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I looked at the whole thread ...

Then i looked at my own minis and i puked over them..

Very nice work .. how did you do that blue??

Thanx for all the kind words yet again folks. I have an out of town tourney I'm attending this weekend so the next update will be early next week and I hope to have the fleet done and some good pics of it.

My blues were painted with (I'm probably getting the names wrong, I'm going off memory here) regal blue, ice blue, skull white, then the blue wash over all that.

Pics! Piiiiiics!
Tournie Piiics!

Outstanding.

Love the light from the ship's engines on those BFG ships.

Agreed,the engines look really nice.As does the entire army and fleet,I also second the calls for tourney pics!

It's part of world wide war 2 from 40k radio I'll try and take pics for you guys.

Back from tournament. It was a well ran tournament and was the most laid back tournament I've ever been too. At lunch we all went out to a Mexican restaurant and ate and I had a full pitcher of beer and was feeling pretty good about rounds 2 and 3 at this point... win or loose! I ended up snagging Players choice award. With a Massacre and 2 draws.

Here is some in game action shots.

After that flamer hit and a pistol volley/charge I killed all the space wolves... Probably would have went down different with the new codex!


Here is my land raider going off road...


Dreadnaughts climbing over the wreck that is my LR.


One of my favorite moments from the tourney was when Vulkan, Master of the Forge, and 5x th/ss Termies murdered his whole side of the board and his LR full of the furious space wolves ran away from my unit... There was much fun to be had at my opponents expense.


There use to be a DP standing right in front of me...



Here is a shot of some of the better painted armies in attendance.

Wildeyedjester's cannibal legion IG


Monkey's Space Wolves


Safty Lock's Arkansas Razorbacks (american) football themed bikes


Big A's Nids


Fletch's Alpha Legion


BFG should be finished later this week.

You propped a landraider between scenery and a drop pod?!
How can you do that to your beautiful models!
I don't even do that to my models and they suck!

Raphael, Botticelle, Matisse, Picasso, and littleboyblues.
quite convincingly the best space-marine army i've EVER seen

Incredible artwork! Posting so this thread is added to my subscriptions, because I want to see what you do next!

I have to confess, I don't like the models in this thread...














I freakin love them! Truly inspiring, just looking at your work makes me want to grab a paintbrush.

i love BFG ships, they're so detailed that its fantastically simple to make them look good!
with the right application of highlights and washes you can make some stunning miniatures.
Love the colour scheme and its very well executed too, the engines look very nice indeed (stolen )

i also LOVE that the ships match the colour scheme of your army too, very nicely painted indeed.

Returned to the project for a quicky!
Started basing my BFG fleets.
I'm stuck on what murals to put on the fins of my battle barge.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
The fins are about thumbnail size.





cheers!

Perhaps a set of angel wings ? Great job all in all , hope to see more soon

Some cherubs or the like might look great on the fins but I dont really know how small they are and how practical that would be.

On a side note, I see by that last picture that your projects appear to be fuelled by a beer like looking substance!

I pretty much do everything with a beer like substance... minus my day job.

Really not a fan at all of the gigantic base, it looks bad. The painting is fine though.

Septic wrote:You propped a landraider between scenery and a drop pod?!
How can you do that to your beautiful models!
I don't even do that to my models and they suck!

My thoughts exactly . Well, I wouldn't say my models suck, but I mean, come on... yours are works of art! It's like... walking on art... you just don't do it!

littleboyblues wrote:I pretty much do everything with a beer like substance... minus my day job.

Lol , I wish i could make a good joke about that

In good renaissance fashion, a picture of the Emperor as a youthful Apollo style figure (perhaps even in a in a chariot) might be appropriate- or perhaps as a Zeus hurling a lighting bolt.

Otherwise perhaps an armored, winged angel with sword outstretched could be neat.

Chapter heraldry wouldn't be out of place, either- or perhaps a depiction of the animal symbol of either the chapter, or the chapters homeworld...

actually good Ideas Carlovonsexron... I'll prolly have to do the emperor with lions (dark angel off shoot) and maybe an angel or cherubs on the other... hmmmmmm

Finished basing my Frigates today. All I have left is base 3x strike cruisers and 2x murals. 95% done!

:!
*that's a face with an exclamation mark as a mouth

Fantastic Work. Love it. Keep it Up (please)

<- That's how much i like your work

I have a tournament coming up in 2 weeks. I always try and paint a new unit or two and use a tournament as a deadline. This helps to keep me motivated on expanding finished armies so one day I'll hopefully have a fully painted apoc army.

Terminator Chaplain




Also been working on the display board for the bfg fleet.

how did you do the white dots ?

Love the Chaplain. In fact I'm loving all these marines and ships. The marble look is perfect and the artwork on the vehicles really gives them a unique feel.

I love BFG and you did a great job painting your ships. Also cool conversion on the chaplain. Cheers

@ Gretar; white acrylic paint on a toothbrush rubbing your finger over it 'misting' the paint.

If you haven't already used it, why not put the Vitruvian Man on the fins. Maybe one regular and one bioniced or something along those lines.

Everything looks great by the way. What ivory spray are you using?

SoG