ok i have started a chaos thousand sons army. ive been busy for a while so here are some pics:



some possessed:



more thousand sons



and i made a obliterator:


let me hear what you think

-Develain

Beautiful! Great painting, and love the conversion work on the oblit. Particularly like the head and how you've smoothed out all that messy skin on the arms and cleaned up the back.

I'll be watching, this is already looking great

- Salvage

Very nice, clean colour scheme. The obliterator looks especially good and is very thousand-sons whilst still clearly an obliterator.

it loooks sooooooo good! thousand sons are such a good army to model too!

thanks for all the reply's
i forgot some pics

here is the whole 1st squad
still have to paint the markings on the shoulder pads:


and a freehand on the oblit:


more pics will follow, i hope in the weekend, im building a defiler now

-Develain

Absolutely gorgeous. I love a well painted Thousand Sons army. Any other ideas for the army? Would be really cool to see a Defiler.

Very nice. Got any Chaos Spawn?

i got another squad of thousand sons, i got another oblit ready to be painted, 9 possessed ready to be primed. and im thinking of adding a greater daemon and some lesser daemons, and of course rhinos for the sons

no i got no spawns, i dont like the models

Nice shading and highlights! I love the Oblit - what did you use for the head? That's not one of the standard ones that comes with it, is it?

Nice solid clean paint jobs. The hard highlights work well for what you're going for. Looking forward to seeing more in the future.

nope, it is a chaos fantasy warrior head

Nice job, love the lining on the armour, ill be waiting for more pics.

Great work, and ditto all the compliments on your clean lines.

I also like the possessed marine with the TSon hat attached to him. Really ties it in a lot more.

W.I.P:
more rubric marines and a sorcerer:


and 6 possessed marines:


and i got this model from someone, i dont have the arms, i want to make a greater daemon out of it:


and ofcourse in the background you might see a defiler.
more will follow this weekend.

- Develain

Sexy knight-style defiler ftw.

Luck on the ushabti prince, seen it done a time or two and always a pleasure. With your skills should kick some real @$$, though curious about what arms you end up using.

- Salvage

I never thought of incorporating an Ushabti as a Demon Prince/Greater Demon for Tzeentch before. Well played. I hope we get more... MORE!!!

ok here is my almost finished 2nd obliterator:


- Dev

yeah...
Really nice work!

APril is when i'm working on my marines again, if i canget hold of the new FW nurgle termies?
I'm also adding some thousand sons to my CSM soon... and a defiler. so i'll be watching your blog with interest.

Also i always hated the standard defiler model, and I look forward to seeing how your 'knight' defiler turns out.
Does any one have a link to a completed 'knight' defiler... could you PM me...
any views on if they better/worse in games?

yeah...

Nice! Your oblits show me just how nice they can look in a TSons army.

man i run a 1k sons army i love the look and paint job and your green stuff skills are great keep it coming

Rhino W.I.P:


- Develain

Expanded passenger compartment, those tricky Tizz marines

Very fine rhino, will look superb painted up, I'm sure. Like the little (or not so!) gems and card detailing.

- Salvage

Apparently raising the roof helps fit those Tzzentch-hats in.

Man, do your oblits look good.

Are you putting any 1KSons bling on the posessed? You've done so much theming elsewhere, they seem unSon-ed by contrast.

It's all been said. Nice, clean work.

Is it the case that the TSons boxes only come with one design of Sorc? That is a little sad.

Ok i almost finshed my rhino

still needs some work, but it gives you an idea:



-Develain

That's frikkin' gorgeous! Makes me want to play T-Sons again!

Wow, I totally love the oblits, I look forward to seeing ur completed defiler.what head did you use for the oblit?

WHFB Chaos Warrior helms ftw.

And that's one groovy rhino. I think I said it earlier, but curse the 1k Sons and their spacious transport cabins! Vile sorceries indeed!

- Salvage

I am waiting on pins and needles to see how you convert that Usabti into a deamon. Please, please post up some WIPS...

The door really sets off the model. A very good attention grabber.

I'm inspired to start painting my thousand sons again!!

Ah,
will I ever finish painting a single army!!!

Well, Dark Angels then Thousand Sons!!!
This makes it final!!!

The rhino is my favourite out of everything,
it's just so smoothly done,
the colours and quality of the added detail really make it memorable,

Very well done,
cannot wait to see the defiler.

