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Voted !

The latest trio looks awesome !! Love the HB

[edit : I wish I could view the "last 20%" in the good way you consider them...

For you it's "yay, let's have fun with my awesome freehand skills" !!

For me it's "nay, this is where I might screw it all up "

Lucky you ]

Well my first 80% is: "gak, did I over do this layer of water color" or "feth, don't go there you runny paint"


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 Malika2 wrote:
Have you considered also getting for Forge World terminator bits? I can imagine that the Tartaros bits could be a good basis to make MK IV power armor, look at what Apologist did with them: link.

Should really order some. Too bad FW online shop is so frickin troublesome - doesn't take amex, doesn't do paypal, security shuts down master card...

Can't wait to see your airbrush work Migs!

Looking good Migs, The marine, running, with the heavy bolter is a favorite of mine!!

 migsula wrote:
Well my first 80% is: "gak, did I over do this layer of water color" or "feth, don't go there you runny paint"

Well, I guess we all have our weak points

Fantastic stuff Migsula. Great new additions and I especially like that you spent the time to add in the fluff to your posts. I'm glad someone of your skill level is taking the time to do Alpha Legion properly. I can't wait to see more.

I Love the last three models!! Great addition to the army

 IceAngel wrote:
I'm glad someone of your skill level is taking the time to do Alpha Legion properly.

QFT...

thanks guys!

Almost there now:

Oh, my...

The left-most chestplate is just a work of art...

Congrats again, migs... Keep it up !

Great looking army man, love the way the green comes up on those guard.

Exquisite, lovely work sir.......any chance of some more works in progress tho



Sam

I would almost say that you should include a Fallen Angel character (maybe even Cypher) in the mix!

 Casey's Law wrote:
Great looking army man, love the way the green comes up on those guard.

I'm really sorry but I assumed I had posted here before. My first pose deserves far more attention! I must have read your thread during your period of no activity which meant I couldn't post without necroing.

Well anyway I absolutely love your work and really enjoyed reading everything through thoroughly. It was nice to delve into some deeper thoughts on the hobby and art between astounding paint jobs and top wrung conversions. Great blog, great miniatures!

Thanks guys! It means a lot to get your positive feedback and to make the blog more active again.

I promise to take more WIP photos. Video tutorials at this point are too much time away from the precious little time I have to build and paint.

Manged to finish the three new legionnaires. Now jumping to the Henchmen. The new Marine stuff is inbound tomorrow So who knows what I build in the excitement. Hoping it's the second Cyclops Automaton.

Fixed the link, and...

[edit : link didn't need to be fixed... Though it appeared broken to me at first ]

Link is still broken here :(

Yup, still broken link

Not broken now... I guess there's a Warp anomaly around that pic...

I can't see it either now - tried to direct link from Flickr instead of Blogger.

Anyway, today I wanted to talk about:


Adeptus Astartes


I received my new Space Marines and Codex and cannot help, but share some thoughts before diving in to building stuff again. Amazing work from Games Workshop and brilliant bitz for Legion.

Therein lies the biggest mistake Games Workshop has ever done - the incorrect Architecture for the most central imagery in the game - the plastic Space Marine. When Jes Released the current road map with his 98 classics, the world was quick to embrace the models as pinnacle of GW capabilities and largely blind that what Dainton, Kopinski and Boyd soon started was not at all captured in miniature form. A few years later the hobby reacted and the first corrective actions started appearing. Then in 2006 or so came a second wave built on the Terminator kits, but GW has not had the heart to reset.

Today, looking at my Alpha Legionnaires, next to an excuse built from the box, I’m left worndering how fething fantastic things could have been. Utterly fantastic.

But lets put that aside. The new kits are some of the best GW has ever produced, marvelous advancement in sharpness and mold quality, range of options and iconography and fantastic source material for everyone working with Space Marines - be it insanity like “Art-scaling” or just building from the box.

The Sternguard kit is loaded with gorgeous options, the Centurions have a really surprising level of detail and selection and the single frame characters continue the strenght of that line, but offer quite a bit of more flexibility to kit bash than some of the Fantasy counterparts. I rate this release very highly. Almost up there with the Dark Eldar and Ork onslaughts of recent years.

The Codex on a quick glance is a land mark piece, much like the 6th edition rule book. There isn’t much new Art, but a great collection of the classics remastered to this new digital age with color and some amazing new one offs for each of the main chapters. The background is very rich and laid out like a great foundation to create your own chapters and storylines and the miniature section is long and comprehensive.

I have to wonder how the Codex Chaos Space Marines can be so bad in light of all the other sixth edition books (Eldar, Tau, Necrons all brilliant) is beyond my understanding. Massively more so now the loyal Chapters have their land mark tome. If I would be in charge, I would immediately admit to this internally and reshuffle the que to create something equally spctacular for the Renegades. Because these two books truly define everythign else.

All this new space marine goodness has really made me wonder if there is anyway I could do a small force of marines that were just built as is. Sadly no. But I still enjoy and thoroughly appreciate the new releases and it will be a joy to see so much richness to people's armies.

I might allow a small detour to my Legion work now that I have the army together. Something really nice to enjoy the gorgeous new plastic sets. Working on it already.

So you mean you had hoped they would re-scale the Space Marines ? That was really optimistic !!

I agree that the CSM books pales in comparison, and it saddens me too... But hey, I guess it was the first one, so they probably learnt from it & the critiques (can GW really do that ? )

Can't wait to see what you come up with !

Eloquently put, Migsula.
The new plastics are indeed very good, but the art, and the vision behind it, still outpaces them by a large margin.
But on the other hand, that deficiency does give drive to people like you to strive and achieve great things... To try and realise the vision that the art and fiction contains, despite the limitations of the actual product sold.
And I for one, am grateful that it has that effect.

Thanks for the review! I enjoyed reading that.

 Yggdrasil wrote:
So you mean you had hoped they would re-scale the Space Marines ? That was really optimistic !!

No, on the contrary - I wasn't expecting that at all and not going to in a long time or perhaps "ever". Too much vested in that architecture now... Having said that, in a few years time, what else would help move more product or elevate the imagery to new level than totally redoing the Space Marine, and then gradually updating every single kit based on it?

Migs I have been a huge fan of your work since I first laid eyes in it. The conversion work is very smooth and well done and really brings the space marines into a proper looking scale with the other humans in the 40K universe as portrayed in the art and my own imagination. The one aspect of your work that I simply cannot wrap my thoughts around is how you are able to achieve the blends and color transitions on the power armor. Is there any way to convince you to post a short video showing how you do that? Failing that could you suggest a tutorial or search topic that would be helpful on YouTube?

 migsula wrote:
No, on the contrary - I wasn't expecting that at all and not going to in a long time or perhaps "ever". Too much vested in that architecture now... Having said that, in a few years time, what else would help move more product or elevate the imagery to new level than totally redoing the Space Marine, and then gradually updating every single kit based on it?

Uh, okay, I see what you mean... Well... Let's be optimistic, then !

Added some wip of the Henchmen:

I like the chap with the two boltguns, good pose

Looks awesome Migs, can't wait to see them with some paint applied!!

Migs, you really do produce some of the most interesting characterful and enegmatic minis on dakka. The trio of true scale legionaries up at the top of the post are pretty much perfect imo. Looking forward to seeing more!