Hello to all of you! I was kind of invited over here in order to post the non space marine stuff that I can't post on B&C... So hello! I'll have one thread only and it will be this one displaying my wips as I go along!

So to start here are my entries for this year Canadian GD!


40k Single - Silver - Captain Kramay of the Last Legionnaire - I know you've seen it already but these are the final pictures!



Coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/225329

40k Vehicule - Silver - Nurgle Blight Drone



Coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/225322

40k Monster - Gold - Terminator on Juggernaut



Coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/225327

So here it is! There is more and bigger pictures on my site. Now back to work for GD Chicago!

You win a pack of Morleys for this most excellent submission.

Can you say what water effect material did you use? I love the water feeling in your bases

WOW very nice magicstorm!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is magic

magicstorm wrote:Can you say what water effect material did you use? I love the water feeling in your bases

You will find all the info here: http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/How_to_make_water_effect_using_resin-660896.html

Excellent work. You could be in with a decent chance, I don't know how they call these things. The painting standard has been phenomenal in recent years, I've judged small modelling competitions and the decision can really difficult.

Excellent work, I particularly like the slight conversion of Helbrecht and the different paint job.

Your rust looks phenomonal!! Typically I will stipple my rusts and they look pretty good but not as 3d as your rust. What did you do?

Fishboy wrote:Your rust looks phenomonal!! Typically I will stipple my rusts and they look pretty good but not as 3d as your rust. What did you do?

I've used dry pigments fixed in a series of layers to give the texture.

The sum of awe!

Good lord! All three of those are just pure awesome. I really dont know which one I like more. Seriously if you dont win with at least one of them, Id be very surprised. Good luck

Love the skeletons submerged in the bloodbath, totally excellent.

akaranseth joins the ranks of Dakka too ^_^. Great to have you aboard, I take Lunchbox invited you?

Really great submissions to the GD this year. I've been following your work on the blog and was dying to see the finished pieces. Congrats on the demons.

Can't wait to see what's on your plate next.

I just love the base on the juggernaut truly outstanding.

Here are my next projects in prevision of Games Day Chicago on July 25th!

A Chaplain Dreadnought:



And a Khorne Demon Prince



More pictures of the assembly of the dread on my site with explanation on the legs and toes repositionning!

Now let's put some paint on this!

These are very nice works, very inspiring stuff.



This base is simply... amazing, no other way to describe it. Would you consider giving us a mini-tutorial on how you make your water bases so nice?

In fact I've written a tutorial on working with resin on my site already: http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/How_to_make_water_effect_using_resin-660896.html

It is essentially the same.

Sweet. Thank you mate.

I hope you don't mind me putting this up. P.M. me if you want it down. Just way to awesome (and funny ) to not share.


Fantastic tutorial.

"Note"
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nice to see you posting your work here...
i've been a fan of your posts on the B&C, and your submissions to CMON...

lookin' forward to seein' how these entries for chicago develop...

cheers
jah

Yeah I definitely remember seeing your stuff at Games Day Toronto, I loved the blight drone, that plate armour looked fantastic.

Looking forward to seeing the progress on your GD Chicago project!

SsevenN wrote:Love the skeletons submerged in the bloodbath, totally excellent.

I agree. Excellent work!

Yeah, what these guys said.

Lol, seriously. Very impressive work and great use of water effect.

These are fantastically beautiful mate well done !

*Stares....* OMG.. That's just out there! Wow..

Here is my gold winning entry for last weekend GD in Chicago.



More pictures on my site in a few minutes!

Coolmini links:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/227983
http://www.coolminiornot.com/227984

And here is a preview of my project for GD UK! A Tyranid War Veteran Dreadnought!



And maybe GENCON

Finished the base by adding a dead tyty! Also added an iron halo to the dread! It's now ready for painting!

All of your work is incredible, from concept to completion it's breathtaking!

Beautiful, I love that each one is a 'snippet of time' rather than a display model appearing static. It's like you've captured a moment from the 40k universe and transferred it to a miniature.

I think my favourite is the blight drone, the shading on the carapace and the rust is so complimentary and then you have that beautifully finished eye/camera in purple.

Would like to see more 28mm single figures posted here.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Would like to see more 28mm single figures posted here.

