A bunch of us have got heavily into 30k ever since Calth came out. We were all hobbyists before, mostly 40k/WFB, but branching out into Flames of War and Bolt Action. Calth has absolutely taken over our entire hobby lives. 30k or death! So we'll be posting about that mainly!

My old 40k marines were all upscaled a bit (using a modified version of Veteran Sergeant's technique that I saw on HeresyOnline way back), so I definitely wanted to carry that on to 30k. I refined my version a bit, made them a bit chunkier, and convinced some (not all) of the lads to go in the same direction....

in no particular order we have...

My Iron Warriors




I'm not the best painter of the bunch, but given the volume I've put out (I've got around 3.5k painted since Calth) I'm very happy with them.
I've gone for a fluffy, infantry heavy army, though having just read The Ironfire ROW, I'm going to be adding some artillery soon.

T's Imperial Fists



This photo doesn't really do them justice. Ty is a slow, but excellent painter. These guys are currently WIP, and the bases have come on a bit since this was taken. We decided to unify the basing scheme, to tie all the forces together. He's currently working on 10 terminators.

X's Word Bearers



Xander has an eye for detail. These guys are stunning. He's going for a fluffy, deep-into-heresy look for his lads. His Ashen Circle are something to behold!

L's Alpha Legion



Luke hasn't scaled his guys up, and I think it really works with his AL, the sneaky bastards that they are. His blended armour is really lovely. I'll try to get him to upload some close ups.

R's Salamanders




Rob used to be a terrible painter. I don't know what happened. Maybe he drank some radioactive paint? He's the master of the airbrush, and the painter that I'm in business with. He's also our resident power gamer, and his zooming Storm Eagle precipitated the purchase of many fliers and Deredeos...

Q's Night Lords




For what he lacks in volume, he makes up for in quality. Fighting in the kitchen of our war-torn utopian Palace/Cathedral, his Night Lords are, to a man, stunningly painted. His next project is a trio of contemptors and a spartan, all suitably covered in skulls and chains.


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So here's a small update, Q did some work on Night Lording his Calth contemptor tonight...






God knows why he works in milliput...

Rob here,

I thought I would show off some pics of my Spartan, which I have painted recently! It was quite a lot of work, but worth every minute

Ingredients
Greens
- Pine Green (Master Paint Series)
- Leaf Green (Master Paint Series)
- Pale Green (Master Paint Series)
- Livery Green (Vallejo Game Color)

Blues
- Coal black (P3)
- Mediterranean Blue (Vallejo Model Air)
- Azure (Vallejo Model Air)
- White (Vallejo Model Air)
- Fenrisian Grey (GW)

Reds
Mechrite Red (GW)
- Fire Red (Vallejo Model Air)
- Orange (Vallejo Model Air)
- Gold Yellow (Vallejo Model Air)

Other
- Abandon Black (GW)
- Skabenblight Dinge (GW)
- White Scar (GW)
- Celestra grey (GW)
- Dryad Bark (GW)
- Steel Legion Drab (GW)
- Ironbreaker (GW)
- Runelord Brass (GW)
- Gehennas Gold

Wash
- Nuln Oil

Weathering Powder
- Light Earth (Forge World)
- Dry Mud (Forge World)
- Fresh Mud (Forge World)

T finished his templars recently! I built them (in return for him applying transfers to my lads) and he's done a glorious job

Excellent work here guys, really loving the work that's coming out.

Also like the fact that you're all working in concert to get your armies up, I wish I could convince my mates to get into the hobby !

I myself am playing with the idea of trying my hand at 30k, but picking a legion is extremely hard for me. So far the top contenders are Night Lords , Alpha Legion and Iron Warriors.

Keep it up

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:
Excellent work here guys, really loving the work that's coming out.

Also like the fact that you're all working in concert to get your armies up, I wish I could convince my mates to get into the hobby !

I myself am playing with the idea of trying my hand at 30k, but picking a legion is extremely hard for me. So far the top contenders are Night Lords , Alpha Legion and Iron Warriors.

Keep it up

Obviously I'm biased, but Iron Warriors are the obvious choice!

