Gitsplitta wrote:The only proper use for "cannon" is to fire one across the battlefield!

Haha wise words, Gits

IceAngel wrote:I like what you started with Yggs but I think you forgot to paint the back pack.

Well, TBH it's rather "laziness" than "loss of memory"... I also didn't paint the scroll on its backpack, but from a distance... You wouldn't tell !

DarkSoldier wrote:It looks sufficiently Blood Angels-y to be a Blood Angel.

Ok, then done !! Thanks !

One of my friends suggested that I should weather them with light, metal chips, rather than the dark, brown dents used here...
What do you think of that ?!

Ice always gets on my case for those fiddly bits. "You didn't paint that pouch. You didn't paint that insignia, that holster, blah blah. You didn't paint the lower half of the model..." I say, if they wanted you to paint all of it they wouldn't put it on there...

Brown and red tend to look really close to me, so the brown chips don't totally work for me. Maybe silver, maybe grey. It's called ceremite, right? So, to me I think sometimes these guys are running around wearing concrete or super pottery. Like, if you have ever seen the "They call him, Jeyne!" episode of Firefly, where dudes are dredging mud to make super hard ceramics.

Hi Yggsy! glad to have you back man :-) congrats on finding a great woman, and condolences for the demise of your previous relationship :-( but move forward stronger and higher now in personal life and Hobby! see you round soon dude!

moonpie wrote:Ice always gets on my case for those fiddly bits.

Yeah, I'll probably just ignore him

Brown and red tend to look really close to me, so the brown chips don't totally work for me. Maybe silver, maybe grey.

D***, now I DEFINITELY need to try silver chipping

nerdfest09 wrote:Hi Yggsy! glad to have you back man :-) congrats on finding a great woman, and condolences for the demise of your previous relationship :-( but move forward stronger and higher now in personal life and Hobby! see you round soon dude!

Yeah, stronger might not be the word, but forward it is !!!

Speaking of moving forward, few results in those last days, but I still haven't given up yet !!


A Baal Predator, only the sponsons done... Still unsure about the armament in the turret, but I'm leaning more and more towards the Flamestorm Cannon - if I want a TL-AC, a Razorback is cheaper AND with Transport 6, isn't it ?!


The next "test" footsloggers... Plasma cannon Marine, and a Death Company Marine... Next up the painting range !!!

Until next time,
Yggs

Dude. Flamestorm Cannon rules.

Burn baby burn.

The assault cannon will bore you very quickly. Any one can get one of those, but only Blood Angels can bring the Flamestorm!

 Yggdrasil wrote:


But what do you guys think of that :

Always fun to start a new project! I like where you're headed with this guy, but I can't help thinking one more highlight would really put him over the top. Not necessarily over the whole model, but head, backpack, arms at least. But maybe that would put the "time on one model" over what you want?

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

moonpie wrote:Dude. Flamestorm Cannon rules.

inmygravenimage wrote:Burn baby burn.

IceAngel wrote:The assault cannon will bore you very quickly. Any one can get one of those, but only Blood Angels can bring the Flamestorm!

Ok, then this comforts me with the Flamestorm Cannons !! Thanks guys !
It's actually built, but no pics until it's painted haha !

Rawson wrote:
Always fun to start a new project! I like where you're headed with this guy, but I can't help thinking one more highlight would really put him over the top. Not necessarily over the whole model, but head, backpack, arms at least. But maybe that would put the "time on one model" over what you want?

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

Hey, thanks ! I might indeed try another highlight - I agree with you, it's a bit too subtle for tabletop standards !
Thanks for the advice !!!

I'm already taking a break from my BAs as the Grey Knights I had built last summer were taunting me from their shelf...

So I painted their first squad !

At first I hesitated between "rusting" them or not :



Then I decided I liked the rusty effect, so here's the whole squad :



I'm now building a Terminator Squad, and a Librarian, which will push that small force to 500 pts !

