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that cultist in the center is my favorite, to me it looks like a 40k saucier from san antone and I love it

Thanks.

Awesome. As ever, we wait with bated breath for your next update.

Little teaser, still very much a PIP

Holy wow!

I adore those hazard stripes, really nice touch. Is that lots of wet blood as well? Looks amazing whatever.

Oh that looks nice love your blog, it's a big inspiration for me and my gang!

Pelicanne is still, obviously my favorite though, I really must emulate it when my student loan comes in!

+ Illuminati Aquila + Coram Iudice +

+++Pious Honorius+++

+ Consilio et animi + By wisdom and courage +

The first time I saw my master, I was blinded. We had had the renegades cornered when the Warp bled on to Terra.


Here comes – The few first images of nearly finished members of the Illuminati Aquila, Lord Inquisitor Caius Celestine Pelagius. and Interrogator Oswald that will forever define what this project is all about. It’s an anxious moment, photographs will fully never convey the new found metallic radiance the miniatures possess. This has been perhaps the craziest new effect I have tried to achieve.

Drawing inspiration from Orthodox Catholic Icon art (where some of the richness in color comes from painting over gold) and the Cover of the collector edition 7th ed. rule book (which is the brainchild of a good friend, painstakingly executed for incredible sheen, matte yet reflective) I wanted to produce a group of miniatures that quite literally bring the Emperor’s light to the grim darkness of the far future, where there is only war. This is also the final installment of my Inquisitor Trilogy, my personal effort to celebrate and redefine the hobby and leave some kind of a mark. The first one “shaddes offe greye” had mixed grey into everything, and produced an Ugly, rag tag grim group of twists around the pariah Inquisitor Haag. A few years later, an adventure of gore and contrast for the Bad exploded around Inquisitor Alban Silas. Good was always going to be the hardest. It had to be the most sinister in its own way, and would need to compliment the blood and grey into a whole.

This would not have been possible with out an airbrush to get a super smooth and incredibly bright gold canvas to work from. So even the leather, or the clothes on the models, show some metal sheen trough. I then employed the incredible scale 75 metallic paints, windsor & newton inks and a bunch of my own mixes and the usual vallejo acrylics. Final oomph was achieved by Humbrol 11 metallics, a trick passed on from the Danish Grand masters a decade ago. The idea for the light in the group, is for everything to bleed out from Pelagius’ Hammer like it was burning with the golden soul of the Emperor. The Inquisitor’s left side is in shadow, face shaded to purple, the gold toned down a lot.

Without further ado, the art work that inspired and will provide the color palette (so expect muted oranges to follow to compliment the greens on Oswald) and the two heroes them selves, very very close to finished. I took these images in daylight after trying about everything. Have to say the iPhone 6s Camera is incredible and yet again performed better than more expensive and much bigger hardware that has now been permanently ignored for the bliss and speed of our iOS photo process.

The Emperor Protects!





And more pics at Iron Sleet, just click the link in my signature.

Is the big guy based off the Special Edition FW Captain? He looks brilliant.

EDC

Yes he is

I'm trying to figure out how you get away with using all that gold without making the figure look silly or cheap. Must be talent...

That is some astounding gold right there, i've always struggled getting metallics to look good.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how you get away with using all that gold without making the figure look silly or cheap. Must be talent...

Believe me, I was in despair on the way! Care, passion, time... more than talent and the end result is I think both striking and shocking, but also very business like and valuable looking.


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 Vitruvian XVII wrote:
That is some astounding gold right there, i've always struggled getting metallics to look good.

I whole heartedly recommend the SCale75 metallic paint line. And using plenty of inks


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I thought I'd share a post where I talk about building these retinues from a visual and narrative perspective and this concept called the HHH, or Humble Human Henchmen!

http://ironsleet.com/2015/11/18/musings-building-a-retinue/

 migsula wrote:
Yes he is

I though I recognised those legs. Fantastic worm, they're really characterful conversions and the paint jobs are great too. Especially the gold, he's both regal and bad ass.

EDC

Interesting thoughts in the blog, thanks for sharing. I'll certainly have to check out scale 75.

Got the first two done and WIP to share!



Big update at IRON SLEET

Works of art.

Thank you!

Finished the "sentinel" and adjusting the painting plan for the reminder of the retinue :0

so that's fething AWESOME!!

Cool Sentinel. Really like how you've done the stone bit at the top.

EDC

Thanks Guys,

I have another one to share

Capturing humanity in service of the Ordos. A humble image in the middle of the night, of Corporal Cornelius getting paint. It shows something I’m capturing for the first time. Something so human about the models. Notice also the metal showing through! The gold in the interrogators jacket, silver sparkle on Cornelius. Notice how each model has such distinct shade. the interrogator of the glowing Hammer side of the Inquisitor and the humble guardsman in the shadow, gold vs. silver, reflective vs. shaded, yellows vs browns, hero and hero…

The change in the "feel" of each model is very startling. What draws them together though (for me) is the resolute determination on both their faces. Those are men with a unifying purpose.

Well put, thanks

I love the contrast of the glowing gold and the cool blue silver. Can we expect each henchmen to have his own shade of sorts?

Here we go, the retinue is done and I'm happy but tired. Full set of photos through my signature link to Iron Sleet, but here are two to begin with

Let me know what you think!

This is insanely brilliant, each on of em is a masterpiece.
Really worth getting tired over ^^ !

That's an amazing mechanized group. I love how the figures seem to compliment one another, either by size, shape or form. Really makes the group more than the sum of it's parts.

Absolutely gorgeous. you're metalwork is sublime. A really fine group

Any day with new Migsula models is a good day.

Your metals are amazing, what paints do you use?

Fantastic as always Migs!