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Very gritty (in a good way)

These are great, love the simple weathering...

Thanks guys! Glad you like the weathering.

You will all realise that these are mainly just repaints of the same models but I can promise that this will be the last one!

Anyway, I promised more pics so here they are...

Random squad made of spare guardsmen











And a HWS.

Don't you hate it when you delete you whole blog post the second before it is finished. Yeah me too...



Okay, second try,

Got some command squad pics for you, still some guys to paint for this but here ae the ones that are finished.



Lord Commisar and banner bearer



Freehand banner, banner is from a bretonnian knight set. I coudn't stand the original metal duvet the poor guy had to drag around with him.



Psyker, and dude





And there ya go, all up to date! I even had time to tidy my gallery up as it was getting a bit disorganised!

Cain

Objective marker wip is up next, in serious need of painting tips for that!

Very nice work Cain. Command squad looks really choice.

I had to share this with the dakka community, I just could not resist. It seems that not even the Blood Angels death company are imune to the callings of nurgle.

Behold, the mold marine!



Super zoomy in the gallery

Not quite sure how this happened, it was fine yesterday!

Any ideas on how to save him from this taint? I really do not fancy throwing him out

Wow, and he was fine yesterday? That's a mighty dose of something that Papa Nurgle's gifted him with. I can only suggest washing thoroughly with warm water/liquid soap, then sealing to prevent a re-occurence before moving on with the painting. No idea what would have caused such a quick spread on a painted mini though?

Were your fingers covered in grease (like, food grease) last time you handled it?

I think anvildude must have the right idea, I must have gotten some food on him at some point. atm I am living in a rather damp gloomy basement until the rest of the house is finished. Perfect conditions for nurgle to corrupt my marines!

After checking through the rest of my collection, a couple of other guys have gone sightly fluffy though none as bad as this one.

Time for those guys to have a quick bath methinks, can't be having that stuff spread!

Or you could just start a Nurgle army. Do a Quick coat of clear spray-varnish, though- don't want to get sic!

it must be quite moist where you kept the poot chap. Why not let it grow for the sake of science (and my couriosity)? You can always clean him later.....

D00d, if I were you, I would scrub the place with bleach or something. That's probably not good to be living and breathing with whatever bacterial funk that is.

Tsk Tsk, Mr Merlin, you have woken my thread from it's deep slumber!

Fortunately for you, I was planning on updating it anyway




For those of you who are interested, the nurgle infection had spread throughout my marines, while I have stopped it spreading further (I hope) I will probably start the army afresh!


Here is the plan...

I am now left with a bitz box brimming with around $300 of marines, most unpainted or basecoated. I could choose to continue painting them as BA but seeing as I was planning on starting a pre-heresy army, I decided to go all out!

Alternate Future Thousand Sons!

Now we all know that they became followers to Chaos during the Horus Heresy, but what if the fates had taken a different course? What if this loyal legion had remained on the side of mankind?

I intend to construct a fairly large sized army of these chaps, using a blend of GW and FW armours and a variety of bits from other companies. I will probably make some of the better know figures in the legion such as Ahriman and Phosis T'kar, maybe even the primarch himself! (although I am not too fond of Mangus to be honest) I hope to have made some decent progress in the next couple of months but will really get into the swing of things after the new year!

I have already assembled a couple of guys and will be posting a big, pic loaded update tomorrow when I have some natural light.



Until I have got the necessary parts to construct the Sons, I have plenty more to do!

I recently purchased the fortress kit from Warmill http://www.warmill.co.uk/Fortress_Kit/p814918_3938335.aspx
It is a fantastic piece of terrain and I highly recommend it to you all! I will be doing a review of it as soon as possible. One of the towers is all painted up but there is a lot more left!

Remember this guy?



I have now finished basing it! Now all that is left to do is improve the paintjob... Darn perfectionism!

To go alongside the valk, I have finished painting the Aquila lander from the BFM set along with a GW bastion, as you may have guessed, I went on a terrain making spree a couple of weeks ago!

Sorry for not having any pics of this stuff, but just check back tomorrow night and there will be a nice chunky update for you all!

Cain

YAY! I was hoping this thread would come back, and glad you caught it before a Mod did.

That Fortress is WICKED and I so want one! Yes please do put up pics and a short review. Our newest interest is Planetstrike and I need buildings that are not blown up. The GW stuff comes to mind but this post reminded me that I should check what is out there before dropping the $$$.

