Ha ha, ahh you made me feel bad about lurking. I have been watching this thread for a while.
I like the colour schemes and nice painting.

Interesting colours for the base, I shall have to give it a go as I usually paint my rocks dark grey followed by lighter grey and then even lighter grey.

These chaps look awesome
I love the use of the 3 eyed helmet, I've always loved that variation more than the other.

Looking forward to seeing more

Dr H wrote:Ha ha, ahh you made me feel bad about lurking. I have been watching this thread for a while.
I like the colour schemes and nice painting.

Interesting colours for the base, I shall have to give it a go as I usually paint my rocks dark grey followed by lighter grey and then even lighter grey.

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

Wolf wrote:These chaps look awesome
I love the use of the 3 eyed helmet, I've always loved that variation more than the other.

Looking forward to seeing more

Wolf - Thanks... and here's the next one:

Stormbringer Bannerman 2:

 Lamby wrote:

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

No worries. It can get like that sometimes in here. It's easy to think you're talking to yourself sometimes.

New dude looks good. I like how you get them looking ancient and battered but still functional.
You may have mentioned it earlier but is that done with washes or something else?

That banner bearer is brilliant. I love the base and the cloak!

Dr H wrote:

 Lamby wrote:

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

No worries. It can get like that sometimes in here. It's easy to think you're talking to yourself sometimes.

New dude looks good. I like how you get them looking ancient and battered but still functional.
You may have mentioned it earlier but is that done with washes or something else?

Dr H - so the weathering is as simple as I could make it, after the 6 layer green recipe which nearly drove me insane!

After completing the green (highlights and all) i sponged Dark Flesh carefully at first, and then later carelessly (you can see the first 3 are slightly less chipped than the next 3) over all the green and silver - I painted the gold after the chipping but before the wash.

Then I sprayed them with gloss varnish and applied an all over wash of Winsor and Newton brown oil paint - the oil runs nicely into crevices and after a few drying minutes I went back in with a make-up applicator and removed the wash where i didn't want it.
Seriously, try oil washes - no pooling like acrylic and if you don't want it somewhere you basically just wipe it away!
(Does take at least 24 hours to dry completely.)

When that dried, I went back in with a small dry-brush and applied highlights back to the silvers, then high-lighted the gold and did some minor extra chipping where it was needed.

Finally I've added some very light washes on the silvers using Nuln Oil and Liche Purple - it's subtle and doesn't really show in the pics, but makes a huge difference to blades especially.

Hope that helps!

Squigsquasher wrote:That banner bearer is brilliant. I love the base and the cloak!

Squigsquasher - Thanks! The cloaks are a combo of red washes in the shadow areas over a base coat of Dheneb Stone, then Space Wolves Grey dry-brushing the raised areas, then the oil wash, then another dry brush... happy accident really!

Here's a shot of the latest three together...

Cool, thanks. Very interesting.

 Dr H wrote:
Cool, thanks. Very interesting.

Dr H - No worries.

And here's Stormbringer Raptor 1:

Good pose. He looks really casually violent.

 Dr H wrote:
Good pose. He looks really casually violent.

Dr H - Cheers! That's the look I was going for - I think it's all in the legs, they're GK Space Marine legs, which have slightly more dynamic poses than the original SM range.

Thanks for looking and commenting!

Cheers.

Ridiculously large weapon - check
Ubiquitous hazard stripes - check
Inordinate amount of skulls - check

Stormbringer Flamer dude:

Nice hazard stripes. Good job.

 Dr H wrote:
Nice hazard stripes. Good job.

Dr H - Thanks! ... and hand-painted too, cos I used all my decal stripes up on the Blood Raven's Predator.

Really love that Heavy Flamer conversion, and the blog in general.

What ever happened to those epic terminators that you made a good while ago?

 Medium of Death wrote:
Really love that Heavy Flamer conversion, and the blog in general.

What ever happened to those epic terminators that you made a good while ago?

Medium of Death - Thanks!
And those Mournblade Terminators... they still exist. I scrapped the 3rd build (the Lord) so there's only the two - and they sit on my desk staring at me, daring me to paint them... maybe...
(But I still have nightmares about painting the green...)

