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Hi all,

My wife doesn't have a Dakka account so when I carted DV into the house she got to it before me (and it was my birthday present no less to myself!) and cherry picked all the cool bitz for herself to paint. She settled on the Hellbrute first and she has since finished it. She went for an Alpha Legion paint scheme and is more than happy with it. She hopes you all enjoy the pics and any C+C would be fabulous!

A paintjob so well done makes the base look pretty dull although theres nothing wrong with it...
The glossy parts look awesome!

Very well done! Awesome paint job. I love the "fleshy" parts.

That is one of the best renditions of that model I've seen.
It actually really looks like raw flesh is growing over and into the metal parts, and the blue/greens of the armour are beautiful!
The base could have been a little more exciting, but I have no idea what!

That's awesome!

Think she's gonna work on the base.

I think it captured the feel of the Alpha Legion paint scheme very well.

Its definitely the bloodiest Hellbrute I've seen, and I think it adds to the model a fair bit. The only thing I'd say is its very glossy, personally I prefer the matte route. I presume its a by product of using washes but each to their own if you prefer it that way.

How did she do the flesh? I'm weighing up colours for my 2 brutes and I really like this more natural looking flesh to daemonic reds/greens that I see quite often.

The glossiness is prob cos the satin varnish was still wet. That might tone down.

The flesh was tallarn flesh washed with thrakka green and drybrushed with rakkarth flesh. Her idea was to have it look dead.

A pity about the seam on the multi melta because the paintjob is fantastic.

Superb!

I'm guessing that you've left the rest of the DV box lying around for when your wife fancies painting up the rest of it!

Indeed EC lol she's got her eyes on the chosen But the forgeworld alpha dread I got her for her birthday is next methinks

That is frakking grotesque, and I mean that as a compliment!

I love the flesh, particularly the pilot's face, it looks like he's been skinned, and the transitions are lovely.

Icky, in a good way. The head/maw has a real 'vagina dentata' look to it with that gloss varnish. Am I allowed to say that on this forum?

That looks awesome. She's a really good painter! I would just watchout for the mold line/gap (whatever it is) on the gun hand. I would also try to do something else for the base.

That looks really freakin' good. But, I gotta say this because it's the first thing that popped out at me, she's going to have to put some pupils in those eyeballs!

Love the angry, raw looking flesh around the head, looks really Nurglesque.

Jeez 13 people before me and 0 gallery vote? That's sad you guys.

Shen tell your wife she is and awesome painter. I REALLY like the slimy effects going on, that's just cool.

Such a good but gross paint job, I want to wash my eyes with antibacterial soap now!

It's disgusting.

(in a good way)

Thanks for all your comments! I finally made an account of my own so I'll be uploading more work soon.
And yes I completely agree about the seam on the melta ... I'll be taking more care with my future models that's for sure!

I would actually say that it's perfect. Wouldn't change of thing. Jealous.

That's actaully a pretty epic paintjob.

This is a great job. To improve it for me I would either give the eyes pupils or make them look like gem stone's. I would give the head a lighter highlight so it stands out more after the gloss and against the teeth. And the base could be added to. Even some static grass would improve it massively. These are minor niggles which bug me and just reflect my taste for painting mini's

The base annoys me too! I have a few things to add to it which I'm working on. I want to add some gore to the fist as well.
The face and surrounding "flesh" I wanted to give a freshly flayed look so I left it as is.

I love it!!
I saw you mentioned the model halves not being fastened well, I prefer Testors metal tipped plastic model glue. I think it has the most precise applicator and is a big help with small bits.

Don't ever stop painting!!!

Wow, creepy as all get-go. You guys should do an army of demons in this scheme. That would be nasty!

The paintjob is perfect, it looks exactly like what I'd visualize....

...except for those join lines that you didn't fill.