I've posted this army on another site, but thought I would share here. I am a new member here. Inspired by the vicious fluff for this chapter, I got started on it back in April. Here is what I have so far.

A little bit pic heavy, but I like to think it's worth it Hope you enjoy. C&C welcome.

Assault Squad 1


Sanguinary Priest


Razorback 1


HQ - Librarian or Counts-as Mephiston


AOBR Dred


Assault Squad 2


Razorback 2


Death Company Razorback (I am painting the Death Company now)


Blood-crazed Assault on an Unfortunate Loyalist Militia!

Great army love the freehand on the rhino and the look of the skin

Thank you for the compliment! I appreciate it.

Awesome army! The saw on the Razorbacks looks sick!

Your characters are awesome, really embody the archetype. Great shading on the troops as well. Welcome to Dakka!

Looks amazing. Great Flesh Tearers.

Sweet work! I've always had a problem getting dark red to pop. You did a great job with that. Also love how you inverted the black and red on the death company razorback to keep with the saw theme. Awesome!

You should post these pics as a gallery to be voted on.

Great looking models. Do you mind telling us how you painted the skin? It looks fantastic.

Great start!

Looking forward to more!

Very nice work. I especially like the circular sawblade effects painted on the tanks; exact and very well executed.

Wow! Amazing Army. Ive always loved Flesh Tearers and you really did them justice! Love your work and hope to see more in the future.

These two threads are spiritual cousins
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266930
I love XMs skin it's above and beyond. But I'm still waiting FOR NEW PICTURES! ahem, so keep up the good work.

these are pretty cool, man. the dusky white skin and CSM heads really makes them look bad-ass.

is it possible i recognize some chaos influence.. beware.. My Nemesis weapons are well sharpend.. nice painting keep them comin'

biggy_phatts wrote:Sweet work! I've always had a problem getting dark red to pop. You did a great job with that. Also love how you inverted the black and red on the death company razorback to keep with the saw theme. Awesome!

You should post these pics as a gallery to be voted on.

Second that : the gallery is here for that purpose!

Excellent work. These guys came out really well.

love em, great work and your rhino's look fantasic, and i prefer your Mephiston , are you gonna do Seth?
and can i ask for a painting guide?

love the red

Awesome mephiston. The second assault squad looks menacing too

Those special characters rock. You totally capture the insanity and darkness of the chapter.

Lookin good, particularly like the Mephiston counts as

Niiiccceeee! Border line chaos there!!!

Xenocidal Maniac wrote:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Hyakushiki/Flesh%20Tearers/FT6.jpg

i really like this vampire look

Wow!! Thanks so much for the nice words. Really makes the hard work worthwhile. I sincerely appreciate the compliments.

I am almost done with the death company. Should have them finished within about a week or so.

I'll post a couple more pics in the meantime!









An objective marker I made for fun

Never really gave Flesh Tearers more than a passing glance,yet these mini's appeal to me.I like the clean paint work and love the saw effect on the vehicles.Thanks for posting.

Great stuff man.... Really great stuff. Your guys remind me of the Flesh Eaters army of this one guy which I totally like.

I really dig the vehicle paint design, good job!

Good crimson red. The army really looks incredible, hats off to you sir.

I absolutely love the red tone on youir marines! Fantastic color choice. The paint work is 1st class. I like that the theme with the skulls is consistent and that the characters have a drab color skin. Excellent work!

Thanks for the compliments everyone! It seriously means a lot! I will post a painting tutorial shortly for those who asked. In the meantime, here is a quick update to tide us over until I get the Death Company done. I present to you...

High Chaplain Arjuna, Guardian of the Lost (counts-as Lemartes or just a JP Chaplain)

Wow these are awesome, they blow my flesh tearers out of the water! Where is Mr. Seth

Those guys are cool looking!

Wikkid! That is such crispy clean work!

I have NEVER seen a razorback with flamers, incredible, LOL!

Thanks everyone!

Gallery now up!! Votes much appreciated!!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-48454-20157_Flesh%20Tearers.html

To those who asked for painting tutorials, here goes.

The red is very, very easy. I prime black. I base coat with P3 Sanguine Base. I highlight with GW Scab Red, and then a very fine highlight of GW Blood Red. Done.

The black is also super easy. I base with GW Chaos Black. Highlight with P3 Greatcoat Grey, extreme highlight with GW Codex Grey.

The skin is also easy. I base with P3 Cryx Bane Highlight, and then mix in white for the successive layers. I usually do about four highlight layers.

The bone, also super simple. Start with P3 Beast Hide, highlight with P3 Hammerfall Khaki, highlight again with P3 Jack Bone, extreme highlight with GW Bleached Bone.

Are there any other questions I forgot to answer? Please let me know.

