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Cool heat effect and I wouldn't worry about them not blending more together, looks fine to me.

Maybe I'll leave them then, it's less work xD

Eyes done! I think they went pretty well, there's a couple eyes that I'm not too happy with but on the whole.



So here's the next question: should I do a little light OSL from the eyes? Or leave them lens-y and not glow-y?

Last big pre-basing step: the OSL on th

Super productive day yesterday! Eye AND backpack OSL, a few details, and all the shoulder freehand (including adding squad markings to the Sergeant and a forehead blood drop)! I got overly excited and thought I had finished and was ready for basing, but I forgot that I still need to do the kneecap squad number!

I decided that this is 3rd Company, 1st Squad.

Front: eye OSL and chapter insignia!


Rear: Backpack OSL and Company/Squad Role insignia!


Close up on the melta-gunner, with added effects on the barrel!

Looking good.

Good update, the OSL is looking good and nicely done insignia. How do Flesh Tearers work for squad markings and insignia? Do they follow a different company marking structure to the usual codex astartes?

The osl looks pretty good, not too overpowering.

Barrel looking HOT! Nice work all around.

Great job, they are nearly there, can't wait for their finished bases!

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I finished them off yesterday, gotta find the time to photograph them proper today so you can see the finished result!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Good update, the OSL is looking good and nicely done insignia. How do Flesh Tearers work for squad markings and insignia? Do they follow a different company marking structure to the usual codex astartes?

Flesh Tearers use a mix of Codex and Blood Angels heraldry. The traditional white role symbols on the right pauldron, overlaid with the Blood Angels Company heraldry (only 3rd and 7th companies are red instead of white). So here we can see a single red drop over the "battleline" symbol.

Flesh Tearers don't use the Blood Angels kneecap-heraldry for squad numbers though, they use simple numbers on the right knee pad (not yet pictured). Similarly, Flesh Tearers don't follow the Blood Angels inversion of the left pauldron to mark a Sergeant, but there's no canon markings. Rather I've chosen to mark Sergeants more subtly with a black right knee-cap (not yet pictured). I've also added a blood drop to the Sergeant's helmet. I've yet to decide what to do with Lieutenant, Captain, and Veteran iconography, which I don't believe is canon either.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll,

Keep up the battle against the unpainted.

Cheers,

CB

Victory!

Here's the finished Flesh Tearer tactical squad!

The whole crew!


The Sergeant (the front-on photos were all out of focus unfortunately, but you can see him in the group shot)


The Lascannon and Melta-gun carriers


4 of the boltgunners (+ a bonus eye-level low-light threatening shot)


The other 3 boltgunners



And of course now that I've posted them, I've noticed not just a handful of paint flecks that need fixing (especially on the bases), but also an entire purity seal and scroll I apparently completely missed!

Victory, indeed. They look ready for action. Eyes and weapons are my favorite bits. Maybe the freehand symbols. They are all great details.

I really like your painting style on these marines. Great choice of chapter for a start. (Classic stuff right off the old 2nd ed SM chapters poster iirc.) But the way you're painting them up while its not real crisp it's bold and super effective.

Congrats on finishing up the squad! A lot of really cool techniques going on here, from the plasma and melta effects to the eye glow to the parchment and the cloth on the sergeant plus some really nice depth on the red.

Looking really painterly and unique - I would love to play against them!

Photos are the great revealer aren't they just when you think you're all done...

Can't wait for more

youwashock wrote:Victory, indeed. They look ready for action. Eyes and weapons are my favorite bits. Maybe the freehand symbols. They are all great details.

Thanks youwashock! I find that the models always look super disappointing until the details are on them. In this case, it wasn't until the freehand symbols were down to break up the black that I was really happy with them.

theCrowe wrote:I really like your painting style on these marines. Great choice of chapter for a start. (Classic stuff right off the old 2nd ed SM chapters poster iirc.) But the way you're painting them up while its not real crisp it's bold and super effective.

Thank you! I'm still a long way from doing super crisp edges or smooth blending, but every unit I paint I get a little bit closer.

tzurk wrote:Congrats on finishing up the squad! A lot of really cool techniques going on here, from the plasma and melta effects to the eye glow to the parchment and the cloth on the sergeant plus some really nice depth on the red.

Looking really painterly and unique - I would love to play against them!

Photos are the great revealer aren't they just when you think you're all done...

Can't wait for more

Tbf I did know about the stray paint flecks, but was being lazy. But once I saw a whole missing purity seal, and on one of the feature models of the unit to boot, I had no excuse.


I reorganized my display shelving a little bit, now the top has LAYERS. Like an ONION. I do intend to redo the terminators eventually, but that's low priority.

