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Not dead! Just... busy. Ugh, final project at uni sucks up all my time lately. Still, a bit of progress on the chaplain at least. Tried out a makeshift wet palette for the first time today while working on the smoke, finding it makes blending a lot easier.



Still working on the white on both sides of the cape, and need to tidy up a bit around it. Also need to tidy up some edges where the paint's been rubbing off, bleh. Thoughts on the green?


Two more weeks till classes are done, and then I'll finally have some time to get some solid conversion/painting in...

Beautiful!

Good to see you back, Skits! The cloth work on that chaplain looks great.

Daaamn that is good blending! I feel you pain on university projects as well, just finished all mine and now I have exams!

Thanks for the replies all! It's good to BE back, hehehe. Just one more exam to do myself, then I'm free for the summer holidays. Hopefully I'll be able to update a little more often! And just in case anyone missed it, the finished Dark Vengeance Chaplain is up in my showcase thread.

Anyway! Another little update. Normally when I take WIP photos it's just on my desk, but I've been finding the ceiling light gives a bit too much glare. Solution? Jury-rigged light tent! Paper towel propped up by a half-built rhino behind it, and held up with my camera case and water jug, hehehe. Softens the light enough that I don't get such harsh highlights.



Got a couple more tactical marines in progress. Still a lot to do, but figured I'd show the freehand so far on this guy. The shoulder scarab is a new thing for me, and that bloody Thousand Sons symbol STILL isn't any easier to paint, sigh.



Also trying out armour damage for the first time on this poor fellow. Fenris Grey, edged with Fenris Grey/Black, and highlighted with Blood Red. May try a Blood Red/Bleached Bone mix at some point for the highlighting on the more brightly-lit areas, like the tops of the knees and pauldrons. Still experimenting and playing around with technique and colours at the moment.

Liking the improvised lightbox!

Great looking freehand. That scarab looks good. So good I may just have to repaint mine... Battle damage is a little too hard to see, not sure if it is the camera or not. I found that a bit of Chaos Black (or whatever it is called there days..) highlighted with a really bright orange pops quite well!

Loving the base as well. Is that water effects that makes it so glossy?

Looking great!

Really like how things are progressing on the place just ploughed through the nine pages every thing you have done is remarkable and very insightful on your technique. personally im looking forward to more post heresy marines myself i just dig that blue. kinda curious to see what your take on any other legion would be.

@Commander Cain: Yeah, I'm still experimenting with the battle damage. Probably won't use orange though, I'm trying to stay away from the oranges for my reds. I also don't want to make it stand out too much, heh. I prefer a more subtle approach, personally. Glad you like the freehand! It's such a pain to do, hehehe.

@Urien_Rakarth: Thank you!

@alabamaheretic: Thank you! I'm not sure if I'll ever try another legion - I love my Sons far too much, and have so many things to do for them still. Though I admit I'm thinking about getting the Primarch models from Forgeworld at some point... maybe. As for my post-Heresy boys, I think you'll like this next project then.

So! Another project I'm working on - the Dark Vengeance Chaos Lord I was given in return for painting that Chaplain, hehe. However, there's just one little problem with him...

"...A SLOTTA base?! I refuse to be associated with a lowly slotta base! If I find out who is responsible for this travesty I will shoot them in the EVERYTHING."



This problem obviously needs to be rectified. Solution? Build a custom base! But I didn't want to make it entirely out of greenstuff... then I remembered all the Forgeworld resin models I've purchased, and my little hoarding habit. Behold! Bucket o' blocks!



Greenstuff + chunks of resin =



This is just the foundation so far, I'll be filling it out and sculpting detail with more greenstuff once this lot's dried and the pieces won't move around any more. It'll be another lava base to go with the rest of my blue post-Heresy boys. Stay tuned!

That DV lord is a joy to paint cant wait to see him done up in your colors. I do say your sons are very inspiring and making me want to touch up my word bearers some. Base is looking good man looking forward to the paint.

Really cool army, subscribed

that keyboard made me cry..

Still not dead yet! Just sleeping.

@alabamaheretic: Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting paint onto the DV Chaos Lord! I predict that I will be driven a little bit (more) mad with all the detail on it. I'm glad my army's so inspiring!

@bigfish: Thank you!

@cormadepanda: Hehe why, what's wrong with my keyboard? I've had it for the past three computers, so it's probably around about ten years old or something.

Haven't gotten much done over the holidays so far, shame on me. Still, have some updates!

The base for my Chaos Lord is finally finished, after much procrastinating. Greenstuff/Milliput mix, roughly sculpted on, left to dry, then carved and shaved and sanded into shape.



Now it all just needs the undercoat, and then I can finally start painting this sucker.



And something else I've also been poking at - a couple of progress shots of the 25th Anniversary model that I'm painting up for my pre-Heresy Sons army.

The undercoat and base coat of Mordian Red:


The red on the body mostly finished, along with the base coat of Calthan Brown for the gold and parchment areas and Boltgun Metal for the metal areas. The plasma pistol arm, head (which isn't glued on yet!), and backpack so far only have the Mordian basecoat + the first layer of Scab Red/Fenris Grey in the shadowed areas.




Hopefully I'll remember to take more progress shots of both these models! And hopefully it won't be another month before my next update, aheh.

