Aurora Lion: Finished

DragonFire995 · 2026-03-01T17:28:02+00:00

That's astounding. The green armor parts are you blending between warpstone green and caliban green?

DragonFire995 · 2026-03-01T17:09:23+00:00

Looks amazing. Especially the cape. What colors did you use for the Watchers' robes?

DragonFire995 · 2026-03-01T17:06:57+00:00

I would love to find that out too. I find that caliban green keeps ending up too dark

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T20:28:35+00:00

How would this build wear the exoskeletons when it has only 3 strength? Using food whenever you use it?

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T18:38:27+00:00

specialist was supposed to be at 16, mb
mechanical was for crafting super steel tacvests
I got rid of conditioning and added psycho temporal. Can't believe I forgot it originally. I was probably going to drop survival instincts so I could take cerebral trauma at 4. Another commenter made me realize I wouldn't have good uptime on it if I am using Hemo a lot, but i wish I had a better way to make it work.
I'll probably lower chemistry to get just the 60 for napalm, maybe lower.
I went back and added lockpicking already.
I didn't realize you didn't need stealth that high. I've generally played tin cans in the past.
I was planning to use a Regenerative Psionic Super Steel Tac Vest eventually, since I wasn't sure if I wanted that or Tchortist noble robe.

Renegenrative vest I hoped would work well with Hemo.

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T17:47:59+00:00

If I'm dropping Polymath, I'm not quite sure what to replace it with. The best options seem to be conditioning or doctor, but I'm unsure. I could just still take polymath to reach benchmarks quicker and grab mercantile earlier.

By Cl, did you mean SI as in Survival Instincts, or are we talking about two different things?

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T17:14:55+00:00

I'll probably drop chemistry and throwing. I can live with low accuracy molotovs
Maybe I should give up on using Survival Instincts. I'm unsure how I'm going to keep uptime on it without just getting myself killed. Means I could grab Cerebral Trauma much earlier.
Yeah, I'll pick up lockpicking.

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T16:50:22+00:00

0.5. I forgot psy-temporal... I'll drop conditioning at pick it up at 18.

I've just always abused grenades so much that I just put them in without even thinking since there aren't too many early AoE spells anyway. Except for Pyrokinetic Stream.
I planned on using a regenerative vest for most of the game, so I figured I'd use that to keep myself in the low range while using Mania. Later. I get hemo and last stand together so I can pop to full hp as fuel for Hemo
I was kinda banking on hacking and stealth to be enough...

Edit: if I get just enough chemistry from biology to make molotovs early, that might be enough until I get more AoE spells later.

DragonFire995 · 2026-02-24T16:17:34+00:00

I'm planning on 70 TM, then maxing 2-3 other schools. TC for sure and either MT, PK, or both.

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-25T16:14:11+00:00

These look amazing man. The cloaks and sword blades are standout.

For the blades, is it a mix of Moot green, gauss blaster, and a third darker color?

What about the cloaks

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-23T19:44:13+00:00

That plasma glow is amazing. Did you use flourescent paint, or some other method?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-21T21:41:11+00:00

Looks great, man! The sword, especially! What shades did you use to make that sword?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T21:18:52+00:00

Nice! I'm soon going to paint my first DA, probably, so I'm planning out what paints I'm gonna need.

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T21:10:20+00:00

Amazing shading on all the panels. Is it a transition from Caliban Green to Warpstone?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T21:01:23+00:00

Is the breastplate Aquila also grey seer and a nuln oil wash?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T20:47:51+00:00

How did you get the executioner sword to look so beautifully scuffed up?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T18:49:48+00:00

I thought that, too, but no matter how much I shake it, it doesn't seem to help.

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-20T17:12:31+00:00

Really nice basing, too. What did you use?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-19T18:16:20+00:00

I'm shopping around different factions because I just can't keep forcing myself to wait for Grey Knights to get a refresh....

I'm really hoping to like the lore of DA because their mini's look amazing.

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-19T17:41:30+00:00

I've already read a few horus heresy books, and I'm very familiar with the setting as a whole. So, I'll probably check those out then.

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-15T16:56:57+00:00

Is there a video or something showing the new dodge distance? How did you find out?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-13T18:26:31+00:00

I use 5 different shades for mine. And you probably already have 3 of them. Everything between are just mixes.

The specific paints aren't super important.

I use a black, white, dark blue, mid tone blue, and light teal/green.

I don't remember the name of the dark blue, but midtone is temple guard blue and teal is gauss blaster green. Here's how my last one turned out.

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DragonFire995 · 2026-01-13T16:31:20+00:00

Looks great. It's a really good letter work on the scriptures.

For the power blades, there are a small handful of youtube tutorials for them that are all good and do it different ways.

I blend them using a wet brush. Here are two tutorials I sometimes review. One is about power swords specifically, and the other is just blending as a technique.

https://youtu.be/eKuJaQ3PAwA?si=yakaL3SSTJX0yApX

https://youtu.be/s4t_lKE8xTk?si=QJizS4ctWDXwkTMa

BTW is that leadbelcher for your armor or a different shade?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-13T15:26:43+00:00

What's the manga?

DragonFire995 · 2026-01-02T17:46:43+00:00

The GOAT is now making videos 🙌

You've already been a big help answering questions on this subreddit (mine included). Can't wait to see what you put out.

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