Hi all!! Lurker for very long time, and with the apparent final death of Warseer I think this will be my new home. I guess I will update slowly some of my old photos, but for the moment here is the first bite, my progress with my Alpha Legion warband.


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First, Alpha Legion Chosen!

Gorgeous work, especially with the shoulders. Tongue shoulders.

Shoungders.

I think he looks absolutely stunning.

One minor criticism would be that the grenades look a bit like mushrooms, but then again it's the Alpha Legion, so who knows?

Thank you both! @DoctorDanny I put myself on a chromatic puzzle that I'm also not so sure I solved right, but I had stuck with it with the other models just for consistency check. Let's assume they are load up with confusing psychotropics

I've just finalized the Aspiring champion, I'm ultra happy with the cape and the small nmm rim, not so much with the metallics in general. Hope you like it!

Pretty slick painting. Keep 'em coming!

Well, your wish is my command! Dark Apostle down, I had a really productive week and was able to finish him in no time. Only Hellbrute missing in order to complete the Dark Vengeance box!!

Nice! Awesome choice of skin color.

Very impressive work. I have to admit when these models came out I hated all the faces and stuff coming out of the armor, but seeing your work makes me realize it was just the GW paint scheme. The way you've painted them is really cool.

Nothing says chaos like an angry face on your shin!

The colors you chose for his skin are excellent, very different from what is usually seen and I like that.

Very nice work muette.

Cheers,

CB

Hellbrute done! With this I finish the chaos half of the Dark Vengeance box, now to continue painting some terrain and then I will go back to my Dark Angels

Very fleshy.

In a good, chaosy way.

Exalted muette.

Cheers,

CB

Welcome to dakka muette, and what an entrance! The Alpha Legion colours you’ve chosen look awesome on the Dark Imperium marines. The blend in to the daemonic faces from the armour are lovely! Any chance you can bowl us all over with an Army shot?

Very high quality! thanks for sharing

Good lightbox photos


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Very high quality! thanks for sharing

Good lightbox photos

I’m here too, Muette mate, another survivor! ;P

Alpha Legion looking glorious, lovely painting efforts!

Thanks all!!! @Stevefamine: actually two sheets of foamboard and a lamp, but my mobile does actually good photos!
@Ragsta: The classics come back!! Nice ot see you

Well, in order to remember the recepie for the bone armour, I've started with some veeery old Terminators I had pending to repaint. Hope you like them!

And following up with classics, Brother Bethor! With a custom Standard of Fortitude, I was able to replicate it in 3d with Zbrush, really happy with the result!

For a completely different topic, I've being painting in parallel a full team of Lizardmen for Bloodbowl. All of them in two weeks (in parallel to brother Bethor) and using all the quick painting techniques I know. Happy with the result!

Exalted muette.

Cheers,

CB

That Lizard team looks awesome, fella, great work as always

Thank you both!!!

Now back to classic DA, a couple of terminator characters.

Some serious banner work you’re putting In muette! Lovely work, are they all freehand?

Thanks gobert!! Actually they are 3d printed in resin, I designed them myself using Zbrush and inspiring myself on some of the old banners shown in 4th-5th edition DA codexes.

Self designed 3d prints are as cool (maybe cooler?) as freehand. Great designs and really well painted!

Lovely clean paintjobs. Lot of love went into these, I can tell...

Exalted there muette.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the lovely comments all!

Well, I've been painting but I've neglected the social part! Here are the first five members of my Blooded Kill team. Mix of old miniatures, Cadian command box, 3d printed bix and greenstuff.

Some more updates on my Blooded and my Alpha Legion!

Some superbly painted minatures here nice one

Lovely work on the Alphas, the high contrast on their armour plates is super cool

Thanks lordbickerstaff and gobert!!

Several updates, finished my Alpha Legion Kill team with the Balefire Acolyte:




Here the whole gang about to drop an album:



And really nearing completion of my Blooded with the leader and the commsman:

There's just too many great models in this thread Muette. I especially like the traitor killteam. Make sure to treat us to a group-shot one of these days.

