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I prefer the former, based on the group shot in your library, squads will stand out on the tabletop. Depending on whether they are codex compliant, you could reserve the black pad for Sergeants or other ranks - it does look good with the gold border. Just my tuppence - both look good!

Welcome to the Ravenspire, @Lathe Biosas! May the Sons of Corax find you many victories

Well written. Good story.

Oh, most crucial part, you always should apply all highlights strokes from darkest part to brightest, or magic won't work. I mean literally move brush tip to center of highlight. Also stroke should be coaxial to brush bristles. This way you get thinnest layer on start of stroke and thickest in the end. Like for shoulderpads you apply brom border to center. For gorget from shoulders to center, etc.

As always it's all imho, and obviously it could be wrong way to do things. Simple? Zenithal(black all over, grey 45 degree, white from the top) and ork flesh contrast for armor. Machanicus standard + administartum gray for rubber joints and gold of your choice for trims. Complex? Black primer, Caliban green all over armor, lahmia medium + warpstone glow 2:1 - 3 layers on areas to highlight(AI already show you areas to highlight) each layer smaller then former by ~0,5-1mm depends how smooth you wanna transition to be. Add moot green into the mix and more medium so it's 3:1:1 and continue to add layers. If result isn't pop enough for you add some corax white in the end and highlights more. Mechanicus standard + administratum for rubber. Gold of your choice.

You can absolutely use Black Templar decals and paint over them. It depends on your brush control, but you can easily touch them back up if needed. My Dark Angels successor uses the normal logo but in yellow and I do the same (although you have green which will go easier over the black).

Agreed, I'm only a bit sad it's come only when army almost complete. And yeah, all barrels are drilled. That's the point of hobby, isn't it? Painting dark green and khaki not fun. At least not in second time. My old army was standard Canadians and it's lead to funny moments, like we play 3k game IG vs IG and turn two we can't understand is it my unit or his.

Very nice!

To be honest, I've no experience with 3D printed stuff, but will keep an eye on this thread to learn more.

Thank you both @Lathe Biosas and @Domhnall. Your time is much appreciated. I've always been a little spare with my writing. I like the idea of a reader thinking for themselves, as opposed to me spoon-feeding them every detail. I see it as a compliment to my readers' intellect. That said, I can see there's always room for improvement, to let the mask slip, as it were. I'll take both your points into consideration when I pick up the pen and paper (or keyboard and screen). Thank you very much. Take a look at the latest entry I penned this eve. Hopefully, it will show another side to the story. OK, OK! I'll have it done week's end. :P

Not sure how much use this is going to be, or if I can convey exactly what I'm thinking, but I think I can understand what is meant by a little stiff. There is a good chunk of the writing is short and sharp, giving the writing a quick pace and moving forward rapidly, at the expense of fluff (character reasoning/world building etc). That's not to say this is necessarily a bad thing! I think it works well for the short snippets type of story you have so far. It'd be more of an issue if/when you wanted to write something a bit longer. You'd need to provide a bit more meat on the story bones, give the reader time to digest and take in what's going on and why. Like I say, I quite like the quick pace and minimal background information on these really short stories, because as the reader I'm well equipped to make assumptions based on what I'm reading and implied context, so I don't need a deep understanding of the why's, just that a thing needs to happen, and it's happening now! Hope this helps.... ?

I was so intrigued I had to go looking at boxes on the internet...(Filter by Astartes, Select Price: High to Low...)

I wrote part 3, but didn't really love it... so I'm rewriting it. Should be out soon. Thanks for reading!

Very nice

Excellent

Aren't those great? I love that sellers other work too. Kinda wish his tanks were a little cheaper though.

Rovfugl's crew is really top notch.

Great story.

Green Log and Gold shoulder pads for sure.

I'll be Commission Painting this year, can I include those models on my Painting Card, or is it only for personal models?

Well good luck with the new endeavour! Sadly the Insignium was one of the books I got rid of when I had a purge about ten years ago. Hopefully you get some hobby time in!

