I have to paint my Space Marines by July 17th for the Big Waaagh! (An Indy GT in memphis, TN)
I thought this thread might encourage me to keep on it and make my deadline.

My List...

Vulkan

5x TH termies
w/ Land Raider

10x Tac Marines
flamer, multi-melta, PF
w/ Rhino

10x Tac Marines
flamer, multi-melta, PF
w/ Rhino

10x Tac Marines
flamer, multi-melta, PW
w/ Rhino

5x Assault Marines
flamer
w/ DP

Iron clad Dreadnought
melta, flamer
w/ DP

Iron clad Dreadnought
melta, flamer
w/ DP

Landspeeder
multi-melta

Here is what is done so far...

Terminators


Land Speeder


Rhino 1


Rhino 2


Rhino 3


Rhino Group Shot


Group Shot of Painted Junk


On the Table Now 3x DP's


The Land Raider is going to have Micalangalo's God and Adam on it as well as other old school art...


And Lastly for tonight my 2 WIP Ironclads


Littleboyblues

**that red is not that overpowering in life, I'll have to learn how to take better pics**

amazing work!
the scheme is great, but the style you have used when painting it makes it even better
any chance of close up pics of the free hands on the rhino's please? they look brilliant, but cant see them too well.

Wow, nice stuff. Are those Rhinos free hand painted? Or did you make a decal? Either way, they are fantastic. Can't wait to see the Dreadnoughts.

littleboyblues wrote:Group Shot of Painted Junk

Well, that explains why this stuff looks so good. Seems like 'the best' are always hardest on themselves

Fantastic job! I too look forward to close-ups of the Rhino pieces.

MY GOD! i love your rhinos

Wow.


Those vehicles are badass.

Frigging incredible. Honestly some of the best freehand (at least it looks like freehand) that I have seen. Also, love the marble effect that is going on with the rhino paint scheme. I cant wait to see this army completed.

I have to agree, these are beautiful. they are some of the best looking Rhino's I've seen. I would live to see a tutorial on how you created that marble stone effect. its very effective.

I am sad that Dakka does not have a jaw-drop smiley.

Because if it did, I would be using it now.


You sir, just broke the sound barrier of awesome.

Though that third Rhino seems a bit NSFW. Lol.

I must say, all in all, spectacular painting.

Gorgeous free hand painting. Are you going to do anything special on the drop pods?

Looking forward to seeing the rest, especially the LR!

WOW......those look great. I have all types of difficulty starting off w/ white spray.
Any chance of you sharing how you got your colors?
Keep up the great work.

thanks,
Rick

Thanks for all the kind words!

I'm incapable of using decals for some strange reason... all my stuff is hand painted.
I'll try and get better shots of the murals on the Rhinos. I'm still learning how to photograph mini's

@StubbyGB - I was thinking about doing a tutorial on the land raider start to finish. The marble would be included in that. But the quick run down is...

Prime white,
Watered down graveyard earth weathering,
Graveyard earth toothbrush splatter,
Devlan mud wash in spots that need to be darker,
Touch up highlights or spots that got too dark with bleached bone and skull white where needed,
Chaos black/codex gray mix for the cracks (look at cracks in side walks or concrete and such for shape)

@Brother Captain Andrecus - Thank you.... but what is NSFW

@Mohaniker - I AM DOING NOTHING ON THE DP'S!! I love how the look and play. I hate drop pods in all other respects! (modeling/painting) If I do murals on them, they'll just get scratched up from the door opening every game.

I should post more pics with better quality Sunday (and start on that land raider b/c I'd take a needle in the eye over painting on those DP's this weekend!!)

Littleboyblues

NSFW = not safe for work.

simply amazing work. i cant beleive that those murals are hand painted, outstanding...

oh, those handpaintings... You know, I think the world is a better place because you are incapable of using decals. This is amazing.

Those look....

FREAKIN AWESOME!

I love how they look like they actually have been in service for more than a single battle... Most people paint as if their models came fresh off an assembly line. And your hand-painted designs are just stellar. top rate work! Definitely get those dreds done! They have to look equally freakin awesome for your tourney!

Didn't get any new painting done this weekend had a great 1 on 1 apocalypse game though. (5k a piece)

I figured out the macro button on the camera and bought a lamp and posterboard so hopefully I have some better pictures for all of you.

















Littleboyblues

Just have to say, gorgeous renders on the Rhino doors, the overall Renaissance styling is just great. The wash effects you are using to get that marble stone is just as intriguing. Looking forward to the Dreadnaughts and the Land Raider!

~ Tael.

Can't wait to see you do a full tutorial on how to paint those marines!

keep up the good work man!

Been a while since I've updated. Between Apocalypse, Commissions, Beer, Work, and Shear Laziness I haven't got a lot painted however I am undefeated in non-flyer, non-titan Apocalypse and I had a reputation to uphold....








So I've started on the Land Raider. This pretty much keeps me excited before I have to deal with the horrid drop pods and mass assembly line troops. I've got everything planned on it for the most part. I still need to find 2 small murals I can put on the top, but they cannot be complicated. I'll do skulls or symbols. Something along those lines anyway.

The prep work involves getting a plan or a basic idea and placement.


First up! Hand draw your mural on the surface. Luckly I prime white so this was relatively easy. I hand drew mine, however if you lack in the artistic area you can print it on paper scaled down to the size you want and place a piece of carbon paper under the picture. Simply trace the design onto the surface. (Your surface pretty much needs to be flat to do this... land raiders would be bad for this!)



For the Marble effect, I take graveyard earth and kinda randomly mix it with water. You'll want to keep it more paint than water... (That is the best description I can give.. Us artist types just kinda stir stuff together and hope for the best. ) Next you take an old toothbrush, a roommates toothbrush or an ex girlfriends toothbrush and wet it slightly and dip it in the paint and run your finger over it so its flicks out. Do this over the sink until you get the desired spatter pattern. Now just flick it all over the model and make a big mess.


