Good evening

I've been playing warhammer and 40k for quite some time now,
and finally got infested (like so many before me) by the illusion that I have to play some kind of space marines...

About the same time I downloaded an Inquisition compendium,
to look for a way to beat that insanly overpowerd army and found some fan made rules for the Deathwatch.
I was so amazed by artistic possibilities that army offered so that I decided to start one my own.

After reading through tons of Warhammer fluff, I finally planned out my army and began to model.

So, long story short, here it is, the WIP of my first Deathwatch Killteam.




The first two guys are allmost finished (might clean them up a bit if needed)







The Chaplain is nearlly done, needs one or two more steps of greenstuff and some cleaning




And the 4th guy with his heavy flamer, more an early wip, still undecided what details he's missing





Last but not least a really raelly early wip for the sargent




You may have noticed that they all wear the same shoulder pad.
It is still WIP and will be casted for all the models once it's finished.

The bases will be some mud covered battlefield where the IG stood it's ground (or not so much) against a tyranid infestation.
However I'm missing some vital ingredients for the mud atm.


So, I hope I can update that thread quite regularly^^
however don't get used to those nice fotos there, I won't set them up for ever little wip shot XD

oh, and just a little spoiler of what's to come in the future

Wow love your green stuff work. Some nice thought out conversions. Cant wait to see them with paint.

It was about time you post this to the public buddy.
I did not know that you do your 40k stuff on this high level.

I hope to see you online soon to play that nice 40K with Andre and me.

Hey nice work! Do you know that there is a gaming club in Stuttgart?

Cheers

near hauptbahnhof?
heard about it, yes.
can you send me the exact adress, might visit you some time

@wi-ta
hehe^^
nice to see you here too
sure, just have to find some time where I'm not modelling those guys there XD

Ok the pm is away ^^. Would be nice to see each others modelling work in person .

Nice to see you finaly posted these.

Looking forward to seeing more of these excellent costum made guys

A small update on the chaplain hand, I just really like how it turned out



and my Sergeant in progress



with secondary weaponry

Are you press molding the shoulder pads?

Lookin' good so far!
Color me interested

color will come when all 5 are modeled


no I'm not press molding right now, but will probably do once I'm happy with the original shoulder pad.

those are really cool models, are you making each from a different chapter?

and where are the rules you found?

thanks


the fanmade codex?
here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31467113/Warhammer-40-000-Codex-Inquisition

very cool.

Those shoulderpads are all individually hand done? Wow, crazy skill there man!

The sarge looks great. Your GS skills are truly impressive.

And if you want to play in regular 40K (tourneys, club gaming etc.), just using Sternguard and/or vets rules will be both great for DW and a decent match for Grey Knights.

Sure, the Knights are powerful. But ammo that pierces their armor outright (Sternguard's vengeance rounds) and plasma/melta weaponry will take them out really easily. I massacred two full armies of Grey Knights at a tourney last weekend by sticking to an attrition strategy, shooting them up as much as possible before engaging in close combat. They just don't have the numbers to weather a whole bunch of shooting. So Sternguard accompanied by some transport-killing units should do you pretty well.

Everything hand made there.

Yup, had that in mind with the sternguard.^^

Well, problem with grey knights is that I play tau as my main army, and ap3 weapons are kinda rare for them... >.<
My ap2 are to expensive and my ap1 only kill 3 knights max a turn.
So it's allmost certain that they come close, and yea we all know what hapens to tau once you them in close combat XD

Space marines can cope with everything however, that's true.^^

Looking good sofar and that codex is pretty neat

And a rather small update for that weekend, but I thought it's worth sharing.

Feathers



and church

its looking good!

how large will this army be?

Realy digging how that shoulder pad turned out.

The_Hunter wrote:Realy digging how that shoulder pad turned out.

Indeed. What tools do you use to sculpt the greenstuff?

thanks

Mostely I use a bunch of dentist tools there.
Sometimes some homemade tools out of wire (for those really fine details or shapes that I can't sculpt with the others)

Do want! Very nice GS skills.

Amazing GS work! Really loving the Sargent!

Holy hand grenades batman! That's some serious sculpting work! :-) Nice stuff IPS.

Progress for this week, much time consuming detail work...

Boltpistol and Chainsword


Somebody overcompensating for something


The mighty sword and some powerfisting


And last but not least a simple bolter

Looks nice! though i dont like that bolter on the DA's arm

Not much progress this week.

However I started to build my first Landspeeder.
Everything nicely magnetized.

