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It’s Hammer time!

Damn brother. You've outdone yourself again! Looks fantabulous. Remind me never to compare miniatures with yours.

Love the power effect on the hammer too. Superb

 Master Azalle wrote:
Damn brother. You've outdone yourself again! Looks fantabulous. Remind me never to compare miniatures with yours.

Love the power effect on the hammer too. Superb

Its actually a good thing. LDP provides so many crisp close ups so we can try to achieve similar results. It shows me what can be done

 Crimson_ wrote:
Its actually a good thing. LDP provides so many crisp close ups so we can try to achieve similar results. It shows me what can be done

Sure. If I quit my job, found some magic potion of youth, and spent 5 years training with monks in some secret mountaintop studio, I might be able to achieve those results. Or sold my soul a/o firstborn to the Ruinous Powers.

There is a fine line between “Inspiring” and “I should just drink my paints and stab myself with my brushes”

I’m an old enough dog that I recognize no amount of new tricks can get me to where LDP is painting. I can, however, glean crumbs of ideas from his table and try to make them work. And drool at the awesome. Lots of that.

Thanks a bunch Azalle!
You guys are all too kind! Neve you're making excellent use of that thesaurus it seems

Honestly guys, i'm just glad that I have a fine hand and patience. The rest of the work is done for me after that. That said, it took a looooot of practice to get to the stage i'm at now and even here there's still plenty of room for improvement (one need only flick back to the early pages to see the 'quality' of the stuff I used to put forth).

Speaking of getting work done, though, WIP on Vet number 5! That long awaited group shot is on the horizon - I can't tell you guys how excited I am to get this squad done!



LDP

By Grabthar's Hammer, that's an awesome...hammer...

This unit is going to rule.

These Ultramarines are gorgeous. The Vanguard Vet kit is one of my favorites from the Space Marine line.

Absolutely love this army

Hey all! Cheers youwashock, thecustomline, rogerio. Really appreciate your feedback.

So, the long awaited day has come!
I've been working on this squad for little over a month now and at last they're done. Really pleased with it and open to where to go next. Might quickly mop up 3 more tacticals so I can fully flesh out another tac squad.

Thanks for all the support, cheers for tuning in, here are the pics we're all waiting for

LDP









Also, for anyone who's interested, here's a photo of my painting desk, complete with steaming peppermint tea

Is the tea your secret weapon? <scribbles down notes> Surprisingly humble setup for the quality of work you do.

Squad is looking awesome. But you need to test their mettle. Any games in the future where you can blood them against the foes of mankind?

I clicked on this thinking to was Nevelon's blog, then I saw the minis and thought 'wait a second'.
Anyway they look very cool. Almost cool enough to make up for the existence of Matt Ward. Almost.

A solid finish, sir. They look stupendous.

Best looking Vanguard Squad i have seen!

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
I clicked on this thinking to was Nevelon's blog, then I saw the minis and thought 'wait a second'.
Anyway they look very cool. Almost cool enough to make up for the existence of Matt Ward. Almost.

Sounds like a plan.

LDP: How about you send me a squad of awesome minis so I can pretend I can paint, and I’ll sent you a squad of poorly painted old stuff so you can pretend to be an ancient grognard. That’s fair, right?

CREEEEEEEEED, I think you will find that Ultramarine players (at least the ones older then eight) are the ones most embarrassed by Ward. It’s not as overt as the flanderization of the Space Wolves, but a more subtle killing of the lore of the army.

Absolutely beautiful army. Keep it up

That is an awesome squad. Quite the showcase for how far your painting has come along recently.

Now you need a JP captain to accompany them! (not that I'm encouraging your HQ addiction or anything...)

Damn son, absolutely stunning!

@Neve thanks! Unfortunately no. I've moved to a different city from Knightley since I started uni and since then i've been hesitant to reach out and dabble in games here. I should really get around to it because it gives me more inspo to paint and more reason to use the minis that I put so much hard work in to. If anyone here's from Wellington, NZ: Hit me up!

