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Love the look, I love to have a tutorial on the method you used for your power weapon and it application to be modified using other primary colors.

hungry for more...

Hey SoO, I'm sure this has been covered but I just can't seem to recall it, (despite having read this whole thread :/ ) mind sharing how you do your whites?

I love your power blades. That is one thing I have always had trouble with, I can never get them to look any good. Do you use any specific technique?

@ jetjetex: oh yeah, sorry, so i was. Here is the piece i entered in the Junior art category at GD 2008


that's a scan of the original


this is after i played around a bit with the colours and contrasts on photoshop

Cheer's SoO

thats awsome,great job.

Oh god why is this an ultramarine :( Great job anyway!

Holy good frak banana!

That Chapter Master is great! I dont think the spirals look wierd, just a bit olde worlde style.

6 hours?! Thats insane, Im comming up to 6 weeks now on my librarian haha. but I paint about 2 hours a week :(

I know the feeling man! i can hardly get any painting time at the mo. only 2 days now till all exams are over... well for the next 7 months lol.

@ w0chtulka: Ultramarines are awesome! i know all the little kids just paint really crap 2nd company marines but they are a cool chapter when done nicely.

@ vent: there's now specific technique really i learned from a tutorial in the space hulk white dwarf. i tried to find the article on the GW site but couldn't so if anyone could find a link that'd be great!

anyway on the spacehulk subject check out: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=400013a

Cheers SoO

Man, I wish i could paint as good as you but it seems so that I can´t paint stuff to such high levels of coolness. BTW good luck in GD and could you post a toturial on how you did the chaplains skull?

umm... i spose. i've got so many tutorials to make now lol.

this is going to be a busy summer!!

I am busy finishing the school year ... It seems i creeated certain antipathy against ultramarines. Models CAN be done cool but all models can be played with and converted and painted to absolute awesomness but i find gorgeously painted, say, salamanders, being more awesome than ultramarines painted at the same level. And i dont like their fluff too: they are just too great and good. Exceptional americas heroes (blargh!).

This reminds me of army i once saw. It had Calgar, Lysander, 5 TH/SS termies, 5 Grey knight termies, 5 Scouts with sniper rifles, 5 Tactical marines and 2 Thunderfire cannons, at 1500 pts. But the way they were painted!! It was funny and pretty at the same time. They are were shiny white with neat blacklinging and they all had american iconography on them. Flags and stuff. Calgar had USA flag as his cloak Sry for OT

Love the Master, i prefer the original scan btw without the colour changes, im just annoyed i missed seeing it as i was there but didnt take a good look at the pictures on display :(

sorry, constantly forget to ask, SoO do you use superglue to glue your models together? or on the painting base before you glue them to the main base?

i use a very small amount of superglue to glue them to the painting base as it is brittle and you can easily snap them off when you finish to put them on the main base

I really wish I could paint as good as you, that is some really amazing paint work there.

ah i see. so you then use plastic glue for the rest of the model?

Yeah. unless it's fiddly and annoying and flops around and stuff. oh and obviously for metal models i have tried plastic glue on them when i was small and it ended up a bit of a mess lol.. i use superglue to glue bent bits of plasticard on conversions otherwise they just spring off all over the place!

Superglue is the way forward!

Finally worked through all 17 pages, amazing stuff mate, can't wait to see some of it in the flesh!

Thanks very much! yeah there is a lot of it now lol and there's even more to come!

I bet you're glad your exams are finished!! I hope they went alright. Do you still have to go back to college or are you done until September?

The art looks good, i can't draw to save my life! Doesn't seem to have an adverse effect on mini-painting though

Eagerly awaiting the next batch of updates

Looking amazingly amazing.

Just finished my exams as well, i got on dakka, read through this entire thread and i must say, incredible stuff! you have got me motivated to get to work painting my armies again and updating my blog.
I do wish i could paint half as nicely as you keep up the great work

Still awesome!

For his name how about Suetonius, Vespasien or Belisarius?

^I kinda like Belisarius....

Sorry for taking ages since the last update... since then I’ve painted 8 marines, a dreadnought and touched up my old CSM to sell on eBay.

I really like Belisarius Cruentus (Cruentus is blood stained in Latin). Thank you Llamahead.

@ Vitruvian XVII I’ve got two more weeks of college then 10 or 11 weeks of summer holiday

On to the pictures.

I recently got a watchmakers magnifying glass for paint super detailed single minis. I’d definitely recommend you guys get one






The second venerable dreadnought. I decided to go for a lot of white armour to contrast with some of the other minis. What do you think?







Some of the most recent marines. The flesh on the faces isn't quite finished in these pictures.




The painted army so far. Unfortunately it's a bit blurred because of my rubbish digital camera.

Any Questions etc lust comment or message me.

Cheers, SoO

I like the venerable dreadnought,it looks great.

thanks

Ive been following this thread for quite some time, I am very very impressed with your SM's, i love the red(s) of the power armor. good work!