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Some small progress on the Jetbike, not 100% sure where the brighter yellow should be placed on the front cowling? bottom half or top or towards the light? any ideas




Here you can see the first go of gold over the green wash on the Termies also note the difference just a coat can make to them! the next green wash will give the depth of colour and help the gold appear sandwiched between the layers.




and finally, Sternguard, should I paint the left pad white to help enforce the veteran status? or should I just go with the helmets? and black loin cloth?

Fists are looking gorgeous. That jetbike is fantastic.

Currently stealing your candy apple idea, can't wait to see those Termies though.

Man, that jet bike is looking cool!

EDC

Nice painting, but i cannot help thinking of something when i watch your contemptor

What's a creepier feel for Nurgle chaos marines? dry rusted death guard style pale armour with sickly diseased skin or armour that looks like skin with rents and gashes as wounds? and bone faces? or heavily corroded metal leaking oils and blood?

Erm... both? Can't beat the corroded and textured armour, but throwing in the odd fleshy bits and wounds gives them a real creepiness as well. I reckon with the right scheme you could incorporate the two in a way that really pops. Pale, Death Guardy armour, lots of grime, then pallid and pale flesh with gory gashes used here and there for contrast...

Hmm, I'm feeling the need to paint a Plague Marine now!

That's a really nice candy effect you've achieved on the finished Contemptor, as well as the Terminator WIPs.

You probably want a little bit of highlighting at the back of the "triangles" of the bikes's front cowling - that way it'll be consistent with the highlights/lighting being on the rear of each of the arches as well as the rear of the vents within the front "triangles".

I think white would work well within the trim of the left shoulder pads, along with black fists and maybe a green spot colour on the laurels. I'd keep the trim edges yellow if doing so, though.

Paradigm wrote:Erm... both? Can't beat the corroded and textured armour, but throwing in the odd fleshy bits and wounds gives them a real creepiness as well. I reckon with the right scheme you could incorporate the two in a way that really pops. Pale, Death Guardy armour, lots of grime, then pallid and pale flesh with gory gashes used here and there for contrast...

Hmm, I'm feeling the need to paint a Plague Marine now!

I know what you mean, I have (along with a lot of projects) wanted to do a Deathguard or Nurgle army for a loooong time and I had an oportunity to grab a FW upgrade kit for Terminators and hiding in my bits box was a Chaos Termi sprue my mate gave me so I thought i'd see what I can do

Azazelx wrote:That's a really nice candy effect you've achieved on the finished Contemptor, as well as the Terminator WIPs.

You probably want a little bit of highlighting at the back of the "triangles" of the bikes's front cowling - that way it'll be consistent with the highlights/lighting being on the rear of each of the arches as well as the rear of the vents within the front "triangles".

I think white would work well within the trim of the left shoulder pads, along with black fists and maybe a green spot colour on the laurels. I'd keep the trim edges yellow if doing so, though.

Thanks Az, the process for a large army is time consuming but totally (hopefully) worth it! thank you for some advice on the bike highlights I felt a little unsure but i'll work on them tomorrow. I hadn't thought of leaving the trim yellow on the marines either! I just figured they'd be all black/red or whatever company

Beautiful work Damo. That dread looks great. Love that effect you've got going, dude. PM me your addy dude, sending you the ogre plus a little gifty gift.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I hadn't thought of leaving the trim yellow on the marines either! I just figured they'd be all black/red or whatever company

Well, it might not go to the letter of however IFs are "supposed" to look, but there are hundreds if not thousands of both official and player-painted variations for even the most "strict" chapters. For me at least, keeping the chapter colour on the pads as the trim keeps them much more "Imperial Fist" when the rest of the pad is getting so busy with all manner of additional colours and icons. You can always do a company colour on a kneepad or something (or use some form of modified heraldry), but I'm not a huge fan of the skittles effect of all of those different company colours as pad trim, generally speaking. Green and purple and orange and so forth - it just looks silly to me, better to go with whatever the painter feels looks best.

Thanks guys, Bebop i'll pm you my address in a minute will be wonderful to have a crack at that model tag team style!

Az, i'll have another look when I get some more colour on them and we can decide what will work best

now for a small update! woo hooo!

got some more gold on the Sallies, this time it was the assault marine contingent that got the love, next will be the characters and more stand alone marines then finally the troops.



and I also mostly assembled my IF Assault squad (it was an Assault squad kinda day!) i've used the dark fury marines for the bodies and will be finding some more mk4 jump packs for the rest of them, I wanted poses that were dynamic and action based as if when they're together there's a flurry of activity going on, the sarge's helmet is only a stand in as i'll re do the red helmet with a white stripe for him but I think all together they look pretty decent and will certainly look a little different once painted up in my yellow.

Lovin' the work on both Legions! The mottled look on the sally armor is beautiful and the jetbike is a gorgeous yellow fade. I look forward to the finished project!

Nice work on the Assault Marines, really dynamic posing.

EDC

Beautiful yellow comin' at ya! I got all the yellow armour done on the tac squad and the Sternguard guys and I really love the way it looks, it's rich and not too bright or dark, it's a little bit brighter in real life though. Once the rest gets painted it will hopefully be the perfect canvas for an army of the Emperor's favorite sons

So that's the hard part out of the way for those guys! next i'll get back into golding the Sallies troops.

