Hi DakkaDakka fans, I would like to share with you all my Sons Of medusa (som) army which is a work in progress. I have a few finished squads but the force as a whole is still really only in its early stages. I was first taken by the som color scheme and thought it was a slightly unusual chapter that I could really enjoy. I now find myself more and more taken by this chapter and since the new SM codex I'm now able to use the Iron Hands chapter tactics and combat doctrine on the battlefield. I try my best to get my models to a good tabletop standard, the army has become a real labor of love and I hope to grow a decent sized force for future battles.

Firstly I must say the only pics I have so far are from some battle reports previously posted. I only have the camera attached to my phone but I do hope to get a better camera for better pics in the future. Thank you to all the kind comments in those reports it was those people who encouraged me to start this thread. Thanks also to Vourne and Boss Drachenfels, one being my brother and the other my good friend and both great gaming partners, both have amazing threads themselves on here that you must check out!

Thank you all again, lots more WIP pics to come, all comments and feedback would be hugely appreciated and please ask any queations.

Those look good. I look forward to seeing more in the future.

Your Sons of Medusa look fanastic! Love your models :3 My only problem would be your white is a little flat and your sergeant looks a bit awkward, other than that awesome

assault squad

Will be following this thread.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Your Sons of Medusa look fanastic! Love your models :3 My only problem would be your white is a little flat and your sergeant looks a bit awkward, other than that awesome

Hi BrotherOfBone thanks mate I must admit the sarg does look slightly strained, I know what you mean about the white looking a bit flat I will possibly look at toning it down slightly, cheers dude


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Pedro Kantor wrote:
Those look good. I look forward to seeing more in the future.

Thanks Kantor, more pics to come



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 Feasible wrote:
Will be following this thread.

Thats great feasible means a lot

Good to see your thread started, the army looks amazing so far. About time you shared it with all these fine people.

Especially looking forward to that Stormraven being done.

Scouts

Hey Bro

Good to see your thread up and running. Great to see them taking shape, coming along really nicely, can't wait to see that Stormraven too!

 Vourne wrote:
Hey Bro

Good to see your thread up and running. Great to see them taking shape, coming along really nicely, can't wait to see that Stormraven too!

Hi mate, thanks for that I've magnetised most of the stormraven, pics to come soon.

I'm working on this techmarine at the moment, he's almost fully painted now. I will get him loaded up soon.

Scout Squad

Great to see this old second hand model get a new lease of life

Looking really good!
I always like the lime green colour on space marines for some reasons. With the black trim really makes it a nice looking model.

Keep it up!

Techmarine

Techmarine


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 chiefbigredman wrote:
Looking really good!
I always like the lime green colour on space marines for some reasons. With the black trim really makes it a nice looking model.

Keep it up!

Thanks Chief that's really kind of you, the camera on my phone does not take great pics I will try and upload better ones soon, cheers mate means a lot.

These are looking mint mate! A great start!

 Barksdale wrote:
These are looking mint mate! A great start!

Thanks Barksdale, that gives me encouragement to keep up the painting. I have been looking at your Holy Terra thread, some great building work mate, great use of magnets to. I look forward to following the project


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Ok firstly a big thank you to everyone, for your comments

I have had a boxed SR gunship for some time now, I was slightly daunted by the build as I new I wanted to get every possible weapon load out and combination possible for this model. I would like to share my progress so far. I will just explain a little here so that the pics to follow make more sense. To be able to swap between the hurricane bolter doors and plain doors in this kit I had to add a "false door strut" to the inside of the side assess door this had to be done as there is not enough room or depth in the models door frame to drill holes for magnets. simply file the inside of the frame down flat so that the "false strut" fits flush. I also had to add a strip of plasticard to the inside of each plain door in order to give the depth needed to drill in a void to mount the magnet. On the hurrican bolter doors I had to add another strut to mount magnets and to pack it out slightly to meet the strut on the frame. By the way all this was used from the frame the stormraven comes in!! talk about getting everything out of the kit!

For the hull mounted weapon I cut off the plastic inserts from each heavy bolter and glued those inserts (now with no weapons on the ends) into the slots on the hull targeting system. I then drillied holes for the magnets into the heavy bolter ends that remained and then into the inserts I had cut off. Then do the same with the multimeta and missile launcher. Only this time you wont need to keep the inserts as you already have them.

I hope this helps, This is by no means the best or only way to magnetize the stormraven. Its simply the way that worked for me. I have not yet started the top turret but will load more pics and directions for that later.

I hope this is of some help for anyone looking to do something simular

What I have called the "false door strut" this was even taken from the SR kits frame!

The magnets mounted in thin plasticard

Just for perspective

Closed nice and tight with a good strong pull

A second "false strut" on the hurricane bolter door

Then finally another good strong fit

Excelent work
Really striking colour scheme, tidily applied. Would be a pleasure to come up against these on the table.

HairySticks wrote:
Excelent work
Really striking colour scheme, tidily applied. Would be a pleasure to come up against these on the table.

Hi Sticks thanks mate that's great to hear from a fellow battle brother

Your Deathwing project looks amazing! I will be following your progress eagerly. I really enjoyed reading through your blog and cant wait to see the finished models. It would be pleasure to fight side beside with these mighty sons of the Lion.

Thanks.
That blog needs an update hehe.
Have allsorts going along side it though so its slow going.

Am keen to see the stormraven in the bright lime green bet it looks ace!

Ectus,

I'm impressed, very impressed......

Keep it up.

 Boss Drachenfels wrote:
Ectus,

I'm impressed, very impressed......

Keep it up.

Thanks Drachen, really pleased you enjoying the thread

I'm very happy about the direction of this thread. I was planning on making a SoM army myself. Loving the Techmarine and the scouts look great in those colors. Keep it up.

Couldn't agree more with Feasible, the red looks great on that techmarine. Good job mate.

 Feasible wrote:
I'm very happy about the direction of this thread. I was planning on making a SoM army myself. Loving the Techmarine and the scouts look great in those colors. Keep it up.

