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Perhaps a stripe of yellow on the commanders armour I find that all yellow armour is a bit overpowering. Now I know how an Imperial Fist feels

I agree about the yellow poping a bit to much, but I also agree that yellow stripes could mark officer status, think itwould look cool. And the new improved white armour looks amasing!

I like the white armor! it looked great IMO

If they are going to be based in mud then the dirty white suits for sure, just be careful not to splatter it on too thick

Thanks guys!
Largeblasttemplates- I will definitley be using the white armour on other figures, it was just a little too overpowering for my tastes.

Balckhand- I shall take your advice! ATM the armour is incredibly smooth, the pics make it look a little lumpy.

Looking forward too 15cm of snow!! No school=moar painting!

OK, got a pretty nice conversion to show you all. Its is a BA apothecary in termie armour.

AOBR body, Deathwing legs and right arm, LOTD axe, devastator head, flamer canister and a metal stick







I still have to fix the connection between the waist and upper body and also smooth out a few parts.

This guy will become part of my command squad (including the termie librarian and the termies with NMM gold heads)

Hope you like!!!

nice idea ,never seen a termie apothecarie before. that spike is good!

It's another busy day at the workbench. I have base-coated the apothecary, chopped some marines up and given them a far less static pose.

The white is supposed to be finished but I am not that happy with it. Any helpfull suggestions on how to do a battle damaged white?



Here he is with the rest of the honour guard



I have been working on livening up some quick snap SM from the old battle for Magragge set. Basically, chop of the head and throw another on on
I also added some better weapons and some BA symbols throughout. Special thanks to hcordes for the helmets

Models look very blobby in these pics but they are better IRL







The darth sidious of space marines









Thanks for looking!






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Forgot this little conversion that was sitting on my desk. IG vox caster with a nice action pose

Working on a primaris psyker, pics soon

Here we go, I had to wait till the morning to get some decent lighting. Even so, the pics are not that great but you get the idea.

Got a few little bits to touch up like the eyes and skin but for the most part he is all done









Improvements or suggestions???

I am thinking of painting up a ratling or two today so I had better be going

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Do you ever get the feeling that you are talking to yourself?

Finished the ratling. His cloak will blend in nicely into the base when it is finished

Don't feel bad, the lack of answers is probably due to the holiday season and all that, liking your work but I am afraid I have no idea how you could paint the battle damaged white, its got to be one of the hardest colours IMHO

BLACKHAND wrote:Don't feel bad, the lack of answers is probably due to the holiday season and all that, liking your work but I am afraid I have no idea how you could paint the battle damaged white, its got to be one of the hardest colours IMHO

holidays?! we still have 1 and a half week of school left, AND 2 weeks of exams!

but what I wanted to post was: I like you latest update. especially the ratling.

I was thinking of thanksgiving in the states and as a retailer I am swamped at work at the moment as people go mental buying for christmas...I guess it's been a while since I was at school

good luck with the exams though!

BLACKHAND wrote:I was thinking of thanksgiving in the states and as a retailer I am swamped at work at the moment as people go mental buying for christmas...I guess it's been a while since I was at school

good luck with the exams though!

why thank you. I'll need it

(sorry to put off topic conversation in your blog Cain.)

No problmemo scrazza, you are not the only one with exams

So, I finished the final ratling. All together the gang took exactly 360 days to paint (I may have slacked off a bit in the middle )

I tried to give his skin a sunburnt look, I hink it needs a few finishing touches adding before I a pleased with it.



Peekaboo!





Here is some pics of the rest of the gang...



I just noticed that this guy is staring unnervingly into the camera, creepy.







And there you have it. 360 days of hard work (or something like that)

Hey Cain, some interesting stuff since I last checked in. Love the weathered armour on the guard, looks ace. Nice looking termie apothecary, unfortunately I can't give any suggestions on plain white, let alone damaged white.
Space hobbits look really cool, good job there

the ratlings look great ! really characterful mate! the painting is immpressive!

what did you use for your ratling bases?

It is actually scenic snow bought from Michaels. I then painted it with varying colours of brown paint and ink. Hope you like it!

I love it!

I particularly like the cloaked sniper. Looks like hes about to pop someones head open.

Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been building all the 40k that I got for my birthday yesterday. Got some incredible stuff! A baneblade, space marine battleforce, FW DKOK engineers, mole launcher and command squad as well as IG regimental advisors (although one of the figures was missing when I got the box so I will have to send off for that)

Time to break out the superglue and start work on those marines. I think I will purchase a set of 5 SM legs to go with the set as that is all you need to make another 5 marines I am thinking of getting it from the warstore unless anyone knows of a better bitz shop?

As for the baneblade, it is going to converted to have plenty of super detailing and I am using the FW masterclass book (also from my b-day) to paint it to my best possible standard.

Looks like this guy might have his work cut out for him (arms are supposed to be on the wrong way round because I prefer how it looks)





WIP pics tomorrow...

O_O


Thjat is one scary looking bug. Gonna need a big boot to squish him with. A baneblade sounds just about big enough.

AARRGH! that is terryfying , great work on that red , happy bday http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo6m2xs6ZzY/Sgd1YvdfoVI/AAAAAAAAAfA/_GKGSxX8eUs/s320/gd_table8.jpg
cant wait to see what you do with your DKOK and imperial advisors

Wow thats quite the load! Happy Birthday! late! You are so lucky Baneblade!? Ugh im jealos! IM excited to see what you do with it! ARe you going to magnetize it?

Wow I hate mold lines!

OK, here is what is on the painting table (that I have constructed so far)

I have made up a 5-man squad of beakies from the SM battleforce as there are just about enough bits to make them.





Another 10-man squad is being built after removing the said mold lines...



There are also some gretchin waiting to be painted up (can't decide whether to make them part of a grot rebellion and make them a counts-as IG squad)



And last but not least, the Baneblade. I am going to try and add a lot more small details to it and maybe magnetize it if I can be bothered

(sorry about the blurry pics, the camera was acting up a bit)







And you can not get a baneblade without first taking this iconic picture!



Now all I need to do is paint all this lot...

look awesome! what chapter are your marines going to be? and baneblade looks great cant wait to see it all painted!

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES wrote:look awesome! what chapter are your marines going to be? and baneblade looks great cant wait to see it all painted!

I think I am going to go with blood angels so that they match the rest of my army. I recently bought some GW washes as people are alway going on about them. (should the beakie vets have gold helmets or not?)

Good stuff, beakies rock

@Cain

I would say the Sargent should but not all of them maybe gold insignias but pure gold i dont know about. I love the beaks also! The Dark angel beak one looks soo cool! and about the washes lets just say i coat some devlan mud wash over my men and they go from mediocre painting to thats actually pretty good i would for sure reccomend them.