Hello folks of Dakkadakka!

I'm Turska from Finland, and I'm a total 40K noob. Even I have several 40K armies, I've never played a proper game.

I'm new to this site, but not so new to the hobby. The first contact to warhammer I got was nearly ten years ago when I received an unifinished WHFB orc regiment from my pal. He had a small piece of paper with a painting guide for the orcs, and I 'helped' him to get his army ready. Now ten years later I've spent nearly all my income to plastic miniatures and I there's a bunch of unfinished armies in my storage. I've also been busy posting Fantasy stuff to other forums, but I think this 40K stuff has bigger audience here.

When the Dark Vengeance box set came out, I was totally sold - the miniatures of the set really dropped my jaw to the basement...

Okay, now to the pictures. I've painted the terminator squad and few chosen, and also I've made a basic test scheme for the Dark Angels marines.









And here's the Termiboys (yep, the pictures are a bit overlit. Maybe I'll redo the photos.)










Let's see if I can finish these before the nuclear winter....

I hope to get all sort of comments and opinions about these models

Hi Turska!

These models are just stunning. I really like they rusty and weathered old feeling you brought to these models. The painting quality is also really nice, welle xecuted, not just splattered on.

Are you planning to start an Chaos or Dark Angel army? Looking forward to see more from you man, keep it up!!

Lovely Chaos - would love to see better photos of the Deathwing. Welcome to Dakka - looking forward to seeing more!

A whole squad done after a long break...

Phew! My goal was to make the unit look okay to tabletop, because these are totally going for gaming purposes. I even skipped painting some parts of the miniatures - because I'm lazy. It took me one evening and morning to assemble these and paint. Darn the normal marines are boring to paint. Oh well.

I'm doinf both armies for the sake of getting some games played

Oh wow... I like the look of both sides, but the oil-painting kinda quality of the Chaos SMs is beautiful. Consider me subscribed!

-Remi

Progressing slowly!

So, the unit of the Chosen are now finished. I'm not that happy with the outcome, but I was not clever enough to make them look more menacing or warpy, but these are good for gaming purposes.









Only the bikers of DA and the muties of chaos + chaos dread left before the goal!
Feel free to share some comments and critics

Ah hello Turska, I've been following your blogs on Warseer and at blogger for ages, I'm a huge fan of you style of painting and have been practicing it myself. Must have read that plaguebearer tutorial a hundred times, if you ever wanted to do more tutorials that would be fantastic.

The chaos space marines are especially cool. I love the leather look you have got on your chaos lord's cloak, do you have any tips on how to replicate that look?

What's next after Dark Vengeance? Have you considered doing any Inq28 stuff?

Shet you werent kidding when you said that you werent new to the hobby, from what i can see ur a bloody veteran of the long crusade (see what i did there).
For ur whf models, sure its not as mainstream on dakka, but hell if it looks good, people will love it. Rule of cool mate.
Now ur models look great, you definitely have great skills in painting, *claps*.
Ur chosen champ guy remind of mr Manhattan, lol'd myself when i saw him.
Oh and friendly advice, read my signature.
Look forward for you to strut the rest of ur stuff.

 Novelist47 wrote:
Shet you werent kidding when you said that you werent new to the hobby, from what i can see ur a bloody veteran of the long crusade (see what i did there).
For ur whf models, sure its not as mainstream on dakka, but hell if it looks good, people will love it. Rule of cool mate.
Now ur models look great, you definitely have great skills in painting, *claps*.
Ur chosen champ guy remind of mr Manhattan, lol'd myself when i saw him.
Oh and friendly advice, read my signature.
Look forward for you to strut the rest of ur stuff.

Darn right you were with Manhattan, never realized it was him all the time I'm not big fan of the movie, but it seems I've taken a clear scheme from there.
Thank you for he kind words, these sort of things keeps me totally motivated and gives more energy to finish the project. It's funny thing, I've been painting and collecting nearly that ten years, but this is the first time when I'm about to actually finish and army - not one but two at the same time! About the white backdrop, yep I do agree with that. Usually I try several different backdrops and lately Ive jst used brown/black/oddball boards. But thanks!

