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Great job! I've voted for my favourite pics! I think I prefer him not holding what ever that is.

Gitsplitta wrote:Very nice work on everything... dread, base, OSL. If you can maintain that standard you're going to have a fantastic force!

Thanks Gitsplitta, I'm going to give it my best.

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:Great job! I've voted for my favourite pics! I think I prefer him not holding what ever that is.

Thanks Reaper Man, he's holding a Death Company marine. I must admit I'm starting to prefer the dread without it as well which may be why I haven't clued it on yet. Anyone else have any thought's on if the Death Company marine should stay or not?

Why not make an orc, a dark eldar, eldar etc then magnetise them into the hand... good way to personalise a battle or intimidate your opponent

dantay_xv wrote:Why not make an orc, a dark eldar, eldar etc then magnetise them into the hand... good way to personalise a battle or intimidate your opponent

That's a stunning idea I just picked up some magnets and I have a spare Dark Eldar as well. I should be able to slide a small magnet under this guys back pack and one up inside of the dreads fist along side the twin bolter.

Thanks will play with this idea tomrrow

No worries, thought it might be fun... If you are in a gaming group you could do them in the other players colours for fun

It worked a treat dantay the DC marine is now held in place via a magnet.

I was going to post a pic of the Khorne Berserker I finished today until I realised I'd forgotten to do the verdigris on the armour, of course I realised after taking the pics and uploading them to dakka. So today we have a work in progress Berserker lol, also noticed a few bits that need touching up.

I went for the same paint scheme as the dread although I'm not sure if it looks old and worn or just badly painted, took ages to get it like this though so all thoughts welcome.



I've also been ordering stuff for what would be the next project after Khorne but its all gone a bit wrong and I now have a few bits to start me off for two armys coming Skyrar's Dark Wolves and Grey Knights. No idea why and how the Grey Knight stuff got into my head I wasn't even planning to do them!

On top of that I have lots of ideas for my Nurgle (The Reborn) force and pre Heresy Dark Angels. Not enough time money or hours in the day. I have other army's I want to do as well but I'm not letting myself think about those, especially those Orks

I think he looks fine Gir, no worries!

Looks really nice, but are you going to do a little glow on the eyes? I looked really good on the dread.

Thanks guys glad you like him.

I'll try a bit of glow round the eyes tipios it should be quite easy to do.




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Keep forgetting to mention that the purity seals on the dread and berserker are actually kill tally's. I thought it would add something different although not easy to see.

I finished the World Eaters Berserker tonight this time for real. I need to re-paint the one I did a few pages ago as he was done in a different style based on my test marine.

Here he is all finished, I will be adding gloss to the tear drops when I varnish the unit when its finished.



I've also been looking into forest bases for doing my Dark Wolves which is the next project. There's not many nice ones out there I like some of Micro Arts stuff but when you consider you have to base at least 1500 points worth of troops for a mid sized game it starts to look really expensive.

So I've decided for that project to do my own trees and ruins on the bases , scary stuff as I can't even do green stuff work apart from filling in holes. So I will be attempting to follow in the footsteps of our very own Terraformer. I will be ordering some bits tonight and then in...however long it takes to paint 900 points of World Eaters will give you all a good laugh with my dodgy ruins and trees. Looking forward to it to be honest, gives you something to look forward too lol.

Nice work GiraffeX.

Dark Wolves sound interesting. What are they?

The full chapter name is Skyrar's Dark Wolves they are a Chaos chapter believed to be an outcast segment of the Space Wolves.

I've got quite a few cool conversions coming up for this project.

Nice, yes I'm sure you will come up with some nice conversions

Expertly done! Next project should be a good one.

That would work as in the Space Wolves fluff, a Wolf Lord can leave the Chapter and take his company with him if he so wishes.... the idea is that he has some great mission to accomplish or that he has fallen out with the Great Wolf and wishes to take hi pack away. The only reason that the departing Wolf Lord is not instantly destroyed by his brothers is although he has foresworn his oath to the Great Wolf, he keeps his oath to remain loyal to Russ and the Allfather In that way there splinter groups of Wolves throughout the galaxy, so nobody knows how many Space Wolves there really are.

Its not beyond the Wolves to turn to Chaos, after all Lufgt Huron has a contingent of them with him after conquering a SW ship. There could be a number of reasons for turning from the Emperor. Lol better check its a good doggy before you go near or he might bite your face off!!!

Have you checked winterdynes blog on the Space Hulk terminators that he did, they were jungly based and absolutely rocked.

