Thanks Alpharius, you have been with me on this blog since the beginning and I shall honor the boarding blood angel sergeant I am painting atm with your name (the real one)

The armor on Mortarion was fairly easy - bascoated with bleached bone with a couple of heavy washes of Gryphonne Sepia and Ogryn Flesh mix - then layered with a 50-50 mix of bleached bone and space wolf grey - adding skull white with every layer - with a finish of pure skull white.

DAYUM! these are awesome. I can't wait to see Ferrus

I love the conversions immensely however, I don't like Russ' face much in all fairness

Lovely updates.

*I LOVE YOUR MORTARION MINI!!!!! OMG!!!!* Sorry, I couldn't contain the inner fanboy in me......

I REALY love the pic of the Blood angels coming out of the gate at ground shot with te "sun" behind them. You can totaly feel that there is a moment of glory in the making! I also love the model between Sanguinus and the guy with the chair, is that all pre-heresy or alot of conversions?

Thanks guys - Soulbellow that is the company champion from the honor guard he is made up of FW Sevrin Loth's Squad, sanguinary guard sword and I have added a helm crest !

Thanks you all

Armorum Ferrum wrote:Thanks Alpharius, you have been with me on this blog since the beginning and I shall honor the boarding blood angel sergeant I am painting atm with your name (the real one)

The armor on Mortarion was fairly easy - bascoated with bleached bone with a couple of heavy washes of Gryphonne Sepia and Ogryn Flesh mix - then layered with a 50-50 mix of bleached bone and space wolf grey - adding skull white with every layer - with a finish of pure skull white.

Thanks for the painting recipe, and thanks for naming one cool and bad-ass Space Marine model after me too!

(I always told my parents I'd amount to something! )

Mortie looks great I like the color on him it matches the personality of the model.

I really like all of these. I have to say that my favorites are definitely Rogal Dorn, the Emprah, Fulgrim and Lion. Perturabo and Horus are really sweet too!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks dear friends - I find myself at a bit of a dead end - working on Vulkan. He has always been my least favorite primarch - info on him is sketchy and I have yet to see some good artwork of him - Feel free to post ideas !!!

Well, remember, Vulkan He'stan is using a bunch of his equipment!

Armorum Ferrum wrote:Thanks dear friends - I find myself at a bit of a dead end - working on Vulkan. He has always been my least favorite primarch - info on him is sketchy and I have yet to see some good artwork of him - Feel free to post ideas !!!

A few pointers,
A) His skin is Obsidian Black, not brown!
B) His amour should have lots of fire and Drakes.
C) On his right shoulder he has a massive Drake Skull
D) He should have all of He'stan's special equipment, plus the Engine Of Doom, Song of Entropy, The Obsidian Chariot, and the Unbound Flame.
E) Lastly, he should have a Hammer.

I play Salamanders.

Honestly, you're right, information is sketchy.

So shouldn't that make this your easiest one?

You don't seem to have a problem with artistic license, and as a Salamanders player, I'm sure not going to be offended if you go nuts.

Vulkan is obviously based on the Roman version of the Greek god Hephaestus. Themes include fire, the forge and accompanying artifice, dragons, and volcanoes. I agree with the above post that his skin should be black and his eyes red. The original color scheme wasn't green, by the way. If you check on Lexicanum, or just Google it, you can find their original color scheme, which was a kind of red with a scaled pattern.

Any way you want to do it, I just want to see him! You're a true artist, and I think that what is most important is seeing your vision of what Vulkan looked like.

Rock on brother.

Jimsolo wrote:I play Salamanders.

Honestly, you're right, information is sketchy.

So shouldn't that make this your easiest one?

You don't seem to have a problem with artistic license, and as a Salamanders player, I'm sure not going to be offended if you go nuts.

Vulkan is obviously based on the Roman version of the Greek god Hephaestus. Themes include fire, the forge and accompanying artifice, dragons, and volcanoes. I agree with the above post that his skin should be black and his eyes red. The original color scheme wasn't green, by the way. If you check on Lexicanum, or just Google it, you can find their original color scheme, which was a kind of red with a scaled pattern.

Any way you want to do it, I just want to see him! You're a true artist, and I think that what is most important is seeing your vision of what Vulkan looked like.

Rock on brother.

True, although, current fluff has his armour as green.

Wait... what?

When was the Salamander's armor anything but a variation of green?

I thought the Pre-Heresy color was just a darker green than what we have now.

Red?

I've never heard that before...

I love this thread! Can't wait to see Vulkan.

Jimsolo wrote:The original color scheme wasn't green, by the way. If you check on Lexicanum, or just Google it, you can find their original color scheme, which was a kind of red with a scaled pattern.

The original Salamanders colour scheme was black and yellow back in 1988 but after that its always been green.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:SalamandersOld.jpg

Very cool work. I liked the group shots, specially since the bad guys showed how gigantic Magnus was.

Thanks for the link Igandris! I apologize for the misinformation, I was apparently mistaken. I don't know where I thought I had gotten that information from. Once again, apologies.

Thanks guys, I will continue work on him and of course Ferrus and the Khan quite soon

Vulkan painting underway - the conversion was quite simple and in my opinion it looks like a good representation of this humble primarch - I shall post pics later or tomorrow morning

OH YEAH!

Can't wait as it stands the primarchs that are done look great so this one gotta be good.

Armorum Ferrum wrote:So guys here are the pics of the finished Emperor and some better pics of Perturabo and a group shot of the Primarchs completed Thanks for your support, it helps keep me motivated to continue with this project - Enjoy !!!

Perturabo



The Emperor



Emperor & Custodian Amon


Group Shot


Thanks for looking guys !!!

Wow amazing work! Really impressed by Perturabo, what kinda base model/bits did you use for him?

He's from the Hell Dorado range: Augustinus Raimond.

http://www.thewarstore.com/product57064.html

Dear Friends - I give you Vulkan - Primarch of the Salamanders Legion !




Enjoy !

I love this one, as well as all the other Primarchs However, I miss some more dragon symbols on Vulkan's armor :/

Can't really think of why but not a big fan of vulkan, something about it just isn't sitting with me. Odd...love the rest though

While I like the model in and of itself, I do not like it as a depiction of Vulkan. It does not have enough Sallies on it for one, and it doesn't have a Drake skull on the shoulderpad, which is one of the few things to be confirmed about how Vulkan looks.

I love it. Now I want one for my Salamanders army. I like that you went with the jet-black skin, even if some people don't like it. I also like that you kept him simple. This is a phenomenal piece.

Great stuff man keep it up.

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Thanks guys for the comments and crit, Vulkan has always been my least favourite primarch and I might revisit him someday. As of now I am busy with Ferrus Manus and Jagathai Khan so I expect to be done with one or the other during this week - I am also doing some work on an Imperial Army ( heresy era Imperial Guard) and it's proving to be great fun, I have about 100 fully painted and based Pre/Heresy Era Blood Angels by now and I am having blood red nightmares - I might start off another legion soon and am thinking about the nightlords

keep it coming this stuff is fantastic

I want to see that Imperial Army!

Little Guys Represent!!

Will the Blood Angels and Imperial Army be of the same expaditionary force? If so how wil you represent this?

The regiment will be of the same expeditionary Force and as far as fluff goes they are a terran regiment within which is found elements of Light, Line and Heavy Infanty. The common ties most miniatures will have are the colours brown and black. They also carry a standard given to them in honour of assisting the White Scars on a campaign. I'm thinking of starting a new blog with the imperial guard and the various characters I'm filling the regiment with. Pics soon

Where is the "Like" button?? opps forgot this is not face book.