Next I mixed graveyard earth with water about 50/50 and did a runny weathering technique from the recesses and overlaps. On the flat parts use the same paint but quickly wipe your thumb over the wet paint and smear it.


I now took devlun mud and washed in the cracks and did more smear and weathering techniques over the previous layer. All these thin transparent layers will be very subtle. Your eye picks up on all the layers and makes a bland tank look much better than a solid color.


Finally I mix skull white and water to a milky consistency and hit all the high points and large flat areas. This mutes all the previous layers while making a new layer in itself. At this point it will look very messy.... because it is! After all the detail and murals are added, which are all darker colors, it averts your eyes away from my horrible sloppyness and creates the desired effect of marble.


And here's all the art that will be adorning my Land Raider. It will all be changed slightly here and there to fit more in with 40k fluff.







Shwuuu...
That's it for now! Hope you all like it so far!

Littleboyblues

Great work, particularly on the ornamentation, and the tutorial information is very helpful. The vehicles in particular are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this.

MORE MORE MORE please. For an art guy you are actually kinda easy to understand. Good work, amazing.

Well, erm what can I say...
Very unique work, stunningly executed..
yeah that should do it

O_o Oh, god of miniatures, hallowed be thy name. Two questions:

1) Are you planning to do anything special for the Tactical Squads? Details on the shoulder armor, etc?

2) If you ever end up with a standard bearer, what piece would you use for all that empty space? Something from the Sistine Chapel again?

Wow. This is just dead on amazing. Thank you very much for posting this, and thank you again for taking the over all realm of mini-painting up a level. My theoretical hat is off to you sir!

holy gak amazing your tanks really look like they have fought alot of battle's

I am reminded of Migsula's comment that miniatures can be art both literally as an expression of art and literally as a canvas for a piece of art amazing stuff. You are so much of a genious I doubt your sanity.

Hey fellas!

@NinjaPenguin : 1) Wasn't planning on any super fanciness on the tac's yet. I need the whole army done in about 2 months. I might come back and add some at a later time though. 2) I mostly play DA's so I have a banner guy now (terminator) I want the banner to be classical art. I haven't put any thought into it yet as our codex is mildly outdated compared to the new dex. So I have plenty of time to think about it. However suggestions are welcome.

@everyone : Thanks for all the kind words!

I'm excited to have mural 1 of 5 done so I thought I would share.
If you have any constructive criticism please throw it my way.

Wheeee!!!







Littleboyblues

P.S. If anyone would help a new guy out... how do I change the name of the thread to change the date as I up date? I have looked everywhere for it. Thnx.

Just edit the main post you can change it there.
We need a jaw drop smiley but this will do.

You should definitely post that in the tutorial section... you might just win this month's competition!!! I would vote for you!

The base reminds me of John Blanche's style. Definitely looks like you're a painter turned model painter (as Blanche is).

Very unique look. None of the usual conventions of mini painting (i.e. Eavy Metal style).

Your freehands are jaw-dropping, amazing work. It's a shame the rivets crop up where they do, as painted your fresco subjects appear to have a few gnarly bumps.

Regardless, absolutely incredible brushwork, do keep us posted as you progress!

Holy beans those are some great looking marines!

Words don't quite describe how awesome your marines are and how much I love the artwork on your vehicles.

Keep it up!

Didn't get much painting done this weekend. Had a RTT saterday. (My first place present to myself was 2 shiny new Valks) Then Mother's day on Sunday I took my mom to see star trek. But anywho... I got home from work and went straight to painting to make up some lost time and here is what I've done.



I'll probably finish this tomorrow.

Littleboyblues

wow.. they are absolutely insane..

At this point i would like to say something about the eavy metal team: Learn to paint to this standard and i will be amazed


littleboyblues: your work is amazing!
i have never seen freehand done to this level before, by the looks of it i would say you were a painter before you started painting models.
once again, this is amazing!
ever entered the GD? with this kind of work you wouldnt have a problem taking home gold

SWEET MOTHER OF ALL SPACE ELVES!!!!!!


You sir are freaking awesome!!!!

Wow... just wow.

I hope your mom was a trekkie fan! I would have to say "Shame on you!" if you took your mom to see it and she didn't even like star trek!

@FoxPhoenix1358: My mom loves Star Trek. I could take it or leave it.... but I do enjoy most sci-fi things. My mom raised me on X-files, Star Trek, and Star Wars! (so I got lucky with that)

@JD21290: Thanks for the compliments but I am no where near as talented as the eavy metal team. They can crank out so much in a short amount of time and they have to paint a certain way to fit in with all the other GW products. And those GD fella's are so far out of my league it's not even funny. However someday I hope to achieve their level. (and Yes I was a traditional artist before I got into mini's)

@everyoneelse: Thanks!


Onward!

I finished the other mural today.... Maybe.... I can't decide about two things. 1) the bottom half of the Emperor's robes... I don't like it but don't know if it's worth fixing. 2) The other sides mural is bigger. To balance both sides, should I paint the sky or background on the piece or add little floating cherubs?

Constructive Crit needed please.



Littleboyblues

Very nicely done! Please tell me you will enter these into GD s!

Add cherubs,nice work again.Can't wait to see more,from now on I will be watching this one.

Do a Baneblade! Do a Baneblade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paint like... The Last Supper across its side... but with the Emperor and the Primarchs.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Do a Baneblade! Do a Baneblade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paint like... The Last Supper across its side... but with the Emperor and the Primarchs.

Bugger a baneblade I would love to see a Stompa painted like the sistine(or is it cystine)chapel.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Bugger a baneblade I would love to see a Stompa painted like the sistine(or is it cystine)chapel.

Or a leviathan. That thing is pretty much a church on wheels.

Good penis.

It sags realisticly yet stylishly.

sA

Sorry, but thats all bs.

Eavy metal painters wish they could paint like this.
they do "colour by numbers" painting.
they simply follow the detail on a model.
you bring it to lief by adding alot more detail and realistic toutches.

this is up to GD par, you would have no problems taking the vehicles catagory.

