Angrygriffin's metal nostalgia marine force

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**angrygriffin**

Thanks! I wanted it blue, but to be different enough to the armour that it made sense. I’m still not happy with the lens recipe but I think curling the highlight helps with the illusion of translucency, so I’ll definitely be using that again.

**brushcommando**

Agreed. You did him proud.

(Edit. Whoops! I was agreeing with Gobert. Didn't realize the page change...)

**angrygriffin**

Thanks!

I'm going to try that power effect on a sword next. In the meantime, I had a crack at getting this guy's body done in one session - managed it in 2 hours, so I am getting faster:

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Trying to balance my desire for things to be as good as I can get them and the desire to get a squad done anytime soon.

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WIP of the next chap's body, the squad leader with a chequered kneepad in company colours:

**brushcommando**

Checker patterns for the win! Seriously one of the better part of 2nd ed Iconography that finally came back with the Dark Imperium box. You pulled it off well.

**angrygriffin**

Thanks! I'm currently in the middle of both loving and hating the pattern, doing the blends on such tiny squares while not ruining the edges was both satisfying and annoying and I think that red/blue is not as striking as the Codex-shown yellow/blue - I might try red/white next time to see if that's more appealing, but I'm happy enough with red/blue that I don't think I'll repaint it.

I will say though that I thoroughly enjoy the aesthetic effect of that pattern, and I may have to start sprinkling little bits and pieces of it through the squads...

**brushcommando**

Blue and white is also an option and I feel fits the ultras while being company agnostic. Something to consider if the red is driving you mad

**Dysartes**

angrygriffin wrote:
Anyone know of another non-Chaos Space Marine miniature with a power maul/mace?

Not sure about other Space Marines with power mauls, but if you're wanting the part to convert with, I think there are some Sisters characters with them.

**angrygriffin**

brushcommando wrote:Blue and white is also an option and I feel fits the ultras while being company agnostic. Something to consider if the red is driving you mad

That's a good idea... I think that would probably be visually more striking too.

Dysartes wrote:Not sure about other Space Marines with power mauls, but if you're wanting the part to convert with, I think there are some Sisters characters with them.

Was mostly curious about whether it's the only sculpt with a mace - at this point I'm trying not to go too far down the conversions path lest I get sidetracked from the main goal of this force.

Speaking of being sidetracked, I got a bit over-excited about the new 30K vehicles and decided to use a Kratos as a test scheme for the vehicles portion of this force, both old and new. I'm not happy with how red the pigments ended up being, I think they need to be more dirty than rusty so as to blend in with the dust on the infantry's feet (and colouring of the bases when I get to them). Happy with the blends on the sides, though - the whole thing was done by brush and I think the effect came off ok. The WIP:

I think that's finished enough that I'll just duplicate that colouring across to the other vehicles with a different pigment scheme and leave that as it is.

**Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll**

That's a great looking effect though. It may have been redder than you were intending, but it looks very much like martian dust, and contrasts beautifully with the rich blue.

**angrygriffin**

Cheers!

Painted up a Word Bearer for a magnetised vehicle base...

Unashamedly going to combine some of the 30K vehicles with the metal marines, 'cos I really dig the aesthetic. Way more than the floaty Primaris tanks.

**brushcommando**

Nice use of the tank commander sprue! Excited to see the finished tank. Do you plan to get some of the plastic deimos preds when they come out?

**angrygriffin**

Yeah, I do intend on doing so - though it's starting to feel as though I will be painting vehicles forever at the rate I'm getting through this one! The end is in sight, at least.

The scenic base is certainly responsible for a fair bit of the time sunk into this one so far, mind, but I'm pleased with the impact it has on the model.

Hoping to have it done within another week and maybe if I'm lucky with hobby time get a couple of infantry done after that as a change of pace.

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Some progress - calling the sponsons done for now:

**ghostmaker**

This stuff is awesome!

**angrygriffin**

ghostmaker wrote:
This stuff is awesome!

Thanks!

Got the tank to this point, though I think I might back off the weathering a bit now that I look at the photos.

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WIP on the power sword of the Mark 2 Crusade Suit:

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Did the rest of that chap.

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**Ragsta**

Lovely lovely stuff! The weathering on that tank seems fine to me, but I appreciate you may feel differently. I say persevere until you can get some group shots with the infantry, then see how you feel.

My 2 looking excellent too!

**angrygriffin**

Cheers! Yeah, that's basically the conclusion I ended up coming to re: the weathering - will see how I feel once some more squads are done and I get to the bases.

**Denny**

Awesome glow on dat mace. ?

(Power swords nice too, but I really like the mace!)

**jeff white**

Great to see your progress over these pages. Me too, prefer the old metals. Will never own a restartes marine. OG for the win.

**angrygriffin**

Cheers guys! I had a go at Brother Potter tonight - still working on skin tones and faces but I'm happy to call that there and move on.

**Stevefamine**

Sword and the bases are wild! keep it up

**angrygriffin**

Thanks!

WIP of a Terminator:

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Tonight's efforts - part of an allied squad:

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Same palette used for this guy.

**angrygriffin**

Both the last two were done using the Zorn palette for the most part - limiting the colours to just a single yellow and red and then utilising black and white as required. I cheated a little and added silver because I wasn't game to tackle a limited palette and learning NMM at the same time. Oh, and I used Goblin Green for the base which is clearly not part of the limited palette.

That was certainly a learning experience but I can heartily recommend having a go at a limited palette as my mixing really got a workout and I learned a lot. Using single pigment paints from Scale75/Kimera made a big difference too in terms of having predictable and useful outcomes from the mixing.

**angrygriffin**

Callidus:

This was one of the first minis I painted getting back into painting in late 2019 - same miniature stripped and repainted. Before/after:

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Threw some blue into the black highlights this time:

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**angrygriffin**

Brother Blake skipped leg day. Every leg day. Those thighs are tiny...

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