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GloomyFenix wrote:Wow, the chimera looks great! I'm glad to have been of some help there

The Scions also look beautiful in that style, it really gives the vibe you're trying to get, gongrats

I do like the original style of the scions (being 40k so gothic themed they go along with that pretty neatly, on a personal opinon) but it's true that they give that "marine wannabe" feel, which is kind of meh~

Yea to be fair, i do like the original scions, but they didn't fit the 404th aesthetic very well. I'm trying to get them painted in dpm camo, well see how that turns out.

oldravenman3025 wrote:

Nice looking Chimera. I especially like the subdued appearance of the colors.


And I really like your take on the Scions.

Thanks mate, yea I gave it a wash and it really toned it down. Hopefully i can give the scions a paintjob that does them Justice.

Novelist47 wrote:I love the booney hat guardsman, very Australian.

Aha thanks man, I think the boonie hats are my favourite heads i've bought. quite expensive though.
http://maxmini.eu/conversion-bits/head-swaps/boonie-heads-bits
a link if your interested.


Anyways, I decided to add some camo netting to spice it up. looks alright, not 100% happy with it but that means i'm now completely finished with it. Until i buy some weathering pigments that is....



What do you think?

Great take on the netting! Also, that natural light was great to see the colors on the chimera

 STG wrote:
Yea to be fair, i do like the original scions, but they didn't fit the 404th aesthetic very well. I'm trying to get them painted in dpm camo, well see how that turns out.

The dpm camo seems a little bit difficult, but good luck with that nonetheless, you'll get it

Wow guys its been a while!
So since i last updated, i have done all my exams, travelled all over the world and generally living it large. lol.
but without further ado here's what i've been up to since my last update.

Remember this pretty average looking demolisher?



Well i gave it a bit of a facelift, by upgrading it with a forgeworld turret, and track guards, aswell as trench rails from Models and Minis Casting, really like their stuff, shame it took 5 months to ship though, jeez. Also did a bunch of weathering and whacked some camo netting on it aswell. Much better imo



But yea, i have also given painting dpm camo on my scions, not too sure if i pulled it off tbh. guess its not half bad.


Let me know what you all think! i will try to be more commited to the thread now im home.
cheers

Yay, welcome back!! That Leman Russ looks astounding, man, you did a fine job on that one!

The Scion look really good too

Thanks GF glad you like the russ, i'm really pleased with how it turned out.
i think i have bitten off more than i can chew with the camo pattern on the scion, it takes an age to paint up so i'll paint another up in a different colour scheme, then see whcih one i like best.

Yeah, camo can be quite a jerk in that regard. Your Scion looks great, but I hope you find the one that you feel most comfortable with

yo! people of dakka!

here's where i'm currently at for my 6x6 Hellhound, which i entered in the painting competition, so it'll be finished by the end of the month.
if anyones interested i bought it from a company called Models and Minis, decent range of stuff, i also got the trench rails and the track guards for the russ from them. The resin is good quality but it took like 6months to ship which is pretty ridiculous, but hey ho its decent stuff.


So yea jus the main colours blocked in here.

Here's the complete gang of scions, 5 more to come. kind of annoyed that i gave them melta and not plasma, apparently melta sucks in this edition. Next batch will be plasma dudes.


The BOONIE HAT BOYS (really like these boonie hats)

Worth noting that i converted 2 of them to be on one knee, wouldn't recommend the conversion personally, was a massive ballache, but looks pretty cool in the end.

Fluff:


Also tweaked these dudes lasguns, modified them with kroot guns and imo they look pretty awesome. the veteran was given a elysian lasgun.


Hope you guys liked this update, i enjoyed writing the fluff if anything.
Please leave a comment if you enjoyed!
cheers

Wow, that's some good stuff you got us man! I really like how the Hellhound turned out with the 6x6 style, the 6 months were worth it at the end.

The scions looks great too. You can see they're really pissed soldiers ready to kick some ass, and the fluff just strengthens that feel, great job on that one!

The guardsmen with the kroot gun barrels seem a bit strange (although it might just be me), but he Sergeant looks great with the rifle and the sword. I also noted the cards symbol in his shoulder, really good detail on that one. Is it a decal or did you paint it?

Thought I'd jump across and check out your P&M Blog....

Some really nice work in here. Love the look of your scions, chimeras, everything really. Camo looks good, love the boonies, and the camo netting really adds to the vehicles.

Gives me some nice ideas moving into my GSC vehicles shortly.

GloomyFenix wrote:Wow, that's some good stuff you got us man! I really like how the Hellhound turned out with the 6x6 style, the 6 months were worth it at the end.

The scions looks great too. You can see they're really pissed soldiers ready to kick some ass, and the fluff just strengthens that feel, great job on that one!

The guardsmen with the kroot gun barrels seem a bit strange (although it might just be me), but he Sergeant looks great with the rifle and the sword. I also noted the cards symbol in his shoulder, really good detail on that one. Is it a decal or did you paint it?