In an effort to sway you... here are some pics of a recent game. 2000 points, Iron Warriors vs Salamanders with Alpha Legion... allies?

So I did a little work on my White Scars today (my Loyalist choice)

Pretty much finished up the bikers. All upscaled of course!




3 of them have magnetised arms, so can take a variety of power weapons and pistols.

also ploughed into the GS on my Destroyers!

Wow, what an amazing project. To have so many gamers working together to build up an array of superb armies like this is something very cool indeed! Your battles must look absolutely stunning!

Is that some LotR I see hiding at the back of your desk? Any plans to work on that any time soon?

Nice conversion work on the Contemptor!

I see the ziplock bags laying around and they don't exactly seem like official forgeworld, are you using rescasts?
I've always heard that recasts were shoddy, but your models seem alright!

Paradigm wrote:Wow, what an amazing project. To have so many gamers working together to build up an array of superb armies like this is something very cool indeed! Your battles must look absolutely stunning!

Is that some LotR I see hiding at the back of your desk? Any plans to work on that any time soon?

If we do say so ourselves, our battles do look pretty incredible! So far its all been fully painted in our narrative campaign. I'm planning on building a board with the same basing scheme as our marines, so that game should look especially excellent!

That is some cheeky LOTR at the back. Recently, T and I picked it up again. I've recently knocked out some Rohan, Mordor orcs and some Dwarfs. He also did up some nice Goblins and trolls, and we're planning on finishing up the Goblins together soon...

Blimy wrote:Nice conversion work on the Contemptor!

I see the ziplock bags laying around and they don't exactly seem like official forgeworld, are you using rescasts?
I've always heard that recasts were shoddy, but your models seem alright!

I'll tell Q... though he doesn't need his ego massaging at all... he and I have both done conversions of the BAC Contemptor, which suffers mostly from a terrible leg pose. But its certainly salvageable.

We have used recasts on some occasions. Most of its kosher Forgeworld stuff. The only recasts I've used so far are those destroyers. And they came out fine. Nothing spectacular. I want to support the company that makes the models I love, but the prices are hard to justify sometimes, even for fanboys like us!

Figured I'd upload some stuff as I'm replying. I took some nice shots of some WIP marines last night, and thought I'd do some comparison shots. So here you are!

Can you give a quick rundown on how you upscale your marines? Is it just a 1mm plastic card spacer in the legs with greenstuff to smooth over, or is there further work you do?

Sure. I definitely plan on doing a detailed tutorial at some point. But a quick run down:


Cut at the thigh with a knife.

Flue a square of 2mm plasticard to the groin section.

trim down so the plasticard is flush with the plastic.

Glue legs back on to the plasticard (the pose/foot position can be a bit odd if you just try and recreate the original pose, so you have to use some judgement here.

Glue legs on to the base (fill under feet if necessary)

File a small flat area on top of the groin (where the torso will go)

Glue a small square of 2mm plasticard on there.

Trim down the square almost to a point.

Wrap a small sausage of Greenstuff around that plasticard.

Wet the underside of the torso and press down firmly before removing (what you want here is a nice, smooth area for the torso to be glued on eventually)

Let the GS cure and cut away the excess.

Glue the torso down.

Using another GS sausage, make a smooth belt around the waist, so the join is seemless and looks like armour (this is the trickiest part, especially on MK3. It's also the most forgiving of mistakes, because of all the packs and pouches you put on.

Now its just regular marine stuff. I usually go:

Triple pouch on the back waist.
Backpack on.
Arms on.
Pistol holster on the right.
Pouches (sometimes need to be trimmed) on the left
Grenades in gaps.

And that's that!

Very nice! I wish I had the kind of flagrant disregard for my finances and lifestyle that would allow me to delve into the Heresy (though I do have an untouched Betrayal at Calth box at my house, I guess) resin models.

I wish I could take credit for the method. I merely adapted something I saw online. But I'm glad that my project has become visible enough to inspire others to do great things with the concept.

That must be quite a sight on the tabletop, all those scaled up Marines.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
Very nice! I wish I had the kind of flagrant disregard for my finances and lifestyle that would allow me to delve into the Heresy (though I do have an untouched Betrayal at Calth box at my house, I guess) resin models.

