So I bought a bunch of forge world stuff lately, and I am going to do a small force of crusade era marines. I am probably going to do them as Imperial Fists and because of that I've painted up a test model.

The stuff I have for the army so far are:

-A land raider proteus.
-A contemptor dreadnought.
a gw 2nd ed. landspeeder.
a bunch of FW marines.

And then the plan is to finish my Terminator project and add a squad or two of termies too.

Well on to the pics!






Took me around 2 hours to paint him, and this is the way I figure I'll paint the entire force.

So what do you guys think??

That's a beaut yellow. What's your recipe? Might use it for my Bad Moonz.

Good... The weathering does a lot to break up the yellow from being too much. I like it. The base is good too

For some reason I dont like the weathering. Other than that great model.

Swordwind wrote:That's a beaut yellow. What's your recipe? Might use it for my Bad Moonz.

Thanks
The recipe is:
airbrush with tausept ochre, mix vallejo flat yellow in for first senital highlight followed by pure flat yellow and then flat yellow with a bit of white. then it have got a thin glaze of vallejo transparent yellow to tint it a bit and then som edge highligts in flat yellow

genom.cor wrote:Good... The weathering does a lot to break up the yellow from being too much. I like it. The base is good too

Thanks

JohnnoM wrote:For some reason I dont like the weathering. Other than that great model.

Thanks, and I guess the weathering is up to personal tastes

Oh tda, you continue to impress!

IF are one of my fav chapters, and this yellow is beautiful, very bright as it should be but as has been said the chips (which are wonderfully done btw) break it up nicely. All IFs should have black trim as well, pre heresy or no, looks so much meaner than red.

Cant wait to see a whole army done like this!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Oh tda, you continue to impress!

IF are one of my fav chapters, and this yellow is beautiful, very bright as it should be but as has been said the chips (which are wonderfully done btw) break it up nicely. All IFs should have black trim as well, pre heresy or no, looks so much meaner than red.

Cant wait to see a whole army done like this!

Thanks mate I'm planning on getting a lot of stuff done over the Christmas holidays so hopefully there'll be an update shortly

Kind of reminds me of cyrax from mortal combat. I like it

Very nice can't wait to see more!

Merry Christmas!

Flying Pooo wrote:Very nice can't wait to see more!

Merry Christmas!

And a merry christmas to you And here's a bit more.


I got a bit of work done on my contemptor, it's still wip and there's lots left to do but I felt it was worth showing of what I've done so far.

So here goes:





And this pic is taken with flash to show of the yellow a bit more as it has some nice blends that's hardly visible on the other pics.


Unfortunately my airbrush broke yesterday during cleaning, the nozzle broke in two... Luckily my father in law lent me his til I get a new nozzle for my own

Nice Dread!
Your yellow is simply amazing is's looks so crisp, the weathering is very nicely done too.

wow. how you doing your weathering?

Haha, i see that even pre heresy IF couldnt escape your AdMech influences... Love that conv beamer.

Flying Pooo wrote:Nice Dread!
Your yellow is simply amazing is's looks so crisp, the weathering is very nicely done too.

Thanks, that's the best part of having an airbrush imo

spudkins wrote:wow. how you doing your weathering?

It's just chardon granite applied with a sponge and then a highlight around the most prominent chips with vallejo flat yellow

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Haha, i see that even pre heresy IF couldnt escape your AdMech influences... Love that conv beamer.

Well it's hard to shake of old habits isn't it And I felt that the conversion beamer was fitting nicely with their siege specialties, which is also why I gave him a graviton gun in his fist

Here's some further wip pics for the contemptor!

It still need some detail work but I'm getting there.
The arms have gotten a lot of work done to them, and the metals have been washed with a few different washes to age them and dirty them up a bit.


And a power pose.


The conversion beamer is shaping up nicely, and his personal insignia too.


The power claw with the graviton gun. the two pics are an attempt to show how the articulation is working. I split the fists icon in two to fit it, and it is now an integrated part of the shoulder articulation.



Lastly I wanted to show the components for his arms, the way I've made him he can easily have a new weapon added to his armory.

Man, that's some beaut yellow. Can't help saying it again and again.

Good weathering on that conversion beamer too. Glad that you could do the Contemptor justice.

That brass on the conve beamer looks divine, perfect tone!

The combination of colours on him is just divine, superb job so far.

The Contemptor is looking very nice, as others have said that is a lovely yellow perfect for IF's.

Swordwind wrote:Man, that's some beaut yellow. Can't help saying it again and again.

Good weathering on that conversion beamer too. Glad that you could do the Contemptor justice.

Thanks, I gotta say I love painting yellow. It's very very satisfying

Vitruvian XVII wrote:That brass on the conve beamer looks divine, perfect tone!

The combination of colours on him is just divine, superb job so far.

Thanks mate, glad you like it

GiraffeX wrote:The Contemptor is looking very nice, as others have said that is a lovely yellow perfect for IF's.

Thanks

So finally it's time for an update

The first 5 man squad is almost done and I'll get some pics once I've laid the first coats of paint. But until then you can have a few other pics

first is my pre-heresy terminators (also featured in another thread) which will be reproduced so I can make multiple squads.


My standard bearer wip, bearing the sacred roma-which I have interpreted as an ancient battle standard as there's no record of what the relic actually is, but it's believed it might be a standard.



Then onto the big guns, the proteus is comming along nicely.









And the contemptor... Again, but with more detail finished. Still need to do the black parts.








That's it for now, just had a load of fun playing with my brothers camera

Great work mate , love the yellowa and the chipping

love the contemptor, excellently executed colour and weathering. Where are the bases from?

neil101 wrote:Great work mate , love the yellowa and the chipping

Thanks mate, much appreciated

Ruglud wrote:love the contemptor, excellently executed colour and weathering. Where are the bases from?

Thanks, the bases are not resin bases, I made them myself They're made with broken up pieces of plaster.

this just gets better and better. any paint on the the termies yet eh eh eh?????
once again love you damage looks awsome

Noticed that your Contemptor got featured on What's New Today. Good job mate. Can't wait for the next update.

spudkins wrote:this just gets better and better. any paint on the the termies yet eh eh eh?????
once again love you damage looks awsome

Nope, no paint on the termies yet, as I have to make some more of them And thanks

Swordwind wrote:Noticed that your Contemptor got featured on What's New Today. Good job mate. Can't wait for the next update.

Thanks man, got really excited when I saw it too it's the second time I get a miniature featured in the what's new today, and I can help feeling a little proud.

There'll be an update soon, as I've gotten some more work done. But it's not going as fast as I want it to go, cus I've been swamped with commissions lately. But fear not, progress have been made

This is amazing mate, I have always loved imperial fists and you have really done them justice.Can't wait to see more, definitely following this one.

Beautiful.The vivid yellow and sharp weathering do a great job of making you think 'this is a huge, old, metal battlesuit'. Its got the same kind of look as an old JCB. I'd go in expecting these to be pretty heavy metal minis!

OZ-Guardsman wrote:This is amazing mate, I have always loved imperial fists and you have really done them justice.Can't wait to see more, definitely following this one.

Thanks, I've always had a soft spot for imperial and crimson fists myself so when I decided I wanted to do a pre-heresy force I ended up going yellow

Bewareofthephil wrote:Beautiful.The vivid yellow and sharp weathering do a great job of making you think 'this is a huge, old, metal battlesuit'. Its got the same kind of look as an old JCB. I'd go in expecting these to be pretty heavy metal minis!

Thanks, I have always loved the way industrial machinery in yellow looked and it is a blast to paint I must say

Well, due to commissions this has seen less work than I'd hoped lately. I have been working on a command squad but the two essential miniatures I needed and bought in finecast turned out to look like they'd taken a swim in a chemical lake... And so did the replacements GW sent me, in fact they were even worse looking :( So I am currently waiting for their reply and am expecting to get another two at some point as I won't give up till I have miniatures of an acceptable quality, as that is what I friggin' paid for...

So I'm not to happy about their lottery cast right now..

I also started work on a scout squad, and the first tactical squad but haven't gotten around to taking pictures yet

On another note, my boss (I'm a freelance painter for a painting service) decided to give me a little something as he didn't need it.

Now what was it, you might ask and wonder, and I'll tell you right after the pics




It's the leftovers from his last commission, which just so happened to be an imperial fists army :chrome:

I also got a heap of other stuff as he's really the most awesome boss in the world, but those aren't really relevant here.

That's it for now guys, hopefully I'l return to this soon

Wow! Your IF are amazing.

Mat

Hooray you're back! Can't wait to see what you do with those goodies.

Thanks guys, unfortunately I haven't got too much time to work on these, but I found a little today

So a small update:

I've finally got my finecast re-replacements and they look way better than he first replacements
So I've started work on the commander for the army, and here's the first WIP pic of him, he's based on the Sicarius model as I always liked his armour and it was the best "show off" cape available. Concerning the Aquila I have chosen to use the shoulderpad as it is written several places that even though the Aquila was not in common use by the legions prior to the heresy, noted heroes and high standing astartes wore it as a sign of their heroic deeds, and it was usually bestowed as an honour mark for extreme valour.

I'm contemplating using him as Sigismund, as I feel he has the right sense of ornamentation, and the description of his looks is also very sparse. It only says he has dark blonde hair and remarks upon his facial features on an overall level. But to be honest I'm not sure I'll give him hair, he might end up being the 2nd company captain, or be the first captain in service before Sigismund, and then have Sigismund as a sergeant or a champion in the commanders command squad as I also bought the emperors champion model, which has potential of being a great Sigismund model as well, and I might go with that option, as it gives me a bit more freedom in making up fluff for the army as it is meant to be set in the middle of the great crusade, just as the mkIV suits were starting to be field tested, and will restrict the army to MK I, II, III and IV suits. The mkI element will be as armour pieces incorporated into newer suits of mkII and III like the torso of my standard bearer.

Anyway, on to the picture:



C&c is more than welcome

These look great! I'll be following along.

*cheer* You're back! Am sure you won't disappoint with the captain.

Nice removal of UM stuff Looks great, tda strikes again!

Love the cut shoulder pad btw, great touch

As an avid lurker on your ad mech, and citing you as a MAJOR inspiration for my own on my plog, (in sig) I will be following this intently, looks lovely so far, the dread particularly. Hope to see more...just dont make it too good or i'll end up copying you here as well. =p

Wooo preheresy IF's ftw! Subscribedd

whalemusic360 wrote:These look great! I'll be following along.

Thanks man, they are the product of about 5 years worth of planning to do a pre-heresy force, so they'll get a lot of love

Swordwind wrote:*cheer* You're back! Am sure you won't disappoint with the captain.

Hehe yeah I'm back, at least for now I have some commissions coming in but will crank some work out on these in between

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Nice removal of UM stuff Looks great, tda strikes again!

Love the cut shoulder pad btw, great touch

Thanks mate It wasn't too hard to remove the iconography (not compared to how hard it was to actually get a descent looking finecast model, I'll be keeping a downlow on buying them from now on...)

