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whoa, sure good painting dude
I also like the dreds, they look very dynamic

Love the marines in this paint scheme. I was wondering how sea-green and battle-worn would look on the Sons themselves. They look really good.

Judging by these holiday pictures, Istvaan does not seem like a particularly relaxing place to visit for vacation!

 Sheep wrote:
Boom sauce!



Two months after starting him, its finally done. I lost a bit of traction painting him when I fell out of love with the scheme, but the weathering really brought it back for me, turns out I can't paint anything clean with armour.

Here's a couple more pics. The rest can be seen on my blog if you're interested.





Thanks for looking.

Your work is tremendous, Sheep !

Although I am eons from that standard, I just wanted to share my reaction when I first saw your dreadnought :

"woaw ! Amazing ! er, hu ? The yellow dead body looks as "old" as the dreadnought itself, would it be that it was placed in its hand from the start ?!"

Not that the job was not wonderfully done, it's just that in my point of view, one of them should be less or more weathered than the other. I am no reference here (see my post count), this is just the feeling I had when discovering your piece of work.

Anyway, I still enjoy reading your blogs

Subbed, way to beautiful to miss out on.

Cheers for the comments guys

Childe: I had a hard on you could cut diamonds with all of yesterday looking at the pics from GD. If I ever need "inspiration" in the bedroom I'll tape a picture of Angron to the back of my girlfriends head
Look forward to seeing your IW, though at the rate you are painting your DS it may be a while lol.
Go on, you know you want to, I'll trade those million points in for resin

Colonel: I see where you are coming from there, it they ar both involved in the same siege, and have been for probably the same amount of time, so it stands to reason they'd be similarly weathered. That's my reasoning anyway

Loving this work mate very well painted and presented with a plethora of PH/HH stuff coming out now you will be spolit for choice even with the addition of a Ezekiel Abaddon minature thats coming up from Forgeworld...

The contemptors are seriously making me want to order one for crimbo either that or make the missus order one Just so as I can World Eater it up. But yes I am duely subbed to this mate love PH/HH stuff.

Those marines are looking excellent.

Very well executed! Thank you for sharing!

That contemptor stamping on the marine is pure genius! Never seen one posed in that way but it has to be my favorite to date!

This worn armour is almost perfect. Any advices for making it looking that real?

really really really cool, love the eye on that sergant!

Beautiful weathering. I really prefer to see Astartes like this, fully battle worn. Can't wait to see more. Subscribed!

 Sheep wrote:
Cheers for the comments guys

Colonel: I see where you are coming from there, it they ar both involved in the same siege, and have been for probably the same amount of time, so it stands to reason they'd be similarly weathered. That's my reasoning anyway

oh, I see, I did not have that in mind. Cheers

This stuff is gorgeous sheep, having recently bought imperial armour model masterclass I'm still a novice at all this weathering malarky, but I'm getting addicted very quickly, just looks so much more real.

Anyway, this thread is absolutely stunning, really perfect stuff your making here, looking forwards to more. (Also thank you for doing the sea green, I share your opinion that it looks way better.)

How on earth i missed this i'll never know. Jaw-dropping, flabbergasting work.

Brilliant paint scheme. I love the pose on the second contemptor and the Eyes of Horus are really well painted. Looks straight out of the artwork. Great job! Subbed and Exalted.

Really wonderful painting and you certainly have the battle worn look down, but these guys look as though they've rolled through a gravel pit as opposed to receiving battle damage and wear.

While I am loathe to offer any advice to a painter with skill, for my taste only, I would have limited the scratches and added more fading and "dusty" elements.

Sheep, those miniatures literally blew me away.

I'm all for shiny, full-on highlighting and shading style.. but your gritty, realistic style makes the models seem so much more convincing and lifelike - as if they were a still image taken in the heat of battle. I clicked on this thread expecting another fairly typical if well-painted army following the usual trend, then I saw the first painted pictures and my jaw literally dropped. Exalted and subscribed.

That is a great Dreadnought, well done!

Wow, thanks for all the incredibly complimentary comments

witchhunter wrote:This worn armour is almost perfect. Any advices for making it looking that real?

My advice is read a heap of tutorials, you will pick up a lot of grat techniques and see a lot of products that don't come from GW on the other hand the FW master lass books are some of the best out there and lay everything out in an easy to understand and follow manner.

Uhlan wrote:Really wonderful painting and you certainly have the battle worn look down, but these guys look as though they've rolled through a gravel pit as opposed to receiving battle damage and wear.

While I am loathe to offer any advice to a painter with skill, for my taste only, I would have limited the scratches and added more fading and "dusty" elements.

That's for the crit, weathering is a great divider, some people like it some don't. Then there's the degrees between. I would never do weathering this heavily on a display model, becaus het eleven of scrutiny is so much higher. But for a table top army, where subtle shades, highlights, clippings and stealing would be overlooked heavy weathering stand out a lot more and attracts interest. That's my justification anyway

Just a quick post to show the next 5 marines PIP.



Cheers

Sheep

We desperately need a groupshot

Your wish is my command

Well its been a busy couple of painting days here at Casa De Sheep. I've managed to knock out the last of the tac squad, and their ride.


Obviously running a missile launcher and plasma gun gives the squad alot of versatility on the table and helps with those pesky terminators in 6th.

Next is their ride.





I used the deathwind launcher from the drop pod kit as a pre chaos havoc launcher, I think it look pretty brutal and alot better then the chaos dildo launcher.

A group shot of what I've completed for the 6 month challenge:



and a final group shot of all the SoH model completed so far:



Thanks for looking

thats amazing!

Hey sheep? That isn't by any chance YOUR Contemptor Dreadnought is it?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=5100002-gws

This is incredible. I'd finally convinced myself not to do a Heresy army, and here you are throwing my plans to pot. Hate you.

Painting's pretty good tho.

Congratulations man on getting pictures up on GW's site!
Your painting is brilliant mate

Looking excellent, congrats on the Contemptor on GW's site.

Thanks guys Was such a shock seeing my stuff on the GW blog today, it felt really nice though

Deadshot wrote:Hey sheep? That isn't by any chance YOUR Contemptor Dreadnought is it?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=5100002-gws

It is indeed

Urien_Rakarth wrote:This is incredible. I'd finally convinced myself not to do a Heresy army, and here you are throwing my plans to pot. Hate you.

Painting's pretty good tho.

I can live with that

great work as always Sheep, and congrats on making the GW blog!

I love the weathering effect you've used, as well as the glow of that plasma gun!

In fact, I think I'm going to have to try and replicate that plasma glow,,,