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It's these kinds of blogs that really inspires and furthers our hobby. Fantastic work all around and it's very motivational. It amazes me that after 20+ years in this hobby, the thought of using an airbrush for these models only occurred to me in the past couple of years. It's amazing the level of quality that can be achieved with this piece of equipment.

MajorTom11 wrote: that's awesome.

Thanks Tom!

Sageheart wrote:I really love the yellow sang gaurd heads on those models.

Thanks Sageheart!

Imperial Monkey wrote:Those pics really give you an idea of how nice and mucky/muted the tanks look...really really just wow!

Thanks Monkey!

kennyalhavg wrote:you blow my mind. that army is something to be proud of. Its such a huge blood angels army, but no baal? lol, i doubt you need any more units though

Thanks kenny and the Baals are on the way. I built and magnetized a full Baal kit a few pages back in this blog. I've yet to start painting it though. I have another Baal still unbuilt in the box which I might assemble before painting the two of them. I'll get around to them eventually

Orangecoke wrote:Truly a spectacular army. I'm feeling inspired to ...copy you basically

It's a shame you dont dig the Storm Raven - i'd kill to see it painted in your style!

Regarding the yellow helmets earlier in the thread - I dont mind them personally, I think they look nice.

Fantastic work, I've actually bookmarked the thread just to come back again and again to see it.

Ps - you weather the vehicles but not the marines themselves, right?

Pps: are you doing edge highlites on the marines?

Thanks and feel free to copy what you see. I've copied various methods and painting styles from other fantastic painters as well and eventually come up with my own style. I think I"ll do a Storm Raven eventually but right now my blacklog of models to paint is too big so I'm going to finish off what I have at the moment and then think about buying and painting more. Yup, I only weather the vehicles right now though I'm starting to do a bit of dry brush around the feet of my marines when I'm doing the bases to simulate a little bit of dirt there. For edge highlighting I use sparingly since I'm not a huge fan of the effect. I used it a bit more in my DC since their armor is all black though.

Truffle wrote:I feel this army needs a predator and some speeders could see them looking quite nice.

I've got two predators built and waiting for primer. Two land speeder typhoons are waiting to be built so they're on their way!

Mafty wrote:wow.........just wow. simply beautfiul

Thanks Mafty!

Raen wrote:FMR! Man how'd you paint these! I'm stealing your blending idea fro my DA Army! Very nice bro

Thanks Raen, most of my army has been painted with the help of an airbrush. Definitely helps with the blending.

MajorTom11 wrote:

l33tninj4 wrote:

Raen wrote:FMR! Man how'd you paint these! I'm stealing your blending idea fro my DA Army! Very nice bro

I doubt there is much if any blending going on. Eggroll uses and airbrush for the reds and the black on the Death Company.

'What is it exactly you think the airbrush is best at lol? Here's a hint, starts with 'B', ends in 'lending'.

Heh, yup Tom's got the right idea.

nerdfest09 wrote:someone needs to 'B' 'lending' me an airbrush so i can do something like this...right now! everytime I see certain peoples work I just get sooo inspired and realise how much of my life is spent enjoying this great hobby of ours! and when people like this can show everyone just how amazing and dynamic we can make these small plastic kits look with some foresight and patience, well...i'm damn proud to call myself a nerd!

Proud to be a nerd too nerdfest!

Sarigar wrote:It's these kinds of blogs that really inspires and furthers our hobby. Fantastic work all around and it's very motivational. It amazes me that after 20+ years in this hobby, the thought of using an airbrush for these models only occurred to me in the past couple of years. It's amazing the level of quality that can be achieved with this piece of equipment.

Thanks Sarigar. I think it's mostly past the last few years that the artistic part of the hobby has really grown and expanded. I'm always amazed by the difference in paintjobs and model details when I look at the older models from the 80's and 90's and compare them to what we have now. The technology for model making has definitely come a long way since and with that the painting techniques and methods has as well.

Me and my son love your Marines Eggroll, he is 12 and is in the middle of painting a blood angel style army. Your minis are very inspirational to both of us.

Would you be willing to post a tutorial on how you do your absolutely ridiculous power fist/thunder-hammers and plasma/lascannons, that's probably the best painting I have ever seen.

Point airbrush at power coils, activate airbrush, lightly spray thin layers of bright color, each time focusing more on the coil.

