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Hey guys - after a couple of months with no chance to paint I've picked up the brush again with a Captain for my Eagle Warriors force:



You'll recognise him as the AoBR captain, so I'm nearly there with completing the AoBR set (finally...) - next additions are going to be a recently-acquired Land Raider, and perhaps some bikers.

The rest can be seen on my blog or a previous Dakka post here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/314356.page (thought it best to start a proper P&M blog if I was going to be continually updating / adding stuff).

Hope you like - comments/hints/tips very welcome as ever.

Look really good nut I thought eagle warriors were purple. Other then that awsome

Man that is a clean paintjob! looks great and the face appears to be done really well! the yellow tabard works nicely with the marines armour, i'm just going to look at your other stuff now :-)


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Yep, nice work all of it!

Thanks guys - glad you like

@ Risewiththefallen - erm, think they've always been split blue and white, might be wrong though (I usually am...) - I do love a bit of purple though - perhaps you're thinking of the Hawk Lords? - http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Hawk_Lords - I quite like these too because you'd get to paint what is essentially pre-heresy Emperor's Children but as a loyalist chapter - my Eldar are a bit purply-around-the-edges though so I went for something different to make them distinct.

...and here's a couple more from my gallery (apols for posting some of the same stuff here as I have elsewhere - I'll restrict the new stuff to this thread for the Eagle Warriors work from now on)





Here's the AoBR sergeant - he has a terribly blobby face which I'll be coming back to when I've got the rest of the force done:


...and some of the tac squad from AoBR:


an old sniper scout that I had lying around, give the Eagle Warriors treatment:


Terminators now underway too - here's the first one:


A closeup of the Eagle Warriors shoulder pads that are now available from GW:


- these became available just after I started working on this chapter - nice timing, but it does mean that I've got to go back and rework the shoulders on some of the marines that I had already completed

Here's one of the first things that I tackled upon restarting painting - the AoBR Dreadnought - Love Dreads, must get some more:


...and here's the back view:


Right, that's enough for now, I think that pretty much brings this thread up to date with where I am today with the Eagle Warriors force - feels like I'm really starting to get somewhere with them, which is a great motivator now to get some more done ASAP. As ever, hope you enjoy, comments, hints and tips are always welcome

Wow, amazing painting skills. The white and blue are incredibly clean.

Did you scult the Sniper scout base using modelling putty? And how did you get the eagle warrior shoulder pads onto the AoBR marines?

Very nice work so far, subscribed

How do you get the blue/white line so crisp? I had trouble doing it on one Marine.

This thread reminds me I must finish my Eagle Warrior for the Space Marine Conclave project...

@ BishopGore - Thanks - so glad you like them! - Yes the Scout base was done a long time ago with milliput and a cocktail stick, not ideal to be honest, basing is one of the things I've got to work on a bit I'm afraid (although the captain at the beginning of this thread is starting to get to where I want to be a bit more perhaps). The EW shoulder pads were applied by clamping the body and using a bone saw to cut away the existing shoulder, I then put a generous blob of green stuff into the resulting gap, pushed the new shoulder pad into place, then trimmed and smoothed off the extra green stuff that squidged out of the sides with a wetted craft knife. A bit of hassle up front like this saves more hassle down the line because then you don't have to free-hand the icon. I should also mention that the icon on the terminator shoulder pad was made by making an impression of the GW icon - by covering one of the shoulders in baby oil to stop it sticking, then pushing it into a bed of green stuff - I then pulled out the shoulder pad, let the impression set overnight, then put more baby oil onto this "negative" again to stop it sticking, put a blob of green stuff on the termie's shoulder and used the negative like a stamp - neaten it up with a sculpting too and there you go! Once dry, the baby oil is removed with a bit of soapy water so that paint will adhere successfully.

@ Flashman - for tanks like the whirlwind, I mask off with frisket and apply the base colours with an airbrush. For everything else (including the speeder, because it doesn't have much large flat space where you get benefit from a spray rather than a brush), I'm afraid it's just a case of nice dilute smooth-running paint, a smallish brush, and a lot of swearing... I like half-and-half colourschemes because I find they look quite striking, but the tradeoff is that you add a certain level of tedium to the painting process. I find that the darker base-colour (Mordian Blue with a mixed purple and blue wash in the case of the dark blue base in this scheme) is best laid over the top of an existing basecoat of plain white, and then once that nice true line is in place, as you highlight up (which in this case is just 2 or 3 graded tones of mixed Mordian blue and Enchanted blue), pull back a little from the original line - this ends up leaving a slightly darker hued edge to the blue half - this makes it look sharper, sort of like having the starkness of a blackline in place but more subtle. Hope this helps.

This is a really neat blog and I'm loving your painting style. My only niggle/suggestion is the weapons - not the painting, but have you consindered drilling them out? It's particularly noticeable on the dread (I'd also drill out the exhausts, if so minded, btw).

