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AWESOME MARINE!

Maybe a bit of weathering powder on the boots, so that way he looks somewhat dirty, I know that my boots dont stay clean out here in the sandbox.

wow...


I better step my game up!

I have been very busy the past couple of months working on my portfolio and trying to land an internship,
but all that is coming to an end a bit and now I'll have to break out all of my mad skills to make my marine as awesome as yours!

It's on

Nice work Yggs. He looks pretty damn cool. Like the halo, understated and blends in nicely, avoiding a busy looking helmet

@ Sageheart : Thanks!!!

@ btemple0 : Well, I don't have any, but I had bought some chalks a few months ago, I'm just afraid the spray will melt the paint away... I'll have to try on a mini, I guess...

@ TiB : I'm happy you like him! It's going to be hard to part with such a mini, I'm afraid... But, well, I'm sure your Warpcrafter will more than make up for the loss!

@ monkeytroll : Thanks... True, those BA kits have quite a bunch of details, it's hard to avoid going wild with a lot of fuzzy colours... So I try to keep mine limited!

I'm glad everyone seems to like it, it has made me delve into my SM Codex to try and find a small list I could run, without having to paint a lot of minis...

I'm thinking of Kantor + 2 Sternguards squads in Razorback + 2 Scout squads + 1 Land Speeder Storm + 1 Whirlwind, I haven't been through the maths, but it should bring me close to 1000pts... Yet another project, yet another diversion... When I am going to start my Nurgle Marines?!?

=I= + Space Marine + Blood Angel bits= Epic

Great job on the marines and skaven Yggdrasil!



M.K

Damn, those marines really do look fantastic.

I'm happy you like him! It's going to be hard to part with such a mini, I'm afraid... But, well, I'm sure your Warpcrafter will more than make up for the loss!

I'm feeling the pressure... I'll do my best to take the sharp edge of the grieving.

I do have 1 single request about the mini though. Could you perhaps make the =I= pad black with silver trim? That way he'll fit in with the rest of the ex-deathwatchers.

Well, I can... I usually suck at metallic colours, but I'll comply!

(In addition, it'll erase the red scriptures on the pad, but hey...)

Does the skull on the =I= have to be silver as well?

IIRC you can use something like a cotton ball to apply powders, that or they make a kit that uses a spongy looking tool to apply the powders with.
I have seen the skull painted metallic and as a bone color, it is usually up to player preference, and I thought the script on the pad was supposed to be inlaid, as if the pad had the text engraved into the ceramite itself.

I'm sure you can pull it off

Yeah black pad and silver trim and skull and =I=.

Have you got any special wishes for the paintjob on your Warpcrafter btw?

@ btemple : I'll try your technique... As for the scriptures on the pad, the ones from the DW metal bits pack are engraved, but the one I used comes from the SM Commander kit, and is plain apart from the =I= and a small writing on top of the pad...

@ Tib : Ok, I'll do that... For the Warpcrafter, I just want it to look as rusty as that one! That'd be perfect!

And by the emperor rusty he shall be!

Wow, amazing work this time around. You inject such great energy and such a wonderful glow to the basic marine figure. Very very fine.

Great stuff Yggs. I have shamelessly pinched your BA scheme to do a Weeping Angel, incidentally. As for your list, really like it: very, very similar to what I'm running for the Mentors, but sticking in a squad of Assaults instead. Bon chance!

Wow, he's looking very cool indeed. He puts my scorpions to shame
I have one suggestion for the end of the flamer though. I can see you've got the soot on there. Take a soft pencil and gently rub it over the edges of the flamer. This will give you a slight sheen as if metal is showing through the soot. I've tried it on my giard flamers and it looks quite nice

@ tinfoil : Thank you kind sir... Though the BA kits are far from "basic" !

@ graven : No worries, dude... I'd be pleased if you posted a pic in here... It's not everyday you're a"muse" to someone!
The list I made in my mind was quite quick, I just picked up the models I like most in the current Codex, while trying to keep the model count low, and still within the FOC... If I'm courageous, I'll maybe add a Dread + Tactical squad in Drop Pods... But that may well be in 2 years' time!!

@ endtransmission : I have to redo the pad anyway, so if I still think of it, I'll try!

one has a quick look into a thread and see something you're not particularly fond (nothing wrong with it just not to my taste) of:



So doesn't bother looking into it again. Then you see something else by the same person which is really quite cool and one has a proper look at their thread again and see possibly one of the coolest models ever:



I love the scroll work on the armour and the combination of parts Is the horror pink or a peach colour? and what colours did you use?

Oh well live and learn.