Gold looks good too. Do you think about using celtic cross instead of Maltese? It's obviously differentiate your marines from BT and allow you use any shoulderpads colours without confusion

I like later more.

That's nice! Xenos purging buddies. And even good guys. Good mix of templars and salies.

It's ain't tactical rock, it's tactical floor...

Necromunda Redemptionist for the ones with that I painted (that is John Blanche Art work from the Army Painter sets as back drop) and the Cherubs are from Adepta Sororitas Line. The White Backdrop models (not the GSC Goliath truck) are Forgeworld Characters for the Cawdor/ Redemptionist Line. Peach Back ground is an Artel W figure, pre FW release of the Stig Shambler.

Thank you. Much as I never intended on Laska and the Narrator to get together, this one just felt natural. A few lingering looks, a brush of the fingers over the other's skin...it just worked for me. I must admit, it was a little nerve-wracking writing about it. What do I know about two women in a relationship? The answer is 'very little', which, funnily enough, is also the answer to how much I know about Ratlings. So, I tried to write it so you could substitute either one or both for a different gender and for it to still work. I also ran it past two friends of mine, two women who've been together for 15-odd years and got their approval, which I was very happy about. It's funny how the story sometimes takes on a life of its own. I mean, this originally started out as a GSC story - now it's completely different!

I'm not sure what range these models are from but I am digging the John Blanche kinda feel to them.

I like the header pic you've posted. Good to see something a little different with the Canadians. edit: Yes, I meant to write Cadians, but autocorrect beat me this time. I'm going to own the mistake.

I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I’ve always like Grey Knights, a feeling probably reinforced a fair bit by ADB’s Emperor’s Gift novel. This being done in true scale is an added visual bonus!

Getting to that point of happiness with the process and outcome is a great milestone to have crossed as you look at this year’s schedule. And the scheme looks good. It looks like the barrels have been drilled. Am I seeing that right, or is it a visual trick of the paint job / how the guns came off the sprue?

Keep up the good work! We'll be here with the cattle prods if you start slacking off...

Thank you. I wanted to portray them as professionals. No Top Gun stuff here!

love them

Go for it

Your stories are horrible ...... just kidding. I love your stories, and the work you put into them. Don't worry about hitting deadlines with us. We are here and even we need breaks sometimes

Grey ones for sure. I used Wargames Atlantic for my Militarum Tempestus models

Creme heads are too big. Grey are fine. But why you don't like kasrkins heads? There is heads with gasmasks which looks good. Also if you cut off filters you get almost same heads as your grey but fitting perfectly

Lol, man, there is barely few hundreds of the standard color schemes and several millions hobbyists. You meet every color scheme at least few times. And never look how someone paint their Lil soldiers. They may be good in this or not. Just paint like you want. And paint your marines like Imperial Fists is also fine. Painful but fine. So paint how you like and don't wast your time trying to find something super unique. Also KoTR is cool idea. With little TMM it's gonna be pretty unique looking army. Like silver for highlight, some metallic matching your basing colour for recesses, and some light blue metallic for additional highlights make it's pop a lot. And rare to meet. Just be sure you really like it.

Nice work on the KoTR model. I had a similar thought process as you when I started but my test model didn't come out as well as yours so I abandoned them. (I ended up with a Phobos Kill Team but never wanted to expand beyond that). Looking forward to seeing a painted up army!

Hooray!

Babylon 5…I should see if the family wants to slot it in to the tv schedule for rewatch. Looking forward to see how you translate the 164th to miniatures!

Yeah vacations require another vacation....One more week till the kids are back in school.

Isn't it always the case? XMas time is not that of a rest usually...

Well done

Very imposing! Great Job on Warp Talons

They're big and chunky, but close to the versions that the Night Raptors come with originally, so it works well to give them a little cohesion.

Will be very cool to see some epic Squats! Best of luck with the other backlog as well!

Indeed. My Mum always said I have a face for radio.

Looks good!