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great models, very active poses

looking good so far!!!!!!!! love the AI im considering getting some stuff from them myself lol!!! love the mk 1 power armour very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:My family stopped in PEI for a couple generations on their way to the US from Scotland. Apparently I still have some blood there from what my uncle says.

Anyway, thanks for the link, those guys will be getting an order from me after this stupid "all my mail is late" holiday is over.

*looks again*

Dude, that gun should be Heavy 5. Or 6.

I am so getting one. Or 6.

Well if I run into a Mr and Mrs MacBloodaxe I will be sure to get you in touch!

neil101 wrote:Hey Commander have a great Christmas matey. i had to double take when i looked at those models. nice to see a new project underway mate.

Thanks Neil! Always a pleasure to see that you still stick around my humble little blogs.

Sageheart wrote:great models, very active poses

Thanks! If there is anything that bugs me it is static poses, probably the reason why my desk is littered with multiple limbs from my new Dreadball set at the moment...

HAZZER wrote:looking good so far!!!!!!!! love the AI I'm considering getting some stuff from them myself lol!!! love the mk 1 power armour very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I can't recommend them enough, I would love to see what you could do with them!

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I am currently digesting far too much festive chocolate (namely two Toblerones, Smarties eggs and some strange Maple square things) and painting up some LotR elves which I have been neglecting for years. I may as well post them up when they are all done. My other blog is years old so I may just throw everything into this one!

Thanks again for visiting!

Cain

How did I miss these latest updates? Duh!

I like the Warmill Fortress very much - some fine work there. The Fortress of Redemption also has a beautiful paintjob - excellent choice of colours!

Thank you for showing us your Anvil Industry stuff! I picked up a few of the 'carbines' and chain glaives but I am impressed with the Thunder Armour you're showing.

Gotta admit I didn't think much of them from the site itself. I look forward to seeing more updates - it may well influence me to buy some more bits!

Keep up the good work - I am trying to get some projects wrapped up on me logs too so inspiration like this is very welcome!

It seems the squid market is a promising industry. Hmmmmm?

Jihad_Ragsta wrote:
How did I miss these latest updates? Duh!

I like the Warmill Fortress very much - some fine work there. The Fortress of Redemption also has a beautiful paintjob - excellent choice of colours!

Thank you for showing us your Anvil Industry stuff! I picked up a few of the 'carbines' and chain glaives but I am impressed with the Thunder Armour you're showing.

Gotta admit I didn't think much of them from the site itself. I look forward to seeing more updates - it may well influence me to buy some more bits!

Keep up the good work - I am trying to get some projects wrapped up on me logs too so inspiration like this is very welcome!

Thanks for the visit! Glad you like the fortress.

I have to admit I was not convinced of much of Anvil's stuff until I got in in my hands. The smaller attachments for example look really grainy on the site but that is simply due to blowing the picture up to a huge size!

Lord General Cheese wrote:It seems the squid market is a promising industry. Hmmmmm?

Indeed, I think I will stick with my ambition to teach if that is alright with you though...


Okayy, my DB set arrived not too long ago and I actually got a model painted already!

Number 88 is perhaps one of the smallest models I have ever painted, he is a head shorter than your average Cadian and goes up to a terminators waist!

However the size does not impede his (?) amazing details and I immediately knew exactly how to paint him. The bad guy in Tron Legacy bears so many similarities I am guessing that 88 was sculpted to look like him. Here is a pic for reference..



A pretty quick paintjob later and I was left with this. I perhaps over did it on the orange, thoughts?







No idea what will be up next. Probably psychology homework but maybe some more DB stuff after that!

Thanks for watching,

Cain

 Commander Cain wrote:

What do you think so far?



-Cain

M-I-C ...

See ya real soon!

K-E-Y ...

Why? Because we're gonna destroy you!



These are the only ones I don't like, but maybe they look better with paint.

Anyway, the finished ones look really nice. The Scarab badges look great. Looking forward to more finished dudes....

Not too much orange. It looks decent as is.

Have to agree w/ Scott, the adornments on the helmets do not add anything positive. To me they look like grimdark hair bows.

Thanks guys! I am well aware of the failings of the above marines, hence why they have been exiled to the bitz box until I can change them up somewhat.

I think I may try to make all the DB figs, the humans at any rate, into Tron-esque models. I have a cunning plan to make some force field type things using see through plastic. I will update she I have made progress!

looking good so afr man!!! Keep it uo dude!!!!

Great use of the Anvil Industries parts, and I'm exalting this thread because of it's content and your helpfulness on the Anvil industries thread concerning others armies and my own.

Love those autosythes!

Thanks Hazz and Stormsung!

Got the last of the Anvil stuff finally finished, seriously considering getting more now!

Last of the Thunder armour guys..





The obligatory group shot.



More High Tech..





Moah group shots!



And lastly a gladiator






But wait! Guess I should show what came in the post the other day, kept me busy that's for sure! If you look hard enough you might see the Dreadball guys hiding in the back as well..



Anvil also gets one last shot in the spotlight with this Reaver who came without an arm. Lucky I bought some of the smaller scale bionics eh?



That really is all for now folks. Nothing left to assemble any more, all my Space Marine bits have been neatly sorted and bagged up, even my desk is tidy. All that is left is paint! At least until my Dreamforge guys arrive that is...

Thanks for watching!

Cain




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Oh, made a nifty little grenade launcher thingy as well!



It started life as one of the double barrel shotguns and then received not one, but two launcher attachments!

Nice...

Thanks Haz!

