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So I have taken a very long time to actually start painting my models but here it goes.

Fluff


Army List


Wyches!

I tried the was with the purple for the skin, But I think I used too much paint. What ratio do you think I should use?

Also could you be more specific on the body suit? It is green and no areas are grey. But nonetheless I am thinking its a little stale.

Ok So I have just finished 3 more Wyches and a Hekatrix. I tried to do a little more with the skin color scheme. Still looking for improvements in that area.




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My profile has closeups of individual units, won't put them all up, but here's one.

Ok, just got busy over the last couple of weeks, but finally here are some WIP trueborn. These will be of the sliscus variety, so they will be bearing shard carbines and splinter cannons.







Also in the works is my Sliscus. I was originally thinking of using a Lokhir Fellheart, but I couldn't resist the urge to model something. Pics of that later.

Sliscus WIP will be posted today, but in the meantime I am looking for some suggestions on what I can do to make some tubes. I have some wire, also a hot glue gun, but no greenstuff. I don't really want to make the purchase for greenstuff yet, because Sliscus is really the only one I am modeling right now anyway.

Thanks Boomer,

Here is my almost converted Sliscus the Serpent. I have a couple things I need to do to this conversion. I want to attach some tubes from those things sticking out of his back to connect to the butt of his blades. I also am going to use some hot glue with some green wash to make some venom drip from his blades. So the tubes will be as if they are deliver the hypertoxins from the container over his cape.

But for the tubes I need some suggestions, I was thinking about using some partially see through green craft thread. But it may look flimsy(like actual tubes)

One other thing is the blast pistol, I wanted to throw in that holstere pistol from the raider kit, but it looks like a splinter pistol. I may just use it anyway.

jackanory wrote:His pose looks a bit awkward. I think it's the angle of his arms and how he's holding the blades.

In the picture I can definitely see what you mean. I took a closer look at the model and found that one of the valves on his back is off kilter, It kinda makes the right arm look a little off. Still.. maybe I should redo the arms. I kinda had in mind for doing a small scene with him decapitating prisoners. So that is why the pose is like that.

Point taken on the arms. I switched out the right arm. He now has a hydra gauntlet holding one of his power swords. Looks great with that matching elbow blade on the other arm.

Some great suggestions on different blades. I would like to use the venom blades. But I already have spent quite a bit on scourge bits, I'm guna feel stupid for not buying a box... The trophy poles idea is an excellent suggestion. Though I like the idea of him being super high on combat drugs, and doesn't feel the weight of those massive blades. I also plan to use some hot glue to make a small drip of venom from one of the blades, and it probably wouldn't come out so good on those smaller ones.

Thank you sum1! Guitar strings worked perfectly. I had nylon strings so I hope that won't be a problem. I remember seeing an excellent talos using guitar strings as tubes, I guess it just forgot about it.

I will save pics on the sliscus until I have made up my mind and begin painting. In the meantime I am trying to kick my ass to get some more trueborn done.

So I think I have painting ADD. I said before I would work on more trueborn before I paint sliscus. But I have decided that I actually want more practice on wyches so that I can get his face and skin right. But then I really wanted to get some thing done on some vehicles so I started 2 raiders. I need to do the prow and get some new paints for blood splatter. So pics perhaps today or tomorrow.

So here is what I have so far on the hull of the raiders, I am still deciding whether I want to do so freehand on the white parts before I add the blood splatter. I was thinking something along the lines of black thorns. Or maybe a serpent for Sliscus' raider.

Notice the inverted styles. I personally like the white to be in front. I think it will stand out against the blood splatter better.

Well, with no real guidance here, I decided to freehand some black thorns on the white parts of the hull. Having not done any freehand in a long long time, I am somewhat happy with the results. And I can always cover up the parts I don't like with my blood splatter. So two finished raiders will up this weekend if I can get my arse out and buy the paints I need.

I found an awesome guide to blood splatter on youtube and I will deffinitely be using this method. (about 5:00 in)




I am a guitar player so i had a broken string laying around so no big deal there. The blood splatter is only going to be on the front. So before the blood splatter I just need to touch up my freehand and paint the spikes, and decide whether I want to do chains or not. (im thinking not)

Still working on them. Thought I could be done, but I desperately needed to start more wyches. So finished raider pics will come after I've done the crew. For now enjoy blood splatter.

Vanq wrote:Looks hilariously awesome, like they have just ploughed through a bunch of people. Love it

That's the idea.
I'm thinking I'm going to put some of my tyranids to good use and have impaled genestealers, and rippers caught by chains. These ships will be like fly swatters. That will be the next couple of raiders though.

For now, I am going to finish 11 more wyches so I can have 2 squads fully done.

Here are some of the wyches I have. Not done yet, but I had to get them out, because I don't like my old ones. Here are their tatoos.




Here are 4 wyches I quite like.

I really want to get everything to tabletop quality. But the new jon the job is kinda getting is kinda getting in the way.

So I am making some goals for myself. I want a squad or two vehicles per week to get to tabletop quality. I'm thinking after everything has its basic first couple of coats done I can come back and touch everything up. This weekend my goal is to finish my Sliscus trueborn. I will also post some better pictures of those wyches because the lighting wasn't too good.

Ask and ye shall receive WIPs




And a closeup of Sliscus

Thanks for all the input guys. I have no qualms about stealing ideas from others. Like the capes for the trueborn and the serpent standard for Slisky Whiskers (Sliscus) But as long as they are not carbon copies of other peoples ideas I am satisfied. Which is why I chose to do the helmets with hair for sliscus trueborn rather than the cool Reaver helmets as others have used. And Silky Whiskers(better?) has the poison pipeline, and I haven't seen his head used before.