Man, the button discs are a really good idea. I think paint them and some of them really wont need gs. How were you planning on attaching the models to the bases.

Peter

Latest stuff is full of win all over the place btw.

P.s, what was your recipe for the purple on that bolter??

PDH wrote: one has a quick look into a thread and see something you're not particularly fond (nothing wrong with it just not to my taste) of:

-R'Phul don't care if PDH don't love'im, coz R'Phul is child of Nurgle, and Papa Nurgle loves his children, and he evens loves those who don't love his children...

More seriously, no worries... That mini was a test piece actually (it seems all of my minis are, btw ), and quite daring, so I can understand it won't appeal to everyone!

PDH wrote:So doesn't bother looking into it again. Then you see something else by the same person which is really quite cool and one has a proper look at their thread again and see possibly one of the coolest models ever:



I love the scroll work on the armour and the combination of parts Is the horror pink or a peach colour? and what colours did you use?

Oh well live and learn.

Man, the button discs are a really good idea. I think paint them and some of them really wont need gs. How were you planning on attaching the models to the bases.

Peter

Wow, I'm not sure this deserves the "one of the coolest" award, but I'm glad you found some interesting things here...

The colour is actually a bit hard, and I don't remember it properly myself, for I spent a lot of time on it (mostly due to the drying time of washes!).
The base colour was a mix of GW Terracotta and Dwarf Flesh, IIRC... Highlighted with Elf Flesh in it, then washed with various colours, Red, Brown, Blue, Purple... Then the beak & face were re-highlighted with the same colours, up to almost pure Elf Flesh, I guess...

As for the Discs / Buttons, I'm still waiting for a GW order for a few aerial bases, I'll try with the rods on regular 25mm bases.

Anyway, thanks for the support, I'm a fan of your work, so it's really pleasant to hear such good words!

MajorTom11 wrote:Latest stuff is full of win all over the place btw.

P.s, what was your recipe for the purple on that bolter??

For that I know : Liche Purple basecoat in 2-3 thin layers on a white primer, "highlighted" with Warlock Purple - it doesn't really highlight it, rather changes the colour with a lighter tone - washed with Devlan, then highlighted again with Warlock, and eventually Warlock + Bleached Bone (2:1 or 3:2, something like this). If anything screws up, a glaze of either (or both) Liche or Warlock.

On other topics:

Marine Swap :

I sent Gitsplitta's Battle-Brother 3 weeks ago, but it seems he never arrived... I know it can be long for the US, especially at Xmas time & with the snow, but I can't help but fear the worse... Wait & see...

Update rythm :

From tomorrow on, and for 2 weeks, I'll be away from home but will maybe have a limited access to the internet. I won't bring anything but a load of Skavens to trim in my spare time, so don't expect any major update until then...

And even after, I'll spend more than half of my time away from home, so my already sluggish modelling pace will go down to an almost halt...

Thanks for the support, guys, and good luck to you all!

I'm standing by my comments...

R'Phul I'm glad your papa loves you....because I think you have a face that only your mama could love

I think the Horror Marine is one of the coolest because I've never seen anyone combine those parts before and it really works for me. Are you going to make a squad of them?

Anyway I hope you have a nice few weeks away with those Skaven sprues.

Peter

Great work on the latest two marines bud! I love the latest marine swap one. You're earthen tones are brilliant! It's really a nice change from the normal grimdark style around. Very vibrant!

Really love the thorns/creeper etc round the skaven basing.. really sets them apart and ties the bases in with the crawler/sneaky skaven theme nicely! I would also be interested to see how your experience with water effects pans out, I'm wanting to do a very similar thing with my next project after the duskys.

Keep it up man! Awesome!

@ Yggs: Oh nose! (about the lost in the mail marine) I hope he turns up sooner rather than never at all.

@ PDH: Those marines really look great. There is so much win all over them I didn't even notice the little green lights on their botlers... extra win!

Great work.

The Good Green - and its was for the extra win I was ing myself, for not checking out Ygg's stuff properly!

Peter

That last marine of yours is beautiful Yggs, you have definitely stepped up alevel in your painting you put me to shame!

And sorry for the late reply but doming resin is a two part epoxy resin with a 1:4 ratio (IIRC), it is the one to use for suspending things and will allow you to "pour" your water instead of painting it in layers. you can always pour a thick layer of doming resin then paint or apply things like leaves and scum on the water then paint your water effects over it giving a layered effect which would suit mangroves.

I used doming resin poured into a silicone mold when I made these little suckers to hang below my tervigon



I also used it on the base, mixed with a few dashes of globlin green and dark angels green ( no too mixed I wanted it have swirls of green!)