I wish I could take credit for the method. I merely adapted something I saw online. But I'm glad that my project has become visible enough to inspire others to do great things with the concept.

That must be quite a sight on the tabletop, all those scaled up Marines.

We're all just stupid enough to spend our disposable income on resin crack...

Some pics for today, X's Word Bearers. He's done some lovely work with Frostgrave Cultists, and created some amazing bases with them.

Might need to subscribe to this here blog...

JOIN US

Cracking stuff! Those cultists work great as basing material and as models in their own right!

This thread is jam packed with awesome! Keep it coming :-)

Paradigm wrote:Cracking stuff! Those cultists work great as basing material and as models in their own right!

Bottle wrote:This thread is jam packed with awesome! Keep it coming :-)

You are too kind! We plan on updating this pretty often. At least one of us (normally me) is working on something every day!

So today, after a weekend of LAN and no hobby, I present some pictures T sent me of the Fists I built for him recently. He commissioned 10 Tacticals, 20 Breachers, a Spartan and 3 Dreadnaughts. I have one dread left to finish (he wants sword and shield... it's going to take some time.

The breacher sergeant has a magnetised right arm and a lovely suite of options, and the dreads are also magnetised.

I believe some of these are still slightly Work In Progress, but they're looking great and I was excited to share!

Lovely grimy Fists, just how they should be!

As for a sword and shield Dread... I need to see this ASAP!

I've been building some Solar Auxilla!

I really wanted a human allies detachment to further emthasize the size of my true scaled marines. And for me at had to be the Solar Aux. Such incredible models, very WW1 which is an aesthetic I really like.

Check some sweet pix! :-)

(Note: I true scaled my own stuff, since The Builder had a bit of a backlog at the time. Hense the spacers on the terminator are pretty obvious up close. All the more reason to have The Builder do it for you!!! :-D)

Just a little hobby today. Sadly I'm back at work after 2 weeks off...

Started a big bunch of legs today. 20 for a multi-legion commission that RT will be painting for a client, and 10 (on the tiled bases) for my white scars.

This is the first stage of the process... some greenstuff will be going on tonight!

I thought I would share a few snaps of my total progress so far! 1850 points of Horus Heresy era Salamanders . Some of it (the Storm Eagle and one of the Rhino's is still a work in progress.)

I've really enjoyed painting my these guys, it's been my first really dip into 40k (I mainly used to paint Warhammer Fantasy till that went the way of the dodo)

I also wanted to take a the opportunity to showcase some of my work! (if you are interested in getting Marines painted for you, drop me a pm

On the way I have some Solar Auxillia and an Imperial Knight! Stay tuned

Amazing stuff here!

 Mymearan wrote:
Amazing stuff here!

Thanks! :-)

Before bed last night, a spent some time working on a test scheme for my Solar Auxillia. It's a wip but really like it so far.

(Lighting is awful, I do apologize)

I don't particulary like "true scale" marines, but your are well made, it seems natural.
And I really enjoy your colours ! How did you get this yellow for your Imperial Fists ?

 godardc wrote:
I don't particulary like "true scale" marines, but your are well made, it seems natural.

That's exactly what I was going for! So thank you. I do think alot of true scale projects make marines too big, and it doesn't work for me on that level. Also, it's a much more time consuming and skilled process than I can manage!

I made these so they can happily sit next to a normal marine and not look outrageous.

 godardc wrote:
And I really enjoy your colours ! How did you get this yellow for your Imperial Fists ?

Ty sent me this (and his thanks)

For the yellow: Undercoat: GW black Airbrush: averland sunset base, followed by flash gitz yellow. There's no highlighting or OSL or positional airbrushing - it's just a base. Drybrush hexos palesun over whole model. (optional for hq/characters: edge highlight dorn yellow) wash: thinned down army painter strong tone over whole model wash: apply strong tone to the clearest recesses as the thinned wash doesn't quite get the contrast you're looking for.

You can leave the yellow here (and initially I did!) but I now apply the yellow GW glaze which gives a beautifully warm finish and richness.