JD21290 wrote:Sorry, but thats all bs.

Eavy metal painters wish they could paint like this.
they do "colour by numbers" painting.
they simply follow the detail on a model.
you bring it to lief by adding alot more detail and realistic toutches.

this is up to GD par, you would have no problems taking the vehicles catagory.

Agreed! Fantastic work.

littleboyblues wrote:

Is it just me or did you base that on David Beckham?

Awesome work.

Out of interest what do's the latin mean? I agree with the GD comment.

@ Lunahound: I live in the country... so I would have to drive a very long ways to even get to a GD. So probably not.

@ H.B.M.C.: Nah I'm doing my stupid insane all mural vehicle as a FW Titan.... Reaver most likely. (It will be awhile before I have the time to even start on that though.)

@ Deff Dread red Edition: I hate Orks!!! I burned some of my AOBR Orks just to watchem DIE!!! haha

@ captain.gordino and smiling Assassin: ... Thanks?!

@ whatwhat: I looked up David Beckham at work today because I didn't know who that was... lol I can't say I have all his posters hanging around the house. It does kinda look like him though...

@ Llamahead: Patior = Endure, Contego = Shield, Accelero = speed. My chapter is Enduring Angels. I'm thinking about renaming it Patior Antiquites though which means Enduring Ancients.

Littleboyblues

These are beautiful indeed, I love the nonstandard painting style, puts me in mind of the very old army painting I used to see when I started out, including a minotaur by John Blanche with the Mona Lisa painted onto it's back banner!

However I've seen the rhino with the woman on the roof before... I think... on some photos from a friend of mine, do you know a lady called Erin, with a WH army (all SoB)?

Now here's an artist who takes real pride of place in his art work. Very good work on the hand drawn, then painted, murals on your vehicles, and the faux marble effect on the outer vehicle armour is top rate too. Very inspiring, over the normal greens, reds and blues that space marines are known for, 5 thumbs up.

You. Are. Awesome.

Yes I know the lovely Erin, shes in our gameing group! How do you know her?

Littleboyblues

P.S. I plan to do the cherubs by Monday. After that no more murals..... :( just boring assembly line troops and drop pods. The Dreads and Vulcan may be fun though.

littleboyblues wrote:Yes I know the lovely Erin, shes in our gameing group! How do you know her?

She and I were in same guild on eq2, tell her Ari sends regards from UK =) Small world ain't it!

That is almost creepy...

you sir, have inspired me

Sir as previously said by plasticspork , you have inspired me. I did not know what colors to paint my rhino's and spacemarines shoulder pads, i think the marble look with the grey body will look cool. I am just astounded by your amazing work. I look forward to seeing more pictures.

What do you think about the color scheme?
They are called "The sons of antaeus"

Freehand tutorial up for your enjoyment!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/240985.page

as always you are a rockin painter. Im glad there are people like you out there to give me something to strive for.

Wow
Amazing absolutly amazing

............................................................................................................wow.

I am so thank ful for the tutorial!

.....
MY KINGDOM! MY KINGDOM FOR A JAWDROP SMILEY!!!


Sweet throne, words can hardly describe how impressed I am with that LR. You've taken classics of religious art, 40k-ified them, and stuck them on the side of a Land Raider. You sir, are a god among children. It's almost enough to make me weep.

Absolutely phenomenal.

captain.gordino wrote:Good penis.

BEST


POST



EVER!

That's good stuff. Definitely enjoyed looking at it. Keep it up.

Jesus F*CKIN CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!

*0*

my eyes they are not worthy!

http://static.open.salon.com/files/jawdrop1236883259.jpg

i think that sums it up

lol

Beautiful stuff! I really wanna know how you do the skin tones on the images.

Just wanted to share some updates as I now only have 40 days to complete this project. I've started on the infantry and am about half way through the drop pods.











And on a side note I've been trying to get more Valks.... So I'm trying to breed them and hopefully the infantile battle fleet gothic ships will grow up to big strong valks...



Littleboyblues

Hate to tell you this, but it looks like your flgs sold you two male valks... So no babies on that front.

More on topic, fantastic looking marines! Please keep up the great work.

I cannot wait!

wow... you got my first 10/10 in gallery voting! and i have *a few* votes under my belt. great job!

Looking good,hope the Valk breeding goes well,haha.

So finally done With the Drop Pods! I painted for like 8 hours strait yesterday. Anywho, I only have 33 days left before my dead line. Any encouragement or yelling at me or calling me a lazy bast... (ect) would very much be appreciated. Sad to say that after this army I still want 4 more DP's just for apoc, planetstrike, campaigns or other story driven games. 36 troops and 2 dreads and half a land raider left. I'm pretty excited.





Littleboyblues

The faster you get done the faster we can work on =I=munda, terrain, planetstrike and apoc. So hurry up!

Fletch

That is epic!!!
Fantastic freehand work, it is truly phenomenal
Now you really need to do a Company/Chapter Banner, i'd love to see that
Brother Vespasian

captain.gordino wrote:Good penis.

That's what she said!

Your free hand is immense and the marble effect is brill!

I haven't seen 40k minis as inspired as this since the pre-red days of GW.

I am now officially off back to the drawing board and sketching ideas until my hands are raw and bloody before I even think about painting a new project.

Awesome. Inspring. Superlatives fail me (and that's just for Capt Gordinos 'good penis' comment )

lol @ valks doing it doggy style.

Well, it's amazing. Not much more to say then that.

Aww man, these things make me cringe in a good way !

That paint work is just stunning, if you got to atournament i think you have your win in the bag, that paintng should get you a hand full of points P

Get a move on ya slacker...

I've finished my Infantry! *sigh of relief* However I left my camera at a friends house, so I'll be sure to go grab it after work and will post later tonight the infantry and better shots of my Drop Pods.

