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I'll provisionally pencil myself in. Lightly. On water.

One man's crook, another one's hero. If a hanging hero can be considered close enough to a relic to count, then:



Hope it's ok.

Got to work on the heads a little today, got a long way to go to get everything done by the end of the month. : /

tardy to the party but:

beakies are the (second) best marines bar none (but 1), we all know the actual order is:

1) MK III
2) Beakies
3) MK IV
4) MK V
5) everything else
6) bare head

Looking great lechine

The dread fluff is golden sissal

Well I have some pics that show my dread pretty much at completion.

Apologies for the potato quality pics, I was going to take some proper ones....









Close up of the sword





And then... Disaster!! Should have waited for lower humidity, and I don't have any spray gloss at hand and need to wait till payday :(

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Had the same happen to me the other day but not nearly as badly as that. It is fixable but utterly gutwrenching when it happens

Just say its a frosty morning.

I was freaking out as I've never had it happen before. Maybe I could blag shrouded lol

 Littletower wrote:
I'll provisionally pencil myself in. Lightly. On water.

One man's crook, another one's hero. If a hanging hero can be considered close enough to a relic to count, then:



Hope it's ok.

Well it worked for Odin


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 optometris wrote:
I was freaking out as I've never had it happen before. Maybe I could blag shrouded lol

That sucks man :( :( it is fixable usually, hope it works out well for you! I had that happen to my Hellpit - totally sucks

Wow, that frosting sucks!! Hope it's fixable!

Finally got my proof picture. After a long wait for the order to arrive, and running out of glue half way through assembly, here he is:

I saw that nebula sword on reddit - I'm going to paint my medge angels like that. Great stuff

kb_lock wrote:
I saw that nebula sword on reddit - I'm going to paint my medge angels like that. Great stuff

If you need a hand with it drop me a pm.

So I took my proof on Saturday:


But I've only got this week to paint, as I'm on holiday for the rest of the month. So yesterday I got cracking and...finished:







Huh. Felt like that should have taken longer, but at least it's done!

Good job on finishing! Enjoy the holiday!

Hey, turns out doing pictures is easier with the dakka gallery.
Anyways, in progress on the Thyphon--base colors done, now on to shading.

Beautiful Jadenim! really like the book and the flames look great! lovely red as well on the cloak

I have another two layers of my midtone grey on my guy, slowly... slowly... no pics because honestly not really much change on him

This is what passes for progress in my workshop; two weeks in and I finally have a decent proof picture. In my defense, it was tough to cleanly cut away all the wee beakie arms, dainty little beakie hands, and those ridiculous shoulder pads in order to get a proppa fit with a real arm. A little filing and greenstuff filling still to come.

On a more serious note, I'd like to play to the Relic theme this month, but I know nothing about the Horus Heresy. The idea is that this ork found this rocket launcher 10,000 years after it was made and it is still functioning. Any suggestions for a "period-specific" paint scheme? I plan on trying my hand at battle damage and weathering to make it look ancient, but I'd like some vestiges of the original paint (they do paint these things, right?) still showing. Thanks!

Thanks for the kind comments guys! This was one of those times (particularly with the book and flames) where the paint just went on spot on how I wanted straight off the brush.

Fortunately I had the self-control to go "that looks good, now walk away from the model!"

Finally got a chance to work on this;


WIP

Beautiful work so far. Love that power-sword optometris. The script in that book and scroll is incredible Jadenim and I love the metals on the your necron TP^DC, great scheme.

I'm not sure i'll get much more chance to paint over the next 3 weeks, lots of things I need to do (wife is away and I've a son to take care of).

So here is my entry, if I get time I'll tidy him up a bit then i'll repost the images (the shoulder pad needs some corrections and the seals a little script, perhaps add a little more highlight to some of the reds.) This is my first black power armour and I was a little paranoid at how difficult the greys would be. Nuln oil saved me from much of the worst mistakes. Although simple and fairly standard colour scheme I couldn't bring myself to scuff up his armour. Maybe when I'm feeling a little braver I'll go back and make him a little more battle worn.
As usual I'd love to hear any critique =)

Looks great, Moolet! Love the jump pack weathering!

I'm not sure if it's dark pictures or if the PA needs brighter highlights.

Yeah, the blueing of the metal is really well done.

Here's a WIP of my biker Interrogator:

Still some cleanup to do of most of the colors, then it's on to the shading. I didn't have an extra skull helmet handy, so I improvised by painting a sort of skull outline on a regular SM helmet.

 Moolet wrote:
Beautiful work so far. Love that power-sword optometris. The script in that book and scroll is incredible Jadenim and I love the metals on the your necron TP^DC, great scheme.

I'm not sure i'll get much more chance to paint over the next 3 weeks, lots of things I need to do (wife is away and I've a son to take care of).

So here is my entry, if I get time I'll tidy him up a bit then i'll repost the images (the shoulder pad needs some corrections and the seals a little script, perhaps add a little more highlight to some of the reds.) This is my first black power armour and I was a little paranoid at how difficult the greys would be. Nuln oil saved me from much of the worst mistakes. Although simple and fairly standard colour scheme I couldn't bring myself to scuff up his armour. Maybe when I'm feeling a little braver I'll go back and make him a little more battle worn.
As usual I'd love to hear any critique =)

Spoiler:

That is beautiful.

Moolet:

Any heat stress for the melta? It’s a bit of a disconnect to see such wonderful work done on the JP, but not on the gun renowned for the heat it kicks out.

But looking great!

Hi. thanks for the comments. I'm glad you like him. =)

Any heat stress for the melta

good point, Perhaps he is too busy hitting people over the head with oversized paper weight... I mean Relic. I think I'll go back and add some as you suggest, perhaps ill get it done before the end of April.. I hope so.

I'm not sure if it's dark pictures or if the PA needs brighter highlights.

The pics maybe a bit dark but I see what you mean. Perhaps I can be a little braver with some of the upper most highlights.

Nice work. Leave him clean. If nothing else he'll stand out more from the rest of the army. The only critique I'd offer maybe shade the white a little more subtly?I'm not a fan of blacklining white, though (anymore, used to do it all the time), but that's a taste thing so ymmv.

Finally ready to start. gotta finish by Friday though!


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I was not ready. I have a severe cold and am shaking too much to huddle in a chair. Alas poor Yarrick, you'll have to wait for tomorrow.

Moolet - that is beautiful!
BC - be well, Yarrick can wait
Gulgog - great conversion! Paint it whatever you want and add some Ork graffiti, your fluff makes it fit the theme, so do what fits aesthetically
Zerg - nice biker, need to get on with mine, but too reluctant to work out how to do the Ravnewing black justice
Deadshot - Great first steps

 sockwithaticket wrote:
The only critique I'd offer maybe shade the white a little more subtly?I'm not a fan of blacklining white, though (anymore, used to do it all the time), but that's a taste thing so ymmv.

thanks, I think the same but I'm very inexperienced in this area. Your last couple of entries had gorgeous whites on this, can I ask how you achieve this? How would you go about smoothing it out. I was thinking of adding a few very thin glazes.washes (nuln+lamian medium 25:75, perhaps throw in a little blue too) then clean it up first with some greys building to almost white. I'd love to hear how you'd paint it.

I was not ready. I have a severe cold and am shaking too much to huddle in a chair.

I'm sorry to hear it. I was like this 2 weeks ago, there's a nasty spring flu doing the rounds at the moment.