Stormbringer Raptor # 2:

Raptors:



And Missile Rack guy:








"He's too close for missiles, I'm switching to guns!"

Blimey that's a large missile rack he's got there.
Good job on the paint job.

 Dr H wrote:
Blimey that's a large missile rack he's got there.
Good job on the paint job.

Dr H - Thanks again! ... it was quite a job to convince him to carry it too...

And now, Rocket Launcher dude - displaying excessive skulls and disdain for human life as he drills some hapless Imperial trooper between the eyes with his bolter while casually shouldering his mini-nuke...

Mini-Gun dude:










My personal favourite conversion of this group.

Very nice, Lamby! They are all looking great!

And, yes, I love that minigunner, too, you did a great job with him!

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Very nice, Lamby! They are all looking great!

And, yes, I love that minigunner, too, you did a great job with him!

Matt.Kingsley - Thanks!

Working on the base for the still-not-finished-painting Stalker...

Re-model on the weapons to provide some more area for hazard stripes - and reduce the amount of gold 'bling' to paint - and the base is ready for painting:


Base detail:


(Just realised have to glue those middle toes down!)

Stalker engine nearing completion:

Big guns and hazard stripes:


Pilot... Possibly an anti-penitent, or reluctant volunteer...


Basing almost done - some more rust work needed on the metal debris:

Looks very promising Lamby. Lovely rust. Look forward to seeing it complete.

 Dr H wrote:
Looks very promising Lamby. Lovely rust. Look forward to seeing it complete.

Cheers Dr H - made some more progress tonight but unable to take pics - I'd be further along but I fiddled around trying to get the re-build of Sgt Slaughter to work... still not working though...

Well, it's done...

The Stalker Engine ... and the Anti-Penitent:

Awesome. Very cool build and nice painting as always.
Not someone you want to kick you in the goolies...

 Dr H wrote:
Awesome. Very cool build and nice painting as always.
Not someone you want to kick you in the goolies...

Dr H - Thanks! and no, a kick in the goolies with those boots would be devastating... haha, I just realised I built his legs as CCW!

Base details:

The Anti-Penitent... also known as the Reluctant...

Looks good!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Looks good!

Squigsquasher - Thanks! ... been a while since anyone looked at this blog!

I blame KrautScientist...

I've been concentrating on my Inqu][sitor models (and blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/532626.page ) recently, but every Hero needs an Enemy, so I started work on a Dark Mechanicus Helbrute conversion to fight my Inq retinue.

I'm co-blogging his WIP/PIP into this blog now to fill out the Legion a little more for actual game-play, utilising this big bad guy (and any subsequent Dark Mechanicus) within the playing structure of regular 40k, as well as back in Inq28.

These Dark Mechanicus creations will be painted in a vaguely similar style to the Legion of Thorns, though these newer models will belong to the Legion of Thorns Nurgle-worshipping splinter cadre known as the Wretched, and therefore will be a lot more grungy...

Previous WIPs of the Helbrute:
















There's a few more I'll add later.

AND...
I'm finally going to paint the Mournblade Terminators...

Because the base color of both the Legion and the Wretched is Castellan Green, and as I will be spraying that layer onto the Helbrute, I might as well spray the Mournblades as well...
(Though the 6 layers of green still haunt me...)

Cheers all!

Due to the overwhelming response the Wretched Helbrute WIPs continue...

- Arms:






- Body:




Unseen images (not re-posts from my Inqu][sitor blog) coming soon...

Cheers!

That marine is fantastic conversion/kitbash. I am really tempted to steal something like that for my army.

Awesome work as usual! The Mournblade Terminators look fantastic, as does the Helbrute. I'd love to see your tae on a Heldrake.

dubovac wrote:That marine is fantastic conversion/kitbash. I am really tempted to steal something like that for my army.

Squigsquasher wrote:Awesome work as usual! The Mournblade Terminators look fantastic, as does the Helbrute. I'd love to see your tae on a Heldrake.

dubovac, Squigsquasher - Thanks both of you!

Mournblade Terminator bases:

Just read your blog from start to finish, gotta say I'm loving your conversion work. The terminators in particular stand out but you've got an excellent way of bringing a sense of dynamism to your models. Looking forward to seeing some paint on those termies!

 kaiserjez wrote:
Just read your blog from start to finish, gotta say I'm loving your conversion work. The terminators in particular stand out but you've got an excellent way of bringing a sense of dynamism to your models. Looking forward to seeing some paint on those termies!

kaiserjez - Thanks!
- I should hopefully start painting on the weekend... hopefully...

Helbrute painting WIPs anew, attempting to repeat the scheme previously created on Terry the Test Marine:


R-r-r-r-rusty...


to wretched (!) green:

PIP (attempt 3!) on the Brute's corroded armour plates:








Some touchup required, and a nice brown oil wash, and the armour should be done!

Cheers!

That's incredible work.
Excellent effect you've managed.

Crackle medium is the new black or some such. The corroded effect looks great.

purplefood wrote:That's incredible work.
Excellent effect you've managed.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Crackle medium is the new black or some such. The corroded effect looks great.

purple food, Warboss_Waaazag - Thanks!

Sneak peek of the Brute, armour done, rusty metal done, skin nearing completion:

Concerning Zamael:

Brother-Sergeant Zamael of the Sons of Horus was left for dead on the battlefield following the Great Betrayal on Isstvan III. In the midst of the battle he had fallen to a chain-sword wielding Loyalist, loosing both legs, a part of his right arm and most of his internal organs. When he was found by the Wretched Sons he had been dragging himself with his remaining arm across the charred surface of the planet for a week.

The Wretched Sons were a small remnant of the Sons of Horus combined with a smattering of Death Guard, Emperor's Children and World Eater survivors - all still loyal to Horus - had been inadvertently left behind following the withdrawal of the Warmaster's forces. Knowing no rescue was forthcoming, they had taken to wandering the scarred surface of the planet scavenging weapons and technology, in the process finding a surprising number of survivors.

Zamael was taken to the Dark Mechanicus Artificer Phledexus, whom the Wretched Sons had taken in and set to work repairing a cruiser in the hopes they might eventually escape the planet. Phledexus took the dying Zamael and entombed him in a battle-damaged but functional Dreadnaught sarcophagus to initially preserve his life, but the mutagenic side-effects of the toxic mix of chemical and biological weaponry deployed on Isstvan III was attacking Zamael’s transhuman genetics. Excited by the prospects, Phledexus could not resist tampering with Zamael’s broken genes and implementing elements of the Obliterator virus into the Dread's cyber-mechanics.

The Wretched Sons eventually repaired the crashed ship and left Isstvan in an attempt to join their Warmaster in the final assault on Terra and the False Emperor. Warp storms and other misfortunes delayed them and eventually the Wretched Sons learned of the fall of the Emperor, and the death of Horus, at which time they fled like the remaining Heretics for the Eye of Terror. By this time Zamael had grown beyond the confines of the Dread chassis, warping in screaming agony over years into a raging weapon of terror and destruction, and in the process becoming utterly and irrevocably insane.

Nice work Lamby. The crackle paint worked out well in the end.

 Dr H wrote:
Nice work Lamby. The crackle paint worked out well in the end.

Thanks!

Great plog. The Brute is awesome, vey nice conversion and crackle effect. Lots of good inspiration in here

I especially like how you have managed to blend the flesh and the corroded nasty metal together.
I especially like that you got rid of the under-arm tickler tentacles too and some of the more ott bits.

I am guessing that with him being irrevocably insane, the techpriests haven't managed to get near him for a while to give him his bath hahaha...

Seriously though, lovely work!!

Xysis wrote:Great plog. The Brute is awesome, vey nice conversion and crackle effect. Lots of good inspiration in here

dantay_xv wrote:I especially like how you have managed to blend the flesh and the corroded nasty metal together.
I especially like that you got rid of the under-arm tickler tentacles too and some of the more ott bits.

I am guessing that with him being irrevocably insane, the techpriests haven't managed to get near him for a while to give him his bath hahaha...

Seriously though, lovely work!!

Xysis, dantay_xv - Thanks!


So, the first pics were washed out and too bright, so I've played with the levels a little and now the colors are more true to life.

Here's a couple more, angled from slightly higher:






Thanks for looking!

Meanwhile, something new and wicked this way comes...



Not sure if this is a Wretched Sons deamonette or a stand-alone piece - we'll see