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Day 1:
Hey, new here and just getting back into painting Warhammer after like a 5 year break and having only done small model projects like these:

So after painting those (and falling in love with thousand sons) I decided to start my first big project, Magnus The Red! I have him built and I've been painting him for about 30 minutes before posting this.

Please note that the wings are detached for magnetization and were only friction fit for photography purposes

That's all I have for Day 1 of painting, any and all feed back is appreciated seeing as I am new back into painting (and not having been good 5 years ago either )

Day 2:
Finished half of the wing, the other half of it is still primed black XD



(Sorry about the picture size and quality, in doing this on a time limit so I will have to redo and resize them later)
(Also note that apart from the screamer pink used to base the feathers on the wing, all my paints are at least 5 years old.)

Are you going to do anything with that symbol on the back part of the Thousand Sons tabbard/cape thing? It sort of looks like it needs something to complete the fantastic paint job you have done there. I particularly like your shading on the cloth parts. You managed a beautiful maroon color there.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:
Are you going to do anything with that symbol on the back part of the Thousand Sons tabbard/cape thing? It sort of looks like it needs something to complete the fantastic paint job you have done there. I particularly like your shading on the cloth parts. You managed a beautiful maroon color there.

Thank you, I am tho, all I've done is base coat and wash, (on the cape I layered and highlighted too) but I definitely haven't detailed it yet. Although I'm holding off on finishing Ahriman because I need to get Magnus up to Detail quality for the inner circle even because my TS is the army I'm submitting.

Day 2 update (for those who did not see)

God I love that Ahriman model, I tried painting him in blue+gold colours but it turned out a bit crap. Nice job though!

Your base colour on the wings is quite nice but it might have been better to highlight with a dry brush rather than directly painting to get a softer colour. Still nice work!

Really like Ahriman in blue! Have been thinking of picking the model up for a Sorceror. But in "modern" 40k Thousand Sons colors.

 mrhappyface wrote:
God I love that Ahriman model, I tried painting him in blue+gold colours but it turned out a bit crap. Nice job though!

Your base colour on the wings is quite nice but it might have been better to highlight with a dry brush rather than directly painting to get a softer colour. Still nice work!

Thanks! I don't Actually have a dry brush, so I just had to make due

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Really like Ahriman in blue! Have been thinking of picking the model up for a Sorceror. But in "modern" 40k Thousand Sons colors.

I don't actually like the new model, so I just painted the 30k in the apropriately named Ahriman Blue XD

Xjax1 wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:
God I love that Ahriman model, I tried painting him in blue+gold colours but it turned out a bit crap. Nice job though!

Your base colour on the wings is quite nice but it might have been better to highlight with a dry brush rather than directly painting to get a softer colour. Still nice work!

Thanks! I don't Actually have a dry brush, so I just had to make due

You only need a brush with stiff bristles (or just any old brush if your carful enough) to do dry brushing. My 'dry brush' is just an old paint brush with stiff bristles.

Wings are looking good.

EDC

 mrhappyface wrote:

Xjax1 wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:
God I love that Ahriman model, I tried painting him in blue+gold colours but it turned out a bit crap. Nice job though!

Your base colour on the wings is quite nice but it might have been better to highlight with a dry brush rather than directly painting to get a softer colour. Still nice work!

Thanks! I don't Actually have a dry brush, so I just had to make due

You only need a brush with stiff bristles (or just any old brush if your carful enough) to do dry brushing. My 'dry brush' is just an old paint brush with stiff bristles.

I know that's all you need, I just don't currently have a brush like that, and my brushes arenkjnda expensive so I don't want to ruin them to make one.


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 evildrcheese wrote:
Wings are looking good.

EDC

Thanks man

Wing done!

Won't be able to post as often as I have been, school is a bitch D:

Yeah, real life tends to get in the way of hobbying :(

Finished wings look great by the way!

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Yeah, real life tends to get in the way of hobbying :(

Finished wings look great by the way!

EDC

Thanks! Just wait till I get onto the rubric marines and scarab ocultus, I plan to do a lot of cool conversions and I'm buying some forge world stuff. Eventually I'm even getting a forge world thousand sons contemptor dreadnought

Sorry about not updating at alll I've just been way too busy.

I was working on my 'secret project', traitor guard.
I just made some custom Heavy Weapon Teams(without men) so I'm posting them here since they will be fielded beside my thousand sons

Sorry for the delay, I've had a family emergency but I did get this done, only to Tabletop quality but it ain't bad.