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The guy with the two handed sword ! awesome convertion!

Love the new Squad in Progress. This project continues to impress, instruct, and intimidate!

Thanks gents If its half as impressive as your daemons Tinfoil, I'll be happy.

Hey buddy! It's been a while since I have checked in. I am loving those praetors... Particularly like the gold... I'm struggling to get a nice light shade of gold that isn't either a little too yellow or orange. May have to venture away from GW paints for the job. Looking forward to seeing more!!

Thanks mate, GW golds do leave a bit to be desired, the vallejo liquid gold range is amazing, they just need to be thinnned and cleaned with white spirits.

Very, very nice marines there Sheep. I look forward to seeing the command squad painted up.

 Sheep wrote:
Thanks mate, GW golds do leave a bit to be desired, the vallejo liquid gold range is amazing, they just need to be thinnned and cleaned with white spirits.

Sounds like I need to have a look at these... I have always been impressed with Vallejo's range and everyone seems to highly rate them but I have always had a misplaced allegiance to GW for some reason. Time for change perhaps

Hi again guys, some more work has been done on my sons, and their allies. . . .

These guys are are all done up to the oils stage which will define all the armour plates alot more.

Firstly, the Azreal counts as:



Second is some apothecaries, after the oils I'll add some more blood to their armour, removing progenoids can be a messy business.



Next is my take on the Worldeaters, which I'll be using as assault marines, they'll all be getting MkIV jumppacks and butchers nails markings.



In the vein of the WE's, the Sgt for the squad, or some kind of preator if the WE section gets out of hand.



Finally . . . . .



Thanks for looking.

Wow those look awesome sheep!
I'm liking that WE sergeant/praetor a lot, great conversion, can't wait to see it get some colour!

Nightlords I presume

While it may not be my place to say, as I am not nearly as talented as you are, I feel that "Azrael" isn't up to your usual standard, and the sword is miles better than I could ever do, but I feel it doesn't represent your full potential Sheep. The World Eaters are top notch thoough, and the Apothecaries are somewhat of a midground between the two.

In saying that, and as said previously, you're a painter far great than I and I have to praise your obvious skills .

Nice to see some more paint on your SoH mate. That WE sergeant is looking A.M.A.Z.I.N.G will look forward to seeing that in its final stages. I'm working on my destroyer squad ATM. Will have an update soon. Keep up the good work.

Thanks gents

Ivan: got it always loved them, ADB made them better, and now the FW rules have come out I can't resist adding some as allies for the sons.

Deadshot: Thanks for the feed back. and I agree with you. The sword suffered because my airbrush had a blow out while I was painting it, I'm now waiting on a new needle to fix it. The lack of depth is because they haven't gotten an oil wash yet, so they have basically no shading.

Ah! MAN that's cool! Azrael looks brilliant! Great work on everything, awesome model

I can't wait to see the count has Azreal finished ! You're weathering job is awesome ! wish I could do it like yours ....

Awesome stuff as always! Nice to see someone who applies more battle damage than me to their marines.

The Preator fella is looking great btw, fantastic greenstuffing..

Sheep you continue to churn out excellence like ...well, some sort of excellence factory.....yes, well, dodgy similes aside, these guys really are awesome and I cant wait to see what you do with the night lords!

If you want me to be uber critical, which is what we are here for when we are not egging each other on, I would say that the black armour chipping/weathering on both the SoH apothecary in the mark 4 armour and the two world eaters might be slightly too uniform? Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic, and I understand they are just troopers so you dont want to spend forever on them, but maybe just make sure you keep the weathering patterns irregular, especially on the world eater on the right's legs, all the patches were very circular if you see what I mean, there is a danger of accidentally making dalmatian marines! Which i'm not saying would be a bad thing, just quite quite different!

Even so I am nit picking out of jealousy! Keep up the fantastic stuff!

That World Eaters praetor! So nice.

 J-paint wrote:
Sheep you continue to churn out excellence like ...well, some sort of excellence factory.....yes, well, dodgy similes aside, these guys really are awesome and I cant wait to see what you do with the night lords!

If you want me to be uber critical, which is what we are here for when we are not egging each other on, I would say that the black armour chipping/weathering on both the SoH apothecary in the mark 4 armour and the two world eaters might be slightly too uniform? Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic, and I understand they are just troopers so you dont want to spend forever on them, but maybe just make sure you keep the weathering patterns irregular, especially on the world eater on the right's legs, all the patches were very circular if you see what I mean, there is a danger of accidentally making dalmatian marines! Which i'm not saying would be a bad thing, just quite quite different!

