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Nice work. Apoth' looks good.
Nice mod'n to the fist.

Thanks doc, shas.

I wasn't too sure about that chainsaw attachment on the fist but I thought it couldn't have been as bad as FW's one.



Above is 24 marines worth of ammo pouches and bolt pistols + some melee weapons.

I find blue tacking them all on an old paint brush (or 3...) to be the best way of making them look relatively consistent that and I can just paint up batches of them, bag them and take them out as and when needed, sure is tedious though.

I'll be finishing the browns off this evening, touch up the black parts tomorrow and get the metals done, then highlight the black bits, give them a wash and finished.

Small bit of progress on the Red Scorps.

Captain with combi-melta & power sword.



Sternguard squad with 2 plasmaguns.



Just need to buy some dark grey paints now.

I like your pouch painting stick , I have used bigger sticks to prime 20 or more miniatures at a time, but never thought about using a smaller one for all the add on goodies.

Yeah, nice idea with the pouch stick.

Decided to expand my number of grey scale paints, there is only so much blending of grey and black one can do before one goes mad.

black grey and German grey are nearly indistinguishable, the german grey does look a little green when applied tho. I'll pick up some lighter greys in future.

I stumbled across this post on a blog where the auther has very usefully tested all the vallejo model colour paints and listed them in triads of matching tonal shades. If you are reading this and use or plan to use vallejo model color paints I really recommend book marking it at the least.
http://napoleonicwargamingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/p/vallejo-triad-charts.html

But the German grey and grey green are the perfect shades for my red scorpions, as the (badly lit) test on the captain below hopefully shows.


I'm aiming to brush paint all the infantry and, when I buy a new compressor, airbrush the vehicles.


Word Bearers are coming along, just have the shoulder pads and guns to highlight the black on before I can move on to decals. I'll try and the highlighting done today.
I tried using the black grey as a lighter shade on the left arm shoulder pad in the bottom right, blkack grey is the darkest shade of grey vallejo makes ... bit too light for my taste so I'll have to mix up a bottle or two of in between shades at some point.


The space marine drop pod looks nice when fully built and painted, unfortunately it isn't quite so nice to actually build as I'm finding out. I've just finished filling the joins in the two halves of the doors.


I'm following this guide to assembling the pain:
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/definitive-guide-to-building-and.html

I'll try magnetising the doors in a similar fashion to that shown.

Cheers all.

Good luck with the Pods !
I bought 2 partially and badly made ones from my FLGS and they were a nightmare, looked nice in the end tho.
there really ought to be an age limit on these to stop kids buying them and getting frustrated !!!

Finally done painting these.



10 down 20 to go. Still got to paint the plasma glow ...


@Big H: Cheers mate, I can only imagine how hellish that was, you did a good job on them tho. Its probably the only reason I don't buy second hand assembled models.

Love it! Great scratchbuilding.

You're work here is phenomenal! Great work scratchbuilding, weathering and basing! Now you have my envy. For you to comment on my thread is now an even bigger compliment. Subbed for more.

Very nice! Inheartily recommend also Ghost Grey, Wolf Grey (game color) and black Patina (model colour); I use them all the time. Green black ink may be a worthwhile investment also?

Thanks for the tips graven, I'll put them on my never shrinking list of paints to pick up

I've prefer using Vallejo's Glaze medium for washes rather than inks these days, that said I still have a few pots of of old GWs washes that I use occasionally as I like their transparency, I'll look into it, if you say its worth it maybe I'll pick some up.


Progress on the word bearer decals, fingers crossed i'll get the rest of these finished tonight:



Assault cannons for the razorback done and decided to add a stormbolter as this is a really small army and any extra firepower is welcome, I wanted a stormbolter of a lower profile than the default one and managed to come up with a design that would fit the spare that I have lying around from the dreadnought that is in the list. The driver's hatch is from the chaos vehicle sprue just with the top filled in with milliput and carved to shape, I "might" have to lower the hatch as I feel it sticks out way too much above the hull.



Figured out how to paint yellow with a brush that i'm happy with; using a base of VMC Khaki Grey, with multiple layers mixing to VGC Sun Yellow then some VGC Moon Yellow adding white for edge highlights. It still wants a Sephia wash and maybe something darker on the chest eagle where I messed up.



Cheers all.

Man i admire your patience. i hate hand painting yellow.

Wow. Fantastic painting.

That is lovely and vibrant. I tend to start with vgc yellow ochre myself but I admire that variant quite a lot!


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I have a rebirth batman to do soon so may try that on the chest bat trim.

Very nice Marines! My comp was out for a week, so you can see some of those parts I ordered from you being used at last OMN!

Red Scorpion captain is nearly finished.



I messed up the heat discolouration so will try that again, there a few other bits and bobs that I've missed or made errors on, the gold is VMA Gold painted over with Vallejo metal colour gold then with a sepia wash, its a bit naff as I rushed the gold layer.


