arctica Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Well a while ago i decided to repaint my nightlords chaos army and split it into two separate armies, Thousand sons and World Eaters. This wip will show my initial progress with both these armies and any other marines i might paint. Anyway enough of that on with the show, Im a really slow painter, but i have at the moment 4 rubric marines painted and i've spent about 4 days now putting together another 12 rubrics, 2 sorcerers, 5 terminators, 1 terminator lord/sorcerer and i still haven't finished green stuffing the terminators and adding a little extra detail to the rubrics. I also still have 6 obliterators lined up to go and thats only my tsons army. http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4577/pict0595dl4.jpg For the World Eaters, i have put together 8 beskers but i still have another 16 to go, a dreadnought, defiler and i want some terminators with lightning claws but it looks like im going to have to fork out for forge world conversion bits and a space marine close combat termies for what i want. Plus the latest release of lord zhufor has made me drool over the model so thats another one for my xmas wishlist lol. Here are two test minis for my beserkers. http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3525/pict0493lz4.jpg http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6250/pict0523ui6.jpg Anyway, I am still pondering whether to give anything without a mark the army paint scheme or an unaligned paint scheme, like black and gold. Comments and criticism are always welcome and apologies for my poor photography skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durus Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Great painting! I really like those thousand sons. For the World Eaters i like the second scheme better. It could be the flash on the photo but the colours on the first one look a bit to neon for my taste. If you are doing themed armies each single unit should show their affiliation for their respective deities. They might not have recieved the blessing of the mark yet, but they are surely worshipping them, right? :) Good luck with your armies. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this (even in spite of your poor photography skills :) ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulse Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I have to agree, those Thousand Sons are fantastic, really well painted!! 2nd scheme i think for the World Eaters! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 Well as a quick update, i've now put together 12 more rubric marine and 5 tzeentch terminators with lord. But i also managed to finish painting a sorcerer for my first squad in about 10 hours, i think its not bad work for tabletop quality. The freehand was fun especially on the shoulder pad and parchment, Im pretty happy with this guy. Anyway your thoughts and criticisms are welcome as always. http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/710/pict0596ro9.jpg http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9306/pict0597ad6.jpg http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2263/pict0598te6.jpg http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4963/pict0599mq1.jpg @Durus, i think you're right about the colour scheme, making them all a coherent army in that respects will look better than what i had been thinking. Also it was the flash on the photo. The reds were done in identical ways on both minis, been trying to practice Lunchbox's technique of red glazing actually but my reds seemed to lack much contrast on the photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 Well after about 4 days of painting (after work of course ;)) i managed to finish painting this terminator as a test model. Im happy with the results but i still think the metal models are really static and im not keen on painting metal models. But anyway the blending of it all is nice and i was trying some different techniques too. I generally work from dark to light when painting but this time on the blue and greys i worked from medium colour and shaded and highlighted. It was quite fun and i think the effects are really good. I took Demi's advice to try and get more contrast in my NMM but i still need to work on it more. Still practicing with glazing and making my blends as smooth as i can. Anyway i'll let you make that judgement, comments and criticisms are welcome. http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4943/pict0604sw1.jpg http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4606/pict0602ml3.jpg http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2118/pict0603cd6.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Atheos Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 very nicely done. distinct painting style. Look forward to seeing more of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItSeWiNg Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Very Well Done Ied Love To See More Pic's - IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Mick Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Looks really fantastic didnt see muh CSM painted like this :tu:. You can be really proud of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Well time for another update, after the Xmas break i managed to finish my squad of thousand sons marines and im pretty happy with them. But i noticed when i was painting them because i had been doing the same thing over and over i was trying to rush through them. Army building requires so much concentration and determination its hard to keep focused. Anyway here are the pics of the unit. http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3761/pict0605pf4.jpg http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3654/pict0606su7.jpg So following this i wanted to break up my painting and do something which would help me refocus when i needed it so i started work on a skull champion for a squad of beserkers i have. This little fella took me 3 days but im happy with the results, and it still gives me the chance to practice my NMM. http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1599/pict0614nx2.jpg http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4358/pict0615yz0.jpg http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4007/pict0616ti1.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4567/pict0617xy4.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wink Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Looking great, I love that lord, the only thing wrong with it is that the head looks slightly awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Awesome stuff there! The rubric marines are by far my favorite, and the purple glows you have going on... just so cool. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nephilim Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Nicely done. I'm gonna have to agree with Wink. The Slaaneshi Lord head always looks funny on Marines. The scale is off. It's a common conversion on the EC boards that gets a lot of flak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Mick Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Looks very good. You can be proud on that :P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 I have currently finished 3 more tsons marines from my 2nd squad but i have also just done the leader of the squad too. I wanted something different for this squad so it wasn't identical to the other one, i darkened the armour colour of the blue and i used a different sorcerer model. The marines i used were my old recycled nightlords with the proper heads. Im really happy with this new sorcerer but comments and criticisms are very welcome. http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/3966/pict0620ah7.jpg http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7995/pict0621if9.jpg http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6191/pict0623rw7.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminatorinhell Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 hot damn those look awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sons of Horus Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 i can't believe i've never seen this before :) those 1k sons are AMAZING!! AWESOME!!! some of the best 1k sons i have seen in a long time. keep 'em coming, i must see more of your astounding 1k sons. the painting on them is great too. very clean and smooth. perfectly done. the Khorne lord looks cool. nice choice for a helmet :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 Heres a fairly big update from me, i have been working on my 2nd squad of thousand sons marines. In general i am happy with them, they are painted to a table top quality, but i did find myself losing focus after a while. I think for two reasons, first was that i have been working on tsons marines for the last two months now and the quality of the models were not as good as the first squad since they were a recycled chaos marine unit from my old original army. Anyway enough of my rambling here is the unit. http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6400/pict0663fp3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well as another update i've finished my terminators after being stricken by the flu, trying to find concentration and strength again is difficult. Overall im very happy with the whole squad and individually they are all of a fair tabletop standard. The blue's are all glazed and im happy with it all. Anyway comments and criticisms are welcome: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2751/pict0673kh8.jpg http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3782/pict0671vw2.jpg http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/163/pict0670ki7.jpg http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/236/pict0667ho0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Those are good looking models! The metallics are spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Disciple Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Very nice work. Those are some outstanding Thousand Sons! i cant wait to see more of your work. Disciple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baal Dropout Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Nicely done! ^_^ get's me motivated :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 Here is another update, i decided rather then working on some obliterators i wanted to paint my chaos lord instead. Im happy with how he turned out and it gave me a chance to improve my grey nmm and my freehand work. Anyway here it is, comments and criticisms are very welcome. http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2210/chaoslord02.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Corvus Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 That NMM is fantastic! ^_^ The freehand on the cape looks excellent as well. It may just be me, but the purple/pink on the base doesnt detracts form the model a bit, but that may just be me! Damn fine job! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 I'm loving those thousand sons, really nice blue. The khorne guys are good too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctica Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 Well after a slow session of painting this weekend i have managed to pretty much finish the model all set for my army. Thoughts/comments and criticisms very welcome. Hopefully when i get more light this weekend i will take a photo of the whole army for you all ^_^ but it's great to finally finish a whole army of 1500pts. http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9578/pict0798.jpg http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2839/pict0796.jpg http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6755/pict0795d.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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