Thanks for all the kind words!

Really awesome work on the Flesh Tearers.

You got any plans to paint Seth?

Wow these guys are amazing looking. Well done.

Great vampire look to your marines

i really like the objective marker!

Love the contrast between the crisp blacks and the smooth highlights on the reds. Great idea using the chapter icon on the Rhinos as well. You've also made the pale vampiric skin look fairly natural, something that I've always struggled with!

I curse you, because you made me want to start an Flesh Tearers army. Those minis are that fething good. Also, wheres that handsome, bloodthirsty (and subtle) maniac named Seth?

I am loving these models mate!

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Wonderful! The not-quite necrotic flesh, the extra-pointiness of everything. Where did the chappie's helmet come from?

Wulfe Luer wrote:Wonderful! The not-quite necrotic flesh, the extra-pointiness of everything. Where did the chappie's helmet come from?

The Chappie's helmet is a slightly modified Chaos Space Marine helmet. I just filed the arrow on the front down a little to look less "chaos-y". Then I snipped the halo off from one of the Sanguinary Guard helmets and glued it on. Voila!

Thanks for all the compliments, guys!

The darker ink/wash you have given these give the red a really amazing life to them, wonderful job!

Huge update! Sorry for the long delay. I've been painting steadily, but I just didn't have time to take pics and post them. But here they are! I love to hear your comments!

Chapter Master Gabriel Seth!!! Lovingly converted and painted. I think this is my favorite model of mine.






Reclusiarch Arnald


Death Company!!


Assault Terminators with Sanguinary Priest in TDA


Death Company Dreadnought and Furioso coming up as soon as I take some pics!

Hope you enjoy!

Love 'em!

Fantastic stuff! really nice.

Always wanted to do a ft army...nice jobber dude!

I like it, a bit OTT necrotic, but overall very nice

Thanks guys! I really appreciate the kind words. Makes it all worth it.

Really amazing and stunning work on those! I really love blood angels codex and those flesh tearers are pretty awesome! The whole painting is great and the skin is really nice! Keep it up dude!

This is really nice to look at.
I'm new in 40k, so it's good to see what potential is hidden in those little fellows GW produces.
Thanks for your good paintjob!

These look lovely, I prefer the flesh tearers to BA anyway. Not sure about the last Sang. Preist though, his chalcie looks a little too big...

I love Flesh Tearers. I love your Flesh Tearers. Brilliant work!

Fantastic painting man good looks! Loving the buzzsaw decal on the tanks is that all freehand?

The only thing i could suggest as critique is maybe throw some brown wash on the gold eagle on top of Chaplain Arjuna's staff, everything you do has great depth and that's the only thing that stands out as looking like one solid color.

Amazing stuff though keep posting!

Those are ther best painted Flesh Tears I've seen to date. Well done you!

Mat

Great work on the Seth conversion, you've captured the feel of him spot on, you certainly won't have to explain to anyone who he is!

I really really like your death company and chaplain. They have a (dare I say it) 'chaos' feel to them but that's definitely a good thing here. They look a lot more gothic than the standard builds.

I like the Termies too, I do however agree with the others about the chalice being a little too big but I don't think it's a major issue. Is it from Space Hulk?

One thing I would do is put some white on the TDA priest just to make him really pop out from the squad. Maybe his helmet and p/fist?

But keep up the great work, you've really captured the Tearer look.

Will be watching for more!

Love everything about this threat. Great paintjob, strong army, strong theme. Looking forward to finding some batreps of these guys.

Imperial Monkey wrote:These look lovely, I prefer the flesh tearers to BA anyway. Not sure about the last Sang. Preist though, his chalcie looks a little too big...

I agree and will be substituting the model when I get the time. I had a bunch of AoBR termies laying around, and just went for a quick conversion that was immediately identifiable as a Sang Priest. Thanks for the comments.

NeedsMoreDakka wrote:Fantastic painting man good looks! Loving the buzzsaw decal on the tanks is that all freehand?

The only thing i could suggest as critique is maybe throw some brown wash on the gold eagle on top of Chaplain Arjuna's staff, everything you do has great depth and that's the only thing that stands out as looking like one solid color.

Amazing stuff though keep posting!

The buzzsaw on the tanks is indeed freehand. It's actually not as hard as it looks!

Thanks for the criticism on the gold. I agree with you. It actually does look better in person, but, I think it would benefit from a black wash or something to tone it down a bit.

Emperors_Champion wrote:Great work on the Seth conversion, you've captured the feel of him spot on, you certainly won't have to explain to anyone who he is!

I really really like your death company and chaplain. They have a (dare I say it) 'chaos' feel to them but that's definitely a good thing here. They look a lot more gothic than the standard builds.