Yeah Devalain! This is one 1st class looking army. Looks like your having a blast making it too. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing more of your stuff.

ok im busy with alot of stuff right now:
the ushabti has arms now, and a weapon
sorry to say but im totally off the knight-style defiler
and im working on my 2nd squad of TS
Pic's will follow later this day

-Develain

Ok as promised, here are the pics:

here is the Ushabti with arms:


And i bought a fantasy model to represent a aspiring sorcerer:


i found an old Librarian and a dark angels sarge, i cut them in half for some rubrics:


And finally the NON knight-style defiler:



OK C&C are welcome

- Develain

<3 across the board, particularly for the defiler. Great conversion, that one. Dig the legs on the 2 rubrics and the fantasy AS, spicing it up.

The ushabti prince, while definitely cool, strikes me as awfully "alien friend" (think ET) with the non-threatening pose and funky hand. BUT I like and would appreciate another angle of it, the low-angle shot I think is messing with me. And his non-threatening pose is clearly casting something spooky / weaving your doom type stuff, which I can dig.

- Salvage

Looks pretty darn cool, for a filthy traitor.

I gotta ask though... it is driving me nuts. What is the plastic thing on the wall behind the defiler? I have been staring at it for like 3 minutes, and can't come up with a damn thing.

yea i saw that too, when i posted this picture. im working on the model right now, ill post some pics tommorrow from another angle

-Develain

Very cool looking so far.

@Wehrkind - I would assume it's a light switch and the knob is for either increasing or decreassing the brightness of the light.

well, on the left we have a lightswitch indeed.
on the right is some sort lightswitch for a light outside. it has 3 different stances

0. off
1. sensor
2. on

-Develain

More Netherlands madness, no wonder Tizz has gifted him with such powers. Sensored lights with cooking-range-esque rotary switches

- Salvage

Seriously, it is more crazy than my house full of "switches to nothing." Or possibly "switches to someone else's house." There is probably a poor old lady a few doors down who doesn't know why her bathroom light turns on and off periodically for no particular reason.

Thank you sir, without that unanswered question tearing at my sanity, I am far more comfortable reading your thread.

first time seeing this.. everything looks great so far, that ushabti I'm sure will turn out awesome in the end too, nice and simple looking sculpt for the hand too

This army looks fantastic! Absolutely love that Defiler.

your army is sick. Blue has always been my favorite color to highlight.

your army is sick. Blue has always been my favorite color to highlight.

Mate this is a great army, simple scheme and very well executed conversions, makes me want to try and do 1k sons for about the thrird time.

What it the scheme you have used for the 'yellow'?

@ Waaagh_Gonads: the yellow is tausept ochre, highlighted with golden yellow

@Boss_Salvage: here are some other angles of the ushabti daemon:




-Develain

Thanks for the shots, solid chop job on the genestealer arm. The dude looks to be leaning back a bit, though again I might just be crazy OR you meant for him to be doing thusly. Kinda like he's using the force to heft a blue & gold land raider out of the muck from where it rolled a 1 and got stuck ... :S

- Salvage

Nope, no land raiders for me, but your right, the model is leaning back, but its just the model, cant really do anything to it, but i like it as it is.

-Develain

yeah...

Develain wrote: cant really do anything to it

-Develain

you can always do something about it!!! even if it means kneecaping the sucka, hurr!

yeah...

so i started on the 2nd squad of rubrics
well here is the first, not finished yet:

im pretty happy with its pose

-Develain

For some undecernable reason I really like the red barrel on the bolter

Another solid model, and I agree the pose is a nice "going for a 2D6-pick-the-highest stroll"

- Salvage

The leaning back on the ushabti-daemon is a _good_ thing! It goes well with the hand pose.

Awesome. Your style is very painterly. I dig it.

I especially like your palette choices. I know the Thousands Sons colors are already set, but I think the actual shades of blue and gold you went with work really well, and the colors you use on the weapons add great contrast that doesn't detract from the model.

Very cool.

I like.

I think you need a thinner brush to do another highlight on top of your highlights.

Stelek wrote:I like.

I think you need a thinner brush to do another highlight on top of your highlights.

nah, i like it how it is now, if i would have highlighted it even more, then i almost have to use white, and that is just too much

-Develain

That Ushabti is really coming along nicely. As he's a Monstrous Creature, what's the point of the Power-Halberd?

Very well done, and I be they look fantastic on the tabletop to boot! I have a question though: Are the red bolter barrels standard or just random?

thx all

@MinMax: well, i stole the idea from this other guy, and i thought it looked cool


@VermGho5t: the red barrels are random.

-Develain

great painting!

I concur with Salvage, the very first thing my eyes stopped on was the red picked out on the bolter barrel, and though I can't really explain why (never been a master of art theory and color wheel whoseywhatsits) I really, really like it. Coupled with the bit of detail on the belt/stomach picked out in the red, it really really looks great. All your stuff looks killer so far, keep it up!

Stelek wrote:I think you need a thinner brush to do another highlight on top of your highlights.

