Hi everybody, and welcome to my newest log of insanity.

As I'm sure many of you have, I've been reading the Horus Heresy series, and as I'm sure many of you will agree, its an excellent series.

Now I've decided to devote my horde of FW marine Mks to the dark gods, and do the main protagonist forces of the Sons of Horus legion. I'll be doing them in the Sea green scheme, the sort of interim scheme between the Lunar Wolves and the Black Legion schemes, I think it will look striking on the tabletop, and more importantly to me be fun to paint and weather.

This is my first WIP model:



As I hope you can see, there is alot of Imperial fist casualties going on here, one because I think the yellow will look great as a spot colour/counterpoint and it sets them at the Siege of Terra, or just after when the Sons were chased into the eye.

I will be using the SW list, because its more competitive then the regular SM one (though we'll see what happens in 6th), plus I get to run terminators as troops, and since the SoH used them extensively, I think it fits.

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Any ideas on poses, themes, names, markings etc would be greatly appreciated.

Will be watching!

Looks interesting. You must be very bold, very confident or very rich to try a new scheme on a FW figure!

Thanks gents


I've been a bit busy with a new uni entrance course I'm doing, and work, but I managed to cobble together this Sgt over the last couple of days. He took alot more time and fiddling around then I anticipated, the combination of various Mks of armour give a nice feel I think, and is something I can see happening during a protracted siege like the siege of Terra.



The arms are from the plastic CSM set, and are a nice analogue for Mk2 once your file off the extraneous detail.

I hope to have the first 5-10 men finished by the end of next week, but that may blow out due to my time being taken up by work/uni entrance course I started a couple of weeks ago.

I also wrote alittle bit of fluff while I should have been listening to a lecture:

"Yes. I was there, at the end.

I fought on the world that had cradled our race, where sky and earth touched, on the walls of a false gods hubris and conceit.

I watched as demi gods clawed and grappled, murdered and speared each other. I saw the fists of Dorn bleed and die, the angels of Sanguinius weeping tears of blood as they were cast from the heavens, the Khans barbarian hordes unhorsed by bolter fire.

I saw my brothers die, in ignominy, uncelebrated by an empire we spent 300 years forging in blood and battle.

But mostly I remember hearing the laughter of the uncaring gods as we failed, and Horus died, and the bitter taste of defeat like ash in my throat.

That was your glorious siege whelp, and damn you for making me speak of it"

- Captain Tyberadon 17th company, formerly Sons of Horus

Not sure in what context that would be delivered, maybe to a new recruit before they became the black legion or something.. .

Progress has been slow, but steady, getting into the meat and veg of any SM army now, the bolter carriers, or ablative wounds for you heavy and special weapons if you'd prefer.



Guy on the end is dropping his bolter *doh*

Nothing really exciting going on here, they just need alittle bit more work done to their bases and will have their bolters attached post paint.Still undecided on adding a chain bayonet or two, as I can't remember any actual references to them in the books.

As for paint, well it turns out I ordered 3 of the wrong colour . . . I ordered USMC tanker highlight, when it should have just been USMC tanker. Lesson learnt, so now I'll have to figure out a use for the highlight colour while I wait for the real paint to arrive, beacause I'm following the DPA tut on painting them I have no use for the highlight as a highlight

Cheers

Sheep

Looking forward to the progress on theses guys Sheep.

AH tis the great Sheep... This will be GOOOOOOOD.

Thankyou both very much, Dakka seems like a pretty hard nut to crack.

Maybe that will change once I paint something. . .

So heres all the completely assembled models before primer.



I hadn't realised until I took this pic that the contemptor and Sgt model were in such a similar pose, guess I'll have to add some more variety to the future models.

The basing was done with a mix of cork, crushed slate, glued down with superglue, before adding some secret weapons razor wire.

So more assembly of the rest of the squad to follow, and waiting for paint to arrive. . .

Cheers

Sheep

Sheep wrote:Thankyou both very much, Dakka seems like a pretty hard nut to crack.

Maybe that will change once I paint something. . .

Nah... takes a while for people to get interested in projects. Keep it up, man. If the painting is anything like the modelling (HAWT), you'll have a following soon enough!

Love the modelling, especially the bases! The chunky ground with the bits and pieces... it kinda reminds me of the Heresy model cover with the Luna Wolves on it. (forget the title at the moment...) I can imagine what this army will look like put together, and even better, on a base of some sort...

Subscribed!

-Remi

Yepp, the dakka crowd is playing hard to get. We're lurking gits by nature. I know what I am talking about, my P&M Thread here is thick with them. I am lucky if one in a hundred comments.

Well, this looks interesting but without something painted CnC will be a bit hard to procure. Paint and the games shall begin!

I did say watching, what more do ya want!

Im all in for some pre Heresy madness. Ive been reluctant to pull the trigger on a FW army, Ill be living vicariously through you. Looks great so far.

the models look great so far, and im excited to see them painted as i have never seen a sons of horus paint sceme

I'm really confident that you can pull off the same scheme as DPA I had a look through his thread and his painting skills are draw dropping.

Yeah Dakka members are mostly lurkers I also have the same issue as STC_LogisEngine just keep an eye on the number of views and you will get a gage for how many lurkers you have attracted.

Thanks very much for the comments guys, these noys got put on ice for a while due to the nids getting some love, but I put paint to model today and came up with this



As you can see, hes not as clean as DPA's SoH, I just couldn't get excited by that style of painting, hes in the middle of the seige of terra, there isn;t going to be time to reapply paint to chipping.

This is obviously still PIP.

Let me know what you think, and any suggestions you have

This is beautiful indeed mate.
Love the tone and the stance.
Can't wait to see more PIP photos!!!

Thanks mate glad you like him.

Damn, Sheep, this looks like a fantastic start to a fascinating project. I love the paint scheme, and the grittiness of the weathering/battle damage. I can practically smell the reek of Istvaan (sp?)

The best projects tell stories as they take shape. Yours is starting to speak very eloquently. I'll be following avidly.

awesome! I love the "tattoo" snaking aroung his side, very nice peice!

 Sheep wrote:
I put paint to model today and came up with this

I wish that's what came out when I put paint to model!

Great work on the scheme here, sheep! I wasn't sold on the sea green color at first, but it really looks great! I really like the complicated weathering that you use: grime, chipping, rust. Looks awesome!

The only thing that I'm confused about is that big red thing under his helmet. Is it a lens? Gem? Heraldry?

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Looking excellent, I really like all the freehand and weathering.

keep up the excellent work, looking forwards to seeing more.

I really like the sea green colour scheme and the imperal fist in the Contemptor's clutches

Thanks for the great comments everyone, I'm glad you all like him so much

Rawson wrote:
I wish that's what came out when I put paint to model!

Great work on the scheme here, sheep! I wasn't sold on the sea green color at first, but it really looks great! I really like the complicated weathering that you use: grime, chipping, rust. Looks awesome!

The only thing that I'm confused about is that big red thing under his helmet. Is it a lens? Gem? Heraldry?

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Thanks mate, the gem is going to look something like this



Called the "Eye of Horus".

tinfoil wrote:Damn, Sheep, this looks like a fantastic start to a fascinating project. I love the paint scheme, and the grittiness of the weathering/battle damage. I can practically smell the reek of Istvaan (sp?)

The best projects tell stories as they take shape. Yours is starting to speak very eloquently. I'll be following avidly.

Cheers mate, glad you find the painting so evocative, but I basing this army on the siege of Terra, hence the IF marines, they weren't at Istvaan unfortunately. This means I can get away with alot more Chaos iconography to jazz up the scheme abit.

I was thinking abot doing this also. At my local shop we discussed using the Dark Angel rules running term heavy as well. I can't wait to see more pictures. I expect this type of army to get very popular with the release of the FW board. Pic looks great

Thanks mate. I'm hoping the DA codex lets you run termis as troops too, doing it in SW is great, but paying the premium of 280pts for logan is a bit much.

Wow! Great work here! (SUBSCRIBED! ;D )

Are these guys at the stage just before heresy/at heresy then?

Awesome contemptor is awesome!

Subscribed!

Thanks guys, I guess you'd call them mid heresy, since they are fighting at the siege of terra, unless they fought the imperial fists sometime before the siege.

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks very much for the comments guys, these noys got put on ice for a while due to the nids getting some love, but I put paint to model today and came up with this



As you can see, hes not as clean as DPA's SoH, I just couldn't get excited by that style of painting, hes in the middle of the seige of terra, there isn;t going to be time to reapply paint to chipping.

This is obviously still PIP.

Let me know what you think, and any suggestions you have

WOW! some of the best weathering I've seen so far. Kudos!

Subbed!

Definately subbed. Very good stuff. Want to see that eye of Horus when its done.

Thanks guys

I hope to get some more work done on these guys in about a week, and make all those subscriptions worthwhile

Boom sauce!



Two months after starting him, its finally done. I lost a bit of traction painting him when I fell out of love with the scheme, but the weathering really brought it back for me, turns out I can't paint anything clean with armour.

Here's a couple more pics. The rest can be seen on my blog if you're interested.





Thanks for looking.

That looks amazing Sheep love the weathering and free hand.

I love the eye!

So great to see someone that have the guts paint really dirty. Too many people are bent on painting so neat. Even when painting dirt, weathering, rust and what not, so often it turns out as neat dirt and neat weathering etc.
This on the other hand is a definite wow-experience.

"who dares wins"?

And i'm so going to steal the thing there with the blue-ish heat discoloration on the multimelta. Truly awesome.

Sheep wrote:Thanks mate. I'm hoping the DA codex lets you run termis as troops too, doing it in SW is great, but paying the premium of 280pts for logan is a bit much.

Look at the new Chaos codex as well. I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Abbaddon allows lots of termies - wasn't there a rumour that he'll allow Chosen as Troops or something?

Thanks everyone for the kind words I'm glad you all like him as much as me. I'm excited to paint the next models now.

I am excited for you to paint them too!

Thanks mate A week of uni to go and I can tackle these guys head on

Second contempt or WIP. No power fist? No worries

That is a lot of dakka!
I really like the model, the pose is very dynamic, well done!
...and power fists are not required for bloody cc violence lol!

I have to ask how you went about doing the weathering on the Contemptor- it looks amazing!

thats the coolest pose for a contemptor that I have seen to date!

CRUSH!!!!!!

Hey Mr.Sheep!

