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Definately subbed. Very good stuff. Want to see that eye of Horus when its done.

Thanks guys

I hope to get some more work done on these guys in about a week, and make all those subscriptions worthwhile

Boom sauce!



Two months after starting him, its finally done. I lost a bit of traction painting him when I fell out of love with the scheme, but the weathering really brought it back for me, turns out I can't paint anything clean with armour.

Here's a couple more pics. The rest can be seen on my blog if you're interested.





Thanks for looking.

That looks amazing Sheep love the weathering and free hand.

I love the eye!

So great to see someone that have the guts paint really dirty. Too many people are bent on painting so neat. Even when painting dirt, weathering, rust and what not, so often it turns out as neat dirt and neat weathering etc.
This on the other hand is a definite wow-experience.

"who dares wins"?

And i'm so going to steal the thing there with the blue-ish heat discoloration on the multimelta. Truly awesome.

Sheep wrote:Thanks mate. I'm hoping the DA codex lets you run termis as troops too, doing it in SW is great, but paying the premium of 280pts for logan is a bit much.

Look at the new Chaos codex as well. I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Abbaddon allows lots of termies - wasn't there a rumour that he'll allow Chosen as Troops or something?

Thanks everyone for the kind words I'm glad you all like him as much as me. I'm excited to paint the next models now.

I am excited for you to paint them too!

Thanks mate A week of uni to go and I can tackle these guys head on

Second contempt or WIP. No power fist? No worries

That is a lot of dakka!
I really like the model, the pose is very dynamic, well done!
...and power fists are not required for bloody cc violence lol!

I have to ask how you went about doing the weathering on the Contemptor- it looks amazing!

thats the coolest pose for a contemptor that I have seen to date!

CRUSH!!!!!!

Hey Mr.Sheep!

You clearly got some nice painting skills. The weathering and detail work on your first contemp is really stunning, you managed to paint it very realistic. Really impressive how you managed to paint the armor and other parts of the model so "flat" and real.

I also like how you tend to details, all the bases and the models so faar got some cool poses and good bases. The last Contemp is an awesome conversion, kinda funny too hehe. So im gonna keep track on this blog, cant wait to see you build and paint up more models, gonna be an awesome army when its done!

Thanks very much guys I'm glad you all like him so much.

Really beautiful weathering. I particularly like the soft/worn looking metal of his feet - where it looks like the paint has eroded off through constant use. Do you have any tips on how to get that sort of effect?

Looks rad, cant wait to see it painted!

That first contemptor is painted AMAZINGLY! I can't wait to see the final result on the second one

Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Very nice use of FW marines! I like the motion in posing and careful reposition of parts. Very neat.

Thanks alot guys

Bruticus wrote:Really beautiful weathering. I particularly like the soft/worn looking metal of his feet - where it looks like the paint has eroded off through constant use. Do you have any tips on how to get that sort of effect?

The feet were weathered the same way as the rest of the model, Base, highlight, chip, oil, pigment. But then after it was sealed with matte varnish i went back over them with brown mud pigments thinned with white spirit, when that had dried I brushed lightly with a dry brush to blend the pigments a little more, and then sealed it again.

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Not really sure how this exalting works, but thanks

 Sheep wrote:

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Subscribed and Exalted.... Started reading with that 'does tthis guy only convert or somin'' mood, then saw your contemptor. HOLY SH!T this is awesome!

Not really sure how this exalting works, but thanks

Exalting adds your thread to the exalter's "my exalted threads" list and if the thread gets lots of exalts, it'll appear in the public "top rated topics" list

oh and exalted! lol

The feet were weathered the same way as the rest of the model, Base, highlight, chip, oil, pigment. But then after it was sealed with matte varnish i went back over them with brown mud pigments thinned with white spirit, when that had dried I brushed lightly with a dry brush to blend the pigments a little more, and then sealed it again.

Thanks. There's no metallic paint at all on the feet right? Were you tempted to use any metallic paint for the chips?

amazing

Theres no metallic paints on the feet, they may have caught a touch of astonomicon grey drybrush when I was finishing the base too.
I was tempted to add some to the battle damage, but if I had of stuffed it up I would have to repaint the whole model and I couldn't make myself.

Love the work here, can't wait to see more!!!

also... you gain a million points for the maimed Imperial fist in that Contemptors hand

fething yellow gits...

Thanks Childe What can i spend my points on?

The pics of UK games day have gotten my creative juices bubbling. As usual FW have blown the mainstream GW releases out of the water, and the PH/HH marines are amazing. using this motivation, I managed for finish the first 5 infantry figures for the Sons.



As you can see I am continuing with the battle warn beaten to hell look of the marines,and persevering with the sea green scheme because I think the official FW scheme looks like gak.

FW have also changed the eye of horus they are using, these guys sport the updated one, and the original contemptor will be the odd one out with the old style. I am considering whether or not to pick up some of the decal, or continue with the freehanding of the symbols.

Each of the marines also has a chaos star of some type free handed onto their armour somewhere, though most of them got so battle damaged its hard to make them out.

It was my first attempt at using the airbrush to do this style of power weapon, and I must say I really like the effect. I would have preferred a purple, but I didn't have the right colours, and impatience won out.

Next is assembling the rest of the squad, and deciding what out of all the awesome FW goodies I want next!

I will begin accepting donations to the "Buy Aaron resin crack" fund immediately

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks Childe What can i spend my points on?

Ermmm.... I'ma have to get back to you on that

The pics of UK games day have gotten my creative juices bubbling. As usual FW have blown the mainstream GW releases out of the water, and the PH/HH marines are amazing. using this motivation, I managed for finish the first 5 infantry figures for the Sons.

Yeah the Pre-Heresy stuff is DA MOTHA-FUDGIN' BOMB!!! unfortunately that means more FW-crack for me to buy... eeeeeeeejits.

As you can see I am continuing with the battle warn beaten to hell look of the marines,and persevering with the sea green scheme because I think the official FW scheme looks like gak.

FW have also changed the eye of horus they are using, these guys sport the updated one, and the original contemptor will be the odd one out with the old style. I am considering whether or not to pick up some of the decal, or continue with the freehanding of the symbols.

Each of the marines also has a chaos star of some type free handed onto their armour somewhere, though most of them got so battle damaged its hard to make them out.

It was my first attempt at using the airbrush to do this style of power weapon, and I must say I really like the effect. I would have preferred a purple, but I didn't have the right colours, and impatience won out.

Well as ever your stuff is looking amazing dude! once my Nids are done I'll start painting my IW's finally

Next is assembling the rest of the squad, and deciding what out of all the awesome FW goodies I want next!

I will begin accepting donations to the "Buy Aaron resin crack" fund immediately

Feth that... I ain't giving you money when my nids still need a Gak-ton buying for them :

Buy some MkII Lightnings or Rapier Boarding Cannons!!!