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A little off topic, but I painted Theoden today. I love LOTR incase people haven't noticed

Wow, just wow that's cool LDP! freakin' great paint man!

Cheers Damo If I did him earlier I might've entered him in your comp instead
Yea I have a different painting style for LOTR, I dont line highlight it's more 'realistic'

Gorgeous work LDP! Id love to see more of this stuff from you
Everytime i pop in im treated to such eye candy

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward.
Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!
Forth Eorlingas!

Looking sharp. I find it's helpful to mix up what I'm painting from time to time. All that blue wears me down after a while.

Nice Theoden, I've always loved that model (and most of the Rohan characters for that matter) and that's a nice, neat and realistic paintjob. I agree that painting LOTR like 40k stuff doesn't work, you do need a totally different style.

Theoden looks great!

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Hey guys!
What's this? ANOTHER CAPTAIN? How non steriotypical of me.
Behold, tremble in fear from Hephaestion, the Lord Executioner of the Ultramarines! I'm going to run him with my vanguard, hence the jump pack.
Also, thanks for the comments regarding Theoden, I painted the mounted version today so here's a little more eye candy.

Cheers!
LDP

Will you paint the squarshed by the wraith lord version next?

I like the head swap, looks much better.

Hahaha I doubt it
The witch king is an awesome miniature and character though, his helmet design is boss! Yeah, HELMETS>BARE HEAD ANY DAYYYY

Nice work on Theoden (again), and the executioner looks great with that head swap, and more imposing.

Great stuff LDP. Your painting is getting even better. The Theoden is really good.

Vwala!
It's been a month, and god knows why people. I apologise, I have neglected the lovely ultramarines in favour of my LOTR collection (whose progress is not shown wholly on this blog), but the last few days I have rediscovered my passion for 40k and I painted up Hephaestion
Here he is! Hope you like him guys,

Cheers,
LDP

"I will kill you...to death."
-Hephaestion

That's a fantastically converted and painted model. He looks awesome.

Love that Hephaestion dude!! Looking sweet :3

looks awesome mate! love the use of the helm and the angle you have it on.

Very nice looking. That guy is my favorite of the new captains, and the head swap makes him even better.

Something about the angle of his head radiates "distain" to me. Like he's walking across the battlefield, and sees a grot. But he's got bigger fish to fry, so keeps on walking. The problem is he's a space marine captain, one of the finest warriors in the galaxy; even the warboss is just a grot to him...

Awesome stuff, very imposing. The axe is great.

Any chance of pics of the LOTR models you've been working on?

Awesome job on Hephaestion, great posing of the axe head and I think I prefer that model with a helmet now!

Cheers guys. I will post some LOTR pics tomorrow, and also pictures of the kitbashed master of the marches and master of the rites models I got, to bolster my super badass command squad.

Thanks again!
LDP

Hey! Here are some WIP shots of my 2 new captains
Also as requested, some of my LOTR stuff. I have a unit of warriors of minas tirith near completion but I dont want to show them until they're done.

LDP

Again, those captain conversions are cool(how many caps do you have now?), the pose on the PF one just screams badassery. The LOTR stuff is great as well, the rohan royal guard is very nicely done.

Cheers Paradigm. I feel I need to get a shot of the captain from a different angle so you can see how lucky I was with converting in onto the half-finecast arm this guy came with. It looks almost seamless when I initially thought it'd suck
And yeah, im losing count of my captains. Much more than 10 at any rate. It's gotten to the point that veterans in my command squads are just captains.

The new Captains are looking good buddy. Can't wait to see them once the paints finished.

A little something that's brewing

You've been hanging out at the GW website too long haven't you? What you need to do for a proper teaser is cue up some dramatic. canned music, and do a lot of slow fades. Mostly logos and dates. THEN the quick flash of a shadowy image. You also need a short, vague catch phrase. "A little something that's brewing" is pretty good for that. Then we all speculate for a few weeks as to what you are doing.

I'm guessing a Lysander counts-as. Or some other TH/SS terminator captain/chapter master. Looking forward to seeing what you come out with.

I'm seeing Terminator Armour, a Storm Shield, a Thunder Hammer, and possibly a cape...

This is going to be good...

Your guesses were quite accurate lads! Behold, my latest invention! A kitbash of many boxes to represent HAMMERNATOR THE LEGEND (For those of you who dont remember, the grunt terminator who Killed a dreadnight, locked Kaldor Draigo down for 5 turns in 1v1 combat and didn't die when I played against Knightleys accursed GK >:O) in his promoted captain form. Tell me what you think, painting is still in its early stages.

Hahaha those GW trailers. Always the same, lame but trying to be 'epic' if anything I find them tragic, though the technical paint videos are quite good

LDP

EPIC!!! Love it mate, the Centurioun head looks good on the DW body. What colour will you be painting the robes?

That's looking great, very nicely posed and the head actually works better on there than on the cents.

Does this mean you have some centurions in the pipe or did you just get the head in a trade/online?