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Hello everyone, it's been a long time! No really, I've been inactive for years! Crazy, huh?

Well, in that time, I've fallen out of the hobby, come back, redone a lot of my minis, stripped my old (And quite honestly, terrible) paint jobs, and have started over. Now, having finally gotten into a loose routine of actually getting decent paint jobs done on a consistent basis, I finally find myself with enough painted models to -actually- field a small, fully painted army. In my 10+ years of being in this hobby, this is the first time I can finally say this. So, to celebrate this occasion, I've decided to finally post pics of my models.

Unfortunately, I don't have a very good camera. Right now, I'm stuck with the one on my blackberry, but with decent lighting I was able to get some passable pics. Hopefully I'll be able to take better ones in the near future, but we'll see.



Here's the entire force at the moment, every fully painted model in my army at the time of this post, except for 5 cultists. Unfortunately, they got left at a friend's place, hence the unit of only 8.




My Helbrute (1 of 5. Yes, I have a Murderpack ), is actually one of my favorite models at the moment. He turned out far better than he had any right to be, but that's mostly attributed to washes and technicals. Sadly, my camera can't do him justice, but overall he's the best painted mini I have, by far.




Seraphos himself, one of my best conversions, is my primary Sorcerer Lord. He was built with terminator legs, a standard Space Marine torso, Chaos Knight arms, gargoyle heads, various other bits, and greenstuff. Sadly, I don't think the paintjob I gave him is all that great, compared to my more recent work, but he's still one of my favorite minis.




My secondary Sorcerer is another favorite of mine. He was made with regular space marine bits, a Chaos Knight arm, and Chaos Warrior legs and helmet. I rather like how he turned out, though he tends to break off his base. Unfortunately, he's taught me that using plaster-mold rocks on the base can be bad, as they're very brittle and will break apart easily when dropped.



Having found the standard Chaos Vindicator to not be 'Chaos' enough, I put one of the Ectoplasma Cannons from the Forge Fiend kit where the cannon goes, and I run it as Daemon Possessed. I found the bit fits right in, and works really well.



And here's my Rhino/Predator. Funny story here. I got a lot of my minis from a friend who stopped playing Blood Angels, and converted the loyalist models to chaos. Among them was a Razorback, but chaos doesn't get those. So, I had a Rhino with a sun-roof, essentially. After some thinking, I decided to get myself the turret of a Predator, so I could run it as such if I so desired, and the end result works very well. The turret tends to slide around a little, but I'm sure some magnetizing could fix that just fine. Sponsons are another story, but I have the option to take a 75pt tank if I want, now.

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So that's what I've got so far. I still have a lot to go, including the rest of my 40+ cultists, my terminators, possessed, chosen, havocs, and the other 4 Helbrutes. But for now, just being able to field a fully painted army feels amazing. After over 10 years, it's about time. Lemme know what you think, and I apologize again for the low-quality pics. It's all I can do right now.

Looks like you're painting well enough, but the pics are a little blurry. Perhaps if you put the minis down against a white background rather than holding them you'd get a better focus.

Unfortunately, that's actually the best I can get with my blackberry's camera. I can't get well enough lighting without holding them, and there's no way to focus the image any better.

I really need a new phone, or a decent camera.

It may be a while before I have anything decent enough to post again, so I might have to open another thread for my WIP stuff, but again, blurry pics will abound until I get a better camera. :<

 Karoline Dianne wrote:
Unfortunately, that's actually the best I can get with my blackberry's camera. I can't get well enough lighting without holding them, and there's no way to focus the image any better.

I really need a new phone, or a decent camera.

It may be a while before I have anything decent enough to post again, so I might have to open another thread for my WIP stuff, but again, blurry pics will abound until I get a better camera. :<

Go outside during the day, lay em on the sidewalk or something. Natural light will help even the shittiest of cameras.

That's a good idea, I'll have to try that. But I live in a city area, so there's not a lot of open spots with good lighting that I can think of. I'll figure something out.

Welcome back to Dakka and congrats on finally having a fully-painted army! Probably the only critique I could give would be to paint the base rims in a solid color. Two coats may be necessary for smooth coverage. The mottled edges look unfinished to me.

Get those Havocs and Termies painted first! It's only another 10 models, but the high points cost means it'll tack on about another 400 points to your army.

Tip: the auto focus is focussing on your backgrounds. If you hold them up in front of a plain wall, it won't have anything to focus on but the models themselves and you'll get a nice shot.

Yeah, as above, your auto focus may be doing it's own thing. Give it less to be "distracted" by.
Maybe you could borrow a friend's camera/phone?

Got a friend to take some pics for me with his phone-camera (As opposed to camera-phone).

Still waiting for some to get emailed to me, but here's the two I've got now. Much clearer! I wish I had his camera ;~;





How's that look? : D

Looks SIGNIFICANTLY better in the new shots

Looks much better, very nice paintwork!

Thank you very much!

Here's some more! First, my horrible, skinless, mutant worm-monsters from someone's nightmares. Aka, my Chaos Spawn!



They were made out of old MageKnight figures, Crypt Worms I think, with some bits glued on. I'm rather happy with how they turned out. First game I used them, they devoured a squad of Nobz unscathed.

And here's a pic of some of my regular marines.



Not much to say there.

Currently, I'm working on my count-as Berserkers, just my dedicated melee-marines, really. I've got 5 done, and once they're finished, I've got 2 new plasma gunners and meltagunners to paint up. I can finally run the infamous Draznicht's Plasma Chosen, and it feels nice to finally have more than one of each special weapon.