Thanks Miss Dee, I have a conversion of a certain Nightlord (Sevatar) that uses a chain halberd getting painted on my desk !!!

Pic?

soon

Man I can't wait to see sevatar also if you start a new blog you must post links to it and such. I like the concept for the guard it sounds like a fun force to paint and plan out.

Ok when will the Demon primarchs be done?

First time I've seen this thread - it's awesome! Considering the relatively short time it's been running, you obviously turn stuff out at a prolific rate (envious). Keep up the good work.

I know you mentioned doing a Night Lords army. I think it would look pretty cool if you did. Looking forward to Khan.

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of recent updates - I've been very busy with work and going to the beach, I didnt have much time for painting - But do not worry I will be back soon with plenty of pics and surprises !!!

Well the Beach is way more important than painting right around where your at.

Where's horus? Looks awesome.

Horus is on pg. 10.

Awesome awesome work!!!

You are my fething hero man. You are the best painter ever. Where did you get those models/how did you convert them?

Thanks guys, Mr Tau - Some of these models are Kabuki Miniatures, some bought over ebay and the rest are converted to match them in scale

It all looks great. The faces look a bit odd though.

ironicsilence wrote:Can't really think of why but not a big fan of vulkan, something about it just isn't sitting with me. Odd...love the rest though

Same here...I think its because he looks like he is barely balancing on the dragons head...idk. Love the rest though

i did a version of guilliman i think some of you eill like. take a peek


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Just a thought, but it seems to me like not very much time was put into Guilliman. I may be wrong. But he just seems incredibly bland. Im not trying to troll or anything, but it was Guilliman that I was looking forward to throughout this post. When I finally came to him, i was just disappointed. Compared to the others, namely Corax, Dorn and Horus, Guilliman just seemed like a regular space marine.

Thanks for your comments Ri_Brutii, we are all allowed an opinion - as for Guilliman it has the look I was aiming for as already explained before

Armorum Ferrum wrote: Talking about Guilliman - I wanted to depict him wearing an Iron Armour helmet simply because I love it. If you look closer you might notice that a copy of Imperium Secundus or the Codex Astartes is bound to his thigh armour and the scribe is there to take points on his Office 40K pad Not all primarchs have to be ostentatious we already have Fulgrim and Sanguinius for that

Btw I've looked at your gallery and I really like your Ultramarines !

BRB, moving to Malta for apprenticeship

I understand now. I did not come across your post explaining it earlier in the thread. I didnt read too much, i was looking for the pics mostly. but I understand what you were going for after reading that.

y does the emperor look like rafael nadal? lolol

Awsome peice tho!


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y does the emperor look like rafael nadal? lolol

Awsome peice tho!

Armorum Ferrum wrote:

Alpharius wrote:I just noticed you're in Malta?

Do you know an excellent modeler by the name of Simon?

Goes by "Synapse" over on Warseer?

I know very few people in the hobby in Malta mate, its a tiny rock in the mediterranean with 400,000 people in it and I know no Simons in the hobby yet. I do organise some games at home though and have a huge board that's gonna represent the siege of terra (for any people on the island that wanna organise a game just drop a pm you don't need to bring minis)

here's some shots from my balcony - My fav spot to sip some coffee and read



Now on some WIP pics of the imperial palace



For those who haven't seen my Pre heresy/Heresy Era BA some pics

Great work on the Hall of Fame and Shame of the Horus Heresy, great palace and nice Angels.

And a great Balcony view.

Do you accept visits by travelers to Malta?

That imperial palace looks great. Keep up the good work.

awsome work people i only wish i was as goode as you

Great work keep it up !

Good show sir.

BUMP!!

I only count 16 Primarchs! you have 2 to go for the complete set!

I cant wait to see these finished, i understand how hard it is to get hold of the models.

Which of yours are custom built by you and which are the unofficial models? I know which a few are but its just easier for you to tell me i think.