Finally...

I have a small update on the legs. I bashed out the greenstuff on 10 of them over the last two days. This is what a client gets for a Level 1 commission (out of 3 levels). it's pretty cheap (depending on volume) and gives a nice simple start to an upscaled marine.

Little by little... the Heresy Builds.

X has done some work on Xardu Laydak and the Blade Slaves, and Q has made some progress on his Night Lords.

He actually finished the destroyers but took gakky photos, so I'll try to get some better ones for a later update.

We really have a problem with the Spartan and how OP it is. The solution: Everyone buys one!

Awesome stuff, I'm jealous of each and every one of you

Got my first Solar Aux flamer painted up. I'm happy with the scheme so will proceed with it.

Looking at the difference between the Terminator and this little guy, you can just imagine the inferiority complex he must have!

Looks great!

Heretic Tom wrote:Awesome stuff, I'm jealous of each and every one of you

Paradigm wrote:Looks great!

You're too kind!

For today, we pray.

Give us this day our daily hobby, and forgive those who do not hobby with us.

Q has done some more on his dread, and it's looking lovely.

I did the first half of the waists on the next 30 marines I'm doing, and put together a little tutorial.



Second half to follow soon!

Xardu Laydak is done!

Did you true scale Xardu and his boys too, or were they beefy enough already? Forge World did a cracking job on those minis!

I think X scaled up Xardu, but not the Blade Slaves. They are incredible models.

I'll try and get him to take better pics...

Painted a couple more of my Flamer Section :-)

They look awesome, grim dark to the max.

just a little update today. My white scars tests are pretty much done.

I'm aware of my limitations as a painter, and I'm really pleased with these.

These guys look very imposing. Doing the True scale is definitely worth the extra effort. I think weathering white can be tricky — you don't want them to just look grey — but you've got the balance just right, great job!

The Scars look dead cool to me, perfect take on a Legion that doesn't seem to get nearly enough screen time!

Incredible work, dude!

Knowing what you have planned for the rest of the force, I'm really looking forward you what ever is next!

I wish I had the time, money and skill to produce something like this. Excellent work throughout the thread!

 Turaxa wrote:
I wish I had the time, money and skill to produce something like this. Excellent work throughout the thread!

If you have the money, RT and I have the time and the skill

Very cool job on the NL contemptor!

This is such an amazing thread. I love the variety of legions and work that comes up with a multiperson blog. I also have to say that I was never a fan of true-scale marines, but you have done quite an amazing job on these. So good, in fact, that I am going to do it for my 30k RG. It just makes the models look right.

Well done and keep up the good work mates!

Ustrello wrote:Very cool job on the NL contemptor!

I'll tell Q! not that he needs any more compliments!

Freytag93 wrote:This is such an amazing thread. I love the variety of legions and work that comes up with a multiperson blog. I also have to say that I was never a fan of true-scale marines, but you have done quite an amazing job on these. So good, in fact, that I am going to do it for my 30k RG. It just makes the models look right.

Well done and keep up the good work mates!

Thanks pal. Hopefully the first part of the waist tutorial helps. Here's the second bit!

A sneak peak at a big update from rob soon...





"Come on you apes! You want to live forever?!"

OK, So R's SAux haven't arrived as expected, but L has been doing some super secret work on his Alpha Legion, which suits them pretty well I guess!

Next up: A finished Night Lord Contemptor and Sevatar!

well, I lied about about Sevatar...

but here are some lovely Solar Auxilia painted by rob...

Looking good! That squad looks nasty

 Freytag93 wrote:
Looking good! That squad looks nasty

Thanks! He's currently working on a Dracosan for them...

For now though, Q has finished Sevatar

Here's a nice step by step he sent me

Finished a commission build yesterday, these are now zipping off to R for some paint!

The weekend is getting closer, and the board is still looking worryingly work in progress...

Looking solid. I'm sure you'll pull the board together this week

Love that board, where is that statue from?

Freytag93 wrote:Looking solid. I'm sure you'll pull the board together this week

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I'm not sure it'll happen! I'm waiting on a delivery from Sarissa Precision of some lser cut and etched MDF... so hopefully that arrives this morning!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love that board, where is that statue from?

