Hi,

I'm new to the forum and back to the hobby after a looooong time off. I've been going crazy for all the information on the internet and though I collect a SM army at the moment I still like to tinker where I can and enjoy making things my own.

So I have painted a few things recently but will wait to post unit/squad shots (still have lots to paint!) but I though I'd open my blog account with my WIP Pre-Heresy(ish) Terminator Librarian.

He is not overly custom (just a kit bash), this is what I managed to do in an hour last night but the fundamentals are there, I'm going to GS the hood to make it more round and add some guitar wire, force weapon is from a thunder hammer with two power axe blades grafted on, shoulder pads are venerable dread shin plates, torso is standard SM terminator, Legs are SW terminator with the wolf heads and pelt removed. Loincloth from the tactical squad sprue, scroll cases from the assault terminators sprue, left arm from the chaos terminator lord, spaced the arms out 0.3cm each side with some sprue plastic(needs GS'ing) storm shield from the SW terminators with iconography removed and I'm thinking of grafting a book on to it and some purity seals/tabbards. I also bought a book to make the banner/standard/icon/thingo with but it is a bit large and might look goofy, I'll see how I go with that one. Otherwise I might use the mask face from the tactical squad sprue (normally for the flamer guy), make up some small rivets for the heightened chest piece to tie it in with the chest and I saw on one of the blogs they had put some small strips of pointed plasticard under the shoulders to make it look a bit roman (looked great on his blog, will see if I can find it).

What do you think? I didn't want to go crazy with cloaks and books, more of a combat focused librarian. Total cost was $20aud so it set me back the same as if I had bought the GW one but I am a bit happier with mine. I will post progress as I get it finished. Oh the base is a bit off, I ran out of terminator ones.

Neato.

i like it a ton!

And some stuff I have painted up for this Red Scorpions army, with more to come as I get the time. I just did these ones to get an idea for the colour scheme:

Aobr Dread:


Terminator w Assault Cannon (Ive since removed the trophy/teeth bit under the assault cannon):


Scout Sarge:



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And the lighting/background is a bit weird on these two plus the bases have all been done to fall in to line with the dreadnought.

Jump Captain:


Tac Sarge:

Well I got a little more done on the Librarian last night, once again sorry about the silly small base but I have nothing larger at the moment. What do you think of the book? I'm not sold.. but not so sure what to do with it, it's a lot larger than I expected and had originally planned to build a bit of a shrine on the top of the torso with it, but instead it is more banner pole sized.





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The next bit i'm doing is finishing up the psychic hood and getting to work on the shield. Then I guess it's done and ready for paint.

I like the Librarian alot. Look forward to seeing him painted.

Woo!

Red Scorpions aren't red...

Jokes aside. Great work!

No, RS arent red.

They look great, Im sticking around to pick up some pointers. I'll probably start a RS with the new IA book.

Oh, and I'd do something with the ropes on the book. Not doin much good like that.

LunaHound wrote:Woo!

Maybe I should do a few off the hip then, that looks awesome! I'm not sure my modeling skill is capable of making it look good though.

whalemusic360 wrote:No, RS arent red.

They look great, Im sticking around to pick up some pointers. I'll probably start a RS with the new IA book.

Oh, and I'd do something with the ropes on the book. Not doin much good like that.

Yeah man the new book should be great, I haven't been into it for very long but forgeworld have some really nice bits to make the armies with. I've bought Culln, the Venerable dread and a ton of the shoulder pads for terminators and marines and the quality is very high.

What would you suggest I do with the book? Maybe some thin strips of plasticard down the back to join up the rings? I think the rope looks good on the front as it's holding the pages back but it does look a bit disjointed from behind.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Yeah a bit of plasticard or GS should do the trick. It doesnt look bad, just odd currently

And this is where I got some of my inspiration from, I really like this conversion and hope mine turns out just as good .:

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2009/05/terminator-librarian-being-painted.html

Your conversion is FANTASTIC - and I look forward to seeing the Librarian painted!

I also would like to know how you made the 'gorget' piece!

I've always liked that part of the Pre-Heresy Terminator armor, but have always struggled trying to make it...

redscorps wrote:And this is where I got some of my inspiration from, I really like this conversion and hope mine turns out just as good .:

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2009/05/terminator-librarian-being-painted.html

Yeah, I like yours better because of you using Venerable Dreadnaught knee-pads

Not really inspiration though, more like taking an idea and making it better

Alpharius wrote:Your conversion is FANTASTIC - and I look forward to seeing the Librarian painted!

I also would like to know how you made the 'gorget' piece!

I've always liked that part of the Pre-Heresy Terminator armor, but have always struggled trying to make it...

Thanks man I really appreciate the feedback.

I'm not much of a master craftsman so it was a bit of a hack job. I cut a piece of plasticard just a bit longer than the lip on the opening in the torso, I then trimmed a little bit off each end until it fit properly when bent around. Once this was fitting in the gap I cut the angles for the step down. Test fitting again revealed I needed to angle the outer flat sections as well to look a bit better so I trimmed those off. Once fitted I beveled the inside edge to make it look a little less harsh and I have drilled some small holes in the front with my pin vice. I plan to finish it up with some very small rivets on the two ends and maybe 3 in the center.

I'm not much of an artist either, but here is a quick scribble I did on a post-it at work for you to help explain:

Thanks for the sketch!

I'd still rather have you make, say, 20 of them for me!

grayspark wrote:

redscorps wrote:And this is where I got some of my inspiration from, I really like this conversion and hope mine turns out just as good .:

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2009/05/terminator-librarian-being-painted.html

Yeah, I like yours better because of you using Venerable Dreadnaught knee-pads

Not really inspiration though, more like taking an idea and making it better

Thanks bloke! Lets see if I can paint it just as good though, I've never painted anything blue before..

Alpharius wrote:Thanks for the sketch!

I'd still rather have you make, say, 20 of them for me!

...I can guarantee I would make 20 different ones, take 20-30 slices of skin from my fingers, snap 3-5 trying to bend them to the shape and lose what little is left of my hair in the process.

If I had a good accurate way of doing it I would be happy to though, but like I said I'm a hack and pretty much everything I pull off is luck.

JAck

Finished my first squad, EVER! Haha, these guys are some of the first things I've painted in ~5 years and since starting out the hobby (I feel bad to admit this now) THE first squad I have ever completed. I look forward to finishing my whole army at some stage now, I'm enjoying the modelling as much as the gaming these days.

Nice job on the termies. If these are first ones you've painted in 5 years, you definitely haven't lost the touch. Looking forward to seeing more work and your converted libby done up and painted.

i need an ork icon that drools
your guys look fantastic

great work

Cheers guys, I'm pretty proud.

This stuff looks great. I will watch with interest!

Excellent work there. I shall be watching your Scorpions with much interest as I'm working on mine at the moment too.

Have you seen the Red Scorpion rules in the other Forgeworld books? You get to upgrade tactical sergeants to Apothecaries and gain FNP. Way to make them even more annoying to take down

Also. Red Scoprions can come in red, if you go for the Angstrom camo scheme from the original Rogue Trader article.

Looking fab, like others i'm looking forward to more on that Libby. I must say its a very impressive level for a return performance as well, you're right to be proud of these, great job.

endtransmission wrote:Excellent work there. I shall be watching your Scorpions with much interest as I'm working on mine at the moment too.

Have you seen the Red Scorpion rules in the other Forgeworld books? You get to upgrade tactical sergeants to Apothecaries and gain FNP. Way to make them even more annoying to take down

Also. Red Scoprions can come in red, if you go for the Angstrom camo scheme from the original Rogue Trader article.

