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Splendid work, I really like that Apothecary of yours

Paradigm wrote:They're the original version of those models, sadly sans cloaks (though I may greenstuff some on, nice and tatty due to my appalling sculpting skills the army's rugged theme )... Always tempting to grab the newer versions, though.

Youcould try the chaos warrior cloaks as they are tattered and it may look good once you get rid of the fur at the top.

Wolf wrote:Splendid work, I really like that Apothecary of yours

Thanks man!

Well another year and another Adepticon gone (for me at least), it was a good one this year. I met a lot of dakka people (ritides and solar lion at the mod cube tent) and even met miniwargamer jay when one of my buddies was playing a game against him. Sadly the bitz trading wasn't that fruitful for me as I missed out on buying the things I wanted (A knight warden for 100 dollars and nicely painted terrain) because I wanted to get dinner and come back to buy it later

But I did end up getting some cool stuff, namely ModCubes (which are an awesome little widget for objective markers, psykers, various effects that happen to troops vehicles what have you). I would highly suggest these to people as they look nice and they are easy to put together.





The best thing I got though was a aspire tc 908 compressor from badger for 60 dollars! Saving me nearly 140 dollars (to spend on an airbrush of course ) So hopefully soon I will get some practice in and start working on the vehicles I have.

Not a huge project completed, but I did finish the fire raptor base and decided to go with a foolish alpha legionary who is dying on the base. There also was a break in the snow and windstorms on sunday (of course when I am working) but I got home just in time to prime my unofficial painting competition model and three more tactical marines so I will have something to paint while I am waiting for the weather to get better.

Looks excellent, superb colour on the armour and great contrast. Kind of feel you need something at the other end of the base, though... some barrels or rubble, maybe?

That is a very nice basing element! And I Really like the concrete look on the base in general.

My one constructive criticism is with the way he is facing, it seems to really be asking for another element on the "left" of the base... not sure what this would be, but it would make it feel a bit more balanced (doesn't need to be symmetrical - but something else would help, I think).

It was fantastic meeting you at AdeptiCon, and wow your ModCube schemes look cool . Ruckdog also really liked Black/Yellow on the vehicle ones, I think that's genius! And complete score on that airbrush - I have a badger compressor as well (with a Grex airbrush) and think it's awesome! Way better than the Grex compressor my airbrush came with.

Looking forward to following your work here and it's great to put a face to a name

Paradigm wrote:Looks excellent, superb colour on the armour and great contrast. Kind of feel you need something at the other end of the base, though... some barrels or rubble, maybe?

Yeah I can see that. Maybe a helmet or his bolter that went skidding across the floor when he was shot?

RiTides wrote:That is a very nice basing element! And I Really like the concrete look on the base in general.

My one constructive criticism is with the way he is facing, it seems to really be asking for another element on the "left" of the base... not sure what this would be, but it would make it feel a bit more balanced (doesn't need to be symmetrical - but something else would help, I think).

It was fantastic meeting you at AdeptiCon, and wow your ModCube schemes look cool . Ruckdog also really liked Black/Yellow on the vehicle ones, I think that's genius! And complete score on that airbrush - I have a badger compressor as well (with a Grex airbrush) and think it's awesome! Way better than the Grex compressor my airbrush came with.

Looking forward to following your work here and it's great to put a face to a name

It's actually polished marble but it's hard to see in the light box . As for something else maybe a helmet or a his bolter that flew out of his hands when he was shot? It is a temple base so I am trying to think of something that would fit.

I am glad you like the mod cubes you guys did a great job on them and I will be using them Friday. As for the compressor I had no idea it was nearly 200 when I bought it and now I am glad I trusted badger. Doubly so because I bought the Patriot 105 and Ken gave me a coupon code for the site and it saved me nearly 90 dollars

Also it was good to meet you too man!

So did you find the Alpha Legionised scheme easy enough? Looks great.

Not iron warrior but still looks great not a fan of the red gun casing, but that's because I don't like red on any of the 40K guns, just makes them look like Nerf guns or something.

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:So did you find the Alpha Legionised scheme easy enough? Looks great.

As soon as I mixed it I knew it'd be perfect

Theophony wrote:Not iron warrior but still looks great not a fan of the red gun casing, but that's because I don't like red on any of the 40K guns, just makes them look like Nerf guns or something.

No, when thraxas suggested an paint AL color scheme I had to try. As for the casing I know red is cliche but a dark color wouldn't work and yellow...bleh

How about something like a font/fountain or altar on the other side of the base? It would balance it out size-wise better than something like a helmet or bolter, but still fit the temple/battlefield theme you have going on.

 Paradigm wrote:
How about something like a font/fountain or altar on the other side of the base? It would balance it out size-wise better than something like a helmet or bolter, but still fit the temple/battlefield theme you have going on.

Hmm that's a good idea. Now I need to find one that isn't huge haha

So I was running back through your blog. I had forgotten how great those Knights look! On a side note, are you gonna do any more work on the Dusk Raiders and DKOK?

 40kFSU wrote:
So I was running back through your blog. I had forgotten how great those Knights look! On a side note, are you gonna do any more work on the Dusk Raiders and DKOK?

Thanks man! I will probably be shifting gears after the RG and finishing up my dark mechanicus which includes a knight. So lots of room for conversions there that I already have planned . As for the dusk raiders nah I am done with them, especially since I got the 30k RG, as for the DKoK..well yes and no. I am selling off the bulk of that army to finance the dark mechanicus but I will be keeping the cool models like the death riders and maybe a grenadier squad, CCS, PCS and a normal squad. But the rest is now chaos machine fodder

Well after the post adepticon downturn in productivity, I finally got some paint in on the RG. I started batch 4/6 for the tactical squads and they should be done by friday and I even started the jump pack chaplain for my dark fury squad.