Even so I am nit picking out of jealousy! Keep up the fantastic stuff!

Sorry I just got around to getting back to this thread, things disappear from the front page so quick!

I agree, and I intend on changing the way I apply the weathering from now on! one of my friends said the WE's looked like Dalmatians too! I hope I've fixed with this update I think the problem was the way I used the sponge, so that'll change.

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I've managed to finish 3 more sons, and 2 WE (bar their backpacks which is why they count as WIP).

Firstly we have my home made Praetor (I have another set of the FW praetors I will be painting for myself, hopefully as well as the ones I did on commission), he was going to be used as a counts as Azreal, but will now probably be used as a sternguard SGT.



The base features a salamanders helmet, or a really dirty SoH helmet, its a pretty standard feature on my bases, and I tend to forget I'm doing PH/HH and just paint them whatever colour I have to hand.



I'm not actually that happy with the sword on this guy, but being a gaming army, and still not having played a game with it I think I can let the fact the back side is better than the front side slide. I also painted the plasma in a more subdued orange because its not actually pointed at anyone, so it makes sense for the weapon to be powered down.

Next we have some apothecaries, which given their uselessness as a buff bubble ala sang priests will probably just get used as regular Tac marines.







I haven't managed to get my hands on any of the new technical paints yet, so the blood here is done the old fashioned way using Tamiya clear red, and a second coat with a touch of black. But I'm pretty happy with the effect, even at a million times magnification.

Next we have the reason for the title of the blog post . . . WIP World Eaters. I personally see the change in coloration from white to red as a result of their blood letting. The human body has between 4-6 liters of blood, and an Astartes would have considerably more, so they would make a hell of a mess when hacked up with chain weapons.









I intend on writing a piece of fluff eventually that describes how some of the berzerkers as a symbol of there heresy decide not to wash off the blood of the slain from Istvaan, and as time went on, armour broke and was replaced, but painted red to maintain the connection to the betrayal and dropsite massacres.

Thoughts on the paint job, the fluff and the amount of blood?

Thanks for looking.

I like you thoughts on the armor being replaced over the years with red plates, I've seen it other places as well, but I always wanted to see someone come out and say the crazy mechanicus guys who turned traitor developed "mood armor" like mood rings where it changes colors according to the wearers feelings. that way you could paint a berserker baby blue and tell everyone the story of how he was feeling inadequate with his skull pile being so much smaller than the other berserkers

Blood splatter looks good, though I've never seen the effect a chainsaw to a cow would have in real life, it looks plausible to me.

Sir i think the white turning red via blood is an inspired idea! not only that but the effect looks absolutely perfect, more than just being splashed, but less than taking a bath, must have been difficult to know when to stop! but i think you have done it well, also the dalmatian syndrome has entirely vanished, is that a new sponge technique because it looks infinitely better!

Thanks guys Glad I'm not the only one on the red armour = blood wavelength

Theo: the mood ring armour made me actually lol, that's great!

J-paint: Yeah it was a fine line to walk, I had to stop applying it and walk away, then came back re assessed where I was up to, and applied a little bit more and called it done.
The blood has actually covered a bit of the battle damage, which is helping alleviate the Dalmatian effect we were seeing.

The next members of the WE squad will have the new sponge effect tested on them, but will have to wait til I get home from work in 2 weeks for testing.

Awesome ! I'm speechless , your Praetor/counts as Azreal/Sternguard SGT is very nice. I love the pose he got about to swing is huge sword for a slice a man in two blow!

Very nice work sheep! Those marines look like they been on the battlefield for an age or three. Keep em coming!

Very nice work on everything here. Your SOH are probably the best ones out there in my opinion, perfectly painted and weathered, and with amazing posing to boot. Simply amazing stuff.

Thanks guys you're all too kind. They are far from perfect, looking at massive pics of my models always makes the flaws stand out heaps more to me :( but that's what drives us to try and be better each time

Ilove40k: I imagine it coming up in an upper cut motion, or like the scenes in brave heart with the claymore

awesome work!

Thanks cave dweller

Some fluff I wrote this afternoon whilst watching the cricket:

In a legion of brutality and violence SGT Brakor had been known as a bit of a philosopher. Not to the extent of one of those blinded by knowledge like the weakling sorcerers of the 1000 sons, but a berzerker with a brain.

All that changed with the nails. The primarchs rage and pain drove the contemplation from his mind like the sun burning off a light fog. The times inbetween battles were becoming a struggle for Brakor, knowing something was missing, and craving the release from the pain that blood letting brought.

