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Nice work! The daemon prince looks great, you’ve achieved a lovely pink skin complexion. The highlights on the wings came out great too

Nice Daemon Prince for the Painting Competition Maharg. And well done on fighting against the army of the unpainted by getting your Farstriders.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciate the feedback.

I've not been in a painting mood the last few weeks, but the dakka painting challenge deadline has got me going again. First job was to finish some gargoyles that had been sitting on the painting bench for weeks, just a simple contrast job:


I also finished my entry for the challenge, my first Primaris marine. I struggled a bit with the freehand chapter symbol on the shoulder but I think it came out ok in the end. The model was also annoyingly shiny for some reason making photography more of a challenge than normal. Think I need to invest in some matt varnish






Currently on the bench are some spooks and stormcast. Hopefully won't be another 3-4 weeks this time before I do something

thanks for looking

Any time is a good time to come back. Great Marine. Love the highlights on the black.

Nice work on the marine, love the edge highlighting and that freehand chapter symbol is ace!

Nice job, good work on the edge highlights. I always forget to make the corners brighter so well done persevering with all of them! The chapter symbol looks pretty good to me. I’m planning some fists terminators, did you follow a tutorial or make up the process for the symbol?

Maharg,

Nice work on that Primus...always remember your photos are two to three times the models actual size so the free hand will look great.

My two cents,

CB

Thanks guys. I was pleased with hoe the black turned out, particularly the back view - the Intercessor model really helped with this, it has really crisp well defined edges which really help with edge highlighting.

Gobert, for the chapter symbol I found a guide for painting a banner which was useful for showing the basic flat shape:

It got too detailed after that for use on a shoulder pad so I used a sculpted pad to help with the dark outlines/shapes

Then just added highlights to better define the shape. I wouldn't like to do this for a whole squad though, one pad looked quite good but I'm not sure I have the skills to get five or more looking the same. I'd probably use transfers! That's the useful thing about the Deathwatch, each pad will be from a different chapter so no worries about repeating the same symbol

Not a lot of painting progress but I have made a start on some Stormcast Eternals. Thought I'd go for a slightly different colour scheme on these ones as they are from a different chamber, but keeping the gold armour so they still tie in with the Farstriders, just in case I ever expand them into a small army


Also in the painting queue are some Underworlds warbands for the dakka painting challenge. The theme is pile of shame and these guys have been sitting around for a while - I have all the first two seasons warbands but have only finished one warband so these fit well. We'll see how many I can get through

Nice work on the edging for that Crimson Fist Deathwatch.

Thanks Maharg, I think you might be right that whilst one is doable, 7 for my squad will probably come out looking varied. Will retry the press mould I think.

Gold and purple is always a good choice, the storm says have started off well

Nice fist there Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Excited to see how far you will get with those Underworld warbands. They have some lovely sculpts and I recently got the Kharadron to have some alternative sculpts for WarCry.

Nice work on the edging for that Crimson Fist Deathwatch.

Thanks Fifty

Thanks Maharg, I think you might be right that whilst one is doable, 7 for my squad will probably come out looking varied. Will retry the press mould I think.

Gold and purple is always a good choice, the storm says have started off well

Don't let me put you off giving the freehand a go Gobert, you may not find it as tricky as I did. Press mould sounds interesting though, good luck whichever you go for. Yeah, gold and purple is a classic, it is just sort of a rejig of my marines though, particularly as I've added pink to the stormcasts.

Nice fist there Maharg

Thanks CB

Excited to see how far you will get with those Underworld warbands. They have some lovely sculpts and I recently got the Kharadron to have some alternative sculpts for WarCry.

Not too far so far Viterbi, see below. They are nice sets of models, I keep buying them for painting projects but never getting round to them, hence a good entry for pile of shame. Look forward to seeing your take on the Kharadon


So, I'm still struggling a bit with painting motivation, keep finding other distractions but did get some done over Easter. Firstly a little progress on the Stormcast, all the base colours and shading are done:


I also finished my first model for the painting challenge, one of the Godsworn Hunt and made a start on the rest of the people in the warband but still not sure what to do with the dog.

Looking good, I especially like that first godsworn hunt guy.

Loving the muted palette on the Godsworn! Makes the splashes of colour in the hair and fur really pop. In contrast, also loving the extreme edge highlighting on the Fist. Keep it up mane

The Sequitors are looking real good. The Godsworn have a great punky feel to them. All around solid painting.