Ah hello Turska, I've been following your blogs on Warseer and at blogger for ages, I'm a huge fan of you style of painting and have been practicing it myself. Must have read that plaguebearer tutorial a hundred times, if you ever wanted to do more tutorials that would be fantastic.

The chaos space marines are especially cool. I love the leather look you have got on your chaos lord's cloak, do you have any tips on how to replicate that look?

What's next after Dark Vengeance? Have you considered doing any Inq28 stuff?

Hey! It's nice to hear that the bearer tutorial has been useful even I was totally drunk when I did it an the measurements are not that precise... People have been asking me the recipe for metallics and robes, so let's see if I do those when I again find my cameras tripod!

The cloak was painted with various flesh tones (strippling) before i gave it tamiya clear red wash followed by ogryn flesh... heck I can't remember. But it wasn't hard thing to do! I'll try to make another robe and write down the quide

Thanks again!

EDIT: forgot to write...

About the Inq28 stuff; yes, modellers really are living the golden age of miniature converting and creating cool pieces of art, but I*m not that familiar even with 40K that I should start something new now. But indeed I have a ton of models to convert for any purposes and Inq28 might be the choice!

Those chosen are especially beautiful. Looking forward to the cultists.

Wow! just happened upon these guys, and I must say they are awesome. I have been looking for a good scheme for my Chaos Chosen and these are perfect.

Would you be so kind as to share some of the paints or techniques you used on the chosen? I would love to use this look you have.

Excellent looking mini's. I love the colors of the armor, gives the models an extraordinarily realistic look. The grit, the weathering looks great too....awesome work

Few WIPs of some cool toys. Today a mailman gave me a small box of goodies;

I bought these terminators from a random wargamer, and because he had started to add some paint to the minis these were quite cheap unit. Actually there's just white basecoat, few washes and some lovely green plus some metals. Methinks I just continue with the former scheme the owner started working on. These are cool terminators! But I don't know if DA had these sort of armours... (and I don't care. They will be Dark Angels!)

Also, this evening I'll start with these dudes...


For bonus here's a better photo of the terminators I made like 100 years ago. One morning the sun showed her face after a long break and I was able to take some good pics without lamps or whatsoever.

 UnCool Villain wrote:
Wow! just happened upon these guys, and I must say they are awesome. I have been looking for a good scheme for my Chaos Chosen and these are perfect.

Would you be so kind as to share some of the paints or techniques you used on the chosen? I would love to use this look you have.

No problem sir, but I'm afraid I don't remember the whole process Sorry!

I started with white basecoat and started to slap randomly some inks and washed to the armour parts, for example different brown and black inks, greens and blues and reds... Darn. I used the whole palette for those dudes and I really can't remember in which order came what.... Argh. Usually when building up the gradient, I start over white basecoat and start to add lighter washes, and making the tones deeper after every wash. I didn't have any spesific guide in my head how I made those guys, because everyone are made a little bit differently. I'll try to make a tutorial with pics next time where you can see how I work.

BUT; here's a older tutorial of a plaguebearer - yep. The method working with mini's is always the same for me. White basecoat, washes, minimal highlights and gore. http://codfishparings.blogspot.fi/2012/09/tutorial-well-kind-of.html I think the pictures describes this thing better than I can...

Once I came up with a perfect description about the method I use. Imagine that you are about to paint with water colours (the colours are thin, they don't have depth and generally they suck). Now you have to choose which paper you'll take - white or black one. Ofcourse you'll take white one because it saves your time - also it's impossible to make water colours to pop out from black paper. You have to 200 coats of paint to get your colors visible for the eye if you use black basecoat. Just saying!

Thanks everybody for your support!

TurskanPerkeet wrote: I was not clever enough to make them look more menacing or warpy, but these are good for gaming purposes.

Probably the biggest understatement i've ever heard! haha these are ridiculously good!!

