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The AM guys are coming along so nicely. I really like the blue you used for the spot color across all three mini's. It really ties them together, despite the fact they're all in Red. It gives each one a subtle pop.
Does that FW Empire Ship come with a crew? If so how many mini's come with it?
Take it easy, Sig

Damn sexy looking admech boys Siggie!

I definitely can't wait to see what you do with those last 5 termies, very exciting!

@Moltar: Thanks very much. The Landship does indeed come with a crew. It's the minis shown in my posting prior to the scale shot of the Landship plus one helmsman. There's no crewmen for the cannon which is a bit of a shame but the crew you get with the ship is excellent in itself.

@MajorTom11: Cheers.


Righty, I'm sorry but here's just another WIP shot (but there's really only very little left to do ):

Hee hee

That is my critique.

Sigur wrote:@cygnnus: Ah, sorry then. For some reason I suspected they were unpainted. Do you have any pictures of the army? I always love to see painted Orks from that time.

Put a few pix up in my gallery. You can see about two generations of my painting skills then. The first ones I painted way back in the late '80's and then the "second generation" of Orks I did around the time Gorka Morka came out... I'll have to take some pix of my favorites, though...

Valete,

JohnS

@MajorTom11: Oh, if that's your only criticism I'm glad.

@cygnnus: Just had a look at your Orks. Very cool stuff. I didn't expect them to be all metal and all really being the early stuff (like before 'Ere we go!). Very nice minis, really. I'd love to have a few of those in my collection. I mostly have the 1992 and later minis along with tons of the boyz from the excellent Space Orks plastic box. From before that, I have also a few minis but it's basically just the Space Ork Raiders box plus a handful of additional heavy weapons guys and a few bolter dudes.


Adeptus Mechanicus finished.

Nice work as usual. I'd like to point out especially the blue axe of the magos, it looks awesome. (Even though I like the backside better, the front lacks a bit of contrast in my opinion.)

Thanks, Baiyuan. I don't know about others but ALWAYS when I do something like this blade, the backside ends up looking better than the front. No matter what side I begin with or wwhat else plays into it, it's always the side that's less prominent that ends up looking better.

Same for me, one looks great, the other sucks. Just had with a wood grain effect I was painting. It also happens to me every time I paint eyes...

Yeah, and it's always the side that is less prominent that turns out better. At least it gives the painter himself the knowledge that "okay, the front side doesn't look supergreat but I know I can do better" which hauls oneself into the cloudy, cosy and comfortable realm of "unrecognized genius". Well, slight exaggeration there of course.

Anyway, here's some sort of update. Originally I had planned to make this text only but what the hell - let's take some pictures! (brb)

So, let's start with the completed stuff. The Steam Tank is fully finished now:





Between the Adeptus Mechanicus, steam tank and BA Terminators (see below), there was a little time so I finally tackled (hahaha) this BloodBowl miniature I've meant to paint for a long time because I won him at a painting competition over at GarageGamer's blog. The miniature was made by Gorgon Studios who mostly do ancient historical minis (They good solid ranges on Etruscans and Spartans for instance). I call him Thick McRunfast for obvious reasons. He's not completely finished yet:



Last but not least, here's the first WIP of the Space Hulk Terminators who are part of the Hybrids/Adeptus Mechanicus/BA Terminators commission project:


The guy in the middle obviously is the test mini. He's quite a bit darker in real life.


Things that are up next:
.) More Orks!
.) Lots of Blood Angels Terminators!
.) Malifaux! (The Ortegas, yay!)
.) Ironsides Handgunners, General and Battle Standard bearer for the Averland army!

So that's that. See you soon!

Damn. That STank is amazing. You have brilliant color control. Got any up-close detail pics?

And I can't WAIT till you start on that ship!

The limited palette usage on the tank looks great! I'm really looking forward to the BA termis.

Tank and BB dude... incredible. As SOI said, your color control in nuts, and the limited pallete actually adds to the impact. Amazing work as always!

For the BA's, it's hard to tell as you mention they are a lot darker IRL, but I think the test mini may need a baal red wash to bright the overall highlight color back down into a redder zone? Not sure though and I trust your judgement. I can't wait to see how you apply the yellow, black and white elements, if you feel you can take them far for extra $, go nuts, I give you free reign for freehand to get the look of the ref images I sent!

What a great update overall though, a little bit of everything! Btw, what happend to that magnificent Chimaera you were working on?

@Soul of Iron: Thanks very much. I'll see if I can do close-ups anytime soon. About the ship - there's some little problems with it. First, it's a mini for myself (and the internet of course ) so prioritywise, it will always have to take a backseat behind commission work. Second, it will take quite a bit of additional filing, maybe I have to reshape the hull a little. Third, I have this very vague idea of an Empire army of my own. I actually collected the miniatures for it already but I'm not quite set on a theme yet. At the moment, I'm more akin to do a mercenary army from Estalia with each regiment being very colourful and different to their colleagues. I'd love to have the Landship in the same colourscheme but alas, I got none yet. So you see how there's probably going to be some water flowing down the [insert significant river] until I really proceed on the landship.

@whalemusic360: Cheers!

@MajorTom11: Thanks. Somehow I never manage to get the red right in the pictures. I even binned a whole update earlier today because the pictures were so off. Anyway, here's a picture now. I started doing some freehand stuff.


Here's an update on the Terminators. I was told to add freehand stuffs as I please so I added a few bits here and there:



The shoulder shield/powerfist combo on the guy in the right looks a bit ...well, terrible in the picture but I'll tone that down. Again, the red isn't quite as it looks in real life. I have no idea what's going on with that.

Looking really nice man! That stank is very sharp, and I love the look of the Mech-lad's halberd.

