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Lovely job on the plaguebearers.

Nice gretchin too. Nowt wrong with a bit of size variation.

Still no sign of my overkill, hurry up postie!

Doing the chaos chosen from dark vengence to pass the time. This is my prototype:

The plaguebearers have come up really nicely. I love the subtle colour blends (which you also do with greenskin lips). The Chaos marine looks good as well, but the plaguemarines take it for me.

Just love the orange on that marine weets. You totally nailed it!

Ooo, always interesting to see someone else paint a model that I have already done (doesn't happen as often as you might think).

Nice take. Like the colour.

Dr H I'll be doing the cultist militia as well soon. I notice you did most of the dark vengeance set.

Thanks gitsplitta and azazelx! The orange is vallejo german orange glazed with sepia.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Dr H I'll be doing the cultist militia as well soon. I notice you did most of the dark vengeance set..

I did the whole set (although not the limited edition piece), which are now spread thinly across Europe.
While I'm not much of a fan of the bling-tastic Chaos marine sculpts, the cultists were quite fun to paint.

The chaos marines are quite tiresome to paint... so much baroque detail and sharp points. I've blocked in the german orange and the metallics and its taken 5 hours! Cultists will be a breeze by comparison.


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What kinda price did you get if you don't mind telling? What ballpark anyway? I'm probably selling them so curious.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The chaos marines are quite tiresome to paint... so much baroque detail and sharp points. I've blocked in the german orange and the metallics and its taken 5 hours! Cultists will be a breeze by comparison.

Yeah, the 6 Chosen models took me over 30 hours in total, whereas the two 10 man Cultist groups took about 40 hours in total. 20 models vs 6...

What kinda price did you get if you don't mind telling? What ballpark anyway? I'm probably selling them so curious.

As I keep track of these things I can give you exact numbers for the whole box:
These were all sold through ebay (in a friend's shop), so I didn't really get the best prices for all of them.
Excluding my time, I did make a good profit on the boxes' cost though.

Bronze level models;
SM Tactical squad = £40
SM Bikers = £35
Chosen = £40
Cultists (Tetchvar) = £45
Cultists (Anarkus) = £40

Silver level;
SM Terminators = £55

Gold level models;
SM Librarian = £35
SM Company master = £25
Kranon = £25
Helbrute (Heavily converted, magnetised, with all the extras) = £175

I found the squads were much easier to sell compared to the individual characters, but as it's ebay, results may vary. Good luck.

Thanks that's good to know. I've a lot of experience ebaying books and other media so hopefully it'll work out. I probably wont ask much for the

Here's a link to the plaguebearers sale if anyone wants. If its not gone by the end of the month I know someone who will buy them so get it while its hot! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182054334365?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I'll probably sell the chosen for a lot less - there's less of them and the models themselves are very common on ebay.

Well this has taken quite a while! I need to take some closer pics but here are the chaos chosen in all their baroque glory:



My deathwatch overkill has arrived!

I've got some of these guys sitting on my desk right know, so I know their some nicely detailed minis, but your paint job really makes them stand out, Beautifully work .

Beautiful work weets. An amazing job on very intricate figures. The added detail to the cloak is just wonderful.

Very lovely indeed, and a reminder that old skool paintjobs can look amazing on contemporary models.

Those are fantastic, Weety. I love the orange armor.

Those plague bearers are amazing and really suit your painting style. I'd love to see more.

Those chaos marines look sweet Weets , nice one. I'd have gone darker but you make them look really good !

Hiya peeps. Yes the chosen were much duller in their official GW photo. I went with my gut on them rather than looking at source material and so ended up lurid. I've considered a final wash of dilute umber-grey to give em more grimdark shadow, but I'm indecisive. Your thoughts dakkites?

I always end up replying at half five in the morning for some reason. I was too busy sticking my overkill together yesterday. Another box of dark vengence is due today as well so expect cultists and dark angels.

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Overkill is rather tempting be interested to see what you do with it.

Awesome work on the Plague Bearers, Grots and Chaos Chosen.

EDC

Nice job on those Chosen!

Definitely copying that green axe blade when I paint mine.

The plaguebearers are stunning, awesome stuff! And I'm so jealous of your chosen CSM - they're better'n mine by a country mile! My excuse is that I found them too detailed (if you catch my drift)... Found it hard to get motivated to do a bang up job on them...

Nice job on the Chaos Chosen chaps.
I particularly like the skin tone you have on Mr. blue mace's head.

Look forward to your progress on the new hoard.

Hello dakkites. I am drowning in miniatures at the moment and had a wide choice today. I decided to hold fire on genestealer hybrids and go for the order and simplicity of space marines. This is how far I got today, a wash of sepia-grey and some nice bright green and silver on all the metals, then I worked armour wash into the lower legs and feet for a dirty battlefield grime. Next I'll ink in red on the guns and insignia.

Lovely green against the bone.

Looking good so far, Weets. Are these for your own collection or the 'bay?

These are going to be commercial work. If(when) I paint a space marine army for fun, it'll be the 80s beakies I've got stashed away probably. Not that this isn't fun. Its nice to paint something large, plastic and simple, restful for the fingers after the chaos models.

There is a bunch of us all weeping right now, I lay down a thousand layers trying to get a realistic bone feel, and you come along and do a fantastic job in 3 washes....

Look great so far, and that green really pops.

Nice start on the Deathwing termies.

EDC

Thanks camkierhi I hope you get that bone feel down...
I cannot recommend these washes enough - http://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Wash-Set-17Ml/dp/B004RO3UCU%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-ffnt-uk-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB004RO3UCU

Of course when I say I applyed a wash, its not enough just to splash it on and hope for the best, you need to control the wash and keep an eye on it while it dries, adding extra here and there or taking it away as necessity demands. I use a brush and sometimes my fingers...

Thanks EDC