You clearly got some nice painting skills. The weathering and detail work on your first contemp is really stunning, you managed to paint it very realistic. Really impressive how you managed to paint the armor and other parts of the model so "flat" and real.

I also like how you tend to details, all the bases and the models so faar got some cool poses and good bases. The last Contemp is an awesome conversion, kinda funny too hehe. So im gonna keep track on this blog, cant wait to see you build and paint up more models, gonna be an awesome army when its done!

Thanks very much guys I'm glad you all like him so much.

Really beautiful weathering. I particularly like the soft/worn looking metal of his feet - where it looks like the paint has eroded off through constant use. Do you have any tips on how to get that sort of effect?

Looks rad, cant wait to see it painted!

That first contemptor is painted AMAZINGLY! I can't wait to see the final result on the second one

Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Very nice use of FW marines! I like the motion in posing and careful reposition of parts. Very neat.

Thanks alot guys

Bruticus wrote:Really beautiful weathering. I particularly like the soft/worn looking metal of his feet - where it looks like the paint has eroded off through constant use. Do you have any tips on how to get that sort of effect?

The feet were weathered the same way as the rest of the model, Base, highlight, chip, oil, pigment. But then after it was sealed with matte varnish i went back over them with brown mud pigments thinned with white spirit, when that had dried I brushed lightly with a dry brush to blend the pigments a little more, and then sealed it again.

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Not really sure how this exalting works, but thanks

 Sheep wrote:

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Not really sure how this exalting works, but thanks

Exalting adds your thread to the exalter's "my exalted threads" list and if the thread gets lots of exalts, it'll appear in the public "top rated topics" list

oh and exalted! lol

The feet were weathered the same way as the rest of the model, Base, highlight, chip, oil, pigment. But then after it was sealed with matte varnish i went back over them with brown mud pigments thinned with white spirit, when that had dried I brushed lightly with a dry brush to blend the pigments a little more, and then sealed it again.

Thanks. There's no metallic paint at all on the feet right? Were you tempted to use any metallic paint for the chips?

amazing

Theres no metallic paints on the feet, they may have caught a touch of astonomicon grey drybrush when I was finishing the base too.
I was tempted to add some to the battle damage, but if I had of stuffed it up I would have to repaint the whole model and I couldn't make myself.

Love the work here, can't wait to see more!!!

also... you gain a million points for the maimed Imperial fist in that Contemptors hand

fething yellow gits...

Thanks Childe What can i spend my points on?

The pics of UK games day have gotten my creative juices bubbling. As usual FW have blown the mainstream GW releases out of the water, and the PH/HH marines are amazing. using this motivation, I managed for finish the first 5 infantry figures for the Sons.



As you can see I am continuing with the battle warn beaten to hell look of the marines,and persevering with the sea green scheme because I think the official FW scheme looks like gak.

FW have also changed the eye of horus they are using, these guys sport the updated one, and the original contemptor will be the odd one out with the old style. I am considering whether or not to pick up some of the decal, or continue with the freehanding of the symbols.

Each of the marines also has a chaos star of some type free handed onto their armour somewhere, though most of them got so battle damaged its hard to make them out.

It was my first attempt at using the airbrush to do this style of power weapon, and I must say I really like the effect. I would have preferred a purple, but I didn't have the right colours, and impatience won out.

Next is assembling the rest of the squad, and deciding what out of all the awesome FW goodies I want next!

I will begin accepting donations to the "Buy Aaron resin crack" fund immediately

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks Childe What can i spend my points on?

Ermmm.... I'ma have to get back to you on that

The pics of UK games day have gotten my creative juices bubbling. As usual FW have blown the mainstream GW releases out of the water, and the PH/HH marines are amazing. using this motivation, I managed for finish the first 5 infantry figures for the Sons.

Yeah the Pre-Heresy stuff is DA MOTHA-FUDGIN' BOMB!!! unfortunately that means more FW-crack for me to buy... eeeeeeeejits.

As you can see I am continuing with the battle warn beaten to hell look of the marines,and persevering with the sea green scheme because I think the official FW scheme looks like gak.

FW have also changed the eye of horus they are using, these guys sport the updated one, and the original contemptor will be the odd one out with the old style. I am considering whether or not to pick up some of the decal, or continue with the freehanding of the symbols.

Each of the marines also has a chaos star of some type free handed onto their armour somewhere, though most of them got so battle damaged its hard to make them out.

It was my first attempt at using the airbrush to do this style of power weapon, and I must say I really like the effect. I would have preferred a purple, but I didn't have the right colours, and impatience won out.

Well as ever your stuff is looking amazing dude! once my Nids are done I'll start painting my IW's finally

Next is assembling the rest of the squad, and deciding what out of all the awesome FW goodies I want next!

I will begin accepting donations to the "Buy Aaron resin crack" fund immediately

Feth that... I ain't giving you money when my nids still need a Gak-ton buying for them :

Buy some MkII Lightnings or Rapier Boarding Cannons!!!

whoa, sure good painting dude
I also like the dreds, they look very dynamic

Love the marines in this paint scheme. I was wondering how sea-green and battle-worn would look on the Sons themselves. They look really good.

Judging by these holiday pictures, Istvaan does not seem like a particularly relaxing place to visit for vacation!

 Sheep wrote:
Boom sauce!



Two months after starting him, its finally done. I lost a bit of traction painting him when I fell out of love with the scheme, but the weathering really brought it back for me, turns out I can't paint anything clean with armour.

Here's a couple more pics. The rest can be seen on my blog if you're interested.





Thanks for looking.

Your work is tremendous, Sheep !

Although I am eons from that standard, I just wanted to share my reaction when I first saw your dreadnought :

"woaw ! Amazing ! er, hu ? The yellow dead body looks as "old" as the dreadnought itself, would it be that it was placed in its hand from the start ?!"

Not that the job was not wonderfully done, it's just that in my point of view, one of them should be less or more weathered than the other. I am no reference here (see my post count), this is just the feeling I had when discovering your piece of work.

Anyway, I still enjoy reading your blogs

Subbed, way to beautiful to miss out on.

Cheers for the comments guys

Childe: I had a hard on you could cut diamonds with all of yesterday looking at the pics from GD. If I ever need "inspiration" in the bedroom I'll tape a picture of Angron to the back of my girlfriends head
Look forward to seeing your IW, though at the rate you are painting your DS it may be a while lol.
Go on, you know you want to, I'll trade those million points in for resin

Colonel: I see where you are coming from there, it they ar both involved in the same siege, and have been for probably the same amount of time, so it stands to reason they'd be similarly weathered. That's my reasoning anyway

Loving this work mate very well painted and presented with a plethora of PH/HH stuff coming out now you will be spolit for choice even with the addition of a Ezekiel Abaddon minature thats coming up from Forgeworld...

The contemptors are seriously making me want to order one for crimbo either that or make the missus order one Just so as I can World Eater it up. But yes I am duely subbed to this mate love PH/HH stuff.

Those marines are looking excellent.

Very well executed! Thank you for sharing!

That contemptor stamping on the marine is pure genius! Never seen one posed in that way but it has to be my favorite to date!

This worn armour is almost perfect. Any advices for making it looking that real?

really really really cool, love the eye on that sergant!

Beautiful weathering. I really prefer to see Astartes like this, fully battle worn. Can't wait to see more. Subscribed!

 Sheep wrote:
Cheers for the comments guys

Colonel: I see where you are coming from there, it they ar both involved in the same siege, and have been for probably the same amount of time, so it stands to reason they'd be similarly weathered. That's my reasoning anyway

oh, I see, I did not have that in mind. Cheers

This stuff is gorgeous sheep, having recently bought imperial armour model masterclass I'm still a novice at all this weathering malarky, but I'm getting addicted very quickly, just looks so much more real.

Anyway, this thread is absolutely stunning, really perfect stuff your making here, looking forwards to more. (Also thank you for doing the sea green, I share your opinion that it looks way better.)

How on earth i missed this i'll never know. Jaw-dropping, flabbergasting work.

Brilliant paint scheme. I love the pose on the second contemptor and the Eyes of Horus are really well painted. Looks straight out of the artwork. Great job! Subbed and Exalted.

Really wonderful painting and you certainly have the battle worn look down, but these guys look as though they've rolled through a gravel pit as opposed to receiving battle damage and wear.

While I am loathe to offer any advice to a painter with skill, for my taste only, I would have limited the scratches and added more fading and "dusty" elements.

Sheep, those miniatures literally blew me away.

I'm all for shiny, full-on highlighting and shading style.. but your gritty, realistic style makes the models seem so much more convincing and lifelike - as if they were a still image taken in the heat of battle. I clicked on this thread expecting another fairly typical if well-painted army following the usual trend, then I saw the first painted pictures and my jaw literally dropped. Exalted and subscribed.

That is a great Dreadnought, well done!

Wow, thanks for all the incredibly complimentary comments

witchhunter wrote:This worn armour is almost perfect. Any advices for making it looking that real?

My advice is read a heap of tutorials, you will pick up a lot of grat techniques and see a lot of products that don't come from GW on the other hand the FW master lass books are some of the best out there and lay everything out in an easy to understand and follow manner.

Uhlan wrote:Really wonderful painting and you certainly have the battle worn look down, but these guys look as though they've rolled through a gravel pit as opposed to receiving battle damage and wear.

While I am loathe to offer any advice to a painter with skill, for my taste only, I would have limited the scratches and added more fading and "dusty" elements.

That's for the crit, weathering is a great divider, some people like it some don't. Then there's the degrees between. I would never do weathering this heavily on a display model, becaus het eleven of scrutiny is so much higher. But for a table top army, where subtle shades, highlights, clippings and stealing would be overlooked heavy weathering stand out a lot more and attracts interest. That's my justification anyway

Just a quick post to show the next 5 marines PIP.



Cheers

Sheep

We desperately need a groupshot

Your wish is my command

Well its been a busy couple of painting days here at Casa De Sheep. I've managed to knock out the last of the tac squad, and their ride.


Obviously running a missile launcher and plasma gun gives the squad alot of versatility on the table and helps with those pesky terminators in 6th.

Next is their ride.





I used the deathwind launcher from the drop pod kit as a pre chaos havoc launcher, I think it look pretty brutal and alot better then the chaos dildo launcher.

A group shot of what I've completed for the 6 month challenge:



and a final group shot of all the SoH model completed so far:



Thanks for looking

thats amazing!

Hey sheep? That isn't by any chance YOUR Contemptor Dreadnought is it?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=5100002-gws

This is incredible. I'd finally convinced myself not to do a Heresy army, and here you are throwing my plans to pot. Hate you.