Last thing I'm not sure about is what options to give to the Librarian :
- A : Soul Glaive + Combi-Melta
- B : ML3 + Storm Bolter

What do you guys think ?

Yggs

I really like the rust affect Yggs, that was a very good decision on your part (also excellent execution). Glowy bits are a great counterpoint to the more naturally colored armor too.

You hopping all over! Nice. As for the AC/FS debate.. Why not both? I magnitzed mine to switch out when wanted. Took a bit to engineer but I now get both options.

You'll love Greyknights, Good Meta and fun to play!

Gitsplitta wrote:I really like the rust affect Yggs, that was a very good decision on your part (also excellent execution). Glowy bits are a great counterpoint to the more naturally colored armor too.

Thanks Gits, I was quite scared the rust pigments would ruin all the paint job !
Also thank about the "powered" parts, it looks a bit too... "cartoonish" to me ? But nice overall

Solar_lion wrote:You hopping all over! Nice. As for the AC/FS debate.. Why not both? I magnitzed mine to switch out when wanted. Took a bit to engineer but I now get both options.

You'll love Greyknights, Good Meta and fun to play!

Well, I had thought about magnetizing, but could spare the time required....

Thanks about the GK, should only be 500pts to play with !! A second squad, Terminators this time, is on the way...

But in between, I've been distracted by all those parts I had carefully chosen when assembling my Blood Angels... It deals with a Chalice, Blood, and purple...

You got it, it's a

nice work boss!! Looks great so far. dig the whites....

That looks pretty great. Are you doing a force of them, or just he one off?

bebopdrums2424 wrote:nice work boss!! Looks great so far. dig the whites....

Thanks bebop !!! Only white part is the wing though, and I've had quite some practice with the whites in my DA army hey hey

whalemusic360 wrote:That looks pretty great. Are you doing a force of them, or just he one off?

Thanks mate ! No it's just a one-off, I have had that idea for a while ever since I've read the Soul Drinker books... And digging in my BA bits made all the "chalice" details stand out and yell at me
So just one Sergeant is all I need !

I'll be going back to the Grey Knights, then BA, as soon as this one is over...

Still pondering on my GK Librarian... ML3 + Stormbolter, or (Relic of Titan) "Soulglaive" (a Nemesis Halberd that grants some re-rolls) + Combi-melta ?

Nice drinker! Are you going to be using your librarian as support or in the thick of cc? I think that's going to make your decision between the two options. Me, I always preferred the support option, as there's so many other places to spend points in a GK force.

That is a sexy purple. You nailed that chapter to a tee.

Very nice job on the Soul Drinker. Though he's a Heretic.

Really great job on the soul drinker. The red and purple are ab fab!

inmygravenimage wrote:Nice drinker! Are you going to be using your librarian as support or in the thick of cc? I think that's going to make your decision between the two options. Me, I always preferred the support option, as there's so many other places to spend points in a GK force.

Well, thanks Sam, your advice helped ! As I only intend to build a 500-pts force, the Librarian WILL have to get his hands dirty ! So Soulglaive it is !

As for his squad, they're built too !

Stormwall wrote:That is a sexy purple. You nailed that chapter to a tee.

Thanks ! The books are truly inspiring, so I have little credit

Solar_lion wrote:Very nice job on the Soul Drinker. Thou he's a Heretic.

Well, maybe not yet... At least, he might be a Soul Drinker BEFORE their fall - or ascension ?

Gitsplitta wrote:Really great job on the soul drinker. The red and purple are ab fab!

Thanks Gits ! I'm thinking about pushing the highlights a bit more though... Especially on those two colours !!

Only thing I'm still wondering is what colour I should use for the power axe... At first I was thinking green, but now I'm tempted by orange/yellow... Or should I do the "regular" blue/turquoise ?

Hey guys !!

So I've managed to spend a little time on my Soul Drinker sergeant, and he's now complete !

I took two pics to show the difference with and without pigments (FW Medium Earth) :





Now back to the Grey Knights !

