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So it didn't take long for the DE bug to bite.

One of the most impressive models at the time of release, and of the DE, and GW range at the time was the Razorwing. It, and the scourges pretty much sold me on the entire miniatures range.



I got a bit carried away today when I was digging through some boxes and found an old Razorwing, it was dusty and coated in paint already, but 20 mins of TLC and I got it to the point I could prime and base coat it again.



Some of the surfaces are a bit rough, but I still love where this is going. the second picture is more representative of the colour too.

Stay tuned for more soon.

Thanks for looking.

That's looking very nice so far Sheep

I think I have airbrush envy...

Fantastic work, Sheep! What color are you going to do the canopy?

Looking forward to more

Cheers
Rawson

Thanks gents

Rawson, the canopy will be done the same as the venom for the moment til i can source some proper masking fluid, then it will probably get a similar treatment to the canopies of my stormravens.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m289/Sheep_06/Khorne%20Angels/IMG_0306.jpg

but for now . . .



There's something about painting one model and just having the scheme "click", it reaffirms your joy of the hobby. This is the first model I have painted for ALONG time that hasn't had a tournament or list derived goal as the end state.It makes me think these INQ28 guys are onto something, might have to try my hand at a few conversions just because.



The statues on the base are a bit cliched for DE, but I love them
Its not shown very well in the photos (unless you zoom right in) but some of the spray went a bit speckly, I can only assume this is due to too much pressure, paint that was too thick, or the needle of my airbrush is bent, or a combination of all the above.
But as far as the Table top goal of the army is concerned I'm super happy with how the scheme has translated to the model that inspired me to pick up DE in the first place.



As with the venom, the glass on the canopy is a place holder until I can get some masking fluid and come up with a canopy scheme that compliments the tones of the body. I'm undecided on engine OSL as well.


I don't know why. but spraying the stand for the base makes the model look less like a toy to me.

Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

Fantastic work as ever!

There is something about just painting a mini for the sake of painting it, rather than 'needing' to get it done for a game (most of what I paint these days is like that, although when I do get a game I only play with painted stuff). I'd like to see your take on inq28, it certainly promotes a very different style of painting than 40k if you take the Blanche-inspired route.

Thankyou, I love Blanche as an atmospheric inspiration, and as a miniature painter he has a lot of great ideas, I just don't think I could do that style of painting.

Wow, great painting as always! Loving the colours, the pretty base and the black flight stand looks great as well. Keep up the great work

Cheers mate

Not dark eldarI but I finished a few more models I had on the go the other day, so heres some random pics of Zoanthropes.







I have another month of uni then 2 weeks off, so hopefully I can get some painting in over the holidays.

Guess Nids don't do it for anyone, how about this then

The local games club has seen an explosion of interest in the game Infinity, with about half the guys there buying starters of one form or another, and the start of a small journeyman league. Since I'm trying to encourage the use of the club and the members coming in more, I decided to dig the Aleph starter I bought 4 years ago out for a lick of paint.

And then of course I ignored it and painted the coolest model first. So I present the TAG for Aleph, the Marut.


Small bit of yellow overspray on that left arm, bugger

I used alot of airbrushing to achieve the subtle purple blends across the body, the white on the high points didn't quite turn out as intense as I wanted it too, but I had to stop for fear of losing the gradients and not being able to highlight it with pure white.


The high heels are so Sci-fi



The shield didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to either, the yellow over sprayed and coated the whole surface and I lost the gradient, so I guess Its made of the same material as the sword now . . or something.





The base is the same base colour as my Sons of Horus, but as it was drying I mixed in some white, yellow, grey and red, giving a sort of marbled finish. This was kind of lost under the application of some powders for texture and interest. The colour reminds me of a hospital, or maybe I've just watched too much Scrubs.



Finally the obligatory scale shot, as you can see for something that represents a tank in game, the Marut is pretty spindly. The actual infantry are tiny compared to 40k models, and even small compared to Boltaction, assembling them was an exercise in patience when it came to pinning.



