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Hi! I recently entered a Painting contest focused on Pre-Heresy World Eaters. I didn't win. But I am really proud of my entry none-the-less!
Here are some pictures of the finished model:





Thanks for looking!

Like it, is that a maxmini jump pack?

Nope! Made it myself! But I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks!

That's an impressive amount of gore ... nice splatter! Always did like pre-Heresy World Eaters and you've done them justice.

Nice!

Excellent work! Is it just the camera that makes the blood look hot pink, though?

Dude looks good man well done!

lessthan1337 wrote:Excellent work! Is it just the camera that makes the blood look hot pink, though?

Thanks...I didn't even notice that until you said it...now I can't un-see it! Yeah, just the camera. Cheers!

RSJake wrote:

lessthan1337 wrote:Excellent work! Is it just the camera that makes the blood look hot pink, though?

Thanks...I didn't even notice that until you said it...now I can't un-see it! Yeah, just the camera. Cheers!

Heheh, just 'shop in a decapitated My Little Pony

Sucks you didnt win, because it does look pretty nice. I also prefer the look of pre heresy world eaters

lessthan1337 wrote:

RSJake wrote:

lessthan1337 wrote:Excellent work! Is it just the camera that makes the blood look hot pink, though?

Thanks...I didn't even notice that until you said it...now I can't un-see it! Yeah, just the camera. Cheers!

Heheh, just 'shop in a decapitated My Little Pony

That's awesome! We actually have a talking My Little Pony at home, and I have vowed to do just that if it doesn't shut up!!! Funny though, now that I think of it, I haven't seen it around for a while! Hmmm

Thanks all for your kind words! But I mostly did it just for fun, didn't even think I'd do as well as I did, and I can't wait until the next contest!

Wow that's a lovely model, great paint job and he looks absolutely brutal! Any plans to extend him into a squad?

He looks good, but I think the blood needs some more depth. I would some darker red splatter so it's not all one color. Right now it kinda looks like he went apeshit on a red paint can.

He looks great, good job!

And I also liked the pixelated "ground". Very... Doom-esque.

Neat.

What model is the bare arm from?

Also, how was the blood done?

@Pacific: Thanks! It's my best paint job to-date...I just hope I can keep up this level, and improve even! I'm not holding my breath though. And yes, eventually, I want to expand this into a whole army! Most likely a Blood Angels count-as Army, unless a better codex comes out in the next few years that would represent them better.

@Darth Bob: You are correct, there needs to be some more depth, but this was my first attempt at realistic blood splatter (I actually did research!) I was going to start out with a darker red, for kind-of dried up blood, and then a bit lighter, then a few splatters of bright red for really fresh stuff, but I didn't want to screw it up. So I will go back over it at some point and do just that. Thank you for your critique. I honestly do appreciate it! It makes me try harder!

@Destrado: Thanks!

@Popsicle: The arm is from an AoBR Slugga Boy Ork. I was going to use a Nob arm, but it was just too big! If I do something similar later on with Terminators, I might use Nob arms. As for the blood splatter, I Googled splatter images, and then did a practice splatter on a plastic lid to get a feel for it. It actually looks much better in person, although I still want to go over it with different shades of red like I said earlier.

Here is the lid I practiced on: You might be able to see that I used a lighter shade of red on the "thicker" areas of blood to show that it wasn't dry yet, but I failed to do that on the final model 'cause I chickened out, I didn't think I could pull it off without screwing it up.

The Top Left splatter is supposed to be arterial spray, Top Right, Chainaxe splatter and the Bottom, a spot where a large chunk of something bloody (brains?) hit and slid off.

Thanks everyone for your comments and especially your critique!

RSJake wrote:
The Top Left splatter is supposed to be arterial spray, Top Right, Chainaxe splatter and the Bottom, a spot where a large chunk of something bloody (brains?) hit and slid off.

Wow. ...just wow. That is intense O_o