Thanks mate, I bought it here

As the weekend approaches, many have been adding final touches to their tanks!

It has been a while since I've posted since I've been working on an unrelated commission

Started my Dracosan for my Solar Aux allies. Something to carry around those flamers in.

Airbrushed on three shades of grey, and started the metallic. This is going to be sweet.

Oh! And here are some pics of a game I had with X over the weekend! :-)

Because lets face it. Hot pics of Marines is what you came here for right?

And I've got a small update on the board (which didn't get done for the weekend)

A little more from R's desk, two commission painted Vultures...

Very cool!

Some Very nice work going on here! I really like the Word bearers tank with the sacrificed marine. and the Night Lords work is also pretty darn inspiring!

Those Vultures are lookin' glorious, and i'm ready for the paintjob on the board! Everyone is making true art and I thoroughly anticipate more!

Another update.

Finished my Dracosan! Can't wait to see this bad boy on the table

While Rob was painting awesome stuff, I've been building awesome stuff.

I just finished up a little commission for 6 Red Scorpions. I might have run out of purity seals...

Those red scorpions really are worried about how pure they are . They look great

God damn you're prolific!

Love that Word Bearers Land Raider, brilliant work!

EDC

Ustrello wrote:Those red scorpions really are worried about how pure they are . They look great

Purity is strength, Brother.

evildrcheese wrote:God damn you're prolific!

Love that Word Bearers Land Raider, brilliant work!

EDC

It helps that there are now 7 of us churning out hobby!

I've got an update on some NL stuff from Q! Basically we all realised that Cata Terms are the bomb, and chainfists totally feth Spartans.

So he's done some terms (didn't scale the legs because of reasons (the rest of us do)) but I believe he's put a spacer at the waist. He's magnetised the arms too!

He also finished 20 magnetised Terror/tactical marines!

Nice job converting up those NL terminators!

Forgive me False Emperor, for I have sinned. It has been weeks since my last update. I offer the following to appease thee...

we have: My hobby while at work. Some work on my White Scars, and some LOTR

and some mixed efforts from X, he's making Lascannon Devs and Bloodletters for his Word Bearers...

Last, but certainly not least... we have a lovely shot of R's Knight Acheron this morning, before painting...

R has almost finished the Knight Acheron I built (and magnetised) for him. The dread on the base is a bit of an escalation from when L put a Salamander under his dread.... Next stop, Alpha legion Warhound stomping on Salamander Knight?

It's been a while, and we've all been beavering away...

R finished a Blood Angel squad for a commission that I truescaled.

I'm doing a really bad job of keeping this up to date... but here's a little look at some Firedrakes I upscaled for R

I finally finished my White Scars infantry!

From now on, it's mounted stuff and tanks only!

Nice work, some really awesome looking infantry.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice work, some really awesome looking infantry.

EDC

Thanks mate!

Well, i finally got the board ready! It's a long way from being finished... but it's looking pretty good.

That's some good lookin' terrain! Ready for the finished product!

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
That's some good lookin' terrain! Ready for the finished product!

I won't be touching that for a while now! The rush to get it to that stage cost me a lot of husband points!

Got some pics done of the games... on the temple board

can i see how tall they are compared to a normal marine? very cool btw

 STG wrote:
can i see how tall they are compared to a normal marine? very cool btw

Here are some I made earlier!







Hope that helps!

The truescale marines are far more BA looking than the regular marines, hands down! Especially that lascannon fellow!

very cool

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:The truescale marines are far more BA looking than the regular marines, hands down! Especially that lascannon fellow!

Thanks mate! Took me ages to work out that BA didn't mean Blood Angels! It's a shame that lascannon fellow is now a Breacher sergeant!

STG wrote:very cool

Ta!