Its been a busy weekend, but I was able to finally finish batch 4/6 for the tactical squads. Nothing special just the usual stuff, doing these guys have made me really want to go onto painting something much more fun but I promised myself that I would finish the two squads before I start to move onto the fun stuff for the army.



I may of also started my chaos knight for my dark mechanicus army I am almost done with the build I am just waiting on a few more chaos bits. I plan on doing lots of chaos free hand on this guy because I was a bit low on bits for him. But to make him more evil looking I ordered a fw knight head off of ebay, gave him a "chainfist" by combining the gauntlet and chainsword. I then chopped off the teeth and gave him a buzz saw because I thought it would be a lot more cool, I also added lots of gargoyle heads where the eagles would go along with some tentacles and "chain mail" coming out from underneath the shoulder pauldrons.

Very very cool start Ustrello.....you filthy heretek

 Januine wrote:
Very very cool start Ustrello.....you filthy heretek

You mean the true believer but thanks he was quite the fun build so far

My AdMech are gonna be getting themselves a nice wee set of wheels soon.......well, tracks. Just ordered a Dracosan armoured transport which am planning to convert to a skitarii transport. It always looked kinda admechy to me anyways!

Nice work on the Knight, I really like the head on the gun, but it feels like it needs something between the leg and the gun shield.

Januine wrote:My AdMech are gonna be getting themselves a nice wee set of wheels soon.......well, tracks. Just ordered a Dracosan armoured transport which am planning to convert to a skitarii transport. It always looked kinda admechy to me anyways!

Oh very cool! What will be counting as?

Theophony wrote:Nice work on the Knight, I really like the head on the gun, but it feels like it needs something between the leg and the gun shield.

I tried finding something and I really couldn't, maybe do some chaos markings when I get paint down?


Well the last bits came in today so I was able to finish (for the most part) the build. I still gotta gap fill and potentially fill in the holes for the saw blades, what do you all think for that?




One of the coolest knight heads ever made IMO





Maybe fill in the holes for the saws? Idk personally, also I added hot glue to parts of the blades and will turn that into ichor



Gargoyles on the back in place of the eagle heads



Chain mail coming out from underneath the shoulder paldron



Battle damaged legs

 Ustrello wrote:

Januine wrote:My AdMech are gonna be getting themselves a nice wee set of wheels soon.......well, tracks. Just ordered a Dracosan armoured transport which am planning to convert to a skitarii transport. It always looked kinda admechy to me anyways!

Oh very cool! What will be counting as?

Counts as an AdMech reclaimed Dracosan with pintle mounted twinlinked lascannon (or autocannon...haven't decided yet) and a hull mounted grav cannon. Could in a pinch be used to count as a Triarios Armoured Conveyer I guess

Awesome Knight conversion Ustrello

Holy cow that Knight is looking amazing!

EDC

Agreed, that is very, very awesome!

Januine wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:

Januine wrote:My AdMech are gonna be getting themselves a nice wee set of wheels soon.......well, tracks. Just ordered a Dracosan armoured transport which am planning to convert to a skitarii transport. It always looked kinda admechy to me anyways!

Oh very cool! What will be counting as?

Counts as an AdMech reclaimed Dracosan with pintle mounted twinlinked lascannon (or autocannon...haven't decided yet) and a hull mounted grav cannon. Could in a pinch be used to count as a Triarios Armoured Conveyer I guess

Very cool! Expect lots of neat conversions

evildrcheese wrote:Holy cow that Knight is looking amazing!

EDC

angelofvengeance wrote:Awesome Knight conversion Ustrello

Paradigm wrote:Agreed, that is very, very awesome!

Thanks guys! I am surprised how well it came out to be honest. I should be priming him once my prometium pipes come in for the base. But I may jump ahead and prime his pauldrons today so I can at least start on something

Love what you've done with this , very nice work.

I like the tusk additions . Also nice how you have the two saw blades going in different directions and the fact that the directionality of them would drag whatever it's chopping towards the center instead of away from the blades. That means if it hits it's going to draw the target in for more damage instead of pushing them away and escaping the evisceration.

hk1x1 wrote:Love what you've done with this , very nice work.

thanks man!

Theophony wrote:I like the tusk additions . Also nice how you have the two saw blades going in different directions and the fact that the directionality of them would drag whatever it's chopping towards the center instead of away from the blades. That means if it hits it's going to draw the target in for more damage instead of pushing them away and escaping the evisceration.

Can..can I say I did that on purpose and it wasn't a happy accident? It was just the way the blades were cut because the jigsaw I was using made them break odd, but thankfully they broke in a way that was perfect (see the forward blade and how it curves up with the chain fist.)

Alright so the promethium pipes came in and I was able to finish the base, the general idea will be that it is blown up and possibly will be spewing noxious material out of it (I say possibly because I want to rust it up and idk if it would still be spewing liquid ). But as for the marine I am at an impasse, since the base and model will be blue/green and red a lot of colors are taken off the board to paint the dead marine. I was thinking white scars since the model can pass as a white scar veteran, or a raven guard since white and black will help separate it from the base. What do you all think? Any better suggestions?

He obviously died while trying to hide behind the pipe, so he must be a rage guard as the white scars don't hide cause they ride too fast around things like cover.