Painting's pretty good tho.

Congratulations man on getting pictures up on GW's site!
Your painting is brilliant mate

Looking excellent, congrats on the Contemptor on GW's site.

Thanks guys Was such a shock seeing my stuff on the GW blog today, it felt really nice though

Deadshot wrote:Hey sheep? That isn't by any chance YOUR Contemptor Dreadnought is it?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=5100002-gws

It is indeed

Urien_Rakarth wrote:This is incredible. I'd finally convinced myself not to do a Heresy army, and here you are throwing my plans to pot. Hate you.

Painting's pretty good tho.

I can live with that

great work as always Sheep, and congrats on making the GW blog!

I love the weathering effect you've used, as well as the glow of that plasma gun!

In fact, I think I'm going to have to try and replicate that plasma glow,,,

Thanks guys

Matt: Go for it mate, the colours were, mechite red, blood angels, blazing, firey, and sunburst yellow.

Thanks Sheep!
And I have most of the colours already Yay!

Your welcome mate

The next guy completed for this army came together much more quickly then I anticipated, probably because I rushed him, and because I fell into the trap of over weathering him. I'm not unhappy with the results until I put the two completed dreads together and compare them, the first has a much more controlled application of chipping which I prefer the finish of.

Anyway, here's the pics: Completed Kheres Mortis Contemptor.









The finish is slightly darker on the armour too, which I'm not sure how it happened. I am happy with how the home made assault cannons fit with the stock FW body, and how the 3 pieces of hazard striping turned out, and frame the face and Eye of Horus.



Finally I have a pic of the IF marine about to be cockroached by Mr Mortis.



Again I think I may have over done the weathering slightly, but I am very happy with the yellow and the pose.

Unfortunately for the blog, and my painting, I will be taking a break. I'm leaving for a 10 day holiday to Bali on Saturday, followed by moving house 4 days after my return. I have finished the Harpy for my nids, and will put pics of it up in the meantime, but there might be a slightly longer pause til the next completed Sons make an appearance.

Til later.

very cool sheep! Love the caution stripes on the guns!

That imperial fist is like "whoa now, hang on a minute, I'm not entirely sure this is necessary"

Excellent posing work - what are contemptors like for poseability, anyway? Been wondering this for a while.

I disagree with you Sheep, I think the chipping is perfect. As is the amount of dirt on the IF. He's just been kicked in the dirt by a Dreadnought, the amount looks great.

Sheep, you've done it again. Another fantastic Dreadnought for the Sons of Horus! Lupercal!

I think it could be a little overdone. However, that is not to say that it's not spectacular! Damn. I just love those hazard stripes too.

Your stuff looks great!

FYI, you may want to remove the points from your OP...

Personally, I like the contrast between the 2 of them. I wouldn't change it, but thats just me.
Amazing work once again!

Thanks guys Glad you all like it, and think the weathering isn't too much.

A Kvlt Ghost wrote:That imperial fist is like "whoa now, hang on a minute, I'm not entirely sure this is necessary"

Excellent posing work - what are contemptors like for poseability, anyway? Been wondering this for a while.

Compared the normal dreds contemptors are frakking gymnasts! the hips are ball joints so are the ankles, though because of the greaves there's not much play sideways, but they come with 2 pairs of feet, flat and toes bent. Just google contemptor and you can see heaps of cool poses.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:Your stuff looks great!

FYI, you may want to remove the points from your OP...

Thanks, I'll look into it

I normally hate green, but man you make it look good!
Awesome

They both look great. I really like the death of the IF marines. They are my most hated!

AWESOME! I don't think you've overweathered him at all really. I's awesome. The only thing for me is that the missile launcher colour sort'a clashes but still... BEAUTIFUL!

The weathering is fantastic mate. It really does give the impression of a long drawn out combat
Enjoy you holiday

This is simply... amazing.
I went to GD Uk and I think this even outtrumps the FW team
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Also, do you think you could do a tutorial on the weathering?

Thanks guys

Matapata: that makes me happy, I'm really not a fan of the FW scheme, so thank you.

Awesome. Love the weathering and the green you've used.

awesome. Love it all.

This makes me almost feel bad for the Imperial Fists. Almost.

-Oh hey mister contemptor what are you doing?
Wait no! No! No! NO!!!! splat

Looking good Sheep!

What's this? These are somewhat familiar... where have I seen these before?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=5300002-gws

Twice on the site in as many weeks! Clearly FW are kicking themselves for not using your scheme.

Sorry if this has already been asked, but how did you do the green?

Some great paint work here, especially on my favorite Legion, I will personally be building them as Luna Wolves.

However I do have to point out, IMO, the weathering and ware is a bit excessive as far as the SoH are concerned, as portrayed in the books, when they are not fighting. Literally all they do is train and polish their armor, I don't think there is a single time where Loken is talking to Mersadie that he doesn't have out a jar of lapping powder and a cloth, polishing away.

Thanks for the comments and the grats guys, it was a really big surprise when I was checking my emails in Bali I can assure you

Progreen: I used USMC tank crew green, from the panzer aces range by. Vallejo and mixed it with astronomicon grey.

Brokksmson: I agree, if they were still loyalist, but they are fighting an extended campaign, namely the siege of terra, I think there may have been a lack of lapping powder and desire to keep their armour pristine at that point

In other news I have placed a big order with FW, but it will take a while to get to me, and I still have to move house, so hopefully I can get cracking on it when it gets here in 2 or 3 weeks, I can't wait

Firstly sheep I love your painting, and that you are named after New Zealand's 40 million benevolent fluff balls. Anyway with that second contempt or I feel that it is a bit rusty, like it has been spending time in the sewers, especially because of that greenish colour and the way the two mesh, also maybe the leg is slightly too high for my liking (who can say) I also feel that the posing is makes it look slightly too agile for a 6 meter odd heavy support unit, especially considering it is a dedicated ranged unit. Also what would the sergeant look like with the plume thing going like a Mohawk? It seems quite Cato Sicarus like at the moment. I hate to be so critical, so don't get me wrong, this is some of the best work I have ever seen, and I hope to see this on GW's website many more times to come! Subbed

I actually like the newest Dread over the other one. Always liked the gritty-style paint jobs. I think it serves well to set this one apart from its twin and really stand out amongst the whole force. Good job, as always and I look forward to seeing more of your fantastic pieces.

These are brilliant. I love the shade of green and the weathering!

Out of interest, in the unpainted pics, some of the parts are creamy yellow. What's going on?

Hey Sheep, firstly, excellent paint work and some fantastically weathered miniatures - the whole aesthetic is just great.

I'm starting a GC/HH army myself and am going to start with a tactical squad and Garviel Loken from SoH. I've been trying to find a paint scheme that really comes close to the colours given in the 1st Horus Heresy book from FW (Betrayal). The sea green/metallic green look fantastic but it seems difficult to accomplish. What do you think of:

1. Undercoat Chaos Black spray
2. Base coat Adeptus Battlegrey (I think it's been replaced by Mechanicum Standard Grey but this looks a little lighter)
3. Wash Nuln oil
4. Layer Mechanicum Standard Grey
5. Layer Administratum Grey
6. Drybrush Necron Compund
7. Edge highlight Runefang Steel
8. Glaze Waywatcher Green
9. Wash Biel Tan Green

I've tried it on one foot as a tester but it's hard to gauge whether it's going to work on a whole model. I like your colour scheme but would also like to try to get a bit more of a metallic feel to the colour without it looking like metal - as close to the images in the FW book as possible I guess. What do you and the rest of DakkaDakka think?

Thanks guys, I am really happy with this army, I have just been languishing a bit in the motivation department. . . .until now.

Stefan: I'm sorry mate, but I'm not actually very familiar with the new GW paints so I couldn't posibly advise you on which ones to use. Sorry for taking so long to respond too.

Squigsquasher: The bone/yellow bits are some of the pieces I have cast myself. the quality isn't as good as FW's so I use them mainly for terrain and basing.

Nemesor: I thought of it more like conserving his ammuntion lol. The mohawk idea isnt a bad one, however the art depicting the Sons/luna wolves has them with a horizontal crest, so that what i went with.

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I promised some pics of the WIP Sons of Horus in my Tyranid Log, and I'm delivering.

Recently I was hanging out at my mate Johns place, and seeing the amazing work hes put into his FW city fight tiles (seen here @ The Painting Bunker/) our forces will eventually fight over this terrain, and seeing the superb work hes put into them it has spurred me on to start the sons again.

Now I've always been one of those people that eats desert before the main meal, and I tend to get carried away. So when the opportunity came up to buy a spartan I didn't even blink.

This thing is a beast. However the instructions, unlike most FW products, are lacking in the details. This lead to a colossal **** up on my part and I glued two section of track on the wrong way round. The lesson here people is to always dry fit you expensive FW models before committing glue to resin.

One thing I cant stand about the design of these Pre heresy heavy tank models is the tracks. There is no conceivable way that those things generate enough traction to move something that is supposed to weigh in excess of 100 tonnes. 240 pieces and 2.5 feet of 1.5x1.5mm plastic stripe later I had tracks that even if they might not actually work, at least look to me like they would.

After several choice words, a walk around the house to calm down, and a failed attempt to break the bonded pieces off (resulting only in snapped track sections), I came up with idea of adding track guards and assault launchers to cover up my mistake.





Now I've done it I wouldn't have it any other way. I think it just looks so tough. Like a M1A2 Abrams with the full TUSK upgrade. In that vein, I scratched up one of the command frames from apoc that came with my emperors fist tank company, and stole the SM sensor suite to make a remote weapons unit. I mounted the Hunter killer and a multimelta from the FW Pre-heresy heavy weapons pack onto it.
This was then magnetised into the top plate for the heavy bolters.



I should also mention that I magnetised Quad lasers, and their mounts for ease of transport and pose ability. An interesting thing to note is that 2x 3mm/1mm magnets fit perfectly in the holes the lascannons are supposed to mount too. I had to get alittle more creative with the sponson mounts though.

All in all I cant wait to paint this beast, and expect to have it finished soon.

I should also post this, because it boggles the mind.



Almost 3/4 of a kilo, or a pound and a half to my American friends. Heavy support indeed!

Thanks.

Oh my sweet Gods! That thing looks freaking scary man, it's an absolute beast. Your adjustments only improve the model, serious props

Thanks dude I don't think I'd be as happy with the stock model as I am with the cover up.

