Hey everybody, I got tired of painting orks so I recently picked up a chaos battleforce and wanted to get some feedback on the color scheme I'm going with. I started with a simple CSM to test. Base coat was p3 thrall flesh. Highlights were glazes of dilluted white and bleached bone. green fade was done with camo green, thrall flesh and a bit of bleached bone. Last night I just did the metalics and some hard dark lines to give it some contrast. I really wanted to depict a nurgle army. I plan on weathering them with some pigments, more pics to come. oh and I took these with my iphone sorry if they aren't the best quality.

Very nice paint job! I'd say that this will fit a nurgle army really well. Can't wait for more!

It looks pretty "Nurgle" to me. Looking forward to seeing what your models look like with some weathering. What kind of ideas do you have for the bases?

Yah the bases...so I am going to try this stuff I found called Resin Sand by Liquitex. When it dries it has a really nice rough texture. Also thinking a more grey palette so that it doesn't fight the model.

I really like the colour scheme. I'm looking forward to seeing a squad of them....and a rhino....oh and a dread

I also think that the base works in that blue colour.

Peter

PDH wrote:I really like the colour scheme. I'm looking forward to seeing a squad of them....and a rhino....oh and a dread

I also think that the base works in that blue colour.

Peter

lol, no no! that's not the base, that's just blue tack used to hold the model while I paint him

lol. While I guessed it wasn't the finished base I was being serious... its just that the blue kinda works in contrast with the armour.

In the Grim Dark of the far flung future, on alien worlds, amongst ruined civilisations, there is blue earth!

Peter

well it's been awhile, I've been out of town through the holiday and have just been able to get back and start painting again. The army is coming along pretty well. I spent most of my time doing the power armors. the weapons and the helmets I haven't touched much since the basecoat. They are taking a lot longer than expected because I'm new to the whole NMM technique. each one is going a little faster though. I did the bases with some leftover sculpey pieces, resin sand, and some bits I had left over from sprues.

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good stuff brother!

Indeed, the colour scheme is efficient!!!

That's some P3 paint, you said? Damn, I'll have to find where I can buy some... Probably 100Km far from here, sadly...

Nice job!

Yggdrasil wrote:Indeed, the colour scheme is efficient!!!

That's some P3 paint, you said? Damn, I'll have to find where I can buy some... Probably 100Km far from here, sadly...

Nice job!

yah I used a p3 for the basecoat. I think it's called "thrall flesh"

the highlights were done with bleached bone and thrall flesh
and the middles were hit with a light wash of camo green
and the darks were done with a graveyard earth/black wash.

working on the bases, wanted to do a complimentary color. What do you think so far?

I'm not usually a fan of bases that colorful, but it makes a nice contrast without looking like Christmas. Green and red, despite being complimentary colors, are just a little to festive usually! Nice that you mixed some grey in there and purpled it up. Your painting is really nice too - the blends on those shoulderpads are superb!

These are just plain awesome.

Brother SRM wrote:I'm not usually a fan of bases that colorful, but it makes a nice contrast without looking like Christmas. Green and red, despite being complimentary colors, are just a little to festive usually! Nice that you mixed some grey in there and purpled it up. Your painting is really nice too - the blends on those shoulderpads are superb!

I totally agree, I was a little worried it looked a bit festive. I might grey it up a bit more because my eye is still being drawn there too much.

They would definitely make a great nurgle force, so time to make everything in sevens, because thats what Grandfather Nurgle wants.

Tonight, I finished the first 6 assault CSM's I have in my battleforce. I suspect i will be using this look for the rest of them as well. The Army Painter makes a cool product called "ash grey" and I sprinkled that over top of the bases to give the feeling of ash falling from the sky during the battle. I also added a few details like a severed ork head, broken armour, etc. I also painted on the decals marking these units under Nurgle's command. More to come soon as I will be starting the Tacs, Icon Bearer and Commander. me sleepy

Wow. Those are just so nicely done. You've definitely earned yourself a good night's sleep. Great looking work!

Very nice stuff.

I wish I could blend that well.

You can sleep when you dead brother. (jk)

This makes me kinda want to got working on my Slaneesh CSM army; but due to lack of funding and the new SoB codex comming out soon it may have to wait a bit longer.

thanks everyone for the comments, I look forward to posting more soon

Excellent shade of green on those guys, keep it up

Love it! Your original marine is dangerously close to my second major project. I just love seeing non-green, non-beer belly, non-tank-top nurgle troops

Well done bud, really nice work!

The bases are really nice!

Hey All. Recently finished my Chaos Space Marine Tacs and lighting conditions were perfect to shoot outside today. I did a little greenstuff on the commander to make an intestinal track that connects to his backpack. I also did greenstuff flayed flesh banners for the icon bearer. I'm overall pretty satisfied with the look and feel of the completed unit they feel very cohesive to me. crits and thoughts are welcomd of course.