Thanks Feasible, I'm really pleased your enjoying the thread, if it's given you some ideas or inspiration then that's really brilliant. I am very much enjoying writing and posting it. I might not be able to update it as much during the busy Christmas period but I will do my best to keep the pictures and post as frequent as possible. Thanks again lots and lots more to come

Hi Dakka Dakka fans, People have left amazing comments saying they are looking forward to seeing the Stormraven. It is actually still quite a way off getting a paintjob as I have things I really need to finish first. I have not painted many vehicles and I need to practice on some more basic things first like my tanks before taking on such a big flyer as the SR, so here is my first finished vehicle, the rhino.

I must admit it was the vehicles that worried me most about this project, I was confident the troops would look nice, as lots of green races and models in warhammer and 40k like striking scorpions, lizardmen, tyranids can be very bright green and look great... but a tank!?!?! and it wouldn't be just one tank, I knew there would be many of them and dreadnoughts and flyers! I have been really worried they would just look....well.....to much. I thought about having them as a slightly darker green but I didn't want to fragment the army, plus I felt it would look really obvious as to why they were darker. People would simply say "are the vehicles darker because the green was to bright?"

So I stuck to my guns, these are my Sons of Medusa and these are their colours. It took some trial and error but I must say I am really pleased with the results, bearing in mind its vehicle number one. I am very happy with it, I hope you all like it to. I certainly loved painting it







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Rhino

Yeah. More green marines. Green is good.

The rhinos look great, but so clean! Have you thought about weathering it up a bit?

 Kosake wrote:
Yeah. More green marines. Green is good.

haha thanks Kosake. all green marines are cool


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 Barksdale wrote:
The rhinos look great, but so clean! Have you thought about weathering it up a bit?

Hi Barksdale. Yep I do believe I will add a touch of weathering. just to break it up slightly, I am not going to go crazy with it, just a few paint chips here and there.

Wow, these are really nice. I love the bright, vibrant green.

I painted a squad of marines in a SoM scheme a while back. They were really fun to paint You can see them in my gallery if your interested

Zambro wrote:
Wow, these are really nice. I love the bright, vibrant green.

I painted a squad of marines in a SoM scheme a while back. They were really fun to paint You can see them in my gallery if your interested

Hi Zambro, thanks so much, great to see another SoM fan, yours look so great! I love the weathered look you have given them. I will be trying some slight weathering on my vehicles. Thanks again.

Hi Dakka Dakka people, I just wanted to add some pics of the magnetized hull mounted Stormraven guns. I roughly explained in an earlier post how I done it. I hope this helps or gives you all some ideas. As always comments and questions very very welcome.

targeting system

multimelta with the plastic insert cut of a magnet mounted in back

swtich to heavy bolters

Or the twinlinked multimelta for extra punch

The rhino looks really nice, the transfer has applied incredibly well. Looks sharp and clean. Great job, look forward to seeing the next update.

Also, like the current tutorial for the SR. Thanks

We demand updates dammit.

 Barksdale wrote:
We demand updates dammit.

Hi Barksdale, sorry mate the Christmas period has been a bit crazy, will be getting th
e thread back on track soon mate.

These are looking great! Will definitely be keeping an eye out on these

Zotac1992 wrote:
These are looking great! Will definitely be keeping an eye out on these

Thanks Zotac that's very kind of you, I've been a bit busy over Christmas to add posts. I will add more soon though, thanks again.

 Brother Ectus wrote:

Hi Barksdale, sorry mate the Christmas period has been a bit crazy, will be getting th
e thread back on track soon mate.

Yeah I totally understand, the holidays are always pressed for time. I had just landed in DC after an 7 hour flight and wanted to check out some more Sons of Medusa, but sadly there were no new updates for me.

 Barksdale wrote:

 Brother Ectus wrote:

Hi Barksdale, sorry mate the Christmas period has been a bit crazy, will be getting th
e thread back on track soon mate.

Yeah I totally understand, the holidays are always pressed for time. I had just landed in DC after an 7 hour flight and wanted to check out some more Sons of Medusa, but sadly there were no new updates for me.

Yep things are getting back to normal now barksdale, I'm current working on the razorback, pics to come soon.

Sorry its been so long since my last post or update, its been a new year and all that but back to some sort of routine now. Here are a few pics of my other now completed tactical squad. I hope you like, I have tried to take all comments on board as usual though all comments, advice and thoughts are hugely appreciated.

slightly brighter pic

Welcome back mate. Looking good!

 Barksdale wrote:
Welcome back mate. Looking good!

Thanks barksdale, I hope your well mate. Hopfully there will be lots of new pics and additions to the army through the year.

Liking this thread, mind telling us how you get the green?

BrotherTitus wrote:
Liking this thread, mind telling us how you get the green?

Hi Brother Titus, thank you for your kind words I'm so pleased your enjoying the thread mate. As for the green effect mate it comes straight from an online painting tutorial. If you go on youtube look for "awesomepaintjob" the guy is an amazing painter his name is Lester Bursley. His videos are really great, very clear step by step instructions and all great quality. Most of his clips and effects are all done with an airbrush, I don't know if an airbrush is a tool you use but watching his tutorials inspired me to try it myself. He does tutorials for all kinds of marine chapters on there. I just really liked the Sons Of Medusa so I went out and got all the stuff from the tutorial he used and followed it step by step. I am still learning and Lester's airbrush skills are amazing but I was really surprised how fast you get to a good standard. I hope this is of some help to you, it would be great to know how you get on in the future. Thanks again, I'm really pleased you like this thread, lots more updates to come as the army grows. Of course please feel free to ask any questions.

 Brother Ectus wrote:
Of course please feel free to ask any questions.

I got a question

What's next? The Sons of Medusa (SoM?) are one of my favourite paint schemes. And you nail it each time

Who knew someone could make lime green marines look so friggin cool?

Im Impressed, very nice work. That Rhino is topshelf.

Any sternguard pics?

Zambro wrote:

 Brother Ectus wrote:
Of course please feel free to ask any questions.