Pretty nice Green Stuff work, especially the feathers on the helmet. Looking forward to see more of it, perhaps the Land Speeder would benefit from some ornamentation.

Thanks!
Don't worry, there will be quite some ornaments on that landspeeder
+ some other conversions (like the co driver hitting someone with his chainsword ).

sorry if i asked this earlier, but how large will this army be? Do you have a list in mind, or a goal of a certain point limit?

:O can't wait to see these painted

WOW.... spectacular job with the GS! I can barely make a passable ashtray out of play-doh nevermind intricate detailed work like yours! Mind putting up a tutorial for the butterfingers like me on here?

Thanks^^

Yes, I will make some tutorials some day.
However since those are my first greenstuff experiments on such a detail level I'm still at the stage of learning myself and I discover new techniqus every day.

@Sageheart

The army is exactly 1000p large.
It will incloude two Tacticalsquads with 5 man, a Librarian as commander, two Landspeeder, a scout squadron + Landspeeder
and a Stormraven.
after those are done I might add a count as Terminator squad of heavy marine veterans with costummade weapons and armor.
And another 10 Tactical Marines.

nice, looking forward to seeing it all

Good work with the GS. As a long time DW fan I also enjoy the general idea to create a whole army.
I might have been rash, looking through the pics, but do you make implications to every marines original chapter? The guy with the winged helmet surely makes one think of DA.

Really liking this so far. New pics soon?

new pics tm, when the milliput is dry

@Baiyuan
Yup, everey marine will have some implications of his chapter.
They will also reflect the chapters specifications and general attitute.

For example the Dark Angle is a squad srg because he comes from one of the most experienced and faithfull chapters out there.
The heavy flamer is carried by a Scythe of the Emperor because he's a master of that weapon due to the endless battles he fought against tyranids
and so on and so forth..

Subscribed!

Awesome work on an awesome project. The Deathwatch are my favorite part of the space marines.

so

First of the srg and his banner (and some changes on his armor and weapons)
Still WIP


Update on this landspeeder (this guy will be a White Scar)


The mold for the Deathwatch upgrade parts (got to test this one)
Might make another one some time..


And last but not least a spoiler for another "marine".
Still don't know what his exact role will be,
but I just like the desgin to much to not put him into my army^^

This is the second time you suprise and impress. keep it up and we'll have to duke it out on a board!

Very nice GS and scratch building work.

I am impressed

Subscribed and awaiting more Deathwatch awesomeness.

good to hear^^
but yea I hope I'll finish that army, and can play some games with it

very nice modelling going on in this thread!

good stuff fella

Mate you got some freakish mad greenstuff skills. I like the DA's powersword. Im sure as hell gonna keep my eye on this.

Dude! This is kick ass! Although I feel there are pieces that the use of GW parts would have given a better, cleaner edge to...even though that sculpting is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of my league and I cannot fault it (mainly from lack of knowlege and skill myself )! Things like the heavy flamer would have looked much better if you'd combined parts from the cadian heavy flamer for example.
Otherwise it is great! Love the idea...who are the chapters involved going to be?

Yea I have to agree with you...
However many of those things only show up when I take the fotos, and by then it's to late to change it. >.<
That's probably the downside of useing a macrolens XD

Another point it the time available for the specific parts. Normally I model the general shape, then wait an hour and model the fine details.
After another 2 hours I model things like the sharp edges and really really insane details.
Sadly i don't allways have 3 or 4 hours available for modelling every day, so many things stay kinda unfinished. : /

About the flamer I kinda feel exactly the same... might remake that one some time (eighter with prebuild parts or some brownstuff)

The sergeant is terrific! I particularly like his pose, drawing his sword from the scabbard and all. Way to go!

Also I hope you'll excuse my french, but "cleaner edges" my ass. It's true there are some details that could have sharper edges, but overall the sculpting is top notch and will look perfect once painted, I'm sure bout that.

Long time no seen...
Been sick the last weeks so no real progress this weekend either. >.<

However I've started working on two objective markers






Once those are finished I'll probably start painting the first batch

is that a termie with a lasgun! ha

Yummy Work !

I guess the las gun belongs to the dead guardsmen that is lying underneath him.

kool

Ub3r 1337 h4x0r aw3s0m3n355.

