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BTW, "Blood for the blood god" is awesome, here's an example: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/613779.page
WARNING: DON'T PAINT IT DIRECTLY ONTO BLACK. PAINT THE SECTION RED FIRST.

 the shrouded lord wrote:
BTW, "Blood for the blood god" is awesome, here's an example: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/613779.page
WARNING: DON'T PAINT IT DIRECTLY ONTO BLACK. PAINT THE SECTION RED FIRST.

He's right; that stuff is amazing, and just the act of slathering it on is a satisfying experience! How do I know? Weeeell...

Another vote for BftBG here! It's gore in a pot!

Hmm, I'll try it out then since it has had such a warm endorsment.

Kepora : I use the Modelling saw GW produced a couple of years back. Brilliant little thing.

Ahhh, I have the Galeforce 9 one. It's nice, but a little...big. Too big for something like that without eating up way too much resin!

The GW one is about 0.3-0.5mm so it does not 'eat' that much material, the teeth are a bit small though so while perfect for resin it is not that useful for white metal and gets clogged easily when working with plastic.

"The First Axiom of Victory is to be other than where the enemy desires you to be.
The First Axiom of Stealth is to be other then where the enemy belives you to be.
The First Axiom if Freedom is that justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrrany."

- Corvus Corax, Axioms of the Legiones Astartes Raven Guard



+++Recon squad Numas to Legion Command: Escape vector Zulu-Alpha-Zero-Five-Five-Niner compromised by advancing XVI Legion elements, estimated 700+ with sizable outrider support. Break off to tetriary vector, recon elements will hold while the shadowmasters mine their approach, we should be able to slow them down long enough for you to slip away. For the Legion and the Primarch. Squad Numas out.+++

-Vox-capture fragment; XIX Legion Command-Net, Ralium ravines, eastern Urgall depression.
Day 5, circa 579.006.M31, Isstvan V






"-Veteran Legionary Kihvalkhar Nes, 3d Squad, Mor Deythan, 31st Shadow Company. The 31st where formed as an entity operating directly under Legion Command instead of serving in the line, it sustained heavy casaulties during the height of the Drop Site Massacre and only an handful of units where capable of effective response as orders of a breakthrough where issued. A member of the Legions "shadowmasters", Kihvalkhar had access to specialist weapons and equipment and were armed with a prototype sniperrifle issued for evaluation from the legion armory, the weapon is loosly based on the template of the "Ultima"-pattern needle rifle but is buildt to accept .50cal Boltershells and is equipped with gyroscopic stabilizers and a grav-suspensor unit, making rapid and accurate fire while moving a possibility while sacrificing range."





I think I have this quite well down by now, much better and faster than the first. Also I am very satisfied to have managed to make it look so black without using .. well,.. black.
That's somehow the trick I guess...
Picturespicturespictures for you! Enjoy!









Next to a poor guardsman he's this big. Since people sometimes wonder..


Now, what to paint next? Guy with a Boarding Shield or with a banner? Well, what to build - then paint would be more accurate I guess.

CnC gives you more painting done!

Cool stuff man, that's an awesome looking marine.

Hmm, I vote for boarding shield.

Very cool indeed! Whatever's next I look forward to it! My vote goes to the boarding shield.

Love the sniper! Wow... beautiful work. Great build and getting the colors to work together like that is really something.

Great work mate, the weatherise fantastic, heavy without being over powering.

Also I think bolters are .75 caliber. . . .but I could be wrong.

 Sheep wrote:
Great work mate, the weatherise fantastic, heavy without being over powering.

Also I think bolters are .75 caliber. . . .but I could be wrong.

They come in a few calibres actually, depending on the model.

Really love the brown wash over the black! really gives it some life and looks great! that is a beautiful Raven Guard model dude, well done! :-)

Thanks a lot guys, glad you like it.

This is why I take so long with things, getting the colours the way I want, trying to keep things neat even while I am slobbering washes all over the place.