Excellent work on the Flesh Tearers, the crimson is gorgeous and I’m a fan of the layered osl, as well as the heat effect on the meltagun barrel. Little things like that bring a model to life.

A great looking shelf of painted minis gwyn. The Tearers came out well and look like they’re making a final stand against the Necrons with your terminators. Will the Termies be joining the Flesh Tearers or just getting an update?

 gobert wrote:
A great looking shelf of painted minis gwyn. The Tearers came out well and look like they’re making a final stand against the Necrons with your terminators. Will the Termies be joining the Flesh Tearers or just getting an update?

They will eventually join the Flesh Tearers, but I'm prioritizing un-painted miniatures first. Speaking of which.

Remember this Flayed One concept, from way back on Page 3? Literally from November 2019?


Well guess what's next on the table.

My best friend got me the Recruit box, and with it came a bunch of extra skulls. "Perfect for my Flayed Ones" I said. Well, It's time to actually build them.
Scale wise, they're likely a solid bit bigger than the new Flayed Ones (Immortal behind them next to the tallest of the Flayed ones for scale), and I put them on 32mm bases (no way those legs would fit on 25mm). I'm hoping that the new Flayed Ones are also up-based to 32mm...

Flayed One 1 is taller with a damaged head, looking as if it's recoiling from damaging hit.


Flayed One 2 (with Immortal for scale) needs some cleaning up on the head (which I dropped after it had been glued and so the glue got everywhere and started stranding. This is the test mini that I had done the legs and arm already from ages ago.


Flayed One 3 is really clean!


Flayed One 4 has this interesting hunched-over looking-over-one-arm look that requires two photos.



Lastly, Flayed One 5 is just asking for a skull to put in his hand.

Well done i'd say on the posing.
A great fit for flayed ones.

Thanks Not Online!!! They're a lot of work and, especially now there's new models, likely a good bit more expensive (Glaive Wraith bodies may be pretty cheap on ebay, but the AdMech parts aren't!), but I think they're gonna be a little more interesting.

I got some green stuff gap-filling done, and hole-hiding with a couple extra strands of flesh hanging over the arms to tie them into the piece. The next big challenge is to make and attach the second arms without screwing over the poses!

Wow, those Flayed Ones conversions are awesome! I never would have thought of combining nighthaunt with necrons, but now that I see it is both obvious and awesome.

Those Flayed Ones are looking pretty snazzy!

Great job on the tac squad, great feeling to get them into a display case and move on to the next project!

Keen to see your NightCrons progress, I've been sitting on my own nighthaunt and there's a definite temptation to go down a necron or dark mech route with the unbuilt ones I have. Flayed ones were a good start!

Thanks everyone! Let's hope you keep the enthusiasm now you see the second arms!

Unlike the first arm which was stock from the Sicarian Infiltrator/Ruststalker kit, I built the second hands from a mix of Idoneth, Daughters of Khaine, Canoptek Wraith, and Nighthaunt bits, built onto a Sicarian arm.

Here's the whole squad, then I'll go through them one by one again.


Flayer 1 (not the same numbers as last time just the order the pictures are coming up).
This one got a really "hand-shaped" hand, and some extra skin flaps on his big arm. I'm very happy with this guy generally!


Flayer 2 has a kind of bladed spike with extra hooks and protrusions? I'm considering snipping off the hook and the "thumb" and replacing them with less protruding blades tbh. I wanted this guy to look like he was stabbing somebody off to his side.


Flayer 3 was the one with the messy head. I gave him a bit of a flesh hood to hide the mess underneath when I did the greenstuff. I'm quite happy with his pose!


Flayer 4 is still a little "Horatio", but also a little "Kamehameha" now. One really big claw though!


Flayer 5, the recoiling one, got one MASSIVE blade. It still has a thumb though, and a smaller blade on the other side of the blade opposite the big pitted and rusty blade.

Keep it up Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Gotta say, these do give off the spooky vibe as they are supposed too.

Also their non uniformity shows just how deranged they have become.

I'd say you did the unit justice

Thanks guys! I was dreading this project, but now I'm super excited for it! It just needs one last thing then it's ready for prime-time...



Ok it's sideways and I can't figure out why after multiple attempted uploads, but now this one is using his thumb to turn around a skull he's holding in his other hand! I said he was "Horatio"!

To be or not to be...
Actually is a question in regards off Flayers that could be interesting to answer, considering they are allready soulless but flayed ones are also nuts?

And i'd say "horatio" turned out well

Cool conversions Gwyn, they look work really well as part robot part ghost

Very cool concept and execution, those are some scary- Flayed Ones. Can't wait to see them painted.