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Love those !
Where are the heads and shoulders from ?

Looks great but the combi flamer looks like a melta, anyway i like the rest and the hieroglyphics are a really cool idea.

@Seb: Thank you! The pauldrons are scratch-built from plasticard and greenstuff, and the heads were customised with more plasticard and greenstuff. There are in-progress shots of them in my WIP blog if you want to see pics of 'em while they were still being built!

@Kavyaanshrike: Thanks! And yeah, it is a combi-melta, I just got the name of it wrong when I posted it, whoops. I should go fix that, heh.

Woah! Those Termies are tasty. Lovely models.

Those are some great 1000 Sons. Your shoulders and heads on the terminators really set them apart from others you might see. Your dread(s) and lord(s) are great too. I really like all the work you did on the bases too, big fan of the lava.

Not a huge fan of the pre heresy colors, but you pulled em off very well. GD Oz 2011 is great!

Termies turned out amazing! Lava bases really set of the blue tones and the customized bits truly make them unique.

Skits wrote:@Seb: Thank you! The pauldrons are scratch-built from plasticard and greenstuff, and the heads were customised with more plasticard and greenstuff. There are in-progress shots of them in my WIP blog if you want to see pics of 'em while they were still being built!

@Kavyaanshrike: Thanks! And yeah, it is a combi-melta, I just got the name of it wrong when I posted it, whoops. I should go fix that, heh.

Even more impressive. GJ!

Thank you all!

@MightyGodzilla: Hehe yeah, I'm normally not a big fan of red either, so I did what I could to make it more tolerable. Glad it worked! I think I prefer the red/white version of the pre-Heresy colours to the red/gold - I'll have to play with how I do the gold on them, see if I can improve it some.

Very good job on the ice bases. What methods did you use on those? The paint on models is nice and smooth.

The ice bases? Mostly just dry-brushing. I undercoat with Fenris Grey, then drybrush a heavy coat of Hawk Turquoise, then drybrush Ice Blue, leaving some of the turquoise showing in the deeper areas, then do the same with white. I might have added some Regal Blue in at some point as well, I don't quite remember. Been a while since I did one of the ice bases. The clear icy-looking bits are done with a thin layer of water effects stuff.

Hope that helps!

very very nice. I like them so much

Wow, sharp and amazing! The arabic really drew my eyes! Thats spelled, Alif, laam, ghaeyn, baa, alif, raa?

The snow base for the bike is awesome! Love the tracks! It's the little things like that that can make a simple piece stand out. Nice work all round!

Thanks all!

@Basimpo: I honestly have no idea, heh. I just used an online translator to get them, which didn't give me much in the way of actual detail or pronunciation or anything.

@Scotti: I love paying attention to little details, heh. Good to know other people do too!

the terminators look positively AWESOME!

Just saw Captn Akil on the Dakka home page - can';t wait to check out the rest of the plog later!

Thank you!

... And oh wow, I didn't even realise my blog was on the Dakka front page! Hahaha, awesome! How did that even happen?

Your work is great and inspiring Keep it up and show us moare!

The pre heresy models look so cool

Apologies for not updating this thread more often! Haven't gotten many new models actually finished lately, and then when I finally did, I decided to go and rebuild my lightbox, bleh.

But in the meantime, the Armies on Parade store competitions were on today, and my display won my store's heats.

Pic at the actual store from the GW guys, since I completely forgot to take my own photos there, derp. Hot Crossing:


My board set up at home for photos!


Everyone got out of the vehicles, just in case the tanks rolled 1 for their dangerous terrain test while crossing the bridge.


My old Terminator Captain Akil Amari, with brand new pauldrons that I finished just in time for the competition so he'd match the rest of the Terminators, safeguarding the Armies on Parade medal.


So now, it's down to Games Day Australia for me! And then maybe I'll finish rebuilding my lightbox, heh.

Okay, so I've actually had this baby finished for a good while now, but I decided to rebuild my lightbox and only just got around to completing it. Even so, I think I'll have to rebuild it again sometime. :\ Or at least get better lights. Anyway!

Presenting my MkIC Deimos pattern Rhino for my pre-Heresy Thousand Sons army!



Lesson learned: Don't glue on the exhaust pipes until AFTER painting this pattern of Rhino. Ugh.

Oh man, now I know what I must do with my new Chaos models from the DV kit. Pre heresy Thousand Sons ftw!

@Gravity: The world needs more pre-Heresy Sons! And those DV models look like so much fun to paint.

Now, something else I've also had done for a while! The squad that get to ride around in the previously posted Deimos Rhino. Just a basic tactical squad from one of the paint set starter boxes. Spot the small bits of greenstuff! :p



Ugh. Next time I photograph any of my pre-Heresy guys, I think I'm gonna need to use a coloured backdrop. Their white trim tends to disappear into the background. :|

Or I could paint a Warband dedicated to pre heresy thousand sons, just because the armor wont be pre heresy. Btw, nice new pics!

Hehe, very true about the armour. Well, unless you consider the Chosen models as Sons who're in the middle of the Flesh Change or something... that could be interesting.

Thank you!

Very nice boarding marine :3


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How did you do the red?
Doubleposting sorry

Thank you!

The red takes a bit of work, hehe. I undercoat with Mordian Red, then paint the shadowed areas with a 50/50ish mix of Scab Red and Fenris Grey. Then I use straight Scab Red and layer it on thinly over the red/grey mix areas, to blend it in with the lit areas of the model. Then I layer a thin coat of Red Gore, focusing it on the more lit areas. Then I add a thin layer of Blood Red on the most lit areas and blend it in with the Red Gore - I might do a few alternating layers of Gore/Blood to get the right tones. Then I'll edge highlight with straight Blood Red.

Hope that helps!

Finished my Contemptor just in time for Games Day Australia - not happy with the red, I worked it up too much, which made the highlights too subtle and lost most of the purple in the shadowed areas. Ah well, 'swhat I get for a rush job. Still pretty pleased with the rest of him, especially the tabard and ornaments.



Didn't get anywhere in Golden Daemon, unsurprisingly. XD However, my Armies on Parade board apparently came in the top five! So I'm pretty happy with that - it's a better result than my AoP got last year. Next year, aiming for top three!

Nice painting, but unless I'm mistaken weren't the Emperor's Children the only ones allowed to wear the Aquilla pre-heresy?

My Sons shall march forward, their minds clear, their bolters resolute, knowledge filling their hearts in themselves.

I still feel the Sons could turn back to the Emperor if given the chance. Admittedly a supremely strong one if Magnus could just find that one answer.