I like the Termies too, I do however agree with the others about the chalice being a little too big but I don't think it's a major issue. Is it from Space Hulk?

One thing I would do is put some white on the TDA priest just to make him really pop out from the squad. Maybe his helmet and p/fist?

But keep up the great work, you've really captured the Tearer look.

Will be watching for more!

Yeah, agreed on the chalice. It's not from Space hulk. It's actually the bell from the Vampire Counts Corpse Cart kit turned upside down, and then hole-punch plasticard on the bottom. It's a good idea on picking out some parts of his armor to differentiate him.

Thanks so much guys! It really makes my day to see the nice comments.

Just when one thinks it can't get any better...

You've very much captured the essence of the buzzsaw marines. These are the scariest 'good guys' I've seen. If somebody does a fandex for FT, then you really deserve to be in the gallery!

Another bitz question: how did you build the TL flamers for the razorback?

Holy crap! Great job on everything! I love the Seth conversion and your rhinos especially. It all just looks amazing.

I've sometimes considered starting fleshtearers. If I ever do start them, I want them to look just like THAT

Your work is awesome! Really love the detail put into these models, they really do look just like what I would Imagine. Cant wait to see more! Big fan of your characters!

New Pics!!

Death Company Dreadnought


Furioso Dreadnought

Very nice mate!

The Ironclad parts are suitably bad ass! Gotta love dreads!


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Love that Death Company dreadnought mate, keep up the awesome work!

That furioso... Just whoo

Thanks so much guys!

Wolf Luer, you asked about the TL Heavy Flamers on the Razorback - those are actually from the Sisters of Battle Immolator kit. That's a great kit. It also comes with Twin Linked Multi-Melta and Twin Linked Heavy Bolters.

Where did you get that head for the death company dread?

Very well executed style of conversions/painting throughout the entire army. The only one I was 'meh' with was Mephiston. I think the armor/robes get a bit muddled as they are the same color. It's well painted, but think a different color should have been used on the robes or armor to make both stand out more.

Overall, great work and thanks for sharing.

Fattimus_maximus wrote:Where did you get that head for the death company dread?

Thats a mask from a defiler if I'm not mistaken

Just for fun! Pics from a Cities of Death game I played at my place the other day.

your blending on the red is truly gorgeous, i love it. the colour is so smooth, do you use an airbrush?

The whole army looks fantastic! The Death Co. Dread is my absolute fav! Nice work!

WAAAAGGHH-god wrote:your blending on the red is truly gorgeous, i love it. the colour is so smooth, do you use an airbrush?

Thanks so much for the compliment!

I actually do not own an airbrush. This is all brush painted.

My regular opponent has played Flesh Tearers for many years so the sight of these maniacs causes me flashbacks and a sense of dread.

I will be passing along a link to this thread to him so he can see the buzzsaw effect on your vehicles which is superb.

The chaplain is also stunning.

Your models are very inspiring, as I get ready to start painting my own flesh tearers this week . Thanks for posting them!

Very cool army,my favorite is the vampire priest!

By far the coolest flesh tearers army I've seen, great job!

These are really fantastic!

REALLY great work man. I too want to have my BA to represent the Flesh Tearers. Question though, what man you come up with the flesh tones for their faces? Also, this could be a long shot but what paint method did you use? Paint choices, washes, and brushes? Thank you for sharing, I am inspired and will get on my army asap! Keep them coming!

Really love the models, especially the Rhinos! The Sawblade is pretty cool idea.

The DC dread and jump pack chaplain are my favourites, but then again they are ALLLLL GOOOOD

Yes... Yes... the skin is definitely my favorite part. It really gives them the look to fit the role, although that priest's face looks a little iffy... Maybe it's the camera focus or the model sculpt, but the mouth looks a bit off.

Question: Did you do the chapter badge by hand or is it a decal? And if it's a decal, where did you get them?

These really are very good. The highlights on the black look really nice. It's easy to over highlight and make it look silly. But non of that here. And the skim tones are perfect.
Really good work mate.

Those are some awesome Flesh Tearers!

I love the way you've done those tank hulls, the saw pattern is a brilliant idea.

Very cool! I am particularly enraptured by the rhino's. Excellent paint job. Colour me inspired.

The red is so wonderfully smooth! I love this army!

Colour me subscribed!

Bloody amazing (hehe, pun) Flesh Tearers, dude. Could you please give a tutorial for how you did the skin tone?

Sanguine Bases, huh? I'll give it a shot. It looked a little too brown for me when I first saw the bottle of it.

Fantastic looking army, dude!

I didn't notice that this thread got resurrected until now!! So sorry I didn't reply! I'll go through the comments now.