Look forward to seeing it Skits!

Don't worry about sleeping, we all have to do it

Oh yeah, I f***ing love your ice bases, could you give us a tut?

As for an ice base tutorial, ask and ye shall receive!

Thanks very much! I was using chopped up and scraped flying bases. Think I'll stick with that, but thanks loads, it was really helpful!

No worries, happy to help!

Having just finished collecting my jaw from the floor, where it's spent the last however long I've spent ogling this thread, allow me to say: wow. I'm a massive fan of the Sons - their tragic backstory, their aesthetic, the fact that each of them can kill you with his mind - and I must say, you've done them the most justice I've seen so far.

I found this thread while looking for inspiration, being as I'm currently planning out my own pre-Heresy Thousand Sons; I think I can safely consider myself inspired. I look forward to seeing what new marvels you produce. Needless to say: subscribed, exalted, seethed with envy over; et cetera, haha.

PS.: Thanks, by the way, for the various tutorials, pointers and such you've posted along the way!

@AzraelHunt: Oh wow, thank you very much for the high praise! It's always fantastic finding another Sons fan; I love 'em for pretty much the same reasons you do, hehe. I'm so glad that my stuff is such an inspiration -- it makes all the time and effort totally worth it! Especially if it leads to even more Sons armies being made, muahaha.

I'm glad you like the tutorials and such too -- it's always wonderful knowing that the stuff I've learned and passed on is helping other people! I look forward to seeing your own Sons army, and seeing what you do with it.

If y'have any questions or anything, feel free to ask! I'm always happy to discuss anything Sons or hobby-related.

I really like how you push this concept. consider yourself to have another fan!

@eldertau1987: Thank you very much!

Still as cool as ever Skits, keep up the good work.

P.S. As soon as I get the extra cash, I'm going to PM you about that commission. One day! One day...

@Darth Bob: Thanks, I'll try to! And no worries, no rush. I ain't planning on going anywhere for a while, hehehe.

Anyway, new things! The weather down here has been stupidly hot and humid lately, and I don't want to risk spraypainting undercoats in it. :| But at least my area's not currently suffering from bushfires, unlike further south. I'll take what I can get, heh.

So anything waiting to be undercoated is on hold for the moment. In the meantime, something else I've been wanting to work on for a while; more bikers! Got several second-hand chaos bikes from a friend who'd assembled and basecoated them, then decided he wasn't going to use them in any of his armies and gave them to me.

So here's the start of them. Still very much in progress - waiting for the greenstuff on the head to dry before I add any more detail to it. Getting rid of the chaos stars on the bike cowling was a pain in the everything, agh. De-spiked, greenstuff scarab on the pauldron to replace the skull, backpack converted from the chaos backpack to make it look a little less chaos-y.



Started working on a second bike as well, though the backpack atm is still in pieces like y'see here. I'll cut the mounting bits off the vents, and then greenstuff them back onto the backpack like the first biker. If anyone wants more pics of the backpacks themselves, let me know!



Got three more second-hand bikes to do after these two, then another two brand new bikes to work on as well. So... many... bikes aaagh. Also pondering what special weapons to give them - I've got a meltagun or two, but I'm not sure what works best on bikes. Meltas? Flamers? I'm not really a fan of plasma because I have an unfortunate habit of rolling way too many ones and melting my own face off. Thoughts?

Looks great!

 Skits wrote:

Hey, Skits, something I just noticed about this guy. What's up with his arms? They seem to be overly extended from his torso and the separation, to me, looks really odd. Is it something to do with the magnetized arms? Might I suggest sinking in the magnets more so that you get a tighter arm-to-body fit. Right now he just looks a little off compared to his squadmates.

Great looking bikers Skits! Every time you update I feel guilty about my own neglected T-sons but I console myself in the fact that I can bask in looking at your creations instead!

@Urien_Rakarth: Thank you!

@Darth Bob: Yeah, I messed up on poor Kamuzu there and didn't notice for ages. Basically what happened was that the arms I used on him weren't from the chaos terminator set, so they had slightly different shoulder joins than the other arms. But I didn't notice at the time, and didn't adjust accordingly, so the arms ended up with that visible gap. I'd like to sink the magnets in further, but digging them out in the first place would be a pain the ass and might damage the model. I may get around to fixing it at some point, if I run out of other things to do.

@Commander Cain: Hehe, thank you! And man, don't feel guilty, I can easily go like a month or several between updates, I'm so slack. Our Sons can be neglected together! Or something.

lol! Your termies are stil f**king awesome

Love the work your doing skits keep it up.

@Urien: Hehe, thanks!

@cormadepanda: Thanks, I certainly plan to!

Finally got around to undercoating some stuff... and ran outta spraypaint. Figures. Anyway!

Huh, forgot to post this a while ago, whoops. A little bit of custom detailing on my Deimos tanks. Used Milliput for these, mostly just to see how it handled compared to greenstuff.



And a bit more greenstuff work on the bike. Helmet's still in progress - gotta do it step by step to let the greenstuff dry and so I don't squash bits, bleh.



Also experimenting with making some gear for the back of the bike. These are also still in progress and need more detailing. Or I may redo them entirely, not sure yet. Will see how impatient I get, heh.