After painting this model, and the base coats on the infantry I can safely say I need a new airbrush, any recommendations? Model, manufacturer and/or online store to buy them from would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think.

Wanted to do something different to the sons, but stick with the heresy, I only seem to like the traitors, so who better then the architects of the heresy?



It is a scheme heavily inspired by the FW HH books metallic scheme. I just couldn't get the inscribing to work well enough to make it a feature yet, I'll keep trying though.

The red is a a Vallejo model air colour "Signal Red", with a couple of washes, the quick and dirty of which goes like this:

Grey undercoat
2x coats of Signal red
Dry brush mithril silver
Baal red wash
Serephim sepia
Nuln oil
Then scratches with mithril



It is a quite a hard scheme to photgraph unfortunately.



I'll post more updates when I get more time

Cheers

Sheep

They are looking really nice Sheep.

Signal Red is really nice thats what I'm planning to use for the armour on my Vampire fantasy army.

Thanks mate The colour is a great base, but it really needed the washes to add some tonal variation and interest to it.

Just a couple of quick pics of the different freehand Legion icons I have done.



I did this one originally as I wanted to try the unmodifeid icon, but it was really complicated and way too many layers for a an army wide item and the detail was lost to the weathering so I settled on the modified icon with the daemon face in the fire.



I was alsp asked on another forum how I did the eyes, so I'll repost it here as well in case anyone's interested.



1: Vallejo German cam orange
2: Vallejo German cam orange mixed with white 50/50
3: Scorched brown mixed with black
4: Vallejo German cam orange mixed with white 25/75
5: Glaze with lamenters yellow x2
6: White reflections

Thanks for looking

Aw yeah, some sweet power armor action returns! Not going to lie, it's totally why I'm here.

Nice freehand! And all round nice work in this blog. Definitely one to follow

Thanks guys

Every army needs a general, and Word bearers armies apparently need 2 compulsory HQ's, so here's the first of mine, the "obviously a bad guy, I don't know how we fooled the Ultramarines at all" Diabolgist.



Long time followers of the blog might recognize him as the WIP World Eaters Praetor from awhile ago, just modified somewhat.



Apart from some minor alterations, the majority of the model stayed the same, I replaced the purity seals with the more WB parchments, added some skulls to the jetpack, which were supposed to be from his victims at Istvaan.

Oh and added horns, stops him wearing a helmet, but really drives home the fact he is an evil bastard, and the source of all the daemons I plan on painting for this force.



The book has a subtle hint as to what god the planned Daemons will be from.



The broken symbol he's standing on is a cast I made of an old Buldog buckle company key chain, I think it makes a nice broken symbol of Calth, and is symbolic of the betrayal of the WB's in that theatre.

Initially I had tried to paint the legion numerals of the Salamanders, Ravenguard, and Iron hands, on the skulls, but they were just too long and detailed to fit onto such a small space convincingly.

Leading from the front . . . gets you killed now days in 40k/30k.



This final photo has been included because I think the colour is slightly more representative of the actual tone of the armour.



Thanks for looking.

Wow, these look amazing!

Great work once again Sheep.

Just awesome!

Mmmm puuurrrttyyyy! Love the metallic red and the praetor is great, really sinister!

Great work with those Word bearers! I'm picking all the ideas I can for mine

Hi everyone, back from the dead again.

So recently I have moved house and as any gamer or modeler who's goes through this ordeal knows it involves packing and unpacking that most sacred space, the hobby table.

This can be painful, there's a lot of stuff, some of it get broken and things get lost, and it can take a while to get setup again.

Once you do though, it's like a blank slate, none of those half finished projects sitting there staring at you accusingly, no bits of offcuts and chucks of sprue lying around. It can be invigorating to tackle something new.

So with the constant heckling of Rictus I managed to finish the first of my Primarch miniatures, and I started with the big cheese himself, Horus.