Disco Shogun wrote:REALLY great work man. I too want to have my BA to represent the Flesh Tearers. Question though, what man you come up with the flesh tones for their faces? Also, this could be a long shot but what paint method did you use? Paint choices, washes, and brushes? Thank you for sharing, I am inspired and will get on my army asap! Keep them coming!

Thank you! The flesh is SUPER easy. All it is is P3's Cryx Bane Highlight paint used as a base. Then I just add straight white and layer it up about 3 times. Bam. Done. Then I will give the eye sockets a purple wash, and then the eyes a red wash. Easy peasy and it looks great.

Jumpin Jesus wrote:Really love the models, especially the Rhinos! The Sawblade is pretty cool idea.

Thank you! I have to admit that I stole it from Aghast over on Warseer. Check his Flesh Tearers out. They are unreal!!!

Robinson92 wrote:The DC dread and jump pack chaplain are my favourites, but then again they are ALLLLL GOOOOD

Thank you!

Quarterdime wrote:Yes... Yes... the skin is definitely my favorite part. It really gives them the look to fit the role, although that priest's face looks a little iffy... Maybe it's the camera focus or the model sculpt, but the mouth looks a bit off.

Thanks! Yeah, the priest's face is weird just because that particular head is weird. It's from the Berserker sprue, so it's a pretty old model.

Peredyne wrote:Question: Did you do the chapter badge by hand or is it a decal? And if it's a decal, where did you get them?

Some of the chapter badges are by hand, but most of them are decals which I printed myself. You can find the files on The Bolter and Chainsword forum, although, I believe that GW now sells Flesh Tearer decals, so definitely support them if you can. Printing the decals is kind of a pain, to be honest. I will buy them from GW from here on out.

Cactusstudios wrote:These really are very good. The highlights on the black look really nice. It's easy to over highlight and make it look silly. But non of that here. And the skim tones are perfect.
Really good work mate.

Thank you!!

Nightfall wrote:Those are some awesome Flesh Tearers!

Thanks!

A Kvlt Ghost wrote:I love the way you've done those tank hulls, the saw pattern is a brilliant idea.

Thanks! I stole it from Aghast on Warseer - all credit to him!

BigD wrote:Very cool! I am particularly enraptured by the rhino's. Excellent paint job. Colour me inspired.

Thanks!

Squigsquasher wrote:The red is so wonderfully smooth! I love this army!

Colour me subscribed!

Thanks! Yeah, believe it or not, I do not use an airbrush. It's all brush work.

Darth Bob wrote:Bloody amazing (hehe, pun) Flesh Tearers, dude. Could you please give a tutorial for how you did the skin tone?

Sure, please see my response above.

reps0l wrote:Sanguine Bases, huh? I'll give it a shot. It looked a little too brown for me when I first saw the bottle of it.
Fantastic looking army, dude!

Yes, I use Sanguine Base straight from the bottle, no mixing. It does look a bit brown, but that's why it works. The Flesh Tearer red is supposed to be kind of a brownish "dirty" red.

Thank you! I have an update for you guys now!


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New update! Yay!!

High Priest Amasai (Counts as Corbulo!)


Jump Pack Sanguinary Priest


Assault Marines


Flesh Tearer Sternguard Veterans cut fleeing Chaos Marines down with bolter fire.


Death Company and Berskers clash in furious close combat.

Amasai looks really sinister. I love the helmet, I think it's a converted Chaos helmet.

May the Angels of Death watch over this project!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Amasai looks really sinister. I love the helmet, I think it's a converted Chaos helmet.

May the Angels of Death watch over this project!

Thanks! It is, in fact, a Chaos helmet. If I recall correctly, it's the helmet from the Rhino gunner.

Amasai is awesome, I really like this update so Im off to have a look at the rest of the thread


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Just saw your Lemartes and Seth conversions, great stuff.. I also really like the DC Dread, Ive done something similar for my WE Dread.

Wow! These models are sick! I love how all your converted characters, although plastic have resemblences to the original minis. Reds and gems look great, fantastic blog!
Shame you had to paint the SM casualty Ultramarine colours though

Biohazard wrote:Amasai is awesome, I really like this update so Im off to have a look at the rest of the thread


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Just saw your Lemartes and Seth conversions, great stuff.. I also really like the DC Dread, Ive done something similar for my WE Dread.

Thank you!

lipsdapips wrote:Wow! These models are sick! I love how all your converted characters, although plastic have resemblences to the original minis. Reds and gems look great, fantastic blog!
Shame you had to paint the SM casualty Ultramarine colours though

Yeah, thanks! I try to use the existing model as a base so that my opponents can easily tell at a glance who the characters are intended to be.

I was tired of painting Flesh Tearers and wanted a break when I made that SM casualty... when I was thinking about which chapter to do, well, it seemed fitting that an Ultramarine would need to be bailed out