Neat work on the guardsmen, it not very obvious that they are traitors, which kinda makes sense if they're working for the Alpha Legion...

Exalted muette.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks a lot for the kind comments my dears! Well, hopefully this one will look a little bit more chaosy, here my Ogryn for the Blooded, kitbashed from seeeveral kits!

That's chaos-y alright! Great conversion. There seems to be plenty of sculpting going on as well?

Hi mcmattila, yes there is a little bit of greenstuff there, mainly the legs (joining the boots to the body), filling the whole in the belly and the joint between the arm and the claw.

Aaaaand it's a wrap! Commisar and flenser finished Group shot!

Another neat not-very-chaosy guardsman!
Not a criticism by the way, I alway found it strange that it's all or nothing with traitor guard and none of the slow turn some of your minis have...

That’s a great ragtag band of traitor guard, they mesh pretty well together. The commissar looks like he could do with seeing an Apothecary though

Thank you both! @gobert actually I wrote a bit of background for the team, and the commisar was the first one to fully fall to chaos, due to some voices he started to hear after taking some drugs that the doctor from the regiment received from his home world...

Going back to the full light of the Emperor, here are two sons of the Lion finished!

That makes sense, always gotta watch out for papa! Some may question whether Dark Angels are in the full light of the Emperor, but they look supercool.

Thanks gobert!!

Now two more Alpha Legion SM, reinforcements for both my army and kill team

And now a mix of DA and Alpha Legion

Lovely colour on the Alpharius’s, is it contrast over a silver, then highlighted back to silver?

Hi Gobert, yes the "cobalt/blue" metallics are done using Akhelian Green over metallic, and highlighted with a mix of Akhelian + Silver.

And after a month and a half, here is the explanation of my absence!






Brother Turiel, Guardian of the last keys, Deathwing Dreadnought Redemptor. Lovely figure to paint and to make unique, I've pushed my skills with the airbrush and the freehand in order to make it pop. Hope I have achieved it!

Sweet Dreadnought! The glow on the plasma is super glowy! The heraldry is really cool, nice gradients on the individual colours.

Thanks man!
To start the year easy, I have finished a couple more Alpha Legion marines. Only 1 left to finish the unit of ten!

Awesome stuff Muette, love the detail on the book on the dread!

Great paintjobs, your chaos cultists really look the part. The dread looks amazing, the plasma glow is top notch.

Thank you both!!

Well, I'm having quite a productive start of the year, I've cracked down a DK in just six days. Hope to keep the rythm up!

Great work muette. Exalted.

Missed commenting while I was offline.

Cheers,

CB

The scale pattern you've done is great, I like the candles on the dreadnought too.

Really nice highlights on the knights hood, works well vs the bone.

Thanks for the kind comments!!!

With this one, I have finished (for a brief period of time at least) my Alpha Legion collection. Already thinking on the reinforcements I'm trying to do a group photo of them but im very bad at it, I'll try tomorrow with daylight.

Those look great, I'm sure they will look great all together.

Great work on the Dark Angel and the Alpha Legion guy. Really like the little touch of red on the cloth.

Thanks for the comments!

Now a Mournfang converted into Gore Grunta for my Orc army! Had this conversion sitting in my cabinet unpaited for the last 5 years, I have used it as a healthy change of pace after so many power armour

Nice job, the tusks on the back look really well done.

Exalted some more muette.

Cheers,

CB

What a cool idea for the orc boss! Looks great.

Thanks for the comments all!!

Going back to the Deathwing, ancient finished!

Nice work, that banner is sweet!

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Nice work, that banner is sweet!

I agree the banner is phenomenal, well done! Terminators look so cool.

Thanks both!!!

Here a quick paintjob for my Bloodbowl team, a chamaleon skink!

Great work. Enjoyed going through all the pages.
The Dreadnought must be my favorite so far!

Keep it up

muette,

Great stuff as always.