Hot damn, those models are sweet! I really like how you don't paint in bright unrealistic colours, instead opting for the realistic(er) colours for the chosen which I think really fits Chaos in general.
I haven't seen a DV set painted to look like they're at war, and it's amazing to look at yours, really.
Subscribed!

So these are pretty much just painted with washes?

 grrrfranky wrote:
So these are pretty much just painted with washes?

I can see a lot of washes on it but most the base colours (and the detail on the shoulderpads) really look good, and if they were done mostly with washes then all the better 'cuz everyone will be able to do it!

Very nice. Bruticus pointed me in the direction of your blog and I adore your mutie boss made from that Ork Freebooter.

The Death Wing colour is very nice.

I was also redirected here from Bruticus' plog.

I love what you have done here. You are officially "The Crazy Glazer" in my mind now.

I would also add my voice to the request for another tutorial.

Subscribed and eager for more.

~Eric

Holy crap, those are awesome. Good job.

Know No Pear wrote:

 grrrfranky wrote:
So these are pretty much just painted with washes?

I can see a lot of washes on it but most the base colours (and the detail on the shoulderpads) really look good, and if they were done mostly with washes then all the better 'cuz everyone will be able to do it!

Well, I might be using wrong terminology therefore I just dilute my paints and inks quite a lot and I just 'wash' them over the minis I use few Liquitex inks, GW acrylics, Vallejo acrylics and tamiya acrylics. For example, those DA marines are more or less "just washed" in my opininion (the truth is that I started with black basecoat, added a diaconal smoke of white spray, and made few stages of transparent greens, orange and blue coats. I strippled bleached bone highlight somewhere between the stages and went back and fort with the transparent coats to build up the gradient. Try it out dudes!

PDH wrote:Very nice. Bruticus pointed me in the direction of your blog and I adore your mutie boss made from that Ork Freebooter.

The Death Wing colour is very nice.

Thanks PDH, I saw your minis in the latest White Dwarf and the article was pretty cool

Taarnak wrote:I was also redirected here from Bruticus' plog.

I love what you have done here. You are officially "The Crazy Glazer" in my mind now.

I would also add my voice to the request for another tutorial.

Subscribed and eager for more.

~Eric

Thanks Eric! It would be nice to do new tutorial because people have been asking to see them. I'm just afraid that my photographing skills require more practice before I can take hundred shots without getting nuts. Heh!

Thanks everybody!

Fantastic! It is amazing the results you got from basically washes.

I will be playing around with mine to see if I can't get something similar. Your plaguebearer is pretty awesome and it is a great tutorial.

I bet if you make a tutorial for your chosen many people will love you for it, especially me!

Again great work and inspiration.

Ah, glazes. That makes sense, thanks.

I like your style of painting subscribed ! gives your miniatures a very nice weathering look ! can't wait to see more ! btw your plaguebearer is awesome !

B-E-A-utiful! Can't wait to see how you paint the heretics and the pre-heresy termies

Absolutley beautiful, paint style somewhere between Fantasygames.com and Blanche... very artistic, very rich... beautiful work!

Here's a quick update again. Only some finishing touches for these before I call the group done. The reason for why there ain't mud splatters is that I wan't to make the splatters for all the cultists at the same time (I'm usually stupid enough to forget how I made some effects and the results don't match...) Enjoy.





I don't know if I went too far with the detailing this time. Truly if there's something I can't stand is too detailed stuff... Less is more sometimes!


I guess in his mom's eyes he's handsome.


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BONUS ROUND! I browsed trough the pics I took and totally cracked up. I lost it completely...



This. Oh goodness they're brothers...

Lovely work!

A little sideproject as I try to complete these buggers in time...



Man I've really been in the mood painting again when I should be doing school projects.

TurskanPerkeet wrote:
A little sideproject as I try to complete these buggers in time...

Man I've really been in the mood painting again when I should be doing school projects.

Lucky for me, painting/colour theory/sculpting is all part of my school's work! Where're those minis from, btw? They look.. Dark. Awesome.

 Know No Pear wrote:

TurskanPerkeet wrote:
A little sideproject as I try to complete these buggers in time...

