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Wow, that's superb!

Thanks Gits. Here's some more for you !

The crashed Aquila lander :



And details :

Pretty blue! After painting almost exclusively green and yellow for the last several years I find myself being quite envious of other colors!

Whenever I see your thread I want to bust out and start painting some of my old ultramarines again. Everything looks excellent, as always. And that Fortress of Redemption is ridiculous. I would HATE to paint something that enormous! At least to the level of detail that you did.

Gitsplitta wrote:Pretty blue! After painting almost exclusively green and yellow for the last several years I find myself being quite envious of other colors!

I know what you're talkin' about. ^^
My Ultramarines army is pretty big now (maybe I should take pictures of the entire army). I've painted tons of blue, and sometimes I feel like everything's blue. So I paint something else like my orkses or anything that is NOT Ultramarines blue. ^^
But I love that color, and sooner or later I want to paint some more.

Awesomesauce wrote:Whenever I see your thread I want to bust out and start painting some of my old ultramarines again. Everything looks excellent, as always.

You should paint them ! No. You MUST paint them. I love Ultramarines. Paint Ultramarines.

Awesomesauce wrote:And that Fortress of Redemption is ridiculous. I would HATE to paint something that enormous! At least to the level of detail that you did.

In fact, I enjoyed painting it, because it doesn't require too much care. It changed from the Zombicide heroes.
The main problem with such a huge "miniature" is that it is sometimes hard to turn it the good way to access details, without accidently hitting your desk, an open paint-pot, your nose or anything you wouldn't hit with a miniature. Yes, painting the lights on top of the tower was the worst part.

That fortress looks amazing. I like the weathering at the base, not over done but enough to show it's seen some use and has been there awhile.

The marines look great, not over done, which is usually what I see happen to most UM armies. By this there is not an overabundance of gold trimming everywhere. I like that.

And the zombie models are ace! Is there a points limit that goes with the game?

Mat

 combat engineer wrote:
That fortress looks amazing. I like the weathering at the base, not over done but enough to show it's seen some use and has been there awhile.

Thanks.
Weathering is rather easy to do. What is not is to decide when to stop, to not "over-do". I'm happy if I succeeded in making my fortress used but didn't make it look too-much.

 combat engineer wrote:
The marines look great, not over done, which is usually what I see happen to most UM armies. By this there is not an overabundance of gold trimming everywhere. I like that.

That's the reason why i avoided the Second company. I went for Fifth (black shoulder pads borders) because I like the color scheme and it was not a company we see much for Ultramarines.

 combat engineer wrote:
And the zombie models are ace! Is there a points limit that goes with the game?

I'm not sure if I understand the question. But there is not "points" in Zombicide, no lists, and in fact no winner. All the players around the table are survivors and stand together in a world infested by zombies. Those zombies being played by the game, against the players.
There are no zombies (or only a few ones) on the board at the beginning of the game, and they appear each turn on spawn zones, and when a survivor breaks into a building.
Generally comes a moment when the map is litterally covered by zombies. And when there are no more zombies in the box, don't believe you're safe. Each time a kind of zombie is generated and no more available, the zombies on the board get an extra activation.

All the players win or lose together, in our case we generally lose I have to admit. ^^
I really like that game.

Hey folks !

After my old sceneries, I decided to finally take some time to FINISH two of my Ultramarines units that were partially done for years. I had never painted markings on them since I didn't have the skills do do so at the moment I painted these units.
So basically all the paintjob is from like 3 years ago, I only added the markings and few corrections here and there. And NOW these squads are complete, I can play them without feeling ashamed.


My veterans :



My assault squad :

They look great. Nice job on the extra details!

Thank you Gits !
I'm now painting some harpies for WHB. I have no idea how it should look like in the end, but at least I've started them. Hope they will look allright...

Awesome dude! Your zombiecide minis look great, as does everything else!

The crashed lander has some sweet rusty grimy details =)

Thanks a lot Two Spartan.
I'm always happy when people like my models.


I'm back with a bit WHFB. My buddy paints his Dwarves army at the moment and I need something to silence his canons.
What about a few harpies ?

