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At a Redditor's suggestion I had a crack at moving to hand painting the symbols rather than using decals. Bulgy Us are hard, as it turns out:



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More freehand practice - this time taking inspiration from Greco-Roman mosaics for the patterning:



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Love the lenses, the dry pigment bases, and the crisp blue and reds!

Cheers! It’s a lot of fun painting a cheerful, vibrant selection of colours - I’m glad I swapped to the 13th from the Raven Guard!

Rogue Trader Adeptus Mechanicus:



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Heavy Intercessor - next to Brother Froth (oops, who's 1987 not 1988... ah well):



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Some wonderful old models there angrygriffin.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, Captain Brown!

Love that old AdMech model. Also, wow on that scale creep.

Yeah it was really disconcerting painting the two of them at the same time! Gotta say I liked working with the larger base size, though… I’m going to try some larger bases on the RT minis.

Painted a Lieutenant Commander. Had to try something different for the sword as it had three facets on each side and try as I might with the previous techniques I couldn't get it looking how I wanted... so glowing near the hilt it is!

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Looks great! Another stellar model. You must have amassed enough for a decent group shot by now?

Cheers. Yeah, getting close - I am working on a little diorama to use as a setting for group shots, it’s slow going though!

Another one down!



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So, that visor may be the best painted thing I will see all day. Great job!

Haha cheers! Took a fair few goes to get it looking right - it’s the first time I have tried to give translucency and depth to something featureless!

Kinda a shame that more marine heads aren’t like that as it was good fun.

One more of the Armour Variants done:



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So much good stuff in this thread! That face in the visor is pretty damn nice, something you don't see every day. (Probably the first time for me, to be honest...) And you really have a knack for making the eye lenses look super bright.

Echoing the love on the transparent visor - that's a brilliant idea and really cleanly executed.

Love these old minis, your painting style really brings out the nostalgia through the colour choices while looking modern as well with some of the techniques like the visors and the basing.

Great job.

Cheers guys!

Did one for the other side tonight - the 1990 World Eater:



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Such a great model. He looks fantastic.

Thanks! I had a go at gold NMM over several nights and just couldn’t pull it off to my satisfaction so I fell back on the metallics. The red is largely ink which was novel to use but I rather enjoyed it.

Really beautiful Berzerker, love the red and the brass is great, TMM or otherwise. Great face on the dude, between the sculpt and your paint. I've got a couple of his brothers, should find a reason to paint them ...

Thanks! Been sick the last week and a bit so no painting got done, but I hope to have another old Renegade done by the month’s end!

I ended up leaving the Renegade half done and went back to an Ultramarine:



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I do dig these old dudes with oddball weapon fitouts!

He'll use whatever weapon he darn well pleases!

I really like the designs on his shoulder.

I love the OG marines with xenos weapons, so deliciously heretical And a great excuse for some flashy gems. Grecian (?) shoulder design is indeed super nice too.

I love that model. It is always one that I feel typifies the Rogue Trader era. Lovely paintjob, as always.

Cheers guys!

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I love that model. It is always one that I feel typifies the Rogue Trader era. Lovely paintjob, as always.

I absolutely agree re: it typifying that era - things were so fluid then you could be pretty wild with your creativity with sculpting and loadouts and it all still fit in... I dig it.

Another one down - this is a 1989 Captain:



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Brother Repp:



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This guy was a bit of a challenge to light - the recessed eye lenses mostly hidden by the gun are a real pain.

Did a size comparison between a Contemptor and the new Terminators.



Painting these two side by side was interesting - the sharp lines on the new plastic chap were quite incredible to work with!