nurgling6688 Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Yeah, I am going to keep expanding the army. I am currently painting another model and will hopefully finish him today. I also have some other "related" stuff finished as well as several models assembled and waiting. As for the scratches, it is just black painted on in random patches then highlighted with silver. For the minotaurs I might use a scorched brown/black mix just since they have a warmer tone to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asterion Moloc Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Many thanks for the advice! I will give the dark brown route and see how I go :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 I have been getting requests by several people for recipes for my Astral Claws. I know the different recipes are scattered around the thread so I thought I would group them all together. My Astral Claw paint guide: Silver: Basecoat with a chaos black/boltgun metal base. I have this pre-mixed in a pot. You basically just want something slightly darker then boltgun. Line it with P3 Armor Wash. This stuff is great for metals. Line Highlight with Mithril Silver. Tidy up with basecoat. The scratches are just chaos black highlighted with mithril. Gold: Basecoat with a shining gold/scorched brown base. Layer on Shining Gold leaving the basecoat in the crevices. Now the next few steps I vary, in fact going back through this thread i rediscovered a step I have left out recently, so experiment. Wash with Devlan Mud. Highlight with shining gold/mithril silver mix. Wash with Gryphion Sepia (the step I forgot) Re-highlight where needed as well as a final highlight of mithril if you think it needs it. Scratches done in scorched brown and highlighted with the gold/mithril mix Blue: Basecoat Regal Blue. Layer on with a 50/50 Regal/Enchanted Blue mix. Again I have this pre mixed in a pot. Line with P3 Armor Wash On larger areas like shoulder pads I do zenithel highlighting using enchanted blue. I water it down a ton and build up layers so it blends together. Line Highlight with a enchanted/kommando khaki mix. Final highlight of Kommando khaki if it needs it. (That color is kind of transparent so the blue should still show through a bit) Scratches done in Regal/black mix, highlighted with Khaki. Lenses: Base chaos black. Highlight lower right corner of lenses and the forward parts of the eye lenses with dark angels green. About half the lense should still be black. Add in more and more Golden yellow making progressively smaller highlights. Final highlight pure Golden Yellow. Dot opposite corner with skull white. Skin: Basecoat with Tallarn Flesh. Wash with Ogryn Flesh. Second wash of scorched brown near the facial features, mostly just eyes, nose and mouth. Layer with Tallarn/Dwarf flesh mix. Mix in bleached bone for highlights. Do several different steps increasing the amount of bleached bone each step. Final highlight of pure bleached bone on most prominent features. Lightly wash lower lip with Baal Red as well as any implant in their head as the skin would be raw. Lightly wash eyes with Leviathan Purple. Re-highlight eyes and lip a bit as needed with bleached bone. Bases: Base Calthan Brown. Drybrush with Calthan/bleached bone mix. Wash with Devlan mud if it gets too bright. Add snow, add grass clumps. Rim with scorched. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex567 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hope that helps. Hey, Alex here, thanks for this compilation of awsome, realy gonna help me paint my claws! Know where I can get my hands on the P3 armour wash? (live in UK) do specific hobby stores stock it or do I have to order it online? Thanks again for this tutorial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 P3 is privateer press (warmachine). They are one of the few US based hobby companies, I would assume some stores over there would carry it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosjetka Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Funny that you should post the whole thing as I spent considerable time yesterday collecting all the info I could find in this thread and then I discover that you've posted it all together ;) Ah well, cheers for that! Ludovic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenzo_ishivar_kain Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Thank for the tutorial brother, and for your pm's answer :) We want more astral claws!!!!! Oh yes, great work on Valthex ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 So as promised here is the next installment in my Astral Claw army, no more coasting by on squad Numas for me. Marduk http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/tylerrox6688/terminator1-1.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/tylerrox6688/terminator1-2.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/tylerrox6688/terminator1-3.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/tylerrox6688/terminator1-5.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/tylerrox6688/terminator14.jpg Marduk is a veteran of numerous campaigns, more than half of them as a member of the 1st company. He quickly proved his worth after being inducted into the ranks of the chapter from Badab Primaris itself. He quickly rose through the ranks and particularly excelled as an assault marine. He is level headed yet brutal at the same time. Their were numerous accounts of him seeking out glory by slaying enemy champions but he would never do this at the expense of the rest of his brothers. If the mission required him to hold an objective devoid of worthy opponents he would do so without a single complaint. He has been known to risk his own life to save his battle-brothers and thinks of the whole picture instead of just his own glory. He was quickly promoted to the ranks of the 1st where he was awarded a suit of Terminator armor and placed within an assault squad. After experimenting with lightning claws, Marduk discovered he had an affinity with the Thunder Hammer, a weapon as brutal and blunt as he. When Huron began to reorganize the chapter Marduk thought nothing of it, he is a solider, a weapon to be wielded against the enemy, who ever they may be. He knew of Numas when they both served in the 1st but thought little of him, he was simply another Battle-Brother, someone he would sacrifice his life for and expect the same in return. As the Badab War broke out Marduk found great joy in testing