Maharg,

The Godsworn Hunt model is very nice. Good luck in the competition.

Cheers,

CB

Good start on the SCE and love your colors on the Godsworn Hunt. Especially nice work on the skin, doing that in dark colors isn't that easy (in my experience).

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Progress has still been slower than I'd like but I've finally finished the Godsworn Hunt




and made a start on the next warband


thanks for looking

The Hunt looks awesome, but, oh man, those purple bases are too good. Perfect for all those wild fungi.

I echo that, the Hunt is very nice Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Godsworn hunt came out great! There is some stiff competition this month..

Wow, the Warband looks great, love the bold hair color choices! You'd expect them to drop a heavy metal album next month

Good work on the Godsworn. You’ve just reminded me that I’ve got a bunch of the guys that inspired the archer. The gobbo’s bases look fantastic so far. Purple was a bold choice but they look amazing so far. I’m sure the little guys on top will be even better!

The Hunt looks awesome, but, oh man, those purple bases are too good. Perfect for all those wild fungi.

Thanks Youwashock. I like the purple bases too, hopefully they will fit with my chosen colours for the models. Hopefully find out this weekend.

I echo that, the Hunt is very nice Maharg.

Thanks Captain

Godsworn hunt came out great! There is some stiff competition this month.

Thanks Arakasi. There is always some stiff competition in the challenge, your chaos warriors included.

Wow, the Warband looks great, love the bold hair color choices! You'd expect them to drop a heavy metal album next month

Thanks Viterbi. Bold hair was kind of forced on me once I'd decided to try out the darker skin tone paints - the models were pretty much all varying shades of brown and needed something to break it up.

Good work on the Godsworn. You’ve just reminded me that I’ve got a bunch of the guys that inspired the archer. The gobbo’s bases look fantastic so far. Purple was a bold choice but they look amazing so far. I’m sure the little guys on top will be even better!

Thanks Gobert. What models were the inspiration? Was it some of those old chaos Thugs? Would like to see you tackle those once the Terminators are done

So, no painting update since last time (damn you work!), my minimal hobby time was taken up fiddling with some conversion ideas. My mate told me that the new Silent War rules were up so I started rummaging around for bits for a new inquisitor and retinue. Here is a quick mock up for the basis of the inquisitor


The last two have been a bit odd (Magos with rocket in place of his legs and last year's little guy on servitor platform) so I went for something more normal. Think he looks quite imposing. Will need the head removing to make it look less like a chaplain, not sure how easy this will be on a metal model, might need to get a resin replacement for this. Still need to decide on composition and models for the retinue. And maybe a new army for them to fight alongside... I've taken my admech to the last two so would be good to use something else but don't have another imperium army. I'd only need 1200pts but with my painting speed this along with a retinue seems unlikely - maybe something like Grey Knights or Custodes would be low model count enough? We'll see. At least the Admech are there as a backup.

Also on the painting bench is this fellow - only a year or so after he was first mentioned in this blog. The painting challenge theme this month is old-school cool which this model fits rather well being old and cool (and I was probably in school when I got him)



That's it for now, hopefully some painting progress by Sunday

The world needs more zoats, so I look forward to you working through this one. The inquisitor looks really cool, but I think you’re right to want to swap his head. A metal terminator is about as hard a head swap as they come I’d imagine! The archer looks uncannily like the Chaos Archers from BattleMasters, I fancy some Chaos after these Terminators, might give them a go

A zoat! Oh, happy day.

Inq mockup looks very tough. It is a tough call, since I really like the skull, but the profile is so recognizable as a chaplain it is hard to not want to change it. And it WILL be a pain to get out of there in metal. Looking forward to zoat progress!

Lovely work on the Godsworn, I always get a kick out of warbands where the fighters have individual colors! The Stormcasts and Mollog seem to be coming along great, too!

I'm really liking the Inquisitor mock-up as a model, he looks just as badass as the original model. As for the skull, I'm with youwashock - on one hand it's a great skull helmet, on the other it's really recognizable..

Thanks for the comments guys. The skull helmet is definitely going, but don't fancy the job on metal. Sadly the resin one is out of stock at the moment so this project will be put on hold for now

Managed to finish Mollog's little helpers today:



Now to get started on Mollog himself

thanks for looking

Some nice looking familiars there Maharg.

Cheers,

CB