Well there is the cygnar warcaster which will be done in the next 2 weeks or so and I have plan for this mini as well:



It will also be presented at GENCON.

Stoked to see what you can do with Kraye.

Absolutely incredible stuff here mate.

They all deserve Gold Medals in my opinion.

Well done, keep up the great work!

Cheers,

Jack.

They're all incredible! Cannot wait to see your paint job on the tyranid killing dred!

I now feel very sad about my painting skills, *sniff* But on the other hand, those are ****ing increadable man!!! Some of the best paintjobs I've seen in a long time.

I'm giggling with crazed inticapation for the picks of the dread... well, not quite giggling, but you know what I mean.

Incredible work!

Congrats on GD Gold.

That stuff is freakin' awesome. I've been trying to get good at painting myself. So far I can only paint like the pictures on the 40k boxed sets. I was curious as to how you painted the horns and bone spikes on the khornate demon prince. It looks awesome and I'd like to try it myself. So if you wouldn't mind sharing some of you secrets I'd greatly appreciate it

Beautiful work and very much looking forward to more! And good luck with GD UK - the mother of all GD competitions

I love your attention to basing! However, the upright metals just behind the dreadnought, slightly give an impression, the dread is backing down - which maybe you intended but narrative wise is how it reads to me.

This stuffs amazing...

Good Luck on your dread.

Muoio 117 wrote:That stuff is freakin' awesome. I've been trying to get good at painting myself. So far I can only paint like the pictures on the 40k boxed sets. I was curious as to how you painted the horns and bone spikes on the khornate demon prince. It looks awesome and I'd like to try it myself. So if you wouldn't mind sharing some of you secrets I'd greatly appreciate it

The horn were done the same way as the skull. A basecoat of jack bone, first shadows in umbral umber and final shadows in thamar black. The highlight were done in menoth white highlight and finally a light coat of Gryphon Sepia citadel wash. Finally gloss varnish was used to make shine the base of the horns. All colors are from the P3 range except the wash. That is pretty much it. The rest is simply thinned down paints to ensure smooth blending.

Thanks for the description on painting. I appreciate it

Can't wait to see he dread finished, also the Kraye, working on one myself. Can't wait to see how bad yours will make mine look ;p Good luck at gen con!

Here is a little miniature done in 2 days for the independant painting contest at GENCON.



It was a real delight to paint! Bigger pictures on my site.

Link toward coolmini: http://www.coolminiornot.com/228771

FRIGGIN' NUTZ

It's looking very nice. I'm a little surprised by some of the harsh transitions but I'm assuming you were simulating a light source and in that regard it is very effective.

I started working on my Grand Master Painting Comp entry for GENCON yesterday evenening and here is the actual state of things:




Some of the grey will become gold like on the original PIP model and there is a few highlights missing here and there but so fare here it is! Oh and Kr...aye went for a walk... I wasn't feeling like painting a horse...

You use an airbrush?

wtfbbq.. you paint impossible; love the demon prince reds... sooo pretty

Whats the air brushing for???

genericUser wrote:Whats the air brushing for???

In this case for the red base coat with first shadows. Simply to save them. On bigger model I can use it much more cutting down paint time even more.

Here is the progress:

Wowsa....

very nice, is that nmm on the smokestacks or what? It looks fantastic but it doesn't look like any of the golds I've seen.

You must use tons of washes.

Well here are the final pics... They are a bit overexposed so i'll fix that when I'll be back from GENCON!




I wasn't sure at first about the grey and almost turned it to gold as on the original model but now I'm really pleased by this alternate color scheme. Might be adding a light freehand on the cloak. I'll see if I have time tomorrow.

I fancy my self a good painter...After looking at your stuff, I have put my painting skill in perspective...I am a cave man, painting stick figures on a wall with mammoths blood. Way to kill a guys pride in his work. JK

Stunning stuff. Thanks for posting here as well. Consider me subscribed.

Well it ended up being an awesome weekend.

My hierarch Severius took bronze at the Privateer Press contest. Not entirely sure I agree with the decision but hey...

My master of blades took 2nd place in single at the independant contest and my Metal Model Orc took first place and the best of show.

For some pictures of the orc:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/206127
http://www.coolminiornot.com/206126

I should be taking the final pictures of Severius this week.

