Was about to post a new model I completed in the showcase section, but I realized I would probably be posting a bunch, and the blog section is probably more appropriate. Posting models as they are completed will motivate me to keep going

Finished Squads:






Characters:

Apothecaries:


Librarian :


Chaplain :


Vechicles:

Baal -


Vindicator-

Looking good, your OSL went really well.

Cant wait to see some more.

that is a VERY good Libby. love the glow.

Nice work

Thanks for the comments, guys. I have another sanguinary guard, and his pistol is very close to his force weapon. How do you deal with 2 light sources interacting?

Should I paint the darker glow of the pistol on the force weapon, or the brighter glow of the force weapon on the pistol? Or just ignore it all together.

Gorgeous green color!

did you airbrush the osl? if so might i recomend a smaller spray of a much brighter color overtop

Having fun with the airbrush, I see?

I was wondering if you could post some side, or even back shots of the models. It would be cool to see the rest of the OSL.

Also, have you tried OSL on the jump packs?

The most recent guy from 2 other angles :





I haven't done more than spray the jets sky blue... I'm afraid if I try any more OSL on the model it will look too blue... I may have already put too much blue on them.

The power swords don't exactly look like they are radiating enough light... need to figure out a better way to do them.

Yes, very good OSL. Muted, not to bright, but just a small glow, like it should be, not a harsh light coming off them.

My new compressor got here today, so I can spray at lower PSI's now.

Excellent OSL! as for your question about the two sources i would say it depends on which is brighter. the brighter color would override the darker like say bright yellow would over take a dark blue light. id say it depends. although if the light sources are far enough apart id say you could ignore it.

BossSlurpee wrote:Excellent OSL! as for your question about the two sources i would say it depends on which is brighter. the brighter color would override the darker like say bright yellow would over take a dark blue light. id say it depends. although if the light sources are far enough apart id say you could ignore it.

Hmm... I think I'm just going to ignore the proximity of the sources and just try to paint it normally. It would be wierd tying to paint a blue glow off an orange light source, and an orange light source off a blue glow.

Finished the squad!

Really good. I'd never heard of OSL before this but it looks amazing.

Just finished up a 5 man squad of assault marines.

Excellent work! You pulled off the two sources wonderfully. i also like the colors you choose for the weapons, alot of models just have blue or white for the plasma coils. i also wanted to take a second and say that i like your basing.

Gorgeous stuff. Very unique finish with that airbrush

Thanks !

Next guy I'm working on is my sanguinary priest...WIP below.

Finished the apothecary!

Some WIP shots of my assault marines... not much work done, but whats cool is that these guys so far are almost entirely airbrushed... only brush painting is the grey rims around the jets. Starting to get the hang of Zenithal Highlighting.





Just for Funzies, I painted a few AOBR terminators as well... came out pretty well. Not related to this army, but still.

Currently have 9x marines of this quality painted, almost done with them! pistol needs work, as does the base, then I need to find a way to paint the Aurora Chapter symbol on their shoulder evenly.

great glow effect here, liking it alot!

dark6spectre wrote:great glow effect here, liking it alot!

thanks man, appreciate the feedback

I really like the fade effect on the chainswords, nice job!

That is some amazing OSL!!! The Apothecary is awesome, and the Assault Librarian is effing amazing.

baneofmorgoth wrote:That is some amazing OSL!!! The Apothecary is awesome, and the Assault Librarian is effing amazing.

Wait till you see the next apothecary I'm doing

I think he's gonna look even cooler.

wowzers

very cool and well done!

Thanks smitty!

some more progress:

Just finished up a 5 man assault squad. Very proud of how it turned out.

Upon posting, I noticed I forgot to drill barrels, and one guy's eyes need some work. Other than that, however... looks pretty good.

The OSL on those models is amazing, any chance you could put a tutorial or a step by step guide on how you did it, i'd really like to give this sort of thing a go, but dont know how to start.

Amazing looking army, keep up the good work

Young_Logan

I've been using this fantastic guide here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Zenithal_Airbrushing,_OSL_and_Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial,_subject_-_Grey_Knight

I used the zenithal highlighting technique for all these guys, along with the highlight technique he describes.

The one thing I do differently is I outline a lot of the details in black ink, so the airbrushed highlights stand out a bit more.

working on updating my chaplain.. used him a while back. worked on his base, primed / initially highlighted his jump pack. Here he is so far:

Chaplain is OK, but I'm not a fan of the extreme edge highlights. Like the base though!

Yea, he doesn't look great in pictures, but looks much better on tabletop. Highlighting black is a pain in the butt through.

Decided to get some ACTUAL sanguinary guard models...

Squad is now basecoated and has basic Zenithal Highlights applied

Looking good so far!

I love the assault squads orangey red chainswords. I think I might steal that concept if I make a slamanders army, the theme seems like it could work there...

Marine_With_Heart wrote:I love the assault squads orangey red chainswords. I think I might steal that concept if I make a slamanders army, the theme seems like it could work there...

Thanks. Its pretty easy to do, but it requires an airbrush (at least is only easy to do with an airbrush... you can probably do it with a brush, but I have no idea how).

A vindicator I recently painted that should probably be added to this blog:








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Started painting a Baal Predator -

Should probably note that the predator is finished here. Check it out!

Amazing...simply amazing...

Thanks. I just started a stormraven... things a pain in the ass.

SO MUCH SURFACE AREA.

Ran out of paint thinner, can't continue priming it without it :(

Awesome work!

Finished my stormraven!





Not sure why the top 2 pictures came out with a wierd color... but you can get a good picture of what this model looks like from these 3 anyway

Posted this in another thread, but I figure he belongs in here too. Behold the blender!

He dices, he slices....

Nice use of the Furioso kit. Did you trim any of the BA icons off it or just leave them be? Those blood talons can sure mop up big squads!!

nah, I just left em be.

I'm not great with greenstuff / sculpting / trimming with an xacto.

I'd make things worse :(

Started construction / basecoating of my second baal today...

Weapons / doors are all magnetized, so they can come off easy if I need to. I think I finally have a formula down for the paint scheme I like...

Primer Coat - VGC Satin Varnish + VGC Dark Green + VGC Imperial Blue, 6/6/1 ratio

Base Coat - VGC Goblin Green

Final Highlight - VGC Light Green

Shadow Filter - VGC Black Ink + VGC Thinner, 1/1 ratio

Highlight Filter - VGC Sick Green + VGC Thinner, 1/4 ratio

I'm pretty happy with it so far, should look better once it has some detail work on it. Will do it tomorrow!

Finished the Baal!

That makes 2 baals, a stormraven, and a furioso dreadnought in a single week.