I'm going to disagree here. I know what you're saying, and I don't think it would make it look bad or anything. In some ways, it would be the logical thing to do.

But I think that the paint job really works as is. It's got a look to it that I can only describe as painterly, and it's something I don't really see often on miniatures. In this case, I think it works really well. I feel like that at this point, this army has somewhat of a unique, artsy style that sets it apart from a lot of other armies. I feel like another level of highlights would just make look like one of the many other well-painted armies out there, and some of the stylistic uniqueness it currently has could be lost.

I think that would be a shame.

But please, keep up the good work!

A very characterful 1K Sons army. From your basic Marine to the converted vehicles, each model really exemplifies the look and feel of the 1K Sons. Thanks for posting your army in progress. It definitely helps me get motivated to get back to working on my 40K army in progress.

Hordini wrote:

But I think that the paint job really works as is. It's got a look to it that I can only describe as painterly, and it's something I don't really see often on miniatures. In this case, I think it works really well. I feel like that at this point, this army has somewhat of a unique, artsy style that sets it apart from a lot of other armies. I feel like another level of highlights would just make look like one of the many other well-painted armies out there, and some of the stylistic uniqueness it currently has could be lost.

I think that would be a shame.

But please, keep up the good work!

Thanks man!

im working on my possessed again, its really hard for me to make em Tzeentchy, ive bought the Dark Angels vet set, im using the robed legs for them, looks really cool. But i still think it is missing something, you guys got any cool ideas?

-Develain

so yeah..

ive been working on a lot of stuff lately, i didnt post anything

so here is some of the work i have been busy with:
Horrors:



and another rubric:


-Develain

your painting is immaculate as are your modelling skills, nice work. The only thing I don't like is the NMM, but I don't like any NMM as it never looks like metal.

I especially love the rhino, thats some nice work and really fits in with their design well (I never spiked up my rhino's for the Thousand Sons either, they always seemed the "classiest" of Chaos cults to me).

thx for the reply, i dunno if i already metioned, but i dont use NMM, the color is just yellow, and not NMM gold


-Develain

the yellow is strong. I usually wait until like now when you tell me though. Commenting on NMM sometimes is like asking a larger woman when she's due. You either get an answer (or in our case, "it's supposed to be yellow"), or you get your nose smashed in because she was only a little fat (or "it's not yellow, it NMM gold! duh!)

but I wasnt sure if the bolter casings were supposed to be NMM or just a cold grey.

Looks good so far.

Your Rubric Marines are inspiring in their clean/immaculate paint. Tzeentch looks great with the clean colors. Your horror is looking quite nice also.

One of the nicest 1K Sons paint jobs I've seen.

It's nice to see Thousand Sons getting some love at long last, with some top-notch conversion work to boot. To be honest I get a lil sick of people saying that Nurgle always has the best conversion opportunities, I've always thought Tzeentch should hold that trophy (what with being the master of all change 'n all)

I'm in total awe of your Defiler, can't wait to see it all painted up

Sok wrote:
I'm in total awe of your Defiler, can't wait to see it all painted up

well its your lucky day

here is the Defiler:



and the turret is magnetised:


im very happy with the result.
C&C are welcome

-Develain

That is absolutely incredible. I feel a better person for seeing it

definatley the best defiler I've seen personally

Ah!

Superb work on the spidertank, wow. The red demon head and green TK standard (with 1 white tooth?) stand out nicely for me, amongst all the awesome blue & yellow. Given how long it took me to paint my mostly-black-and-metal defiler, I'm in even more awe of this critter!

- Salvage

I cannot get enough of that Defiler! This is really a top-notch army. Keep up the good work!

Thanks guys.

even more horrors


just 15 more to go

Awesome work!

I am inspired as I work on my own Thousand Son Army.

What do you use for the blue?

Blue: regal blue, followed by ultramarine blue, 1st highlight with 50-50 mix of ultramarine blue and ice blue, final highlight with ice blue

Great stuff. The Defiler conversion is astoundingly effective. Impressive but understated, as I've always felt TSons should be.

Great obliterators. Very nice ideas for freehands...

Develain wrote:ok here is my almost finished 2nd obliterator:


- Dev

I think this is the first picture of an obliterator that I have seen, and that I like the paint job. it looks fantastic......
I think the obliterator model is horrid....but you make me want to buy one...

Little bit of threadromancy there?

(I mean they -are- nice models, but still...)

Those are sweet keep up the good work

holy they look awsome! cant wait to see more, i specially love the converted ushabti

Sorry for the lack of updates lately
but ive been busy with other things
anyway, look what i got yesterday:


more updates will follow

-Develain

Nice - can't wait to see what you do with the good FW T-Son dread model.

