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A few shots of flesh tearers im working... ive still not managed to get a grip of this gallery lark so fingers crossed!! This is an army painted for table top playing in mind, its never going to win me any prizes, i understand this. But what do you think?

Gabriel seth kitbash



One of my finished tac squad... i couldnt get a good shot with them all in im afraid.. the tech is week in this 1!!



One of my Sang guard, unfinished, going to have a more sinister dark colour. going to be more fierce and barbaric than most being a flesh tearer!! wings will be black, and went for a verdigra (sp??) effect on the armour



And thats mr angry, my libby dread.. he has rather a large sword...





I know these pics are a bit shody but best i can do... they really dont show enough of the detail and highlights... but unless anyone wants to come down to sunny prestatyn and give me a lesson in photography and show me how its done?... no?... fair enough lol

Cheers

Liam




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Any ideas what im doing wrong?

i see nothing ...I see, you've added the image tag. take it out so people can see them or use (url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/129818-Gabriel%20seth%20kitbash.html)(img)http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2010/8/16/129818_mb-Gabriel%20seth%20kitbash.JPG(/img)(/url) just swap the () for the square bracket
Any way they look nice, once i found them, favorite bits the Sanguine sword.
edit cool you've fixed it.

Aha! great stuff... sorry for being such a tard lol... those pics do the models no justice at all.... seths face hasnt been finished yet

Liam

Looking nice.

I think it's called verdigris.... Anyways your Seth conversion looks great, nice and characterful, but not too ornamented. I like.

What did you do to your hand?

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-a-inexpensive-light-tent this is by no means the best way of photographing a mini but it is the first i found.

Oh, haha, got attacked in work... dislocated thumb and ligament damage... hoping not to get a displaced thumb lol.. Oh and thanks for them comments!!

Liam


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You sir are a genious!! it just so happens i have 3 daylight bulbs floating about, 3 t shirts from primach, and a job lot of tape! thanks for the link!!

Liam

Looks great, i literally just started painting the first couple test models for my flesh tearers army.

Nice one mate, always nice to see another FT player!! I've had FTs since index astartes, where you had to roll for your DC prior to the game... and in an FT army ended up losing all your vet sgts lol... but ended up with one hell of a hammer unit of DC!!

Get some of your minis on here when done.. all in the name of poaching of course!!

Liam

I love the dreadnought...very menacing and he looks like he would rip any enemy of the Imperium a new one.

your paintjobs look great i think.

the dreads sword is a bit big,but hey,the bigger the better.

the paint on the sanguinary guard looks a bit thick,could be the pic thou.and if you thin down the turquoi it would look better i think.

^_^

I like the direction your going with these. Well done.

I second HamHam's comment on the think paint. Overall that's my only critique.... thin those paints and I'll like these even more.

Cheers and good work! Keep posting in this thread with updates..


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Will you share where you learned to make those great bases? I'm planning on doing a similar style with my Imperial Fist army and I'd like to know how to did it.

Thanks!

Very nice work, I really like the dred

The paint actually isnt all that thick, the camera seems to have put on a few pounds lol.. Im a terrible photographer im afraid and the pics dont do the models justice... i promise i do thin my paints

I will do a little tutorial on the bases, if you want a picture tut ill do one??

As for the bases, they are really easy to do, i used;

- balsa wood
- ready mixed filler
- course sand ( stuff from the beach by the rocks is fine! )
- etched brass razorwire

- stick the balsa to your bases in a haphazard trench sort of way.
- Use filler to edge up and over some of the wood pieces
- super glue some coils of wire onto the bases (or sink it into filler)
- when dry, sand the filler down, make sure it doesnt overlap onto the rim of the base (sands away easily)
- coat of p.v.a and sand
- bobs your uncle!!

I can give you a run down of the paints i used if you want?

cheers for the interest and comments.. i have taken the paint thickness problem in mind... in RL they look great, but im a bit worried now lol, so more painting for me! I will paint some more this week and see if the results change!!!

Cheers guys!!

