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 youwashock wrote:
They've worked out well. No signs of being eBay seconds to be found. Nice job!

Thanks youwashock, overall they look pretty decent, but there are a couple of areas where they’re a bit dodgy. Some of the eye lenses were quite filled by paint and some chest eagles are poorly defined. I think I managed to hide the imperfections pretty well though.

Unfortunately I didn’t quite manage to finish these guys off, but there’s only one or 2 minor bits to do

If I get an hour in the week I’ll get them done and switch focus to the Sternguard.

Thanks for looking

And they're looking good, as always.

I'm still thinking too much about giraffe marines. Just as a painting scheme they would probably be fun, but also probably too easily confused with like, leopards or something.

 amazingturtles wrote:
And they're looking good, as always.

I'm still thinking too much about giraffe marines. Just as a painting scheme they would probably be fun, but also probably too easily confused with like, leopards or something.

Thanks turtles, I think you’d have to give them neck extensions to make it obvious

I managed to get a little time the other day and I’m calling these Tactical Marines done. I’ve tried something a bit different with the pics, let me know what you think





Here they are individually too





And I couldn’t put them on their shelf without a pic there too


So I’m now 1.5 squads away from having a full Demi company. I reckon I should be able to squeeze them all on the single shelf. I’ll definitely need a new shelf for the 1st company marines though.

I’ll hopefully get some decent progress on the Sternguard over the weekend.

Thanks for looking

The "photoshoppiness" of the pics distracts from your cool models. The places where the black didn't fill in and that pixel halo around the model are breaking the image for me. Your "in-situation" pics are always so good, if you are looking for a darker backdrop, I would suggest a piece of matte paper or a black cloth and let the camera do the work. Great looking Panthers!

 youwashock wrote:
The "photoshoppiness" of the pics distracts from your cool models. The places where the black didn't fill in and that pixel halo around the model are breaking the image for me. Your "in-situation" pics are always so good, if you are looking for a darker backdrop, I would suggest a piece of matte paper or a black cloth and let the camera do the work. Great looking Panthers!

Yeah, I think you’re right. On my phone the background was white but on here they are black. I guess it’s actually transparent, but I didn’t want to mess about with another app. Perhaps a black background would make the technique work better, but I prefer pale backgrounds really. Here’s the uncut originals for comparison;









I think they look better than the black background and white outlines

Very nice updates Gobert. The tac marines look great. Good luck cracking on with the Sternguard!

An improvement, for certain.

Olthannon wrote:Very nice updates Gobert. The tac marines look great. Good luck cracking on with the Sternguard!

Thanks Olthannon, the display shelf is filling up nicely with them now.

youwashock wrote:An improvement, for certain.

Cheers!

I managed to sneak in some painting today between chores and somehow got quite a bit done; gold, silver and black basecoats followed by a Nuln oil wash;

I’m already enjoying how they look, though the walking chaps have more gold than I’d envisaged. Still, they all got a bit of extra gold with a stripe down the centre of their helmets. I was planning to give the sergeant a gold lined black stripe but as he has a crest already I thought a black face guard would look cool instead.

One thing I’m not yet decided on is whether to give them purple liners on their cloaks. I’m thinking not at the moment as they outers will be highlighted purple anyway.

Thanks for looking

I did a bit more work on the DA Company Vets come Sternguard… not that there’s much difference between the pics . I had hoped to get the highlights done as well but I was nodding off at the painting desk, so stopped after tidying up post washes!



Still, I’m liking how they’re looking, especially their gold stripes on the lids. With any luck I’ll get a good bit of progress this weekend as it’s an F1 week so I’ll be banished to the hobby zone to watch it

Thanks for looking

Managed a bit more whilst watching Quali (actually a good one throughout for the first time in a while). All of the metallics got their highlights.

Not sure they stand out too well in the pic, certainly not as strongly as they do in real life. Next it’ll be tidy up of the blacks and purples before their highlights. Any views on the Sergeants tabard? I’d normally paint them the same way I plan to do their gowns (black with purple highlights) but I think it would get lost like that, so am tempted by green or a grey highlighted black? Maybe a green highlighted black? Or even go crazy with white or red(nice black legion link there)? Let me know what you think

Thanks for looking!

Lookin' shiny! I think maybe grey for the tabard? Green is intriguing, as well.

Looking good Gobert, the heads tottering on sticks never fails to bring a smile to my face

Good question about the tabards - you have a nice warm colour palette there so a dark green or crimson could tie into that nicely. Youwashock's idea of a grey could work nicely too. Might have to be a test and see type job?

I say go for green. Give him some uniqueness!

youwashock wrote:Lookin' shiny! I think maybe grey for the tabard? Green is intriguing, as well.