Cheers,

CB

He looks cool, though I’m afraid part of me is disappointed he wasn’t painted to blend in to the base, including a white stripe!

Thanks for the kind comments!!
@gobert: I wanted to do it quickly so went full for airbrush and inks for the majority of it, didn't wanted to do any special effect. Lorewise excuse is that in the middle of the game even Chamaleons want to be seen, so full colour on it!!

And today I have finished my second Knight, only three to finish the unit!

Very clean, nicely done!

Great work muette.

Cheers,

CB

Fair enough! It’s hard to receive a pass when the thrower doesn’t know where you are I suppose
The knight looks amazing, the bone and green look super smooth with subtle transitions, nice work!

Thanks all!!! Now, another Gore Grunta joins the army!!

Continuing with my Deathwing I have just finished Brother Valefor, Knight Master:

Your deathwing dudes look fething awesome, great job!

Lovely Deathwing, that shield is fantastic! The spots of purple are a cool choice too

Exalted muette.

Wonderful as always.

Cheers,

CB

The terminators look great. Will you be kit bashing the leftovers with the new bigger terminators coming soon?

That would have been great, if not by the fact that I 3d printed the missing legs/back torsos and shoulderpads to build a total of 10 termies from a single box. So even if the new sculpts look amazing, I will refrain myself on buying them on the short term hahah

Finishing up the last remnants of my Seraphon army, here are two Skink heroes on flying mounts!

Brilliant updates Muette, lovely colours on the terradon thingies!

Love how colourful those Terradon riders are! And so clean

Super cool muette, the bright blue dino is great!

Thank you for the kind words friends!!!

Aanother deathwing knight finished. This one was a pain, for some reason the last airbrushed white highlight kept reactivating with water :( I was able to solve it but it took a lot of time. Hope you like it!

Awesome Deathwing, I love how absurd that mace is. Really nice gold effect on the middle.

More wonderful work muette.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you both!

Starting now with the new Possessed, really liking these figures!

Fantastic work on the mouth on that guy!

Excellent work Muette! The sliminess of the tentacle arm is a nice touch. Did you put a gloss on that or is it just good highlighting?

Great couple of posts muette. The dark helmet on the Deathwing was a good shout, gives him a broody look. Love the flaming skulls on the possessed too, really nicely done

Thanks all for your kind comments!
@Olthannon: No gloss, I did last highlights almost with pure white precisely to make it all reflective and wet (and disgusting).

Now to round up my Orrukz, boss for my looted Mournfang is finished!!

Nice one Muette! Nice work on the horns and fur.

Excellent paintwork on the Possessed! My favorite elements are the gem eyes and the scale pattern on his chest, but really, all of the elements are great!

Also, I can't really tell why, but that Orruk on Mournfang gives me a warm and nostalgic feeling, like something from when I was a kid just getting to Warhammer. Probably the green base rim, maybe also the relatively clean paintjob... In any case, lovely work!

Thank you both!!!
I'm on a killing spree, another Possessed down!

Nicely done specially on the skin tones.

Yep, nice and fleshly.

That Orruk is cool, though I imagine him being a bit Sir Diddymus from Labyrinth when the boar gets going!

Gotta agree with the others, the fleshy tones are great on the possessed, especially that butt!

Thank you all!! Ah, everyone is weak for the flesh...

Well, showing just a bit of flesh, I've finished with the fifth one my unit of Deathwing Knights!

Spectacular unit! They look super cool on the display board too

Great looking unit Muette. I like the varied textures between the cloth and armour, very effective

More great work muette.

Cheers,

CB

Really nice group mate, your painting is very impressive. Love the battle damage on the shield edge.

Thank you all for your kind comments, they are really encouraging!
I have now finished another AL possessed. This one has all the skin done with brushwork, as it didn't have enough exposed to justify using the airbrush, and I wanted to take the challenge and play with green undertones. Hope you like it.

