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Your skills as a painter are really Fing phenomenal and your Librarian is really sharp! I love it!

NakedBatBoy wrote:Your skills as a painter are really Fing phenomenal and your Librarian is really sharp! I love it!

Thanks man I am flattered! I think I am getting there but certainly no phenom.

As I just said over on the old B&C Red Scorpions thread I've been grabbing the Apothecary sets from the SM's command squad on ebay when I can. The first lot rocked up on friday and I finished this guy today (Halo Reach has been crushing my free time this week, ha!), what do you think about the colours? I didn't want to go too overboard and left all the viles silver, I wanted him to look like a combat medic/sarge not a priest/fluffy-healer-apothecary. Also this makes 7 of the squad so far (with either the sarge shown of the apothecary for the leader), still got 3 more to do and getting there slowly.

Want to try and finish the other guys tomorrow, get them based and put the left shoulder transfers on so I have one completed squad for the wednesday night battles this week. I feel that my painting is getting better, looking at the medic compared to the sarge who was one of the first guy I painted getting back into it, I have managed to get the white a lot smoother now. Also the sarges head was a repaint from an old BA marine and was red before which didn't help. Painting white still sucks though!

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What do you think? Cheers guys!

P.s. Can't wait for my IA:9 Book to come!

I've always hated spacemarines with a passion... I could go on for a full topic why.....

And your marines? ...well I hate them because they are marines, but I dont hate that crisp lovely paint job you have created.

Goodwork

Nice paintjob, but I do think that you should paint the viles on the apothecary looks a bit dull with them being metall.

i love them! i like to see AoBR marines converted good work!

G'day Dakka,

Well, I'm a fairly top level racing cyclist which keeps me very busy outside of work, this morning I think I may have blown out my right knee though after a slight MTB misshap. There was a gap then a drop on this granite slab section which put you down on the lower trail (very rocky), front wheel got caught in some lose stuff and I took about a 10' launch landing very hard on my right side and twisting my knee which didn't unclip from the bike. It was a very slow hike back out of the valley for an hour and a half using one leg and my bike as a crutch.. Ugh..

So no training for a bit but the good news is while limping around the house feeling sorry for myself I decided to get my tac squad based up and take some photographs for you guys. The natural light seems to make them look a bit blueish but they are charcoal (Adeptus Battlegrey 2: Chaos Black 1).

I've also included some shots of my works in progress drop pod and vindicator (click link underneath for descriptions) and the painted portion of my army grouped together.

What's the verdict?


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Next I'm going to clip out the rest of my army, get them glued and primed then get to work on painting up my assault squad.

Cheers
Jack

Did you modify the Termi Assault Cannon? Looks like the ammo box is different. Rest of it looks good, very crisp. Are you doing the blade for the vindicator so it can be added if needed?

Hey man,

Yeah I did modify the assault cannon a bit. Well not the assault cannon but the model itself, was an AoBR guy with a Space Wolf terminator Assault Cannon. It has a cool ass belt feed and big ammo box on the back, looks a 1000x more tough than the poxy normal SM one. So I got that and cut all the wolf heads off. Had to add the Chaos Marauder shoulder plate to the hand because there wasn't much left once I had chopped off he big wolf head.

Still in 2 minds about the vindi blade, I may as well, but truth be told I probably wouldn't bother running it unless I was playing a cityfight game as I can always use the 15pts elsewhere.

I glued the mounts on because I figured they'd be standard and I am sure I can stretch the seige shield on if needed.

Ah I see it now! I dont use the blades very often either, but leave em on for all but competitive games because they look cool

Keep up the cool paint, I'll be coping you once I get my RS project going (Ive got cullen and some pads, but thats about it atm)

Blue Red Scorpions? 3rd GATE OF THE DERPOCOLAYPSE HAS BEEN OPENED!
JK dude, keep it up!

Yeah I gotta get the white balance right on the camera, blue/red scorpions look slowed.

Will have another crack at it tomorrow.

Fantastically clean and neat style here Redscorps, it is not something seen that often but is one of my favourite final effects on units.

Some really great minimalistic weathering on those vehicles ( a Rhino is it? ) and your whites are superb. /subscribed.

I love those RS on first page but why these guys are blue??

I have to say that I hate that blue SM group!

whalemusic360 wrote:Ah I see it now! I dont use the blades very often either, but leave em on for all but competitive games because they look cool

Keep up the cool paint, I'll be coping you once I get my RS project going (Ive got cullen and some pads, but thats about it atm)

Thanks mate, I look forward to seeing you get started, I have culln as well sitting in the bag, I'm waiting until I can paint a bit better consistently before I tackle him.