Man I've really been in the mood painting again when I should be doing school projects.

Lucky for me, painting/colour theory/sculpting is all part of my school's work! Where're those minis from, btw? They look.. Dark. Awesome.

Hiya! The bulkier dude is based on Captain Badrukk model form 40K ork range, and the skinny lad is Vampire Counts wraith with added legs. I'm not good at sculpting, so I usually end up just attaching random plastic parts over the minis, and then I call them 'conversions'

TurskanPerkeet wrote:

Hiya! The bulkier dude is based on Captain Badrukk model form 40K ork range, and the skinny lad is Vampire Counts wraith with added legs. I'm not good at sculpting, so I usually end up just attaching random plastic parts over the minis, and then I call them 'conversions'

If your conversions are so subtle that people don't know what they were based off, I'd call them successful! I really like them, and together with your painting style the miniature just looks awesome. I'm glad I'm subscribed, so I can get inspiration (and maybe steal ideas, but I shouldn't tell you that )

 Know No Pear wrote:

TurskanPerkeet wrote:

Hiya! The bulkier dude is based on Captain Badrukk model form 40K ork range, and the skinny lad is Vampire Counts wraith with added legs. I'm not good at sculpting, so I usually end up just attaching random plastic parts over the minis, and then I call them 'conversions'

If your conversions are so subtle that people don't know what they were based off, I'd call them successful! I really like them, and together with your painting style the miniature just looks awesome. I'm glad I'm subscribed, so I can get inspiration (and maybe steal ideas, but I shouldn't tell you that )

Those absolutely count as conversions, and excellent ones at that. Even knowing what your two starting points are, and A/B-ing the original to the finished model, it's tough to see how you did it so cleanly. Especially with the "skinny lad."

Turska vs Dark Vengeance? I think you're winning

Great stuff. I love Badrukk with the Plague Bearer head

clink clonk whhrrrr

CLONK

B A M! zztttt clink

*Oi! Chief, not that one...*
SMASH
*bugger*

*ME SHOOT!*
*Chief, remember we're not practicing now....*

Ka CHLINK boing

*???*

*You three there, there'sssss no time to foolll around - If you cccan't keepp your mouths ss-shut for a minute I'll just have to tell to... tel-le tell te te-ll... bugger!
I'll tell to Bargainer you're slowing ussss down*

*BURB*

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I was supposed to finish a report but this next fella started to haunt me - Now he is basecoated and i'm eager to see how he turns out. I imagined him and his two helpers to be "the Paymaster", as the ogre I used for the conversion is named in GW catalog.


(Terminator is just for the scale)





There's a collection of various bits and pieces from a century old miniatures.

Easy on the coolness mate, you are making us all look bad! Beautiful paint scheme on everything so far, really gives it all a grimdark look. Subscribed!

Loving the chaos marines (the dark angels are also very good for loyalist scum!!) and very interested in seeing more from you.

Subscribed!

That last update is great. I must say that termie is awesome looking. Can't wait to see that big guy painted.

keep up the awesome!

Bad boys are back in town! Now in slighlty better pics, and here's the multiangle shots of mr. paymaster. Enjoy. Oh, and the basing is practically stolen form Master Blanche's mini's... As the rest of the imagery.















He is the newcomer, and at the moment I have a clear image of him in my head, but let's see if I'm able to make the image alive with GS.



This really is a challenging sculpt.

It'd be nice to hear your thoughts of this project

PS: Cheers for Bruticus for giving me the idea to build this group. I owe him big time.

Looking amazing! Seriously, that is some great grimdarkness you have going on with these guys. The subdued colours and tiny details look great when all put together.

The latest... thing is also brilliant, great use of bitz, he should fit right in with the gang.

I really enjoy myself whenever I visit your thread. This time is no different! Keep it up!

Amazing paint jobs, love your weathering

Thanks fellas! I've gotten some great ideas from other people how to carry on with this scheme... When the muscular chap is ready, I'll probably make another monster. Yeehaaw!