Sorry. Had to say it

I like the objective markers. Termie with a lasgun made me chuckle

hehe^^
Glad you like it

Yea I thought that termi need a reason to be rescued. XD
Blown of legs aren't, but a lasgun as his only weapon is for sure.^^

I am astounded by these I loved the Scythes shoulder pad especially they are one of my favourite chapters. Are you planning to make it a Kantor list. Sternguard as troops would make a perfect fit for Deathwatch. It also might be worth your while to get the Dark Heresy Deatwatch book. Also if this is your first try you could seriously consider going pro.
My only problem the Sergeant being a DA rather than a Rainbow Warrior. When I saw that totem.....

gah, such a waste of terminator parts, and them getting more expensive now....
Looks good, although you need to put some guts coming out from under the termie, right now he's just sawn off at the hip...

Don't worry, there will be lots of greenstuff on both objectives

No, not really a waste of termi parts.
They are reused termies after all (the legs where really screwed up...)
But that prince increase is a real shame indeed... (in the sence of, games workshop should be ashamed to even think about increasing their prices even more >.< )

@Llamahead
Hm, na, I allready turned another hobby of mine into a job, will keep that one^^
Yea, I thought about making him a Rainbow Warrior, but the Dark Angle was more interesting...
The second Sergeant my be a Rainbow Warrior however.

not been working on my deathwatch lately,
but my tau army got some love
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/386215.page#3128705

just felt like playing the game again

Spectacular work mate, lovin' it!

Space Marine modelling is all nice and stuff, but since I also enjoy painting just as much, I continued my Tau army some time ago.
Have a look herer if you missed it:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/386215.page#3138259

Now that 80% of the army was done I kinda got the motivation to continue it and finish it to a status where I can officially call it done.
Note that this army is about 7-8 years old, it was the first army I've ever played.
Many models fell victim to conversion rages and other more or less stupid stuff I did across the years.
Still parts survived, and I'm really proud of those old models now.
(Even though some of them where painted 2-4 times now)

But what is left to do now?
Well, first of all I upgraded the painting of some of the one week models:

commander and the big boys


the suicide suits (tau players know why they look like that >.< )


MISSILES


and the other guys


hammerhead with markings


and the infantry with painted bases



To play decent battles you also need objective markes however.
3 should be a good number, so here they are, wip.

Earthcast member recovering some data from an attack drone


Pathfinder with important battle information



And the generic wounded VIP with emergency beacon

Nice Tau. I like the battle damaged suicide suits. The objective markers are cool too. I can't wait to see all of the objective markers (DW included) with their GS on.

Looks great... the fire bases are really well done.
Thanks for the close ups.
I can't wait to see the rest of the models painted.

love the work so far. That conversion of the firewarrior programming the drone is awesome. Keep on it!

Amazing sculpts, I can hardly wait to see them painted.

Ook, won quite some battles with the tau force, had lots of fun and collected tons of bits in the meantime.
Adittionally I upgraded my tools and ordered some instant mold, so the duplication of the schoulder pads can begin soon!! HARRHARRHARR

In short, it's time to get back on the Death Watch.

So let's begin with a small update on the heavy weapons (I changed to a new system where magnets are added on the hand rather than on the weapon itself, it hepls a lot, really.)



And I spent quite some time planning an exact army list (for regular space marine codex 1000p.) and what marines it should contain.
So here's a little teaser of what's to come some day, hopefully soon.^^



oh I also finshed all the other marines for priming.

Hey, glad to see you back on the board. It's been a little while. Good idea on the magnets. I'll bet there's a bit more room for them in the wrist. That last pic reminds me I need to get another one of those bitz organizers.

Nice teaser too. I'll looking forward to seeing moar!

Looking forward to the Blood Angle

Seriously though, I am looking forward to all the cool work ahead. Why the 2 heavy bolters, are there going to be 2 Heavy Weapon folks?

Just noticed the spot for Angry Marine too

Thanks^^
@whalemusic360
There will be 4 heavy weapon guys, since I'll field two veteran squad

Little update..
Pose the Blood Angel.


Hmmmm, no


NO!


hm not bad


close


YEA!

Yes yes he is member of the Death Company blabla, can't do that, but damn the Death Company is awesome!
(Just imagin he is "only" insane, not totally freaked out like the rest of those guys...)

ok a little update from the weekend

The Hammer of Dron with his heavy Bolter.
Looks a bit small right now biut the greenstuff will fix that (some nice furr on his back, and several chains will make him look even more badass)



(credits got to doubleT for his barbed wire tutorial, wich is quite awesome )

That looks great and the sergeant of the deathwatch is amazing!

another little update
the next one for frieday is allready on the way^^

The Howling Griffon will be most likely the manliest marine of my killteam.
Also he's one of the taller guys, even fo a space marine.

Shield an sword are as allways magntised, so that I can use him for non HQ units as well.
(However bolter and chainsword are just not noble enough for his default pose...)
He's wearing a brand new IIX armor, and will get lots of ornaments and engraved honours on his armor.
Also quite a lot of parchments everywhere.

