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Now folks wanted to see the work done on the minis for the characters I have listed in my fluff, and here I have "Ogre" the big Melta gunner with his "back-up" melta. Next to what will be "Father Orlov" Painting the melta is what I need mostly for Ogre, and well, a bottle of vodka, some green stuff for the arm, as well a s beard and then paining the big priest. That is an eviscerator I made from a sentinel close combat weapon btw.
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Lamp on.
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Now the priests' back, showing some of the eviscerator and Ogre showing off his pride and joy!
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Holy Aquila(Rosarius) and spare Melta shown well, Meltas are big!
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AHHH!
cool minis! how will you paint the Orlov charcter? i pictured him as a standard catholic priest in black robes with a bit of golden detail...maybe a bit purple?
quite a fitting weapon the sentinel chainsaw! and it is doublebladed so to speak^^... will he be bald or with a hairdo?

and for "Ogre" i would suggest making a strap for holding that huge melta in place on his back.i would also consider giving ogre some sm shoulderpads as this would bulk him out further...

I smoothed away his hair, as he is Bald but with a beard! (I have plenty of Gray stuff) I had to chop the shield and mace the mini had, and will make the left arm look aggressive, and holding a bottle of battlefield "strovichnaya" made from a altered mortar shell^^ I have a nice set of images from the "Blood of Martyrs" for the colors of his vestments, his armor will be pretty flak armor-esque. The majority of the ecclessiarchal robes are white, that is a bit bland and doesn't really work well for battle, but red is Adeptusd Mechanicus or Redemptionistic, and he is by no means a redemptor with his drinking and liking of the ladies. I will likely use what I have to make his robes look like white linen, and make some sort of colorful edging.

Ogre has a left arm SM pad already. And again Gray stuff to the rescue! (strap for the weapon) ^^


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Oh, and purity seals for the good father as well!^^

yeah purity seals all the way^^ i could also imagine a foliant resting on his other arm...hmmm as for the robes i guess then a very stained robe then...gruby as hell... i bet he is so faithful a servant that with all his sewrving for the emperor he forgot the use of soap alltogether...^^


is greystuff more expensive then greenstuff?
and the shoulderpad had escaped my look as it is in camo alredy and hwo expect that on a shoulderpad of Sm at all^^

Well, I will let you see for yourself what happens to him next.

Gray stuff in the amount I got it was 17bucks for large tubes of it from Gail Force 9


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Gray stuff works well, here the strap and the beard are added, some arm armor and the "Bottle"
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Beard, purity seals and booze for the Father of battle
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Here you can see the power hoses, purity seals, and his hair and beard from a different angle
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And his holstered autopistol(think las pistol but with bullets)
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This captures his beard and all his glory!
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Ogre is packing his second gun via a strap with buckle.
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Paint started Black primer for his armored form, and then a base of "Bleached bone"
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Now for some flesh tone basics.
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Hope these hold folks a while, my sculpting skills are rusty as you can see, but more practice will make for smaller and better buckles!

so firstly congrats for the nice and very fitting beard...he looks absolutly the part!

did you build the bottle from a mortar grenade? cool idea but to me it needs a bit more fleshed out in the lower part (loss of word here)
if you are aiming for a longnecked bottle you hit the nail...otherwise i would cut the neck a slight bit...but this is rather personal taste...
the autopistolholster is for my taste a bit to thick...but then i dont know how thick the grey stuff tends to be and if it can be spred thinner...with what tools do you work the material? i use currently dentist tools...(urgh^^) but they help a lot...in short time i hope to get me some color shaper tools...the ones with the soft silicone tip...this will provide my rise on the next level^^ of sculpting i hope^^

the strap could be thinner i give you that... but this could be mended a twofold...i guess the stuff is cured totally? then you could probably either file it down a treat to get it way slimmer...probably with a dremel to get speed ...
or you could poke small dents/holes in the material to make it look like a chain that is the strap...with a very small drillbit this might actully work... as i understand grey stuff is very strong after it is cured...

but all in all a very cool work you pulled off there...
this will go a long distance and as of orlov you will be very proud of him when finished^^


vik

Nice!
I'd prefer one the old hip flasks myself, but that's just me.
I'd imagine orlov as having grubby brown robes, much like friar tuck.

nope he will have gruby white robes^^ and for a big man like orlov the hipflask wouldn´t do... that be just one gulp...and then he would raid his next fellow guardsman for a second gulp...

BTW I like the camo on ogre.

Vik: Yeah, the size of the auto-pistol is ridiculously huge and clunky, and that makes the whole thing look like that.

My sculpt skills will improve with time. I can likely get some smaller size to the gray stuff once it is cured, otherwise when soft it tries to rip away..