The Sons dread is a great model. I need to pick up a couple more for my Sons(I've got one so far as 2 DCCWs) when I go to Games Day LA. I think I'm gonna walk out of there with something like 6 FW Dreads(2 Sons, DA, BT, GK Mark IV, and GK MK V)

I love this thread, everything you've done so far has been absolutely stunning. I look forward to seeing the finished dread.

thx.
at the moment im putting the dread together.
im also working on my Daemon Prince, lots of greenstuff, its gonna be like the obliterators, lots of armour and less flesh.

updates will follow

Develain

so im working on my Prince, but i dont have any ideas on how to make the wings. anyone got some tips, foto's?

-Develain

i used the LOC wings on my wip tzeentch deamon prince, ill try to get some pics up by tomorrow

ok great. i already have wings, but they are from a pegasus model from fantasy. but they are a little bit small though. i just need to find a way how to model them on the prince

-Develain

Heres my tzeentch deamon prince that i am making. I used the LOC wings which are alittle bigger than the pegasus' although if your using the gw deamon prince model they will prabably be to small still.

so here he is in all his unfinished glory

looks good, although im not gonna buy a LOC just for the wings. thanks for showing me, like to see it finished sometime.

here are some new painted models:
first up is the sorc for the second squad, not finished though:


and some more rubrics, with robes this time:



-Develain

yeh, i bought mine back when bitz ordering was still around, i just got the wings and staff.

love the new stuff. 2 questions

how did you do the robes on the rubric marines?

and how did you do the white on the sorceror?

can't wait to see more.

http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk

On this page download the 'Citadel bitz catalogue'

Unless im very much mistaken Lord of change wings are one of the few bits still available, I think they cost about £8.

Please don't compromise this project, it is looking really great so far!

Thx guys

ive seen you can still order the wings seperatly, so i might do that.

tylermenz wrote:
love the new stuff. 2 questions

how did you do the robes on the rubric marines?

and how did you do the white on the sorceror?

the robes on the rubrics are a layer of white, followed by a mix of skull white and a tiny bit of regal blue(its actually the light blue colour you can see on the robes), and then finish it by layering the robe till it gets the nice white colour(just water down the white and youll be fine)

and the Sorcerer is actually the same, only the signs are washed with the new blue wash, and then the details were picked out after that with skull white.

-Develain

What do you use to base the Rubric Marines and the Sorcerer? i think it looks great.

rolltap38 wrote:What do you use to base the Rubric Marines and the Sorcerer? i think it looks great.

do you mean the bases?
because they are just some bases i bought in my flgs:
http://www.fantasy-shop.gr/gallery/bases_temple_r25_thumb.jpg

-Develain

wow i love the sorcerer and i cant wait to see the finished DP (oh and this thread now has 100 posts )

ooeeehh, and my thread is hot now

more rubrics will follow this week

-Develain

I meant to say is that cork or rocks or just something you bought

look back a couple of posts. there is a link of the bases that i bought

so here is the dreadnought, all ready to be painted
pretty simple, i just heightened the legs and gave the arms a more dynamic look. im not sure if i will keep the horror arm.


-Develain

The horror arm is a cool concept but seems out of place on a somewhat "clean" looking dread.

brado wrote:The horror arm is a cool concept but seems out of place on a somewhat "clean" looking dread.

Seconded.

Hmmm... while the horror arm sticking out of the exhaust pipe is quite funny, I third that it looks out of place.

yea now that i see the picture, it doesnt look very cool.
so the little arm is removed now.
im thinking of putting a banner on its back, but i dont know whats it gonna look like.

probably last update before im going on a holiday to the U.S.A.

-Develain

Holiday to the USA?

Where are you headed?

(And good call on swapping the arm for a banner!)

Alpharius wrote:Holiday to the USA?

Where are you headed?

im going to York PA

A banner is a great idea. My suggestion is to put tzeentchy bird heads on the cross bar holding it up.

Develain wrote:
im going to York PA

Not too far from my stomping grounds ... :S

Dig the white robed rubrics, and the new AS is impressive already. On the dread, I think I like the horror arm better than I like the extended ankles. Or more specifically, I like the random horror arm and I don't like the ankles. Just look so thin. Though I understand why you lengthened them - when I was building my second AL dread last week I was a little non-plussed at how the legs sit right on the feet, almost no gap after nipping the tag off the ankles.

- Salvage

Exquisite craftsmanship on display here.
I guess I'm in a very small minority that actually kind of liked the arm trying to climb out of the exhaust pipe -- though I see why you took it out.
Looking forward to seeing more.

The runic symbols on the marines and the detail on the sorcerer is fantastic.

