I'M NOT ACCEPTING COMMISSIONS - I will still occasionally post things I've done for friends, but I'm not accepting commissions right now. Sorry!


Hey everybody, as you may have been able to guess from the title, this thread is where I'll be posting my commissions! If you actually want commission work from me, send me a PM and we'll work something out

As this time goes on, I'll update this thread with WIP pictures of what I'm working on, and update the OP to have pictures of completed commissions. I figure it's a pretty good way to let folks see an army come together, let my client know how his troops are doing, and keep me motivated!

Anyway, right now I'm working on a commission for Spikes. He's looking to have an urban Imperial Guard army painted up. He shipped his men over and after some cleanup, I started painting em! There's close to 50 men in various states of assembly, but here's what everything looked like right out of the box:


And now I've got basing sand, primer, and my first batch of grey done on the Catachans, and some sand and cleanup on the Cadians:

I promise you'll be seeing better pictures for completed paintjobs

The projected scheme for this army is a pretty standard urban camo, on the BDU's, and black body armor. Not sure what color to paint the Catachan headbands, since red would be a pretty poor choice for camouflage purposes. I'm feeling Shadow Grey though. And finally, here's some Guard I've painted for my own army - I'm looking to paint to the same (or slightly better) standard as these guys:



Stay tuned!

This should be good, consider me subscribed!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:This should be good, consider me subscribed!

Seconded. Me too.

I've done some work on the skin and it's actually looking pretty good, despite the crappy photo. I also did the edge highlights on all the lasguns and laspistols, and a little on the rockets. Camo was also started - gonna hit those pants up with a wash then put in some white specks to match the black ones, and that camo should be done. The shirts that are just grey now will end up white, since that could look pretty cool. I'm also just starting the hair on these guys. Here's a picture of today's work so far:




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Well, I see this thread's just been jumping with activity - maybe I should give it a dose of adrenaline with THESE MANLY AS HELL CATACHANS AWWWW YEAH:









I wasn't much in the mood for doing much else today, so I just painted these Catachans in the urban camo scheme I'm thinking for the whole army. Think of these first 14 as a proof of concept for how the whole army will look.

Anyway, 14 down, 33 or so to go!

Nice job on the eyeballs. I have the tendency of doing cross eyes a lot and leaving it because its funny / stupid.

A lot of my guys in my first few Guard squads and Space Wolves have crossed eyes, googly eyes, or just plain derpy eyes. It turns out the best way to paint eyes is to paint the area black then color in the white part, rather than try and get a good black dot for a pupil.

As a bonus, here's a WIP on some of the Cadians with Pig Iron heads. Personally, I'm a big fan of the one shooting a bolter gangsta style

Brother SRM wrote:maybe I should give it a dose of adrenaline with THESE MANLY AS HELL CATACHANS AWWWW YEAH

I could totally see this in one of your cartoons...

really good work, im doing the same thing. That is painting catachans in urban camo.. I'll try to put some photos up tomorrow if you're interested?

kanelom wrote:really good work, im doing the same thing. That is painting catachans in urban camo.. I'll try to put some photos up tomorrow if you're interested?

If you post a thread in the painting and modeling forum I'll probably read it - I trowse through there prety often.

So I've been a bit busy lately, but I managed to get some work in regardless. The first Cadian squad is coming along well, but I thought that maybe dark grey armor would look better than black armor. Here's a comparison shot with grey on the left and black on the right:

I post this not only because I think it may look a little more interesting, but because I don't like highlighting black. It never looks as good as other highlights to me. Tell me which you prefer!

I like the look of the black armour a little better to be honest, looks a little cleaner to me.

So I talked to my client and he said to do whichever color armor I wanted. I figured that grey could show off shading while black would always look flat. Here's another quick and dirty WIP with grey armor and most of the camo done:



Next up: White for camo stripes and eagles, and eye lenses! Any suggestions for color? I was thinking blue to keep it in a relatively cool color scheme, but orange might be cool.

If you want to keep it cool, Ice Blue on Ultramarines Blue for the lenses would look pretty sweet.

Looking good

SaintHazard wrote:If you want to keep it cool, Ice Blue on Ultramarines Blue for the lenses would look pretty sweet.

That was what I was thinking - a blue lens with an Ice Blue curve and a white dot should work.

Brother SRM wrote:

SaintHazard wrote:If you want to keep it cool, Ice Blue on Ultramarines Blue for the lenses would look pretty sweet.

That was what I was thinking - a blue lens with an Ice Blue curve and a white dot should work.

Actually, what might look even cooler would be an Ice Blue lense with an Ultramarines Blue lowlight and a white dot. That might look more "lensy" in that it would give it depth. But your way would look damn cool too.

I was thinkin...if their Urban-based fighting, would having shorter barrles on some of them be a good idea? I know it just depends on the town and how everything is spaced out, but like in Airsoft in a CQC environ of any sort I'd rather a ten inch barrel size to a 18 inch.

brandon noble wrote:I was thinkin...if their Urban-based fighting, would having shorter barrles on some of them be a good idea? I know it just depends on the town and how everything is spaced out, but like in Airsoft in a CQC environ of any sort I'd rather a ten inch barrel size to a 18 inch.

Yes, but that's not up to SRM.

That's up to his client, who's commissioning these minis.

I'm guessing the client did the actual modeling, SRM is just painting them.

SaintHazard wrote:

brandon noble wrote:I was thinkin...if their Urban-based fighting, would having shorter barrles on some of them be a good idea? I know it just depends on the town and how everything is spaced out, but like in Airsoft in a CQC environ of any sort I'd rather a ten inch barrel size to a 18 inch.

Yes, but that's not up to SRM.

That's up to his client, who's commissioning these minis.

I'm guessing the client did the actual modeling, SRM is just painting them.

I'd figure shorter weapons would make sense for boarding actions or vehicle crews, not urban combat. SaintHazard has it right though - my client modeled these for the most part - I just cleaned some mold lines and did some head swaps.

Urban combat in 40k is not quite what it is in real life.

In real life, it's done room-to-room, avoiding streets and open areas unless it's necessary to use them.

In 40k, it's nothing but streets and open areas, with the occasional ruin or burnt-out building.

There are exceptions, but generally speaking, SRM is correct about longer barrels in urban environments in 40k being okay.

Anyway, we're definitely veering way off topic here.

Some very nice models here, keep this up I'm interested.

Steve

Well, continuing from last night's progress I got to finishing these 10 men - let me know what you think!









And with the first 14 men I painted:

I'm absolutely loving the camo. And the lenses! They look badass!

Very nice work, man.

