Merc's madness

[xmercx]

first vow finished:

next vow:

I, Xmercx of the Nova Angels (working title for my succesor chapter), vow on the honour of the Primarch Sanguinius and of the Ninth Legion to paint and present a:

1 Drop Pod (my new Dread needs a faster way to get toe to toe)

before the 30th of November. I will present pictures of my progress in this forum.

I vow to bear the CARCERES IRA badge in my signature, should I fail to complete my pledge. May Sanguinius guide my paint brush.

before pic of the starfish:

[xmercx]

second vow done:

Next vow:

I, Xmercx of the Nova Angels (working title for my succesor chapter), vow on the honour of the Primarch Sanguinius and of the Ninth Legion to paint and present a:

5 man Death Company squad with bolters and chainswords

before the 30th of November. I will present pictures of my progress in this forum.

I vow to bear the CARCERES IRA badge in my signature, should I fail to complete my pledge. May Sanguinius guide my paint brush.

some before pics

[xmercx]

Next vow done (lots of pics inc):

and next Vow:

I, Xmercx, of the proud Nova Angels, vow on the honour of the Primarch Sanguinius to build, paint, and present 5 more Death Company and One Chaplain w/ powerfist before the 30th of November. I will present pictures of my progress in this forum. I vow to bear the CARCERES IRA badge in my signature, should I fail to complete my pledge. May Sanguinius guide my paint brush.

before shot of next vow:

[xmercx]

Finished up my next vow:

Chaplain

And the squad:

and next Vow:

I, Xmercx, of the proud Nova Angels, vow on the honour of the Primarch Sanguinius to build, paint, and present A count as Captain Tycho before the 30th of November. I will present pictures of my progress in this forum. I vow to bear the CARCERES IRA badge in my signature, should I fail to complete my pledge. May Sanguinius guide my paint brush.

before shot of next vow:

[Taranis]

Congratulations on a very nice 4th vow completion. :tu: I like the painting and especially the headgear and shoulders of your Chaplain.

Is it a bought or homemade base for Tycho? He looks very promising. :)

 

Nova Angels lead the way!

[xmercx]

 

Congratulations on a very nice 4th vow completion. :tu: I like the painting and especially the headgear and shoulders of your Chaplain.

Is it a bought or homemade base for Tycho? He looks very promising. :)

Nova Angels lead the way!

It's out of one of the basing kits gw released a while back. Some good stuff in those. Have been using the grass/etched brass/resin bits a lot

[xmercx]

finished up Tycho:

[deathspectersgt7]

This one is so far my favorite.

[Taranis]

Looking mighty fine. I'll update in a minute. :)

[LongGone]

Hey Merc, I know you said you prime white, wash with nuln oil, and then build back up to white. I'm planning to do the same thing with my DIY. When you do your wash, is it over the entire model or just over the all the recesses? I've had people say both, but I really like the way yours came out. 

 

Thanks, 

 

LG

[xmercx]

Hey Merc, I know you said you prime white, wash with nuln oil, and then build back up to white. I'm planning to do the same thing with my DIY. When you do your wash, is it over the entire model or just over the all the recesses? I've had people say both, but I really like the way yours came out. 

 

Thanks, 

 

LG

I undercoat with a white spray paint.  Then I paint the areas that are going to be white armor with celestra grey(gw color).  I then normally get at least a base coat of the other colors the model is going to have and then coat the whole thing with nuln oil (gw color).  Then I start to build back up to white.  Lately I have been using shades of grey for this.  Administratum grey (gw color) and then ulthuan grey (gw color) before getting to the coats of white.  End up using a lot less coats of white this way.

[Devolver]

Your models are brilliant, a great use of bits all blended together and painted in some sweet :cuss schemes!

My hat goes off to you brother keep it up!!

[xmercx]

realized it has been a while since I posted anything. So some pics of what I have been up to.

Working on a "vet" tactical squad using bits from the new kits:

Have an inquisitor in the pipeline to make use of the new codex:

And have been working on a squad of stern guard with melta's using some of the new forgeworld kits:

[deathspectersgt7]

Wave to the Camera,All looking Good.

[xmercx]

update time again. finally got around to finishing off my sternguard squad. They are a mix of the new MKIII Iron Hands squad (with all the nice bionics), the new sternguard kit (mainly for weapons) and some custom made shoulder pads so I can finally give some life to my chapter symbol. These guys also include a slightly new style of base compared to what I have been doing. Got a pot of the new Agrellan Earth technical paint and have been playing around with it. Anyway, on with the pictures.

Next project is likely an inquisitor to make use of the stuff in the new inquisitor codex after which will probably be either more vets (I have another 5 man sternguard and a 5 man vanguard squad to do) or some minions for the inquisitor.

[feuer_faust]

I'm digging the custom symbol and the clean, blocky colors on these guys. Very nice oranges and whites, and love the neat bitz they have all over. :)

[xmercx]

been a while since I posted any update pics.

Finished a few things since my last one.

First, I painted up an inquisitor

And I just finished up painting a vindi:

next up, most likely another drop pod.

[Squeaky]

Wow nice vindicator ;P great wing detailing.

[Captain Semper]

Nice Vindicator indeed! :o

 

Hard as it is for a DA to admit it I reaaaaaaaally like the orange! You've done a suberb job with not one of the easiest colors around... The Cult of Orange should be proud of you!

[JAFisher44]

realized it has been a while since I posted anything. So some pics of what I have been up to.

Working on a "vet" tactical squad using bits from the new kits:

Where is that hand from?

[xmercx]

realized it has been a while since I posted anything. So some pics of what I have been up to.

Working on a "vet" tactical squad using bits from the new kits:

Where is that hand from?

Pretty sure its from either the Sanguniary Guard kit or the new sternguard kit. Just about everything in the army is a kit bash as I tend to just get kits and sort out the parts into bit boxes and then put guys together later. But those are the only ones I could find that look like they have that part.

[deathspectersgt7]

The New additions look great.

[JAFisher44]

Thanks for the info

[xmercx]

Latest project has been completed. Guess I forgot to post some W.I.P. picks but I was pretty sick the last month so I'm surprised I was able to get anything done at all. Anyway. painted up a second drop pod, this time I used a new toy. I picked up an air brush to try out, mainly used it to do the orange on this and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Still have to work on my white but think this turned out pretty decent.

doors closed:

close up of symbol:

doors open:

Action shot:

Not sure what my next project is gonna be. Still have a pile of stuff to get through and I want to get a Knight and some of the guard guys to use as a retinue for my inquisitor >.<. The pile of plastic and resin never seems to get smaller...

[deathspectersgt7]

Just Plain Beautiful !!!.