Very nice work!

11th page! Not to bad at all

Anyway, the banner bearer is all done with the exception of a few little bits. Please give me you thoughts!

The banner was copied from a picture off the internet, I drew (not traced!) the image onto another bit of paper, scaling it down at the same time. I then painted over the pencil with paints trying to keep as close to the original image as I could (the original image below)

http://sepulchreofheroes.blogspot.com/2009/11/blood-angels-banner.html





There is a bit of an unsightly line in the middle of the banner from the original pencil marks. It should come off easily enough though.





Wow! This has been a busy weekend for me. I hope to get a lot of painting done in the months to come so look out for moah stuff!

I really like that model....its so unusual to see a banner waving terminator. I'm scared of doing banners so I think the one you've done is all the better.

Brother Wolverine from the previous page is gorgeously painted too. OLS is looking good.

Peter

Thanks PDH, glad you like them!

After having a Christmas break, I am back to painting and very daunted by the huge pile of models to paint. Anyway, I have painted another DC marine. It only took me two hours to do as I was painting feverishly trying to get it done at 10 o'clock last night.





Blue flames





Happy new year!

Nce work!

Love the blue flames.

Thanks! Those flames are a hit, thanks for whoever gave that suggestion to me (I forget who it was! )

Good work here! And a very great sense of esthetic.

I have finished the last two death company, they turned out very well. Hope you like them!

Sargent with glowing plasma pistol







And the last trooper.

Looking good Cain. I may have to buy a set of the Legion of the Damned to paint up
Sadly, on my SW army I am starting, no blue flames

No blue flames! Nooo!

Glad you like them.

those models are so sick

Great idea of using LoTD as death company, and they look great.

Blue flames are the shiznit!

Love that banner btw. All my banners on anything and everything are blank 'cause I don't trust my skills yet.

Nice job on the last two Death Company Cain, does this mean we'll see a group shot of the unit soon?

Thanks guys! Here is the group pic for monkey-



New years dinner table present




I have also been working on my tyranids army and am trying to finish it before it becomes the 6th anniversary of not having finished them yet. Lictor and strange plant thing from 'battle for Magragge'







I am now clean out of blood red paint, time to paint some IG methinks!

I have finished painting the sanguinary priest. The armour is all blood splattered and worn to show that he is often found where the fighting is he thickest.





A little freehand on the pad.




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I also finished the scout sentinel with camo netting. It is amazing what a bit of bandage and devlan mud can do!





Tried out some weathering powders on the foot



I may not have many interesting updates for a while now as I am simply basing all my marines at once (airbrush is needed!)

Another termie that is almost finished. I had a go at some battle damage, let me know what you think!

The red armour looks a little funny in these pics, could be the lighting.

I'm guessing those are the space hulk Termies? I need to find a way to track some of them down. They have great dynamic poses.

Yep, space hulk termies. I hear that they are selling for quite a bit on Ebay, glad I bought the set when I did

Does anyone know a good (simple) tutorial on how to create press molds? I have been searching for them but they never seem to make much sense. I am planning on casting some BA bits that I have lying around as I need a lot of them to decorate a whole fortress of redemption While I am on that subject, do you think the fortress should be painted a nice deep red colour or black to represent a Death Company outpost of some sort?

Cain

flip over a base and fill it with GS, slather on olive oil ( or your lube of choice) and press in your master...should leave you with a fairly nice mould.

Thanks Blackhand!

Well, I have been working hard at numerous school projects but find myself sitting at my desk with a paintbrush in hand. The next day, two more termies painted up and a 600 word essay complete. Not bad

Termie number one with a salvaged space hulk flamer.







*NOTE- This termie above was actually painted without Blood Red paint, the basis of all my other maines. He may look a little dull but I shall have to mix a brighter red to add on to the armour (or invest in some new paints )

Termie number two-Battle-Brother Paulo







And for your viewing enjoyment, here is the group shot of all the finished AoBR Terminators. It just goes to show that with a bit of imagination and an nice big bitz box the possibilities that every miniature has.




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BTW, where would a good place to purchase Terminator size bases be? I am thinking Ebay must be the best spot.