Thanks man! Yeah I have seen that, still trying to gather enough Apothecary bits to kit out the squadsthough, seems they are hard to come by (I want plastic ones).

Lennysmash wrote:Looking fab, like others i'm looking forward to more on that Libby. I must say its a very impressive level for a return performance as well, you're right to be proud of these, great job.

I can't wait to finish him, I made the changes to the book, added a few more details and the conversion work is done now, I want to get out 2 tac squads before I paint him though and save it as a reward for the hard work of painting 20 ordinary blokes.

These are two of the last things I painted before I quit last time, 1 of my 2 Mordheim warbands (click photo for details) and the Khorne DP (Only surviving member of my khorne army!):




I'm going to finish the warband and repair/repaint/base the DP as a break from painting marines. I still love both of these things and I'm glad they didn't get lost like most of my old stuff.

Thanks for the inspiration.....nice Libby

Very cool , I haven't seen a full Red Scorpions army before so I will be watching your thread with interest, especially if you keep up the great conversions like the librarian!

So a quick update, I've only got 3 guys done out of the squad so far but the other guys are getting the primary colours now so I shoud be able to smash them out pretty quick.

First up, Sarge, Plasma Gunner and Missile Launcher:



I thought I'd show my work area aswell, it's a huge improvement from sitting on the floor in the loungeroom for the last few weeks. The boxes up the back right have heaps of stuff in them which I will build once I have painted up the scorps. I really need to stop buying gak off ebay, I already have more than I can paint in a year...



And my table, I bashed this out over a weekend. I've got a bunch of cities of death sprues on the way and I'm planning to get a few of those sweet bastion kits and a landing pad. It's looking a bit sparse at the moment but is mostly doing the job, we're sitting at about 18% coverage right now and I need to cut some more LOS blocking terrain.

I found a carnifex going cheap on ebay a little while back and thought I'd grab it as it's such a cool looking model:



So I guess it was built up for the old codex as a gun model but I really really like the look of twin scythin talon sets, such an evil model!

I got to work on snapping the model apart, thankfully they used CA glue and it came apart very easily, only breaking one of the arms at the shoulder (but it glued back together fine). I then cut the legs off and re posed them so it was on a more aggressive angle pointing down. I twisted the body so the left side is rolled down and twisted the head back level again as if it was mid-charge. I won some trygon talons (I figured they'd be about the same size as carnifex and cost me 1/4 of the price), I also put these so the lowest side was swept back and the high side was all the way up ready to plunge into the next foe. It's such a cool model, the scuplting is awesome and so evil.

I'm still painting some marines and stopped for an hour to pose this guy, I used CA glue for the arms and base so I will snap these off again when I decide to paint him. Carnifex eating marines:



It stands a bit shorter now but is a fair bit longer, kinda has that t-rex look to it.

I might try and get a bit of an army going in the future, painting them up as a hive fleet harbinger. Check out my inspiration for that, this guys models are wicked and the scheme is a gem, probably the best I have seen to date.



Master Darksol: http://masterdarksol.blogspot.com/

I've got 7 tac marines almost done and stopped to paint the drop pod for a bit which is now 70-80% complete.

Your skills as a painter are really Fing phenomenal and your Librarian is really sharp! I love it!

NakedBatBoy wrote:Your skills as a painter are really Fing phenomenal and your Librarian is really sharp! I love it!

Thanks man I am flattered! I think I am getting there but certainly no phenom.

As I just said over on the old B&C Red Scorpions thread I've been grabbing the Apothecary sets from the SM's command squad on ebay when I can. The first lot rocked up on friday and I finished this guy today (Halo Reach has been crushing my free time this week, ha!), what do you think about the colours? I didn't want to go too overboard and left all the viles silver, I wanted him to look like a combat medic/sarge not a priest/fluffy-healer-apothecary. Also this makes 7 of the squad so far (with either the sarge shown of the apothecary for the leader), still got 3 more to do and getting there slowly.

Want to try and finish the other guys tomorrow, get them based and put the left shoulder transfers on so I have one completed squad for the wednesday night battles this week. I feel that my painting is getting better, looking at the medic compared to the sarge who was one of the first guy I painted getting back into it, I have managed to get the white a lot smoother now. Also the sarges head was a repaint from an old BA marine and was red before which didn't help. Painting white still sucks though!

Photos:





What do you think? Cheers guys!

P.s. Can't wait for my IA:9 Book to come!

I've always hated spacemarines with a passion... I could go on for a full topic why.....

And your marines? ...well I hate them because they are marines, but I dont hate that crisp lovely paint job you have created.

Goodwork

Nice paintjob, but I do think that you should paint the viles on the apothecary looks a bit dull with them being metall.

i love them! i like to see AoBR marines converted good work!

G'day Dakka,

Well, I'm a fairly top level racing cyclist which keeps me very busy outside of work, this morning I think I may have blown out my right knee though after a slight MTB misshap. There was a gap then a drop on this granite slab section which put you down on the lower trail (very rocky), front wheel got caught in some lose stuff and I took about a 10' launch landing very hard on my right side and twisting my knee which didn't unclip from the bike. It was a very slow hike back out of the valley for an hour and a half using one leg and my bike as a crutch.. Ugh..

So no training for a bit but the good news is while limping around the house feeling sorry for myself I decided to get my tac squad based up and take some photographs for you guys. The natural light seems to make them look a bit blueish but they are charcoal (Adeptus Battlegrey 2: Chaos Black 1).

I've also included some shots of my works in progress drop pod and vindicator (click link underneath for descriptions) and the painted portion of my army grouped together.

What's the verdict?


http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/wV9567

http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/2Qxh8x

http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/5787MP

http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/M78492

Next I'm going to clip out the rest of my army, get them glued and primed then get to work on painting up my assault squad.

Cheers
Jack

Did you modify the Termi Assault Cannon? Looks like the ammo box is different. Rest of it looks good, very crisp. Are you doing the blade for the vindicator so it can be added if needed?

Hey man,

Yeah I did modify the assault cannon a bit. Well not the assault cannon but the model itself, was an AoBR guy with a Space Wolf terminator Assault Cannon. It has a cool ass belt feed and big ammo box on the back, looks a 1000x more tough than the poxy normal SM one. So I got that and cut all the wolf heads off. Had to add the Chaos Marauder shoulder plate to the hand because there wasn't much left once I had chopped off he big wolf head.

Still in 2 minds about the vindi blade, I may as well, but truth be told I probably wouldn't bother running it unless I was playing a cityfight game as I can always use the 15pts elsewhere.

I glued the mounts on because I figured they'd be standard and I am sure I can stretch the seige shield on if needed.

Ah I see it now! I dont use the blades very often either, but leave em on for all but competitive games because they look cool

Keep up the cool paint, I'll be coping you once I get my RS project going (Ive got cullen and some pads, but thats about it atm)

Blue Red Scorpions? 3rd GATE OF THE DERPOCOLAYPSE HAS BEEN OPENED!
JK dude, keep it up!

Yeah I gotta get the white balance right on the camera, blue/red scorpions look slowed.

Will have another crack at it tomorrow.

Fantastically clean and neat style here Redscorps, it is not something seen that often but is one of my favourite final effects on units.

Some really great minimalistic weathering on those vehicles ( a Rhino is it? ) and your whites are superb. /subscribed.

I love those RS on first page but why these guys are blue??