his skills against fellow astartes in true combat. His kill ratio was exceedingly high and he particularly liked to battle the marines of the Minotaurs and Carcharodons, warriors he thought were worthy of his skill. The mortal allies of the Legion were considered expandable by him, just as they were to most of the chapter. If his superiors told him to use the Legion as cover and a meat grinder that is what he did. During the final battle at the Palace of Thorns he was embroiled with the enemy near the gates and hallways of the palace proper and only heard of the fall of Huron through the distorted and confusing comm feeds. As the order to fall back was given he made it to safety with little trouble as many of the remaining brothers of the 1st did. Post-Badab War: As far as Imperial investigators are able to determine Marduk still serves within the Red Corsairs as a member of the Terminator cadre. He has proven himself just as brutal, twisted and malicious as his fellow traitors, a personality change no doubt brought on by the warping influence of Chaos and the Maelstrom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asterion Moloc Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Stunning, I assume 4 more on the way? ;) Oh and great name for him too hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenzo_ishivar_kain Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Ahhhhh!!! Most impressive!!! The marble effect on the shield and on the crux terminatus is AMAZING !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Apostle Thirst Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Stunning, I assume 4 more on the way? :D Oh and great name for him too hehe I think what he's saying is that Marduk is already made famous by the Word Bearer series ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 Oops, haven't read those yet. I just picked the name off of a babylonian name data base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batu Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Most impressive!!!The marble effect on the shield and on the crux terminatus is AMAZING !!! True That !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Up to standard, I'd say. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 I need your guy's opinion. For the Guard Commander for my Legion forces, should I paint him with the same spray paint white effect as my test model a few pages back? Or should he have gleaming silver armor with gold accents like the marines he is trying to imitate? I like both ideas, I feel like he would be arrogant enough to wear polished silver armor, but I'm worried it will make him not cohesive with the rest of the guard. Then if i go the silver route there is the question of his command squad's armor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ah-a-nothepsis Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 It sounds like that terminator has a great personality, and it seems like he doesn't talk much. Keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ephrael Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I need your guy's opinion. For the Guard Commander for my Legion forces, should I paint him with the same spray paint white effect as my test model a few pages back? Or should he have gleaming silver armor with gold accents like the marines he is trying to imitate? I like both ideas, I feel like he would be arrogant enough to wear polished silver armor, but I'm worried it will make him not cohesive with the rest of the guard. Then if i go the silver route there is the question of his command squad's armor... I would keep him in the colors of the guard not the legion. I would imagine that the guardsmen would probably be so expendable that the commander could have been promoted when the last commander was fed into the meat grinder before the legion. I certainly wouldn't think the commander would be so bold or presumptuous to imitate marines that he probably fears more than respects. Excellent work so far by the way. I really like the look of the terminator and his shield. The snow on the bases fascinates me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Angman Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I don't know, in general I think of Guard commanders as being quite pompous especially the higher up you go. And I think an arrogant power hungry commander would probably have done better within the ranks than anyone else, especially as Huron went more and more nuts. I think that someone arrogant wouldve been more likely to be promoted after his predecessors death, he might have even had a hand in it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Personally I'd go for the latter idea, to mark him out as a commander but I think you'd have to incorperate elements of the guardsman into it otherwise he'll look out of place. Maybe shiny, silvery shoulder guards and helmet while the torso is white? Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 First of all, simply brilliant. Hope to see more Astral Claws and I would love to see some Post-War Red Corsairs. Second, I could see an arrogant Guard commander trying to incorporate the elements of the Astral Claws into his uniform. It would make him a sort of brown-noser but that's expected in the Guard who become Traitors. Or at least to me it's expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON TALON Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I got some mk 3 iron armour marines and gonna paint them in my own colours that are similar to astral claws so thanks for all tips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurgling6688 Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I will be entering members of squad Numas at the Chicago Golden Demon tomorrow if you want to see them in person. Wish me luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 For the Tyrant, Brother. Best of luck! BTW, I just started going through your Mengel Blog, and realized we are worst enemies. I went to U of M. :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batu Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Best of luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctus Cornix Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Best of luck Nurgling! So you reside in Austin Texas... Do you ever come down by League City? I'd love to get a few pointers some time :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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