This is the first miniature I have painted in a long time that didn't require the use of an airbrush, every step was done using standard brushes, and man am I rusty, it took along time to get back into the swing of blending highlighting and not weathering.



The cloak was shaded with purple inks, to give it a depth, but not be so dark as to be all black, I found that when I tried to use straight black to shade the cloak lost a lot of its regal appearance.

I hope the pictures are a lot better, as I finally invested in a photo booth setup, I bought a Foldio 2, which is a really nice product, easy to use and set up, though not exactly cheap.



I hope to do some experimentation with photo backgrounds, and might reshoot some of my old minis that I've done to test them out.

I also have 4 more Primarchs to paint (and another I just ordered) so expect some more painting progress in the not too distant future.



Like everyone else involved in HH I have bought a couple of sets of Battle for Calth and will be using them to start my third legion force, so watch that for developments when I finally get them in my hands.

Thanks for sticking around and reading this wall of text if you have, and thanks for stopping by, I hope to increase the tempo and consistency of posts to the blog, but we've all heard me say that before.

Cheers

Sheep

Looking good, the cloak especially! I eagerly await your progress on that fantastic plastic too!

That's a really fantastic looking Horus. Fantastic work.

EDC

Thanks gents appreciate the positive comments

I've had a collection of Primarchs building up in the background for quite a while, but they've been on the back burner as I finished units for gaming as a priority and uni got in the way.

Since I finished Horus however I've been making steady progress on the backlog and Angron is the second Primarch to be finished.





The model is from my recollection the oldest primarch in circulation, and the sculpt and basing style certainly shows its age. There has been a steady increase in the size and complexity of the bases in the character series, not entirely for the better. I would prefer FW to offer a gaming choice that comes without the over the top display bases for a more reasonable price, but that may just be me.



To that end I've actually decided not to paint the display bases for the rest (most) of the primarchs, providing me with fodder for conversions and objectives, as well as saving alot of room in the display case as well.



I have also decided to paint the remaining primarchs to a good TT standard to get them ready for some gaming. There was talk of a Primarch death match series at some of the tournaments in Brisbane which I think would be really interesting.



As you can see from the photos, I have experimented with a darker background for the pics this time, oddly it seems to make the images of the models lighter, and I actually had to dim the lights so the images didn't look too washed out.

Which background do you prefer? What do you think of AngryRon, is he showing his age, or holding up well?

Cheers

Sheep

Angry Ronald is looking good! Nice basing too. And the leather parts are superbly textured!

Mmmmm that's fresh! That's the kind of model that i'd love to see in the flesh - the armour plating looks great and the cloak is cool too. Would be interesting to see when they finish the primarch character series what they all look like side by side.

Excellent work on Angron. I really like what you've done with the armour.

Not sure how I feel about the backgrounds. I think I prefer the black, but the white works too...kinda depends on the main colour of the model?...

EDC

Thanks gents

I intend on getting them all lips, so a group shot at the end would be extremely interesting.

Evil, I agree on the background/model color, I think I want to get one of those multi colored backgrounds to try next.

Hello all. Welcome to another belated update.

Firstly as to why it's been so delayed, I'm expecting an addition to my life shortly, a baby girl, this as you can imagine is equal parts terrifying and exciting for me and has absorbed a lot of time and the kid hasn't even been born yet! She's due to arrive in 6 or so weeks so expect updates to be even slower than they have been after that.

In other news I've finished Aurelian, Lorgar of the Word Bearers.



As you can see he's only been done to a decent table top standard as he was batch painted with a bunch of tactical marines, and I actually ran out of Baal red during painting him.



I replaced to top of his crozius with a plastic piece from my bitz box (the warriors of chaos I think) as I lost part of the resin original in a house move.

All in all I'm pretty happy with how he has turned out, and will post some more progress pics of the word bearers as soon as I can take pics of them.

"Decent tabletop standard"
And its better than anything i've ever done

Yeah, that's better than most people's 'showcase' quality, he looks really good. Could you share your recipe for the red armour?