Im half Maltese and have family in Tarxien...actually all over the place so next time im over there i will have to come for a visit.

Great paint jobs!

They all look great. Does anyone know the names of the two primarchs who were not found when the emperor when looking for them? Sorry for the ignorance, but just curious if it is written in the lore at all?

Eiluj The Farseer wrote:They all look great. Does anyone know the names of the two primarchs who were not found when the emperor when looking for them? Sorry for the ignorance, but just curious if it is written in the lore at all?

They were supposed to be expunged from all imperial records along with the existance of their chapters-so no one knows yet-invent your own.

where are those primarch models from as ive seen them before

This Is Amazing! Love the scenery as well!

I would love to see some pre-heresy Luna Wolves! perhaps the Mournival?
and how about Luther?

anyway its fantastic!

Your Angron is F***ing huge!

It's been months my dear friends and I apologize for the total lack of updates. Recently I have been swept over by warhammer again, after abandoning my Middenheimer Imperial Army I was seduced by Chaos... But more of that in my upcoming Warhammer Blog

After so damn long I present you Ferrus Manus - Primarch of the Iron Hands legion







And as a little extra a picture of the final confrontation between Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus. We all know that it cost one of them their head...



Enjoy

I'm digging it. Nice little medusa homage.

Fulgrim cheated!

WOW!!!!

awsome update man glad your back

Absolutly Beatiful, love all the models

Nice details on the arms!

Great work on ferrus, also in the group shot, why does fulgrim look like he doesn't give a damn ferrus is holding a head? Heh.

Thanks for the comments guys - also juraigamer - I think Fulgrim was busy looking at Ferrus' Groin haha

Ferrus Manus is beautiful, your interpretation is spot on; I love it!

This is just too awesome and mind blowing. Wonderful work Ferrum, very motivational at the same time as well!

I like that Fulgrim is using some lady statue's rear as a footstool.

So I just read through this entire post now. I have so much to say and yet I'm speechless. Phenominal work, keep it up!

I love these models and your paintjob is superb, I wish I could afford one of the Ferrus Manus figures (or a dozen, you know how it is ) if I do ever get one I'd have to switch out that head in his hand for a full model dangling by the head and probably facing the other direction though, I just think it would look less.... odd?

Amazing, simply impressive my good man.

Armorum Ferrum I enjoyed every bit of this post. As I told you before......I look forward to a siege of terra battle on your tables I know Russ's wolves were not there so I will have to use another chapter instead but I surely am up for it whenever you decide to do it. Awesome models too. It really shows off your talent

Old thread is old.

I can't believe I did not see that before.

/subscribed.

This, is, awesome!

Yay! Time to use one of those cool demotivational posters about necroposting!

It is sad, as at first I thought there were new updates in this awesome thread...

At this point it might be better if interested parties contact the OP directly via PM.

Thanks!

This is worth a necro imho, I would never had seen the awesomeness of this thread otherwise.

Hope the OP is still alive and well and cranking out more awesome.

Indeed. There are still some more to be done.

AMAZING!

As an ex-Royal Navy Officer, I have to admit the Grand Harbour of Valletta is my favourite port on Earth. We were always treated like Royalty when we arrived and the local ladies were beautiful and very "Accommodating". I was even on the Ship (Mighty Sausage - HMS Cumberland) that shamefully killed "Oliver Reid" when he was filming Gladiator, after that they got t-shirts that said "We Drank Oliver Reid six feet under the table" (Blackest of Black humour). I could see myself living out my days quite happily there.

Okay, before I become all misty eyed, I have to say your Knight Titan is the best and probably the most to scale I have seen.