I think this is the link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/366032.page

dantay_xv wrote:That would work as in the Space Wolves fluff, a Wolf Lord can leave the Chapter and take his company with him if he so wishes.... the idea is that he has some great mission to accomplish or that he has fallen out with the Great Wolf and wishes to take hi pack away. The only reason that the departing Wolf Lord is not instantly destroyed by his brothers is although he has foresworn his oath to the Great Wolf, he keeps his oath to remain loyal to Russ and the Allfather In that way there splinter groups of Wolves throughout the galaxy, so nobody knows how many Space Wolves there really are.

Its not beyond the Wolves to turn to Chaos, after all Lufgt Huron has a contingent of them with him after conquering a SW ship. There could be a number of reasons for turning from the Emperor. Lol better check its a good doggy before you go near or he might bite your face off!!!

Have you checked winterdynes blog on the Space Hulk terminators that he did, they were jungly based and absolutely rocked.

I think this is the link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/366032.page

Yeah looking forward to doing the Dark Wolves, lots of new things to try out including the bases.

winterdyne's stuff is amazing I always check up on his blogs. I think the scenery I'm going for will be more forest like than jungle but you never know how these things work out. Thanks for the link.

Oh just a side note to pimp myself, if anyone who reads this blog also likes the Imperial scum of the false emperor I've added the first WIP mini in my imperium blog found in my sig below

Today I finished two more berserkers and re-painted the armour on the original, I hope you're not getting bored of Berserkers now.

The next mini will be the Sorceress and then another four berserkers!







Here's a group shot of the four done so far.



Enjoy

Looking great!

Thanks Gits

How do you paint your red???

risewiththefallen wrote:How do you paint your red???

From black primer its as follows all Vallejo paints

A base coat of 50% Black 50% Heavy Red Mix
Then 25% Black 75% Heavy Red mix painted from the top of each armour section downwards but not all the way to the bottom of the section you are working on, keep it uneven.
Next using the same technique as above but with watered down Heavy Red, do this twice each time not going down the armour plates as far.
Next pure Heavy Red in downwards strokes again but only go down a little bit this time, acts as your highlight.
Finally a wash in GW Baal Red.

Its important to paint in downwards strokes on each armour piece to get the right effect, feels a bit odd to start with but you get used to it.

Very nice looking berserks there!!! that armour technique really works well!!!!

Thanks tipios, I always seem to find the most time consuming way to paint marines.

I also finished my Ultramarine sergeant today as well which can be found here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/379187.page#3286460

Vallejo paints? I pretty much just use GW paints as I find they are pretty good quality, in fact they are the only model paints I have used since i stopped using humbrol enamels when I was 12 or so.

How do they stack up against GW paints in quality/ colour match/ quantity/ price?

MOney is getting tight so it may be time to consider alternatives.

dantay_xv wrote:Vallejo paints? I pretty much just use GW paints as I find they are pretty good quality, in fact they are the only model paints I have used since i stopped using humbrol enamels when I was 12 or so.

How do they stack up against GW paints in quality/ colour match/ quantity/ price?

MOney is getting tight so it may be time to consider alternatives.

I find Vallejo better in every way compared to GW paints. They apply better as the pigment ratio is higher (game colour), have a wider range of colours especially if you include the model colour range. You will find the metallics so much easier to work with and the paints come in dropper bottles, easier for mixing.

Also the price is a lot cheaper £1.57 each from Maelstrom Games (http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/index.php?act=cat&cre=hob-val&sou=cat). I still stick with GW washes as they are great but thats it. I've just ordered a few different types of Vallejo paints to experiment with, some of their liquid gold and a few different colours from their transparent range.

Here's a compatibility chart to help your move over if you decide to give them a try.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart

wow, It has been a little while since I have dropped in on your blog and it never fails to make me smile!

I like the colour scheme on the bezerkers! I didn;t ever expect to see zerkers in a Thousand Sons blog

Keep up the fun and I'll keep watching!

Thanks logg_frogg glad your liking the progress so far.

What was originally going to be just a Thousand Sons blog has expanded greatly into the the hordes of chaos lol, there are lots more things still to come as well.

Hi all

This week I have for you a Flawless Host Sorceress who we be leading the berserker boys into battle.

I found this mini hard to paint as its all detail no plain surfaces to to any blending etc on.



I'm still not quite happy with the white yet, looks ok in real life just a little boring.

Man, your "Thousands Sons" are hot!
Badumkish!

GiraffeX wrote:Hi all

This week I have for you a Flawless Host Sorceress who we be leading the berserker boys into battle.

I found this mini hard to paint as its all detail no plain surfaces to to any blending etc on.



I'm still not quite happy with the white yet, looks ok in real life just a little boring.

This looks brilliant, even if your not happy with it I couldn't paint to that mint standard, so keep going with the progress.

Hope your army go's well for you.