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Looking good. Real good. The LT is fantastic, as are the Bladeguard. I don't think using a little more red for the veterans' markings will be too much. Especially if paired with white.

Those Blade Guard look amazing, really well done! The Black and Gold will look cool on the Chappy. Excellent progress as ever!

Wonderful work. I see what you are thinking with the robes being a whole lot of red, but wait till you have all the models done and have them set up on the table, the red robes will help showcase the vetrans nicely.

Great work on all those swordies! And thanks for the info with the shields, gonna build mine asap

Damn you page turnover!

Thanks everyone, I am still on the fence about the red or possible other veteran markings but I will look into it.

Got my Deathspeaker (another one of those odd Celestial Lion specific names like Warleader and Spiritwalker) Chaplain finished, so here is Deathspeaker Julkhara. He is named in honour of Julkhara who was the last surviving Deathspeaker of the Mannheim Gap Massacre and the one who contacted Reclusiarch Grimaldus of the Black Templars so that the Imperium might know the truth behind the Chapter's betrayal and demise. Though he did not survive to see the arrival of Grimaldus, he may have saved his Chapter with his message. So it is a great honour to bear the name:









I am happy with him, he was just a lot of fun to paint and is actually my first painted Deathspeaker for the army. Have begun work on 5 of the Assault Intercessors from Indomitus as well.

I also plan to knock up a few 25 power army lists for my Lions, GSC, Death Guard and Necrons to see what i can come up with for some small games with my nephew who has shown an interest in the game.

Cheers for looking.

He rules. Love those edge-lights. Cool backstory, too.

Sweet work on the Deathspeaker, he looks like he’s ready to smite some Heretics/Xenos (I guess he’s not fussy who he Smites!)

Deathspeaker has a nice ring to it, lovely mini, great work on his face with perfect skin tone!

Thanks everyone, a day early but here is my now traditional end of month post.

First up are my first 5 Assault Intercessors for my Celestial Lions. I have chopped and changed the odd angle of the weapons on these and also given the sergeant a head from the Space Marine Heroes line:









I also did my first Outrider bike, initially I was not that keen on trying to paint these but actually enjoyed it a lot. The other two are currently WIP:







Finally miniature wise for the week i painted up the Bladeguard Ancient, lots of red on this Lion but I really like how he and his banner came out:









All told that takes me to 41 miniatures painted for the month, and 241 for the year. Here is the month progress picture:



As you can see i have also tackled a bit of the new terrain. Very easy to do, black Undercoat. Silver spray. Aggrax wash. Silver drybrush and then contrast paints for the colours and a bit of hand painting for the ad mech symbols:











Thanks for looking.

In love with the blue on the radiator. Stellar work, as usual. The Lions are all marvelous. The bionic arm with the Volkite is a cool detail. It's weird to see Volkites sprinkled in with 40K era minis.

Great job on the Lions as usual! The headswap works well, the Sgts head is probably my favourite helmetless SMHeroes Head. I think it must be the beard . The terrain looks great, even better if it’s a quick recipie!

 youwashock wrote:
In love with the blue on the radiator. Stellar work, as usual. The Lions are all marvelous. The bionic arm with the Volkite is a cool detail. It's weird to see Volkites sprinkled in with 40K era minis.

Cheers YWS, the radiator was simple. First was leadbelcher, then a coat of Contrast Talassar Blue and then throw on some mediumed down skeleton horde contrast. I think it is a plasma pistol, only the Indomitus Lt has a volkite...there is not much in it though.

@Gobert: It is a pretty cool head, I am glad that increasingly GW give their single character/infantry sprues multiple head options. The terrain is so detailed that quick and easy really suffices.

Just 8 more Indomitus marines to go until I have the set done:

1 Judiciar
2 Outriders
5 Assault Intercessors

I *may* be able to do them this week, we will see.

Well done ListenToMeWarriors.

The Bladeguard Ancient was particularly nice.

Cheers,

CB

Outrider looks ace, a big bling is all his enemies will see before he strikes them down. Red on the Ancient contrasts nicely with the other colors!

The blue cowling on the bike is great! Loud and proud.

Excellent color scheme and really choice painting- crisp but not unrealistic- very nicely done!

Finally have gotten Indomitus complete, not too bad since I only got it on the release date of July 24th.