Right Eggs??

S-weet!

Nothing more to be said

neil101 wrote:Me and my son love your Marines Eggroll, he is 12 and is in the middle of painting a blood angel style army. Your minis are very inspirational to both of us.

Thanks neil! All the best to you and your son and his BA army.

MajorTom11 wrote:Point airbrush at power coils, activate airbrush, lightly spray thin layers of bright color, each time focusing more on the coil.

Right Eggs??

Yup, pretty much though you forgot to basecoat the light sources in white and hit any surrounding areas

Vitruvian XVII wrote:S-weet!

Nothing more to be said

Thanks!


Small break between painting and decided to build some models tonight. I ended up doing a honor guard squad for Mephiston...more details below...

But first, here are some models I built before that still need priming and painting
Chaplain w/ Jumppack, Terminator Chaplain, Librarian



Sanguinary Guard...I still have an unopen box of these to make 10 in total, think I'll wait to build the other 5 before starting on the whole group. I'm also leaving their wings off till the end.


All the armor I've been slowly building so here's what's included - 1st box: fully magnetized baal pred, landspeeder, bike, attack bike; 2nd box: lascannon pred, autocannon pred and razorback.


Finally my honor guard for mephiston. These are from the DA veteran squad box and since Mephiston wears robes, these guys will work well with him. The banner is from the fantasy empire general box which fits well here for the honor guard for the lord of death. Did tons of chopping to put it in the hands of a marine with a somewhat proper pose. I also used a spear head from a dark elves on cold ones box since the empire standard originally came with the grim reaper holding sigmar's hammer. Had to chop that off, drill and pin the spear. Was nerve racking trying to drill a hole in the spear banner pole that's maybe 1mm bigger in diameter than my drill bit. Also had to scrape off the sigmar's comet from the shield as well. Also spent a long time cutting off all the DA specific iconography though some areas with just a general sword symbol I kept since it's more universal.

Looking very nice Eggroll, though the alignment of the two poles are off so it looks a little odd to begin with. That's an impressive amount of work you still have to do, but I'm sure it will be done in no time at all knowing you .

OMG! Egg, Egg, Egg,egg, you are an inspiration to us all. i am gonna look into the airbrushing vids and kit now. although maybe years by the time i can afford to buy one!
I will definately be checking out this thread on every visit.!

Altough the honour guard look very cool, I'm afraid that Mephiston can't join them dude. He's counted as infantry, not an independent character which means that he can't join any squad at all. You must always have him as a single model/"squad".

Hey Egg, great stuff, this army is looking amazing. I find your work quite original and very inspirering. I just thought you should know, because of you iv bought an airbrush kit from eBay. So I'll be sensing you the bill, lol. I'll be having a go at a creamy white, any suggestions?

Beautiful work. Even my girlfriend is impressed and she has no interest in this hobby at all!

Looks like you are going to be busy for a while with all that stuff to paint! If you really wanted to remove the sword symbol on the honour guard, I managed to scrape away the hilt and pommel and from there, fashion it into a blood drop.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/156216-Disciple%20of%20Blood.html?m=2

Nice work on the converted banner, looks like the sort that matches Mephiston well. Keep up the good work!

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Altough the honour guard look very cool, I'm afraid that Mephiston can't join them dude. He's counted as infantry, not an independent character which means that he can't join any squad at all. You must always have him as a single model/"squad".

he might have meant for mephiston to run with, as in nearby. I think its pretty obvious mephiston can never join squads, im sure everyone knows this by now

How did you get the darker colour tone???

Lennysmash wrote:Looking very nice Eggroll, though the alignment of the two poles are off so it looks a little odd to begin with. That's an impressive amount of work you still have to do, but I'm sure it will be done in no time at all knowing you .

Thanks Lenny though the poles isn't my fault, it was designed that way I swear! Actually I had to double check the pic on GW's site and it seems it is the way the kit goes together. Anything of mine that doesn't look right is solely the fault of GW's.

usukgoose wrote:
OMG! Egg, Egg, Egg,egg, you are an inspiration to us all. i am gonna look into the airbrushing vids and kit now. although maybe years by the time i can afford to buy one!
I will definately be checking out this thread on every visit.!