@ Horst loving the Aurora's man! Btw who is there 1st founding? Love the use of the airbursh and lighing, I've been wanting to try that out for a long time now. Loving the use of BA army units too! (I wanta get a stromraven and the Ball pred and in the future for my ultras).Loving the work,

Subcribed

HAZZER

The Aurora Chapter is a a successor chapter to the Ultramarines, generally well-known for fast armored strikes, and posessing 3x the normal number of land raiders and predators of any other chapter.

I gotta get some group shots in with this blog, its really missing them :(

I have:

~80 tactical marines / devastators
~40 assault marines
~40 bike marines
~20 terminators
~10 HQ models
4 rhinos
3 land raiders
3 Baal Predators
3 Predators
2 Vindicators
5 Dreadnoughts
3 Drop Pods
1 Stormraven

Horst wrote:The Aurora Chapter is a a successor chapter to the Ultramarines, generally well-known for fast armored strikes, and posessing 3x the normal number of land raiders and predators of any other chapter.

I gotta get some group shots in with this blog, its really missing them :(

I have:

~80 tactical marines / devastators
~40 assault marines
~40 bike marines
~20 terminators
~10 HQ models
4 rhinos
3 land raiders
3 Baal Predators
3 Predators
2 Vindicators
5 Dreadnoughts
3 Drop Pods
1 Stormraven

Yer I new that! Told you! Thx I had a feeling that they could be from ultras.Thats a lot of guys btw lots of moneys worth thew!LOL!

HAZZER

The ultras are the best first founding chapter, of course!

hell, I wanted to play ultras, but decided I'd be "different", and I picked a successor chapter... one that likes tanks

Some shots of my completed army:

Finished up my Blood Angels army for now! Thought I'd post a few pics to commemorate the occasion.. Looking at this now, its pretty obvious I gotta do the stormraven's base somehow...

Overall:



left flank:


Center:


Right Flank:


Stormraven + Dread


Next, I'll paint MORE!!!

Still have sanguinary guard, 3 drop pods, 1 furioso, and a 3rd baal to paint.

Horst wrote:The ultras are the best first founding chapter, of course!

hell, I wanted to play ultras, but decided I'd be "different", and I picked a successor chapter... one that likes tanks

Some shots of my completed army:

Finished up my Blood Angels army for now! Thought I'd post a few pics to commemorate the occasion.. Looking at this now, its pretty obvious I gotta do the stormraven's base somehow...

Yes someone else that like ultra-smerfs! Me you and Bigfish all collect ultra armes (Your are both secenond founding and mine is the first).Btw the army shot on those guys is greate love it!

HAZZER

I have about 6000 points of painted Aurora Chapter.... with like 2000 more points or so awaiting painting.

I'll have to pull a group shot together sometime.

Nice like the idea!

HAZZER

Wow,
that's all I can come up with right now. WOW!
I like how you've done them, and BA codex fits with their fluf good enough for me...
With that many marines of one chapter, have you ever thought about wrapping up the Aurora Chapter, and doing another, maybe one that would compliment the armoured spearhead of the Auroras?
I am going to try and wrap up my Orion's Fists chapter this winter, and then I plan to collect other marines, not necessarily armies, but a Tac Squad and Rhino from a bunch of different shapters, I may someday do an army if I find another chapter that I like. The Aurora Chapter is in my DIY fluff I'm working on, and where my chapter has gotten a majority of it's armoured support... I plan to actually do my Predators, and possibly my Vindicator in Aurora Chapter colors, and a Tac. Sqd. and rhino will be my first additions beyond my army list that I have written up. I plan to do a squad each, with transport, or: Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists, Aurora Chapter, NovaMarines, Hawk Lords, Doom Legion, Exorcists, and maybe others later on...
I have been trying to decide what army other than our SM and Orks, and have decided on more marines, BA, GK, or something...LOL OH, and I may do a CSM army next winter, it's looking like I'm going to be busy with what I have for a while, painting takes some TIME, and I have 2 small children so I haven't got alot of time to paint, but I'm setting up a hobby station in my MANCAVE room soon... then I'll make more progress.
Sorry to ramble, this thread got me all giddy for 40K again... really though, Awesome work, nice source lighting, nice airbrushing, just plain NICE! I really would be interested in a commission or some of your EXTRA models... (yeah, I know, extra models are like 13 cans of Dew in a 12 pack...LOL)

Thanks for posting, great inspiration for us LESSER painters to keep striving... I might just need an airbrush!
Isaiah

Went to a tournament today with this army, about 20 people showed up. I placed 2nd Overall, with 2nd highest paint score as well. Would have placed first, but I played like an idiot against tyrannids (completely underestimated hiveguard, overestimated ygmarl genestealers). Massacre wins against Black Templar and Grey Knights. The game against the GK was particularly cool... I got first turn, and infiltrated my baals.... 2 assault cannon shots, 2 dead riflemen, 1 was venerable. $60 2nd prize isn't bad!

axelsfolks wrote:Wow,
that's all I can come up with right now. WOW!
I like how you've done them, and BA codex fits with their fluf good enough for me...
With that many marines of one chapter, have you ever thought about wrapping up the Aurora Chapter, and doing another, maybe one that would compliment the armoured spearhead of the Auroras?
I am going to try and wrap up my Orion's Fists chapter this winter, and then I plan to collect other marines, not necessarily armies, but a Tac Squad and Rhino from a bunch of different shapters, I may someday do an army if I find another chapter that I like. The Aurora Chapter is in my DIY fluff I'm working on, and where my chapter has gotten a majority of it's armoured support... I plan to actually do my Predators, and possibly my Vindicator in Aurora Chapter colors, and a Tac. Sqd. and rhino will be my first additions beyond my army list that I have written up. I plan to do a squad each, with transport, or: Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists, Aurora Chapter, NovaMarines, Hawk Lords, Doom Legion, Exorcists, and maybe others later on...
I have been trying to decide what army other than our SM and Orks, and have decided on more marines, BA, GK, or something...LOL OH, and I may do a CSM army next winter, it's looking like I'm going to be busy with what I have for a while, painting takes some TIME, and I have 2 small children so I haven't got alot of time to paint, but I'm setting up a hobby station in my MANCAVE room soon... then I'll make more progress.
Sorry to ramble, this thread got me all giddy for 40K again... really though, Awesome work, nice source lighting, nice airbrushing, just plain NICE! I really would be interested in a commission or some of your EXTRA models... (yeah, I know, extra models are like 13 cans of Dew in a 12 pack...LOL)

Thanks for posting, great inspiration for us LESSER painters to keep striving... I might just need an airbrush!
Isaiah

Thanks for the comments

I've considered doing a couple of squads of Imperial Fists, but honestly then I'd want to buy rhinos for them, and probably get them a few predators or something, and I can't afford the extra expense anytime soon, especially considering I'm trying to get a Thunderhawk together for my army. Besides, I keep coming back to the idea that it would just be plain cool to see 200+ marines, and 20+ vehicles, all together in the same color scheme in an apocalypse battle.. I'm going to try to make that happen.

