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I decided to go ahead and start a thread here for some of the models I paint while im chillin' at work.

the first model is the "Odin Knight" model from Kabuki models, they were shut down by GW for copyright infringement a while back, so they had to stop producing the primarch models, but they have reopened shop with different minis.

here is with the first couple of layers of Space Wolf Grey just to see some contrast










Here is a size comparison photo



Here is with a couple more layers of paint.



With the photographs lightsource where it is it makes his face look like two-face's. It does point out that the shading is done to a lightsource though.



I got a new tripod and a slightly better lightsource for pics, and i made some progress on the model this morning.

Really nice paint job. I'm not sure about the model but I'm impressed with your painting. Is the company trading under the same name?

Thanks, the company had a different name when they produced these mini's, kabuki models is the current name.

Its a company based in Italy, so the website is mostly written in Italian, but you can find a lot of their minis for sale on Ebay from various resellers

did a little more painting on Russ, the gemstones in the legs and started on the sword, also started on the cloak.

Here are my 2 current WIP models, the yellow is "posted no trespassing" signs that I got for very cheap, its a 1-2mm thick plastic that is pretty easy to work with. The large bullet shells on the thunderhawk are from the rear AA gun on a US destroyer class ship, courtesy of my dad from about 10 years ago. Currently I am working on greenstuffing the gaps on the Reaver and the armor plates on the thunderhawk. Once I am done with both of those i still need to finish the guns on the Reaver, and i am going to add lots of detail-bits to the Reaver and greenstuff the gaps in the thunderhawk. After that is all finished I have to build a base for the thunderhawk, and work on its weapons. then its all painting.

Lots of work.

Moar pics are in my gallery.

Have not updated this in a while, so I have a good bunch of photos to put up. Enjoi.

Vostroyans primed

Painted, bases will be worked on later with the rest of the army.

Genestealer hybrids, Primed and washed with black.

Titan pics after spray painting black/gray



















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More Vostroyan pics that better show the purple cloaks.

from the 4 player team army, I have at least one model done from each army, and here they are, side by side...

Genestealer Purestrains, Genestealer Hybrids, Genestealer Sympathizers (Vostroyans), Magus controled Elite special forces (Kasrkins)

sweet stuff dude. one question though. Whats with the geansteeler ?

Its for a 4 player team game, and my whole team is going with the genestealer cult theme, we have one person playing nothing but stealers and a broodlord, one player playing chaos demons (Genestealer hybrids, counts as Demonettes) and 2 players playing traditional IG lists, one representing the massed troops who are following the Cult, and the other representing the elite special forces under the direct command of the planetary leaders (who are controlled by the genestealer magus)

Update on the 4 player team, the genestealer army section is nearly complete!, just need to finish up the claws and bases, the bases wont be done for a while, but I should have the claws done soonish.

Alright, after many hours toiling away, I finally finished painting the Genestealer Purestrain portion of the Genestealer Cult.

they still need to be based, but that will be done when I get started on the displayboard....

Tyranids are looking pretty dang cool. Really like the white body with the dark hands and blue claws.

How did you paint the white body and get those deep, dark recesses and purple wash areas? Would love to know for future Tyranid projects.

Not sure if the paint scheme is working for the Lictors, though. Think it could use some more contrast, like some more dark purple areas?

What are your plans for the bases? That would be a great place to establish more contrast, like something very black and full of debris?

- Blackbone

Thanks for the complements!

Layers. lots of layers.

I started with a neutral Grey primer,
the first thing I did was wash all the "chitinous" parts with Dark Flesh, 2 or 3 rounds of washing to get it nice and dark in the recesses.
then I did a drybrush layer of bleached bone, to bring out the brown to a light off-white color.
then I used watered down skull white to cover most of the bleached bone, and give it a very slightly off-white look.
do another drybrush layer with just pure skull white
wash Liche Purple into all the fleshy bits
washed chaos black (super thin) over all the purple
another light drybrush layer of white, going over the fleshy bits to make them stand out a bit more, if you get too much white on the flesh you can just hit it with some thinned down purple to cover it up.

and for the claws I started with a solid blue about halfway down the claw, thinned out in a such a way that twards the halfway mark it fades back to the primer grey. I think put a thin layer of ice blue, trying to glaze it over the solid blue color smoothly as possible (this sometimes takes a couple of coats) and make sure the ice blue goes all the way to the tip
then i took more skull white and glazed that over the ice blue to bring it out a bit more

and finally hit the tips of the claws with some pure skull white.

The Lictors I actually think look the best with this scheme, there is a lot of "pop" and contrast between everything, and the model has plently of places where everything just seems to work.

the bases will be an industial-sewer look to them, with metal grates, pipes, sludge, and maybe some ice.

Just from my view I think the Broodlord looks the best in the pics. I can't put my finger on what I don't think is working on the Lictors - just too much white area. Suggestion - make most of their underbody purple with a very dark wash?

Thanks for the insight on how you did it! After completing all those models, is there anything you would do differently? I am planning to do my next 'Nid army with an airbrush and washes primarily with one highly-detailed interest point, like your claws.

- Blackbone

I do like the color scheme.

However, given the grainy look of the paint scheme, I am guessing that you dry brushed the model. Dry brushing is pretty time effecient and effective on nids, due to thier irregular surface; in fact, most of my early nids were painted using a drybrush technique. Nevertheless, I now prefer a blended or layered paint scheme as drybrushing leaves behind a chalky appearance. If you have time, paint a few up using a gradual layer buildup from shade to highlight and compare. I think you will be quite pleased with the results.

