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I had always intended to do successor BAs marble with blue drops. Weeping Angels

Well, as I will have two of these guys when I pick up Indomitus, I decided to make him a test model, Sir Duplicatus.

Think I’m going with Scythes of the Emperor again .

That's lovely indeed, and excellent name

Can't see the point of doing BA without Death Comany which haven't been primarised....

Love the Scythes of the Emperor. Looking forward to this one...

Thanks guys. While I do like how he is turning out, I keep wondering if maybe is shouldn’t do a chapter which has transfers . I know I have some transfers I ordered for the Scythes somewhere, but the mountain of shame is in the way. I also cannot find my index Astartes, which really annoys me.

Anyway, progress from this morning.

You might notice he is on the Indomitus box I just picked up....along with another Elite edition, so I have the other two of the triples that I can test the color schemes on now for other chapters.

I am thinking of Dark Angels (Another one of my older buys) since with today’s purchase I have 9 of the new bikes (And NO I will not do White Scars, I’m not trying to paint white )

Oh well, time to assemble like Avengers.

Looking ace, and do love that cloth. Have you seen the FW White Scare dude? Just sayin'

Scythes of Emperor always look great when done well. Yours is done well, of course. The colour of the robe goes really well with the black and yellow.

Graven youare a bad person, especially since I won’t order from Forgeworld because of reasons.

Thanks fifty.

More work done this morning on the Scythe.

I love your rhubarb and custard marines.

Color scheme is looking good.

If the problem is the yellow how about using the red and black for Fleshtearers?

I like your choice of burgundy rather than the usual purple.

Duplicatus is cooling very cool, love the scheme and am excited to see this force develop!

While the burgundy was just going to be a one off for the units robes, I think I have decided to model my force as units from the 7th company and replace the purple with burgundy. So I may have to remake the chapter symbols to be a piece of rhubarb dipping into some custard .

Started the Judiciar, I may make the inside of the robes a dark red to honor the red normally seen in Scythes artwork. I didn’t want to do all black because then it looks more like an Imperial fist/Black Templar Emperors Champion than anything else. Besides, sticking with the color scheme of the Scythes opens up options for all the details. Though I was tempted to do a golden chestplate instead of the yellow, but then figured that if I kept the black parts black, what was the point. The enemies of the Emperor should already be shaking when they find out the Scythes are in the system.

Also started a biker, not bad, but I think I’ll try another option on the next one. The yellow sides are a bit much. I may just do the casing over the bolsters as yellow on the next one to see how that turns out. I have 9 bikes , so I can play around a bit.

Biker 2, I like him better so far, might just be the black helmet. (Insert Dark Helmet image here ) Not sure how I goofed up with a yellow helmet to begin with

Scythes of the Emperor are coming along nicely. They've got a cool scheme that will look really great once you get a whole force of them assembled.

I'd agree with you on the bikes, black with a yellow cover looks less IF. In general the colours look fantastic and it's making me rethink doing mine as more Red Scorpions

Red Scorpions are cool. I might have a company worth of their shoulder pads somewhere from when I bought them for my old custom chapter.

Forgot to take a picture of the chaplain WIP yesterday. Stayed with chapter colors instead of the all black.

Lovely choice going for Scythes, they were one of the first chapters I was introduced to in lore when they got eaten by the Tyranids so it's cool to see a resurgence in their lore and the number of people painting them.

Very nice yellow and I like your choice of robe colour.

Fast pic dump as the cat requires both hands to pet her right now.

Bad Kitty! Looks great, lovely hghlighting on the cloth and shading on the cream robes

He's looking good! I do like the Primaris minis, but still haven't quite got over the Cawl storyline

Just catching up on the thread: Primaris look awesome. Love the Scythes color scheme.

Quirkle is huge fun. It was a great hit at gatherings for my friends and I.

Nice looking sycthes!

Good to see some more Scythes, they are such a cool looking chapter with one of the most eye catching schemes.

And enjoy the cat petting, it is good for your health.

Like others have said, really striking color scheme for your marines. Love the yellow - very rich. Did you post how you did it somewhere?


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Also, I just stumbled across this blog that has a ton of Bushido stuff (in case you might want some inspiration): https://toomini.wordpress.com/

Chaplain is coming along great, love the contrast between the robe and the turquoise chain for the cross.

inmygravenimage wrote:Bad Kitty! Looks great, lovely hghlighting on the cloth and shading on the cream robes

Thanks, min trying to do a better job with layering and using paint instead of just washes.

Slinky wrote:He's looking good! I do like the Primaris minis, but still haven't quite got over the Cawl storyline

Yeah, it was a hard pill to swallow, but I am starting to think that Robute Girllyman is really dead and stuffed in a closet, replaced by Omegon and Cawl is Alpharius (who isn’t really dead). Just waiting for GW to flip the script and all the Primaris are actually traitor geneseed.

Taarnak wrote:Just catching up on the thread: Primaris look awesome. Love the Scythes color scheme.

Quirkle is huge fun. It was a great hit at gatherings for my friends and I.

Yeah, we are having a blast with it..,finally read the rules for it last night , you can throw back tiles you don’t like .

CommissarKhaine wrote:Nice looking sycthes!

Thanks CK, I’m enjoying the challenge of their scheme.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Good to see some more Scythes, they are such a cool looking chapter with one of the most eye catching schemes.

And enjoy the cat petting, it is good for your health.

We get plenty of cat love, four of the fuzzy things control the house, well three cats and a dog in the shape of a cat (he plays fetch and chases balls , Sam is a terrible cat, but a mediocre dog)

Gomez wrote:Like others have said, really striking color scheme for your marines. Love the yellow - very rich. Did you post how you did it somewhere?


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Also, I just stumbled across this blog that has a ton of Bushido stuff (in case you might want some inspiration): https://toomini.wordpress.com/

The yellow is Averland sunset with Uriel yellow highlights and flash guts yellow for extreme highlights. I’ve started to coat the Averland sunset in Nazdreg yellow and do a second layer of Averland and then the highlights. It gives the recesses a red/brown shadow that I am really liking.

Viterbi wrote:Chaplain is coming along great, love the contrast between the robe and the turquoise chain for the cross.

Thanks V, I’m trying to play the color wheel game with bringing in subtle accent colors, the blue just called to me.

Well, I assembled the rest of the Marines last night and started one of the eradicator marines this morning. I will prime the rest before I start painting them, but he was just screaming for color. Pic s shortly, ATT was just here to switch out my sons phone for a new one.

Still contemplating the Necron side of things. I am really feeling like bright silver with white accents for the main colors and energy I was thinking the yellow like I did on my Sylvaneth weapons.

But I want something to contrast against the Scythes, so I might wind up going Green Afterall , or blue.....or red .

Eradicator mostly done. Needs badges, and markings, and base

I’m loving the work your doing with the Scythes Theo, they look great! As for the Necrons, I say go for the silver, white and yellow glow. The Orange in the Sylvaneth should make them distinct from the Scythes I reckon

Looking good, chum. Have you considered printing Scythe pads for them?