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Hi guys

Sorry for the delay in getting new pics up. It was a very busy weekend of merriment and good times with friends, even though the Giants lost : (

Here are a couple of painting updates:

Sentinel/Stalk Tank





And the rest of the Command HQ Squad



To answer a couple of questions:
@CMDante - those Blood Pact look very cool. How are they going at the moment? I'd love to see the others you have planned.

@ Mister Feral - The backpacks are made from plastic tubing and other bitz and pieces. I'll try to do a step-by-step in the next day or two.

@ Deff Dread - Nope, not a jump pack ; ) just balancing on a paperclip.

As usual I've got a few more pictures on my blog along with a rundown of what I like to call "the treatment". Enjoy.

http://www.davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com

Cheers
Dave

Yes! He's doing more! I really like the sentinel.


Liek the work so far Davetaylor! bristling with anticipation to see what your working on next. How did you do your red???

Hi T_55

Not sure if you were looking for my recipe for red or CMDante's.

My reds are done with a basecoat of Scab Red, highlighted with a mix of Scab Red and Blood Red (50/50) and finished with a highlight of Blood Red.

My uniforms were done with a basecoat of Dark Flesh, highlighted with a 70/30 mix of Dark Flesh/Kommando Khaki, highlight again with a 40/60 mix, highlight again with a 10/90 mix, apply a glaze of Dark Flesh/Devlan Mud mix.

More "Basic Pacters" coming soon.

Cheers
Dave

Hey Dave,
Awesome toy soldiers man!
Cant wait to see what is next...

Are you planning to create the Psyker version of the Stalk Tank from Sabbat Martyr?
Are you going to have some scarred bare hands?
So gotta add a Baneblade too... ;-)

More excellent work, the Stalk' looks great. Thanks for the blog, and I personally always appreciate painting methods/tips.

davetaylor wrote:Hi guys

Sorry for the delay in getting new pics up. It was a very busy weekend of merriment and good times with friends, even though the Giants lost : (

HOW DARE YOU SOCIALISE!!! STAY INSIDE, LOCK YOUR DOORS AND BUILD/PAINT YOUR SMALL PLASTIC MEN UNTIL YOU PASS OUT FROM GLUE FUMES!!!!

Seriously though, nice job

Great stuff Dave. Thanks for your compliments.

You've done a good job of making the FW renegades look like blood pact through a strong colour scheme.

@T_55 - Sorry for the confusion, this isn't my log, its Dave's. Currently I'm working on a Rogue Trader gang and some commissions before I return to my pact. Sorry again for the confusion my earlier posts have made Dave, didn't intend to derail your thread.

Cheers,

Dante

Those are great, reading gaunts ghosts atm (just finished second omnibus) and its great to see the blood pact coming to life as well as they are done here. keep up the good work

Hi guys

Again, life conspires against the posting of pics (hopefully tonight though). Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. Just recently a friend asked me how big this army was going to be and I'm thinking now that pretty much every army has to be at least 3,000 points, maybe 2,000 for "standard" games and another 1,000 or so for Apocalypse goodness. It'll be tough fitting everything I want to do into 3,000 so I might have to push that a bit ; )

@ Sirath - I'm working on another Stalk Tank design that'll probably count as a Salamander and I'm thinking of rules for an Apocalypse data sheet for the Psyker version so chances are... I probably won't do any scarred hands, very tough to do on 28mm minis without having it look like a mistake. I'm sure I can squeeze in a Bane Blade somewhere.

@ CMDante - no thread derailing occurred, you're contributions are always welcome, particularly if it is to show us more of your cool work.

Hopefully more pics tonight.

Cheers
Dave

That red is fantastic, never would have thought to use Dark flesh to get a brown-red like that. May have to steal that for future projects...

Keep it coming, looking forward to this project log.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Very cool, although perhaps include more Khornate elements in the future.

Finally I get a few pics up, and my blogspot updated too.

Here are some of the first "Basic Pacters"



And a close up of their masks



And a teaser of things to come



There are a few more pictures and some explanations too at my blog http://www.davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com

Fantastic stuff mate!

The troopers look great, brilliant use of the FW renegades coupled with cadian and catachan parts.

Your masked heads have also come out excellent, great idea to use the ungor heads, wasn't sure how well it would work at first but it certainly has. Thanks for the nod in your blog too.

The stalk tank is shaping up well, certainly got the locust theme down. This one is certainly looking much more like the stalk tanks I picture when reading the books.