Blackbone wrote:Just from my view I think the Broodlord looks the best in the pics. I can't put my finger on what I don't think is working on the Lictors - just too much white area. Suggestion - make most of their underbody purple with a very dark wash?

Thanks for the insight on how you did it! After completing all those models, is there anything you would do differently? I am planning to do my next 'Nid army with an airbrush and washes primarily with one highly-detailed interest point, like your claws.

- Blackbone

The angle of the photographs doesnt capture the dark brown wash and shading in the chest and underside of the lictors very well, I wanted to avoid too many purples, as that would set them too far apart from the Genestealers

as for things to do differently? I cant think of anything, the whole process was very time consuming, but the overall look is exactly what I wanted.
I did one test model first, just to get the color scheme and palette down, I took my time with this step to figure out how I wanted to achieve each effect.
I then did a test group of 8, to judge how long it would take me to paint all 35+ After doing all 8 I gauged what sections and layers took far too long with little to no noticeable effect on the actual appearance of the models.
I adjusted the way I painted the time consuming areas and did the next handful of models to see if they came out appropriately.
When they came out alright I grit my teeth and hammered out all of them assembly-line style.


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wyomingfox wrote:I do like the color scheme.

However, given the grainy look of the paint scheme, I am guessing that you dry brushed the model. Dry brushing is pretty time effecient and effective on nids, due to thier irregular surface; in fact, most of my early nids were painted using a drybrush technique. Nevertheless, I prefer a blended or layered, due to drybrushing leaving behind a chalky appearance. If you have time, paint a few up using a gradual layer buildup from shade to highlight and compare. I think you will be quite pleased with the results.

I know exactly what you are speaking about, and i did that on the Broodlord, which has larger smooth sections to paint, this army is going to be based on an ice world, so having a grainy white look is not bad at all. This is also one of the reasons why I took so much time to get all the ice-blue claws faded nicely, so there is a contrasting effect on the texture of the models as well as the color.

loving the nids they look great , nice to see schemes that are different from the norm. I am also digging the titan as well nice job . For the purple looks ace on the vostroyans but not so good on the other guard .

Here is the mawloc for the nid army i've been working on, i still need to blend the blues' in the claws+teeth and do a final layer of white to smooth out the carapace. otherwise he is pretty much done.

So for the past few months between commission work I've been dreaming up this conversion, searching for just the right bits to use and how I was going to scale up the marines. I did a few test models with the truescaling process and came up with a quick and simple method that just about anyone could do to "embiggen" a whole army of power armored marines without breaking the bank, or your resolve.

Interestingly enough, standard marines are made with oversized heads, arms, and hands. When one compares a standard marine to an average guardsman model one can see that they are about the same height; this is incorrect according to fluff. To solve both these problems only 1 real thing needs to happen, the marine needs to be taller. An extra "head" in height would put the heads+arms+hands into the correct size category, and put the marine at the approx. correct height in relation to other models. I did this by adjusting 2 things slightly, the thighs and chest.

To adjust the thighs I sliced the thighs in half where it wouldnt cut into any of the details, I then glued each half to a small piece of thin plasticard. I glued the two halves back together and shaved the plasticard down to line up with the armor, then used a small amount of greenstuff to fill in gaps, smooth edges, or correct offsets. On some of my 13th company displayed below I wanted different kneepads so insted I just cut them at the knees and rebuilt them there with extra length, this process took a lot longer and ended up not looking as good, so I dont really recommend it.

The chestplates are a bit more involved. First I cut off the two little tabs on the front chest plate.

Next carefully sliced off the abdomen section away from the chest, being careful not to damage either piece.

Then I glued the chest to a strip of plasticard.

I then cut out the plasticard so that it was flush with the chest.

After that I shaved the neck-attatchment area from the back of the chest to make it flush, and glued it to the front chest piece (front abdomen still unattatched)

Next I lined up the front abdomen piece to see what I would need to do in terms of greenstuff to repair any damage from cutting/shaving, and how well it fits in the deeper recess. Usually I didnt need to do anything more than glue it right in and go, but some of them required a little bit of sculpting work.

Following that I greenstuffed in all the gaps, smoothed everything over and let it harden overnight.

the Last thing to do is attatch the chest to the legs, I put a small ball of greenstuff on the balljoint at the top of the legs between the chest and the legs to give them another slight boost to height. Have to be very careful with how much you use, a little too much and they look wasp-waisted, too little and they wont be quite as tall as they should.

Other points on these conversion includes magnetized weapon options, Chaos Berzerker parts, Beastmen Gor and Ungor parts, Assault marine parts, Space Wolf Parts, and Chapterhouse studios pre-heresy heads, shoulderpads, and Jump packs.







































Oh, and these are my counts-as thunderwolf cavalry if you hadn't guessed it by now.

All your painted models look really nice

Here is the latest commission painting job, photographed with and without flash

wow this is an awesome thread. Big Up

just finished the latest commision work

Well thats an odd model

I really love your hybrid army, i love how they all blend together in a cohesive scheme.

Thanks for the compliment, that army took a ton of work and ended up winning the "Best Hybrid Team" at Adepticon 2010 in Chicago. My advice for anyone going for an award such as that: focus on the scoring guidelines published before the event, there was more than 1 team there that had more impressive displays and higher quality painted miniatures that probably didnt get as many points because of minute details that earned points such as a clear definiton between the 4 armies on the display board, handouts, banner, costume/uniform, etc.