J-paint wrote:As an avid lurker on your ad mech, and citing you as a MAJOR inspiration for my own on my plog, (in sig) I will be following this intently, looks lovely so far, the dread particularly. Hope to see more...just dont make it too good or i'll end up copying you here as well. =p

Thanks an, threw a line on your plog, and I've seen your test model around, they look great I can't promise anything about this army though, as it's a project I'd wanted to do for years And the IF's can be linked to the battle for Mars during the heresy so it seemed fitting to make them, as they could then go as allies for my own admech if I like someday

Nrljm wrote:Wooo preheresy IF's ftw! Subscribedd

Yeah, the same feeling I had when deciding my pre heresy army should be IF's XD Hope you'll like the rest of the army as well

Ah interesting, i havn't heard of a link between them, i'm guessing its in the Horus heresy books? And thanks for the plog comment, raises its profile having an ad mech celebrity contribute =p

This is as much a bump as a comment, this deserves to be seen by all =]

J-paint wrote:Ah interesting, i havn't heard of a link between them, i'm guessing its in the Horus heresy books? And thanks for the plog comment, raises its profile having an ad mech celebrity contribute =p

This is as much a bump as a comment, this deserves to be seen by all =]

What a compliment, thank you very much mate

And yeah it's from the HH series, Mechanicum actually, where the Imperial Fists send a relief force to aid the still loyal part of the Adeptus Mechanicus. If you haven't read it already you really should as it's a really great book and its all mechanicus, knights and titans

And finally an update on the progress of Dorn's all star team

First off is a picture of my first tac squad in the process of getting all yellowed up.


Then there's a second tac squad under way, I might eventually upgrade to 10 man squads, but for now they'll only count 5 each.


Then there's a scout squad under way, still need to remove some chest aquillas and add some more detail to them (like the heavy weapon :shifty: )


That's the core troops so far. Before I continue I'd like to sum up the premises for this army as it is important to me to emphasize that this is a PRE-heresy army, which is to say it is to be depicted as an army during the great crusade, prior to the betrayal of Horus Lupercal, and as such will have no traitor elements as there haven't been any dodgy business going on yet (well at least not any chaos related at least ).

I like all the pre-heresy armies around but most of them are described as being pre-heresy even though they include elements from the fluff from the heresy itself, so I find most of them are mislabelled and should be called heresy era armies seeing as they are set in the heresy era itself.

My army is set somewhere in the middle of the great crusade, and theres several reasons for that:

1. I can choose to have members of any of the 18 known legions among my troops and not just the ones that stayed loyal, this is great as I plan on making a few members of different legions appear to mingle with the squads and draw upon the brotherhood inter legion bonding that is referred to in Descent of Angels and Fallen angels.

2. I can make Sigismund before his ascending to first captain (which I have) and have him be the legion champion and the next in line to take up the mantle as first captain when the current first captain will no longer be able to. This is also because I wanted an IF army that didn't have Sigismund as their commander but could still be the first company.

This should help to understand the next pictures as they are rooted strongly in my design premises for the army.

So on with the miniatures:

The command squad:


And sigismund, the champion of the mighty VII Legio Astartes, personal favourite of the Lord Primarch Rogal Dorn.
He acts as both the company champion and sergeant of the sternguard (honour guard)


The legions most revered standard, the Roma, borne by the first company standard bearer.


The company chaplain.


The sternguard, the personal honour guard of the first captain.


And one of the sternguard as I really like how he's turning out.


That's it for now, hopefully I'll have some more updates soon.

Looking pretty amazing mate , your boss sounds like a top bloke too. is the lighter resin bodies self made casts?

Oh wow. Such gorgeous stuff on here... Subbed!

Small update gents

Not much, but the first one is a lysander model

The general idea is that he'll be a commander in terminator armour, having his storm shield and thunder hammer, and probably an extra set of magnetized arms for showing off, maybe a sword or something. The shoulderpad is my prototype from the earlier pics and acts as a stand in atm to get a feel of how he'll look once he's pre-heresy pimped.


And Sigismund finally got his proper shield, a friend of mine hooked me up with some fw brass etch to pimp him out, but he is very BT'ish right now and it'll be toned down with some more IF symbols and some other detail work like some scrolls to cover up the large 'TEMPLARS' on his shield. He's still very much a WIP.


So what do guys think?

Hmm i cant help but feel he looks too BT-ish atm. But you're very welcome to change my mind!

Love the shoulder pad on Lysander, you cant stay away from a cog motif can you?! Speaking of cog motif, where's that brass etch from?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Hmm i cant help but feel he looks too BT-ish atm. But you're very welcome to change my mind!

Love the shoulder pad on Lysander, you cant stay away from a cog motif can you?! Speaking of cog motif, where's that brass etch from?

Yeah atm he's very BT'ish but it's only because he haven't had his final IF makeover with the last icons and such :p

And no I can't ;P and since the mechanicum have developed the terminator suits I see it fit to have cog motives embedded in the suits And the cog-tooth edging is from the FW etched brass Iron Hands frame

Nice work!

Thanks

A few more updates, just got my hands on another model today which will be used for the army. It's a second hand master of the armoury and he's been stripped clean. Unfortunately he didn't have his sword or the original head, but I wasn't planning on using those parts anyways, he will be a member of the honour guard/sternguard.

Untill I get my next batch of fw parts from ebay he's gonna have this helmet, but he'll probably have it replaced with one of the red scorpion helmets. I have not yet decided how he'll be armed, but a sword could be nice.Also I plan on removing his chest eagle and the crux terminatus on his shoulder to replace with legion symbols instead.


He'll be accompanied by this guy in as the next honour guard model is one I've wanted to do for a long time. He's based on the sergeant Chronus model as I've never liked the actual model, but the armour is just so cool. And seeing as I now had a very nice powerfist for him I found it was time to do the model the justice it deserves. As with all the other models he'll receive some IF iconography and fancy shiney stuff to mark him out as an honoured astartes.


And then I played a bit more with the lysander model, still only tac'ed together as I haven't decided yet how he will finally look.

Long time since I last updated this, but I got a spur of the moment mini built today for the veterans.

Not a difficult conversion at all, but I'd wanted to do a marine with that axe for some time now and this was the pose that kept popping up in my mind. It required me to switch the hand on the handle from a left to a right but it wasn't too hard to do. Hope you like him so far, like the rest of them he'll have a lot more detail when I get around to it




Ohh yeah, and yesterday I had a bit of fun with my razorsaw and some glue :chrome: This was the result:


Still needs some gap filling and some sand before it's ready to paint, and I might ad a few dead pilots to it as well and maybe kit it out a bit to look like a cargo shuttle or something like that

That's it for now, hopefully there'll be more soon

This is a project well worth looking at. The Dread especially is awesome. Keep up the good work man!

Wow. You actually managed to put yours together. My one from the old boxed set is still in glorious pieces.

The vet looks great too. Can't wait to see what you do with the axe.

Haha nice effort tda, that some good engineering right there!

Axe dude looks sick too, badass to the max.

Guardians Eternal wrote:This is a project well worth looking at. The Dread especially is awesome. Keep up the good work man!

Thanks dude, I'll try and keep the standard up I'm currently painting a commissioned GK army to fund my next fw order so these guys can have some more tanks

Swordwind wrote:Wow. You actually managed to put yours together. My one from the old boxed set is still in glorious pieces.

The vet looks great too. Can't wait to see what you do with the axe.

I assume you mean the crashed aquila?? It was actually really fun to cut up and put back together again And thanks for the comment

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Haha nice effort tda, that some good engineering right there!

Axe dude looks sick too, badass to the max.

Thanks mate ;D I've wanted to cut it to pieces for years XD And when I stumbled over one for practically no money at all I took the shot and fed it to my razorsaw.

Update time!

I've had time to do some more modelling and have actually managed to finish my mk II land speeder and have it undercoated I also bought some goodies to update my chaplain, and have also updated my apothecary.

Chaplain:

I have fiwed the miscast collar and the stud on his shoulder with some green stuff, but not until after I took the pictures.


Apothecary:

Some more progress on the legions senior medic, he still needs some green stuff work.

And a picture of a building I'm working on for a CoD table, once it's finished and this army is too I'll have a load of pics taken of the army in urban surroundings.



And now for my little love project, my Mk II landspeeder:

It's built from a mix between a land speeder storm and a regular land speeder with the seats and engine exhausts from an original 2nd ed land speeder. There's also parts from numerous other kits in there, I'll give it a rundown if any one is interested.
It will be put on a 60mm base in style with the one on my contemptor, and I might build something elaborate on the base since there won't be any models standing directly on it.














Next week I'll get my tartaros terminators, and I'll try and have an update ASAP with them

That's it for now, I'll have to get back to commission work again so I can fund some more yellow armour!

Please build a step by step for the land speeder conversion. I need some of these in my life.

^ My thoughts entirely!

@tda: Lovely chaplain indeed, very nice cutting you've done there

The terrain looks ace as is usual for you., This part of the same set you were doing a while back with the titans?

That land speeder is beyond awesome. You've done as good a job as FW bringing the old design into a new aesthetic. Im guessing the autocannon is stand in for asscan? Glad you're gonna put it on a 60mm. I cant stand the clear flying bases myself. The etched brass details (i presume) stand out as particualrly cool too.

Truffle wrote:Please build a step by step for the land speeder conversion. I need some of these in my life.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:^ My thoughts entirely!

@tda: Lovely chaplain indeed, very nice cutting you've done there

The terrain looks ace as is usual for you., This part of the same set you were doing a while back with the titans?

That land speeder is beyond awesome. You've done as good a job as FW bringing the old design into a new aesthetic. Im guessing the autocannon is stand in for asscan? Glad you're gonna put it on a 60mm. I cant stand the clear flying bases myself. The etched brass details (i presume) stand out as particualrly cool too.

Thanks guys, I unfortunately forgot to take pictures while building it and I don't plan on building another as it wasn't cheap nor particularly easy to build but I will happily make a description of how I built it

@Vitruvian:
I sold most of the terrain you refer to unfortunately, and this piece is for a 4'x6' table for my local gaming club It will be more structured as I am designing and building the entire table and have made it possible to vary the layout of the table. Toss me a pm and I'll send you a link to the pictures
I'm gladyou like the speeder, and yeah I suppose if it ever sees a game the auto cannon will act as an assault cannon, but just in case I magnetized it The flying base will be exchanged because I feel exactly as you, I utterly hate the weird disc...

Oh that is a shame.

I suppose i shall have to be content with a description then!

Table sounds very interesting indeed.

I can't help but notice that some of your models have a very dark grey resin. Are they recast bots off eBay by any chance?

Nrljm wrote:I can't help but notice that some of your models have a very dark grey resin. Are they recast bots off eBay by any chance?