That looks great. And your friend's cityfight tiles are amazing. I was looking at that same toy crane myself not so long ago, but he has done a much better job on it than I would have. His board is going to look fantastic, especially when you both have your armies on there.

Thankyou sir I can't wait to play a game on them, it's going to abe amazing.

Wow that looks assam.

Sooooo look forward to seeing some paint, love what you've done!

 Sheep wrote:

Loving the models, i was just wondering how you did the weathering, did you use a sponge or do you have ridiculously good free hand skills?

uk_crow

Wow.. These models are absolutely badass! Breathtaking stuff mate!

Cheers gents

Crow: I used a sponge, I wish I was that good!

A: Do you still plan on running these guys under the SW codex or are you just gonna go with CSM?

B: What loadout are you going to have the kheres contemptor "count as"? Pair of autocannons or are you gonna actually run it as a contemptor with kheres assault cannon/missile rack? If you go with #2 I would absolutely toss that thing in a drop pod; 12 assault cannon shots plus whatever the missile rack's profile is (is it just a typhoon ML, like on the landspeeder, or something special??)

Either way its dirty as hell in game man. I've always loved the look of a contemptor with a pair of kheres and you've really made it "pop" with the paintjob/creative posing. Kudos for sure

A: I'm actually thinking of running multiple codexes and just doing a core of models I can use in all. I want to do deathwing, SW, BA, CSM, and regular SM at various times. Plus the 30k gaming too.

B: We are lucky atm in that FW is getting run at alot more local tournaments, so I was just going to run it as a contemptor w/twin ass cannons A drop pods not such a bad idea.

Hi everybody.

I've been working pretty constantly on this, and I have to say, I'm in love. It may have been a dog to put together, but shes a beauty queen now. A battered and chipped one.

I incorporated a piece of iconography from the Horus Heresy Betrayal book, the one that looks like an upside down sunrise. According to the book this was displayed by some of the elite formations of the SoH, and considering the rarity and tactical nature of the Spartan I thought it was appropriate.



I tried the technique of Object source lighting (OSL) for the first time of this model too. I used blue to compliment the power sword colour I had already used on the Sgt previously.



The side shot show the makings I put on the doors, Unfortunately the XVI numerals I painted at the top of the door were covered by the mud. Freehanding all the symbols and numbers is a real pain in the ass, but the silver lining is not having to worry about decal film .



Rear shot, I just love the size of this power plant I'm also really happy with the treads, adding the strips may have been a ball ache but it has improved the character of the tracks immeasurably IMHO.



Top down shot, showing off the hazard stripe. The justification for the amount of stripes on the engine grill is to warn dopey marine crew wearing a tonne and a half of armour not to step on the grilles.



Finally a scale shot, this is one big mamma jamma.



Thanks for looking. Let me know what you think, and what you think I should do next.

Wow. That truly is an incredible piece of painting and modelling. I think you can also see massive improvement between the two tanks, so very well done. The OSL is incredible, the weathering wuthering , And the amount the freehand has come on is mind-blowing. May Imperial Fists quail before you!

Next - A unit of the Justaerin!

Hello sheep, loving the project ours is very similar , though not as advanced as yours yet , gotta say am loving the colour? May try experimenting with something similar myself and can't seem to be making the dark colours for sons of Horus work was very much against the lighter shade to start with but you've defiantly pulled it off your models are excellent.

Tht Spartan is amazing, really love how it turned out. I aslo like how the XVI was covered by mud, so realistic, and the tracks look fantastic. Love the OSL, freehand (upside down sunset ), the hazard stripes. Everything. Virtual handshake.

Amazing, bloody brilliant.

Looks amazing. The conversion work makes it look even better too.

Next you should get some of the fancy SoH terminators. The axe things they have could double as the maces for deathwing knights.

That land raider is incredibly well done. Obviously a labor of love to get all the weathering and freehand done so nicely.

Thanks everyone I'm really happy with how this thing has turned out

Glad you all like it as much as I do

The Spartan looks amazing sheep, that is a beast of a tank.

That tank looks like a beast! I wish i had a tank that looked like that i might borrow the idea about using the frag launchers on the tracks if i ever get one if thats ok. Looking forward to seeing more from you soon

Young Logan

The Spartan is incredible, keep up the good work!

Thanks again guys

Logan: steal away mate


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Hey all.

Since finishing the spartan its been nice basking in the afterglow of the internets, but progress must continue, and the sons need someone to lead them.

I want to do a terminator heavy force, and to get them to count as troops in normal games of 40k, I need deathwing, or wolf guard. I've already done a wolfguard army, and Dark Angels just got a new book. So DAs it is. I'll obviously do a Belial conversion later (maybe a counts as Abbadon? Maybe I should do it soon, so I can be the first guy?) but Azreal seems like the most versatile choice, since he unlocks both ravenwing (jetbikes?) and deathwing.

The current plan is:
Azreal
dude with banner of devestation
30x tac marines
5-10 deathwing
3-6 ravenwing
dreads
maybe a predator.

But I also want the army to be able to be folded into any codex that catches my fancy. Ie Chaos. So some for though will have to be put into construction of the terminators so that they can cross codexes easily.

Anyway, enough dribbling from my brain. Onto the pics.

Front:



Continuing the theme of mixing armour mk's, the legs arms and left shoulder are mk4, the torso head and right shoulder are mk3. The little kilt, from the SM command sprue I think, is a nod to the Catphraci terminators, and will be painted in a dark red. The left hand is plastic, whilst the right is resin, and in some kind of weird FW/GW disparity, they are completely different sizes. I didn't realise this before I glued them to the sword hilt. Obviously I will run him as a Preator with Paragon blade (GL terminator force sword) in 30k, cause that's what everyone else seems too.

Left side:



This angle shows the flow of the pose a bit better, I was trying to capture a mid-underhand swing, and the momentum affecting the slung combi bolter. He has been pinned numerous (9) times, with one in each shoulder, elbow, wrist hand/sword (one piece of 1.6mm brass rod), right knee and left foot.

Back:



This show the sling and the swing on the bolter a bit better, I tried to 30k up the plasma gun a bit, whilst still retaining the mastercrafted look. Some of the back pack mounting had to be removed to aid the flow of the sling, but its covered anyway, if its too noticeable I'll resculpt it before priming. For tournament WYSIWYG purposes he also has a bolt pistol, frag and krak to cover almost any load out. The little shield can count as a refractor field. I also added a pouch to the holster of the Bolt pistol, to cover up the ugly nothingness of the design.

I actually quite enjoyed putting this guys together, and as the first character I wanted to make him stand out. I'm thinking a white helmet, red plume as a nod to this guy being a terran luna wolf veteran, I will ofcourse make up some fluff to explain away why he wasn't purged on Istvaan 3.

Thanks for looking, anything you have to contribute to the list, ideas on paint, or what you think I did wrong I'd love to hear them.

Cheers

Sheep

Looks cewl. Pose is really dinamic!

Thanks mate, if I was being super critical i would say that the kilt isn't swinging enough.

But i'm happy enough to move on to the detailing stage. Studs and buckle for the sling, studs on the right greave and something else TBD. He just doesn't look commandery enough for me atm.

that pose is crazy cool, very realistic and nice!

Damn sheep,you're kicking ass as usual mate.Your sons army inspired me to have a go myself.

Incredible job on the Spartan Another fav thread now!!!

Thanks very much guys I'm glad you're liking my progress as much as I am.

I've added a secondary plasticard layer to the front of the sling to add some detail to an area that I though was looking more like a beauty pageant contestants sash then a sling.



Before anyone asks how it works, I have no idea, its just for looks.

The only conceivable problem (besides the functionality) I have with this design, is the size of the buckle. I may cut it off, and redo it in pure GS. The only thing stopping me is that I used polycement to glue it down, and a buckle would need to be robust enough to be manipulated by someone wearing power armour gloves.

These are the thoughts that keep me up at night. Any input from the brains trust?

Amazing... truly amazing... *drools over keyboard*

Keep it there. I think it looks fine.

Love the weathering work on the Spartan, and if I ever get one, I'm stealing your track idea. Great, great addition to the model IMO.

With your weathering, and you using pretty standard sponge weathering or something else? It looks really great, so I'd like to use (see: steal) the technique myself.

Hi sheep still loving the blog , yours is by far the best colour scheme for the sons of Horus I've seen would love to know what colours you used ?

Cheers for the paint scheme info sheep that was the colour I bought , I still seem to get a very light green base colour though and only gets lighter with highlights , ur seem to look so much more bluer in colour did you do anything else ? Or is it the camera making them look this way , sorry to pester you would appreciate and more help and advice you could give with painting the sons of Horus many thanks M

I use an airbrush to lay down my colours, plus the mix colour I'm using, astronomicon grey is a very blue grey.
Apart from that, I use a grey primer.

You will wash the blue colour out of the paint if you use the USMC tankcrew highlight as a highlight colour too.

I'm sorry I can't be more help.

Hey sheep, your Spartan is on the GW Blog

Epic stuff, loving this take on the SoH.

Hey, Sheep! Congrats on the GW feature Always good to see Dakkites faithful work displayed for the world to see

Cheers,
Rawson

Awesome job I love the weathering effect how have you done this?

Thanks guys It was a really nice surprise to wake up too.

Ilove40k: The chipping is done with a sponge, and the highlight colour and chardon granite. The streaks and rust are oil paints and FW weathering pigments.

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Well its been a while. Things have slowed down due to the start of the uni year and the running around that is involved in that, I'm expecting it to be a very slow year of hobby until the holidays because of the amount of time I'll have to put into my degree.

However, I have some more progress to show:

Firstly, the model that I am most happy with so far, Bannerman "TBD":



Continuing the mixing of the Mks of armour, I also added one of the FW bionic arms from the character upgrade set they released. The banner is the standard from the SM command squad, with various purity seals which I have used to cover up an abortive attempt at damaging the standard.



Betrayal say the Sons used to gild the skulls of worthy opponents, this is the first time I have added skulls to a model in the SoH force, though they should be making more of an appearance from now on.

Secondly, a Sgt for the new squad, armed identically to the previous one, he does however have a bionic arm.



Next we have some troopers, one of which will have a plasma gun.



And finally we come to something different, I have been trying to figure out how to make my assault marines stand out, and didn't want to go with the named company of black armoured marines. So I decided that my assault marines will be a unit of World Eaters seconded to the Sons, or simply picked up in the heat of battle. In this way I can explain why they just get thrown out in the thick of the fighting, with no regards to casualties (I'm pretty terrible at keeping assault units alive) as the SoH commander simply doesn't care.



