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More Ultramarine goodies coming up. We'll kick off with a rhino, forgeworld doors, tamiya stowage / tarps with some old RT-era rhino boxes for nostalgia's sake. Gunner / Storm Bolter cupola is replaceable. Note, this is WIP, not varnished yet, hence the glossiness in places. I'll probably sharpen up the lettering on the side, too.

Sharp work. I would be incredibly proud to own these miniatures.

very nice!!

Very clean paintjob. Looking good. Only thing that looks a bit off to me is the gunner being red. I dont know much about the UltraMarines but are the tank crews red or was this just your choice? I'd would have gone for white. Other than that everything else looks nice.. and this is just MY opinion good sir

Tank crews are techmarines. So red armour.

They're technically not techmarines, but are instead affiliated with the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars. However it is therefore possible to paint the gunner as a fully fledged techmarine, tank crew or a vanilla battle-brother who just happens to be mounting the gun.

On the model front how do you achieve the soot on the back doors and exhausts. If it was a powder could you let us know which brand. Looks awesome btw. can't wait too see more.

It's chaos black drybrushed.

How did you do the white arrows?

and the Ultramrine "U"

It's not very apparent in these photos (taken at night), but there are 2 different whites on the go:

The white arrows are marked out in pencil using a vernier caliper and a piece of styrene strip as a straight edge. Blocked in with VMC pale grey and highlighted up in a rough blend to VMC foundation white.

The U's on the forgeworld bits and the inside of the hatches are shadow grey blended through space wolf grey to skull white.

Nice weathering, It doesn't look too realistic with the bags and boxes on the top if it were real they'd just roll off.

Crisp. Looks great!!! The weathering is just right for my taste. Well done

Here's the magnetificated and forgeworlded predator. I'm in the process of putting together another .pdf tutorial showing how the magnetising was done, and how to handle 'When Forgeworld Parts Go Wrong (tm)'.

I would be very pleased if I ordered a commission and received that Predator. Very cool work.

- Blackbone

Blackbone wrote:I would be very pleased if I ordered a commission and received that Predator. Very cool work.

- Blackbone

Ditto, really great quality of work, I like the style you paint in, soft but rich tones, nice clean detailing. Very nice!

Here's an assault squad with a couple of major conversions. As I'll be doing additional work on the Landspeeder storm, I've not done a few of the conversions that were knocking around, as they'd be rather complex and involve extensive sculpting. Instead I've implemented my 3 favorite ideas and kept everything else pretty simple - just a couple of reposed hands. I'll be adding more Eldar gibs to the bases of the rest of the squad, just for fun, but nothing that'd need a lot of GS work.

Note that I have yet to do greenstuff work on these, but it'll be pretty subtle, although the sergeant will get some bas-relief insignia on his pauldrons.

winterdyne, you are a true artist. You paint better than I ever even would or could I think. Superb work. I truly mean that, so no 'meaningful' criticism follows..

IMO, the Tanks aren't Blue enough. Like Blue dude. I have a sterotyped image in my own head, so srry.

But they do look super realistic, the weathering is like a film Model.

And the Assault Marine Squad is looking awesome, nice conversions indeed!
Nice- I'll be watching with interest!

Just a small update with some pics of the sergeant and flying marine post-gs. Everything's not been set up for spraying so there probably won't be any photos till the middle of next week, when things will start getting finished.

Nice conversions. Your GS work seems to be as technical as your painting.

- Blackbone

Looking brilliant, the assault marines are looking really dynamic and should look fantastic when finished painting!

This is really awesome!

Sergeant is pretty much done, the meaty bit will be wet-look gloss when it's varnished.

AWESOME.

Now i wanna pick up another Assault squad and eldar (or something) and do something like this. any good tutorials for this style of repositioning?

As each pose is unique, I guess the only advice I can give is practice greenstuffing joins when you cut legs up to repin and reposition.

Very impressive work Winterdyne, you should be proud. Not many people can make ultramarines look that interesting!

Some very nice posing and painting here

It's been frighteningly hot in my painting area over the past few days, so not too much to show; the assault squad is 90% done, should be finishing them over the next day or two. These are done and varnished.

looking very, very good. big up.

*whistles* very impressive Winterdyne! The only criticism is maybe a bit more blood splatter on the 1st guy? Otherwise i think they look great!

Excellent work, especially on fixing up the foot! I was wondering what that piece of plasticard was doing where the foot was supposed to be, but you've made it work out.

lovely lovely work