Would you belive it if I told you that no actual black was used (well, 3 coats of watered down nuln oil) to paint these last models? The models are acctually basecoated with Vallejo FoW German Grey, then hit with watered down Nuln Oil, then the glare-zones are blocked in with more German Gray, then another wash, then a broad highlight of GG and then you start mixing white into the grey for about 4 layers of progressing highlights before you start working on the metallics, lenses and leather.

Then, once you have crisped up the highlights and added the transfers, well, you break out the Insane Detail brush and start mixing the wash, in this case Agrax Eathshade with a dot of Vallejo Beastly Brown and a good helping of water and ransack your paintbox for the olde Mithril Silver to do scratches and chipping with. Keeping the wash thin helps with pigment control so you can build it up in layers, one for where you want the hint of dirt up to three-four where it really aggregates like the pauldron rims, nooks on the backpack and the boots and lower geaves.

Maybe I should make a step-by-step tutorial with the next one? (Looks to be the guy with the boarding shield, built that one this afternoon, also had time to finish up a techpriest model for that Inq28 warband that -never- gets finished..

Not a bad idea STC. Dynamic blacks are really hard to do (in my experience).

STEP BY STEP! STEP BY STEP!

Maybe I feel evil and leave out a step that is somehow crucial and then your attempts to recreate my work will be doomed! DOOOOOMED!

Or not.

Really nice--I especially like how you have integrated the decals into the model--they don't look like a sticker, which is awesome. Great job also making it look beat up, but not totally uncaring about appearances. I still think that military personnel would care about keeping their equipment and armor in good shape.

Battlefield wear and tear, yes, but "This is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine..."

I could imagine this guy putting a dart through Fulgrim's temple for sure.

Thank you, the idea is to use the Raven Guard I make here for a future play-through of the Victory is Vengance Campaign, the XIXth Legions escape from the Dropsite Massacre in the Urgall Depressionon to their narrow escape from the Gular Salt Plains on Isstvan V, 98 days after the Onset of the Dropsite Massacre.

So the models represent legionaires in the first hour of conflict of 567.006.M31 as the XIX are desperately trying to push through the traitors' encirclement and escape annihilation, as such their wargear is not yet rundown or failing but their freshly painted warplate is chipped and scratched from enemy bolterfire, shrapnel, streaking with mud erupted from ceaseless artillerybarrages and rainfall forced out of the atmosphere by the unattural pressures brought on by mass-orbital deployments.

It's a Bad Day on Isstvan V.

3 got it even worse.

Awesome concept! WIth all the new HH novels about the "Shattered Legions" I've been contemplating some Iron Hands, actually. So I really like the background concept.

Disgusting traitor legions.

The iron hands have some realy awsome models, I especially like the Medusan Imortals, sadly the Mk III warplate is the one I can't do much with. To upscale those I need to resculpt the upper part of the forwardfacing thigh-plates and while I could.. well, I don't want to. Besides, the Mk III is as good as non-existent among the XIXth and XXth legions due to it being too slow and loud and at the time of Isstvan V the XIXth have been alotted a large number of trial mk VI suits and the XXth are well underway with replacing the Mk IV 'Maximus' with their own, covertly developed and produced, superior variant of the Martian-produced Mk VI 'Corvus'.

I'd like to see someone doing a White Scars force for HH but I guess buying a gazillion Scimitar Jetbikes and Javelin Speeders will be taxing for the wallet.

The 30K IH FW models are almost 'true scale' too because they're actually STANDING UP STRAIGHT!

They look great because of it too!

That's why i only use assault marine legs.

Are you some kind of Australian Super Business Genius Wealthy Man?!?

 Alpharius wrote:
The 30K IH FW models are almost 'true scale' too because they're actually STANDING UP STRAIGHT!

They look great because of it too!

Yes, I agree. Also, many of them have cool bases, which they are standing on--I have incorporated two of the Apothecaries into my Blood Angels force, and they are way bigger than regular (hunched) marines. I bought some of the GW Imperial basing bits, and even that helps. I have some of the new(ish) Sternguard models (not FW), and they are beautiful...but not tall. So at least the basing helps a bit.