I'm really liking the Urban Camo, I like the darker Black uniform better myself. the white muscle shirts are a little too loud for my tastes, in an urban enviornment they would have smudges, and ash on them. In a firefight, unless it was snowing, that would make for an easy target. I must say the painting is very good, keep up the good work.

where did you get the heads from?

The heads are from Pig Iron: http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/ a lot of folks here use em in their Guard.

Long time no post!
Finals are now over and I can devote time to painting again! Of course I'm back at my folks' place for break where the lighting isn't as good, but I think you'll get the gist of it!
Here is the whole commission so far - 32 infantry, one mortar, and a gun turret looking thing:


If you're keen-eyed you may be able to see I changed the camo spots on the Catachan Guard to stripes. The client likes stripes better, so I fixed that right up for him.
And here's a shot of the third squad of infantry with their heavy bolter turret:


I've got about 12 more Guardsmen to go and maybe another heavy weapons team and that should be it for this commission! I've got to say, I'll be sad to see these boys go since they've been coming out so well.

Hmm. No activity here in a little while. That makes me sad.

Well, although I do not have pictures, I got to give the guardsmen of this regiment a little bit of a test drive in a huge 2500 point game of my Guard vs. Orks and Salamanders earlier this week. I needed some bodies to fill about 200 points, and these boys were just itching to fight! While they were eventually overrun by the Ork hordes, they died fighting!

Here's a WIP on the last handful of guys - once these are done I think that'll be about 48 guys, and one finished commission! I'll have these guys finished by the end of the month.
Blurry picture incoming!


Also chiming in to let any potential clients out there know that I'm going to be accepting commissions after this is done - I'm really itching to paint some Hive Fleet Leviathan or Blood Ravens, hint hint, but I'm happy to paint just about anything!

So I finished the commission today! 44 guys in all, with all sorts of heavy weapons here and there and a little gun turret thingy!

Here's all of the commission except the gun turret:






Missile launcher teams:


Turret and more troopers:


Command squad:


It's great to be done with this army, but I'll be sad to see em go! It was interesting painting an urban camo scheme instead of my typical jungle camo. It turns out I really like the look of Pig Iron heads on Catachan bodies - it looks really sinister and a little silly - like a Contra badguy or something.

With this commission done, I've already got another one coming up! Spikes, the same client as this army, wants me to paint up some Imperial Fists for him! You'll be seeing the start of them sometime next week.

How much for you to spraypaint my marines black, like in the first pic?

Ouze wrote:How much for you to spraypaint my marines black, like in the first pic?

You should PM me for details; although I'm pretty sure it's going to be in the triple digits. Spraypaint don't grow on trees you know.

Should have details of my next commission tomorrow!

Alrighty, I just received my new commission - I'm going to be painting up a big Imperial Fists army. Here's the picture of everything just out of the box, along with various copyrighted products that happen to be on my desk:


This commission will entail:
- Magnetized vindicator
- Dreadnought
- 5 Terminators
- 13 scouts
- Terminator chaplain
- Old captain
- Lysander
- 10 tactical Marines
- 5 bikers
- Black Reach captain converted into a librarian
Many of these on Back2Baseix bases!

I'm guessing about 2 months for all this to get done. It's a lot of stuff, and yellow may prove to be difficult, even with the armypainter spray I'm ordering. Keep to this thread for updates!

Awesome cant wait to see your take on yellow, I have some elements in my own army that are yellow so love seeing how other paint theirs. Fists just pretty much rule as an army also so that always helps.

Oh and 10/10 on the last commission they were very nice, painted to a good standard. Respect for dealing with guard aswell, its the two things I can't stand personally, masses of troops and painting skin tones.

i like that HB turret a ton! very fluffy

So here's the test Marine for the Imperial Fists. My primer came out a little gritty, but it's a little less noticable after some painting. I may or may not strip and start over and hope for the best. He's blu-tac'd onto the base at the moment.




Drilled barrel and eye lens detail:


I noticed a few bits that need some patching up (Shoulder trim mostly) but otherwise this is pretty much how the average Marine will look. Let me know what you think!

Ooh, a bag of space marines! That is a nice yellow you have got there.

So some slight changes in the color scheme - my client wants a darker red so I'll be doing Red Gore, and he wants gold for the eagles.

Next up, I've got a vindicator I'm working on for these boys, all built up:


And look at them options!

Looks great! I wish I got commissions like these!

Okay, so things have been going really slow on this front lately due to primer issues and real life stuff. I've been using Army Painter Daemonic Yellow, and while the color is decent, the fuzz it leaves behind isn't. The Marines were a bit fuzzy, but almost workable. I tried priming the Vindicator the other day though, and this is what I got:



Right now a whole bunch of Imperial Fists are taking a nice relaxing Simple Green bath, and I've got a can of Krylon yellow spray primer on my desk waiting to be unleashed. Expect some updates once I've got a decent basecoat. Fuzzy models really saps my motivation since nomatter what I do it'll always look fuzzy and gross.

Yellow is hard to paint. Good on you if you manage to pull this off well! (which I'm sure you will!)

Waiting. For. More.

That looks recoverable - gently sand it down wet with 1200 grit and you should be able to spray again just to touch it up.

Primer problems put things on hold for a while, but I finally got some work in on the tactical squad:



PS: Ogryn Flesh smells like sewage and the smell never goes away.

very cool camo scheme! great work

Element206 wrote:very cool camo scheme! great work

I'm guessing you're commenting on the old Guard and not the bright yellow Imperial Fists

For this commission he also wanted me to convert a Librarian from the Assault on Black Reach captain. I'm not sure if this is "Librarian enough" but I like the look of him so far:

I say remove the aquilla behind his head and add a psychic hood, it will prob make him a bit mote librarian like.

I like what you did with the sword. And as Rose_Mountainz said, a physic hood would make him look perfect.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:I say remove the aquilla behind his head and add a psychic hood, it will prob make him a bit mote librarian like.

That's what I was thinking; I saw somebody put both on and it just looked way too crowded. Thanks for the input!

Brother SRM wrote:
PS: Ogryn Flesh smells like sewage and the smell never goes away.

PSS: I guarantee my Badab Black smells 100% worse. (I bought it in CA while on vacation, and flew back with it to CT )

Why not toy around with the idea of making the Aquila into a form of psychic hood, all you'll need to do is GS some wires into it and voilà.

i like that idea LennySmash

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:
PS: Ogryn Flesh smells like sewage and the smell never goes away.

PSS: I guarantee my Badab Black smells 100% worse. (I bought it in CA while on vacation, and flew back with it to CT )

Devlan Mud smells worse than Badab Black, but Ogryn Flesh is definitely the worst smelling of the washes.