A little non-Heresy update, our latest Commission piece is done, and I think Rob did an awesome job (and I did a great job building it)

Hey guys, been catching up one some pictures today, so here are some bits and pieces I got done last month. The Havocs were finished before our last game day, but I wanted them to be a surprise on the field, so I'm only sharing them now! They are absolutely devastating on the field! BS5, Tank Hunter and -1 Cover Saves! The dread I've had lying around for a while, and he had his first game a few weeks ago. He was also awesome. Contemptors are so survivable!

Those are some sexy Iron Warriors right there. Keep it up!

Nice work. Are all the heavy weapon dudes magnetised or just the Sgt.?

Loving the true scale, it looks totally bad ass.

EDC

King Pariah wrote:Those are some sexy Iron Warriors right there. Keep it up!

Thanks man! I've got around 4k painted now... and showing no signs of slowing!

evildrcheese wrote:Nice work. Are all the heavy weapon dudes magnetised or just the Sgt.?

Loving the true scale, it looks totally bad ass.

EDC

Thanks again! It's just the sergeant. I don't think I'd ever not use missile launchers. With Frag, Krak and Flakk for 5 points, its a no brainer. The serg is magnetised so he can double as a cheap centurion if i ever need one in a smaller game.

Hi guys... had a bit of a play recently in advance of a commission I've been talking about with a client.

Since they came out I wanted to have a look at the new Deathwatch kits, so I ordered a solitary dude on ebay and had a play.

Basically the only difference is the waist spacer, and I'm not really sure he needs the extra height... thoughts?

(bear in mind they're unfinished, and the waist would be filled in on the one with the spacer there)

Just found this blog and its pretty darn great. I love all the armies but the Night Lords one is my favorite!

 thebuilder wrote:
Hi guys... had a bit of a play recently in advance of a commission I've been talking about with a client.

Since they came out I wanted to have a look at the new Deathwatch kits, so I ordered a solitary dude on ebay and had a play.

Basically the only difference is the waist spacer, and I'm not really sure he needs the extra height... thoughts?

(bear in mind they're unfinished, and the waist would be filled in on the one with the spacer there)

Personally, I think it needs the waist spacer. The proportions look a bit too off kilter without it.

Oh, and, awesome thread.

~Eric

squall018 wrote:Just found this blog and its pretty darn great. I love all the armies but the Night Lords one is my favorite!

Much appreciated! I won't tell Q... his head is big enough already.

Taarnak wrote:Personally, I think it needs the waist spacer. The proportions look a bit too off kilter without it.

Oh, and, awesome thread.

~Eric

Thanks man! I've filled out the waist now and I definitely agree!


So I've just returned from my holiday... time for an update?

Today, we have some Blood Angels that I built and magnetised, and Rob painted as a commission. This is an example of our Tabletop Character standard.

Looking good. I really like the idea.of magnetising the arm without the shoulder pad glued on.

EDC

Still one of my favorite blogs. Great work on the blood angels, once again. You guys have inspired my own 30k army a lot. I am going to be building an infantry-heavy IH army and true scaling them all.

Keep up the good work

Well done! i've never used magnets on my models and when people like you guys take advantage of them, it convinces me to use them even more. All in all, that's a beautiful blood angel!

evildrcheese wrote:Looking good. I really like the idea.of magnetising the arm without the shoulder pad glued on.

EDC

Freytag93 wrote:Still one of my favorite blogs. Great work on the blood angels, once again. You guys have inspired my own 30k army a lot. I am going to be building an infantry-heavy IH army and true scaling them all.

Keep up the good work

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Well done! i've never used magnets on my models and when people like you guys take advantage of them, it convinces me to use them even more. All in all, that's a beautiful blood angel!

All very much appreciated!

We've been a bit lax lately, what with the Christmas holidays, and Rob's fiancee whisking him off to Mexico as a surprise!

but we're back!

We just finished some commission work, a Necron Triarch Stalker, at the most basic level we provide. I still think it looks rather good! It's also part of a larger project, so there will be some characters coming up!

While Rob's been painting that, I've been working on another commission project, truescaling 20 Sons Of Horus tactical marines. The sergeants will be fully magnetised too! This as well is part of a larger project, so expect 10 Imperial Fist Heavy Support Troopers, 5 Templars and some characters!

Finally finished these guys after slacking over Christmas!