Very nice! I love the "Pose a BA" gag. The Griffon marine's pose looks a little awkward to me, though it may just be the camera angle. Mostly it's his front leg.

Are you going to assemble all of them before doing any green stuff work or will you do a bit of one then a bit of the other? I'm really looking forward to all of it.

OMG! i want it all, it is fantastic, love it.

Marines are looking awesome!

Love your Tau colours and your objective markers! I recently started my own Tau so i'll be checking back here again!

thanks^^

did some work on the legs, better now?

OOO- Much better. It looks like he's really putting his shoulder into it now.

Wow, great Green stuff work on those marines, cant wait to see them painted!

Wow, lots of great Greenstuff-fu in this thread. I'm definitely impressed. Looking forward to finishing off the Howling Griffon and eventually the ANGRY MARINE.

I'm super impressed with the work on that Chaplain in the very first post! I've been on a chaplain kick lately, so just in time!

Glad you like it^^
Yea I'm really looking foward to the angry marine as well, allready got quite a lot of ideas for him.

And another one!
A Minotaurus Marine. He might look a bit extrem right now
but if you know the fluff, those guys are extreme. >.<
So here he is, the High Lords personal thug.



@The Good Green:
I like to have at least 3 marines to work on with Greenstuff at once, so that you don't waste so much time and greenstuff.
However atm I just don't feel lik doing any Greenstuff work.
If it wouldn't rain all the time here I would start painting some of them next week, we'll see.

IPS wrote:
A Minotaurus Marine. He might look a bit extrem right now

Oh, he looks extreme alright. What are those? Grenades? Or did he need to modify his armour to make space for his huge balls?

Some great sculpting, painting and modeling, IPS. I'm looking forward to more.

Awesome models! Really like the shells coming out of that one marines HB!

IPS wrote:

I am totally conflicted on this guy, as there are things I love and hate: The alternative chainsword being the former and the grenade/balls being the later .

I am enjoying your PMblog, btw. I like the proportions of your true scale marines better than most of the TS projects.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

Well, looks like I've been beaten to the punchline about 3 times already. I love the majority of the conversions on him and especially the brass knuckles thing.

Hehe^^

@Rawson:
That's kinda what I was going for.

I thought a marine as crazy as those Minotaurus guys woul probably
wear such a "trophy" just to tease other marines arround him.
Or to swing them in the face of the next alien, after he ripped out his guts and spread them all over the place.. >.<

But in the end you can't take that guy 100% seriously,
the main inspiration for them balls came for the video to the song "hold on" from korn.
In combination with some kroot bits it just couldn't resist to add them.


about the truescale

Thanks^^
That might be because I'm not necessarily going for the classic "true scale" marines, but more for individual proportions for each of my models that support their role and character.
For example that Minotaurus is more of a small and strong guy, which suits his thug image imo.
My Srg in contrast just got an enormous battlefield presence, he really dwarfs a standart IG soldier.
But that's not only because of longer limbs but more because of his general pose in combination with his base and the banner.


Hm, I totally forgot to upload a picture of his backside...

A rather small update but still.
I just finished the most important model of my army, the one to test my color scheme and new painting techniques on!

Ingame it will be some kind of servitor, or marker for a model that needs a bolter somehow, or just an additional marine if I should ever need one.

I would modify the servitor to look like it holds some sort of human anatomy such as a case for a brain. Something to make it seem less Tau

Very cool updates. The Minotaurus marine is pretty funny. That leg of his is crazy though. All the wires just curling around like that... that's gonna get GSed over, at least a bit, isn't it? Looks crazy right now though, very chaosy.

The drone is very cool. Can we get a 360 of it?

Yes, there will be greenstuff.^^
The chaosy look however is intended, I mean those guys where to be outcasted several times, but the highlords of terra allways saved them somehow..

Anyways, here is your 360 of the drone.



Tried several paint techniques on there (that's why it's a bit messy now...)
but I think in the end I found some rather satisfying ways to paint my Deathwatch.

CC welcome!

ok after that rather boring drone, somthing more intersting
decided to go all NMM on my Deathwatch, those metal colors just didn't work for me..

Great green stuffing. How did you learn to be that good.

Thanks^^
Hm, I'm more or less just trying arround.
If I don't like somthing I just start again, and so on and so forth...


Ok, finshed the Ultramarine.