I need to buy some more of the FW chainaxes, and maybe one of the new sets with the pistols before I can finish this squad.

Thanks for looking.

Hello mate.. I was wondering when I was going to see an update. You have obviously been tinkering away quietly in the back ground

Looking forward to seeing some paint on these puppies. Where are you gonna put the hazard stripes? lol!

On the skulls front I have added one on my contemptor for exactly the same reasons as you... its nice to follow the fluff. Just a quick question... I am noticing you use a few bits in cast in a yellow material. Have you made some of your own moulds for specific components? Just curious as they look pretty good quality.

 Sheep wrote:

Cant wait to see this guy finished !

Sheep. I have been following your adventures across many Forums, and i am still struck everytime i see you models. Even on fricking GW site

I'v been thinking alot about starting SoH, and especially making them battle weary from either Siege of Terra, or the Slaughter on Istvaan, and you have cemented in my mind that SoH are the way to go.

But i would bedg a favour, i have trawled through your posts on alot of forums to find your painting recipe. Iv seen your List of paints on this forum, but i was wondering if i could coax a little more detail from your talented self?

If you want to keep it to yourself bro, power to you and i totally get that, but i would like to enforce the fact that i wont be able to replicate it to the same effect haha.

Also, i read someplace (My mind withers now) that you got most of the weathering tips originally from the Imperial Armour Book, is that true, and if so, hwo helpful did you find them, any tips for an aspiring SoH?

Cheers man, and a massive well done on controlling the best looking Sons of Horus Force on the internet.

Mako

I love the idea for that the assualt squad it will also add some colour to the army. Also got myself a spartan, the tracks where a bit of a nightmare but brilliant kit, thanks for the advice

Young Logan

Thanks for the comments guys, sorry I didn't see them, I haven't done much on the sons for ages and Uni has been hectic.

Young logan: You're welcome, I hope you don't make the same mistakes I did

Mako_Boy: Sorry for the lateness of the reply.

The green is laid on with the airbrush over a grey primer, I then give it a zenithial highlight with the green and a bit more grey.
Highlights with straigh astro grey are then applied to the highest points.
Then I paint on the freehands.
Next is the first layer of chipping, which is astro grey and applied with a piece of foam, then in a smaller pattern and amount I apply chardon granite with foam too.
Metals are painted next, washed to your taste, as well as pouches and weapons.
The model is then sealed with tamiya gloss varnish, and a thinned oil wash applied.
this is streaked following the instructions in the FW books, which are invaluable for the tutorials, I recommend anyone that is painting vehicles or weathering marines give them a read.
Pigments are dusted on to the feet to simulate mud and dust etc.
Finally, a coat of tamiya flat clear, or if you have it Dullcote is applied to lock everything in place and kill the shine.

Hope that helps mate (and its not too late).

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Hi again, more procrastination sees some more models finished in a familiar scheme. these aren't for me though, but a commission.





FW sent through some very nice casts, though I didn't realise til I painted the face that the right eye of the terminator was miscast, so I turned it into a scar, and in a first for me, the swords were all straight! No hot water required.







The bases are from Dragon-forge, and were quite nicely cast too.







Following my normal tradition of taking poo photos though the bases and gold lack depth in the shots, I really need to set up a proper photo booth.





What do you think of the base colour? Should I change mine from the urban to this? I kind of like how the sea green pops off the base.

Thanks for looking.

Those praetors are awesome, great models really done justice with that paint job.

Sheep you never cease to amaze, although I do prefer the urban bases as a principle, those reddy ones are nice.

Why haven't I seen this thread before!?
These are great. The weathering and battle damage are great.
And I really like the freehand symbols on the Praetors.
Subbed.

WOOW! those Praetor models are glorious!! Great looking model with a fantastic pain job... just the right amount of weathering IMHO... i do like to see "mid campaign" paint/damage schemes,

Love the chained weapon details on the WE assault Marines too! Would love to see them completed!

They look great.

Those are amazing. How'd you do the faces?

Thanks everyone

gianlucafiorentini123: I used a new technique for the faces, and I am really happy with it, I used this tutorial by my mate John. Then added some stubble to the head by stippling a mix of flesh and grey, then straight grey over the scalp.

I love this scheme so much, looks even better with the battle damage!

Thanks mate I can't paint "clean" marines any more lol

Just a quick one today, I managed to find some time this afternoon to prime and base coat these guys.





Might take a bit longer to get from here, I have exams in 2 weeks and a whole bunch of assignments that need finishing.

Thanks for looking.

They look great, really like the bases and the mixed armour types. Good luck with the exams.


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Oh and thanks for the link.

Sheep this is brilliant!!! I'm so happy I found this thread. Do you have your own blog with all of your projects somewhere??

Looking forward to more!

migs

Thanks guys

Guanlucaflorentine: you're welcome mate.

Migs: massive compliment from you, thankyou. I do have one: www.sheepsforlornhope.blogspot.com.au

Mmmm... Command squad.
Will you be getting any of the Sons of Horus Reavers from Forge World?

Hey sheep, have you seen the new FW SoH command squad and contemptor dread? They do look pretty top!

The guy with the two handed sword ! awesome convertion!

Love the new Squad in Progress. This project continues to impress, instruct, and intimidate!

Thanks gents If its half as impressive as your daemons Tinfoil, I'll be happy.

Hey buddy! It's been a while since I have checked in. I am loving those praetors... Particularly like the gold... I'm struggling to get a nice light shade of gold that isn't either a little too yellow or orange. May have to venture away from GW paints for the job. Looking forward to seeing more!!

Thanks mate, GW golds do leave a bit to be desired, the vallejo liquid gold range is amazing, they just need to be thinnned and cleaned with white spirits.

Very, very nice marines there Sheep. I look forward to seeing the command squad painted up.

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks mate, GW golds do leave a bit to be desired, the vallejo liquid gold range is amazing, they just need to be thinnned and cleaned with white spirits.

Sounds like I need to have a look at these... I have always been impressed with Vallejo's range and everyone seems to highly rate them but I have always had a misplaced allegiance to GW for some reason. Time for change perhaps

Hi again guys, some more work has been done on my sons, and their allies. . . .

These guys are are all done up to the oils stage which will define all the armour plates alot more.

Firstly, the Azreal counts as:



Second is some apothecaries, after the oils I'll add some more blood to their armour, removing progenoids can be a messy business.



Next is my take on the Worldeaters, which I'll be using as assault marines, they'll all be getting MkIV jumppacks and butchers nails markings.



In the vein of the WE's, the Sgt for the squad, or some kind of preator if the WE section gets out of hand.



Finally . . . . .



Thanks for looking.

Wow those look awesome sheep!
I'm liking that WE sergeant/praetor a lot, great conversion, can't wait to see it get some colour!

Nightlords I presume

While it may not be my place to say, as I am not nearly as talented as you are, I feel that "Azrael" isn't up to your usual standard, and the sword is miles better than I could ever do, but I feel it doesn't represent your full potential Sheep. The World Eaters are top notch thoough, and the Apothecaries are somewhat of a midground between the two.

In saying that, and as said previously, you're a painter far great than I and I have to praise your obvious skills .

Nice to see some more paint on your SoH mate. That WE sergeant is looking A.M.A.Z.I.N.G will look forward to seeing that in its final stages. I'm working on my destroyer squad ATM. Will have an update soon. Keep up the good work.

Thanks gents

Ivan: got it always loved them, ADB made them better, and now the FW rules have come out I can't resist adding some as allies for the sons.

Deadshot: Thanks for the feed back. and I agree with you. The sword suffered because my airbrush had a blow out while I was painting it, I'm now waiting on a new needle to fix it. The lack of depth is because they haven't gotten an oil wash yet, so they have basically no shading.

Ah! MAN that's cool! Azrael looks brilliant! Great work on everything, awesome model

I can't wait to see the count has Azreal finished ! You're weathering job is awesome ! wish I could do it like yours ....

Awesome stuff as always! Nice to see someone who applies more battle damage than me to their marines.

The Preator fella is looking great btw, fantastic greenstuffing..

Sheep you continue to churn out excellence like ...well, some sort of excellence factory.....yes, well, dodgy similes aside, these guys really are awesome and I cant wait to see what you do with the night lords!

If you want me to be uber critical, which is what we are here for when we are not egging each other on, I would say that the black armour chipping/weathering on both the SoH apothecary in the mark 4 armour and the two world eaters might be slightly too uniform? Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic, and I understand they are just troopers so you dont want to spend forever on them, but maybe just make sure you keep the weathering patterns irregular, especially on the world eater on the right's legs, all the patches were very circular if you see what I mean, there is a danger of accidentally making dalmatian marines! Which i'm not saying would be a bad thing, just quite quite different!

Even so I am nit picking out of jealousy! Keep up the fantastic stuff!

That World Eaters praetor! So nice.

 J-paint wrote:
Sheep you continue to churn out excellence like ...well, some sort of excellence factory.....yes, well, dodgy similes aside, these guys really are awesome and I cant wait to see what you do with the night lords!

If you want me to be uber critical, which is what we are here for when we are not egging each other on, I would say that the black armour chipping/weathering on both the SoH apothecary in the mark 4 armour and the two world eaters might be slightly too uniform? Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic, and I understand they are just troopers so you dont want to spend forever on them, but maybe just make sure you keep the weathering patterns irregular, especially on the world eater on the right's legs, all the patches were very circular if you see what I mean, there is a danger of accidentally making dalmatian marines! Which i'm not saying would be a bad thing, just quite quite different!

Even so I am nit picking out of jealousy! Keep up the fantastic stuff!

Sorry I just got around to getting back to this thread, things disappear from the front page so quick!

I agree, and I intend on changing the way I apply the weathering from now on! one of my friends said the WE's looked like Dalmatians too! I hope I've fixed with this update I think the problem was the way I used the sponge, so that'll change.

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I've managed to finish 3 more sons, and 2 WE (bar their backpacks which is why they count as WIP).

Firstly we have my home made Praetor (I have another set of the FW praetors I will be painting for myself, hopefully as well as the ones I did on commission), he was going to be used as a counts as Azreal, but will now probably be used as a sternguard SGT.



The base features a salamanders helmet, or a really dirty SoH helmet, its a pretty standard feature on my bases, and I tend to forget I'm doing PH/HH and just paint them whatever colour I have to hand.