Nope, they are just subject to vallejo grey primer I have pretty much abandoned black primer since I started airbrushing.
I am very aware of whom I buy FW stuff on ebay from, and there's a certain Russian atm that seems to be selling a lot of crappy recasts sadly and I have no plans to help him continue his shady business.
I usually buy fw bits from the ebay store Valhalla gaming as they regularly stock up on fw marine stuff and have great customer service

That's fair enough, do you have a link to their store? Iv notice all the dodgy Russian recasts on eBay too, and I'm trying to find a reputable bits source for FW bits atm

My mk II landspeder build is also base coated in VMC grey primer, but I can see how it could resemble the dodgy resin used by that Russian guy.
This is the store I usually use http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Valhalla-Gaming?_trksid=p4340.l2563
Keep an eye on there as he regularly get cool bits home, but they tend to get ripped away faster than the emperor devours souls :p

Okay so it's time for that parts rundown, so I can get some piece of mind
I will divide it into two separate categories, crew and speeder. The crew will just be described, the speeder will have pics to illustrate a bit as it isn't really that complicated to repose some legs and arms and make sitting crew.

The crew:
What you need:
-The mkII gunner arms from the fw sm tank crew http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Vehicle-Accessories/SPACE_MARINE_TANK_CREW_.html
-Any of the mkII legs from fw will do, I used parts from 3 different pairs to make mine.
-I used two of the BA torsos with the livery removed, but the mkII torsos work equally fine.
-4 mkII shoulder pads.
-2 mkII helmets
a pair of mkII shooting arms.

How to do it:
Cut the socket for the backpack off, so the marines can sit properly in their seats. Cut and reposition the legs. add the torsos and heads. Wait to attach and reposition the arms till the speeder is built so you can adjust them to fit.


The speeder:
What you need:
-The seats, exhausts and the targeting screen from a 2nd edition land speeder (the targeting screen is from the ravenwing speeder, and is optional as it isn't actually on the standard speeder)


-A land speeder storm.
Specifically these parts (marked in red)



-These parts from a baal predator (marked in red).


-The exhausts from a whirlwind (marked in red).


-The bottom, exhaust and an extra wing from a normal land speeder.
-1mm plasticard.
-0,5mm plasticard.
-thin plastic rod for rivets, or any other sort of rivets that fit your style. Mine are from the beams in the CoD sets from GW.
-A skull from a chaos marine torso belt buckle or a similar medium sized skull.

Optional parts for detailing, in the case of my Imperial Fists speeder I used the following components to detail it:
-A fw imperial fists icon pack, for the round icons http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Vehicle-Accessories/IMPERIAL---CRIMSON-FISTS-ICON-PACKS.html
- the bike kit-bags from this kit http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440277a&prodId=prod1110187
-A name plate from the black templars brass etch http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Etched_Brass/ETCHED-BRASS-BLACK-TEMPLARS-SYMBOLS.html

These can of course be substituted with any detailing you want.

- the guns:
A heavy bolter from the land raider proteus kit http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space-Marine-Tanks/LAND-RAIDER-PROTEUS.html
alternatively a heavy bolter from the heavy weapons kit here might also work http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Infantry-Accessories/SPACE_MARINE_HEAVY_WEAPONS_SET.html

-the autocannon from a IG heavy weapons team
-assault cannon, mounting and search light from a land speeder.


How to do it:

Start by building the engine, cut the parts as in the diagram.


The two segments of the tank goes together to built the middle section of the engine, then you add the top, bottom and exhaust sections. Then cut the whirlwind exhausts flat on the backside and glue them in. then cut the 2nd ed exhausts attachment pins off and glue them on top of the exhausts on the assembled engine.
Remove the side grills on the engine, cut the fuel tank covers from the baal predators, the part you need to remove is the vertical flat edge so you are left with the top part and the angled edge. attach on top of engine.

then for the front and middle section.


Cut off the spoiler that is marked in green on the top front section, this is what attaches the engine to the rest of the speeder and is where the tail fin is attached (the extra fin from the land speeder). Cut the panel from the seats and attach the panel to the spoiler, then cut the top and bottom front as shown in the diagram and assemble them, then attach the piece to the control panel, this is also where the control panel for the driver is installed.

Next you skin the front and sides in 1mm plasticard(not the top of the front) to make the characteristic angled nose for the mkII look, you then ad a rectangle and a triangle in the front to create the panel detail on the nose, this is made in 0,5mm plasticard. the array is also installed and the small lights that goes in the gunners side of the land speeder storm is used as the base for the drivers display with the lenses cut off. Ad the targeting screen, rivets, skull and other detail.

The seats section is made by cutting the bottom of the normal land speeder as shown in green on the diagram, then you beef out the middle section of the speeder with. Attach the seats to the land speeder bottom part that you have cut, and make it fit on the speeder, DO NOT GLUE IT IN PLACE it will make it impossible to install the drivers later.

Add the braces from the land speeder storm on top of the engine exhausts and under the seats.
Fit the drivers arms to match the controls of the speeder.

Assemble all the parts and remember to add the bottom tail fin/auspex array too.

The heavy bolter needs to be cut to fit, which depending on which type you use it will involve cutting the back of the gun to be level.

The autocannon is made by cutting the barrel off the assault cannon and replacing it with the one from the IG autocannon, then mount it on the mounting, cut the light from the searchlight and mount it reversed, add the lenses cut from the drivers screen as targeting lenses.

That's about it, hope this is enough to satisfy you guys. Remember to refer to the pics of the finished model when building to give a visual idea of what part you are building and how it goes together.

Happy building lads ;D

Wow awesome tut! Didnt realise there was such a selection of parts

May give this a go when i get round to my sons of medusa, speaking of which i just started a TS Vaylund Cal

Major update time

I have had my doubts from the start of this project about a certain aspect of doing a great crusade era force, a part which is really defining and will take a lot of work and which I initially wasn't going to do because it didn't feel right.
I am of course talking about the big man himself, the man in the golden armour (no, not the emperor ;p ), one of the greatest tactical minds in the imperium, Lord Primarch of the VII Legion Astartes, Rogal Dorn!

It is really a matter of taste, but many modellers would love to have a primarch lead their legion on the battle field, and I am no different. I originally hadn't got any idea of what to base Dorn on, so I decided he wasn't going to be part of this IF army. Then one faithfull evening about a month ago I started playing around with some components, and suddently He was there, right in front of me, Rogal Dorn, as an uncut piece of marble, a diamond in the rough.

And so it was that I changed my twisted mind yet again (happens once or twice a week on this project or every time FW releases new SM models... ) and decided to include the master of the Imperial Fists.

Without more babbling I present to you the very VERY early stage of Rogal Dorn.



I would grately appreciate some feedback on this guy as I am forming a strong idea in my head about how I would do the elaborate amount of detail his armour will need to stand out. My main concern is the weapons, I am thinking of having some fun with magnets so I can swap between his gun and his ccw, but I can't decide what weapon to actually arm him with, all I've decided is that I really don't like the chainsword idea as it seems to crude a weapon for a master warrior of his stature. The sword on the main picture is an old GK sword with the gun removed, I am considering using it on the model, although it will take quite some modification.

I will take a great deal of inspiration in the original artwork from the collected visions book by John Blanche and this piece of art that I found online (credit goes to the genius behind although sadly I don't know who he is)



That's it for now, there might be an update later today as I jut got my tartaros pattern terminators, and IF brass etch

Lol is that title supposed to be so small!

Haha, not many can resist the lure of the primarchs I think i agree with you on the chainsword, though in all the pics it is one hell of a beastly chainsword! Im not sure i like the bolt pistol particularly, dunno why. I reckon the sword could work nicely, a hammer could equally fit with the IF theme.

At the end of the day, primarchs are such badasses that they could pretty much take any weapon they wanted and use it to the same effectiveness. So you've pretty much got free reign.

It looks like a great start though, really nice.

Glad to see you're back at full steam with this project

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Lol is that title supposed to be so small!

Haha, not many can resist the lure of the primarchs I think i agree with you on the chainsword, though in all the pics it is one hell of a beastly chainsword! Im not sure i like the bolt pistol particularly, dunno why. I reckon the sword could work nicely, a hammer could equally fit with the IF theme.

At the end of the day, primarchs are such badasses that they could pretty much take any weapon they wanted and use it to the same effectiveness. So you've pretty much got free reign.

It looks like a great start though, really nice.

Glad to see you're back at full steam with this project

Haha no it was supposed to be really big XD I guess the text format works differently on Dakka

Yeah the pistol isn't final as I too have my doubts on it, but it is very early on in building phase so much can happen I have the lysander hammer lying around and it might work, I'll have to try some different weapons before I decide.

Sadly I'm not back on full steam, but I have snug up to about 50% :p

50% is definitely acceptable! Its more than i usually manage

Okay so Monday I got my tartaros terminators, and I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the casts, not entirely up to the standard I am used to from fw.

I've played around with the kit and started building them, so here's the first pics. On this stage nothing is final, and everything could happen.

First here's a scale shot with them next to my primarch, Dorn is a really big boy


Closeup of the sergeants shield, which is from Asterion Molok. I really didn't feel like removing the big minotaurs skull as it looks so good (the shield is one of the crispest cast parts I've seen from fw in my life, and there was virtually no cleanup! It is however not made with the new spin casting technique like the tartaros terminators and with the usual resin. It seems it's the spin cast technique that gives a lot of trouble, or maybe the finer grade of resin is more prone to bubbles)

The fluff for the giant minotaur skull will be something along the lines of this;

"The shield of Minos, currently residing in the personal armoury of Rogal Dorn, was presented to him as a gift from one of the noble houses of Terra, the house of Minos, upon his first visit to Terra after being reunited with his father. The shield is an ancient device depicting the head of a Minotaur as an ancient Terran legend tells of a mighty hero, son of gods, who defeated the beast and came to be the founder of a great city that would unite his people, the addition of an imperial aquila put the analogy of the legend in perspective with the great crusade, how mighty heroes fight the vicious beasts of the universe to build a kingdom of unity for all of humanity. The laurel is an ancient battle honour, and the personal emblem of the current holder is displayed amidst one at the bottom of the shield. The noble family felt a strong similarity between Dorn and the hero of the legend, and have so since bolstered the ranks of the VII legion with many fine young astartes recruits, and the house of Minos is one of the most stoic supporters of the imperial fists among all the noble houses of Terra. The shield is usually worn in combat by the highest ranking astartes descending from the house of Minos, decreed by Dorn as an honour to the house and their dedication to support the VIIth legion and the great crusade"


The second wip tartaros terminator. Also here's a look at some of the bubble problems in the casts, but they will be covered with detail and GS later on, also the crux terminatus wll be removed to keep in style with the pre-heresy feel.



Even though I was slightly disapointed with the termies, I was more than happy that my expectations to the IF brass etch were met + some
I have been a fan of photo etched detail for many years now and they never disappoint, and fw have really made a gem in the IF etch! Especially all the very small icons at the bottom or the frame are great for adding small detail.