Here's a WIP pix :

Curious to see how these turn out, I know the paint job will look awesome, because you are painting them, it's just I have to see a WHFB model that I would say I liked, hence why I've never really bothered with it, but maybe your models could wet my appetite....

Also have you ever thought about painting any Nids? I would love to see what you could do with some of those models!

Nice scuplts!

...

Er, I mean paint jobs!

Eldercaveman wrote:the paint job will look awesome, because you are painting them, .

I would love if things were that simple. Anyway, that's a nice compliment, thank you.

Eldercaveman wrote:I have to see a WHFB model that I would say I liked, hence why I've never really bothered with it, but maybe your models could wet my appetite....

Now I'm under pressure. I hope you'll like these models when they're done, then.

Eldercaveman wrote:Also have you ever thought about painting any Nids? I would love to see what you could do with some of those models!

Nope. I don't play tyrannids so I never painted any of them. Maybe one day, if I ever have a reason to paint one I'll do.
The only tyrannid things I ever painted are bitz on some of my bases, like on my Tornado Land Speeder :

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice scuplts!

Is this how you spell "boobs" ?
It's quite disturbing to paint 6 totally nude female models in fact... I usually paint Marines (über-trained-killer-monks-in-adamantium-panties) and orks (agressive-mushrooms-from-space), this has nothing in common with the curves of female bodies.

Do you dip the marines? Do you use ultramarine blue as the base or a darker shade? LOVE how crisp they look!

No, it's spelt bewbs. At least if you're speaking to American geeks, which by and large we are, right?

Loving your painting style, just the right balance of crisp and battle-worn for my eye

So much loveliness!

The Fortress turned out amazing, you struck a perfect balance for me between ornate and functional. Could you please tell me how you painted the stone on the statues? It's wonderful.

I would really like to see an army shot of your Ultras and any other armies you have. Don't hold out on us, man! We need our fix!

I somehow haven't seen those Harpies before, probably because I don't play WHFB. They are pretty good models, they remind me of Dracula's Brides in Van Helsing, in their vampiric form obviously. Still feminine but repulsive creatures all the same, I could see them in a Slaanesh daemon army.

Keep it coming!

Hi !

nold wrote:Do you dip the marines? Do you use ultramarine blue as the base or a darker shade? LOVE how crisp they look!

I don't dip the marines. Hey, I don't dip everything. ^^
I only dip my orks - except vehicles that are painted as usual - and I also dipped all of my Zombicide zombies. That's it. Marines, Dark Elves, BFG, Mordheim and devious models are NOT dipped.

For my Ultramarines, I'll do a tutorial someday, but I can tell you the colors I use now. The main color is Ultramarines blue indeed. In GW books they are generally darker but I love the specific shade of this blue. I use old references, though it shouldn't be too complicated to find equivalences in the new range.
- I start with a black primer
- Necron abyss
- Mordian blue
- Ultramarines blue
- 50/50 mix of Ultramarines blue and white for intensive highlights on edges and so on.

For the vehicles, I also add Ultramarines blue + snakebite leather and then Ultramarines blue + scorched brown on the lower side of armour plates. It gives more depth to the blue as it creates a shading and also a weathering at the same time.

Million wrote:No, it's spelt bewbs. At least if you're speaking to American geeks, which by and large we are, right?

I'm not a Geek ! I'm a grown man that plays apocalyptic battles with his friends, using tiny plastic toy soldiers that I spent tons of hours painting... Hmmm...
Well...
Maybe I'm a Geek...

Million wrote:Loving your painting style, just the right balance of crisp and battle-worn for my eye

Good. That's always the balance I try to reach.

Casey's Law wrote:The Fortress turned out amazing, you struck a perfect balance for me between ornate and functional. Could you please tell me how you painted the stone on the statues? It's wonderful.

And it's so simple...
All I did on the angels was drybrushing. I used three colors, a neutral brown, a beige and a white. Started with brown, then added beige to this. Then beige, beige plus white and then white.
I didn't use GW paints, given the size of the fortress, but the colors I used are very similar to the both on the right of this image (neutral brown bottom right, beige top right) :

Casey's Law wrote:I would really like to see an army shot of your Ultras and any other armies you have. Don't hold out on us, man! We need our fix!