@CREEEEEEED Matt Ward makes me feel the need to apologise to people whenever they see my army :(

@youwashock thanks buddy! Always enjoy hearing from you.

@Crimson_ very grateful! I'll not forget to extend my thanks to you again for the inspiration. Your squad gave me the impetus!

@pique very kind! Appreciate it.

@Para there's one primed on my workbench I'll see how I feel about getting onto it. I'm a little jump-pack-ed out for the time being

@Azalle I appreciate that my friend thanks for the feedback



Hey everybody. Hope your day is going well.

I took advantage of a long weekend to get a load of work in on Sgt. Telion. I started him on saturday and punched out a bunch of progress. I'm pleased with where he's at so far; I love the idea of a cool digital camouflage cloak that's totally undone by sheeny gold, blue and obnoxious white so that was really fun to do. I've enjoyed telion far more than any other scout i've done so far, so I might have to look at the rest of my scout squad who have sat equally neglected for a number of years now. I got the extra motivation to work on him because of the theme of this month's unofficial painting comp, so cheers to para as always for churning out inspo where before there was none. I only uploaded my proof over there now because it's my first time on since the start of the weekend, but here's where he's currently standing:





Not too much more to do. The blacks, the bolter, and some detailing here and there.


Also, I took some shots in my lightbox of some of my marines. I'm quickly realising that 2018 so far has been a very productive year as far as my painting goes! I need to find a place where I can get a full army shot whilst doing justice to such a photo. I always find army shots hard to get right - but my force has come such a long way that I want to show them all hanging out! Anyway, in light of that, here's what I have for now. My lightbox is small so I only fit so much in. These pics were for fun more than anything.



Some of you astute viewers out there will notice I swapped out my chapter champion's backpack for one more fittingly resplendent.









If anyone has any tips for getting good army shots, i'm all ears!

LDP

Hey ldp I scrolled through all your work you deathwatch gk and this very lovely ultramarine blog. that last shot is fantastic!kudos to you man looks like a rather gathering of the heroes.

you inspired me to try an make my humble guardsmen better...hell I been painting since I was fifteen (34 now) and im still now where near as good as you but man I really enjoy your work

@alabamaheretic that's very kind of you! Thanks for taking the time to look at my work. I've poured so much time into this hobby and am really grateful to see how far i've come, but there's still heaps of room for improvement Heck, this blog started in 2011 so there's a massive chronology even here. Again, I really appreciate the feedback and I understand the difficulty in putting time into guardsmen (I have a small IG blog) when they're so susceptible to dying on the tabletop :(

yea man I been in the hobby since 09 and well sometimes my excitement gets the better of me to crank out modles. . oh guardsmen are great though yes they die in droves but they are fun (been on again off again with guard since fifth)

Hey all.

Finished sgt. Telion today. Had a really restorative painting session of about two hours or so where I finished him off after a long day's work.





Going to get onto some more of the long-lost custom honour guard methinks

LDP

Really good face and cloak. I like the digital camo.

that's a very mighty goatee

Well Done Sir, Well Done

Telion is looking superb, LDP! The cloak is really cool

Also, that group shot with Guilliman is GLORIOUS!

What gold are you using? Standard Citadel? Are you highlighting it with something?

@Crimson thank you! I used Duncan Rhodes's guide on YT and it came out quite alright.

@alabama hahaha isn't it? I'm quite fond of beardy ultramarines i've come to find.

@Azalle I appreciate it thank you sir!

@Cosmic cheers dude! I have way more smurfs hidden away and I wanna get them all in a big blue sea of a group shot but i'm struggling.

@Dynas It's the standard range of GW golds but there is a bit of a process that I use.
1) Retributor Armour base
2) Agrax Earthshade wash
3) Auric Armour Gold highlight
4) Mithril Silver (Runefang steel I think?) edge highlight

Those group shots are glorious. Telion looks awesome, as well. Add mine to the praise for the cape.

yadda yadda, mindblowing work, etc etc...