That little coral is going to steal the show, i just know it

Not Online!!! wrote:hahah. pink is in i heared.

It is... temporarily.

inmygravenimage wrote:Excellent indeed. What wash on that?

On the pink? Nothing. Just a couple coats of a non-Citadel pink shade I have.

youwashock wrote:Awesome spot color. They are really looking cool.

They won't stay pink. I do have some minis that will have pink on them at some point, but it won't be these ones. At least in great numbers.

In penance for lack of pink, here have some type of cephalopod.

That's beautiful, almost glows!

it is adorable, can you do another 50?

inmygravenimage wrote:That's beautiful, almost glows!

Thanks Graven! Part of that may be the sloppy paint on the base below it, which will be cleaned up. But I might consider some more glowing sea creatures in the future, it does look cool!

Not Online!!! wrote:it is adorable, can you do another 50?

Lol tbh I could easily make up an army of these little guys, they were super easy to paint.

I did warn the pink wasn't gonna last (I have a few pink barnacles that I'm gonna end up doing cream remaining).




Note also the seaweed with the little "peas" in it or whatever they are. I had a lot of fun painting that little thing!

Still turned out good i 'd say.

The tiny barnacles and sea critters are glorious, even if they are mostly no longer pink!

Not Online!!! wrote:Still turned out good i 'd say.

amazingturtles wrote:The tiny barnacles and sea critters are glorious, even if they are mostly no longer pink!

Thanks both of you! Just a small update, I did the gems on belly armour. I only photographed the ones that are most exposed.

Really cool. Lovely details and slimy slug!

let's be real gwyn, the slimy snail is the real eyecatcher

jk the gems look faboulus !

How about some more sea food!

can i get some bread to that dish?

Nice one.

I stake a claim on that clam.

All those little bits look so cool and bring nice color variations onto the bases. Very cool additions!

Been slow work as I focus on my quickly upcoming bar exams.

But I did get their boots done!

Ace! Love them. Colours are great, what a set!

This unit is coming along great. Your bold color choices really stand out against their pale skin.

I have to echo the praise for your color scheme. The pale skin and the bold colors make for a good contrast.
I really like all the little sea bits.

Looking good Gwyn, all the sea critters are cool extras to have. I certainly love the pink on them! I also think these are turning out to be your best work yet! No pressure to finish them as such. Best of luck with the exams

Coming along Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks everyone! We're in the home stretch now for them.



Did the handles, cleaned up the skin. Just need to do the bases and the varnish!

Looking fantastic! And the little bits of base flair are super fun.

Great colour scheme on them,they really pop. The orange and blue is especially striking. A great looking unit.

To say those turned out well is an understatement.
Pink snail dude though probably my favourite

Excellent work all around, especially on all of the little fishes and sea beasts, and the bases are already looking nice and bottom of the sea mucky

youwashock wrote:Looking fantastic! And the little bits of base flair are super fun.

Thanks! The bits of basing fishies that come with the Idoneth kits are super fun. One of the best parts of collecting Idoneth!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Great colour scheme on them,they really pop. The orange and blue is especially striking. A great looking unit.

Thank you! They're intended to be a super colourful break from my Nighthaunt and Necrons, opportunities to play with blues and oranges I don't use otherwise. I'm enjoying them a lot!

Not Online!!! wrote:To say those turned out well is an understatement.
Pink snail dude though probably my favourite

You're too kind! And 100% correct, the little cuttlefish definitely steals the show!

amazingturtles wrote:Excellent work all around, especially on all of the little fishes and sea beasts, and the bases are already looking nice and bottom of the sea mucky

I have ambitions of one day doing that fancy water resin effects along the bottom of the bases, but these will do for now

Until then, they're finished!

Eye level from the front


Eye level from behind


Gaming view from the front


Gaming view from the rear (aka my view)

These look completely awesome. Love the basing, it's a great touch.

Thanks for your kind words as always, graven!

The next project should comparably fly by!



So far I've just got some base levels down. The metal is a bit TOO heavily weathered at this point, but I also intend to hit it with Agrax and then drybrush metallics over it to bring it back. Otherwise, this is the first base coat of purple and bone. Other than the green eyes and tubes, everything else you see will be worn metal!

is that.... a mechanical hormagaunt ?
I like it

The fishy elves came out great Gwyn, a suitable break from the grim darkness! You really seem to have upped your painting with these guys, lots of cool details, I especially like the fade on the orange tassels. The only tiny bit that bothers me is the bits of basing material on the sides of the base. A quick scrape with your knife or smooth with a file would sort that out a treat before painting the rim. Can’t wait to see the Murder Buckets finished too, such cool minis

Not Online!!! wrote:is that.... a mechanical hormagaunt ?
I like it

Oh man, I wish we could take these guys in units of 20! But I guess that's what the Flayed Ones are for.

gobert wrote:The fishy elves came out great Gwyn, a suitable break from the grim darkness! You really seem to have upped your painting with these guys, lots of cool details, I especially like the fade on the orange tassels. The only tiny bit that bothers me is the bits of basing material on the sides of the base. A quick scrape with your knife or smooth with a file would sort that out a treat before painting the rim. Can’t wait to see the Murder Buckets finished too, such cool minis

A file! That's a great idea, that's been bothering me too, and my knife hasn't been doing a great job cleaning it up afterwards. Thanks for the compliment on the tassels! They're not quite as bright as the ones I did ages ago when first trying the scheme, on the Soulrender, so I'll have to try and brighten them up for the higher-ranked miniatures. I'm quite pleased with them, my painting really has improved so much from just a few years ago when I started this thread. And it's all due to you guys, this community, for your helpful tips and motivation!

