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Terrific progress! I'm one of those guys who would rather die, than let someone else paint one of their babies, but I can admit your approach to commission work seems to be great. Very high quality, very fast progress and as it looks from my POV good communication.

Baiyuan wrote:Terrific progress! I'm one of those guys who would rather die, than let someone else paint one of their babies, but I can admit your approach to commission work seems to be great. Very high quality, very fast progress and as it looks from my POV good communication.

I am still painting and building away, but at this point, I would die before getting to these... of old age lol! Plus I find Sigur paints so close to my own preferred style that they won't feel out of place with the rest of the set -

@Baiyuan: Cheers. I know exactly what you mean so I regards the compliment as being even more ...er...worthwhile. If that makes any sense.


@MajorTom11: Thanks.


Here's a little update on the 1st generation Hybrids (a.k.a. "Genestealers would work much better if we strapped heavy weapons to their back test run 01") and the last of the 2nd genners.




I'm sure you'll like these guys. You can't see it in the picture but the guy in the middle has a scratch-built Conversion Beamer on his back.

Wow man. These are just great. Each one of them has some real individuality and when you put together the miniature and the paint-job the result is phenomenal.

@Vent: Thanks very much. Each one of them pretty much is a character in itself, very true.


Little update; things have been slowly the past few days.

I still can't believe you plowed through 20 minis in a week lol, love it!

1st gens look fantastic, I particularly like how you approached the weapons, ESP the conversion Beamer! I can't see if you did the straps and tabards yet, but I think it will be important to make the visible and contrasty vs the stealer colors, I can't wait to see more! Totally awesome!

Cheers, figured you'd like the white on the weapons as well. Technically, it's been two weeks already for which just over 20 miniatures actually isn't that much. But as I said, they're all pretty much characters on their own so ....nah, I'm still being slow. Especially regarding all the work that's piling up in the meantime. :p


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Alright, so here's some finished 1st generation Hybrids:








Hope you like them. Next things: I guess the remaining fat gut from 4th generation, remaining 2nd generation guy I suppose. Or maybe BA terminators. Or some Adeptus Mechanicus guys and some other dude. What are they again?

Lol, left to go are Fatty and 2nd Gen Controller - (btw, I don't know if I ever explained the concept, but the idea with the first gens is that they are too dumb to fight unsupervised, their stealer instincts are diluted, but their human intelligence isnt much either, but they are strong as hell. The idea is that they are heavy weapons mules, and are smart enough to follow instructions about where to go, send by the 2nd gen controller. Thats why they all have cameras with them too, hope it makes more sense now lol!)

Then the Termies, and then 2 enginseers and a low level techpriest dude. You are going to get as sick of reds as you are of blues lol!

@MajorTom11: Haha, awesome concept. I like that a lot. Alright, thans for the info; just wasn't all that sure if all three of the robed guys were Adeptus Mechanicus or if the FW one was someone Genestealers-connected.

Speaking of being sick of blue....






Here's some more or less finished Harlequins for a change.

Very nice as always! How will you be basing them? A nice desert base would look awesome and really bring out the colors I think!

And yes, definitely once that last 2nd genner is done, it is all reds for you lol! Rusty on some, bloody on others, at least it's a little variety right??

I love the hybrids. If you have any pics of the conversions before any paint was applied. I love to see that too.

Click the Space Hulk link in my sig to go to my blog, it is long, but it covers EVERYTHING. Exhaustively so lol

Those 1st gens are outstanding. I love how the beamer turned out. Quite proud of how i built it but the paint makes it really awesome.

This is going to be the best space hulk set ever.

Sigur, your painting is a real inspiration.

@MajorTom11: Sadly, it's one of those commissions which I don't get to base because the customer wants to make them go with the rest of their army.

@Inquisitor Earl: Likewise. I wasn't aware at first that you were involved in making these models but I'll add you to the praises I spread about these scratchbuilts of course.


So here's the last two Hybrid fellas finished - "Fatty" the 4th generation guy and the guy who controls the 1st generation hybrids (the ones with the heavy weapons on their backs):







Next up: Errrr...Space Orks and Space Marines I think. Space stuff in general.

Again, awesome sculpts, awesome paintjob!
The only thing I can't help to dislike is Fatty's skin. It's not about your technique of course, I just would have painted him much paler, he looks to vivid to me. I also would have liked him with a veery slight purple touch in his skin, but I know he is 4th gen, so he should look quite normal, still.

@Baiyuan: Thanks for the feedback. I'm not entirely happy with Fatty's skin either to be honest but it looks good enough. I added a purple shade on his face; maybe that's practically invisible due to the tattoos and the fully purple guy standing next to him. But I get your point; maybe I'll redo the skin a little.


In the meantime, here's a little first wip of a mob of Evil Sunz Orks:


These are a very nice change from the stuff I did lately in the way that they are very straightforward, very uniform looking and they don't require me to paint human(ly) skin but dead 'ard green. You gotta love Orks, even though they are of the post 2nd edition kind. :-)

Hope you like them so far. There's a FW-upgraded Trukk coming up as well!

Sweet! lol good ol' fatty, love him! If you want to retouch, by all means, but don't worry too much about it on my account -

Orks look awesome, I am not sure I recall seeing you do Orks before, and they look as good as I would expect from you sir. I'd love to see some super close ups of your work some time (which I will when the hybrids come back I suppose!). It always seems from the pics there is so much more to appreciate up close too with the way you shade and highlight.