Looking forward to seeing whatever you do next!

I was happy to find out it was me who brought it back

Nice to see that you are reanimating the blog CC. I've always liked your cool creations.

Thanks guys!

Here are the pics as promised, they are not as good quality as I had hoped, I set up my photo booth, turned around and the sun had gone!

Anyway, here they are!

BFM pylons, they only took me four years to get painted!



And the crashed lander from the same set...









More pics when they load!

Until then, here is the finished Warmill tower.







This next pic shows ,my experiments with FW weathering powders, there is some aged rust, light rust, bone dust AND moss green on it, Can you spot them all?



This thing was great fun to paint and very fast also!



Next up, some pics of what I still have to paint and the downed valk

I am a big fan of the alternate heresy armies. There was a campaign for them some time ago on B&C iirc.

Yeah, I have wanted to try something along these lines for a while now. I am not sure if I should use the Dornian Heresy fluff (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/heresy/thedornianheresy.pdf) or make my own? Ah well, I will grt to that when the time comes!

ps, Your marine is winging it's way to you Mr Whalemusic, I have no idea when it will arrive but it took weeks and week to get here so I expect it will take some time!

Seems to be hit or miss between Canada and USA, sometime takes a week, sometimes 3. Never know, lol. Looking forward to him, he and one from another dakkanaut will fill the 4 HW slots in my devi sqaud, and I even have a Sgt for them from another!

Thats the one I was thinking of. I hope you don't go the GK 1k sons route, seems a bit overdone now. Doesn't really seem your style anyways.

No I am certainly staying clear of the GK route, while it may fit for game purposes, I prefer to go my own way!

More pics for you guys...





What do you think of my new hardwood flooring? Pretty nice huh?



GW bastion (curses! I forgot to paint the bolter bits!)







There, that should sate you hobby appetite for a while!

I will update tomorrow with pics of the valk and super fortress, until then adios!

By the way, would you all prefer for me to start a seperate 1k Sons thread or mingle it in with this? I am leaning more towards making another blog just to keep things neat and tidy.

Nope, dump it in this bad boy. More progress in few spots > fewer progress in more spots.

What colors did you use on the lander and the bastion? I want to avoid all my terrain being gray or black eventually

Its back from the dead.....Wicked stuff Commander , good and unusual colour choice for the scenery , really stands out . The Weathering on the warmill tower is just superb, tutorial would be good if you get time . and the crashed vehicles are equally great, wile your at it a tutorial for those lenses wouldn't harm either i know you have nothing else better to do

The thousand sons project sounds exciting , will you be doing the classic gold and blue ? or is there future a different colour . loads of cool stuff matey good to have you back posting again.

That Warmill Tower is absolutley fantastic! The weathering powders really give it that realistic, wet environment look!

I really enjoy the weathering, dirt and gritty and abandoned.

What's your opinion of the Warmill stuff?

And I personally prefer different threads, keeps things more focused and you tend to meet different people that follow different things.

@WM, if I recall correctly, the basecoat was dhneb stone with heaps of browns added on after (the warmill tower got poster paints as they went on better).

@Neil, Thanks dude! I will do some tuts when I get the chance

I willl probably go with the pre-heresy red and gold to make them stand out better (and every marine in my army is basecoated red! )

@dstein, thanks dude!


@Bloodaxe: I LOVE the warmill stuff!! It is so full of character and immensely fun to build, if you ever got one of those wooden dinosaur kits when you were little it was like that, execpt that the wood does not snap the second you take it out of the sprue. I will be doing a review as soon as I can for the general public!

Also, I think I may do a separate thread, perhaps just showing off the finished guys in here but having a different progress log so that I can put the fluff in.

Thanks for the continued support guys!

I will try and get more piccys up tonight or tomorrow, keep you eyes peeled!

Alot of good stuff in here.

Wow, updated two blogs in one day!

For those of you who did not know, my thousand sons blog is now separate. Link in my sig!

But that is not why I am here oh no...I have begun my painting extravaganza, seeing how much I can get done before Christmas!

I have had a Chimera sitting on my shelf since my last birthday and decided it was high time I did something with it. Here ya go!











I also converted a landspeeder up for my guard. Inspired by Ash1's incredible guard army, check it out, well worth a look!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/351655.page

Man those look chewed on... great work!!

Thanks Gits! Anyone know what is up with these pics? The last three are supposed to be the land speeder but show up as other things except when you click on them. Is this just my computer?