It is very bittersweet that you are nearly at the end of the job for me lol! I will be very happy to get the pieces back and finish the collection, but, at the same time, I will miss the thrill of seeing these fantastic updates...

@Wehrkind: Many thanks.

@MajorTom11: Cheers. That happens towards the end of every project I guess (especially the memorable ones). But I can start painting these guys even slower if you like.

Anyhoo, update:



The red still is off. It's deeper, less flat and less orange in real life. Sorry about the pictures, no idea what's going wrong all the time. Fixed the overbearing hazard stripe pattern on the bald guy by reversing the pattern on the sholder shield thing and making the fingers of the powerglove red again. Looks much more balanced now. Apart from that, I added the white parts to the rmoud, did some more freehand stuffs, worked on the gold and silver as well. Now thinking wether or not I should use green. Nothing big, just proceeding. Hope everyone's having a nice weekend, happy May Day and congrats to John Paul II. on his quick Beatification. The weather is partly cloudy with chance of rain today so I I'll have to think of taking the laundry in before the rain starts. So much for fluffing out the update. Good Speed!


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Painting is going painfully slow. The level of detail on these guys...

Again, tiny update:



Comments and critique from you guys is appreciated always of course! (Also hoping that majortom11 comments again soon so I know wether or not I'm totally off script with the paintjob on these minis or not ).

You are certainly not off script lol , there is only 1 small issue, I use the stone type crux terminatus, like in the wd/gw tutorial. You can see the pics of my guys for reference if you need to-

Wow, I really like that PS Terminator. In fact, I like them all.

The highlights on those reds is excellent Sigur. It's like they're supposed red and not the usual fiery red that you see around more often. Still an amazing blog that seems to be getting better every time.

@Majortom11: Thanks, that's good to know. About the stone-like crux terminatii(?) - d'oh. I saw that you did them like that on your own SH Terminators but didn't think of that detail when I painted them. Will be fixed.

@Tim the Biovore: Thanks, I like them as well.

@Cosmic: Many thanks!


Okies, I did a little bit of additional work on majortom11's Terminators. Mostly detailling and the power sword which didn't turn out quite as I wanted so I got annoyed and decided to start on the ton of other Terminatos I got to do. Again Blood Angels. You may start to see a pattern here but I assure you that it's totally different this time. Let's see, last year I did the 3rd edition Space Hulk minis for playing Space Hulk, now I did/am doing 40k Terminators to be used for playing Space Hulk so the next logical step is ...? Exactly, 3rd edition SH Terminators used in a 40k army. :p


It's 16 Terminators in total. I split them up into two batches. Here's batch#1:


...and here's batch#2:


I hope that you like them so far. I'm always open for comments, questions and critizism!

lol jeeze you must be on red termie overload at this point! You will have BA termies down to a fine art, and possibly be awarded an honorary p.h.d from a local university though lol

Don't get too annoyed with my poor guys, so close to being finished up with the whole project!

Red is such a pain to paint. You sir are an Ace at it!

Man... I have not been back in a while- that was an excellent read!

Genestealers - I remember seeing them at one point at Majortom11's blog -beautiful sculpts. You can tell each and every one of them was inspired and well thought-out. And he's given them to you to paint... lol... that's awesome. If Michaelangelo collaborated with his TMNT brother Leonardo DV, magic happens- much like now. The weathering and cream color cutting into the GS Hys are definitely sweet.

Orks - Not an ork person, but I like the more olive-green skin than the standard that most are painted with.

Empire - Great colors and freehand. I assume you're painting the entire army for the customer? You might as well, just to give us more to drool at!

Admech and BAs - I actually like both of the greens. And you say for the BAs that the color is not quite what it is from the pictures... would you mind if I ask you your formula for the airbrushing? I'm rolling the ball on starting a Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons blog... I'd love to know how to get that color red for my team!

Thanks, and I'll try to drop by more often... I'm really missing out!

-Izanagi

Those terminators are looking great man. I was too scared, and too sick of marines, to ever try and paint up my SpaceHulk lads, but now... no, I am still too sick of marines But it is tempting! Well done!

@majortom11: Thanks. A PhD indeed would be a highly welcome thing. Will get back to your termis tomorrow or something and they should be finished pretty quickly then.

@Soul of Iron: Thanks. I always found red very much fun to paint and red minis usually look great on the battlefield.

@HF Izanagi: Awesome allegory there. Maybe giving me a bit much credit but I don't mind. The airbrushing is always done a bit different. This time I think it was: first layer of VMA Mahagony mixed with a little ruby(?) red, then some more red thrown in for the first "highlights" (you know, not spraying the entiremini but only where it really reflects the light) and so on, adding more red with each layer.

@Wehrkind: Cheers. I really love the timelessly awesome design of Space Marines and Terminators but i'm pretty sure I'll get sick of them as well once I have this BA army and the upcoming SW army finished (I have this slight undercurrent dislike for Space Wolves).



Update!




Things are going a little bit slower these days but I'll try to have this first batch finished by Sunday. C&C welcome as always!

Right, the week's been a bit crazy and it's been way longer than I thought until this update. I even am not as far with painting as I'd liked to be. Anyway, here's the current state of things on the new BA terminators:





I'll try to finish them tonight. The other BA terminators (from the Hybrids Space Hulk set) are finished. I'll post a picture of those very soon.

So that's that, I'll get tons more stuff done the upcoming week. C&C welcome as always and thanks for looking!

Well, some new pictures!



























Hope you like them.

I do, and sadly, we reach the end of this particular commision!

I will pm you about next steps. Thank you for your wonderful and quick work! If you have not sealed them yet, you don't have to, I will do it myself along with everything else in the set!

Very happy Siggie!