I'll see about adding wires to the Aquila - personally I think cutting it off and adding a psychic hood will differentiate the model from the vanilla Black Reach captain more.

My ogryn flesh doesn't smell though...not that I remember

Gryphonne Sepia smells quite nice, Badab Black is okay, but Ogryn Flesh is just rank...

Nice Yellow ya' got there.

So I finished the tactical squad today. My client might want decals on the shoulders, but until then here they are:









They may have a few rough patches or cracks here and there. The Army Painter primer I used messed them up quite a bit, and two baths of Simple Green didn't even get rid of all the paint and grit. Priming over it led to some kind of funky textures.

Great work!

After talking to my client, he decided he would like a psychic hood. He also wanted to see the sergeant's skin better, since it looks kind of... orange in the photos. Here's a much better picture of the sergeant where the colors aren't lazily color corrected, plus the hood:



And some details of the hood on the back:


I'm no whiz with green stuff, but I think I did a decent job

Love that yellow, and the mods you did to the captain! I'll stay tuned to this, also great to see another CT gamer.

i love the yellow.


the libbie looks odd, too much like the captain in a sense. i love the idea of the conversion, maybe do something to the head to make it look more original, or maybe add a banner that looks libbie like? i feel like at the moment it has wonderful little details which show the model as a libbie, but it needs something to really make it seem like a libbie from afar, idon't know if that makes entire sense haha

Sageheart wrote:i love the yellow.


the libbie looks odd, too much like the captain in a sense. i love the idea of the conversion, maybe do something to the head to make it look more original, or maybe add a banner that looks libbie like? i feel like at the moment it has wonderful little details which show the model as a libbie, but it needs something to really make it seem like a libbie from afar, idon't know if that makes entire sense haha

I really don't know what I could do to make him look like a Librarian from afar. Giving him a banner would put me back at square 1 and he'd look like a captain again. His sword will be painted with a wet blend so it'll look really stand out. Also the shift key is your friend.

Brother SRM wrote:

Sageheart wrote:i love the yellow.


the libbie looks odd, too much like the captain in a sense. i love the idea of the conversion, maybe do something to the head to make it look more original, or maybe add a banner that looks libbie like? i feel like at the moment it has wonderful little details which show the model as a libbie, but it needs something to really make it seem like a libbie from afar, idon't know if that makes entire sense haha

I really don't know what I could do to make him look like a Librarian from afar. Giving him a banner would put me back at square 1 and he'd look like a captain again. His sword will be painted with a wet blend so it'll look really stand out. Also the shift key is your friend.

Wouldn't the blue paintjob i.e. the librarian colours make him stand out from the rest of the army enough? especially since the rest of the army is yellow

I like this, fairly nice conversion as well...

Sorry, i tend to not use the shift key when I am typing fast.

The blue paint will make him stand out but I think he could still look like just a blue marine captain. Maybe a banner with candles and such to have a sense of command. Or a little familiar character, maybe one riding upon his shoulder? I just feel like he still has too much of a captain feel at the moment, thou he looks awesome, and it would be nice to have him feel more different than just a more cooler looking AoBR captain.

no insult meant, just my thoughts

I think you're underestimating the power of a paint job sage. If you use the older colours (blue armour, yellow cloths) for the libby then most players will recognise him as a libby.

The other point I wanted to make is that the sword although nice, imo, is at an unnatural angle and to me gives the overall model a static feel. I would be tempted to rotate the sword arm at the wrist by about twenty five to thirty five degrees. Just so the weapon covers the body a little more and the arm doesn't have such a rigid line.

Unfortunately my client doesn't want the traditional Librarian paintjob on this guy, and wants something more akin to a standard Fists scheme. I'm going to be doing blue touches though, to mark him out. Also, he's the only power armor character I'm painting up, so he'll stand out enough. The blend on the power sword will do a lot too. Looking at it from here I'm not seeing the sword at a weird angle though - it looks fairly natural for this mini. I also had to keep it in a pose where I could slot in and out the torso as I saw fit, since I'm painting it in pieces for ease of painting. I just finished a bike, I'll have some pics up tomorrow!

Brother SRM wrote:

Sageheart wrote:i love the yellow.


the libbie looks odd, too much like the captain in a sense. i love the idea of the conversion, maybe do something to the head to make it look more original, or maybe add a banner that looks libbie like? i feel like at the moment it has wonderful little details which show the model as a libbie, but it needs something to really make it seem like a libbie from afar, idon't know if that makes entire sense haha

Also the shift key is your friend.

So here's that biker I painted up - just a test for the other 4 or 5 bikers that are in this commission:

He looks great, SRM! Although I assume he isn't finished.

Oh, and by the way, what exactly does SRM stand for?

Darkvoidof40k wrote:He looks great, SRM! Although I assume he isn't finished.

Oh, and by the way, what exactly does SRM stand for?

What makes you say that?

SRM is a cartoon character I made a while ago. I still make cartoons with him, which you can see on Newgrounds or Youtube.

The red's a little sparse and patchy in parts.

Looks good.. are you planning to put a wash (like you did with your yellow) on the red at all? Given the yellow and detail it looks a little flat which kind of brings the model down a bit.

Are you using ogryn/devlan for washing the yellow? Maybe use a light sepia then baal wash on the reds to tie them in?

I'm using Ogryn Flesh on the red as well as the yellow. It shows up far better on the chest eagles than it does on the trim - there's really not a whole lot of detail there to wash. The pictures are also a little blown out. I'm not saying the red is amazing or anything, but it does look a little better in person.

I only said that because, as mentioned previously by Monkeh, it is a little patchy in places, although I thought it was the yellow more than the red, and it didn't quite seem to be up to the standard of the other marines.

As for SRM, I'm aware of the cartoons . I just wondered if it stood for something or if it was a random collection of words .

So over this past week I've been able to finish both the Terminator squad and the Librarian.
Here's everything I've done so far except one Marine and a biker that I forgot to get into the frame:


Terminators:


Tactical squad (now with better lighting):




My client told me he specifically wanted the Librarian to be in his regular Marine colors, rather than Librarian colors. To offset this, I made sure his sword was distinctive and somewhat mystical looking with a nice green blend:




And his hair, which came out great if you ask me:


Next up: Vindicator!

Sweet dude. Great stuff as always.

Awesome! Although, while I do like that sword, I do think that perhaps a more contrasting red colour would have stood out more. I dunno. Maybe it's the image.

I didn't want to do a red as that's just the standard trim color for the army. I figured a green would stand out more. I wish I started from a darker green and blended into green instead of white though - it looks a little "toothpastey" if you ask me.

