Today in the hobby I....

[BitsHammer]

While B&C was down I finished my Redemptor, learned an important lesson about not touching still wet matte varnish when I mushed up what I'd considered to be the best chest aquila I'd ever painted and had to redo the transfe, got burnt out on painting 99% yellow all the time and started a second army to alternate with the Fists so I can go back and forth in terms of painting techniques and color choices and am working on a Genestealer Cult I'm calling the Children of the Throne (because if you're going to have a good cult it needs to sound like it could be a sect of the Ministorum in my book) which involves a riot of colors when compared to the yellow and black of my Fists army.

 

Anyways, have some Redemptor pics:

And I wish I could get a better picture of his fist, but anything clearer is too far away to show the detail of the tiny Imperial Fist icons on his knuckles.

[Magos Takatus]

As much as that warrants a "Yo Dawg..." meme, I really like the attention to detail in putting fists on that fist. It's a nice attention to detail. The black is a nice contrast to the yellow too.

 

TiTHI continued the baby steps to finishing my third Primaris Aggressor. Just a little more highlighting and I'll be done. I am convinced that my Scale 75 metallic paints are eating my brushes though. My brushes used to last years but not they are worn out after a few months. I might have to find a cheap brush company that make hardy brushes. The synthetic brushes I attempted to use just didn't work for me.

[BitsHammer]

As much as that warrants a "Yo Dawg..." meme, I really like the attention to detail in putting fists on that fist. It's a nice attention to detail. The black is a nice contrast to the yellow too.

 

TiTHI continued the baby steps to finishing my third Primaris Aggressor. Just a little more highlighting and I'll be done. I am convinced that my Scale 75 metallic paints are eating my brushes though. My brushes used to last years but not they are worn out after a few months. I might have to find a cheap brush company that make hardy brushes. The synthetic brushes I attempted to use just didn't work for me.

Thanks! I'm copying the HH scheme with yellow and black and wearing fists on both shoulder pads.

[Vykes]

TitH, I finished up yet another Blood Angels Storm Eagle while waiting on some more Sons of Horus stuff to show up,

Primed 3/4 of some Kill Team stuff, and nearly finished some Blood Angels Lightning Claw Assault terminators.

[thewarriorhunter]

That Storm Eagle looks amazing, really well done!

 

TITH I got my Comms Specialist put together. I need to work on his base next:

 

[deathspectersgt7]

TITH finished up some Doom Warriors , a Star Dragon and some others . Also put together a Silver Skulls assualt Squad.

[BitsHammer]

I finished my Iconward this morning (by gluing him to his base) but painted him in about 5 hours last night (counting the time I spent waiting on washes to dry):

 

And because I can't recall if I posted my Abominant (whom I finished the day before) yet:

[Atrus]

Last Night ITH, i finally finished painting the Exorcist i bought and assembled 10 years ago.

[Hfran Morkai]

I scored a FW Combi-Plasma with pistol grip (so the old ones). Needed it for my Speaker of the Dead conversion.

 

Need to get my stuff out of storage now...

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I finished the base for my Comms Specialist and got him pinned two it. Only four more guys to go for my kill team.

 

 

 

[Vykes]

Warrior hunter, dude, you're making me wanna do some 30K world eaters with those awesome blue and whites!  That said... a heavy weapons pack for a comms, I've legit never seen that done before and it's kinda totally perfect. Awesome work mate, awesome work!

 

TiTH, I stripped my starter set Primaris so I'll get to work on them this week.... I have no idea what I'll paint them as yet. 

 

Oh, thewarriorhunter, how'd you manage to cut the circular base toppers so clean anyhow?  Just curious as that's a real good job and a great effect.  May have to do that for an armies/kill team on parade thing. 

Edited October 14, 2018 by Vykes

[Brother Casman]

TITHI completed a few things for my Great Repaintening! As a teaser, here's my new Librarian:

There's a few more pics in my thread, linked in my signature.

[Gederas]

TITHI reached the halfway point of the biggest model I've painted yet, my Brass Scorpion:

 

I also figured out the Power Klaw for my Megaboss (now I just need to wait for the frigging Throgg models arrive). And a lad for scale.

 

Big Klaw for a Big Boss.

[CMDR_Welles]

I finished my first fully painted unit since the mid 90s. 