So Rob went on an airbrush course recently... the results are astonishing!

These are looking awesome! Loving that night lords contemptor. I'm a big fan of Truescale, I'll be back to see more

That Rhino is sick looking. Nice work dude.

EDC

Plodmarine wrote:These are looking awesome! Loving that night lords contemptor. I'm a big fan of Truescale, I'll be back to see more

evildrcheese wrote:That Rhino is sick looking. Nice work dude.

EDC

Very much appreciated!

Today we have another contemptor, Rob is expanding his EC... I built and magnetised this for him, and he really delivered a great paintjob.

Looks awesome dude.

EDC

That's looking great! This thread never fails to please my eyes. That paint job really nails it with the dusty legs by the way.

Very nice! Always excited for EC, and dreads are even better!

evildrcheese wrote:Looks awesome dude.

EDC

Plodmarine wrote:That's looking great! This thread never fails to please my eyes. That paint job really nails it with the dusty legs by the way.

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Very nice! Always excited for EC, and dreads are even better!

Thanks guys! I absolutely agree on the weathering. I think it's key in bringing together a believable model. Rob's chipping and dust work is absolutely on point.

Straying a bit today from the nicely painted models...

I'm working on a commission currently for a truescaled veteran squad, and the client and i are trying to decide between 32mm and 40mm bases. It's a bit of a mix because we're using my style (builder-pattern?) and mixing it with some of the new Doghouse pattern, using Tartaros legs and torso fronts...

Thoughts?

On the agenda today:

I am currently working on this IW commission. We settled on 32mm bases.

We also recently got a commission for a small Deathwatch army. While we wait for the models to arrive, I happened to have a truescaled deathwatch guy lying around from an earlier test, so I sent that to rob to bust out a test model for the client to approve.

Below is what he finished with, and I really like it (as does the client!)

Sadly it's not a truescale commission, but I'm still looking forward to building them and magnetising every last one!

Also on Rob's bench, is a nice Macharius Commission. 3 of the beasts! This time, I'm the client! He's painting them up to match my Vultures and Thunderbolt, it all combines to form the armoured division for my Guard. I'm sending him some transfers tomorrow so he can carry on!

Made a lot of progress on these mk3 veterans today! A few bits and pieces to go, but they're 80% done.

So today I've got a little update on the Iron Warrior commission. The client asked for some of his marines done in Doghouse's new style, using Tartaros parts. I think they look great!

Awesome! Those Iron warriors look badass with the new style Tartarus method! Strong work.

Agreed!

That is a fantastic use of those models!

Only 'problem' now is - what do you use for Terminators to go along with them?!?

 Alpharius wrote:
Agreed!

That is a fantastic use of those models!

Only 'problem' now is - what do you use for Terminators to go along with them?!?

He needs bigger models, maybe squads of dreads?

Real nice guys, I love a good IW kitbash.

Plodmarine wrote:Awesome! Those Iron warriors look badass with the new style Tartarus method! Strong work.

Thanks mate, though it's all down to Doghouse really!

Alpharius wrote:Agreed!

That is a fantastic use of those models!

Only 'problem' now is - what do you use for Terminators to go along with them?!?

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
He needs bigger models, maybe squads of dreads?

Real nice guys, I love a good IW kitbash.

Just as long as I don't have to build them! To be honest, this is one of the reasons i prefer my method over Doghouse's, it leaves a bit more leeway for other models! Though I'd love to see what he does for a terminator!

Today, I'm drawing to the close of this IW commission. This is my favourite guy out of all of them.

Hopefully next week I'll be posting up the finished pictures and sending them off to the client!

Oh man, I've been away for far too long! Time to start updating this!

The latest commission:





3 truescaled AL headhunters.

They're off to Rob now for painting, along with Dynat and an Alpharius conversion...

I thought I'd share a blast from my past that I've dug up. I've been playing 30k for the last 3 years, and I'm really excited by 8th. So my Black Templar project is reborn!

These are truescaled terminators, mostly the Deathwing Knights kit with some added Fists (pressmoulded from Alexis Polux's shield). I think there's a smattering of Grey Knight bits and pieces too.