Brother SRM wrote:I didn't want to do a red as that's just the standard trim color for the army. I figured a green would stand out more. I wish I started from a darker green and blended into green instead of white though - it looks a little "toothpastey" if you ask me.

I'd have to agree with everything you've just said.

My client asked for closeups of the bare headed models, so I figured I'd post them here too! I've noticed a blemish or two in these pictures, and don't worry I've already fixed them. Anyway, here we go:

From my personal experience, a very basic formula for red, which is fast and gives the red a great pop, would be a base coat of Red Gore, then a wash of Badab Black, recoat with Red Gore on the flat surfaces, then a couple coats of Blood Red on the flat surfaces. This technique is fast and easy (not including time to wait for the wash to dry). Here's an example. This can easily be applied to shoulder pad trim.





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Oh, how rude of me. Good work on the Imp Fists so far. Yellow is pain to paint. Going back to earlier in the thread, did you have a bad experience with Army Painter?

I had an awful time with Army Painter. It fuzzed up the models really bad, and even then it was a pain to get the paint off. It didn't come off completely either, so there's still some grittiness on the Marines. The Vindicator was mostly okay after a week in Simple Green.

That red is nice, and really does look good. I just don't want to mess with a black wash so close to all that yellow. There really isn't much surface to wash on the red shoulder pad trim, and the margin for error is fairly high. If I was painting some Blood Angels or Blood Ravens I may use your method!

I just stripped a ton of models for a commission. The models were primed, painted and primed again!! I used EZ Pour Super Clean. It's a degreaser that's eco-friendly and can be found in any Wal-Mart. It took the paint off of those models without problems. It's great.

Was it just the one batch of army painter that was problems or is this a recurring problem Brother SRM? Been thinking of stocking up on different primer colours and they seem to be the easiest to get my hands on over here, but horror stories are never nice.

The yellow worked out fantastic on these, they don't look gritty at all so you did a great job of damage control. Subtle shading with the washes and a rehighlight of the base colour really works on these guys, keeps em clean but adds depth. Look lovely!

It was just one can of the stuff, since Army Painter's too expensive to really have much of. 15 bucks for one can? Yeesh. I figured out what went wrong more or less, but I'm not going back to it.

And I'll have to check out EZ Pour Super Clean. If it's better than Simple Green and won't burn my fingerprints off, it might be worth a look.

Welp, before you go plunging your hands into the Super Clean, you may want to wear some rubber gloves. The thick house cleaning gloves, not the wimpy powdery ones. This product has been known to give a nice burn to the ill-prepared!

Looking good there.

Just a little teaser on what I'm working on next:

That dozer blade looks awesome! Very nice work

Brother SRM wrote:Just a little teaser on what I'm working on next:

Errrr could it be a landspeeder? hahah, nice to see progress

SRM, I'm not sure if you left them blank due to the wishes of the client, but I think the shields on all the terminator's shoulder pads would look better with some writing, or an imperial fist, etc.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:Just a little teaser on what I'm working on next:

Errrr could it be a landspeeder? hahah, nice to see progress

Methinks it must be a landspeeder, and
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Great flesh tones there! Looking forward to seeing the landspeeder BTW

Okay, you guys got me, that's a landspeeder shield. It counts as extra armor, searchlights, smoke launchers, and a Cuisinart.

As for the suggestion of marking off the Terminator sheilds - I'll think about it. I don't want to try freehanding an Imperial Fist erm... fist on it, since I'm kind of lousy at freehanding. I might try halving or quartering on some, or script. Of course if I do any of that it'll be after I finish this vindicator erm... landspeeder.

Hazzard stripes on the shields. as they are not as good seige smiths like the Iron Warriors.

Nah, I do enough caution stripes with my Iron Warriors:


Having Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists on the same painting table is a conflict of interests

Brother SRM wrote:Having Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists on the same painting table is a conflict of interests

Methinks i smell a seige.

Liking what i have seen so far, the imperial fists are looking nice.

For the terminator shields, halving or quartering would be good, as the termies personal heraldry would be there.
As a veteran, they are the few who are allowed to show this. No need to to paint fists then.

Sorry if this suggestion is a bit late in the day but....

The librarian is nice, I like him, but what about the horned skull which should be on the right shouder pad. If you could add it or sculpt it then maybe use a small piece of gs tp continue the flow of the cloak it might help make him stand out from an AOBR captain. Or possibly file flat the medallion on the libby's chest plate and put a different design on it.

Just an idea.... although your stuff is way cool

Just wrapped up the Vindicator tonight:






Next up: Scouts!

Nice job. I like the magnetization. Honestly, I can't actually find anything wrong with that tank.

That's the worst Landspeeder I've ever seen. And, really? A pintle-mounted storm bolter? Don't you think that's a little overkill? You've totally gone over the top with that.

--Brian

(Seriously, lovely work. I always enjoy a well-painted yellow army.)

Glad you guys liked the Vindi

Here's the next thing I'm working on, 13 scouts:


I'm using a different painting technique for them, since I think the yellow primer wouldn't work well given how little armor there actually is.

Looks very promising

Yay scouts. 'nuff said.

Here's some progress on the scouts. I need to pick up a new brush on Friday to paint their eyes, then I'll be done and take better pictures. Here's the crew:



And here's some camo cloak detail:

Looking great! Nice work on the camo pattern (although TBH the bright yellow armour probably renders the capes useless!) Vindicator looks fantastic, very smooth colours.

I did go for a more muted scheme with the scouts, but yellow just doesn't lend itself well to urban camo! It is a duller yellow, but there's only so much I could do while sticking to the scheme.

Brown. A golden brown is what you need. Yes, a faded golden brown. Like Scorched + Iyanden 1:3, but dry brushed over a dark grey or something. Something. Good work on the Camo Cloaks though.

Update!
I recently finished both the scouts and the Dreadnought. I intentionally used a different painting technique for the Scouts, as I wanted them to have a more muted color scheme. Well, as muted as you can get in yellow armor anyway:












And here's the big yellow washing machine:






Next up: Bikers and characters!

Great work! The scouts look excellent all together (some of the pics you took are a little hard on the eye due to the people all being at different distances from the camera)

Nice work on the big yellow washing machine!

Is that a fingerprint on that dreadnought i see? it'll look great when it's touched up, good stuff.

Gasp! It's heresy! Fingerprints on a dred...

I'm sincerely surprised I missed that fingerprint. Cover-up incoming!

Been playing with whites/greys and a little yellow myself over the last few months.