Yes it's simple,
but highly effective.
I'm really glad you didn't go overboard because it would have cluttered the paint job.

This whole project is coming out very well,
Always looking for more updates on this one,
Especially which colours your going to use on the daemon prince.

man i really digg the more artistic style to the way you are painting these thousand sons . In fact they gave me the inspiration to finally finish painting my friends possessed marines that i was doing as a favor to him and since he has quite a tzeentchy army to start with i think these will be perfect as apposed to painting them similar to the box art.

Soo im in the US right now
ive been in a Games Workshop in Baltimore last week
and bought some stuff.
the new Rulebook, a chaos rhino, more Thousand sons, a sorcerer, and the new templates. and that really saved me alot of euro's

Develain

Ah Develain,
In Australia it's even more expensive.

We do web orders from the US (and UK) and it feels wrong to be buying new stuff for that price.

Can't wait to see more stuff.

This army is so delicious i want to eat it.

So, you have a horror army lying around that you no longer want sticking out of his exhaust.
I understand that. I agree.

I noticed that there's also a hole in the "stone" of his base. Why not have the arm sticking out of that?

Eric

Amazingly nice, great paint job on all of the models, cool and simple yet striking conversions, and a powerful look to pretty much everything congratulations

lol i gotta keep this thread alive.
here is a w.i.p. of my second rhino, almost ready to undercoat:


ok more updates will follow later this week probably

Props for keeping it alive Develain. Seeing more of your work is always something I enjoy. Nice Rhino you got going there

Keep it up!

if i didnt just start orks i would've ran to the near GW store(which is 9 miles away) and bought some 1k sons

amazing keep up the fantasticle work( yes fantasticle is a word)

Hey Develain, surprised? Doesn't matter! Hey good work there on ur second rhino, looks great can't wait to see the paint job! I remember it just like it was yesterday when we went to the baltimore GW and you bought that, lol. Keep it up!

Looking great as always! I'm hoping to play against them soon! (And hoping I play a better game then I did tonight :S).

Why arent these pictures on the Spelkwartier forum yet?

thanks everybody for the replys.
MasterZ: lol good to see you on Dakkadakka, even though you dont even have warhammer. i hope me and other people on this forum can inspire you to get in warhammer yourself, which would be great.

Joostuh: thx for the reply, i really want to play some games soon man, i just need my prince to play some games. and the pics are on the Spelkwartier forum now.

anyway i am working on almost everything this army needs to be finished, so yeah thats why i didnt update lately.

alright new Rubrics are on the way to be showed on this log

-Develain

alright.

i redid some models wich i didnt like:
here are the rubribs i redid:



and i finished my first rhino:


-Develain

Ahhhhhh look at that rhino, wow. Just so much going on there, love it. If I had to pick one thing, it's the outline on the chaos undivided star ... or the gem you did on that track fastener bit, damn.

Keep up the great stuff Dev, you the man.

- Salvage

Man,
I love your work.

It not flawless in skill (magnification never help's the cause) but it's pretty darn close!

The stle of that rhino is breath-taking!
I really am struggling to finish off my Dark Angels and not jump straight back to painting my Tzeentch every time you post.

Also,
the rubrics really are looking better,
a more complete theme and still not very busy because you are using the effects as a quasi highlight.

Very nice!

Most impresive.

I love your painting style.

Looking forward to seeing more.

alright, i almost finished my TS Dreadnought
when its finished ill post more pictues:

OOOOHHH I FREAKIN LOVE THOSE RHINOS.

Please please at somepoint PM me, how you painted the blue and yellow/gold on the main colour scheme

keep it up : )

love the work on the rhino and dread, colours look ace and works brilliant.

Neat work. Such a vibrant and nicely oldskool painting style you have.

The dread paint job looks great,
the colours are fantastically smooth.

This would be a top notch army on the table

Good job, keep it coming

Thanks for the reply's

im gonna enter the Dutch Grand Tournament with this army.
1,700 pt

i hope people will like this army

-Develain

Well, I'm a little late... but I don't think I have to tell you how much your stuff rocks... I think we all know it does!!! Let me know how you do in the tournament, Good Luck! So is that the last of the peices you bought here or are there yet more to finish....

Yeah,
how much more is there (I suppose that you need to at least do a few more marines)

one of the best looking armies on the internet

These are Awesome beyond compare

Alright Develain,

I have finished ruff sketches for the banners you requested! Take a look, and everyone else feel free to comment and give suggestions!

Basic ideas


Random Colors, they can be changed. Just did it to give you an idea of what they would look like with color.


And here, for you as well I'll mail the original. Just felt like drawing it up! Hmmm it may be a little too fine arts "ish for you, lol.


Alright anyone has comments or suggestions give em up! Develain let me know what you think and changes.