I got a question

What's next? The Sons of Medusa (SoM?) are one of my favourite paint schemes. And you nail it each time

Thanks Zambro that's really nice of you to say. Yeah my SoM force has been a real labour of love, I have always loved the colour scheme to, and now I can use the Iron Hands chapter tactics on the battlefield it gives the chapter a load of personality. As for what's next, I'm currently about mid way through a Razorback. I will post WiP pics of it very soon. Then assault Terminators, I will also be sure to add WiP pics for them to.

I'm blown away by your White Scars thread mate. What and amazing and beautifully built and painted force that is !!!

It would be a pleause to battle along side the mighty sons of Khan.




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wulfbrigade wrote:
Who knew someone could make lime green marines look so friggin cool?

Im Impressed, very nice work. That Rhino is topshelf.

Any sternguard pics?

Hi Wulfbridge, thanks mate that really means a lot and makes a lot of hard work feel really worth while

Although I don't currently have any sternguard painted, I do have a couple of other veterans painted. They are about the closes to sternguard that I have at the moment. I will add a pic in the next day or so, hopefully this will give an indication of how a sternguard squad might look.

thanks again mate.

No worries, love to see the veterans. BTW where did you find those shoulder pads?

wulfbrigade wrote:
No worries, love to see the veterans. BTW where did you find those shoulder pads?

Hi Wulfbrigade, here are some pics of the vets I have so far. This was the first time I have tried the "power flux" look on power weapons, I tried two different techniques and I'm fairly pleased with both. Some of the lines are a touch off but I am building this army to regularly battle with so I'm really just after a decent tabletop standard, so I'm happy enough with the over all look.

As for the shoulder pads mate they are from an online company called "shapeways" I think they basically make them on a 3d printer. Obviously the quality is not as good as a GW made pad would be, but its the only way I could get a SoM shoulder pads, and to be honest I think they look pretty decent.

Thanks again mate.

Do you have a space marine project yourself?

Maybe I will get some sternguard in the future

Excellent work my friend. The Chrome effect on the Thunder hammer is sweet. Also like the "bionic" helms. SOM are from Iron Hands stock correct?

Ill have to check out Shapeways.

I am currently working on a Hyper-tech Rebel Army called Die Zuruck, German for "The Returned". I have been modeling a Raven Guard Succesor Chapter Called the Shadow Falcons.

wulfbrigade wrote:
Excellent work my friend. The Chrome effect on the Thunder hammer is sweet. Also like the "bionic" helms. SOM are from Iron Hands stock correct?

Ill have to check out Shapeways.

I am currently working on a Hyper-tech Rebel Army called Die Zuruck, German for "The Returned". I have been modeling a Raven Guard Succesor Chapter Called the Shadow Falcons.

Hi mate, thanks that's really nice of you to say. Yeah the SoM are an iron hand successor chapter, they have some pretty cool fluff which I really like. So I'm trying to have a bit of a bionic/ mechanical theme through the army.

The Shadow Falcons is an amazing name for a chapter. I would love to see them, I'm thinking lots of jump packs? if you get a thread going or any pics then let me know mate. It sounds like you have some great projects on the go

Currently working on a razorback and terminator assault squad. I was given these cool resin bases by boss drachenfels, a friend of mine. I hope these super cool bases really help the squad stand out.

Those power weapons look great mate! I'm also looking forward to seeing your termies on those bases. Should be good!

Looking Forward to your Termies Brother Ectus. Shooty or Stuck In Termies?

Here is my new thread on my Shadow Falcons a DIY Chapter.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/576219.page#6479523

Thought I had subbed already, now I for sure am. Keep up the good painting!

Nice color scheme, and they have an interesting back history.

When I first looked at these my reaction was well painted, but WOW that is bright. Having looked at all of your pics I have to admit I am liking the paint scheme. You are doing a great job. Can't wait to see some terminators and more vehicles/dreads in this scheme.

 Barksdale wrote:
Those power weapons look great mate! I'm also looking forward to seeing your termies on those bases. Should be good!

Hi Barksdale, thanks mate, I think I will pin the termies to these bases as gluing plastic to resin is never ideal. Thanks again mate, pics to come.


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This is to everyone for all your kind comments

@wulfbrigade. I love your Shadow Falcons chapter mate! I really like the contrast of the dark purple and bone white colours, what's next? My Termies will be "stuck in Termies" I just think the models look so cool, in the future they may even ride in a Storm Raven!!!

@whalemusic360, Thanks so much for the sub, that really means a lot. I promise it inspires me to get more done and to keep the project going. Thanks again

@Jehan-renzor, Yeah I really like the SoM back story and fluff. I have tried to show it through the army with bionic limbs, the tech marine ect. I'm pleased you like them to I will try and keep the iron hands link strong.

@Tressel, I must admit they are bright but as an army I'm pleased with the look. Soon I will post an army shot after a couple more things are done. There will be more to come for sure.

Thanks for all your kind words, it makes all the hard work seem really worth while

Brother Ectus, thank you for the compliment, next will be a Shooty Termie Squad led by Codicer Harkon.

You should scratch build a Teleport Homer and Teleport CC Termies right into his commanders face!!

Nothings worse than CC termies tying up a unit all game long. Or killing your unit in a turn or two.

Cant wait to see them, get painting!!

Any chance you could take a close up of one of those pads pre paint? Thinking of ordering some for various projects.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Any chance you could take a close up of one of those pads pre paint? Thinking of ordering some for various projects.

Hi whalemusic, here is a pic of the shoulder pads. I have ordered a few batches of these now and I must say the quality varies. The first batch I ever ordered I must say were very good, they were clean and crisp and the plastic was almost transparent. This batch was not so good, you can see a few rough spots and the detailing is a little lost around the skulls. In general I am still pleased with them but I think a lot depends on the casting and the plastic/resin mixture they use. I wont claim they are fantastic quality, but at the end of the day they are SoM shoulder pads. I suppose I would say I don't mind that they are not amazing quality, because they are still fairly unique SoM shoulder pads.

Cool, I'll give em a whirl. Thanks for the review!