Try watering down your wash for larger areas like the dread, or perhaps not go as thick with it.. are you using sepia or devlan? Go 1:1 if you want to use it that thick on the dread. Just gives a lot more shading and a lot less pooling

I've been using Ogryn Flesh, actually - even watering down my wash still got all kinds of pooling that I didn't like. It's not as bad as the pooling would have been if I did the Vindicator the same way though.

Whew! The Imperial Fists are finally done! Unfortunately I'm at my folks' place so the lighting isn't great, but here's the last of em:
with a WIP pic of Lysander







And the big man himself:






Next up are some Sanguinary Guard I'm doing for a guy, plus a bunch of Blood Angels characters

Y'know, I'm sorry to say this but the colours actually do look pretty.. 'wet' or 'washy'.. if you know what I mean. Again, might just be the lighting, and I can definitely see some very well painted parts.

Are you just saying on the most recent batch (Lysander, the Chaplain) or altogether? For reference, the Chaplain looks very similar to the scouts, and Lysander has identical armor colors to the Terminators and marines. Bikes are the same deal, except the powerfist sergeant who had a few layers of black that wouldn't come off.

love the scouts, but find the dred's yellow seems too bright to me, could just be the pic since i really like how the yellow looks in the back! haha

Sageheart wrote:love the scouts, but find the dred's yellow seems too bright to me, could just be the pic since i really like how the yellow looks in the back! haha

The yellow I used on the scouts and the chaplain is darker than the yellow on everything else, since those two are primed in black while everything else is primed in yellow.

I for one love your work. I love the camo on the guards from the first commission and the varying shades of yellow on the marines to reflect their status and battle field role.

I bet you can't wait to put the yellow paints back in the cupboard for a while before moving on to the red for the blood angels.

Consider me subscribed!

taffiarti wrote:I for one love your work. I love the camo on the guards from the first commission and the varying shades of yellow on the marines to reflect their status and battle field role.

I bet you can't wait to put the yellow paints back in the cupboard for a while before moving on to the red for the blood angels.

Consider me subscribed!

You're right about that one - It's gonna be nice to pare my yellows down to just being accent colors for my Iron Warriors.

Funny thing is I'm hardly going to paint much red at all on the Blood Angels - it's going to almost all be gold! Considering how much I love painting gold on my Iron Warriors they should end up looking pretty ace!

So I've started my next commission, which is a squad of Sanguinary Guard, Mephiston, Dante, and the Sanguinor. Seeing how the Guard were already assembled and primed, I got to work on em! They're still WIP right now, but here's my progress so far:








The lighting at my folks' place sucks, but I'll take some pics with better lighting when I go back to my apartment in a couple days. For reference, the gold looks almost identical to the gold on these Chaos Terminators I painted:

Power weapons are fun. Can't wait to see 'em painted! One of my favorite things to see on a Space Marine model is a really nice, glowing/lightning etc covered Power weapon. While blue is the most common, I've also seen a sort of 'lava' orange/red that looked good, as well as some really nice looking greens. Regardless, I'm sure it'll look good.


Edit: Also, those Terminators look great!

I'm going for a lava effect - he wants some sort of black/red/orange blend which won't be easy, but will look totally boss.

Thanks for the props on my Termies!

the guard look great so far, cant wait to see the finished product

Brother SRM wrote:Okay, so things have been going really slow on this front lately due to primer issues and real life stuff. I've been using Army Painter Daemonic Yellow, and while the color is decent, the fuzz it leaves behind isn't. The Marines were a bit fuzzy, but almost workable. I tried priming the Vindicator the other day though, and this is what I got:

Right now a whole bunch of Imperial Fists are taking a nice relaxing Simple Green bath, and I've got a can of Krylon yellow spray primer on my desk waiting to be unleashed. Expect some updates once I've got a decent basecoat. Fuzzy models really saps my motivation since no matter what I do it'll always look fuzzy and gross.

How did the Krylon yellow work for you? I wanted to do a yellow for my Trollbloods and after one yellow Mauler I am sick of painting yellow. Any chance you have a model that has just been primed you can post a picture of? Could you tell me what type of Krylon yellow you used?

Thanks,
Flaim

flaim wrote:
How did the Krylon yellow work for you? I wanted to do a yellow for my Trollbloods and after one yellow Mauler I am sick of painting yellow. Any chance you have a model that has just been primed you can post a picture of? Could you tell me what type of Krylon yellow you used?

Thanks,
Flaim

I used the Krylon Fusion stuff - it bonds to plastic, so it can be kind of tricky to work with. I'd also recommend priming a model with white primer first, especially for metals. This Vindicator is that yellow with shading in the recesses, but the bulk of the armor is what the yellow looks like right out of the can:

Exceptional work!

Also, this may have been covered earlier in the thread (in which case forgive me), but how have you been painting the gold?

Little lord Fauntleroy wrote:Exceptional work!

Also, this may have been covered earlier in the thread (in which case forgive me), but how have you been painting the gold?

My gold is fairly simple but looks nice, albeit brassy:
Tin Bitz > Shining Gold > Gryphonne Sepia wash in the recesses > Burnished Gold highlights and sometimes drybrush.

Expect finished pictures of the Sanguinary Guard in the next couple days - just have to paint up their power weapons which is going to be an exercise in crazy blending!

Can't wait!

Thanks, I may have to try that method on my Night lords.

More progress and better lighting now that I'm back in Boston:

Looking good so far. Even just what you've done so far is great, I really like the banner - is that freehand writing on there?

I wish I was that good at freehand! It's sculpted on the banner.

Brother SRM wrote:I wish I was that good at freehand!

Don't we all? An easy technique is to write on the scripture you want in pen, leaving enough space, and then painting over it. Much easier than just trying to paint it on normally. Even more easy than that is just writing on full stop.

It's sculpted on the banner.

That's the one thing you have to hand to GW, some of the minis are simply beautiful! Then again, some are not.. looking at you, Cortez..

wow great new picture, they look good

Wow. I really like your work. My favorite is those Terminators even though they're not part or your commission are they? I like everything you've done so far, just so you know. =P

bunnygurl wrote:Wow. I really like your work. My favorite is those Terminators even though they're not part or your commission are they? I like everything you've done so far, just so you know. =P

The Chaos Marine ones? No, those are for one of my own armies

I've been putting off the swords on the Sanguinary Guard since it's gonna be some crazy blending stuff I'm not exactly looking forward to! In the meantime, I got a start on the Sanguinor and make a bizarre apparatus for painting him:

oh man...that guy!