Body is finished! First layer of "dots" placed on the purple, and the second layer placed on the facemask.





I'm gonna have to put some older models back on the queue to get this great weathered metal look, it's such an improvement over the boring clean steel look!

That's ... Greviously exciting

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's ... Greviously exciting

Well played.
they will turn out nicely.

The Elves were great Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

No worries, a nice wide needle file is what I use to remove basing overspill. It generally works well even at removing large overhangs. The rusty Murder Buckets are progressing nicely, the metal work is really nicely done

inmygravenimage wrote:That's ... Greviously exciting

That's a pun!

Not Online!!! wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's ... Greviously exciting

Well played.
they will turn out nicely.

I'm enjoying them!

Captain Brown wrote:The Elves were great Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, I'm VERY pleased with them!

gobert wrote:No worries, a nice wide needle file is what I use to remove basing overspill. It generally works well even at removing large overhangs. The rusty Murder Buckets are progressing nicely, the metal work is really nicely done

Thanks for the compliment, I'm quite happy with the weathered metal!

I've finished the purple and bone masks, starting on the green!

I was confused by the "murderbuckets" description until I saw the models. Now I understand. Also, teehee. Nice progress.

those green eyes
I like... obviously gwyn

Aaaaand, knocked 'em out!

They look fantastic.

I missed your monolith, did it ever get painted up? Wanted to see the finished stone block mod

Excellent, shiny glowy botty!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:They look fantastic.

Thanks Warboss!

Sazzlefrats wrote:I missed your monolith, did it ever get painted up? Wanted to see the finished stone block mod

It did! Check it out at this link here.

inmygravenimage wrote:Excellent, shiny glowy botty!

Thanks Graven! I didn't take the photos at a good angle to see the glowy energy ball in the centre of the body. It was a bit tricky to paint tbh, because of the arms in the way. But for a cheap chaff unit, I'm quite happy with them!

The murder buckets look amazing Gwyn. Job well done.
Especially the faces and eyes look amazig.

Lovely murder bots, that green glow is very nice along with the brighter pupil.

Hey who wants a bonus?

Say hi to Johnny, the High School Quarterback from Last Night On Earth.

"With a flash of his smile, Johnny Miller can have nearly anyone eating out of his hand. The Quarterback of the high school football team, Johnny is one of the most popular kids in school. Though he was held back a year by Principal Gomez for failing nearly every class, he sees it as a golden opportunity to keep playing football in the hopes of getting a scholarship."




I didn't go off the official art for him, which has him in a blue jacket not a red one. But I definitely kept his sexy white undershirt that he wears in the rest of the art, including on the board game cover!

Johnny here is a tough fighter, winning fights on ties (normally Zombies win on ties), and he can use his good Football skills to continue moving past zombies after he's fought them. Like all the teens in the game, although he can't take as many hits before dying, he can heal instead of moving.

And on to the next project! Which is the Soul Wars understrength unit of Grimghast Reapers.

Murderbuckets look cool, your OSL is really working well now. The fish elves were a great unit too - are there plans for a full army?

Good luck with the crappy join lines ! also, I have stolen your cotton wool idea for my Forest of the Dead bases for Brimstone/Forbidden Fortress so thanks for the inspiration!

Maharg wrote:Murderbuckets look cool, your OSL is really working well now. The fish elves were a great unit too - are there plans for a full army?

Thanks Maharg! So far I have the Start Collecting (these guys, 3 eels and a Soulrender), the King, and a Soulscryer. I would love to expand this into a playable Age of Sigmar force. Unfortunately Idoneth are kinda monobuild right now, we'll see if the point changes shift that away from "only eels and sometimes some Sharks to switch things up".

inmygravenimage wrote:Good luck with the crappy join lines ! also, I have stolen your cotton wool idea for my Forest of the Dead bases for Brimstone/Forbidden Fortress so thanks for the inspiration!

Honestly, I don't plan on fixing the join lines. These were built gifts from a friend, and I'm out of primer to re-prime the green stuff that would be required to fix the join lines. Plus they're not battle legal for Age of Sigmar, so I'd only use them for Warcry.

I'm glad to see my cotton wool idea is spreading! An IRL friend is also using it for some of his D&D minis now, it's really quite easy and effective!

Speaking of easy and effective, how about some wooden handles?

So these guys have this little trim on their coats, a ribbon of sorts. So instead of doing that in skin, I've picked it out with red! Should help these guys stand out interestingly.



As you can see I've already started on the next colour, which is the bronze. But I forgot to bronze up the studs on the red ribbon! And tbh the red is way too bright, I'm gonna give it a wash or two to bring it back down.

Johnny looks like he's ready to smash some heads with that bat, I like that you added the freehand to the back of the jacket. Ghostly apparitions are coming along nicely.

Very nice stuff! Spooky boys are shaping up nicely.

Thanks Yorkright and Flapjack! I do love doing ghosties.

I dulled down the red and finished the aged bronze. Check it out!

Nice Johnny! I like the necron kitbash lads

That looks great Gwyn!

Oh, nice! The crud on the weapons of those ghosts looks great.

Great start on the Nighthaunt and Johnny looks great, suitably 50's jock style

The nighthaunts are looking good, the weathering on their weapons is lovely… but are you sure you’re not going to fix those joins? What were gw thinking with that placement?

The weapons are great! Realy nicely weathered.

really loving those necrons. the purple collars are a great contrat to the bone armour. really nice job!

