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Totally missed that last one! Damn it's camouflaged. Something like that oddly enough doesn't throw out the colour theory by the way. The colours chosen don't wreck the model and they're used so sparingly that the overall colour scheme is left in tact.

I've not been around because I've been working on the final coursework for the masters. But, naturally, I've been laid low during the past few weeks by health issues, so I did some painting to try and break it up. Nothing on the Dark Eldar, I'm afraid, but I've painted an officer and two command squad veterans for the Mantis Warriors, as well as several terminators. Haven't photographed everything properly, but here's what I have so far.

Officer:







WIP shots before I painted her head.



Not entirely pleased with the way her face came out. I'm not great at faces at the best of times, and I suspect this had either a casting flaw or there was an undercoat issue. Or I suck. At any rate, she passes the three-foot test, so it's fine.



Here she is in black and white. Looks much better, right? #blanchitsu

Veterans:



Veteran One. Photos are a bit blurry; sorry.





Veteran Two.

Terminators:



The second terminator I've ever painted. He hasn't had any edge highlighting here and I don't think I'd finished the blacks yet, but I think the freehand Tyrant's Star turned out okay.



WIP photo of the fourth terminator in the squad, still on my desk. As you can see, doing something a bit different with the leg of this one...

I don't have photos of the other terminators in the squad, but you can see a 12-second video of the first terminator I ever done painted right here.

Anyway, one last piece of assessment to go. Motivation: sluggish. Music: chillwave. Let's go.

Bummer to hear about health problems, but your Mantis Warriors look great!

Good luck on the Masters assessment. I ducked out of full time education after my bachelors, but I can imagine the pain

Thanks, mate. It's all done now and I got a bunch of bits in the mail and have that second squad of Trueborn just waiting for some undercoat. My fingers are all itchin'.

Green and yellows are looking super clean and nice. Great job, I'm digging it.

Thank you! I keep thinking the colours are quite chunky, so that's really good to hear.

I finished that last chap:

Looks great, love the distribution of the colours on him.

AC Terminator looks sweet. Between the markings on the leg and the decoration on the cannon he has a sort of tribal feel.

Inevitable_Faith wrote:Looks great, love the distribution of the colours on him.

Thanks! He doesn't have a li'l shield, so I wanted to give him some other indication of how he earned his Crux.

youwashock wrote:AC Terminator looks sweet. Between the markings on the leg and the decoration on the cannon he has a sort of tribal feel.

That wasn't intended, but it's a pleasant surprise. Thank you!


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Wip phone shots of the Sergeant:

Finished the squad:





better photos to come, you know, eventually

To celebrate post 100 on Instagram, I decided to harass my partner into taking some Warhammer 40K army project shots. My gallery has more of the photos but here are some fun ones:

Kabal of the Sun Betrayed and Cult of Splintered Sight:







Mantis Warriors:












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And as an extra bonus, here's a shot of the WIP Trueborn squad. I've still to finish the blacks and edge the purples on three of them, as well as the shredders at all - but they're getting there.



I'm pleased with this one. Sadly, her midriff is going to get covered up by her weapon:

Playing catch up on your blog Goblin, your marines are looking great. Yellows and greens are have a nice smooth finish too them.

Thanks, Yorkright. People keep saying that, which is very nice.

..and here's a quick phone photo of the second squad of Trueborn:




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and another Razorwing base:

You have IG goblinpaladin? Do you use the same screen name there as well? I simply must follow you there as well. The army shots look fantastic, you've made great progress. The trueborn squads look amazing, very nice sinister look.

Thank you so much! I appreciate your continual support.

I got an Instagram a little while ago, mostly but not entirely to post miniatures. https://www.instagram.com/imago_apis/ You'll also get to see pictures of my dumb face & some of my archival work.

I think I actually found you there a while ago - your Raiders are distinctive.


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redeem / purify







One marine left of my 'two squads of marines from chapters that are uncommon or I think are neat or provide a weird painting challenge or a combination of these reasons'. Currently the squads are:

Squad One:

Sergeant: Astral Claws
Flamer: Tiger Claws
Rocket launcher: Angels Sanguine
Bolters: White Eagles, Sons of Malice, Celestial Lions, Angels of Redemption, Lamenters, Executioners, Daughters of Persephone.