I got bored with the codex marines, and decided to just start blood angels, but I liked my color scheme and chapter, so I just carried it over

I've never actually done any commission painting or anything, but would definitely have fun working with another color scheme for a change on someone elses marines! Hell, I wouldn't even charge for it (as long as its only like a squad, its fun for a squad, its work for an army!), just the cost of models+shipping let me know.

Awesome,
Let me know what chapter you'd like to do from the ones I listed, and I'll let you know when I can send you models... I'm going to try and find artists to do about half the "ten chapters" I'm adding to my collection. Each will be a tac in rhino, my vision is to have my 2500 or so Orion's Fists, about half the chapter's full strenght, along with a small force sent to help out from other chapters, each tac unit will be kitted diferent, so I can have variety and use a diff one in each list at lower pts games... some may get a speeder or pred, vindi, etc.. but only a couple units in each color scheme...
I'd be interested in a Tac Sqd in your Aurora Scheme too, with a rhino... let me know, I'd supply the models, and maybe I could donate a model or squad to the cause if they're as ROCKIN' as the ones you've pictured...

PM me what you'd want in trade to paint a Tac. Squad of Auroras, and what chapter you'd pick from the list if you'd prefer that. or if you'd do both Also, what might you need next for your army, for trade for the work?
shoot for 3 squads I'd trade a LR kit or??? they really are that good...


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Oh, and I don't want to commission the basing effects, I'm going to do all of them so my army matches the display....
I have come up with a simple mix of burnt umber, glue, and sand, and a little grass and some special rocks, bits, etc.. and it's simple but effective...

That is one of the best painted chibi hawks I have seen, really like the fade you have managed to get with the air brush.
Still the bases could do with finishing but you knew that anyway,

ceorron wrote:That is one of the best painted chibi hawks I have seen, really like the fade you have managed to get with the air brush.
Still the bases could do with finishing but you knew that anyway,

I took the lazy way out on the base, and simply flocked it green so it would match the display board I had. I never know what to do with dread bases, I kinda wish they were just flat 60MM bases instead of pre-molded with rocks, though I think it came out fairly well.

I'm pretty happy with the infantry bases, To do any more to them would take a disproportionate amount of time to results given.

@Axels - PM sent


Up next on the painting block, I think I'm going to try to finish up my sanguinary guard, maybe another priest.

I like it! Nice to see a chapter no one else has on here!

Thanks


Update for today - Decided to paint a rifleman I had converted a few months back. Here's the end result! -

Exalted

Great models - but not sure why they're BA.

Only one comment on the painting - you're doing fantastic OSL for all the power weapons, but don't forget that the Chaplain's crozius is a power weapon too!

Lve the dread man!Did you convert it or was it FW?

HAZZER

ArbitorIan wrote:Great models - but not sure why they're BA.

Only one comment on the painting - you're doing fantastic OSL for all the power weapons, but don't forget that the Chaplain's crozius is a power weapon too!

Eh, think of it as a blog consisting of units in any of the loyalist chapters (except damn space puppies, they are basically chaos anyway and should be excommunicated from the Imperium!). I just build any marine units I want, paint em in the chapter colors, and call it a day

HAZZER wrote:Lve the dread man!Did you convert it or was it FW?

HAZZER

Converted. Its an AoBR body, with an assault cannon arm and a missile launcher arm, both modified to hold a pair of IG autocannons.

Nice!

HAZZER

I spent the day refurbishing an old predator I had... this was one of my first painted models, and was pretty poorly done.

Looks much better now IMO.

That predator is the gak.

Oh yes, the gak.

Yup looks a whole lot better man!

HAZZER

It looks like this before:



Thats not actually a picture of THIS predator, but another one. This one was slightly less finished, but you get the basic idea. They both were of a very similar style. I probably won't re-do this one, because I have so many other unfinished models I don't really have time to go back and re-do models I'm not happy about.

LOL! Its suprising how an airbrush can change a miniture!

HAZZER

Yea... the old paintjobs I did weren't BAD, per say.... just really, really flat. Very hard to do any kind of shading on a tank, and make it look good, without an airbrush.

Nice airbrushing!

Started to repaint over the predator I posted above... sprayed right over the old paint, stickers and all. Airbrushing is thin enough that there is no appreciable loss of detail (I think).

Love the second pred man!Its looking good!

HAZZER

Army looks very nice together!

HAZZER wrote:Love the second pred man!Its looking good!

HAZZER

Yea, its basically a proof of concept, with that concept being that I don't have to strip my tanks to re-paint them The first predator I repainted wasn't finished, so I wasn't sure how this would look on a finished one. So far so good, so I'll probably be redoing all my predators / rhinos / land raiders to my new airbrushed style of painting, which looks much better.

LOL!

Trying to make the coils glow on the predator... what do you think of the OSL effect? I think I got the coils to look bright enough white, and the glow is subtle but noticable.

I'd turn down the PSI on the airbrush if you can. It is a good start, but could use some work

Capitansolstice wrote:I'd turn down the PSI on the airbrush if you can. It is a good start, but could use some work

the whole tank is a WIP now, but what do you mean by lower the PSI? For where? The lascannon? Why?

If you turn down the pressure that the airbrush is spraying at, you can control the osl a little more, Right now IMHO its kind of thick, because it is very opaque. Turning down the PSI will make it more transparent, and more like osl

Some WIP melta gunners.. I now have 10 melta jump marines if I count the WIP guys

Do you drill your barrels?

Normally, but my roommate broke my drill bit and I haven't had a chance to buy a new one yet.

I just paint black holes on the gun barrels now.


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Finished 5 more guys today... 4 melta gunners and a chainsword guy.

I think it would be cool if I went through painting a marine step by step here. I'm going to be doing another batch of 5 ASM, this time all with chainswords. I'll post each step on here as I go.

For the baseline step, obviously I just based, trimmed, and built 1 asm -

I like the heresy shoulder pads! Any plans to do full studded plate? Maybe get some forgeworld guys?

I'd like very much to grab some of the MKII Pre-Heresy Assault Marine guys from forgeworld eventually to use as vanguard, but for now I'm happy with regular guys for the most part.

