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Working on the treads next. And then a bit of spot color. How should I paint the Aquila?

Newest batch completed for ORKTOBER! Warboss Boyz Warbikers Deffkoptas (Not a fan of these models, so I used them as test models for some various effects. They turned out meh, but I'm satisfied). Wartrakk

Mission Update 1:59 EST... After calling off the search for the missing eagle head, I went to bed. I got up to use the restroom and immediately found the head by stepping on it.

Legio Crucius

Oh my collections is all Loyalist......Huge Grey Knights army, Large Adepta Sororitas armies, Militarum Tempestus Army, Multiple Inquisitorial Sections, Plus Red Hunters (tacticus armor), Howling Griffons (1st Company Terminators) and Exorcists (Phobos Armor).

Thank you! I'm going for a dark charcoal gray as the overall effect, with pauldrons and knee pads the color of sunset (this tires into their fluff). I'm a bit rusty, still, but the primaris models are definitely a little friendlier than the Bretonnian Knights I used to spend days on... I didn't use zenithal lighting, but I did attempt to highlight "up" and used a bit more Nuln Oil in recesses and "shadowed" areas. Thanks! It's nice to just pick up a brush again.

Ugh. It's getting there. I have the urge to douse it with nuln oil or reikland fleshshade.

Nice!

Just to make sure, you should probably finish both.

Im under the firm belief, that the moment you finish building and painting your Grey Knights, the new ones will be released.

That might be a cool path for your Grey Knights. A Combined force of Red Hunters and Grey Knights. They are both Inquisition.

Amaranthine Verses 78.12 No task that is easy is ever worthwhile.

Construction and priming is proceeding on schedule...

Glad to see you back! Great painting.

I vote Red Hunters all the way.

Lookin' good!

excellent work!

Really like the base! Look forward to how you paint the Knights.

Thank you for the feedback! Yes, while it is very easy to think of Night Lords as super evil, we love torture guys, I find it much more interesting to try and understand how they could actually see themselves as the good guys by continuing the work of Curze to bring compliance through fear. It’s a twisted viewpoint, but that’s what makes it fun. I really enjoyed finding the Librarian’s voice and had no idea what he would be like when I started apart from that first ‘books, books, books’ line. Glad you enjoyed him. I’m going to try and post something new every fortnight or so to enable me to keep up with painting and building. Thanks again!

Better then the mechanical pencils the eldar/ Aledari/ dark eldar/ Drukhari use

There's nothing about this entry that's not fantastic. The lore is so fun, the Saturnine is used beautifully as an obliterator proxy, but the real stars are those Servitors! I love armies where the centerpieces have character, and the Keeper of Ledgers is flanked by two of the most characterful models I've seen in ages. Paint-wise, I really admire the dried and crumbly sense of age you've been able to convey. I feel like dirty models are often heavily washed and feel "wet." Yours seem as if they've weathered the millennia like an ancient Egyptian crypt.

Thank you, it is a great model to put together so can’t take any credit there! I’ll try and take some snaps once I get things magnetised (and if it looks reasonable). For those in the UK Dragoon Gaming have some nice stuff and I’ve got a few odds and ends for: them for kitbashing. The model has a flat-ish surface behind the head and after dropping one of my other models twice and snapping the banner I shortened the pole so that I could subtly attach this in 3 places - I ended up gluing the bottom of the pole and then a corner of the banner each side to the shoulders. It seems pretty solid. Ha, it’s because the imperials have those HB pencils whereas the heretics can only scavenge 2B pencils and a crappy old sharpener…

Great use of that banner and rather fight it in its current load out….power armor stops pencils!!! Except those wielded by John Wick or the Joker. imperial victory!

@Night Lords Pete, yeah you're right, the lava might take away from the overall effect. Power weapons and plasma are going to be orange anyway, and I don't want one's eye to focus on the bases instead of the models. I was thinking the base blue would have significantly less purple in it than the indigo or periwinkle. Love the thought to have little splashes of color on the bases... just enough to make them interesting. It's funny - I feel like the blog responses have more frequent than those to my forum posts. Granted, I'm guessing my exhaustively detailed Index Astartes isn't going to get the type of response as painting questions...

The model looks awesome. From the pictures, I could not tell if the banner was already mounted. Is there a clean surface for adding the banner? I seem to remember running into issues with an old FW version of the sculpt. You will have to show us what you do with the magnets. This could be instructional for a lot of people.

The chains are cool, I am just too clumsy to have anything like that on my models- I know I would touch them wrong and bits would just pop off. Very well done though!

Awesome.

How are you going to paint the inevitable Titan?

Looking good… though the sight of so many loyalists all together makes me twitchy! hope this helps get over the block!

Very nice start - the colours compliment each other well with the dark grey, purple and then flashes of warmth. in terms of basing I’d maybe think about a very light grey, light blueish-grey, or possibly snow over dark slate as I think something that gives a contrast to your deep charcoal whilst also allowing your colour flashes it stand out would compliment your scheme nicely. The scheme will look great collectively as well. Good stuff!

a wash might be nice but I would do a recess shade, highlight, weather/ damage then wash it I believe it was a 3d print of an Out of Print Forgeworld Cyclops demolition vehicle

Well played

That's been the plan adding the the Howling Griffons.

Or how about a combined force of Red Hunters, Exorcists, and Grey Knights?

Some sorta Grey Knight/ Red Hunter combination.....hmm

Insanely cool army there sir. Love your work.

Yes this is also something I didn't get done, so maybe today while it's still warm for October.

that english for ya

Good looking pose, @StratoKhan

Ohhhh....

I love the Warhound kit favorite of the tiny titans.

Great stuff as always.

Nice collection!

Absolutely agree with the above, if you have a coherent colour theme running through the army, then using different colour cloaks to designate role/order will look great. As my painting is not great, I shall refrain from commenting on the paint question! and remember to shout… THIS. IS. THE IMPERIUM (kick filthy Xenos down a well)

so little gak doesn't get in last year event but he waited for year, now he scarier, angrier and ready to give them punishment they deserve?

Not at all. Look at Dark Angels, their Veteran First Company, Deathwing, is basically mirrored with bone white armor instead of cloaks and green cloaks instead of armor. Then their Second Company, Ravenwing, is entirely black and white with the bone white cloaks. Absolutely nothing wrong with using cloak color to designate Companies or Roles, Black Templars use the entire shoulderpad to designate roles instead of company. They don't even use the standard markings, just different color emblem, trim, and/or main shoulderpad.

Warboss Bannernob I am extremely pleased with. Some bloody and gory Beast Snaggaz

Yep. I'll send you a link when I get home.

Death World Serf Mobile ready for asembly.

Drop the Ancient, his 40 pts. Just prep to use Crusading Conquerors (+1 OC) and Ultramarian Destiny (Sticky objective) more then you may have.