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Friends took better photos than I can of the Blood Angels army:

Been working on a Dreadfleet set lately. Here's the latest progress:














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I have not finished with all the rock islands, but I used the salt trick on them and they look great.

I've also been working on Blood Angels, Ultramarines and Imperial Fists armies. All are at about 2000 points, but I'm lousy at keeping up with photos lately.


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Actually the Blood Angels are a Flesh Tearers army. While painting the BA army above, I got into the codex and the combination of that & running a GK Stormraven has me all fired up for Stormravens lately.

This week I worked on an Orks Deff Skullz army that is turning out fantastic. I have an Ork army myself, but never attempted to use a unified color scheme; in fact I tried to have as many different colors as possible because I imagined that Orks would have a hodge podge of patched up stuff. Well, my mind has changed; this Deff Skullz army looks sick with an enchanted blue (GW) with a hint of lighter blue added. I also tried to highlight the central region of each area as opposed to the edges like I usually do. Presently I am waiting for the client to tell me whether he wants red paint job added. I don't know if that will mess up the unified color scheme though.








Comparison with my own Battlewagon that I now realize has too many colors for my liking:




The client also requested megablastas, big bombs & buzz saws on the deff koptas so I dug into my bits bin & came up with these. Turned out pretty neat; I might have to make myself some too.

wow i really really like that blue.

Those Orks look great. That blue is fantastic!

That blue really pops!! Im liking it big time. Great work Mack!

I think some patches of red will help break up the large blue expanse, while still keeping the army unified.

Liking this so far, keep up the good work.

I have to agree that Blue is just stunning, they seem to be raidiating. What radioactive gunk have they been playing in now?

When I first stumbled across this log from the Dakka frontpage I got halfway through the first page I linked it to my friend with the comment that here was a man with "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands."

But once I got through it all I began to have doubts that an unmodified human could accomplish such things. At any rate that's one helluva a job. Keep cranking it out so that I can continue to have such an excellent source from which to loot ideas, inspiration, and techniques.




And if you ever start a cult and need disciples, just let me know....

It's all about the airbrush! It makes painting so much faster & easier.

Hoping to head down to Templecon this weekend & bring my terrain:



More specific photos here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-5729-23347_Terrain%20For%20Templecon%202012.html

InquisitorMack wrote:Hoping to head down to Templecon this weekend & bring my terrain:



More specific photos here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-5729-23347_Terrain%20For%20Templecon%202012.html

If so I'll see you there My friend.

Latest status of Ork Deff Skullz army: (Feb. 2012)

really liking the way you do your rust, also the kitbashing your doing. very cool keep it up

Just finished this as part of a larger job. I'm not familiar with cthulhu, but I tried.

Oh R'Lyeh?

wow, that really quite impressive free hand there

Recently I have been painting my Dark Eldar army, but its nothing special to look at at this point so I'll hold off on taking photos. Before I made the stop & go progress on my Imperial Fists & Ultramarine armies, which now that I think of it was last Fall, I was working on a Ravenguard list inspired by the Imperial Armour campaign.



The list was mostly scouts with Telion & Shrike. The army took a lot of effort because I spent a ton of time working on the bases while I was just learning the salt trick, but petered out once I began painting because work started & I got distracted by Grey Knights or whatever the latest army was back then. Well the Stormtalon just came out this month & I needed an army to fit it into, and wah-lah, Ravenguard moved to the top of the list again. I got most of the base paint coats down and major detail work, but got distracted by the shnazy Forgeworld decal sheet that I've had for months. But overall the army is coming together quickly now & the Stormtalon makes a nice motivator. I'll post more photos if anyone is interested.







Little more detail work necessary on the interior:


The original mold's weapons are a little to clunky for my liking so I cut away a bit of stuff and inserted magnets so I could take off the assault cannons when I want to:

Some lovely models, projects and armies! I need to get some funds together so I can get back into the hobby. Your work if very inspiring and I adore your gaming tables! Keep up the hard work...

Quick little conversion I made for a White Scars army that a client ordered:

With the coming of summer, I have a lot more free time on my hands & this week I got down to business on a plethora of projects. Of course, I'm great at beginning & lousy at finishing. For example, while organizing my Ork bits after building 2 bommas/ dakkajets & one battlewagon, I decided it would be a good idea to build an obliterator... even though I haven't played my CSM army in over a year. But I had that other Obliterator scratch built from a DE grotesque so I built this guy as his partner in crime:



I think I'll wait until the new CSM codex & models come out before I mount a weapon on his shoulder. That way he will be at least a little recognizable as an oblit.