Otherwise it is now time to work on my entry for GD UK!

I dont even need to see the gold and silver to say
i dont agree either with the dicision of putting you on bronze.

Yours is like 10/10 perfection!

( just out of curiosity though can we see the gold and silver xD )

Don't mind me, too awe struck to think of a compliment, need to subscribe to continue to be awe struck by you.

Here is my painting adventure of last night:



It was hell to photograph though and I am still not happy with the result but...

http://www.coolminiornot.com/229649

Bigger pictures on my site.

Wow excellent work man. That resin water effect tutorial is going to be really handy for a project I am knocking around.
Well done, and keep the pictures coming!

Wow, never seen a baby mini before...

Final pics of Severius



http://www.coolminiornot.com/229672

Good god man, stop making me feel inferior!

Awesome, all I can say, I don't see anything wrong with it...

I've posted a tutorial on painting metallic on my site:
http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/How_to_paint_metallic-1650824.html

It is pure theory for the moment. I should be adding examples eventually...

I'll probably try it out sometime.

Well there is some change for GD UK but it is still some space marine so I am back here for a while. So it is a landspeeder storm ready to redeploy. There is stilll some finition in the assembling process, accessories to add, battle damage, the arm of the sergeant to link to the speeder and so on but the structure is there.





The heavy bolter gunner stashing his bolter before resuming his post:



One wounded ready to patch himself:



Finally, to avoid all the trouble while painting most of the thing isn't glued yet:



The title:
Recon Mission: objective destroyed... ...redeploy...

Otherwise i feel like yellow...

Why is it I see this and just know it's going to be awesome?

I think it would look ace in either white scars or blood angels colours,but yellow will be ok.

I can't wait to see it done,your blog is simply awesome.

I sense the coming of Awesome and a hint of pwn

That looks ace.
Does the whole thing balance/hang off the one joint on that scout's ankle?
It it does it=win!

That is so COOL!

Loving it!

It's great to have someone as talented as yourself contributing to the forum. I feel I learn a lot from simply looking at your pics, but having you explain the methods and techniques used is even better!

That is one heck of a bit of pinning on the land speeder diorama! I was wondering how you had done it until I viewed the last pics.

Looking forward to seeing it painted and hopefully picking your brains some more in future if you dont mind?

Cheers,

Dante

Absolutely beautiful work on Severus! I love the colours and consistent lighting, especially the shadows on the brass behind his shoulders. It's very inspiring work.

I'm looking forward to seeing what magic you create with the scout speeder.

I love all of your bases
you are just straight up amazing

The spotter under the landspeeder is also pinned to the pipre. Originally only the feet of the scout sergeant was holding everything. Problem is that since the foot rest is in plastic it was bending a bit too much on the other side giving an inclination toward the wrong side to the speeder so I had to rectify the matter by giving it another hold point on the other side.

Boooo, not interested now!

Just WOW!!

Were's our update!!!!

LOL,no kidding,but I really can't wait to see some paint on it!

After a disastruous undercoat I am finally started on this project:

Base coat:




After weathering with oil paint:





Tonight I either start the detailing of the cockpit, or a festival of chipping!!

Awesomeness. You has it!!!

Dude ...

Friggin EPIC !!



Nice work , keep it up

Gretar

AWESOME!! "Is very nice!!" says Borat

In! gotta keep an eye on this one!

cool stuff , I love the storm I have to have one of those .

Great work, I really like that base for the FW dread.

Chipping process under way!:

Man, that just looks awesome.

I agree with the poster above !

Beamo wrote:Man, that just looks awesome.

No more can be said,I agree!

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:

Beamo wrote:Man, that just looks awesome.

No more can be said,I agree!

AGREED

Need I say what I think of this so far? (Hint: Look at the above posts.)

I was thinking today how a Land Speeder Storm would work. I think that:

- The pilot has a remote control operating device; he goes with the rest of the squad.

- The gunner stays where he is and supports the squad.

- The rest of the squad jump out first, etc.

It just makes more sense - How can the Gun mount be fired without a gunner?

I'm not too sure if that was useful in any way, more confusing I'd imagine.

Cosmic wrote:
I'm not too sure if that was useful in any way, more confusing I'd imagine.