Great job with the rust powders! They are so much fun to work with. Also your Space Hulk termies good sweet, I can't really see what your saying about the red though. I guess we are our own worst critics.

Keep up the great work,
Mike

Thanks marty! You have reminded me to finish that diorama. Oh, and that has also reminded me to finish the crashed valk. All I need is some proper sand which seems to be lacking despite living one minute away from the beach (it could be something to do with the 10cm of snow that we are getting )

After deciding that I needed a break from painting 40k, I dug out this OOP Rackham model that has been lying around for some time. The detail on the model was incredible! There are necklaces, bones and human fingers scattered all around him. The rocks were my own idea as the rock on the bottom was supposed to go on his back but I changed it for some scenery instead.



As you can probably tell, I am not going to be moving this model around too much, the rocks are a little wobbly!





View from the back.



And finally, a close-up od the staff that is causing all the mayhem



Ta ta for now!

That looks really cool Cain! But what is the symbol on the bottom rock?

I am not really sure, some arcane magical symbol I presume. Does the glow look good on the rock? I was unsure if I should keep it or not.

The glow is great. I love your glowing effects. That symbol looks like a certain WWII emblem though. Just a little curvier

I never noticed that, I am sure it was not intended to be that way when the sculptor was making it.

LOL I sure hope not. Other than that nice model and great paint job.

OK, so I am back to painting 40k and the IG needed a paint touch-up. Yesterday I painted a HW team, and 5-man squad. Hope you like them!





Comparison shot of the veteran (RPG guy) and the regular trooper.



Valkyrie pilot body and sentinel driver head. Free guardsman!





Sergeant, notice the battle damage on the chainsword.



Grenadier



And two other troopers.






The effect I am trying to achieve with the armour is an extremely worn, damaged green the has seen a lot of trench warfare. The same goes for the veteran except his original colour would have been white.

I still have another 25 troopers and 2 HW teams to finish. I am not really sure where a whole 10-man squad came from because I have only ever bought two sets!

Cain

Very cool Cain, nice to see an update on this project.

Thanks Rose!

I have been doing some more work on the grot diorama (a few pages back) The grots are almost finished and the ork has had his skin all done though I could not take a good picture of him.









I have also finished a knight that has been on my painting table for far too long

Nice updates, I always like to look at your stuff. Love the dirty looking imperial guard. Is the battle damage sponged on in places?

That's a pretty hillarious diorama Cain. I'm not sure the Grot Remote Pilot will read clearly, but I really like it knowing that's what's going on. Will they be on separate bases or one big piece?

Grot's looking good Cain, nice job on Supe's armour.

Nice painting style, it really comes together on the brett. Good work!

Thanks guys! I might have the controller grot steering with the pack like a huge joystick, just need to figure out how to do it


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@wazzdig, yes I sponged on most of the damage as it works really well on armour.
@good green, I am in the process of making a large base for them all to be set out on. Hope it works!

Here is how far I am at on my BA army, still a few models to paint and a command squad and sang guard set in the post

So far the army stands at this;
3 tac squads
1 veteran squad
1 scout squad
3 termie squads
termie apothecary
2 DC squads
1 commander
1 command squad (not in pic)
2 librarians (power armour and termie armour)
1 assault squad-5 man
1 dred
1 sang guard squad (not in pic)
1 rhino
1 land speeder




I intend to have a lot of subtle conversions throughout the two chapters (1st and 2nd) Painting 200 marines could get a little boring otherwise





Robed vets and beakie vets together.



Might need to adjust the sergeants pose a little!



All the termies so far



The latest tac squad, note the pre heresy trooper with custom helmet and pack.



BFM squad with head swaps (gives them much more interesting poses)



And finally some DC with a dred in the background



I am still adding to the army and will have a fully painted 1st and second company painted as well as a command company (35 sang guard, Dante and others). Should be finished by the end of the week

Wish me luck! I am going to need it!

Updated the paint scheme on my troops, putting me back to a whole three BA painted to this date

The troops will eventually have their heads removed and replaced like these guys but I have too much other stuff to be getting on with ATM



Anyway, here are the pics. *insert obligatory complaint about quaility of pics...*













Group shot



And finally a little guy from the space hulk set, chopped up a bit to make it look useful in a warzone (inspiration is completley stolen from Major Tom )



Happy valentines day!