Liking how clean they look. Nice job on the greens.

Consider me subbed

 deadmeat85 wrote:
Liking how clean they look. Nice job on the greens.

Consider me subbed

Thanks deadmeat, that means a lot. I'm so pleased your enjoying the thread


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 whalemusic360 wrote:
Cool, I'll give em a whirl. Thanks for the review!

Your welcome whalemusic


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Hi guys, here are some images of the Termies being pinned and based

First Terminator based

First based Terminator

They look great on those bases.

Could you not find any terminator sized SoM shoulder pads?

Zambro wrote:
They look great on those bases.

Could you not find any terminator sized SoM shoulder pads?

Hi mate. yeah thanks I'm pleased with them so far. I have not been able to source any SoM Termie shoulder pads. I will detail them out with purity seal ect though.

The dude that does the power armor pads makes termi sized ones. I'm sure he could make you some pretty easy.

Those are gonna be epic, cant wait to see em painted.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Any chance you could take a close up of one of those pads pre paint? Thinking of ordering some for various projects.

Hi whalemusic360. Yeah I did consider contacting them about making SoM Termie shoulder pads. However at this time it seems like a bit to much cost and time. Don't get me wrong of course I want my SoM to look as nice as I can make them but I also would like them done to battle with. In the future I'm sure I will source some Termie shoulder pads and make a really special unit. The trouble is I have soooo many things I want to add, I dont want to get caught up in one squad for ages and ages. I think we all do that and end up with a kind of hobby "writers block" I find its always good to have a goal to paint to. Mine is a show down with Boss Drachenfels Orks. We both want a fully painted battle with these armies and are working hard to get our forces done. So yep there will be SoM Termie pads latter but right now I am really looking to get 1850 pts done.


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wulfbrigade wrote:
Those are gonna be epic, cant wait to see em painted.

Cheers mate, I'll try my best to get them done in good time

Nice mate! Those ter mies look pretty intimating on the bases. Are you going to do up the thunder hammers like the other power weapons??

 Barksdale wrote:
Nice mate! Those ter mies look pretty intimating on the bases. Are you going to do up the thunder hammers like the other power weapons??

Hi Barksdale, yeah all the thunder hammers will be painted that chrome look on the veteran. I am pleased with how that came out and I think in a whole squad it sill look nice. Here is a pic of them all on their bases

Some WiP Razorback pics

WiP Razorback

WiP Razorback

The green and black is really striking. Cant wait to see it finished

Hi Guys Here is my SoM Razorback

SoM Razorback

Sweet mate! Very smooth! I'm gonna go ahead again and say you should do to some weathering, but it still looks great regardless if you prefer the cleaner look. Any chance you've got enough finished for a family photo? Or you gonna hold off for a bit??

Really nice work. Fast progress too. I'll be following this. Lime Green eh? You've made me a convert.

@Barksdale- Thanks again mate, I am playing around with some weathering ideas but so far I've not really found an effect that I feel looks right. I don't want to add damage or weathering just for the sake of it. I will kep trying some ideas and see how it goes.

@LeadLegion- Thanks mate pleased you like the thread, that really means a lot. Terminator pics to come, I am really pleased with them so far. I think they will be the nicest army addition yet.

Hi DakkaDakka fans ok so here is my Termie up date. I decided to fully complete one model, I tried doing a production line but realised I was not sure exactly how to paint them so I decided to get one done and the rest will be painted together.

Wow.

Stunning.

I should also say a big thank you to BossDrachenfels for giving me these lovely bases. Thanks dude

Some people asked about the power weapons for the terminators. I decided to go for a look I experimented with on a veteran I posted earlier. I am really pleased with the outcome. I must say one of the main reasons I decided to do it, was due to encouragement from you guys posting on here, so a big big thank you.

Last Angle


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Zambro wrote:
Wow.

Stunning.

Thanks Zambro mate that means a lot. How are the White Scars and Space Wolves going?

If anyone here wants to see some an AMAZING white scars force please check out Zambros WiP thread. beautiful models and a joy to look at. I cant wait to see the Space wolf attachment

Thanks man, I appreciate the point towards my thread. I finished 5 of the grey hunters today, i'll throw some pics up tomorrow.

Your THs are awesome. No doubt about it. If only I could replicate that onto my Chapter Master...

Zambro its really easy I promise. Its just wet blending from black to white. Make yourself a wet pallet. I made mine out of a Chinese take away container . I can show you how easy it is to make to if you want. Then simply have a blob of black a blob of white and a blob of grey. paint one corner of the weapon white the other black and the grey in the middle, then just merge the colours into each other. On a sword it would be a little different as you would have to paint halves of the blade. There loads of great wet blending power weapons on youtube "girlpainting" has a great vid called "how to paint power swords" that's what I used.

Thanks alot for the direction mate. I'll re-watch gildpainting's vids and give it a whirl. I throw a picture up on my blog when i'm done with it

Hi DakkaDakka gang jus a shot of all the Terminators basecoated

Ectus,

Hey dude, wow these are coming on really nicely!!! Can't wait to see them next.

The terminators look brilliant, and I that effect on the thunder hammers looks epic!!!

Sorry I've not updated on your thread for a while, but back on now.

 Boss Drachenfels wrote:
Ectus,

Hey dude, wow these are coming on really nicely!!! Can't wait to see them next.

The terminators look brilliant, and I that effect on the thunder hammers looks epic!!!

Sorry I've not updated on your thread for a while, but back on now.

Thanks Drachen. Really pleased to see your Badmoon thread again, your vehicles look amazing. I will be posting a mid way picture of the other Termies soon.

Oh and thanks for the bases

No worries dude, they suit those termies perfectly.

Hi DakkaDakka gang, here is just an update of the rest of the Termies at the paint black stage.

Ectus,

They will brilliant so far, looking forward to seeing the completed models.

Hi DakkaDakka gang, ok so the Termies are taking a little longer than I thought. I have however finished the Sargeant, I thought I would take a pic of him and the next pics I take will be of the whole squad finished. All your thoughts and onions are very welcome and massively appreciated as always

Sarg

Two so far

The gold in that shield, and that thunderhammer, look stunning!