Squad Two:

Sergeant: Marines Errant
Flamer: Rainbow Warriors
Rocket launcher: [unpainted]
Bolters: Spears of the Emperor, Unicorns, Emperor's Fools, Angels Doloros, Scythes of the Emperor, Zvezdnyye Rusalki, Little Sisters of Purification

Any guesses what chapter I have planned for the rocket launcher for the second squad? Or how I've (very roughly, to be fair) grouped the two?

It's a bit of an unfair question, because five of the represented chapters are homebrew, but this chap isn't, so give it a go, eh lads?

grrr. argh.

Nasty lookin Gribbly indeed.

That's a cool looking mutant enemy. All the progress looms good and I love those army shots.

Fantastic looking fiend dude, he's looking suitably menacing.

Thank you, everyone! The Fiend was surprisingly fun to paint. The Finecast actually worked for the model - most of the flash came away very cleanly and the flexibility in the tail was realy useful.

On the other hand, I've temporarily shelved the Incubi after finding that their blades were bent and the flash on them was... significant. Sigh.

At the moment, I'm finally working on some more jetbikes. I'm really not enjoying painting these guys very much, so I'm procrastinating by doing some freehand:



Testing on some paper.



Designs on the left are runes from Warhammer Fantasy; on the right are some eye icons for the Cult of Splintered Sight. At least, hopefully.

In comparison with the first jetbike, you can see that I'm also breaking up the orange a bit. We'll see how it goes.

You have a good start on these bikes, I'm liking what I see so far.

Thanks! This is where they are today. You can see that I'm procrastinating from highlighting the orange, which is why the jetbikes are a bit muddy looking.



On the left bike you can see the Eltharin runes Sethai (flight,wind, cry in the far mountains) and Varour (aggression, lightning, downfall).



Its rider bears the rune Sendai on his jacket (dedication, sacrifice, resentment).



The eye symbols are the sign of the Cult of Splintered Sight, or at least the best freehand I can do to that effect. See how we go!

the colours are contrasting nicely and the runes look great on the bikes and riders, I'm digging your placement. I can understand the procrastination on edge highlighting, it's often very tedious.

I just do not like painting orange, Sam-I-Am, not at all. But thank you! Your kind words and the couple likes on Instagram are what keep me going:



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Cult of Splintered Sight, now with additional splinter action!



Here are the three friends from 1998 (except for the head and knife additions), including the one painted a few months back. I think they turned out okay as long as you don't look too closely.

While I didn't intend to make any of the jetbikers Arena Champions, it is a happy coincidence that Mister Knifey can step into that role if they remain a compulsory part of the unit.

they look great man, the blue and orange complement each other nicely and while orange is tough to paint (I may have some experience in that department) it's a very nice colour that showcases your models beautifully on the tabletop. That bit of freehand really gives these guys the extra flair that DE deserve. I dig them.

Really liking how the white masks are looking on the Dark Eldar. Might I suggest a coat of varnish of just the masks? Make them nice and reflective like they were glass perhaps.

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they look great man, the blue and orange complement each other nicely and while orange is tough to paint (I may have some experience in that department) it's a very nice colour that showcases your models beautifully on the tabletop. That bit of freehand really gives these guys the extra flair that DE deserve. I dig them.

Your orange looks so good, 'Faith. I am going for a different thing here, but yours is seriously amazing. Those War Walkers alone (although there are SO MANY; how tedious was that?).

Thanks for the kind words, anyway. I'm not super comfortable with freehand stuff, but I do want to keep pushing back at what I'm comfortable with, so we'll see how we get on.

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Really liking how the white masks are looking on the Dark Eldar. Might I suggest a coat of varnish of just the masks? Make them nice and reflective like they were glass perhaps.

Thanks, Thousandeyes! I'm not going for a glass look, I don't think, just a blank-faced one. I do see a lot of great glass Trueborn though, so it is really tempting.

Well, for someone who doesn't like painting orange you've certainly done a great job!

Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear it's paying off.

I felt a bit restless tonight, but I painted a couple Death Guard as a break from all that orange. Not sure what is next for the Dark Eldar, but I did undercoat two 'new' jetbikes...

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Forgot to crop those second two photos but it's definitely past my bedtime, so eh. Thanks again for the support, guys!