Commander Cain wrote:

Isn't the genestealer going to miss that? Love the BA and IG, and your skin is great!

Wow i must have missed you last few updates matey,to my loss it seems ! what a collection of beautiful minis. Where to start.... well the death company look great , the blue flames look especially nice , iam actually looking for some examples of blue flames today so i got lucky ;-) thebn we have the amzingly detailed rackham, i do like their minis i have never owned any , but love the detail and movement the seem to achieve. much nicer than comparable citadel in my oppinion, good work with the rocks and the eery green glow.
where next...arh the cadian heavy weapon team , i think i said this before but very creative basing there mate, and you have weatherd the shoulderpads really well,i like where your going with this style. And who could forget the piece de resistance..a grot in power armour for your clever diorama, such a cheecky fellow, and the rust is well ..er rusty! ;-) is the diorama finished mate?
but whats this still more .. and what a sublime miniture you have for us in this chivalric knight ..first rate work, abosolutely loving that heraldry , perfect the wood is good too.

so anymore ..yep..good old reliable bloody angles ;-) lots to do their mate i expect that will keep you busy a while yet. although i think i find my first critique..well it cant be all good can it;-) the paint looks a little thick on your marines , and if you insist well the pic qaulity could be better.

finally , last but by no means least , we have a cute bot , that looks like its escaped from monkeytrolls grimsnick or is it upzag's workbench

top dollar performance all round .. but and there is a but .. where is the amazingly painted DKOK we all know yuo have stashed in your cupboards..come on share with the class

@ whalemusic, you have a good eye! Thanks for the comments!
@Neil, truly my greatest thanks especially coming from you as I am constantly inspired by your work (especially the tank and artillery gun). As for those amazing death korps, well I have decided on a paint scheme for them, green trench coats with bronze armour (I shall have to scan in the pic where I got the inspiration from).

Pics anyone? How about an IG convoy getting ambushed at the side of the fortress by a horde of genestealers? (I will finish that valk one of these days )



Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to paint? I deal with it by buying more models to distract me, it does not help in the long run

Commander Cain wrote:Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to paint? I deal with it by buying more models to distract me, it does not help in the long run

Amen to that brother!

BTW seeing your Baneblade reminded me that I bought another set of sponsons for mine...seriously badass!

Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

4 Genestealers and 7 mines Vs a Baneblade, 2 Sentinels, a LR, a chimera, and troops, my money is on the nids!

Little does the Guard know that one of those mines is actually a new species called a "vortex Spore mine" and it works the same way as one of those stupid grenades minus the scatter. It detonates when killed. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


OH and it uses the 10" blast template instead of the small blast template

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

I'm sensing a pattern here...

man if those spore mines were sentient , they would know that was a silly idea, huzzah for lazy hivemind!

OK so maybe the frontal tyranid assault is a bit pathetic, but what do you think the troops fron the chimera are aiming at?

Tin cans? Nothing better to shoot at, theres a friggin baneblade next to em. Was that a Spearhead game?

I love your grots!

And finally a little guy from the space hulk set, chopped up a bit to make it look useful in a warzone (inspiration is completley stolen from Major Tom )



Happy valentines day!

It look like a skutter from red dwarf, i love it

The armour on that gramine (grot-marine ) looks brilliant.

Arakasi wrote:

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

I'm sensing a pattern here...

I do this too btw. Only its more like "You know what I need? Nothing, but I want 2 storm ravens and 2 Furioso Dreads. And lets add a Trygon. And a Broadside. Yeah, that'll teach those annoying troop choices who the boss is!" followed by "I don't feel like painting any of this crap, I should get some FW stuff" followed by "Wonder if I can make a conversion for the Doom of Malinti? I need to get some supplies, because clearly nothing I have here will work, so I'm not even going to look"

Gotta say... I just LOVE the grot in Marine Armor. You wouldn't consider one of those for the GMS would you??

*grin*

Ahh, WM, that I understand only too well Although I'd probably space that lot out over a few purchases.