Really nice painting! The shading on the green is excellent

Awesome battlegroup... I really love your work... And it's nice to see some plasma dudes, it's all about meltaguns these days...

Yggdrasil wrote:Awesome battlegroup... I really love your work... And it's nice to see some plasma dudes, it's all about meltaguns these days...

thanks! I'm thinking of doing the razorback next

just put together some plague marines I got for Christmas. These are just the base builds. I will be adding some greenstuff to them. I'm thinking candles along their backpacks, but that's all dependent on my greenstuff skills ,which in honesty, are pretty pathetic.

trying Les bursley's method of applying wash. First marines were basecoated using my airbrush. once the colors were on I applied a liquitex matte using my airbrush. When that set I covered them liberally with a homemade ink wash. I let that dry and then used a big brush dipped in alcohol to remove everything but the wash in the crevices. I was quite pleased with the results.

I'm not a big fan of chaos models, however your painting is great, the subtle green and gold combined with the deep bases makes a very striking model. Nice work!

WELP, I just got this guy to a point where I can show where I'm going. basically I wanted to stay close to my color scheme but some variation. More damage, rust and weathering etc. for these guys.

a: adding details from spare parts
b: cut off the sides of a chainsword and wrapped it around the shoulder pad. a pretty cool effect I think.
c: Painting on some chipping and cracking around the legs.

thats it for now. comments welcome.

I'm glad I found this log - great painting all round!

I love how muted and pale the colour scheme you've chosen is, that's just what I look for in Chaos Marines.

Like the purple, fleshy parts... And the chainsaw bit is a nice touch too!

Hey all. So here is my final update for the plague marines. I had a lot of fun with them and got to experiment with some weathering powders for their bases. They are ready for Papa Nurgle's blessing. enjoy!

Lovely and pale without being too dull or monotonous.

The weathering pigments have worked well on the bases.

I really like the way you have detailed these models!

I really hate that generation of plague marine models but you make them look great!

Nice work!

That's a nice bunch!! The mix of different generations of mini looks great!

are these the latest generation of plague marines? I wish that gw didn't discontinue they're past models if you ever want to mix and match.


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Mister Feral wrote:Lovely and pale without being too dull or monotonous.

The weathering pigments have worked well on the bases.

thanks! I have really become a fan of weathering pigments, they give such a natural feel

khorne berzerkers started.

pictures breakdown

-primed chaos black
-zenithal highlighted up to "red blood"
-varnished with liquitex gloss varnish to lock in color
-washed models -alcohol wiped away excess wash leaving only crevices dark

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Does anyone know what the best under-coat for gold is?

Finalized my khorne berzerkers today....learned a valuable lesson, don't Airbrush matte varnish. It just dries dusty on the model. Just paint it on, goes on much smoother and there is no "chalky" look. I didn't do too much customization to these. I hated the default "one leg out" pose from the sprue so I broke the legs and made them more aesthetically pleasing to me. I also added a horn coming through the captn's armour and did the bases myself.

chaos rhino.

using plasti-card modded havoc launcher towards back. all parts magnetized for easy removal or swapping.

greenstuff updates next.

Airbrushed basecoat.

crits welcome.

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I think you've just invented a chaos razorback, but with +4 transport capacity!

I like what you did with the khorne berzerkers, as subtle as the change was; I really hate the original one legged pose they have.

It's been a long time coming but I finally finished the rhino. I went a bit crazy with the weathering but overall I think it came out decent. what do you think?

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I really like what you have done so far, your greens on your Nurgle marines is excellent.

I love the rust on the Rhino as well, looking forward to seeing whats next.

I recently purchased a citadel finecast nurgle deamon prince. I like him a lot. the details really pop on him. I don't like his face much though....looks like he's getting kicked in the nuts. so I decided to try and make a mask for him. just something simple and that can be removed if I want. The pictures break down as follows...
1. using autodesk Maya I made a very simple 3d mask.
2. I laid out it's Uv's flat like the mask was unfolded and set in a 2d plane. Anyone familiar with uv's will understand this concept.
3. I then printed out the uv's on a thick bristol board. I cut out two of the shapes and laid them on top of each other using super glue.
*at this point they are about as thick as a plastic sheet. Using the back of a xacto blade I scored the edges where the mask would fold.
* I then folded the paper into the exact mask shape that was made in Maya.
* I covered the paper mask with a thin layer of super glue. and at this point it hardened and was very similar to plastic. The porus bristol board soaked up the glue and once set it was not going to budge.
4. the mask was then covered with some greenstuff to add small details and I also added some horns and a nose guard piece from some leftover sprue.
5. you can see where I'm at currently with it. I like it but i'm not sure i'm going to use it. It was a really cool experiment and I can see myself using this technique in the future to build larger objects or details that could be added. It's kind of an involved process but since I don't own a 3d printer it might be the next best thing...
*note: I actually liked the mask better on him upside down that's why it looks different from the 3d render


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Wow, it's been too long since I came here!

