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So, I've finally decided after 4 years to get this painted up.


Going with a very clean finish on these - nice subtle blends and sharp edges. It'll probably take me a good while to finish the set...


First up is Omnio.

Excellent! Digging the base he's on too. Kinda fits his stance and model.

Judging from your first, it's going to be a beautiful set Winterdyne. Always a fan of your work

I feel a bit the opposite. Lovely brushwork but the entire thing is thrown off by the base for me. I'm not familiar with the models - is that how it comes with the boxed game?

Yes, that's exactly as it comes. All I'll be doing with the bases for the marines is painting them black. I was toying with the idea of basing them up for 40k, but then, I've not played 40k in well over a decade.

Great job.

Which colors did you use to highlight the black?

Vallejo Model Colour blue-grey (very much like oldschool GW shadow grey), Vallejo Game Color heavy bluegrey (slightly bluer than codex grey, about the same brightness), almost but not quite pure Vallejo Game Color dead white (a little of the bluegrey added to knock it back a bit).

The trick to black is VERY subtle blends and very sharp extremes.

winterdyne wrote:
Yes, that's exactly as it comes. All I'll be doing with the bases for the marines is painting them black. I was toying with the idea of basing them up for 40k, but then, I've not played 40k in well over a decade.

I've got a friend who was also thinking of putting the Terminators on 40k bases, but he decided not to when he realized that they wouldn't fit into the spaces on the Space Hulk board very well.

I did say this might take a while... managed to squeeze out Zael. It'll be fun trying to keep things consistent over the duration...

Absolutely gorgeous.

I always found consistency to be a hard thing, I'm generally done with a certain kind of mini after just one, then again I'm exceptionally slow in painting and modelling.

Fantastic mini's!

Very, very nice.