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This is my work in progress on some Blood Angels, (including a death company) along with Orks (that my son, 9, plays) that they will fight.


This is a completed Tac Sargent.


The photo of this Assault Sargent is a bit fuzzy. Sorry. The head is from the Brettonian Knights. The axe is from an old Limited edition SM captain. (I had a few).
Not quite finished.


This is my current "active" work (other stuff is kinda half-done). The Death Company. I have a box of the new guys on order, but I wanted to do some others, combining assault legs with regular torsos. for now I'm going with bolter DC. The skull shoulderpad was made by carefully cutting the detail of a plastic Skeleton's gravestone, then filing out the center to curve it.



Another shot of the DC. Sorry if its too blurry.


This is a greenstuff experiment. He's a trial run for making a Torturer for witchhunters. The base mini is one of the old Chaos Cultists, with a greenstuff cloak. I think I need thicker GS to do a more flowing cloak.


Just for fun, here are eldar guardians I did over 10 years ago

good stuff, i like the acolyte...
everything looks fine, but the red and black armor seem like they lack definition (or atleast the pics are showing me that)
maybe a little washing and//or highlighting?
but what you have done is nice and clean

Are the guardians modified space marines it may be my unfamiliarity with the model but those legs look very space mariny!

EagleArk wrote:Are the guardians modified space marines it may be my unfamiliarity with the model but those legs look very space mariny!

Those are old Rogue Trader era metal guardians.

I do need to take better pictures/get a better camera. Those are more washed out then they are to my eye.

Fair douch i dont see many RT models, still they do look good shame i dont play eldar...

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So I tried to set up some better photography with a quickie lightbox.

This is my first Death Company. In addition to being a better photo, I did more work on the eagle.


These are the Blood Angel Scouts I did a few weeks ago. I think these look pretty good. I've always loved the old metal Scout model.


This is my pretty-boy Assault Marine sergeant. I cleaned up some stray orange on his shoulderpad. The color balance of this shot seems a bit off on the red. Oh well.


Here is an in-progress Sanguinary Priest. Black primer, Codex gray over that, then thin white built up. Still seems a bit less smooth than I want.


This guy will keep a red helmet so he can join a tac squad. He was undercoated with Army Painter red, then washed with Gryphone Sepia (tip from here) then I've gone over him with blood red. The heavy bolter was undercoated with black, then Mechrite Red, and bood red over that.


This is an old Cawdor Juve I stripped with Pinesol. All ready for primer and a better paintjob, with a view to some inclusion in a Inquisition force, no longer for Necromunda.


Here's the jar of pinesol, with Scouts, Dante, and more Cawdor gangers soaking


Another blast from the past at the end: some Howling Banshees I painted 15 + years ago., I still think this is pretty good work.


Feedback appreciated.

Nice work. Those Banshees have such an old school look, complete with the light green bases.

(I have an Imperial Fist army with the same basing technique on them.)

I really like the way your scouts have come out, nice reds, and they look suitably "grown up".

As for the GS cloak, try looking at the way professional sculpters do it. If you try to make the cloak in one swift go, it will be hard to make it look right.
So you could try first making a GS base on the back of the model. It should be in the basic shape of your cloak, but flaat. No creases and folds. This will be where you sculpt the cloak onto, then do one side, wait until it dries, and do the other.

You´ll end up with a slightly thicker cloak, but this is how most sculptors do it. If you want to, you can of course cut into your first layer from the front, after finishing the back. And then sculpt into that.

That´s all I can think of right now.

Thanks for the comment. The scout picture seems to have captured the red the best I can see with my eye too. I'm often getting it too intense, and the "auto-fix just washes it out.

My death company continues to come into shape. I like the way the red guns look against the black. The black needs the dreaded highlighting stage next.


I dumped out the jar of Pinesol today and after much brushing with a brass wire brush, this is the result

you can still see some paint crud in a few of the corners, but overall they are really clean (and nice and shiny too!) See the crud:

I've scraped at it with a pointed sculpting tool and enough came off that I'm happy it won't show.