That's just beautiful yggs... outstanding job!

With the pigments it's staggeringly good. Delicieux!

Stellar.

Fantastic job sir!

Very nicely done.

Hey, thank you mates !

On second thought, I should have seized the opportunity of this single model to try out the new "Martian Soil" (or however it's called) Technical paint, it would have been much more in line with the enmity between the AdMech and the Soul Drinkers...

Well, maybe for next time ?

Not a lot of painting done, except on the BA Tac Squad : red armour highlights are done, now off with the sponge-chipping !



Let me know what you think !

Cheers,
Yggs

I think they look beautiful Yggs. Wonderful red you've got going on there.

I really like the Soul Drinker, I love the armor and that red helmet. I must say you paint red really well. I am looking forward to seeing the Blood Angels.

Did you apply a wash to the red on the BA?

Gitsplitta wrote:I think they look beautiful Yggs. Wonderful red you've got going on there.

Ruberu wrote:I really like the Soul Drinker, I love the armor and that red helmet. I must say you paint red really well. I am looking forward to seeing the Blood Angels.

Solar_lion wrote:Did you apply a wash to the red on the BA?

Thanks Guys ! TBH that's Duncan "GW" Rhodes's "How to paint a Blood Angel" technique - available from their YouTube channel !

Mainly that's Mephiston Red (praise to the GW spray can !), a wash of Gryphonne Sepia, then some edge highlighting of Evil Sunz Scarlet, then Wild Rider Red, and voilà !

Sadly I have to "ruin" it all with some sponge weathering

Hey mates !

Quick stop after a quite hectic month (or did 2 months just pass like that ?!?) !

Nothing much to report except I moved to a new house (with a dedicated "workshop" and I took my major competitive exam for the Army (results in August)...
Modeling-wise, here are the new additions :

- I finished my first BA squad (fits in a Razorback) :



- And for some reason, I started to work on my Traitor Sentinel !







Only a few details left and I'll call it done !



Now it's time for bed, cheers !



Yggs.

Nice! Gorgeous looking BA's. I like the sentinel too.

Good luck with the Army exam.

Marines look great, as one would expect. I'd call the sentinel done... but if you have more to add than by all means please do so!

Those BA look really nice.

Nice Blood Angels. Glad to see them making a showing again!

Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Great .. you got him all excited again!!!

Great work on the BAs, and the Sentinel looks very nice indeed.

IceAngel wrote:Nice! Gorgeous looking BA's. I like the sentinel too.

Good luck with the Army exam.

Thx Ice ! I'm glad you got back to the Tiger Claws !

First results in about 2 weeks... Fingers crossed !

Gitsplitta wrote:Marines look great, as one would expect. I'd call the sentinel done... but if you have more to add than by all means please do so!

Well there were a few details missing, mostly on the base and I wanted to airbrush a yellow halo on the front searchlight... But when I look at what I've done, I probably should have refrained

GiraffeX wrote:Those BA look really nice.

Hey thanks ! More to come "soon" (well, if you count in weeks )

Solar_lion wrote:Nice Blood Angels. Glad to see them making a showing again!

Yup, I wasn't going to give them up... Yet !

inmygravenimage wrote:Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Solar_lion wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Great .. you got him all excited again!!!

Well, TBH.... Yeah indeed !!! Lol

Azazelx wrote:Great work on the BAs, and the Sentinel looks very nice indeed.

Thank you Azazelx ! Sentinel's still a bit lonely for now, that's sad...

Solar_Lion : something that really got me excited lately is the new iPad "Deathwatch" game... Far from perfect, but I'm having a lot of fun with my Kill Team ! So of course, what I can't get off from my mind is the insidious idea of building "just a small DW squad" !!

Anyone has a great idea rule wise to represent a Deathwatch Kill-Team ? As for now I've only thought of Sternguard, Command Squad or even a Reclusiam Command Squad ?