Lovely. The details on the Thunder Hammers are especially impressive.

Wow, those are much better than my terminators, I'm honestly jealous.
Been a while since I posted on this thread but it's nice to see these are coming along nicely, good to say you've really nailed the white this time. Have to agree your Thunder Hammers are looking awesome, and I love your sergeant.
Bravo.

@Brother of Bone.- Thanks mate that's means a lot. Yeah I have worked a little harder on the white, so that's really nice to hear, thanks brother.

@LeadLegion.- Cheers Legion, The Thunder Hammers do take a bit of time so I'm really pleased people are enjoying them, In future projects I may try brighter colours. I wanted to keep these to black and white as the Chapter is already a very bold scheme. Its definitely a technique I will explore more though.

@Zambro.- Thanks mate, very kind of you, I read up about your tournament games. It seems like your scars are not only looking great but winning games too, congratulations It sounded like a really fun tournament with great opponents and armies. I must admit I really want to battle a lot more, its a part of the hobby I'm really keen to get more involved in.

 Brother Ectus wrote:
@Brother of Bone.- Thanks mate that's means a lot. Yeah I have worked a little harder on the white, so that's really nice to hear, thanks brother.

@LeadLegion.- Cheers Legion, The Thunder Hammers do take a bit of time so I'm really pleased people are enjoying them, In future projects I may try brighter colours. I wanted to keep these to black and white as the Chapter is already a very bold scheme. Its definitely a technique I will explore more though.

@Zambro.- Thanks mate, very kind of you, I read up about your tournament games. It seems like your scars are not only looking great but winning games too, congratulations It sounded like a really fun tournament with great opponents and armies. I must admit I really want to battle a lot more, its a part of the hobby I'm really keen to get more involved in.

No problem at all, thanks for the comment on my BT thread, not so often I get one of those nowadays
Well done on finally nailing it, I can tell you've worked harder. I just do two-tone on my white, it's loads of coats of Eshin Grey then Skull White, and it doesn't look half bad

 Brother Ectus wrote:
its a part of the hobby I'm really keen to get more involved in.

Take a look here. A 3 page compilation of UK gaming clubs. Chances are there is something near you to take part in

Ectus,

Awesome!!! Great job, is that gold the GW one?

Excellent work! Love the thunderhammers. Really smooth finishing. Nice job on the bases too. looking forward to seeing more!

Look fantastic FW have Iron Hands heads and bods for you to add to the squads

@ Zambro- Thanks dude, I have actually made a joint gaming board with Boss Drachenfels, check out his badmoon blog for pics of our board. its more just a case of finding time to battle.

@Boss Drachenfels- Yeah the gold is all done with GW metallics I'll post how I do it, its really easy but a couple of people have asked.

@Vourne- Thanks mate, I'm trying hard to get them done, then I think onto a dready next how are those amazing Salamanders coming on? Anyone who wants to see some amazing Salamanders have a look at Vournes in the showcase section they are amazing.

@Miss Dee- Thanks Dee yeah I do have quite a spattering of Ironhands parts in the force. I have found though due to the brightness of the army they don't seem to stand out very much like they do against the black of the ironhands. So I will add more and try and make them more apparent. I am also going to have quite a few servitors and techmarines in the army. My warlord will be a master of the forge too. Hopefully this will also help to strengthen the bionic look.

Dreads will be fun

Cool Sons of Medusa army Brother Ectus. It's always nice to see another Badab army floating around here.

Some really lovely, lovely stuff in this thread. Definitely copying your thunder hammer look.

Keep up the great work.

@Miss Dee- Thanks Miss, I'm looking forward to the dreads,. I'm actually going to paint up some servitors before then to assist my Techy and to add to the forces bio mech look.

@Ice Angel- thanks mate, yeah I like that the SoM took part in the Badab war. It would be great to battle along side some Badab forces one day.

@alanmckenzie- thanks mate that means a lot, I'm pleased this thread has given you some ideas. Cheak out "girlpainting" on YouTube for the way the force weapons are done.

The Termies should be finished this week. I have also just started adding text and scripture to all the purity seals in the army so look out for those to in future pics. It would be great to get all your lovely feed back as always.

So you going to do the master of the forge on a terminator base as from IA 10?

Nice mate! I was a little surprised when I saw that initial base coat of blue. I guess it makes getting that green quite a bit easier though! Really looking forward to the next update. When you gonna paint up that Stormraven???

Brother! Your marines are coming on really nicely, I'm seriously impressed, especially your blending.

I'm definitely subbed, and I'll be keeping close tabs on this I think.

Hi Dakka Dakka gang sorry for my lack of updates its just real life getting super busy

@- Miss Dee- I was not aware there was a master of the forge on terminator base, you say he has rules in IA 10? is there a forgeworld model for him? the master of the forge I have is the standard one on a normal base.

@- Barksdale- yeah the bluegreen basecoat is just to help build up to the green plus it gives nice natural shading. The storm raven still needs some building I plan to up load some pics on magnetising the top turret weapons soon.

@- Tigurius- Thanks Battle Brother, once again sorry for the lack of updates, the blending has been actually quite easy, I made a wet pallet out of an old take away container, I wuld be happy to show you how. I'll upload a few pics for that to as the thunder hammers seem to have been popular. Thanks so much for the sub and the kind words, it really means so much.

Once again sorry for the slow updates, Termies to come very soon, ill upload some wet pallet and blending stuff to, and the final built storm raven

Thanks again so much, all your comments mean so much.

the emperor protects

The rules are in ia 10 tho the 6th edition update is on the FW website.

As for the model is on a terminator base and has Iron Hands icons but they can be removed.


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http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IRON_HANDS_IRON_FATHER.html there is the link

Hi all, ok firstly HUGE apologies for my lack of posts., I have a good reason honest. I have just got my own flat (apartment) which is super exciting, sadly though its an utter wreck (its like an Ork boy has been living in it) so all my time and effort is going into getting it fixed up. I would like to say though this thread is important to me and so are my SoM. I really love all your posts and thank you all soooooo much. Once I am settled I will be in a great position for loads of updates.

