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Thanks Dr H! And welcome to the club Selvaggio!

The base got finished in no time at all. A bit of sponging here, bit of weathering powder there and it was all done. I am really enjoying this diorama, I must do more in the future..



Anyways, time to put the brush down for tonight, my guilt at leaving this project till the last minute has evaporated a little so I can finally get some sleep.

The sponge and rust effect are excellent! Great start all around, but you know I'm particularly partial to dirty rusted stuff. I really like that. A lot.

Thanks Stalky! If I get your approval for weathering I must be doing something right.

I'm just gonna copy & paste what I wrote on Gitsplitta's blog for the sake of finishing what I started, here goes...

Finished!

Like I suspected it was quite a race to get all done but I think the final product should be worth the wait.




Now, some fluff is needed methinks. Making this up as I go along minus some vague ideas I had along the way.

It is the 42nd Millennium and much has changed in a relatively short space of time. Mankind is but a shadow of its former self, split up into small scattered segments and ruled by a loose alliance of bureaucrats and warlords. Still strong however, are the Adeptus Astartes, those legions that remained loyal after the Heresy developed strong bonds and as such hold considerable power over large tracts of the galaxy to this day.

New threats still keep appearing and threaten to wipe out this resistance. When it is not new alien races seeking to expand their territory, it is Mankind's own past that rises up against them. The Iron Men of ancient Terran myth were sentient robotic beings, once programmed to fight for their masters until the eventually betrayed them. It seems that the robots had been growing in strength over many hundreds of years and they now press toward Terra once more with renewed vigour, with only several legions to oppose them such as the Mantis Warriors and Thousand Sons, who happen to be directly in the path of this new heartless enemy...

There, that should do! Now, what to do with the rest of the robots I bought, hmmm.

That is brilliant mate , the sense of action is great ..love the posing and the paintwork ,the base is rather cool too and sets the models of perfectly .

 Commander Cain wrote:
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!

From what I've read in 'A Thousand Sons' mutants were put down, so in an age where mutations are even more feared (41st millenium) surely they'd just be killed? Aside from this, I have also heard that the MKI 'Thunder' guys only lived for a few hundred years, because they were experimental and stuhf (kinda like MKI Spartans). Aside from this, you're a really excellent painter, but I agree with some of the posts saying you need to get on some of that symbology ;D I'd also love to see some converted helmets from the cover of 'A Thousand Sons', because they look SO COOL .-.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Commander Cain wrote:
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!

From what I've read in 'A Thousand Sons' mutants were put down, so in an age where mutations are even more feared (41st millenium) surely they'd just be killed? Aside from this, I have also heard that the MKI 'Thunder' guys only lived for a few hundred years, because they were experimental and stuhf (kinda like MKI Spartans). Aside from this, you're a really excellent painter, but I agree with some of the posts saying you need to get on some of that symbology ;D I'd also love to see some converted helmets from the cover of 'A Thousand Sons', because they look SO COOL .-.

Yes and no. These are Pavoni. Not mutants. They alter themselves I believe.


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Yeah, here. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Cults_of_the_Thousand_Sons#Cult_of_the_Pavoni

Yeah you have to remember that I am making up a lot of this fluff as I go along! I promise to get round to filling it out at one point this summer to have a really nice background. interesting point about the MKI guys though, guess it could just be armour passed down through the ages though?

Sorry for the lack of updates though folks! I am in the process of moving house and our new place doesn't have Internet as of now. On the plus side it means less time spent watching numerous shows on Netflix and more time painting, already got a rhino painted that I will post as soon as I am connected again!


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Oh and I almost forgot to brag that I snagged 2nd place in the Mantis Maker challenge! Quite chuffed about the victory actually..

Huzzah! I now have internet and can once more flood dakka with lots of red Space Mariney goodness.

Now I didn't get nearly as much done over the summer break as I had hoped for as I was working 6 days a week but with the time I did have off I managed to squeeze some painting into my schedule.

Let's have a look at what I got done then eh?

First up, a dreadnought. Pretty simple to paint but the overally effect comes off nicely and should look quite the part once I get round to basing it.





I also did up my Linebreaker Rhino in red (it was previously a Death Company transport). Figured it would be nice to get a bunch of vehicles out of the way to make the "to paint" pile look less daunting...







Finally I have a wip shot of the Pyrae squad that I have had sitting around for ages, not much to see but it is still progress!



If I have the time soon I think I will whip up a green screen and try to take some decent shots of all the models I have done so far, currently my photography is.. lacking to say the least.


I am also nearing completion of a Stormhawk but it is looking incredibly bland at the moment so I need to rummage around for some bits to spruce it up a little.

Well, that's all I think folks. Now that I am back at uni I may have even less free time on my hands but I will try my very best to keep this project going at some sort of rate even if I only update once every few weeks!


Thanks a bunch for reading,
Cain

That Diorama base Is amazingly cool.

Glad you like it Galorn! The whole diorama in general was great fun to make. That reminds me, I have a half painted Mantis Warrior from Gits that needs finishing soon...

Anyway, figured I might as well take some shots of the flyer since I found my camera. Suggestions are welcomed as I know there is a lot of work that needs to be done to it.