So to show an example here's what I did to finish the commanders shoulderpad:



I have detailed elsewhere how I got to the first stage, after this I used the tip of my exacto blade to inscribe the circle to create the outer rim, then I added the cracks akin to the fw style icons and then finally I added the brass etch fist. I caan only encourage people to go and buy these fw brass etch kits as they are worth every penny!

Wow, those tartaros termies are so cool! On that note ive also seen some awesome true scales with those legs, that is a very expensive way to go though

The mino shield looks great, and nice little bit of fluff to go with it I also cant get over how cool that heavy flamer is, fw style flamers always kick ass.

Now if only they did some sons of medusa brass etch Speaking of which, i've finally started my true-scale sons of medusa in my imperium blog, would you mind taking a look?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Wow, those tartaros termies are so cool! On that note ive also seen some awesome true scales with those legs, that is a very expensive way to go though

The mino shield looks great, and nice little bit of fluff to go with it I also cant get over how cool that heavy flamer is, fw style flamers always kick ass.

Now if only they did some sons of medusa brass etch Speaking of which, i've finally started my true-scale sons of medusa in my imperium blog, would you mind taking a look?

Thanks mate, I actually took a look the other day but for some reason I forgot to toss a reply, I'll go do it now I think you should take a look at what this guy just got, he might be able to hook you up with some of those SoM pads he has http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?332505-The-Sons-of-Medusa-2000-points-in-less-than-4-weeks

And I think the true scale marines belong to Apologist, I know he used them on his TS ultra marines

Oooh, nice link, cheers buddy. I will hit him up

A quick update:

Tartaros terminators are shaping up nicely. I've used loads of brass etch parts on these to give them some detail, and they will all have shoulder decorations too.



A wip techmarine/master of the forge, I am not sure if he'll be a part of this army, but he might end up being. The conersion beamer is based on the fw dreadnought siege hammer.


I'd greatly appreciate some input on these, especially the MotF

The tartaros termies look ridiculously cool, the brass etch adds so much character to them. The varied poses make for a really dynamic and interesting squad. And the chains on the sergeant are a very nice addition. Where does the starburst type etch come from? (the one in the top right box out)

The Master of the Forge is looking really nice too. I think thats the first time ive see a 'hand held' conversion beamer before, and i have to say i much prefer it like that. It makes him seem menacing, coldly striding forward as he hefts his huge gun to fire on the enemy. Really like the bit on the end of the gun, the 'muzzle' i guess. Looks great. Small thing, but the opus machina on that metal bit is upside down

Really awesome work as usual tda, keep it up!

Man, that conversion beamer is boss. Would make Orks jealous. Can't wait to see more.

Were are Dons legs from


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Vitruvian XVII wrote:The tartaros termies look ridiculously cool, the brass etch adds so much character to them. The varied poses make for a really dynamic and interesting squad. And the chains on the sergeant are a very nice addition. Where does the starburst type etch come from? (the one in the top right box out)

The Master of the Forge is looking really nice too. I think thats the first time ive see a 'hand held' conversion beamer before, and i have to say i much prefer it like that. It makes him seem menacing, coldly striding forward as he hefts his huge gun to fire on the enemy. Really like the bit on the end of the gun, the 'muzzle' i guess. Looks great. Small thing, but the opus machina on that metal bit is upside down

Really awesome work as usual tda, keep it up!

Thanks mate The shoulder detail is an iron halo from the black templars brass etch with a skull from the tartaros crux terminatus on top They're on a lot of the different fw brass etch sheets with different insignia inside them.
And glad you like the CB, I've seen a few hand held like this and ultimately decided to rework my old servo arm mounted version into this, which is also why the opus is upside down as it was originally meant to bo upside down :p I'll of course change it when I finish the detailing of the techmarine

Swordwind wrote:Man, that conversion beamer is boss. Would make Orks jealous. Can't wait to see more.

Thanks There'll be loads more, I promise

VenerableDreadnoughtKroak wrote:Were are Dons legs from

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They're from the fw lord zhulfor model With the chaos and world eater stuff removed.

Great stuff, truly inspirational stuff. I love my 30k Iron Hands.

Out of interest, as we cannot get the 2nd edition Metal Landspeeder as it is OOP. Would it be illegal to start casting the parts in Resin? I'm guessing so as the IP is still GW, but if you did it just for yourself and didn't sell them?

I'm sure FW will release one soon.

Im pretty sure its not even illegal to cast any parts for your own use, but im no ip lawyer.

I reckon a fw one would look awesome, id be interested to see how they brought it 'into line' with the current range.

Wow, another blog of pre heresy awesome! That contemptor has to be one of the best interpretations I've seen, and as an ardent kitbasher I love your speeder guide. Tremendous stuff! What's next then, eh?

mwnciboo wrote:Great stuff, truly inspirational stuff. I love my 30k Iron Hands.

Out of interest, as we cannot get the 2nd edition Metal Landspeeder as it is OOP. Would it be illegal to start casting the parts in Resin? I'm guessing so as the IP is still GW, but if you did it just for yourself and didn't sell them?

I'm sure FW will release one soon.

Well technically reproducing parts aren't illegal as long as they are for personal use, any distribution of IP protected parts however is prohibited. Generally there's also a mixed reception on selfcast parts, so it is easiest just to do it and never tell anyone

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Im pretty sure its not even illegal to cast any parts for your own use, but im no ip lawyer.

I reckon a fw one would look awesome, id be interested to see how they brought it 'into line' with the current range.

Yeah I'm pretty sure fw would make a great one if they ever did do one

inmygravenimage wrote:Wow, another blog of pre heresy awesome! That contemptor has to be one of the best interpretations I've seen, and as an ardent kitbasher I love your speeder guide. Tremendous stuff! What's next then, eh?

Thanks a lot The next building project is to finish some of the builds I've started, like dorn and the tartaros termies, and then the cataphract armoured termies After that I have to order some more tanks and stuff from fw

Amazing! Love the look of the Terminators, and the MkII Landspeeder looks fantastic.

Can't wait to see Rogal Dorn complete.

Mat

I also meant to say, as someone with a better of a c-beamer obsession, yours is boss. Thieved!

Time for a small update.

First off is a bit of progress on the big guy in charge, Dorn has got a sword! I decided to go with a blade as that is ultimately one of my favourite weapons and I'm actually not too big a fan of chainswords to be honest..


I've also gotten the replacement legs for the mispackaged ones from FW and they threw in an extra frame of arms so I could build the guy I had left over as it took them almost 5 weeks to get me the replacements. So I decided to build a chaplain, and added quite a handful of extra bits.


I've also been lucky enough to test out the awesome fast curing silicone products from Lamenter, sold over at http://masteroftheforge.com/ and it is some fantastic products! I used the liquid blu stuff, a fast setting 2 parts silicone rubber that cures in only 20 minutes!! This is a real time saver and is great for fast replication of your custom built parts
I used it to cast my scratch built shoulder pads for my cataphractii terminators, as it would have taken me ages to build pads for them all, and I have the option of adding more termies in the future (maybe some guest appearances from other legions, I have a few planned at least)
I'll have a ful review of the liquid blu stuff and also the fast setting silicone putty, blu stuff, up soon. I just need to test the blu stuff moulds of my custom built leather straps for the termies shoulders, which will be moulded in green stuff for maximum flexibility

Anyways, here's the termies as they look now.


I also had the time to fiddle around with some more veterans, but they are still very WIP.


That's all for now

Looking great as per usual!!

May have to look into some of that silicon stuff. What do you use as the actual casting material??

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Looking great as per usual!!

May have to look into some of that silicon stuff. What do you use as the actual casting material??

It's great, but somewhat expensive for larger moulds, bu for small moulds like this it's amazing

The casting material is Sika G26 Polyurethane Casting Resin from sylmasta http://www.sylmasta.com/acatalog/copy_of_Sika_Casting_Resins.html

It's great, and easy to work with, and they sell a starter kit too, which is what I started out with, and it's really great

Wow, really nice, I must admit it is partly (read mainly) this log that has got me thinking of doing a pre heresy Salamanders force. The fact the amount of money I would have to invest to even get a couple of squads of Salamanders, though your Dorn has me tempted to try Vulkan, have no idea how I would do him though.... Must admit I was not sold on the Tartaros pattern terminators, but now you've got me thinking of getting some for my Thousand sons or the potential Salamanders army. One of the most inspirational plogs all round.

Thanks for the link! Definitely need to start casting now ive sculpted some ts marines

Zarathustra Suicune wrote:Wow, really nice, I must admit it is partly (read mainly) this log that has got me thinking of doing a pre heresy Salamanders force. The fact the amount of money I would have to invest to even get a couple of squads of Salamanders, though your Dorn has me tempted to try Vulkan, have no idea how I would do him though.... Must admit I was not sold on the Tartaros pattern terminators, but now you've got me thinking of getting some for my Thousand sons or the potential Salamanders army. One of the most inspirational plogs all round.

Thanks a lot I'd love to see some pre-heresy salamanders, so please do them And I'll have to warn you that the general impression I've gotten is that all the tartaros terminator sets are pretty much the same quality as mne, which frankly was pretty bad considering what FW usually delivers, I guess they have some huge problems with that spin casting technique...

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Thanks for the link! Definitely need to start casting now ive sculpted some ts marines

That would be awesome mate

Holy crap these are cool. I got some of the new FW terminators, but seeing your conversions I doubt I'll do them justice... I do like how you've made that chaplain though... Hmmm ideas worth stealing? I think so...

subbed, crnt wait for a group shot

Thanks guys It'll be a few weeks at least before there'll be a group shot, but it's on my to do list, meanwhile there's an update instead ;D


Land Speeder has got a base:


Updates on the cataphract termies, the axe is from the tartaros ccw set, and the mace in the back will be replaced with the mace from that set as well both of which I've bought through my favorite ebay bits store. The straps from the shoulders have also been added to 3 of them, 2 still awaiting theirs and there'll be a tutorial soon on how I made them and how I cast up the shoulderpads for these from my original design.


The updated command squad, I ran out of grey primer so that's why the commander is only partially basecoated.


Painting has commenced on the tartaros termies as well.


And the chaplain has got a nice basic base paint job and a basecoat. More details will be added to the bases like leaves, skulls, shells etc later on.


A closeup of the updated chaplain, his crozius arcaneum still needs a bit of green stuff work.


New sergeant for the veterans so they can be split up in two 5 man groups when Sigismund is in the command squad.


And some small progress on Dorn, not much but the base gives him a bit extra.


Lastly a coupl of half random pics from my painting table.

Fantastic work here man! I love seeing lots of FW. Fantastic! The Power Armour Chaplain and the Sternguard Sergeant both look really awesome, suberb mate. Definately subscribed, and I can't wait for more!

LDP

Your Dorn is the best kit bashed, sculpted and posed model I have seen on here. That includes all the Primarchs by RAFF and others he looks just as Imagine in my minds eye. The embodiment of the Emperors determination and Pride.