I didnt quite finish the sliscus trueborn over the weekend. But their capes are finished as well as the armor and eyes. Now I just need to color the loincloths, touch up the body suit, highlight the hair, and detail the guns.

Thanks!

I promise more stuff this week. I was going to finish the trueborn last night but passed out after work. So I will finish them tonight. But later I need to decide between actually finishing Slisky Whiskers, or doing more troops or transports.

So I had a family reunion last week. grandparents 60th wedding aniversary. Great reuniting with my large extended family. Bad for painting progress. Anyway, I wanted to put up Sliscus as I have some need for suggestions.

What to do for?
-sword hilt
-banner serpent

Also have a good idea of how im going to do venom. Hot glue and purple ink. I don't have green ink, so i'm going to have to figure something out for the green sword.

I was thinking about using these for bases. But I like your idea, you have any reference as far as "spines" go?

haha, base.. basecoat.. I get it. and feel only slightly stupid. I get it and like it. Definitely will be going that direction.

Those are some really cool bases. And they definitely have that alien temple feel that I like. Some of the runes however are a little too Eldar for my taste. That Hero base is way cool though.

Perkustin wrote:Really jealous of your vehicles, the weathering/spatter looks great!

My main attraction in this blog:
The trueborn squad are coming along AWESOME! The modelling is great, those shard carbines look pretty damn Smexy, as does the unified 'topknot' theme you have. They even look more heavily armoured than warriors somehow, hard to explain lol.

This means a lot coming from such a talented painter as yourself!

Perkustin wrote:
The only thing i am not sold on is Sliscus, he is well converted with some ingenious 'Sprue Fu' for sure but possibly a bit busy? I will reserve judgement till painting is complete.

It is worth noting though that with all the Lokhir Sliscus' my mind has been closed to new intepretations of the character.

I think its time for my full disclosure. My experience in painting and modeling minis is pretty limited. My last painted army was an old one eye. a squad of 3 Tyranid warriors and 6 fully painted gaunts. As for my modeling skills. I half attempted a winged tyrant. Metal pieces prevented me from ever getting even close. (Why I ended up deciding not to convert a Lokhir)

So when it came to my first real committed conversion, I will be the first to admit that i went a little... overboard? I think the busyness definitely comes from the way the bits sprawl out both vertically and horizontally.

A few things go into why I put so much into him. The first thing is that he had too much in common with his Trueborn. Same armor, same cape, smaller head. He really needed to stand out. I think it woulda been easy to loose him in a sea of bone a green.

And that is why a mini such as this, when not in a closeup portrait by himself looks like a lot is going on. And your eyes have a little too much to digest. But when holding it in your hand, or seeing it sitting on terrain, or setting him amongst the other painted troops, it is easier to step back and take in key elements without bombarding your eyes with color.

Being that your comment here is also my concern. I am worried about making the Serpent Standard too flashy. I would prefer it to be understated and not draw the eye to it too quickly. I want your eyes to go Face->Swords->Poison Tubes->Serpent Standard. This idea makes me think twice about doing flashy colors like green and purple.

Please forgive me if I sound too defensive. I take all comments to heart and mind. And I am always looking for a way to come to the best final result. Let me know if you have ideas for making the Serpent Standard not pop too much while still looking detailed.

hehe sorry kitch, didn't mean to kick your idea to the curb. I really was second guessing my interpretation of your idea. I will still be going with green and purple. But the green for the body of the snake will be really dark green, highlighting the spines with a catachan green. i might still keep the space between the spines a bright purple. You are right any other colors are going to make him to much of a rainbow dude.

Righto. So I know was talking about a little too much going on on the conversion. Well I told myself I was going to put venom dripping off the blade. So in the words of Freddie Mercury, "Don't Stop me now" (i've been listening to that song while I paint, and its easy to go over the top in that kinda minset)

I entertained the idea of venom coming from the serpent. didn't turn out so great.



Ordering Bases, so this will be the last wip image of slscus.

Ok so my Sliscus is based, I have modeled a Baron Sathonyx, and I am painting one of the new haemonculus model. Why no pics you ask? Because I have better use for my camera and its taking pictures of this wonderful little girl named Luna that I just got.




In all seriousness, pics of minis coming soon.

Haha, yeah, she's so viscious she eats her own waste..

Anyway here is a pic of my Sliscus, based and tentatively completed unless I decide to make any changes.

@Yggdrasil, I also really like your work, so the kind words mean a lot.

I have begun to work on things that are not on my list because after 20 wyches and 3 raiders, and mainly just more troops being available I decided to start working on other cool elements of the DE range. As I said before, I have never really done conversions prior to my Sliscus so I enjoyed the experience. I decided to convert my baron Sathonyx, mainly using GS.

Here is some fluff to explain the expansion of my collection.

So here is the Baron Sathonyx I have been working on. I GSed some hair, a cape, and a shoulder pad. And I used some reaver bits to extend the skyboard to make it "custom"

Here is before the custom skyboard (and better lighting)



Here is with the front extensions(poor lighting)

@ Da Piper Thanks! The thorns on the raiders are freehand. I at first considered using a stencil. But my airbrush is crap. Basically just two colors. The thorn is drawn with a chaos black, and then down the middle a line of chaos black fortress grey mix to make it look like it has some dimension.