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These are my latest tanks from my 'Blood Eagles' chapter. The Baal was my most recent effort, and I'm thinking of adding a name to the front of each tank. I'd appreciate any tips, feedback or advice! Thanks for looking. If anyone wants any more pics, just ask. I also have a landraider, assault terminators and assault marines.

Very nice! The freehanding is amazing! You might whether them a bit though.

Wow - how did you do that freehand?

I agree with HONAW, it looks great and maybe a slight bit of weathering. Sitll, great job!

Thanks very much for the positive feedback guys!

The freehand was done with afew concept sketches and applied after the red basecoat with biro. Then I filled in with white and kept on adjusting until each eagle 'looked right'. The one on the auto/las predator took me forever! I still like my original razorback ones the best personally.

How would be best to apply the weathering? at the moment the areas near the tracks have been lightly drybrushed with scorched brown and I've applied chips with boltgun metal over scorched brown.

I thought I'd put some more pictures up. Here's a terminator assault squad!

and some baals...

These look great! Very vivid red! Awesome logos.

very unique design and freehand work! very bold!

Wouldnt blood eagle mean the eagle is red not white? xD

Hmmm Mr Lunahound, you make a good point. I'd better repaint immediately Anyway, here's a devastator squad and my current commander. Not too sure about the eagle on the devastator sergeant's helmet. Maybe I should switch it back to plain red.

The eagle on sergents face is most original and effective.

me like it lots

I love the eagle on on the sergent.

Another vote in favour of Sgt. Eagle's facepaint.

Great then, I'll keep it. And now Sgt. Eagle has a name
Just finished my objective markers. Let's leave no man behind!:

And here's an assault squad too.



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Oh dear, thats a bit blurry...

I think they are great. Also, I feel there is a trend recently towards "more weathering = good weathering". I think you have just about the right amount of chips, and a tiny bit of weathering, I mean, marines probably do look after their equipment.

And here's my latest conversion project. In my fluff, the Blood Eagles come from Overreach, a planet also inhabited by great eagles. So if space wolves can domesticate the local fauna, why not us? Thinking of using it as mephiston in games. But not too sure what colour to paint the feathers. I was thinking of white flecked with grey?

Great job on the freehands.. and this griffon is just ridicilously cool. ^^
I wouldn't use it as mephiston though. It's just way too big.

...speechless.

Thanks, dissecting and reassembling the griffon to become an eagle was hard. Particularly sculpting all the extra feathers...

Surely if it's too big, it only disadvantages me? I'm not going to be able to hide that thing behind a tank like I could with mephiston! Personally I think mephiston's statline seems way too powerful for a marine-sized model S6 T6 and 5 wounds pretty well suits a chapter master mounted on a giant eagle

Love the chapter look, your free hand egals on your tanks and the helmet of your dev sgt, realy add the little something, Would like to see a pic of them all together.

How did you accomplish such epic freehand?

Lovely work. The emblem work on the helms, and tanks etc is outstanding and really lifts your chapter above most of the "self themed" chapters I've seen. There are a lot of excellent paint jobs getting around so it's not that easy to make an army truly stand out, which you have accomplished. Very impressed, thank you.

Wow, That eagle rider is insane.

Looking forward to seeing that painted up.

I am looking forward to seeing that eagle done! I wouldn't suggest doing all white though. On a model that large the white will probably look to monotone. I would go for bald eagle inspired colors but with more white than normal.

Perhaps something like one of these birds might look a little more striking than pure white:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-chested_Snake_Eagle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-backed_Hawk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk

ooh... interesting patterns and ideas. I agree with you on the pure white thing, it's not enough. Here's my test wing:


Wasn't so keen on the feathers at the end, so I tried some with a blending technique and I really like them. They're not all finished, but you can see the intention. I think I'm going for something along the lines of a white gyrfalcon or a gosshawk, but with the black and white reversed on the individual feathers:
http://www.pbase.com/image/82723702
http://www.robertbateman.ca/paintings/eveninglightwhitegyrfalcon.htm

Will probably use the eyes of that snake-eagle though, Jefffar

This is wonderful! The free sergeant has just the right tone of art-meets-badass that marines cover so well. The eagle rider is going to be something to treasure.

A couple of modeling suggestions: MOAR BEAKIES! A Captain Shrike and some Raven Guard bitz painted to match your stuff here would no look out or place at all. Also, if you're not afraid of chop work (and the eagle says you're not) a few DA parts would go well. The larger Vehicle icons are easy to pop the wings off of. I've found a a beakie with the 'scope' shaved down makes a wonderful base to attach the helmet wings for a very aquiline look.

Sorry to not write much description but it all looks bloody great


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Ps. Do you live near London? If so do you fancy a game once it's all complete? I am currently creating my own army slowly an may be complete around the same time

You know you should start a WIP Blog right? and post all this awesomeness there!!!

The paintjob on those tanks are sickkk!!! Awesome!