Considering there is 6 scouts with the landspeeder and that a squad of scouts is composed of 5 I guess that leaves the driver in the speeder while the others do what they have to do.

Otherwise:









So here is the progress. Still have to do the chipping on the central section holding the cables but this should give you a good idea! Otherwise my compressor blew in the process... arrrgggghhh....

Chipping looks amazing. Could you give us an idea of how you use the oil paints to accomplish the initial weathering? Thanks!

- Blackbone

how do you do your chipping?

+1, It really adds to the model colour to the model.

Ah yellow, the most superior of colors. I'm really looking forward to see where you're taking this one.

Fantastic work so far. The oil weathering really starts to come alive once you get the chipping in. This will be a nice reference for the future ^_-. Can't wait to see it all finished and winning another demon for you!

So the speeder is now attached to the base and work continues!!!!!!!!

That look's amazing already. The fumes wear and tear at the back is looking real sweet. How you've got it too look that good already, weathering wise is beyond me.


Slappy

It is pure unadulterated awesome that was made in a graet pose and is as we speak being painted brilliantly! or as the chavs here in Scotland would say
"Pure Mental!!"

Now I need to go an buy a Land Speeder Storm...I am going broke.

If you make that Land Speeder Storm any more awesome I'm sure my head will explode. Fantastic work throughout this thread.

Nice work and thanks for sharing!

I particularly like the direction of the wear and tear to emphasize the modus operandi and speed of the Land Speeder.

NMM gold seating?!? Awesome!

Awsomeness!!!!!!!!!!!!

person person wrote:NMM gold seating?!? Awesome!

It's actually leather!

Last picture before leaving for Paris. The exterior of the speeder is done. I only have to do the interior and the scouts which received the base with the airbrush.

The weathering is looking great!

The interrior and details should really make the worn outside pop. Looking forward to the finished model.

Metsuri wrote:The weathering is looking great!

The interrior and details should really make the worn outside pop. Looking forward to the finished model.

QFT,can't wait for the next update.

Amazing work, I'll be studying this blog for a while I think.

Your Severius is fantastic, great work.

I have to confess that when you first started this project I wasn't confident of how great it would look. But in just a few stages is very easy to see how cool this is going to be. The weathering alone has totally transformed the piece. I can't wait to see the details build up. I'm staying tuned to this one

Beautiful Landspeeder! I agree with Migsula also really great motion and dynamic feel also.

Just WOW! I am so jealous of your awesome painting skills, how long have you been doing it for?

Can't believe I missed this. Congrats in advance for the slayer sword you're about to win

Amazing effort, all round mate.

Excellent stuff. Compressor replaced yet?

Are you airbrushing the weathered look?

It all equals 100% Excellent anyway.

Looking forward to seeing this build completed, great work, keep it up......

I think that this project is a great example of how we can bring fantasy and sci-fi models "to life" in a really realistic and exciting way. Much like the Forgeworld Masterclass painting guide this speeder really showcases how we can pull techniques and methods from various modelling styles and mediums into 40K to add depth and character.

The chipping on this speeder is especially impressive and matches just as well in terms of execution and quality to chipping on professionally painted Military scale models.

I totally agree with Gundam, some of the best modeling tips I've seen are from war diorama websites, those guys shoot for such a crazy level of realism.

Congratulations on winning Gold,
I just saw this on the GD '09 article on GW.com

Goliath wrote:Congratulations on winning Gold,
I just saw this on the GD '09 article on GW.com

Seconded. Finished model just looks incredible.

Amazing conversions and painting !!!

As said before, congrats on winning a daemon. The finished model was amazing!

Thanks for the comments guys.

Otherwise, here are the final pictures of my landspeeder storm that won gold in 40k vehicule at GD UK:




Coolmini links:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/233077
http://www.coolminiornot.com/233076

More pictures on my site!

And my next project, a sculpt from Vladd Junger which should be available on his website shortly:

Interesting sculpt. What is it, exactly?

To quote Iorek: ""Don't have much use for a poop droid."

Sick work on the 'speeder. Really well done. The texturing and weathering is wonderfully grimy, oily. And the scouts themselves look every bit as gritty.

I'd say the Gold Daemon was well deserved.

Excellent work. Congrats on the win.