I have to say that I hate that blue SM group!

whalemusic360 wrote:Ah I see it now! I dont use the blades very often either, but leave em on for all but competitive games because they look cool

Keep up the cool paint, I'll be coping you once I get my RS project going (Ive got cullen and some pads, but thats about it atm)

Thanks mate, I look forward to seeing you get started, I have culln as well sitting in the bag, I'm waiting until I can paint a bit better consistently before I tackle him.

Drop a line on here or shoot me a message when you have some photos up, I'd love to see your take on them (I've noticed everyone with Red Scorpions has a slightly different army).

Ifalna wrote:Fantastically clean and neat style here Redscorps, it is not something seen that often but is one of my favourite final effects on units.

Some really great minimalistic weathering on those vehicles ( a Rhino is it? ) and your whites are superb. /subscribed.

Hey thanks, I look at your thread all the time and admire your work for the same reason, very nice and clean!

I might not be able to do the OSL/NMM side of things yet but I try to be as neat as I can and get the best out of the washes and paints.

Remos wrote:I love those RS on first page but why these guys are blue??

I have to say that I hate that blue SM group!

Easy tiger, white balance on my camera was probably set to incandecent still (indoor yellowish lights), using the natural white sunlight this afternoon turned them a bit blue. I can assure you that they are indeed Charcoal Grey with out even the slightest hint of blue in them.

the forge world red scorpion hq squad is sick, especially with those mk IV helmets

tthose are beautiful!

kennyalhavg wrote:the forge world red scorpion hq squad is sick, especially with those mk IV helmets

I know and for only 6 pounds more I wish I was wise enough to have bought them, instead I have 60 shoulder pads. Might ebay my stuff and get some of those guys.

Sageheart wrote:tthose are beautiful!

Thanks mate!

Hopefully this turns out a bit less blueish(click for larger):

Before (and if) the pads head to ebay, shoot me a pm, I'd be interested in some. I like and hate the drop pod at the same time. I like the lack of clutter on the inside, but it seems empty now. If your going to use it for a dread at all it makes sense though.

Yeah cool man I will let you know, I went on a bit of a buying frenzy, then some of the pads had splits in them and FW kindly stepped up and gave me 2 new sets so I've ended up with 60. Will use 40 of them for sure then I will figure out what is good out of what is left and let you know what I want to do with them.

and.. This is next on my workbench:

Each of The tac squads is getting a plasma cannon to go with their plasma guns (how good is our FNP, worth its weight in gold).

My kitbash Terminator Librarian.

4x M/L Devastator squad (love how the sergeant turned out, he has a lot of character).



The next photo will be these painted up and the vindicator finished.

good stuff man they look great!!!!

Red Scorpions one of those chapters I've always loved the idea and colour scheme of. Now when I clicked to have a look at yours it was with trepidation.....then a . Your painting skills have done them justice. Looking really good.

On a side note I really like that blue colour your camera mixed up (not for red scorps obviously) but its a good blue, reminds me of the backpack colour scheme on that squat model gw released last year...oh wait that was the white dwarf not a squat.... my mistake .

Thanks

Peter

I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

Scrazza wrote:I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

I always like it when people do original things. I also really like the Sons of Orar army (made by Sons_of_Orar). You should check it out.

To the OP, are you going to use the new forgeworld red scopions releases?

Suicidal Cheez wrote:

Scrazza wrote:I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

I always like it when people do original things. I also really like the Sons of Orar army (made by Sons_of_Orar). You should check it out.

I have, Cheez, I have. Both of these threads rival for the most awesomeness

I need to get better at painting :(. Stupid paint brushes for 20$
I love the Red Scorpions you never see anyone paint them any more and plus they are forgeworld so... Yeah. But still a cool chapter.

Thanks very much guys, I appreciate the comments!

Cheez: I have Culln, the venerable dread, doors for my land raider, icons and a bunch of shoulder pads but I think that will be it for now. I already have way more than I need and so much unpainted, as nice as the new Loth & Honour Guard is I just can't justify it, especially when I built this big badass myself:



I threw a bit of paint on him this everning, I am pretty happy with how the big man is turning out so far. Going to attempt some glowing eyes and OSL on the face, bring the force weapon up from hawk turquoise to a few shades lighter as it goes out to the tips. Highlight the silver parts on the legs, Scroll cases will be red and silver, Undecided on colours for the shield(under the parchment) and the loin cloths front and rear.

Opinions for me?

Cheers
Jack

P.s. Apologies for the harshness of the light, it was a quick snap as I put my brush down without much effort.

Awesome stuff, makes me want to get cracking with my Red Scorpions, still got all the FW bits in their bags waiting to be used! Once I'm settled in Durham, I shall get on it!

Subscribed!

hes looking great!

Quick question. What colour are you using for your grey? I've been using Adeptus Battle grey with a number of black washes over it; which is turning out to be a pain on my Razorback

ahhhh i love your red scorpions and forge world models are awsome i might evven buy an entire forge world army if my wallet and GF let me

endtransmission wrote:Quick question. What colour are you using for your grey? I've been using Adeptus Battle grey with a number of black washes over it; which is turning out to be a pain on my Razorback

Hey man,

For my guys I'm hitting them with a 2~2.5:1 mix of Adeptus Battlegrey and Chaos Black. Then for my vehicles I used Tamiya TS-48 Gunship Grey, washing the recesses with Badab Black Wash and doing the line highlights with Codex Grey.

Exact recipie.





Did a bit more work on the big lad, got the face to a stage where I am very happy now and it's about the limit of my skills, in what you see I have the axe blades left to do as well as the text on the book, the storm shield arm, scroll cases and loin cloths then he is done!

Click for larger:

Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:




And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

99% Finished vindicator for my boys. There are a few little things I want to finish then it will get a dullcoat. I've never painted a tank before so I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I guess the idea is it's not an overly old beat up tank, it's taken a bit of fire though and has a fair bit of road/dirt/running grime around the tracks and hatch.

i like your style, Redscorps. I like the stance and the movement you created in your librarian as well, but I think you may try highlighting the blue aura around his eyes to a near white, or an ice blue so it can stand out a bit more. You did such a good job with the glowing eyes, I just feel like you should try to emphasis it a bit more.

redscorps wrote:Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:


And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

This model wins it for me! I love the Red Scropions I just have too many chapters to work on right now argh!

IceAngel wrote:i like your style, Redscorps. I like the stance and the movement you created in your librarian as well, but I think you may try highlighting the blue aura around his eyes to a near white, or an ice blue so it can stand out a bit more. You did such a good job with the glowing eyes, I just feel like you should try to emphasis it a bit more.

Hey man thanks very much it is an ice blue, because of the hood though I have a bit of trouble showing it in these pictures. I really need to get a better, less grainy shot of him.

Asherian Command wrote:

redscorps wrote:Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:


And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

This model wins it for me! I love the Red Scropions I just have too many chapters to work on right now argh!

Thanks man, they are a cool chapter, I have some berzerkers on hold that I can't want to paint, while i paint these guys,. so I know what you mean!!











Anyone got any thoughts on the Vindicator?

The rear door is a bit overly mucked up for me. Otherwise looks spot on.

Very nice paintjob with smooth lines just like your minis, great jobb.

looking loverly so far the clean colours are great!

I love what you've done here.

love that tank, but also must agree with WM360, that the back door is a bit too mucked up

I love the idea of putting those dread shin plates on your terminator in place of shoulder pads. I would have never thought about that....it looks fantastic though. Great work all around!


