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The first skull champ you have painted up looks great. I might have to steal your idea for hanging the skulls off the power packs.

 

It's a righteous pain to do. The way I've figured to do it to make it easier (I started off just gluing willy nilly) is to shave a small flat space on the round backside of the exhaust nozzle, and on the chains you shave off the backside of one of the links, so you've got two flat surfaces to glue together. I tried several different ways, and after I did this I thought, "that's incredibly sensible; I've been very silly this entire time..."

 

I think I washed this guy too heavily. Since it's Chaos I figure I can get away with being a little heavy handed with the Badab Black, but when I switch to a Loyalist style scheme (Loyalist style, never truly loyal to the False Emperor!) I'm going to give dipping a try.

 

Thanks again for the encouraging words!

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Here is Hold-Thegn Har Ulfgrim, The Jarl's Champion and Commander of his Comitatus:

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thegnharpainted-front.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thegnharpainted-rear.jpg

 

And here are the wound markers I made for Jarl-Captain Bolverk:

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/bolverkwoundmarkers.jpg

 

The wolves were done when Bolverk was, they just needed some touch-up.

 

With the Terminator Champion I tried a couple of new things. First, I primered in white. This was a good thing, because I discovered the "Blazing Orange" goes on wicked easy on a white background. With the black primer I was having to either put it on in several thick layers or use the "Macharius Solar Orange" foundation. White primer works much better than either of these. This knowledge will come in handy the future.

 

Another thing I tried different this time was using "Ogryn Flesh" wash over the white primer instead of over "Elf Flesh". I think this gives the skin a more natural tone, if a little pale.

 

The third different thing I tried was a lightning effect on the Lightning Claws. I used Ultramarine Blue to make little zig-zags and then went over them with Skull White. I am still undecided on whether I liked this or not. I'm waiting to get a second opinion this Saturday at my newly scehduled Kill Team game as to whether I should keep it or repaint it over in Burnished Gold.

 

I was going to do the armor black with gold trim and the cape orange, but I had a different thought as I was getting my paints out. The veteran core of my warband comes from a force of Iron Warriors that pledged themselves to Bolverk. I thought that I would honor that veteran core by having the champion of the Chaos Lord's elite bodyguard wear the Iron Warriors color scheme, and that his cape would be halved orange and black like the company's flag. Personally, I like the effect.

 

One thing I don't have pictured is the mixed results this time from my use of green-stuff. I lost the wolf-cloaks leg that overhangs the front, so I stuffed GS into the gap and cut wolf hair patterns into it with my hobby knife. I think this worked well. On the other hand, the wolf cloak wasn't friendly with the Chaos Terminator pauldrons. On the right side I just shaved it away, and that worked fine. But on the left side I ended up having to shave away almost 1/3 of the pauldron to get it to fit even close to where it should. I moved it forward to present a decent looking front, the stuffed some GS into the gap it left in the back and tried to mold it to look like the part of the shoulder pad I had to carve off. That... did not work quit as well. The proportions are off, which is OK because you can't tell unless you hold the model just so to take the whole thing in. But it does look like the pauldron is battle-damaged or summat, because it is not smooth and the gold trim is kind of wonky. It's a "good enough for the table" type of success, I guess.

 

I did him because I made the time tonight, or stole it from other things I should be doing, anyway. I still plan on working on my second Skull Champion this weekend, and maybe starting in on my first five Summoned Lesser Daemons if there's any extra time on Sunday.

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The third different thing I tried was a lightning effect on the Lightning Claws. I used Ultramarine Blue to make little zig-zags and then went over them with Skull White. I am still undecided on whether I liked this or not.

 

Sorry to ask extra work of you, but can we see those lightning claws? B)

 

Otherwise I'm a fan really, and I didnt notice the GS fix you did, so that's a victory in my book!

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Great stuff! well done!

I'd try to add another colour to the wolves just to make them stand out a bit more, but that's just me. Dunno, a simbol loosely painted on the fur? Or the fur around the neck/face a brighter and lighter colour...

