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So I bought a bunch of forge world stuff lately, and I am going to do a small force of crusade era marines. I am probably going to do them as Imperial Fists and because of that I've painted up a test model.

The stuff I have for the army so far are:

-A land raider proteus.
-A contemptor dreadnought.
a gw 2nd ed. landspeeder.
a bunch of FW marines.

And then the plan is to finish my Terminator project and add a squad or two of termies too.

Well on to the pics!






Took me around 2 hours to paint him, and this is the way I figure I'll paint the entire force.

So what do you guys think??

That's a beaut yellow. What's your recipe? Might use it for my Bad Moonz.

Good... The weathering does a lot to break up the yellow from being too much. I like it. The base is good too

For some reason I dont like the weathering. Other than that great model.

Swordwind wrote:That's a beaut yellow. What's your recipe? Might use it for my Bad Moonz.

Thanks
The recipe is:
airbrush with tausept ochre, mix vallejo flat yellow in for first senital highlight followed by pure flat yellow and then flat yellow with a bit of white. then it have got a thin glaze of vallejo transparent yellow to tint it a bit and then som edge highligts in flat yellow

genom.cor wrote:Good... The weathering does a lot to break up the yellow from being too much. I like it. The base is good too

Thanks

JohnnoM wrote:For some reason I dont like the weathering. Other than that great model.

Thanks, and I guess the weathering is up to personal tastes

Oh tda, you continue to impress!

IF are one of my fav chapters, and this yellow is beautiful, very bright as it should be but as has been said the chips (which are wonderfully done btw) break it up nicely. All IFs should have black trim as well, pre heresy or no, looks so much meaner than red.

Cant wait to see a whole army done like this!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Oh tda, you continue to impress!

IF are one of my fav chapters, and this yellow is beautiful, very bright as it should be but as has been said the chips (which are wonderfully done btw) break it up nicely. All IFs should have black trim as well, pre heresy or no, looks so much meaner than red.

Cant wait to see a whole army done like this!

Thanks mate I'm planning on getting a lot of stuff done over the Christmas holidays so hopefully there'll be an update shortly

Kind of reminds me of cyrax from mortal combat. I like it

Very nice can't wait to see more!

Merry Christmas!

Flying Pooo wrote:Very nice can't wait to see more!

Merry Christmas!

And a merry christmas to you And here's a bit more.


I got a bit of work done on my contemptor, it's still wip and there's lots left to do but I felt it was worth showing of what I've done so far.

So here goes:





And this pic is taken with flash to show of the yellow a bit more as it has some nice blends that's hardly visible on the other pics.


Unfortunately my airbrush broke yesterday during cleaning, the nozzle broke in two... Luckily my father in law lent me his til I get a new nozzle for my own

Nice Dread!
Your yellow is simply amazing is's looks so crisp, the weathering is very nicely done too.

wow. how you doing your weathering?

Haha, i see that even pre heresy IF couldnt escape your AdMech influences... Love that conv beamer.

Flying Pooo wrote:Nice Dread!
Your yellow is simply amazing is's looks so crisp, the weathering is very nicely done too.

Thanks, that's the best part of having an airbrush imo

spudkins wrote:wow. how you doing your weathering?

It's just chardon granite applied with a sponge and then a highlight around the most prominent chips with vallejo flat yellow

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Haha, i see that even pre heresy IF couldnt escape your AdMech influences... Love that conv beamer.

Well it's hard to shake of old habits isn't it And I felt that the conversion beamer was fitting nicely with their siege specialties, which is also why I gave him a graviton gun in his fist

Here's some further wip pics for the contemptor!

It still need some detail work but I'm getting there.
The arms have gotten a lot of work done to them, and the metals have been washed with a few different washes to age them and dirty them up a bit.


And a power pose.


The conversion beamer is shaping up nicely, and his personal insignia too.


The power claw with the graviton gun. the two pics are an attempt to show how the articulation is working. I split the fists icon in two to fit it, and it is now an integrated part of the shoulder articulation.



Lastly I wanted to show the components for his arms, the way I've made him he can easily have a new weapon added to his armory.

Man, that's some beaut yellow. Can't help saying it again and again.

Good weathering on that conversion beamer too. Glad that you could do the Contemptor justice.

That brass on the conve beamer looks divine, perfect tone!