I know some people love/hate pictures of unpainted miniatures, but I'm here to get some marvelous ideas from you people. I understood that the critters on paymasters shoulders needed more reinforcements, and I dug up some old mini's to represent these little cunning jerks... And visually I get more interesting things to look at; there should be massive characters and tiny fellas to mess around, just for the visual balance!





Also I have an idea to get this mine cart in use somehow. Tee hee.



Obviously there's a ton of GS work to do, but I think you get the idea. What say you?

Aeon Blacksmith, Planet Forger



The former grandmaster of astral magic, the planetary blacksmith and the creator of subspace timezones and forbidden corners of the red planet - nowadays a poor traveler with zero income and only cheap tricks in his sleeve to entertain his travelling company (you see, for a certain reason in this particular time and place this sort of scholars of magic are relatively poor, because the amount of tricks and godly miracles depends on the insides of your wallet - don't ask me why) Still, even he's a poor chap and needs to do the sweaty work for the merchant, he's able to teleport and divide zero by two, not a big deal.

The psi-energy surrounding him is pretty massive and causes horrible migrenia to everybody. The only one who haven't been complaining about brain issues is muscle fort lurking behind the leaders - and the reason for not having deadly ache is probably he doesn't have the organ which could be hurt by the wave of psi-energy. There's a traffic light-like collection of eyes in his head, but truly the only seeing eye is his hand - this eye sees trough dimensions and time, as well as the walls of private rooms.











Allright; here's something I invented:
I painted this dress with acrylic inks and drawing inks. I made a basecoat of Daler&Rowney FW flame red acrylic ink. The awesome thing here is, that acrylic ink covers with one coat and you can make it pretty rough. Then I made another coat with Liquitex Naphtol Crimson ink. After this I got experimental...

I took my W&N orange ink which I had kept open the past weeks, and started to make a coat over the previous inks. I had a brush which had pretty hard bristles, so my brush tore off the previous inks. But because I had orange ink in my bristles, the brush stated to make 'orange damage' to the figure instead of just revealing the white basecoat. It's like drybrushing with ink + making damage to the previous paint layers... Reverse drybrushing?

The golden parts were made with W&N gold ink, which is liquid gold leaf and irritating as hell to handle and impossible to photograph.

Good lord that is amazing! He is bursting with character and the paintjob is stunning, the group shot is also particularly impressive.

Keep up the great work Turska!

@ Know No Pear: The left model at its core is Kaptin Badrukk from the 40k Orks range along with a plaguebearers head and small parts which I don't know of. and lots with a lot of sculpting work to make it look Nurglish. (well done looks terrific!)

And the model on the right well i'm stumped, but from my views it looks like Plaguebearers's legs somewhat adjusted, the parchments on his groin and torso seem to be from a Space Marines accessories the robes from a Vampire Counts Cairn Wraith and other small kits which i'm not sure about.

TurskanPerkeet did I get it right?


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Just realized there was two pages commented on the 1st haha sorry :') definitely subbed loving them a lot

Ah, missed your update by an update!
Looks great, and I enjoyed the short background too! Your miniatures look extremely unique, and well... really attractive

Thanks fellas

Here's a total WIP-picture of the next dudes joining the group...

Really love the gritty and weathered look you given the models, looks really "real".

Keep it up man, cant w8 to see more from you!

Awesome!

This bears watching. Hope there is more.

Yes there will be more characters joinig the force

I have no idea where this shall be going, because stillI have no idea about the rules for the game. Seems like I'll be just building aliens until somebody forces me to read the rules book... WYSIWYG seems to be the main thing in these sort of specialist games. Oh well! Ignorance is bliss!

Phew. I know this is not supposed to be shown here because these are not the inq28-posse...

I made a full set of Space Hulk terminators and forge world scouts for a client, and I just finished the whole bunch.








I consider myself lucky. Painting blue dark eldar caused me more trouble as I expected, and painting lovely red blood angels gave me some of my motivation back. My ink testings have gone well, and I painted these BA with acrylic inks again.

I've seen that doing commissions is painful. Easier way to get into the business would be just to paint whatever you like and put it to eBay. There would be no rules at all...