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seriously, i think i just crapped my pants over your term lib.

Lovely work man, seriously great job. I'm subscribed. I love the chapter and you're doing them justice. Congrats.
And not that I want to screw you over any more in terms of workload/wallet, but have you seen this on the Forge World site?


Just saying man...

I am jealous of your modeling skills! All in all I love how the army is turning out. I am thinking of going back now and adding some battle damage to my land raiders and dreadnaughts now. What did you do to make the battle damage? it looks very clean and realisitic

Hey redscorps, just started the same army myself, and took the jump and got the Sevrin set. Something they don't tell you on the site, at least I never saw it (or possibly a seriously massive packing error) is that they toss in a Command Squad set with it. Probably half the reason for the £36 tag (iirc)

It's well worth it though imo, the models are beyond gorgeous in reality. To the point, that I'm scared to paint them as I'll not do them justice. Only got one or two models roughly painted, still trying to work out the grey too use, what colour are you using here? Tried plain Adeptus Battlegrey but it seems a bit bright to me, I saw someone doing Charadon Granite as well, but it looks a bit... weird.

Looking forward to more!

Edit: Just saw your grey mix at the top of the page. Mega fail on my part! Derp derp.

Wow guys thanks for the feedback!

Yeah the back door is a bit over done, I will be abit more careful with the others (I just think the top part looks a bit too mucky), I can't repaint it without it looking like a bag of ass so I will just have to deal with that as part of the first tank I have ever built/painted.

Dave and Marushi, I need that kit! I will order it probably anyway this week as it really is stellar. I didn't realise that you get a full command squad box with it, I can most certainly use all of those parts (plastic apothecary bits are like finding needles in a haystack(ebay)).

I would like to get, well... everything... Hah. I actually bought a gakload of World Eaters gear to revamp my old Khorne army so I will have picks of that at some stage.

Tonight I put togther a Razorback and most of a LRC using the resin Icons set and the LR door set. Nice detail on both of these ones (though the icons are very very thin to the point of having large gaps in some of the background areas).

Snapped a quick pic, oh yeah made a start on the first of my heavy weapon guys for the tac squad, I am swapping out the missile launcher blokes in the squads to plasma cannoneers and having a devastator squad composed of 4 M/L guys.

Once again thanks very much for all of your feedback, I wish I hadn't gone so heavy on the loading ramp of the vindicator but as I said it was the first tank I've ever painted and I had no idea how much was too much so I will just have to live and learn.

Cheers
Jacko

Good evening Dakka,

I haven't been up to much this week, just building actually and getting some stuff ready for gaming and painting.

I built up the LRC, a HB Razorback/Rhino, the land speeder storm with a bootlegged heavy flamer (didn't have anything close and the flamestorm cannon from the LRR is almost as big as the speeder). I just cut two of the regular flamers up, put the tanks on the top and cut the grips off then spliced them on to the pivot that comes with the factory model heavy bolter. My counts as HF.

Mostly just transports this week.. Transport for my 0-1 scout choice, my assault terminators(and their new Chaplain as seen in front of the raider, such a cool model) and a tac squad/combat squad. Will build another vindicator, another razorback/rhino and that is it for vehicles for a while then more painting needs to get done. Though I did see a red scorpions dude over on warseer kitbash himself a red scorpions land raider ares and I am so tempted to get the parts and build one to rumble up next to my LRC.

Click it for a bigger picture:

Shoulda asked, Im pretty sure I have a spare HF for speeders.

Modeling looks good though. If you do make an Ares, remember they are Apocalypse-only. Pretty awesome looking though.

Ah true!! Yeah I forget that there is a swap/trade side to this hobby, I just tend to buy from bits sites or DIY what I need. Thanks very much though mate I really appreciate the kind offer!

Speaking of DIY, I found some Cities of Death sprues on ebay going for a good price (well I didn't look around so much so now it seems it wasn't such a good price, but no big deal), snatched up 10 of them, just a mix of the random buildings. I didn't check to see if they came with floors and they didn't, so I went on to a bits site, got the floors I needed and have waited a month. No fault of the site but I think they have gotten lost in the post so I cracked today and went and bought some textured plasticard so we could get started.

My buddies and I were getting a bit sick of playing around the grey hills of my board all the time so I got to work today and started building these guys. They actually take a while to put together!! I took a little inspiration from the ones on the GW hobby blog and ad libbed a bit with the other ones.

The small 3 tier one is pretty much done but the manufactorum and the square one need a fair bit more work before it is paint time.

It's nice to do something a bit different anyway.

Pictures (Click for larger):

So I just finished my first Razorback and am pretty happy with the result, over all they are pretty quick to paint but the yellow is what slows down the process, many many coats of very thin paint to avoid brush marks on my model.

I've thrown a few pics up with it, a squad and the vindicator. 'Search Party' as usual, click to zoom:

niece looking. only one thing why are the gun holes mostly on one side? plus the sides of the transfer are really visable on the pics. you can really see where you cut them you know the parts that should be transparent. is it just these pics or are they this in real life too?

Just caught up with this, and shall be following intently! Great stuff indeed. I for one love the JCB stylings of your vehicles.

fatty wrote:niece looking. only one thing why are the gun holes mostly on one side? plus the sides of the transfer are really visable on the pics. you can really see where you cut them you know the parts that should be transparent. is it just these pics or are they this in real life too?

It's picking up the light funny with the decals, it's a shame but this is even after I have put a testors dullcoat over it. I read about a product that is used for blending decals in so I will try and get some of that and see if it works. It doesn't actually bother me as 95% of the time they are never under this much light and then edges are invisible. It's just the GW Decals not playing the game for the photographs.

And as far as the bullet holes go, I imagined this tank to have been flanking up the side of the battlefield and having been ranked with bolter/shoota fire by a squad of plague marines/boyz(my two arch rivals) so it has damage on the left front 1/4, side and rear 1/4 to represent this. I think it would be pretty unusual to have bullet holes completely around and I was going for a bit of a different look with this one (using a bolter sized drill bit) as opposed to the vindicator which has taken some heavier fire (using an autocannon sized drill bit).

Thanks for the comments.

inmygravenimage wrote:Just caught up with this, and shall be following intently! Great stuff indeed. I for one love the JCB stylings of your vehicles.

Thanks mate, I'm getting there. Nothing is really planned with them but when I see the clean nice vehicle, pre-priming, it just doesn't look right. So out come the drill bits and the scalpel.

Just wanted to quickly say that the Razorback looks good. As for the City of Death buildings...they look really good, especially the big one.

Peter

Nice battle damage

I'm going to be writing it up on my blogspot instead from now on. Seeing great stuff like FTW, Paincakes and a few others gives me a bit of inspiration to join the blog circuit and post my stuff there. Follow the mustard trim brick road:

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

The blog looks stunning Jack, I'll be following it closely as ever and best of luck with it mate.

Looks great, and you've just made me dash down to the storage unit where all my stuff is and grab the bits I need to finally get cracking on my Red Scorpions!

Nice one, thanks guys, it's the encouragement that keeps me on track, I have finished the land speeder and built a ton of stuff so I can't wait to take some more pics and maybe even do a battle report or two from our Wednesday night gaming.

Thanks again!!

Jack

Narked, get to it mate, they look great as an army, the colours are awesome, not too bright but not too boring. Shoot me an email or comment on my blog when you have some of your stuff in progress.

Now this is very nice, you know you dont have to do your libby blue? paint him the same as the rest of the boys and add a splash of blue in two places.

as I did with my Iron Hands kit bash libby link to blog in signiture.

