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Yay! Updates!

Everything is looking great, but that Inquisitor really does stand out, a great idea that is coming to fruition very well. The alien bug is also cool, and I love what you've done with the Thallax. Always good to see more Crows as well.

Welcome back mate - I hope the doctorate is going ok.

Very much looking forward to seeing what you come up with using that airbrush!

nice looking stuff!

Amazing work, I've just read through your whole blog Your Black Templars make mine look like crap, consider me subbed

Good to see you're back, lovely work as always!

Good work J-Paint, liking all this stuff!

Hey J! glad to see you (read you?) again :-) lets open those floodgates and get creative eh! i've missed your work and painting and can't wait to see what you do in stage 2 of getting back inspired!

@Darth Bob - Hahah! exactly! I should probably make a servo skull coloured like a pokeball....or maybe the world is not ready for such a thing!

@Paradigm - Really psyched you like the inquisitor paradigm, its really a labour of love! probably spent more time converting her than any other mini in this plog!

@San- The airbrush and I probably need to get properly used to each other before I utterly drenchsomething in paint by acciddent =p I might start on some paper.

@Nerd - Hahah the floodgates are truely open Nerd, need to read up on some of my subscribed plogs too, which includes yours, massively behind in the world of hobby!

@Brotherofbone - The black templars?! dear lord I wish they were mine, they were my inspiration for what I would do if I was a painting god! I only have the one recent black templar I did for nerdfests comp and its not in the same league as that crazy guy!

@STC, Elnibbus, Hoe Jarris, Warboss_Waazag - Thanks guys! The enthusiasm really is sending my desire to get back to painting into overdrive!



So being at work and all no pictures, but I am planning to get paint on syther/xenos guy tonight, I'm thinking green has to feature prominently, but you guys have any other ideas for painting him??

I think with the green you want to go with other, fairly subdued natural colours like a pale yellow of brown. For some reason, I'd suggest dead leaves as inspiration, if that makes any sense.

I entirely do! I think that sounds like a fantastic idea, blending in patches of brown or orange might make it look quite interesting! I'll give it a go.

Hey, if you want something new to look at you might enjoy my newest folly.

A small Inq28-project that is bound to get out of control any day now.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/585576.page

STC I have only just flicked through, but judging by the last picture that has already got waaayyyy out of hand! I am subscribed! I will comment properly when i get a chance to read through properly. p.s. your inquisitor is simply stunning.

'tis be but a trifle! You know it has gone complete black-crusadeish out of hand when I am starting to rebuild a Reaver Titan into a Scolstica Psycana PSI-Titan.

 J-paint wrote:
@Darth Bob - Hahah! exactly! I should probably make a servo skull coloured like a pokeball....or maybe the world is not ready for such a thing!

@Paradigm - Really psyched you like the inquisitor paradigm, its really a labour of love! probably spent more time converting her than any other mini in this plog!

@San- The airbrush and I probably need to get properly used to each other before I utterly drenchsomething in paint by acciddent =p I might start on some paper.

@Nerd - Hahah the floodgates are truely open Nerd, need to read up on some of my subscribed plogs too, which includes yours, massively behind in the world of hobby!

@Brotherofbone - The black templars?! dear lord I wish they were mine, they were my inspiration for what I would do if I was a painting god! I only have the one recent black templar I did for nerdfests comp and its not in the same league as that crazy guy!

@STC, Elnibbus, Hoe Jarris, Warboss_Waazag - Thanks guys! The enthusiasm really is sending my desire to get back to painting into overdrive!



So being at work and all no pictures, but I am planning to get paint on syther/xenos guy tonight, I'm thinking green has to feature prominently, but you guys have any other ideas for painting him??

Even the ones you did are far better than mine :3 Well done!

@STC - That is anything but a trifle!!! and lol if you did that to a reaver....i would have no words it would be so cool.

@ Brother of bone - Yours are awesome too, just had a peak! I love your Lord Executioner conversion!