But I have to admit that it kinda showed me mostly what i still can't do...
Blending that white helmet was really a pain in the ass, has someone a good thechnique to thin paints so that they don't dry so damn fast when thin layerd???
Also will redo the mud sometime, somehow, I'm just not happy with it.

Shoulderpads will follow soon, the Instand Mold just arrived last weekend!





On a side note: damn those macro lenses are unforgiving... after I took the first 2 pictures I repainted the half model just because it just looked so crappy on the photo.. XD

That looks brilliant, the subtle use of nmm is pure genius and the blending of colours is stunning. Keep up the good work!

IPS wrote:

What kit is that chainsword from?

Nowlan wrote:What kit is that chainsword from?

It's a Space Wolf chainsword from the Space Wolves Pack. Pretty sweet, huh.

some solid greenstuff work you have here nice job

It's indeed a spacewolf chainsword.
Those sprues are really great, even if you don't play spacewolfs.^^

Now for some new stuff.

First some painting on the Imperial Fist (and the other guys as well)


And some greenstuff on the Minotaurus, note that the bionic leg will replaced by a more "noble" looking version.

Looks amazing! Cant wait to see more!

IPS wrote:And some greenstuff on the Minotaurus, note that the bionic leg will replaced by a more "noble" looking version.

You gotta have balls of steel to be a Minotaur

Battlefield 3 kept me away from warhammer...
But I finally finisheed my sergeant (at least I call him done now, might change really small things later but probably not.. )
Got some prgress on other stuff as well, but yea, you will see them when they are finished. *terminator armor, cough*

HOLY GREENSTUFF BATMAN

You sir have the most phenomenal Green Stuff Skills I have seen for ages! There are so many little bits companies out there that it hardly seems worth going to all that trouble to make them yourslelf, seeing these though makes me want to grab my small tub of lumpy hairy GS and get sculptin!

That marine blows my mind when I think about the effort that went into it, it's just incredible really well done.

Seconded santobell

All I can say is whistle, whistle. Beautiful work!

wow...just wow...beautiful model, can't wait to see it painted!

Thank you very much everyone! : )
Great to hear that you like it.
Hope I will be able to paint them after christmas.

So, it's been a while since I painted something, but just before christmas it struck me again.
There for, without further ado... Imperial Fist!





(no not all helmets will have color, but those where just to awesome to not paint them colorfull^^)

i love it! you only have a small part of yellow! he looks like the elite badass of the fists

Thanks : )
glad it worked out as intended.^^

Today I want to present you a very special miniature:



No, it's not a Space Marine, but equally buitifull, so I thought I'd share it.


But so that we have a little bit of 40k in here as well:



an updated view of my Bitsbox, there is quite a lot going on in there.
damn I need more time to assable them... ><

More like a project box than a bitz box. I guess you have others for your bitz...
btw what species is that?

Very cool sculpts. Also looks like a nid made it's way onto the blog.

@Baiyuan: Well, I got lots of boxes^^
but yea, project box is probably more fitting

they're called Peruphasma schultei, I know them as Samtschrecken.

@l33tninj4: Thanks : )
hehe, yea
actually there are some nids in this thread, but the others are all dead... >.<

this may be a stupid question but is it alive? I can't tell fom the picture...

Fantastic work here IPS! Consider me subscribed.

Amazing stuff, really really like your work.

Hey, a happy new year to all of you!

@Imperial Monkey
It is alive^^ and they eat a lot... ><

@Gitsplitta
Thank you very much : )

@Eeps
Thanks!

Now for something new.
There is lot's of stuf going on on my table right now^^
But since I don't want to assable the other marines just for a photo, you have to wait.

Anyway, Black Templar!



Still have to decide what head to give him...
Had a Space Wolf head with a beard on him, but that just was not grim enough.
So I think I'll go with some medieval cap.

Also, because I generally dislike those 0815 Space Marine heads, and 90% of Space Wolf heads have beards,
I decided that to model my own heads from now on.

So here it is, my second attempt on a head.^^
The first one looked ok, but kinda was put to shame by that one



Allready tweaked the ear a bit, so it does not look as crippled any more.
And just in case you need some size relation,
the giat pole he is mounted on is a 1mm wire and the base underneath is some cork...

cnc as allways welcome

That's a great head IPS... lantern jaw, Carl Maulden nose, prominent brow ridges... full of character!

Excellent sculpting! For a second attempt, I'd say you're in the 99th percentile, IPS!

I'm not sure what I think about his pack. Can we see some more pics?