(And its miss not Mr like 95% of the people here think.)

I love how your tanks came out, they look great. Fantastic weathering!

redscorps wrote:I'm going to be writing it up on my blogspot instead from now on. Seeing great stuff like FTW, Paincakes and a few others gives me a bit of inspiration to join the blog circuit and post my stuff there. Follow the mustard trim brick road:

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

So you wont be posting here anymore? Bummer. I only follow dakka threads. Its a pain in the arse to go to a zillion different blogs to see whats new, I much prefer to do it in a community setting.

I use this site WM,

http://www.blogger.com/

It is supposed to be for making your own blog but I haven't yet, it also allows you to subscribe to blogs and collects together all the latest posts, is a lot easier than checking each one individually thats for sure

Meh, I agree with WM... I cant be bothered hopping all over the place. And a lot of blogs are blocked @ work. Rather follow stuff here.

Will still do updates here! Just also going to be running that a little more consistently because it's nice and neat and I have a bit more control over my images and text.

I've signed up for the From the Warp 'FTW Bloggers Group', The House of Paincakes bloggers group and the main reason for the creation of my own off Dakka Blog, the Badab Bloggers group.

I am a big fan of this latest IA:9 book and the armies contained within. When I heard about this I really wanted to participate which drove me to creating the http://reds-corps.blogspot.com, there are some other pretty cool armies in the group and he has a centrally updating thing which posts everyones latest and greatest each Wed.

Link to it is on the right hand side of my blog if you wanted to check it out.

Cheers guys.
Jack

P.s. A pic of what I am working on at the moment:

nooooooooooooooooo infedelic army painter. there spray paint melted some of my space wolfs curse them.
back on topic did you heappen too see gitsplitta's mantis warriors? there awsome

Well I haven't been around the hobby and forums much lately due to a fairly severe lack of time but I have been updating my blog of late: http://reds-corps.blogspot.com/

Head over and take a look if you like.

Here's a quick image of my latest, High Commander Culln:

Nice work! The black and gold really makes for an imposing figure.

Good to see you back!

Culln looks very nice indeed, makes a change to see him without a white helmet! Looks good in gold.

Thanks guys, yeah I personally think the white helmet is too plain for a High Commander so I went out on my own and painted it gold instead. I'm also thinking about adding a gold Iron halo from the Terminator Chaplain model but will ponder on that a little longer before making any additions.

Thanks for checking in!

Jack

Just edited the image and put it up again, the armour looked black and he is definitely grey, sorry about the grainyness of the picture:

that doesnt mather he still oozes awesomeness

Taking expressions of interest for my army on my blog. I've got a bunch of new photo's up and am getting close to being finished with them.

Then it's time to sell up and move on to the next project so head over and take a look at what I have for grabs as the package and let me know.

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

Well I have decided to keep the army and have been working away on getting some things ready for a Tournament on the 20th of August. I thought I would come and revive my Dakka P&M Log and show you guys what I have been up to recently.

Terminator Chaplain:




Thunderfire:



Sternguard:


As usual, everything goes up on my Red Scorpions blog http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

Thanks for checking in,
Redscorps

Looks like something full of blood exploded on that chap! Everything looks wonderful.

Is that a smear of dirt or something on the middle sternguard or is it just me?

Thanks mate, yeah the Chap has been hacking someone up with his Crozius and made a mess of his armour.

The middle Sternguard has some fine chipping on his face as though his head has scraped along the floor at one point. I was just trying to add some variety to the helmets. Looks a lot better in life/large photographs and a lot less like a smudge.

Some more things that were finished last night:








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Oh yeah and I just bought a Contemptor Dread, so expect one in my colours as soon as it arrives.

I just finished some more stuff:










Hope you like it, I know I'm pretty stoked with the outcome of the Land Raider in particular.

Redscorps

Awesome, I love the weathering and battle damage. Everything is so filthy, those marines are obviously doing their jobs.

Great work on the battle damage. You're putting mine to shame

Thanks guys, Busy marines indeed, going for the mid-campaign look and I'm quite pleased with them.

Cheers for checking in!

The burn't effect on the autocannon is awsome, it looks like titainium, great work all round.

Thanks man, heated Titanium was exactly the look I was going for there on the Assault Cannn Barrels

Hi Jack! that landraider is amazing! I absolutely love the extra armour on it and the weathering! you have really done such a nice job on it! it appears it's been on patrol in outback Australia in the red desert! :-) I am absolutely looking forward to seeing what you work on next with these guys, one of the nicest and most well painted armies being worked on at the moment! bloody fantastic!


Nerdfest09

I really love the scheme on the land speeder. The grey and yellow combined with your weathering technique is truly sublime. I cannot wait to see your take on the Contemptor dread. Your work is truly inspirational, thank you for sharing it with us.

thats one hell od a SHOT up rhino

Great weathering details

Thanks guys!

Yeah the rhino has been peppered, the idea was that it either got hit by another vehicle strafing it with Assault Cannons blazing or it has copped massed small arms fire while flanking to redeploy marines (Hence the damage only coming from one side).

Wow your stuff looks great. Nice to see the red Scorps. they are really experiencing a big push right now. Lots of new scorp players which i think is awsome. I am so tired of blood angels or spacepuppies.

Thanks man,

I started with them just before they announced the Badab War series was coming out and since then I know they have been growing. It helps that they are probably the most supported by Forge World of the Chapters mentioned in the Imperial Armour books.

Check out my blog for more if you wanted, I'm trying to make it a bit of a one stop shop for people interested in them.

Http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

Here's my latest thing I finished last night:


I could be happier with them, they were one of the first things I painted when I started the hobby last year and I know I can do a better job now. I needed them finished for the tournament this weekend though so I just set to applying the battle damage and wear on the models, plus the weathering pigments and OSL.

Happy enough to present them but I think in the future I will strip them down and start again using new techniques.

Thanks guys,

Redscorps

Good luck with the tournament!

endtransmission wrote:Good luck with the tournament!

Thanks man I appreciate that. I'm not taking a very competitive list but going along to have some fun with my painted stuff.

Here's what I painted last night:

cool take on the las cannon and twin linked plasmaguns

Give that man a medal!.......and a jar of weathering powder!

great work Scorp! looks excellent, you've really hit on a signature technique for your army and my god it works well! love the las and the subtle conversions, be honest with us though, that didn't get done start to finish in a night did it?.....i'll cry if it did!

can't wait to see how you go at the games!


nerdfest09

Nice job on the latest razorback scorp. I also like how you made the top hatch for the driver a single piece instead of the usual centre split two pieces.

Cheers guys, Glad you liked the razorback. Hadn't really seen any of them I liked from memory and I had all of the spare bits to do it that way. Eggroll, the hatch game out of necessity, I made a mistake and needed to graft it together to cover up a bit of damage to the hull. Turned out alright though eh?

nerdfest09 wrote:Give that man a medal!.......and a jar of weathering powder!

great work Scorp! looks excellent, you've really hit on a signature technique for your army and my god it works well! love the las and the subtle conversions, be honest with us though, that didn't get done start to finish in a night did it?.....i'll cry if it did!

can't wait to see how you go at the games!


nerdfest09

You better start crying Damo, one single evening from about 6:30pm to 1:30am going flat out (But slow enough to pause and take photos to make a tutorial).