Amazingly clean brush work... love the dreadnought.

@ inmygravenimage - indeed, very good point, this has been pointed out to me before - I will definitely do this - it's an easy fix and will make a big difference - just need to get a drill bit of the appropriate size (I've only got two at the moment, one's too big and the ither's too small!)


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Alathazal wrote:Amazingly clean brush work... love the dreadnought.

Ta v much!! Dreads rule.

Um ya I apologise I was thinking of the halk lords. Your army is going to look amazing! Do you use a white undercoat

risewiththefallen wrote:Um ya I apologise I was thinking of the halk lords. Your army is going to look amazing! Do you use a white undercoat

Yep - white undercoat is easiest for these guys I think, I just use the GW stuff. For the white bits by the way I give this undercoat a liberal wash with a mix of blue and black wash to fill in the lines and joints (after which it looks terrible...) then I block out the armour sections with dilute skull white with a touch of blue wash added, finishing by working up through the highlights to plain skull white again.

Hey those are some real nice paint jobs! And it's neat to see some eagle warriors. It's really cool when people choose armies you just don't see that much.

Thanks Iandroid! - glad you like them - more to come when I get more than 3 minutes to myself to paint!

looks very nice and clean (wish i could say that for my Ba) I especially like the land speeder.

Thought it was about time to add a nice Land Raider into the mix. This is in the "base-coated-partially-shaded-and-partially-built" stage, which is just after the "frustrated-that-I-can't-put-this-together-yet-until-I've-painted-the-insides-a-bit-more" stage, but still quite a while before the "can't-decide-when-to-stop-adding-finishing-touches" stage. I'm hoping to get to that final stage next weekend (wishful thinking).







Bit of a smudge on the blue there but easy enough to touch up.

I'm doing a proper work in progress log of how I'm putting this together over on the blog: http://weekend-painter.blogspot.com/

As ever, comments / suggestions very welcome - hope Monday is going easy on you.

Great paint job.

I usually dont like SM but this is changing my mind keep up the great work.

Are you applying paint with an airbrush or by hand? That is a very smooth and even finish, good work so far.

very impressive

Thanks Guys!

@BishopGore - Airbrush for most of the bodywork - gives a much better finish and does the bulk of the shading for you in double-quick time (I'm doing a much more in-depth step by step on my blog for this one - not really a tutorial as such but just a record of how I've approached a larger project like this). I even used the airbrush on a very low pressure to mist a purple wash over the blue.

While the airbrush brings huge advantages for a smooth finish, it can be somewhat troublesome when you're trying to shoot some types of paint. The Mordian blue here is a good example because it's a paint that really is not designed to be pushed through a small-ish airbrush, so you have to dilute with a proper acrylic thinner, and judge the consistency just right to get smooth results - too thin and it separates out and clogs, too thick and it dries on the tip and clogs. Lots of expletives and several airbrush strip-down-and-clean-ups later and here we are. The mid-tones for the blue, the sand colour for the interior, and the white shading are all done with Vallejo's "Model Air" range, which are specifically designed for airbrushes (the paint is more finely ground or something) - anyway, it does seem to clog up a lot less, so once you're past the application of the Mordian blue basecoat, it all gets a lot easier from there on in.


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...by the way folks, I took delivery of some drillbits at the weekend, so I've FINALLY started drilling out those gun barrels as suggested.

Drill bits = Win! I'm pleased to see results using Model Air, can you be specifc what shades you're using?

No problem. Model air paints used are from the 16-colour basic set.

Primed with GW white primer on the body - tracks and guns done separately in black primer

Blue:

Mordian Blue base, GW purple wash, Model air blue (VAL004) for intermediate tones, then add a tiny bit of white for highlights.

White:

White primer as the base, then a mix of black and blue wash into the recesses, Model Air white (VAL001) with a drop of blue wash added, then heavy-handed use of plain Model Air white to finish the job.

Interior:

Model Air Ochre (VAL033), then the same with a touch of white added to bleach out the middle of the panels.

As I said, tracks and guns primed separately in black, plan to use standard GW metallics to do these.

The plan is to use a heavily diluted mix of ochre and burnt umber to mist on some dusty/dirty weathering around the tracks, but the overall look will be quite clean / minimal damage to fit the rest of the army

Still awesome

Land Raider's finished (finally)







and here's where we're up to so far:

Some very beautiful Eagle Warriors!

Fantastic white and crisp blue! most impressive

Love the clean paint job on these mate, great work...

I have almost the same lot, but because painting such armour amout drives me crazy, taking my sweet time to complete my army...

Congrats again.

Wow, those look fantastic. Really sharp colors.

Thanks again folks. Next job is to get some more infantry put together before I tackle any more vehicles - will update when I've got some more done (bikes are on the list somewhere so might do them next when the termies are finished). After popping over to see Valmelik's stuff I might even have a go at some proper freehand soon, depending on how brave I'm feeling!