I'm not actually that happy with the sword on this guy, but being a gaming army, and still not having played a game with it I think I can let the fact the back side is better than the front side slide. I also painted the plasma in a more subdued orange because its not actually pointed at anyone, so it makes sense for the weapon to be powered down.

Next we have some apothecaries, which given their uselessness as a buff bubble ala sang priests will probably just get used as regular Tac marines.







I haven't managed to get my hands on any of the new technical paints yet, so the blood here is done the old fashioned way using Tamiya clear red, and a second coat with a touch of black. But I'm pretty happy with the effect, even at a million times magnification.

Next we have the reason for the title of the blog post . . . WIP World Eaters. I personally see the change in coloration from white to red as a result of their blood letting. The human body has between 4-6 liters of blood, and an Astartes would have considerably more, so they would make a hell of a mess when hacked up with chain weapons.









I intend on writing a piece of fluff eventually that describes how some of the berzerkers as a symbol of there heresy decide not to wash off the blood of the slain from Istvaan, and as time went on, armour broke and was replaced, but painted red to maintain the connection to the betrayal and dropsite massacres.

Thoughts on the paint job, the fluff and the amount of blood?

Thanks for looking.

I like you thoughts on the armor being replaced over the years with red plates, I've seen it other places as well, but I always wanted to see someone come out and say the crazy mechanicus guys who turned traitor developed "mood armor" like mood rings where it changes colors according to the wearers feelings. that way you could paint a berserker baby blue and tell everyone the story of how he was feeling inadequate with his skull pile being so much smaller than the other berserkers

Blood splatter looks good, though I've never seen the effect a chainsaw to a cow would have in real life, it looks plausible to me.

Sir i think the white turning red via blood is an inspired idea! not only that but the effect looks absolutely perfect, more than just being splashed, but less than taking a bath, must have been difficult to know when to stop! but i think you have done it well, also the dalmatian syndrome has entirely vanished, is that a new sponge technique because it looks infinitely better!

Thanks guys Glad I'm not the only one on the red armour = blood wavelength

Theo: the mood ring armour made me actually lol, that's great!

J-paint: Yeah it was a fine line to walk, I had to stop applying it and walk away, then came back re assessed where I was up to, and applied a little bit more and called it done.
The blood has actually covered a bit of the battle damage, which is helping alleviate the Dalmatian effect we were seeing.

The next members of the WE squad will have the new sponge effect tested on them, but will have to wait til I get home from work in 2 weeks for testing.

Awesome ! I'm speechless , your Praetor/counts as Azreal/Sternguard SGT is very nice. I love the pose he got about to swing is huge sword for a slice a man in two blow!

Very nice work sheep! Those marines look like they been on the battlefield for an age or three. Keep em coming!

Very nice work on everything here. Your SOH are probably the best ones out there in my opinion, perfectly painted and weathered, and with amazing posing to boot. Simply amazing stuff.

Thanks guys you're all too kind. They are far from perfect, looking at massive pics of my models always makes the flaws stand out heaps more to me :( but that's what drives us to try and be better each time

Ilove40k: I imagine it coming up in an upper cut motion, or like the scenes in brave heart with the claymore

awesome work!

Thanks cave dweller

Some fluff I wrote this afternoon whilst watching the cricket:

In a legion of brutality and violence SGT Brakor had been known as a bit of a philosopher. Not to the extent of one of those blinded by knowledge like the weakling sorcerers of the 1000 sons, but a berzerker with a brain.

All that changed with the nails. The primarchs rage and pain drove the contemplation from his mind like the sun burning off a light fog. The times inbetween battles were becoming a struggle for Brakor, knowing something was missing, and craving the release from the pain that blood letting brought.

So it came to be that he joined the primarch in his rebellion without conscious thought, carried along in the tide of blood released by the betrayal and massacres that followed.

It was therefore a surprise to Brakor to step out of the boarding ramp of his assault companies storm eagle, not into a hail of bolts, or a maelstrom of las and hard rounds, but into the bright lights of the embarkation hanger of "sempervivum mort" battle barge of the 116th chaper of the 3rd legion.

He stood motionless, starring at a battered mk 4 helm, much of the legion white replaced with dents, scratches and ceramite grey patches, all covered in a patina of congealed blood. He could recall every scrape, blow, bullet and blade that had left a mark, dent and splash of warm vitale that had caressed the memnotic receptors of his armour. He was captivated by the bloodshed, relishing every sensation, lost in the eidetic flood of violence.

Light scratching intruded on Brakor's reminiscing. Finally a hissing noise and sensation of warmth on his left greave snapped him back to reality. A maintenance servitor was beginning the automated process of cleansing and restoring the finish of his armour.

Rage overcame recall, striking downwards with the closest weapon to hand, his helm connected with the crown of the servitor a head, explosively compressing the unsuspecting automatons skull and spine into a red paste and vent blood, brain matter and bone splinters in a wide arc.

"I will keep these skulls, this new visage of blood I have earnt through betrayal of erstwhile brothers, to remember the slaughter, recall the battle, and mark myself as a child of blood and murder". As he muttered the final word, the lodge medallion on his chest flashed cold, and the clarity of the past minutes bled from the edges of his vision, replaced with the pain and rage of the nails.

Stalking from the hanger, the fresh stench of blood began to overpower the stale metallic tang of the recycled air as the lodge brothers of his company destroyied the circling maintainable servitors.

Blood would be their new uniform, and skulls their currency. The berserkers were coming and the universe would never be the same again.

Thoughts?

hi, i want to buy some SoH from the FW in the new year, but i wouder if i could paint it well
Could your post some pics about how to paint SoH? thanks

21 months I have been painting these Sons of bitches, and I can finally say it. I have a playable force!

Only 1000 points, and not very optimised, or even fluffy, but its a start. . .

I guess I'll start with the new additions, firstly, HQ's.



This is Moritat Axander, and will pretty much ruin anyones day if he gets a turn of chainfire shooting at them. I haven't seen that many of these guys around the forums and blogs, which is surprising considering the damage potential they have with 2 plasma pistols.

I used the current 40k plasma pistols because I think the 30k ones look like a hair driers . . .



Unusually for me, he is clad entirely in Mk IV armour, although I did make a couple of modifications to it. There has been an extra armoured plate sculpted onto the left greave, and a plasticard strip and rivets added to the crown of his helmet to differentiate it from rank and file, and give him a pseudo crest/mohawk.

Next in the HQ slot is a Praetor in terminator armour, because a Moritat can't lead your force.



I took the normal Terminator Praetor and converted him to have lightning claws, just a simple matter of cutting all the relevant parts at the elbows and pinning them together. I also heated (carefully) the fingers on the left hand to give him a pointing/commanding pose. Looking at the pics, I need to add some definition eye sockets to the skull on the night lords shoulder pad.



I've never been a fan of unhelmeted marines, something about going into battle without a lid when explosive projectiles are flying around just seems dumb to me. So I squeezed a Mk II helmet in with a bit of trimming. Unfortunately some super glue got into the eye slit and destroyed the detail, but it still works as a gaming piece.

And what is a pimp, without an entourage?



Basically just stock Cataphractii terminators from Forgeworld, its hard to improve on perfection. The only thing I added was a heraldic shield from the Grey knight terminators to the Sgt.



And that's it for the new stuff. The observant among you would have noticed that the basing has changed though. The new style matches the tyranids, and will match the Ad mech, and the table I am going to make (eventually) for my collection. This meant that the rest of the 1k needed to be rebased.



The Sgt also had a head repose so he wasn't looking at his shoes.



Unfortunately I have to lose the stomping pose on the dread due to time constraints, but I kept the marine and the base so I can redo it at a later stage with another contemptor.

And thats 1000 points (plus a rhino), my photo set up isn't big enough to get all the models into one shot, but I'll take lots of pics at the 30k tournament being run by John from The Painting Bunker called The Emperors Legions, which is set to be epic, including a group shot.

Thanks for stopping in and reading my ramblings, what do you think of the new additions and new basing style?

The armour colour on those SOH is awesome! and the weatherign is great...... a real sense of character from your conversions! Great stuff!

But i am a sucker for some Heresy Era WE ....... and those guys on the previous page are definetly the dogd danglies!! (which is a good thing)

Cheers mate, coming from a Scotsman "dogs dangles" is indeed a great compliment

Its been a long time in the coming. Been waiting to see more of your excelleny work for like ages

Absolutely lovely work. I really enjoy the heavy weathering that you do so well, all my stuff always turn out as factory-fresh because I really can't get it done properly.

Moar!

Great work as always.

I still envy that green color.

Also for anyone who is a fan of the Lunar Wolves/Soh, Black library has a FREE 80page story on Ibooks right now called "The wolf of ash and fire". I just started reading it and it is Horus and his boys WITH the Emperor fighting Orks before the start of the Horus Hersey story line. Reading the Emperor kicking butt is amazing.

Looks great Sheep! Although my one critique is aimed at the rust streaks on the dreadnaught, I feel as though maybe you should try and "stump" the streaks more into the armor? Just my two cents, apart from that looks awesome!

Thanks for the positive comments guys, I really appreciate them

STC: high praise coming from you mate, I have all you alpha legion pic in a folder for inspiration if I do some allies down the road.

Theophony, thanks, i grabbed that "book" not a bad read.

Tech Guard: Stump in? I can say that pic is over exposed and the colours are wrong, so the rust is less vibrant IRL.

Ah sorry, stumping is when you run white spirits over the oils or pigments to soften them into the paint work, if that helps?

The new additions look great and I love the colour choice for the plasma pistol coils!
Also the bases look ace with the SoH colour scheme.

Great work as always, and congrats on hitting 1000 points (my PH Imperial Fists are not even a legal army yet). Even if the army itself isn't huge, the quality more than makes up for it. The Moriat is awesome.

Thanks guys

Tech guard: Ahhhh that makes more sense, and yeah, if i redid them I'd agree, they were actually the first models I painted for this army so they're a bit rough, and it was almost 2 years ago.

Hi all, sorry for the lack of content, but Uni has been kicking my ass, and I'm lazy.

Enough excuses, on to the content of this post. Alternate BFG ships!



These have been made by a friend of mine Mangozac, as a component of a line of ships he's done as commissions for other people and have been in a limited run, and I managed to get a couple in exchange for painted pics for advertisement, so no pressure then. Can see more of his BFG work HERE, or His website/forum/blog HERE.

