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The armour colour on those SOH is awesome! and the weatherign is great...... a real sense of character from your conversions! Great stuff!

But i am a sucker for some Heresy Era WE ....... and those guys on the previous page are definetly the dogd danglies!! (which is a good thing)

Cheers mate, coming from a Scotsman "dogs dangles" is indeed a great compliment

Its been a long time in the coming. Been waiting to see more of your excelleny work for like ages

Absolutely lovely work. I really enjoy the heavy weathering that you do so well, all my stuff always turn out as factory-fresh because I really can't get it done properly.

Moar!

Great work as always.

I still envy that green color.

Also for anyone who is a fan of the Lunar Wolves/Soh, Black library has a FREE 80page story on Ibooks right now called "The wolf of ash and fire". I just started reading it and it is Horus and his boys WITH the Emperor fighting Orks before the start of the Horus Hersey story line. Reading the Emperor kicking butt is amazing.

Looks great Sheep! Although my one critique is aimed at the rust streaks on the dreadnaught, I feel as though maybe you should try and "stump" the streaks more into the armor? Just my two cents, apart from that looks awesome!

Thanks for the positive comments guys, I really appreciate them

STC: high praise coming from you mate, I have all you alpha legion pic in a folder for inspiration if I do some allies down the road.

Theophony, thanks, i grabbed that "book" not a bad read.

Tech Guard: Stump in? I can say that pic is over exposed and the colours are wrong, so the rust is less vibrant IRL.

Ah sorry, stumping is when you run white spirits over the oils or pigments to soften them into the paint work, if that helps?

The new additions look great and I love the colour choice for the plasma pistol coils!
Also the bases look ace with the SoH colour scheme.

Great work as always, and congrats on hitting 1000 points (my PH Imperial Fists are not even a legal army yet). Even if the army itself isn't huge, the quality more than makes up for it. The Moriat is awesome.

Thanks guys

Tech guard: Ahhhh that makes more sense, and yeah, if i redid them I'd agree, they were actually the first models I painted for this army so they're a bit rough, and it was almost 2 years ago.

Hi all, sorry for the lack of content, but Uni has been kicking my ass, and I'm lazy.

Enough excuses, on to the content of this post. Alternate BFG ships!



These have been made by a friend of mine Mangozac, as a component of a line of ships he's done as commissions for other people and have been in a limited run, and I managed to get a couple in exchange for painted pics for advertisement, so no pressure then. Can see more of his BFG work HERE, or His website/forum/blog HERE.

These ships are great, the components came almost mold-line free, and perfectly cast, a credit to Zac as this is a "garage" kit.



In a complete brain fade I forgot to take any WIP pic that were in focus and worth posting, so here's finished pics instead.





Sooo, considering the differences in shape to the regular (and still sadly OOP) plastic ships I thought these would look good as HH era ships. Fluff wise for the colour scheme I'm saying that the ships were Lunar wolves before the change to SoH, and painting a house is a pain in the ass, imagine painting a 25km long ship, hence the SoH green spot colour.

Chipping at this scale would have been a bit strange I thought, so I left that out of the scheme.

Hope you all enjoyed this break from silence, I'm back into study for second semester now, so content will be patchy (probably non existent) for another 12-14 weeks before normal service will resume again.

Thanks for looking

Aaron

Beautiful!

Isn't that the cruiser Zac worked on with Armand?At least if I've read Zac's post correctly.

Amazing paintjob, very inspiring!

Thanks guys.

Malika: thanks mate, I was aware of a 3d artist, but not his name, he did good work

Nice work on the ships, very cool!

Welcome back you sheepy thing you!
Ships look nice, very well sculpted for a "garage project".

Sooo.. Moar Sons of Horus Please? I have started painting Legionaires again and are trying to get Yggdrassil here on dakka to abandon his daemonprinces and start a heresy army, if you help he might just cave..

Great painting, I love the color choice!

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks guys.

Malika: thanks mate, I was aware of a 3d artist, but not his name, he did good work

No problem! I really love his work, so whenever I can promote him a bit I do!

But you did a really amazing job on those ships, really makes me miss BFG! Which reminds me, I've been working on some ship models myself, should send you some copies once they're ready.

Cheers gents

STC: mate, it's good to be back, rest assured there will be some more Sons from me, but not in the shirt term unfortunately :( I'll weigh in to drag him over the HH precipice ASAP though mate, his atmospheric painting would be something to see!

Armand: Thankyou for the sculpting! Very crisp and detailed models mate, I enjoyed painting them very much.

Malika: send me a pm when you're ready mate I'd be really interested to see your models in the flesh.

But with these ships painted, are you planning on doing more BFG stuff? Have you considered painting some ships in the colours of the Sons of Horus?

There will hopefully be more BFG stuff in the pipe line soon, and some of that will definitely be in SoH colours

Oh my... those ships are incredibly painted!

Wow *blows dust off log*

Bit of a hiatus, and direction change, I'm going to make this my log for all my work, rather than spread it around. If you want you can also follow my blog to see a few more pics, or not, you'll still get most of them here

Recently its been apparent that there is a trend for new codex's to increase the amount of miniatures you need to paint for a complete army, leading to alot of burn out among the player base locally. we all still love GW models, and fluff and play the game regularly, but its just so hard to finish a new army!

This has lead to everyone embracing the smaller point/model count options, the explosion of infinity, and other "skirmish" games.



Our gaming club sought to harness this energy and so I decided to paint some Dark Eldar so people would be able to play something other than Space Marines (and also since I have about 4000 points of DE sitting in boxes . . .).



Not being one to go with convention, I looked around on the net for inspiration and found a bright orange scheme by hyv3mynd, of the Mandulain Chapel, and plagiarism being the sincerest form of flattery I copied the basic scheme and changed a few details, just like a good essay.



The orange to black fade was done with an airbrush, which I think is on its last legs, and will soon be relegated to just doing terrain, using a mix of Tamiya, Mr hobby and GW paints, I then highlighted every edge with a pastel yellow, to tie it all together, and black lined with Nuln oil and chaos black mix.



Some of the highlights on the legs of the warriors are a bit ropey, but they'll do for Table top quality, and "proof of concept" if(when) I do more I'll tighten it up.



The models have a few subtle conversions, mainly just arm reposes to open the poses up a bit.

My favourite models are definitely the Reavers, and if(when) these blossom into a full army there will be atleast 9 of them in the list. I'm looking forward to tackling this scheme on the DE flyers too.





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Thanks for stopping in, let me know what you think.

 Sheep wrote:
There will hopefully be more BFG stuff in the pipe line soon, and some of that will definitely be in SoH colours

Hmm, you should really get your hands on some of that Battlegroup Helios stuff then!

Amazing looking 'Dark' Eldar by the way!

There has been no interest in BFG locally unfortunately, so I haven't gotten onto any of the Helios stuff, it looks amazing though!

Thankyou

They look amazing Sheep, lovely choice of colours.

Fantastic DE, some of the best I've seen!

Commented on these already on your blog but they are lovely! Love the DE jet bikes - as you note, great models and they look superb with that fade colour scheme.

Also glad I checked in here as I had missed the BFG stuff first time round!

Cheers,

Dante

Thanks guys, glad you all like them

Dante: Stalking me across the interwebs Thanks mate, they were fun to paint.