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@wbd cheers mate, it's really nice painting something different. Those get started boxes from darksphere make scions a reasonably cheap army, although I suppose everything seems cheap after fw. The yellow isn't too bad, it's really more of a brown. What are you working on presently?

@venom cheers! He's not too bad at all, only cried when he wants something. Hopefully won't be too long before he's sleeping through.

@AoV cheers bud

Been trying to get an hour here and there on finishing the first intercessor squad. Still a long way to go, but;



Still undecided on whether to use pop goes the monkey icons, or to try printing my own decals. More soon

Nicely Done! I'm liking the darker grittier howling griffins! Well done!

Cheers Az, I'm pleased with how they are coming out

First intercessor squad done;



Up next, the heavy bolter toting hellblasters.

Very sharp, you’ve nailed the shading as well. Nice weathering effects all the way around brother.

Cheers mate, trying to get the balance of enough to be effective, without overdoing it.

Hellblasters and leiutenant WIP;

Looking good mate.

Cheers mate

Test model for the heavy bolter wielding hellblaster squad:



Progress on the squad and lieutenant so far;



cheers!

Woah, that Hellblaster looks great, I'm completely sold on your scheme. The yellows in particular look fantastic!

As for me I'm working on AoS stuff mainly, but trying to get back into 40k with Space Wolves. Currently trying to find a colour scheme I like since I'm not a huge fan of the baby blue.

Yeah that blue only looks good with the full 90's aesthetic, which is a tad bright. Have you thought about a heresy style grey?

Hellblasters done, not sure if I am happy with them or not, but they are finished, so I can move on Leiutenant in the background.



Up next, interceptors for this month's painting challenge

Funny you should mention the heresy style, because that's what I want to emulate. Although, I have been tempted by the Badab War chapters recently too, especially since I already have the SM codex. I like the look of Raptors...

Enough about me though, I think your Hellblasters look great! You'll probably warm up to the conversion, since its the only thing that could stick out. Good luck on the Interceptors! Hopefully they won't be too difficult to paint.

Cheers bud, slow going now I'm back at work, here is were they are;



Now for the edge highlighting...

@wbd raptors are always a good choice

Love your work on the quatered paint job

Cheers bud . Got a little more done today, they seem to be taking a long time get through stages;



I'm hoping that the bulk is done now, so hopefully they won't take too much longer.

And finished;

Looks great, buddy!

Looks ace! Love how you do lenses especially.

About two years after finishing the army, I finally have been able to see the whole army together, thanks to the acquisition of a new dining table.

It started small



And grew


And grew some more


Until it filled my spare desk


That picture was a long time ago...



11,000 plus points. All painted, no recasts. I took lots of pictures whilst they were set up. I'll share more when I've sorted through them.

Thanks for looking, and to all those who have been viewing the blog while I've been off it.

Right then, some close ups;











I took a fair few more that I can post if there is interest, but thought this was probably enough.

Cheers for looking.

I haven't updated this in a while, despite having done a couple of projects since the last post. However, new home, new life, new hobby room, new project, thought that I would resurrect the blog.

I'm a bit late to the party with warcry, having been a bit bitter about missing out on the initial release. I always loved the stories from the old world set in the chaos wastes, however, so it was always a matter of time before succumbing. The Conan inspired Darkoath warband did it for me, so I decided that if I was going to do it, that I might as well get some of the other bits that I had been after;



I really liked the Corvus Cabal band, so thought that I'd start with them. Here is the test model, based obviously on the box art;



And a group shot of the first 5;



I would like to do all of the warbands eventually. Any thoughts or criticisms on the cabalites so far would be most welcome.

Cheers

Well the warcry phase didn't last long with the new heresy relaunch. The Iron Warriors may see the light of a new addition, but a new project has begun. I've dug out all the leftovers from the IW's (which amounted to a good start), and bought myself a great big pile of stuff after what was a hard working exam series (I spent most of my summer holidays marking and reviewing exam scripts.) I'll share more pictures soon, but here is a taster of the new project;



I'm doing Sons of Horus set in the siege of terra era, so signs of corruption have begun in earnest. I won't be using many CSM models, but wanted to do this one. There will be more coming soon. The army will be about half the size of the IW's, but I'll be taking my time much more with the painting of them.

Thanks for looking

Quick group shot of the Dreadnoughts before painting begins. First list is going to be using the 'Ancients RoW, and here they are;




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First tacticals;

That’s a serious amount of heresy in those Iron Warriors pics. Cool start on the sons too, the Dreadnoughts look mean with their added spikey bits

Adore the additional parts and kitbashing on all those Dreads, great stuff. Nice start with the tactical too, think that SoH are my favourite legion.

Thanks both, your kind words are much appreciated. I'm really happy with the dreads, hopefully I'll do them justice with the paint. They'll be fighting a White Scars all dread army when they are done.

I have bought a new light set up for taking pictures with my phone. Had a bit of a play last night and whilst I am happy with the lighting, the sharpness of the images and colour accuracy still isn't quite what I'd like. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be really appreciative of the guidance. I have a Galaxy phone, so the camera is reasonably decent at 12mp, and I am following the guidance on settings/distance etc as recommended by gw and others, but somehow they still just aren't quite there;








Thank you in advance for any pointers

I've not updated this for a while as been slow making progress- lots of stuff nearly done but not quite yet.

Got this fella done today as a test piece for 20 justaerin who are waiting their turn for assembly;



Next I'm aiming to get the dreads finished (bodies are done, just all the arms to finish), 20 more bolted boys are underway, and then I'll be moving on to some more fun stuff.

As soon as I saw the new khorne berzerker kit, I knew that I wanted to convert them into SoH reavers. I have a couple of boxes of the fw ones waiting to be built, but they just feel a bit small next to the mkvi marines.

I will get some better pictures done at some point, but here is a quick look. All khorne and WE bits shaved off, some 3d printed heads and pauldrons, some chains and mirror coins and boom. I really wanted to add some weapons from the sanguinary guard kit too, to make it look like they'd taken a few trophies.





I'm a bit torn on the paint scheme to use as my army is going to be led by Abaddon, so they should be black. Trouble is I think that they look better in green. I still don't think that Abaddon should have been wearing black in 30k, but that's well past the point of no return.

Let me know what you think of them

Bruh, mind PMing me a link to those STLs? I dig the Reaver helmets bigtime!

I'll post them here in case anyone else wants;

Helmets
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/marauders-of-the-traitor-son

Pauldrons

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3643382

Quick wip shot of the reavers so far. I've only put 3 in the pic so that they are easier to see than the last post.



I have just finished Saturnine this week, and so obviously was thrilled to see all of the reavers and justaerin

I am really pleased with them so far; they look brutal and swift, and I like that the models are posed in a way that the pauldrons are being used as shields, which is their intended purpose. I've gotten really into scale 75 paints since starting this project, especially their metallics. I've ordered the steel set, so when they arrived I'll be able to get on with them.

Let me know what you think of them.

Liking these, gott3a get me a 3d printer one of these days... Those are some small but powerful changes