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Taking a break from Battletech for a moment, I did test colors for Horus Heresy era Dark Angels (missing shoulder decals for now). Painting a whole army like this would be daunting but i'm happy with how it turned out. Collecting Horus Heresy has always been a struggle for me because I constantly change my mind about which legion to collect.

Checkers cane out great, and a nice pop of color on the bolter and lenses. Kinda feel you on the workload for painting full GW armies...

Iron Warriors test paintjob, went with a muddy trench base. Looks pretty gritty but it might be too dark overall, debating on shifting to a lighter tan wasteland or red mars basing style.





I might do test models for other legions too, and whichever end result I like the most might end up being the army I pick. Or maybe i'll just forget about it and do historical WW2 stuff and save some money.

A lighter base might help a bit yeah, the dark metal is kinda blending with the mud. Nice hazard stripes!

Sons of Horus test paintjob:

Iron Hands test colors (my least favorite so far, sadly)


Also finished a 2nd Dark Angels test, changing the basing a bit and freehanding checkers instead of using transfers.







The old dilemma of black or brown base rims...

Some more heresy stuff:

Gorgeous gorgeous work, mate. Great stuff.

Beautiful work on the marines, mate. Love the Iron Warriors in particular - the random hazard stripes really pull the lot together!

Finished an Osaka class cruiser for Dropfleet Commander:

I really love the subtle weathering on all your space marines. I tend to go 'over the top' a bit on that as it's the rush part of my painting, but it really makes each marine look like an individual.

Thanks! marines are fun to work on but I get burnt out on them quickly

Finished a Post Human Republic Ajax cruiser ahead of the Dropfleet Commander 2.0 release.







UCM cruiser pair:

Ooo, nice spaceships. Got the cover very smooth and I lile the glow panels in the rear fins!

Two test color schemes for a potential Wood Elves army, one summer/spring/classic style and the other in autumn colors.

Refurbished some old Battlefleet Gothic miniatures that i've had for over a decade. The cruiser had broken masts, one of the four turrets was missing, and it was snapped off its base. I never actually played the game, I think I had at most 2 cruisers and 3 metal frigates.

Always a joy seeing refurbed BFG ships. Looking great. Very nice Mech painting, I have a soft spot for BT but never played - apart from Mech Online years ago. Might pick up a Star eventually...

Marine scheme looks solid.

I love the autumn dryad scheme personally!

Finished standard bearer for my Reikland/Empire army:







Kinda random but a Quar rifleman:7





Fallschirmjager for Bolt Action:




A one off model I did for Turnip 28, good practice for the upcomng Trench Crusade game...can't wait to paint and post up stuff for that game next year!

Murder class Chaos cruiser for Battlefleet Gothic:

That might be the prettiest BSG ship I've ever seen.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with that chaos cruiser. I do plan to do more in the future for BFG.

I've been prepping a bunch of foam/custom terrain for Trench Crusade, also got a neoprene mat in the mail today to use for that game. Included a handful of 40k minis in the pictures for scale. Still need to add sandbags, more detailing, texturing to match type of coloration on the mat. Not in a huge rush, as I anticipate it could be months before my Kickstarter order ships.

Painted up a small test piece, I think i'm content with it. Gonna be a lot of work to do a whole 4x4 table like this though.


edit: added more test pieces on the neoprene mat.

Certainly going to look pretty cool when you finish it! Wood and rust both came out excellent!

Finished a communicant and ammo monk for Trench Crusade:

I really like your trench terrain. It came out great.
I may do some for a kill team board.

Wonderful painting Thargrim. Love that blue imp on the Dryad, what a pop of colour!

Looking good. Man does Trench Crusade look awesome, the terrain pieces are spot on!

Thanks!

Finished a trench pilgrim with shotgun:

Trenches aren't very helpful when you're right up taller than the trench itself by a good three heads. Love the terrain. They look awesome. One thing I've done in the past for terrain sets like that is build and paint in groups that have a purpose, like "These are all the bunker pieces" "these are all the communication trenches" so that way it's like I can put down a 'zone' on the tabletop to help tell the story. Loving the work you've put into it so far!

Thanks, made significant progress on most of it this past week. Still going to do a couple more taller trench pieces and maybe one or two bunkers.