They all look great, very impressed that you took on a yellow marines commission,

cant wait to see them, the commission looks great man

So the blades on the Sanguinary Guard are FUBAR - the yellow paint cracked, and on a second go it painted again. This turned my cool blends into cracked messes:


Somewhat discouraged, I went to work on the Sanguinor instead. Here's the golden boy himself:

Cracking paint on something that looks that good. I can only imagine how immensly frustrating that must be. Sanguinor looks so great, so take some solace in that.

Thanks The only thing that's worse about the cracking paint is that I repainted them and it happened again! Ugh! I need a new yellow.

To be honest, I'm sorry but I don't like that Sanguinor model. But fear not, I'm not so impolite as to not offer some constructive criticism.

The gold just seems.. not very bright and rather blotchy, infact the whole model just seems rather dull. Yeah, the gold looks tarnished to me I'm afraid, and it just seems to be lacking life.

In the BA issue of WD there was an 'eavy metal painting guide on this guy - maybe you'd like to check it out? Even if not to use it, then to learn from it.

Well I think the Sanguinor looks pretty nice, my only gripe that I can see is the face seems to be a bit flat, but otherwise, it's all good from me!

I'm sorry to say so, but your gold is just...meh
Try a base of 50/50 shining gold and bestial brown, wash lightly with brown wash, panel back up with pure shinning, highlight with shining with a bit of mithril mixed in, sepia wash, then final pure mithril highlight on the corners
atm your gold looks like gold paint rather than gold coloured metal. It's far too tacky and blotchy and lacks depth while being too thick a layer

CalasTyphon216 wrote:atm your gold looks like gold paint

Probably because it is. Everyone else here likes the gold.

CalasTyphon216 wrote:I'm sorry to say so, but your gold is just...meh
Try a base of 50/50 shining gold and bestial brown, wash lightly with brown wash, panel back up with pure shinning, highlight with shining with a bit of mithril mixed in, sepia wash, then final pure mithril highlight on the corners
atm your gold looks like gold paint rather than gold coloured metal. It's far too tacky and blotchy and lacks depth while being too thick a layer

You're the first person who hasn't liked my gold, here or on any of the other sites I post on. I did use a sepia wash, but only for shading in some areas.

Just to point out, I'm the first. Don't get me wrong, any other gold he's done has been great, especially on the Iron Warrior Terminators. But this model just doesn't work for me..

SRM, can you post a picture with a light shining on the Sanguinor? I can't seem to make out many details on the face.
Also, I suggest painting his chalice silver, so it stands out more.

Last thing, why does Duke have pink fingernails on your avatar?

I'm afraid I would have to agree the model isn't your best. It is quite blotchy (paint too thick?) and this model requires the paint to go on very lightly and with a lot of finesse to get the detail to stand out. I like your work a lot, you know that, but this one falls a touch short for me too. I would highly recommend starting to add silver into the mix and upping the layers on the raised areas, hope it helps!

I did up layers on raised areas - the lowest areas have tin bitz, then shining gold with a sepia wash, then up to shining gold, then burnished gold on the raised areas. I'll look into getting mithril for the finest edges though - it's one of the 'Eavy Metal tricks I really like.

I'm surprised people aren't really digging this guy since I thought he came out great - oh well!

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:SRM, can you post a picture with a light shining on the Sanguinor? I can't seem to make out many details on the face.
Also, I suggest painting his chalice silver, so it stands out more.

Last thing, why does Duke have pink fingernails on your avatar?

He's pretty well lit. I did nuff up on the face though - one of his eyes got painted over. I've since fixed it.

And that's not Duke's hand on his thigh in my avatar

This is interesting im definitely subscribed!

what i meant was that the gold on the sanguinor looks too thick and not well blended. Just a personal quirk of mine but I like my gold armor to look like gold armor, rather than metal with gold paint slopped on

I just don't understand how people think it looks worse than my other gold armor that's painted in the exact same way.

It could just be the shots mate. Take some more well-lit shots of all of them.

They do have a point the sanguinor's armor seems like it's painted much thicker and it's a bit flatter than the rest. Once you have new shots of them all people can tell you why they feel there's a difference I guess.

I'll get some better pictures in the next couple days then - I've gotta repaint his sword anyway!

maybe your sanguinor is unappealing to me because I prefer painting my gold as metallic as possible...
o well, looking forward to better pics

I think the gold is more than good enough. It's the GW model that I have never been fond of

That's a real shame about your power swords though. Hope the next batch doesn't try you patience as much!

These Sanguinary Guard have been a nightmare! While painting their armor was all fine and dandy, their swords have been the hugest pain in the ass. My first two attempts at blending led to cracked paint because of my old GW yellow. My third attempt used red to orange, and didn't have enough variation. My fourth attempt looks alright, but in some places they're a little weak. Anyway, just about everybody's done:






You can see a little gold smidge on the front left guy's wing - I've since touched that up


And some glowing eyes:


Next up: Mephiston!

they look good man. The picture quality seems to make all the difference on the sanguinor too! You do great work

It's hard to tell from the blurry images, but they look good. I like the fire effect on the weapons! Although I think that you could've done a bit more blending from red to orange, perhaps with some white at the tips.

Otherwise, great job! Can't wait for Mephiston.

These are not the best thing since sliced bread... As far as just being basically painted they're good, but nothing really special. Kinda grainy. Try cleaning your brushes.

I like them. i doubt that will come as a surprise given what else I have posted in the thread.

What may be more surprising is that I am not a fan of the blended sword. It looks alot more like a wide stroke layering then blending. Trying to be constructive (and I say that loosely as you are a better painter than me, and one day I will get the photos up to prove it ) I would suggest trying to blend it instead as you have on other models in the past. As the older paint were not good for this would it be better to switch brands or perhaps order new ones? I know it sounds obvious but sometimes a new pot of your favourite colour or eve a new brush makes all the difference to me.

All that being said I think this was the 4th (?) time you had to repaint those weapons and that is a frustration I can relate to and understand!

Taff

im sorry to have to say this, but...
the white is not good at all. Its too thick and also very dirty, uneven and badly applied. Try thinning down your paint a lot more, and individually paint each 'feather' rather than drybrushing it, cause frankly, it just looks gak atm

Just a little WIP on Mephiston - I've built him up to a Red Gore. Figure I'm going to be highlighting up for the armor, and darkening down for the robe to distinguish it. Any ideas for the inside color of the robe?

I've also got some Stormtroopers I've been working on on the side:

Looking good, I like the STs!

So I managed to finish the Stormtroopers quickly - these guys are such a joy to paint!











And I've also made some more progress on Mephiston; trying to figure out a good color for the cape, since black is always so dull.

Brother SRM wrote:these guys are such a joy to paint!

These guys are such a joy to behold!

