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Nice little NF on his crux there, tricky man.

Damo, mate, they are superb and will make excellent objectives / special characters. Little H will gak a brick.
Now I suppose I'll have to finish the Hulk Mortalis board.....
Did you finish yours yet ?

Gorgeous work on those termis damo. The figures are fantastic sculpts and they look really fun to paint. I especially like the 1st...alive...fellow...the blending on the knee especially, my favorite part of a sm...is fantastic. great colors dude. Also, sent you a PM ...cheers bro

Amazing minis, those! nice modifications to the live one as well, the tilt plate and beefed up gun!

Nice stuff man, looks good!

Thanks guys, now that's more models done I better move onto the next project Just wanted to show you what i'm working with for Whaleys Candy Sallies

Lots and lots of marines! a couple of dreadnoughts and some special characters will be super fun once I get past the boring tedious initial stages my detail plan if agreed too will be the candy green on all the armour and gold banding and trinkets with some greaves and knees and pads blended into flame colours to give them a bit of punch.





and a few guys that had a rough drop pod landing I need to take into the apothecarion

Ooo excited to see what you do with the Sallies.

EDC

Looots of marines Have you (or Whaley) mixed and matched marks of armour or is that just me? I like it

The AdMech army came up a treat. Particularly love the heads on the robots.

Nothing super surprising broke. I'm surprised any of the stupid assault marines made it. If there are any questions on what goes where, just lemme know.

 Brother Payne wrote:
Have you (or Whaley) mixed and matched marks of armour or is that just me? I like it

All marks from II-VI are in there at least once. There are lots of "Pure" armor marks, but I also used lots of MKIII pads on MKIV dudes, and did do some full mixes in there. I tried to make it fluffy with weapons as well. Lots of melta, flamers and hammers. Even on the Contemptor.

 whalemusic360 wrote:

 Brother Payne wrote:
Have you (or Whaley) mixed and matched marks of armour or is that just me? I like it

All marks from II-VI are in there at least once. There are lots of "Pure" armor marks, but I also used lots of MKIII pads on MKIV dudes, and did do some full mixes in there. I tried to make it fluffy with weapons as well. Lots of melta, flamers and hammers. Even on the Contemptor.

Nice I do like the aesthetic (and fluff) of piecemeal marine armour

Truly you have mastered the color red sir!

Yo, over the last couple of days I've had a chance to start some work on a couple of projects , Whaley's Sallies are now all primed and i've started washing the first green over them as well as doing a bit of experimenting on the dreadnought's arm using the blue horse blanket I did on LittleH's model a while ago as inspiration with scales painted underneath the washes to give a subtle effect to the armour which looks quite good with the gold over it (it's hard to see though in pics)









And I also did a bit more on my Imperial Fists Gave them the first highlight after the wash of sepia and started the metal bits on the bikes (they'll count as bikes as i just really don't like the current ones) and before anyone says anything, all the IF models i've used have been rescue models so there are and will be some models that are a bit worse for wear under the paint and i've cleaned the up as well as I could.





I used the Grey Knights packs with the antennae cut off the top to give them a sort of look as if the bottom ones are stabilizers.

Those ad mech's and littleH's marines are yet another example of your mastery of red. Truly impressive!!!

Quality flight stands!

Really like the blanket. Think the experiment was a success!

Love those bikers!

Thanks guys, it's going to be tedious on the Sallies for a while until they have all been base coated and washed so the updates won't be very exciting! :-(

I'll try and do some on the IF so I have something nicer to show you until I can get into the nitty gritty details on the Sallies!

Looking great so far. The scale effect on the dread arm is looking awesome.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Looking great so far. The scale effect on the dread arm is looking awesome.

EDC

I concur with EDC, the effect looks really nice.

Cheers boys :-) it won't be very in your face though when it's finished, I plan on making it darker so it's subtle

IM genuinely intrigued by the scaled effect... Its subtle, but really REALLY adds something to the scheme.

Im surprised to see how light you start them, especially to get that super saturated candy green like Vulkan... Always a pleasure to see your process.


And your yellows go without saying... Love the color you've got on the Fists. I really dig the jetbikes. Are those really FW or third party?

Great stuff dude! This I can tell is going to be a fantastic army. Whale is a lucky fella. AS far as your ability to mantiain inspiration to beautifully paint another marine army is just beyond human lol. I only could paint one army in my entire live so far

In regards to the scale tech, I can imagine this in my mind that it's going to look killer, but I do wonder if maybe adding those scales when you've got a stronger intial color under it, as maybe you'll end up needing to cover up the scale effect more than you want to which might wash it out and in the end and it'll to be "too subtle" ? Again, just a thought and I know in the end it doesn't matter because it's you and it's gonna look freaking great.

Finally got some time and a hotspot to upload some pics! i'll be brief but I hope you like the progress, I started the banner bearer for the sallies and i'm not real good at flat work but it's coming along o.k



also I often mention how Ian Watsons Space Marine novel is my favorite book every it's so gritty and real even if it does contain things GW don't want you to know like Talking Tyranids and Squats and Ambulls, it's still awesome and gives some real life to the darker realities of being a space marine. In the novel it's described that the Imperial Fists are also artisans who get the itch to scrimshaw the hand bones of their fallen brothers, I wanted to show my unfaltering loyalty to Rogal Dorn by doing as much





Here's what i just posted in the painters thread
Hey guys I've started a rundown of my yellow here's part #1 of how I paint them, still a few more steps!

Prime with Army Painter desert brown

wash with sepia.

when dry use very diluted yellow to start highlights.

then vallejo lemon yellow to strengthen the highlights



and a basic of my greens with a candy effect. lol writing was smaller than I expected

green wash over white zenithal style spray

watered gold over pad

green wash over gold

deepen the effect by gold over the pad again

Free hand looks absolutely brilliant.

Bones look amazing and fantastic idea. Going to have to read on of these books one day.

Tuts are most gratefully received, thank you sir.

Thanks for th tutorials .

Also royal adorns hands are preserved in amber in their monastery aren't they?

Great looking Sallys and especially Fists, mate. Where are the Jetbikes from?

Nice to see how you do the yellow, and the way you add the "candy" gold to the Salamanders is also very interesting.

Thanks as usual guys! I think Rogal Dorn's fists are somewhat fluffed by GW as in the current fluff they only found one fist and in the book I read they have his Skeleton and his fists separate as holy icons in the book the chaplain also drinks a mix of the initiates blood and resin scraped from the tomb of Dorn then poops it out into shiny nuggets and reads the portents.

so here's part #2 of the yellow

Vallejo yellow green final highlight

then wash with GW Cassandora Yellow

Beautifully done Damo... thanks for the tut.

I feel greedy for asking, but any chance on a tutorial for your faces? I mean hot dog that fist sargents face is incredible!