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I think they are looking really good. I am just getting back into the game and have decided to start back up with Black Templars and this has given me a lot of motivation and tips on which to build my army off of. Keep up the good work.

maybe get a stormlord. you seem to gave alot of tactical squads and the firing bay would be good for them!

Those are some nice minis! Great paint job.

Viperboy wrote:I think they are looking really good. I am just getting back into the game and have decided to start back up with Black Templars and this has given me a lot of motivation and tips on which to build my army off of. Keep up the good work.

Thanks!
Take pics, I'd like to see your progress.

deadly chicken wrote:maybe get a stormlord. you seem to gave alot of tactical squads and the firing bay would be good for them!

That is indeed a fine looking tank.

viney wrote:Those are some nice minis! Great paint job.

Thank ya!

Like a kid with a new toy, I just had to drag out the lightbox again.

I got two of this guy when I bought the sternguard veteran box, so I gave him a scout bolter and scope and demoted him to tactical veteran:

Very nice once again! I'll be posting my WIP bugs pretty soon because you've inspired me to keep going. If you'd be so kind though, could you use an editing program like irfanview to lighten up the pictures of this guy a bit? I would like to see more of how you shaded the eyes and bolter.

Grunt_For_Christ wrote:Very nice once again! I'll be posting my WIP bugs pretty soon because you've inspired me to keep going. If you'd be so kind though, could you use an editing program like irfanview to lighten up the pictures of this guy a bit? I would like to see more of how you shaded the eyes and bolter.

Thanks!

I did use PSP to brighten it up as I think I could use two more lights in the lightbox, but here ya go, brightened more and looking fairly washed out on my monitor:

ETA: I don't know if this link will work, but it's the same technique that I use for space marine eyes: http://oz.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/painting/eyes/default.htm

one note about the eye lenses, all id say is nees a small(i meen minute) ammount lighter at the nose end, and ull have them perfect(and yes i know how hard it can be to do, nevermind frustrating when getting it wrong)

That's a much better picture.Now I can see exactly how you highlighted the bolter/eyes with differing shades of red. Thanks!

IRPurple wrote:one note about the eye lenses, all id say is nees a small(i meen minute) ammount lighter at the nose end, and ull have them perfect(and yes i know how hard it can be to do, nevermind frustrating when getting it wrong)

I'll do my humble best, Capt'n.

Grunt_For_Christ wrote:That's a much better picture.Now I can see exactly how you highlighted the bolter/eyes with differing shades of red. Thanks!

You're welcome.

The bolter is basecoated with chaos black then painted with a thin coat of scab red, then highlighted with blood red and blaze orange, then given a sepia wash in the areas that are to be darker.

Really liking the way these are coming along, and good use of the termie shoulder shield thing for the Marshall. The gritty look your guys have gives them an element of realism, which the lightbox shows off to great effect. I take it you accomplish this with a wash in the recesses? Making me want to paint more... and find the time to do so...

Nephilem wrote:Really liking the way these are coming along, and good use of the termie shoulder shield thing for the Marshall. The gritty look your guys have gives them an element of realism, which the lightbox shows off to great effect. I take it you accomplish this with a wash in the recesses? Making me want to paint more... and find the time to do so...

Thanks!

Yes, I assume that these suits of power armor are supposed to be very old so I "age" the white areas using thin layers of bleached bone and skull white followed by a sepia wash around the edges.

Update 3/16/09:

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Lightbox:

Good job on the marines, man. I like your painting style, as it gives the Black Templars this raw feeling, and that’s exactly what you should aim for. And your freehand fits in perfectly. Looking forward to your next update.
Slobo

im jealous of your painting... ><

Your black looks really good. Did you spend more time on Vindicus, it looks like he has an extra layer of shading that the other troopers don't have, and he looks especially good. I play Black Legion so I know how much effort it takes to paint black so it looks shaded, but still black.

Thanks guys!


willydstyle, yes I spent a total of about 6 hours on Vindicus trying out a different technique for painting the black armor.

I started out with white primer then painted all the armor except the shoulderpads a very dark grey instead of the usual chaos black, then progressively lightened the grey shades into smaller and smaller areas near the edges of the armor pieces.
I then used a combination of gryphonne sepia and devlin mud wash in many, many layers going from only one layer in the outer areas to many layers in the recesses and used straight black wash on the very recessed areas and did a final highlight with thinned codex grey and thinned fortress grey.

I did this to see if I could build a depth of shading without putting a lot of paint on the model and keep the surface nice and smooth.

Overall I was happy with the result but it was far too time consuming to do it again with black armor, unless it was on a special model. I think this process would be better suited to models with different color armor.

I am happy that you noticed the difference between this model and the others as I didn't think the camera captured the detail very well, as per usual.

Trust me, I know your pain. I have a bunch of Black Legionnaires that I put a lot of time into getting some nice shading, and a bunch that IMO look pretty crappy, and nobody ever notices the difference

willydstyle wrote:Trust me, I know your pain. I have a bunch of Black Legionnaires that I put a lot of time into getting some nice shading, and a bunch that IMO look pretty crappy, and nobody ever notices the difference

I knew I should have gone with ultramarines.

I'd like to see more pics of your models, the two pics that you have uploaded look very good.

Well they all look amazing to me, I wish I could learn how to paint Marines like that.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Well they all look amazing to me, I wish I could learn how to paint Marines like that.

Thank you, Ghost in the Darkness.

My hand isn't as steady as it once was and my eyes aren't as sharp anymore and it certainly shows.

"Patience and thinned paint" is my motto.

Shortbus wrote:

willydstyle wrote:Trust me, I know your pain. I have a bunch of Black Legionnaires that I put a lot of time into getting some nice shading, and a bunch that IMO look pretty crappy, and nobody ever notices the difference

I knew I should have gone with ultramarines.

I'd like to see more pics of your models, the two pics that you have uploaded look very good.

Well, thanks I think the shading on the farseer's red robes is way too subtle. My problem is that I don't have a camera, so I can only get pictures uploaded when I get to use a friend's camera.

willydstyle wrote:

Shortbus wrote:

willydstyle wrote:Trust me, I know your pain. I have a bunch of Black Legionnaires that I put a lot of time into getting some nice shading, and a bunch that IMO look pretty crappy, and nobody ever notices the difference

I knew I should have gone with ultramarines.

I'd like to see more pics of your models, the two pics that you have uploaded look very good.

Well, thanks I think the shading on the farseer's red robes is way too subtle. My problem is that I don't have a camera, so I can only get pictures uploaded when I get to use a friend's camera.

Agreed, perhaps a brown wash in the shaded areas to give it more depth?

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C&C welcome as always, folks.

I actually like to mix badab black and the red wash, but that farseer was the first model I painted for my Eldar army, so I had not had as much practice with the new non-black color scheme

Trying yet another black armor technique, this guy was done using washes instead of a paint basecoat over white primer.

I also tried to keep the grey highlight paint very thin.

ETA: C&C welcomed as always.

i dono what to say apart from wow! looks nice! small realy hard thing would be to make the warning stripes more uniform, but to hell with that, lol

short bus did you use the techniques GW gave out in the website (extreme highlighting) because i used that technique and i found it very similar to your paintings

Thanks guys!

Gutteridge, check the first page of this thread where I posted some pics to illustrate the black armor highlighting technique I had been using.

This particular model is done in a similar fashion, but the basecoat is black and brown wash instead of paint.