Thanks a bunch for the encouragement guys!

WM and monkey, we seem to share the same mind. Only last week, I planned out how much it would cost to buy the entire BA chapter, DC and all!. $4000 is not too bad when you look a it with an open mind

Gits, I am clean out of termie legs right now BUT, I noticed the DA chapter upgrade frame comes with some legs as well a 5 marines for the incredible price of $16 (add to cart , why does this always happen?). I may just make another one for the GMS as I have most of the other parts available including a baneblade flamer. All I would need is some grot arms and I am sure I could shave a few skaven ones as they are the perfect size.



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Okay, so if I bought 3 sets of DA vets, I would have 15 troops and could also make 3 iron grotz. Sounds like a plan to me!

I can contribute pars to the effort I'm pretty sure.. think I have a few sets of termie legs somewhere.

The DA kit used to be even cheaper (why I have so many!) at $20 a kit, but the kit had double sprues! I think I got 4 kits (8 of the current). You'll need bases though, it has none.

And as to my large orders, I get a great discount from a guy i found, but only in large orders (smallest has been about $350 retail, largest close to a grand).

Thanks for the offer of legs Gits, but I will probably buy the sets anyway as I already have one set from years back and a squad of 5 always looks a little lonely

At WM, I am sure I have plenty of small bases lying around, I may have to look to ebay for some termie sized ones however.

(however did you manage to spend a grand on warhammer?!)

Commander Cain wrote:(however did you manage to spend a grand on warhammer?!)

Commander Cain wrote: $4000 is not too bad when you look a it with an open mind

Have to say that does make me feel a bit better about my collection now though Back when I had a disposable income and GW had a bits service (the loss of that is always my primary gripe with GW) I'd get a big box pretty much every couple of months.

That's just me dreaming monkey! I only get lots of 40k around Christmas as I spend the rest of the year painting it all up!

Commander Cain wrote:

At WM, I am sure I have plenty of small bases lying around, I may have to look to ebay for some termie sized ones however.

(however did you manage to spend a grand on warhammer?!)

It doesn't come with enough bits to make termis (no torsos), so you'll be safe there.

Oh and to hit a grand I got:
X2 GF9 Concrete Rubble Mix ($3.99 each)
X1 Apocolypse Book ($50)
X1 Apoc Reloaded ($29)
X1 Apoc Templates ($22)
X1 Battlefield Accessories ($11.50)
X1 Sanguinary Guard ($33)
X2 Assault Squad ($29.75)
X1 Drop Pod ($33)
X1 Baal Pred ($49.50)
X1 Vindicator ($44.50)
X1 IG Codex ($29)
X1 Cadain Battleforce ($95.00)
X2 Cadain shock troops ($24.75)
X2 Cadain command squads ($25.00)
X2 Leman Russ Battle tanks ($49.50)
X1 Leman Russ Demolisher ($49.50)
X2 Hellhound ($49.50)
X2 Basilisks ($49.50)
X1 Eldar Codex ($29)
X1 Eldar Battleforce ($90.00)

For a whooping retail total of $1028.98

My next closest was like $600.

I do want to point out that I should the IG (decided against starting them at this time) and gave my brother the eldar. I also got quite a discount, that price was retail.

Also makes me realize how much my collection has cost. Holy crap! At the current retail price, my Land Raiders alone are over $500!

Nice NMM!

Well, it has been a long time! What with all these commisions and other projects getting in the way, I have not had much chance to paint anything of my own until now. I went paint crazy this weekend and finished two termies (only two more left now!) and three guardsmen that have been sitting around for far too long. Anyway here they are

The termies have some battle damage that I may add to the rest of the squads as I quite like it! I also gave them glowing eyes as I found the faces a little flat. The assault cannon has some scorch marks from GW washes that I have never tried before, apart from that they are pretty regular. Just need to get some bases for them now.









And the other termie,



More source lighting,








And the imperial guard, this group who I have named the Artic Foxes as they originally came from an ice moon, although as you can tell from the state of their armour they are on a slightly muddier planet

The troops vary in armour darkeness to represent how long they have spent in service, ranging from almost 10 years to a couple of months.