Thanks Miss Dee I will be sure to have a look at that model cheers for letting me know.

Also as the thunder hammers seem to have been popular! I have just taken a few pics on how I made my "wet pallet" that I use for blending. Its made from a take away food container, some cut up sheets of jay cloth and a sheet of baking paper (sometimes called parchment paper)

Please not the plastic Chinese takeaway container is how we get them in the uk so if yours are cardboard it wont work (it does not have to be a food container) as long as its a shallow plastic tub or tray that's fine. However this is the best ever excuse to order takeaway or takeout.

jay cloth sheets

place sheets in tray and add just enough water so they are damp but pour out any excess water

cut a sheet of baking (parchment) paper to the size of the bottom of the tray

a very easy to make wet pallet

I do the same thing but with paper towels.

Just found this blog and its great stuff. Never seen a Sons of Medusa chapter before. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing whats next.

 deadmeat85 wrote:
I do the same thing but with paper towels.

Hi deadmeat, thanks for posting, yeah paper towels would work well to and probably be even cheaper plus you can buy huge packs of them! good idea


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 squall018 wrote:
Just found this blog and its great stuff. Never seen a Sons of Medusa chapter before. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing whats next.

Hi Squall, yeah this thread has slowed down a little as I am so busy at the moment. I know I keep saying it but the termie squad is almost done. I have now started to add text and scripture to the purity seals ect. If you look back at the models so far you'll notice they are plain right now. I will upload some pics. I would love to know if you all prefer plain seals or scripted. Thanks again for your very kind post pics to come soon.

Good to see your army hasn't totally stopped.

I made a wet palette, similar to yours. I used foam cut outs from some carry cases instead paper towels etc.

 Zambro wrote:
Good to see your army hasn't totally stopped.

I made a wet palette, similar to yours. I used foam cut outs from some carry cases instead paper towels etc.

Thanks Zambro, your IG look amazing it would be great to see a big group photo this your white scars? The full finish terie squad will be loaded up at the weekend... finally

Hi Guys ok so I have been taking all comments on board and I agree with barksdale, the vehicles looks too clean. I was really keen to add battle damage but couldn't find a technique that looked right. However I found a technique that I thought might work. I've tried it and here are the results. I realise this kind of addition will always split opinions, I personally am very pleased. I think the battle damage or signs of age and service look subtle but effective. I have also added scripture, litanies and text to the purity seals and parchments. I would really love your thoughts and opinions as always.

more damage

corner damage

Old Friends

areas that would get the most ware

Nice mate! Good to see you back!

@barksdale- Thanks mate, I'm a bit more busy now than I was but I always love updating this thread and reading your comments

Here is a picture of the scripture I have added- all comments, questions and thoughts welcome and appreciated.

I think the weathering looks great. Can I ask what technique you used? Is it just airbrushed on?

 Barksdale wrote:
I think the weathering looks great. Can I ask what technique you used? Is it just airbrushed on?

Hi mate the technique is actually very simple, no airbrushing needed at all. Its just two colours one dry brushed onto the other. I used a GW medium dry brush and brushed on (thunderhawk blue) I believe the colour has changed I think its now (skavenblight dinge) lightly dry brush over the areas you want to weather. Edges and corners always come out well, look to the places that would get lots of use like hatches and doors. Allow this dry brush coat to dry well there is no need to rush, its such a quick technique any way. Then simply dry brush over it again with leadbelcher. make sure when you dry brush on the leadbelcher its a lighter coat than before. Your don't want to totally cover the previous coat and that's it very simple.

a couple of tips

1- try out a patch on the underside of your vehicle first, its not really going to be seen so get your technique right there. Or if you have a old model try it on that to (although it helps if its the same colour as the one you want to paint.

2- make sure when you clean your brush between the two colours its really dry again for the silver coat. even a damp drush will spoil it.

3- this really does need to be a drybrush a standard brush just won't get the same effect (trust me I found out the annoying way)

and that's all there is to it, if you like you can then pick out the extreme edges with a line highlight of a brighter silver like "iron breaker"

How about spounging

 Miss Dee wrote:
How about spounging

Hi Dee, yep a sponge can make good damage effects to. Although I have never really tried it so I couldn't really offer tips on that technique. I'm sure there will be some great advice on DD for using sponges though. I might look into it, have you tried it?

I have seen it done.

Cut up some sponge amd dip into paint dab off the exess and just dab it on

Hi DD gang.. well FINALLY the terminator squad is done!!! they have taken me a while but I'm super happy with the results. Thoughts and comments welcome and appreciated as always.

Me like.

More of the gang

Smile for close Up's

Band of brothers


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 Miss Dee wrote:
Me like.

Thanks Dee, that's very kind of you, appreciate your posts as always.

Mate, they look great!

That sergeant's shield is wonderful. The eagle is stunning. I would like to know how you do your golds.

edit: grammar :(

 deadmeat85 wrote:
That sergeant's shield is wonderful. The eagle is stunning. I would like to know how you do your golds.

edit: grammar :(

Hi deadmeat thanks so much for your very kind words ok here is how I do the gold for my SoM, its the same through the entire army so far and for the sergeants shield. Ok first for all metallic colours I like to paint them onto black so I paint every metallic item on the model black.

so for the gold

1 base coat the entire area that will be gold a 1:1 mix of Gehennas gold and Rhinox hide
2 then wash it with a 1:1 mix of Rhinox hide and nuln oil
3 then once fully dry, apply a mid tone of Gehennas gold to all the raised area's being carful to leave the wash shading in the deep recesses
4 then highlight with Auric Armour gold, again just applied to raised areas
5 finally apply runefang steel as a final highlight but just to the very extreme edges, tips and corners

I should say I didn't come up with this technique myself I found it in an old whitedwarf. it was in the old paint range but I have given the names of the new paints and it works very well. I really hope this helps deadmeat, its a bit time consuming but well worth the effort. I would love t know how you get on.




