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Excellent work Brother SRM, love the subtle dust effect.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks guys!

Now's time for this big, hard to photograph jerk:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/bTzNhbc.jpg[/timg]









Here's Duncan checking my army out while I look hella bald

Awesome. I feel you ought to slap a big "Duncan Approved" watermark across your pics now!

Seriously, though, the Stormraven is excellent.

Raven looks good. It’s always fun trying to get pictures of oddly shaped big things.

Nice to see your army getting the attention it deserves.

I can’t recommend hats enough. As we get older the options are either headgear, or to shave the rest off, get some service studs implanted and yell all the time.

 Nevelon wrote:

I can’t recommend hats enough. As we get older the options are either headgear, or to shave the rest off, get some service studs implanted and yell all the time.

I think we all know the answer:



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I like doing weird batch painting groupings. This time around I did a squad of 3 scout bikers and the old Captain Draco model from 3rd ed, who will be serving as a lieutenant.
Fast Attack choices are universally kind of a pain to paint:








This guy was real fun though:

Painted up a Land Speeder, the newer kit kinda sucks but sucks a lot less than the old one from the 90s.

Great work! Love the Land Raider and the converted scout bikers. Are those old chaos knights helms?

Those are the Warriors of Chaos helmets with the horns shaved off. I'm planning on doing a tutorial for them soon!

Don't take it so hard, BrotherSRM. Lots of successful people are bald. Like Indrick Boreale or Lord Carron.

I really like the weathering on the Land Speeder. And the Commander guy is looking ace!

Nice stuff. To bad bikes squads can’t mix like crusader squads, that would be a lot of fun.

Of the 4 land speeders I’ve assembled, I’ve yet to build the “new” one. The last one I built wasn’t that bad, but at the time I was building it I has significantly more time in the hobby then the first 2 (which were built in 3rd)

You have a critical mass of these guys to hit the table? Quite the force shaping up.

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice stuff. To bad bikes squads can’t mix like crusader squads, that would be a lot of fun.

Of the 4 land speeders I’ve assembled, I’ve yet to build the “new” one. The last one I built wasn’t that bad, but at the time I was building it I has significantly more time in the hobby then the first 2 (which were built in 3rd)

You have a critical mass of these guys to hit the table? Quite the force shaping up.

Oh man, that would be cool! Doing a second bike squad of Marines to roll nearby them would be sort of the same, but they couldn't quite keep pace with them. I last built the old Land Speeder in 4th edition, so maybe I have the hobby skills/emotional maturity to actually survive building one of those things now

And according to my roster sheet, I have 2739 points of these guys painted up now!

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Don't take it so hard, BrotherSRM. Lots of successful people are bald. Like Indrick Boreale or Lord Carron.

I really like the weathering on the Land Speeder. And the Commander guy is looking ace!

If Boreale can rock it, I can probably do alright. And thanks! The weathering is simple, and what I usually go for: Some real quick sponge chipping with Necron Compound, a drybrush of Steel Legion Drab, then a drybrush of Karak Stone.

I got this Contemptor by buying a dude a shot at NOVA and he gave me his:






I also magnetized it in case I ever want a multimelta for some reason:

Brother SRM,

Thanks for sharing some of your work. Great subtle painting.

Cheers,

CB

Well it isn't the worst way to get a Dreadnought. He looks great either way! Well done.

Finished up some Crusaders for my Templars; I kinda blew out the whites in my lighting though.

Brother SRM,

More great paint jobs.

Cheers,

CB

Finished painting up some more Templars and it made me realize two things:
1. I really don't like painting capes, and can never for the life of me get smooth transitions
2. My phone camera blows and everything not directly centered looks like it's smeared in vaseline

First is Marshall "Too Old For This gak" Löwe:





Next is a Devastator Squad, featuring grimdark baby:

The Devs look fantastic!

I converted up a Techmarine for these guys - I'm super happy with how he turned out!

All your stuff looks amazing!
Two questions:
How do you do the dirt on the vehicles?
The hoods on the Neophites, and the Cherub. how is that done?

Keep up the good work! Inspirational!

Awesome stuff! Where does that Techmarine’s pack come from? Or is it just an insane kitbash?

 Zubbiefish wrote:
All your stuff looks amazing!
Two questions:
How do you do the dirt on the vehicles?
The hoods on the Neophites, and the Cherub. how is that done?

Keep up the good work! Inspirational!

Thanks! The dirt is just a successive drybrush of Steel Legion Drab and Karak Stone, nothing complicated! I work it into the recesses more than I would with a normal drybrush.

The heads on the Neophytes and Cherub are from the Warriors of Chaos set from Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar - I took their helmets and shaved off the horns.

 kavika0311 wrote:
Awesome stuff! Where does that Techmarine’s pack come from? Or is it just an insane kitbash?

It's a combination of the heavy flamer backpack from the Sternguard kit, the servo arm from the Tactical Squad missile launcher, a hubcap from the old biker wheels sprue, and the loading lugs from an Admech Kataphron kit.

This guy has sat on my painting table for 3 months now, thought it was about time I actually finished him:

A miniature of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

"Alas, poor Yarrick - I knew him, Horatio..."

Very nice, especially how you've managed to maintain the Templar flavour even with a very different palette.

Thanks! He's basically what happened when I saw the Primaris Apothecary model, decided I didn't feel like ponying up $35 for him, and then went on a beer-fueled conversion spree

Not going to lie. at first glance i though that was the primarus apothecary and i though oh nice a hand conversion.

It's time for the big cheese himself, High Marshal Helbrecht! This guy was an absolute joy to paint and I hashed him out in an afternoon and an evening.





Also a Teleport Homer, because those are kinda useful now:

I finished painting 5 more Sword Brethren, giving me a nice squad of 10:








The family photo: