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 Viterbi wrote:
That blue glow is perfect!

Thanks, Viterbi! Glad it looks convincing.

When you want to improve some older painting mistakes on a model, but get carried away, end up with a completely different color scheme, which you like a little better than the old one and now you have to repaint your entire army…











Finally also found the time to build and paint my first sister of the new army box (with a little head swap). Think she fits well with my older scratch built and converted ones.

That‘s a very interesting and good looking color scheme. Very knightly, love the robes!

Thanks Viterbi!

I really like the more subdued color scheme, brown really is the new red when it comes to painting fancy grimdark

Thanks, Boss Salvage. As much as I love painting red robes, I like the new armor and robes more on these minis. Haven't decided on Repentia and tanks yet.

Those minis look awesome :O
did you ever consider doing a video tutorial on how you do those ? i would really like to see the process, and i guess i'm not the only one...

Thank you, BlISSP!

Taking proper pictures is difficult enough for me, hehe. I have not ventured into the world of video making, editing and publishing, yet. My only attempt to make a video of a rotating mini with my old smart phone did not return a watchable result.

So, currently I have no intention to make videos, but I can offer WIP pics and lists of parts I use for most, e.g. I took pics of every step of the Ephrael Stern found on page 4 of this thread.

Well, taking pictures of the progress is already good enough i guess
but if by chance some day you wanna try to make it to video it would be insane to see how you build your models !

anyway, the work you put in your amry is quite awesome, and i'm loking forward to what you're doing with your girls !

Some new Sisters for the Order of the Cleansing Blade. Most have the same body, but as usually I used different arms (and heads obviously), so no two look the same.











The last one is Sister Joanna Vain. The fastest bolter east of the Cicatrix Maledictum.

Excellent pieces- the personality and dynamic motion that comes through with each of them is really amazing. I must admit, I'm a big fan of the 'Cardinal's Guard' red and white livery for Sisters of Battle, but your 'grimy, combat-functional' look is quite striking too.

I think the real testament to your skill is that if you hadn't told me that all the sisters had the same basic body, I probably wouldn't have figured it out. Each is a unique assemblage of the whole, and no way (for me at least) to tell which parts are factory-made and which you have fabricated and which are swapped in from other commercial sources.

Rock on!

I was wondering, is the fur cloak of your cannoness sculptet or is it a sister of silence one ?

Great stuff Max Moray.

Where are the heads from?

Cheers,

CB

Meer_Cat wrote:Excellent pieces- the personality and dynamic motion that comes through with each of them is really amazing. I must admit, I'm a big fan of the 'Cardinal's Guard' red and white livery for Sisters of Battle, but your 'grimy, combat-functional' look is quite striking too.

I can't paint the red/black/white to the same standard as the new scheme. I love the red/black/white, too, but with regard to my painting skills the new scheme just looks better to me and I came to really like the dirty, grim appearance. When I put one of the old scheme next to a new one, I like the new one better. In person the difference is more striking than on pics. Have no idea what to do with the tanks, Repentia, Crusaders and bikes for now, though. I guess I'll make more of each first for tests before repainting the older ones.

Meer_Cat wrote:I think the real testament to your skill is that if you hadn't told me that all the sisters had the same basic body, I probably wouldn't have figured it out. Each is a unique assemblage of the whole, and no way (for me at least) to tell which parts are factory-made and which you have fabricated and which are swapped in from other commercial sources. Rock on!

Thanks a lot, Meer_Cat.

BlISSP wrote:I was wondering, is the fur cloak of your cannoness sculptet or is it a sister of silence one ?

A little bit of both. I made a copy of the outside of the Sisters of Silence cloak using Blue Stuff (Oyumaru) and filled it with a thin layer of a mixture of Magic-Sculpt and Brown Stuff. After a few hours, when the putty was still somewhat flexible I carefully placed it on the back of the mini, shaped it a little to make it fit better and glued it in place with Brown Stuff and power glue. I also cut off the fur in the area of the backpack. Later I added a little putty fur manually on the top of the cloak and hand sculpted the paws and the claws on the shoulder using brown stuff. Then I added a purity seal on the side. Just uploaded a unpainted pic of the back of the mini so it can be seen better.

