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gotcha yo...

I've got an update with pictures ... finally.

First, is my librarian.




I'm pretty happy with how the skin and the sword came out (the two most difficult parts of this model).

Second part is my basing. I based the four assault marines that I have completed ... but I am not happy with the base. Dark Flesh has too much red in it, so I washed it with black. I think I was a bit heavy with the Codex Grey, Graveyard Earth, and Fortress Grey highlights as well as the 'top' looks too gray and the 'bottom' looks to reddish brown.



I don't think I'll be continuing with this scheme. Instead I am going to try a Shadow Grey base with the same highlights.

This is an objective counter that I made up quick using the citadel basing kit (I sound like GW now ... ).


I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Below is a picture of it next to the assault marine.


Thoughts about the bases?? I tried washing the Shadow Grey with black, but the black is too contrasting with the bluish-grey and looks weird.

I remodeled one of my veterans so he has a thunder hammer as well.

I'm working on finishing up three of the remaining six assault marines right now, before I will likely move onto either my two priests or the honour guard.

Gitsplitta has an excellent basing tutorial, perhaps you can glean something from that, but other than that it looks like a decent objective marker.

Thanks. I checked out the tutorial that he wrote up for basing his Mantis Warriors. The bases look great, but are not the effect I'm looking for. I'm looking for a fairly dark ash/dead world look.

It is a gneric tutorial, perhaps you should look into what GF9 sells towards getting an ash/dead world look, the basing would probably be a bit more fine grit than what that base has, this is all IMHO of course.

looks like uncle fester

I moved the battle report to a more appropriate place.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/353691.page#2560907

pretty sure he beat you too...

I don't remember this.

I've actually only played Cody once and it was with his mech marines. I beat him pretty good at 1000 pts with my jumpers.

It's you I've lost to.

Looking good... not that I haven't seen them already. Good job at the Tourny too.

But I have to play you with my DE...

...They need some more skulls for their Raiders.

Nice work at the Tournament, I really like that you are running an infantry army. Those pesky mystics are gone in 1 and a bit months so don't worry, although do worry about what they are getting replaced by because the replacements are flying out to kill some space vamps in May.

I like the vampiric blue shade skin tone of the dude in blue armour, looks awesome.

I recognise those thousand sons you played I think good job beating back the traitor marines.

Love the unhealthy skintone on the Librarian!

@ Lukaz: thanks man. I want to play the IG guy again But yeah, Gray Knights seem like they're gonna be powerful.

Thanks for the comments on the librarian's skin. The librarians are the only models in the army without helmets (if they weren't metal models, this wouldn't be so). My fluff reason is that the Angels Encarmine would is toxic and dead, and they are the only ones powerful enough to go without a helmet. I wanted their skin to seem verymuch dead and having vary rarely seen the sun.

I moved the battle report to the battle report section of the forums, here.

I have been painting up my first honour guard, and if I have time tonight, I will post a picture.

So, they are not the best pictures, but I wanted to get something up. Below is the first of my Honour Guard, the sanguinary novite. I used the legs and shoulder pad from Sanguinary Guard and the rest basic assault marine parts. The cup is the sconce from the old Vampire Counts hearse thingy.





Again, I didn't have my good camera to take good pictures. It looks like there is a bluish glow effect on his knuckles and other parts of the armor, but its not there. The armor was done with a scorched brown basecoat with a black wash. Then a layer of 1:1 scorched brown and shining gold, followed by a layer of shining gold. Highlights were then done with a 1:1 shining gold and mithril silver and the 'shiniest' highlights are pure mithril silver.

The cup is a base of shadow grey highlighted with fortress grey to give some contrast to the gold.

Question for you viewers. The right shoulder pad with the apothecary symbol. I'm not sold on gold with the black rim (linking him to angels encarmine). I've thought to maybe repaint it as a red shoulder pad with a white rim as per apothecaries and priests. This will also add a bit more red to his right side. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-A-

I've been tempted to do some encarmines as allies for my ba army (mainly just to vary the colours I use, after seeing your white dc marines I may well revisit that idea!

Nice work!

nice work on the BA Priest... Gold has nice texture

Thanks. I've finished it and the three other assault marines I was working on. Once I get my good camera back, I'll post pictures.

I'm going to be working on finishing up the last three marines of the assault squad.

I still need to figure out how I want to base them as well.

I've finally got another update. Sorry these come so slow. I only paint/model a couple hours a week.

Since the last update, I have finished my first assault squad. Pictures are below. I finally chose my base color. I used Orkhide Flesh with a bit of Chaos Black. It was then highlighted with Codex Grey, Rotting Flesh, and then Fortress Grey. They are dark enough that they don't look green, but the little bit of green that contrasts with the red makes the models pop.













Next up is another couple pictures of the Librarian. I based him as well.





Finally, I have some better pictures of the completed Sanguinary Novite of my Honour Guard squad. I based the model with Scorched Brown, followed by a wash of Badab Black. I then layered it with 1:1 Scorched Brown and Shining Gold, then a layer of Shining Gold. I did a general highlight with 1:1 Shining Gold and Mithril Silver, followed by an extreme highlight with Mithril Silver. The cup is based with Shadow Grey and highlighted up with Fortress Grey and Skull White.

I am not sure if I like the right shoulder pad with the apothecary symbol. I may repaint it red with a white outline to be more in line with how I plan to paint the Sanguinary Priests.







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The last thing I want to do is add a sort of project log. I want to do this to try and come up with a way to paint my army in a quick way. Most of the following is partially assembled (legs, chest, head, jump pack), but no arms besides special weapons. I plan to paint in the following order.

Sanguinary Priest (2)
Honour Guard (4)
Vanguard Veterans (5)
Assault Marines (10)
Vanguard Veterans (5)

I also need to assemble:

Sanguinary Guard (5)
Assault Marines (10)
Honour Guard (5)
Librarian
Devastators (3)

I hope to have the two Sanguinary Priests done in three weeks, by May 15th. Hopefully I will finish them sooner and will then start assembling the marines.

Thanks. Comments welcome. Also, vote on the images in my gallery.