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Thank you guys. Here is the Chaos Hellblade:



Become one with your vehicle they said. Feel it as a part of yourself they said.

The cockpit is corroded shut, and the pilot and the daemonic machine are one forever. Same continous theme. The broken glass of the cockpit is actually a cast fault in the window frame - I decided to be creative and make a broken window out of it by filing it into shape and then painting it as such. Rust, chinks, dirt, oil, rainlines, you know the drill.

Looks great. Awesome job with the window and cockpit.

The broken window looks amazing. Beautiful models all around!

Cheers fellas. I think next up I´ll paint a Daemon Prince.

Hell Blade now has a base.



It is supplied without one, but on the Forgeworld site it's pictured on a dread sized base, so I gave it one aswell. Anyways, my girlfriend found a random miniature ( supposedly from a tabletop game ) lying around in our new apartment. The second I saw it, I knew what had to be done.

Very nice, never thought an Iron Warrior would go by Billy.

Excellent work!!! =)

Great as ever!

Um, the tag on the concrete is so fresh, i don't care how out of place it is on the overall piece. Looks nice.

I love the cohesion between all your figures. Not only the colors, but the overall feel (dusty, dirty, corroded...) keeps them all together even when you mix old and new models.

The individual touches on the obliterators are fantastic and I think you nailed the black humor vibe you were going for. Bolter guy looks great.

As someone who's just getting started on the 40K habit, I look forward to see how you keep building just for the inspiration.

Thanks for the comments mates. Next up will be my Daemon Prince / Be'lakor stand-in. He will take a while to complete!

Here we go:



Went for a bit of an added IW feel by making the guy slightly mechanized. Has a saw-arm and some sort of mechanical mask along with a tail. Chinks, damage, rust, weathering and rainlines as before. I painted the sword to look a bit ethereal, to give it a feel of a daemon weapon. Same skin tone as with other daemonic parts of the army such as the Maulerfiend. Some DA Master thought highly of himself but ended up as mincemeat. The conversions alone took quite a bit of time let alone the painting. I could've gone even further and used a couple of days on just details, but I thought to myself that this is a gaming miniature and I rather move onwards. There is some random warp freehand pattern on the wings but I forgot to photograph them properly ( visible on one picture ) might take a pic at a later date, now I gotta escape from the vicinity of the painting table for a while.

I hope you dig.

Groupshot of the progress so far. I also got the marines Phobos pattern bolters to replace the ones in the kit, as I thought they didn't look cool enough.

Absolutely stunning work.

Amazing ... everything fitting together perfectly!

Thank you fellas, appreciate it.

Loved the demon prince! Out of words.
The marine head hanging in the flesh is the best part. I hope I can paint like this someday!!!

Well painted models and excellent little conversions. Very well done

Loving your stuff so far man, keep up the good work.

Thanks all of you. I am currently working on the bikers and the lord/sorc fig.

Wow just wow. Don't love the mauler fiend or oblit models but when you paint them they look awesome!

Apologies for the poor pictures, but the pro camera I had in loan has now been temporarily returned to it's owner for a while. I hope you can make something out anyways. Quite a lot of kitbashing involved, and bikes are surprisingly quite a bit of work ( I think I could've pulled off 2 maulerfiends in the same amount of time... ) The sorcerer/lord has a Burning Brand and a Spell Familiar. I will be taking better pictures when I get the camera back, meanwhile it's onwards with the project.

Decided to take a bit better photos as the previous ones were horrid. Hope you can make stuff out better now.

incredible work there mate. Some of the best IW I have seen.

Thank you man. I am also starting a Chaos Daemons -army and some stuff is already underway, I guess I'll just combine them into this thread later.

some really fine work here. may I ask what your recipe was for the skin tones on the biker champion?

Hands down the nicest Iron Warriors figures I've ever seen, your painting style really is glorious!

The group shot is just magnificent, if only GW had in house painters like you, the models look amazing beneath your brushwork.

 Scrub wrote:
Hands down the nicest Iron Warriors figures I've ever seen, your painting style really is glorious!

The group shot is just magnificent, if only GW had in house painters like you, the models look amazing beneath your brushwork.

Oh my, that is truly humbling. Thank you.

 varl wrote:
some really fine work here. may I ask what your recipe was for the skin tones on the biker champion?

Hey, thanks. The recipe is as follows for the skin tone:

1. Undercoat with white spray straight from above ( causing the recesses get a bit less paint, this gives a lightening effect by itself, simulating light from above. )
2. Give the skin a Drakenhof Nightshade wash ( blue GW ink )
3. Mix a medium grey colour with Russ Grey and highlight the higher parts such as the cheeckbones, scalp and the like. Next add just a drop of white to the mix and highlight again with the lighter colour, smaller areas.
4. I used a Vallejo Glaze Medium to thin down a red ink for myself, and put it in the eyes. This makes an effect of the skin around his eyes being reddish, due to corruption/whatever. It's not very visible in the picture unfortunately.

Awsome work so far man! Could you tell me how you painted the gold on the models? I want to go for a similar shade on my khrone army

Hey Sagentus, and thank you. The gold I go for is saturated so it isn't as yellow/bright as you often see. The way I do my gold:

1. Basecoat the part that you'll have gold in with a leathery brown ( Snakebite Leather equivalent for example. )

2. Paint said part with Vallejo Old Gold. This is a saturated gold tone by default.

3. Apply 2 washes ( wait for the first one to dry! ) Nuln Oil, and whatever the brown wash was named these days ( used to be Devlan Mud. Can't go check now as my better half is sleeping lel. ) These washes saturate the gold further.

4. Highlight with Old Gold.

5. If it's still not saturated enough for your taste, apply a really thing glaze ( transparent, thinned down layer ) of Drakenhof Nightshade. The transparent blue really kills off the yellowness of the gold.

Personally I go as far as step 4 most of the time. With the Maulerfiend I went to step 5 iirc. The difference is there but is hardly noticeable. Also, when washing there will always be poolings somewhere around the miniature. Try to use a dry brush to suck out the excess ink from the poolings. After it dries one has to "repair" the pooled spots with a slightly darkened version of the original, underlaying colour ( as ofcourse, it is now darkened thanks to the wash and would appear as a bright spot otherwise. )