How to paint the model! step by step assault marines! I'm doing these guys in a batch of 5. These first few steps I consider the basecoat, and they took me ~ 2 hours to do so far, not counting assembly.

Step 1: Base coat the model with VGC Dark Green mixed with VMG Imperial Blue, 6 drops to 1 drop, mixed with 4 drops thinning and 4 drops satin varnish. Just do light coats, and go back to hit any spots you miss. You need 100% coverage here.



Step 2: VGC Goblin Green + Thinner, 1-1 ratio.
Be sure to only spray this downward towards the top of the model, so it falls naturally on exposed parts of the armor.



Step 3: VMC Light Green + Thinner, 1-1 ratio
Spray this at a steeper angle downwards, so it hits less armor than the previous coat.



Step 4: VGC Transparent Green + Thinner, 1-2 ratio (filter layer)
You basically want to hit the entire model with a light coat of this, to give it a nicer shade of green.


Step 5: VGC Black Ink + Thinner, 1-3 ratio.
This is the shadow layer, and is mostly sprayed from the underside of the model upwards, under the jets, under the arms, behind the legs, etc. Anywhere that there shouldn't be much light falling on gets hit with this. It also acts as a basecoat for the rocks.


Step 5: VMC Stonewall Grey + Thinner, 1-1 ratio
Spray the rocks, leaving the middle a darker black.


Step 6: VMC Ivory + Thinner, 1-1 ratio
You want to do only the edges of the rocks with this to give them a final highlight.


Step 7: VMC Terra Earth + Thinner, 1-1 ratio
Step 8: VMC Florescent Green, undiluted.
I skipped a picture here, but the goal is to paint the base with the earth (duh), then to paint the top of the head, top of the shoulder pads, and the top of the jet pack with the florescent green to really make them pop.




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more airbrushing!
Step 9: A coat of badab black along the shoulder guards (just around the edges), around the helmet edges, and all over the arms and legs.


Step 10: Paint the chainsword and bolt pistol VGC Scarlet Red


Step 11: Paint the tips of the weapons VGC Orange Fire


Step 12: A bit of Black Ink near the base of the chainsword and back end of the bolt pistol


Step 13: Your done airbrushing at this point, so throw down a coat of satin varnish to protect the work so far.

Loving the step by step so far! Wish I had an airbrush though.

Did a bit more painting this morning before work...

Step 14: GW Black ink in the jet intakes and mouth piece


Step 15: GW Codex Grey around the jet intakes


Step 16: GW Chaos Black around the weapons, exposed suit between plates, and shoulderguard rims.

Nice toutoral may reverse it for my ultras then try it.

HAZZER

heh... maybe I'll paint an ultramarine after this, just to see what it would be like

more work today!

Step 17: VMC Dark Grey on the harness, belt buckle, chainsword guard, and pistol clip.


Step 18: GW Dwarf Bronze on the Aquillia and skulls, as well as fuel pipes on backpack.


Step 19: .2MM Black Micron Pen applied to seams in armor and the harness.


Step 20: GW Flesh Wash (OOP Ink) applied to the areas where step 18 was used.

Didn't take step by step pictures for this, but here it is after some more work!

Basically just add codex grey to the harness as a highlight, then skull white to the harness as an extreme highlight. Then paint the chainsword and bolt pistol with some mithril silver, and then outline the chainsword blade with black ink. Paint the eyes with a spritz of blue for the OSL, then paint it imperial blue, then light blue, then a final highlight on the eyes of skull white.



here's the squad's sergeant I'm working on, while I'm posting pictures.

Next project is going through the 60 or so tac marines I have unpainted!

This is about 2 hours work so far... fixed assemblies that were broken, and made bases for them with rocks. Then airbrushed primer coat, and 3 layers of highlights. From this angle its hard to see that though... but still. These won't be painted to super standards, but I want to see how fast I can pump out 20 tac marines.

Wow!! this is awesome!! You're Aurora Chapter is a little further along than mine paint wise, but this isn;t something you see every day!!

Wicked!

Heh... another Aurora chapter player, eh?

The few... the proud.

Stop painting chaos and go back to being loyal to the 1 true emperor!

If you could that would be amazing Horst! I was just thinking the same as Hazzer, that this tutorial was definitely going to have to be reverse-engineered for Ultras.
Beautiful work on your Aurora Chapter btw, I subbed as soon as I saw the first few pics. You should consider re-creating your step by step as a tutorial post in it own right when you've finally covered all the steps, a lot of people would find it helpful I'm sure.

Horst wrote:Heh... another Aurora chapter player, eh?

The few... the proud.

Stop painting chaos and go back to being loyal to the 1 true emperor!

HAHA!! I have actually been buying the models I need to fill out my 2500pt list Lots of work will be done on these boys in the near future, Happy to give them a little love after 15 years of neglect
The shear volume of them is far less intimidating than my Chaos

then buy more ><

I just got back from christmas, spent another hour and a half on my tac marines. So far I have spent ~4 hours working on them, and this is pretty much how they all look -



So far looks promising. Considering that I have 20 at that level of paint so far, thats only 12 minutes per model to get them to that level. I figure they are about 40% done.... at this rate, it will take me 30 minutes to paint a single figure.

Might be worth it to try to do a few commissions then, if the end results are good enough to warrant it. charge $4.00 per model, and $8.00 an hour is a fairly reasonable rate for something I enjoy doing.

very very nice work there brother. keep it up

More tac marine WIP pics... these guys look a lot better in person lol.

Are those phone pictures?

every picture in this blog is a phone picture...

got a new phone the other day, a droid X2. 8 MP camera, vs the 5 MP camera on my OG Droid.... Need to figure out why they look worse.

I'm amazed of the high standard of painting, with that speed you keep finishing your models! I suppose an airbrush helps, but it is an impressing task to finish the miniatures at this rate!

Lord_J wrote:I'm amazed of the high standard of painting, with that speed you keep finishing your models! I suppose an airbrush helps, but it is an impressing task to finish the miniatures at this rate!

thanks

A lot of these are probably going to wind up on ebay eventually... once its all fully painted, I'll have more than enough to the point where I can probably just sell a 2000 point marine army and still have 10,000 points or so lying around

Then I can use that as start up money to buy another race.

but my new years resolution is to finish painting all my marine models before starting another army, so I'm trying to paint fast

Horst wrote:every picture in this blog is a phone picture...

got a new phone the other day, a droid X2. 8 MP camera, vs the 5 MP camera on my OG Droid.... Need to figure out why they look worse.

Are you using super macro?

The camera was set to widescreen mode instead of 8 MP mode... I set it, and pictures look better now!