Anyway guys so true to my word I have managed to slap some paint on my syther alien thing, its nto as neat as I would like because I was working to a time limit, something I rarely ever do, so it was mostly washes, but the over-all look is not far off what I had in mind, what do you think?

Also paradigm I was going with autumn leaves colours until the purple somehow jumped on my brush and ruined it! I'm sure there must be purple leaves somewhere

Picture dump!

That thing is very unsettling. I adore it! You've done a good job making it look reptilian and insectoid while still maintaining enough alien flair to make it look like a completely different creature rather than some mashup of two different species. He really is quite great. Love your conversions to death.

And I'd definitely on board with the Pokeball idea.

I really enjoy your work. Well played sir.

Yea j! Get em! I love that creature. Super creepy man, and nice use of color. Good work mate

BB

That first face shot is awesome! LOL! Made me start back from the computer screen.

Awesome stuff, the colour choice and blending work amazingly well. It's both freaky and cool at the same time.

Now that I think of it...

:p

Excellent sculpting work, very nicely done .

Haha thanks, I feel I sorta let him down with the painting though :c Resin+plastic=pain to glue

Fantastic work man, really love all your conversions!

 bebopdrums2424 wrote:
Now that I think of it...

:p

Can confirm.


Glad to see you back, J! Updates are all looking sweet.

That thing is freaky. I love it. But don't Ordo Xenos inquisitors usually kill aliens? Or are they like the other Ordo tasked with rooting out haos in that they occasionally try to use the enemies weapons against them?

The Ordo Xenos handles all the esoteric matters relating to aliens, whether that's alien infiltration of local govt, genestealer cults, illicit trading with xeno races, or ancient xenos artefacts that could unmake the cosmos. They're really a mixed bag, and often they end up with an alien or two in their retinue to make use of their specific skill sets (Jokaero, for example) or perhaps as an advisor/interpreter where specific races are concerned.

@Darth bob - Thanks man, it was really hard making it not just look like an oddball tyranid.

@Bebop - Coming from you sir, that is fantastic praise, and also hahah! i wont be able to look at it the same way again now!

@ Gits - Lol! i thought i might get someone by putting it first =p apologies!

@Paradigm - Its really not all that special, just washing for the most part.

@brother of bone - tell me about it, i find that roughening up the surface of the resin to be glued tends to help a great deal, just small superficial cuts into the surface, strengthens the bond without going full on pinning.

@Valhalla and Bossfearless - Bossfearless said it far better than I could have, I always imagine having aliens working for you as an inquisitor is a bit more of a grey area, if you have a daemon its undeniably evil whereas if you happened to encounter a race of star wars ewoks for example you'd be hard pressed to claim they would destroy the imperium of man....plus aliens can be used for all sorts of useful things as fearless says, scouting, translators etc.

@stoleyourwatch, hk1x1, Two spartan, Moltar - Thanks guys! Cheering always makes runners run faster, can only hope it's the same for painting.



So guys as I roughly illustrated on the last page the new scions are pretty damn cool and I have had a play around, now despite it being an insanely expensive conversion per trooper (I'll try not to think of it like that) I really love this look. My only reservation so far is the gun, i want to swap the gun barrel for a catachan style one, if anyone has an abundance of spare catachan lasguns give me a shout and I will be happy to sort out a swap or payment of some kind!




What is annoying me is that despite the DKOK legs being smaller they dont look ridiculously out of proportion on this guy, but with the already obsenely oversized flamer it looks kinda goofy:


Anyway, I think I will crack on anyway, the heads are time consuming but maybe once I get into a routine it will be easier




Lastly I had a quick play around with the airbrush last night, DEAR LORD it is the best thing ever!!!!! I stripped the hellhound from earlier in this blog to test on, and I got to this stage after like 4 minutes, really really impressed. I admit I am not even using it properly yet, more as a way to lay down undercoats quickly, but I can already see the potential is amazing!

Yet another convert to the true path...