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Ha ha, ahh you made me feel bad about lurking. I have been watching this thread for a while.
I like the colour schemes and nice painting.

Interesting colours for the base, I shall have to give it a go as I usually paint my rocks dark grey followed by lighter grey and then even lighter grey.

These chaps look awesome
I love the use of the 3 eyed helmet, I've always loved that variation more than the other.

Looking forward to seeing more

Dr H wrote:Ha ha, ahh you made me feel bad about lurking. I have been watching this thread for a while.
I like the colour schemes and nice painting.

Interesting colours for the base, I shall have to give it a go as I usually paint my rocks dark grey followed by lighter grey and then even lighter grey.

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

Wolf wrote:These chaps look awesome
I love the use of the 3 eyed helmet, I've always loved that variation more than the other.

Looking forward to seeing more

Wolf - Thanks... and here's the next one:

Stormbringer Bannerman 2:

 Lamby wrote:

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

No worries. It can get like that sometimes in here. It's easy to think you're talking to yourself sometimes.

New dude looks good. I like how you get them looking ancient and battered but still functional.
You may have mentioned it earlier but is that done with washes or something else?

That banner bearer is brilliant. I love the base and the cloak!

Dr H wrote:

 Lamby wrote:

Dr H - Cheers - the 'overwhelming demand' comment *may* have been a bit cheeky , but after 5 posts with no replies... anyway, Thanks for looking and commenting!

No worries. It can get like that sometimes in here. It's easy to think you're talking to yourself sometimes.

New dude looks good. I like how you get them looking ancient and battered but still functional.
You may have mentioned it earlier but is that done with washes or something else?

Dr H - so the weathering is as simple as I could make it, after the 6 layer green recipe which nearly drove me insane!

After completing the green (highlights and all) i sponged Dark Flesh carefully at first, and then later carelessly (you can see the first 3 are slightly less chipped than the next 3) over all the green and silver - I painted the gold after the chipping but before the wash.

Then I sprayed them with gloss varnish and applied an all over wash of Winsor and Newton brown oil paint - the oil runs nicely into crevices and after a few drying minutes I went back in with a make-up applicator and removed the wash where i didn't want it.
Seriously, try oil washes - no pooling like acrylic and if you don't want it somewhere you basically just wipe it away!
(Does take at least 24 hours to dry completely.)

When that dried, I went back in with a small dry-brush and applied highlights back to the silvers, then high-lighted the gold and did some minor extra chipping where it was needed.

Finally I've added some very light washes on the silvers using Nuln Oil and Liche Purple - it's subtle and doesn't really show in the pics, but makes a huge difference to blades especially.

Hope that helps!

Squigsquasher wrote:That banner bearer is brilliant. I love the base and the cloak!

Squigsquasher - Thanks! The cloaks are a combo of red washes in the shadow areas over a base coat of Dheneb Stone, then Space Wolves Grey dry-brushing the raised areas, then the oil wash, then another dry brush... happy accident really!

Here's a shot of the latest three together...

Cool, thanks. Very interesting.

 Dr H wrote:
Cool, thanks. Very interesting.

Dr H - No worries.

And here's Stormbringer Raptor 1:

Good pose. He looks really casually violent.

 Dr H wrote:
Good pose. He looks really casually violent.

Dr H - Cheers! That's the look I was going for - I think it's all in the legs, they're GK Space Marine legs, which have slightly more dynamic poses than the original SM range.

Thanks for looking and commenting!

Cheers.

Ridiculously large weapon - check
Ubiquitous hazard stripes - check
Inordinate amount of skulls - check

Stormbringer Flamer dude:

Nice hazard stripes. Good job.

 Dr H wrote:
Nice hazard stripes. Good job.

Dr H - Thanks! ... and hand-painted too, cos I used all my decal stripes up on the Blood Raven's Predator.

Really love that Heavy Flamer conversion, and the blog in general.

What ever happened to those epic terminators that you made a good while ago?

 Medium of Death wrote:
Really love that Heavy Flamer conversion, and the blog in general.

What ever happened to those epic terminators that you made a good while ago?

Medium of Death - Thanks!
And those Mournblade Terminators... they still exist. I scrapped the 3rd build (the Lord) so there's only the two - and they sit on my desk staring at me, daring me to paint them... maybe...
(But I still have nightmares about painting the green...)

Stormbringer Raptor # 2:

Raptors:



And Missile Rack guy:








"He's too close for missiles, I'm switching to guns!"

Blimey that's a large missile rack he's got there.
Good job on the paint job.

 Dr H wrote:
Blimey that's a large missile rack he's got there.
Good job on the paint job.

Dr H - Thanks again! ... it was quite a job to convince him to carry it too...

And now, Rocket Launcher dude - displaying excessive skulls and disdain for human life as he drills some hapless Imperial trooper between the eyes with his bolter while casually shouldering his mini-nuke...

Mini-Gun dude:










My personal favourite conversion of this group.

Very nice, Lamby! They are all looking great!

And, yes, I love that minigunner, too, you did a great job with him!

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Very nice, Lamby! They are all looking great!

And, yes, I love that minigunner, too, you did a great job with him!

Matt.Kingsley - Thanks!

Working on the base for the still-not-finished-painting Stalker...

Re-model on the weapons to provide some more area for hazard stripes - and reduce the amount of gold 'bling' to paint - and the base is ready for painting:


Base detail:


(Just realised have to glue those middle toes down!)

Stalker engine nearing completion:

Big guns and hazard stripes:


Pilot... Possibly an anti-penitent, or reluctant volunteer...


Basing almost done - some more rust work needed on the metal debris:

Looks very promising Lamby. Lovely rust. Look forward to seeing it complete.

 Dr H wrote:
Looks very promising Lamby. Lovely rust. Look forward to seeing it complete.

Cheers Dr H - made some more progress tonight but unable to take pics - I'd be further along but I fiddled around trying to get the re-build of Sgt Slaughter to work... still not working though...

Well, it's done...

The Stalker Engine ... and the Anti-Penitent:

Awesome. Very cool build and nice painting as always.
Not someone you want to kick you in the goolies...

 Dr H wrote:
Awesome. Very cool build and nice painting as always.
Not someone you want to kick you in the goolies...

Dr H - Thanks! and no, a kick in the goolies with those boots would be devastating... haha, I just realised I built his legs as CCW!