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I managed to get another model from Shadowspear done this weekend – the Phobos Librarian. Fantastic model – I really enjoyed painting him

And now it's back to the First Founding project – this time, Raven Guard...

Quit being good at everything. Be really bad at some theme. Give us hope.

Lol sorry xD

If it helps I wasn't 100% happy with this next one, but I managed to salvage him in the end... Another unit for my Raptors, and another model from Shadowspear – the Captain in Phobos armour with a minor conversion...

If by salvage you mean made it look awesome then yes, you really salvaged it!

Have to say, you've pretty much mastered painting marines at this point. All the highlights and shadows are placed perfectly on each bit of armor panel and done in a consistent manner across all the different armies you're painting now. Your raptors collection must be getting pretty big now...got a recent army pic to share?

Eggroll! Good to have you back here – and thanks!!

I have been meaning to take some new army shots. I'm going to round things out with a couple more tanks soon and then I'll get everything out

Finished the first unit from Indomitus – Outriders! I knew I had to do stripes on these as soon as I saw the models previewed xD

























Hope you like them!

With this model, I can finally call my First Founding (Loyalist) project complete! For some reason both the first (Space Wolves) and last (Iron Hands) schemes were the most difficult to crack.

Fantastically done. Group shot?

Damn you make those primaris models look good. Loving the biker and the iron hands colour scheme looks fantastic in your implementation. Keep it coming!

Thanks Eggroll!!

@ youwashock, ask and you shall receive

This marks the culmination of a project 18 months in the making. To paint one marine from each of the First Founding loyalist legions (now chapters), and document the process in a series of PDF painting guides.

The plinth on which these mighty heroes of humanity stand was made for me by my dad, and the plaques on the front and back were made by Little Plastic People.

Now back to Raptors...

As they are traditionally less ostentatious and more prosaic than other chapters, I felt the Sergeant Jovan model would make a good captain for my 2nd Company. I gave him an older and more austere appearance with a head swap, and made him feel more like a captain with a company banner.

I went a bit more grimdark than normal on the paint job, with some streaking grime and oil paint mapping.

Excellent work on the brooding Captain, wouldn’t want to have him pissed off at me.

Yorkright wrote:
Excellent work on the brooding Captain, wouldn’t want to have him pissed off at me.

He does look pretty pissed about being shot at

Next up, second unit from Indomitus – Judiciar conversion. I used the Bladeguard Ancient as the base model, swapped the head for the one from the original Primaris Chaplain and the banner for the axe head from the Adeptus Custodes Captain-General Trajann Valoris model. I did some micro-surgery on the axe head to move the trigger handle for the built-in bolter up to the top section.

Gorgeous conversion, and great paint job on him too

Latest addition to the Raptors...

Beautiful work.

 Arakasi wrote:
Beautiful work.

Thanks mate!

I'm in the process of re-packing them into magnetic cases, so I took the opportunity to take some 'artistic' shots

Awesome sauce my dude!!

Great showcase photographs there!

Thats some good eye candy.

Next up, Flesh Tearers!

Yes! My boys! Love that real dark red, the transition to the dark in its shadows is great!

Are you expanding on the "one of each legion" you did for the original legions?

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Yes! My boys! Love that real dark red, the transition to the dark in its shadows is great!

Thanks!!

whalemusic360 wrote:Are you expanding on the "one of each legion" you did for the original legions?

Yep! There are a few successor chapters I always wanted to try, plus I want to do the Traitor legions from the 40K timeline as well as all the Legions from the 30k timeline.

And that’s just space marines

AS you already have Raptors down, thoughts on finishing out Badab War chapters?

 whalemusic360 wrote:
AS you already have Raptors down, thoughts on finishing out Badab War chapters?

That project is indeed on my list...

But first, I finished this DKoK model from the Octarius Kill Team box for a step by step tutorial.

I hope you like him!













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I finished this just in time for the end of #Orktober, but didn’t get around to posting him here until now. He’s the first Ork I painted from the Octarius Kill Team box, so was kind of a test model. I hope to make a guide now I’m happy with the scheme – especially the skin.

Hope you like him!

That's one Serious ork! Superb work as always. I'm also loving that cup on the Krieger.

@mcmattila, thanks!

Finished up the next Guardsman – demolitions expert!

Holy smokes you’re good at this! Mighty brush? More like flawless brush! Gobsmacking brush! damn-near impossible brush!

Incredible work. Well worthy of an exalt.