Thank you all for the kind comments ! And yes I am still alive, just been busy with other projects and a new job. mwnciboo - it's nice to see that some people still like my tiny island and yes the local ladies are very accomodating still thank the emperor Oliver Reid died as he lived by the bottle, a happy and interesting fellow - I still visit that bar in Valletta on occasion -

Back to the thread I got plenty of new minis to take pictures of if you all wanna see them still

Regards AF

I think the Royal Navy should move from Gibraltar to Malta. We are much closer to the Maltese People, we have a deep bond and also a very clear link. To many in Britain Malta is a by word for Endurance. I really wish I had gone in on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS because it is considered the #1 Port visit, 2nd is Fleet Week in NYC which is just amazing.

I forgot about the TEMPLAR connection on Malta as well, which to us Wargaming types is pretty significant and very interesting.



I have been wanting to do one of these for a while.http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/429654.page

I think the Maltese people would be glad to have the Roval Navy here. The bond we have with the UK is an old and strong one. As for the knight titan, did you ever get to build one ? Sometimes the odd one pops up on ebay for some ridiculous price

I joined recently and JUST looked through this thread. All these models are fantastic! I especially like Vulkan, possibly one of my favourite Primarchs, after Jaghatai.

I'll admit I'm not too keen on the Emperor though, but that might just be me; I tend to dislike every model of the Emperor I see because it's nigh-impossible to recreate the epicness of this image http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/d/dd/Horus_vs_The_Emperor.jpg

But you definitely made one of the best attempts!

FRICKIN FANTASTIC
please pm with detail on how you made the lion

I see that at least my threadomancy was worth it In reality I did it to pay homage to my friend's nice blog as being new to the site I had never seen many of his awesome models (primarchs) and this was the only way to give him praise after I discovered this thread. So please excuse the threadomancy for this one time and apologies for all those who felt offended by such an act.

I'm glad to see your work isn't dead, and I'm sure we would all love to see what you have been up to.

BTW im very very impressed with your models

Just found this thread......

Life complete

Hi everyone, as promised before I have completed my last 2 primarchs - The Khan and Lorgar - both are amazing sculpts that were a pleasure to paint.

So without further ado I give you Lorgar Aurelian





The Khan's photos should be up soon

Enjoy !!! And a thanks a lot for the continued support guys !!!

Those look really good, I think you did a greatjob. I look forward to seeing the rest.

Very well done. I hate to nitpick but shouldn't Lorgar have tattoos on his face?

vodo40k wrote:Very well done. I hate to nitpick but shouldn't Lorgar have tattoos on his face?

Yes fluffwise his body was covered in golden lettering including his face - I tried painting him with a golden face but then went back to flesh - I couldnt reproduce a golden tattooed face well so I went with flesh

Armorum Ferrum wrote:

vodo40k wrote:Very well done. I hate to nitpick but shouldn't Lorgar have tattoos on his face?

Yes fluffwise his body was covered in golden lettering including his face - I tried painting him with a golden face but then went back to flesh - I couldnt reproduce a golden tattooed face well so I went with flesh

And he still looks ace - well done!

Very nice work. Loving the effort going into this. Very cool.

Also, insanely jealous of the view from you window. Looks like Malta will be added to the "must visit one of these days" list.

Keep up the good work.

Nice job

This is all soooooooo amazing!!!

Nice work!
Quick question:
The Perturabo miniature from Hell Dorado, Augustinus Raimond, how much larger is he than a 40k mini?
Could I use him in an Inquistitorial 40k army, without him standing enormously tall compared to, say, a terminator?
If possible, could you take a picture for me to compare him with a GW 40k model?
Also, what did you exactly do, while converting him? (backpack, cape from...?)
If someone could answer those questions, that would be awesome.
Cheers,

MC

Mister Chaos wrote:Nice work!
Quick question:
The Perturabo miniature from Hell Dorado, Augustinus Raimond, how much larger is he than a 40k mini?
Could I use him in an Inquistitorial 40k army, without him standing enormously tall compared to, say, a terminator?
If possible, could you take a picture for me to compare him with a GW 40k model?
Also, what did you exactly do, while converting him? (backpack, cape from...?)
If someone could answer those questions, that would be awesome.
Cheers,

MC

Hope this helps you mate

Yeah, thanks a lot!
Any remarks on the remodelling/conversion work?
Also, if I might ask, where did you buy it? Shop? Site?
MC

It was quite a simple conversion really, a fw bolter, fw raven guard thunder hammer, chaos terminator lord cloak, space marine backpack and some searchlight from my bits box and a tiny bit of green stuff to close the gaps. I got it from a seller on ebay but im sure you will find it in online shops around.