The combination of colours on him is just divine, superb job so far.

The Contemptor is looking very nice, as others have said that is a lovely yellow perfect for IF's.

Swordwind wrote:Man, that's some beaut yellow. Can't help saying it again and again.

Good weathering on that conversion beamer too. Glad that you could do the Contemptor justice.

Thanks, I gotta say I love painting yellow. It's very very satisfying

Vitruvian XVII wrote:That brass on the conve beamer looks divine, perfect tone!

The combination of colours on him is just divine, superb job so far.

Thanks mate, glad you like it

GiraffeX wrote:The Contemptor is looking very nice, as others have said that is a lovely yellow perfect for IF's.

Thanks

So finally it's time for an update

The first 5 man squad is almost done and I'll get some pics once I've laid the first coats of paint. But until then you can have a few other pics

first is my pre-heresy terminators (also featured in another thread) which will be reproduced so I can make multiple squads.


My standard bearer wip, bearing the sacred roma-which I have interpreted as an ancient battle standard as there's no record of what the relic actually is, but it's believed it might be a standard.



Then onto the big guns, the proteus is comming along nicely.









And the contemptor... Again, but with more detail finished. Still need to do the black parts.








That's it for now, just had a load of fun playing with my brothers camera

Great work mate , love the yellowa and the chipping

love the contemptor, excellently executed colour and weathering. Where are the bases from?

neil101 wrote:Great work mate , love the yellowa and the chipping

Thanks mate, much appreciated

Ruglud wrote:love the contemptor, excellently executed colour and weathering. Where are the bases from?

Thanks, the bases are not resin bases, I made them myself They're made with broken up pieces of plaster.

this just gets better and better. any paint on the the termies yet eh eh eh?????
once again love you damage looks awsome

Noticed that your Contemptor got featured on What's New Today. Good job mate. Can't wait for the next update.

spudkins wrote:this just gets better and better. any paint on the the termies yet eh eh eh?????
once again love you damage looks awsome

Nope, no paint on the termies yet, as I have to make some more of them And thanks

Swordwind wrote:Noticed that your Contemptor got featured on What's New Today. Good job mate. Can't wait for the next update.

Thanks man, got really excited when I saw it too it's the second time I get a miniature featured in the what's new today, and I can help feeling a little proud.

There'll be an update soon, as I've gotten some more work done. But it's not going as fast as I want it to go, cus I've been swamped with commissions lately. But fear not, progress have been made

This is amazing mate, I have always loved imperial fists and you have really done them justice.Can't wait to see more, definitely following this one.

Beautiful.The vivid yellow and sharp weathering do a great job of making you think 'this is a huge, old, metal battlesuit'. Its got the same kind of look as an old JCB. I'd go in expecting these to be pretty heavy metal minis!

OZ-Guardsman wrote:This is amazing mate, I have always loved imperial fists and you have really done them justice.Can't wait to see more, definitely following this one.

Thanks, I've always had a soft spot for imperial and crimson fists myself so when I decided I wanted to do a pre-heresy force I ended up going yellow

Bewareofthephil wrote:Beautiful.The vivid yellow and sharp weathering do a great job of making you think 'this is a huge, old, metal battlesuit'. Its got the same kind of look as an old JCB. I'd go in expecting these to be pretty heavy metal minis!

Thanks, I have always loved the way industrial machinery in yellow looked and it is a blast to paint I must say

Well, due to commissions this has seen less work than I'd hoped lately. I have been working on a command squad but the two essential miniatures I needed and bought in finecast turned out to look like they'd taken a swim in a chemical lake... And so did the replacements GW sent me, in fact they were even worse looking :( So I am currently waiting for their reply and am expecting to get another two at some point as I won't give up till I have miniatures of an acceptable quality, as that is what I friggin' paid for...

So I'm not to happy about their lottery cast right now..

I also started work on a scout squad, and the first tactical squad but haven't gotten around to taking pictures yet

On another note, my boss (I'm a freelance painter for a painting service) decided to give me a little something as he didn't need it.

Now what was it, you might ask and wonder, and I'll tell you right after the pics




It's the leftovers from his last commission, which just so happened to be an imperial fists army :chrome:

I also got a heap of other stuff as he's really the most awesome boss in the world, but those aren't really relevant here.

That's it for now guys, hopefully I'l return to this soon