Nearly done, just finishing up the infantry not present in the picture now:

They really have been through a battle or two havn't they

@nerdfest09 the thing that takes longest about making/painting a tank is gluing it all together and getting the base colours on. Once that's done, the weathering is actually quite a nice process that takes very little time to get something looking really damaged

Some more stuff as of tonight:

These are looking really nice, made me want to do some Scorpions of my own!

Looking very nice. Really like the look of the pig iron heads on the scouts.

Finished it Friday night at 12am in the morning, gamed with it all day on Saturday at the tournament and managed to snag myself best painted army.

I really felt my display board let me down as some of the other guys had incredibly elaborate displays. I know for next time I need to do more there (And objectives markers) but I had to put my time into the painting.

Spectacular work... normally I would call that much weathering over the top, but you've done it with such naturalistic finesse that it really, really works. Continuing it to the infantry was a critical step most people skip... Great stuff!

That display board isn't doing them justice though, need some texture variation in there, everything looks dusted, but lacks a touch of realism, this is exasperated by how realistic your tanks look in contrast lol!

Thanks MajorTom11.

I agree with you on the display board. I felt it let me down but as the army was for the most part painted in a fortnight I found myself with very very little time to do anything.

I made this and the tokens within the space of an hour and it shows. In the future though I will be making something that matches them better and allows more space between the models so they are able to be seen a lot better and not just crammed in there.

Cheers mate.

Big fan of that drop pod, you are one of the few people I've seen actually paint in the fact that the top has a big jet on it and paint tends to burn off from heat like that well done.

Cheers man! I figured it would look this way with the fins coming up around the dirty great turbine as is modeled.

Thanks for checking in.

Damn you Jack! does your kick assery know no bounds? razorback in a night! here come the tears.....

Your army shot is great! loving the look of them together, i'd love to see some shots taken with your models as they do in the forge world books as if they are in battle! would be epic dude the flying dust, shouted commands over the din of battle, bolters with the deep chattering of the emperors wrath, the fragmented silhouette of traitors being bodily launched into the air by the ironclad..... Do it now!

Speaking of the dreadnought, I bloody love it! looks fantastic with the weathering, I can see it getting stuck in right quick!



nerdfest09

I don't know what else to say, other than that is a truly amazing looking force.
Just wow.

Any chance of more (closer) shots of them on the display board?

Glad you won best painted force, it's looking really nice all together like that. The board is, mostly, pretty good. I'd say some things like bits of tall grass (brush bristles) or scrub would have added a bit more to it... but at least you've now got a stunning force to build up from for next time around

I gotta say ... you deserved the best painted award. You did a really nice job on the weathering and i too love the pig iron scout heads. Way cool. I do agree that the display board does not even remotely sit with the level of your army. The Rocks are just too smooth and regular in appearance. I am no master crafter but i do know a thing or too. If i might without being to presumptuous...

Try mixing really fine sand with the base color paint that you are using for your rock pillars and paint that on to them. it conveys a more irregular look. Im a biologist and i spend a lot of time in the outdoors. rock would likely never weather the way that it did on those pillars. They are also shiney. Definitly this stands out against the muted color of the soil that you are depicting. It looks like you are shooting for a Mars style martian look. Try taking a gander at the photos that NASA has available on their web site for feedback ( http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~20~20~120897~227599:Opportunity-s-Second-Martian-Birthd?qvq=w4s:/what/Mars/Crater;q:Sun%2BOR%2BMercury%2BOR%2BVenus%2BOR%2BMars%2BOR%2BJupiter%2BOR%2BSaturn%2BOr%2BUranus%2BOR%2BNeptune%2BOR%2BPluto;lc:NVA2~25~25,NVA2~57~57,NVA2~31~31,NVA2~60~60,NVA2~33~33,NVA2~26~26,NVA2~36~36,NVA2~62~62,NVA2~56~56,NVA2~55~55,NVA2~54~54,NVA2~45~45,NVA2~35~35,NVA2~53~53,NVA2~29~29,NVA2~27~27,NVA2~17~17,NVA2~46~46,NVA2~30~30,NVA2~44~44,NVA2~16~16,NVA2~47~47,NVA2~48~48,NVA2~61~61,NVA2~19~19,NVA2~52~52,NVA2~4~4,NVA2~1~1,nasaNAS~22~22,NVA2~20~20,nasaNAS~8~8,nasaNAS~10~10,NVA2~15~15,nasaNAS~13~13,nasaNAS~5~5,NVA2~18~18,NVA2~23~23,NVA2~8~8,nasaNAS~16~16,nasaNAS~2~2,NVA2~34~34,NVA2~14~14,nasaNAS~7~7,nasaNAS~6~6,NVA2~24~24,NVA2~13~13,nasaNAS~9~9,nasaNAS~4~4,NVA2~58~58,NSVS~3~3,NVA2~9~9,nasaNAS~20~20,nasaNAS~12~12,NVA2~21~21,NVA2~22~22,NVA2~49~49,NVA2~50~50,NVA2~51~51,NVA2~28~28,NVA2~43~43,NVA2~38~38,NVA2~32~32,NVA2~37~37,NVA2~39~39,NVA2~41~41,NVA2~42~42,NVA2~59~59&mi=31&trs=3015 ) . Also... while the raised hill in the back of your display is a necessity for your display, it too suffers from the shine and the regularity. Try deepening the erosion on the sides of the little hill and adding some irregularly sized rocks here and there to break up the uniformity of it. Also... it could use the paint/sand mixture to add more deapth to the soil texture. Lastly ... get rid of the yellow blotch on the left foreward corner. it does not fit.

Beyond the harsh critique of your battle board, i really feel you have one of the best looking armies that i have seen in a while. Beautiful work. Dont let my review of your battleboard have any bearing on your overally opinion of the work that you have done. Your models are fantastic. Sincerly.... Sennacherib.

Very nice looking stuff there, love the weathering work you've done. Definitely deserve to win an award for this!

Well done my friend. And on the GW website no less!!!!

Go jack

Congrats on being on the GW site! Keep up the good work!

Excellent, excellent army!

Brilliant work! Really awesome stuff.

Nice job red. Just read the article about your army on GW's site. Look forward to seeing your detailed painting article tomorrow.

Cheers guys, all comments greatly appreciated!!

Sennacherib, I'm on it.



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Detailed shots of the Terminators:

Bravo Bravo! Well deserved as already spoken Jack! what win, what a massive pat on the back from a hobby that rewards us itself with it's sheer fun an options to create what we see in our minds eye! and it appears your minds eye is bloody creative little fella! I can't believe you're on the site! so what now? just a quick jump from here to golden deamon? and then?.... the WOOOORLD! Mwahahahaha! *ahem* sorry

You do in all honesty have one of my favorite and well painted armies out there on the web! just the attention to detail and use of differing methods to produce a uniform and hardy force, helped by the jump of using a chapter that while is supported to a degree gave you some rope to create a feel for them that suits you as a person and gamer!

Now, are we going to see some tutorials for weathering powders and such?

as usual...whats next dude?


Nerdfest09

Damo!

Well I have a contemptor on my desk right now getting glued together as I type this. I've also just ordered some more resin bases to start converting some of the other guys over to this weathering scheme and base style.

I have to put the finishing few touches to a Daemon Prince I have been painting for a charity auction so I will post that as well and there are always my world eaters, warmachine, infinity and malifaux to post at some stage as well.

All I can say is... stay tuned?! Haha..

I think they're posting the weathering tutorial in a couple of hours which I am looking forward to, I haven't actually seen it arranged in an online format yet as I sent them off plain text and url's on Monday night.

Thanks mate, much appreciated.