Group shot,



The railgun wielding trooper,

(there is osl on the gun, it is just not visible!)



these faces are turning out pretty well,





A lasgun trooper with scope (taken from a SM scout)





The armour is SO easy to do! The trick is sponging on some charadon granite for the chips,





And I almost forgot this guy, a newbie into the ranks of guard as you can tell by his armour and the emerald eagle on his helmet.

I have put a symbol on his shouderpad but it was to complex and I think I will remove it. It was a claw holding a ringed planet.



*fun fact* I was painting the yellow stripes on the guys gun when I caught a whiff of the paint and thought to myself "it smells like Tau" Who else goes to war in yellow armour!? well, besides



Hopefully I can get one more guy painted up before the end of the day, then it is back to commisions!

Nice work my friend, love the termie with the assault cannon. I was just reminiscing with some new friends at Adepticon as to how when I first started playing 40k 20 years ago or so, a terminator with an assault cannon was a god on the battlefield. Nice to see such a good treatment of an old concept.

Those termis look BA (pun intended) . Chipping came out very nice.

Thanks guys!

Here is a deffkopta that I have been putting off for far to long!

(I noticed that I forgot to paint the rockets!)





And a couple of shots of the two together.

Very orky Cain. I approve!

Great weathering on all miniatures. The Deffkoptas look like flying scrap metal, or in other words, exactly as Gork and Mork have intended. The assault cannon gunner is also my favorite. Not exactly sold as far as the Guard is concerned, but maybe that's because I think the whites and yellows make them firepower magnets. Too much olive drab and feldgrau for me lately!

Nice to see your own minis making an appearance again commander. The Termies are cool , and the guardsmen have some serious weathering going on. ( the rail gun is a nice addition too matey )

Is that a custom rotary blade on the gyrocopter? nice touch .

Three months late there Neil! Thanks anyway! I can say that I have piles more guardsmen on there way very shortly (I may even have some pics of them uploaded by the end of the day)

That is indeed a custom blade made from the remains of a superglue container (the flexy metal part)

Like I said, I have got a squad of stormtroopers painted, a DC tank and am just putting the finishing touches on a vet squad. I had a few commisions to finish and still need to get a GMS marine done up before I get too carried away with my own stuff!

Cain


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Found some pics of my death company that have been waiting to be uploaded for a long time!

Please not that the red is not finished on any of these models, I still have to purchase some blood red paint!












And now for the Rhino that I really wanted to paint but had no red, DC transport and problem solved!
Please go easy on it, this is only my second tank I have ever painted!!









More pics on their way...

I like the osl on the front lights quite a bit, and for any number tank painted it's still good- sharp colour, some good weathering, blah blah blah etc. etc. etc.

Keep painting. Kaesar II

Thanks Kaesar!

Found some more pics of the tank and its crew...



Group shot



Interior (boltgun is still PIP)



I also have some mroe pics in my gallery if you are interested!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/26800-Commander%20Cain.html

Thanks for looking!

Cain

really cool stuff mate, the OSL is good, and i love the interior! What brush do you use for fine details like the radar ping?

Commander Cain wrote:Three months late there Neil! Thanks anyway!

Now that is fashionabley late I really must keep track of my subscriptions better

lovely work with your death company , Taken notes of the black for my own deathwatch guy. what colour did you highlight the armour with? The blue screens are great too mate, that black blue gradient is super

Thanks guys! I used a super detail brush for the interior, the trick is to start with a very dark colour and work upwards to an almost-white version of the base.

Don't worry about the necro Neil, you made me post an update! The armour only got a single highlight of adeptus battlegrey with some chainmail chipping in spots.

thanks again!

Cain

Love that control panel! Maybe a little heavy (or diffuse?) on the headlight OSL... but nice all the same.

Thanks gits! Thanks for the input on the osl, still practicing!

It's not easy to get a feel for... I'm still struggling on my own experiments so please take the comment as from one who's still learning himself.

You are right about it being a little tricky gits! Especially when all I have to use is a good old paintbrush

Found some pics of my BA scouts that have been given all manner of conversions. Hope you all like them!