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My inq28 group is sleeping at the moment, even I have great ideas for new miniatures. That feral orc isn't progressing at, I might change the whole character to another.

Thanks for looking!

UPDATED FROM THE CRYPT!

I've found it hard to start anything after a long break, but I've been maturing the thought of the new character who's joining the ramshackle forces of Merchant. Now I assume I have the right parts glued together, and the next step is to take some GS and fill the gaps.

I call him Lotus Hatcher.









I've put my soul into this build. it took me several months to get the certain state of mind to put this thing together. This fella started as a humorous piece, but in the end it turned out to be really dramatic and sad. I see this character as a former impersonation of strength and power, but something has happened and he's only a shadow of his former self. He has some primitive technology to keep him going - external spine and wheels as legs. He drags himself trough the rough land.

Anxious project I'd say. Not humorous anymore.

...

Also here's a picture of my new more powerful lamp - it's a LED-rail with moving spots. As I've experienced, the color of the light is slightly more natural than my old lamp has. I use both of them at the same time to get awesome lightning conditions. I attached the LED-rail to a cymbal stand with some thick thread and voila!

Woah! Really unique and inspiring stuff here!

Love your style of painting.

I am also painting the SH Termies as we speak so would love to see what you did whit those fantastic piece of plastics...

Well these are now going to be in my nightmares. They are exceptionally well done, across the board.

That built is looking excellent, eagerly awaiting the finished product!

Incredible painting skills. I especially like the Chaos from Dark Vengeance at the start, but all of your miniatures perfectly embody the grimdarkness of the future, I love it.

I love your painting style!

Lotus Hatcher

A mere shadow of his past he is. Master of melee combat, blessed weapon user but loyal to nobody he was. As he stands today, a massive mountain of muscle, ram head and decade old wheelchair, he might look a sad character with desperate life. His strong arms can drag him over the deserts, and end someone's life as fast as it started, but the corruption is his brain has made him demented and helpless. Only Master Merchant is able to construct bionic legs for his superior fighter, as he believes Lotus Hatcher is still capable to make a good thug for his travelling party. Blimey, maybe Master Merchant is also afraid to give functional legs to his fellow, you see Mr.Merchant ain't just anybody, he's a total jackass to his loyal group - as all businessmen tend to be - It might be that it's much safer for his skin to keep that fella disabled. Yesss.... indeed it is......











Now back to Dark Eldar!

It's so disturbing and so unreal yet it feels so real. (Yeah, it's hard to explain! ) Great job turskan!

So. Much. WIN!

Love it in all of its disgusting glory.

Those are some awesome xenos (or mutants?)! Very cool design and I love your gritty painting style.

Time to dig a grave for these fellas.

I think this cyclops scheme is not getting anywhere anymore, so I shall quit their breeding... farewell my lads! I found a nice little box the group, and decided to add a familiar inside the box... It became some sort of biomechanical creature watching over Merchant and his thugs.







So. What shall I do with these creatures? I shall give them a rest in my collection for a moment, and then probably sell them to a person who'd actually like to play some games with them. Who knows.


And, after the burial, I accidentally started a new project with much more different things to do! Surprise, damnit.

Marked men - preacher

A horseman passes by.

"Hmph, look at that my lad. Obviously one of those crazed souls waiting the stars to fall. I'll bet ya he has nothing more in his sleeve but the urge to make even more townsmen go nuts and abandon their lives, I once saw when one of his kin came to a dusty town like these and gathered a sick group of people... And guess what. They all were butchered. I call it a butchering when you manage to wash ones brain only with your swollen tongue, and the victims starts to believe there really ain't much left to live for.... Damaged soul I'll tell ya. - What? Haven't seen a rider yet? Listen to me lad;"

The horseman looks like an old religious creep, but in reality he ain't much older than a man at his best age. IT makes him look old. IT causes his limbs to fall off during the years, and the worst thing is he actually believes that his god beneath the stars talks him when a finger turns black and starts to grow black veins up your hand. He's giving his body to his Master piece by piece. These holy men carry their kin with them, as you can see - rotten heads hanging from the ropes... I guess the gauntlet hanging form the horse's side still has his own right hand there. I'm sure he has no more than few weeks before his body finally gives up, and a new preacher takes his place, carrying the remains of his family. A preacher like that will poison also your mind if you listen too carefully. It might be that you my lad are the next preacher if you ain't careful... Sometimes the biggest threat sounds like words of wisdom. His words are sickened promise of relief. By being unholy, he thinks he can become a god in flesh. A martyr of sorts.