Painted up Mephiston, and I'd say he looks good for what he is! I put this guy through 3 baths of Simple Green, plus some time cleaning him off with a knife, and I still couldn't clean him up. I have absolutely no idea what the hell was under all that paint. As a result some parts (the winged shoulderpad in particular) have lost some detail and I had to improvise:






That's the last of the Blood Angels; he might need a bit of tidying up, but that's all she wrote on the boys in gold!

He is amazing, great job. The sword - very unique style and it's very effective and eyecatching.

But one quick change you might want to do is change the torso trim to gold, that boney colour is really out of place.

Thanks! The sword was my first try at that fine style of lightning - hopefully I can try the same technique out on some Space Hulk guys sometime!

Mephiston's bone colored area is that way because I was pretty closely following the GW paint scheme. I personally like it more than more gold; I'm golded out, man!

How did you get into doing commisions? Cause after seeing your stuff and a couple of others (can't remember their names)I think I might be good enough to do some Maybe not to Ifalana quality but to get some money. A sample of my wares are on my blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/348063.page#2468509

I'll update that bad boy soon!

Fatty_Tuna wrote:How did you get into doing commisions? Cause after seeing your stuff and a couple of others (can't remember their names)I think I might be good enough to do some Maybe not to Ifalana quality but to get some money. A sample of my wares are on my blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/348063.page#2468509

I'll update that bad boy soon!

That sounds like a really backhanded compliment. I'd get a better camera since if people can't see your paintjobs they won't ever hire you.

Im sorry, but Mephiston looks absolutely horrible
THe paint is waay to thick and also badly applied
The skull shoulderpad is atrocious
The face looks like a 5 year old painted it
I'm sorry to sound harsh, but the truth is often painful, and the truth here is that your Mephiston looks really bad

CalasTyphon216 wrote:Im sorry, but Mephiston looks absolutely horrible
THe paint is waay to thick and also badly applied
The skull shoulderpad is atrocious
The face looks like a 5 year old painted it
I'm sorry to sound harsh, but the truth is often painful, and the truth here is that your Mephiston looks really bad

Brother SRM wrote:Painted up Mephiston, and I'd say he looks good for what he is! I put this guy through 3 baths of Simple Green, plus some time cleaning him off with a knife, and I still couldn't clean him up. I have absolutely no idea what the hell was under all that paint. As a result some parts (the winged shoulderpad in particular) have lost some detail and I had to improvise.

Fatty_Tuna wrote:How did you get into doing commisions? Cause after seeing your stuff and a couple of others (can't remember their names)I think I might be good enough to do some Maybe not to Ifalana quality but to get some money. A sample of my wares are on my blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/348063.page#2468509

I'll update that bad boy soon!

Well, damn.

@Brother, nice stuff man.Would you do me the honor of repairing one of my horribly disfigured models that I applied 17 coats of paint on? Oh, wait.. I see you did! My Mephiston! Whew, looking a lot better than the last time I saw you. -goes to get more paint to horribly maim Mephiston with-

I like your blending on the Sang Guard's weaponry.

CalasTyphon216 wrote:Im sorry, but Mephiston looks absolutely horrible
THe paint is waay to thick and also badly applied
The skull shoulderpad is atrocious
The face looks like a 5 year old painted it
I'm sorry to sound harsh, but the truth is often painful, and the truth here is that your Mephiston looks really bad

Thanks for your input. I've got no problem listening to constructive criticism, but this is twice you've come in here, called my work garbage, and pretty much flamed my stuff.

There's a big difference between saying "The skull shoulderpad doesn't appeal to me, you should try X instead of Y" and saying it looks "atrocious" with no further input. One is constructive, and helps me as a painter. The other makes you look like an ass. I'll leave it up to you to figure that one out.

I wanted to weigh in on this discussion as the Blood Angel stuff is for me. Ill start saying that i received the models back today and i am very very pleased with brothers job. I was a little worried based on the pictures but the only reason is that because he takes very close and very well lit pictures. In my hand these guys look fantastic for what i paid. He is a talented painter but im sure he will agree is not a golden daemon painter. His prices are very well priced and his pictures do not do justice to how good the models look in your hand or on a tabletop.
The mephiston model i won in an auction and it was a real big mess when i gave it to him. Though i thought the facepaint looked bad in the pictures it looks good when i have it in my hand. If you look over these models with a magnifying glass they wont look great and certainly are not golden daemon pieces. However they are great quality for the price and i am very happy with them even though i myself was worried at one time. Thanks again brother, great job and your pictures dont do your models justice.

What better feedback could there be than a satisfied client?

taffiarti wrote:What better feedback could there be than a satisfied client?

Multiple satisfied clients.

pjmcgrath07 wrote: I wanted to weigh in on this discussion as the Blood Angel stuff is for me. Ill start saying that i received the models back today and i am very very pleased with brothers job. I was a little worried based on the pictures but the only reason is that because he takes very close and very well lit pictures. In my hand these guys look fantastic for what i paid. He is a talented painter but im sure he will agree is not a golden daemon painter. His prices are very well priced and his pictures do not do justice to how good the models look in your hand or on a tabletop.
The mephiston model i won in an auction and it was a real big mess when i gave it to him. Though i thought the facepaint looked bad in the pictures it looks good when i have it in my hand. If you look over these models with a magnifying glass they wont look great and certainly are not golden daemon pieces. However they are great quality for the price and i am very happy with them even though i myself was worried at one time. Thanks again brother, great job and your pictures dont do your models justice.

Thanks for the great testimonial I honestly felt like Mephiston is one of the better models I'd painted, but the face and winged shoulderpad look kinda goopy on the really close in pictures. Glad you're liking your Blood Angels, and I had a lot of fun painting them, repeated blends aside.

I play crimson fists aswell, and am a fan of your painting I was wondering if you had any pics of them up floating around on dakka? *i found them =)*

I've got a bunch of Crimson Fists in my gallery, but they're fairly old, and lack shading. I'm hoping to paint up a squad of Sternguard for them soon with everything I know now!

Here's a few :

It always pleases me to see those guys.

Something Fisty this way comes:

Expect more soon!

Yellow Crimson Fists! Yay!

I believe they're called Imperial Fists in that case, Darkvoid

Ah, this will soon be known as the yellow commission blog. Still, I think those imperial fists may be the best models on here so look forward to seeing these bad bys done. Assuming they are imperial fists of course. And i not, then I look forward to seeing what they are anyway!

Ah, well, I never did think Pedro looked good in yellow.. IF's are very hard to do a good job of, as yellow is one of the hardest colours to paint (AFAIK). Good luck on this one, SRM!

