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The Havocs look fine. Almost remind me of the original Space Crusade minis.

Marine is progressing nicely.

Cheers,

CB

I think your conversion would work as CSM Havocs. It's a clever conversion, I think.

Not Online!!! wrote:Firstly the volkite , looks amazing on the Leutnant.

Secondly, if someone were to object to the havoc conversion, then you know that the game would be anyways not worth the hassle tbh.

. Thank you NotOnline.

Tyranid Horde wrote:The volkite is looking good on the Lt, and the Lt itself is looking good!

I think the choice of Mk3 armour is a good one for havocs, it's got a heavier look to it and I think it works well with the heavy weapons they carry. What bases are they on? I think for gaming they need to be on 40mm bases instead of the usual 32mm. A few more chaosy bits would help them even further imo.

. Thanks TH, they are on 32mm bases I did not realize they came with bigger bases. Did find some 40s in the bits box that are for some custodes ( is that heresy if I use them ). As for the extra chaosy I will see what there is.

gobert wrote:That volkite glow! Lovely!

Thank you Gobert.

Gitsplitta wrote:Very good progress. He's really coming together nicely.

. Thanks Gitz.

youwashock wrote:The Havocs look fine. Almost remind me of the original Space Crusade minis.

Thanks Youwashock.

Captain Brown wrote:Marine is progressing nicely.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you CB

@shadows and dust thank you.

Pretty sure the Lt. is done going to put him away for a bit and think about it. Would like to get some good pictures of him before I post in the monthly challenge. Using my iPhone for pics anyone who has a few hints would be appreciated.

Thanks for following along.

I really love him. The contrasting colours pop and the edge highlighting looks great.

Great job. Love all the detail, right down to the glowing nodes on the back of the shield.

Lovely model you painted there! I like all the little details, like the texture on the scabbard and the subtle OSL.

Good work Yorkright, really nice work with the colour choices and the highlighting.

Congrats on finishing the Lt. and not shying away from all the little details on the shield and such. Would definitely be cool to see more marines emerge in that color in the future.

That’s a fancy pants Mantis Warrior, the highlighting on the green is lovely. What was the recipe for that volkite glow? It’s amazing!

aye, the whole package deal is amaizing

Thank you all for the compliments! My near not metals did not really turn out but this is the first model in a long time I did not use any metallic paints on.
@Viterbi about doing more in this scheme, it probably wont happen I have too many marines as is (company of blood angels plus vehicles, a patrol of deathwatch and the smurfs). This was just for the painting competition and to push myself to try a few new things.

@Gobert the volkite recipe... as far as I remember is white base, mephiston red, evil sunz scarlet, a thinned down wash of evil sunz for the red glow on the barrel. For the coils it was ungor flesh mixed with a little evil sunz then more ungor flesh then a bit of thin white scar near the top of the coils.

Working on the Sisters of Silence next will post some pics later.

Again thank you all for following along!

2 quick shots of the Sisters. Tried something new with the face on the left one, started with Ungor flesh mixed with Matt Black. Worked up the Ungor till it was almost a golden brown then slowly mixed pink horror adding more to the mix. Finally a bit of white scar.

Why do eyes have to be so difficult. $#|+!!

because small, and white in many cases, aswell as a dot in the middle...
which means absolutely horrible to paint.
the rest of the model is ace though!

The sisters are looking good, particularly the one with the red cape, great layering. Not a fan of painting eyes on models outside of marines, GW tend to be quite fine with their sculpts and I don't have the coordination for many eyes.

I know Auntie Edna says no capes, but these all look too good.

You did a great job on that MW Yorkright. I hope it does well in the challenge.

 youwashock wrote:
I know Auntie Edna says no capes, but these all look too good.

Man, I have to watch that movie again

Nice job on the sisters Yorkright! Regarding eyes, if it's not a character model I sometimes just use a dark shade in the eye recess, that's often enough. Or if I did eyes and they're not level, you can just scratch one out with a hobby knife, it is the battlefield of the 40th (41st?) millenium after all

Not Online!!! wrote:

Why do eyes have to be so difficult. $#|+!!

because small, and white in many cases, aswell as a dot in the middle...
which means absolutely horrible to paint.
the rest of the model is ace though!

. Thanks NotOnline, I will keep trying on the eyes though.

Tyranid Horde wrote:The sisters are looking good, particularly the one with the red cape, great layering. Not a fan of painting eyes on models outside of marines, GW tend to be quite fine with their sculpts and I don't have the coordination for many eyes.

. Thank you TH! I have been working on getting better with cloaks and fur.

youwashock wrote:I know Auntie Edna says no capes, but these all look too good.

Thanks Youwashock now what movie is that quote from?

Gitsplitta wrote:You did a great job on that MW Yorkright. I hope it does well in the challenge.

Thank you Gitz!

Viterbi wrote:

 youwashock wrote:
I know Auntie Edna says no capes, but these all look too good.

Man, I have to watch that movie again .
Nice job on the sisters Yorkright! Regarding eyes, if it's not a character model I sometimes just use a dark shade in the eye recess, that's often enough. Or if I did eyes and they're not level, you can just scratch one out with a hobby knife, it is the battlefield of the 40th (41st?) millenium after all

Thank you Viterbi, I will keep that in mind on the next ones.

Life is busy so not much time for hobbying but I did get some more paint on the SOS’s. Picked up some 32 and 40mm bases for them and the havocs.
Thanks for looking!

The Incredibles.

Loving that script on her ribbons/seals/draperies.

Those are really lovely.

That's serious cape work. I love a good cape. That's awesome.

That is absolutely incredible! I could never hope to ever get near that.

youwashock wrote:The Incredibles.

Loving that script on her ribbons/seals/draperies.

Now I remember, thanks for jogging my memory! Working hard on my squiggles, hoping to get to Insaniaks level.

Gitsplitta wrote:Those are really lovely.

Thank you budddy!

inmygravenimage wrote:That's serious cape work. I love a good cape. That's awesome.

I believe you gave me some great pointers when I started on dakka about cape work.

NotSkilledHere wrote:That is absolutely incredible! I could never hope to ever get near that.

Thank you NotSkilleHere, my bet would be that you can do it. I would like to say its not so hard but doing some research and trying you could achieve the same results.

Aye, these lot of SoS are indeed amazing.

Well, the student is now the master

Echoing everyone else with praise for those Sisters! The touches of red script add a lot to those parchment rolls.

Well done Yorkright.

Cheers,

CB

Nice one Yorkright, they look great! As others have pointed out their capes and purity gubbins are fantastic.

Great work on the sisters, group shot is very nice. Cloaks look amazing.