Some more WIP pictures of all of the marines, with a few close ups. So far this is about 30 minutes per marine invested.... not bad for speed painting.





For comparison sake, these are a few of my original tac marines, that took probably 2 hours each to paint -

Wow! airbrush=way better

Thought it was about time I posted a picture of all my painted Aurora Chapter marines together!

In this picture, I have:
5x predators
2x land raiders
3x rhinos
1x razorback
4x dreadnoughts
2x vindicators
1x storm raven
2x land speeders
50x tactical marines
45x assault marines
10x biker marines
15x terminators

I still have a LOT left unpainted... another ~10 terminators, another ~40 tac marines, another ~30 bikers.... plus another baal, 3 drop pods, another rhino, another furioso, and 2 more land speeders... not to mention like 5x metal captains.

ooh nice army group pic! The army as a whole looks greate man keep up the hard work. Ill be updating my blog as soon as I find a firewall cable so I can upload pics onto my PC.

HAZZER

thanks

Starting yet another predator! (this brings me up to 6 of em... lol. as with my other 2 baals, the sponsons are magnetized, and I have a pair of side doors painted to match the tank.

Finished it!







With the other set of doors -


With no doors (Magnet sits behind the wall) -

8 predators? Wow.

I only have 6 so far :(

lol.

Oops, I misread the post. Isn't 6 enough?

They look incredible all put together! The latest predator is super cool, makes me want to have another dabble in airbrushing...

That is a perrty tank you got there.

Well Im impressed.

I am not usually impressed by most Marine armies I see, but yours is simply stunning. The green and black go together very well and it looks gorgeous. Very definitely one of the best Space Marine armies I've ever seen

Agreed, stunning combinations on your work Horst. I really need to drag my airbrush out of storage and get practising. For a future addition to the predator force have you considered the FW Predators, I'm a big fan of their sleeker turrets. Although saying that I saw the new heresy era predator the other day, that would also be a worthy addition too.

Sweet pred man?! But is 6 really enouth? I'd get a LR next tbh.However, that airburshing work is fantastic!

I have 3 land raiders.. but none are airbrushed :( I should repaint them! In the meantime, i'm working on things I could use for my BA army... up next is a Librarian Furioso!

Finished the Librarian! RETURN YOUR BOOKS ON TIME OR DIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I love that turquoise, what color are you using?

Looks good man!Love the auir brush work!

Capitansolstice wrote:I love that turquoise, what color are you using?

Vallejo Game Color Imperial Blue, with a highlight of Vallejo Game Color Electric Blue

Next up is ANOTHER predator! this makes 7.... I gotta stop buying these things lol. OSL power sword is done, going to do OSL on the lascannon coils as well. Thats this weekend Then I'm going to finish up the details, and boom. Looking good so far I think though.





eh... after looking at this tank for a while, I'm not sure if I like the powersword. Maybe it needs to be a different color....

I think your osl is improving, so lets see some details on that tank!

Nice army, I've always liked Aurora Marines! Big too, how many unpainted at the moment?

Unpainted, I have -

3x drop pods
1x rhino
30x bikers (scouts + regular bikers)
5x attack bikes
5x captains
40x tactical marines + devastators
5x Assault Terminators
1x Land Raider Crusader
1x Stormraven (bought another one yesterday)

Wow I thought my current project was big!

Really nice looking army.

If I was to be doing tanks red instead of green what colours would you suggest? With the Highlight going up to Blood Red.

And with the black shading on the tanks, how is that done? How do you know where to put the black shading?

Thamor wrote:Really nice looking army.

If I was to be doing tanks red instead of green what colours would you suggest? With the Highlight going up to Blood Red.

And with the black shading on the tanks, how is that done? How do you know where to put the black shading?

Eh, if I was doing red, I'd probably use a dark brown + scab red as a base coat, then a highlight of scab red, then blood red.... then a filter layer of Valljo Transparent Red in order to blend the highlight layers.

I do the black shading by using layers of black green ink and black ink. I just spray black ink on the other side of any gradient where I hit it with green highlights.

A 1:1 mix of VMC Black Red:Scab Red, Then highlight scab then blood red?

Then with the black shading you do it directly below some of the lightest green highlights?

Cheers

Thamor wrote:A 1:1 mix of VMC Black Red:Scab Red, Then highlight scab then blood red?

Then with the black shading you do it directly below some of the lightest green highlights?

Cheers

Pretty much. Gives an exaggerated highlight, not realisitic, but I think it looks cool.

I have trouble blending my highlight layers, so after I use the layers of green, I throw a final coat of VMC Transparent Green on it, diluted like 1-1 with thinner. Blends all the highlights together pretty nice. THEN I hit it with the black ink for shadows.


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Finished it! What do you think?

Loving the pred man!Looks good!

Next! Another predator lol... this one has a forgeworld tllc turret. This makes 7 predators, and I don't see myself buying more anytime soon lol.

The airbrushing looks AWSOME.
I like the dread librian its the first one ive seen.
Keep up the good work. go check my blog in my signiture please.
Peace out

Finished! That's 7usually predators.... now to work on a land raider

This pred is actually a repaint btw... airbrushed right over the old paintjob.

I really like the OSL on the main gun, but the colors look a bit off. Was this taken with a flash? Or did you use a different paint scheme for this one?

WOW 7 preds! now thats impressive!

Thanks Hazzer I might have to buy 1 more... because it would be a nice round number!

And yea, that last picture looks wierd... too much light on it from the lamp I think.

LOL! But imo I would do the same!

Really like the whole army shot Horst. Looks like you've taken to airbrushing pretty well. Make sure you drill out those H Bolter sponsons on the preds. Other stuff looks ace.

Eggroll wrote:Really like the whole army shot Horst. Looks like you've taken to airbrushing pretty well. Make sure you drill out those H Bolter sponsons on the preds. Other stuff looks ace.

Thanks, Eggroll. Means a lot coming from you, your stuff is pretty sweet and yea, my roommate decided to try to use my pin vice to pry something out of an eldar tank he was building, snapped my barrel drilling bit in half. Still gotta go out and buy another one.

So, I subbed this. Even asked for the email updates. Wicked Painter horst.

Loving the tanks and Stormraven. Plan on a half dozen Preds, half dozen Vindicators half dozen Obliterators, Half Land Radiers, for my Nurgle Army. How much time to paint DO you have, Horst? LOL


Loving the green.

I generally paint for 2-3 hours a day... whilst watching my tv.

And my next project is... another stormraven! Base coated and put on a layer of varnish.