Travelling from town to town is the only way for him to keep his religion alive. He must find a new apprentice before his collapsing.

"Oi, lad! Pass me the bottle will ya?"









A rough model to start brainstorming around a new scheme. YYYEEHHAAAWWW

You have an awesome painting style, lovely models!

Jesus christ this is amazing! I love your style, it puts mine to shame.
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Something "new"













Random stuff from my table.

Maybe someday I'll finish Dark Vengeance set...

Wow, such palid colours, like a watercolour painted in puss and blood.
That dread is really quite amazing as is all of it, any chance of some more of the BAs?

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Wow, such palid colours, like a watercolour painted in puss and blood.
That dread is really quite amazing as is all of it, any chance of some more of the BAs?

Thanks!

There ain't too many pictures of these BA's, I made them for a client and they've been sent to owner...

Thank you very much for sharing these, those blood angels really are a excellent.
The colour balancing is spot on. I especially like your metallics, done using washes (?). The bases are just awesome on all your models.

I think "yucky" describes that Nurgle dread the best. Every single inch of that beast is amazing.

Crypt door opens again...

I managed to finish my 30K marines during a session of beer and heavy metal. Best things in life. But life's busy at the moment.

The name Star Iron Descendants came to me without telling it's origins. I accepted the name with no warning and I saw it fits well with Mars themed soldiers. Red armor, red sand, howling wastes. Ancient mariners on a mission unknown.







Also there's a Nurgle build I came up with.











and here's a sneak peek of the next fella...

Nurgle dude is outstanding! Sneak peek looks extra promising as well.

Excellent inclusion of crackle medium, both the Terminator's minimalistic basing and the subtle cracks in the Plague Marines armour are fantastic!

Speaking of Nurgle's finest, was the build literally the FW torso on Terminator legs? That simple?

Love the Ork parts throw in as well, I do love how archaic it looks.

Gorgeous checker pattern too.

Moltar wrote:Nurgle dude is outstanding! Sneak peek looks extra promising as well.

Thanks fella

Mister Feral wrote:Excellent inclusion of crackle medium, both the Terminator's minimalistic basing and the subtle cracks in the Plague Marines armour are fantastic!

Speaking of Nurgle's finest, was the build literally the FW torso on Terminator legs? That simple?

Love the Ork parts throw in as well, I do love how archaic it looks.

Gorgeous checker pattern too.

Hiya and thankses. Yep, death guard torso, shoulderpads and ordinary terminator legs from space marine terminator box set. Backpack is from space marine box... Terminator legs and ork weapons balance each other quite nicely

Those Cataphractii Terminators are absolutely gorgeous in every way. Would you mind telling me how you painted them?

ephrael wrote:
Those Cataphractii Terminators are absolutely gorgeous in every way. Would you mind telling me how you painted them?

The effect is made with 4 different inks and one acrylic over white - I guess I have to make a tutorial with pictures about the red I use nowadays... Wait for it!

TurskanPerkeet wrote:

ephrael wrote:
Those Cataphractii Terminators are absolutely gorgeous in every way. Would you mind telling me how you painted them?

The effect is made with 4 different inks and one acrylic over white - I guess I have to make a tutorial with pictures about the red I use nowadays... Wait for it!

A tutorial would be much appreciated, that red would look great on an Imperial Knight.

The Death Guard look brilliant!