Yay, more ghosts from gwyn.
Always worth a look

So I just finished my licensing exams! Hopefully a lot of painting in the month before I start my articling (like an apprenticeship for lawyers, at least here in Canada. I know you don't have those in the States, not sure about elsewhere).

Meanwhile, have some mossy rocks and stuff.

Congrats and happy Canada Day also! These look like a jolly start to more ghosties.

Thanks Graven! I put the skin on, and now all of a sudden the look way closer to finished!

Great job on finishing your exams, hope the whole process was not too nerve inducing.

Those flesh cloaks are sickening...in the best possible way!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
I put the skin on, and now all of a sudden the look way closer to finished!

They are looking closer Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Great job on finishing your exams, hope the whole process was not too nerve inducing.

Those flesh cloaks are sickening...in the best possible way!

Oh completely nerve inducing, but over thankfully!



Bloodied up! Except I missed a bit of skin cloth over one arm so that hadn't dried yet, will blood it after. And also forgot to do some of the blindfolds. *sigh* soon.

Vile. I heartily approve.

Thanks Graven! Super small update today, fixed up the blood issues I mentioned above, and started the gradient underlying the purple.

Spooky boys are shaping up nicely!

Congrats in finishing the exams! And re: painting the ghosts, one will always miss stuff, it's the way of the universe to tell us, we aren't mindful enough

Aaaaand, they're done!

really good them, like the misty base's

Spooky beggars, love 'em!

Interesting colour choices Gwyn, very striking with the skin cloaks. I really like the patina on the weapons.

Do they wear the skin because they miss their corporeal bodies, or to mock and terrify their fleshy opponents?

Well done Gwyn,

Cheers,

CB

Nice work, as always. I agree with Thumpingbear, the patina is spectacular.

bobbuilder wrote:really good them, like the misty base's

Thanks bob!

inmygravenimage wrote:Spooky beggars, love 'em!

Thanks Graven!

Thumpingbear wrote:Interesting colour choices Gwyn, very striking with the skin cloaks. I really like the patina on the weapons.

Do they wear the skin because they miss their corporeal bodies, or to mock and terrify their fleshy opponents?

The latter, they're going for the pure terror. I'm aiming for a horror movie shock-reaction.

Captain Brown wrote:Well done Gwyn,

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain!

JoshInJapan wrote:Nice work, as always. I agree with Thumpingbear, the patina is spectacular.

Thanks Josh! Nihilakh Oxide sometimes feels like cheating, but it works.

At my roommate's request, I'm focusing the rest of the month on some board game minis before I move away. On that note, please meet Billy, the Sheriff's Son, from Last Night on Earth. He's pictured in his live-action photographs as a dirty blonde teen wearing a red t-shirt with some sort of white emblem on it, with a green-tinged dark coat over top. I think I pulled that off!

He's very cool, but I just love that chipped petrol can!

Thanks Graven! I had a lot of fun with that. Gotta say, mixing a little paint into some furniture antiquing medium is ace for easy greasy weathering.

I literally couldn't get the camera to focus on the next guy, just a zombie. But I took literally 50 photos if not more, and not a SINGLE one was her face in focus! Ah well.

Nice zombie.


Yeah cameras sometimes wierd .

Good work on the spooks, and the board game minis. I agree with graven, that can looks really cool with the chipped paint!

Just try taking the shot from further away and then cropping it?

If you took 50 shots, what is one more?

Cheers,

CB

I read something from a nature photographer. They had 50 rolls of shots of great white sharks, and two shots they liked. Persistance!
Billy looks ace.

The little detailing on the T-Shirt looks great, good to see more of the board game minis getting paint.

Really nice work Gwyn! Certainly better photos than I find I pull off haha. Really like the zombie skin tone, looks manky!

Proof I'm still alive! 2 and a half months of articling haven't done me in yet! I haven't had time to paint until recently though, now that I've managed to find my working groove.

So now that I'm set up, next on the table is a re-do of my old Lychguard armed with shields and hyperphase swords!



Primed and ready to go, though one of them I seem to have lost the back-spine during the move. Will be fun doing these guys up with my new blended blade technique, which I intend to also bring across the main body of the shields as well!

Oh nice, gwyn, same scheme as all the other necrons of you?

Also did you get a new camera?

Looking forward to see what you do with the Lychguard. Are they on 25 or 32mm bases? It is amazing what the extra 7mm of base does to make them look more imposing.

Not Online!!! wrote:Oh nice, gwyn, same scheme as all the other necrons of you?

Also did you get a new camera?

Yup, these guys I painted years ago in my gakky old version of my normal scheme, so they've been stripped to be updated!

No new camera, I take my WIP photos on my phone though. However I've moved back in with my parents for the year (paying off debt and avoiding Toronto rent), and my mother happens to be a photographer so I might get her to take photos of finished minis with all her professional equipment!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Looking forward to see what you do with the Lychguard. Are they on 25 or 32mm bases? It is amazing what the extra 7mm of base does to make them look more imposing.

Now that you mention it, these guys are old models on the 25mm, looks like they need 32mm now! I'll have to rebase them! I might even have to order in some 32mm bases. It's funny, you can actually see both the older 25mm and the new 32mm in different pictures on the Games Workshop webstore page for the Lychguard!

Slow slow process.