So when you get that box I am going to be sending and there is a small (1500 point) Nurgle CSM Army in it to paint for me you will have the time to do it?

mxwllmdr wrote:So when you get that box I am going to be sending and there is a small (1500 point) Nurgle CSM Army in it to paint for me you will have the time to do it?

Hah, if I do im painting em as traitor aurora chapter!

In Nurgle Colors, A traitor Aurora Nurgle Army...... hmmmmmm..........

mxwllmdr wrote:In Nurgle Colors, A traitor Aurora Nurgle Army...... hmmmmmm..........

Heh, I'm planning on selling off my biker marines (I'm never going to finish them) leaving me with an almost fully painted aurora chapter army, weighing in at around 8,000 points.

Chaos WOULD be a cool way to go for a second army.... and it would be pretty sweet to have a traitor version of them. Like their arch-nemesis.

God how many pair of even tanks are you going to get!LOL!

HAZZER wrote:God how many pair of even tanks are you going to get!LOL!

Well... I want another storm raven, so I can have a full force org slot!

and maybe another land raider, so I can have 2 crusaders and 2 lascannon ones!

And I only have one razorback.....

I need to get a lot of tanks lol.

Horst wrote:

HAZZER wrote:God how many pair of even tanks are you going to get!LOL!

Well... I want another storm raven, so I can have a full force org slot!

and maybe another land raider, so I can have 2 crusaders and 2 lascannon ones!

And I only have one razorback.....

I need to get a lot of tanks lol.

But only 1 razerback!LOL!

I meant for me. But if you want to get your own that's cool, too. We Traitors don't mind our numbers swelling.

mxwllmdr wrote:I meant for me. But if you want to get your own that's cool, too. We Traitors don't mind our numbers swelling.

If I just "happen" to find some chaos stuff lying around in a box sent to me, it would be impolite of me not to return it painted!

Todays work... from sprue to about 40% done, 4 razorbacks in 6 hours.

HOLLY ! Thats a lot!

You were right, I needed more razorbacks. Now I have 5

3 las/plas with HK missiles
2 TL assault cannons

LOL!

HAZZER wrote:LOL!

Hey, your the one who suggested it.

Horst wrote:

HAZZER wrote:LOL!

Hey, your the one who suggested it.

Exactly that’s why its so ironic!

Wow, Its too bad those aren't mine!

For the low, low price of your next born they can be!!!!!

Awesome work, love it OSL, everything looks amazing! Can I ask what color green you are using? Its stunning.

Another 6 hours, 4 razorbacks finished!



Boom. Now I just gotta magnetize 25 assault marine jump packs tomorrow, and im ready to play a tournament on Saturday.


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Thatguy91 wrote:Awesome work, love it OSL, everything looks amazing! Can I ask what color green you are using? Its stunning.

Im using VGC dark green for the base, then layer up through VGC goblin green to VMC light green. Then I apply a filter of VMC transparent green, then shadow with black ink.

Thats amazing! Start the day with no tanks... end with 4!

Yea, im pretty happy with the results, given that's only 3 hours per tank.

There looking really good now!Keep it up!

Sterling work sir!

Thats some good working - Look really good for the time spent.

Ripped the jump packs off 25 of my least favorite painted assault marines, replaced em with backpacks. I'll just paint more.

This army is absolutely gorgeous... such a large number of models to such a high standard is an achivement indeed, very well done!

I'm off to look in your gallery! Inspirational work!

Loyalwatcher wrote:This army is absolutely gorgeous... such a large number of models to such a high standard is an achivement indeed, very well done!

I'm off to look in your gallery! Inspirational work!

Thanks man!

Here's my next project... a terminator librarian!




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Yeah, so showed my buddies at the FLGS your work.....



Two guys said you suck (because you're better than them) and one huy wants you to paint for him.....

Can't wait to see the Librarian.....

Lol always glad to know people like my work

Librarian is coming along nicely. Just need to figure out to paint his staff now.

Wow quick work!

Having fun painting this guy. Some more work!



very happy with how the staff osl came out.

Finished him... took a picture on a white background. Staff looks less cool from this angle / lighting. :(

The staff looks cool, you are right the second picture doesn't do it justice. Did you just give it a squirt from the air brush for the OSL?

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:The staff looks cool, you are right the second picture doesn't do it justice. Did you just give it a squirt from the air brush for the OSL?

Gave it a squirt of Vallejo fluorescent green, then did brush highlights of florescent green and ivory.

Thanks! Got to go to work now

NP

I think I managed to take a better picture of him now, actually. Set my Camera for Macro Mode, and had better lighting.

The glow on his staff is spot on!

Looks fantastic, Horst. Good work....

Thanks mxwllmdr.

Up next is another boring group of assault marines... pictures to come tonight.

I converted 25 of my assault marines with jump packs to assault marines on foot... so now I gotta rebuilt them. I didn't like how many of them turned out anyway, so this gives me a chance to redo them. I don't really care how they look for my mech BA army, because they spend the whole game in razorbacks anyway!

How much of this is brushwork vs the airbrush ?

Rickfactor wrote:How much of this is brushwork vs the airbrush ?

well, for the librarian, this is him after airbrushing (and doing some edge highlighting with a brush) -



(I added one more final overcoat of blue after this to blend the shadows with the highlights, but that was over everything). And the staff had a brief spritz of florescent green, though the highlights of that glow were picked out by brush.

The rest was painted by hand (the face, the banner, the robes, etc.

The tanks are significantly more airbrush, but you can see on the tanks when they are only green, and the rest is brush painted. The OSL effects on lascannon coils is also airbrushed on, but again, certain highlights are picked out by brush.

Airbrush basically does the basecoat / shading for me, and the detail work is all done by hand.

So to sum up what Horst has said above:


Yadda Yadda Yadda, I am epic win at painting, Yadda Yadda Yadda.



I am so getting you to paint some stuff for me.

mxwllmdr wrote:So to sum up what Horst has said above:


Yadda Yadda Yadda, I am epic win at painting, Yadda Yadda Yadda.



I am so getting you to paint some stuff for me.

Great summary!

Horst wrote:Finished the apothecary!

Gotta learn how to paint like this, your skills sir, are awesome!

mxwllmdr wrote:So to sum up what Horst has said above:


Yadda Yadda Yadda, I am epic win at painting, Yadda Yadda Yadda.



I am so getting you to paint some stuff for me.

Heh, if your serious about that shoot me a PM, and we'll work something out

@void - I have practiced skill. Wish I was naturally good at art :( I just spend so much time painting I eventually approach a level that doesn't suck. Cool thing about that apothecary - See his shoulder right by the white pauldron? I accidentally got white paint on it when I touched up the paint on the shoulder. Painted over it with green, but it stuck out lighter than the others. I think it looks better this way. Happy accident!