If you want to see a good yellow pedro mini, then check out gitsplitta's blog, on his mantis warriors, he used Pedro as his commander painted in tranquility veteran colours and it looks amazing.

Finally got some pictures!







I'll be adding transfers to them soon, then matt varnishing them. Unfortunately some of them were a bit gunked up by the primer, namely on the chest aquilas and the like. I had to sort of wing it for highlights there, but the ones that still had their definition came out nicely. I've missed a spot or two judging by the photos, but that's since been taken care of!

How do you do your yellow? I would love to know!

Arken Vul'tan01 wrote:How do you do your yellow? I would love to know!

I've used Armypainter yellow, and it's come off very fuzzy and problematic. I've used Krylon yellow and that's a bit better over a white basecoat. These Terminators were actually already primed this color when I got them! I've been using Sunburst Yellow for touch ups and highlights, and Ogryn Flesh for shading.

Good job, SRM. Very well done, I congratulate you on your success at painting red and yellow .

I'd HIGHLY recommend running golden yellow through an airbrush. Gets on very even and smooth, is astoundingly bright, and uses about 1/10th of the normal amount of paint

They look a little bit plain at the moment. Are you planning on adding anything else to break up the monotony of straight yellow?
Still, I like them, they just need something...more.

_Tim?

Great job as always on the yellow. I do agree with Tim in that they seem quite plain but I'm sure the transfers will sort that out

Brother SRM, I may need to try that Krylon Fusion yellow when my next batch of Fists comes in. I really should do my own commission Blog as well, if only to force me to put more pictures online.

Norsehawk wrote:Brother SRM, I may need to try that Krylon Fusion yellow when my next batch of Fists comes in. I really should do my own commission Blog as well, if only to force me to put more pictures online.

It's a hell of a motivational tool! Just make sure to prime white before hitting them with the Fusion; otherwise some of the grey plastic comes through and it looks a little unsightly.

Just a minor update; I'm working on assault Marines right now! They were half-painted with some kind of blotchy yellow, and I'm smoothing that out into a new yellow. Mine is on the right:



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Just finished up the assault squad!

Welp, my last post got "automatically appended" so I guess it got lost - oh well, for those following they're getting plenty new to look at

I just wrapped up 10 tactical Marines:






Next up: Devastators!

Lookin' good.

After about a month of not being able to paint due to school, job hunting, and so on, I've finally got some more stuff painted:






Got eight more Marines to paint and I'm all done painting these guys!

Models are looking great as always. I love the axe and don't recall seeing it before. Where did you get it from?

So close to putting the yellow away for another day! Do you know what you have got lined up next?

That axe is actually a vanilla part on the old Space Marine veterans kit. It's a great old model!

Right now I've got Pedro Kantor and a few more Marines for this commission, then I've got a big commission that's basically me half-painting another guy's army. He doesn't want me posting about it here so I'll be respecting that and not posting his stuff. A friend of mine is going to have me paint his Belial, so that'll be happening too.

Okay, in the home stretch here! I painted up all the heavy weapons, a handful of extra Marines, a sergeant, and put transfers on every single Marine as per the client's request. Unfortunately, the round Imperial Fists transfer doesn't like the Marine shoulderpads much, but I did the best I could with em. Anyway, here's the nearly completed commission:






Lastly, I have two sergeants and Pedro Kantor to paint, then the commission's complete!

You have no idea how happy it made to find this blog, The Imperial Fist were my other option when it was time to choose an army to play. Yellow is such a nice color. and besides they look pretty damn good, even drilled the barrels, good man.

Imperial Fists are done! Here they are in the classic "Space Marine battle pile" tactical formation:














That's it for these Imperial Fists folks! I have three commissions lined up; one Belial for a personal friend of mine, more stormtroopers for another, and another Space Marine army, but the guy doesn't want me posting them in this thread so that's hush hush for now!


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And some extra shots of the big man himself:





I ended up using a Grey Knight stormbolter and a leftover Space Marine commander shoulderpad I had. And yes, that chapter logo is freehand!

Awesome.

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Coming soon - my Belial conversion from Lysander!

madmen wrote:Coming soon - my Belial conversion from Lysander!

Expect WIP pics in the next few days

madmen wrote:Coming soon - my Belial conversion from Lysander!

As promised, albeit a little late:

Conversion is madmen's, I just based and pinned him, and his primer is drying as I type this

As an Imperial Fist play it is fun to look through here and see what you have accomplished.

Finished Belial!

I like it though i don't like the shoulder guard on his leg. Looks outta place to me, and i feel like the green is a bit too light, But overall i like it.

lunarghost wrote:I like it though i don't like the shoulder guard on his leg. Looks outta place to me, and i feel like the green is a bit too light, But overall i like it.

The shoulderguard on the knee was his conversion, but the green is up to personal preference. I think I've gone into withdrawal from going without painting a green army for so long I just put as many shades of it on as I could! Glad you like it

Great conversions SRM btw what did you use for the cloth on your stormtroopers? and consider me subscribed! as your work is amazing!

dakka farta wrote:Great conversions SRM btw what did you use for the cloth on your stormtroopers? and consider me subscribed! as your work is amazing!

Thanks! The conversion is Madmen's doing though, I just painted it

The cloth on my stormtroopers if I recall correctly was just Graveyard Earth with Devlan Mud wash. Amazing what a simple wash can do!

Thanks for that, you should really showcase your IG they are quite nice and since yours is a mixed regiment it should be even better! keep up the great painting.

dakka farta wrote:Thanks for that, you should really showcase your IG they are quite nice and since yours is a mixed regiment it should be even better! keep up the great painting.

You're too kind my new apartment will actually have good lighting, so I could set up something nice on my gaming table there.

Great i'll be looking forward to that, btw do you have any more commissions on the way?

dakka farta wrote:Great i'll be looking forward to that, btw do you have any more commissions on the way?

I'm working on a huge weird one. A guy wants me to half-paint a whole ton of vehicles and Marines; basically paint them black and highlight them in grey. It's really boring and I won't be posting it here, as he doesn't want me to.

very nice, I'm real interested in getting some SM painted up.... right now I'm in the process of moving up to NH from VA, so it'll be a little bit....

AFPredator wrote:very nice, I'm real interested in getting some SM painted up.... right now I'm in the process of moving up to NH from VA, so it'll be a little bit....

I'm actually working on a big commission the client doesn't want me posting about here, so I'm busy anyway! Let me know via PM in a while and we can talk.

*blows dust off own thread*

Hey all! I'm still no longer accepting commissions, but I painted up a Guildball team for a friend of mine. They're a Union team, and I mostly went with the paintscheme as I saw it on the cards.