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WIP thread on my ongoing army thats been on ice for about a year!

The... Scarlett Templars! (Crimson Fists)!

My Chaptermaster (Counts as Pedro Kantor)







A Sternguard Sgt!



And his boys!





I see now that this looks very.. Pinkish but dont worry! Its Mephiston red.









My CM's "showcase base"



Started work on a Rhino!









Will Be Magnitized!






*Thinking about painting his hipguards gold to...

I really like it! The gold and red reminds me of the Minotaurs chapter. Your conversion of Pedro is solid.

Keep going

 Zambro wrote:
I really like it! The gold and red reminds me of the Minotaurs chapter. Your conversion of Pedro is solid.

Keep going

Yeah it really does! And thanks alot! I really love to convert modells and make them unique
haven't gotten so many opertunities to do so lately thou! :(
but If you like it you should check out my GK Libby http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/535428.page#5770259
Missing alot of pics (From posting on a national forum and here)

Cheers!

Hey, that's promising ! Keep doing please !

 godardc wrote:
Hey, that's promising ! Keep doing please !

Will try!

Time for Tacticals!
Trying out a new way of painting to make it faster, Basicly its keeping everything you can on sprue (Bits fastned on surfaces thats gonna be painted? cut them off)





Starting some washes!



**The keen eye will see some freehanding on the rhino in the backround aswell

That Maltese Cross on the rhino is freehand?! Looks awesome!

Tactical Marines are a necessary evil. Not particularly enjoyable, but you need some.
I personally hate painting things on their sprue. I tried it, but cleaning mould lines is hard, and when you cut things off, where you cut isn't painted. I would much rather part build something, and paint than paint on sprues. But like all things it's down to personal preference. You got to try these things to if you want to find out your best/most efficient painting method.

 Zambro wrote:
That Maltese Cross on the rhino is freehand?! Looks awesome!

Tactical Marines are a necessary evil. Not particularly enjoyable, but you need some.
I personally hate painting things on their sprue. I tried it, but cleaning mould lines is hard, and when you cut things off, where you cut isn't painted. I would much rather part build something, and paint than paint on sprues. But like all things it's down to personal preference. You got to try these things to if you want to find out your best/most efficient painting method.

Indeed! All i ended up doing while still on sprue was a black/grey base and a red undercoat.
Did not like it that much, Althou leaving the shoulderpads on sprue and paint them seperatly was amazing cosidering i loath painting white/ushabti with a brush..
And leaving them seperatley allowed me to go nuts with my airbrush and not having to be super careful/cover up the model simply to get a neat even white/ushabti on them!

Heres 2 pictures 1 with flash and 1 without, None of them shows them in their true glory but hell, iam no photographer either so.




*Will get a closeup on the cross after i clean it up a bit!

Hey man all of this looks awesome. I saw a similarly colored black Templars army a few years back. Do you care to share the recipe for painting the tac marines they look awesome? Keep up the good work

These are some good looking Marines thus far. Those Tac Marines look like Blood Ravens almost - which is not a bad thing!

 KillaCam wrote:
Hey man all of this looks awesome. I saw a similarly colored black Templars army a few years back. Do you care to share the recipe for painting the tac marines they look awesome? Keep up the good work

Yeah i can even make one with pics tomorrow! Thanks for the support

These are some good looking Marines thus far. Those Tac Marines look like Blood Ravens almost - which is not a bad thing!

Thanks! Yeah nothing wrong with some Blood Ravens flavour!

Work abit with the tac's after work today, And how i hate myself for what i have done.. When starting theses Tac's i said to myself, iam gonna try a new method of painting, and iam gonna see how fast i can get these bad boys ready, and now there is mould lines taunting me whenever i look at pictures of them, Last time i do them like this again haha

Started making some bases for these little guys today, Only just now got free time to work on them, Will post a "How to/recipe" when i start on the next group!

They look amazing.What was the gold you used and how did you get it so smooth?

Slipstream wrote:
They look amazing.What was the gold you used and how did you get it so smooth?

Thanks alot! I Used Vallejo liquid gold - Old Gold,
Sparsley thinned with a swedish methylated spirit called (T-röd) Only 1 Coat applied over a base of Ushabti bone, The coat should be at that critical thickness where its just enought to not show the base colour, Althou Liquid gold has excellent covarage.
After that just the most subtle wash of agrax earthshade, Should almost see no difference, only that the gold gets "wet"
After that, Seal it, Althou i have not sealed anything on the models as of yet, Will do after they go thrue the final checkup. Cheers!

**The Sgt's Ornate shouldpad i used maybe three times as much wash.

Ps, Liquid Gold RULES

The bases look good as well.

Lovely, lovely stuff, I really like what your doing here.

Thanks for the comments! And althou i have not been working on the marines that much, They got their guns and everything thou.. Forgot picture, I have been doing the nids from the deathstorm box today, Good to mix it up sometimes and its the first nids i have touched with my brush so it was alot of fun!









As you can see i just realised iam lacking yellow paint.. so no eyes or goo painted yet, :/

**These were all still on sprue today, I have assembled and speed painted them so we can have a Deathstorm match tomorrow so i do apologize for the sloppyness but hey! I think they turned out alright for being done in a day

Loving both schemes! The red on the bugs is very very nice!

Iam having second thoughts about the colour scheme of my marines..

Iam torn between red shoulderpads and white icons, Skipping the "Bleached bone/white" Making them more blood angels with gold trim or red ultramarines i guess you could say.
And on the iconography, Having the ultramarine omega instead of the black templars cross... i dunno, I have alot of Ultramarine models and its so easy to get ahold of really cool looking equipement althou it all have either Blood angel och Ultramarine iconography all over them,
And iam frankly sick of having to scrape and modell over iconography, why not just embrace it?

One of the main points of the army aswell is a "Roman" theme with alot of helmet plymes and gladiuses etc, And Ultramarines seem to fit into that catagory really well, I have been finding bits i fall in love with only to look past them seeing how much Ultramarine iconography its on it.
My first army was a ultramarine army and i dont wanna paint smurfs again, iam commited to the red but whos to say i cant have red smurfs?

I wanna hear your opinion! What do you think i should do?

Another OT post! (Should name it "Cozzans paint thread instead" haha

Anyway, finally decided to make some terrain for my new gameboard!
For the persons who dont know, Iam very easily "zoned" when i do stuff and forgett about everything els..
But while i was waiting for glue to set i remembered to take some pics, And when i was done for the night so here come some pictures of it!

Its not done yet fyi!







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For people who wonder, The fence was built using:

1 Warhammer prospect
Some different sized steelwire
a really fine steel net
Pliers

The painting is:
Base - black
Heavy drybrush with a mix of Gold and a brown "For a "rustic feel"
Ontop of that is an uneven completely random drybrush of
Leadbelcher
And a liberal wash of Agrax earthshade ontop of that!

Loving the mesh!

Just got a shipment of stuff today, And Kiblams Orc Fort has had my fingers itching! So i went ahead and tried my hand at it, Plan on making some more parts then start casting them instead of scratchbuild all walls etc!
Check it out if you like these walls! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/660638.page

Look good so far!