I realized that before I could do the green, I had to do the gold because of the gold disk at the centre of the shield. And so:

I'd say you can be sofar quite proud in regards to their looks.
But then again necrons look amazing always kinda

Coming along nicely Gwyn. Those bases do look comically small though! good luck sourcing new ones and finishing these guys too

Undead Space Skeletons are looking great, hope you can find some time for progress!

Thanks for the kind words everyone! It's slow work, they keep me busy. Young lawyers aren't famous for free time.

Here's the green well on it's way to completion, alongside my reference scytheguard. I think it's coming along well!

Green is finished (except the OSL that has to wait until the rest of the mini is done).

Ooh. Shiny. Borg vibes to that crackly green.

Very good looking indeed gwyn!

Love that green, and the chest glow is killer.

It will make the army much brighter with the silver armor instead of the traditional black and green lines.

CB

Necrons are coming along great, glowy painted bits look cool!

Nice glow these guys have developed!

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

I'm quite happy with the green. I don't think it's quite as smooth as I got it on the scythe lychguard, but it's still pretty good.

And in my opinion, the faces came out better!

The faces do indeed look great, nice crisp highlights that really pop.

Thanks Graven! I really am quite happy with them, the highlights came out really smoothly and not blocky.

I'm also happy with the more dappled purple that I'm switching to, I think this proves that it will work on larger surfaces.

Snazzy, the green and purple work really well together.

Definitely a unique scheme Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Agreed, very lexcorp which floats my boat
Or barge.

Purple suits em well.
Also fitting colour for elites

Wow, the green and purple is great together. Really nice work on the green glow effect, and the white skulls are a nice focus. Top colour choices and execution all round.

Very cool glow effect and the purple looks lush. I have some necrons from Indomitus I need to paint up, need to read up on how to do these cool glow paint jobs!

Thanks all! I'm enjoying the iterations on my scheme.

The next stage doesn't look all that special, because they were already sprayed silver. But I cleaned it up, washes and highlights. Unlike some of my other models, I'm not gonna be weathering these guys or any characters. They're nobility, they don't get dirty!

Looking good Gwyn, the glow is fantastic! You can never underestimate the clean up stage. The nobility being less weathered makes sense, good luck finishing them up

Thanks gobert!

It's always a challenge to hunt down all the little flyaway spots of paint and clean them up. There's always one or two that get missed and haunt me forever!



Little red details. Then OSL, then varnish, then I need to carve them off the bases and rebase! Am I missing anything?

Gwyn,

If you are going to rebase them, I might tweak some of the ones that are looking down and have them a little more upright.

They are nobility, and not regular grunts after all.

My two cents,

CB

The red detail looks really good

I haven't been paying attention to the Necrons in the past 10 years. Really like the newer models, and the paint looks good too

Captain Brown wrote:Gwyn,

If you are going to rebase them, I might tweak some of the ones that are looking down and have them a little more upright.

They are nobility, and not regular grunts after all.

My two cents,

CB

You're so right CB. Doubly so after my sister got me a little something for them for Christmas (see below).

Not Online!!! wrote:The red detail looks really good

Thanks Not Online!!!

BlackMetallic wrote:I haven't been paying attention to the Necrons in the past 10 years. Really like the newer models, and the paint looks good too

Yeah they got a much-needed update these last couple of years, some real interesting models. And even the 7-8 year old parts of the range are good!

My sister got me a pack of 3d printed thingamajigs, amongst them these two things, which I immediately tinted and painted! But now I'm definitely gonna have to do some cutting, carving, and reposing, because none of my guys had a pose that really made sense with an active shield. No excuse now!

Woah! They look really cool, good luck finding suitable minis for them

Cor, that's so green it's super green!

Thanks gobert and graven! They're sized to be slightly larger than a Lychguard's shields. The hardest part is finding ways to have them "projected" in front of the shields with a gap in between them. I'm testing out a few things, will report with pictures once I have my 5 guys reposed (lots of waiting for glue to dry and then cutting it up again because it didn't work properly!)

I think I pulled it off folks!





What do you think?

Bloody brilliant. Great job.

Wow that looks ace, nice one!

Nice job on those energy shields!

Reposed murderbots look amazing, great stance and the shield effect works really well!

Awesome Gwyn.

Just awesome!

The standing pose makes them look like a heavy infantry unit. The custom shields will make them stand out even more.

My two cents,

CB

Those shields look cool! Nice work!

You know guys, I've been working on this one unit since I started my new job at the beginning of August. So it's taken me a LONG time to finish 5 little guys, but I gotta say, they came out fantastic. Plus, I had the benefit of my mother's professional photography skills and equipment, which has led to some really fantastic photographs of the finished models!

The Whole Crew


Individual Shots








I'm still especially proud of that last guy, who I've posed to be coolly raising his shield to intercept a shot as he walks forward. The illusion of the energy shield appearing in mid-air before his shield is exactly what I was dreaming of, and I'm still a little in awe that I was able to pull it off--twice, actually, because I dropped him and it broke off the first time I did it!

That is super cool. The energy shields are just magnificent.

Well these look just magic. Great job.

Hell yeah they look rad as sugar honey ice tea.

Very well done indeed. The blades and shield look ace, and contrast well with the purple.
That explosion against the force field, though.

That's a great looking unit. I'm amazed that you got purple and green to go together so well.

Nice unit of Necrons, I'm glad you have something nice to show from months of work.

I Say gwyn, you can be quite proud of them.

Nice work Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you so much everyone for you kind words. It means a lot to have such support from the community!

It's time to see if my Flesh Tearer scheme works on something Primaris sized.

Ooh, that's... bloody nice.

I'd say that looks promising Gwyn.

