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I hadn't heard about the brown. That's interesting. I'm guessing a light brown?

I finished two more flamer marines, the Raven Guard and the Imperial Fists marines.

from what I remember it was a dark brown... it serves the same purpose as the pink... to give a warmer base to the yellow... many roads that lead to rome...

That's interesting.

Also, I don't realize posting those two marines would get me to page 50 of my blog. It seems like it should have been a more important post. But that will be this one instead. I'm now on page 50 of my blog and I still hadn't finished the very first thing I posted on page 1, about six years ago. So, I pulled it out of storage and painting my big squiggoth made from a dollar store dinosaur. (My gallery has a folder of the pictures of the big squiggoth making or you can go to page 1 to have a look).

didn´t realize it either...

congrats of fifty pages of awesomness!!! onward to another fifty now!

cool conversion!!!

Heh heh, thanks Vik If you and I keep up this pace, the second 50 pages will go a lot faster than the first 50. I didn't have any hobby time today, but at least I came home tonight to some fun mail. Three new Horus Heresy novels to add to my collection, and this:

I guess I was making too much progress on painting minis and needed to add to my collection of unpainted/unbuilt ones

hobby ADHD approaching

Definitely!
They look really fun to part though, and a friend's son asked me to help him part his plague marines. It's my own problem that I feel I need to do something about there being 17 heads for a kit for 7 guys if I counted correctly.

I feel I need to do something about there being 17 heads for a kit for 7 guys if I counted correctly.

I smell opportunity...

Yep, I can't wait. The molds for the extra Mark III armor pieces aren't ready yet, so I'm waiting on making the plague marines. Hopefully soon. I also finally took your advice and cut into the gun arm a bit for some extra detail,as well as sculpting additions to the face and body, plus finishing the barrel of slime. The face is stark right now because of the green stuff, but here's hoping it will look good once primed.


Here is a comparison to the official Forge World model


The sarge and the space wolf both have hair now (plus added the sarge's gun)


And lastly, I just finished reading the Horus Heresy novel "Betrayer". In honor of that, I thought it would be cool to make myself a Kharn the Betrayer miniature. I've just started with altering a space marine head to look more like his.

That is a sweet scottish plague demon prince ! Can't wait to see the paintjob !

once the GS is out, wonderful things can happen!...
face looks way better... I am still at a loss on what exactly you did to the arm... but I might add I just noticed the cord/pipe for the first time... seems I am not that good at noticing things...

as for the Kharn head... 100% selfmade or a pressmould for a starter mount to go from there? If the former WELL done... if the later good luck!

@KernelTerror: Thanks! The plan is to get it down in the next two weeks.
Viktor_von_Domm: Thanks Vik. For the gun arm it could be the lack of contrast is making it too hard to see, or my cuts are too small. The Kharne head is press mold, and then altered while still soft. I'm flattered that you considered it possible that I made it from scratch. Maybe I should give that a try, since the angry mouth grill probably isn't big enough for Kharne anyway.

Not too much got done the last two days. I've partway through painting my ork stormboyz


The rest (except knife guy) of my Ultramarines are primed and ready to be painted. Mamon is primed now too.


I've also started building my plague marines.

I'm flattered that you considered it possible that I made it from scratch.

mate, you´ve shown some high talented stuff so often... one starts to view this as run of the mill

stormboys backpacks look very promising!!!

Thanks so much Vik
Because of your encouragement, I decided to try sculpting Kharn's head from scratch. I like this new one better, so I plan to use it for my Kharn mini (sorry the picture isn't too clear)


I also sculpting three nurglings. They are still curing so I couldn't get a clear picture of them.

The nurglings are sure to be very cute, but let's be clear, nurgle never...cures

 inmygravenimage wrote:
The nurglings are sure to be very cute, but let's be clear, nurgle never...cures

LOL... that was epic!!!


as for kharn...I like where this is going...

Heh heh, that's a really good point Graven
And thanks Vik.

I've started putting down a base coat on Mamon, a brown wash will be next.


I mixed up a custom paint for his skin:
30 drops liquitex yellow, 3 drops liquitex blue, 1 drop liquitex red, 5 drops liquitex white, and 2 drops Daler Rowney FW Burnt Umber.

That's pus-tastic.

Thanks Graven

I made what I think is a Herald of Nurgle that seems to also only appear in "The Siege of Vraks". I made it around the same time of Mamon, years ago. I decided to paint it up today.


Official models of the two:


I really like how it looks in Mamon's goo barrel


The nurglings are in a mold now.

No, they've Got Mould I'll see myself out...

No need to leave Graven, I'm enjoying your putrid puns

I'm happy to say that I finished painting Daemon Prince Mamon today. Maybe one day he can terrorize Vraks on my tabletop. He's also the 175 miniature I have painted this year.

Vibrant and virulent! Papa bless!

I say your demon is way more cheery than the GW one...!

Thank you both

I've finished painting my ten and a half ork stormboyz

Mamon looks good, although I'm a little sad that you didn't keep the plaid pattern on his loincloth...

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Mamon looks good, although I'm a little sad that you didn't keep the plaid pattern on his loincloth...

I´ve thought throughout these last pages exactly that... but it´s always wonky to have RL textures and colours mixed up with painted surfaces...

I admit that I miss the plaid loincloth too. It's been his outfit for close to 10 years, so it's how I am used to seeing him. But I am glad that I finally got him painted, and I wanted to look like the official art.

All hails Mammon ! That is a very sick greenish yellow !

Thanks KernelTerror

Not much hobby time lately, too much going on. But I also realized I have been forgetting to update all of you as I slowly build my Deathguard plague marines. I have made eight so far.