Thanks, was wondering whether the cloak was greenstuffed or stolen from some kit.
Will also order from ebay, cheap and easy.
I'm impressed with your models, subscribed...

Edit: one more question, how is the quality of the cast/model, when compared to GW metal minis?

Mister Chaos wrote:Thanks, was wondering whether the cloak was greenstuffed or stolen from some kit.
Will also order from ebay, cheap and easy.
I'm impressed with your models, subscribed...

Edit: one more question, how is the quality of the cast/model, when compared to GW metal minis?

Well I can answer that one since I ordered the Agustus Raimond mini after I saw it used in the pic above, the casting itself is fine its a full metal fig with little to no mold lines, the cape shown above looks similar to the one included but seems to have some green stuff added to look bigger.

I love this thread so much.

I'd love to know what each of the Primarchs models are based off of. Thanks!
Your models are unbelievable by the way!

That was an hour well spent reading the posts and most of all admiring the work you put into each primarch model.

Well done sir. Now all that is missing is Khan and then you have one hell of a battle that will be way fun to play. And yes, I am jealous.

Great work.

Thank you very much guys, the last primarch done is the Khan - primarch to the White Scars Legion. I am already working on another version of Corax since the model I built was sold in favour of a newer,better version




Enjoy !!!

Im soooo glad you directed me to this, love love love your work

Your gold armour does look really really nice.

Looking forward to more! Xxx

Excellent. Excellent in all respects. I'm digging the dramatic base. Was that sculpted or was that part of a model?

Great work sir!

Well, I really enjoyed this series, and I'm glad you managed to get them all in. Are we going to get one final group shot, perhaps?

Not that I'm greedy for more of your innovative work or anything, but do you have any plans for further sweet projects? Or are you going to take a break from the modeling for a while?

Thanks friends for the kind words - I plan on getting a nice group shot soon - as soon as I finish my new version of Corax. Since this project is virtually complete and so is my Pre Heresy Blood Angels army (one still adds a squad here and there) I am finishing up my warriors of chaos army. Another project I started some months ago was my Necromunda gangs - I painted quite a lot and should document it soon and add pictures. Although I'd love to make a themed Star wars or Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms themed army

These look amazing!

nice work mate. Everything so far has been awsom. looking forward to seeing everything else. Till then, keep up the good work

Love to come to Malta someday to fight over that Imperial Palace, and everything else for that matter. Your collection looks HUGE. You probably are the Maltese Warmaster by a long shot. Love your skills and devotion to 40k. Honored to see your work.

How I managed to miss this thread is beyond me... Great work here, and good thing you posted me that link over at the FB HH group
That imperial palace is looking especially fine.

-Steffen

Those primarchs are very nice!!

This is a really cool thread out of interest what do you think of the idea of the fact FW are doing primach models? Looking forward to seeing more pre heresy stuff

Young Logan

Mortarion is my favorite. You have really undertaken an amazing project. The Emperor's palace on Terra may be the most epic undertaking I've seen. I just thought it was worth noting I didn't think Russ looked like Gary Busey. He did, however, totally look like Ron Perlman. Cheers.

Thanks guys, Astroman - both busy and perlman have a less than attractive face probably why he looks like either ahaha As for the FW primarchs I'm quite happy with Angron - I've already painted him and just started a Pre Heresy World Eater Army - Don't know if I should continue with this thread to show em or start a new one tbh