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Lately I've been painting up some Flesh Tearer marines from the Assault on Black Reach set. I'm halfway through the Tactical Squad and thought I'd share my progress for you perusal!

Feel free to leave any comments or criticisms, or just words of encouragement

This is the first Flesh Tearer I painted. I did him singularly to get an idea of how it would turn out.




Here's two subsequent Marines. I find doing two at a time gives me decent progress but stops me going stir crazy! Building up the red sections tends to be time consuming.



Next is the Flamer wielding Marine.



You'll probably notice I've not attempted the Chapter symbol yet. I need some serious free hand practice before I try that!

Also as a note, I'd originally painted these miniatures up as Ultramarines, but I'd done a terrible job! So I stripped them using Dettol and a toothbrush. It works amazingly well and leaves all of the detail intact.

I'll post more pictures up as I complete more Marines. The remainder of the Tactical squad are next, then I think I'll tackle the Terminators.

Hope you like them so far

UPDATE: Here's the full squad.

They looks pretty good, nice clean and crisp paintjob

Had an initial problem with the images though, had to drag their URL to my browser

kenshin620 wrote:They looks pretty good, nice clean and crisp paintjob

Had an initial problem with the images though, had to drag their URL to my browser

Let me try to sort that. They all appeared initially in the preview, but now I only get the first image.

Thanks for looking


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All fixed now. The forum didn't like my Flickr account for some reason!

Ooh, those are some crisp Marines! I definitely like the look of them. I don't know if your lighting is blowing it out, but you could definitely use some shading on the red. A light touch of Gryphonne Sepia in the recesses would be pretty much the final touch on these bad boys. I like em!

very well done.keep up the good work.

Very nice, crisp and clean. I like them!

Very nice! You've hit all the marks, I like these marines a lot.

Well done

Thanks for all of the kind words

I'll post more pictures up as I get closer to completing the unit.

They look great,in particular the eye sockets and edge highlights.

I like these alot. Especially the black helmets that look very ominous with that eyelense tone.

im loving those helmets on the 2 outer right models... is it possible to get those heads anywhere els?

I really like the high contrast on these . Mind tend to look a lot more muddled D:

I love the hardline highlights and the pink hue of the lenses. Excellent work, perhaps someday they will fight along side my Blood Angels!

Thanks guys and gals. I still consider myself very much a novice painter, so it's really heartening to hear such praise

One thing the pictures seem to hide a little is the lighter metal highlights. I'll try to get some better pictures once I've finished the next two Marines.

A few of you have commented on the eyes. They're really simply done. It's just Skull White with a Bhaal Red wash. The wash tends to stick more to the edges of the eye socket, leaving the middle a little whiter than the outsides. I was worried they were a little too pink!

It's going to be an army to take pride in. Really good work!

Great job, those eyes really pop! Make sure you get the pictures of the breadnaught up when it is pretty!

-cgmckenzie

not sure about the extreme highlights but very well done.

Hey guys and gals.

I've finished the next two Marines, so thought I'd post them up as well as some alternate angels of the squad so far.

Hope you like them

These are really well painted, and I really love your colour scheme. You should be very proud of those

Nice colour scheme and they all look nice and crisp well done

They look as mean as the devil!I'm in too it.

Well done, good sir!

I just noticed that on Forge World they do a Blood Angels transfer sheet which has Flesh Tearer symbols on!

That solves my freehand designed problem.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/BLOOD-ANGEL-TRANSFER-SHEET.html

Very crisp painting there fine sir!

MOAR these are great ;D

Nice crisp job! The first picture however made me think about will it blend with the blender in the background

Nice paint job. hope you post more pics of your later models.

Mizeran wrote:Nice crisp job! The first picture however made me think about will it blend with the blender in the background

Lol1 If not I can always put it in the toaster next to it!

Something I noticed, that I like, is the purity seals. I like that you went with a color other than red for the wax. (I recognize that red probably wouldn't go too great on the already red armor, but still, it's different.) I've been playing around with that myself, and seem to find that, unfortunately, red seems to be the only color that works against my green marines.

You mentioned that it was a difficult process building up your red areas. Would you care to share how you do it? Everyone seems to do red a different way.