Now I tweaked the original model slightly. Adding bolters to the front where lights usually go and getting rid of that awful turret on the roof and replacing it with a missile launcher from a drop pod (complete with swivel motions!). It has certainly helped to streamline the model quite a bit to the point of where I actually like the kit now!







Well, two updates in as many days. Hopefully this will be the start of good things to come!

Happy Thursday.

Cain

Everything looks stunning (as usual) but this REALLY captured my attention:



Wow. That is an excellent miniature all around. Great job!

Thanks Stalky! Honestly I think the sculpt is the only thing doing justice on that model. The paintjob was rushed and pretty basic, oops.

In other news I have finally picked up some FW marines. Very proud of how long I held out buying some seeing as how awesome they look...

Anyway, I made the Dev company captain who will also be going into Nerdfest's latest painting competition. I find that I do some really good painting when I have both a deadline and some people to compete against.



I will be posting the other four chappies I bought very soon and also a random guy I painted up once I have some sunlight.

All the best,

Cain

Here are the rest of the guys that I promised. The guns were a nightmare to attach but in the end I think I got them all positioned nicely.









Finally a good old fuzzy squad picture. Pretty happy with these guys overall, I have yet to add details to them like the captain but I just wanted to get the basic poses done before I lose all the little fiddly bits.

Great looking squad, and nice kit out w/ the weapons, ready for anything!

Yeah I like a bit of variety among my troops, hence the plethora of different weapons.

Forgot to post this guy as well, WIP obviously but it won't take long to finish him off. I think I may put him in my command squad, just need to think of a good backstory...





Hope you like!

Cain

 Commander Cain wrote:
Yeah I like a bit of variety among my troops, hence the plethora of different weapons.

Forgot to post this guy as well, WIP obviously but it won't take long to finish him off. I think I may put him in my command squad, just need to think of a good backstory...





Hope you like!

Cain

Looking good!

Hello again folks!

I have a nice big update for you all today, first off, Galorn sent me a couple of huuuge bases for me to paint up. As you can see, they are in the process of being cleaned up as I type. Not sure how well they show up in the picture as the resin is very dark and shiny so it reflects all the light.



A very characterful pair if I do say so myself.


And while on the subject of bases, I got my ks rewards from PDC Gaming which included some hard-plastic industrial bases!





As you can see, lots of detail plus they are a great price (16 for 6 pounds)

Scale shot for those of you who are interested. They are slightly taller than your average GW base but once you start adding stuff to a GW one they end up at pretty much the same height, perfect.




Also in the shipment came some wicked tracked guns, again in plastic.

I first did a dry test-fit and this was the result...





A bit of sanding and liquid gs'ing later...



I also added some bitz to the back as it was very plain.



Pretty pleased with the result. The kit comes with only one type of gun but there is an accessory kit which contains more although I don't much care for it as they are a little plain for my tastes. On the plus side you can make a cool servitor thing with that set.



Did I mention that I bought three?



Salvaged a couple of GW guns and they fit just perfectly! I also tested to see if IG heavy weapons fit and it's like they were designed for that purpose in case anyone was wondering.


Plasma cannon



Assault cannon (with drilled gun barrels )



Now I did have a little trouble cleaning up some parts of the plastic bits as when they got chopped off the sprue you would be left with a little hole as shown below. However I managed to get the offending gaps filled in no time so I'm not going to make a big fuss about it.



Also there are some bits of the accessory sprue that don't assemble very well such as the machine gun and ammo hopper



Again though, very little niggles and it doesn't take away from the fact that I love these kits and would recommend them to anyone especially at 10 quid a model (to put that into perspective, both FW's and GW's tracked guns are 30ish pounds!).

Linky-poo to their site in case you are interested.. http://www.pdcgaming.co.uk/

Well, that's all for now, I'm going to try and get some painting done today so I may have another update soonish.

Happy Saturday,

Cain

The horus heavies look good, i particularly like the plasma guy.

the lascannon dude looks like he is falling over from recoil on the first pic.lol so tempted to pick these up as well.

I'm baaack..

First off, thanks Neil, the LC guy did actually fall over and is currently lying in a bitz box, seems that you cursed him!

Second, I've been playing with plastic as always and whipped up a Dreadknight. I have to say that I like the model a lot more now that I have it in person, especially when you tweak it a little and give it a great big gun...

Blurry IPhone shot for now but once it is finished being chopped up and I have added some more details I shall get some decent pics.



C&C welcome, I especially need some tips on how to 1KSon him up besides a headswap, perhaps some gs'ing is needed?

I also picked up the new Sternguard veteran plastics so expect another update just as soon as I have finished my last daunting university exam of the year, woot!

Cain

 Commander Cain wrote:
I'm baaack..

First off, thanks Neil, the LC guy did actually fall over and is currently lying in a bitz box, seems that you cursed him!

Second, I've been playing with plastic as always and whipped up a Dreadknight. I have to say that I like the model a lot more now that I have it in person, especially when you tweak it a little and give it a great big gun...

Blurry IPhone shot for now but once it is finished being chopped up and I have added some more details I shall get some decent pics.