Look forward to more.

Cheers,

Dante

Great job on those trooper dave might have to make some of my own one day. On an off topic note I was reading some white dwarfs from 1999-the australian edition and had a thought while looking at your army of Tanith, so here's my question how many guard armies do you have?

Thanks guys, I'm pretty happy with the with the new stalk tank now, more work to go on today.

@ Imperial, here's a list of the IG armies I've painted since I started doing "themed" IG armies, in no particular order:

• Tanith First & Only - Light infantry (using mainly Catachans)
• Valhallan - Militia-style (using Vahallans and Empire Militia)
• Jantine Patricians - Mechanized Grenadiers (using Stormtroopers)
• Vitrian Dragoons - Standard (using Van Saar gangers)
• The Shriven - Standard useable as either loyalist or traitor (using Steel Legion)
• 13th Penal Legion - Light Infantry (using mainly Catachans)
• Macharian 24th PDF - Standard (using Cadians)
• Macharian 6th Armored - Armored Company
• Vostroyan 5th - Standard (using, surprise, Vostroyans)
• Genswick 33rd Rifles - Standard (using Bretonnian Men-at-Arms)

I've also done two Lost and the Damned armies: The Beasts of Khargor and the Adeptus Mechanicus Expeditionary force.

So, quite a few. What can I say? I'm a fiend for the regular joe, humanity against the vast range of things that want to kill them.

Cheers
Dave

Ah finally time to comment on the awesomness shaping up in here.

First of all, I love the work youve done so far. Those masks are killer and the red is pure win. I really brings the filthy & chaosy, but well organized feel arcross. Looking forward to the stalk tank as well.

Do you happen to have any pics of your other armies?

Really enjoying watching this army come together. A lot of great detail work all around. The yellow works out wonderfully for the scheme. And the masks are suitably off putting so far (looking forward to seeing some more grotesque looking masks ^_^).

I do think some of the highlights are being lost in the photos, as the reds seem uncharacteristically flat, though I can see some subtle lines here and there.

The scratch build definitely has me intrigued. Staying tuned for more!

davetaylor wrote:Thanks guys, I'm pretty happy with the with the new stalk tank now, more work to go on today.

@ Imperial, here's a list of the IG armies I've painted since I started doing "themed" IG armies, in no particular order:

• Tanith First & Only - Light infantry (using mainly Catachans)
• Valhallan - Militia-style (using Vahallans and Empire Militia)
• Jantine Patricians - Mechanized Grenadiers (using Stormtroopers)
• Vitrian Dragoons - Standard (using Van Saar gangers)
• The Shriven - Standard useable as either loyalist or traitor (using Steel Legion)
• 13th Penal Legion - Light Infantry (using mainly Catachans)
• Macharian 24th PDF - Standard (using Cadians)
• Macharian 6th Armored - Armored Company
• Vostroyan 5th - Standard (using, surprise, Vostroyans)
• Genswick 33rd Rifles - Standard (using Bretonnian Men-at-Arms)

I've also done two Lost and the Damned armies: The Beasts of Khargor and the Adeptus Mechanicus Expeditionary force.

So, quite a few. What can I say? I'm a fiend for the regular joe, humanity against the vast range of things that want to kill them.

Cheers
Dave

quite a fan of the Gaunts Ghost novels I see. I would have to agree with you on that front.

also, everything that you have shown us looks ace, and that stalk tank thingy is going to be bad ass.

keep up the great work!
BLARGAG!!!

Those Ungor masks turned out real good. I think you can probably get by just using those rather than having to sculpt anything.

And geez that's a lot of Guard! Have you had any time to do non-Guard armies?

Ozymandias, King of Kings

@Dave - I've seen pics of a number of your other armies, but haven't ever seen any pics of your Tanith. I know that this isn't the thread to do it in, but do you have any pics of it you could post up for those others of us that are fans of the First and Only?

startin' to come together nicely!!!

you've got my attention...

cheers
jah

Hi guys, here's another update.

First, I'd like to thank everyone for their kind comments, constructive criticisms, and curiosity. I'll try to cover the specific questions asked:

@ Flachzange/Death By Monkeys - I'll try to get a selection of models from each "Gaunt's Ghosts-oriented" force photographed soon and posted here.