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 Zambro wrote:
Mate, they look great!

Thanks Zambro mate, very kind of you. I love your new IG, what are your plans for them? will they become an even bigger army than your White Scars?

 Brother Ectus wrote:

 Zambro wrote:
Mate, they look great!

Thanks Zambro mate, very kind of you. I love your new IG, what are your plans for them? will they become an even bigger army than your White Scars?

Nah, just 2k points to get me through the LGS's campaign. I'm actually looking forward to coming back to my Scars.

Ah, good to see more fellow Sons players on here showing their army!

I went with the green and white scheme but your marines look hand over fist much nicer. Very clean and sharp, I especially like the Termies, you did a really good job on their hammers.

darkcloak wrote:
Ah, good to see more fellow Sons players on here showing their army!

I went with the green and white scheme but your marines look hand over fist much nicer. Very clean and sharp, I especially like the Termies, you did a really good job on their hammers.

Hi darkcloak, thanks for your post mate. It is indeed great to meet another SoM player on here, there are not many of us about and someone has to keep the Tyrant of Badab at bay eh?

You know what's funny. I'm going to have to convert it back to the old paint range lol. But I do believe I do something similar to the way you do it. When I paint up the Storm Shield on my Wolf Guard I'll post it up.

 deadmeat85 wrote:
You know what's funny. I'm going to have to convert it back to the old paint range lol. But I do believe I do something similar to the way you do it. When I paint up the Storm Shield on my Wolf Guard I'll post it up.

Sounds great deadmeat, it will be great for you to post it up here. Always good to fight along side the Sons of Russ

I have a tone more thunder hammers and storm shields if you want them

 Miss Dee wrote:
I have a tone more thunder hammers and storm shields if you want them

That's very kind of you but I already have a bits box that's full to bursting. I've already got to much stuff, thanks for the offer though Dee

 Brother Ectus wrote:

 deadmeat85 wrote:
You know what's funny. I'm going to have to convert it back to the old paint range lol. But I do believe I do something similar to the way you do it. When I paint up the Storm Shield on my Wolf Guard I'll post it up.

Sounds great deadmeat, it will be great for you to post it up here. Always good to fight along side the Sons of Russ

Lol. Actually I should have said count as Wolf Lord. I run my own Homebrew Chapter that are the Sons of Dorn. I just prefer the Space Wolves Codex to the Vanilla Codex. I'll start painting him up this week.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463976.page

here Is my Badab War army.

 Miss Dee wrote:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463976.page

here Is my Badab War army.

Hi Dee, I love your Carcharodons, a great badab army. My favourite is the storm talon, it looks great in that scheme. Will you take a full army photo?

When I get space to do it.

Im thinking of giving up 40k since i have not played


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Also need to photo the latist tac squad

Circled back around to see those rhino's and termies, they are some good looking mini's. Colour me jealous.

 Miss Dee wrote:
When I get space to do it.

Im thinking of giving up 40k since i have not played


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Also need to photo the latist tac squad

Well now 7th is out Dee we are all in the same boat. Now is the perfect time to give it a go.


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Pedro Kantor wrote:
Circled back around to see those rhino's and termies, they are some good looking mini's. Colour me jealous.

I'm pleased you like the thread Kantor, if it gives you any ideas then that's really cool.

Great looking army, wonderful marines. I love Sons of Medusa. Subscribed!

 Gorgrimm wrote:
Great looking army, wonderful marines. I love Sons of Medusa. Subscribed!

Thanks Gorgrimm that's really nice of you. I loved your Aegis Guard and Badmoon threads, which are you working on at the moment? It looks like you have two great looking armies. Your Ork vehicle conversions are fantastic.

Hi DakkaDakka gang, ok so with the Termies done I figured onto the next project (or two )

Yep I decided to work on not one but two dreadies at once an Ironclad and a Venerable. They are both so similar its seemed silly to do them one by one. The pics so far are from each of them built from base coat to mid tone to highlight. I did not add a pic of them at the undercoat stage as I always undercoat in a grey primer which is so close to the colour of the plastic it is hard to see the difference. I have had these models awhile, the twin linked auto cannon on the venerable dready I painted ages ago but I will repaint it. Its a forgeworld arm that was actually given to me by Boss Drachenfels so a big thanks to him for that.

Ironclad

both basecoated

Both at mid-tone stage

Highlight stage

Last pic for now- working on the nest stage.

Hey Ectus,

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, the terminators look absolutely brilliant. What a great unit!!!!!

2 dreadies at the same time makes a lot of sense when using an airbrush. Highlighting stage looks really really good.

So good to see this army com together. I will have an update for the orks you will face soon mate.

Keep the good work going.

Boss D

@- Boss Drachenfels Thanks mate, WOW your Ork vehicles look amazing, that army is looking so impressive, the weathering looks fantastic.

Here are some updates for the Ironclad Dreadie, I am currently on the "paint black stage"

Back of Dreadie so far

Final pic, side view

Brother - It's been a while since I last tuned into your blog, apologies!

Your vehicles look really good, the weathering is a nice, subtle touch - really transforms them from factory prototypes to battle-worn venerable vehicles.

As for the Terminators, seriously impressive stuff! Look forward to more updates!

Cannot wait for those Dreadies to be done

@- Boss Drachenfels. Thanks Boss your updates are great, your vehicles look amazing and I'm seriously loving that Trygon You guys have to see these Ork vehicles! and as for the Trygon, its one of the nicest Nid colour schemes I've seen!!!

@- Tigurius- Thanks Brother, I have been following your thread, that force is looking seriously cool. What's the latest on the Shadowsword? really looking forward to seeing it. Keep up the great work. If anyone want to see a really awesome ultramarines force check out Tigiurs's thread, very cool stuff there.

Here is just a small update the "paint black stage" is done on the Venerable Dreadie, from here on in they should come together quick fast. Lastly a massive thanks to all the people who read, post, subscribe and enjoy this thread. I never thought it would even go past two pages, so thanks for all your comments. As always all comments and thoughts are massively welcome, thanks DD gang.

