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I did not expect what I found! Wow... Just shows it's not just the model, it's the paint!

Haha I'm not sure about that, but thanks!

Artificer Armour #1:





Was a nice sculpt to paint, the armour panels were pretty different to the regular Mk6/Mk7!

Nice mini. I don't think I have ever seen that armor pattern before.

They're pretty different aren't they?

Here's another Artificer Armour chap I finished last night:

Those lenses are sick! You've done a lot with the extra real estate.

Cheers! I got Female Warrior Gabs done tonight. Backpack is from here.

I love a heat sword <3 And more female space marines is more better.

Thanks for continuing to show me sculpts that I didn't know existed, like those artificer lads! Check out those tubular bolters.

Now there's a mini you don't see too often. Love that sword.

You did a great job painting that female space marine, but that has to be one of the UGLIEST head sculpts I have ever seen.

Thanks guys! And yeah, that is squarely the most challenging face sculpt I have ever had to work with... I had something like five goes at it and in the end I'm still unhappy with the result, but I added some stitches and enjoyed playing around with that process so I left it there.

I think the scar works, the stitches are HUGE but that way they're still visible from a few feet away. We rarely look at models as closely as we do in photos.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I think the scar works, the stitches are HUGE but that way they're still visible from a few feet away. We rarely look at models as closely as we do in photos.

Truth!

I got Brother Hamilton done last night. He's also Gideon Fax from the Combat Card range (pic).

Another excellent paintjob angrygriffin!

Thankyou!

This one looks so...normal...compared to the last few. Still a product of his time, but nowhere near as outlandish. How many does this take you to?

Uhh... 32 vintage Ultramarines now, I think, that haven't got chucked back into the stripping jar. A lot of the ones I painted a couple of years ago have gone back to bare metal for another go.

I have decided to put them together into combat squads to better balance the sheer number of captains/sergeants/lieutenants vs. line marines, and the other day I cut off all the 25mm bases from the early models and glued on 28mm slottas, so I need to rebase those and probably paint fresh squad numbers on them so they make sense with the 5-man squad plan...

I think this is the first OSL I have done that I'm happy with. RT Librarian:

I don't know which is more intense, the heat of the sword or the fierceness of the glare. Awesome work on those eyes.

Cheers! That must be the sixth or seventh go at the eyes - they were sculpted at slightly different sizes and it took a few goes to figure out how to get them looking reasonable - I ended up painting in with dark brown until they were about the same size and shape and working from there. As usual, there were several cross eyed pupil attempts before they aligned…