Thanks for the praise guys It realy helps motivate me to go on with this project!

This is quite posibly my favourite P&M Blog on the entire Dakkaverse! Everything is just fantastic!

Awesomesauce!

mat

megabambam wrote:This is quite posibly my favourite P&M Blog on the entire Dakkaverse! Everything is just fantastic!

Thanks And if you happen to be going to Randers Figur Festival some of these will be on display there as I've been offered a spot a co-judge in the painting comp

combat engineer wrote:Awesomesauce!

mat

Thanks

This is a review of the silicone products for replicating personal parts sold by Lamenter over at http://masteroftheforge.com/store/
The products Blu-Stuff and Liquid Blu-Stuff is silicone based, fast setting putty and regular rubber with a 1:1 mix ratio.
They are ideal for a vast amount of casting techniques and are compatible with most epoxy putties, plaster and resin (with exception of Smooth-Cast 300 Series products as there seems to be a negative chemical reaction between the two products).

The following will be a small tutorial to how I've used the products in practical on a modelling project that benefits from both the products strengths.
Then I'll summarize my experiences with the products and give them a rating in classic review style.

Enjoy!


The project is to duplicate my shoulder pad design for my cataphract armoured terminators for my pre-heresy army.

First step is to make a mould of the shoulder pad, I used the original and a replica cast with a previous mould to enable me to make new moulds containing a pair which can be cast up in one casting session.
The shoulder pads are attached to a piece of plasticard to give an even surface for the top of the mould.

Then a frame/form is constructed out of LEGO blocks and lined with plasticine to reduce excess waste of silicone. as this was my first mould with Liquid Blu-Stuff I took a few precautions and strengthened and sealed the frame/form to make sure it was liquid proof. This turned out to be a waste of time as the curing time of the silicone prevents it from running much before it sets.
The next phase is to measure up equal parts of the silicone and miw them. The silicone is supplied with 2 mixing cups, but for this particular project I opted for some smaller ones I had myself as they were a bit more handy.
The silicone is stirred carefully to avoid too many bubbles being trapped and when the colour is even it is poured into the frame/form in the corner to avoid air from being trapped as much as possible. After working on other forms with this I have concluded that due to the fast curing time of the silicone, more detailed parts can benefit hugely from having the silicone applied with an old brush first before filling the frame/form up as this helps catch the urface detail better and prevent bubbles.

After 20 minutes curing time the silicone is completely set and ready to be removed, trimmed and used. I used Sika G26 Polyurethane Casting Resin from Sylmasta http://www.sylmasta.com/acatalog/copy_of_S...ing_Resins.html to cast the shoulder pads, and the only preperation I did to the moulds before casting was to dust them off with talcum powder which helps the resin flow and also to prevent too many bubbles.

I made two moulds, and they worked out brilliantly.












Then it was time to make my leather straps to cover the joints between the shoulder and the pads. I made a simple plasticard design and mounted it permanently on a piece of plasticard for an even surface for the final mould, I should have made it bigger so I could avoid getting an edge on the moulds which makes it harder to flatten the cast but I didn't want to redo it.
Then I lined up equal measures of each part of the Blu-Stuff silicone putty and mixed them thoroughly til the colour was even, before pressing it onto the design. The putty cures very fast, and I found it hard to prevent bubbles from being trapped even though I rolled the putty up in a ball and pressed it out from the middle of the part, but it isn't a big problem on a cast like this and I'm sure practice makes perfect, I've definitely gotten better results with other press moulds with the putty afterwards.

Since I need to make a lot of these I made 4 more moulds and used some green stuff to cast them as this allowed me to get them flexible enough to pose them and give them a natural heavy leather strap look with the right curves. It takes some practice to smooth the green stuff out in the mould as there is absolutely no traction from the form, it won't hold the putty in place and releases very easily even when the putty is still soft. My solution was to use a bit of saliva to prevent my sculpting tool from sticking to the green stuff (petrolium jelly might work as well but it will take some cleaning to get the greasy film off after the green stuff have cured) and tearing it out of the mould, and I am sure a rubber clay shaper would have been a better choice than my metal one.




Then the casts, both resin and green stuff, were trimmed and cleaned and ready to use on the terminators.




Summary:

The products are extremely easy to use, they don't make a lot off mess as you can peal off any spills of silicone on your table and they speed up small mould making projects like rocket fuel All in all I am very pleased with the results I've gotten.

Liquid Blu-Stuff:
Compared to the type of silicone I usually use which have a de-mould time of 24 hours according to the label (only 8 according to the specs on the website? but my personal experience is between 18-24 hours) this is super fast to use with a de-mould time of only 20 minutes!! This however makes it harder to get rid of bubbles and I'd personally recommend it for small/medium sized casting projects as I think it would be hard to cover parts properly without too much trapped air on larger parts as you really don't have a ot of time to work with it as the pot life is only around 2-3 minutes before it starts getting really thick.
Price wise it is more expensive than the regular rubber I use which comes at £29.40 for 1kg as opposed to the £16.99 for 200 grams of liquid Blu-Stuff but the fact that it has a ridiculously short de-mould time ( again, only 20 minutes! ) makes it well worth the money as it saves you a lot of precious modeling time, a thing most of us already have too little off.

Based on the few disadvantages which is mainly the lack of time to prevent air bubbles and the slightly high pricetag I give it a 9/10 as the advantages of this rubber still far outweigh the disadvantages, and it really is a splendid tool for anyone who ventures in the realm of casting. Also check out the tutorial by Lamenter himself on using different epoxy putties with the product and others at http://masteroftheforge.com/category/4conv...ds-and-casting/


Blu-Stuff:
I have played around with making press moulds for several years now, and have tried a few things like other putties for forms and latest the easymold re-usable sticks and based on my experience this product is in the top two of what I would recommend for making press moulds or resin casts without undercuts. The other one is instant mold.
They each have their strengths and weaknesses. instant mold's strongest asset is the ability to re-use the material again and again and its flexibility, but the fact that you need to submerge it in hot water to soften it makes it hard to catch deep detail without trapping either air, water or both and that it hardens to a milky translucent colour makes it very hard to see if you actually captured the intended degree of detail.
The Blu-Stuff silicone putty's biggest strengths are the weaknesses of instant mold, as it cures in a nice light blue colour where it is very easy to see if you got the desired degree of detail depth, and it doesn't need interference with water as it's a two component putty means that you only have to worry about trapping air and also the putty in uncured form is much softer than the instant mold gets even after being in boiling water. The downside is that it can't be reused and that makes it more suitable for press-moulds that is intended for use several times. it also lacks the flexibility of instant mold which means it restricts you to replicating things with very little or no undercuts. I personally thinks Blu-Stuff gives sharper and more defined edges than you get with instant mold which for some components like non organic objects is a big plus, and it renders softer curves just as well. It is neither better or worse than instant mold, as I would rate them the same and they are both invaluable tools for press-moulding and certainly the best on the market. The price is fair imo, you get a 100g for £9.99 and 200g for £15.99 which is okay.

My rating is a solid 8/10 based on the fact that it is one of two equally good products available today, neither of which can be rated as perfect due to their separate weaknesses but they are still the best available and it'll be hard to top them.

I hope you'll have enjoyed reading this review, I certainly had a fun time with these great products and will inevitably continue to


Products kindly supplied by Lamenter, thank you mate.

awesomesauce

Nice tutorial! Great help.
Your Marines are looking fantastic too.

freaken awesome dude!

Thanks guys

And Gwaahr, those true scale IF of yours look awesome

@thedamnedartificer I think your my new best friend...... I'm looking for parts for my Morlock Iron Hand Termintors, are you considering selling small amounts of these if requested?

This is my 30k Project as is now, but I want to expand it to be my main tournament army.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/404063.page

Some of your parts would make making my Assault Termies much easier..

mwnciboo wrote:@thedamnedartificer I think your my new best friend...... I'm looking for parts for my Morlock Iron Hand Termintors, are you considering selling small amounts of these if requested?

This is my 30k Project as is now, but I want to expand it to be my main tournament army.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/404063.page

Some of your parts would make making my Assault Termies much easier..

I suppose you a referring to the cataphract terminator shoulder pads mainly? If so we can work something out, just send me a PM about it

Okay dokey......I always did like Denmark Lego is for winners!

mwnciboo wrote:Okay dokey......I always did like Denmark Lego is for winners!

Hehe yeah it is pretty awesome here, even though it's more fun in the age where LEGO is the best toy in the world, the 25% VAT and 41% tax isn't near as much fun as Playing with LEGO's all day XD Other than that it's pretty great here

Britain ain't too far behind our Nordic breathren in the Tax regard, our Fuel Duty on Petrol and Diesel is incredible.

Yeah I know, we have some pretty steep fuel prices too, around 12-13 DKK for a litre of petrol, Diesel is usually a little cheaper but not much I imagine it's the same in the UK. Luckily we have an excellent healthcare system and other public service perks :p
But I do love Britain, I've been there twice and might take a trip to London with my girlfriend later on in the summer

All hail the Damned Artificer....

Just a quick post to update that inspired by your "Fist" Models I am working on a Terminator Captain for my Iron hands.

His left hand will be Pedro Kantors DORN'S arrow, with a mini- GS sculpt to extend the Fist to look more like an Iron Hand. On top of this the rest of him will be made of various special parts and Bionics and a Nice big Ad Mech Power weapon.

Time for a small update, as I've been asked to showcase some mniatures tomorrow at a Danish tournament I thought it would be fitting to get some of the fists done, so here's a little WIP of how things were looking yesterday Closeups will follow after the weekend (and me finishing painting them tonight)

So here's what I hope to be done with by tonight, but realistically I'll probably not manage to finish the speeder and commander but I'll try.


Here's the progress on the commander so far.


And the speeder have also gotten some yellow (finally)


All the while the crew is pole dancing :p



That's all for now, gotta go paint some more

Awesome stuff, I'm thinking of you this weekend TDA, while i'm outside watching the Olympics in the Sun drinking beer .

It's all good man, looks amazing. I've got some bitz brewing for my Iron Hands, and also discovered MANTIC's version of the Thunderfire Cannon.



Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing your IF's done for your Tournament.

ALSO :- Almost forgot I came across a Google Image of a scratch built Titan? Wasn't yours Per-chance ? Also added one of your WIP pictures into my Pre Heresy Terminator Thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/465887.page

Oooh sexy as usual, and im not talking about the pole dancing

Cant wait to see some of the post-tourney shots!

mwnciboo wrote:Awesome stuff, I'm thinking of you this weekend TDA, while i'm outside watching the Olympics in the Sun drinking beer .

It's all good man, looks amazing. I've got some bitz brewing for my Iron Hands, and also discovered MANTIC's version of the Thunderfire Cannon.



Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing your IF's done for your Tournament.

