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Technically that's two colours, one more than is allowed for Proofs, but since you can't possibly have been working on that prior to the competition (which is what the proof is meant to prove), yeah, you're in! I'm not going to be an ass about it!

Bit of WIP on Njal. He is coming along pretty well, going to go back and try to add some more depth to his face.

Then I'll finish up his staff and maybe spend some time mucking around with the wolf head, I dunno yet.

Pics:

i still haven't done more than prime her body


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I am being brilliant at painting anything but my entry thus far this month. The WIP pictures are good encouragement though, keep it up people.

You've got plenty of time, and I want to see that model painted!

No issues there, that was not a "get my excuses in early" post just a little reminder to myself. I have also told the better half to hide my Calth box set until the Celestant is painted up.

 Paradigm wrote:
Technically that's two colours, one more than is allowed for Proofs, but since you can't possibly have been working on that prior to the competition (which is what the proof is meant to prove), yeah, you're in! I'm not going to be an ass about it!

Oh, snap! Sorry :(

I was actually so excited yesterday that I started on that guy right away and didn't stop to snap a photo til I got a basecoat down, LOL. Thanks for letting me use him anyhow

Bases (nearly) done.

Finished up the Librarian tonight. Very happy with the Librarian, and I hope you guys like the finished product. Without further ado.

Brother Epistolary Lexon, attached to the Blood Angels Vth Battle Company.

















Very happy with this mini, despite the few bobbles here or there, specifically the right chest section of the torso, but overall it looks good and I'm going to run with it. I hope folks like the finished product.

Take it easy everyone.

-Red__Thirst-

Edit: Added another picture showing the Psychic Hood

Lovely work there Red

Libby looks good Red!

Thank you both! I really enjoyed painting this mini up, and look forward to getting some solid use out of it in the future along side my Captain and Command Squad.

Best of luck to everyone participating!

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

@Red__Thirst - Sweet! that's really nice -- awesome that you got the greaved shoulder pads to fit under the jump pack too. That can be tricky... I've had the whole model done, and then had a DOH moment, when the jump pack bumped into the shoulders

Incidentally, the shoulderpads you picked are a couple of my favorite ones.


For my own, I'm done, too, I think. I may ding him up a bit later on, but I doubt it... there's so much more I want to paint that going back to improve a finished model is a path of good intentions that usually leads nowhere

Cracking work, Talys. I hope you share a pic of the whole set together when you get them done. (should be by midweek, right? )

 Talys wrote:
@Red__Thirst - Sweet! that's really nice -- awesome that you got the greaved shoulder pads to fit under the jump pack too. That can be tricky... I've had the whole model done, and then had a DOH moment, when the jump pack bumped into the shoulders

Incidentally, the shoulderpads you picked are a couple of my favorite ones.

As I said in my reply over in the P&M Showcase forum, that dreadnought is amazingly well done. Hopefully if and when I get my hands on one, it'll look that good. Great work!

And thank you for the kind words. I've learned the hard way to dry-fit everything on a model before you even base coat, and I usually use the dry fit to fully build out (with blu-tack) the mini and determine the model's pose, etc after I get done scraping mold lines and cleaning the mini in prep for basecoating. This lesson was learned the hard way, with a D'HO! moment of my own, but thankfully the model still worked despite the slight hiccup.

Yea, I had initially planned on the Greaved shoulderpad I used on my Librarian above to be used on my Captain, but his helmet crest got in the way during test-fitting and I was able to save it for this model.

Glad to see one other Blood Angel represented in this little contest. Best of luck to you and I imagine your Contemptor is going to get quite a number of votes! I know I plan on voting for it at least.

Take it easy for now and great work once again. Catch ya later.

-Red__Thirst-

Super work, both of you!

Amazed at how must just tweaking the arm pose makes that Contemptor much less static.

@Red__Thirst - Thanks again! And yeah, I know I should dry fit everything, but I get cocky with stuff I've done a lot of, so a little variation.. surely it will work right? And that's when I get those DOH moments, hehehe It's made worse, too, as I tend to paint stuff in subassemblies. So when I find out it didn't work, it's when I'm putting finished or nearly-finished subassemblies together

@Paradigm - I made a few simple cuts to give him less of a "golem" look. The two left leg pieces are cut at the joint to the hip, and that leg rotated backwards. I also cut the two upper and lower torso pieces at the waist, and rotated it to the right, to give it that "Slow and Purposeful" look of a big walker moving forward while rotating left and right at the waist and firing a spray of shells.

The leg is simple to separate, but a little tough to re-align to a good angle. The upper torso requires a bit of care to separate, because of the way the halves meet, but it's not hard at all with a sharp knife. When you put it back together, you need to use a little GS ball, just to give it some stability. You can see the different pieces I cut it into on my proof shot.

It's worth mentioning that the left leg comes with a slightly bent foot, and is naturally slightly angled back, but to me, it seems to be an awkward angle, because it's not quite bent enough to look moving, and not quite straight enough to look at attention.

Honestly, though, the most annoying thing about the model is that the two legs are cut right down the middle in a front-back arrangement. It's horribly visible and runs up and down the entire side on a model which has a very prominent profile. So you end up having to gap fill, file and sand *everything* right from the boot, up the side of the leg, the two big bolts, the hip pad, and then down the other side. The flat parts are easy enough, but all the little detailed parts are annoying as heck.

I would like to enter this guy into the competition.

(These are just some old parts that I painted before, proof picture of primed parts below).

He will be getting a new base.


Brownie points for the person who can guess what the white part on the right is.

 DaMekBoy1997 wrote:

Brownie points for the person who can guess what the white part on the right is.

The head of a Carrion?

@taly nice work but for some strange reason i want to see what one would look like with a six pack.... weird right?

Brownie points for the person who can guess what the white part on the right is.

Psychic flame?

Applied some olive green to my entry

A badass power metal mane?

I almost don't wanna submit since basically everyone is doing better than I am XD
This is his current state, still needs the base done and some more detailing, but so far, I like him. I think the purple worked well. It doesn't help that I don't know how to take pictures and don't own a half decent camera

Oooooh I like that red!

@Brennonjw: Looks like you have nothing to be ashamed of with that paint job so far. The finished product should be pretty awesome.

More basecoating work. Tomorrow I'll probably start on the cape and base.

nailed it red thirst he looks top notch. good job. I sadly got no painting done last weekend, hopefully I can put some serious hours in and get some coats on my lord

 Redflex wrote:
nailed it red thirst he looks top notch. good job. I sadly got no painting done last weekend, hopefully I can put some serious hours in and get some coats on my lord

Here's hoping! Do post up pictures when you make forward progress!

Also, thank you for the kind words, I'm very happy with the way the mini turned out.

Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

Thanks Zerg Smasher! LeCacty, the red is Khorne Red with a wash of Druchi Violet.

Any who, as far as I can tell, he should be done now, then again, I'll probably see a bunch of things tomorrow and continue working on them I like how the weathering turned out, but with that I could find a better way to make the necklace / Luminiferous Resonator.