Also here is one of my gun crews designed by Victoria lamb, they were not as bad to paint as I feared.



Right so the end (of the year) is nigh, so I'm going to set my self a small list of painting goals to achieve and they are:

HH Word bearers:
- 2nd veteran squad (10) (This will bring up the force to 1k points finishing the ZM size force)

Red scorpions
- Captain (seen above)
- 4 Tacticals ( 1 already painted)
- 5 Sterguard
- drop pod
- Dreadnought
- Razorback
- 5 Assault marines
- including bases for the infantry above

Genswick:
- 2nd Gun crew

Imperial fists:
- Alexis Polux !!!

The last of which I'm very much looking forward to painting since I've had him a while now.

@Graven: I'm just using what I have to hand, probably would have taken less time to paint if I had yellow ochre .

Cheers all,

That captain is looking Bad-Ass!

the Big Gun crew looks very nice, and fits your IG army well.

Lol story of my life. I have VJ metals sitting in unopened tubs, how do you find them?

Well as a disclaimer I only own two of the range, Copper and Gold, partly down to cost. Colour wise the copper is a nice red, the gold is slightly greenish, they don't really mix together particularly well unfortunately. A problem I don't imagine the other colours in range have since they are all silvery.

They both have good coverage with a high density of very fine particle size and so apply nice and smoothly so it only takes, maybe, 2 layers to cover an area, with a nice, solid finish.

BUT they are intended as airbrush paints and you really have to mix them very thoroughly before use. I've only used them with a brush so far and since they have such a low viscosity.
I've managed to destroy one brush using them so far thanks to capillary action. So it might be worth investing in a sacrificial "Rigger" shaped watercolour brush specifically for these paints, see if that helps.

Thanks shas!

Your painting skills are stunning bud. These marines are just beautiful, really nice scheme and perfectly executed, stunning. The gun crew are pretty special too bud.

I have a pod still mostly on it's sprue, the more i see others work on them the more I think I will just convert it to something else entirely.

Nice to see you live and kicking again, missed you round here.

Good work on all the little plastic people.

I can muck about for ages getting heat discolouration just right when I do it. Keep at it, you have the idea.

Bit of a more random mix this week.

4 more red scorpions ready to go. The metals are a bit lacklustre at the time being, they want a wash or two. The bolters are at weird angles because they are not glued in atm.
I'm not really happy with how the big off-white circle on the sergeants banner has gone, but it'll serve I guess.


[ I just noticed I painted the stripe on the knee pad the wrong way ...]

On to the Sternguard squad next!

In other news; the Drop pod is ready to prime. I don't know how I'll paint it before Christmas. The top & bottom halves are not glued together btw.



I took time out from painting to work on a few bases, even started to make two little bits of scatter terrain.
50 x 25mm
28 x 32mm ... Actually i made 48 but seem to have misplaced the other 20...
11 x 40mm



The bases just need rubble, rubbish, etc scattered on them before they can be primed now.
For the terrain bits I'm thinking of using some wall filler to create smooth areas around the cork bark before gluing mixed grades of sand over the top.

I found my inquisitor for the inquisition force, looking at him now he looks like he has too much stuff on him. I'm also not happy with the legs since they make him lean really far forward.



And lastly here is a pair of dwarves from North Star and Osprey games "Oathmark" I really like these models and hopefully I'm going to have a lot of fun painting them!


@Cam: I think that may be the best use of the kit, I hope I don't have to make more. Thank you.

@DrH: Cheers.

I think the inquisitor looks great! the one thing I would change is to replace the shield on his shoulder with a purity seal, just seems too big.

Thanks supreme overlord, I think I will be doing just that.
I'd have liked to keep the shield, I have an idea to make a model with one held by a servo-arm, being used as a buckler.



I've switched the legs for a pair from the GSC neophyte kit, I'll carve off the cult icon and if/when I mess it up I'll cover it over with a little Inquisitorial icon.
Also adding a backpack, I think I'll remove the mechadendrites, although I almost don't want to as they almost suit the model. The idea is to remove the claw end-effector and replace it with the inferno pistol. I'll also remove the shoulder light and antenna.

Terrain bits done, they were built up with wall filler powder mixed with a bit of pva and water, before sand & grit was added. Then sprayed black then grey to make shading when airbrushing easier....


... And I'm slowly working my way through the next squad of red scorpions a bit at a time.



Thanks all.

The Inquisitor looks good on his new legs.

I liked the Inquisitor before, tho the shield looked off IMO, BUT he looks way better now !

Brilliant work on the Inquisition, lots of great work here as usual.

For the inquisitor, you could cut off the "forearm" of the servo-arma dn flip it upside-down so the cabling and such are on the underside, then remove the 'claws' and carve it to fit the pistol.

Love the inquisitor - right choice on the GS cult legs - the other ones looked a bit run down and ragged for an inquisitor.