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Yes he does doesn't he? ''that's not a knife, THIS is a Knife!'' I am very pleased with how it turned out once my initial self-critisism subsided, wich ususlly takes about a day. Before that it's all 'meh' as I tend to fixate on individual lines instead of the greater whole, like '' ..yeah but I am not all that happy about how that highlight on the upper part of his left backpack vent turned out.'' it's quite silly to be honest. But yay for the blood-splatter, I got to repeat that on some more models.

Great marines, could you possibly share how you painted the silver?

I want more alpha legion.

spudkins wrote:I want more alpha legion.

Words to live by...

But, cut the man some slack!

Alright then, I'll shift a legionaire or two into the painting pile among the Astral Claws. Maybe even paint that landspeeder I primed too if you are nice and bring me a modest offering of kittens.

And I can post an Astral Claws tutorial in a day or two if you want, with step-by-step pictures of course.. but again.. it's a bit dependant on those kittens..

How bout a few bunnies?

Kittens or no dice! well,. it's technically paint but yeah.. you know.. so kitten pictures it is! or I will re-paint the alpha legion into Ultra smurfs!

Happy now!!

: D

Well i meant actual bunnies for sacrifice lol thers 2 too many here

Well I am rather indifferent to the existence of bunnies, or the lack there of. exept perhaps as stew. If you have too many you can either eat them or give them away, kids love bunnies (until they realise they are worthless pets at least).

Just browsed through this whole thing and my conclusion is: Your blog is full of win, mate!
Brilliant conversions, very good painting!
This one won't slip under my radar again...

Heh, thanks Baiyuan. You're no slob with the tools of the trade yourself

quick update today, didn't paint much at all since I got stuck modelling things.. Again.

Terminator sergeant in the works, metallics are as good as done, some tidying up in a few places and the weathering left to go so I just got 'the rest' of the model left.



Did some work on the dark mechanicum =][= warband, the wraith is done (barring some GS-gap filling) while the other two has a few last touches left before they are ready for the painting que.






I found some scratch in a box and whipped up this farseer for no good reason, might give it some gs-work to give it some rune armor in the future but it's not prioritized.



I dug out an old FW inquisitor model from the boxes too, that guy from IA8: the Anphelion Project and I recon he needs a warband too.. mostly since I had some ideas that didn't work with the dark mechanicum warband.
They'll need a touch of GS and then they are ready to go.

Acolyte/armsman wip.


Deathcult Assassin wip
I'll 'round' the ears on this one and exchange the blasterpistol for a laspistol, maybe lenghten the hair with a round of greenstuff, not sure yet to be honest.



I have no frakkin' idea what this one'll be.. right now it's living completely in the fun-zone, might be able to use it for something. Maybe a pair of scourge-wings will improve the pose?

All of those conversions look extremely promising. Solid work all around on those kit bashes.

I think the bottom one would make a good Blood Bowl Dark Elf Thrower.

Loving the Wraith conversion, but what did you use for the hands?

Wow! Those are all stunning conversions, I especially love the the wraith, the acolyte and the death cult assassin.

Update time, small volume of kittens brings small update! enjoy your fix Alpharius.

@ Low Key: the wraith's hands are made from the close combat attachments and addons from the dark eldar khabalite warriors sprue.

Despite some unfortunate accidents the Assult squad sergeant is finished. accidents like the pin breaking off and the whole finished model hitting the floor into roughly a gazillion pieces was less fun. but repairs have been made and here he is.
Working (and converting) with metal models is a friggin' nightmare I tell you!




Do you understand what a nightmare it is to replicate the paintscheme I use on a landspeeder is? I sure didn't! the damn thing consists of lines, lines and angles! My hands hurt dammit.
it's still a bit WIP since I need to go over the metal parts with two more licks of paint and add some detail here and there. But almost done.. almost.

Sweeeeeeeeet

Awesome stuff, I love the fliers.

http://kittens.sytes.org/
does this mean a gigantic update?

hope you dont mind, but since your alpha legion paint scheme is the only way i see them, i stole it (not nearly as well), for my black crusade model

Not at all, steal away! there's a quick tutorial on the armor on page 2 i think. A small thing though, you need to add a little black into the necron abyss basecoat or it will be too blue.

I love the progress.

Simply amazing, consider me subscribed to the thread

Awesome! The pain you put into the land speeder was definitely worth it as it looks stunning!

Managed to touch up the metal today and add some detail to the crew, just need to finish the base and add a little detail on the pilot's dashboard and it's all done.
I am quite satisfied even if the pic is a little iffy, it caught a lot of flare so it is really a shade darker than it appears to be, more akin to the assultmarine.

I'll post that short tutorial on painting silver on the astral claws tomorrow I think.

No update! I am too tired to do anything!

I'll do something about that silver-tutorial tomorrow, and the effin' landspeeders base.. now I need to sleep before I faint and bust up my laptop.

Good Night.

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More Alpha Legion! the damn Landspeeder is done, done and gone!
Some air got trapped beneath the transfers ( ) and I havn't done any real weathering to speak of but.. yeah.. s' just tabletop, it's good enough
Yes.. it's green and stuff. Enjoy.

looking awsome!