DUDE.
this is really nice, thanks alot for the sketches
it is perfect for a thousand sons army, its great how you executed it, even though your not really into warhammer at all.

anyway this will be really good stuff for my army

-Develain

I like the two on the lower left. The one on the lower right looks kind of Orky to me. The one on the upper left is nice, but the two on the upper right look Necron-y.

well i though the thousand son symbol was a dragon eating its tail( i could be wrong)

as for the ones that are there i like the tzeench symbol on #5 but not the backround design try using #6's

really random comment this,but yeah i was looking over ur stuff again and i saw the powerball in the background of the first pic on this page, and ya just wanted to say that it is amazingXD i have oen to and it works damn wodners for your wrists and forearms XD

that forgeworld dread is very nice, well done.

i like the rhino a lot too, i have a "good guy" rhino conversion that has the same lifted canopy going on, but mine will end up as a whirlwind with all the missiles stored internally in what used to be the crew compartment, then little doors opening on the roof like a nuke missile submarine.

using the little pointy bits on each side as little structural details is really nice, and i will definately be copying that (if i can find that bit)

my only criticism is with the left hands on the 2 Rubs. The top one looks to be holding some sort of grenadery, which makes sense, although the way he is holding them is kind of vana white-ish. i cant figure out what is going on in the 2nd dudes left hand. it looks like he has a microphone or something.

You are a legend, making a TS army like that, your the first ive seen to actually do that. Big thumbs up from me. Brilliant.

BDA

Thanks for the comments.

@TheThing: i know! that thing is one of the best inventions ever

@Count Bonchula: the second rubric isnt holding anything, its the angle XD and the first one, i actually like it. he is like: how do you like my salt and pepper shaker set?

anyway updates will follow.

-Develain

Crip line work, good color choices (I know its the codex but there are variations), and overall well painted.

A++

insane work devlain, been keeping an eye on this thread, i dont think you could shock me with anything now
keep up theace work.

alright, my second thousand sons squad is almost finished:




and my sorcerer is also finished:

loving the sorceror, and as allways, lovin the rubics, gotta teach me to paint like that

als, just as an idea since your painting and converting is allready ace.
ever though about bringing a unit of ushabti into your army?
could use em as tooled up chosen, or as termies.
easy enogh to convert weapons on them, and with the way they look counting them as having lightning claws isnt far fetched atall, and you then get to add something other than the basic TS units.
and they look great

uhm yeah. i dont have any room for the ushabti conversions.
i already got everything i need for my army

Still looking great,
but can you put the units in a photo with all the models

Love to see the unit as a whole

Makaleth wrote:Still looking great,
but can you put the units in a photo with all the models

Love to see the unit as a whole

i will do that as soon as i finished all the bases

just a quick Q. how longdoes it take to paint a basic rubic?
just wondering how quickly you can paint to this standard

Great work! Excellent detail and color scheme.

I have one request--can you get us a wide angle view of the troops and vehicles together? I'd love to see a long view which displays how this looks on the table.

JD21290: a basic rubric takes me about 1,5 to 2 hours

Groz: i will make a picture with everything together when the army is finished.

ouch, but just looking at it makes it all worth it, just about to start a new army (Tau) and decided to spend alot more time on a digital camo look.

keep up the great work.

Ok develain, This group looks more mystic then the other. I think I prefer this group to the other. And, the guy carrying the book looks very fantasy. But as of always good job!

JD21290 wrote:ouch, but just looking at it makes it all worth it, just about to start a new army (Tau) and decided to spend alot more time on a digital camo look.

keep up the great work.

well i would love to see it

Develain

quick thoughts needed dev, digi urban camo or red tiger camo? cant decide lol

JD21290 wrote:quick thoughts needed dev, digi urban camo or red tiger camo? cant decide lol

well for Tau, there is one colour scheme i like, and that is this one on the cover of an white dwarf. its dark red for the fatigue and bone for the armour.
http://oz.games-workshop.com/whitedwarf/issues/WD318/cover.jpg

but if i had to choose i would go for the red tiger camo, btw is the camo all over the models?

Deve

that aint a bad colour.

red tiger armour, and i might do black clothing with a deep red hint.
could be amusing working out an effective way of painting red tiger.

allthough, white clothing might go well.

Hey develain,

I'm in the process of drawing you up a real good battle scene of the thousand sons! It will be in pencil like the ones you showed me when you were here. I should have made good progress on it by the end of this week, I'll update you as I go.

::MasterZ:: [Ik zal handhaven]

Right!
i almost finished my daemon prince:





all i need to do is the markings on my units and im of to the dutch GT

looks great!
are the wings from the naked DE chick's pegasus?