Jack

Alrighty then looks like I may need to stay glued to my laptop! :-) can't wait to see the contemptor! I love that model to bits!

dear god man, do you play all those other systems as well? do you ever sleep? i've just discovered MERCS and am getting pretty keen on starting that myself, so my own blog will see some Sefadu action soon! i'd love to see how you did some of those bad boys too!

Looking forward to hearing from you soon and seeing more stuff!, makes me want my damn house in order so i can paint soooo bad!


Damo (nerdfest09)

Ah yes, but you have a house my friend! I'd rather be doing that anyday of the week than living in the sh!thole rental we do now with a leaking games roof and rotting walls. The worst crime is we pay $380/week for this dump. Thanks W.A. mining boom!

Cool, I'll keep my eyes on your thread. I also still owe you a PM which I will try and get on to asap.

Really really impressive army, I love the weathering that you have done on the army, well done for getting best painted and two days on the GW homepage, impressive. Keep up the good work. Out of interest will you be adding more to the army other than the contemptor pattern dreadnought?

Young_Logan

Yeah man not even close to finished. Thanks very much by the way!

I'm planning to add:
4 Tac squads with transport (~1000pts)
A second Land Raider
Custom Captain with a Command Squad
Another pair of Vindicators
My proper Ironclad chassis with these arms, then put the Ven Dread arms back on him.
3 Predators, all variants.
Some attack bikes and Land Speeder Typhoons

Plus probably a lot more. They are my chapter and I want to stick with them. They're just new to me which is why there is not a lot finished yet.

Cheers for the interest and stay tuned.

Jack

Ah, yes, well I can understand your chagrin there Jack! that's a lot of coin for rent! I pay less than that for my mortgage! and it's a beautiful double brick cottage on 666m! 3 bedrooms and now a new bathroom/kitchen/carpet! sounds like you need to move to tassie! :-) at least my game room doesn't leak! (although it's slowly being taken over by a collectors Barbie range!..hmmf!)

crappy house stuff aside, I eagerly await your model-fest with that lot! land speeders and predators especially, I NEVER see anyone giving preds much love now days! they just don't seem viable from what i can gather? I personally like them but don't have one!...yet :-) it'd be good to see one do damage and kick ass for once!

And you bet i'll be watching for that PM! :-)

Hope you're well and painting like mad!

Nerdfest09......Damo

Found your blog! I just went over to the GW website and saw your army on there. The wartorn look/weathering is fantastic. Also love the assault cannon barrels on the LR. The heated metal look is pretty damn sweet! Congratulations on the GW website mention!

-Remi

Thanks Remi!

Built this tonight, needs more work tomorrow to make him Red Scorpionised but I'm very happy with the pose.

redscorps wrote:Built this tonight, needs more work tomorrow to make him Red Scorpionised but I'm very happy with the pose.

Images aren't working for me

Hmm... Maybe check it out here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prefix84/6083192236/

That and the two previous photographs.

redscorps wrote:Hmm... Maybe check it out here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prefix84/6083192236/

That and the two previous photographs.

Looking very nice, love the pose! I want to pick up one of those for my SW

They're really cool. Fiddly to assemble but worth the hours for sure.

Oh My lordy! I am damn near salivating at the thought of seeing what you do with that dread! it's gonna be EPIC! can't wait! (even though i almost typed Eric accidentally!) the weathering is really going to suit him, are you going to accentuate his height by keeping the powder lower on his legs? or do him as if he's been dropped into the dust bowl that is frenetic battle?

um,....more please!


Damo (Nerdfest09)

I want one for my New army with a daemon in one of the fists

That would be cool!!

Finished:

Nice work, looks really cool. You have done a great job on it, I love the weathering

YUM YUM YUM ! Moar please !

awesome! he i saw your bit on the whats new today topic epic!

Very nice pose!! and awesome painting!!

I just ordered the Multi Melter turret for my MK 3C

Jack! wow better than I imagined it would look dude! you've managed to get such a dynamic pose and you can really lose yourself imagining him ripping up the landscape smashing asunder enemies and almost leaping to come to grips with something to kill truly a epic war machine crafted from all that is the emperors fury!

I never realised how poseable that model is! and the way you've built him looks fantastic! of course helped no end by the beautiful paint and exeptional weathering you always do! everything you lay your brush on lately just inspires and astounds me! so thanks so much for getting back into painting now I just need to wait for what's next! preds?

Have you got a weathering tute done yet? will it be up on Dakka or your blog or both? I can imagine now that we will be seeing a glut of heavily weathered and war torn models appearing around the web thanks to you my friend!

again, just astounding work Jack!


Nerdfest09 (Damo)

Ah cheers guys, appreciate you stopping by for a look and the feedback from the GW blog has all for the most part been super positive. It was a really good opportunity I got there!

Damo,

Yep tutorial is online, I have had a bit of a relaxed week on the internets this week and not bothered to put it onto my own blog but you can find 90% of it here on the GW 'What's New Today' blog:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=17900004a

The only bit you really need to change is the 'Large flat drybrush' to 'Large flat tank brush' in the section where I am talking about painting the Iyanden Darksun on smooth.

Just heading to my inbox now.

Cheers mate!

No Airbrush?

I only spray the base grey colour on and do the rest by hand. History has shown I am crap at masking and get a lot of bleeds so I just stick to the brush for 90% of the work.

Love your Red Scorpions, the weathering is very well done reminds me of a Mars landscape.

Truly lush models you're painting there. I'm very impressed at your pace as well considering the standard of painting.

I'm enjoying your updates

Thanks

Lp

Wow, the new dread looks brilliant, though it looks like he should be playing Blood Bowl or Grind

Are the legs very poseable, or did you have to do a lot of repositioning?

Cheers guys!

ET: Yeah man super poseable. It actually took a really long time to get the position right with the pinning of each individual part which was a blessing and a curse at the same time.

The hours required to build/pose/pin/magnetise (5hrs) were well worth it though and as you can see, dynamic results are possible.

Well a bit of an update, I've got a few things on the boil at the moment:

Infinity-------
PanO Military Orders Starter

Malifaux-------
Lady Justice Crew
Guardian
Watcher

WHFB-------
Pre-ordered Ogre Kingdoms
1x Thundertusk
1x OK Battalion
1x Scraplauncher
2x Mournfang cavalry sets
1x Gnoblar Fighters

WH40k-------
Red Scorpions MkII Land Raider Crusader
Fire Angels Tactical Squad and Rhino to accompany my RS
2x Red Scorpions Attack Bikes.

I'm in the building phase at the moment for all of this stuff, I don't normally have time for WIP's and get through stuff fast enough that it's not necessary really (As Damo said earlier). I should have some finished gear to post in the next week or so.

Stay tuned and thanks for reading everyone.

Redscorps

God, building an attack bike properly takes about as long as it takes me to build a bloody rhino! Maybe longer actually...

Such a fiddly little bit of kit. I've magnetised it though for both HB and MM options so that was a bit of a win. I'm trying to figure out how to 'RS' it up a bit but there's not a lot of room.

This army looks fantastic !

This army IS fantastic.....just as good as it looks! I hear with comander Culln at it's helm it's a mighty force indeed!

nerdfest09 wrote:This army IS fantastic.....just as good as it looks! I hear with comander Culln at it's helm it's a mighty force indeed!

They become even nastier when you upgrade the Tac sergeants to apothecaries... and for über nastiness you build an IA10 Siege list with Culln, apothecaries and siege shields!