Drop a line on here or shoot me a message when you have some photos up, I'd love to see your take on them (I've noticed everyone with Red Scorpions has a slightly different army).

Ifalna wrote:Fantastically clean and neat style here Redscorps, it is not something seen that often but is one of my favourite final effects on units.

Some really great minimalistic weathering on those vehicles ( a Rhino is it? ) and your whites are superb. /subscribed.

Hey thanks, I look at your thread all the time and admire your work for the same reason, very nice and clean!

I might not be able to do the OSL/NMM side of things yet but I try to be as neat as I can and get the best out of the washes and paints.

Remos wrote:I love those RS on first page but why these guys are blue??

I have to say that I hate that blue SM group!

Easy tiger, white balance on my camera was probably set to incandecent still (indoor yellowish lights), using the natural white sunlight this afternoon turned them a bit blue. I can assure you that they are indeed Charcoal Grey with out even the slightest hint of blue in them.

the forge world red scorpion hq squad is sick, especially with those mk IV helmets

tthose are beautiful!

kennyalhavg wrote:the forge world red scorpion hq squad is sick, especially with those mk IV helmets

I know and for only 6 pounds more I wish I was wise enough to have bought them, instead I have 60 shoulder pads. Might ebay my stuff and get some of those guys.

Sageheart wrote:tthose are beautiful!

Thanks mate!

Hopefully this turns out a bit less blueish(click for larger):

Before (and if) the pads head to ebay, shoot me a pm, I'd be interested in some. I like and hate the drop pod at the same time. I like the lack of clutter on the inside, but it seems empty now. If your going to use it for a dread at all it makes sense though.

Yeah cool man I will let you know, I went on a bit of a buying frenzy, then some of the pads had splits in them and FW kindly stepped up and gave me 2 new sets so I've ended up with 60. Will use 40 of them for sure then I will figure out what is good out of what is left and let you know what I want to do with them.

and.. This is next on my workbench:

Each of The tac squads is getting a plasma cannon to go with their plasma guns (how good is our FNP, worth its weight in gold).

My kitbash Terminator Librarian.

4x M/L Devastator squad (love how the sergeant turned out, he has a lot of character).



The next photo will be these painted up and the vindicator finished.

good stuff man they look great!!!!

Red Scorpions one of those chapters I've always loved the idea and colour scheme of. Now when I clicked to have a look at yours it was with trepidation.....then a . Your painting skills have done them justice. Looking really good.

On a side note I really like that blue colour your camera mixed up (not for red scorps obviously) but its a good blue, reminds me of the backpack colour scheme on that squat model gw released last year...oh wait that was the white dwarf not a squat.... my mistake .

Thanks

Peter

I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

Scrazza wrote:I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

I always like it when people do original things. I also really like the Sons of Orar army (made by Sons_of_Orar). You should check it out.

To the OP, are you going to use the new forgeworld red scopions releases?

Suicidal Cheez wrote:

Scrazza wrote:I have never seen anyone do a red scorpions army. This will be interesting. subscribed!

I always like it when people do original things. I also really like the Sons of Orar army (made by Sons_of_Orar). You should check it out.

I have, Cheez, I have. Both of these threads rival for the most awesomeness

I need to get better at painting :(. Stupid paint brushes for 20$
I love the Red Scorpions you never see anyone paint them any more and plus they are forgeworld so... Yeah. But still a cool chapter.

Thanks very much guys, I appreciate the comments!

Cheez: I have Culln, the venerable dread, doors for my land raider, icons and a bunch of shoulder pads but I think that will be it for now. I already have way more than I need and so much unpainted, as nice as the new Loth & Honour Guard is I just can't justify it, especially when I built this big badass myself:



I threw a bit of paint on him this everning, I am pretty happy with how the big man is turning out so far. Going to attempt some glowing eyes and OSL on the face, bring the force weapon up from hawk turquoise to a few shades lighter as it goes out to the tips. Highlight the silver parts on the legs, Scroll cases will be red and silver, Undecided on colours for the shield(under the parchment) and the loin cloths front and rear.

Opinions for me?

Cheers
Jack

P.s. Apologies for the harshness of the light, it was a quick snap as I put my brush down without much effort.

Awesome stuff, makes me want to get cracking with my Red Scorpions, still got all the FW bits in their bags waiting to be used! Once I'm settled in Durham, I shall get on it!

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hes looking great!

Quick question. What colour are you using for your grey? I've been using Adeptus Battle grey with a number of black washes over it; which is turning out to be a pain on my Razorback

ahhhh i love your red scorpions and forge world models are awsome i might evven buy an entire forge world army if my wallet and GF let me