Heavy stubber guy







Bolter trooper





Shotgunner





and a trooper with silencer





Need some more pics of the sergeant, here is a group shot to keep you happy!



Back in a sec...


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'ere we go, pics as promised!





Cain

I've got an old scout with autocannon. I still use him as a counts-as heavy bolter... just love the figure.

I like this thread!

Finished up my officer of the fleet. I will put a pic up of him here also but other pics can be found in my gallery of the model showcase

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/384307.page




Cain

Huh, guess you don't like him too much

How about a grot? Gotta love these guys. I use them for new paint experiments, this guy was my way of testing out a different way of painting metal. What do you think?









Before I forget. Whalemusic, your marine is almost finished! I have had a shoulder pad to paint for tha last few weeks and have been puttign it off until canada post is cooperating again (strikes! ) Wouldn't want him getting lost in the warp after all this time!

What is next? Time for an IG army shot methinks...

Spelling is also off today


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Ahh! Bright pics!

Missed the officer, but he looks really good! Does the model do anything in game, or is it just a display piece?

Always like grots, there's just something about em. The skin looks really good, but I think the weapons look almost too worn and weathered. I think the rock on the base should help balance out such a top heavy model

If I remember right, an officer of the fleet can call an orbital bombardment, think of him as a leman russ on a 25mm base

Completley agree with you about how worn the weapons look, pehaps he found them while scrounging around his little rock planet! Perhaps I willl save that metal effect for bases only.

Commander Cain wrote:If I remember right, an officer of the fleet can call an orbital bombardment, think of him as a leman russ on a 25mm base

Completley agree with you about how worn the weapons look, pehaps he found them while scrounging around his little rock planet! Perhaps I willl save that metal effect for bases only.

No, It's the MoO that does that. The officer of the fleet forces the enemy to -1 from his reserve rolls.

oops, got that rule wrong, an officer subtracts 1 from the opponents reserve rolls and you can also make him reroll to determine where they arrive. Handy

IM beat me too it, and I had the 'dex in front of me!

The mark of true offider material - he knows how to avoid getting too muddy in a field of mud
Looks good Cain, and I like the metal on the grot's stuff, nothing's too worn for greenskins.

Thanks monkey!

This lot have been finished for ages, I just never got round to taking pics of them!

Stormtrooper squad.







Poor fella on the left lost his backpack down a sofa








Veteran squad







Bastonne counts-as, not that he is much good in battle for his points cost. Oh well!





More in a moment!

Very gritty (in a good way)

These are great, love the simple weathering...

Thanks guys! Glad you like the weathering.

You will all realise that these are mainly just repaints of the same models but I can promise that this will be the last one!

Anyway, I promised more pics so here they are...

Random squad made of spare guardsmen











And a HWS.

Don't you hate it when you delete you whole blog post the second before it is finished. Yeah me too...



Okay, second try,

Got some command squad pics for you, still some guys to paint for this but here ae the ones that are finished.



Lord Commisar and banner bearer



Freehand banner, banner is from a bretonnian knight set. I coudn't stand the original metal duvet the poor guy had to drag around with him.



Psyker, and dude





And there ya go, all up to date! I even had time to tidy my gallery up as it was getting a bit disorganised!

Cain

Objective marker wip is up next, in serious need of painting tips for that!

Very nice work Cain. Command squad looks really choice.

I had to share this with the dakka community, I just could not resist. It seems that not even the Blood Angels death company are imune to the callings of nurgle.

Behold, the mold marine!



Super zoomy in the gallery

Not quite sure how this happened, it was fine yesterday!

Any ideas on how to save him from this taint? I really do not fancy throwing him out

Wow, and he was fine yesterday? That's a mighty dose of something that Papa Nurgle's gifted him with. I can only suggest washing thoroughly with warm water/liquid soap, then sealing to prevent a re-occurence before moving on with the painting. No idea what would have caused such a quick spread on a painted mini though?

Were your fingers covered in grease (like, food grease) last time you handled it?

I think anvildude must have the right idea, I must have gotten some food on him at some point. atm I am living in a rather damp gloomy basement until the rest of the house is finished. Perfect conditions for nurgle to corrupt my marines!

