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Howdy folks, here are some pics of an emperors children army I recently finished at Golem Painting studio. Emperors children were one of the first armies I painted (almost 8 years ago which makes me feel well old). These are the first 2 models to whet your appetites









A humble marine and his rhino. STill to come are noise marines, a couple of characters, some warp talons and a mighty hell drake.



Let me know what you think and if you have any questions or criticism feel free to fire away



George

First. The paint is superb. But, waaaay to clean for chaos(unless you like the clean fresh off the line look). Maybe some weather on the tracks on the tank and boots on the marine. That's just my two cents

I dig the paint scheme a lot. It's very comic book-y. Also, lovely use of contrasting color on the headlights of the Rhino.

cheers for the feedback chaps
Atropus I agree that some weathering here and there would make these guys look a little better but in the past I have found weathering to be a bit of a love it or hate it type thing so its best to avoid unless a client requsts it. I will certainly experiment with some very subtle weathering on future projects though.

Brother SRM, im glad you like it. Yellow and purple do go great together(some nonsense about colour theory and contrast) . You can also shade yellow with a darker purple which looks pretty cool aswell.

More pics to come later today

George

These look really bad ass mate! I like how you picked just the most predominate areas of the Rhino to highlight and make it pop.

Very very very cool. The shoulder pad is my favorite part..

OK ladies and gents, as promised I have a couple more rapturous pics (I love unusual adjectives)
Without further ado, take a look at some noise marines and chaos marines with their rhinos



Just flicking through my EC album makes me feel mega nostalgic and with xmas coming up im feeling some shiny new black legion toys because lets face it; Abaddon was a douche in a good way.
Anyways I hope you like these and as usual shoot any questions/criticisms my way and I will respond as best I can.
PS the rhinos got free hand in the end… but because im a tease I will save that till the full army shot
George

Great stuff. I prefer the clean look rather than excessive weathering which seems to be the fashion these days.

Very nice work. I've always preferred the clean look myself (and its very appropriate for the pretty Emperor's Children).

Looks great. I think the super clean paint job fits with the Emperors Children obsession with perfection.

Awesome painting! Emps children are very similar in scheme to my homebrew marines. Always good to see more purple!

My only criticism would be that the rhinos could use something to break up all that purple, but as I said, awesome job.

Great looking Noise Marines, it's not a unit you see newly painted every day.

 Atropus wrote:
First. The paint is superb. But, waaaay to clean for chaos(unless you like the clean fresh off the line look). Maybe some weather on the tracks on the tank and boots on the marine. That's just my two cents

Well even though you have a valid point if you were to make a chaos legion look clean it'd probably be them.


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They look good. Before you start painting any more though, I'd recommend trying your hand at converting some of those helmets. The horned helms don't look that slaaneshi. Perhaps if you can't file and greenstuff them to a hornless helm you could try to emulate the fully organic helmet style that the Noise Marines from Dawn of War 2 have. That'd be easy to do with greenstuff, it'd go over everything.

Thanks for the feedback folks. The rhinos now have a rather large talon on the doors to break them up a little which seemed to do the trick. Picsof this will be included in the full army shot at the end.
As for the weathering, its a little risky weathering things for a client because many people dont like it. I tend to leave it unless im specifically asked.

Mister Quaterdime, unfortunately the army has already been sent to its forever home so organic looking heads is not really an option. I totally get where you are coming from though. The art work of a noise marine in the 3rd ed codex?(not the previous one, the one before that) was what really pushed me towards the noise marines in the first place.

Anyway, enough chit chat. Heres a quick sunday morning update



Quick update... sigh

Hope you like them

George

Awesome stuff, dude. I really like your noise marines.

Thanks Bromethius, glad you like them.

Its update time again. Brace yourselves because this is a big one.(well... big-ish)

First we have the hell chicken i mean drake.

This one was a little daunting. Theres an aweful lot of trim so it was quite a slog. I think he came out ok though. Before i started this thing I thought it was a hideous model but its grown on me. Its a shame about the tny little chicken feet on the back though... kinda kills it.

Next up we have the army's leaders: a Fulgrim inspired chaos lord and the old chaos sorceror.


I really enjoyed these 2. The lord was a bit of a challenge but with a simple head swap I think i captuerd the fulgrimy look the client was after. The only thing as aloof and pretentious as fulgrim is an elf (and maybe me) but I wasnt willing to chop my head off so the elfs head had to do. Not too much to say about the sorceror really. It has aged fairly well i guess.

Hope you like them... stay tuned for the money shot

Lol at 'forever home'.

Evening folks. Time for the final update on this army... the full army shot(except for the warp talons)


Its almost as inspiring as a white dwarf.
The board is a FW modular one and it was painted by Golem's Gary who I believe is floating around on here somewhere.

Hope you have enjoyed following this. I know I have enjoyed sharing it with you all.

Let me know what you think

George

PS I have another super cool army to share next

Too pre-heresy looking. They look weird.

I think you nailed it, the purple is a slight too dark i personally like warlock puprple as it matches the exact colour on the cover of the HH book Fulgrum.

The look of these models tells me "early Heresy." Very well-maintained armour with no spots of dirt or grime and solid purple and gold colours, even on the Noise Marines.

Think the purple is to dark fo Emperors Children but i very much like the army as a whole.

Xavian wrote:
Think the purple is to dark fo Emperors Children but i very much like the army as a whole.

It's intended to look pre-heresy, so the purple is about the right shade. If these were proper 40k, they'd be pink and black alternating armour panels..

cheers folks... client is very happy with the colour so its all good.
I think the army is heresy EC inspired

This stuff is super cool! Keep it clean as said before it looks comic booky which is awesome