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Ah, the Green Stuff World has quality stuff.
I was hoping it was a nifty diy tech I could attempt.
But it does look really good ngl.

I do have Green Stuff World leaf punchers and punched out some leaves, but they do not look as good as the ones you have.
Perhaps more testing is still needed on my part.

Thank you for sharing your work, it is eye candy! very clean and crispy work.

Solid work Ashiraya

CB

Ooh, this one was done quick! It helps that I basecoat my tank hulls all together so I just have to do the rest once the individual tank gets its turn.

This one is painted in my darkest blue mix to match its passengers, my tactical support squads above. I don't quite like this blue mix as much on a vehicle as I did on infantry. It's so intense and thick it ends up looking a bit flat. But I am glad it matches its cargo. I'll try it on a dreadnought later and see if it's a nice middle ground, but otherwise I'll try my other mixes for my future tanks. And today I had nice daylight, so no fridge pic needed! Yay!

On the other hand, I got a small heart attack from my gloss varnish. I don't know what's wrong with it, I shaked it so much but it kept creating this insane texture like sand dunes on the tank. It took many, many layers of my matte varnish to get the tank hull looking decently smooth again...

The Rewards of Treachery: Dark Furies!

A few months ago I asked reddit how people prefer RoT units to be presented. My own opinion was that it's best to take the original squad's models and simply repaint them in AL colours so it's clear what the unit is intended to be.

However, the general opinion instead was the opposite, and they made some very convincing arguments. Seeing as the AL don't literally "steal" units, but rather copy technology and tactics, it makes more sense for a ground-up AL aesthetic with WYSIWYG equipment.

So, after feeling like some Dark Furies would make a lot of thematic sense for my force, I set about collecting suitable parts. Invariably I turned to 3D prints from etsy; I am not averse to doing so for the occasional conversion parts, but I rarely go beyond that. Here, however, it felt appropriate, and this is a rare unit where it's actually mostly cobbled together from such printed parts.

The heads I got ended up comically small on these rather large bodies (I suspect the designer intended for them to match Primaris scale, I realised) so I dug up old, larger firstborn heads from my bitz box (mostly Raptors).

To really sell that these are Dark Furies, not veterans or a command squad, I went for pauldrons of similar aesthetic, but later had the idea to paint them black to more strongly hint at their nature (black is after all a colour the AL use a great deal canonically). I experimented with a glossier black and while the unit ended up a bit messier than most I still think it looks decent.

What do you think?

And another quickie! Man, I love painting Contemptors. So fun, so quick little bite-sized units.

Iakobos the Ripper ready for some fun!

Hello! It's character time again!

Usually my consuls come in trios, but I was unhappy with the Saboteur. Some massive gaps around the cape/shoulder joint, for example. He'll join in later, as something else most likely.

In the meantime, here are a Herald and Chaplain! The Herald's banner is a bit scuffed since I initially tried to apply one of the big rectangular banner decals, but uh, those things are the work of Horned Pete himself and just will not lay flat, creating massive creases and misalignment despite careful measuring and cutting, so I arduously scraped it off and replaced it with a tank decal. Ironically, the banner decals probably will work best on tanks, where they can go uncut and have a flat surface to rest on.

The banner looks fantastic, as do the characters.