Wow, really! i'm so in the dark about a lot of this hobby aren't I! my knowledge as far as building armies goes is only codex related I didn't realise that IA books had so much fun stuff in them! may have to do one after my sallies!

:-)

The IA books are great fun as the designers aren't really constrained by what will sell en-mass, just whatever they feel fits the story they are writing for that book, or whatever they have designed recently.

The IA stuff, in general, is overcosted though, so compared to a pure Codex book you'll probably not be quite so well off... but you'll have fun while playing something new.

Have you considered filing off the skulls from the fuel tank and adding small RS decals in their place?

Or put a cver about 50% down the sidecar wheel and detail it with RS iconography?

I just saw this thread and your army is absolutely epic

AWESOME

Red scorps are you going to games day australia? would really love to see the red scorpians in person

Looking good!

And I look forward to a more consolidated presentation in the future!

Hey thanks guys for the comments!

dantay_xv - Got it sorted, added some brass to the front guard and the side guard, subtle but when combined with pilots wearing MkIV armour (Heads, shoulders and back packs at least) it does now look very RS oriented.

I should be able to emphasize that with the paint job as well.

Capitansolstice - Glad you like it mate!

Tech Guard - I'd love to mate but I live in perth and it would be ~700-1000 that I just can't justify spending this year. I will probably go next year when I am a better painter and have something I am more proud to bring and display.

speedfreak - Will try get a more organised presentation for this thread in the future. As I get more done I will have more to show and more reason to group them together.

Thanks again guys.

Jack

redscorps wrote:That would be cool!!

Finished:

I can imagine that Dread running at someone shouting "Your ass is mine!".

Really love me some Contemptor, and congratulations on being featured by both GW and FW in the last month! Well deserved my friend

Coolyo294 - Exactly what I was going for!

MajorTom11 - Thanks man, I appreciate that. I'm glad the company guys are vibing on my work and Dan from the web team said the response was pretty good to the showing and the tutorial.

Feels good to see people like what I'm doing for the most part as it's kinda from out of left field. It's not often you see space marine stuff being so dirty and beat up.

Thanks guys!

Ps I am working on that attack bike, it's about half painted but I have hit a bit of a hobby slump for the last fortnight and haven't really gotten very far with it. It's base coated though so finishing it up should be pretty straight forward when I get some focus..

Seems to be coming up pretty well so far. I 'RS'd' it up with some brass icons on the sides and forge world MkIV heads, torsos and a backpack for the driver plus RS shoulder pads. It's also got the usual colour palate and looks pretty well RS enough to me. Plus it's easy to replicate onto the other ones as well.

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com/2011/09/red...ompetition.html

Voting is up for the Red Scorpions Character Contest I am holding, head over and read through the great entries then leave a vote for the ones you think did best in each of the 3 categories.

Aslan!!!

Alekto Nair for the win! great pose! love it :-)

Some great entries for sure.. I have to stay unbiased but I will say that I do have some favourites.

Still redscorps, You know Aslan is way the best

Aslan for pretty much everything, fluff was awesome model is fitting.
For narnia!

Wow this is looking good. You where on the GW website wheren't you?

redscorps wrote:

"By the Emperor, I'm gonna whoop your ass!"

Awesome Contemptor! Cannot wait to get my grubby claws on one of those.

Yep that was me on the GW blog, also, highly recommend the contemptor! Such a great kit!

I've been building this week, kinda lost my painting mojo a bit since the blitz.. I've punched out the Helios earlier in the week, built a whole bunch of Ork Warbikes and Today built this MkIIb/MkV World Eaters Land Raider:

The landraiders look great also the comtemptnor looks amazing, really slick paint job and the weathering is superb.

Dude those raiders look nuts! can't wait for paint! good to see you get the groove back! that world eaters one is looking especially hard! I suggest a sick day from work *cough cough* would help speed the process?.....

I really wants me some FW stuff after seeing all of this! Keep up the great work!

Cain

Can always recommend FW products!

Damo, LOVE me some land raiders, if only every tank I took was a Land Raider!

How did you get the missing missiles on the Helios?

Hey dude, I snipped the warheads off with some cutters, trimmed the area back a bit with my box cutter and then found the right sized drill bit to bore it out.

It actually worked out to be the exact same size as my bit I use to sink the bigger magnets in vehicles, 5mm to be exact.

Oh I see... Might have to steal this one

Go for it dude, the mid-battle aesthetic I go for doesn't look right with a full rack of missiles so I wanted to keep the theme going by taking a few out.

Hows it going redscorps?

redscorps wrote:Opting to not pay any attention to evidence is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, and also not to like us for picking on your 'friend'.

What is not cool is to go off on a 500 word swear fest. You should also look up the word 'bigot', you seem to be confused as to it's meaning. I don't think anyone has a problem with Matt's race, sex or political views.

Since your post was complete vitriol and little fact, I am editing it out. For those wondering what he said, he challenged Ritides to a fist fight for asking him to look at the facts and asked us all to kindly make sweet love to ourselves. Or something to that effect. I am sure you can all understand why it needed editing.

That was his last post on this forum (it was redacted out by a mod), either he was banned or decided not to come back, either way it suits me fine.

Very nice. Your painting is amazing.

poipo32 wrote:

redscorps wrote:Opting to not pay any attention to evidence is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, and also not to like us for picking on your 'friend'.

What is not cool is to go off on a 500 word swear fest. You should also look up the word 'bigot', you seem to be confused as to it's meaning. I don't think anyone has a problem with Matt's race, sex or political views.

Since your post was complete vitriol and little fact, I am editing it out. For those wondering what he said, he challenged Ritides to a fist fight for asking him to look at the facts and asked us all to kindly make sweet love to ourselves. Or something to that effect. I am sure you can all understand why it needed editing.

That was his last post on this forum (it was redacted out by a mod), either he was banned or decided not to come back, either way it suits me fine.

This seems way our of line for redscorps
edit I guess not.

Wow, thats too bad. I guess a mod should lock this thread then.

Great looking stuff ! Keep up the great work !

Yo, there's been some work done since I was last here.

I did a whole bunch of stuff to take the army up to 3000pts of stuff and it includes a few conversions as well with the Storm Talon and the Praetorian.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=32969

Check it out.


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Very nice

dude what you have done with the storm talon is exactly what i would have done with the model

Thanks gentlemen.

Fatty I had the idea for the storm talon when I saw the sneak peak pics of it online so I ordered the wings for it and had the storm raven bits sitting around after I turned one into some scenery.

Managed to get the bulk of the work done on the afternoon I got it and it turned out pretty much how I had figured it would.

I like it much better, it kinda bites me in the ass though for gaming as it is almost half as much wider than it should be and the tail is a good chunk longer. More hits get those hull points down quickly!

Redscorps! good to see you back man! :-) I love your work (no suprise there) I'm actually happy to see you still running with the marines! I had a fear you may have moved on to other models, what you've produced is as always very inspirational and i hope we'll see you churning out more for us to see on Dakka?

Yeah Damo, they were good enough to let me back on after I mouthed off and I want to post a bit more here for the community to see.

I think you owe me an email sunshine

I thought about doing Tyranids but that was a bit of a non-event due to the cost of an army and painting 160 critters that may or may not decide to be on the table depending on how frisky the Tervigons are feeling, I then contemplated something different but if I move away from Marines to anything other than Guard I can't get in my fix of forgeworld models... And I do love marines..

So yeah, Celestial Lions. I will probably just start up a new thread when I have something to show of them.

I'll go check out what you ave been up to now.