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Great stuff! well done!

I'd try to add another colour to the wolves just to make them stand out a bit more, but that's just me. Dunno, a simbol loosely painted on the fur? Or the fur around the neck/face a brighter and lighter colour...

 

I've been kicking around the idea of dry-brushing a lighter color over them for that very reason. I'm a beginner painter and don't know much (or anything) about mixing colors and fading and all that. This army is experimental in many ways. I've been thinking about posting the very first Marine I ever painted to show my learning curve! :tu:

 

Seeing as how these are just wound-markers it's probably safe to try out dry-brushing. And if I screw them up they'll be really easy to fix.

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Didn't actually get around to painting anything last weekend. Played a couple of games of Kill Team instead, because every once in a while I have to play with my toys to justify having them. If anybody is interested in this sort of thing, my Chaos Terminators massacred some Space Wolves to a man in the first game, and the second game got down to my Champion (Thegn Har with the Lightning Claws from earlier in this thread) and TredHead's Terminator Champion and one more Terminator. He barely edged me out in victory points in the second game, so it was a good weekend.

 

But I digress.

 

My bits supplier finally got in some of the new Dark Eldar, and has the option to buy either the male or female versions of the Wyches and Kabalites. I had been pondering how I was going to make my Aspiring Sorcerer for my "counts as: 1k Sons", the Shield Thralls, one of my auxiliary cult troop units for the "4th Wælheim Free Company". I came pretty close to cutting up a couple of my metal Sororitas, and then I thought about ordering a standard Sister Superior with a Power Maul to represent "Sister Brunhyld the Jealous", but looking at the Dark Eldar females gave me a different idea. The parts came today, and I got to work on them as soon as I got home:

 

BEHOLD!

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-005.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-004.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-003.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-002.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-001.jpg

 

The body is a female Dark Eldar Kabalite. I wasn't happy about the leg pose, but I think it works. I special requested the heads to be unhelmeted so I'd have a face to work with. It was a lot harder than I thought to GS a bob haircut...

 

The arms are from the WHFB Flagellants. I cut off the big bells-on-a-rope thing and pinned a lance head from a WHFB Cold One Rider to make the Force Weapon.

 

The back pack is from a regular metal Sororitas figure.

 

The spell book is from a Chaos Marine Terminator Lord sprue.

 

The Bolt Pistol in a holster is from the Khorne Berzerkers sprue. The Grenades are from a Tactical Space Marine sprue.

 

The skull shoulder guards and the skull on the base are from a WHFB Tomb Kings Skeleton Warriors sprue.

 

I was going to put a cape on her from a WHFB Chaos Warrior, but I thought to reinforce the idea that she was a SoB and not a DE I had better put the back pack on her instead.

 

What else?

 

The "Impurity Seal" came from... I'm not sure, really. It was just in my bits box.

 

I'm pretty happy with her, actually. :woot:

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the skirt looks fine, but i have to say here waist looks way two busy. i understand you might be a fan of WYSIWYG but on this model it really detracts from the quality. ordinary humans are only so strong after all :P

 

That's an interesting thought, and I can see where you're coming from. Unfortunately the Kabalite model's rear-end is completely tooled up with xeno-tech. I had to shave off a wicked big funky Deldar knife and a couple of vial things, and still there were these weird shapes and flat spots I had to cover up. The bolt pistol helped, and I needed one anyway. The grenades were an after thought, meant to cover up an unidentified flat, circular thing.

 

Do you think the spell book is too much? I rather like it.

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The only thing I can do to "un-busify" the waist would be to strip everything off of it, shave it down some more to get rid of the remnants of the Dark Eldar kit that was molded to it, and then cover it all up with a skirt. I'm going to have to think about whether that's worth it or not.
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Because this girl's rear end just wasn't good enough for you men...