Good to see the Flesh Tearers coming back. They look to be working so far

Looks good. I like the high-contrast highlights.

Yeah that looks great, tear that flesh!

Great start on those Primaris! Although it brings back flashbacks of the horror getting them on their flight stands

inmygravenimage wrote:Ooh, that's... bloody nice.

Always with the pun!

Not Online!!! wrote:I'd say that looks promising Gwyn.

I hope so! It's never until I start getting a few of the details in that the miniatures start coming together for me, until that point I'm just barging forward in a panic hoping it comes out ok!

gobert wrote:Good to see the Flesh Tearers coming back. They look to be working so far

I've expanded my Space Marines collection a bit so there's gonna be a lot more Flesh Tearers in the future!

youwashock wrote:Looks good. I like the high-contrast highlights.

Thanks youwashock! I'm going for generally higher-contrast on these guys as I settle on a scheme for the Flesh Tearers. We'll see if the high contrast takes a way a bit of the menace of the dark red-and-black scheme. As you can see in the images below, I also went higher contrast on the black, tried bringing a tiny bit of blue hint into the highlights. Not sure if it came through at all, and a lot of it on the backpack is going to be re-tinted red from OSL anyways. We'll see. We're always experimenting, always iterating. Always improving.

Olthannon wrote:Yeah that looks great, tear that flesh!

Thanks Olthannon!

Viterbi wrote:Great start on those Primaris! Although it brings back flashbacks of the horror getting them on their flight stands

Don't worry Viterbi, I have plans... Those curved flight stands are absolutely awful aren't they! I want to avoid using them whenever I can.

As I hinted above, the black is done. I might have gone too light with the highlights, a lot of it really looks more grey than black. But we'll see how it looks once it's all together, I'm not panicking yet.

That's excellent, no need to panic. I think you've got your colours spot on the black works and red is exactly right. Kudos.

Looking good. Scheme works on primaris.

Fantastic looking Crons, digging the purple armour and the green shielding. Those Flesh Tearers are looking sweet too.


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Thanks for the page carryover, TH!

Y’all were right it looks better now that the tertiary steel is added. Each detail will bring it together from here!

Complete normal response for the average Hobby painter i am afraid .

They look snazy btw

You’ve got to love it when a plan comes together! It’s always funny how minis can look a bit off to the painter until the last few steps, then Whammo! Push on to the end now Gwyn, and good luck with those stands everyone complains about

Thanks Not Online and gobert. Luckily we're at the phase now where we do the exciting details that I love doing, so I expect the pace of updates to increase the next few days (plus I have a few days off work!)

To start off the details, I decided the Sergeant's skull markers are going to be gold. There's no gold elsewhere on the minis, unlike the Tacticals who had some imperial eagle iconography, so he'll stand out.

I like that, it's a subtle detail (I mean, by SM standards) and really stands out

The gold is a nice touch. You get that officer to stand out just a little, so he's a target for enemy snipers.

Good job!

Thanks all! Yes, I figure if he's gonna wear a helmet, he should at least have a helmet with a nice "laser sight here" marker on the forehead. My Tacticals I put a big red blood drop on the Sgt's head! So there'll always be something.

Next is bullet casings. I actually love painting bullets, something about this particular brass recipe is just so satisfying!



What do you guys think, do you think the black panels on the side of the gun need some freehand?

Control panels! What do these do? Who knows! How do they use them with both hands full of guns that don't appear to have holsters? No idea!

Freehand is a great plan and I love the blue.

A bit of freehand wouldn’t go amiss on the guns. My Blood Angels use red stripes for kill markings, maybe these guys have similar ideas?

Hm, stripes are an interesting thought. I'll think it over while I do more details. Like these purity seals! I went with a green wax (not quite finished), but I'm quite happy with the scroll itself!

Very nice, second the tally marks!
but i am a bad (read chaotic) influence

Seems some freehand is a popular opinion! I think I'll do it!

In the meantime, I finished the green wax and did some nice green eye lenses! Oh, and these are now officially Squad 2!

Shoulder pads, and starting on the OSL from the backpacks!

Freehand on the Assault Bolters! You guys were very right.

Some blood drops:


Some stripes and tally marks (which sadly are very hard to see from most angles):


And some text:

Nice, holds up well under super zoom.

Great work on all those details! And with the tally mark, one stripe hopefully equals at least 100 heretics

Nice! Getting some great Rogue Trader vibes from the tally and “FAITH”, needs some naughty words for the full vibe though

Do I spy some OSL from the jet pack too?

You spy correctly Gobert! I had done some dull OSL but decided it needed to be brighter!

Here, the rear view finished:



Now just to base…

Very nice, fiery and bright.

Hot stuff Gwyn!

Impressive gwyn, really well done!

Nice OSL on the exhaust. Looks very cool.

inmygravenimage wrote:Very nice, fiery and bright.

Thanks! Let's say there's a reason it's brighter than the previous OSL backpacks.

gobert wrote:Hot stuff Gwyn!

Pun! Booooo

Not Online!!! wrote:Impressive gwyn, really well done!

Thanks Not Online

Olthannon wrote:Nice OSL on the exhaust. Looks very cool.

Thanks Olthannon, I'm really glad I went back and brightened it up.

So.

I said I had a plan for basing.

And it's been a bit of a pause, because I wanted to have it totally ready for the big reveal.

But that time is now!

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I'm so glad I have an airbrush to do this! And now you can see why some of the OSL placement on the legs and similar seemed strange before.

