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Aaaand this just arrived in the mail today! Time to take my painting to the next level! Exciting things in store.. (hopefully)!

Bit of an update, finally managed to get my hands on an air compressor, this is what I got done

I like how you put DA stuff in with ur WBs,very nice fanatic scholar look to them. Very good.

I like the gradient on these screamers.

Congrats on the airbrush!

Thanks Skalk! Hopefully it'll enable me to get some cool effects on some models, or at the very least, make it easier to get base coats down!

Aaand now for some pics of the terminators!

oh very nice, imo i think that DA robed termies + woc heads look better than with hooded heads, makes them look more like fanatics, but thats just me
plus nice banner, i look forward for them bitch slapping some tanks

Oh, I've definitely gotta get some DA termy parts for my Word Bearers. Those are BadASS!

BTW where did you get those candles?

The Terminators are looking excellent.

As far as the hoods, I would reserve them for specific characters like a Warpsmith or Dark Apostle. Just my opinion, but it's how I do my force, makes the special characters stand out a bit more.

Thanks for all the feedback guys.

Have not updated this in too long, which is disappointing, but I got some stuff to show you all.

Got the termies finished(ish), ran the tournament, placed 14th out of 28 (half way up, not bad considering some of the army lists there)
Ran another tourney at 1250 points, got absolutely smashed (second last, although with an admittedly really soft list, at a no-comp tourney, I got lazy and submitted army list literally on the day so just went with the 1850 army, minus all the daemons, leaving me just foot marines)
Painted up some new units, and now have a tourney tomorrow. Will post some pics of all the new stuff once tomorrow is over

For Lorgar!

Looking forward to seeing your new work.

Thanks for the support buddy.

Well another tournament passed and gone, results were nothing worthy of being notable. Unfortunately the lighting in the place wasn't amazing, so got no action shots, but have taken the opportunity to take a bunch of random snaps of some models when I got home, so, here's some random sporadic images of where some things are at.


Havoc Squad


Havoc close up


Aspiring Champion


Champ with flamer and close combat weapon marine


Marine details, note the freehand icon, the chaos symbol on the shoulder pad, and the purity seal made with green stuff and using a pin head to 'nail' it to the backpack.


Two banner bearers, first one yet to receive text


Aspiring champ and plasma gunner


Terminators. These guys had these arms painted up literally the day before the tourney, as they had lightning claws last tournament. So a bit rushed on the arms.


Defence line

Idea for next Tourney- show them how very awesome your army is painted, throw a copy of Dark Apostle at them, and demand their immediate surrender.

The Heavy Bolder to Autocannon conversion is excellent and I wish I had thought of it when I was building Autocannons. Great job!

I realised I'm an idiot and have a few more pictures of other stuff I've gotten done.
I will just apologise for the quality, as these are all taken with an iPhone, however, I figure it's better than nothing, and I've been particularly lazy with updating when I actually have a bit of stuff I've done


Vindicator


This was a WiP shot I had taken of the terminators with their lightning claw arms on


Terminator Lord with Burning Brand - he has since been tidied up a bit more around the flames, and verdigris used on the copper areas - really should take a new picture




This was a shot of the daemons I had painted up as allies for one of the tournaments - very much still unfinished


Lord of Change still WiP


And an army wide shot as it was used in the most recent tourney

Cheers

Here's some stuff I've been working on

A few weeks ago I painted this up, keen in mind it is still not finished



Colour scheme prototype for a Sons of Horus model. There are so many variations of what the actual colour of the Sons of Horus armour is, across different blogs, or even artwork from GW itself, but I'm pretty happy with this shade of colour.



This is a scheme trial for my next upcoming project - Salamanders! I feel absolutely traitorous to the Chaos gods to even consider a loyalist army, but I'm really excited about this project, it'll be one to watch out for!

And now on to Word Bearers stuff, here's something I knocked up last night.



Dark Apostle/Chaos Lord conversion (Dark Apostle rules are awful so will generally be used as a Chaos Lord)

I'm really happy with this. The model is built using the new Fantasy Plastic Chaos Lord body.
However has only just occurred to me, should the book be the other way, facing him, as if he reading it aloud? I'm wanting to get painting started soon, so some feedback would be great coz I'm really unsure now, and there's still yet time to change it.
Apart from that, I'm going to add some parchments etc, but I'm really pleased with this conversion.

You could possibly do some OSL on the book as if it's projecting a blast of warp energy :/ Your whole army is looking great though! I like the conversions you did with the termies.

On the table project wise currently is;

The Dark Apostle above (still waiting on some bits coming in the mail)

Land Raider

and... I've started on this,

Chaos Bastion

WIP:

Sorry I haven't been around for a bit. I'm always glad to make it back here though because each visit has so much awesome. The Bastion is a great built and I'm looking forward to seeing it painted up.

Current WIP of where the Dark Apostle is at



And current state of the Bastion.

YEAH!!!
you are BACK i was worried that you had stopped, as this had become on of my favorite blogs.
glad to see you back so i can revel in the awesomeness someones else creates

also O.O that apostale/lord is looking awesome cant wait to see him finished

finally what bit did you use for his arm. the ram thing on his shoulder is really cool <3

That is a sweet conversion for that mini to be your DA. I like where your bastion is headed too.

 marmaduke wrote:
YEAH!!!
you are BACK i was worried that you had stopped, as this had become on of my favorite blogs.
glad to see you back so i can revel in the awesomeness someones else creates

also O.O that apostale/lord is looking awesome cant wait to see him finished

finally what bit did you use for his arm. the ram thing on his shoulder is really cool <3

Thanks so much! I really did fall off the bandwagon with the blog, didn't really think it'd be missed, but it's great to see some people enjoy it, so that's refreshing, again thanks

The Dark Apostle was converted using the new plastic Fantasy Chaos Lord
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1870064a



So as you can see, the pauldron comes on the model. It was really quite a simple conversion, but I'm really happy with the way it looks, so much taller and more important looking than normal power armor.

SO basically, I took the body above, lopped off the top of his spear, and replaced it with the banner icon from the Fantasy Chaos Warriors box. The head was also from the Chaos Warriors box. So so far, this model is using completely Fantasy parts, then a Space Marine bolter hand was lopped off, and a book from the Dark Angels sprue I believe used. Add a backpack, and some purity seals (the seal I used had the wax seal cut off and spliced with a small chaos icon that comes from Fantasy Marauders sprue) and voila! A Dark Apostle!

It is truly a nice conversion. I bought that guy when WoC came out and have been waiting for a good idea to convert him. Definitely a great basis for conversion!

These guys are brilliant and wonderfully evocative of the Word Bearers theme.

Hey how did you make those awesome banners?
I tried it with printing text on paper but when i use a wash all my text blurrs

So, it's been a while!

A long, long while.

The world has moved on from forums and message boards, largely, as social media has taken the mantle when it comes to sharing things with a community.

I've started a 'Word Bearers 2.0' army, using the new updated CSM range.
While I won't actively post here, my work can be found on Instagram, if anybody is interested, at www.instagram.com/jaybeepainting.

As a bit of a preview, here's a Daemon Prince I've painted, using the new kit:


Cheers!
JB

Looking great! Good job on making it proper "Word Bearer".