Oooh. Awesome Imperial Fists there nerdy

Cheers AoV I'm pretty happy to have them to this point now, it means I'm moving forward with the fists at an acceptable rate and beginning to find my mojo again :-)

now a couple of questions about the Fists again, i'm not sure what helmet colour to paint my contemptor when I get one? I like the red with white stripe look as it gives a bit of variation, but a white veteran helmet also looks pretty cool?

second, weathering! I'm scared guys, I love the gritty look but find it hard to dust over the feet of my models and add chips on them :-( maybe the tanks and dreads etc but maybe I can leave the marines pretty neat? what's the thoughts from you? they won't be in a muddy theater of war since they'll be fighting over my ruined city board albeit with my standard brown basing : -)

I think the biggest improvement I see on these guys is the non-static posing. They have some nice movement to them.

I think for the weathering, just go for it. It looked great on Admech and Sharks tanks, just gotta do it smaller on some marines.

Beautiful work on the yellow... very earthy. Of course my favorite tac marine is the guy in the lower-right... Beakies Arise!!!

Just get some powders (or cheat like me and get some pastels, and dusty them up a bit, can always clean them up if you are not happy that way. They look brilliant, as i said before, you have a wonderful yellow, and agree that the posing is making a great difference.

Awesome yellow.. so jealous... I now need to re-do all my Lamenters.. or start over..

Yeah you need to get onto those Lamenters Solar, I haven't seen you work on them for ages :-( I loved seeing them!

My mate visited me today and i'm storing a bunch of his stuff in my shed while organises his house, we were just checking through his hobby stuff and he 'found' a couple of models I can have :-) since he can't see himself using them anytime soon I get to have them for my Imperial Fists! i'll show what I got tomorrow when I can update my bloggy blog!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Cheers AoV I'm pretty happy to have them to this point now, it means I'm moving forward with the fists at an acceptable rate and beginning to find my mojo again :-)

now a couple of questions about the Fists again, i'm not sure what helmet colour to paint my contemptor when I get one? I like the red with white stripe look as it gives a bit of variation, but a white veteran helmet also looks pretty cool?

second, weathering! I'm scared guys, I love the gritty look but find it hard to dust over the feet of my models and add chips on them :-( maybe the tanks and dreads etc but maybe I can leave the marines pretty neat? what's the thoughts from you? they won't be in a muddy theater of war since they'll be fighting over my ruined city board albeit with my standard brown basing : -)

They're your models, Damo. Go with what you like and damn the torpedoes. Remember, it's entirely possible to love the look of something but not do the same with your own models. The muted yellow you've used already looks weathered compared t the usual bright yellow that IF are painted with. Alternately, have a couple of "designated driver" squads to test the looks of different weathering. Breachers for chips and damage, scout-types for dust and dirty feet, etc

 nerdfest09 wrote:
now a couple of questions about the Fists again, i'm not sure what helmet colour to paint my contemptor when I get one? I like the red with white stripe look as it gives a bit of variation, but a white veteran helmet also looks pretty cool?

Try 'em and see? Do the white one first, because if it doesn't work out then it's easier to paint red over it.

second, weathering! I'm scared guys, I love the gritty look but find it hard to dust over the feet of my models and add chips on them :-( maybe the tanks and dreads etc but maybe I can leave the marines pretty neat? what's the thoughts from you? they won't be in a muddy theater of war since they'll be fighting over my ruined city board albeit with my standard brown basing : -)

Just start with a little, see how it looks, and then add a little more. Build it up to a level that you like.
Don't go mad adding dings and scratches everywhere and find that, at the end, there's no paint job left.

I reckon i'll try the dirty feet on some scouts when I get them and if I like the look i'll transfer the dust to my marines too and i'll wait until I get the Contemptor before I start stressing about his helmet colour

I got a little more colour on the Fists




finally got layer two over all the Sallies takes a loooong time and now I have to go back over them all again with green wash and then again with the gold until I can start making them cool!


and my gifts from yesterday I scored a Landraider and a new Knight I wanted to get them organised and primed so I can work on them when the fever takes me!

Nice score, especially for free! The gun on the knight is upside down, which is bugging the crap out of me.

Epic work DAMO!!!! Damn dude, i wish I had your ability to power into a full sized army and make it look as gorgeous as you do. I think on the docket for my first works when I get back to LA is to try to do another squad of Space Sharks. I'm still searching for that elusive middle ground between speed and gorgeousness. Help!

Slow and steady my friend, it's all lookin' good! Any ideas for the IK's color scheme?
Hyped for the finished product,
JATW

Slow and steady indeed! but still progress happens

My first Imperial Fists completed Tactical squad, this is the level i'll be doing the entire army to as far as paint goes I don't want to spend too long on each of them since the majority are rescued models with some imperfections but I still want them to look good and pop on the table!

So here they are guys, lets see what you think?

Mission accomplished, that's an awesome squad at a rapid pace!

Great work on these, Damo. The muted yellow looks really effective, and the black trim looks great with them. Will you be adding the Transfers from GW/FW, or going freehand insane?