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Those are some awesome looking minis, will be keeping an eye on this from now on.

Nice work! Looking forward to seeing much more!

Cain

Not sure how I missed this until now but...


...wow!

Awesome stuff in here - especially that MKIV marine in the first post!

Excellent indeed - and fresh inspiration to get going and start painting my own up!

Loving what I see, but was curious about 1 or 2 things.

You said before that MK VI armour would be the newest variant yo would use, but I see 1 or 2 MK VII heads in there, are you planning to convert them to MK V's (heresy armour) by adding studs and altering the grille?

The lack of overt Chaos or Imperial iconography(except the Captains eagle, is that to fool the loyalists? Btw I l think it looks great and the colour for it is perfect) sets them off beautifully, and shows their ambiguous & mysterious nature to a tee.

Keep it going, they look amazing and you have a great talent.

Btw how is the ordinatus engine coming along?

Really dig your take on the Alpha Legions colours.

Great work.

Thank you guys, warms my heart and all that stuff.

Yes, I will attempt to convert those Mk VII helmets into Mk V, if it don't turn out nice I'll slap on a pair of Mk IV ones.
As for the iconograpy..well.. there will probably be an Aquila here and there.. no chaos stars though..

Today there has been some painting done.. halfway finished with the apothecary and melta specialist, been taking some pics of each step of the painting, thought someone might be interested in
a short 'how to paint'- thingy.

Yeah.. the Ordinatus engine.. well.. it will be finished some day.. i had to throw out all the scetches I had done though since my mechanicum project took a rapid turn to the left and then an unexpected
dive into the Eye of Terror..

So I need to do a little re-thinkin' see..

Been building today though!

I had a sorcerer lying around.. and my Dark Mechanicum -DO- need an archmagos.. so.. some WIP photos of that







Scratchbuilt a gun and some stuff.. not quite sure how I want things yet.



somewhat better pic of what will be used in the finished model.

Conversion beamer?

I just love your marines!

Great freehand and shading! Forgive me if i missed it but these are running as loyalist yes?

That magos is going to be awesome, I love what people are doing with the new plastics

The magos looks super promising!

Hmm, no.. it's not a conversion beamer miss dee.. it's some random warp-energy cannon-thing.. I think..

Loyalist and Loyalists.. well.. that's just the thing with the XX Legion isn't it.. you don't really know now do you?

Thanks for the positive CnC, the magos updates will go into the 'Pimp my sorcerer 40k' challenge thread, I won't be starting the Mechanicum project until my alphas are done
so I won't be opening another thread for them just yet.

so awesome i might actually be pregnant from it!!!!!
please could you please explain how you highlight your armour?

I'll be posting a 'how to paint' tutorial (with pics) here tomorrow afternoon, I need to get some AA batteries for my camera so I can get the pics into my laptop see..

thanks fella, i hope you dont mind but i have a load of forge world pre heresy stuff and was stumped as to which legion to paint it as,
you have inspired me

Not at all, Me and migs can use some support on the Alpha legion front here at dakka.. first learn the quote 'I am Alpharius' by heart.. then we'll talk.

lol i actually say it all the time, i even ordered a pizza one night the guy asked my name i said "Alpharius" he replied "No I AM ALPHARIUS" (true story) we both lol'd and agreed we were sad nerdy types, we actually play games together now, weird world we live in,

Anyhow i digress, i always toyed with them as i wanted to do a chaos chapter but hate the idea of mutations and raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage, then i read Legion.......

those are amazing. i love them... I want some now.

well this is annoying.. I could make a huge update.. got the shots in the camera.. but no batteries.. and everything is closed.. dammit.. just 2x AA batteries.. how hard can it be!

That's some awesome looking Alpha Legion you got there. I'll be watching this thread with high expectations.

Also, that Chaotic Archmagos looks very promising and I'm looking forward to seeing it in it's completed form.

SOmetimes.. I am very intelligent.. I am not that good at sculpting.. I -never- touch the stuff besides for some gap filling and I rarely have to do even that..

Now however.. with no batteries in the camera I can't finish the models I was painting because I am photographing each step for a small painting tutorial.. so what does a smartass like myself do?

Well.. the -wrong-thing to do is to scrounge up some legs and shoulderpads from a terminator kit, a nice helm.. some odds and ends and make an attempt to make a passible primarch model..
And while one's at it.. let's not do something simple! nooo! we have to try to sculpt a Mk IV Maxumus armor.. Jeez what was I thinking?..

well.. the GS is curing and I am thinking feverishly about a way to make this look at least a little good.. *kicks the teeth in on the inner perfectionist* oh sush you..

I really, really love the poses on your marines, they're all uniqe and very dynamic, even without the paintjob they're a joy to behold! The two lascannon marines are my favorites atm I think.
Btw, the music that you've mentioned so far really gives the blog the right feeling, can understand that you were inspired by it. Even I, one of the slowest painters on dakka, felt the need to pick up my brush and do some work.
Really looking forward to seeing more!

So, with some spare time and new batteries in my camera I can summarise that it's update time!

We'll start off lightly with that little 'how to paint' thingy I promised.


First off, black undercoat. (doh! ) for some odd reason I painted the leather details first.. basecoated 50:50 chaos black / scorched brown.





Paint armor with Necron Abyss ( I use a speshul secret mix with black and turqiuse in the mix but it's not a big difference) and metal areas boltgun metal, codex grey on the armor joints.




Give the whole shebang a black wash, badab black, water and chaos black.. whatever you have.




Paint the armor with necron abyss, leaving out the areas that are not in full view and all the normal stuff for shading, you know what I mean





Mix Necron Abyss and Snot Green 50:50 with some water, this mix needs to be a bit thinner than what you normally use and highlight with broad strokes.




Highlight with Snot green.




Mix Skull white and snot green 50:50 and apply the extreme highlight. I have been doing some other stuff here too but yeah.. here you go.. alpha armour done.






Aaand I forgot to take a pic of the finished model on it's base.. bleh.. I'll add it in the next update..
So I have been playing with putty and plastic.. trying to make a passible Alpharius model.. I'd like to remind you that this is very very WIP and that I never have done this before..

And yeah.. this didn't work out at all.. scale is all off.. I'm not that much of a fan of the truescale. oh well, some other way maybe. this one's getting recycled.

Thanks for that tutorial. A very effective way to do the AL scheme. Good luck on Alpharius.

Nice tutorial STC... thank you!

Thanks for the 'how to' steps - much appreciated!

I might try something like that for my version of Omegon's Effrit Stealth Squad.

And I must say, that's a good start to Alpharius, though I must also say that I'm much thinner in real life!

Thanks guys, glad you like it, now get to work on duplicating it.. there are Ultrasmurfs to crush out there!

And alpharius.. I recon you are also lacking a slightly non-standard Mk IV Powered suit of Warplate.

... I am Alpharius

As for the Alpharius model, you might want something to work off..




It's not great, but it's something.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:As for the Alpharius model, you might want something to work off..




It's not great, but it's something.

Ugh - please do NOT base it off of that!

Besides, given what we learned from LEGION, we know that Alpharius and Omegon, and indeed, no one in the Legion!, looks like that.

That's when Mr. Blanche apparently was suffering from a high grade fever and attempted to still draw a Primarch...

Very interesting take on the scheme, and fantastic work overall! Not taking the blue above abyss is a really clever choice, as it makes the color kind of an indeterminate indigo, highlighting the green nicely without competing with it or making the entire scheme a bit 'garish' as it usually is.

Well done!