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Six year break and comes back with models that look like that !?!?!
I might have to take a six year break too..... during which I'll take painting lessons from you.....
Amazing stuff!!!

Looking great, seeing as you've had a six year break they are amazing

Young Logan

Beautiful colours. You are a natural.

These models are making me jealous . How did you paint the red armor?

deathwing fanboy wrote:
These models are making me jealous . How did you paint the red armor?

Thanks again for all the kind comments! My red recipe is...

Grey primer
Army painter pure red spray
2x washes of seraphim sepia
"Fixing" base coat of evil sunz scarlet
Highlight of wild rider red.

Fancied something a bit different today so painted these servo skulls

Awesome work, great to see more Blood Angels represented!

Thanks! Up next is a furioso dreadnought

Sorry for the lack of updates, just been so busy with work ive had hardly any painting time.

But good news!...ive finished my furioso dreadnought

That is absolutely amazing! Splendid edge highlighting.

Thankyou

Found the time to finish off a 5 man tactical squad Ill get the other 5 done soon then its onto an honour guard.

Oh and a Shot of my army so far (click photos for higher res).

Looking good! Great work.

Need to get myself a display cabinet one of these days too...

Thanks

I use the detolf cabinet from Ikea.

Best Blood Angels I've ever seen! Awesome

That 2nd Edition Marine Captain is fantastic, can I have him?

Love the old-school style paint-scheme on modern minis. I came back to the hobby after a long break and the new minis are just a pleasure to paint, aren't they? And I share an appreciation of the captain from the box art!

Looks great and really clean crisp work

Thanks guys! Really glad you're liking them so far.

Yeah 2nd edition era is the most nostalgic for me so like to have nods to it within my work.

Mind sharing how you did the red armor? It looks great.

 MadMaverick76 wrote:
Mind sharing how you did the red armor? It looks great.

Thanks!

Sure thing!

Halfords grey primer
Army painter pure red
2 x washes of seraphim sepia
3 thin coats of evil sunz scarlet, leaving wash in recesses
Highlight of wild rider red
..........................................
If its a character or focal point model I continue with...

Sharper highlight of troll slayer orange
Then a 50/50 mix of white and troll slayer orange on the very tips of parts

All models are varnished with testors dullcoat.

Hope that helps

Floyd73 wrote:
Found the time to finish off a 5 man tactical squad Ill get the other 5 done soon then its onto an honour guard.

Oh and a Shot of my army so far (click photos for higher res).

Absolutely gorgeous stuff! So you quit painting for 5 years and come back and your quality is hotter than molten lava. I think we should all just quit painting for a few years and try this technique out!


I am curious about those clear stands inside your case. The risers, or acryllic stands that someone of your squads are sitting on. did you make these?

Thankyou!!

I got i to the hobby in 1993 at the age of 11 and was really into it up until the age of about 15 when I quit all GW and regular model building.

Around the age of 24 I got the modelling bug again and ended up collecting a small Dark Angels army but soon lost interest again and sold it on. Thats when I started building full size prop replicas and have since started my own company selling props and kits.

Now here we are, 6/7 years later and Ive got the bug again, hopefully for much longer than last time. Even though ive not been painting miniatures in my time away I have been refining techniques that i feel help me in miniature painting.

The acrylic stands are from Ebay. Heres the link... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370606849705?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

The remaining members of the tactical squad all finished up

Click photo for better resolution.

Sorry the last photo was so bad. Heres a slightly better one of the whole finished tactical squad.

(Click for higher res).

Looks good. Whats planned next?

Thanks! Up next is a command squad (kit bashed from sternguard, death co and sanguinary guard parts) and an assault terminator squad. Ordered the forgeworld shoulder pads for the termies yesterday

Once you start down the FW path, it's hard to turn back. Shoulder pads are just the gateway resin.

Haha, well after the FW rhino kit I got i wasnt too impressed with the quality, but im going to give them a second chance, and maybe a third....and fourth

The Extra Armor kits are very old, I would expect warping to be the norm on them. Any resin kit is going to take more work then plastic thought. Try something like a Contempor Dread, they are great!

Edit: You had the MkI rhino, my bad. I actually had some issues with that kit too, not sure what that was about.

That fragioso <3 super clean models and excellent job!