Here is my Heavy Bolter, and here he is compared with a Devestator Heavy Bolter I did when I started my current craze up again. The eagle on the older on is sad.


Who is going back in the dip jar?

First this fella, (I found the sword today, after missing it for 6 months). I'm sure I can do better.


And my old modified Captain Tycho. I had dreams of my own space marine chapter, the Sons of Ra (to counter, Horus, get it?) and so I used Ankh's as a symbol and tried to have a desert theme with bone armor and red legs (though Tycho still got golden armor, here with early NMM). Kinda poor lookin now. I had filed off the eagle wing on the shoulderpad and replaced it with a rough greenstuff ankh. The "amun-ra" text was done with a technical pen. I think this will be a Death Captain tycho, so he'll get black armor. Into the Pinsol, after 18 or so years

So now Tycho is stripped. He didn't come out as clean as my last batch did. Not sure what is different. Probably won't make much difference under primer.


Work continues on my Death company. I did highlights on the black, and better reds on the weapons, and boltgun metal/mithril on the metal bits




This is my metal Dread that I've begun work on. I have a new camera, and the red balance finally looks right

Since I need something for Captain Tycho to fight, I'm finishing up the last of the Ork 'ard Boys with Shootas that I've been working on for my son. I'm giving them rusty looking weapons.
Here they are with red oxide paint (liquitex) plus some tin bitz and boltgun metal


And then with a Devlan Mud wash, and the goblin/knarlock green mix on the arms



Now attached.


with thraka green wash



And some highlights on the shootas. The red facepaint is my son's idea.



So they need some Death Company opponents. The backpacks here are finished.



And here is Captain Tycho, primed and ready. Well, primed.

Your death company looks great. I'm always surprised how one contrasting color can really make a model "pop" out to an onlooker. I hadn't seen the red X on the Death Company bolters before, really great idea!

Any plans to do a Death Company dread to tag along with them?

econtutor wrote:Your death company looks great. I'm always surprised how one contrasting color can really make a model "pop" out to an onlooker. I hadn't seen the red X on the Death Company bolters before, really great idea!

Any plans to do a Death Company dread to tag along with them?

Thanks. It may not be easy to see in the picture, but there is a thin highlight of Blazing Orange at the top of the shoulderpad red X that I think helps add to the pop!

I'd love to do a DC Dread, but I'd like to do a red furioso first, and blowing another $50 just for a black one seems excessive right now I have like 3 old metal dreads total, and I continue to be annoyed I can't just get some right cc arms to make a furioso.

So my order of the new Death Company came, along with Lamertes.

This is one DC, with Lamertes and another old chaplain I stripped and gave a bolt pistol hand from the DC set. Black basecoat with Reaper Faded Khaki base on the scrollwork.

(as a side question, I wonder what is really good for the chaplain to have. My DC is going to be shooty, so I look at the stormbolter and bolter and combi-weapon options and wonder if that would be a good choice. Its hard to tell really)

Following the guide for the Space Hulk Termi Crux Terminatus from WD, I use scorched brown mixed with codex gray for the skulls, then washed with black/scorched brown wash.


Mechrite Red as a base coat to go over again with blood red later. Antique White craft paint over the scroll work.


Blood red added. The middle chaplain has Antique White over reaper Oiled leather on the chest eagle, but it came out messy.


So I did a wash of GW sepia to help even it out. Will have to have better brush control when I try antique white again.


Here's Lamertes. I like the GW version of the skull mask, so I'll darken the recesses a bit more next.

So these are the one DC I started plus 2 more. I think I'll save the other two bodies. One for a Tac Sargent with Power Weapon. The other for somethng else.

The highlighting on the right one is a bit too stark. I guess I'll have to try to tone it down. I like the face on the middle one. I want DC to look kinda crazed when they're charging.