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Hi guys! This is my first fully painted army and also I'm 12 years old so they may not be up to dakka's standards but oh well.

I'll edit my post to add some more images soon.




The Whole Army



1st Company- named The Hunters

More Coming, I'm just waiting for them to upload!

EDIT:


1st Company Command Squad



Grand Master of the 1st Company



Sergeant of the Command Squad



Member of the Command Squad



"For the Emperor! Arghhhhhh!"



Standard Bearer Ash



Close up of the Standard



Grand Master of the Hunters



Close up of his left hand lightning claw- one of my first attempts at OSL



Close up of his right hand, another attempt at OSL



Venerable Dreadnaught



Librarian Klonski

Next Post will include the Land Raider!

Very nice. I like the colors.

...Are those... Winnie the Pooh curtains?

Mordechai wrote:Very nice. I like the colors.

...Are those... Winnie the Pooh curtains?

Yes, yes they are

Well I share my room with my little brother so.... yeah.

Thanks for the comment.

Stay tuned everybody more is coming!

Interesting, looking forward to some close ups.

The collour scheme works verry well.

The freehand details on the grand master look great.

really good work, dude. Great attention to detail and a lot of work on stuff like banners that came out pretty well. Hope you get some games in with them soon.


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great work on the bases too, btw. lots of people just forget about them but yours are good.

Bullfrog wrote:Interesting, looking forward to some close ups.

I like how this comment came right after talking about the curtains... Very nice models btw

That banner is so very good. not sure how I feel about the lightning claws but I see what you were going for and everything is just nice.(I want to steal your banner)

Hi everyone! Thanks everyone for the kind words.

As I promised, here are some pics of my Land Raider. What do you guys think?



Front View of the Grand Master's Personal Land Raider




An attempt at some free hand



Right hand side



Left Hand Side



Close up of the writing on the door



Top hatch, another attempt at some OSL.



And the melta gunner.


What do you guys think? Also some constructive criticism would be very much appreciated.

I'll post some pics of my 2nd Company soon.
Thanks

freehand stuff is ace. It's really awesome to see it on tanks and (well, for me) really difficult to do well but you pull it off.

WOW and to think your 12

Nice painting all over, you do DA justice.

Nice work!

Good stuff! Much better than what I painted up at 12! I like that you're not afraid to do freehand, OSL, and basing... stuff I only picked up RECENTLY...

Keep them coming- love SMs in general, DAs and Sanguinary guard in particular... and you've got gold DAs...

WIN!

1) Excellent work.
2) Excellent work, especially given your age/experience.

It's very easy to tell you've looked into a lot of tutorials and practiced your techniques. It's encouraging to see a kid that focused and disciplined.

And double points for being a Dark Angels successor.

Wow everything looks great mate well done

You're 12 and doing that freehand? Color me jealous

The painting is solid, the modeling is there, you've really made a good force. Nice work!

Okay, I really love this army. The paint scheme is amazing and your freehand turned out really well! Keep up the great work. I really like the way every single model looks.

If you want to improve your OSL a bit, it might be worth reading through this tutorial.

They look good, doubly so for a 12 year old. Very good stuff. The conversions look natural and the freehand is decent. The OSL is pretty good too.

If only all 12 year olds could type as well as you. Actually, some 20+ year olds here on Dakka have worse writing.

I'm impressed. Love the colors and the freehand banners/tanks. Keep up the good work.

Thank you everyone for the really kind words, it's put a smile on my face.

-Cypher- wrote:Okay, I really love this army. The paint scheme is amazing and your freehand turned out really well! Keep up the great work. I really like the way every single model looks.

If you want to improve your OSL a bit, it might be worth reading through this tutorial.

Thanks, I'll have a look at the tutorial soon.

ph34r wrote:

If only all 12 year olds could type as well as you. Actually, some 20+ year olds here on Dakka have worse writing.

Ok so here's a bit of an update. Here are some pictures of my 2nd Company which I call the Watchers.



The 2nd Company.



Sergeant Mactavish of the Command Squad- My little brother named him



The Apothecary



The Standard Bearer



Close-Up of the Standard



2nd Squad of the 2nd Company



Grand Master of the 2nd Company



Left hand side



Right hand side



Close up of the gunner



Close up of the Grand Master


Thanks everyone again for the kind words.
So what do you think of my 2nd Company?
I'll post some pics of my 3rd Company Veterans soon.

I love the free hand on the vehicules and on the flags, good job

Porcupine el Josh wrote:


Standard Bearer Ash

I like this guy!

So any History on these guys!

I like the dark angels. Where did you get the Commander?

Asherian Command wrote:

I like this guy!

So any History on these guys!

I like the dark angels. Where did you get the Commander?

By the commander I am assuming you mean this guy? He was made out of the Lugft Huron kit from FW while the cape and the lightning claws came from the chaos terminator lord kit. I also had to green stuff the cape to fit the angle of Huron's back. The Deathwing Shoulder-pads are also from FW.



I'll post some fluff along with some pics of my 3rd Company Vets.

Damn. When I was 12 I was squelching paint all over my Guardians with an oversized paintbrush and no concept of watering down.

Loving this thread. These guys basically bleed personality and badass.

Edit: blargh dyslexic typing.

I smell a future Youngblood award...

great work.

yhea some1 of the same age as me ;D, nice free hand on the vechiles( srry bad spell-_-)

GL

Thanks everyone again for the kind words.

HudsonD wrote:I smell a future Youngblood award...

I already entered Golden Daemon Youngbloods (this was in 2010) with the Librarian above, which was the best figure I had at the time.
However I didn't get through to the second round.

Do you have any tips on getting my painting skills to a higher level so I can enter this year please?

I would be very thankful of tips on how to improve my painting.

More pictures and some fluff coming soon.

Porcupine el Josh wrote:Thanks everyone again for the kind words.

HudsonD wrote:I smell a future Youngblood award...

I already entered Golden Daemon Youngbloods (this was in 2010) with the Librarian above, which was the best figure I had at the time.
However I didn't get through to the second round.

Do you have any tips on getting my painting skills to a higher level so I can enter this year please?

I would be very thankful of tips on how to improve my painting.

More pictures and some fluff coming soon.

I think that the Librarian would have done far better if you fixed the writing on scrolls, fix that, and it will do fantastically!

I really like the thunder hammers.