xmercx Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 what is your theme? I am picking up somewhat of an egyptian style with the anubis heads and the death masks. yes, doing an Egyptian theme. I like the art style and the imagery. Was going to combine that with the Angels Encarmine color scheme at least for my DC and SG models. At this point I know I will be doing the tanks in mostly white as well. Haven't gotten much past that. Still haven't figured out a chapter badge yet but I'm leaning toward something like a blood drop inside a sun. I really like the use of those Blood Angel heads, I might steal the idea ;) by all means, I saw it on here when I was looking for ideas so I can't claim to be the first to do it. I pretty much just clipped off the crests and then filed the tops of the heads down so they where smooth. You do end up with a little bit of hair on the back of the head, I left it, but it would be easy enough to clean up and green stuff smooth if you didn't want it there. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3166527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killax Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Mime and Jazz-hands marines. I think I'm in love <3 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3166568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennisBall Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Awesome, always love to see new ideas. Legion of the Damned for Chaplains! It seems so obvious but I've never seen this done before. Good stuff. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3166791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 rough mock up for a SG still lots of clean up and what not to do but this shows the general idea Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3167255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungicats Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 The "egyptian heads" are awesome! How many tomb....erm I mean where did you get them? I am also glad to see I am not the only person in the world that uses toothbrushes in their modeling endeavors. As for the white, I tend to put multiple thin layers on. I've heard using a airbrush works wonderfully as well. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3167293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 The "egyptian heads" are awesome! How many tomb....erm I mean where did you get them? I am also glad to see I am not the only person in the world that uses toothbrushes in their modeling endeavors. As for the white, I tend to put multiple thin layers on. I've heard using a airbrush works wonderfully as well. the heads are from http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=103, they are probably touch smaller then i would have liked but they will work. I have always found toothbrushes helpful for many things in modeling so my old one tend to end up in my brush pile (very useful for cleaning up after filing and sanding). I have been doing thin coats for the white, still playing with how many coats, been mainly using a wet pallet as I don't have an air brush. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3167575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 power weapon blade Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3169720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 some more bits that I ordered showed up so I started working on some ideas for count-as HQ's "Dante" "Astorath the Scorpion King" Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3170704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 PiP for my first Sang Guard, hopefully going to have this guy done tonight. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3172833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) mostly finished the first of my Sang Guard, started working more on Astorath, trying to figure out which head I like better for him Edited September 12, 2012 by xmercx Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3173732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromeZephyr Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 My vote is for the jackal head. Looks the most appropriate. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3174200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 My vote is for the jackal head. Looks the most appropriate. I like the Anubis heads too (that why I got a bunch of them). The only issue I have at this point is that I'm using them on my SG and if I want them to count as death masks then using one on Astorath could make things confusing if I ran an army with both in it. Not sure how often that would actually happen but it is something I am keeping in the back of my head as I plan the model out. Speaking of which, I didn't get too much time in last night but I did try some other head options out: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3174765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromeZephyr Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Yeah, if they're counts as death masks you'd want to avoid confusion. Did you get any of the sobek or apophis heads, perchance? Those would be a good change while still keeping the theme. Don't care for any of the three new ones after seeing the egyptian-themed ones. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3174970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 Yeah, if they're counts as death masks you'd want to avoid confusion. Did you get any of the sobek or apophis heads, perchance? Those would be a good change while still keeping the theme. Don't care for any of the three new ones after seeing the egyptian-themed ones. I got a few of the apophis heads, which are, imo, extremely small for a space marine: right now I'm leaning toward either the anubis mask or the scorpion helm that I had on at first. may end up having to put him on the back burner for a bit and work on some more SG while I decide. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3175320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromeZephyr Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Wow, those are tiny. Yeah, that won't work at all. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3175937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 update time: finished sorting out parts for the rest of the first of the sang guard squads and a PiP for the next member of the squad (working on this one at a time) moving a long slowly. at this rate ill finish this first squad maybe by the end of October. I did take about an hour the other night though and dig out all the bits for my baal so may start work on that soon just to break up the painting of troops. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3182753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 still slow going. 3rd Sang Guard is mostly painted, still need to finish his base and figure out his power weapon blade I started working on some ideas for how to paint the rest of the army. It is still a ways off before I get to painting any rank and file stuff but I will probably be doing some tanks and a storm raven before too long so I wanted to figure out the base colors to work with. so far I have been thinking one of three ideas. One would be to just paint everything white and then mark out squads with different color helms. Second option would be to do something within the normal BA color range (i.e. red/orange/yellow). Third option would be to do something well outside either of the other two ideas. What I came up with: (little better shot of the blue) thoughts? ideas? opinions? I have one vote for the orange already though I'm still kind of mix as to how I want to go. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3192327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 well, it sure took me long enough at this rate I'll finish the army just in time for 7th ed >.< anyway, next up is a sang priest and then a Dante count as. C&C always welcome, will post more pics at I have them Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3230727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 if the jackel heads are death masks then the scorpion helm would be best with that title of the scorpion king. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3231493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razblood Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Awesome looking army you have on the go here, I really like what you've done with the Sang Guard helms and the Anubis helms :D As for the White you could try my 3 coat method ;) which comes out pretty smooth and is a damn sight quicker than successive layering. It's as simple as - Prime White, wash entire model with Black wash (you can mix some Blue wash in to soften the shadows), layer Ceramite White (thinned 50/50) leaving Black wash in the recesses, layer Skull White/White Scar (this layer is to smooth out the previous layer) - Job done :) It wouldn't look different to what you currently have, just smoother. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3231534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Awesome looking army you have on the go here, I really like what you've done with the Sang Guard helms and the Anubis helms :blink: As for the White you could try my 3 coat method ;) which comes out pretty smooth and is a damn sight quicker than successive layering. It's as simple as - Prime White, wash entire model with Black wash (you can mix some Blue wash in to soften the shadows), layer Ceramite White (thinned 50/50) leaving Black wash in the recesses, layer Skull White/White Scar (this layer is to smooth out the previous layer) - Job done :) It wouldn't look different to what you currently have, just smoother. Thanks. I have always kind of been one of those "leave no model unconverted" types. In the past i just stuck with the bits from my GW kits but I am finding that I can make my models look more the way i want if I'm willing to think outside the box. As for the painting, this is sort of what I have been trying doing for the white. Its a white under coat of vallejo foundation white, coat of nuln oil, then come back with white (either ceramite white or vallejo white). Think the real issue with the smoothness is me trying to get use to painting using a wet palette. Trying to break about 20 years of painting right out of the paint pot is slow going. Still working on getting the right amount of water on the palette so the paint is thinned out without breaking the suspension which leads to it being chalky. When I mess up I end up having to do extra layers as the paint is too thin (which I don't always notice right away). Its a learning curve, but considering I use to pretty much just drybrush everything, I think I'm making progress :-) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3231702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 if the jackel heads are death masks then the scorpion helm would be best with that title of the scorpion king. He has been sitting on my painting table with the scorpion helm on for a while now. Just waiting his turn in the paint queue now. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3231704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmercx Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 Sanguinary Priest Legio Draconis 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3235890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razblood Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Well he will definitely stand out :) I really like the Orange, very smooth looking. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3235910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Very clean paint. Like this alot looking forward to more. bring on the KING! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/256750-mercs-madness/page/2/#findComment-3235925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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