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Only 6th?
EXALT!

Well i gotta ask where did you get Capt Octavious' Chainsword, 'cause that is just.. well fething awesome!

It's a lightly modified Biting Blade from the Eldar Striking Scorpion Exarch kit, that two-handed thingy.

Awesome thanks

Ah what the hell,.. Random UPDAAAAATE!

Reinforcement to the Inquisitor's retinue; Battlesister! yes-yes! heavy too, 100% white metal.




Marines are being cranked off the assembly-line. No puny chainsword here; this is a 'I'll gak you up real bad mr. dreadnought!'-chainsword.



Now who are these guys? Mk IIX Errant Powerarmor and Plasmagun-extravaganza? You'll see,. yesss You'll ssseeee! .. pressssshiousss..



Now this (in parts) dread is the first one I ever bought, back years ago when it first came out in plastic see. it needs a makeover.. and a makeover it shall have!



oh yes, I also made a unit of scouts from leftover scoutparts and the landspeeder tempest crew. and a few sniper rifles. Pew pew!




I also managed to paint a little. (and when I mean little I mean just that.) The terminator sergeant now has the crux terminatus icons on his leg and shoulderpad painted.



Hmmm.. speaking of painting. I slapped some paint on this Dire Avenger as a testmodel for my aspect warriors a while back. What do you guys think? too dark? too shiny? some CnC on this would be hightly appreciated.
Glare is making a partial mess of the white and gold but the pics have different glare so the detail should be visable on at least one pic. Maybe I should build a simple light-box or something..






That's all folks! Have at it!

Holy moly those errant fellas, chainsword nutter and scout dudes looks amazing.
Obviously the rest is pretty damn impressive too, but those really caught my eye!

I really dig the color scheme on the dire avenger, though some people might argue it looks like the most common recent scheme for dark eldar. I think it works very well and in combination with the gold looks mysterious, yet not too sinister.

Well, in my defence I painted it before the Dark Eldar codex was released.

It's beautifull! I think i love you man!

Digging the Dire Avenger
O please please do a whole army of beautiful space elves in that colour scheme

Holy feth, that's some sweet conversion and painting.

After seeing that Dire Avenger, I might as well just quit painting Eldar. It's just too good. D:

Loving the Dire Avenger mate, lovely work.

I like the Eldar guy, really nice paint job!!

Heh, thanks guys.

@CalasTyphon216: nah, I think I'll use it for my dire avengers though. the other aspect warriors will have their own colours and the vehicles and guardians will fly the craftworld colours.

@Swordwind: Nooooes! continue painting, practise makes perfect. You should have seen the crap I produced just a few years ago If you are struggling I reccomend reading the 'Eavy Metal Masterclass articles (avalible at GW's homepage) and using reference material when you paint. Reference material is really important.

Oh and Peter Jackson has brought in Comedian/actor/general badass Billy Connolly to The Hobbit cast, he'll play the dwarf Dain Ironfoot. (badass cousin of Thorin Oakenshield)
''-We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of Dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the Big Yin himself. With Billy stepping into this role, the cast of The Hobbit is now complete. We can’t wait to see him on the Battlefield!'' -Peter Jackson

The painting articles are all gone off the website.

Oh well, back to Eldar.

Can't wait to see what you pump out next.

Oh the bastards!

If you Google 'Eavy Metal Masterclass you can still find them here and there though. Scribd has a couple in their online archive.

Yeah Most of them are gone from most places since they released the Masterclass Book this year.

Where do you get your plasti-card from? what size is that and what do you cut it with?
Thanks and peace

I buy my plasticard at my local GW Premium Partnership store, it's 1mm thick and it's from one of those galeforce nine plasticard bundles. card has been cut with an .. hmm.. its like a thin-bladed matknife with a segmented blade so you can break of sections of it once the edge goes dull, dunno what it's called in english.

Really nice Dire Avenger, verrry impressive!

Exto or something like that

Exacto knife

Bleh, what a day. Basing, adding little details and then priming 50-ish models. I am also 1:3d done with painting a predator for the astral claws army. final highlights and weathering left to go. and then those blasted chapter icons that I need to freehand.

But I also finished the dreadnought I was touching up with some plasticard and stuff. Well there's some minor gapfilling (if I can be bothered) left to do and I need to fix it's weapon arms ( CCW, Missilelauncher, Plasmacannon, assultcannon and Multimelta ) but that's fairly minor stuff that'll be done quickly.

So,.. How about a pic eh?
Yes, I primed it so i could see any gaps in the hull clearer, maybe I can touch those up with some of that fancy liquid greenstuff? It also got a little taller.. must have happened when I repositioned it's legs and due to the added bulk of the new hull.
But no matter, it's not likely it'll loose out on any coversaves anyway. Second pic added to show height-differences.





That's all today folks!

Nice job on the dread. The head really looks like he's smiling though.

I can't say I like the official GW dreadnought chainfist - the Forgeworld one looks much better (speaking from experience). The dread looks kickass though - I couldn't tell it from the FW ironclad until I scrolled up and saw it was a conversion!

Yeah, the GW chain fist is a bit wonky. Both arms look a little small against the larger hull, so they might need to be enlarged, too. Of course, if you're doing five, it may be excusable not to

Oh I am going to add some plating to syncronize the look of the arms with the hull, I am not all that happy with the plastic Ironclad legplates though, I'll fix up a pair of new ones from plasticard so it'll give it an uniform look.
And I concur on the looks of the GW chainfist. I have been musing if I should scratch-build one based on the FW-design, not sure if i can pull it off though but I think I will at least give it a try. The standard plastic head doesn't work here though, it looks way way too small.
I'll see if I can get hold of a spare FW dreadnought head somewhere, maybe someone who bought the cyclone ML upgrade for their contemptor dread has a spare head, who knows.

Of course he's smiling! it's been in shambles in a dark box for years and now it gets pulled out and recives a complete makeover. you'd be smiling if it happened to you!

"Yay! Sunshine and death!"

I'd think making a chainfist wouldn't be that difficult, especially if you used everything above the elbow of the original one. I think that if you cut out a jagged chain-edged piece of plasticard in the desired shape, you could then use two more thick sheets for the housing. (I hope that gets my point across...)

Nah, no half-measures. I'll replicate either FW's Ironclad chainfist or chaos dreadsnought chainfist. In either case it will mean ripping the 'arm' from the shoulder and start from scratch. (pun intended )