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fantastic work! The painting style looks incredibly realistic! I love your bases as well, are they resin or made by hand? Very impressive army!

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Great tips on the decals, I use some of those techniques but hadn't heard all of them so really helpful and they clearly give good results!

@s.j.mccartney & RM2020: No worries guys, I've been addicted to decals since the age of 6 and my first Airfix kit, almost 30 years of practice has got to be worth something, right?

TRISKELION7 wrote:Love the idea! Think you should have put more detail on though, not too much so you don't spoil the muteness.

More detail? Really. Huh. I think there's plenty of detail on the mini and I'm not really sure where else you could put detail without making the whole figure busy. If you're talking painting 'quality' when you say detail then that makes more sense to me, but as I've already said, this is a army for play, not display. I've gone the other way with previous armies and never managed to finish more than a handful of figures so I'm pretty happy with the balance between quality/quantity at this point. I could spend another 10 hours or more, easily, on Dragomir, but that's a Rhino or 3 Tactical troopers I could be doing instead...

@element 206: The bases are plastic, though I did just pick up some Back-2-Basix resin bases that are city/rubble themed that you'll see crop up soon. Most of the rubble is from GaleForce9's Concrete Rubble Mix (GF92025) finished off with plain old flocking sand. I also add the occasional pipe or grate and that kind of thing for variety, they're either plasticard or etched brass for the most part.

@Imperial Monkey: Thanks

So great! Nice and crispy

As I've said before I'm blogging the creation of Shadow Force Dragomir over at the B&C, the most recent part of the blog was a tutorial on how I paint my raven Guard. Well, the tutorial is now complete and has been turned into a PDF for your convenience and is being hosted over at the B&C, the cover page below will take you to the download area to grab it:



For the curious this is the end result of the tutorial:

Awesome!

Thank you VERY much for the tutorial - it will come in very handy indeed!

They look great!!

Did you model the hand on the Librarian?
I love the look of that model. Did you build his psy hood?

Rochronos wrote:Did you model the hand on the Librarian?
I love the look of that model. Did you build his psy hood?

It's based on this guy.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Red_Scorpions/MAGISTER_SEVRIN_LOTH-CHIEF-LIBRARIAN-OF-THE-RED-SCORPIONS-WITH-HONOUR-GUARD.html

very jealous

Hey SCC, sorry to join a mildly-threadomanced set of comments, but I had to post to say THANK YOU for the tutorial. I'm having some serious challenges with painting black and your .pdf will help a lot.

Cheers!

Can we see the Dread yet, or is that tightly under wraps?

Great job with the army, Raven Guard are some of my favorite original chapters. The black armor is really well done, I wish mine looked as good.

This army looks amazing mate. cant wait to see more

Beautifully done, the fact that they sort of blend into the bases really captures the stealthy element of the raven guard, good job!

Very well done, best Raven Guard I've ever seen. I'm liking the mixed armor as well.

Alpharius wrote:Awesome!

Thank you VERY much for the tutorial - it will come in very handy indeed!

Savnock wrote:Hey SCC, sorry to join a mildly-threadomanced set of comments, but I had to post to say THANK YOU for the tutorial. I'm having some serious challenges with painting black and your .pdf will help a lot.

Cheers!

No worries guys

And Saynock, feel free to PM me if you think I can offer any help.

@FallenRaven, susejo239, Snarky, Dragoons & bdix: Thanks guys, hopefully have some more finished soon.

@Joshh: The Dread is still under wraps, next models off the desk will be a test bike, the Rhino for Squad Atanas and the first half of my last Tactical squad.

Wow these are utterly amazing. Simple yet elegant, tough and yet sleek all at the same time. Very nice work.


Although I have to ask, can we get a whole army shot. Like all the completed minis in one group shot? (or more if you're feeling generous )

Wow, those look amazing! Thanks for the tutorial also, will have to try that out sometime!

Hello again folks, I'm back with an update including a completed Rhino, the test bike and a sneak preview of my Venerable Dreadnought.

To start off I present the Rhino Moriorum, which will carry Tactical Squad Atanas into battle:



Raven Guard brass etch adorns the side doors - with a FW purity seal on one side to give a little individuality to the otherwise identical sides, whilst the interior has etched brass and some FW resin details to add a little character too. The front panel is FW resin with an etched brass nameplate, in retrospect I might have been better off painting the plate silver, but it doesn't look too bad as is and in the interest of 'play, not display' I'll let it stand for now.

Next up is my test biker:


The model was a test for a number of things, firstly could I convert the legs into different marks easily and with a decent end result? After all, if I'm doing 10 of these guys I want them to look like individuals not clones. The answer is 'yes' and 'mostly' for my first attempt at making Mk.V legs, some extra practice should help improve the end result, I've already got a set of legs undergoing conversion to Mk.VI standard too.

That said there is one major issue with the test mini - he looks like Ravenwing as much as Raven Guard. The guys at the B&C helped me figure out why - silver details and red seat for the most part - and the next mini will have an all black bike with dark brown leather seating I think. Hopefully that will help make him look more RG than RW.

Finally, even though this thread is really for my finished minis I can't help but share the progress on my FW RG Dreadnought:



Plenty of work left to do of course - arms, banner and so forth - but I'm pretty happy with the way everything has turned out so far...

Great work,really liking these mini's a lot.

Wow!...again! loving your mini's the biker is great and looks really menacing, but the dreadnought is what i'm eager to see! I love the way you've painted up the bird skull on the sarcophagus it looks fantastic, and as usual your recipe for painting black is flawless as demonstrated by the rhino! excellent work as only you can produce! looking forward to more!

It is all coming on really well, I like the Rhino a lot, very clean and the biker looks cool too. I'd love to get one of the Forge World dreads for my Raven Guard successor chapter I'm doing at the moment but I have decided I need to finish all the other models before I go and get another one!

Could you possibly upload the pictures in the gallery so we could zoom in? I'd like to take a good look at the interior of the Rhino and it's a little small. If you upload the pics in the gallery then you can copy and paste the forum link of the pics page and put it in you blog then when we click on it it takes us to the pic in the gallery and we can zoom in.

Looking extremely good - very impressed with the depth you have on the black.

Thanks guys, as I've said before, I'm very happy with the progress of the army to date.

@Reaperman2020:
Link to some bigger pics of the inside I've uploaded.

These are the biggest images I have right now, if you're particularly interested in more/better shots let me know and I'll take some more.

Wow the interior is lovely! here are the pics a bit bigger;

Awesome stuff! You make black look...black. I love it! Keep it up! Each model seems to be its 'own' not just some random marine. I think thats what I love most about this army, it is very custom and has a great theme.

Nice , your raven guard look awesome ! , good job .

That dread is downright sexy. Very good job on the bike too!

Wow, i find it so hard to paint black well, but yours is so crisp and clean, really captures the sneakky-stealth of the RG