So it came to be that he joined the primarch in his rebellion without conscious thought, carried along in the tide of blood released by the betrayal and massacres that followed.

It was therefore a surprise to Brakor to step out of the boarding ramp of his assault companies storm eagle, not into a hail of bolts, or a maelstrom of las and hard rounds, but into the bright lights of the embarkation hanger of "sempervivum mort" battle barge of the 116th chaper of the 3rd legion.

He stood motionless, starring at a battered mk 4 helm, much of the legion white replaced with dents, scratches and ceramite grey patches, all covered in a patina of congealed blood. He could recall every scrape, blow, bullet and blade that had left a mark, dent and splash of warm vitale that had caressed the memnotic receptors of his armour. He was captivated by the bloodshed, relishing every sensation, lost in the eidetic flood of violence.

Light scratching intruded on Brakor's reminiscing. Finally a hissing noise and sensation of warmth on his left greave snapped him back to reality. A maintenance servitor was beginning the automated process of cleansing and restoring the finish of his armour.

Rage overcame recall, striking downwards with the closest weapon to hand, his helm connected with the crown of the servitor a head, explosively compressing the unsuspecting automatons skull and spine into a red paste and vent blood, brain matter and bone splinters in a wide arc.

"I will keep these skulls, this new visage of blood I have earnt through betrayal of erstwhile brothers, to remember the slaughter, recall the battle, and mark myself as a child of blood and murder". As he muttered the final word, the lodge medallion on his chest flashed cold, and the clarity of the past minutes bled from the edges of his vision, replaced with the pain and rage of the nails.

Stalking from the hanger, the fresh stench of blood began to overpower the stale metallic tang of the recycled air as the lodge brothers of his company destroyied the circling maintainable servitors.

Blood would be their new uniform, and skulls their currency. The berserkers were coming and the universe would never be the same again.

Thoughts?

hi, i want to buy some SoH from the FW in the new year, but i wouder if i could paint it well
Could your post some pics about how to paint SoH? thanks

21 months I have been painting these Sons of bitches, and I can finally say it. I have a playable force!

Only 1000 points, and not very optimised, or even fluffy, but its a start. . .

I guess I'll start with the new additions, firstly, HQ's.



This is Moritat Axander, and will pretty much ruin anyones day if he gets a turn of chainfire shooting at them. I haven't seen that many of these guys around the forums and blogs, which is surprising considering the damage potential they have with 2 plasma pistols.

I used the current 40k plasma pistols because I think the 30k ones look like a hair driers . . .



Unusually for me, he is clad entirely in Mk IV armour, although I did make a couple of modifications to it. There has been an extra armoured plate sculpted onto the left greave, and a plasticard strip and rivets added to the crown of his helmet to differentiate it from rank and file, and give him a pseudo crest/mohawk.

Next in the HQ slot is a Praetor in terminator armour, because a Moritat can't lead your force.



I took the normal Terminator Praetor and converted him to have lightning claws, just a simple matter of cutting all the relevant parts at the elbows and pinning them together. I also heated (carefully) the fingers on the left hand to give him a pointing/commanding pose. Looking at the pics, I need to add some definition eye sockets to the skull on the night lords shoulder pad.



I've never been a fan of unhelmeted marines, something about going into battle without a lid when explosive projectiles are flying around just seems dumb to me. So I squeezed a Mk II helmet in with a bit of trimming. Unfortunately some super glue got into the eye slit and destroyed the detail, but it still works as a gaming piece.

And what is a pimp, without an entourage?



Basically just stock Cataphractii terminators from Forgeworld, its hard to improve on perfection. The only thing I added was a heraldic shield from the Grey knight terminators to the Sgt.



And that's it for the new stuff. The observant among you would have noticed that the basing has changed though. The new style matches the tyranids, and will match the Ad mech, and the table I am going to make (eventually) for my collection. This meant that the rest of the 1k needed to be rebased.



The Sgt also had a head repose so he wasn't looking at his shoes.



Unfortunately I have to lose the stomping pose on the dread due to time constraints, but I kept the marine and the base so I can redo it at a later stage with another contemptor.

And thats 1000 points (plus a rhino), my photo set up isn't big enough to get all the models into one shot, but I'll take lots of pics at the 30k tournament being run by John from The Painting Bunker called The Emperors Legions, which is set to be epic, including a group shot.

Thanks for stopping in and reading my ramblings, what do you think of the new additions and new basing style?