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I like your work, especially your conversions. That titan is impressive indeed.

Forgive my ignorance, but what are these 'flagellant' models you used for the psyker battle squad and where did they come from?

LOVE the ultramarines. everyone should be cool and play ultas so that they too can sit in the cool box. love what your doing .

Lennysmash - Actually I haven't read one of your posts other than the one you wrote here. It was a response in general to most of the other plogs I see here. It starts off with a picture of the shipping box, responses of "Oooh what's in there", then a picture of unopened boxes and responses of "Wow can't wait to see work" or "I wish I could afford that" and then they usually die. Continually bumping of my own thread with my own work is my way of fighting those "WOW BOXES ZOMG!!" posts.

Fiend - Thanks! The flagellent models are the GW Fantasy Empire Flagellents found here. You only get 2 of the stockade head per box, so it took me a lot of trades and ebaying to get all 30 I needed.

sennach - Thanks! I've been playing the Ultras for about 12.5 of my 13 years of gaming so I've got quite a collection. Now that the Ultra commissions are out of the way I can get back to painting my own.

Foda_Bett wrote:Lennysmash - Actually I haven't read one of your posts other than the one you wrote here. It was a response in general to most of the other plogs I see here. It starts off with a picture of the shipping box, responses of "Oooh what's in there", then a picture of unopened boxes and responses of "Wow can't wait to see work" or "I wish I could afford that" and then they usually die. Continually bumping of my own thread with my own work is my way of fighting those "WOW BOXES ZOMG!!" posts.

Metal Bawkses

Anyway, cool thread bro. Am being super legit though, as your work is some pretty cool stuff, especially the warhounds that have lights (I have seen your other blog). So, in the immortal words of Kaesar II, keep up the style and the way, man. Even if your last post here was near the beginning of the month...

i like your style. most of all i like your work ethic!

Nice work... I gotta say though that the Hydra's for the steel legion look a bit... gammy? bit over the top? kinda silly really =\. The psykers rocked my boat though.






...btw, are you selling any of them titans?

Lord Kaesar II - Thanks!

azekio - Thanks!

Jihallah - Thanks!

Well it's been a while but I've got some painting done.
My damocles is almost done!




I need to gloss the decals yet and then flatten the whole thing

This guy will be hitting the table Monday the 20th in a 16k game I'm playing.

Nice paint job!

Commissar Agro - Thanks!

Well it's about time I did something other than sand the titans! I managed to get some paint down on what will prove to be my most expensive ($$ Wise) squad yet. Introducing the most awesome vet squad ever! Includes Vets MkI box from GW, Dark Angels Master from Army box, Space Marine Master from Army box, 2008 Games day hammer swinger, Captain Draco from Black Templars army box, and the Christmas Captain!


When finished these boys will make 60 painted members of the 1st Company, almost to the full deployment

I've added a few more colors to the super expensive squad








I also added some pig iron heads to the wargames factory great coat infantry to make them look more inline with my Steel Legion

Gah, workfilterpwned. I can't see your pics. :-(

Foda_Bett wrote:I also built some honor guard

where are those heads from?!

@ shrike: I think he cast them from the metal honour guard.

@ Foda_Bett: Great work, that uber vet squad looks really impressive all together!! Where's the guy with the SB from, dont recgnise that one!??

I think it was either a sternguard or one of the old banguard veterans blisters, 4th ed.

wolfshadow - They're hosted on Photobucket, so I'm afraid I can't help the work problem. If you can see my titan pics at work you should be able to see these pics.

shrike - The heads are originally from Calgar's honor guard. I cut one of the heads off then had a friend touch up the feathers with some putty work, then I cast up enough to build the 30 honor guard I needed.

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks! The guy with the storm bolter is from the 4th edition Space Marine Spearhead box.
http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle2000/armyboxes/abUltraMarineSgt.htm

I finally finished the vet squad!











I haven't decided if they're going to get normal backpacks or eaglle backpacks.

I also managed to finish off 30 space marine scouts for a commission, I also finished 7 Plasma cannons, and 8 bolter marines for the start of the 5th company.

Foda_Bett wrote:

I haven't decided if they're going to get normal backpacks or eaglle backpacks.

that guy...he is so cool! How did you do him?
eagle backpacks FTW!

awesome models!

Great modelling and really great airbrush work. You should paint autos man better coverage than a machine. I think you have been neglecting your painting though, too much time doing awesome scratch builds and the like. Perhaps attempt some of the blending and shading airbrushes are so renowned for, lord knows you've got the rig for it. Nice workshop btw.

I think eagle backpacks as well!

Very nice Vets, although the DA Master in particular could do with a grey wash to soften the drybrushing.

Wow. Your models are really quite good aren't they?

Nicely done. Keep it up!

