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I am currently working on my Ultramarines, and will be starting on the Second company once I have all of my other models finished. I thought I would just set up this blog to keep myself motivated for finishing off all of my unpainted models. C&C welcome throughout (bear in mind some of my models were painted a while ago ) Will post pics of Tau soon, would like to know what you would like to see painted next.

Update;
I now have the following left to paint
Ultramarines
Land Raider Crusader
Razorback
Scouts

Ultramarine 2nd Company
Sicarius
2 Dreadnaughts
6 Tactical Squads
2 Devastator Squads
2 Assault Squads
1 Command Squad

Ultramarine 1st Company
W.I.P

Just a quick update while I'm at work of a few finished Kroot, more Ultramatine and Tau pics soon.

Solid painting. I personally paint my space marines like you; in pristine condition. Though other people really like the "dirtied up" look. I also like the purple on the kroot. How'd you do it?

Just sprayed them with a white basecoat and then added a leviathan purple wash, gave it a nice colour with minmum effort

Thats what I like to see. Simple technique, good results.

Had a bit of free time this morning so started work on my apothecary. Only rough of course, still plenty to do.

PraetorDave wrote:Solid painting. I personally paint my space marines like you; in pristine condition. Though other people really like the "dirtied up" look. I also like the purple on the kroot. How'd you do it?

Same for me i like to think my 2nd Ultramarine company have just hit planet side and still have the oil scents from the polish they use to clean there armour

The white on the apothecary looks chalky, especially on his head. I don't paint much white, but two techniques that people throw around are thinning and thin layers. Add a little water to the white paint to thin it down so it goes on smoother. Or try painting a lot of really light coats of white on, and slowly build them up. Try looking for tutorials on painting white.

Yer I did think that after looking at it, seems to be more of a pain getting a nice white on old metal models.

Your best bet for the the white is to come up from a grey base-coat. Something like fortress grey has enough opacity to provide a solid base without actually bleeding through the white afterwards. And like PraetorDave says thinning the paints is important when it comes to white.

I like clean minis and I like minis with well done battle damage, so I'm easy to please. You marines look very good and you have Marneus Calgar and Honour Guard. I love those models. I myself don't own them but I've wanted them since I've layed eyes on 'em. Most excited to see you paint those.

Really like the Kroot too. Different and very refreshing and so simple too. Who woulda thunk it.

Good work so far, keep it up!

bunnygurl wrote:I like clean minis and I like minis with well done battle damage, so I'm easy to please. You marines look very good and you have Marneus Calgar and Honour Guard. I love those models. I myself don't own them but I've wanted them since I've layed eyes on 'em. Most excited to see you paint those.

Really like the Kroot too. Different and very refreshing and so simple too. Who woulda thunk it.

Good work so far, keep it up!

Going to be starting Calgar next after the command squad, always put off doing him. Still have the 2nd Edition one primed and ready to go...

Also started work on my 2nd company (exactly as in the codex pic) which I think I'll post in here aswell once I have the majority of 1 squad done.

Hopefully get some more pics up tommorow/this weekend of the firewarriors and apothecary.

Nice work! I've got a similar thread going myself!

Love your kroot colours, I went with green, but I may just revise that!

I like the purple Kroot, not sure how i feel about the red and green quils though. It distracts me, maybe pick either the red or green and do different subtle shades? Minor nitpick all the same.

Looks good keep it up!

White is a bugger, when i first did it on my Dreadnought, it went on way to thick. I am really disapointed with it looking back now. And the bigest tip i can say (and reiterate what others have said) is thin the paint. 1 drop of water to 1 drop of paint, i have read that it should be the consistency of milk. I changed my planed colour scheme due to not liking how the white looked, that and how sexy i think bleached bone is lol (maybe its just because its a newer pot of paint)

The Kroot look great, i love the look of the wash over the white prime. And i agree with FearPeteySodes to keep one colour of quills.

Just a few pics of my finished firewarriors and apothecary.

Some of your painting could be improved, but overall your minis look very nice and I can see your devotion you have put on them, congratulations!

love your colours, especially on the tau. Very unique, cant wait to see more.

Just a little side project inbetween to keep me motivated.

Liking the FWs. What do you intend to run the winged guy as?

Probably gonna run him as and assault marine captain, or a sanguinary guard.

Here's a quick update on my standard bearer, haven't spent much time on him so I'm aware he's a little rough round the edges

Nice work dude! Loving how consistent your army is!

Finished off my standard bearer last night, just have the freehand banner to do then he's done.

Wow man the golds look great! Might I suggest hitting the boltgun with Badab Black wash? It really shows it's depth and makes it alot more realistic, apart from that though, he looks great! I love the look of the old models, especially those sergeants you can get from the GW website.

Yer found an old command squad in the loft so got it down stripped it and hence now I'm working on them. I agree though that the old sergeants are awesome. I did my gold with shinning gold base, gryphon sepia wash, drybrush bleached bone and then a thin layer of devlan mud. Will hit the boltgun tonight when I get home, I did use a little devlan mud but the black probably makes more sense, cheers.

Just another quick update of what's been going on, standard bearer is finished, not too happy about the banner but have so much stuff to do I'm moving on. Also started work on the techmarine this morning, more to follow.

I don't see why you're unhappy, that Ultramarine logo is fantastically freehanded! I can always do it nicely when it's small, but when I have to freehand it large, its a little mesesy, your excecution is very well done, dont be ashamed.

Also a little tip, if you want banners to look more realistic, try to avoid black outlines, I used black outlines on my first few and without them they sort of just...work better? it's hard to explain but you'll understand when you see.
Here's an example of one of mine (wip)

Very nice, cheers for the tip, looking forward to doing my next one which is with the Calgar and honour guard box. Atleast that ones done already. Techmarine is looking good now, will post a pic tommorow morning to see what you think.

W.I.P on the techmarine so far