C&C welcome, I especially need some tips on how to 1KSon him up besides a headswap, perhaps some gs'ing is needed?

I also picked up the new Sternguard veteran plastics so expect another update just as soon as I have finished my last daunting university exam of the year, woot!

Cain

I'd say check tomb king bits for shields and banmer tops you could use to egypt it up.

Oh yes Tomb Kings stuff is on my list for sure. I plan on using the shields for some boarding marines at some point as that should look super cool.

On the gun... I'd make the rear handle tilting forwards instead of straight up and down- this also would mean that you could possibly use GS to sculpt a nice flowing sculptural detail for a mount instead of just a peg on a girder.

Also, the forward handle needs to be directly over the barrels- center of mass. Because if it's off to the side like it is now, the gun would just tilt down or up due to barrel spin, throwing off the aim something dreadful.

Wow! what bits went into the flamer there?

Awesome work so far!

Will be keeping an eye on this.

Awesome work, that gun is . If its not too late you may want to pivot the right foot out more, it would be a very if guilt stance o hold as is. Otherwise this is sweet. Are you going to replace some of the writing with hieroglyphs?

Some really awesome work going on in here! Got to admit i do love the Pre Heresy TS!!!

Really random question but it has been bugging me....... The Pages your possessed marines are show on........ looks like technical drawings of tanks etc...... what is it?!? lol... I am thinking pages from an Imperial Armour.... lol..... sorry.... just really wanted to know! haha!

Awesome looking titan aswell dude!

Cheers,

Anvildude wrote:On the gun... I'd make the rear handle tilting forwards instead of straight up and down- this also would mean that you could possibly use GS to sculpt a nice flowing sculptural detail for a mount instead of just a peg on a girder.

Also, the forward handle needs to be directly over the barrels- center of mass. Because if it's off to the side like it is now, the gun would just tilt down or up due to barrel spin, throwing off the aim something dreadful.

You have a good point there mate. I will try to repose it a little but with the arm being all one piece it was incredibly difficult to get him to hold the darn thing at all!

emmens wrote:Wow! what bits went into the flamer there?

Pretty much every gun that is included in the kit actually. The tubes were from a space gun I had from the tracked guns (top of this page I think) Pretty pleased with how it turned out in the end.

rohansoldier wrote:Awesome work so far!

Will be keeping an eye on this.

Thank you kindly good sir!

Theophony wrote:Awesome work, that gun is . If its not too late you may want to pivot the right foot out more, it would be a very if guilt stance o hold as is. Otherwise this is sweet. Are you going to replace some of the writing with hieroglyphs?

Hieroglyphs. That is an amazing idea! May be tricky to sculpt such a small area but I'm gonna try it now..

MagosBiff90 wrote:Some really awesome work going on in here! Got to admit i do love the Pre Heresy TS!!!

Really random question but it has been bugging me....... The Pages your possessed marines are show on........ looks like technical drawings of tanks etc...... what is it?!? lol... I am thinking pages from an Imperial Armour.... lol..... sorry.... just really wanted to know! haha!

Awesome looking titan aswell dude!

Cheers,

Glad you enjoy them Biff. The drawings are from the FW masterclass book (vol.1) An excellent read if ever you want to pick it up.

Thanks for the input folks, 'tis nice to see that people enjoy my work!

Cain

Don't be afraid to chop and re-pose. Especially on those big models, it's a lot easier than you think to fill any gaps that might result with greenstuff- and on mechanical things like the Exo armour, you can usually cut it in such a way that the joint can actually 'rotate' as it would if it were real, meaning no wasted material.

For the hieroglyphs just use a flat edged blade in your hobby knife to cut out all the imperial latineese, then apply greenstuff in the open squares and fiddle around .

Well, I dropped the Dreadknight and it fell to pieces so it looks like he is getting a serious repose...

In other news I built some veterans/bossman marines. The new veteran kit is amazing, so much variety and plenty of bits to keep converting dozens of guys after the first five.

I didn't have any real inspiration when making these guys, just that I wanted them to look very individual and I think I pulled it of quite nicely!

Master of the Watch

I found some GK leftovers so I used one of the arms on this fella and then added some Egyptian bits to him to finish off the look, pretty pleased with him overall.



Master of Rites

Pretty basic conversion, I just used mostly bits from the vet kit and stuck on a bit of a Necron staff then attached some speakers to the backpack.



Corvidae Sorcerer

This is perhaps my favorite model, not only do I really like the Corvus Armour but I had a resin robo-bird lying around just begging to be stuck on.



Thousand Sons Champion

This guy looks a bit boring still imo, I might tweak the iron halo on his backpack to be a 1ksons symbol and give him a chunkier sword. May also give him a helmet instead if I can rummage up a suitable looking one.



Master of the Arsenal

I figured since this guy has the pick of the entire armoury he needed a unique gun to accompany that role. I decided on a needle gun, an old RT weapon that has since gone out of use. I based the weapon loosely on this picture.







And that's all the building for now I think. May attempt some painting after dinner as I now have literal hundreds of models needing attention!

Thanks for watching,

Cain