Again the only downsize is the length of the curing time which was at least 48 hours to get a hard set, hope this helps

The thing I love about this blog is that, like PDH said, there is something for just about everyone out there. Never boring, and never quite the same. Keep up the cool stuffs (like that marine chapter!)

PDH wrote:R'Phul I'm glad your papa loves you....because I think you have a face that only your mama could love

PDH wrote:I think the Horror Marine is one of the coolest because I've never seen anyone combine those parts before and it really works for me. Are you going to make a squad of them?

I was planning to add various proportions of Horror-like mutations among the squads, but seeing how much I strived to build that mini, I'm not sure I'll do more than 1 or 2 with so many Horror parts...

There are 3 problems with the Horrors :
- their head & torso are one and the same, so it's either (SM Torso + SM Head) or Horror (Torso + Head). I don't think it's doable to have any intermediate degree of conversion;
- their arms aren't really fit for wielding boltguns / pistols, so it's hard to have 2 Horror arms on a single mini;
- their legs are small and in a jumping stance, which also make them unfit for a SM conversion...

I still have an idea about a SM torso + Horror head, but I don't expect much out of it...

PDH wrote:
Anyway I hope you have a nice few weeks away with those Skaven sprues.

Actually, just before leaving, I managed to find a downloadable version of a game I had bought(but lost in the many in-between assignments / home changes), enjoyed, and had nostalgia about: Epic40k : Final Liberation . So in the first of my two weeks, it was all about that game, and in the second, I have been working from 6am to 12pm for 4 days, so I had little time for anything but sleep!!

So, I don't even have an update for the Skavens, I'm afraid... Maybe this weekend?!?

Monkeh wrote:Great work on the latest two marines bud! I love the latest marine swap one. You're earthen tones are brilliant! It's really a nice change from the normal grimdark style around. Very vibrant!

Really love the thorns/creeper etc round the skaven basing.. really sets them apart and ties the bases in with the crawler/sneaky skaven theme nicely! I would also be interested to see how your experience with water effects pans out, I'm wanting to do a very similar thing with my next project after the duskys.

Thanks man! I'm trying my best! I just hope that Marine Swap dude will land home! (Gitsplitta's still lost in the Warp...)

The Good Green wrote:@ Yggs: Oh nose! (about the lost in the mail marine) I hope he turns up sooner rather than never at all.

@ PDH: Those marines really look great. There is so much win all over them I didn't even notice the little green lights on their botlers... extra win!

Great work.

Thanks for the support... And for noticing the small green OSL, I guess those extra details were worth the effort after all!

PDH wrote:The Good Green - and its was for the extra win I was ing myself, for not checking out Ygg's stuff properly!

BLACKHAND wrote:That last marine of yours is beautiful Yggs, you have definitely stepped up alevel in your painting you put me to shame!

And sorry for the late reply but doming resin is a two part epoxy resin with a 1:4 ratio (IIRC), it is the one to use for suspending things and will allow you to "pour" your water instead of painting it in layers. you can always pour a thick layer of doming resin then paint or apply things like leaves and scum on the water then paint your water effects over it giving a layered effect which would suit mangroves.

I used doming resin poured into a silicone mold when I made these little suckers to hang below my tervigon

Again the only downsize is the length of the curing time which was at least 48 hours to get a hard set, hope this helps

Wow, that Tervigon is impressive!!!

Thanks for the information about the doming resin, but it seems I cannot find any way to buy some of that... Any link / online store / hint?

whalemusic360 wrote:The thing I love about this blog is that, like PDH said, there is something for just about everyone out there. Never boring, and never quite the same. Keep up the cool stuffs (like that marine chapter!)

Ha ha, actually that's one of the things that causes me trouble IRL, I often start a lot of things at the same time, but cannot finish them all... I guess that adds variety to my life, lol... Maybe I should be wary of Slaanesh's temptations...

Thanks to you guys for all the support!

Mann, that Marine looks NICE! You get better with every update!

_Tim?

Yggdrasil wrote:

Tzeentch CSM Horror :

Here is, at last, G'chaaclethu the Ancient, Warden of the Porphyr Library.







For those who are interested in tongues (you know who you are), here's a close-up (maybe a little too close ), with small dots & stuff.

Ok first I have to tell you that I am a huge fan of your work. And second, I must know how you went about painting the armour (if you dont mind I would love to borrow this scheme for my own Tzeentch warband idea I have). I love the color selection. If you wouldn't mind telling us your recipe and how you went about painting it please.

Incredible marine conversion. I think that is the best model I have ever seen. No joke. The colors are perfectly complimentary, and the purple is a great contrast to the armor.