JD21290 wrote:looks great!
are the wings from the naked DE chick's pegasus?

Thanks.

yes they are from the dark pegasus

couldnt think of her name

think the head could of done with some form of dressing or ornament though, seems a little plain.

great DP, nice and clean.


PS. Its morathi.

The wings look...cute! The rest looks really cool man!

alright.

last weekend was the Dutch Grand tournament.
it was an awesome weekend, lots of fun, cool battles

i was nominated for the best army on show, and ended up 2nd.

there was this guy who took pictures of my army. i will post them once i get them.

I'm just now seeing this Blog and WOW.

Your painting style is very crisp and clean and bold, it's exactly the style I aspire to become good at. I'm slightly Bias as yellow and blue are my fav color scheme from back when I played the TTG Warzone and had a Bauhaus army, which then Carried over to my Iyanden Eldar.

Incredible work Dev, look foward to seeing more, and like Sphynx I would be interested to see any kind of step by step you can do on painting.

Don't want to break the flow, but those wings are garbage. It's just my opinion but they look like they belong on a Hello Kitty corrupted by Slaanesh or something (Hello Kinky, eeeeew :S ).

Otherwise it is fraggin amazing, a thousand times better than my TS.

YojimboJones wrote:
Incredible work Dev, look foward to seeing more, and like Sphynx I would be interested to see any kind of step by step you can do on painting.

Thanks. but the army is finished, so im sorry no more Thousand sons.
i will be starting a new army for the dutch Grand tournament 2009, have to decide what it will be though.

anyone got ideas what i should do?

-develain

i usually hate the thousand sons color scheme...
however, all of your models looks great...
especially the sorcerer and the prince...
mint

Thanks. but the army is finished, so im sorry no more Thousand sons.
i will be starting a new army for the dutch Grand tournament 2009, have to decide what it will be though.

anyone got ideas what i should do?

Yes develain you should do something completely out of you character, something that will allow you to look at it in a different way and challenge you to go over the top. I know you and I know what you can do, as good as your thousand sons were (amazing!) I think you were just playing around, when put to the test, I believe you will do some brilliant work! so I will be very interested in what you choose, make it count mate!

- Master Z

I love the Obliterator.

Dev, i think you need an army that can really challenge your painting, a style almost an opposit to yours.

i would suggest something like orks or eldar.

Glorious paint jobs. Amazing work.

What happened to the full army shot we were promised back at the beginning?

i like the strong highlights, they look very good with the theme of the army.

Well since TS have no flesh and are only really armor I would suggest tyranids because they are completely living no armor or guns.
My second suggestion would be Daemons of chaos because they are really hard to paint

Seen your thread a while ago, and didn't comment then. As someone starting a tzeentch themed army now, I just wanted to say you excellent work! Your army is inspiring and when I decided to do my tzeentch theme, I went searching for this thread for inspiration. i must have done it jsut a day or so before you posted that awesome prince!


Anyway, just wanted to throw in my praise along with all of it that has already filled the thread. It is VERY hard not to steal all your ideas and just copy everything! LOL. Good Luck in the GT!

Meph

these are the pictures of my army at the GT:

battle vs some awesome painted Salamanders:










these are probably the last pictures ive posted, because its completely finished. i ended up 2nd at the tournament on best painted so i couldnt be more happy.

im gonna start a new log in a couple of months. i guess it will be black templars, but i dont know yet

Greetz Develain

UH HUH! just as I expected brilliant! Are these the pics made from the pro or did you do them?

yeah,
Sweet photos your force looks great on a table!
damn that sally player.. I wanted be the only player (I know) who mixed up the new rhino with the old front armour plate....( i knew I was setting myself up for fail when I thought/did that)...

any more photos?
I've been subsribed to your thread for a while now, and I have to say your armys looking so awesome i'm jealous.....

Panic...

THESE ARE SOO COOOL . I saw them and almost s--t myself, how do you do it, and so crisply i might add.

Excellent work so far...

really finding it hard to choose my favourite part of your army... would probably have to go for your demon prince...

really really good.... the sort of army to aspire to

They are the sum of all awe. Seriously nice job.

love the deamon prince i might start a thousands sons or night lords army too

Looks great everything is beautifully painted.

Gorgeous!

Keep up the good work.

all is dust!

literaly!

Decided to make a new 1700 pt tournie list.

I am going to throw the lesser daemons out of the list, and replace them with a 3rd Rhino and a 2nd daemon Prince

here is the start of that 3rd rhino, going to add more plasticcard to it and also a dozer blade:


As you can see its heightened just as the other rhinos and will be painted and decorated just as the previous ones.

tomorrow I will buy a new prince and gonna start converting it

So I will keep you updated the next couple of weeks

-Develain

Cool.

