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And another long silence. Sorry 'bout that. Malika2, eh... possibly? I've never been a fan of Oblits' models or fluff ("technovirus"?) and the Mutilators didn't help any, but I've always had it in the back of my head that eventually I'd do up a squad converted from Terminators. I keep putting it off though. So maybe, but probably not any time soon unless I get horrendously bored, which isn't likely due to all this new FW stuff coming out (probably going to be placing a big order in January).

Anyway, sculpting the daemonflame from the Defilers' flamers, thought I'd post pics before I get started painting it. I'm thinking purple, including all the daemon bits - I think painting them all in different colors would be "too much" visually.

The big one first, there's still a guardsman in there, the Bloodletter face is about to chomp his head off.



And just a little on the other one, just stuck a Nurgling and a Daemonette face in there.



This is more or less a prototype for what I'm planning to do with the Terminator Sorcerer, as well as my eventual re-basing of the Forge World renegade psyker.

Malika2, eh... possibly? I've never been a fan of Oblits' models or fluff ("technovirus"?) and the Mutilators didn't help any, but I've always had it in the back of my head that eventually I'd do up a squad converted from Terminators. I keep putting it off though. So maybe, but probably not any time soon unless I get horrendously bored, which isn't likely due to all this new FW stuff coming out (probably going to be placing a big order in January).

I know what you mean, I'm not that fond of the existing Obliterator models either (don't get me started on the Mutilators). However, now that the Space Marine Centurions are out, you might want to play with those. Since they're plastic, you can easily cut them up and fix them. Candleshoes over at B&C managed to tweak those models quite niceliy. You could try to make some morphing weapons and such, either go for a very techy route, or perhaps some fellow aflame with all sorts of weapons appearing out of the flames?

Okay, I think I'm satisfied with the Defilers. The warpflame's a bit sloppy, but hey, it's warpflame.

Yakko





Wakko





And a really terrible group photo with Dot...



Enough of this faffery, onto the Baneblade.

Purple is a nice injection of color in there. Well done, to no ones surprise.

They really embody the idea of the heretical WB! I love 'em.

Finally got some work done on the Baneblade. The thought of painting all these rivets makes my brain scream. Its wailing shall echo throughout the warp for eternity.



And the Sorcerer-related madness continues, now with more warpflamey... hellmouth... thing. I think I'm going to try giving it a tongue. Wanted to have a guardsman's arm sticking out of it, but I seem to be out of Guard arms. Wonder how that happened...

Oh man, that looks awesome.

Looking good, you've got great green stuff skills.

I return once again! Baneblade is finished:











In other news, I put in a Forge World order around Christmas. So this happened:



And I've cobbled together a custom Land Raider using a Prometheus as a base. Lopped the heavy bolter barrels off and replaced them with FW autocannons, and stuck a Hellhound gun on the front. The idea comes from an ancient thread on B&C discussing Land Raider variants for Apocalypse, someone suggested this and dubbed it the Land Raider Avarice. Wanted to build one for ages, kept trying to get Defiler-pattern Reaper barrels from people at my FLGS, and then lo and behold, FW comes along and releases their autocannon set.



Obviously still under construction, I'm out of Havoc launchers at the moment. And spikes. Honestly never thought I'd use all of those up.

Anyway, no progress on the Sorcerer. My next project is going to be fixing up a friend's Ork army. It got run over by a car years ago and it's been in a state of complete disarray since. Surprisingly not a lot of broken parts, mostly just Boyz with arms and heads popped off, but I haven't gotten to the vehicles yet....

Great looking Baneblade love all the skins and cant wait to see the FW stuff painted up.

Baneblade is boss.

That baneblade is bloody awesomesauce, ALL HAIL THE DARK GODS

Incredibly awesome stuff as usual, bud.

Really awesome, I love how close your Word bearers are to the artwork and fluff surrounding them. Dark, sinister and gory.

Thanks guys. Work on the Termy Sorc continues. I found a Guardsman arm to stick in the hellmouth ("OMNOMNOMNOMNOM") and I keep adding more flames. There was a point where this needed to stop and we've clearly passed it, but let's keep going and see what happens.



Seriously, it's getting out of hand. I still feel like it needs something but I think at this point I should probably stop sculpting and start painting. Thoughts?

Also, Lorgar, Angron, the Land Raider Avarice and another standard Land Raider have been primed. On the one hand, I wanted to get started on the revamp. On the other hand, I have two fething Primarchs on my shelf. Angron's probably getting painted first.

The hellmouth/fiery daemon slug is awesome. I wouldn't do any more because, I agree, it would be waaaay passed the point of over-done. I think it will look more complete once paint has been applied and the multiple shades of purple help to break up the giant blob of green.

Still torn on the Termy Sorc, starting on Angron instead! This is very early PIP, just a basecoat, a wash and a layer. Aware of the lack of contrast on the shoulderpads at the moment, first priority at the moment is going to be fixing that. Probably going to go nuts on washes and highlights on this one, just experimenting with the metal texture.

What a brilliant project! This sort of commitment is rare these days. Amazing work!

Thanks, Migsula, that means a lot coming from you. I seem to recall you starting your AL thread here around the same time I started posting my WBs over on B&C, and YOUR commitment has been a huge inspiration to me. Your truescale/artscale work is really the best there is, and Veron Haag is still one of the best Inquisitor conversions out there, IMO.