These ships are great, the components came almost mold-line free, and perfectly cast, a credit to Zac as this is a "garage" kit.



In a complete brain fade I forgot to take any WIP pic that were in focus and worth posting, so here's finished pics instead.





Sooo, considering the differences in shape to the regular (and still sadly OOP) plastic ships I thought these would look good as HH era ships. Fluff wise for the colour scheme I'm saying that the ships were Lunar wolves before the change to SoH, and painting a house is a pain in the ass, imagine painting a 25km long ship, hence the SoH green spot colour.

Chipping at this scale would have been a bit strange I thought, so I left that out of the scheme.

Hope you all enjoyed this break from silence, I'm back into study for second semester now, so content will be patchy (probably non existent) for another 12-14 weeks before normal service will resume again.

Thanks for looking

Aaron

Beautiful!

Isn't that the cruiser Zac worked on with Armand?At least if I've read Zac's post correctly.

Amazing paintjob, very inspiring!

Thanks guys.

Malika: thanks mate, I was aware of a 3d artist, but not his name, he did good work

Nice work on the ships, very cool!

Welcome back you sheepy thing you!
Ships look nice, very well sculpted for a "garage project".

Sooo.. Moar Sons of Horus Please? I have started painting Legionaires again and are trying to get Yggdrassil here on dakka to abandon his daemonprinces and start a heresy army, if you help he might just cave..

Great painting, I love the color choice!

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks guys.

Malika: thanks mate, I was aware of a 3d artist, but not his name, he did good work

No problem! I really love his work, so whenever I can promote him a bit I do!

But you did a really amazing job on those ships, really makes me miss BFG! Which reminds me, I've been working on some ship models myself, should send you some copies once they're ready.

Cheers gents

STC: mate, it's good to be back, rest assured there will be some more Sons from me, but not in the shirt term unfortunately :( I'll weigh in to drag him over the HH precipice ASAP though mate, his atmospheric painting would be something to see!

Armand: Thankyou for the sculpting! Very crisp and detailed models mate, I enjoyed painting them very much.

Malika: send me a pm when you're ready mate I'd be really interested to see your models in the flesh.

But with these ships painted, are you planning on doing more BFG stuff? Have you considered painting some ships in the colours of the Sons of Horus?

There will hopefully be more BFG stuff in the pipe line soon, and some of that will definitely be in SoH colours

Oh my... those ships are incredibly painted!

Wow *blows dust off log*

Bit of a hiatus, and direction change, I'm going to make this my log for all my work, rather than spread it around. If you want you can also follow my blog to see a few more pics, or not, you'll still get most of them here

Recently its been apparent that there is a trend for new codex's to increase the amount of miniatures you need to paint for a complete army, leading to alot of burn out among the player base locally. we all still love GW models, and fluff and play the game regularly, but its just so hard to finish a new army!

This has lead to everyone embracing the smaller point/model count options, the explosion of infinity, and other "skirmish" games.



Our gaming club sought to harness this energy and so I decided to paint some Dark Eldar so people would be able to play something other than Space Marines (and also since I have about 4000 points of DE sitting in boxes . . .).



Not being one to go with convention, I looked around on the net for inspiration and found a bright orange scheme by hyv3mynd, of the Mandulain Chapel, and plagiarism being the sincerest form of flattery I copied the basic scheme and changed a few details, just like a good essay.



The orange to black fade was done with an airbrush, which I think is on its last legs, and will soon be relegated to just doing terrain, using a mix of Tamiya, Mr hobby and GW paints, I then highlighted every edge with a pastel yellow, to tie it all together, and black lined with Nuln oil and chaos black mix.



Some of the highlights on the legs of the warriors are a bit ropey, but they'll do for Table top quality, and "proof of concept" if(when) I do more I'll tighten it up.



The models have a few subtle conversions, mainly just arm reposes to open the poses up a bit.

My favourite models are definitely the Reavers, and if(when) these blossom into a full army there will be atleast 9 of them in the list. I'm looking forward to tackling this scheme on the DE flyers too.





Zooming noises have been made

Thanks for stopping in, let me know what you think.

 Sheep wrote:
There will hopefully be more BFG stuff in the pipe line soon, and some of that will definitely be in SoH colours

Hmm, you should really get your hands on some of that Battlegroup Helios stuff then!

Amazing looking 'Dark' Eldar by the way!

There has been no interest in BFG locally unfortunately, so I haven't gotten onto any of the Helios stuff, it looks amazing though!

Thankyou

They look amazing Sheep, lovely choice of colours.

Fantastic DE, some of the best I've seen!

Commented on these already on your blog but they are lovely! Love the DE jet bikes - as you note, great models and they look superb with that fade colour scheme.

Also glad I checked in here as I had missed the BFG stuff first time round!

Cheers,

Dante

Thanks guys, glad you all like them

Dante: Stalking me across the interwebs Thanks mate, they were fun to paint.

So it didn't take long for the DE bug to bite.

One of the most impressive models at the time of release, and of the DE, and GW range at the time was the Razorwing. It, and the scourges pretty much sold me on the entire miniatures range.



I got a bit carried away today when I was digging through some boxes and found an old Razorwing, it was dusty and coated in paint already, but 20 mins of TLC and I got it to the point I could prime and base coat it again.



Some of the surfaces are a bit rough, but I still love where this is going. the second picture is more representative of the colour too.

Stay tuned for more soon.

Thanks for looking.

That's looking very nice so far Sheep

I think I have airbrush envy...

Fantastic work, Sheep! What color are you going to do the canopy?

Looking forward to more

Cheers
Rawson

Thanks gents

Rawson, the canopy will be done the same as the venom for the moment til i can source some proper masking fluid, then it will probably get a similar treatment to the canopies of my stormravens.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m289/Sheep_06/Khorne%20Angels/IMG_0306.jpg

but for now . . .



There's something about painting one model and just having the scheme "click", it reaffirms your joy of the hobby. This is the first model I have painted for ALONG time that hasn't had a tournament or list derived goal as the end state.It makes me think these INQ28 guys are onto something, might have to try my hand at a few conversions just because.



The statues on the base are a bit cliched for DE, but I love them
Its not shown very well in the photos (unless you zoom right in) but some of the spray went a bit speckly, I can only assume this is due to too much pressure, paint that was too thick, or the needle of my airbrush is bent, or a combination of all the above.
But as far as the Table top goal of the army is concerned I'm super happy with how the scheme has translated to the model that inspired me to pick up DE in the first place.



As with the venom, the glass on the canopy is a place holder until I can get some masking fluid and come up with a canopy scheme that compliments the tones of the body. I'm undecided on engine OSL as well.


I don't know why. but spraying the stand for the base makes the model look less like a toy to me.

Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

Fantastic work as ever!

There is something about just painting a mini for the sake of painting it, rather than 'needing' to get it done for a game (most of what I paint these days is like that, although when I do get a game I only play with painted stuff). I'd like to see your take on inq28, it certainly promotes a very different style of painting than 40k if you take the Blanche-inspired route.

Thankyou, I love Blanche as an atmospheric inspiration, and as a miniature painter he has a lot of great ideas, I just don't think I could do that style of painting.

Wow, great painting as always! Loving the colours, the pretty base and the black flight stand looks great as well. Keep up the great work

Cheers mate

Not dark eldarI but I finished a few more models I had on the go the other day, so heres some random pics of Zoanthropes.







I have another month of uni then 2 weeks off, so hopefully I can get some painting in over the holidays.

Guess Nids don't do it for anyone, how about this then

The local games club has seen an explosion of interest in the game Infinity, with about half the guys there buying starters of one form or another, and the start of a small journeyman league. Since I'm trying to encourage the use of the club and the members coming in more, I decided to dig the Aleph starter I bought 4 years ago out for a lick of paint.

And then of course I ignored it and painted the coolest model first. So I present the TAG for Aleph, the Marut.


Small bit of yellow overspray on that left arm, bugger

I used alot of airbrushing to achieve the subtle purple blends across the body, the white on the high points didn't quite turn out as intense as I wanted it too, but I had to stop for fear of losing the gradients and not being able to highlight it with pure white.


The high heels are so Sci-fi



The shield didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to either, the yellow over sprayed and coated the whole surface and I lost the gradient, so I guess Its made of the same material as the sword now . . or something.





The base is the same base colour as my Sons of Horus, but as it was drying I mixed in some white, yellow, grey and red, giving a sort of marbled finish. This was kind of lost under the application of some powders for texture and interest. The colour reminds me of a hospital, or maybe I've just watched too much Scrubs.



Finally the obligatory scale shot, as you can see for something that represents a tank in game, the Marut is pretty spindly. The actual infantry are tiny compared to 40k models, and even small compared to Boltaction, assembling them was an exercise in patience when it came to pinning.



After painting this model, and the base coats on the infantry I can safely say I need a new airbrush, any recommendations? Model, manufacturer and/or online store to buy them from would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think.

Wanted to do something different to the sons, but stick with the heresy, I only seem to like the traitors, so who better then the architects of the heresy?



It is a scheme heavily inspired by the FW HH books metallic scheme. I just couldn't get the inscribing to work well enough to make it a feature yet, I'll keep trying though.

The red is a a Vallejo model air colour "Signal Red", with a couple of washes, the quick and dirty of which goes like this:

Grey undercoat
2x coats of Signal red
Dry brush mithril silver
Baal red wash
Serephim sepia
Nuln oil
Then scratches with mithril



It is a quite a hard scheme to photgraph unfortunately.



I'll post more updates when I get more time

Cheers

Sheep

They are looking really nice Sheep.

Signal Red is really nice thats what I'm planning to use for the armour on my Vampire fantasy army.

Thanks mate The colour is a great base, but it really needed the washes to add some tonal variation and interest to it.

Just a couple of quick pics of the different freehand Legion icons I have done.



I did this one originally as I wanted to try the unmodifeid icon, but it was really complicated and way too many layers for a an army wide item and the detail was lost to the weathering so I settled on the modified icon with the daemon face in the fire.



I was alsp asked on another forum how I did the eyes, so I'll repost it here as well in case anyone's interested.



1: Vallejo German cam orange
2: Vallejo German cam orange mixed with white 50/50
3: Scorched brown mixed with black
4: Vallejo German cam orange mixed with white 25/75
5: Glaze with lamenters yellow x2
6: White reflections

Thanks for looking

Aw yeah, some sweet power armor action returns! Not going to lie, it's totally why I'm here.