Nice vets tho I think my Ravenguard vanguard vets are more expensive in both points and fundage. There is a dark spot on the Rhino looking at the front bottom left, the Rhinos right side.

Everuthing is amazing!!! I love the steel legion!!!
And I can't wait to see the titans finished!!!
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For the hydras... did you paint the terminator "turret" or you just added some weathering? I love this idea but I'm worried about the painting possibilities... they're not made of "model" plastic right??

shrike - Thanks! I don't know which guy and what you mean by do him. Do you mean the color recipies?

Sageheart - Thanks!

Perkustin - Thanks! The only reason I purchased the airbrushes was to paint minis so I don't think there will be any cars in my future. I'll be trying out some blending and stuff on the warhounds.

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks! I've touched up a bit of the quick drybrushing technique and it looks better now.

bunnygurl - Thanks!

sonofruss - Thanks! What spot?

punkow - Thanks! The turrets aren't painted they're just washed. The main part of the turret is made from normal thick plastic that I'm sure would take paint easily. The ammo belts are made of rubbery plastic which would probably not paint well.

I've kind of been neglecting most of my posting duties around the net as I work on ebay to clean my house up. However, due to that I've purchased a MUCH better camera. I've managed to paint up a few models over the past months and I'll be posting pictures of them when I get time. In the mean time here is the last of the un-Blood Angel-ed space hulk termi, and my very old Lysander-to-Belial conversion.




I tried playing with GIMP a little more to make some better all in one shots. What do y'all think?

I've also been bitten by the Grey Knight bug and I'll be repainting my 10k worth of knights over the next few months. The first step was to get a clear count of what I've picked up over the last year via trades and bartering and I'm glad to say that task is done! I'll be posting some photos of my old scheme and my new base coated Grey Knight later.

Nice work man, I like the detailing on your Librarian and Lysander conversion

Foda_Bett wrote:shrike - Thanks! I don't know which guy and what you mean by do him. Do you mean the color recipies?

I mean the plasma guy with cloak, and how did you make him.
BTW nice lysander conversion!

WOW i like al that honourguard helms in your army , But the left claw of the ultramarine lisander doesn´t really fit on the body, i think it need some greenstuff

cheers jelle

EDIT: i mean it is a bit to low >.< srry

crimsonfist832 - Thanks!

writter - Thanks! I tried putting it where it's supposed to go but it looked too high. Sadly it's an rogue trader termi arm so it looks a bit off.

shrike - I took this guy and filed off the DA symbols
http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle2000/armyboxes/abDACompanyMaster.htm

Well here we go with some fancy Grey knight pictures!


Some of you may remember my old Grey Knight scheme (it's in my sig). Mirror polished swords, Testor's Metalizer, and some fancy homegrown decals.


Since I painted 2000 points in that scheme I picked up over 8000 points in trades in the past year. I've been thinking of repainting the whole bunch of them and I finally decided too. However, since each of those original models takes roughly 2 hours of prep time per model I figured it was time to do something quicker. I give you the awesome-sauce that is Alclad Steel:


Prep time: 30 minutes to an hour per model (depending on condition)
The only down side is that the finish is comprised of 2 primer coats (with an hour wait between each) and then waiting overnight to apply the base coat.
You may notice the little chip on his head and shoulder, that is from me dropping the model from about 5 feet in the air while carrying it to my car. Those scratches (and the backpack popping off) are the ONLY damage! The Alclad is a very strong Laquer based paint and it's about as strong as most protective coats.
Even with the 3 layers of paint you can see that very little detail is obscured on the model, in fact you can see that I missed a few mold lines on the original!

I have spent the last 4 days cleaning my previously unpainted knights, and stripping a bunch of other knights. In fact I was stripping so much that both my hands have some nasty chemical burns, and the skin on my right hand is peeling off After the figures were stripped I decided to set them aside on a towel to dry. I noticed a few figures hadn't completely been disassembled and began breaking arms off and one of the little guys cut me!

Needless to say I think my hands new a few days break from mini work.

Lookin good! But someone as vehicle-tastic as yourself needs an airbrush Foda!

MajorTom11 - Thanks!

I've decided to take the test base coated mini and turn it into a test paint mini.

My camera needs a little more work when it comes to white backgrounds but you get an idea.

Each "piece" has something different that allowed me to test the looks of certain techniques. The 3 inlay pieces have different techniques applied (sepia on the leg, sepia + mud on the left chest, and Rhulic gold on the right chest), there are 2 different ribbing colors, different pieces of armor have different washes applied, and if you look close you'll see that there is some touch up tests in a few spots (REALLY easy to spot in person)
I'm painting up a converted grand master for a painting contest my friends are running. I had 2 major screw ups that required sanding and re-priming, in the morning I'll reapply the steel. The mini is "due" by tomorrow night, and I've got a commission of 30 stormtroopers, and a late Christmas present mini due on Saturday.