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EDIT: Decided to re-purpose this old thread to showcase all of my completed Thousand Sons - keep everything in one place, hehe. I've put the dreadnought and boarding marine that I've posted previously into this first post, but as I complete other models I'll just add them in a reply, then make a sort of table of contents in here.

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19/02/12: Pre-Heresy Bike Sergeant
12/04/12: Post-Heresy Terminator Squad
25/08/12: Armies on Parade 2012 Display Board - Post-Heresy
02/09/12: Pre-Heresy MkIC Deimos Pattern Rhino
03/09/12: Pre-Heresy Tactical Squad
11/09/12: Pre-Heresy Contemptor
26/11/12: Dark Vengeance Chaplain (Not Sons-related, but oh well.)
30/10/14: Dark Vengeance Chaos Lord
01/05/15: Pre-Heresy Tactical Squad Amosis
03/05/15: Pre-Heresy Scout Squads
11/06/15: Deathwatch Character - Jahi
01/08/15: Chapter Master Akil Amari
08/03/16: Land Speeder Storm & Scouts
02/05/16: Games Day 2012 Blood Angels Captain (Again not Sons-related, but at least he's red!)
13/10/16: 2016 Imperial Space Marine - Pre-Heresy XV Livery
20/10/16: XV Legion Praetor Tribune Librarian in Tartaros Terminator Armour
16/11/16: Slaughterpriest with Hackblade (Again not Sons-related, but at least he's red, part two )
12/04/17: 40k Ahzek Ahriman
23/05/17: Canoness Veridyan (once again not Sons-related but hopefully still acceptable!)
09/07/17: 30k Thousand Sons Terminator Captain Nadim
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Captain Akil, Terminator Sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and one of the commanders aboard the vanguard cruiser Aten. Any comments or crits are very much appreciated!



The runes on the staff read "All is Dust" in Egyptian. Both his arms are magnetised so I can pose his arms and switch weapons around, though I still need to finish painting all his different weapons. He's also magnetised to the base so I can put him on different bases. I love magnets.



Akil with a combi-melta (not flamer, as I originally posted ) and power fist!



Those who follow my WIP thread would've seen the in-progress shots of Niu. But now that he's actually finished, here he is in all his completed glory! Showing off both his dual close-combat weapons and plasma cannon. The tabard, chain and attaching scarabs were made from scratch with greenstuff, and were my first proper foray into sculpting.



Frozen Mountain Lake!


Pack Ice!


The Forgeworld special model for Games Day Australia 2011. Had a lot of fun painting this guy. First time trying out zenithal lighting with wet blending and such.

This is gakking amazing. I've been painting for over a year and am yet to achieve such high standards. IMHO this is 90% of 'eavy metal teams standards.

Great Work. The runes add a lot to the staff. Kinda wish that powerfist was in more focus, but from what i can tell the "power" field on it looks great as does the rest of the model. GJ.
-Cheers

Here y'go, fist more in focus. Should've posted that earlier, but I didn't want to flood the post with too many pics at once, heh. There's more shots of him in my gallery as well.

Thanks!

Very Nice, very nice. Thank you for posting that fist. great work.

That base is pretty sick, nice job.

No worries, plonshart! Any excuse to post more pics, hehe.

Thanks yokoyomama! Doing that lava was the first time I've done anything with greenstuff. Figured I'd start off with something easy. XD

Hey. Very sharp looking model. Usually I hate overdone bases but the lava is quite eye catching but doesn't crowd out the figure.

I've been struggling with golds a bit and I like yours. Did you you mix in a skull white or something to edge out the gold?

Thanks! I actually use the really old version of Shining Gold, the one that comes in the hexagonal pots (when I run out of that I think I'll cry). It's a little less orange than the current Shining Gold, which works well for my Sons. I wash it with Gryphonne Sepia, then highlight the edges with plain Mithril Silver.

Yes, I admit it, I'm a straight-out-of-the-pot painter. :(

that's very good amazing

It looks really good!

The only crit I have is that the gun should be a color other than blue... as it is it blends in with the rest of the model too much. Either a contrasting or neutral color would help it to stand out.

Great job!

Fantastic base!

Wow, that is so cool.

Thanks everyone!

Xenocidal Maniac wrote:It looks really good!

The only crit I have is that the gun should be a color other than blue... as it is it blends in with the rest of the model too much. Either a contrasting or neutral color would help it to stand out.

Great job!

Hm, yeah, I see what you mean. What colour d'ya think would work? Plain gunmetal doesn't show the gold detailing up as well, and I think red would look... odd against the blue. My original squad of Thousand Sons had their guns painted Enchanted Blue instead of Regal - would that work a bit better?

I love that model! Great job!

Great model! But what amazes me the most is the base... it has a huge amount of pure awesome!

Thanks! That base involved a lot of photo references and a lot of drybrushing, hehe.

NICE! I want one now

Very nice skits! I commented in the gallery on that bad boy, and these pics are better to see how he all fits together! great job dude looking really nice!

This is beautiful! Great work man please post more!

RandomSauce19 wrote:IMHO this is 90% of 'eavy metal teams standards.

This by far is not 'eavy metal stuff.
I'm not saying that this is ugly, its not by a loooooong shot. Just bugs me that somebody said 'eavy metal standards.
Besides that;

*drool* It looks really really nice and soothing, the paint looks the be a lil' thick on the cape though.
But I do enjoy watching all the little beautiful painted details.

Good job, mate, brave paintjob. Looks great - no, better than great! I especially like the glowing white eyes. Awesome work on the base

Great base and nice highlighting of the metallics

Gorgeous clean work! Just superb!

I particularly like the contrast of the red base and the blue model, it really makes for a nice photograph as well!

The gold is very crispy, it looks like gold and whatever technique used to produce that effect is convincing!

All the line work is very neat and crisp.

Excellent conversion green stuff? cape furr in the rear shot? Unique and well executed!

Good job with multiple directional view images!

Thank you all very much for the comments and feedback!

Pre-Heresy Bike Sergeant!


Had a bit of a fright with this guy - was putting the finishing touches on the base when I accidentally dropped him onto my tiled floor - and heard him shatter. D: Fortunately, only the weapon broke off (which it has a habit of doing anyway) and the bike popped off the base. No noticeable damage to the paint job, and he was easily fixed. Still, heart attack. D:

This is awesome. Truly phenomenal work. Loving the blue around the eyes on the first pic. Just great stuff all around.

Thank you!

Really sweet stuff.

Very nice !