First up is the Judiciar, I am still unsure on this miniature but did a little head swap with one of the Reiver heads. All told he looks alright:







I am much more pleased with the Outrider Bike Squad, this also marks the first Fast Attack option fully painted for my army. Just a minor change here, I made the bare headed sgt a standard trooper and added a Mark IV crested helmet to make the squad sergeant:









Finally I finished my remaining 5 Assault Intercessors, nice and simple and an easy troops choice:







Please excuse this poorly taken group shot of them all:





And to finish just a couple of WIPs in the form of 2 C'tan and Sir Hector:





Thanks for looking

Dang. Strong, strong showing. It all looks good. Marines, especially. Congrats on knocking Indomitus out of the park. Quite interested in how the old C'Tan will turn out.

That’s a mighty impressive turnaround on Indomitus! They’re all looking pretty spectacular, great work as usual!

You are just rolling them out ListenToMeWarriors.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers everyone, made a cheeky little visit out to my local GW this morning:







Am looking forward to painting her up. I also finished off my Ctan last night, in all honesty the pictures do not do them justice but I am very happy with them. The idea with the colour schemes was that the Deathbringer would represent the purple and the Deceiver would represent the green in my Necron force. No idea if they will be any use in the upcoming codex, but we shall see.











I also made a start on Sir Hector, with basecoat and wash done:



Thanks for looking.

Congrats on finishing the whole box! And seeing the other pics I realize that I also have Sir Hekthur (or how the heck they spell him) lying around somewhere.
C'Tans look great, my favorite is golden boy.

I am not exactly in a slump, but things are slow going. The following 4 minis only take me to 14 painted for the month thus far, but after completing Indomitus i amhappy to going back to being a painting butterfly for a time...what exactly does that mean? Well 4 minis painted and from 4 different armies.

First up is Sir Hekhtur, no real rhyme or reason for him but i enjoyed painting him up:







Next up is the Biophagus for my GSC, he was just a fun mad scientist to paint up and a rare mainly white miniature for me:





I also got Sgt Ripper Jackson done, my first Catachan in an age. The sculpted face is a lot better than the GW painted example showed IMO. Just a nice fun piece to paint up. Went a bit different to the example that GW showed but nothing too out of left field:







Finally is the biggest piece of the week in the form of a Necron Triarch Stalker. No idea which gun I have armed it with though....this was a nice fun piece to do. I am happy I put it on a base even though it is mahoosive....all that crackled martion ironcrust looks great. The best bit I have another to paint up:









And a little WIP on some Tacticals from The Space Marine adventures game...with a following wind I may be able to paint up these by the end of the month:



Thanks for looking

C'tan do look good. Love the shading on Nightbringer's torso. What is up with Deceiver's left hand? Ripper looks great. Love her camo. Stalker is also fantastic. The weapon/sensor cluster is really good.

Yeah, certainly not a slump! The GSC scientist looks really cool, the white lab oat works well with the cold blues. Ripper is a great model too, you’ve painted her up great, the dead plant she’s just slain is such a cool piece. I’m jealous of you getting round to the Adventures Heavy Bolter and flamer though. Neat little conversions on your duplicates too, I’m still trying to figure out what to do with mine. Roll on next week’s update!

 youwashock wrote:
C'tan do look good. Love the shading on Nightbringer's torso. What is up with Deceiver's left hand? Ripper looks great. Love her camo. Stalker is also fantastic. The weapon/sensor cluster is really good.

Good spot on The Deceiver...I basically think I accidentally threw away the correct arm on the finecast sprue so had to find a replacement...so i went with a GSC hybrid arm. Not ideal but it works from a distance...or maybe the Cult are that insidious that they have managed to infiltrate even the Necron star Gods???

Cheers Gobert, those Adventures minis were just staring at me so I had to bite the bullet.

Love your color choices on Ripper, she's such a lovely sculpt and your paintjob fits her greatly!
Triarch stalker is so cool und colorful with all the little bulbs and sensors and cables. And good to know, you're already looking forward to painting the other one.

A day late but work has been busy, so what are the scores on the doors?

I got my 6 Space Marine Heroes/Adventures miniatures painted up, I really like these more "action pose" sculpts that the monopose plastics provide. Obviously not a legal squad but it can make a nice 5 man squad with either a heavy bolter or flamer. And these 6 mean that I now have 100 Celestial Lions painted up. A huge number for the Lions as the Chapter fell below that after the betrayal on Armageddon.










All told in September I got 20 miniatures painted, taking me to 261 painted for the year. That means I just have unlucky 13 to paint each month to hit 300 for the year:



Thanks for looking.

Edit, here are my 100 Celestial Lions:

100 Lions, that really is a sight to behold. A whole Company’s worth. The Space Marine Adventures/Heroes dudes came out really well, neat conversions on the 2 duplicates. The whole gang look awesome together, an army to be proud of for sure! What 13 will you paint to hit 300?

Lovely groups of Lions, both large and small. A solid milestone. Onward to 300! Sparta!