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I love your models man, nice work!

And that Generic Lesser Daemon, nice..

Those Havocs are inspired and fantastic! Great use of bits to not only get what you want, but creating something awesome and unique in the process! If I do any more AC Havocs, I'm totally going to -steal- borrow that idea!

The "generic" Lesser Daemons are another example of your ingenuity. Great stuff all around!

Thanks for all the replies yet again

The tournament is less than a month away, and I have wayyy too much stuff yet to do! My motivation has hit a brick wall lately, which is very sad..

Someone inspire me to do some stuffs!!

Loving this. I have a Word bearers army as well. I must get them out and paint on them now!

Looking good here! Some real eyecandy

Get with it, man! How can your boys spread 'The Word' when they're sitting around unpainted and in pieces? Those brochures and pamphlets about turning to the dark gods for salvation aren't going to hand out themselves.

Awesome work!
Also, per the Traitor Guard heads - for some variation, you could always try Necron heads. They have the same ball joint as a Guardsman's head, and just behind the face 'plate' is a neck piece that can be painted as flesh.

Just a thought.

The only inspiration you need is to know you'll do a kick ass job! Your marines look amazing dude and you of all people should be psyched to paint them.

I'm officially throwing a hissy fit. It seems no matter WHAT, I can't seem to achieve the same shade of red that I used on the first squad..

I've tried Mechrite Red (about 3 different pots) Red Gore (2 pots) and Scab Red (2 pots).

Everytime I think I've got the right colour/shade, it works out looking completely different.. Very Very frustrating..

Here is an example of what I mean

How are you painting them?
What was the first color?
Complete one marine fully and see how different they are.

On further inspection... it's looking like maybe the original colour I used was Mechrite Red, but out of a pot that was unmixed, therefore the darker pigment that sits on top.

I guess now the question is, should I paint the rest of the army in that (I still have a pot of unmixed Mechrite) OR should I just use Scab Red and know that at least I can always buy more pots of that whenever, which will remain consistant..

Now that's going to be a awkward one for sure my World Eaters are a similar colour to your guy on the left, I used Vallejo Heavy Red with a touch of black building up to pure Heavy Red and then washed with GW Baal Red.

It seems more align to the same depth of red as your guy, have a look in my gallery and see what you think. That's providing you have somewhere to purchase Vallejo paints.

Gotta remember that adding in the completed details of silver trim, eyes and other areas will affect how your eyes perceive the red. I often have this problem with purple but, it is not until I complete the model that I realise they are identical.

Eiríkr wrote:Gotta remember that adding in the completed details of silver trim, eyes and other areas will affect how your eyes perceive the red. I often have this problem with purple but, it is not until I complete the model that I realise they are identical.

I think I would just use the Mechrite

JBrehaut wrote:
Spent tonight painting up the first bloodletter-based generic Lesser Daemon..
Still deciding if I like it enough to paint up a full unit, or just assemble and paint them as standard bloodletters.. Which I'll eventaully be doing a unit of anyway...
Thoughts?

Absolutely breathtaking, just like the rest of your army mate! All it needs are some eyes in the palm of its hand and its good to go!

cant wait to see more stuff! Exalted and subbed!

On a side note, you wouldnt happen to be based in brisbane by any chance would you?

I wish this wasn't setting you back so much. Because with less than a month left til the tourney there isn't really enough time to start experimenting with different paint and stuff like that. DAMN PAINT POTS!

Disappointing for another set back in this army man. It looks amazing.

Moltar wrote:Get with it, man! How can your boys spread 'The Word' when they're sitting around unpainted and in pieces? Those brochures and pamphlets about turning to the dark gods for salvation aren't going to hand out themselves.

That was my laugh of the day. Ha.

As far as color match goes, man I know that pain completely. My best advice is to go with something as close as you can find and make that the color for the rest of your army. The first models will blend in, and you'll spend less time going completely mad.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

As far as color match goes, man I know that pain completely. My best advice is to go with something as close as you can find and make that the color for the rest of your army. The first models will blend in, and you'll spend less time going completely mad.