Looking hawt.
Always nice to see some more of your stuff. I like the style you went with so far.

Looking great,
You put my Successor Chapter to shame.

Just discovered this thread, and am overawed by your work! Can't wait to see if you have any more brilliant ideas.

WOW. As a Space Wolf player...Id like to say that I'm thoroughly disgusted and repulsed by your army...and look forward to finding you in the world, some day, and dashing them to bits on the game board!

AWESOME work brother.. they look amazing. Id be honored to call them my enemy!

WLK

These are fantastic! If I was going to play CSM it would be thousand sons, and yours are a magnificent example of them.

I am glad that you have resurrected this blog to update your army

Thats what I call inspiration

These are all really good. Thank you for sharing! I'm going to keep my eye on this thread.

Beautiful Chaos, I just love that rhino.

Like I said before, great army! I love all the conversions.
How do Thousand Sons fare in battle? Does the "slow and purposeful" rule screw you over?

Very nice and original work.

I like the FW Dreadnought in particular, keep up the good work!

Looking forward to seeing more of those bea-a-utiful Thousand sons. All is dust

Made a little progress on the rhino after a short break from the Thousand sons



just gonna add some more detail, and I'm off painting it!

Holy freakin crap man that is an army to truly be proud of. Just wow.

This is a beautiful army, I would love it if you could do a video or tutorial for highlighting.

7 pages of pure win.

wow just spotted this thread. Nice models man. Big up.

Dozer blade added! and now ready for undercoat:



And im also updating the first rhino:

you uh, have that middle set of missiles in backwards.

I've always had a soft spot for the thousand sons after I collected them as a young'un and these look particullarly impressive. Your doing the army proud, keep it up

Your wonderful army inspired me to start Thousand Sons last year.

Big admiration your way Develain.

What a joy to see a full army pic. Looking forward to the "final" updates and whatever comes next

Absolutely amazing stuff, keep up the good work!

You've done some awesome work.

Absolutely outstanding. If you dont mind me asking, you mentioned that the gold is just yellow, what paint is that?

All this stuff is amazing!

KmoH

Good job, that's a nice looking army.

Love your converting and painting skills mate

You've made me feel so ashamed of my own thousand sons :(... Well done! Those extreme highlights work so well with the blue. My favourite bit you've done is the horror arm coming out of the dread's powerplant

What kind of paints do you use to get that yellow colour btw? It's a pain to paint half decent yellow, but yours looks great. What's yer secret?

This makes me feel much better disposed towards the colour blue.

Your work is awful... -ly good
Painting 9 out of 10
Coolness 8 out of 10!

Don't know why I haven't checked in here in a long time, but I'm glad I did!

VERY nice stuff - from start to finish!

Lol.

I keep getting so much questions about the yellow.

It's actually fairly easy. It is a basecoat of Tausept ochre highlighted with Golden Yellow, and the rivits are shaded with vermin brown and the rivits are then painted white.

Hope this helps.

P.S: I noticed I never made a close up picture of the second rhino. gonna make it tonight and post it

Easy or not doesn't matter it looks great!

Cheers

Fantastic, clean and blue.

Allright, just as promised, here is the second rhino I made 2 years ago:



Now back on the 3rd Rhino again.

Some really sexy freehand on that rhino man, looking forward to the third now!

whats the left side of the turret like?

ALL of this looks great. Did you ever finish the Ushabti Demon? It was looking wonderful.

Love the rhino!
I wish I was a follower of the dark gods sometimes. They have such lovely detailing and I like eeeeeeeevil. But I sold my chaos marines for 5 pound each - an offer I couldn't refuse

Hail the Emperor, Death to the witch!!

About the turret: its a missle launcher from a dreadnought with the missile rack left off and bolter added in its place:

did some plastic card detailng on it to make it look more chaos - ish:


and i made picture of the other side if anyone is interested:



The Ushabti daemon never got finished, nor the Possessed. I went for a complete Thousand sons army, which turned out to work great, exept against Ork horde armies.

fantastic work there.

Soo I managed to get some paint on the last Rhino

Got a few things left to finish, but its a good impression(sorry for the bad lighting):



And I made a start on the 2nd Daemon Prince:



Last but not least, I made an Icon for the 3rd squad of Thousand sons:



The Dutch Grand Tournament is in 3 weeks, so I kinda have to hurry.

Updates will follow.

you've been gone a while... welcome back - I'm glad we will get to see more!

Glad to see an update!

Very Nice work

The freehand on that rhino is amazing! Excellent work!

Very cool conversions, 40k definitely needs more bird heads. The feet look a bit like vans:


A little smooth for chaos but still stylin'.

!he looks funky!