Captain Brown wrote:Great stuff Max Moray.

Where are the heads from?

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, CB!



From the left to the right:

1: Prodos Crusaders/Valkyries putty copy given a haircut and a little new hair to make it fit onto the torso.
2: GW Sequitors with the bun removed and an added putty pony tail.
3: Different head, but the same procedure as 1 (with an added little scar)
4: Different head, but the same procedure as 1 (also with an added little scar)
5: Putty copy of the Raging Heroes Jailbird mecha's spare head with minimal changes on the back.

How exactly did you build and paint the Celestine conversion?

Qyleterys wrote:
How exactly did you build and paint the Celestine conversion?

This Celestine?


I got this kit second hand. Received it built in the usual way, yet unpainted and the scrolls were strangely warped resulting in an oblique position of Celestine that did not look good and the model was constantly tipping over. Using hot water did not get me the desired improvement so I removed the birds from the original position and used them to fix the scrolls so Celestine is upright again. I modelled some flames with brown stuff (green stuff works, too) on the original sword (EDIT: wrong! I cut the original between hilt and hand and used the blade of a Geminae sword instead so both swords had the same lenth) and used the sword with arm of one of the Geminae for the second sword to which I also added brown stuff flames.

The paintjob is rather simple. Mixture of abbadon black and a craft store black (satin) for the armor with medium and light grey highlights. I mix most of my colors myself because I got plenty of acrylics from other non wargame activities, but the highlights would correlate with thunderhawk blue and ulthuan grey. For the wings I started with a dark red (simply a medium to bright craft red with some black) in the center adding more and more red while painting towards the outside until the tips are about evil sunz scarlet. Used the medium red for the cloth, some of the darker red for the shadows in the the cloth and a little of the bright red (evil sunz like) for the most elevated spots. The same reds were also used for the corset, the hair, lips, the jewel on her left shoulder and the tips of the swords. The silver parts are leadbelcher with a black wash (like nuln oil) and light silver (like stormhost) highlights. For the face I used the Vallejo face painting set per instructions.

That said, while I still like the wings, hair and face I think the armor could look better. Certainly will change the paintjob at some point (also to fit with my latest painted models).

Hey ! could you please show us the materials / tools you use to recast stuff ? i'm particulary interested in heads, if it's not bothering you

the coolest thing about your sisters imo is the fact that each one is really unique , and i think the head does a lot for that

i found also cool that almost all of them have gauntlet instead of gloves, i always preffered gautlet to gloves on sisters

I actually like how the brown scheme is sort of reminiscent of Franciscan monks.

The more austere hair cuts work with that too.

BlISSP wrote:Hey ! could you please show us the materials / tools you use to recast stuff ? i'm particulary interested in heads, if it's not bothering you

Removed - do not post tutorials here about how to recast things that you do not own the rights to.

BlISSP wrote:the coolest thing about your sisters imo is the fact that each one is really unique , and i think the head does a lot for that

Thanks! That's exactly what I want: an army of unique individuals. And I agree: heads (and especially the hair) make a lot of a mini's uniqueness.

BlISSP wrote:i found also cool that almost all of them have gauntlet instead of gloves, i always preffered gautlet to gloves on sisters

Mostly, because in the beginning of this project I mostly used the Celestine set.

 H wrote:
I actually like how the brown scheme is sort of reminiscent of Franciscan monks.

The more austere hair cuts work with that too.

Have not thought about that, but I really like it. From now on if anyone should ever ask what inspired me, it will be Franciscan monks. Thanks!

Very neat Max Moray.