 

This is what her butt looked like after I knifed the last of the Dark Eldar accessories off of it:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-new-behind.jpg

 

And here are the results of my Green Stuff skills, first time making anything like this:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-new-front-001.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-new-front-002.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-new-rear-001.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-new-rear-002.jpg

 

I dropped the spell book, grenades and bolt pistol, but added a little dangley skull to the back to try and mask some of the initial sloppy GS work, and because Chaos just NEEDS skulls on chains. I pulled out a smaller spell book to try and fit it on the base, but the front skirt wasn't giving it enough room, so I replaced the original skull where it had been.

 

I had some Youtube tutorials playing while I made this, and the bit about getting your finger tips wet helped a lot. It was a "learn as you go" process, so I hope she passes muster this time. I tried to make the skirt dynamic, but a couple of times I ended up stretching the GS too thin and having to remake it. This was a pain, but I think I will learned how to do it better for next time. Only I hope y'all like this version, because I really don't want to have to pull her apart a second time...

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It's a very big improvement. The only thing I could wonder is whether or not you could have, perhaps, sculpted on some Chaos runes or such on the tabard. But, then again, that's where good painting comes in. Are you going to paint them to look like human skin leather?

 

Nice use of the skull. It's there, but it's not gaudy or cluttered like the other stuff. Do hope you find a use for that spellbook, I always did like it.

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It's a very big improvement. The only thing I could wonder is whether or not you could have, perhaps, sculpted on some Chaos runes or such on the tabard. But, then again, that's where good painting comes in. Are you going to paint them to look like human skin leather?

 

Nice use of the skull. It's there, but it's not gaudy or cluttered like the other stuff. Do hope you find a use for that spellbook, I always did like it.

 

Thanks! That is a relief! I started to try and mold a design into the front skirt, then thought better of it considering what the "belt" on the backside turned out to look like. When I grabbed the little skull-on-a-chain it was originally going to have the chain and backside shaved off for use as decoration for the front, but I thought it would be more useful on the back (and it clashed with the skull on the base...) I'm thinking I might try and fiddle up something like a "Chaos Rosarius" to give the front more detail. No idea how I'm going to go about it, though.

 

I haven't decided how I'm going to paint her, yet. Since she's an Aspiring Sorceress, I was thinking some Tzeentchian colors like blue and gold. But since she's a corrupted Sister, I was also thinking black and red with gold highlights. The tabard is not going to be stitched together skin, though, just a regular robe.

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I'm so very glad that y'all steered me toward re-doing the Sister, because I'm super thrilled with how she turned out:

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-painted-004.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-painted-002.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/brunhyld-painted-003.jpg

 

And here's that Berzerker Champion I'd been procrastinating on for the last two weeks:

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/golnir-painted-004.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/golnir-painted-001.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/golnir-painted-003.jpg

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/golnir-painted-002.jpg

 

And just for the whatever of it, I made some wound markers for my Daemon Prince, traffic light style:

 

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/dpwoundmarkers.jpg

 

With the Sister I tried a couple of new things for me. I used the Citadel blue wash just to see what would happen. I like it, though it may have gone on too thick in some places. I also tried outlining after the wash to give a cheap highlight effect. It looks better IRL than in the photos. I mucked about with dry-brushing her hair, but I don't think it was working the way I thought it might. I was also going for a "Force Weapon effect" with some green zig-zags on the blade, and they just didn't turn out like I wanted. It sort of looks "Force Weapon-ey", but that's something I'm really going to have to work on.

 

With the Berzerker Champion I also tried a couple of new things. To get the blood spilling effect I took some Blood Red on the brush, dipped it in my brush cleaner for a second and let it run around the base. The other thing I did had to do with finding my smaller drill bits. I drilled out the barrel on the Bolt Pistol, and also the vent holes on the side of the barrel.

 

With the wound markers I tried to freehand "sorcerer symbols" on the spell books. Mixed results...

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That Sister is awesome, I'm dead impressed with how's she's turned out and I may have to borrow the idea for my own Traitor Guard :P

 

I'll be honest I always thought that quartered colour schemes were a bit naff, but you've changed my opinion with these models, now I'm a huge fan!

 

Keep up the good work -Max-!

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