- Berzerkers are great indeed, that "simple" leg change just allows them to avoid looking silly!!

- Rhino + weathering look good too!!

- As for the mask... it reminds me of Bioshock's splicers, so in my mind it's hard to find it fitting for a Nurgle Beast.... But that Finecast model looks great, I'm sure it'll be awesome when painted!

Looks great. All the models are really well painted.

Yggdrasil wrote:Wow, it's been too long since I came here!

- Berzerkers are great indeed, that "simple" leg change just allows them to avoid looking silly!!

- Rhino + weathering look good too!!

- As for the mask... it reminds me of Bioshock's splicers, so in my mind it's hard to find it fitting for a Nurgle Beast.... But that Finecast model looks great, I'm sure it'll be awesome when painted!

thanks man, keep coming back, I will be trying to update more often.

The mask looks really nice, fits the model well.

I like the mask!

Just curious how you figured out how to make it the right size? Just measuring or was it some techno-wizardry?

Shadow Nugz wrote:I like the mask!

Just curious how you figured out how to make it the right size? Just measuring or was it some techno-wizardry?

good question. actually there was no techno_wizardry at all. Unless guessing counts I originally printed out 3 different sizes of the mask around what I thought the size might be. and I just ended up doing a quick fold and picking the best size. Then, reprinted out on bristol the correct size mask.

heretic scum
i mean fantastic pain job mate, any chance of a tutorial on the shoulder pad blending ?

@Fairfeldia. I just used very thin layers of paint and built them up slowly like any glazing or gradient technique. there's plenty of good tutorials out there. just search for something like "Non metallic metal"

thanks

OK small update tonight. Basically I have a ton more work to do, but this wip is mostly about the skin. I Started with darkflesh base, worked my way to tallaran flesh, used a vallejo flesh, and then some tallaran flesh,space wolves grey and bleached bone. It may be a bit too colorful right now. I might make it a bit more washed out. thoughts? <3

Just realised that your rhino has both a havoc launcher AND combi-weapon.
You can't have both (until I'm proved wrong)
If you don't play, I'm sorry I spoke!

Options:

One of the following pintle mounted weapons:
- Twin linked bolter
- Combi weapon
- Havoc launcher

Dakka_Dok wrote:Options:

One of the following pintle mounted weapons:
- Twin linked bolter
- Combi weapon
- Havoc launcher

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Just realised that your rhino has both a havoc launcher AND combi-weapon.
You can't have both (until I'm proved wrong)
If you don't play, I'm sorry I spoke!

thanks guys. I'm totally aware of the restriction. that's why I made the weapons magnetized. I can just remove one when playing. or I can call out that the one is there just for "show" and has no real gameplay presence.

Awesome work!

I really like that colour scheme man

Ah, ok, smart thinking!

Magnets rule! These days I magnetize nearly anything. Either way, i'm so subscribed on this thread, top notch material.

Hello All, your friendly neighborhood kronkle here!

I've gotten about 90% of the way done with the nurgle prince. He's still a bit shiny because I paint on a gloss coat before I do washes. So in the final He will have a matte finish. I'm comfortable enough to show him though. I just got my scibor bases in today which, I have to say, I'm extremely impressed by the quality of the resin casts. I think his stuff is the best I've seen. I can't wait to get started on it. but for now I just posed him on the base to show him off. I hope you like. crits welcome. <3

oh yah, and here's all the scibor bases I picked up. <3

Nice job kronkle. Definitely something you can't find at Kmart. I actually prefer the "ball kicked" looked than the mask. Makes him unassuming how powerful he is. Kinda looks like an wx-boyfriend I dated. Ha! Exalt +3 on this on. Keep it going brotha.

These are really good.

RenalWarrior wrote:Nice job kronkle. Definitely something you can't find at Kmart. I actually prefer the "ball kicked" looked than the mask. Makes him unassuming how powerful he is. Kinda looks like an wx-boyfriend I dated. Ha! Exalt +3 on this on. Keep it going brotha.

haha, ok!

I am VERY much loving this thread, your zerkers look amazing!

more updates to the prince's base. at the advice from a friend I decided to move his positioning on the base. I didn't like where his feet rested on the previous pics, he looked too far back on the base. I really had no other choice as the face and details of the base make it very limited for a different position. So I used some milliput putty and made him some foot rests. It will look more like he's barreling down on his enemy this way. I will show when the miliput is dry. Hopefully I didn't F up the base too much :/
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Nice work on the base. I'm definitely a fan.are you going to add your extra touches to the base like you've done the other one's like a skull? Great work

RenalWarrior wrote:Nice work on the base. I'm definitely a fan.are you going to add your extra touches to the base like you've done the other one's like a skull? Great work

wow you read my mind! I just finished adding some skulls to the base....