Grey highlights on black or just a grey? I think I’m leaning towards green at the moment to stand out a bit more.

Olthannon wrote:Looking good Gobert, the heads tottering on sticks never fails to bring a smile to my face

Good question about the tabards - you have a nice warm colour palette there so a dark green or crimson could tie into that nicely. Youwashock's idea of a grey could work nicely too. Might have to be a test and see type job?

Yeah, they’re pretty silly, and quite challenging to balance (I had a beer or 2 tonight, so didn’t bother as I would likely have failed ). green is well established in the colour scheme so I’m leaning that way. I might have to do a couple of swatches on my test marine

amazingturtles wrote:I say go for green. Give him some uniqueness!

I thing I’m heading that way. Test marine will have a few patches painted when I get a chance

Another F1 to follow the Verstappen STC Pattern so I made good progress on the Sternguard. Their flow is we’re tidied up a little, then got some Black-Liche Purple, Liche Purple, Liche Purple-AP Uniform Grey, Uniform Grey highlights;

I think the job was accomplished, it reads as black, but with a not too overpowering purple tint. I’m glad I did the black-purple mix first, if softened things a little.

Next will be the usual Panthers steps of highlighting the black before I decide whether to include the tabard on the green list.

Thanks for looking and the tabard discussion!

Oh, yeah! Jammies lookin' good! This is going to be one sweet unit.

The dark black/purple looks good with the gold. I think that a stronger purple on the tabbard would be my vote, but I think green holds the sway so far.
Either one could be cool.

youwashock wrote:Oh, yeah! Jammies lookin' good! This is going to be one sweet unit.

Indeed, Marines look best when they’re in the PJs!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:The dark black/purple looks good with the gold. I think that a stronger purple on the tabbard would be my vote, but I think green holds the sway so far.
Either one could be cool.

Thanks jazzy, I was certainly pleased that it works as well on pyjamas as it does tanks! I hadn’t thought of doing straight up purple maybe others in the first company will get some like that. In the end I’ve gone for a black with green highlights.

I’m away this weekend and will be embarking on DIY projects when I get home, so I decided to squeeze in some hobby time. I made a bit more progress on the Sternguard blocking out the purple on shoulder pads and helmet before giving their weapons a purple highlight. I then got the base layers on green bits (eye lenses, belts and purity seals). The green was also used to highlight the sergeants tabard.

I highlighted the The sergeants race plate in purple, but I should probably do it in grey as it blends too much with the rest of the helmet. I’ll try to remember to fix it next time.

That’s all for now, thanks for looking

Nice work gobert.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Nice work gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Captain, hopefully I’ll get to finish them soon.

No painting update, but I thought I’d share my recent eBay shenanigans. With all the Firstborn last chance to buy stuff happening I got perhaps a little over eager and splashed some of a recent bonus on this little pile;

The listing suggested about 40 marines and 20 terminators alongside a land speeder and attack bike. Alongside another purchase that’ll give me a squadron of 3 of each! With all of the marines I’ll also be close to a full Void Panthers Company! If that wasn’t enough there are at least 2 Ravenwing bikes, a Dreadnought and I’m pretty sure enough bits to build a rhino. Teenage gobert would be ridiculously jealous at the prospect of owning a full company of Space Marines (I’ll pretty much have a Demi 1st company too ), I’m not too far behind those levels of excitement either. The orange bag is chock full of goodies that I need to explore and catalogue the haul. Suffice to say I’ll be busy expanding the Panthers for some time to come!

A pile of potential. Looking forward to it steadily changing from grey to gold. You're like King Midas!

Wow fantastic stuff Gobert. Very cool to have a whole company, looking forward to the army photos when you've got the full lot.

That's exciting about making a full space marine company

 youwashock wrote:
A pile of potential. Looking forward to it steadily changing from grey to gold. You're like King Midas!

Haha, yes!
Looking good, Gobert. An exciting delivery, to be sure.

Marines galore. Give one of them a pet panther!

youwashock wrote:A pile of potential. Looking forward to it steadily changing from grey to gold. You're like King Midas!

Yeah LOADS of potential, much more than I had bargained for! Unfortunately I think I’m a bit slower than Midas was, but at least I can eat

Olthannon wrote:Wow fantastic stuff Gobert. Very cool to have a whole company, looking forward to the army photos when you've got the full lot.

Yep, it’s a dream, need to hold back on going all in for a chapter now!

Syro_ wrote:That's exciting about making a full space marine company

It’ll take a while, but I’ll give it a go now I have all of the stuff I need!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Haha, yes!
Looking good, Gobert. An exciting delivery, to be sure.