Squad Verdi of the Legion of the Ashen Choir

 

[Vykes]

Gederas, dat klaw wuz made fer krumpin' and dat's just wot 'ell do!  It's blasted ridiculous and absolutely Orky, love it :P 

 

Commander Welles, first full unit since the mid 90's, eh?  Looks right great, mate!  Fantastic work, seriously awesome.  Aaah the Ashen choir, I just saw that title over in the 'future Renegades of the Warmaster's' section so might right be followin' along.  They look terrific.  Goblin green base... this is giving me real 90's flashbacks. 

[Semper Fortis]

CMDR_Welles, I really like your paint scheme. Squad Verdi looks far more like a capable combat unit and less like they're hoping to make the enemy puke to death.

 

And Gederas, nice work on the brass scorpion. I especially like the subtle symbols on the plates.

Edited October 15, 2018 by Semper Fortis

[thewarriorhunter]

Warrior hunter, dude, you're making me wanna do some 30K world eaters with those awesome blue and whites! That said... a heavy weapons pack for a comms, I've legit never seen that done before and it's kinda totally perfect. Awesome work mate, awesome work!

 

Oh, thewarriorhunter, how'd you manage to cut the circular base toppers so clean anyhow? Just curious as that's a real good job and a great effect. May have to do that for an armies/kill team on parade thing.

Thanks for the compliments! The scheme is actually one my wife came up with. I didn't even know it was so similar to World Eaters until someone mentioned it. These guys are called Spectral Sicarii; for now they're a home brew kill team, they may turn into a chapter but I'm not committing to that yet.

 

Bases are a little work but not terrible. Roll some clay, cut the shape using a base-sized paper template, then sand to size. If you click my Vindicet Honourem link in my signature the last several posts have the details on how I made these guys.

[Gederas]

And Gederas, nice work on the brass scorpion. I especially like the subtle symbols on the plates.

Thanks! You call it subtle, but they're pretty blatant when viewed from certain angles. XD

 

Also: Free-handing wavy lines (which are on the other plates aside from the front-most one) is not my forte

Edited October 15, 2018 by Gederas

[Vykes]

Fortis kinda nailed it, Squad Verdi does look like a Death Guard group cpaable of actually, you know, fighting, and not just letting their overwhelming stink do all the work for them as they pose dramatically like fat blistered greco-roman pottery models.  

 

Eh, no worries Warrior Hunter.  It's a cool look, similar to the bloody boys from the 12th but distinctly clean cut and loyalist.  It's pretty cool.  Clay still curing and have some give or rock hard?  Man, I keep wondering if I should get some of those diamond wire saws and maaaybe even keep the base patterning too.  Either way, looks great and aye, I may have to look into some of those pattern rollers!  You're making it right tempting. 

[thewarriorhunter]

Clay is cured and hard. I had a tub of cheap Crayola Air Dry clay lying around from a previous project. After 24 hours it's cured hard and these have been sitting a couple weeks because I finally got around to them.

[CMDR_Welles]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. 

The Legion of the Ashen Choir is led by Lord Pavarottus (Lord Felthius model). He is a bit of a neat freak, and so has the Ashen Choirs Nurglings lick clean everyone's armor and gear before and after a battle. That is why they are relatively "clean" in appearance. 

I've started on the Cohort for Lord Pavarottus. Once I finish these three Blightlords, I'll start on the other two Plague Marine squads (Liszt, and Wagner)

[thewarriorhunter]

He is a bit of a neat freak, and so has the Ashen Choirs Nurglings lick clean everyone's armor and gear before and after a battle. That is why they are relatively "clean" in appearance. 

 

That is simultaneously disgusting and awesome. Great bit of lore!

[CMDR_Welles]

 

He is a bit of a neat freak, and so has the Ashen Choirs Nurglings lick clean everyone's armor and gear before and after a battle. That is why they are relatively "clean" in appearance. 

 

That is simultaneously disgusting and awesome. Great bit of lore!

 

lol Thanks! Got to give the Nurglings something to do

[Chaeron]

YITH, I got the last few paints needed for my AT project, as well as my Reavers and Warhounds. Really looking forward to trying some new techniques with them all, including a lot of airbrushing I hope!

[Vykes]

TiTH I finished my last extraneous Blood Angels squad and snagged a FW order. They were simple but I tend to have fun with the boys from the 9th.