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Hello everyone!

We wanted to share the projects we will be working on with you. We hope to keep everything tidy in one blog here, any non warhammer stuff will be on our facebook, but we will do our bets to update the 40k stuff here!!


To start things off, one of our display quality level paint jobs, also comes with a conversion of a Deathwing Chaplain, Belial, and a scratch sculpt and paint of a DW Librarian!

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Chaplain is nearing completion, there will be more freehand on the cape, I wasnt going to show the freehand but alas, Malleus got ahead of me!

What does everyone think of the damage/weathering?













Belial, tore his arm off to get at under parts better, camera still isnt picking up the colour and even editing in photoshop isnt bringing the yellows out, may need to use a different background for final photos!!!

Gorgeous stuff. Wow. Is the head supposed to be an apparition?The purple cloak is just lovely. Seeing as this is a project blog, itd be nice to see actually things in progress, Im interested in seeing the process behind models of this quality. Im hoping youll share

 bebopdrums2424 wrote:
Gorgeous stuff. Wow. Is the head supposed to be an apparition?The purple cloak is just lovely. Seeing as this is a project blog, itd be nice to see actually things in progress, Im interested in seeing the process behind models of this quality. Im hoping youll share

The head is supposed to feel kinda like Ghost Rider a bit

I can post some earlier photos for you, Ill post them tomorrow night as Im about to head to bed!

Thanks for the comments, love hearing from people!

Wow, now that's different! :-) and beautiful too! great use of tones on the armour and that effect with the head! I've never even thought of doing that kind of thing but now I'll be trying it for sure as it really does look great and very Ghost rider!

like Bebop mentioned we'd love to see some progress shots so we can discern how to improve our own painting and marvel at what you do!

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Just amazing painting! Subbed for sure

That chaplain is scarey good. Nice glowing effect.

Glad everyone is enjoying the chaplain!

Here is Belial, hes complete minus freehand!

We changed the shield colour to have a stronger backdrop. The freehand will look nice on it, but the issue is the shape of the shield ruins many options for freehand and also killed the idea of putting a trim around it to reduce the red impact, so I will need to be creative with the freehand......









AND SOME PROGRESS PICS!!


Belial Progress:

Add some putty for support(we used sculpey)



Add on milliput+GS mix, smoothen with brush



Bulk out and form folds and shapes by adding small amounts of putty gradually.



Same Deal for the chaplain!



Here's the front shot with the crotch blanket in place



This time for the coat portion we work off an existing piece of plastic!





Here you can see the coat added and now we are roughing in the putty to make the rest of it

Wow, thanks for showing us that! really nice paint again, i love the softer tones you use it's different and beautifully done! and the putty work step by step is great for research! excellent stuff!

No problem, heres some more!

The dremel is a staple for Malleus' sculpting. Its a big factor in how he makes weapons and works through epoxy crisply!

Here are some more shots of recent action!



Just attached the plastic cape with some putty to the chaplains back



Some roughing in of the folds and such for Belial and Chaplain





Then we sand it down and carve it after it cures, add more and sand and so on



Adding some sandy dirt/pebbels mix to the base to fill in the cracks and give more texture

*Sigh* Another silly blog I must follow.
Just kidding buddy, I'll try to watch this since my Facebook feed seems to hate you!

Chaplain completed with freehand on cape and grass on base!





Belial now complete with freehand on shield, cape, glowing eye, weathering and battle damage!!!

So a small commission of Chaos Daemons to get you going!

As always check our facebook(link in sig) for a few more photos/angles and other exciting stuff!


Starting with a Soul Grinders base!

Gap filling the cracks between the layers of cork



Gap filling the top



Thin glue to secure the cork



White Glue to add more layers of cork!





Soul grinder on the base!



But wait! We forgot to add the Dark Angel Icons!








Daemonettes from Raging Heroes




Daemon prince's base

To save having too many thread Ill put the Chaos in here as well

Abaddon, nothing too fancy, simple paint, may touch up the black more though



Obliterators fully complete!! Added blood to skin and rust to metal!





Forgefiend WiP, getting the silver on!



Forgefiend almost complete, just need to do the skin/details and then add rust!



Daemon Prince with mace, built from parts supplied by the client. Its a bit big, but I think its ok at that size!

Working the torso in magic sculpt!



After curing, before sanding



Working the head in sculpey, the SM head for comparison



smoothening and sculpting with a paint brush!



Old librarian, with the staff we will still use. We decided the pose wont work in terminator armour after working the other two. So starting over!

Working away at the librarian! Doing the calgar style ornamentation. Head sculpt is complete as well!

Very impressive! that sculpted head is great, I love painting bare heads and that is one I would jump at to use! you guys certainly are impressive, how long have you been doing this kind of work? and why am i only seeing this for the first time now? obviously the painting skills like that have been around for a while! did you mainly haunt Coolmimi or other sites?

As a Dark Angels Palyer your work is truly inspiring. The shield of Belial is absolutly amazing. Well done sir, well done.

@Master Azalle, thanks! The shield was actually a bit of a pain, because the shape of it really limited the designs we could use. We originally planned a beige shield with gold trim and a red lion... That changed to red shield gold trim... and then we removed the trim altogether so the symbol itself could be larger!

@nerdfest, mostly kept to ourselves and went to gamesdays and so on. You can check out more stuff on our facebook page. We do have a Slayer Sword, and a bunch of other awards... We have been painting for about 10 years but only sculpting for about 1-2years

Im not one to beg for likes, but if you want to see more photos, stuff we cant post here and so on, we post stuff almost daily

In addition we are online all day so you can always post questions and comments, its harder to manage 20 forum blogs all day but one facebook page is easy!

Ah good to know thanks! :-) have to get on your FB when i'm at home as the work computer is blocked for that site :-( but i'll be following for sure! I need to figure out the steps you used for the chaplain ghost rider skull? it seems it could have uses in a few areas of other models it's simply something so different!

Unfortunately the skull was quite the process, its not something we can really walk you through exactly. its a lot of comparison, going back and forth, looking at it in photos, and so on. Its only right when it feels right...


So we changed the pose. imagine the ground is cracking beneath him, the landscape twisting, the librarian holding his balance on a declining cliff, fighting the daemons and chaos that is before him!

Using his point staff he point in their general direction while the back hand wields the great book of somewhat secrets....

Dude needs to do some leg workouts pronto! :-)


but I can see how this pose will work nicely!

Post workout selfie:



Now here is it more cleaned up and working on the belt and ribbing

Step 1- Airbrush blue, and highlight the blue (not shown)
Step 2- Basecoat the silver (first on left)
Step 3- Wash silver
Step 4- Highlight silver
Step 5- Highlight and Blend blue
Step 6-Wash blue with green
Step 7- Detail and rust

Nice tutorial photo, Minx. Quality end result for Alpha Legionnaires as well!

Some more progress... getting there! Just robes and some minor detailing and hes done!!!

Wow, that's one badass sculpt. I especially like the head!

Oh boy, I expect he'll be as cool as his dark angel counterparts. Can't wait to see more!

Here he is, I hope he does not disappoint!

For more angles check our facebook page!

Some amazing work on display here.

Wow, these models are absolutely stunning, not only the painting, but the sculpting and converting is gorgeous! That head on the chaplain is insane!