Congratulations on the gold!

The most impressive part for me is the scouts. As it was already apparent in the wip shots how good the speeder was going to be the scouts are really making the model incredible. Seems like razors are left out of luggage

Congratulations on your Golden Demon win, I had been following you blog but I got side tracked before GD and just spotted the awards on GW's website.

That is an astounding piece of modelling and painting!

Congratulations on the Gold! Truly deserved!

It's fantastic to see it finished now, I agree with others, the crew are particularly impressive!

Owain wrote:Interesting sculpt. What is it, exactly?

It is a Karabidae MKIII. What is it exactly who knows... The only important thing is that it's an awesome model which I can't wait to paint, as soon as I get off from jetlag...

Here is Vladd website (it's in french): http://studio-junger.fr/blog/index.php?

Your final model is just perfect in every way. congrats on the win

Great work glad to see you did well!

You really deserved that gold. Love that cool lighting effect, looks very Grimdark. Good luck on that karabidae.

My most hearty congratulations on the win!

Great model, and well done on the gold. Fully deserved. Can't wait to see your next project now!

Congrats on Gold. Fully deserved mate. Wish I could have been there to see it in person.

Those are great. They're as realistic as they are detailed. Eaho little model is a capture from the world that the model comes from, with hugley dynamic poses. Good on you.

Here is the progress on the Karabidae MKIII. I was hoping for it to be finished by now but eh... Other things in the way and the fact that my main compressor is dead leaving me with the crappy compressor that can't work for more than 45 minutes at a time is quite annoying... I should be able to make good progress or even finish it this weekend during the painting class!

Love the work hope to see more of it inthe future.

Glad its not brown

Puples looking good.

Congrats on the win mate I'm just glad you chose dakka as your home fourm. That Karabidae MKIII looks pretty sweet to.

I love the little robot.

That MkIII sculpt is awesome- I love the barnacled/worn hull on that thing. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

That Khorne lord is.... amazing.

Everything here is... sooo awesome... TT-TT beautiful work!

Now I remember what it looks like.

They are some nice paintjob, top notch work.

So the only thing left on the karabidae is to wait for the serin to cure...



In the meantime I've started a El Torres!



I'll also be teaching several classes at Adepticon in march so if you happen to be there: http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/Adepticon_2010_Chicago_Classes-1200545.html

AMAZING STUFF MATE!!!

You never cease to amaze.

Oohh... I love the little robot for contrast - nice!

Here are the final pictures for the Karabidae:



Coolmini: http://coolminiornot.com/238922

Please note that it is now officially available for sale here: http://studio-junger.fr/blog/index.php?pages/BOUTIQUE-Studio-J%C3%BCnger.

And as if I didn't have enough as it if I entered the Iron Painter 7 contest and here is my first entry:



Coolmini: http://coolminiornot.com/238921

I hate the U shape folds at the front of the dress that won't show the blending... grrr...

As usual more pictures on my site!

Nice job!!

Simply amazing!

WOW!! Thats all I can say.

I never thought I'd see a Grimdark mini of Alice in my life.

Then you paint one to a GD standard.

Kudos.

fabulous stuff...
does anything come with winning a GD besides the sword/trophy/whatever?

Here's an update on the El Torres. There's only the base and metallic left... the two easiest parts... ?




Otherwise there is a Carnifex being assemble right now...

krusty: other than bragging rights and a statue of resin no...

There is no word I can think of at he moment, that explains how awesome your painting skills are. All, i can say is, this is colossally good work.

OMFG.....just WOW. BTW loved your articles on your site about using resin as a water effect.

Wow, he looks great mate!

Love that figure and I love the scheme you've gone for on him too. Looking forward to seeing the metallics.

Cheers,

Dante

It's like I shouldn't even bother picking up my paint brushes anymore....


Beautiful work!

Subscribed!

Jaw dropping work. You are a titan.

Lookin' good.

Amazing stuff! I will definitely put that resin tutorial to use!

Here is what's keeping busy lately:






Nothing's finished at the moment...

Oooo those new Forge World IG Vehicles, it looks great. I love how you make them all dioramas, it adds so much character and depth, especially with your amazing skills.