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

I like the gear that is adorning him!

that head looks perfect! better than normal sm heads, im just curious how it is going to hold up next to a gw head and im not talking about quality, im talking about style wise.. but im just pickey about custome heads i use so it should matter that much

IPC, say, since you're more talented than me even with a toothpick when you sculpt. how about i send you a set of sculpting tools and we'll do a charity drive sculpt-a-thon?

@Gitsplitta
Hehe, glad it worked out^^

@Rawson
Yup, more pics here ; )

@Capitansolstice
Thanks!

@Rogue Wolves
Will post some more pics soon (when my new heads have dryed and lost the glossy look)
I can include a side by side comparison then^^

From what I can tell right now, you need some time to familiarize with the unusual look, but works fine on a SM body.

@xcasex
charity drive sculpt-a-thon? hmmmmm^^
how exactly should I imagine that? XD

But now.. Progress!

Yes, that Space Wolf is to cool to use his plasma gun... or is he just going for a silent kill?
The plas gun is magnetized so no I won't use it most of the times.


And a propper look on that packpack.
Again the special weapon is magnetized.

I was thinking we gather up the nordic's into one thread and have a theme sculpt, one base model each, conversions / custom sculpt, and then we paint 'em and sell 'em off via dakka and donate the proceeds to charity

That is amazing, your models are so full of character and the sculpting just blows me away. Could you maybe do a tutorial for sculpting the deathwatch pads ?

Some good work but they dont scream deathwatch to me. Deathwatch are more professional, they aren't really the gothic space knights like other marines. Your 'Ravenwing chapter master' is very impressive but visually it is a Ravenwing Chapter Master not a member of the deathwatch.

Deathwatch have the best kit and the best weapons, not the most blessed and psychicly charged like say the grey knights. Where greyknights will mix holy water with their prometheum and powder the bones of saints to put in Bolt propellant the deathwatch will coat their bolts in neurotoxin and enrich the prometheum to burn just as hot in low oxygen environments.

I suppose this is just fluff Nazism, but hey, cant fault the hobby aspects of your work. Apart from maybe the GS looking a little lumpy.

Perkustin, you make a good point but I disagree with you, I feel that they show exactly what the Deathwatch are; a variety of chapters, cultures and warriors.

Seeing as there are no rules for Deathwatch you can't really show the type of ammo they use. However the way IPS makes the weapon ornate and unique does show this.

These are only my thoughts on the matter and I'm not argueing with you only stating my opinion!

Keep up the good work!

@xcasex
pm sent ; )

@Farty Wiffmas
Thanks!^^
Hmmm a tutorial... idk, I can make tutorial for skulls, or for deathwatch letters, but it's not like I'm useing some super secret techniques there.
If I do a tutorial I would rather do it about the basics of greenstuff and brownstuff modelling (since the later is quite different).

@Perkustin
It is true that the Deathwatch are very professional marines, which use the most hightech weapons. (just like Grey Knights)
However, they are not more or less spiritual than other Space Marines.
They do belive in the machine spirits, they have rituals, they worship the Emperor and every thing else every other marines does (some more, some less).

Weather they use ornamented armor or not is more a question of the marines useing that very item.
Wait until you see my sniper squads and characters like the Raven Guard assault marine,
they will be more taticool and "professional".

That said, my main goal is indeed, like Farty Williams said, not to make my Deathwatch an "elite super soldier army",
but more to make every single marine in my army reassable the very essence of his chapter.

IPS, PM received, ACK, awaiting SYN


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IPS, PM received, ACK, awaiting SYN

I would love to see your sculpting tut.
I'm particularly curious about the lettering.

Ok then I will do one some time

A small update

The 3rd go on the Minotaurus, for some reason he ripped appared his power armor.
Probably got hit by some acid weapon that melted his armor and hampered his combat efficiency..





and two detail shots
KrumpKop and the Shield of my Howling Griffon (yes the orkhead is sustained on life support for study^^)

Excellent sculpting! A lot of TLC you've put in here!

My only CC: his ear seems a bit oversized.

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Fantastic sculpts IPS! Just love the idea of the ork head on life support... probably doing nothing but swearing and insulting everyone it sees too!

Great work on the marine torso & head... wow.

Gitsplitta wrote:Fantastic sculpts IPS! Just love the idea of the ork head on life support... probably doing nothing but swearing and insulting everyone it sees too!

Wouldn't that be a great thing to have on your desk!

that sculpt is exelent, i love the way you did his chest, you need to cast up just the torso and sell em

Your sculpting skills are amazing, one problem is the minotaur's ears seem to big. Apart from that it is stunning and I'm in awe of your talents!

loving the ork head, very clever. also liking the green stuff work on the shield, very cool keep up the awesome

You has amazing sculpting skills. OMG the feathers on that helm are incredibly detailed and lifelike. I approve. Subbed.