I thinking about expanding this blog to everything to do with my chapter. So after the tournament and tourny army you can look forward to my honor guard, chapter master (with rules set), Land Raider Terminus, and my take on a titan as I want to really flex my imagination.

@ brother Vespasian = I have a friend doing the conversions for my chapter banner. He's modeling it after the banner in the command squad picture of the marine codex. Which is EPICLY big and will give me plenty of room to do some neat things on. He's also doing my 9 other honor guard to go with the banner that I will probably post on this log even after I get this particular list done.

@ Chimera_Calvin = I'm glad I could inspire you to your drawing board. Send me a link when you start your project.

@ EzeKK = Semi funny story... I won those two Valks at an RTT like 2-3 months ago for 1st place prize. I took that picture cuz I need like 6 more and as a joke I wanted them to reproduce... So last Saterday I won 3rd place at an even larger RTT and got... 2 more valks... *mayber theres something to this valk reproduction process*

@ Wolf = I hope I'll do well in paint but last year there were some A-mazing armies there. So it is a very tough competition. (last year I showed up with the grey legion) So the fact that I'll get a paint score will tickle me pink.

@ Tauzor = you sound like some of my local friends. We're all being as..jerkholes to each other about painting so we all get done on time.


Now to finish my two Iron Clads, 1/2 a Land Raider, and 1/2 a Vulkan counts as! (oh yea a display board as well)

If a kick up the arse is what you need to get going .. as they say ... WERKZ FOR ME

Paint a titan
just wow
you sir have inspired me
did you jsut draw the outline with pencil or what?
did he say?

@ Battle Brother Loken = Thanks. Yes I drew it on with a pencil. There is a tutorial floating around somewhere on dakka that should help out with how to get freehand on junk... and such.

UPDATES!

So I'm back to it after not posting any progress for a while....

Pics!

First up my Infantry is now completed. I assembly lined the whole thing. A horrible experience but time line was a factor.












My Drop Pods!













This is my favorite marine by far. Dead Marine eternally dead. Frozen in time while taking a rending shot to the chest...



Rest in peace Dead Marine...

Rest in peace....


Littleboyblues

REMEMBER THE FALLEN

Great work even impressed my wife!

wow they are good!

you have an impressive assembly line technique!

can you give me some tips?

DC

Truly stunning work!! Can't wait to see more!!!!

@ Fattimus_maximus = Thanks. Always nice to impress the ladies

@ Deadly chicken = I'm sure there is a turorial somewhere on how to assembly line... If there isn't then that will be a future project.

@ Neutronium Alchemist = Thanks!... and wha la!


I had an old display board for my square base empire army so my friend donated some terrain and pinned the trees up and made the snazzy dark angel pillar for me in exchange for some free hand work on his wave serpent. I tried to match the grass and trees to my local wildlife. (as I really do live in a beautiful state... not much other than pretty though) In some of the pictures below you can see the trees in the back ground and the grass and the board all in one. I think I really captured the look. I would have liked to put more time in the display board but I literally have less than two weeks! So anywho, here's what I've done so far...

The Board (and freaky local weather to boot)











Tac 1


Tac 2



Assault squad and Speeder


Termies


IC Dread 1


IC Dread 2




The Board with mini's of doom!






All I have left is 2 whole Ironclads and 30% of a Land Raider and Vulcan's back banner! (freehand on banner if time)
Off to paint 40k cherubs on the LR.

Thanks,
Littleboyblues

Great work. I'm really digging the Rhinos.

Very nice indeed, the moody sky in the background realy adds a cool touch.

The only thing I would say is that it looks like some ruined buildings in a field. maybe they need some rubble or something around them, but that's a pretty minor thing really.

very very nice work mate, absolutly love it. What great project to see all the way through.

@ a1steaks = My rhinos are my favorite thing in the whole project so far. My Dreadnought may take that slot after their done though... I have a soft spot for robots and mech...

@ StubbyGB = I absolutely agree with you. I intend on putting some rubble and more bushes and over growth around the ruins to make them look like they've been there for ages and nature has slowly started to eat away at them.... However 11 days left so that will prolly be something I add after my deadline.

@ Wolf = Cool! Thanks for following all the way through

Cherubs almost done.

Incredible work.. I'm so inspired right now.
I've never seen marines done SO well.
Amazing work man, really.

Simply amazing, I don't usually post but the free hands an your models and the killed marine have called me from dormancy. cant wait to see more of your fantastic stuff!

I'm stunned.

The dirty marblized look is awesome. They look like the fight, often.

nice work there mate. how long does it take you to do a guy? I love the red and would appreciate the recipe!

Super awsome ! I love this army

Great calcium carbonate effect, keep up the good work.

@ everyone = Thanks!

@ pretesamd = Glad you could crawl out of your hole for a while.

@ deadly chicken = It took me about 2 weeks to do 36 guys. The red is foundation red (mercintine red?), Gore red covering the foundation, baal red wash, blood red highlights and edging, gryphon sepia wash in small spots and streaks.

Absolutely stunning!

Looking great man! cant wait to see it in August at the Patriot Games tourney! all though this makes me want to quit painting, and I hope I dont have to battle those 2 ironclads!

thanks mate.

I'm really interested in how you do your streaky weathered white actually. Oddly enough I have almost the exact same scheme as you, white marines with red trim, but I throw in spots of brown leather and green power weapons/lights/eyes to break up the colors. However, that streaky warm white is exactly what I wanted but couldn't figure out how to do. Tutorial time maybe?

Great looking army and a good theme. Love what you have done with the "marble" color.

I hate you so much...... why cant I paint like that lol!!!

@ Dashrendar = Looking forward to throwing down with you sometime.

@ CENArtDamage = I thought I already posted a how too on my "marble" look. I look around if I can't find it then I'll post a tut.

@ CajanMan550 = Thanks! I hate you too!

@ everyoneelse = Thanks for the words and hopefully I'll post some more mad speed painting work tonight

10 days left.....



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Hope you like.

I do like. I love!