After checking through the rest of my collection, a couple of other guys have gone sightly fluffy though none as bad as this one.

Time for those guys to have a quick bath methinks, can't be having that stuff spread!

Or you could just start a Nurgle army. Do a Quick coat of clear spray-varnish, though- don't want to get sic!

it must be quite moist where you kept the poot chap. Why not let it grow for the sake of science (and my couriosity)? You can always clean him later.....

D00d, if I were you, I would scrub the place with bleach or something. That's probably not good to be living and breathing with whatever bacterial funk that is.

Tsk Tsk, Mr Merlin, you have woken my thread from it's deep slumber!

Fortunately for you, I was planning on updating it anyway




For those of you who are interested, the nurgle infection had spread throughout my marines, while I have stopped it spreading further (I hope) I will probably start the army afresh!


Here is the plan...

I am now left with a bitz box brimming with around $300 of marines, most unpainted or basecoated. I could choose to continue painting them as BA but seeing as I was planning on starting a pre-heresy army, I decided to go all out!

Alternate Future Thousand Sons!

Now we all know that they became followers to Chaos during the Horus Heresy, but what if the fates had taken a different course? What if this loyal legion had remained on the side of mankind?

I intend to construct a fairly large sized army of these chaps, using a blend of GW and FW armours and a variety of bits from other companies. I will probably make some of the better know figures in the legion such as Ahriman and Phosis T'kar, maybe even the primarch himself! (although I am not too fond of Mangus to be honest) I hope to have made some decent progress in the next couple of months but will really get into the swing of things after the new year!

I have already assembled a couple of guys and will be posting a big, pic loaded update tomorrow when I have some natural light.



Until I have got the necessary parts to construct the Sons, I have plenty more to do!

I recently purchased the fortress kit from Warmill http://www.warmill.co.uk/Fortress_Kit/p814918_3938335.aspx
It is a fantastic piece of terrain and I highly recommend it to you all! I will be doing a review of it as soon as possible. One of the towers is all painted up but there is a lot more left!

Remember this guy?



I have now finished basing it! Now all that is left to do is improve the paintjob... Darn perfectionism!

To go alongside the valk, I have finished painting the Aquila lander from the BFM set along with a GW bastion, as you may have guessed, I went on a terrain making spree a couple of weeks ago!

Sorry for not having any pics of this stuff, but just check back tomorrow night and there will be a nice chunky update for you all!

Cain

YAY! I was hoping this thread would come back, and glad you caught it before a Mod did.

That Fortress is WICKED and I so want one! Yes please do put up pics and a short review. Our newest interest is Planetstrike and I need buildings that are not blown up. The GW stuff comes to mind but this post reminded me that I should check what is out there before dropping the $$$.

Looking forward to seeing whatever you do next!

I was happy to find out it was me who brought it back

Nice to see that you are reanimating the blog CC. I've always liked your cool creations.

Thanks guys!

Here are the pics as promised, they are not as good quality as I had hoped, I set up my photo booth, turned around and the sun had gone!

Anyway, here they are!

BFM pylons, they only took me four years to get painted!



And the crashed lander from the same set...









More pics when they load!

Until then, here is the finished Warmill tower.







This next pic shows ,my experiments with FW weathering powders, there is some aged rust, light rust, bone dust AND moss green on it, Can you spot them all?



This thing was great fun to paint and very fast also!



Next up, some pics of what I still have to paint and the downed valk

I am a big fan of the alternate heresy armies. There was a campaign for them some time ago on B&C iirc.

Yeah, I have wanted to try something along these lines for a while now. I am not sure if I should use the Dornian Heresy fluff (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/heresy/thedornianheresy.pdf) or make my own? Ah well, I will grt to that when the time comes!

ps, Your marine is winging it's way to you Mr Whalemusic, I have no idea when it will arrive but it took weeks and week to get here so I expect it will take some time!

Seems to be hit or miss between Canada and USA, sometime takes a week, sometimes 3. Never know, lol. Looking forward to him, he and one from another dakkanaut will fill the 4 HW slots in my devi sqaud, and I even have a Sgt for them from another!

