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Oh my San! If your expanding to terrain you at least have to lower the quality! That is going to take forever to do to that standard! The yellow transition is lovely, the larger space really emphasises the smoothness.

As much as I love guard I agree with your friend, its a very IF thing to do and makes it a bit more unique. A fine addition.

Well done.. nice blending!..

Just looked through this for the first time ad I must say, your imperial fists are beautiful!
Also, big fan of how clean the the chaos marine looked. I'm looking forward to following more of your work =)

Wow

The dirty bottom of the cannon is just perfect with the yellow over It.... How do You do that mate ?

Loving this blog every picture a little more!

Thanks so much for your kind words folks, i really appreciate it!

@ J-Paint: man, im such a slow painter with whatever i do, it makes no real difference.

@Solar_lion - thank you!

@LordRogalDorn - too kind mate. gotta get back into those Dark Vengeance models...

@SelvaggioSaky - thanks man. i did the dust/dirt weathering using Forgeworld Weathering Powders. i am a bit in love with them at the moment. just brush them on lightly with a make-up brush and instant dirt/soot etc. messy...but awesome.

You spray varnish over them and the pigment stays?

Thats the one.

i find dullcote holds it on there pretty good. you will lose a little because the spray kinda blows the dust off, but you can always apply some more then respray.

Do you use just a light spray of the matt?
Only I've found it completely removes the dusty look of the pigments removing the point really, but then again I wasn't using dullcoat.

Beautiful Fists btw and I like how there is just one guardsman in this thread to cover the thread name

Thanks very much OneManNoodles.

You are quite right, you have to go for a fairly light spray. I've found that best when using DullCote anyways; if i go to heavy with it something in the medium seems to blur slightly highlights and such.

Absolutely fantastic models and paint jobs here. It's nice to see the IF getting some love, it's interesting to see the boys in yellow amongst all the usual Ultramarines and whatnot.

Exalted and subscribed.

Keep up the truly outstanding work!

Thank you Darkvoidof40k...you are too kind!

Man, your stuff is amazing. I love IF! I'd love to do a pre-heresy vrsion but I can't paint yellow

Subscribed

Thank you Nashbashem! It's not so bad really, as long as you have an airbrush or something similar. If not, well...page 1 of this blog is up there for eternity

Cheers for subscribing. Got to get your bronze recipe off you...

Greeting folks!

well, its winter down here in Oz and i woke up last week sick as. so i thought to myself...nurgle!

After painting the cadians i have been wanting to try my hand at some green marines and it seemed like a great excuse, so i dug out my dark vengeance and picked a victim.

firstly, once again i have to say how awesome the Dark Vengeance models are. admittedly, you cant pose them...but on the other hand, i doubt i could come up with a more dynamic pose.

In painting this guy i tried a couple of new things. i tried to enhance my airbrush skills a bit more by trying both pre-shading and directional highlights with the airbrush on his armour. i first did this on the other chaos guy, and it came out well but subtle. decided to be a bit braver this time.

secondly, tried to be more subtle with my edge highlighting to blend in better with the directional highlights - didn't want a nice airbrush fade to end in a solid bar of highlight. hopefully this has worked. finally, i got hold of some water effect stuff (vallejo) and had a play on the base. i thought about weathering him but decided against it as i didn't weather the other chaos guy in the squad.

as always, i would love to hear your thoughts.

san

ps sorry the photo in blog is so small....i cant find a way to post bigger than 600 pixels without going the full file...and i didnt want to make folks who maybe weren't interested download the whole thing. if anyone knows away...please tell me. for those that do want to see it....please click and zoom (with my thanks)

the obligatory montage:



View of the base

Beautiful work, but I now have the southpark/team america montage song stuck in my head like a nurgley earworm.

He is rather epic. Papa Nurgle would be proud

Loving the Aegis and quad gun, the colours really make it, it will definatly fit into the fists army. Any chance we could have some photos with a little more light please? I'd love to see some more of the detail on your models

Young Logan

Very nice. .I'm finding that in order to get more of a pop with my AB you need to be less timid in the color range. Case in point if you look at Git's MW blog (early work) his usual shade of highlighting is a lighter version of the original. His later work pushes the color more out to the extreme.. Hence his use of more yellow in his green.

