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Those reavers look amazing! I take it the new world eaters are closer in size to the MkVI marines?

Roknar wrote:Liking these, gott3a get me a 3d printer one of these days... Those are some small but powerful changes

Cheers mate. They are really useful to have, and the quality of the stls out there is phenomenal. I'm still using the anycubic photon that I bought nearly 5 years ago. Perfect for what I need and the resin for it is pretty cheap these days.

gobert wrote:Those reavers look amazing! I take it the new world eaters are closer in size to the MkVI marines?

Cheers bud. Here is a scale shot with the body standing the tallest (although he is still slouching a bit.) I think that they pretty much scale exactly as primaris if they where stood straight;

Thanks for the comparison, I think you’re right that they’re close to the Primaris, but the slouch lets them fit in with the MkVI chaps. Cheers!

Quick wip;



Really pleased with them so far, but they are taking longer to paint than I'd expected.

Starting to get somewhere now. The brass metal work is taking longer than I'd anticipated.



Just 7 more to finish, then onto their transport...

Those look fantastic, especially the eyes!

Looking good! I feel you with the metal trim, it always takes forever, whatever the mini!

Maaan, those look awesome. Great job!!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Those look fantastic, especially the eyes!

Cheers mate. I just follow Luthermax's steps with red sunz and white, with a glaze of red over the lenses and the highlights around them. Simple but effective.

gobert wrote:Looking good! I feel you with the metal trim, it always takes forever, whatever the mini!

Cheers! And it really does. Worse when you think you've finished, and you notice that from a different angle you lose all the shade and highlight;

here you can see the shadows and highlights on the pauldron trim. But from this angle they seem to have vanished
(the flash has burned out some of the blending-the transitions don't look so stark irl). Going to have to revisit him only 5 left to finish now, though.

From_ash wrote:Maaan, those look awesome. Great job!!

Thank you. It is much appreciated

Brutal! Those helmets look really menacing!

 muette wrote:
Brutal! Those helmets look really menacing!

Cheers mate

Dreadnoughts! Finally got a few weapons finished. They are all magnetized, so a fair few yet to finish, but enough done to get them on the table;

Group shot



Weapons








The plasma coils are still a bit rough, but I'll hopefully improve. I am happy with the assault cannons, and I am quite pleased with the Oath of Moment chainfist blade. I've not seen that done before (although I am sure that someone must have thought of it before now) but think that it works and will be doing the same on any future chain swords in the army. I'll take individual pictures of the dreads soon.

Let me know what you think. Back on with the Reavers next.

Loving the dreads, that relic one is looking like he’s embracing chaos nicely. The oath of the moment chainfist is a really neat touch especially with the Eye of Horus mid way though

@ Gobert cheers mate. Your kind words are much appreciated.

I have printed 3 heads at 120% to go into the final contemptor, which I think will be painted in the black of the justaerin colours. Which do you think looks best;



Any input would be great as I genuinely don't know which to use.

I think number 2 is best, with #1 close behind.

1, 2, 3
1 fits the size the best.
2 looks more SoH-y.
3 is not doing anything for me.

1
2
3

Angle and sizing on 1 is the best IMO

1 by a landslide

Thanks all for the input; I do really appreciate it Looks like it will be head 1, then.

Now for some stuff that's finished

Reavers



I love this unit. They just look like reavers are supposed to look. Brutal and swift.

Contemptors







Again, really pleased with these. Any comments or votes would be hugely appreciated.

So on the work table now is a proteus to deliver the reavers, 2 leviathans to finish, a Praetor for the monthly competition, a kratos, and 20 more tactical marines (well under way) plus all the remaining contemptor weapons. When that's all done, I can move onto some resin kits...

Reavers look awesome! Love the red you've managed on the shoulder pads especially

Looking good jamesy. The Contemptors and Reavers are both excellent, the splashes of red are the highlights for me. The glowing barrels on the first dread win it for me though. Looking forward to seeing the Land Raider soon

Cheers both.

Been a bit of a while since my SoH got any attention, it's been a busy year. My attention has drifted back towards them, however, with a few steps forward on a few different bits. Had this conversion in mind from the beginning, and with a few base toppers that I printed, finally got around to putting him together;


Just a head swap for the reaver head (the one that comes with is awful) and Khârn's cleaver, but I think that it makes for a much meaner looking SoH captain. Let me know what you think. Still deciding between green or black for the armour. Leaning towards green.

That is sweet! Loving the removed hand, the cleaver will look cool dripping in blood too.

Cheers mate. I'd definitely intended to give him a splatter. I've never tried doing the uhu blood drips; now might be the time.

I have started building the two units of ten justaerin that will form the core of the overall army. Made a couple of minor changes from the test cataphractii from before, mostly reducing the number of red plates and speeding up the process for the initial layers of highlights on the black.



I am happy enough with how he's come out. Claws need finishing, as does the base, then just 19 more to go.

That is cool! What colours did you use to paint the black?

 gobert wrote:
That is cool! What colours did you use to paint the black?

Cheers mate; just the classic Abaddon black-Dark Reaper-Thunderhawk blue-Russ Grey-Blue horror then brown panel liner. Drybrushed the DR and THB to make the armour look a bit rougher then edged with the rest. Quick and easy. Looks smoother irl than in the picture, but I've never been able to get good pictures that look the same.

Nice, it looks good to me and the texture gives a nice beaten up aesthetic that works well for 30k