@Inquisitor Earl - Sorry dude I am so used to telling the story I just assumed that everyone knew lol! I forgot Sigur may not have seen the SH thread, or at least, not read all 26 pages lol!

Earl is responsible for the 2 first gens with the beamer and melta, the 2nd gen with the controlling apparatus, and 3 of the 2nd gens, the one with the melta and big backpack is mine. I designed the concept on paper first, then did the prototypes, 1 for each gen for him to base himself on. All the first gen's are mine as well. Similarly I did some extra work on them on return, but not much, just a few little touches that came to me staring at them.

I must say that he was also a pleasure to work with, and the quality of work speaks for itself and like Sigur here, he really went above and beyond to meet the very specific requests I had. His greatest work though, IMO, is not here though, I kept his custom sculpted Magus for myself, and it is sitting at the workstation right now prepped for initial Zenithal passes with the airbrush! Seeing Sigur slam through the hybrids, having them look as good as they do has really gotten me motivated to finish out this project with a bang.

So yes, a huge thanks to both of you for your fine work and collaboration on this project!

Excellent work on the hybrids, you managed to bring the distinct looking figs together into nice and coherent force. MarjorTom11's figs looked good, but I was wondering how they would look as a army, but the finished paint jobs are excellent.

@MajorTom11: Thanks muchly. I'll do some close-ups once the boyz are finished. As for Orks from me - I did an Orks army a few years back. Kind of like the army I always wanted but never could do back then. This army is for playing mainly and the painting quality isn't as high as I'd probably paint it today but I still love these buggers. Here's some shots of the army:

First testmini:





Redgit's mob:


Grimsnaga's mob:



Boarboys (including WIP-Warboss):


Nobz on Cyboars:





Gretchin Mob with Runtherd:




...as the mob grew larger and larger, another Runtherd was needed to keep the Gretchins in check:



Artillery crew and ammo runts:









Kommandos:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/Lexandro/Orks/kommandosglyphplateswip1.jpg









Warboss on Super Cyboar:







Warphead:





Warboss on Foot:







Power-Armoured Nobz:






Lootaz:










Buggys:





Goff Boyz:



WIP Mekboy with Kustom Force Field:



Army shots:









@Metsuri: Cheers!


Here's a little WIP in between. Reds, freehands and combat damage done, a bunch of trousers and shirts done as well and some boots, started painting metallics.

Wow those older models are wonderfully terrible, or terribly wonderful. Regardless your paint is the wonderful part. Looking forward to the current orks.

Those orks are fantastic.

Oh man, serious nostalgia there! I really miss some of those models, esp some of the power armored nobz... so cool...

Ah, memories of 2nd edition - awesome!

Your paint jobs clearly help, a lot...

Very reminiscent of the old school Heavy Metal work, but even better here!

Such wonderful memories - and wonderfully painted too! Made my day

Thanks for the comments. I just love GW's Orks (and Orcs/Goblins) from the early 1990s up to around 1997. First edition Ork background is just not possible to top in terms of colourful ideas, very amusing satire and a uniquely intriguing mix of sympathetic elements and barbaric elements to Ork kultur. And the models are just amazing.


Anyway, the previous picture didn't come out too well. It's always around that time of the year that pictures I take during daytime turn out badly. Here's some closer shots of the mob split up in two groups of six. These pictures are still WIP of course.





Hope that these get you a better view of the minis.

It's a very interesting green you achieve, your choice to mix in khaki type tones really makes it seem earthier and more realistic, I like!

As Tom said the flesh color looks good, I'm also a fan of more natural looking skin. The reds give nice contrast to the skin and cloth.

Thanks for the comments. That's basically the recipe I used on my own Orks' skin, the customer likes it and asked me to do the same on his. I came up with that recipe when I tried to recreate the look of 1st edition Orks as painted by the 'Eavy metal team back then when everything looked more muted and a bit like it's painted with enamels. I also finally wanted to figure out a way to make use of GW's Camo Green.


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Alrightyright, I did a double-shift and painted the Trukk last night and today:









In case you have been spared of my rants about what Orks were turned to in 3rd edition 40k ([insert pages of rants about 3rd edition 40k in general at this point]) - I'm not a great fan of the redesign that happened to Orks in general. I love RT-era and 2nd edition Orks.

But frankly, this Trukk has been the most fun-to-paint vehicle I've done in years. Especially with these FW upgrade parts. I loooooove how they reused the front wheel design from 1st edition. Had a hard time stopping myself painting the metal plates black and every single bolt on them bright red and a nice black-and-white checkers pattern around the rims.

Anyhoo, I really enjoyed painting this thing and I enjoyed the colours greatly. All the chipped paint was quite a bit of work but I really dig the effect. Hope you like it as well.

Painted in 24h, eh? That amazes me even more than the high quality you keep on showing. This combination of speed and quality is a rare thing to see and I envy you for it. I think I could compete with the quality, but the speed, no way...

Awesome! Love the Sunz Colors... after years and years of all Goff all the time, it is nice to see Sunz and Moonz making a comeback.

I like the new orks designs to be honest, I do not think they are inherently bad, however, a decision was made to step away from the humor and light fun elements... I still think the 2 can be reconciled, as I do like the scrap look of their vehicles and weapons still. New heads too. Don't get me wrong, still love the old stuff too, but it was more hit or miss for me. Some stuff was so characterful and fantastic, other minis were very meh.

Sooooooooo whats next???