Wow, what a blog. In regards to your 40K work, it all really exemplifies the genre so well. I especially enjoyed looking over the Scout Speeder entry; it reminded me of Special Operations utilizing little birds for rooftop air assaults. Very, very cool.

I will continue to be dazzled by your blog as long as you post. Thanks for sharing.

Love it!

The base is stunning, is it spray painted?

Also, did you ever finish El Torres?

Good luck at GD France, I was hoping to make it over this year but flight costs and busy work schedule made it impractical.

Cheers,

Dante

That elysian base is inpspired.

Great to see IG.

Here is the El Torres almost done. Simply have to do a few touch up, especially on the base:



More pictures on my site.

Akarnseth, how did you do the red on the bolters for the imperial fists scouts please.

Cheers!

Tyron wrote:Akarnseth, how did you do the red on the bolters for the imperial fists scouts please.

Cheers!

Sanguine base as a base, shadows in black and highlighted with Menoth white highlight.

Cheers dude!

he's coming along beautfully!!!

i liked this El Torres when i saw the sculpt, but you have made him look even cooler...
the armour looks incredible...
can't wait to see the finished product...

cheers
jah

You're a really talented painter!

C'est tellment incroyable, et un Québecois aussi! J'éspaire d'atteindre un niveau comparable un jour. Merde, pour etre realistique peut-etre 50% pourcante de votre talent serait bien avec moi lol.

When guys like Jah and Misgula give you props, you know you've got it

So here is the final picture of El Torres:



and the link to coolmini: http://coolminiornot.com/246894

I will also be teaching a Master Class in California bay area the weekend of july 10 & 11. For more information: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/287071.page or on my blog.

Cheers!

El Torres is absolutely beautiful - I love the natural feel, and even the fact that there is very little personal statement/style readable, the piece is just great.

migsula wrote:El Torres is absolutely beautiful - I love the natural feel, and even the fact that there is very little personal statement/style readable, the piece is just great.

and after seeing it in person I loved it that much more_ It's taking a lot of holding back not to buy that off him(if was applicable of coarse mind you).

Its amazingness!

The progress:

Looking really nice!

I love that purplish hue on the metals, not something you see in 40k very often, most colors tend to be so dull.

This is truly deserving to be praised as fine art.

That Tyranid war veteran dreadnaught is amazing , i really like the concept of the model.

Great job ~UnDeAd~

Here are the pictures for my Tauros Venator that won Gold in Véhicule/Machine de Guerre in Paris:



Coolmini link: http://coolminiornot.com/248511

More pictures on my blog!

That is brilliant! Stone cold brilliant. Congrats on yet another well earned GD.

This is legandary. You are legandary.

Can I borrow 1/3rd of your talent for a week or so? Great job.

Excellent!! I love how you've done so little weathering and selected refreshingly different palette this time.

Great work sir and thanks for sharing

Simply brilliant all of them

After seeing your work I am not sure if it has inspired me to keep pushing myself to be a better painter.....or if it has depressed me (knowing i will never be this amazing) to the point I should quit and commit hobbyist's seppuku by drinking all of my paint =./

Either way...phenomenal work!

Drool....

This thread is simply overflowing with some of the most fantastic painting I've seen.

Congratulations on the very well deserved awards!

What else can I say, but great work. Best of luck at GD.

Cheers

:O The Elysians look shiny!

Very nice job on thaqt, it looks fantastic.

I work in a gaming store. A few weeks back I announced a new challenge to get people painting. It's pretty simple. Over 8 sessions of 2 weeks the participants have to paint a specific type of troop for their army. If you are done on time you accumulate tickets for a draw and the winner will leave the battleforce of his choice. If you do not finish on time well you are out. In order to encourage people I decided I would enter the challenge. So yes over the last 2 days I've started painting an army, something I haven't done in years!

But don't worry, with 1700 points of Blood Angels I came up with a list composed of 22 models and 2 landspeeders or 26 models and 3 landspeeder. Not sure yet about which one I choose in the end but eh...

So this session it was a troop so here is the family: .







For those of you who actually play the game you might say that Hey! That's an elite choice!!! Well yeah you are right but since I took Commander Dante as a HQ well now they are troops and yes the army is solely composed of sanguinary guard which explaines the 22 or 25 models (depends if I take Sanguinor as well or not...).

