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Hi,

I am really enjoying your work so far mate, it is quite obvious you love painting these miniatures and you have a passion for the hobby. The space marine character with the axe is amazing! Thanks heaps for sharing this process with us!

(I actually registered an account so I could post this ).

Thanks very much Krizit

Where abouts in New Zealand are you? If you're in Auckland, you should come on down to the City Guard club! We're there nearly every single Sunday

I was late finishing today and the sun had gone down, so I pulled out my light rig, but alas all but one bulb was gone... The color is a touch washed out. Especially the red. So I just took a single photo of the shield work I've done today.

I know I said I was going to look for different options instead of the shield, but he was designed for a shield and everything else I tried there just looked funny... I was a little unsure about the color make up, and whether the cream was to much, but at the end of the day I am quite happy with the turnout. The red rim of the shields cream and gold is the opposite of the cream cloak framing the red armor.

There's no new colors on it. Gold is the gold, red is the red and cream is the cream...

Just the base to go... and maybe some freehand... OMG and the backpack... Gah... I hate Space Marine Backpacks... They're so boring...

*phew* Done... That backpack nearly did me in... I was so unsure what to do color-wise that getting my head around it to actually paint it was something of an accomplishment unto itself... I'm sure everyone has days like that... And I'm sure the two coffee's and a red bull didn't help my painting out today... But at least I painted it mwahahaha… I have taken ten photos from all angles, but only five are posted (Really? duh...). If you want to see all ten my flicker photostream is located here.

Wow! I also just realized that I have now been doing this hobby for two whole years!! WooHoo! Go me! ^_^

Done today:

Backpack: The backpack comes from the Death Company box. I filed away some of the markings, but felt the tear-drop gem was ok left, especially since I was going to paint it green... (And with the amount of caffeine in my system painting it was a feat...) The colors are all found on other parts of him. Nothing knew used here. “Faith” seemed to be a Blood Raven word. I was tempted to try “Knowledge”, but that space was pretty small… The ‘H’ looks a little funny… I might redo it… But I doubt it…

Base: Base was quite simple when I found what colors Roleplayer uses. Basecoated, then layers of drybrushing. The cork gives lots of good little ridges to for the brush to catch, so it has that good stone effect.

Colors:
Stone:
Battle Grey Foundation as base
Black wash
Battle Grey for first drybrush
Codex grey for second drybrush
fortress gray for third drybrush
White for final.

Earth:
Calthan brown for base
Devlan mud wash
Calthan Brown for first Drybrush
Snakebite Leather for Second Drybrush
Bleached bone for Third Drybrush
Each drybrush should be lighter, building on the colors that come before it.

Freehand? What’s that you ask? Where’s the freehand? Truth be told, my freehand skills are abysmal, and I’m rather happy with this guy. If I can think of a pattern which might be easily done I may attempt it… Especially on the cream part of his cloak on his bottom right, that space looks little flat… I was thinking maybe some small purple swirl thing… But that’s something to ponder in the next few days…

As always I would love to hear some feedback and constructive criticism. What you do like, what you think I need to work on… It all helps me when I start something new, so please help me improve. Oh, and if you like / don’t like the constant updates where I go into detail of how I do things please tell me. I’m trying to decide if I should keep doing them ^_^

Congrats Vent, its looks fantastic. The cloak is beautiful I may have to go back and pinch that recipe for my Evocati. Also what colours exactly did you use on the blood drop on the back pack?

You have inspired me to really nail your model for you now, vent

Congrats mate, even after that 'green paint' incident you came out a winner !

Lennysmash wrote:Congrats Vent, its looks fantastic. The cloak is beautiful I may have to go back and pinch that recipe for my Evocati. Also what colours exactly did you use on the blood drop on the back pack?

Thanks Lennysmash

Gem colors:

Black Undercoat - I usually use a black ink mixed with Vallejo flat black. Gives a good shiny black rather than a matt black.
Dark Angels Green.
Goblin Green.
Scorpion Green.
1:1 mix of Scorpion Green and Sunburst Yellow.
Sunburst yellow for the dot
Menoth White highlight for the glare on the black. It's like an egg shell kind of white.

Roleplayer wrote:You have inspired me to really nail your model for you now, vent

Oh no! My cunning plan has been found out

Armorum Ferrum wrote:Congrats mate, even after that 'green paint' incident you came out a winner !

Thanks Armorum; I think I like the second, darker, cloak a little better ^_^

Nice job vent Finished piece looks excellent.

Personally I enjoy the detailed updates, keep posting as you have been. I feel it helps to fuel others creativity and also allows a greater degree of feedback from the peeps keeping watch.

Looking forward to your next piece.

It really does look great Vent! I'll be shipping out a marine for you to paint

Vent, thanks so much for posting this up step by step, it has been really enlightening

Thanks very much guys

Marry me.

Well you dont see that everyday

Amazing work vent! I hope the obj marker you start for our swap looks half as good!

Muppas wrote:Marry me.

High praise indeed!

Seriously though - awesome stuff here!

Muppas wrote:Marry me.

lol thanks for the offer ^_^

tony_nids_10 wrote:Well you dont see that everyday

Amazing work vent! I hope the obj marker you start for our swap looks half as good!