ALSO :- Almost forgot I came across a Google Image of a scratch built Titan? Wasn't yours Per-chance ? Also added one of your WIP pictures into my Pre Heresy Terminator Thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/465887.page

Thanks mate And cool, I totally forgot to post pics so great that you did it for me :p

And there's a chance you fell over my reaver titan on google, it's big and red and very lucius pattern :p

Update time:

Here's a few pics of the first finished models, making it start to look like an army

Sadly there was terrible lighting conditions for good photography with windows on all sides of the room, so the quality isn't great but the feeling of the pictures still remain

Man, I wish that my gaming group's board looked as nice as the one in those photos! Your models look right at home

Such awesome terrain i agree! Those are some great shots tda!!

Subbed this is an amazing blog! keep it up

EPIC THREAD ALERT!

Love it all, makes me want to get going on all my PH BA stuff too!

That Silicone putty post, I humbly request that you create an article out of it and post it in our articles section, that deserves to be kept for posterity.

Great stuff -

Love the work, (as ever ) . I was giggling to myself as it looks like Daddy Contemptor is taking his little kids out for walk (those Tartaros do look like baby Contemptors!).

EDIT - CONVERSION BEAMER!!!! The Iron Hand in me, likes this alot!

wow this might be the most visualy pleasing SM i've ever seen! great work, and Dorn looks spot on!

my mate just got into the warhammer hobby after years of me telling him to get started coincidently he chose imperial fists, so now i will have his confidence shaken by showing him this...

on a side note: HOLD DA KÆFT! det ser fedt ud det her!

mwnciboo wrote: looks like Daddy Contemptor is taking his little kids out for walk (those Tartaros do look like baby Contemptors!).

Hahahahaha, cannot unsee!

Lovely lovely stuff.

D

Joshh wrote:Man, I wish that my gaming group's board looked as nice as the one in those photos! Your models look right at home

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Such awesome terrain i agree! Those are some great shots tda!!

Thanks guys Yeah the board is great, I strive to make the board I'm working on look at least as good as this one

MajorTom11 wrote:EPIC THREAD ALERT!

Love it all, makes me want to get going on all my PH BA stuff too!

That Silicone putty post, I humbly request that you create an article out of it and post it in our articles section, that deserves to be kept for posterity.

Great stuff -

Thanks man, I think you should definitely go on with your pre-heresy BA's and toss me a link

That's actually a great idea to use my article for that I'll look into it

mwnciboo wrote:Love the work, (as ever ) . I was giggling to myself as it looks like Daddy Contemptor is taking his little kids out for walk (those Tartaros do look like baby Contemptors!).

EDIT - CONVERSION BEAMER!!!! The Iron Hand in me, likes this alot!

Haha yeah contemptor picnic in the blasted ruins XD And conversion beamers RULE!! I'm contemplating getting the deimos pattern predator executioner just because it lets me mount one on a tank

Rogue Wolves wrote:wow this might be the most visualy pleasing SM i've ever seen! great work, and Dorn looks spot on!

Thanks man, that means a lot as the visual aspect is what drives me to make this army

cloneman wrote:my mate just got into the warhammer hobby after years of me telling him to get started coincidently he chose imperial fists, so now i will have his confidence shaken by showing him this...

on a side note: HOLD DA KÆFT! det ser fedt ud det her!

Hehe that poor guy, but there's nothing better than teasing a good mate like that XD And to answer you in Danish: Tak tak hvis du er på powerfist.dk så kan du jo tage et kig på min maletråd under mindre maleblogs

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

mwnciboo wrote: looks like Daddy Contemptor is taking his little kids out for walk (those Tartaros do look like baby Contemptors!).

Hahahahaha, cannot unsee!

Haha no I know, like when some guy told me that the termies looks like frogs if you look at the torsos, and picture the hole for the head as the mouth and the lenses on each side as eyes XD


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evildrcheese wrote:Lovely lovely stuff.

D

Thanks

*Looks at screen for 20mins*........

*EPIPHANY!!* Haha look a FROG!!!

Hehehe and the same goes for the contemptor

I had a great visit from a good friend the othr day, SDKFZ took his motorcycle out for a spin and ended in sunny Denmark and he brought company for my IF's









The models are great, and the leviathan honestly nearly didn't make it back to Sweden as I was very tempted to David Copperfield'ing it XD

I also got some awesome bits, mainly for iron warriors, but they will make an appearance in my IW thread at some point, but I also got some pretty sweet plastic bits from Japan :chrome: Thanks again mate

For those of you not familiar with SDKFZ's work go check out his awesome stuff, especially his reaver titan which is amazing Check his threads out here

Awesome stuff, the yellow pieces in particular, very striking, weathering looks great!

They be some awesome models. I really like the leviathan.

Although I had always imagined them to be bigger, still and awesome model though.

D

Great job on the PH IF. Subbing and will be keeping a close eye on this

Crypto wrote:Awesome stuff, the yellow pieces in particular, very striking, weathering looks great!

evildrcheese wrote:They be some awesome models. I really like the leviathan.

Although I had always imagined them to be bigger, still and awesome model though.

D

Just to set the record straight, all the tan IG models aren't mine, they're my buddy's But the yellow, that's all me

Eggroll wrote:Great job on the PH IF. Subbing and will be keeping a close eye on this

Thanks man, I'm a huge fan of your enormously awesome BA force which I avidly follow on warseer, your models was what truly convinced me I couldn't live without an airbrush

I love your models.. but I must always root for the fellow guardsman!

You should really ask your buddy how they made that leviathan, I want one!

I can post you a link to his project log, apparently the link I made was not a success... But he starts his leviathan here on page 19 http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?240203-SDKFZs-Mechanised-Guards/page19

Update time:

A better picture of the tartaros terminators:


And then painting is progressing on the Land Speeder:





The tail number and diamonds icon are meant to be squadron number and insignia as I really like the iconic look of playing card logos, and I intend to incorporate them into the fluff like i did the ace of spades I try to differ from using company markings as I like the idea that the army, under Rogal Dorn or the first captains command, is comprised of units from the entire legion, and not just one company and that vehicles in general doesn't display specific company markings as they are all part of the legions arsenal. But that may of course change along the way if it turns out to be too hard to keep track of The laurel on the nose is from the old 2nd ed devastator marines transfer sheet and I thought it looked awesome and could easily act to denote the speeder as being assigned to the first company for now

Great stuff man - yellow is a hard color to get right, but yours look great.

I feel bad for the wraithlord in the picture - he seems like he's probably in for a rotten day.

Dan

How hard was it to get those older marks of armor to fit into the land speeder?

VERY nicely done, as per usual!

@tda: Epic mate! Love that termie Sarge's head. Oh yeah, and SDKFZ's stuff looks great as usual. What i woudnt give to see a batrep between two such awesome Scandinavians

@Alph: Tda actually did a tutorial on page 3...

Thanks guys and as Vitruvian XVII says there's a tutorial on the speeder But the legs were the hardest to convert, the rest was easy imo

This is what I recommended a few pages back, was if you custom made the parts and then cast them, you could make some interesting parts for us all? (hint*hint).

I want these type for my Iron hands,



The problem is the cannon has moved with the interpretation in "Collected Visions of the heresy".



It's disappointing because this has RETCONN'D the original RT era Speeders. But I suppose we've done that with Terminators and everything else, so I'm really just being picky. :(

Hehe yeah I'm sure you'd love that mate But it's more work than I'm willing to commit to sadly, and I never really liked the rogue trader ones

Besides it pays better to do commissions when you've picked up a nasty forge world addiction as I have

Hey I part-take of the FW Resin addiction too, I'm trying to cold turkey but they keep me hooked.

Those old RT landspeeders always made me chuckle, the marines looked like they were about to drop off the front at a moments notice! Still, it would be nice to see a revised version of them.

mwnciboo wrote:Hey I part-take of the FW Resin addiction too, I'm trying to cold turkey but they keep me hooked.

Yeah I know, apparently resin combined with the GW IP is a powerfull drug XD Whatever other dark magic they fuel their kits with I don't know but it seems my soul will crumble if not completely sustained by new resin goodies :p

Commander Cain wrote:Those old RT landspeeders always made me chuckle, the marines looked like they were about to drop off the front at a moments notice! Still, it would be nice to see a revised version of them.

Yeah I never liked them for the lack of a nose, a bicycle is more armoured than this XD Also I don't see the point in an aerial vehicle wir´thout some sort of nose, these are more like flying wheel chairs But that's just my opinion

I am loving this army. Pre -heresy if? AND I did not know about it? Subbd

@Rabid Ferret good choice of Avatar, "The Dude Abides".

I think I will re-work the Old Landspeeder, using a 2nd Edition Metal one as a basis and the guide above. I think I will do this later this year.

AMAZING STUFF!!!!! I really love what you did for the MK2 speeder.. I do not have the skill to replicate what you have done; so I will have to hope that ForgeWorld make one.

Great blog, with tons of wonderful pic's. Keep it up. Please!

Thanks for the comments guys

Here's a little group shot of the finished, and almost finished stuff for the army.


Forge World is hell bent on ruining my economy... Luckily I like, no I LOVE resin, so at least I'll be happy, hungry but happy XD

Great looking group there, TDA!

 the damned artificer wrote:
Forge World is hell bent on ruining my economy... Luckily I like, no I LOVE resin, so at least I'll be happy, hungry but happy XD

Ok, that got a little LOL out of me

Looking good

those termies are SO COOL!

Very nice!!

I am so excited for the actual HH stuff, FW continue to blow me away, they can do no wrong imo.

Thans guys

Vitruvian, I am so stoked as well, it's the highpoint of my 13 years in this hobby Sadly bank robbing is sounding more and more attractive.... XD

TDA what do you make of the New Forge World Catapharctii Termies?



My own take is that they are Eye-wateringly expensive.

Lets not the discuss the flying, ribbed, sex-toyesque Jet bikes.

The jetbikes are meh... The cataphractii termies are awesome! I need some!! And a fellblade, and tac upgrades and.... The list goes on XD

At least we'll be getting proper jetbike rules And knowing FW, they'll probably do another few types of jetbike, or at least i hope

Although the sad thing for me is that ive now had to give up the dream of a full true scale marine army I could do it, but FW are pumping out the awesome and it woluld take me decades to replicate

As regards TRU-SCALE have you considered simply buying the Knight Legs from Chapterhouse studios?

If you look at the thread I started it might be useful, and it is alot easier for Tru-scale marines than customising every Marine.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/476032.page

I hate the chapterhouse true scale kits, Hits_the_spot's 2nd gen kits were sooo much better but he got c&d'd. I will most likely extend the thighs of the fw stuff i buy, but thats all.

I have lost some of my fascination with true scale marines lately, it mainly comes down to the fact that it only ever works a 100% in a diorama, as you're able to control all the elements that underlines just how big a space marine is. But that's just me :p

In other news I've ordered the book today alongside a series o tanks and a few other goodies, so in a few weeks time there'll be a major update

Yeah ive had a similar revelation. Its mainly FWs fault of course, because of all the resin sex i would miss out on if i were to go TS. Plus you have the complications of vehicle size etc.