And speaking of Dante, well since next session is HQ here is the simple conversion to bring him up to par with the angel theme:



And the bases, if you are wondering, are from the Lost Empire set from Dragon Forge and they are simply awesome!!! Both in style and quality!

Well, I'm not a huge fan of the models. While pretty cool, its just too much swag for my taste. However, these do look excellent!! I love the your choice of colors! It all just looks so ... smooth and soft. Awesome work! Definately thumbs up all around

Those guard are gorgeous.

The colors look airbrushed on but I know even the most skilled airbrush artist can't do detail like that.

Kudos, those are gorgeous.

Those san guard are AWESOME!! Nice job!

The colour scheme you have chosen for your sanguinary guard is amasing, it also makes a nice change from most people painting them gold.

What jump pack did you use for your Dante conversion?

oaktree wrote:What jump pack did you use for your Dante conversion?

I used the jump pack and wings from Astorath the Grim.

Awesome stuff!

The more I see the Sanguinary Guard models, the more I want to use them for other Marine Chapters - namely, Raven Guard!

Your work is, as always, top notch!

OMG the guard are awesome and the Dante modell is a perfect convertion

Stop posting on this forum before you make us all give up lol!

Beautiful work as expected!

beautiful, I was waiting for someone to paint up the sanguinary guard in white!

Dante will be TMP gold i assume?

Antman677 wrote:Dante will be TMP gold i assume?

Both Dante and Sanguinor will follow the colors of the guards. Since it's a successor chapter of sort they are not really Dante and Sanguinor.

ah i see...i was looking forward to more of your TMP techniques haha oh well...

are you using NMM on these guys? cant really tell from the pics

No regular TMP

oaktree wrote:The colour scheme you have chosen for your sanguinary guard is amasing, it also makes a nice change from most people painting them gold.

QFT, I love 'em! I might, um, borrow your scheme.

i also love to your stuff, I followed your blog since even before you came to Dakka. i really love 1) The colours on the Venator and the San Guard 2) The weathering on the Venator. Great work mate!

Oh and Akaranseth, would it be to much to ask what paints you used to paint the redish purple on those marines. Cheers, BT.

Bloodthirster wrote:Oh and Akaranseth, would it be to much to ask what paints you used to paint the redish purple on those marines. Cheers, BT.

Base: Sanguine Base P3
Shadows: Thamar Black P3
Highlight: a light grey... not too sure which at the moment.

Wow that was quick! Cheers, akaranseth.

Angels Encarmine paint the SG and DC Alabaster (white).

Seeing how good those look as white has me tempted to do AS army.

White and purple looks sick, can't wait to see more!

I have a land speeder liek that. Although it doesn't look like that. -_-

So last week I had to submit my HQ entry for the painting challenge at the store I work for. So here is my "count as Dante" model. A simple conversion to fit with the rest of the sanguinary guards:




Next step is Fast Attack so three landspeeders for me but before that I have a giant monster to work on call a Boelg:




You can see more angles on my site. You'll also be able to follow the progress of this piece on my blog.

My god, you're insane. Your weathering (along with everything else) Looks fantastic!

Count as Dante is downright fantastic!

What scale is that Boelg, and where did you get it?

I have to say, it's your GD silver entry that inspired me to make my Inquisitor conversion. I love your stuff, but that one especially.

person person wrote:What scale is that Boelg, and where did you get it?

It's a 54mm scale from Alambic Miniature: http://www.alambicminiature.fr/alambic/

Dante's very good; great blending. The Boelg's interesting, too--a nice sculpt! I look forward to updates.

La suite:




More angles on my blog.

Sorry for the lack of update lately. I've been busy putting online my new website: http://www.akaranseth.com/

Yeah, good luck with selling tutorials. The site looks good though. Make sure you use the belcher button.

My GD NA entry. Took bronze. For something I started last wednesday I'm pretty happy with it.



http://coolminiornot.com/257774

Great photos of an entry I am thoroughly jealous of. I love the feel of the model, the simplicity of the basing, all of the small details and the gritty realistic finish.

Was really a pleasure to meet you and a lot of the other guys from around the demon scene.

Pleasure meeting you as well.