Me too! I've got these mini statue things which I'm thinking of using. Plus some sheathed swords...

Alpharius wrote:

Muppas wrote:Marry me.

High praise indeed!

Seriously though - awesome stuff here!

Thanks Alpharius ^_^

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I have three projects to work on next; and chances are I'll do them all at the same time. In no particular order they are:
a) A trade marine for Ice-Angel. This will be a Shadow Sanctus Veteran. I'm quite tempted to buy a box of the older marine veterans which come with all the funky weapon combos and paint one of them up, but a Kit-Bash might be nice too...
b) Another Trade Marine for Gitsplitta. He wants a Sanctus Death Watch Marine, which should be quite fun ^_^
c) A box of Lizardmen Temple Guard. Awhile back at a local tourney I put my painting services forward to paint a unit for a raffle prize to make some money for the club. The lucky (Or unlucky if you don't like my painting :p) winner finally got around to giving me his temple guard to paint... I'm going to be using inks quite heavily for them which means a white undercoat... He's got quite an unusual color scheme, going with Green and orange, so it should be fun to paint. The only problem was that the minis he gave me were all pre-owned and painted, and the stripping job wasn't perfect. Even after a week in a simple green bath this thick black undercoat wasn't moving, and worse it's obscured details, and lizardmen have such lovely scales. Hence I've decided to just buy a brand new box of plastic ones and do those... Normally I wouldn't go the extra distance but it was a raffle prize... And at the end of the day I get to paint something new... Which for me is what it's all about... I will return all his old temple guards, hope he doesn't mind... I never really got why commission painters said no to stripping and repainting old miniatures, but I do now, the loss of detail is really annoying... I've only stripped a few miniatures before this, and even then I wasn't 100% happy...

As people don't seem to mind the constant updates, there's going to be more of them... Mwahahaha... haha... ha...*ahem*

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OH! And people I'm writing a small tutorial on how I did my gems (It even had pretty pictures! Well, not pretty, but they do the job). So if I haven't replied to your PM about how I did them, the tutorial will be up in a couple of days... ^_^

Thanks Vent, Oh and you can put me down for a trade too, lol. Though I know you're v.busy. As for more updates, they are always welcome, trust me.

Cool! Gem tutorials! Let me know when that gets thrown up on the forum.

Just saw your thread for the first time, beautiful work vent and great to see your process it always helps to see how others paint.

I saw you are in Aucks, have you ever come up to Whangarei to play in any tournaments?

BLACKHAND wrote:Just saw your thread for the first time, beautiful work vent and great to see your process it always helps to see how others paint.

I saw you are in Aucks, have you ever come up to Whangarei to play in any tournaments?

Gah, I knew someone was going to ask about my gaming experience eventually. Alas, my dirty little secret is about to be exposed. While I have been 'in the hobby', so to speak, for two years now I have never actually played a game of 40k. My only gaming experience comes from playing Mordheim & a little bit of Space Hulk... Not very well either... I know I should play a game, and I do know most of the rules, but the guys at the gaming club are so good / fast with the rules, I feel like I'd destroy a game with my newbness...

So to answer your Question Blackhand, no, never made it up north for some gaming...

I've been in the hobby quite a while too vent and I'm still painfully noobish at the rules. Thankfully I have a friend at my FLGS that helps me out with rules and such. Plus I'm pretty sure he keeps letting me beat him too

Same here Vent, not really played a game of 40k since I was younger and that was when 2nd edition was new-ish. As for 5th edition the only rule book I have is the one that came with AoBR.

We are all exposed!! If you lived around here Vent or Lennysmash (nice name btw) I would say lets play! But sadly I can afford to fly across the pond or across the world!

We could play it through the post, the same way some people play chess, lol

Oh btw thanks about the name, its a amalgamation of a character from a John Steinbeck novel and the Incredible Hulk's catchphrase.

I got the second part for sure! I actually work in my FLGS and they sell comics too.

We could play e-hammer 40k

Heh, I haven't played since Rogue Trader, think you'll find there's a fair few P&M guys who don't/rarely play.
You are not alone

Lol, sorry for exposing your secret!

If it helps I usually play all my games at the local club against the same two opponents as we have similar abysmal dice throwing skills

I always find it disheartening to watch my painstakingly painted and converted soldiers get their backsides kicked!

Hey Vent! Just found your blog... wow, this is great stuff! Glad I found it!

@Blackhand: You must be my long lost New Zealand twin...

Wow these models are amazing, I love your highlighting and shading skills, your newest marine is really good and your cloaks are really good as well.

Thanks guys. Good to know that I'm not alone in the gaming aspect ^_^

Objective markers! I'm taking part in the Objective marker swap and figured that since I've had a wicked headache for two days that painting was out, but sniffing glue while I make things would be fine... I might as well get a start on them today... Heh, seems funny for me to make these as I don't play that much, but hey it's all in good fun.

The barrel & jerry cans come from a WW2 set. Thought they give a good look to one of them. The 'rock' is a broken up wine cork... I think I should be concerned with how many wine corks I have floating around my house... If I look at it to closely it might indicate I have a problem... But I'm not into self-introspection that much

The second one is just a dead marine, and I'm thinking it's lacking something, Maybe height... Might add something to it later...