Anyone has hints on the "Tyrannic War Veterans" Dataslate ? If the rules are worth it, I could afford the 6.50$, but I'm afraid they're not far from "regular" Sternguards... Any experience with them?

So.... Work has begun again on the Blood Angels, with a... Dreadnought !!



He'll be equipped with Frag Cannon and Power Fist, but I intend to model it with the larger "claws" rather than the shorter "digits" of the usual PF... Do you think that's a problem ?

Also, I didn't get any reply about the Tyrannic War Veterans : anyone know whether they'd make good Deathwatch Kill Teams, rule wise ?

Thanks in advance

Yggs.

Big claws all the way! Can't help you on the death watch really but can't see why not.

As long as you don't have a different dread with talons that look the same as fists, I doubt you'd have issue.

No help on the vets, don't have the dataslate.

inmygravenimage wrote:Big claws all the way! Can't help you on the death watch really but can't see why not.

whalemusic360 wrote:As long as you don't have a different dread with talons that look the same as fists, I doubt you'd have issue.

No help on the vets, don't have the dataslate.

Well, big claws it is, then, as I don't intend to get more Dreads than a singleton !


There you go

As for those who said I got excited over GKs again... Well, maybe



Still looking for hints on the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate... I'm already pretty sure the rules can be used for DW, just wondering whether they are actually WORTH the pricetag

Cheers, Yggs.

 Yggdrasil wrote:

Well, big claws it is, then, as I don't intend to get more Dreads than a singleton !

One doesn't plan to get Dreads, they just show up in various box sets.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
One doesn't plan to get Dreads, they just show up in various box sets.

True enough. *sigh*

I wouldn't bother with the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate if you don't plan on using the St-Tylus Formation.

The vets are sub-par Sternguards (i.e.: only have access to Hellfire rounds, no specials/heavies, Sergeant can only take Meltabombs) with PE (Tyrannid). Unless you regurlarly play against Nidzilla kind of lists, there is no point in taking those, sadly.

jpwyrm wrote:I wouldn't bother with the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate if you don't plan on using the St-Tylus Formation.

The vets are sub-par Sternguards (i.e.: only have access to Hellfire rounds, no specials/heavies, Sergeant can only take Meltabombs) with PE (Tyrannid). Unless you regurlarly play against Nidzilla kind of lists, there is no point in taking those, sadly.

Oh

What's special with the St-Tylus formation ? Can add Stormtalons, is that it ?

If some people are interested in a discussion about Deathwatch rules, please follow the link (if you're up to it uh).

And thanks a lot jpwyrm, you made me save a few bucks !!!

Hey,

Unexpectedly, I got some paint on my long-forsaken Possessed Inquisitor, aka My first attempt at sculpting !!

He's coming around slowly, but I can show you something already :



I hope I'll finish him by Friday !!

I like that dread build!

He is seriously creepy! Great freehand btw.

Gitsplitta wrote:I like that dread build!

Thanks Gits ! Did you notice your Badab team from 2012 was under the spotlights a few days ago on FB ? It was on BoLS or Spikey Bits, IIRC

inmygravenimage wrote:He is seriously creepy! Great freehand btw.

Thanks mate !!! Here are the final pics :




The first freehand I've been satisfied with, considering my lacking skills in that specific field

For those who remember, he dates back from 2009 (yeah that's quite a long time ago) : he was my first real attempt at sculpting with GS ! And I had always postponed painting him for fear of not doing the sculpt justice (value's relative uh) !

Oh, and during my short, two-week holiday, I also got to work on some more Blood Angels !



Of those 6 "Death Company" Marines, there were at first only five...

But I liked that one so much :



That I thought he looked more like a Captain ! So here I am with new, insane ideas : making him the Captain of 8th Coy, and with that he should get a JP Command Squad, as well as an Assault Squad in DP !!

I now have to buy another Blood Angels Tac squad for those 10 additional Marines

Hope you're all doing fine !!!

