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Beautiful, not sure on the AL colors, but looks sweet.

Hmmmm. Needs more Dakka. Aside from that, beautifully painted as always. You have quite the eye for the kitbash as well. Always seem to get the right parts together for an original look.

Hey thanks guys. Took a little break to do some stuff around the house, now back to some wild stuff, new update within a week.

Great Omnissiah, that stuff is awesome!

I'm gonna cry

godardc wrote:I'm gonna cry

Ankhalagon wrote:Great Omnissiah, that stuff is awesome!

Thanks!

High Elves!

Blue summer continues with some High Elves of Caledor. The customer wanted a balance of traditional Dragon Prince scheme mixed with a few Lord of the Rings influences such as Dol Amroth which you will see in the uses of darker gray and whites. The Sea Guard were, as a lover of all things nautical, a set of models I had wanted to paint for a long time and the sea green addition turned out to be a nice touch to set them apart that doesn't pull them out of the army.

Up next - a new photo backdrop I have been excited to start all summer, and more blue and grey Tau to go on top of them. Stay tuned as this will be the best one yet and lots of build images will be posted on Instagram and Twitter.

Until next time

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Start of a new display! This will be part of the next army update. If you'd like to follow along more closely, you can always find somewhat daily image updates on my Twitter and Instagram.

Aircraft hangars..?

Hey everyone!

Brand new set of Tau are finished and up, along with the finished backdrop. For more pictures, check the links below!

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Reminder you can find each army I paint broken down into several articles with more in depth thoughts on Bell of Lost Souls! Can click on my name or tag to find past posts as well.

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Hey everyone!

Another army for the galleries - a Khador army. Pretty nice to get Warmachine on the desk again. Love the sculpts and red is always fun to blend.

As usual, too many pics to post so if you would like more check below at whichever site you prefer. Thanks for looking! See you next time.

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If you've been around for more than a minute, you know I have some big armies roll through here. This one is about to break a few records. This Ultramarine army will be so big, it's the first time a project has had "assembly" be it's own scheduled spot in the calendar. This army has more Drop Pods, Land Raiders, and Super Heavies each, than most armies have individual units!

To budget the army, the customer has put forward I do each subsection in scheduled groups a couple a year and been so kind as to allow me to hang onto them, for one insanely huge post at the very end. Looking forward to painting some Ultras, and some really great updates in the next couple years.

Next project is a Warlord Titan with some very special paint, so keep an eye out and see you then!

This is both depressing, and exhilarating. Jealous. Hahaha.

Great job sir, awe inspiring. Amazing to see this.

Yikes!

Thanks guys!

I am back with another one - this time Warlord and Reaver covered in freehand. As always for more picctures check out facebook or my blog. Lot's I could say on this one but it's already said there, Enjoy and thanks for checking them out!





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Just Wow ... any chance of a few close ups of the reaver plates?

I don't care for the overall effect, but the skill involved is laudable. Well done.

 Elbows wrote:
I don't care for the overall effect, but the skill involved is laudable. Well done.

Yes "gratuitous" is the key word, and the customer is very fond of over the top and so am I personally but understand some people would prefer subtlety. And thanks!


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Sagentus wrote:
Just Wow ... any chance of a few close ups of the reaver plates?

Theres a picture for every plate in the links. Thanks!

That's just mind blowingly awesome work. I looked through all the blog pictures and will probably take the time to do so again on many occasions just to make sure I get it all. So much amazing detail. It's completely over the top, but very fitting for so-called 'God Machines' of the Imperium.

How long did all that take?

 sockwithaticket wrote:
That's just mind blowingly awesome work. I looked through all the blog pictures and will probably take the time to do so again on many occasions just to make sure I get it all. So much amazing detail. It's completely over the top, but very fitting for so-called 'God Machines' of the Imperium.

How long did all that take?

Thank you! It took a little over a month, maybe month and a half. There will be some posting over on BoLS on the building of it as well at some point.

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 Elbows wrote:
I don't care for the overall effect, but the skill involved is laudable. Well done.

Yes "gratuitous" is the key word, and the customer is very fond of over the top and so am I personally but understand some people would prefer subtlety. And thanks!

It's not subtlety that I prefer...I like over-the-top in some instances. I just prefer that it fit within the gaming universe for the game itself, if that makes sense. It seems as if the titans have been covered in comic-book art, which is a little odd to justify. "Yes, adept, we'd like a random Blood Angel space marine on the crotch plate..." etc. The choice of random codex/game art just kinda pulls me out of the illusion of seeing this as a huge war machine on the tabletop, ya know? This is all hugely personal opinion, but I'd love to have seen that skill applied to say simulated tiled/mosaic stuff of the Emperor, etc. I just feel the choice of plates is odd. That's all.

As long as the customer is happy, who cares, right?

I also think painting up some fake statues/monuments with the Imperial Guard along the plates could have been a very cool effect - similar to this:

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As long as the customer is happy, who cares, right?

Right. It's specifically what he was after. We had a long discussion back and forth about what fits in the universe, and he said he would rather it be more "fun" than "fitting."

On a project this big and expensive no detail or preference is left to chance.

Wow your freehand skills are amazing!!!

Jesus fe thing Christ! That is amazing.

Holy balls, those titans are spectacular! Well done, sir!

GiraffeX wrote:Wow your freehand skills are amazing!!!

cuss wrote:Jesus fe thing Christ! That is amazing.

Thank you very much guys, too kind.

Reecius wrote:Holy balls, those titans are spectacular! Well done, sir!

Hey thanks buddy!

Yeah thats is pretty bonkers stuff right there!!
How long did it take approx?

 cuss wrote:
Jesus fe thing Christ! That is amazing.

Basically that.

Ratius wrote:Yeah thats is pretty bonkers stuff right there!!
How long did it take approx?

Thanks!

I don't really keep track. About six weeks roughly two in assembly and four in paint. But thats a guess as the assembly was a bit staggered because of slow drying times on epoxy and clay.

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 cuss wrote:
Jesus fe thing Christ! That is amazing.

Basically that.

Ha thank you!