Oh yes... I have to do this.
All I need is to find time to unpack the whole army, place it, make correct shots and store everything back. I'll do this as soon as I can at least for the marines. Can't let you without your drug dose !

Casey's Law wrote:I somehow haven't seen those Harpies before, probably because I don't play WHFB. They are pretty good models, they remind me of Dracula's Brides in Van Helsing, in their vampiric form obviously. Still feminine but repulsive creatures all the same, I could see them in a Slaanesh daemon army.

Yeah true, they look like those vampires ! Good point !
In fact, they're not GW models, they're from Gamezone because GW's harpies are... well... add any negative adjective here : _____________

I painted a bit more of them yesterday, and I think they start to look good now. ^^
Hope I can finish this unit soon. I'm eagger to start the next project !!

That's great, man. I'll need to try that stone on something now, thanks for posting that chart too, it'll make it easier to match.

Looking forward to seeing those marines all set up, there's something brilliant about seeing a full army painted up to a high standard.

I haven't checked out Gamezone I don't think, I'll have to look them up because I'm rather impressed by those harpies.

Well, your dipped orks look FANTASTIC. I paint my marines in a similar fasion. I airbrush a black primer, Mordian blue basecoat, then shoot ultra blue fron the top and front. Still learning with the aiebrush though!

@ Nold :
You're lucky if you've an airbrush ! ^^
When painting marines, I think that the intensive highlight on edges really makes it all.

@ Casey'law :
You're welcome.
And I've made a photo for you during my lunchbreak. Just for you. The picture is not so good, I hope I can make a better photo later.

This is my Ultramarines army so far :



(and the direct link if your browser resizes the photo : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/1/10/451029-Ultramarines%2C%20Ultramarines%20Army.jpg )

I have around 6,000 points of blue armours painted. That's 94 marines (not including additionnal marines for weapons options) plus 18 vehicles.

That's spectacular Minus.... off to vote on it!

Holy frak nuts that's pretty, thanks for taking that picture. It's nice that you have a few older models in there, the classics deserve a nice paint job like that!

My pleasure.

I made some close up shots of the army, before packing it :




The direct link to see it full size (warning, 4000 pix wide ) : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/1/10/451124-Blue%2C%20Calgar%2C%20Cassius%2C%20Fortress%2C%20Marneus%2C%20Redmption%2C%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Tigurius.jpg

Whoa, love it. Couple of quick questions:

The tactical squad in the middle with the back left rhino. Where are the sergeant's arms from? I recognise the pose and the sword but I'm not sure where from.

Also, I know you freehand many of your symbols. How many of those are transfers or did you paint them all by hand?

Keep it comin'!

 Casey's Law wrote:
The tactical squad in the middle with the back left rhino. Where are the sergeant's arms from? I recognise the pose and the sword but I'm not sure where from.

It's an ooooooooold conversion I made like 10 years ago.
The arms are tactical marine ones that I cut and replaced. The blade is a Space Wolves power sword. Simple and efficient.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Also, I know you freehand many of your symbols. How many of those are transfers or did you paint them all by hand?

Well.
On every marine the markings are freehands. I didn't use any transfers one them.
On the vehicles, the big symbols like the top doors of the rhinos are also freehands. The smaller ones are decals because it's easier to apply them on flat areas than on lets say... shoulder pads. However I repaint all the decals because white decals don't look really white, and it looks better when painted over.
I use them as a guide to paint my markings. Some of the vehicles have there name written on their hull, this is also a freehand. And the white "V" in the black circle as Compagny marker is also a freehand (well, it's a simple one) because there is no decall like this.

That's it.


Edit : see the name on some vehicles :

Hey Minus, what are you using for those two dreads in the back? I see the OLD RT dread... but the other two are unfamiliar models.

Hmm... not sure wich ones you're talking about.

So these are from Rogue Trader :





And these are from Space Crusade :

The RT ones I recognized... used to have a couple myself. It's the Space Crusade walkers that I was unfamiliar with. Thanks for the close-ups though... nice! Love the squinty little eyes on the SC ones!