Ok, these are some of your best work Gwyn!
Especially the fire.
Seems like i really should get a airbrush

That is superb. The thrust looks magnificent. Great job

No way! Damn that reveal was worth it. They look straight up bad ass. The exhaust flame is absolutely spot on.

They look great, love the smoke trails!

I did think the OSL on the legs was a bit extreme, and now it makes total sense! Great work Gwynn

Nice work Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Woof



This is "Old Betsy" from Last Night on Earth. Quite happy with the variation in her coat!

And next, Sheriff Anderson, one of the playable characters in Last Night on Earth!

Love Betsy. Dogs are always best in zombie games

The dog turned out really adorable. I also Like the sheriff.

Loving those jump packs. And the names.

The smoke and OSL on those marines is really well done Gwyn. Doggy is nicely done too, great natural looking colours

Thanks all! The Sheriff is kinda meh, but I'm super excited for the next model on the line, because we have ourselves a LIBRARIAN!




Which means a whole lot of blue!

Ooh, he’s starting well, is he doing the No1 pose or pointing though?

I see it as pointing, in my mind he's giving orders, though it could also be a "you next!"

Sorry for the lack of posts, I went on a short vacation!

But I'm back, and we're GOLDEN!

Seems to get along quite nicely, even with vacation.

That gold is going great guns!

Thanks all!

Next we start to bring in the Flesh Tearer colours. Outside robe is black!





Tiny bit of cross-hatching to see if it brings some texture to the robe. Unsure whether it worked, but I don't hate it.

Keeping on trucking, we got the second Flesh Tearer colour added, and just details to go from here!

Welcome back.

Hope you had a good holiday! The red on his inner gown is really cool. Now you’ve got the OSL down, will he be getting any psychic glow effects?

nice robe Gwyn, really like it!

Thanks all!

 gobert wrote:
Hope you had a good holiday! The red on his inner gown is really cool. Now you’ve got the OSL down, will he be getting any psychic glow effects?

Not a psychic glowy OSL, because my friend who I got it from built him with a pointing finger instead of a "casting finger". There will be a force sword OSL though!

Lots of small bits done! Green done, chapter badge done, purity seals done, OSL on the backpack done!



The front seal on his leg is supposed to read "Fear" but I had difficulty getting it so small.



The scroll on his shoulderpad says "Chord". That one came out legible at least!



This view the image is a little blurry unfortunately.

I decided against the green bits on the sword, I'd rather do a red-black force blade than a green force blade, because the green blade would make me think of my Necron scheme. So that'll be changed.

He’s moving along at a good pace. His eyes look nice and glowy

Looking good Gwyn! The seals are particularly nice.

Loving the build up of all the layers.

He's looking great. I really like the black faceplate on the blue helm. It's a nice touch

Thanks all! I'm quite happy with the eyes and the black faceplate. I saw someone somewhere did a librarian with a different-coloured faceplate and loved how that looked.

SWORD!!!! And also an extra blood drop on his knee.

Looking lovely. There's a sort of sharp cartoony vibe to your work that I love.

Really nice work with the magma sword, it's a great contrast and the colours look really good.

One of your best minis Gwyn.

They eyes contrast perfectly with the dark faceplate, the sword is simply fantastic and so are his innerrobes!

A really well done modell!

A little bit of OSL, finish up the lighting, and we have lift-off! Wait no, he doesn't have a jetpack. Ah, nevertheless.

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Quality osl there

Brilliant job on the OSL Gwyn, the base is ace.

Get's better and better Gwyn!

He needs a jet pack then lovely work on the sword, the glow and OSL are really nice

Gwyn,

The Librarian is progressing nicely.

Cheers,

CB

inmygravenimage wrote:Quality osl there

Thanks Graven! There's one angle that I'm not happy with the OSL, but honestly I think it's better than I initially thought.

Olthannon wrote:Brilliant job on the OSL Gwyn, the base is ace.

Thanks Olthannon! I'm really happy with the little flowers, I've decided that one of my next projects is going to be to pay more attention to bases.

Not Online!!! wrote:Get's better and better Gwyn!

Every miniature I try and do better, still quite a lot to learn!

gobert wrote:He needs a jet pack then lovely work on the sword, the glow and OSL are really nice

Hahaha, clearly I need to buy more of those jet pack exhaust flight stands then eh? I do have another 4 Inceptors to do, and some Chaos Raptors that I can try and find similar things.

Captain Brown wrote:Gwyn,

The Librarian is progressing nicely.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB!

The next project is a little more down-to-earth: another unit of 10 Necron Warriors. For these ones, I've decided to use spare barrels from the new warrior kit to update some older warriors. A simple little swap, but it should help a lot to make these guys look more modern!

Great work on the librarian! The sword and OSL are very cool and effective.

Neat idea with the weapon swap, you wouldn't know they were older models at first glance.

One more alteration before I get painting: a base decoration, and two of them are gonna get these funky lightning blasts for the gauss blasts!

Oh, that's neat. Printed?

Yup, part of a whole group of 3D printed parts my sister gave me for christmas. You've already seen some - the Lychguard shields and the jetpack stands!

Paint is starting to go on!

That really makes me want a 3d Printer even more. realistically the only issue to me is space.

they look great with the "energy beams" on gwyn.

Purple's a Poppin!

Those gauss blasts are really cool, it even looks like the blades at the end of the barrel help keep them in place. Also another excellent opportunity for OSL!

Gwyn, those blasts are fantastic, will look amazing painted up.

The purple is really bright, nice one.

Thanks all!