So, still going on Angron. Gold/bronze is a bit further along. I did a lot of washing in the crevices with watered-down Leviathan Purple (which is an idea I totally stole from... someone on Dakka, I have no idea who it was but if you're reading this, thanks). Going to have to switch to the Army Painter stuff soon since I'm running low. It REALLY brought out a lot of extra color in the gold, I think this is going to be my go-to method for gold now. I'm not sure how much further I should go on the highlights, I'm thinking I should do a little edge-highlighting in Ironbreaker, maybe, and probably deepen some of the scratches on his armor. I've also basecoated the reds, as well as the purple on what I've decided will be the Emperor's Children marine on his base, but that's hardly very exciting. If the purple seems too bright, don't worry - there will be Devlan Mud.

 RazakelXIII wrote:
Thanks, Migsula, that means a lot coming from you. I seem to recall you starting your AL thread here around the same time I started posting my WBs over on B&C, and YOUR commitment has been a huge inspiration to me. Your truescale/artscale work is really the best there is, and Veron Haag is still one of the best Inquisitor conversions out there, IMO.

So, still going on Angron. Gold/bronze is a bit further along. I did a lot of washing in the crevices with watered-down Leviathan Purple (which is an idea I totally stole from... someone on Dakka, I have no idea who it was but if you're reading this, thanks). Going to have to switch to the Army Painter stuff soon since I'm running low. It REALLY brought out a lot of extra color in the gold, I think this is going to be my go-to method for gold now. I'm not sure how much further I should go on the highlights, I'm thinking I should do a little edge-highlighting in Ironbreaker, maybe, and probably deepen some of the scratches on his armor. I've also basecoated the reds, as well as the purple on what I've decided will be the Emperor's Children marine on his base, but that's hardly very exciting. If the purple seems too bright, don't worry - there will be Devlan Mud.

He's coming along! Looking forward to see the work you do on the face.

Yeesh, it's been almost a month. Not a whole lot of progress, the only things I'm considering finished here are the gold on his armor, the white-ish areas on the World Eater's armor (although I'll be doing quite a bit of mud-n'-bloodification on that), and the scar-grid pattern on the forehead. I really wanted to emphasize his scars, but this pattern kind of emerged on its own with successive washes and highlights and I ran with it. Other than that, the face is very WIP. - I need to pick out the teeth and the cheeks need to be lighter. Also need to give the red tattoos more definition. Kinda torn on whether the eyes are too bugged out, or just the right amount of crazed - thoughts?



The grey-ish marine on the left will be a World Eater eventually, I was toying with making him a Son of Horus but I don't want to go too crazy with colors here. Speaking of which, the blue on the WE's shoulderpads and backpack will be toned down significantly to match how dingy the rest of the armor looks. Oh, and the red on his stump is just a placeholder for the usual Tamiya Clear Red mix.

I'm almost done with my classes for this semester so progress should pick up again soon. Then again I tell myself that every summer.

Looking good! He's really coming along nicely.

Always been a huge fan of your work!

Are those treads on the Land Raider the Chaos Forgeworld ones? The pic on their site is probably the least descriptive image possible.

 Johnnyhorse wrote:
Always been a huge fan of your work!

Are those treads on the Land Raider the Chaos Forgeworld ones? The pic on their site is probably the least descriptive image possible.

I believe they're from Blood and Skulls Industry.

@Johnnyhorse - Pardon my lateness, Darth Bob is correct, they're the Oppressor pattern treads from Blood and Skulls Industry. Size 0 for Land Raiders.

Still chugging along with Angron. With the face out of the way, there's not a whole lot left to do on Angron himself. Basically I need to finish all the silver bits on him, finish his cape (it's just a basecoat and a wash right now), highlight and bloody up the axes, then it's back to work on the three dead marines and the base.

Don't know if it's too late to try to do this, but it would be awesome to have viscera and ceremite exploding from the chest of the dead EC where Angron stamped his food down. He looks great though. The face has a lot of definition and is really the focal point of the model. Are you going to have blood splatter on his armor or are you going to limit it to just the axes themselves?

Holy awesome batman. Subscribed

@Darth Bob: Really didn't want to do any additional sculpting on this one. As far as FW models go, especially Primarchs, I generally want them to speak for themselves - any sculpting I could do, goresplosions included, would just get in the way of whatever details are already there.

And we're done here.













I don't think I've ever painted a model loaded with this many miniscule details. I must've gotten a bad batch of Auric Armor Gold, because it was WAY too watery, which made highlighting the gold a nightmare - it just wouldn't stay where I put it half the time no matter how much I shook the bottle. Plus, my Kolinsky sable brushes are all frayed and it's currently impossible to get new ones in the US due to some importing flub, so I was fighting them every step of the way, trying to wrangle them into nice points. Given the fact that I was painting a fething Primarch, the whole experience was kind of nervewracking, but I think I'll remember the experience fondly. I'm definitely looking forward to doing more.

Speaking of which, Lorgar's up next. Should be an easier job in general than Angron, I think the color palette will wind up being much more limited. Most of the model, base included, is going to be grey, with just a bit of metallic detailing here and there. I've got some interesting plans for the face that I don't want to spoil just yet. I do plan on doing a red version of the model at some point in the future, but I just want to have one in Great Crusade colors first.

After Lorgar I think I'll be doing Erebus and Kor Phaeron, then I'll get back to my actual 40k army with a pair of Land Raiders, after which point I'll get started on the armywide revamp I keep yapping about. Planning ahead here.

Glad to see this project still going strong.

Angron looks great, looking forward to seeing Lorgar painted up.

Seen an awful lot of word bearers armies over the years, I have over 10,000pts of them myself, but your army........
WOW! This is exactly how I imagine them. Dark, nasty, brutal zealots. The type who will bathe their armour in the blood of
Innocents rather than maintain it. The sick, twisted passion of pure hate and devotion.

Well done.