(On a side note, I passed the first, written part of my competitive exam... So I now have to prepare of the oral part at the end of September ! That's both a blessing and a curse, for I'll have to leave my models asked for a while... )

Until next time !

Cheers, Yggs.

Found it:

http://www.spikeybits.com/2012/10/badab-war-crusaders-adepticon-2012.html

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Thanks Gits ! Did you notice your Badab team from 2012 was under the spotlights a few days ago on FB ? It was on BoLS or Spikey Bits, IIRC

Unfortunately no. Wonder if anyone else on the team saw it.


(looks at Brian's post)


Duh....

Congrats on passing the test.

BA look great...

Hey guys !

I know I haven't been there for quite some time, but RL really got in the way lately, so I didn't have much time nor inspiration to settle down & focus on my beloved models...

Anyway, thanks to Gitsplitta, I was spurred to make a quick collage of what I had painted in 2015...



As you can see, it's not so much, and most of it has already been posted here, but I'm quite proud of them so, hey

I also didn't get all the latest fun stuff from GW (Deathwatch, plastic 30k, etc...) so I don't really know where to start again...

Finish my 6 TDA Grey Knights ? My Blood Angels ? My Dark Angels Assault Marines & Bikers ?

So much to do, and so little time to spare....

I sincerely hope you're all doing fine in your respective lives !

Cheers,

Yggs

Still a big fan of that soul drinker. Always found the loyal to emperor but not the imperium thing interesting.

Glad to see you back again Yggs... you have been missed.

HYmmm... never been a big fan of DA, but I do like bikers. BA are always so striking when done correctly (as you do) that they're hard to argue with. However... TDA is well... TDA.

Looks like you haven't been completely idle to me Yggs, great stuff!

Though i have to say, for me, your iconic work has always been your chaos stuff, so if there is a vote to be had I would love to see you take a crack at the Silver Tower minis

Ygg! As always mate, LOVE the figures. No way I could master that vibrant a palette.

If your taking votes I cast mine for blood Angels. Or more soul drinkers!

whalemusic360 wrote:Still a big fan of that soul drinker. Always found the loyal to emperor but not the imperium thing interesting.

Yeah I read the whole Omnibus, and although I found a lot of weak parts in the book, I did enjoy their "choose your destiny" approach on things !

And some BA parts, with all the chalices, were just begging to be converted into one model so hey

Gitsplitta wrote:Glad to see you back again Yggs... you have been missed.

HYmmm... never been a big fan of DA, but I do like bikers. BA are always so striking when done correctly (as you do) that they're hard to argue with. However... TDA is well... TDA.

Thanks Gits. Your support is much appreciated, as always !

I agree that TDA is really tempting haha !

MajorTom11 wrote:Looks like you haven't been completely idle to me Yggs, great stuff!

Though i have to say, for me, your iconic work has always been your chaos stuff, so if there is a vote to be had I would love to see you take a crack at the Silver Tower minis

Ha ! Silver Tower got me excited indeed (especially considering my previous Tzeentchian works), but I'm afraid I'd have other boxes to buy before that one, like Deathwatch & Calth !

But hey, who knows...

San76 wrote:Ygg! As always mate, LOVE the figures. No way I could master that vibrant a palette.

If your taking votes I cast mine for blood Angels. Or more soul drinkers!

Well, a whole model in purple was fun, but the edge highlights were a PITA, so I honestly can't see myself painting an army of them ! Thanks though


As for what's next, I've committed yesterday to a painting competition in my FLGS, with the theme being "vehicle or monster", so I ended up choosing (from what he had in store) something that I've always wanted to buy...



As they both don't go into BA or DA armies, this is the perfect opportunity to get back to my Star Phantoms project, which has never been past a Space Marine trade & a single Command Rhino !

I think the paint scheme is striking enough to be able to get myself a place in Top 3...

See what I did on the Rhino below :



Wish me luck !!!

Yggs

Super under-represented army, I think you should do well with it.

Sounds good man. Looking forward to it!

Yep, that's the one.