Yea man I'm really liking the hellhound too. It'll be finished soon, done more work on it as I entered it in this month's painting competition. Appreciate the feedback on the scions dude.

Fair enough, I thought it made the lasguns look like that Russian SMG from cod 5, the ppsh41 I think? Look it up they look pretty similar. But yea no that's freehand on the guys shoulder, tried to give all the veterans a unique symbol on their shoulders, but once I'd done three I got bored and lost patience.

Mad.. wrote:Thought I'd jump across and check out your P&M Blog....

Some really nice work in here. Love the look of your scions, chimeras, everything really. Camo looks good, love the boonies, and the camo netting really adds to the vehicles.

Gives me some nice ideas moving into my GSC vehicles shortly.

Thanks man, I've kind of developed a style of painting vehicles just by picking and choosing things I like from various peoples p&m blogs on Dakka and warseer.
Appreciate the kind words, good luck with your gsc vehicles dude.

 STG wrote:
I thought it made the lasguns look like that Russian SMG from cod 5, the ppsh41 I think? Look it up they look pretty similar.

Oh, the PPSh-41, I love it! Never thought about making something like that, it's certainly a good idea!
I you want a recommendation, since the PPSh-41 is a submachine gun your conversion might look a bit too long in comparison. I would cut the rifle's body to the magazine and put that barrel as a substitute. I know this sound awful, since only 2 out of 10 arms from the Infantry box set has the holding arm not attached to the rifle, but it might be a good idea if you just want a couple of guardsmen having the good ol' russian bullet spitter

 STG wrote:
But yea no that's freehand on the guys shoulder, tried to give all the veterans a unique symbol on their shoulders, but once I'd done three I got bored and lost patience.

Yeah, I can see why hand-painted symbols are so tiring, they must take ages to complete, but you did a great job nonetheless

Oh mate, those special forces look really cool ! Nice one !

GloomyFenix wrote:Oh, the PPSh-41, I love it! Never thought about making something like that, it's certainly a good idea!
I you want a recommendation, since the PPSh-41 is a submachine gun your conversion might look a bit too long in comparison. I would cut the rifle's body to the magazine and put that barrel as a substitute. I know this sound awful, since only 2 out of 10 arms from the Infantry box set has the holding arm not attached to the rifle, but it might be a good idea if you just want a couple of guardsmen having the good ol' russian bullet spitter

Aha a bullet spitter, love that. i think for now i'll leave them as they are but when it comes to making some new ones i will definitely give that a go!

GloomyFenix wrote:Yeah, I can see why hand-painted symbols are so tiring, they must take ages to complete, but you did a great job nonetheless

Thanks, i do try lol

Big H wrote:Oh mate, those special forces look really cool ! Nice one !

Thanks Big H! cheers for stopping by.

Right then, onto business!
I have finished the hellhound 6x6 and i think you'll like it, im very happy with it. I actually learned some stuff about painting tanks like the importance of recess washing and stuff.
**EDIT: forgot to include the old paintjob of the hellhound. included in a spoiler below **end of edit






I'd like to point out that the "404" on the front is freehand, so feel free to shower me in compliments haha

I also painted this guys face:



Thought i'd just include that bc i like these updates to be about more than one thing.

Anyways cheers guys

Wow, just wow.
That hellhound looks amazing, you really did a great job with it! The details are greatly done on this one, congrats! The 404 also looks great. Doing the complex symbols for the scions really gave you good experience on handpainting. As a side note, you could put some Stirland Mud on those wheels, that would just top it!

The scion's face is really also well done. It's like he's feeling a mix of rage and nervousness, love it

 STG wrote:
so feel free to shower me in compliments haha

Check

Cool looking helmets and some nice weathering on Hellhound

Nice paintjob on the hellhound

Looks great with the wheels set up as opposed to tracks.

Mad.. wrote:Nice paintjob on the hellhound

Looks great with the wheels set up as opposed to tracks.

Thanks dude, getting lots of good feedback on this. looking like im going to break my record of three votes in the painting competition haha. i think poor photography didnt help my last entry (the rapier battery)

CragHack wrote:Cool looking helmets and some nice weathering on Hellhound

Thanks dude! Which helmets are you talking about? I'm assuming the black one with the red visor on the scions?

GloomyFenix wrote:Wow, just wow.
That hellhound looks amazing, you really did a great job with it! The details are greatly done on this one, congrats! The 404 also looks great. Doing the complex symbols for the scions really gave you good experience on handpainting. As a side note, you could put some Stirland Mud on those wheels, that would just top it!
The scion's face is really also well done. It's like he's feeling a mix of rage and nervousness, love it

Thanks, i did put some stirland mud on the wheels, its not that clear because i havent figured out how to take proper pictures where the colours aren't slightly warm. I think that makes it hard to see the brown on the wheels, but its there alright.

