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Its only done "poorly" compared to your other outstanding work. A lot of others (myself included) would be quite happy to pull that off consistently

I can say this - your picture of the Wraithknight is now making me consider getting one!

The 'stock' model is hurt by a bland pose and by the choice to have Saim-Hann be the poster boys for Eldar this time around...

Yeah, the basic pose that you get from using the ''guidance pins'' sucks large lollipop. Cut off everyone you can see and then get posing!

Don't be to hot with the glue but take some time to figure the pose out.

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
Yeah, the basic pose that you get from using the ''guidance pins'' sucks large lollipop. Cut off everyone you can see and then get posing!

Don't be to hot with the glue but take some time to figure the pose out.

Quite so. I love that you can just get those pins out.

Beautiful. May I ask how you did the mottling?

careful dotting with a brush. Each new layer is blended slightly lighter (i used the base blue + 4 'layers') and I just make a random but evenly distributed pattern with each layer.

The colour needs to be very thin though, almost to the point where it nolonger spreads but surrenders to surface tension and starts to behave like water.

Got it, thanks STC.

Pretty tank! And that mottling tip is great.

As for cutting down the torso, since STC says it's a bad idea, I'd suggest adding to the waist instead. Done right it should balance out the pigeon breast look.

Love your work, if only everyone "true" scaled their marines. Then games would look amazing. I shy away.from attempting this because think it would make my opponent's tiny marines look silly.

 Spartan089 wrote:
Love your work, if only everyone "true" scaled their marines. Then games would look amazing. I shy away.from attempting this because think it would make my opponent's tiny marines look silly.

Guessing from your sig and dakka rank you run chaos marines. In that case why on earth would you NOT want to make your opponents SM look silly

I would be much more impressed by GW SM if they were more scaled like these "true" scale ones

Wow. I didn't realise it was that damn tall. It's a titan with normal 40k rules. Biased I tell you, biased! Chaos don't have their own giant monster to fight it with.

I agree with Dreadclaw thata freehand is "poorly" done to your standards, but I wouldn't mind having something of that quality on my models.

Wow, having not been about for almost a year I have had a lot to catch up on.
Your stuff is really inspiring I have to say, I love love your creativity.

Your tutorials are great.

I know it was ages back, but the Helldrake, did you consider going for an A10 Warthog type design with slightly swept back wings? It was the nose mounted minigun which drew me to that idea.

Also where did the lpha Legion pic come from, that you showed back in May?
While its a nice piece of art, I would definitely stick to the classic design as you have done.

I look forward to seeing more from youi

I just wanted to say thanks for the advice with the wraithknight. I seriously considered some other options but they weren't as impressive so I said, "no guts, no glory" and went ahead with it. However I do understand no what you said about the interconnected plates that make up the torso.

Wow.

I really have been to preoccupied with work and beer as of late, no posting at all.

Bad me! *smacks fingers with a ruler* OW!

jesusfrrakkin'christthathurtmutherf..

*ahem*


But there are true madness ahead I tell you! Much to enjoy. A squad of guardsmen are awaiting the paintbrush, a few more of the XX Legiones Astartes are close to being finished up and awaiting free-hand details eagerly awaiting the Istvaan V job.

We will soon re-start the ravenguard project set to the 41st millenium but with a slight twist, a testmodel has been built and is awaiting a lick of paint, if satisfactory results are achieved then we are going ahead with up-scaleing the whole shebang, after all.. there is a few months left until easter and the arrival of a proper list for the Legion. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves and start to assemble things without proper thought no?

So we will amuse ourselves elsewhere for the time being. I think there will be more progression on the scratchbuilding side of things too, I have a few ideas that i think will yield great results.

I will soon be back with some lovely pictures for you all.

(promises, promises )

Give me the ruler *throws it away and gets a metal ruler...

Huzzah! one of my favourite blogs reanimated! I must say i'm particularly excited to see the RG twist! Also If you havn't seen on my thread I hate you for leaving that picture there! Its mocking me!

You'll get over it J-P

Anyway, you can have som PIP - pics!

Mucking about with the RG testmodel and trying out some new stuff, like making glowy powerswords. Got to cave to peerpressure sometime right?

Quick and dirty! Enjoy.

Oh wow thats really nice, I wish I could paint that kind of effect.

Very nice! And you did it without cheating!! (airbrushing I mean)

Love it!

Raven Guard were right there for me in terms of Space Marine Legions.

I shelved them in favor of the Alpha Legion, but they're still in the queue...somewhere!

Oh my STC! I retract all previous grumbling comments, this is simply beautiful! and the perfect inspiration! Really really excellently done, are you working with just black and white for that effect? I'm afraid I may have to ask for a tutorial, if such a thing can even be taught! Really though, wow!

Thanks guys, glad you like it.

J-P: It's black and grey colours, makes it easier to adjust the dosage because black/white mixes are notoriously sensitive. I can see if i can whip up a small tutorial for you, it's not that tecnically difficult, but it does require a somewhat steady hand and an eye for how light falls.

nicely down STC

If you could STC that would be fantastic, would really help, Do you reckon it would work well with weathering techniques or would it ruin the simulated light effect? If you wouldn't mind STC I would also love to know what paints you used for that silver, the skull on the backpack in particular looks incredibly deep!

Eueegh! It's not fair! He looks so badass! Tooooooo badass...

We do aim to please.

JP; I guess it would work with careful weathering (modest edge-scratching, light dust/dirt effects on the boots and geaves, bloodsplatter etc.) one must keep in mind that a surface usually dulls due to even distribution of particles before the dirt really shows.

I usually paint my metal with a 20/80 base of boltgun and chaos black, then run it through 2 stages (roughly 40/60 and 70/30) and then pure boltgun. then 50/50 boltgun/chainmail, pure chainmail and then spot/glints with mithril.
the brightness regulated by the extent of the highlighting-stages.

By the way, Love the now tactical squad plastics, very sharp and awsome. Not all that impressed by the Vanguard/Sternguard though. The detail is more ''soft edged'' and blocky, and some of the designs (mostly shoulderpads) just sucks, bad design through and through.

So yes.. I am building a first tactical and commandsquad. pics soon avalible.

love the black armour. The highlights are subtle and doesn't make the model look grey. the powere is great too

im a bit disapointed with the sternguard myself so i made my own out of chaos marine and regular marine (with a little tau) parts. i like the results. }

Sooo... right. *Brushes some accumulated dust off the blog*

With the holidays fast approaching I thouht it might be time for another update.. I have been painting a bit of late after all.


Now, you might remember my little experiment with a homegrown chapter, it took off quite nicely. Building ''upscaled'' marines takes a while though but now I have a whole squad ready for the brush.

Enjoy.

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Unknown Dreadnought, Omega icons and white ''helmet'' and power talon indicate first company veteran, chassi-identification number ''10''.
Mark IV ''Castaferrum'' Pattern Dreadnought-System.






The Lighting was a bit too sharp so the dreadnought's paintjob came out a bit more flat than it is in reality, a quick touch-up of the base and it's all done.
I also have some PIP pics of the sergeant for the squad, about halfway there.







Mmmm.. I am kind of pleased with these and they are a lot of fun to paint.
What do you guys think? Have a go at it!

Welcome back. That's a very nice shade of blue you have on those guys, do we get to see a size comparison shot to see how big they are?