Thank you very much everyone!^^

So, it's been quite for over a year now and I've silently watched the tabletop scene develop.
I myself got into the movie business (worked as 3d and texture artist on some animated features)
Also I've worked on a portfolio for concept art and just applied to university.

Now that this rather eventfull year is over I'm planning to pick up work on 40k again.
My first goal is to finish a deathwatch display board.
Stay tuned for progress the next weeks

and so that this update does not stay without pictures, here is some of my portfolio work:

Interesting stuff!

Nice stuff!

I really like the severed Ork head. What tools do you use for sculpting such fine sculpts?

Fantastic work! Your sculpting skills are just amazing. Subscribed, exalted, all that business. Looking forward to seeing more!

@LordBoJangles
I've got a wide range of tools, but what I mainly use are two types of dentist tools
(one is much like the standart GW sculpting tool, just a bit finer, the other is a thin needle)
and some silicon shapers.
Like the one on the top:


The silicon shapers are what I use for 90% of the modelling, the metal tools are mainly for fine details,
or if I have to move great amounts of putty.

IPS, your work is amazing. Thanks for all the tips too! I look forward to some of these sculpts receiving paint.

Thanks!
And you will. However it might be a while since I want to bring my "new" models to a little higher level before painting.
Also I'm getting an airbrush first as well.

And now for a little update.
It's been a really nice day today here in Stuttgart and a really busy week.





Got myself some casting equippment, everything but the vakuum container arrived last week.



Modeled the head of another marine (will be the nasty guy of my little deathwatch scene)



and worked on a new, finer and cleaner version of the deathwatch shoulderpad, that I will cast as soon as possible.
I hope I can present you the final model and some casts next weekend!

Also I've made a littile tutorial on how to model those letters, but I'm to tired atm to post it.. ><
You will probably see it tomorrow.

But for now, goodnight!

Pray do make that sculpting tutorial, lettering, and all

And you Prayers shall be heared.
Here you go:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/507091.page

drop a line how you like it^^

I like it! It does upset me how easy you make it look, but I still like it.

IPS nice blog mate, you are a Green stuff king !!!

Hehe, thank you very much!

So, I need a little help here..

I've modeled the new Deathwatch shoulder pad so far, however i have a little problem now.
The crossed bones under the scull won't really fit onto the =I=, at least it looks kinda silly (allready tried it)
Now the question is, do you think it can be a deathwatch shoulder pad without the crossed bones, yes or no?



Second I've drew a little concept art for my next character, a Salamanders Deathwatch member.
He will carry a wounded guardsman arround and be armed with a heavy mastercrafted flame thrower.
Other than that he should have more of a special forces feel not overly shiny and clean.
If you have any suggestions on how to make him look more cool, I want to hear them!

You talented son of a gun.

Thanks
I'm trying hard.. XD

A little update on the Salamander.
I thought he was lacking badassery, so I tried again.



Better? (notice the gurads man will still be there on the final model and the pose will change)

The first seems more like a younger member, still looking out for a fellow warrior. The second seems more hardened slayer that has been through hell and back again.

Sir, I stand in awe... This is sculpting work at it's finest, and I can't wait to see more
I actually like the first Salamander best, because he looked more balanced... The second one looks like he has had more than his share of s*** thrown his way and is kinda tired of it all...
But that's just my two cents, your work is awesome no matter what

Consider med subbed!

Hmmm, that is indeed true.
I think i will go for a mixture of both.
So, a kind of battle hardened soldier but still careing.

I'm just a bit conflicted here because salamanders are described as allmost demonic space marines, but still very humane..^^
I mean how do you picture a humane demon? XD

So, the work has started on this guy.
It's progressing slowly because I have to wait a day between every layer of Brownstuff, but still!^^

The torso is nearly done.


Legs and shoulderpad early WIP


And some other bits:

Love that chest piece. If the scales were smooth, I'd use it in my army for sure. Now build more faster like!

hehe^^
Maybe I will cast my own bits some day
But for now... *goes back to sculpting*

Oh and I've ordered an airbrush yesterday
and now I'm quite excited to use it!

I don't feel like modelling today, so I guess I use the time for another update^^

So I finally used my casting equippment.
It worked really well so far, however when I was about to cast the second half of the silcon mold
I noticed it was a very bad idea to use 1mm plastic card and clay for the box >.<
So, now I will try again with legos instead.