Im hoping that using elysians as the supporting army will make the marines look bigger. I also intend to put spacers in the thighs to make them higher.

im gonna keep my eyes peeled on this thread. Tda and new HH can only mean eyegasms as far as im concerned

I have to say, this is some of the most impressive light conversion work that I have seen in a long time, and I'm not just saying that because I'm danish myself.

Great job on everything man! Painting a yellow army is about as appealing to me as painting a white army, but you've done some awesome work...

PS: Slaanesh thinks "flying, ribbed, sex-toyesque Jet bikes" are quite the fashionable accessory.

Some people use that emoticon alot, but I really mean it. Just wow.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Yeah ive had a similar revelation. Its mainly FWs fault of course, because of all the resin sex i would miss out on if i were to go TS. Plus you have the complications of vehicle size etc.

Im hoping that using elysians as the supporting army will make the marines look bigger. I also intend to put spacers in the thighs to make them higher.

im gonna keep my eyes peeled on this thread. Tda and new HH can only mean eyegasms as far as im concerned

Yeah, I could go for true scaling some marines, but stuff like land raiders, bikes, land speeders etc... No way in hell, it would cost me too much sanity. I'd much rather scratch built titans than... Ohh wait, I already did that :p

And hopefully I'll be able to supply nerdgasms a plenty in the next few weeks ;p

Bonde wrote:I have to say, this is some of the most impressive light conversion work that I have seen in a long time, and I'm not just saying that because I'm danish myself.

Thanks man, always nice with positive feedback from a fellow Dane

JWMarines wrote:Great job on everything man! Painting a yellow army is about as appealing to me as painting a white army, but you've done some awesome work...

PS: Slaanesh thinks "flying, ribbed, sex-toyesque Jet bikes" are quite the fashionable accessory.

Thanks man, I've played around with the thought of doing some pre-heresy WE or DG to try out some different approaches to white

And sadly Slaanesh and I do not agree, as it is Khorne is liking the boom boom and also whispers something about a red angel wreaking havoc And as for now, I'm more of a Khorne kinda guy :p

But I've contemplated doing some mk XIV jetbikes for my fists tho (the mark of jetbike flown by the master of the ravenwing model) as they are pretty cool imo :p

Tappers wrote: Some people use that emoticon alot, but I really mean it. Just wow.

Why thank you my good sir I hope my future models won't disappoint

Bit slow, but I really like the look of the captain from your last picture post. How's it coming along?

D

Sadly it's not going so well as I haven't had time to work on the captain lately, I have however been working on a model for a contest



Update on this project will follow soon

The face is very lifelike, although the hair is a bit off, not sure why though

It's probably the flash Or the fact that I haven't dulled it down with a wash yet :p Don't know, but he still needs a few details done to him so hopefully his hair will work better when I'm done

just found this and think its amazing keep up the awesome.

Thanks man, I'll try my best

Quick update, since FW have decided to make a set of Catapractii terminators I have chosen to upgrade my own to Huscarls and will have to work out some fluff for why their armour looks different than regular Cataphractii terminator armour

Here's some pics, first picture is my newly named sergeant Montana :p



Then the Huscarls in artificed Cataphract suits as befitting for Dorns personal guard.



And a size comarison with one of the new FW termies (which I payed a small fortune for, but I just couldn't wait) he will have a few squads of buddies at some point in the future when I can afford more FW goodies.


A new picture of Dorn with a small bit of progress on the detailing.




That's it for this time

Great updates! I do love to see some resin goodness, especially when it is you making and painting them. If I was ever tempted to make an IF army (very tempted) you would be my first inspiration!

The anvil head looks perfect on the sergeant, not using any of his bionics though?

 Commander Cain wrote:
Great updates! I do love to see some resin goodness, especially when it is you making and painting them. If I was ever tempted to make an IF army (very tempted) you would be my first inspiration!

The anvil head looks perfect on the sergeant, not using any of his bionics though?

Thanks mate Anvil head?? do you mean the head on Sgt. Montana?? cus it's a FW head, from the tank commander set I don't own anything from anvil industries yet, but I've been very tempted by those bionics they do.

And expect a Spartan among other vehicles in the future (from the FW order), Dorn needs a proper ride

Oh so it is! Knew I recognized it from somewhere... I was thinking of these http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_66&product_id=178

Looking forward to the spartan!

Holy crap the face on that guy is so realistic!!!

Love the termies, and that Dorn is starting to look like it could be official FW

Thanks guys I've been toying with the idea of adding some anvil parts, but frankly I have been put off by the lack of detail on the heads, they're very doll like imo, but those bionics might end up in my bits collection at some point :p

Pre heresy stuff always gets a thumbs up from me I am currently dicing with an idea of doing a Pre Heresy World Eaters force myself picking up the HH part 1 Betrayal book for Christmas and seeing how a pre heresy force would be composed...

I love the stuff in this blog and are those Imperial Guard allies yours? as they look stunning

Thanks ArchaonSon

I have ordered the book and is very excited to read it myself :p

And no, the IG vehicles are a friend of mines The pic is from his summer visit, as he lives in Sweden. He goes under the name SDKFZ over at warseer if you want to see more of his stuff

My model took the victory in the competition

Here's the model finished with the last details:


It was a great competition with a lot of great entries, and to everyone who's following my thread here I can strongly recommend visiting TemplarsCrusade01's youtube channel as it's jam-packed with awesome (mostly horus heresy) content!

That face is so good I honestly thought it was a photo super imposed. Quite staggering work!

wow. You must be good if even this close your models still look brilliant!

congrats on the win, this face (and now hair) look incredibly realistic! I cant even recognize where this head is from!

inmygravenimage wrote:That face is so good I honestly thought it was a photo super imposed. Quite staggering work!

Thank you, no no that would have been cheating

tarar2d2 wrote:wow. You must be good if even this close your models still look brilliant!

Thanks, I strive to keep a high standard on my models, so this means a lot

Rogue Wolves wrote:congrats on the win, this face (and now hair) look incredibly realistic! I cant even recognize where this head is from!

Thanks man The head is from the sergeant in the dark vengeance kit btw, and actually the only part of that kit I have managed to paint so far :p

Really impressive work! Very deserving of a win, the gems and face really give him some character.

Hehe....Good work, I thought your marine was based on this guy Derek Branning, from BBC Eastenders.....



Lol.... Just a quick one, the Grenades on his belt don't seem to fit your normal amazingly high standards they look like they've just been painted Boltgun Metal. Did you miss this or something or am I being unnecessarily harsh?

Oh and I've decided to buy a pack of FW Combi-Bolters for my next tranch of Morlock Termies.

Thanks guys And mwnciboo, the grenades are kept simple as they are just things that blow up and I really don't think I'll actually paint them in other colours
Also it sounds like a sweet plan, it'll be the cataphractii combi bolters I guess??

Today's news:

Reinforcements have arrived!

 the damned artificer wrote:
Thanks guys And mwnciboo, the grenades are kept simple as they are just things that blow up and I really don't think I'll actually paint them in other colours
Also it sounds like a sweet plan, it'll be the cataphractii combi bolters I guess??

Today's news:

Reinforcements have arrived!

Absolutely love! the army to bits. Easily one of the greatest, if not THE greatest armies I've ever seen, amazingly visually pleasing as has been hinted at. This army is definitely an inspiration for my own pre-Heresy/Heresy-era Night Lords. From that pile you have there I say you've got your hands full but that small black box that says Horus Heresy? That's not an Angron model is it? What could Angron have to do with your Imperial Fists..... I am most certainly intrigued now

 crimsonfist832 wrote:

Absolutely love! the army to bits. Easily one of the greatest, if not THE greatest armies I've ever seen, amazingly visually pleasing as has been hinted at. This army is definitely an inspiration for my own pre-Heresy/Heresy-era Night Lords. From that pile you have there I say you've got your hands full but that small black box that says Horus Heresy? That's not an Angron model is it? What could Angron have to do with your Imperial Fists..... I am most certainly intrigued now

Thank you very much, I'm always glad to inspire And yeah I think I have resin enough to keep me occupied for a few days XD

And Angron, well he's an official Primarch and my brain did not allow me not to buy him as he's absolutely stunning So he'll be painted up for showcase and I've acquired a vinyl plinth to mount his display base on so he can look pretty in my cabinet :p

Hey the damned artificer how do paint your guys ??? I am asking you , i have some Termis for my Blood Angels . Have do you some ideas for me

Amazing delivery of kit, I am well jealous of that haul of Forge World Kit. TDA strikes again!

Oh and yeah, I'm going for Combi-Bolters, I bought them off Ebay, will update at some point.

EDIT:-

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE! A THUNDERHAWK TAIL SECTION ! COME ON SPILL THE BEANS TDA

Thanks mate, I've been on a resin rush for the last few days XD And the T-hawk is a commission, so it's leaving me once I finish it

Just a small update, I've recently been invited to do some articles for a website called Graven Games, and my first article was published today The articles, reviews and tutorials I'll be making for the site i the future will be directly linked to my regular miniature work and the first is my review of the IF brass etch from FW.

You can check it out here

Congrats and nice article, I'll keep my eye on that site from now on

Yeah very good article there! I like the varied use of the brass etch. I too will keep an eye on that site.

Thanks guys

Between commissions and my first article there haven't been much time for my Imperial Fists sadly, and getting sidetracked by this guy haven't helped either


But soon, soooooon I'll be back on track with the emperors favourite banana boys

Do you have a spot you are posting you commissions? The thawk and Titan deserve some love for sure.

Yeah what WM said! I want to see that thunderhwak painted!

Thanks guys

have this thread on warseer with my commissions, the T-hawk will be up tomorrow

My commissions

Damn nice stuff. I'd love to see it reported on Dakka.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Damn nice stuff. I'd love to see it reported on Dakka.

Thanks I may have to make a thread for my commissions here on Dakka :p

 the damned artificer wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Damn nice stuff. I'd love to see it reported on Dakka.

Thanks I may have to make a thread for my commissions here on Dakka :p

Yes, please do that!

Just saw this and went through all the pictures. The Pre-Heresy models look great! And I can't wait to see Dorn finished in all his regal glory.
Now, I want a Space Marine Legion. If only my wallet could support such a thing...

Nice review, I agree that dakka needs a thread of your commisions.

D

Thanks a lot guys I'll try to find time to make a commissions thread I think I owe you all a real update now!

This is on my table atm.


Firstly a HQ choice, Sigismund and his personal command squad, meant to resemble the earliest formation of his elite Templars which are refered to in First Heretic I also choose to make myself a new TC01 since the other one moved to the UK to stay with the real TC01, and his replacement will be named Battle Brother Hassan (TC01 is named Mr. Hassan irl). The squad also carries the personal banner of Sigismund.




A couple of heavy support choices, the rapiers are missing their barrels as I intend to magnetize them and make more options.