Liam

Nice over view of the bases. What colors did you use? I'd be interested.

Thanks again.

The colours for the base were;

- black primer
- calthan brown base
- codex grey heavily drybrushed over
- patches of camo green to represent moss drybrused on
- A final dusting with rotting flesh
- this was then washed with a mix of badab black and devlan mud.. DM 2 : BB 1 ratio

- wood areas were base coated the same
- Dry brushed with snakebite
- Slight drybrush of camo
- rotting flesh final highlight
- same wash

I will upload my finished chaplain and WIP rhino tomorrow!

Liam

Great rendition of the Flesh Tearers Chapter. I like the dark, conspiring red you chose for your army. I play Blood Angels (who doesnt right now) and I think that painting up to Blood Red on the marines seems to bright. I like your interpretation... very well done. Nice Seth conversion and I would imagine it was much cheaper to create


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how did you make your bases? They look fantastic!

Thanks mate! aye i do like a dark broody colour scheme! just need to add battle damage and weathering now!!

Ive been playing tearers since index astartes and the old BA dex, but this is my latest rendition of them... my old models... well are terrible!! alot can change in 7 or so years lol

cheers again!

Liam

Love the sword on the dreadnought!

Hey there mate, looks great i love the dread! How did you make the sword and the hand?

Cheers

Forget the rest (which is mighty good but...) that's the coolest dred I've ever seen! You sir kick ass!

Cheers very much!! Its a plasticard build sharpend and shaped with sandpaper... much to my chargrin... its bloody sharp! I dont suppose anyone lives in north wales that wants to come and take a pic of my minis? lol im struggling!!!

Liam

I would come to take a tutorial in "working with plastic card" but im kind of far away im afraid .

Over the hills and far away .

Haha, its actually very straight forward... Germanys only a stone throw away these days! come and visit sunny prestatyn lol.

I think ive finally got this weathering lark sorted... big update tomorrow, chaplain, WIP rhino, and weathered marines, possibly an army overshot if my iphones up to it!!

Liam

Lovely work mate, the conversions are seemless and the paintjobs set them off a treat. Am looking forward to seeing more!

Again sorry for the rubbish photography! My flesh tearer chaplain, when i sprayed it with anti shine varnish, the spay pulled up some snow scatter onto the armour :(





Heres my WIP rhino... its been a bloody pain painting the flesh tearer symbol! the second shot has the dozer blade im working on shown.. this tank will be heavily weatherd and battered, but does the yellow look to much with the red? it will be alot murkier/darker red after ive treated it lol





The paint looks very thick once again on the dozer blade.. but i assure you i gave it several very thin coats.. its just my damn iphones camera is a bit poo...

C+C please

thanks for looking

Liam

So what do you think? does the yellow clash to much with the red? i want some outside crit before i finish so i dont have to repaint lol... Im thinking it should look fine when beaten up and weatherd, probably not alot of yellow left!

But any advice would be great!!

cheers!

Liam

Wow another flesh tearer player awesome, I too have rams in front of my rhinos! Your stuff's awesome, love the free hand buzzsaws, did that on my rhinos but they don't look as good as yours. Keep this stuff going!

Cheers mate!! Id like to have a look at your minis if you want to stick them up here? turn it into a general Flesh tearer topic?

Liam

It's really a nice paintjob, but I really like your base the best. Yes, please put a tutorial.

CptCortez128 wrote:So what do you think? does the yellow clash to much with the red? i want some outside crit before i finish so i dont have to repaint lol... Im thinking it should look fine when beaten up and weatherd, probably not alot of yellow left!

-You chose a good color yellow for the dozer. At least form the picture its more golden and less sunburst which stick to theme of the army; dark. I agree with you, when shaded properly and the right amount of weathering and damage should make it look real nice. I would say keep it and start the weathering to see how it looks....im sure it will turn out great.

Also wanted to comment on your flesh tearer sawblades on the tank....they look fantastic....you army is coming along quick and looking real nice. I wish i could paint quickly and get the results your getting....everything looks good for how fast your updating this WIP blog!