@ Ozymandias - I must admit that I'd forgotten I also painted an Elysian Droop Trooper army that actually appeared in the Taros Campaign book by Forgeworld. Any of the miniature shots are my guys, although you might not know it because they're all B&W "action" shots. In addition to these IG armies I've also painted a Pre-Heresy Death Guard army, a Black Templar army, my Legio Custodes, a Goff army of Orks, around 7,000 points of Ultramarines, plus the Tyranids I was lucky enough to have photographed for the 40K 5th Ed Rulebook. So while I have painted other 40K armies, I much prefer to paint IG ; )

@ grey_death - Yeah, I'm going to chalk up the highlights being lost to my less than perfect photography skills. The final glaze did knock a lot of the highlights back, but they're still there when looking at the models in real life. More practice for me ; )

@ jah-joshua - I'll try try to keep a hold of that attention!

On to the new stuff.



After chatting with CMDante, I decided to steal his flesh color scheme and run with it. Here are a couple of quick repaints. We both think the new, paler skin will stand out from the dark fatigues and iron masks a lot better.



I finally plucked up the courage to try a bit of mask sculpting on some Empire Flagellant heads. I think they worked out quite well. It was fun to push the putty around with my new clay shapers.



I decided to take a shot of four of the backpacks that I've built for the army so far. Back on Jan 14 I promised Mister Feral I'd get something up about the Backpacks "in the next day or two". Finally I've put the step-by-step together on my blog. I hope it gives you an idea of how I go about accessorizing my Blood Pact. I hope you enjoy it!

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Dave

Mask sculpts are pretty damned good. Paintwork is looking supreme.

davetaylor wrote:

@ Flachzange/Death By Monkeys - I'll try to get a selection of models from each "Gaunt's Ghosts-oriented" force photographed soon and posted here.

The most distinctive examples of your work I can recall are the Tanith lads I saw in a WD many years ago, and they weren't even much in the way of conversion work. I've also seen your Bretonian Men-At-Amr based IG (I'm trying my hand at that myself), but little else in the way of IG. You said you'd get some shots of GG-based armies up, and I don't mean to be pushy, but please post links to any of your other armies if you have them uploaded anywhere, or else UPLOAD THEM - ANYWHERE!

Wow, nice sculpts. Nice painting too.

wow, i really like your work, especially the backpacks - they are neat, look awesome but the construction process looks easy enough to do a lot of them without going mad.

Dave, great stuff mate, as I commented in your blog, the skin tone change has made a huge difference in defining the head, especially with the masks that cover the top half of the face.

The tanks on the back are great too, what I find really interesting is we both had the same idea with them both for design (though you have done more with riveting and tubing) and colour before we even discussed our projects! Great minds think alike eh?!

Looking forward to more. I've pointed a few people asking about when I'll be doing more to my blood pact on other forums to your blog to get their fix of pacty goodness while I dabble with other projects, hope you dont mind.

Cheers,

Dante

Great army! That sintinal is just too cool. Keep em coming please.

The pale flesh is what I am trying for on my renegade IG. I use pale flesh with purple and flesh washes, what's the recipe for this pale flesh Dave or CMDante?

Ozymandias, King of Kings

The flesh recipie is:

Shade: Charadon Granite
Base: Dheneb Stone
Highlight: P3 Menoth White Base and Menoth White Highlight
Tone (for defining eyes, scars etc): Baal Red Wash and Leviathan Purple Wash

Basically I painted most of the skin first using DS and CG mix (70:30 ish, I used a wet pallette so not really accurate mixes as I did it on the fly), then keep highlighting up until your at pure DS. Then mix DS with Menoth base and highlight more, then finally Menoth Highlight for highest points and top of head etc.

Shade any areas that need it with thin "juices" (almost consistency of very thin wash but make sure you have almost no paint on brush so you have maximum control) of CG.

Tone patches of the skin or around eyes/scars etc with some thin washes of baal red and leviathan purple.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Dante

Hi guys

Thanks very much for your comments and interest in the project. It's great to get back into an army where every model requires conversion work of some kind.

@ Arctik_Firangi - digging out some of those older armies is proving to be more difficult than I first thought. They are obviously buried in the basement somewhere. I'll keep looking.

@ CMDante - Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool when I saw the yellow on your tanks too. Means I was on the right track ; ) Also, thanks for posting your recipe for the flesh color. Much appreciated.

On to the update: Here are the models from Squad Two, painted and ready to roll.



and a squad from my Tanith army.



There are a couple of other pics of squads from different armies in my latest blog post, I hope you enjoy them.

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Dave