Thanks, it was eagerly awaited that’s for sure… mainly so Mrs gobert didn’t see the huge box

amazingturtles wrote:Marines galore. Give one of them a pet panther!

Now that is an idea! Got one in the post for the Chapter Master!

No painting updates as my time has been taken up with painting ceilings and walls (I’m nowhere near as fit as i used to be and it’s knackered me!). I might try to sneak some mini-guy painting at the weekend between skirting boards and banister spindles . What I have managed to do is to de-sprue and tally up most of the bits from the massive eBay haul, and it was even more impressive than I thought
74 legs
72 torso backs
81 torso fronts
72 helmeted heads
86 backpacks
144 plain shoulder pads
39 bolt guns
Loads of arms and pouches and purity seals and banner poles
1 attack bike (minis a rider, but I found a spare set of legs
1 Ravenwing bike (plus 2 non-matching halves)
10 vehicle hatch sprues (goodness knows how many rhinos/predators/land raiders this guy had!)
1 complete rhino
1 Dreadnought with multiple weapon choices
13 Assault Terminators
4 Terminators
12 Plasma Cannons
9 (possibly 10) Assault Marines with Jump packs
7 Heavy Bolters
9 Lascannons
4 Multi Meltas
10 Missile Launchers
20 Marine transfer sheets
10 Marine vehicle transfer sheets

Sadly there were no Devastator legs so I might have to buy some of those. I’m already thinking of how I should equip the units. I’ll adjust and split the already built Missile Devs and ensure each squad has 1 of each type, though I’m tempted to do away with the Bolter Marines and do 4 off 5 marine squads of each weapon I have .
I’m thinking each tactical squad should get a different heavy weapon (probably do duplicates of Missile Launchers (already built 2) and Plasma as they look cool.
I’m not sure how to do the Assault squad, I have pretty much enough bits for 7 or 8 bikes, so might sell the jump marines or maybe I keep them and have the bikes as a detachment from a reserve company alongside the Land Speeder and Attack Bike squadrons?
So many marines, so many choices! 41st century problems I suppose . Whatever I choose, I can probably open a bits store to recover some of the costs!

Nice haul! Looking forward to pet panther!

Quite a haul indeed! Wow.

youwashock wrote:Nice haul! Looking forward to pet panther!

Yeah, it should keep me busy for a while! I forgot to get a pic of the Panther. She’s much bigger than I expected, so will need her own base!

Syro_ wrote:Quite a haul indeed! Wow.

A few years of painting I reckon! Longer probably as I’ll want to paint other things

Decorating has been keeping me busy of late so I’ve had little hobby time but Mrs gobert wanted to do some sewing tonight so I snuck in a quick bit on the Sternguard. I managed to highlight all the black pouches and the chapter symbols with a mix of AP Uniform Grey and VMC German Grey (my Eshin grey seems to have run out), then straight uniform grey which I also used to highlight the purple areas once they had their light purple highlight. All the parchment got Zandri Dust basecoat and seraphim sepia wash. I finished up by doing the first highlight of Emerald green on the Purity seals, rope belts and eye lenses

Oh and looking at the picture I remembered I did uniform grey on the black/green tabard too. That means I just have parchments and second green highlights to do before these guys are finished apart from their bases.

A few days back I did get some time to start work on the massive haul, building up 3 Assault Marines who mostly just needed rebasing and some minor mould line removal. The flamer dude used some old pieces I had from the previous squad and a new torso. I also made the decision that this force won’t have any metal so swapped a metal Heavy Bolter for a plastic Multi Melta.

The Sgts base is repurposed from an ETB Intercessor but the rest are all taking inspiration for ph34r aa they’ve been made from cutting up other Sector Imperialis bases to expand the variations.

I’m away next week so won’t be getting any hobby done, but hopefully will be done with decorating to get cracking with these guys.

Thanks for looking

That sounds like a massive project, very interested!

Not Online!!! wrote:
That sounds like a massive project, very interested!

I know! It’s quite daunting to take on a project of your scale! Any tips?

Since I was tantalisingly close to finishing last night I decided to have another hobby session tonight and finished up the Sternguard. A bright highlight on the greens was followed by multiple high lights on the parchments plus a few layers and washes on their bases and we’re done!











And one more for good luck!



Overall I’m pretty happy how they’ve turned out. They’re not as black as I’d imagined, but they still have enoug to differentiate themselves from the horde of gold and purple. Their good stripes on their helmets look really cool too, I’m glad I went with that. Similarly the black faceplate and green tabard on the sergeant seem to have worked well.

I’ve snapped a few individual and group pics, so I’ll post those in the next few days. I’m feeling the panthers right now so might do something for them next too, but I’m away for the next weekish, so wont get any painting done for a while yet.

Thanks for looking!