Keanu Reeves wrote:Whoa

I totally agree.

MINT !

Dear god.
Wow.

Awesome. Can't wait to see those dreads painted up.

I hate you.

Makes my stuff look like I use a House Brush.

Inspiring stuff indeed there mate. Very well done

Favourite Model



This is all I can say.

This is impressive!

Do you have other armies that you've painted as well as this one?

Also, do you have any other realistic/weathering effects that you might be able to impart wisdom on?

Keep paintin'! Looking forward to seeing the complete project!

@ bladesire = I've done random models and units but this is my first painted army. Weathering effects I would go to migsula or greydeath as their the masters of that. I think greydeath has some tut's up on it.

@ every one else = Thank you!

Finally done... Shew!

The Horror Story : I finished the dreads and clear coated them and went out when they were dry to bring them in... and they were covered in a white haze. So after pacing and freaking out 2 days before my tourney deadline I called around to the local solid painters and searched on the interwebz to see if their was a quick fix. (aka not stripping and doing it over) I found 2 ways to fix the problem. 1. zip kicker super glue accelerant. 2. gloss clear and then flat clear on top of that. Having nothing to loose at all. I went the next day (now the night before the tournament) and bought everything I needed from the local hobby shop. I tried about 5 coats of zip kicker and it did look better but it was still what I would called ruined. So I glossed it and took it into the bath room to let it dry with all the lights and heat lamp on and the fan. It was the humidity that did it so I've learned. And after the coat of Gloss it looked like new again. I then hit it with flat clear and did the same thing. Applied the static grass about 2 am the night before the tourney. Talk about close!

Any who, Here it is completed for now.











































I won 1st in the large model category in the painting competition with my land raider and best painted in the 40k gt at the big waaagh last weekend and scored me a daemon army. All the frantic painting was worth it and I had a blast. However, I'm a little burnt out so that's it for now. I'll start this log back up when I start my BFG fleet and units that I want to expand my army into different avenues. Until next time thanks for egging me on and keeping me going at it.

LBB

P.S. When I do return to this project Chapter master and Honor Guard to follow.

Congrats man, you deserved everything you got!
Amazing work!

Awesome! True masterpieces!

You wouldn't happen to be planning on winning every Golden Daemon ever, would you?

Wow your wife let you put your little boy toys with her knickknacks that is cool.

I hope you go to a lot of tournaments that judge painting... because you deserve a lot of swag trophies on your shelf for such a fine army! Very inspiring, thanks for sharing this with the community.

Seriously I totally agree with everything that has been said here. I would also like to add that on the rare chance that you decide to sell your army, you will totally make a fortune.

firebat wrote:I've never seen marines done SO well.

QFT.

Well done sir, very well done.

Rico.

*joygasm*

amazing. utterly amazing

Totaly nice work mate, you really did put in some serious hours to get it all done in time!
Looking forward to seeing more of you fab work and posts on dakka dakka !

PS I suppose you have a drink now thats its all done

Congratulations mate

That's a brilliant, concerted, and beautiful army.

sA

Oh god I cannot wait for more progress pics, this thread is incredible!

Have you completed your vulcan model yet? I'm dying to know what you did for your counts as!

This army is simply gorgeous!!

extremely intense...but just to make you groan....what about a titan? *drools* an imperator with murals and just pure insanity all over oh man

Congratulations, on honors richly deserved!

The thought of what that banner will look like when painted made me pee a little

EDIT: oh, could we also see some more of that railway thing with Teddy Bears on it Please!

Is there a P&M hall of fame sticky or something? IF so this should go there - if not, someone should make one and this should be the first!

Anyone else agree?

BladeSire wrote:Is there a P&M hall of fame sticky or something? IF so this should go there - if not, someone should make one and this should be the first!

Anyone else agree?

Echoed Sentiments.

Truely Insparational

I guess Bladesire's right... This should be a cornerstone for most P&M apprentices....

Anyway, congratulations for your awesome work... (Even my girlfriend was amazed to the beauty of your models... Something I've never managed so far )

I'm not even sure where to start, This is truly astounding work from start to awesome finish! Congratulations!

I started my Battle fleet gothic army to match my army the other day. My opinion on John Blanche's work is basically hit or miss I love some of his pieces, However I dislike just as much of it. (See daemons codex...) In Battle Fleet Gothic I personally think he nailed it. I love all his art work for the series and I think it captured the gritty 41st century it was going for. So I decided to try and replicate Blanche's works on my fleet while still remain in my own chapters theme. The basic "plan" is to paint the whole thing slightly whimsical and splotchy and then tighten up on the details of the ship to bring them into focal points. I noticed in his bfg paintings he made everything a real mess and then brought the imperial ships prow into focus by making it very detailed and red and it created something to grab your eye right off the bat and then made a sense of movement from there. So any who my ships are only about half done but here’s what I have done so far.


These are after Ivory spray, devlun mud wash, skull white drybrushing, and a very watered down gryphon sepia splotched around randomly.






Here I took an old tooth brush and splattered a burnt umber followed by white. (normal acrylic craft paints)


I grinded off the detail on the two wing things because it was one of the only places I could find to put a mural.... (like you didn't see that coming)


Here I just added foundation red paints and thats where I had to stop.


I have 3 squads of 4 gladius frigutes with 3 different heraldry markings on the wings and a strike cruiser to go along with each.


Anywho I hope to get my fleet done to match my army by the end of the week.

dunno how I missed this before but that is one seriously awesome looking army. Congrats on getting it all done

Yes! Win! More models from Littleboyblues!
Success!

All looking marvelous!

i like them...........

A quick update!

Commissions have been keeping me spread out so thin that I hardly have time to work on what I thought to be a week long project. All I lack now is bases, free hand murals on the battle barge and the antennas on the ships. If you have any suggestions on the antennas please shoot them at me because I'm stumped. I was thinking black with dry brushed codex gray?... For the bases I went down to my local craft store and got all wooden senic oval bases and steel rods for the ships to mount on. (I hate the GW clear flying stands) I intend on decorating the base much as you would with a mini such as astroaids and stars and maybe a spare thunderhawk on the battle barge base. Any who this is what I have so far.