Woah, he’s a freaky lad, great work. The skin looks pretty good to me

Ok, so after two months of work I have something new to show:






Soooooo happy with this one. Lot's of opportunities to try new things (OSL and textures mainly) and also sculpting techniques. Basically this is the top of my game currently. Now to relax myself and paint some squigs or something xD

Wow you should be happy with this, it rocks! The OSL is great and the wings look brilliant. The burning Cadian flag on the base? That's such an awesome piece.

Thanks Olthannon for the kind words!!

As a palette cleanser, a smal project! I have another 3 of these dudes, I will intercalate my remaining possessed with them

Squig riders are a hoot, but the latest round of Chaos guys is mind-blowing. Great work!

Wow! That daemon prince is fantastic! So many awesome details. The time and effort certainly shines through.

Good to see some gobbos making a erm, cheeky appearance

Thank you both!!!

To continue progressing with the Alpha Legion, I wanted to finish this dear crabby dude before leaving on holidays. Hope you like it! Only one more to go to finish the unit, later I will keep painting squigs, I have a unit of Hellblasters to add to my DA, and I transformed an old Predator tank to paint it also with the Alpha Legion colours.

He’s a pretty crab boy! Superb

Wow they are nice muette.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks both!!!

Another two squigs, loving so much those

Absolutely love those Squigs Muette! Such bright colours and a great paint job.

Good choice mixing up the colours of the squigs, adds a lot of flavour! Excellently painted as ever too

Thanks gobert and Olthannon for your kind words!!

And now, bordering finishin the Alpha Legion (only one Predator tank away to finish the backlog on that side), my unit of Great possessed is finished!!

Exalted muette.

Cheers,

CB

Wow these are fantastic, muette! Really nice job.

That’s some sexy mutants! Excellent stuff muette

Great possessed is a perfectly fitting label. Awesome looking unit!

They look awesome Muette! Really nice use of contrasting colours to change up the AL blue.

Thanks all for the kind words!!! Glad you like them as much as I.
And I have squeezed enough time to finish the last squig from this classic unit before my last summer adventure. Hope you like it!!

Oh yes! He’s a classic alright, excellent paint job on him too. The blue through to orange on the squig is fantastic

Yep can only echo Gobert, really fantastic. Love the eyes on the Squiggly as well, very cool.

Very nice work there muette.

Cheers,

CB

Awesome work. The squig's eyes are perfect.

The new style squigs are nice, but I also really love the old squigs.
Great paint work.

Glad you like it my friends, I have a box of the new ones and I'll try to paint them on a similar style.

But before, behold, and old Predator! And actually my last mini of my Alpha Legion army, at least until I buy something more

Nice and old school. Lovely model and congrats on finishing the army. For now.

That’s a sweet old ride! Love the nu marine helmet hanging from the sponson! Congrats of finishing the army, it’s a great milestone! Would love to see them all together

Great paint scheme for that classic Pred. I agree, the Primaris head hanging loosely on the side is a great little touch.

Thanks all!!! Now back to my Dark Angels, here my first ever primaris!! (with the exception of the helmet in the predator, of course xD)

Lovely work on the pred.

The da boys look nice. That plasma glow... (Chefs kiss)

Great work on the Dark Angels, your OSL work is fantastique!

They are fantastic, that glow is hard to look at, it looks like it’ll burn your eyes if you look too long! How’d you do it?

Thank you all!!!
@gobert basically with the airbrush! I paint the coils in light grey, paint the general area with a medium blue, then the center of the coil with pure white, and then it's a back and forth between light blue, white, and going a bit dark on the edges.

And now, for something completely differnt, Orcs! For Orctober!

And another two Hellblasters, unit is going slow but steady. I have actually timed myself with those, and I spend 6 hours with each primaris figure. Not sure if good or bad with that level, at least I'm happy with the result.

You have a lovely and crisp painting style. I also like the Blooded team you posted a while back very much.

Thanks for the kind words Aquilifer!!

I keep working on repainting my boarboys, another two down!

Great work on the shield especially!