Okay, finally some actual Thousand Sons progress. I picked up some of the new GW paints to play around with so decided to put them to good use!

First up we have something a bit different. One of the TS's cults can manipulate their body chemistry, great for healing and making themselves look pretty but I thought I would take the idea a different direction and have them transform themselves into monsters, they also work great as models who have succumb to the flesh change.

Pavoni Terror Squad













The possessed kit is really fun to work with. A nightmare to paint though, very hard to tell where the mutations start and the armour ends! I may go back to these guys and work on the flesh tones some more but as I am in an armour "mode" right now, I figured I would be best leaving them and painting the other 80 guys I have left...

Speaking of armour, I have almost finished my Athanean squad. Unfortunately I seemed to forget what squad they were and the sergeant is now carrying a Corvidae banner, may just have to rip it off as I am not exactly a master of freehand just yet!

You may also notice that I am roughing up the marines quite a bit more than before, 1 because it adds more realism and 2 because it is much easier than highlighting 100 guys in a row, let me know what you think!

Wip Athanean Recon Squad... Kind of.



Plan is to finish these guys off, sculpt some fancy helmets for my assault squads and them get them painted up. I am on my Spring break from uni so have a whole week to get some serious painting done!

Both units are looking really good, I like the idea about the possessed parts being due to the flesh change.

Thanks mate! The possessed parts were a complete accident, I found them in an old bits box and just had a little spark of inspiration.

Anyway, another day another update. Finished of the Athanaean squad. All that was left were a few pouches and pauldron details (which I am not entirely happy with). Also, in a freak accident I dropped the sergeant and his banner, meant for a different squad, fell off which was rather fortunate. I also finished the drone thing that accompanies the team.


Apologies for the terrible pics, I was too lazy to photoshop them and let Dakka's auto adjust do it for me. Bad idea...

Athanaean Recon Squad








This guy has some tiny little hazard stripes on the side but they don't seem to show up all that well. Dakka also seems to have made all the armour brighter than it really is.. Ah well!




I also ran across a little tutorial on how to make some loyalist Khorne Beserker helmets a while back, here are the results...



And a linky to the thread should you want to try it out yourself.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/486128.page

Looking good matey!

Thanks again Hazz!

Apologies for the long absence, university keep interfering with life. However I am done of classes this month so once all those fun exams are out of the way I can get painting once more!

Just to show that I have actually been a little bit of progress I figured I would show another wip of the assault squads. Armour is pretty much finished but they still need the gold doing and all the silver, flesh and other little things.

So, here we go...

Squad number one,



Squad two,



I have also started to chop up Coteaz to make him a commander in the army, still needs lots of work to go!



I have also made a Warstore purchase before the new GW laws come into effect, picked up some DV bikers and termies and some other stuff.

This should make a great start for a commander methinks..



Also 10 of these (for all of you who said I need more Egypty stuff in the army!)



And to go with them, some Kromlech pads.



Let the waiting commence!


After I have finished decorating Easter treats I might revisit some old termies and spruce them up as well. Maybe another update today if I feel like it!

Enjoy

Cain


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Wow, I surprised myself and not only finished making these guys but slapped some paint on them as well! Might change some of the heads for the ones from Maxmini but these will do for now...



Who knows, maybe I will have them all finished by tomorrow?

Well I got one finished anyway! Still need to do the base but I can't seem to paint it to look good so I will leave it until I feel inspired



Actually I have just decided to add some freehand on him. Back in a bit...


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There, now he looks a little less like a GK playing dress up.



Anything else I can do to improve him?

He looks awesome! I really like the white symbols. As for improvement, it may just be the photos, but the gold on the shoulder pad looks a little bright, perhaps a wash of Devlan Mud could help?

Proto

I was actually going for a nice bright gold but I think the pics may have a bit to do with it. I was fiddling around with him in photoshop to get the red nice and accurate, forgot about the gold! There is also some devlan mud (its new equivalent anyway) on them though looking back maybe it would benefit from a second coat...

These look awesome, But some do look a bit like Blood angels, but otherwise, Bravo!

Well my last marine army were Blood Angels so I think they may have rubbed off a little in some parts!

Minor update on the termies above, I just ordered some Anvil HH pads for them to replace the current ones. They were just giving off too much of a Grey Knight vibe for me, hopefully they should be here soon.

That

Is

Awesome

Tight work, as always. I really like the dynamic "I am going to hit you SO hard" pose, the weathering / battle damage is well done, and the freehand came out nicely.

Good job all the way around!

Thanks Stalky! Nice to see you are still around.

Well despite having 5 upcoming exams I managed to squeeze in a bit of painting to relax my brain, pretty happy with this guy overall. I don't want to go too crazy on them as I have another 25+ to paint (though I will have a 20 week long summer break so they should all get done then )

Anyway, here is the chappie in all his glory, minus the new shoulderpads of course...





This will probably be the last you will be hearing from me until the 19th, wish me luck on my tests!

Cain

Looks stunning! I love the pose, and that sword is wicked.

Good luck for your exams mate, I'm sure you'll be fine

Proto

Thanks man! It's only a history exam today so I should have no problems with it.

 Commander Cain wrote:
Thanks man! It's only a history exam today so I should have no problems with it.

simply answer everything with the history of the thousand sons. It will almost 100% be correct history.

As much as I would love to explain how WW2 started as a result Mangus and his army of Space Marines marching into Poland I am not sure how well it would go down with the prof!

LIES!!! Clearly it was Magnus that was attacked by Poland first, because that is what he said in justification of stomping Poland back into the Dark Ages.

*typo