GloomyFenix wrote:

 STG wrote:
so feel free to shower me in compliments haha

Check

haha stop it seriously though, really appreciate the continued support throughout the thread, i thought a few times i was going to have a no comment update, but you've always taken the time to comment.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Here's my next project:



And heres a group shot, havent had one since page 4 of the thread so its about time!



The old one taken pretty much one year ago, not bad going!

Cheers Chaps

Oh, new scions, I'll be waiting to see how well they turn out!
Now that I see it, you should be ready for a 1000pt battle with that, why not give it a try?

 STG wrote:
haha stop it seriously though, really appreciate the continued support throughout the thread, i thought a few times i was going to have a no comment update, but you've always taken the time to comment.

It's no problem, man! I catched your thread more or less after you started it and I've been along with you with all your proyects, so, whether you want it or not, that creates at least a little sense of closeness. Heck, you even named one of your guardsmen after me!

Sup Dakka,
Just to let you all know that this will be the end of this thread for the foreseeable future, as I'm moving and all sorts of stuff going on that will mean that I won't be doing much hobbying.

I appreciate all of your guys support, it was definitely motivating to have you guys cheering me on.

Special thanks to gloomy fenix, we've had a good run dude, I'm hoping to resurrect this thread at some point in the future, and I'm sure you'll be here ahah.

Cheers guys

Good luck with the move and all that jazz, and hope to see this thread wake up again some time in the future.

Really great work, and the consist use of an effective and realistic camo pattern pulls it all together- great theme! The recondo guys are particularly nice, and I hope to paint faces as well as you one day. Hope you're back soon, so I can learn more from your examples!

Good luck with your journey man, and hope to see you soon!

Hey Hey Dakka!
It has certainly been a while. Hope you all had good new years and christmas' !
Ive finished these scions after a very long time of them sitting there primed, i do need to tweak the blue on the plasma guns aswell as the imperial aquilas. for now their done.






Not really 100% happy with how these dudes turned out. think they're alright but I wasn't that hyped by them when painting so it was a bit of a slog to get it done. idk man i think they're just eh. at least i've finished them, and that's what matters.
The camo on their trousers really isnt that noticeable tbh.

Aaanywaays enough moaning, here's a picture of my Christmas haul of minis!

Got a sentinel bc they're awesome models, the white box is a catachan command squad, not planning to make a command squad, just wanted the extra bits. The Ogres i'm planning to turn into ogryns, so that should be fun. The space wolves were a surprise from my mate who doesn't know anything about 40k so ill paint them up just because i was pretty touched that he got me a thoughtful (and expensve!) present.
Kinda funny because i never told my mates about 40k or how i was into the hobby and now that i've confessed im a nerd (lol) they all buy me awesome presents! haha it was a big deal for me to tell them, and then they were all like "so what?".

Teaser of whats next on the agenda:

Rough riders, but riding dinosaurs! pretty pumped to get these guys on the paint line!

Cheers guys, its good to be back!
(i wont be posting as often but i'm active again)

Happy New Years!

Great stuff, STG- hitting the new year fast out the gate.

Friends can be funny that way- you think they're going to take the mickey out on you for your 'odd hobby' and it turns out to be a yawn- who knew?

I look forward to seeing the conversion for the Ogryns and what looks like the First Battalion Velociraptor Hussars coming along!

Yo thanks Meer_cat! it was a bit of an anti climax compared to what i thought it was going to be lol.
I think the hardest part about the Ogryns is going to be their ripper guns.
As for the Dino riders its already proving to be a massive project and certainly my most ambitious conversions yet.

Ogres to ogryns is really easy, the trick is finding good ripper gun equivalents. If you want, I can take a few pics of mine.

Yea man id love to see your take on ripper guns. I was thinking i'd have to convert them to bullgryns if i couldn't find any suitable ripper guns, but i much prefer ogryns

Nice job on that He'll hound STG, looks really good with the wheels in place of the tank units (and the freehand is very well done indeed).

Scions look great! Don't know what you're moaning about... Though having said that, I know what it's like when you just feel that something hasn't quite worked the way you imagined.

At any rate, looking forward to seeing what you do with the dinos!

Welcome back!! Nice seeing you here again!!

I do like how the Scions turned out, although as Elnibbus put it, it might just be they ended up being somewhat different from what you expected, but they're still good nonetheless. You also seem to be starting some challenging minis, with all the sculpting and conversion, but you'll do it great. Hope to see them soon!

Also, your friends are great, love them!

Thanks Einnibbus, I think you've nailed it there. They look Alright but nothing like I expected which is probably why I was underwhelmed with them. Appreciate the feedback on the hellhound, think that's my best work so far.

Yoooo GF!! Yea I think I've definitely taken on some more challenging conversions now but I reckon I won't be too far out of my depth for them to look good. I agree my mates are cool as!