Sir, those Krieg are awsome!!!!!! Really impressive. Seeing those makes me want to go back and redo all of mine... THANKS!!!

akaranseth wrote:Well there is some change for GD UK but it is still some space marine so I am back here for a while. So it is a landspeeder storm ready to redeploy. There is stilll some finition in the assembling process, accessories to add, battle damage, the arm of the sergeant to link to the speeder and so on but the structure is there.




The heavy bolter gunner stashing his bolter before resuming his post:


One wounded ready to patch himself:


Finally, to avoid all the trouble while painting most of the thing isn't glued yet:


The title:
Recon Mission: objective destroyed... ...redeploy...
Otherwise i feel like yellow...

akaranseth wrote:Thanks for the comments guys.

Otherwise, here are the final pictures of my landspeeder storm that won gold in 40k vehicule at GD UK:



Coolmini links:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/233077
http://www.coolminiornot.com/233076

More pictures on my site!

This has convinced me to buy some Land Speeder Storms. I might even try and amke a diorama like yours.

I'll be watching this thread very closely... do not dissappoint.

You turly are.

I noticed Akaranseth's blending is top notch and every way superior to many other GD winners.
Why did he only get bronze? do judges have something against air brushes?

LunaHound wrote:I noticed Akaranseth's blending is top notch and every way superior to many other GD winners.
Why did he only get bronze? do judges have something against air brushes?

Best way to discribe judging is the only difference between gold, and bronze is judges personal choice. A demon is a win no matter the color is what Jakob rune Neilson says.

Sir.. May I ask a question? How many demons you have won actually?

Seriously.. Your stuff keeps amaze.. You've totally deserved every demon you've won.

How to feel inadequate in one easy step? Come to this thread... Amazing stuff. Mind blowing...

LunaHound: the pictures are qyite small. I thought i had uploaded a 600 pixels... This tank was done in two days so there is plenty of little mistakes and imperfection. Overall i'm pretty happy with bronze in this case.

Xenon: this is my 17th

Lovely stuff as usual.

Looking forward to your tutorials as I found the miniature mentor one very inspirational.

Here is my duel entry presented at GD UK last weekend :



http://coolminiornot.com/260859

The Woof is great, very dynamic. The CSM seems a little static, even tho he's on one foot. It think it's because he's so square to the Woof

Wow, that looks awesome! Did it get anything?

JohnHwangDD wrote:he's so square to the woof

lol

Is it just me or are Canadians fething amazing at painting?

It got first cut.

these models are amazingg!! what i would do to paint or have models like that!!

This thread makes me so jealous. i painted my ven dread my best painted. and then i see this. its like a ferrari to an old beetle with rust and stuff. But you are a legend i saw your landspeeder storm in the whit dwarf. I loved it.

Wow. You sir are an inspiration!

I've been tracking your work for months now and you never cease to impress. Thank you for sharing!

I must ask you though, where did you get the tiles for the Tauros Venator display base? Did you make them on your own?

The tiles are precast. I don't recall from which company though. I bought a ton of it when I found a seller but can't recall the company. Only think I remember is that they are from england.

The Boelg from Alambic Miniature is finally done and ready on time for Chicago MMSI! Yeah!



Coolmini: http://coolminiornot.com/261989

Incredible. I don't know what else to say.

Thanks anyway for the tile info. I need to build a large display tray for my army. I'll keep hunting for them.

The new chaos ogre from Warhammer Forge which should be available soon. A blast to paint but a pain to photograph with its pose.



http://www.coolminiornot.com/272860

My project for the French GD, a spider a bit too big to my liking...



The painted base:


More pictures and angles on my site(http://www.akaranseth.com/category/blog). I'm going back to paint...

that looks amazing!

Here's the Ghazghkull Thraka that I've painted for the Heroes of Armageddon:

Your work is incredible. I can really appreciate the time it must have taken to get these to look perfect.

True class, sir

Jaw=dropped...

That sir is a thing of pure beauty, breathtaking in execution.

Death Korps Macharius




Coolmini

More pictures on my site.

Next Step:

What model is that??

Looks awesome

Vitruvian XVII wrote:What model is that??

It's a Chaos Knight edited by Coolminiornot.

Holy Moly Mole Launcher that tank is incredible! Very well done to you sir!

Grazghkull is amazing too, such beautiful colour work on the armour.