Jaw dropping

Stunning as ever. Great work LBB.

Awesome paintjob. I'm impressed with your tank painting, your tanks are really an art work

What a beautiful and totally unique Space Marine army - I like it, I like it a lot!

Awesome how you've got the weathering on your BFG ships, something I've tried and not been able to pull off...

I absolutely love your work. It is quite fantastic indeed. Great freehanding too (obviously!)

I looked at the whole thread ...

Then i looked at my own minis and i puked over them..

Very nice work .. how did you do that blue??

Thanx for all the kind words yet again folks. I have an out of town tourney I'm attending this weekend so the next update will be early next week and I hope to have the fleet done and some good pics of it.

My blues were painted with (I'm probably getting the names wrong, I'm going off memory here) regal blue, ice blue, skull white, then the blue wash over all that.

Pics! Piiiiiics!
Tournie Piiics!

Outstanding.

Love the light from the ship's engines on those BFG ships.

Agreed,the engines look really nice.As does the entire army and fleet,I also second the calls for tourney pics!

It's part of world wide war 2 from 40k radio I'll try and take pics for you guys.

Back from tournament. It was a well ran tournament and was the most laid back tournament I've ever been too. At lunch we all went out to a Mexican restaurant and ate and I had a full pitcher of beer and was feeling pretty good about rounds 2 and 3 at this point... win or loose! I ended up snagging Players choice award. With a Massacre and 2 draws.

Here is some in game action shots.

After that flamer hit and a pistol volley/charge I killed all the space wolves... Probably would have went down different with the new codex!


Here is my land raider going off road...


Dreadnaughts climbing over the wreck that is my LR.


One of my favorite moments from the tourney was when Vulkan, Master of the Forge, and 5x th/ss Termies murdered his whole side of the board and his LR full of the furious space wolves ran away from my unit... There was much fun to be had at my opponents expense.


There use to be a DP standing right in front of me...



Here is a shot of some of the better painted armies in attendance.

Wildeyedjester's cannibal legion IG


Monkey's Space Wolves


Safty Lock's Arkansas Razorbacks (american) football themed bikes


Big A's Nids


Fletch's Alpha Legion


BFG should be finished later this week.

You propped a landraider between scenery and a drop pod?!
How can you do that to your beautiful models!
I don't even do that to my models and they suck!

Raphael, Botticelle, Matisse, Picasso, and littleboyblues.
quite convincingly the best space-marine army i've EVER seen

Incredible artwork! Posting so this thread is added to my subscriptions, because I want to see what you do next!

I have to confess, I don't like the models in this thread...














I freakin love them! Truly inspiring, just looking at your work makes me want to grab a paintbrush.

i love BFG ships, they're so detailed that its fantastically simple to make them look good!
with the right application of highlights and washes you can make some stunning miniatures.
Love the colour scheme and its very well executed too, the engines look very nice indeed (stolen )

i also LOVE that the ships match the colour scheme of your army too, very nicely painted indeed.

Returned to the project for a quicky!
Started basing my BFG fleets.
I'm stuck on what murals to put on the fins of my battle barge.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
The fins are about thumbnail size.





cheers!

Perhaps a set of angel wings ? Great job all in all , hope to see more soon

Some cherubs or the like might look great on the fins but I dont really know how small they are and how practical that would be.

On a side note, I see by that last picture that your projects appear to be fuelled by a beer like looking substance!

I pretty much do everything with a beer like substance... minus my day job.

Really not a fan at all of the gigantic base, it looks bad. The painting is fine though.

Septic wrote:You propped a landraider between scenery and a drop pod?!
How can you do that to your beautiful models!
I don't even do that to my models and they suck!

My thoughts exactly . Well, I wouldn't say my models suck, but I mean, come on... yours are works of art! It's like... walking on art... you just don't do it!

littleboyblues wrote:I pretty much do everything with a beer like substance... minus my day job.

Lol , I wish i could make a good joke about that

In good renaissance fashion, a picture of the Emperor as a youthful Apollo style figure (perhaps even in a in a chariot) might be appropriate- or perhaps as a Zeus hurling a lighting bolt.

Otherwise perhaps an armored, winged angel with sword outstretched could be neat.

Chapter heraldry wouldn't be out of place, either- or perhaps a depiction of the animal symbol of either the chapter, or the chapters homeworld...

actually good Ideas Carlovonsexron... I'll prolly have to do the emperor with lions (dark angel off shoot) and maybe an angel or cherubs on the other... hmmmmmm

Finished basing my Frigates today. All I have left is base 3x strike cruisers and 2x murals. 95% done!

:!
*that's a face with an exclamation mark as a mouth

Fantastic Work. Love it. Keep it Up (please)

<- That's how much i like your work

I have a tournament coming up in 2 weeks. I always try and paint a new unit or two and use a tournament as a deadline. This helps to keep me motivated on expanding finished armies so one day I'll hopefully have a fully painted apoc army.

Terminator Chaplain




Also been working on the display board for the bfg fleet.

how did you do the white dots ?

Love the Chaplain. In fact I'm loving all these marines and ships. The marble look is perfect and the artwork on the vehicles really gives them a unique feel.

I love BFG and you did a great job painting your ships. Also cool conversion on the chaplain. Cheers

@ Gretar; white acrylic paint on a toothbrush rubbing your finger over it 'misting' the paint.

If you haven't already used it, why not put the Vitruvian Man on the fins. Maybe one regular and one bioniced or something along those lines.

Everything looks great by the way. What ivory spray are you using?

SoG

I used Testors model master paint 'Ivory' was in the name. I don't recall the exact words. I wouldn't recomend it though, I had a lot of problems with it and had to use tamiyas clear over it before it was fit to paint on. I have piddled around with the idea of using the Vitruvian Man but I couldn't find the right place for it. I'll photoshop it on my battle barge and if I like it I'll use it. Great Idea btw SonofGulliman.