That's what I'm going to do
Thanks Skalk, and everybody else for your lovely replies and comments, certainly makes me wanna get back on the horse!

And, just coz I haven't posted anything juicy in a while, here's a pic.
In it, you can see the Apostle model that I originally built forever ago finally with some paint on it.
Please note the Crozius IS currently blu-tack'ed on, it keeps breaking off, so I will have to pin it eventually.. The engle that the head is sitting atm is off slightly, it'll be more front facing, so keep that in mind.



Once again, thanks everyone!

<3

Loving this thread mate.
Subscribed.

This is the second Word Bearers plog I`ve found today that I really like! Great stuff, I`m subbed

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JBrehaut wrote:

Nice! I like him. also love the badass pose on the champ to the left. "BRING IT!!!"

This model is the epitome of how I see the Word Bearers:



I can see him saying "If I were to kill you today, would you know the eternal salvation of Lorgar?"

Excellent work you have here, always impressed when I see an update, looking forward to many more.

I agree with skalk. This army is such an inspiration to all things chaos. I'll be doing a practise death guard marine too at some stage at your request.
I hope you enjoy the pinning on your apostle.

Thanks again all, time for more update!

Quick pic of the army so far, this is the whole lot, except vehicles..


The bloodletters there are directly courtesy of ebay, I had a feeling I wasn't gonna end up converting a full squad of http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l506/JBrehaut/letter1painted.jpg in time. The paintjob isn't perfect, and it doesn't fit into the army 100%, but they're not too horrible, and they will suffice.

Here are a few close-up shots of particular models I've been painting recently..



Heretics (counts as daemons)


Terminators

Thanks for looking!

Looking good, JB. Keep 'em coming.

Wow, not THAT is a cool idea (Heretics "counts as" Lesser Daemons)!

I think I'm going to have to try that sometime.

Excellent models, btw. Every update = more awesome goodness!

Yeah JB looking sweet. I can't wait to see everything done. Such a shame you wont get the table piece done in time for GoW though :( All this kaffufle with the damn paint colors has set you back so much and clearly caused you more drama than should have been necessary. Hope you're getting lots more work done as I write this. FOR THE DARK GODS!

Awesome work. This really is incredible stuff.

Definitely love the Dark Apostle.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

Wow, not THAT is a cool idea (Heretics "counts as" Lesser Daemons)!

I think I'm going to have to try that sometime.

Excellent models, btw. Every update = more awesome goodness!

omgitsduane wrote:
Yeah JB looking sweet. I can't wait to see everything done. Such a shame you wont get the table piece done in time for GoW though :( All this kaffufle with the damn paint colors has set you back so much and clearly caused you more drama than should have been necessary. Hope you're getting lots more work done as I write this. FOR THE DARK GODS!

th3maninblak wrote:
Awesome work. This really is incredible stuff.

Definitely love the Dark Apostle.

Thanks all, very muchly appreciated!
I'm glad this army has been enough to catch your attention, and even inspire some.
The blanks are slowly starting to fill in now, I'm currently aiming to get every model up to a basic painting completion (only a week and a half til the tourny!) just so that I can put them on the table.
After the tourney I will go back and finish filling in all the details, for now it's just getting some colour across the whole board.

After all of this is complete, I have a box sitting here with some daemonettes, a couple of squads of more marines... And much more awesomely, a Land Raider and a Daemon Prince kit.
After I finish ALL of this, I might either start a 2nd army, but I will continue to add to my Word Bearers, or I'll try some other squads of other Chaos Legions (Maybe some Thousand Sons or something) to add to my Chaos Army.

Once again, thanks for the support!

I can't wait to see you do a display board for these guys. I really feel bad that you won't get it done for the tourney cos it would sell them heaps I reckon. Maybe after an apoc game we should make it anyway for future displays? Tomorrow get ready to paint bro.