Interestingly (and completely off topic here) the Space Hulk miniatures are also bigger--the Librarian is gigantic! But, again, some of that is because of the base--he is standing on some stairs, basically. But it certainly makes for a magnificently large miniature on the table top.


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 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
The iron hands have some realy awsome models, I especially like the Medusan Imortals, sadly the Mk III warplate is the one I can't do much with. To upscale those I need to resculpt the upper part of the forwardfacing thigh-plates and while I could.. well, I don't want to. Besides, the Mk III is as good as non-existent among the XIXth and XXth legions due to it being too slow and loud and at the time of Isstvan V the XIXth have been alotted a large number of trial mk VI suits and the XXth are well underway with replacing the Mk IV 'Maximus' with their own, covertly developed and produced, superior variant of the Martian-produced Mk VI 'Corvus'.

I'd like to see someone doing a White Scars force for HH but I guess buying a gazillion Scimitar Jetbikes and Javelin Speeders will be taxing for the wallet.

Thanks for the cool info here, especially about the variants of the armor. I didn't know anything about that when I started into the hobby a few years ago, but I think it's pretty important if you're doing a HH force to get it "right" eh? White scars are certainly cool--I just read "Scars" and it's tempting, for sure. They would have "older" marks, I would expect, since they had been off on the fringes, exploring and attacking like hunters on the steppes. FW will eventually get around to some of these other Legions, but I have to admit that I'm impatient. I'd love to see some White Scars (or, for that matter, Blood Angels!) FW models.

What I am actually leaning towards right now is a real "Scattered Legions" force--like in "Vulkan Lives" or "Unremembered Empire." A mixture of Iron Hands, Salamanders, Raven Guard, and maybe even the odd Space Wolf...cobbled together and fighting the good fight. A couple of White Scars could definitely fit into that mix, I think.

Won all the monies, been drunk for weeks! No updates for yoooo!





Tutorial will be finished on monday evening CET btw..

Yeeeah.. sooo.. I kind of found most of a baneblade in a box and have been messing around with that kit in between my inq28 stuff. I'll get back to this soon.

Your hobby butterfly-ness is inspiring.

Hello guys! I'm baaaaaaaaack!

So.
After a completely uninspired spring has passed, the creative fluids had built up to the point where something -would- be worked on.
I have not gotten into a painting mood yet but i think it's only a matter of time until I pick up the brushes and finish that wealth of half-finished paintjobs I have for the Legion. Also.. I have to buy new brushes.. so that's a hurdle to overcome.

Anyway, I had that old scratchbuild for some kind of flyer sitting around.. needing some fresh ideas and a while lot of planning, so while I do that I figured that I'd build something!
Luckily I had an old (almost complete) baneblade kit lurking on a shelf in my basement storage and I decided that the Legion really needs a superheavy assault tank. Namely the somewhat overlooked Stormlord.

With a twist.

The rules for the thing is quite nice but the model.. meh. Also, any tank with the "Assault Vehicle" rule that has a load of.. well anything imperial needs a warp-damned frontal assaultramp and that's that.

That also means a modelled interior, those are always fun.

So, here is where I'm at right now. Interior needs some more work but it's mostly details and fiddly-work.








I am trying to build it in a modules so it can be easily picked apart when it is finished for ease of painting and also so that the roofsection (to be built soon) can be removed and reveal the interior.
We'll see how that pans out.



Now, the flyer..
Here things are going slooooow. But I have outlined the main design ideas and made some doodles on how to put it together but this one's gonna take time.



Gentlemen, I am building a Stormbird Assault Lander.


Here we have the lower troopdeck and what will be the floor of the rear loading bay. As you can see the Rhino (yes, the rules for the stormbird allows for the transport of a rhino,.. or 5 contemptors..) has ample space and a marine would easily be able to move around it, checking mag-locks, kicking the tracks or avoiding the chaplains as he pleases.