Probably have to go back and eventually rond the bottom more, but it would make for a very stable bottle with such a flat bottom like that. And yes, I was shooting for a tall necked bottle!^^

Shrike: Ecclessiarchy robes are white, but you may notice some brown at the bottom with the next pics to come.

Thanks, that is the Khadrovian Hard armor camo.

looking forward to more pics!

More you shall have! Whitening up!
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More colors

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Back
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Progress
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Hair colored!
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With Ogre
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holy....that red is looking cool to the white^^
did you do something to olrov holster? it looks now a bit smoother... maybe the paintjob did that...paint can do wonderful things...

although i have to say i quite like the way you built up the blond hair/beard of him i have to say in your stories i pictured orlov as a blackhaired man...but i think you have now a nice twist of an angel there...angel gone bad^^... with a vengance^^

for ogres meltas i think the muzzle could do now with a verrrry dry drybrush action again over the muzzles sooted parts so to break up the dark effect just a tiny bit.... afer that then some washes and you will be perfect! for real! only a bit lessen the red of the "mag" of the melter...it is quite yelling now^^


by the way... what model was rlov in the first place? got a linky there for us?


cool work mate!, vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:holy....that red is looking cool to the white^^
did you do something to olrov holster? it looks now a bit smoother... maybe the paintjob did that...paint can do wonderful things...

although i have to say i quite like the way you built up the blond hair/beard of him i have to say in your stories i pictured orlov as a blackhaired man...but i think you have now a nice twist of an angel there...angel gone bad^^... with a vengance^^

for ogres meltas i think the muzzle could do now with a verrrry dry drybrush action again over the muzzles sooted parts so to break up the dark effect just a tiny bit.... afer that then some washes and you will be perfect! for real! only a bit lessen the red of the "mag" of the melter...it is quite yelling now^^


by the way... what model was rlov in the first place? got a linky there for us?


cool work mate!, vik

Just making him in priestly colors is all. I smoothed the holster a bit then let the paint do the rest.

just goes to show that one never knows what one will find about a person or character!^^ Yeah, a dirty angel!

I will try some adds on for the melta to dull it down a bit.

Here we go, took time to find the cleric he was made from.
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/latest/03396

Thanks!

well he certainly looks the part of a migt be SM... that mini is full of character and you did a truly hard working job to get all that facehair off of him ...and i have to say this i quite the right mini for your vision!

also it has the right details like the book from the beginning...

in some days i wiull go for some nice reaper minis too, i got me
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50147

and
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50148

to be future commissars in my army... last one is something i would recommed to you if you want to make a female commissar on a budget... look for hordes of bits on your ebay.,..they do now a discount session that might end real soon...

Vik, you just gave me the mini i need for Kommissar Teona, add a commissar style hat and make that a bolt pistol hang a sword at her hip and Voila~!

or even better to not ruin her sexy hairdo just greenstuff a hat on the floor ...this and her drawing boltpistol action would make her look really cool^^

True, a fallen hat in the heat of the moment.

More pics! Ogre's double melta "special"
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The last thing a tank has seen before it's demise!
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The Big O's of Khadrovia!
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"Did you hear something?"
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Muddy Robes
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Ready for Battlefield sermons!
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did you freehand the aquilla on orlov? really good work^^
will you now aply washes to him? a bit of devaln mud to blend the mud on the robes with the robves itself better? and a bit to dirty it all over^^

i don´t really know what color meltasstreams might have so for now i take your word for it to be blue^^ and i just realized now that you have used secend edition SM arms on ogre...left and right...didn´t see it before...the unpadded one looks really good and could be just the thing to use for DIY stormtroopers...now there is a thought....

and by the way... the good night shot jut revealed to me how good ogres shades are looking both thumbs up mate^^

Yep! freehanded the aquilla on the tabard and his left shoulder guard.^^ Devlan mud wash to make him grittier.

Yeah, tactical squad arms for Ogre and his pals. Represented Carapace Armor for the bunch!

That gun get's so bright he has to wear shades!

lol...sunburnt by melta... get your tanlines the very hard way^^

Yep, it's so "Rad"
It was also nice to make front page here as well with this thread.

Aquilla on the shoulder!(freehanded)
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the aquliia is here again quite nice, what is this on the former shield arm? writings? looks nice...

Actually, I used a knife to make another Aquilla, but it looks like as if it is so old that over time it has been fading, so it could be mistaken as writing in the pattern of another Aquilla. A relic of faith as it were!^^

using a knife for painting... now there is a thought...gives that extra edge i suppose^^

I still had old shield patterns, so Gray stuff and the knife allowed me to do some experiments!
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More of the front tabard, and he looks like he is searching for a fight too!
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sorry mate but i think i cant see what you did now...where should i look now to? might be speachinpediment of mine...

Oh yeah, his left forearm guard.