Thanks usukgoose. An airbrush kit doesn't need to be that expensive and I'm quite sure there are some cheaper kits on ebay that would work just as well.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Altough the honour guard look very cool, I'm afraid that Mephiston can't join them dude. He's counted as infantry, not an independent character which means that he can't join any squad at all. You must always have him as a single model/"squad".

Yup, that's fine. I just wanted a reason to include the DA vets in my army without it looking too out of place and their robes seem to fit Mephiston. I don't actually play the game so it's all good to me if he can't join them.

Hits_the_spot wrote:Hey Egg, great stuff, this army is looking amazing. I find your work quite original and very inspirering. I just thought you should know, because of you iv bought an airbrush kit from eBay. So I'll be sensing you the bill, lol. I'll be having a go at a creamy white, any suggestions?

Good stuff! Glad lots of people are getting into the airbrushing side of things as I'm sure it'll improve your enjoyment of the hobby. For a creamy white it would be tricky, you can try a white primer followed by a medium brown and then a creamy white with white highlights?

Bastion of Insanity wrote:Beautiful work. Even my girlfriend is impressed and she has no interest in this hobby at all!

Thanks! Now that I know I can impress girls with my minis, I'm going to have to put the pics up on my online dating profile!

Commander Cain wrote:Looks like you are going to be busy for a while with all that stuff to paint! If you really wanted to remove the sword symbol on the honour guard, I managed to scrape away the hilt and pommel and from there, fashion it into a blood drop.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/156216-Disciple%20of%20Blood.html?m=2

Nice work on the converted banner, looks like the sort that matches Mephiston well. Keep up the good work!

Heh, my pics actually didn't show it close enough but that's exactly what I did. Out of the 5 models, 3 have skulls on the chest and 2 have the DA sword symbol which I carved apart to look like a blood drop. Thanks for the reference pic.

Mafty wrote:

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Altough the honour guard look very cool, I'm afraid that Mephiston can't join them dude. He's counted as infantry, not an independent character which means that he can't join any squad at all. You must always have him as a single model/"squad".

he might have meant for mephiston to run with, as in nearby. I think its pretty obvious mephiston can never join squads, im sure everyone knows this by now

Yup though since I don't play, it's not unlikely to assume that I didn't know. Anyhow, I listen to a ton of podcasts while I paint so I did know awhile ago when people were doing the BA codex review about how he can't join squads.

crimsonfist832 wrote:How did you get the darker colour tone???

Are you referring to the red in my army? Check the first page and I go over in detail all the paints I use and the steps I take in applying it.

i might have missed it earlier but where go you get your base details from?the marines look class stood on them.

shingouki wrote:i might have missed it earlier but where go you get your base details from?the marines look class stood on them.

They're just bits of torn up cork board. I'll also be adding normal GW sand in between and on all the black surfaces which I haven't done in the most recent pics yet.

Egg, just call Meph's honor guard 'The Swords of Mephiston'

Hey Eggs,

First, a suggestion, I really think a few tufts of green static grass would really help contrast the minis, really minimal though, just a touch. I have a similar if more terracotta basing scheme, I really like how the greens/dried yellows interact with the red.

Second - How long would you say it takes you to complete a piece, squad, tank? If you could, an estimate on the airbrushing and then brushwork after. I am very curious as you seem to be able to pump out a completed squad a week, I'm wondering what that timeframe actually represents in hours, as I assume you also manage to go to work and make eye contact with your GF once in a while lol!

MajorTom11 wrote:Hey Eggs,

First, a suggestion, I really think a few tufts of green static grass would really help contrast the minis, really minimal though, just a touch. I have a similar if more terracotta basing scheme, I really like how the greens/dried yellows interact with the red.

Second - How long would you say it takes you to complete a piece, squad, tank? If you could, an estimate on the airbrushing and then brushwork after. I am very curious as you seem to be able to pump out a completed squad a week, I'm wondering what that timeframe actually represents in hours, as I assume you also manage to go to work and make eye contact with your GF once in a while lol!

I actually thought about adding some grass to the bases but I personally don't find static grass very appealing or easy to work work. Also, since the BA's homeworld is suppose to be Baal which is more of a harsh barren world, I figured the less grass the better.