Looking good man! kieep it up!

Been serious about it for a while, just hadn't asked yet. Kinda want to see what you can do with my Finecast Abbadon.

this abaddon?

have they released a new one, or still this fugly little SOB.

Even with practice, how did you get that sweet OSL on the apothecary...never seen OSL like that...that OSL is far better than i've ever seen! +1 for that!

Wolf_Ov_The_Void wrote:Even with practice, how did you get that sweet OSL on the apothecary...never seen OSL like that...that OSL is far better than i've ever seen! +1 for that!

Thanks

wasn't so hard. Spray in the direction of the glow with the airbrush, using the appropriate blue color (forgot what color blue I used here, probably a mix of VGC Electric blue and VGC Imperial Blue). Then mix a light blue with white and use it to pick out edge highlights on the blue part, especially on metals, to make them look like they are shining.

yeah, that's him. And your right, he is an SOB. Was wiping the floor with a full Thousand Sons Squad until



Damn dice.....

He looks like fun to paint.

If he happens to be in a package I receive from you, I'll paint him up

Wanta see him painted soon man!LOL!

loving the librian and apothcary.
How come your painting up abaddon?
peace

Painting Abaddon for Mxwllmdr. Should be a fun change of pace!

Can't wait. And many thanks. Hey, where is your update? ANd what are you currently working on?

Is it a commtion or do you know each other?

Awesome to see that you are still going strong! I'm def drawing a lot of inspiration for my Aurora chapter from you right now!

Do you have an up to date group shot of your army?

@Haz, It's because He's cool like that.....

Word.

Damn star wars the old republic... its keeping me from painting!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! I just changed my sig, too!!!!!!!! Check it out!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA true that, Skyrim has taken 200 hrs of my life :O

Sheesh, can't wait for the DLC's.....

LOL!


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LOL!

The glow on the staff is the best "light" I have seen in a long time. VERY NICE!

Thanks I went for a small, single bright point of light, and I think it turned out pretty well.

I bought star wars the old republic last weekend, and haven't painted anything this entire week. I feel bad (even though I seem to have painted more in the past month than some people have done in a year).

UPDATE THIS WEEKEND!

Dude, you have got to share some painting tips with us unitiated......

Some VERY impressive light source painting.
Beautiful.

WOOT, Horst, your thread made the front page!!!!!!!!!!!!

Far more than me! in this year so far!LOL! Btw my blog had an update too!

Just accepted a commission to paint about a company and a half of Alpha Legion marines.

I should be starting them this weekend, and I'll be re-purposing my blog to cover the painting of them

Should be fun!

Woot, can't wait to see them going....

Keep us posted!

Get it? Posted! Cause it's a thread and....



Nevermind...

mxwllmdr wrote:Woot, can't wait to see them going....

Keep us posted!

Get it? Posted! Cause it's a thread and....



Nevermind...

Gee, if only I had some kind of awesome large model to paint to keep you all posted on....

:(

Napa wrote:Oh, I see what ya did there......

First of the alpha legion! only ~149 more to go!

This one took me about 2 hours to finish, but a lot of that was deciding what colors to use where, and changing paints in the airbrush. Can probably knock it down to ~45 minutes once I get a method finalized that I like and go into assembly line mode!

WE ARE LEAGON!!! Liking the chaos dudes man!

Now you're talking my language, Horst, ol' buddy......


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OOOOH, and speaking it like a native, too... Good job, man.....

mxwllmdr wrote:Now you're talking my language, Horst, ol' buddy......


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OOOOH, and speaking it like a native, too... Good job, man.....

Looking back on that guy, I see I missed the plates between the armor! AHH!!!

must... fix.

Hey, buddy, how is it going your way?

Miss seeing ya around, I know you must be busy.....

Just checking in.....

I think purple for the bad guys weapons would look best. Good stuff otherwise!

Quick question in regards to Abrushing, what do you use to clean your gun between colors? Is there a AB thread with all this? thanks mate!

Very sorry for the lack of updates... this has been a crazy month. FINALLY able to get back to work more in earnest... look for another set of 10 finished by the end of this week, and hopefully another 10 by the end of the weekend!

(yes, they still need basing. Materials are on order, LGS was out of required basing supplies).






@Red Corsair - Depends what i'm doing. If I'm doing gradients, like on power swords, I often don't clean out my airbrush at all. If I'm going from a light blue to a dark blue, just spray out most of the light blue, then add dark blue directly in. If they mix, so what, they have to mix on the model anyway.

If I'm switching colors completely, usually I'll hit it with a rinse of hot water, followed by a spray through of airbrush cleaner.

edit - Just noticed I missed a handle on a power sword! GRRR!!!

Will have to fix it now!

Those legionaries look awesome! Especially the power weapon effect!

Yeah, I am gonna have to aske that you do a paint Tut, dude.....


Gotta learn some skils......

Sweet Alphas horst!

Mmmm.. Not all that bad Horst. You might want to work a little on your details though, airbrushing might be nice for the large areas but you do need to get stuck in with your regular brush on the finer parts. And bronze? To each their own but the Legion runs with steel details. Not to be a stickler (of course I will! it's waht I do! ^^ ) but you don't paint your Aurora Chapter orange and pink eh? Indigo and steel Horst, indigo and steel...

Electro-Hawk should be arriving today, Horst. Excited?

Had to cancel the Alpha Legion job... I feel really bad about it, but it turns out I just don't have the time to paint them all. School + work takes more time than I thought it would :(

ON the plus side... I painted up an abaddon model for MX as a thank-you for the thunderhawk (which is currently being painted slowly!)

Dude, I think he is fantastic.....


I am hoping that he arrives soon. Hoper even more that the Electro-Hawk hits the thread soon....


I understand about getting unexpectedly busy..... Trust me I got that one down pat....

The abbdon is looking good man! ooking forwad to the hawk ariving!

I have the t-hawk like 30% basecoated, and I ran out of green paint. :( Must buy more!

Lol! Then buy, buy like you have never bought for the Emphra Before! Caus' We are Sphese Marryines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah I gotta say while the electro is not far off from scale that it did in fact end up bigger than I expected too.

I think it was a combination of all the.layering and the inner/outer walls throwing off my size calculations....


I always sucked at math.......

Lol!

Horst wrote:I have the t-hawk like 30% basecoated, and I ran out of green paint. :( Must buy more!

Dude, you simply must so step by step WIP photos......

mxwllmdr wrote:

Horst wrote:I have the t-hawk like 30% basecoated, and I ran out of green paint. :( Must buy more!