The salamander Legs are pretty much done (just some cleaning and sanding left)



So is the shoulderpad



and I started working on his head



Also a little experiment of modelling brownstuff on plastic wrap, and then deform it to create a cloth effect.
It worked great and I will be useing this technique to create the cape for him.



Last but not least another experiment.
I will use washers and magnets to hold the marines on the bases.
This way I don't need to pin them (at least I hope so)
and can switch them between diplay board and gaming bases as needed.




Something else:
I thought a bit about the backstory of this salamander warrior.

He was born into a Nocturn nomad family, had a hunter as father who mistreated his children,
but also tought them how to fight and survive in the wilderness, and a very devout but tender mother.

At the age of 8 he entered the astrates, was a decent smith and excellent fighter.
As a warrior he was caring for other humans, but very unpredictable and aggressive at the same time. (kind of a twisted mentality)

after 30 years of service for the Salamanders he was asked to undertake the Burning Walk, because his aggressions went out of controll.
He spent 5 years in the deserts of Nocturn.
When he finally returned his aggressions seemed to be gone, and where repaced by an introverted and passive attitute.
He talks very little and has a strong obligingly trait.
However, in rare occasions he still has aggressive outbursts, especially when he feels that helpless creature are beeing mistreated.

Since the burning walk he wears a desert robe over his powerarmor, which he patches up with salamander skin whenever it gets damaged.
He also brought back a little pet salamander, which seems to be the beeing he talks the most with nowadays.

Your sculpting skills never cease to amaze me. Would you be willing to do a tutorial on the cloth over the plastic technique? The results are really spectacular and I would appreciate any advice you could give me on sculpting cloth like that for my Dark Angels.

That seems like a big ass mold for one pad, but glad to see you molding stuff regardless.

It is indeed much to big..^^
Next ones will be much smaller.
Also I think I will try casting single piece molds and split them afterwards, this should be much easier.

@ephrael: I could make a little tutorial when modelling the cape/robe for the salamander

 IPS wrote:
It is indeed much to big..^^
Next ones will be much smaller.
Also I think I will try casting single piece molds and split them afterwards, this should be much easier.

@ephrael: I could make a little tutorial when modelling the cape/robe for the salamander

Thanks IPS I would really appreciate it. I hate the robed bodies that GW makes for the DA's and I'd love to be able to sculpt some realistic looking ones one my pre-heresey Angels.

Oooh, very nice stuff there. Also: That's one of them vacuum chamber thingies you're using there, right? Where did you get yours?

As for "stuff to pour silicone into" - plasticard sounds like a good solution. Most people I've seen online use lego but I got that put away in some attic so I usually just use a piece of thick corrugated cardboard and of course plasticine. Works pretty well.

Glad you like it

I got mine from "Carl Roth" lab supplies.
However iirc you have to be a registrated company to order their products, but have a try.

I've actually prepared a plasticcard-box for a "singe piece" mold today, will cast it tomorrow and see how it turns out.

Also I've listened to some of those podcasts, they are indeed quite relaxing and entertaining^^
I have to admit however that the British English of the Meeples and Miniatures podcast is something you have to get used to.. XD

@ephrael

I've started with the tutorial today as I modeled the first steps of the Salamander cape. (might be a while till i finish it however^^)
Make sure to post some pictures yourself when you try it out!

Update time!

Tried another cast



with platic card



which horrible failed because I wasn't quick enough with the silicon -.-




Finished the head.



Started modelling the flamethrower.



The body is allmost done.



Progress on the cape



and a little mockup with the Guardsman




ps: the tutorial for the cape is in progress

so far this salamader looks amazing, great-fantastiac pose! and love the sculpt!

Glad you like it

Worked some more on him



also posed some nids to relax from actual modelling
I shall call them George and Henry



I especially like George, I'm tempted to model him a glass of whine and a top head



some bonus picture^^



also my first sucsessfull cast of the shoulderpad



that mold finally worked, (it was the 4th try )

simply incredible, this is where I dream to be in the hobby before I die

I feel honored^^
The key for me was to get waay more patience, takeing my time really improoved things.

Soo, after all those Tau pictures, and especially the Riptide, I decided to design my own version.
I might scratch build this some day if I like the rules for this unit.

Update on "the suit"

Sweet suit, I love the vents behind the "head"

No modelling, but some more 40k related painting
It was an avatar commission from Warboss Imbad Ironskull, I decided to make a little painting out of it.. ^^




And Incase your interested in some more work of mine:
http://ingraban.deviantart.com/

 Rogue Wolves wrote:
simply incredible, this is where I dream to be in the hobby before I die

Seconded!