For the squads, I think they're around 3-4 hrs per model? I started the two (DC and assault) back in early Dec and managed to get a lot of painting in during the xmas break. For a tank, I can do it in about 5-8 hours depending on amount of detailing. I'm pretty good at managing my time and my work hours are the standard 9-5 so things are good and I do do more than make eye contact with the gf

I agree with what your saying about static grass, it's not my fab either. It can give good results tho, and some dead/brown/barren grass in small parches might give the bases a little extra depth.

Also, not to thread jack.... But iv got to thank u, as you know after seeing your thread I finally decided to finally order an airbrush. It arrived on Friday and iv been practicing with it all weekend.

Here is an attempt at White:





One last thing, could you give us a run through of how you painted up the power sword on the Sargent? It's looks fantastc.

Loving the work!

I had very similar ideas for my Mephistons' "Honour Guard", i.e mixing DA/BA parts but haven't started them yet as was put off by the rules. Probably will do something soon though!

Big Kudos!

Wow! you make Airbrushing look so easy. love your work ive dabbled in the hoby for 10 years off and on but untill about 6 months ago was not verry serious. did my first decent job at the end of last year and now i need to go get an airbrush with my tax returns lol.

Amazing looking army. You should consider doing something for daemon

Sorry about the late response. Been busy lately as I've had some out of country visitors. Haven't done much paint work at all though I have had time to assemble some more models. Hoping to get back into the painting groove later this week though.

Hits_the_spot wrote:I agree with what your saying about static grass, it's not my fab either. It can give good results tho, and some dead/brown/barren grass in small parches might give the bases a little extra depth.

Also, not to thread jack.... But iv got to thank u, as you know after seeing your thread I finally decided to finally order an airbrush. It arrived on Friday and iv been practicing with it all weekend.

Here is an attempt at White:





One last thing, could you give us a run through of how you painted up the power sword on the Sargent? It's looks fantastc.

Thanks. Your terminator looks great, wish I was able to pick up a set of Space Hulk when they were out. For the Sarg's sword, It's airbrushed starting from black to enchanted blue to ice blue to white with some variations in between. Then the reverse on the blade edge. Finally the edges where picked out with a brush in white.

Emperors_Champion wrote:Loving the work!

I had very similar ideas for my Mephistons' "Honour Guard", i.e mixing DA/BA parts but haven't started them yet as was put off by the rules. Probably will do something soon though!

Big Kudos!

Thanks EC. I actually don't play the game so I'm quite free to do up anything I want though I try and keep to the fluff side of things. Looking forward to your HG for Meph.

TimmieBear wrote:Wow! you make Airbrushing look so easy. love your work ive dabbled in the hoby for 10 years off and on but untill about 6 months ago was not verry serious. did my first decent job at the end of last year and now i need to go get an airbrush with my tax returns lol.

Thanks Timmie. Good to hear you're getting more serious about the hobby side of things and looking into airbrushing. Just make sure you have fun and the rest will follow.

CalasTyphon216 wrote:Amazing looking army. You should consider doing something for daemon

Thanks Calas though I've got my hands full with the BA army as it is. Depending on how the new Demonhunters models turn out, I might get into those

Schweet army dude. This has made my decision to spend the bucks on an airbrush and compressor a good one. Now to learn how to use it.

I've got one if you are interested dude - (SH)

Seeing all your stuff makes me want to dig a hole, get into it and just melt my poorly painted Blood Angels all over myself. Me spending seven hours on a single Sang Guard to be maybe 1/4 of what even a tactical marine of yours looks like = not worth it. TEACH ME!

misfit wrote:Schweet army dude. This has made my decision to spend the bucks on an airbrush and compressor a good one. Now to learn how to use it.

Thanks. There's plenty of good video tutorials on youtube that goes over basic operation of the airbrush. I also recommend the dreadnought tutorial by miniature mentor which is $25 download but totally worth it. Make sure to post your progress!

Fatty_Tuna wrote:Seeing all your stuff makes me want to dig a hole, get into it and just melt my poorly painted Blood Angels all over myself. Me spending seven hours on a single Sang Guard to be maybe 1/4 of what even a tactical marine of yours looks like = not worth it. TEACH ME!

Ha, don't melt your BA! You can always strip it and start over. My first models weren't that great either but persistence and practice paid off and got me to where I am now. I'm sure if you spend the time, you'll see the improvements.