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You've done a fantastic job with 1 single reservation for me. The gloves which I assume as sculpted really let the rest of him down. They are flaring right off the wrist and look a tiny bit like lampshades with hands morphing out of them :S . Were I to change one thing, that would be it.

The job you did overall, and especially on the base and freehand are really top notch. Very inspiring look forward to more!

i would love to see some scouts in ruins next!

maybe some assault marines that looked as if they just jumped down from a stormraven!

Sageheart wrote:i would love to see some scouts in ruins next!

maybe some assault marines that looked as if they just jumped down from a stormraven!

Both on the way - Scouts still in pieces but getting there. Assault marines mostly done - how did you know?? To be honest feel a bit guilty that I haven't done some troops yet!

Two landed and running forward, sargeant leading. Other two flying over ruins about to land. All I have left is the GS details, scrolls, wings and blood drops.

I just couldn't see how, with your modelling and GS ability, you wouldn't do such a squad! I was thinking you had to do a squad jumping from a stormraven! it just had to be. my other idea would have been a squad of assault marines on ledges as if waiting for their quarry to mindlessly walk below them!

Assault marines don't look great posed the way they are bought, but they are great when they are posed in more dramatic poses! i'm trying to figure out how best to do that for my slowly building up DoA army list.

I can't wait to see your assault marines, would love to see what kinda poses you make and how you did them!

Hey all,

Got down and finished Mephiston's cables and changed the gems on the front to purple. Pics below. Will get round to putting final ones in the gallery too so that everyone can vote on them.

Also as mentioned started the assault squad, some pics of WIP, no GS yet just basic positions, lots more to do to them. Sargeant is missing too as he's way too WIP!! (like only the base)

Looks awesome, can't wait to see the Assault Squad finished.

AWSOME!! JUST AWSOME!!

those assault squad models look great!

Hey all, some pics of the assault squad heads which I painted while doing some of the finishing off. Glow off the eyes needs 2nd coat of green to smooth it over.

Sprayed up some of the squad, will finish up tonight and do some reds tomorrow.

amazing heads, great models! cant wait to see them done.

do you plan to play with this army, or is it solely for modeling?

At the minute no plans to play, but only because it's going slowly. I've written a list for 3000 pts and I'm sticking to it so far, not designed to be practical though, just all the fun things I want to paint!

That sounds good. Wow, 3000 points, you have a large list of things you need to do !

when these models are finished can we have a group shot?

I must admit I'm buying units as I go and the ones I really want to model such as really expensive Death Company....not really building a list as such....will end up with a random points total no doubt

Doots - I started that way but ended up going mmmm think I'll paint some more elites and HQ, and a few more, oh and what the heck a few more too. Decided it was about time I had a proper playable force so wrote up a list to get an idea, and motivate me as it's a target.

On another note Iwata compressor and airbrushes on the way. Fed up with GW spray, and painting red over black base, even if it is Mechrite foundation. Much easier to spray foundation. Also will mean I can get back to stormraven and tanks too. Really can't wait to start, been watching Eggrolls blog using airbrush and the effects are pretty good.

Been away for work so progress limited, apart from the excitement of ripping apart all the new airbrush toys which arrive next week, followed by Stormravens and plenty of conversion work. Following the leads of Eggroll and MajorTom for the vehicles, and we'll see how we go.

Got the Sanguinary Guard blades done finally, inspired by the new Ikit Claw in WD, metal base with power field over the top. Really happy with the effect, though it still needs a little more practice. Also added freehand and text to them. Touched up the Sanguinary Priest face too, eyes were a bit off and it had been bugging me for ages.

No photos of Assault squad but there's red and boltgun metal on them now, still way off but maybe get some final highlights to the first one's red tonight. Still batching them so progress is slow!!

Was thinking of maybe a tutorial on the blades if people are interested, let me know. Put some more finished pics up in the Gallery so you can vote away too.

Enjoy - Alex

I like the energy effects on the power weapons, very flashy.

your power weapons on the gaurd are absolutly amazing, any chance on you doing a tutorial for those.

Yeah next time I paint one I'll take progress pics and show the stages, very simple though

Absolutely phenominal stuff!

Especially the dreadnought armour highlighting.

The only thing for me that Id say you could improve on is the writing on the purity seals, but I couldnt do any better so who am I to talk!

Awesome work on the sang guard swords Alex! Really like the lighting on the actual metal of the sword which works very well. I'm going to have to try that out once I get to my sang guards.

I really like that sang priest, very cool stuff!

Sageheart beat me to the 200 post but hey never mind!

Been busy, finished making the two remaining sanguinary guard for the squad, and as you can see below for me progress is flying along!!

Bare heads done too, the two with brown hair for the assault squad and the older looking one for the one of the sang guards.

Hopefully have more progress tonight and tomorrow. Stuck a photo below of the current progress queue on my desk.

this is amazing.
do you do comissions?!?!?!

Verry nice mini's. Keep up the awsome work

would reallly like that tutorial on the power-metal!

Really nice work! I like how the power swords remain metallic with the lightning running through them. Keep up the good work!

absolutely awesome, thread subscribed!

Your stuff is very inspirational.

One small question: What do you do to get the heads to attach to the pins/cork for painting purposes?

Sarigar wrote:Your stuff is very inspirational.

One small question: What do you do to get the heads to attach to the pins/cork for painting purposes?

Drill a hole in the base of the head, then sometimes superglue the head to the pin if needed (if it turns round when you paint it) then simply stab it into the cork. I quite often use long pins around 1cm without glue, then remove the pin when I stick it to the model and reuse the pin for another head.

Gold on the S Guard done - photo below of all the bits. Needs a final Gryphonne Sepia glaze to knock back the brightest highlights, but apart from this done. Off away for work tomorrow for two weeks so no more progress until then. Sucks as I was getting back into these.

Airbrushes arrived today and in customs so will get some picks of the setup when I get back. Enjoy the final photo and see you in two weeks.

Alex