Septic wrote:You propped a landraider between scenery and a drop pod?!
How can you do that to your beautiful models!
I don't even do that to my models and they suck!

These models are like Chuck Norris. No matter what you do to them, they will always come out unscathed.

This is absolutely beautiful work, but, I do feel the need to point out that in BFG, the bases are very important to the game. So, while pretty, your bases aren't really usable.

Looking forwards to the micro-murals on the Battle Barge!

--Brian

I know about the base sizes but considering it only makes me way more likely to be hit by a nova cannon. I don't think my opponents will complain too much.

Hey which tournament are you going to? the one in Jacksonville.... wait that one was today wasnt it! blast it I forgot about it!

Dude wow, this is incrediable. I take my hate off to you as an artist.

Simply stunning.

doubled wrote:Dude wow, this is incrediable. I take my hate off to you as an artist.

Nice to know you're not hated!

Looking good!

Love this! Again...

Thanks all

Dash I didn't go to that one
There is a 1000 pointer in conway dec 12th I'll go to.

Disjointed Entity wrote:

doubled wrote:Dude wow, this is incrediable. I take my hate off to you as an artist.

Nice to know you're not hated!

Looking good!

Hey leave my horrible typeing and spelling out of this lol.

littleboyblues wrote:Thanks all

Dash I didn't go to that one
There is a 1000 pointer in conway dec 12th I'll go to.

where at in Conway, I didn't even know there was a game store up there?

real close to old down town.

Conway Gaming Center
604 Chestnut St.
Conway, AR

Stunning

you continue to astound! i can't wait to see the murals on your BFG ships. (although i would love to see an update on your Death Korps blog as well!) keep up the amazing work!

So I was googling some Renaissance art... I'm in with the greats now! My land raider showed up in the search. I got a laugh out of it anyway.

Finished up 2x Fenrisian Wol... Lions. And started on a Ragnar Blackmane counts as and some wolfen.

Awesome job on the li....wolves.

haha!

Using space wolves rules for DA's, logan is gonna HATE you....

But awesome li...wolves.

You are a great painter

and that is an understatement.

DC

Im painting up some lions soon, if you dont mind my asking, what was your technique?

at deadlychicken

smeezilla = I undercoated the whole model in bleached bone and then washed with ogren flesh, devlun mud and badab black in varies places and layered it up pretty good and then started adding highlights of bleached bone to bring out the higher points. I also looked up a lot of lion pictures on google to find some I liked. Hope that helped some.

how did you accomplish the lion shoulder pads? they are awesome! can't wait to see the whole squad painted.

Outstanding work LilBoyBlues! I love the codex-napping idea!

This looks fantastic, c'ant wait to see more.

They're normal SM shoulder pads with some bits from the white lion chariot sprues for fantasy.

Okay, you are not only a master of miniature murals, but the textures that you achieve are really excellent. It's hard to make simple washes and highlights look that good. Bang-up work.

Been working on some junk...
Finished painting some models. Some for my 2010 tournament list. Some I just wanted to have a painted variant of encase I ever do decided to run them randomly.

Librarian!




Wolfen Counts as!




Sigh...
Also... What the hell did I get myself into...
10 internetz to the person that knows what I've started here.





I've started the basic shape with foam board. From here I'll go into detail with plasticard and my bits box chalked full of left over marine and guard vehicle bits. I just have to find a way to make landing gear and the 2 engines and I'm set. I'm trying jto build the whole thing for 50 bucks or under. So far I've spent 4 dollars. It will receive my chapter paint scheme upon completion. Wish me luck!

It's thunder hawk time. Good luck with it.

Wow...i just stumbled in here and it makes me want get some painting lessons, or possibly quit altogether lol.

I think I have to steal your vehicle marble technique, and by steal I mean attempt on an old Rhino and hope it looks half as good as yours.

And of course, I won't even be bothering to try anything like your freehand murals. Just amazing, really.

Your wol... lions are also making me repaint my Ogre Hunter's 'tusks, lol.

You're a big inspiration, looking forward to seeing the Thunder Hawk come together.

First of all, great work dude!!
I am really pleased to see you start a scratchbuild Thunderhawk! Could you tell me where you found the templates? Or did you made it up yourself?

Greetings from Holland!

Imagine the mural possibilities.....

Looking good, LBB.

Great work as always. I'm in Russellville by the way, Blues.

Any chance we can get a close up picture of the librarian's face?

"shhh.... quiet in the library"

"HA, or what?"

"This"

[Rude person is ormptly decapitated.......]



ANYWAY'S.....

can you get rules for the wolfen?

kickass stuff mate...

DC

Thunderhawk scratch building?!

I must see the outcome!
Truely monumental work my friend! Never stop!

YOU DARE CALL YOUR MODELS JUNK !! NOT EVEN I DO THAT !

Great painting Its a Thunderhawk for sure ..

Those look awesome. amazing work.

man! thats incredible how you can draw and paint those old paintings keep up the good work. the army looks so awesome

Awesome army, love the paint style. I may have missed it in the previous pages but any chance you could give a rundown or tutorial of how you get the marble look on your regular marines? I've been trying to recreate it for a while for a side army but I'm just guessing on the technique. Any help is appreciated.

littleboyblues wrote:Thanks for all the kind words!

@StubbyGB - I was thinking about doing a tutorial on the land raider start to finish. The marble would be included in that. But the quick run down is...

Prime white,
Watered down graveyard earth weathering,
Graveyard earth toothbrush splatter,
Devlan mud wash in spots that need to be darker,
Touch up highlights or spots that got too dark with bleached bone and skull white where needed,
Chaos black/codex gray mix for the cracks (look at cracks in side walks or concrete and such for shape)

Littleboyblues

also on pg 3 is the land raider tut

While we're necro-posting:

How is it coming on the BFG murals? I have recently been on a BFG kick myself so I am interested to see your take.

