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My advice would be not to buy citadel brushes if you've got a regular hobby shop close by :p
I don't think my citadel brush was bad really, but I just found other cheaper and better brushes, so pay a little attention to other products if you want to save some money occasionally.

Your scions look awesome, the cadian colour scheme is way better than the official one
Your cadians look very clean aswell.
I do think you could easily highlight the boots of the scions, and some other leather items really, and maybe drill out the guns or paint a black hole on the barrel, but those are just details ^^ going to check out your tyranids aswell

As I said on your other threads, great stuff! Subbed for sure!

 soulcow wrote:
My advice would be not to buy citadel brushes if you've got a regular hobby shop close by :p
I don't think my citadel brush was bad really, but I just found other cheaper and better brushes, so pay a little attention to other products if you want to save some money occasionally.

IMHO, I think the citadel brushes are really not bad and they certainly will help ae1989 achieving even better results than what he already did with walmart brushes, but, in the long run consider investing some money in some like Winsor & Newton Sable brushes: They are expensive, but they will last much longer. Citadel brushes are cool, but they won't last *that* long.

Anyway, like I too said, they look pretty cool so far! Keep up the good work!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 soulcow wrote:
My advice would be not to buy citadel brushes if you've got a regular hobby shop close by :p
I don't think my citadel brush was bad really, but I just found other cheaper and better brushes, so pay a little attention to other products if you want to save some money occasionally.

IMHO, I think the citadel brushes are really not bad and they certainly will help ae1989 achieving even better results than what he already did with walmart brushes, but, in the long run consider investing some money in some like Winsor & Newton Sable brushes: They are expensive, but they will last much longer. Citadel brushes are cool, but they won't last *that* long.

Anyway, like I too said, they look pretty cool so far! Keep up the good work!

This is what I was working with:



I cannot wait to try out the new ones tomorrow!

Nice looking. I have not been a fan of the new storm trooper models, however, your paint job is nice and makes me review them again.

He has painted the stormtroopers to match his army, not the french blue ones that GW painted.

Finished assembling the Taurox Prime and the first 5 Scions. Five of the Scions in this picture are from my first squad of 10 Scions, they just haven't been painted yet so I figured I'd include them in the pic. The next set of Scions I'll be assembling tomorrow will have a hot-shot volley gun, meltagun, vox-caster, then two more hot-shot lasguns. There's a Officio Prefectus Commissar in there too I need to paint. I'll probably save him for last so I can work on my painting some more. Also, since I have not touched the command squad bits that come with each box of Scions I bought 5 torsos/legs/backpacks/bases for about $7 on eBay. With shipping that's a Militarum Tempestus Scions Command Squad for about $10. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on eBay for some good deals.

Finally finished assembling. It's too dark/cold to prime them right now so I'll start tomorrow. The Scion torsos/legs/backpacks/bases I bought off of eBay should be here next Tuesday so I'll also have a command squad to go along with what you see here.

Well the scions allready look cool especially with the green scheme. I will be following your progression.
Keep up the good work.

Grtz,
Remco

I like the scions a lot.

I might copy that color scheme (but maybe in darker greens) to make my own scions go with some Dark Angels. What do you think those colors would look like on the old Scion/Kasrkin models?

Subbed! I like your painting aesthetic

Wow that's quick work :p Do you think painting them with weapons attached is easy by the way? I'm painting 4 scions atm, and I have the heads/arms separately, because it seemed hard painting behind them.
Can't seem to find your tyranids you told about, do you have pictures/blog of them somewhere else maybe?

I like the look of them. I'm subscribing to this

 Talon of Anathrax wrote:
I like the scions a lot.

I might copy that color scheme (but maybe in darker greens) to make my own scions go with some Dark Angels. What do you think those colors would look like on the old Scion/Kasrkin models?

I'm currently bidding on a Kasrkin squad on eBay right now. For darker greens I think the colors GW used on their Scions weapons would look great on their armor. I think it's Incubi Darkness highlighted by Kabalite Green.





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 soulcow wrote:
Wow that's quick work :p Do you think painting them with weapons attached is easy by the way? I'm painting 4 scions atm, and I have the heads/arms separately, because it seemed hard painting behind them.
Can't seem to find your tyranids you told about, do you have pictures/blog of them somewhere else maybe?

It's probably not the easiest way but I figured if I can't see right behind the weapons nobody else can. I'll see if I can find my Tyranids pictures, or take some new ones

Standard Cadian scheme looks way better than the colours used by GW, I'd switch the gold for silver / steel tho.

Nice little Cadian force you've got going

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Standard Cadian scheme looks way better than the colours used by GW, I'd switch the gold for silver / steel tho.

Nice little Cadian force you've got going

Silver on the trim around the Scions armor instead of gold/bronze? I was actually thinking about doing that. You think that would look better?

I just wonder what they would look like, the gold/bronze works fine as it matches the green and khaki.

Give it a try on the next one you do, if you don't like it, it is not so hard to go over the steel with the bronze

 OneManNoodles wrote:
I just wonder what they would look like, the gold/bronze works fine as it matches the green and khaki.

Give it a try on the next one you do, if you don't like it, it is not so hard to go over the steel with the bronze

I'll try it on one of them, I'm also curious as to what it would look like.



Time to get to work!

Very nicely done. I like your colours. I think a yellow stripe would look nice. Or even white or a red would all fit nicely with your colour scheme imo.

Always enjoy seeing some guardsmen blogs. The painting standard is great as well, all the best, mate.

What about a really light grey stripe? Like Celestra Grey? Anyway, basecoated the Taurox this evening. I think I might invest in an airbrush just for basecoating the Castellan Green on tanks.

It's not quite as bright as it looks in this picture:

Damn you're painting fast :p Do you highlight your bronze with the runefang steel aswell?

 soulcow wrote:
Damn you're painting fast :p Do you highlight your bronze with the runefang steel aswell?

I do. But I'm terrible at it. I need to start doing it neater

Got the bits I ordered today. I completely forgot to order the bases for them. I still assembled them because I couldn't resist. So I now have a Scion command squad. Also did some work on the Taurox today, just some minor shading/drybrushing.

darn this is a nice blog. Subbed

Light grey would work too similarly to white i think.

Things are coming along nicely

You really have a fast pace going there. Doing a darn good job on your scions wow.
Can't wait to see the Taurox finished. I guess it'll look awesome.

Grtz.
Remco

Looking awesome man, subbed

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Finished the Taurox Prime today. Still need to add some weathering/damage to it. And I really hate this stupid appended next post thing.