Everytime I try I'm so cautious, but regret I didn't push it further.. Oh that comfort zone.

Any way look great nice touch with the Eyes!

Damn!
Everything You touch with colors become awesome!
Great figure and base

Thanks so much for commenting guys.

@inmygravenimage - rofl..i hadn't even thought of that...now that i think of it though, a montage of a model being painted, step by step, set to '80s montage music would be awesome...

@young logan - thanks for letting me know they are too dark. on my screen they look ok, but maybe that's just cause i already know what the mini looks like. will try and get more light in there.

@solar_lion - totally know what you mean about comfort zones. the next step for me is to try and apply the highlighting techniques i learnt here to a transparent colour, like yellow....

@Nashbashem and SelvaggioSaky - as always, you are too kind .

so..for the next project i think it will be to try and get some shading on an Imperial Fist. the main issue is going to be that i dont normally build up the mid tone of the IF as one paint, whereas with the nurgle marine i did. if its not completely horrible i will try and post pics of my experiment.

cheers again guys.

san.

Everybody need a montage!..... even Rocky....had a montage.....


:-) but your montage is nice too San! love the look of your Nurgley stuff it's suitably gritty and diseased but somehow looks clean and just decrepit and worn! I hope that's the image you were/are after mate?

hahah thanks nerdfest09, i hadnt thought of it that way, but im glad you did

Hey San!

Have to say that personally I think that's one of your best! It really did make me stop dead and stare at it! WELL DONE.

I love it! (Even though it's Nurgle ) xxx

HAha! Many thanks bubble. Im glad you liked him - he was great fun to paint and the base was my first use of water effects too, which was good fun. To be honest, I tend to agree with you re: him being one of my better efforts.

To correct this I'm trying at the moment to use some of the zenithal technique I learned on the nurgle marine on some test IF figures. I have found yellow to be much, much harder to use the technique on than green. I guess there aren't really "darker yellows" per se, so I have to use browns etc.

This is a WIP shot of my first volunteer. The photos are just phone ones, so please forgive the poor focus. I've been pleasantly surprised by how he came out. There are some lighting shadows on him, but the zenithal technique did seem to give him on depth. I think it's most obvious on the shoulders, the lower legs, the nacelles (?) on the backpack and the helm.

Hey San, I was honestly just thinking about using this exact method on IF today! I am sorely tempted to start a HH era IF force and was trying to work out my style for painting them? I love how yours are painted all the way through this blog and that one is great! the darker yellow appeals to me as my first introduction to them was from the novel 'Space Marine' where they were described as having a mustard colour armour!

I have used a light rust.. It's on the brown side but with a touch of red..I think it's works better than a brown alone .. which I find easily looks like weathering than lighting.

That's unreasonably pretty...

thanks so much for taking the time to read guys.

@solar_lion thanks for the tip. i had noticed that when you are shading with brown...it naturally can look a bit like dirt. will try something with a red in it next time.

@nerfest09 - mate ive read the same book. the Emperor willing, they will write some good IF fiction soon. you totally should do up a test marine...fair warning....yellow is a fickle, high maintenance mistress. absolutely loved the mantis warrior you did up for gitsplitta btw!

@inmygravenimage - haha many thanks mate. i will try and bring the grim back on the next one.

well, rather than basing my test figure (which i will do) ive been working on my praetor. i just couldnt resist the sculpt from FW - even though i doubt he will ever see the table. the model arrived just after i took the photo i loaded last night, so basing got forgotten.

WIP pics soon...but for now...work beckons....

Like It, good job all around, but your yellow is just too good to be changed with this.

Don't want to criticize your amazing skills mate.
The IF You do are the best I see on the net and, if I can have a word on It, keep this kind of painting for something else

Thanks so much Sel, though you are being over generous.

to be honest, i probably wont paint too many more Fists with this technique (just the praeotr which ive started, and if i get enthusiastic, the rest of a combat squad for my test marine) at this stage. i like it, and maybe if i had known how to do it from the start it would be different....but they are going to look really different from the rest of my army.

guess its an excuse to start a new army