Nice freehand! And all round nice work in this blog. Definitely one to follow

Thanks guys

Every army needs a general, and Word bearers armies apparently need 2 compulsory HQ's, so here's the first of mine, the "obviously a bad guy, I don't know how we fooled the Ultramarines at all" Diabolgist.



Long time followers of the blog might recognize him as the WIP World Eaters Praetor from awhile ago, just modified somewhat.



Apart from some minor alterations, the majority of the model stayed the same, I replaced the purity seals with the more WB parchments, added some skulls to the jetpack, which were supposed to be from his victims at Istvaan.

Oh and added horns, stops him wearing a helmet, but really drives home the fact he is an evil bastard, and the source of all the daemons I plan on painting for this force.



The book has a subtle hint as to what god the planned Daemons will be from.



The broken symbol he's standing on is a cast I made of an old Buldog buckle company key chain, I think it makes a nice broken symbol of Calth, and is symbolic of the betrayal of the WB's in that theatre.

Initially I had tried to paint the legion numerals of the Salamanders, Ravenguard, and Iron hands, on the skulls, but they were just too long and detailed to fit onto such a small space convincingly.

Leading from the front . . . gets you killed now days in 40k/30k.



This final photo has been included because I think the colour is slightly more representative of the actual tone of the armour.



Thanks for looking.

Wow, these look amazing!

Great work once again Sheep.

Just awesome!

Mmmm puuurrrttyyyy! Love the metallic red and the praetor is great, really sinister!

Great work with those Word bearers! I'm picking all the ideas I can for mine

Hi everyone, back from the dead again.

So recently I have moved house and as any gamer or modeler who's goes through this ordeal knows it involves packing and unpacking that most sacred space, the hobby table.

This can be painful, there's a lot of stuff, some of it get broken and things get lost, and it can take a while to get setup again.

Once you do though, it's like a blank slate, none of those half finished projects sitting there staring at you accusingly, no bits of offcuts and chucks of sprue lying around. It can be invigorating to tackle something new.

So with the constant heckling of Rictus I managed to finish the first of my Primarch miniatures, and I started with the big cheese himself, Horus.

This is the first miniature I have painted in a long time that didn't require the use of an airbrush, every step was done using standard brushes, and man am I rusty, it took along time to get back into the swing of blending highlighting and not weathering.



The cloak was shaded with purple inks, to give it a depth, but not be so dark as to be all black, I found that when I tried to use straight black to shade the cloak lost a lot of its regal appearance.

I hope the pictures are a lot better, as I finally invested in a photo booth setup, I bought a Foldio 2, which is a really nice product, easy to use and set up, though not exactly cheap.



I hope to do some experimentation with photo backgrounds, and might reshoot some of my old minis that I've done to test them out.

I also have 4 more Primarchs to paint (and another I just ordered) so expect some more painting progress in the not too distant future.



Like everyone else involved in HH I have bought a couple of sets of Battle for Calth and will be using them to start my third legion force, so watch that for developments when I finally get them in my hands.

Thanks for sticking around and reading this wall of text if you have, and thanks for stopping by, I hope to increase the tempo and consistency of posts to the blog, but we've all heard me say that before.

Cheers

Sheep

Looking good, the cloak especially! I eagerly await your progress on that fantastic plastic too!

That's a really fantastic looking Horus. Fantastic work.

EDC

Thanks gents appreciate the positive comments

I've had a collection of Primarchs building up in the background for quite a while, but they've been on the back burner as I finished units for gaming as a priority and uni got in the way.

Since I finished Horus however I've been making steady progress on the backlog and Angron is the second Primarch to be finished.





The model is from my recollection the oldest primarch in circulation, and the sculpt and basing style certainly shows its age. There has been a steady increase in the size and complexity of the bases in the character series, not entirely for the better. I would prefer FW to offer a gaming choice that comes without the over the top display bases for a more reasonable price, but that may just be me.



To that end I've actually decided not to paint the display bases for the rest (most) of the primarchs, providing me with fodder for conversions and objectives, as well as saving alot of room in the display case as well.



I have also decided to paint the remaining primarchs to a good TT standard to get them ready for some gaming. There was talk of a Primarch death match series at some of the tournaments in Brisbane which I think would be really interesting.



As you can see from the photos, I have experimented with a darker background for the pics this time, oddly it seems to make the images of the models lighter, and I actually had to dim the lights so the images didn't look too washed out.

Which background do you prefer? What do you think of AngryRon, is he showing his age, or holding up well?

Cheers

Sheep

Angry Ronald is looking good! Nice basing too. And the leather parts are superbly textured!

Mmmmm that's fresh! That's the kind of model that i'd love to see in the flesh - the armour plating looks great and the cloak is cool too. Would be interesting to see when they finish the primarch character series what they all look like side by side.

Excellent work on Angron. I really like what you've done with the armour.

Not sure how I feel about the backgrounds. I think I prefer the black, but the white works too...kinda depends on the main colour of the model?...

EDC

Thanks gents

I intend on getting them all lips, so a group shot at the end would be extremely interesting.

Evil, I agree on the background/model color, I think I want to get one of those multi colored backgrounds to try next.

Hello all. Welcome to another belated update.

Firstly as to why it's been so delayed, I'm expecting an addition to my life shortly, a baby girl, this as you can imagine is equal parts terrifying and exciting for me and has absorbed a lot of time and the kid hasn't even been born yet! She's due to arrive in 6 or so weeks so expect updates to be even slower than they have been after that.

In other news I've finished Aurelian, Lorgar of the Word Bearers.



As you can see he's only been done to a decent table top standard as he was batch painted with a bunch of tactical marines, and I actually ran out of Baal red during painting him.



I replaced to top of his crozius with a plastic piece from my bitz box (the warriors of chaos I think) as I lost part of the resin original in a house move.

All in all I'm pretty happy with how he has turned out, and will post some more progress pics of the word bearers as soon as I can take pics of them.

"Decent tabletop standard"
And its better than anything i've ever done

Yeah, that's better than most people's 'showcase' quality, he looks really good. Could you share your recipe for the red armour?

Not that I expected any less from this blog, but yeah, as the other said, this is some pretty amazing tabletop standard ! Making justice to an amazing model !

Thanks gents glad you all like it and think it's a success

Paradigm: here's how I did the red

Grey undercoat
2x coats of Signal red
Dry brush mithril silver
Baal red wash
Serephim sepia
Nuln oil
Then scratches with mithril

Hope that helps mate

Yeah, very handy, cheers. I've not yet decided whether I'm going to go for red or grey armour, but if I go red, I'll definitely try something like that.

You're welcome mate. Glad I could help.

I went red because I wanted to set the force around calth, include gal vorbak and keep the scheme coherent.

Also, just as a tip, if you can't get Baal red, you can water down blood for the blood God instead. I did it to one of the tac marines as a test, and now I can't remember which one it is.

Wow... Some lovey models in here!

The Dark Eldar might be my favourite... Or maybe the Contemptor stomping on the Imperail Fist?

Thanks mate, the contemptor has been reposed when it was renamed, but I kept the imperial fist to redo the pose on another contemptor

Here's a quick family photo

Plans for all of the big fellas, or just specific ones?

Great group shot!

Great looking crew you have started there.

Congrats on the upcoming addition to your gaming group

Thanks guys really appreciate the comments.

Whale music: I have plans to do them all eventually, mostly just to live in my cabinet. I have ferrus and fulgrim sitting on my table, and kurze still unassembled in my closet of shame.

Hey guys, I took some pics of the most recently finished unit for the Word Bearers.

Gal Vorbak! Ultimate bad asses of the WB legion. I played these at a recent tournament and they kicked ass and took names, only dropping one game out of 6 to a Alpha legion army.



As you can see I modified the models to remove the duplication of the 5 sculpts. For this I used a liberal application of spawn pieces and green stuff to blend them together.





They will form a nice body guard for Lorgar in his ride for bigger games, and a solid backbone for normal sized games.





I'm looking forward to seeing what FW do for an Argel tal model (I hope they do one at least) because the sculpts are some of my favourites from FW, with the jaws and teeth motif carried throughout the sculpts being super creepy.





I'm quite happy with how they came together, the only thing I might come back to is the flesh and add a bit of variation in the tones with washes and glazes, I'll also redo the black areas of some of them as the varnish seems to have eaten their highlights.

Thanks for looking.

Now those are Word Bearers I can learn to like. Well done sir, it really gives them more character than the 40K version of the possessed.

Sick looking Val Gorback.

EDC

Those are very nice, awesome finish

They are great, good stuff!

Thanks guys really glad you like them as much as I do!

Just a quick one today, talking to a friend about what I should do with my contemptor from the Battle at Calth set, and he suggested a Mhara gal.



Considering the plan is had up til then was terrain, I immediately grabbed the gs and the bitz box. This is the first gs session with minimal thought and rouge thumbs ruining my work.

One thing I wanted to carry over was the animal skull and teeth from the gal vorbak, as I found them to be some of the freshest and creepiest details on the gal vorbak kit.

More WIP shots soon. Thanks for looking.

This is going to be interesting, and looking good so far !

Fantastic so far sheep.

Mind sharing how you did those teeth, it looks like greenstuff rolled out and left to set, then cut into shape(?).

Thanks guys

Noodles: that's exactly how I did it! I took small amounts and rolled them into a sausage so they tapered at both ends, then pressed on them slightly to take away the perfect roundness.

I made them taper at both ends so when I cut them I had two teeth.

The jaws were sculpted seperatly and holes pressed into the areas I wanted teeth with one of my tools.

Thanks for the tip sheep, now I just need to find something to test this on!

Hey all, long time between posts! Being a new father has been amazing, but takes a hell of a lot of time out of your day!

I managed to finish the Mhara gal before she arrived though, so here's some pics I snapped recently.



I found some soul grinder components in my bitz box a added them to the fist, this I think suits the rules a lot better and continues the corruption theme nicely.



The back is fairly unadorned, I just had a lack of ideas as to how to dress it up, so a random growth was all that was added.



Dead marine and the plasma cannon arm were the last pieces to be completed quite happy with how "dead" the dead marine looks.



This guy is now quite large, transport will be a problem for sure, but I'm really happy with he turned out, I just hope that he's worth the points cost and performs on the table at Inferno 2.

Thanks for looking.

Great conversion work on the dread dread . If your still looking for ideas on the back of it, how about giving it one wing that is just starting to grow out of it, or an insect like eyeball to keep an eye out for backstabbers.

That is a stunning piece of sculpting, great work!