Looking good mate! Looking forward to seeing all the details done up those dreads.

@- Barksdale, thanks mate perfect timing, just going to add an update pic, I hope you like mate.

Weapons to come soon

Oh I will add the head in soon to

Ectus, that dready is coming out really nice. Looks amazing, the base looks brilliant and can't wait to see the rest of the model.

Seriously impressed.

 Boss Drachenfels wrote:
Ectus, that dready is coming out really nice. Looks amazing, the base looks brilliant and can't wait to see the rest of the model.

Seriously impressed.

Thanks Boss, working hard to get them done, more to come soon.

Stunning mate. That green comes out so well, and you've picked out the details nicely. Are you going to magnetize the dread arms?

It is looking great. Always great to see a Sons of Mudusa army.

@- Barksdale- Thanks mate I'm pleased your enjoying the thread. To be honest I doubt I will magnetise the arms. Dreadnoughts are the one GW model where you can actually interchange the weapon arms really easily. I may magnetise them in the future but don't plan to right now. What are your thoughts mate?

@- Sageheart- Thanks Sageheart, I noticed you have a Sons of Luther force. Is that a DiY chapter? I have not heard of them. Are they a dark Angels successor? Thanks for your post mate, all posts and comments are hugely welcome.

Thanks again DakkaDakka gang

I suppose you don't need to magnetise the arms mate. I just like to magnetise everything, especially if you kitbash up some multi melta arms, or autocannon arms, which don't come with the kits. Makes it easy to mount them up too. It's also good to be able to switch between the flamer and melta gun on the ironclad.

Also, I never checked myself, but do the regular dread arms fit onto the ironclad and vice versa?

Awesome stuff Ectus! That dreadnaught is looking badass!

Really nice work on the chest piece too

@- barksdale. Hi mate I actually have the other arms built for him and I have the melta on those arms. I will get them painted up so that in the future I can change them in

@- Thanks Vourne, the gold of this force seems to have gone down well, I'm really pleased with the results.

Ok DD gang here they are my two dreadies, I'm pleased with the out come, all thoughts and comments welcome and very appreciated.

Dreadies

Dreadies

I love them good work

Looking good Looking forward to seeing more of this army, looks stunning. Chance of an army shot sometime soon?

Young Logan

They look great mate. Can we get some shots from some different angles (sides and back) though?

 Young_Logan wrote:
Chance of an army shot sometime soon?

This too mate!

Brother Ectus, they are painted really well. I really love the green on them. My only comment would be, I wish they had more green on them. The arms, despite being painted really well, don't actually look completed because they don't seem to match the bodies. Just my two cents.

Great stuff though, can't wait to see more.

Yeah i agree with IceAngel. The ML looks like it needs some more done to it. Maybe do the tips of the missiles in red and some silver highlights around the trim.

@- Miss Dee- Thanks Dee that's really kind, so pleased you like

@-Young_Logan- Thanks Logan yep I hope to take a full army pic soon. The only reason I haven't is because the pics are all on my phone. The camera is not all that good, I tried to take one but had to stand so far away you could barely see the models. I will borrow a decent camera and take a snap soon mate

@- Barksdale- Cheers mate, yep I have just taken a load of close up pics from more angles. I will up load them very soon.

@- Ice Angel- I totally understand that mate, the reason I've done them black is because when the army is all lined up its sooooo green like stupidly green. You will hopefully see what I mean in them army pic to come. I feel the army needs to be muted a little. I do agree with you though they do look a little unfinished, good point, maybe I'll try and add in some spot colours to enhance them. cheers mate.

@-deadmeat- Yeah your right mate, I think painting that trim silver would make a big difference, I have lots of stuff to add through the force like writing all the scripture on purity seals ect, I will add this to the to do list

Thanks so much, I'm blown away by all your comments and it honestly means loads to, more pics to follow of the thunderfire cannon I'm working on.

Ectus, seriously great work mate.

These dreads are brilliant, great scheme. I actually really like the black arms, kinda gives that *bolt them on in the heat of a battle* look. Black isn't always easy to work with and they have come out amazingly well.

I have seen this army many times 'in the flesh' and let me tell you all. Is better than the pics show. (I know, hard to believe).

Those are spectacular. Sons of Medusa are so strange in that they should look terrible with the neon green but the scheme is so nice to look at. Your tones are wonderful.

Do you do anything special for the bronze/copper work? I love how that looks and I am always trying to do metals better.

Thanks,

 Gorgrimm wrote:
Those are spectacular. Sons of Medusa are so strange in that they should look terrible with the neon green but the scheme is so nice to look at. Your tones are wonderful.

Do you do anything special for the bronze/copper work? I love how that looks and I am always trying to do metals better.

Thanks,

Hi Gorgrimm, thanks for your really nice comments. I did post how to do the gold earlier but I've pasted it into this reply to save you scrolling all the way back

so for the gold

1 base coat the entire area that will be gold a 1:1 mix of Gehennas gold and Rhinox hide
2 then wash it with a 1:1 mix of Rhinox hide and nuln oil
3 then once fully dry, apply a mid tone of Gehennas gold to all the raised area's being carful to leave the wash shading in the deep recesses
4 then highlight with Auric Armour gold, again just applied to raised areas
5 finally apply runefang steel as a final highlight but just to the very extreme edges, tips and corners

I should say I didn't come up with this technique myself I found it in an old whitedwarf. it was in the old paint range but I have given the names of the new paints and it works very well. I really hope this helps, its a bit time consuming but well worth the effort. I would love t know how you get on.

Thank you! I guess I should read the whole thread. Hehe.

I will give that a try, looks great.

 Gorgrimm wrote:
Thank you! I guess I should read the whole thread. Hehe.

I will give that a try, looks great.

Hehe no problem mate, it's a really simple technique, takes a bit of a long time but it's worth the extra effort. Definitely let us know how you get on dude. Feel free to post your pic here.

Thanks Brother Ectus, will do. I am in need of ordering some paints though, it'll be a bit before I can paint.