I'm working on a pair of Ork fliers right now in order to narrow down which mix of yellow paint I want to use on my own jet. I'll sell them both on eBay & then build one just for me. So far I have both painted using the yellow Tausept Ochre Foundation color, but one I added a coat of Golden yellow paint & the other I used Lamenters Yellow Glaze. The glaze is actually significantly brighter (think pop-ier) than the Golden yellow one. I think GW is really on to something with this new paint line. Anyhow here's the Lamenters Yellow Dakkajet using the salt & hairspray trick (before & after shown)



I also figured I'd add another battlewagon to my list: (I'll post more progress when I decide what color to make it. Right now its either the yellow of the dakkajet or the blue of the Orks I posted earlier in this thread.)



I've been putting off making Objective markers, but doing all this Ork stuff put me in the mood to crank out these:


My FLGS has been having a painting league for the past three months so this month (June 2012) I painted up the Ravenguard Stormtalon that I posted earlier and these Space wolves:


And I added these DE to my DE army:

Made some more progress on the Ork Battlewagon:

I think that's evolved beyond what anyone would let you call a "Battlewagon", and well into Superheavy territory. Looking good!

Briancj wrote:I think that's evolved beyond what anyone would let you call a "Battlewagon", and well into Superheavy territory. Looking good!

Yes...but neither "Battlesuper-heavy" nor "Super-heavywagon" have the same ring (although I'm liking the sound of the 2nd one....)...

It's somewhere in the murky middle. Here's a size comparison:


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This last photo shows how I cut down the length of the Baneblade sides in order to make them fit the Battlewagon chassis:

Recently finished this White Scars army for a client: (Spring & Summer 2012)



Command Squad with my version of Khan in the front.
Champion:


Apothecary:





Banner-bearer:


more photos:

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Working on a few random projects for friends & myself:
Ork Dakkajets, one for me, one for Kaiservonhugal


Dark Eldar "Bastion" for the guy who's gonna win NOVA:


Progress on the side panels for my Fortress of Arrogance:


Added some Paladins to a Draigo list that I took to a local tournament (and proceeded to get CRUSHED all 3 games, yeah, I'll stick to painting.)

That's a Vulcan model I'm working on on the right.

Had the chance to get my grubby little fingers on a Zone Mortalis set this summer- not mine, but painted for a client. My latest thoughts on terrain is that any set or in entire tableworth of terrain should have a unifying color and be kinda bland at the same time. This makes the models on the table pop when you play a game. So for this set I did almost the entire thing with an airbrush & stuck to just detailing the pipes & computers by hand.

I was surprised by the low quality of this FW cast; there were tons of bubbles & missing segments of pipes, but I would be willing to bet that this was actually a recast of a FW kit. When the client first gave me the four panels they were black plastic; garbage bag color almost. I've never seen any FW kits in that color, but maybe there's something I don't know. This painter had black panels so maybe it is real FW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq9zknu2P8w

Now that the Chaos codex has come out, I have been adding to my CSM army. In the past I began this army with the goal of having one squad from each of the Traitor Legions & that led to:

Troops = Word Bearers, Emperor's Children, Berzerkers/ World Eaters, Plague Marines/ Death Guard, Black Legion & Thousand Sons
Elites= Alpha Legion as infiltrating Chosen
Fast= Night Lords as Raptors
Heavy= Iron Warriors as Havocs

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-5729-9127_Nurgle%20Project%20July%202010.html

Now I'm looking for that to change with the new codex. I have a nice base of infantry models all painted up & ready to go. I added some Cultists, Fantasy River Trolls as Mutilators, Fantasy Ogre Stonehorn as my Maulerfiend, and the Fantasy Khorne lord on juggernaut as, well, a lord on juggernaut. I wanted to add the Heldrake, but am not a fan of the model so I came up with this:
(not done yet)










Presently I feel like there is alot of gold trim on the wings, but not much on the body so there is that disconnect between the two. I'm wondering for I shouldn't have included the shoulder bits from the Heldrake model to tie the two together, but I'm still very happy with this one.

I'll post the Ogre Stonehorn, Juggerlord & Cultists soon.

Great stuff! I still need to get me some of that zone mortalis goodness. I love the paint scheme you went with, it does seem to be lacking in other colours to make it pop out, some darker shades would really help methinks.

Nice conversion with the storm talon! Like you said, there does seem to be quite a disconnect between the wings and the body, some gold trim painted onto the rest of it should tie the whole thing together nicely.

Oh and that Fortress of Arrogance. Perfect!