I don't have a 3D printer, these are all pieces I buy off other people, or I get 3D printing shops to make for me.

Faces and green done! Next is to touch up the silver.

Those blasts and the green really look great gwyn.

Thanks Not Online!

I finished up the silver (which is a little aged), and started the basing. Almost done!

Excellent stuff. Those base crystals are really tasty.

Yeah they look great Gwyn. Nice finishing touches with the metal tarnish etc.

Sheesh, Gwynn, that speed is on another level and a really good result ontop of it.

Thanks all!

Bases done, just OSL left.

Super snazzy, and you can see how well the glow will work.

Thanks Graven! They're finished up, and I think the glow worked really well! Especially the glow on the legs from the crystals on the ground.

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They turned out really well Gwyn! I love the OSL and the gauss effect, but the shine on the crystals is the winner for me!

Awesome and scary creepy robots!

Yeah really nice, full on without being ott - a tough balance but you nailed it.

gobert wrote:They turned out really well Gwyn! I love the OSL and the gauss effect, but the shine on the crystals is the winner for me!

Thanks gobert! I love painting those crystals, glad you like them too! If I was a little better I would do wet blending on them, but not quite there yet.

muette wrote:Awesome and scary creepy robots!

Thanks muette!

inmygravenimage wrote:Yeah really nice, full on without being ott - a tough balance but you nailed it.

Thanks graven! I'm glad my amateur eye is starting to get to that point.

Looks like there's a workaround for the issue with gallery uploads, just enough for me to be able to post my next project, another unit of Tesla Immortals. These guys I had already base-coated earlier in the thread a few years ago, but at the time I had planned to do Tesla weapons in blue. New Me says that's too many colours, and stick to green. So, we start off by replacing the blue with green!

The cableing on the Warriors is an absolte highpoint.

Has a certain darker green tint on it your change on the immortals, i like.

Nice one Gwyn, those warriors and immortals look excellent. Really great job with the older edition minis.

The zzap is also exceptional.

Not Online!!! wrote:The cableing on the Warriors is an absolte highpoint.

Has a certain darker green tint on it your change on the immortals, i like.

Thanks Not Online!!!! (Three exclamation marks in name, one for grammar) Yeah, I'm not 100% consistent, which I don't mind, I'm not against changing recipes every once in a while. I had forgotten that I wanted to switch to black-with-metallic-edges for the weapon casing for the warriors though, oh well.

Olthannon wrote:Nice one Gwyn, those warriors and immortals look excellent. Really great job with the older edition minis.

Thanks Olthannon! Frankly the warriors aged well, other than the green tubes they're still a fine kit. Now that we have tons of things to replace green tubes with, it's all golden!

inmygravenimage wrote:The zzap is also exceptional.

Thanks Graven!I think it looks even better in the Tesla carbine than on the gauss flayers.

I forgot to post the rear photo last time, so you can see the piping and more of those crystals I love doing so much.



Now the bone parts of the face are highlighted, I love doing the faces.

Quick update, just did the white stripe. Nothing too much to show.

Great looking squad, those are some of the nastiest, but well painted murder skeleton robots around!

The immortals are looking superb Gwyn. The weapon glow and lightning bolt are getting me excited for painting some of my own! The switch from blue to green was definitely a good choice. Apparently Coco Chanel used to say “take off the last thing you put on” maybe she was taking space murder robot colour schemes!?! perhaps she was an old one or c’tan?

I like the stripe, gives them that whole machine army look, now you'd only need a symbol for nummers and start numbering them through

Cannot beat a mixture of Royal purple and green on Necrons IMO, great stuff Gwyn.

Viterbi wrote:Great looking squad, those are some of the nastiest, but well painted murder skeleton robots around!

Thanks Viterbi!

gobert wrote:The immortals are looking superb Gwyn. The weapon glow and lightning bolt are getting me excited for painting some of my own! The switch from blue to green was definitely a good choice. Apparently Coco Chanel used to say “take off the last thing you put on” maybe she was taking space murder robot colour schemes!?! perhaps she was an old one or c’tan?

Definitely a case of "too many colours". Same with my old idea of having red for crypteks and canoptek units. Chanel knew what she was talking about!

Not Online!!! wrote:I like the stripe, gives them that whole machine army look, now you'd only need a symbol for nummers and start numbering them through

I decided to leave off with the squad shoulder-markings, I find they don't show up really well on the purple, and I want to keep the heads from getting too busy. If I was doing a classic silver shoulders, though? I would 100% do squad shoulder numbering.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Cannot beat a mixture of Royal purple and green on Necrons IMO, great stuff Gwyn.

It's just classic!

And now I got the purple all highlighted up and with a little speckled depth to it, it's even better!

And the steel is highlighted and cleaned up, plus drybrushed/highlighted on the black gun casing. Basing is started but not finished. Next pics should finish them up!

Nice little updates Gwyn, great to see how each little increment makes the whole model look that much better.

That looks smashing buddy.

Olthannon wrote:Nice little updates Gwyn, great to see how each little increment makes the whole model look that much better.

The smaller updates also keep my motivation going!

inmygravenimage wrote:That looks smashing buddy.

Thanks graven! I'm super happy with how they turned out. Which, speaking of:

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Nice unit Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

very good! very good.

Thanks all! Quite happy with them.

Shifting factions again, it's Flesh Tearer time! And what unit is more Flesh Tearer right now than the Assault Intercessors!

Great job on the finished necrons, I love how those cut up sprue bits on the bases look so I've nabbed the idea for my space marines!

Good luck with the Flesh Tearers!