Love those Boar Boyz! As Gwyn says, the shield pattern is excellent.

Lovely boar boys, classic minis and amazingly well painted. 6 hours on the Dark Angels is good, I don’t think I’m much faster despite being a lower quality

Loving those plasma gunners. So much sweet green lately.

Thank you all!!! I keep working on my Hellblasters! Sargent and the first of the second squad of 5. Really happy with the kitbash on the sargent, the plasma cannon comes from the Deathwing terminator kit. Hope you like it!

When you don’t like your hands, it has to be double plasma! You’ve hidden that it was a Terminator weapon well, did you just keep the hand and replace the rest of the arm?

Yes, it was a cut at elbow level, and then just ensuring that the cables were going correctly to the power plant.

And unit of 5 boars finished with the champion! Kitbashed from a pewter savage orc boar boy, add a bit of chainmail and armor and voilá, a regular ork! Hope you like it.

Brilliant stuff Muette! Love those Boar Boyz, especially with the goblin green bases.

Superb! His skin is almost glistening

More nice work there muette.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks all for the kind comments :3

Starting with my savage orcs! I have a unit of 10 of these bad boys, loved painting these first two.

Nice! That one on the left looks a bit dim, but he’s kinda cute with it!

These sculpts are great, the "hey I'm a bit dumb but have this bone to your skull" vibe is awesome.
And another two!

Great updates. The ork skin looks great, the warpaint is a nice touch.

Love the warpaint as well as the excellent painting of course. Love the arm rings, they look so realistic.

Thank you both!!

So last minis of the year I fear (unless I have a painting frenzy in the remaining days, that is). Only two Hellblasters missing to finish the box.

More very nice work muette.

Cheers,

CB

Nice one Muette, great work on the plasma glow and weathering.

A sweet pair to finish off the year! The glow is mesmerising

Thanks all for the comments! Starting the year the best way possible, painting!! Two more savage orcs down.

Slow progress, life is getting in the way! At least I was able to finish the first two squig hoppers from the last plastic kit released. Hope you like them!

Definitely like 'em! Love the colourful squiggle beasts.

More nice work muette.

Cheers,

CB

I don’t like them… I love them! The classic red is fantastic and the pink works well (love the leg tempting it forward ). Just in time for the old world re-release of Orcs & Goblins

Thanks all for the kind comments! Continuing with the goblin theme, I started a Blood Bowl team. Here some old minis:

The squig hoppers look amazing, the skin and armour is well done.

Thanks Flapjack!!

And now, the last two Hellblasters of the box I bought. This means I can buy more toys! Well, not yet, lots of orcs and goblins still to paint

Lovely looking unit!

Thanks!!

And I continue with the savage orcs, another two!

That's impressive highlighting on those orcs.
Must be very time consuming.

With their tribal tattoos (or paint) the savage boyz look ready to throw down a haka!

Thanks both!!! @Tommygun yes, it's quite intensive, but I already have a ton of minis to play (and I mainly play OPR, so anything works) so I'm in absolutely no hurry painting. Just enjoying the ride!

Speaking about enjoyment, SQUIGS!!

And unit down! Savage orcs completed, always good to see them all ranked up and painted.

Man! The glow on those Hellblaster is immense the Orcs are stunning too, are you planning some Old World games?

Thanks gobert!! About Old World...not sure! They play in my gaming club but they are still undecided between old world and 9th age. What I'm sure is that I'm not going to rebase anything, at most I'll prepare movement trays to adapt. But in OPR I can use them perfectly!

And continuing with my squigs, two more!

Great squigs muette! Movement trays are definitely the way to go

What makes those squig rider figures so uch fun is the excellent animation in the posing and the look of light-hearted mayhem on the riders' faces!

Your paint up of them is first rate.

Exalted muette.

Cheers,

CB

Very fancy squigs !

Thanks all for the kind comments!!!

Fleshing out the command section of my Dark Angels, I start with the man, the legend, Azrael!!