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Holy moly... So much yea!

@Commander Cain: Ahh thank you!

Cloak looks awesome.

EDC

Dear God man, that is a beautiful cloak!

Some of your best work yet, simply...

Stellar.

... oh My God, it's full of stars!

@evildrcheese, @Master Azalle, @Zywus: Ahh thank you!

@Stormwall: Pfffft thank you and I see what you did there.

So! A bit more progress on Ahriman:






Still need to do his helmet, finish off other gold areas, tighten up some details, and paint the entire weapon. XD Oh and make his base. I'm still trying to decide what to DO with his weapon though, agh. Suggestions?

Also! I just realised I'd completely forgotten to show the chain axe I've been working on for a friend. So! Here we go:

Planning is important!


First stages of cutting out the axe head pieces:


Axe head pieces before assembly:


Axe head with rough trim, testing out fit/positioning before trimming down to shape:


Trim ready for assembly - also showing the little bits of sandpaper I use for shaping:


Axe head fully assembled, and the parts used to attach it to the haft:


Almost complete:


Finally finished and attached to my friend's model!

This guy is one of my friend's older models, repurposed to create his character from one of our Deathwatch rp games. The axe turned out a little large, but friend is still very happy with it! He ended up using an arm with a plasma pistol for the left arm, which I forgot to take pics of, but oh well. Both arms are magnetised anyway for posing and weapon swapping.

As always, let me know what you think!

Jaw dropping. Can't believe people can just make stuff out if plasticard that looks that good.

EDC

That cloak = win.

Well done squire, well done.

@evildrcheese: Thank you! If it makes you feel any better, that chain axe took me about two days (spread across a few afternoons) to actually make.

@Aryllon: Heh, cheers mate! Much appreciated!

Update time!

Finally finished painting Ahriman! And then realised I didn't have his base ready, OOPS.




So, made his base - just need to wait for it to cool down a bit before I primer it. Bloody Aussie summer, agh.


Also cracked open the new 40k Ahriman model and put most of him together! He’s magnetised to the disc, so I can field him with or without it. Also used some greenstuff/milliput to help fill in some of the seams, just need to sand them down and smooth them out a bit, and then he’s pretty much ready for primer as well.


And finally, I started painting Geigor from the BoP box while I was waiting for the greenput to dry:


I need to figure out specifically what I’m going to do for his base though - I don’t want to do snow/ice since I do that a lot already. I’m considering ruins of Tizca for his base but my TSons heart is going ‘noooooo’ and making sad faces at me. XD

So! Thoughts, suggestions?

Any chance at a tutorial for how ya did that magnificent starry night effect on ahriman's cloak? Been wanting to do something similar for my loyalist thousand sons sect.

@Drummernathan: Sure thing, no worries! I'm planning to do a similar thing for the new 40k Ahriman model's cloak anyway, so I'll try to remember to take tutorial pics when I get around to painting him!

Anyway, been a while since my last post, apologies! I hope everyone had good holidays/New Year! I've been working on a few different things over the past few weeks, so here we go~

First off - I was commissioned to paint a Vindicare. I've since finished him but haven't gotten around to uploading the final photos yet. So in the meantime here's some WiPs of it!




I also got my hands on Canoness Veridyan, but I decided that I really needed to fix her pose and ditch the ridiculous high heels. I still need to add more detailing to her feet, but she looks a bit more comfortable now at least!


Also getting close to finishing Geigor! Just his base, his right arm and a few other bits and pieces to do.




Finally, I've started on the new 40k Ahriman as well (because I forgot I was still working on Geigor at one point, oops). Just the white of his robe's done so far.


As always, let me know what you think!

Hmm, somehow I missed the fact that you finished PH Ahriman, love how he turned out! Loving the gems that you painted, did you use a varnish on them as well or is it all just paint?

Vindicare is coming along nicely too, the highlighting on that black armour is perfect.

I love that cloak, and also i love that you chopped off the heels on the canonness

@Commander Cain: Ah thank you! And no worries man, I only just got around to properly photographing/posting the finished Ahriman anyway, so you haven't really missed much! As for the gems, I painted them normally, then covered them with 'ardcoat to make them actually shiny.

@amazingturtles: Thank you! The canoness is such a nice sculpt apart from the painful pose and ridiculous high heels, I just had to fix her up!

Update time! Unfortunately, not much in the way of new WiP stuff atm... mostly because I finally finished Geigor Fell-Hand instead!

Now I'm trying to decide what to focus on next:

- the new 40k Ahriman model?
- Canoness Veridyan?
- Legion Banner-Bearer?
- Legion Apothecary?

So! I put it to you all - what would everyone like to see me work on next?

Legion apothecaries or Ahriman would be cool.

So I just finished going through most of this thread, and I love everything. I just have a couple questions. What thickness plasticard do you use for weapons. Specifically, the one from the TS Librarian you made that's a couple pages back. And how do you get the edge bevels (or whatever you call the 'sharpened' sections of the blade) so smooth and even?

Excellent updates. 30k Ahriman looks awesome and 40k Ahriman is shaping up nicely too.

Not sure about the new feet on the canoness at this point but I have faith (see what I did there?) that you'll make it look awesome.