Make sure you have a sturdy and sharp knife for the sprue cutting, the thick pieces of sprue can be tricky!

Black is on!

Those are lush. Mk4 tearers are the business.

It’s subtle, but a little bit of blue tone to the highlights of the black does wonders!

Did the various badges and markings!

Chapter badges:


Battlefield role and Fifth Company badges:


Third Squad badges and sergeant’s personal heraldry:


I’m having second thoughts on the numerals on the knees though. Would it be better to use the more complicated official Blood Angel squad markings, with a coloured spot on the knee with a specific design in it? What are your thoughts?

Gwyn,

That looks like really fiddly work on the shoulder pad badges.

Cheers,

CB

Great work on the freehand and heraldry, I like the checker pattern most of all.

Loving the Flesh Tearers! They look suitably Space-Marinish (with just a hint of cartoonish or knightly heradlry), but also deadly real. Nice work!

Faboulus tearers Gwyn

Thanks all!

Sorry for slow updates - vacation has been getting in the way, probably will for the entire month of August too. But small updates in between things!

Like, finished the metal.

Looks very well done. Also great job on the chest piece ornamentation.

Thanks Not Online!!!! I sometimes find it tricky to highlight them with so much detail on something supposed to be black, but I'm glad they come out ok!

Did the lenses and purity seal wax!

Great work Gwyn! Nice work highlighting the black.

Looking brill. A suggestion: use a little flat flesh (or whatever your preferred skin tone is) to highlight the red, especially the drops on the shoulder pads. It avoids the Pink Problem plus hey, they're flesh tearers, so give them some Flesh

Nice lenses, work very well !

They are coming along great, love the muzzle effect on one of the pistols!

Olthannon wrote:Great work Gwyn! Nice work highlighting the black.

Thanks Olthannon!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looking brill. A suggestion: use a little flat flesh (or whatever your preferred skin tone is) to highlight the red, especially the drops on the shoulder pads. It avoids the Pink Problem plus hey, they're flesh tearers, so give them some Flesh

Good thinking. I've been doing a slightly reddened Cadian Fleshtone on their armour, but for whatever reason not for the drops. I mean, I'm already not super happy with these drops, but have decided they're good enough for my purposes. But the next ones I do I'll definitely do that!

Not Online!!! wrote:Nice lenses, work very well !

Thanks Not Online!!!! I love painting lenses.

Viterbi wrote:They are coming along great, love the muzzle effect on one of the pistols!

Thanks Viterbi! I'll be finishing up the muzzle effect soon.

First, got the text on the purity seals done.

There, got the muzzle flash all nice like! Really adds a lot to this pose.

Fab!

Love the flash; really adds to the model (which is also great!)

I meant to say, great lens work too!

Thanks all! I’m just finishing up these guys, then on to the next.

Did the OSL on the backpacks…


…the chainsword engines…


…and the muzzle flash!

Great work Gwyn. Really nice OSL.

The lenses are fantastic, I keep wanting to do something detailed like that but I don't think I have a small enough brush

These look great, full of action and attitude.

Well done!

Good work Gwyn, the glow on his eyes and the text are top work. The drops on the chainsword are a nice touch, I might have to borrow that one at some point!

And a finished unit! Or at least, half a traditional squad… but that’s Squad 3 of the company at least started!

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They look great! I really like the addition of the flowers, too. Gamers grass?

Good work Gwyn! The eye level shot is really cool, shows them off well!

Thanks guys!

I actually enjoyed these guys enough that were doing another demi-squad of assault intercessors back to back!

Cracking edge highlighting there Gwyn

Nice work Gwyn! The flowers are very lovely.

More blood for the blood god!

Er, I mean the Emperor...

Cheers,

CB

There are never enough chainswords, sincerly a khornate

They look promising!

Thanks all!

The Sarge is bare-headed, so we get my first serious attempt at a human face (skulls don’t count and Namarti faces were easy because they don’t require the same shading)



Thoughts? Lips need work I know for next time.

Next, green done (mostly lenses)

Purity seals done!



Next: chapter badges, freehand, other markings, etc... one of my weakest points!

Nice work on the eyes aswell as the purity seals

Coming along well Gwyn, the face looks pretty cool. His forehead and stubble are spot on.

Good updates Gwyn, the sarge face looks great.

Thanks all!

I struggled with the freehand chapter badges again. I should try to find a transfer sheet for them, I can't seem to get the hang of this!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Thanks all!

I struggled with the freehand chapter badges again. I should try to find a transfer sheet for them, I can't seem to get the hang of this!

says he struggled, delivers perfectly good looking badges

No seriously they look great.

Gwyn,

The freehand chapter badges will look just fine when on the table top.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks guys! Maybe I'm just being impatient.

Did the plasma gun next, a little more subtle in OSL than the last plasma pistol I did! But partially because the plasma coil is a bit more set back than the last plasma pistol. The muzzle burn is more subtle on this one as well.

Why is this no chainsword gwyn? You swindled me

However awesome job on the coils and symbol, well done Gwyn!

Not Online!!! wrote:
Why is this no chainsword gwyn? You swindled me

However awesome job on the coils and symbol, well done Gwyn!

Thanks Now Online!!!! He does have a chainsword just off camera. Though I should probably rekit my MSU assault intercessors to give the sarges some actual hitting power with some special weapons. But I don't think I have spare melee special weapons! We'll see if I come across something.

In the meantime, the main body is finished now I think with the power plant exhausts all glowed up. Just need to base them!

And based!

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