Thats the one I was thinking of. I hope you don't go the GK 1k sons route, seems a bit overdone now. Doesn't really seem your style anyways.

No I am certainly staying clear of the GK route, while it may fit for game purposes, I prefer to go my own way!

More pics for you guys...





What do you think of my new hardwood flooring? Pretty nice huh?



GW bastion (curses! I forgot to paint the bolter bits!)







There, that should sate you hobby appetite for a while!

I will update tomorrow with pics of the valk and super fortress, until then adios!

By the way, would you all prefer for me to start a seperate 1k Sons thread or mingle it in with this? I am leaning more towards making another blog just to keep things neat and tidy.

Nope, dump it in this bad boy. More progress in few spots > fewer progress in more spots.

What colors did you use on the lander and the bastion? I want to avoid all my terrain being gray or black eventually

Its back from the dead.....Wicked stuff Commander , good and unusual colour choice for the scenery , really stands out . The Weathering on the warmill tower is just superb, tutorial would be good if you get time . and the crashed vehicles are equally great, wile your at it a tutorial for those lenses wouldn't harm either i know you have nothing else better to do

The thousand sons project sounds exciting , will you be doing the classic gold and blue ? or is there future a different colour . loads of cool stuff matey good to have you back posting again.

That Warmill Tower is absolutley fantastic! The weathering powders really give it that realistic, wet environment look!

I really enjoy the weathering, dirt and gritty and abandoned.

What's your opinion of the Warmill stuff?

And I personally prefer different threads, keeps things more focused and you tend to meet different people that follow different things.

@WM, if I recall correctly, the basecoat was dhneb stone with heaps of browns added on after (the warmill tower got poster paints as they went on better).

@Neil, Thanks dude! I will do some tuts when I get the chance

I willl probably go with the pre-heresy red and gold to make them stand out better (and every marine in my army is basecoated red! )

@dstein, thanks dude!


@Bloodaxe: I LOVE the warmill stuff!! It is so full of character and immensely fun to build, if you ever got one of those wooden dinosaur kits when you were little it was like that, execpt that the wood does not snap the second you take it out of the sprue. I will be doing a review as soon as I can for the general public!

Also, I think I may do a separate thread, perhaps just showing off the finished guys in here but having a different progress log so that I can put the fluff in.

Thanks for the continued support guys!

I will try and get more piccys up tonight or tomorrow, keep you eyes peeled!

Alot of good stuff in here.

Wow, updated two blogs in one day!

For those of you who did not know, my thousand sons blog is now separate. Link in my sig!

But that is not why I am here oh no...I have begun my painting extravaganza, seeing how much I can get done before Christmas!

I have had a Chimera sitting on my shelf since my last birthday and decided it was high time I did something with it. Here ya go!











I also converted a landspeeder up for my guard. Inspired by Ash1's incredible guard army, check it out, well worth a look!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/351655.page

Man those look chewed on... great work!!

Thanks Gits! Anyone know what is up with these pics? The last three are supposed to be the land speeder but show up as other things except when you click on them. Is this just my computer?

Pics look fine to me mate.

Meh, laptop is messing everything up. Forget I said anything!

Looks like a land speeder to me

A painting extravaganza eh? Look forward to seeing what you place before us.

Chimera and 'speeder look very nice, like the weathering.

Up next? Well I just repainted a sentinel and I have started on a fortress of redemption!

Land Speeders look excellent, especially like the spattered weathering, makes it look like it's seen plenty of service / action.

Fantastic work on the weathering! also checked out the Warmill site,thanks for sharing that,some great stuff on there.

*Brushes dust off blog*

Well, as some of you probably know, I have been tied up with my Thousand Sons for a while since I put them on their own blog. However, I recently built this cool Necron conversion that I just had to share. Hope you like him!







While I don't collect Necrons, I just had to pick up the Lychguard kit because it was just so full of interesting bits. If every get round to building the rest of them I will post them here!

I have also finished up a squad of genestealers (finally!) Still need to get pics of them though!

-Cain


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Hey! Never posted pics of the crashed valk.... Oops, next update perhaps.

I love getting kits for bitz! I really dig the light pole man!