Well I finally put the finishing touches on him and was able to spend some time taking some pictures. No matter how good (or bad) I paint you can't see it unless the photography is good. so I spent tonight making a light box. and here are the results. I definitely see a big difference and see how important it can be when trying to photograph these little buggers...

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oh yah and here's my (ghetto) lightbox setup!

Brilliant.

Very crafty of you. I noticed the touches you've made on the base. Most of the nurgle prince I've seen have been one dimensional green and never this multi-dimensional. Very creative and would be exciting to play. Looks like there was a spine on the base too. Nice touch if it was intentional.

Amazing job.

Kronkle! Your plague marines are amazing! I was astounded to see the weathering on your vehicles, I can't say I see anything to critique at the moment, maybe post some more stuff and then we can critique it huh?

Keep it up!

-Nikolakhs

RenalWarrior wrote:Very crafty of you. I noticed the touches you've made on the base. Most of the nurgle prince I've seen have been one dimensional green and never this multi-dimensional. Very creative and would be exciting to play. Looks like there was a spine on the base too. Nice touch if it was intentional.

wow thank you, that's really nice of you to say. I can't take much credit for the modeling on the base, I only added some rocks and a few skulls, http://sciborminiatures.com/ is the real genius!

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nikolakhs wrote:Kronkle! Your plague marines are amazing! I was astounded to see the weathering on your vehicles, I can't say I see anything to critique at the moment, maybe post some more stuff and then we can critique it huh?

Keep it up!

-Nikolakhs

you keep it up! i'm a huge fan. Your Lords of Decay are coming along nicely! the rhino is exquisite!

Nice painting!! Keep it up.

well....I know it's been awhile since I posted. things have been a bit crazy here. but I've been slowly crawling through my possessed csm's. I went with a "Purge" color scheme. Nothing to special to report really. I wanted to burn through these guys pretty fast because I just wanted to finish my csm battleforce. final results in pic below.
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Damn, I was sure I had commented on your Plague Daemon Prince : he looks awesome, Father Nurgle will be pleased !

The mix of colours makes it a really interesting mini ! And the small touches on the base add so much to it too ! How about some more ?

Yggdrasil wrote:Damn, I was sure I had commented on your Plague Daemon Prince : he looks awesome, Father Nurgle will be pleased !

The mix of colours makes it a really interesting mini ! And the small touches on the base add so much to it too ! How about some more ?

thanks ygg, just posted another set of guys hot off the press

Nice job Kronkle. Even though you went with a Purge CSM scheme let's see some daemonic pizazz in cause after all they are "possessed" marines, right? A touch of reddish hue inside it's wings would make it badass. They breathe fire after all!

Great job overall with a busy schedule. Exalt

Oops sorry. I rescind my comment. Looking at images on an iPhone doesn't do it justice.

RenalWarrior wrote:Nice job Kronkle. Even though you went with a Purge CSM scheme let's see some daemonic pizazz in cause after all they are "possessed" marines, right? A touch of reddish hue inside it's wings would make it badass. They breathe fire after all!

Great job overall with a busy schedule. Exalt

it's weird how alike we think.... I was planning on doing red in the wings all along. but because of time (and sheer laziness) I didn't add it in. but I might go back and do that now that I had a critique about it

p.s. love the avatar, d6

Love the paint look very good

RenalWarrior wrote:Oops sorry. I rescind my comment. Looking at images on an iPhone doesn't do it justice.

no no, don't rescind, you're right. I went back to them over the weekend and added red to the wings, like light was hitting it from the back and the thin skin was glowing a bit. like sub surface scattering. thanks for the crit. I will post pics of the result, they look much better.

A couple weeks ago I found some old metal termies on sale at a local hobby shop, I picked up 3 so I could at least use them for a squad. I accidently picked up two with reaper autocannons and only later realized the rules don't let you use more than one per squad. so I bought a TL bolter csm arm on ebay and used that instead. I knew I'd catch hell on the forums for looking like such a noob if I posted two terms with reapers.

anyway....blah blah, show me the pics right? so here they are basecoated with airbrush awaiting brush details....
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Damn, I'm always awed at how good minis looks even when just basecoated with airbrushes...

I'm soon buying one, but my greatest fear is to be unable to match this level of blending & smoothness...

[edit : Actually if you field a 10-strong Terminator unit, you can have 2 Reapers... ]

ok so another long hiatus without any updates. These have actually be done for a week or so now just haven't had time to take pictures and post. I weathered these a bit more than my usual marines. In my head I saw these guys as being through many battles, their weapons and armor have been corroded and splattered from 100's of years of fighting. I also went with a darker base because it made them pop and added a bit more contrast.
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Glad to see you back online kronkle. Comments to follow.