I think its kind of funny how this thread just got necroed... Because I primed a FW dreadnought drop pod 10 min ago that I'm painting to match my marines. My BFG ships have been neglected for too long I must admit. I'm trying to get my 2010 tournament army all painted up right now. I've bought a forge world Grey knight strike cruiser. I plan on removing all the GK heraldry and painting it up with more reds than my other strike cruisers and It will be my strike cruiser for my veteran company. I haven't even started on the battle barge strike cruiser. So foxphoenix135 post or link your ships I would like to see them. Dakka doesn't have enough cool bfg stuff on it.

Even though it was necroed I'll be adding to this soon. ;P

I made the front page of Port Maw, the BFG forum (one of the largest still left) for my tyranid ship scratchbuild.

http://www.portmaw.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php

I have ordered some grey knight strike cruisers myself (cheaper than regular strike cruisers! What???) so I'll post some pictures of them once I receive them... All I have right now are some IN ships.

I'm glad to see you'll be resuming this soon! Not enough of us BFG players stick around these days.

Bad news that your DKoK's are being put on hold, but on the flipside, good news that you're returning to the Patior Angelica.
Swing some roundabouts.

Here is a Sanguinus Primarch model I've been painting on and off for a week or so. I'll be using him as a astroth in an upcoming tournament. He won't be part of my chapter fluff wise or joining the ranks of patior angelica permently. But I'll run him for now as I haven't a better Idea for a astroth model to fit with my army.





My death company dread I've started built out of a Ven Dred and is going to have 2 forge world gray knight arms to represent his claws.



Here is a primered Dread Drop Pod.



This is what I've been up to the last 2 or 3 days. I'm assembling 10x assualt marines currently but they don't warrent pictures.

Thanks for everyone who's followed the ordeal that was my first fully painted army. The army is going up for sale very soon. I'm getting snazzy pictures made of it and then I'll be throwing it up for sale.

Thanks and cheers.

I painted this army up for a tournament in summer of 2009. I’ve ran it for a little over a year now. I’ve won Best Painted in every event that I’ve entered in thus far including 1st Place "best painted" The Big Waaagh! 2009, 1st Place "large 40k model" The Big Waaagh! 2009, 1st Place "players choice" Patriot Games 2009, 1st Place "players choice" World Wide War 2, 2009, 1st Place "best painted" Combat Patrol 11/7/2009, 1st Place "players choice" Patriot Games 2010.

This is my first painted army and will always be my baby. However I’m selling to start new armies for the upcoming seasons because I want to venture into different things and also play a different army. I’ve played SM for far too long.

Everything in the army is fully painted to the same standard and clear coated based and flocked.

The army includes;
1x Ragnar Blackmane counts as w 2x Lions (used as fenrisian wolves)
Could also be used as Captain or any general HQ
1x Vulcan He’stan counts as
Could also be used as Captain or any general HQ
1x Librarian (converted)
1x Chaplain in Terminator amour (converted)
1x Master of the forge w Combi-Melta (could be used as techmarine)
10x Veteran Sergeants/Company Command/ Veteran Squad
(These are robed marines)
1x w Banner
1x w Power weapon
3x w Power fist
5x w 2x Chain swords (I have used these as either mark of the wulfen or normal equipped sergeants.)
13x Terminators
5x w Thunder Hammer Storm Shields
7x w Power fist and Storm bolter
1x w Power weapon and Storm bolter
5x Scouts w Bolt pistol and Hand weapon
45x Space Marines
6x Melta guns
4x Flamers
6x Bolt pistol and Hand weapon
4x Heavy bolters
4x Multi-meltas
21x Bolters
3x Drop Pods (one equipped for infantry other 2 made as Dreadnought transports)
1x Forgeworld Dark Angels Venerable Dreadnought
Equipped w 2x hand weapons a Heavy flamer and a Melta gun
(I use these as Iron Clads or Furiosos or Death Company Dreads)
1x Forgeworld Mark II Venerable Dreadnought
Equipped w 2x hand weapons a Heavy flamer and a Melta gun
(I use these as Iron Clads or Furiosos or Death Company Dreads)
1x Dreadnought w Multi-melta and Heavy flamer (assault on black reach dread)
1x Land Speeder w Multi-melta
5x Rhinos (The murals on top are a nude sister of battle, nude marine, servo skull, chapter iconography, and cherub)
1x Land Raider (The murals are sister and marine angel embracing, 2x cherubs, Michelangelo’s god and Adam with a 40k twist featuring the emperor and a marine)





















































































http://cgi.ebay.com/Renaissance-Space-Marines-High-Painted-Std-3-5k-Army-/140435949360?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b2a28730

Wow, its kinda sad to see that you are selling it. It must be hard to do.

I hope you get a good price and I can't wait to see your new armies.

I'm tempting robbing a bank so I can buy this army and sit and stare at it all day. Now then, weren't you workin on some DKoK?

Yes I am. That's the next thing in the works if I can clear out some of this commission work. :(

Do you have a price list for individual things, 'cause I would love to buy the Land Raider

where are you planning on selling it? here via swap shop, ebay, etc?

D: You're selling? Well, I suppose I won't die inside if you are moving on to an equally awesome army.

It's on Ebay. No I WILL NOT PART IT OUT!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140435949360&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Good luck!

Seems like a more than fair price to me....:-)

Hey mate, totally in awe of your land raider, great lookin army !

Didn't think so, but it was worth an ask.
Hmm, its a fair price. I doubt I'll do it though.

Just saw the price you got for this
Hope that sets you up dude, thats a big hit to sell your baby
Looking forward to next army you paint up with lessons learned!

wow. . .

Congratz on selling it! Were you satisfied with the sale price?

Damn!!!! Almost 4 grand, that it totally awesome man!! That was def by far the sickest painted army that I have ever seen. I really can't wait to see your new armies!

beautiful army! love that land raider