Dude, you simply must so step by step WIP photos......

fine, but first I gotta actually finish step 1 and base coat the damn thing ><

Hahaha.... Yes....

Just found your blog. Holy cow this is impressive. All your work is fantastic. Looking forward to seeing more.

Decided to just mask off the LED's, i'll go back and touch up the area under the tape with a brush after I spray paint everything else. Based with Dark Angels Green army painter spray.


WIP Hull shots -




WIP Command Deck -

Fantastic, horst. Can't wait for more.....

Looking good man! Is that FW? Btw blogs been updated!

No Hazz, I built it......


But thank you for the confusion......

Started doing the shading... this is gonna take a LONG time, I have like no time to work on this during the week.

HAZZER wrote:Looking good man! Is that FW? Btw blogs been updated!

mxwllmdr wrote:No Hazz, I built it......


But thank you for the confusion......

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Epic!

Capitansolstice wrote:

HAZZER wrote:Looking good man! Is that FW? Btw blogs been updated!

mxwllmdr wrote:No Hazz, I built it......


But thank you for the confusion......

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Epic!

Excletly!

That thing is gonna be BAD@$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I CAN"T WAIT FOR YOU TO FINISH IT DUDE!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, man. Wondering how things are. School finish up ok?

Sick thunderhawk!!!

Horst wrote:Started doing the shading... this is gonna take a LONG time, I have like no time to work on this during the week.

Holy fething gak it looks amazing, and like FW!!!!!!!

Thank you, Corm. I am quite proud. Especially since the paint job will make it truly over the top......


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His painting is so sick, man....

I'm still around :(

Just... Diablo III came out...

Damn blizzard, and their games!

Horst wrote:I'm still around :(

Just... Diablo III came out...

Damn blizzard, and their games!

THUNDERHAWK IS MORE THAN DIABLO LESS DEAMONS MORE PLANES

Oh so you are a Diablo casualty, got it.....


oh and that panda- he means business......


I'd feed him if I were you.....

I LIVE AGAIN! My love of 40k seems to go through cycles... I'll do nothing but 40k for a few months, then put it off, then do nothing but 40k again.

Well, with 6th edition out now, it looks like I'm going to start back up. I'm going to sideline painting the thunderhawk for a bit, because I really wanna get my army good to go for 6th edition first. Don't worry Mxwllmdr, I'm going to finish it before the year is out!

Oooh thoseare sexy!! I hear tyou about.the bursts of.inspiration, it can be annoying but you just cant force it

Yes, very good looking.. Can't wait to see them escorting a thunderhawk.................

Looking good man! I love those embossed shoulder pads too!

They are looking very nice, Its a nice shade of green you have going there.

Spent the last several days finishing up another stormraven, now that they rock so hard. I started this one like 4-5 months ago, just never finished painting it (it was primed, thats about it). Not too shabby for like 3 nights work.







here's a picture of the raven with its wingman.



And this is a shot with the big daddy thunderhawk for size comparison... the thunderhawk has over double the wingspan. Its huge!

Very cool! I love it a Thunderhawk gunship flanked by two stormravens!

Now that is precisely what I pictured for this airwing, 'cept better! fantastic...

Wow!!!

Started my death company... going to paint up 20 guys in a similar scheme to this. Green and black for DC warriors. Think they look pretty good.

Damn, them look good Horst.

Thanks mxwllmdr

I've been busy tonight... painted a second DC guy.

Damn horst! Your work is amazing! Love the OSL your doing and... yeah well.. I love everything your doing ;D

Can't wait to see that thunderhawk finished thouh. amazing work you did max. and it shows alot more now when there's some paint on it!

Looking really good man! But they are going off the smerf line a bit I feel. If you know what I mean! Too BA for me... Not enough smerf (ie founding chapter, well knida)!

Yea... they are more BA than UM....

but what are you gonna do. They ARE death company after all.... I think they are turning out pretty well though Finished Astorath yesterday, and an additional 5 marines tonight.






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ugh... looking at astorath close up, its obvious the gold needs another coat.

Looking good! I reallyu like the astoph guy! (can't spell lol)!

At work, no chance to read entire amazing blog right now, subscribed for later! Can't wait to see more!

(Get a couple of Storm Talons to go with those Ravens and Thunderhawk too, like a baws!!!)

Thanks guys.

After I finish these 20 death company I'm building, next up for painting is some Imperial Guard... allies! woo!

Yaay!! imperial guard! can't wait for that to come

Woot! T-hawk!

heh... finished my DC squad, AND did up 5 guard models!

I went with a blue/grey for the guard, because I want it to compliment the Aurora Chapter guys, as they are going to be used as allies. I think the blue/grey works. Here's a few pictures:


Next to a DC marine -


And my finished DC squad, with 2 close ups -





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Man.. keeping a blog is a GREAT way to see how far your painting skill progresses...

The fact that I thought this was good, only a year ago, shows just how much I've improved over the past year.

Looking good man! The gurd are looking really cool too bw!

Thanks hazzer

Putting the finishing touches on the first 2 guard squads today... should have pics up by tonight.

Any news on those pics chief?

heh... since I've last posted pictures, I've painted 30 guardsmen and another 5 death company marines.

Just haven't gotten around to posting the pics :(

I'll do it tonight!

Good man! Now back to it! We want more pictures damnit!

Yeah, what he said.

really well painted...

Really really good job!
Great zenithal osl on your marines!

An actual update! I know! I just painted this guy today... think he turned out rather well.

Looking sweet!

Keep em coming!!!

I really enjoy your work, dude. Can we get a large group shot?

Group shot of what, MX? All the death company? Or just of everything in general? Because I don't have enough space on my table to take a group shot of everything ><

The death company would be fine. But if you can lay it out on the floor the whole shebang would be nice too.....

I posted this a while back... this has about half the tanks of what I have now, and I have another 50 or so infantry not pictured.

In this picture, I have:
5x predators
2x land raiders
3x rhinos
1x razorback
4x dreadnoughts
2x vindicators
1x storm raven
2x land speeders
50x tactical marines
45x assault marines
10x biker marines
15x terminators

I still have a LOT left unpainted... another ~10 terminators, another ~40 tac marines, another ~30 bikers.... plus another baal, 3 drop pods, another rhino, another furioso, and 2 more land speeders... not to mention like 5x metal captains.

So cool! Great pics of your army!

Absolutely fantastic.....



I love it all....

Got some forgeworld marines to work on, wearing mark II armor. Going to be vanguard veterans!

I like the look of them!

Here's the fist veteran WIP...

First forgeworld marine, done. Working on the sarge w/ power sword now.

Very nice! Love those models.

Does this mean you're back in the saddle?