripes in mournfang brown,

then do the same affect but with black striping.

Now that its all painted were going to do our chipping affect then add the decals:

To achieve a solid chipping affect, you dul coat the first rusted layer, then paint over it, and then you use a wet piece of scrubby or tooth brush and scrape it to create the desired affect!

Silver and black paint added in areas to make it look even more battle damaged

Added a series of decals, As i decided to name it àir Wolf, Very germanic I mad eit a modern German attack drone

The beginning of the diagonal effect

this next part is the difficult stage, doing the honey comb diagonal effect which after I did it I hated the way it looked it did not achieve my desired affect, I`ll try this in the future but doing it in resverse! so the cockpit got a repaint.

Heres some of the decals and the helicopter is complete:

The 1`s all on the helicopter are for my sons first birthday, every year I want to buy him a new helicopter or airplane for his birthday and re paint them in a scheme he chooses!

Heres the final photos in my photo booth! 

We did a test flight with my son, and nephew two weeks ago!  both Adrian and Dante got to fly it! there was a concern that the weight of the paint and decals could affect its flight, this was not the case! Dante has since flown it everyday and its pain job has held up! bless the dul coats and varnish!

Any questions, comments, concerns, or Conversion/Painting inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read

`The Hunter Drone Becomes the Hunted`` Stalking Miniature Competition Entry

Hi Everyone over The last Few days I`ve been In a Mad Rush to complete my Entry for WGC Artists Novemnber Challenge  Stalking the stalked! It`s been an Exciting Past Few days and heres My Completed Entry:

 

`The Crimean 501st ``Skull takers`` Sniper divisions 1st Officer Hando ``Cougar`` Veridian Hunts the Tau traitors who massacred, and slaughtered the last of his regiment, stalking his prey, he silently hunted A lone Tau Hunter Drone across the Crimean forests, he finally reached the Tau camp, where he found the remainder of his men, slaughtered and left unburied, without hesitation, having stalked this drone to its final end, he shot down the vile drone, and leaping off the waterfalls ledge, he began combat with the remainder of the wretched Tau, Without hesitation and thought of his own life, he slayed each Tau villain, bloodying his knife, in honour of his fallen brothers``

More photos: 

 The Cougar him self... Stalking his prey!!!

 The murdered Prisoners, Cougars fellow Skulltakers taken prisoner, and slaughtered by the Tau!

 Tau propoganda... Marking your territory is either ballsy, Or in this case, foolish!

 The hunted Drone crashes to the forest floor

HANDO!

I`m not the happiest with my paint job on Hando, but much more satisfied with the overall quality of my terrain piece!

Heres an overview of the build:

I joined WGC this week and only began building my Display piece Entry for the competition on Nov 11th! its been a wild 4 days to complete it but I`m overall satisfied with the final scene:

 Heres a ton of Photos to showcase the build, with proof of creation based on date, as well as honouring the rules, by only including 1 complete miniature, keeping the base under 4 inches, and documenting and having proof that the build was started this week!

this photo had to be uploaded to the competitions site to prove when it was first started!

  

 I Made sure I kept it under 5 inches as the competition stated!

The damaged Tau battle done, that has had its guns blasted off, full of laz holes, and smoke, I spoke with Chung chow in regards to the use of an extra miniature I wanted two drones one destroyed and one scanning the forest floor, and he stated the destroyed drone was acdeptable as its decoration, not a miniature istelf! but the othe rone would violate the rules! good thing I asked lol

 The trees are real I collected them a year ago and have a huge box of em! The Tau sign was made from palsticard

 The miniature itself, is cadian body, arms and legs, the left hand was cut off and twisted, the right hand with the knife is from the scions boxset, along with his beret Head. The tank hunter Sniper Rifle (my good friend Morgan Suggested that its more of a tank hunting rifle)  is a custom made from both the scion boxset and Cadian boxset, with a Spacemarine pistol scope added!

 -Primed-

 and the painting begins

 The water affect was a total fluke, I was going to use clear resin, and then decide don hot glue, but the glue was coming out an off white colour so I decided to try and paint the glue sticks blue, and it worked like a charm! I`m going to try this affect with lava for my wifes chaos battle board and scenery!

Here all the minatures are added and are the final test shots!

 These are the final complete photos, but not taken in my photo booth!

Any questions, comments, concerns, or Conversion/Painting inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read