This could not be more opposite to how i see and paint minis. And i love that. I generally stay away from chaos minis because i find them cluttered...and with your paint jobs, even more so. Your style IS chaos. The spirit of it anyways (not the execution). I love the stuff youve put up, especially the last guy. Very 40k. Very Grimdark. Lots of stuff of going on in one little miniature. Very interesting, ill be watching and learning. Thanks for sharing your work

Cheers!
BB

Beer and heavy metal - that's awesome! Give one of them a banner with that as their words!

Great looking big marines, suitably chaotic!
Looks like crackle paint is the new black, but the standout for me is that chequered shoulder pad!

Amazing work, on the Termies, Inq28s and Nurgle.

I thank thee for your support! Kind words from all of you. It was a test for me if I still had anything to give... After few months break I was unsure to paint anything!

The next thing in line to complete after resurrecting my paints is to make a duo of BA land raiders and a handful of terminators. With those minis I decided to make a tutorial for acrylic inks.

Cheers all.

Hi again. After I while I've managed to gather a group of characters - The first idea was to make a imperium themed group of survivors, and the second was to mimic Spiky Rat Pack's Femme militant series, and I got kinda carried away with the scheme.

Now there's a handful of HUMAN characters with various backgrounds (Of course there's some humor dumped in these fellas, but in general I see these as more serious fellas at the edge of the humanity or time, than cyclops creatures with a thrive for bourbon)

I like things twisted. Here's the travelling circus at the moment.



Tell me what do you think. I have several options for the painboys face at the moment. What a glorious miniature.

Good stuff! Excellent conversions.

Oh i cant wait to see you put paint to these - the stuck boar is a nice touch .

Progress...












Primed white, ready to take action soon!

Maybe they serve as a reinforcement for MARKED MEN.

I am very impressed and disturbed at the same time in the best way possible. Great Job! Looking forward to more updates from you.

Getting there...

Impressive little group you have there. Great kitbashing and atmosphere you've created.

Great mashing-up of components there, and very nice use for the new Painboy arm. The vampire conversion also looks suitably creepy. Did a perfect job capturing those strong Blanche vibes!

Great to see your blog here! Have been enjoying your work for a while and the general trend of amazingly characterful and beautiful work coming out from Finland between the Rats, you and a few others

Jatka samaan malliin!

Migs

Thanks all for your positive comments!

These fellas are fast to paint, and I ended up doing all the 3 at the same time... Few touches anymore plus the basing - the'se buggers are done then!

Few small touches anymore and I'm done with these

Very nice!

I think I'm done now.















What a project.
I think this time my inspirational sources are more visible than ever - you know who you are I salute you.

Tell me what you think.

Seasons greetings Dakka!

Last months have been a total mess with school and work, and finally I found time to stop and relax with hobby.
I got a nasty stomach ulcer during christmas and was forced to stay at home in bed... When the worst was over I had jolly time chopping up some miniatures I found from my storage. So, here's few pictures of my growing Nurgle team!





And check out the rest of the material from my zombified blog: CODFISH PARINGS

Cheers all

Great stuff as ever!

Got the thugs primed. Here's a small picture report of the past hour... (Here you can see how I usually work with miniatures, and which I find the easiest to do).


Plain white.


Added a light splash of brown and orange ink over the armor.


More color...


Sepia ink over the armor to bring some more shade.


Sponged the armor with bleached bone and white to add some highlight/damage.


Tamiya clear yellow painted over the armor parts. Added some red shadings to the pink parts.


STAY TUNED for part two!

You have an awesome painting style.

prt 2. This almost in real time!


Metals in. I used Leadbelcher diluted with brown ink.


Shade - I used the leftovers I had on my palette at the moment; mainly brown inks and black paint for the metals. Skin got a wash of purple and brown ink. Armor got a wash/splashes or 5 with orange/red ink... I also inked the base with brown/green ink.


Highlights. Metals got some silver highlights, skin was splatted with white, and banner got a rough but jolly skull.

At this point we need to move to make the details. Stay tuned for part 3!

Freakin' freaky stuff! Love the feel of the conversions. These projects bristle with grotesque ideas.

And the step-by-step tutorial is most welcome! Thanks for posting.

Cool stuff! I must try the white-then-washes method some time.

HSSST