A couple ofHQ choices, a libby and a chappy :p




Lastly there's a couple of Deimos rhinos, lovely models they are. I've added some more detail and changed the interior to remove the bolter. I also fixed the problem of the notorious loose top doors... Hinges seems to do the trick :p

I just found your blog, tda. Wonderful work! I really like what you've done with the mk III Iron Armour. It really creates a nice theme for your army. I think I'm going to try something similar... I really like the guy with the sword and shield (third picture down).

really enjoying this blog , the conversions are very well thought out , just like your mechanicus stuff

Thanks guys
And Neil101, I've considered using some of the admech units as allies for my fists, so you might see some admech stuff here soon

These are some of the most amazing Imp. Fists I've seen. I really, really look forward to seeing Rogal Dorn painted.

 the damned artificer wrote:
Thanks guys
And Neil101, I've considered using some of the admech units as allies for my fists, so you might see some admech stuff here soon

Oh i hope so , considering it was your admech army that inspired me to start my manufactorum blog Cant thank you enough for the initial inspiration burn a few years back. Vector Raziel is still in my mechanicum thoughts , and if i ever finish the praxus novella i hope you still allow me to include him as the explorator magos of praxus

loving these though , and good timing with the release of all the forgeworld stuff to as well.

Ah tda beautiful modelling as per usual my friend. That command squad is pure win.

I love the little extra rhino details, they just make everything so much better

Loving the conversion work, subbed to see where you take it

CIsaac wrote:These are some of the most amazing Imp. Fists I've seen. I really, really look forward to seeing Rogal Dorn painted.

Thanks man, I really need to get some work done on Dorn so I can finish him as I'm dying to get to paint him

neil101 wrote:

 the damned artificer wrote:
Thanks guys
And Neil101, I've considered using some of the admech units as allies for my fists, so you might see some admech stuff here soon

Oh i hope so , considering it was your admech army that inspired me to start my manufactorum blog Cant thank you enough for the initial inspiration burn a few years back. Vector Raziel is still in my mechanicum thoughts , and if i ever finish the praxus novella i hope you still allow me to include him as the explorator magos of praxus

loving these though , and good timing with the release of all the forgeworld stuff to as well.

Sure mate, you're still more than welcome to use him in your project And thanks for the great comments mate

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Ah tda beautiful modelling as per usual my friend. That command squad is pure win.

I love the little extra rhino details, they just make everything so much better

Thanks man, I really enjoy making the new rhinos as they're so awesome The command squad is really growing on me as well and may very well be up for painting soon

Knightley wrote:Loving the conversion work, subbed to see where you take it

Thanks dude, hopefully I won't disappoint then

I love the paint chipping effect!

Thanks It's very easy to achieve

Very good work, sir! The only thing which would make it better are the results when you paint them!
A few questions: Where did you get the heads for the conversion work, and primarily from which mark of power armour are you going to do the rest of the army in?

 Dr. Temujin wrote:
Very good work, sir! The only thing which would make it better are the results when you paint them!
A few questions: Where did you get the heads for the conversion work, and primarily from which mark of power armour are you going to do the rest of the army in?

Why thank you my good man! I shall try to have something finished by the end of the month for my army
And which heads in particular, I've used a lot of different ones so far

A bit of progress on my sidetrack HH project, I finished Angron's display base minus the two guys being shredded

Nice work tda, but needs more imperial fists...

-skrall

 Skrall wrote:
Nice work tda, but needs more imperial fists...

-skrall

In due time mate, in due time

Christ that is cool, you always nail weathering powders. Looks just like real dusty earth.

Major update! Rogal Dorn is ready to be painted! I finally got around to finishing the build and he is now awaiting his holy primer and gold and he will be ready to lead his legion, the mighty VIIth have been reunited with their lost gene sire.

First off a cool shot I got of him, when he's painted and I have some more legionaries for him to command I'll make a similar shot with him overlooking his sons


Then for al the detail shots:




Hope you all enjoy him in his raw state, next up loads of gold.

The detail is just amazing - green stuff, etched brass, an eclectic selection of bits... looking forward to seeing Rogal in full colour!

Woah...!

The etched brass S shapes are very clever, as are the clips for the chains. It's a superb piece, but that in particular caught my attention. Sweet!

Thank you gentlemen, I'll try and have an update on my painting progress as soon as I can


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Painting have commenced

Damn, can't wait to see this guy finished.

Thats amazing! Id be very interested to know if you have a special technique for bending/applying the metalwork, looks like it would be bloody fiddly.

He looks like a boss!

Thanks guys

 Vitruvian XVII wrote:
Thats amazing! Id be very interested to know if you have a special technique for bending/applying the metalwork, looks like it would be bloody fiddly.

Well model pliers and patience my friend all the curls are made from brass jewelers wire

Frankly this is epic. What gold do you use, out of interest?

Really nice, I hope when FW do their own they do yours justice as it looks epic. Out of interest could we have a shot with him next to angron as i'd like to see the scaling between the two

Keep up the good work

Young Logan

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Damn are you a good converter and your painting skills are superb. I'm so jelly ...

inmygravenimage wrote:Frankly this is epic. What gold do you use, out of interest?

Thanks I used a mix of VMC bronse and VMA gold over a brown basecoat, I then added VMA brass to the mix and made zenital highlights (all with airbrush) then I started systimatically washing the detail in sepia and brown wash

Young_Logan wrote:Really nice, I hope when FW do their own they do yours justice as it looks epic. Out of interest could we have a shot with him next to angron as i'd like to see the scaling between the two

Keep up the good work

Young Logan

Thanks man, I'll have a side by side shot of the two once I get Angron to a stage where he's glued onto his base

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Damn are you a good converter and your painting skills are superb. I'm so jelly ...

Thanks man

I suspected it was vmc, good to know! Thanks and keep up the inspiring work.

This conversion is absolutely gorgeous!! Your work is incredible!!

Thanks

While you wait for another Dorn update, here's his brother Angron well on his way (but still wip)

Wow!

The geyser of blood - impressive!

So...how?

Thats an awesome Rogal Dorn! And Angron looks sweet too, great work

My God...Your Rogal Dorn is looking awesome mate. I like the Angron, but obviously that was sculpted by FW, prefer the Dorn you made yourself from scratch, but both are extremely well painted.

Thanks guys

The blood is made by heating and manipulating some clear styrene over a naked flame to get the splurge look, then it's attached and covered in tamiya clear red.
I do really think Angron is one of the best models ever released, it's a must own really

I'm loving that blood geyser - really says something about the guy... (angron not TDA)

Awesome job on the blood splatter. I think it might look better darker, but that is personal nit-picking of an awesome piece!

I'm actually surprised no one else did this on the model yet, it just seemed so obvious to me But I'm glad you all like it

My excuse for it being so bright red is that his main artery burst and the blood is fully oxidized as opposed to blood circulating back to the heart(s) which tends to be almost black

Wow , golden goodness allround

Holy cow, Rogal Dorn and Angron are both looking fantastic.

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The blood effect is extraordinary. I shall have to try playing with that idea! Quality workmanship all round.

That blood is amazing!
Let's see Dorn!

Thanks guys

Angron got himself a face!




And for size comparison:

So impressive. Angron's face and armour look awesome and your dorn model looks so imposing. really nicely done

Feth me that Angron is something to behold

Your Dorn model looks official in that pic as well, such a great job.

Thanks a lot guys, I will definitely get and paint the next primarchs when they're released as well

wow that is some amazing stuff. pure and simple

That chap on the right seems a bit outmatched when it comes to bling...

Thanks alabamaheretic

I got my prize today for winning the TC01 competition :chrome: :chrome: :chrome:



A typhon heavy siege tank

This will look awesome in my force, so a big thanks to Brian/TemplarsCrusade01 for this (check out his awesome youtube channel here)

Awesome work my friend.... That Rogal Dorn gives off that " I don't give a F*ck how big you are, I'll take you down" vibe.



It's like Angron is a Hurricane hitting the continent of Rogal, Rogal will weather the storm and still be standing when the Storm dissipates.

Best Rogal ever.

He does look a bit like the Colonel in Avatar?

Thanks mate, the Dorn picture I used as my main inspiration is actually drawn on top of that exact picture of Stephen Lang so that's probably why it reminds you of him

A little teaser of the typhon

Dayum, thats one big tank!

dorn is looking great, and that blood trail is brilliant!

Thanks guys

The Typhon Siege Tank, the pinnacle of Astartes siege equipment. Still very WIP paintjob.
This tank is BIG! The Land Raider Proteus is there for scale.

Lovely Non-metallic Metal combined with other techniques on the Treads and more specifically on the cannon.

You will have to send me a quick line on how you achieved such an effect because it looks awesome. Keep up the great work, oh and merry Christmas.

Typhon is coming along great! Not sure if I asked this already but do you sponge your battle damage on? If so, what colour do you use for it?

Now that's a lot of yellow! , Angron looks cool , the blood looks incredibly good.. Have a good holiday

mwnciboo wrote:Lovely Non-metallic Metal combined with other techniques on the Treads and more specifically on the cannon.

You will have to send me a quick line on how you achieved such an effect because it looks awesome. Keep up the great work, oh and merry Christmas.

thanks mate and merry Christmas to you too Actually there's no NMM on the model at all, the metal is airbrushed VMC oily steel and shaded with black wash (also airbrushed on) but I'm glad you like it, it's super easy to make. The tracks will eventually be covered in dust and they're not really done now, just covered in black wash

Commander Cain wrote:Typhon is coming along great! Not sure if I asked this already but do you sponge your battle damage on? If so, what colour do you use for it?

Thanks and yup, it's sponged on I use Chardon granite, and when I run out at some point I will have to hunt down and kill the guy responsible for discontinuing the best colour ever made...

neil101 wrote:Now that's a lot of yellow! , Angron looks cool , the blood looks incredibly good.. Have a good holiday

Thanks mate, and likewise

Very nicely done yellows. I also thought that you had some great way of doing NM metals. Your airbrushing method is very convincing!!

 the damned artificer wrote:

Commander Cain wrote:Typhon is coming along great! Not sure if I asked this already but do you sponge your battle damage on? If so, what colour do you use for it?

Thanks and yup, it's sponged on I use Chardon granite, and when I run out at some point I will have to hunt down and kill the guy responsible for discontinuing the best colour ever made...

Ah, I thought I recognized it! I used the same technique on my IG though it works better on marines.

I believe Charadon Granite has simply been renamed as Stormvermin Fur, it seems to be the closest match anyhow...

Very inspiring for many painters like myself love the slight battle damage, very subtle very nice work on your models keep it up

Thanks guys, more tank stuff soon but for now Angron is nearly done, only a few details left

Holy crap, what a great new years post, that's simply amazing tda!

It is great to see that model painted to such a high standard. You have outdone yourself this time TDA!

Thanks a lot guys, I really loved painting this miniature which is now finished