EDC

@Stormwall: Ahriman it is!

@PatrickDiomedes: The plasticard I use for weapon blades is about 1.5mm (0.06 inches) thick! It's the thickest piece from the Gale Force 9 Plasticard variety pack. If it's a blade that I want to have engravings in, though, I'll use some of the thinner pieces from that pack to make a layered blade so it doesn't end up too thick. As for the bevelling, it's mostly just carefully carving and scraping away a little at a time until I've got the angle I want, then using fine-grit sandpaper to smooth out any rough spots. I made a step by step tutorial on how to make a custom sword here, hopefully it'll explain the process a bit more clearly. I hope that helps, and let me know if you've got any other questions!

@evildrcheese: Thank you! And yes, I see what you did there. I've cleaned up the canoness' feet a bit more, but it's hard to tell the difference atm with photos, so I'm just gonna wait till I've primed her before uploading any more pics.

So, a bit more progress!

I've been working on sculpting a new head for the legion herald, and apart from a bit of sanding to smooth out a rough spot or two, I think she's finally finished! For my first time really sculpting any faces and long hair, I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out.


I also finished Ahriman's book:


and started work on his helmet:


...but I got distracted halfway through highlighting the bone on his horns because I decided I wanted to try and make a brush holder. XD

So here it is, my cheap-ass brush holder made from the spiral wire from an old spiral notebook, and leftover sprue!


It's not the prettiest thing, and time will tell how sturdy it actually is, but so far it gets the job done.


Here's a bit of a closer look at where I drilled through the corners of the support sprue and threaded the wire through to help hold it in place:


As always, let me know what you think!

Yikes, it's been a while since I last updated, apologies! I started taking miniature painting commissions earlier this year, which has been chewing up a good part of my spare time. Incidentally, for anyone interested, here's my commissions page!

Anyway! For anyone who missed it, I finished and posted my 40k Ahriman!

I also put up a tutorial on how to do his galaxy cloak, for those who were asking for it.

I've also just finished Canoness Veridyan!

As for current WiPs... here's a little more on my legion herald:





I had to re-sculpt the ponytail to actually fit it in the collar of the armour, but oh well!



Also did some detailing on the standard - XV legion, IV Fellowship. I got really lucky that it already had the IV there! Not sure what I'm going to do with the smaller circle right below the eagle, but the larger circle below that is going to have the Thousand Sons symbol free-hand painted in. Any suggestions for the smaller circle are welcome!

I've also managed to get my hands on the Collectors Edition space marine Terminator Captain from one of my local GW stores switching from Games Workshop to Warhammer. XD I'm not sure if I'm going to customise him any yet or not though, but I'll definitely be painting him as one of my 30k Thousand Sons in the red and white.

Hopefully I'll be posting some more WiP stuff pretty soon!

Hey again! I've just put up a tutorial I did for making custom street bases like this one:


And here's some of the models I'll be working on painting next - all of them for my 30k Thousand Sons army, of course.









Hopefully next time I post I'll have a bit more painting progress to show! As always, let me know what you think

Suggestion for your 'smaller circle' - a Cult logo, either his or the captain's. Alternatively, some kind of ~arcane sigil~ that involves the number three.

Very cool bases. nice idea for a brush holder!

I agree with sculpting a cult logo, company symbol or some such.

I noticed you had some new pics in the gallery so came hunting for this new blog post!

Good looking stuff as usual, I don' recognise the termie with the wrist mounted weapon, is he the LE guy?

The base is awesome as well! Using PVA to stick down the Agrellan Earth is very smart as it always chips off whenever I use it.

I haven't enjoyed perusing all of these models, but that Dread on page 1 and the basing look spectacular.

Oh cripes, it's been a while since my last post, apologies! Life got a little hectic, especially after I tore a bunch of ligaments and majorly bruised the bones in my ankle back in July. x_x Fortunately I didn't need hospitalisation or surgery, and it's recovering pretty well, but I'm still looking at another three more months until I can even think about getting back to sports, blargh.

I've also been busy lately with doing commission painting - if you're interested, please check out my Facebook page! I'll keep this thread for showing my own WiP stuff though, unless enough people request otherwise! XD

It looks like I forgot to post Nadim here when I posted him in my Showcase, oops! This guy managed to win me not one, but two local painting comps, so I'm pretty pleased with him, especially the freehand.

Also! I recently got myself a pretty decent webcam, and I've been playing around with some painting vids and such. I don't have much yet - painting around the camera is a pain in the ass and I'm still getting used to it, and I also need to get some better lighting. I do intend on eventually doing some tutorial videos though! Here's my Youtube channel - let me know if there's any specific stuff you'd like to see me cover!

Now onto actual WiP stuff! XD Unfortunately because of commission work, I haven't had much time to work on my own stuff, but here's my progress since last post:

My converted chaplain from the BaC box! He's almost finished, I just need to do some freehand on his cloak. The glaive blade could be better but I ran out of craps to give. XD






I'm also experimenting with how I want to paint the new Rubricae! This is the only one I've done anything with so far though - the blue is done pretty much entirely with drybrushing, so it's pretty quick and easy!








I haven't done much with the gold or anything else yet, but let me know what you think so far!