Cheers,

CB

I've been pumped for you to get started o the new plastics and I am not disappointed! I love your color scheme... it evokes a whole level of grimdark authenticity that I hadn't imagined, even having seen it on your other models. If I wind up with a spare plastic bolter model I might just have to mess around with the "tarnished sisterhood" look, it's really cool and something I've never really seen. Nicely done!

Well, thanks for your answer !

i must say your work is really something that got me motivated enough to start my own project and to dive into warhammer, your project give of this vibe of really cool looking, personal unique yet attainable things, unlike the pros sculpters and painters that are like 10 years of full practice away.

So thanks again for your time and the energy that you give off with your hobby !

Captain Brown wrote:Very neat Max Moray.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, Captain Brown! Glad you like 'em.

MacPhail wrote:I've been pumped for you to get started o the new plastics and I am not disappointed! I love your color scheme... it evokes a whole level of grimdark authenticity that I hadn't imagined, even having seen it on your other models. If I wind up with a spare plastic bolter model I might just have to mess around with the "tarnished sisterhood" look, it's really cool and something I've never really seen. Nicely done!

Thanks a lot, MaxPhail. Am looking forward to what you will do with the plastic sister(s)'s('). I've come to enjoy tarnished, gritty, grim and dystopic minis a lot.

BlISSP wrote:Well, thanks for your answer !

i must say your work is really something that got me motivated enough to start my own project and to dive into warhammer, your project give of this vibe of really cool looking, personal unique yet attainable things, unlike the pros sculpters and painters that are like 10 years of full practice away.

So thanks again for your time and the energy that you give off with your hobby !

Thanks for your kind wirds, BlISSP! So glad to be of help and am looking forward to see your miniature project. As much as I love 'perfect' minis by 'pro-painters' I enjoy what fellow hobbyists make even more, because - as you note - these minis are more attainable, something one could possibly make without decades of practice. And this makes them highly inspiring, makes you think about how to do things and actually try out new stuff and grow.




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Found some unexpected spare time to finish more sisters of the Order of the Cleansing Blade.

They might not be perfect, but I really love the faces of the latest four (all putty heads as decribed above by the way).



The one on the lower left is the head from the WIP post above by the way. Actually glued some of the original Sororitas Army Box heads on some other bodies from said Box, but decided they did not fit with my Sisters last night and cut them all off. Will stay to the style of the ones posted here. So... more putty heads it is.

Here are some pics of the new additions. The jump pack Canoness is a repaint of one of my older models.

Great faces Max, especially their eyebrows

Squad in the new scheme looks even better, such delicious grit.

Impressively expressive faces with the new faces, Max- very well done!

Thanks Boss Salvage and Meer_Cat. Glad you like them!

Tried to make a Order Minoris coat of arms similar to the ones in the codex p. 30 for my own little order and added a little fluff. CC welcome as always. Don't mind the language too much, I am not a native speaker.

Finally a group order of dice from Chessex arrived. They were ordered before the announcement of miracle dice last year (0,75$ per dice at 30 dices is very good, 33$ shipping is costly). Very happy with the quality. They also fit well with my RPG dice. Dice bag was a handmade present I alrady had.

Was informed my method of making parts for custom minis using press moulds and putty is considered recasting here and consequently is against the forum rules. A few of my pics and texts have been deleted by a mod for this reason, which is understandable.

First of all, I am sorry for acting against the forum rules, but since almost all the minis in this thread and my gallery were made that way and I'd have to ship around future questions on how I made them, it is pretty pointless to continue posting them here, but rather continue elsewhere (am not that hard to find on the usual social media platforms).

Gladly lately there is plenty of Sister's stuff here anway. Thanks for all the comments and have fun, everyone!

Sorry to hear that, I enjoyed seeing your endeavors and had no issue with it, if that matters at all. Press molds are pretty OG tech in this hobby, and if you aren't making money on it, I don't think you're technically or legally infringing ... But Dakka policy is policy.

I'll try to find you somewhere in the interwebs, good luck. Nice dice as well.