++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Forté]

That's really looking the part now. Your painting is coming out well too ;)

[sockwithaticket]

Good so far, mate. The horns really stand out for me, they've got a very smooth gradiant from base to tip. Kudos for overcoming such an annoying setback so early into the painting process. Oh and congrats on becoming an Uncle!

[KrautScientist]

Good so far, mate. The horns really stand out for me, they've got a very smooth gradiant from base to tip. Kudos for overcoming such an annoying setback so early into the painting process.

 

This. The effect is just sublime!

 

As for the rest of the model, I am frankly torn between utter admiration for a beautiful, Khornate death machine, and extreme envy because you are able to paint such a massive model to such a standard in such a short amount of time, while I am killing myself over two measly Terminator-sized footsloggers

 

Excellent work, mate!

 

P.S: That R2 trash can ROXXORZ, of course! ;)

Edited January 1, 2015 by KrautScientist

[Augustus b'Raass]

FINISHED HIM! 

 

Way, way, way more pics in my showcase right HERE...

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Showcase%20Night%20Lords/LordofSkulls6_zps149a6460.jpg

 

Replies: 

 

@forte:Thanks man, I hope you like him!

 

@sockwithaticket: Thanks for all. Yeah the gradient turned out well. It's even better on his ass - check out the pics in my showcase!

 

@KrautScientist: Cheers K-Sci! I really appreciate your continuing support! Your feedback is of much import to me.

Edited January 3, 2015 by Augustus b'Raass

[Augustus b'Raass]

Sorry to double post, but the finishing of the LoS made my hobby jive go in overdrive. So I am determined to finish the Plague Contemptor before I have to start work again. Here's a little update of plain and simple. Work in Progress. Only the blue to grey base colour done, some Valejo Liquid Gold (VLG) Red Gold, and the brown for all the metal parts. I'm now waiting for the wet'n'sloppy brown to dry, so I can start drybrushing. Thought I'd share some pics

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/WP_20150103_013_zps69759906.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/WP_20150103_012_zps24747223.jpg

 

So the process I follow for almost all my Night lords is as follows:

 

All my Airbrush paints are deluted with my special airbrush liquid (SAL), which is a 1:2 mix of Liquitex Airbrush Medium and Valejo Airbrush Cleaner. The cleaner helps a smooth run through the airbrush, while the liquitex medium adds a sturdiness to the paint itself. It's like there's a little bit of liquid latex in the Liquitex medium, which I greatly value. 

 

Ok here's my recipes:

 

Blue colour:

1. Complete and total spray of VMA Insigna Blue
2. Thick spay highlight with VMA 'Blue Angels' Blue
3. Spray highlight with VMA French Blue (for the Plague Night Lords, including this contemptor, this is instead VMA German Grey)
4. Spray endge highlight with VMA Light Sea Blue (for the Plague Night Lords, including this contemptor, this is instead VMA Barley Grey)

Lightning:

• Watered down 1:1 mix of VMA Light Sea Blue and VGC Off White

Metal:

1. Very wet coat of GW Rhinox Hide
2. Drybrush of GW Leadbelcher

Gold:

1. VLG Old Gold coat (for the Plague Night Lords, including this contemptor, this is instead VLG Red Gold)
2. Drenched in Army Painter (AP) Strong Tone wash
3. Light drybrush with GW Leadbelcher

Red parts (NL symbol wings, cables, etc.):

1. 1:1 mix of GW Mechrite Red with GW Caliban Green (for the Plague Night Lords, including this contemptor, I use GW Bugman's Glow instead of Mechrite Red)
2. highlight of GW Mechrite Red (Bugman's Glow instead of Mechrite Red)
3. Edge Highlight with 1:1 GW mix of Mechrite Red with GW Macharius Solar Orange (GW Elf Flesh instead of the orange)

Bone:

1. Base of GW Rhinox Hide
2. Drybrush of GW Baneblade Brown
3. Wash of AP Strong Tone 
4. Drybrush of 1:1 mix of GW Baneblade Brown and VGC Off White

Lights + OSL:

1. Base of GW Ceramite White
2. 2^nd base of VMA Light Sea Blue
3. Light spray of 3:1 mix of SAL and VMA Light Sea Blue
4. Light spray of 6:4:1 mix of SAL, VGC Off White and VMA Light Sea Blue in the middle areas of the glow.

Skin:

1. Base of GW Bugman's Glow
2. Thick highlight of a 1:1 mix of GW Bugman's Glow and GW Elf Flesh
3. Highlights with GW Elf Flesh
4. Wash with a 6:1:1 of GW Lahmian Medium, GW Rhinox Hide and GW Red Gore

Blood:

• Variable mixtures of GW Blood for the Blood God, GW Rhinox Hide, GW Lahmian Medium, GW Red Gore, and Tamiya X-27 Clear Red 

I hope this answers some questions I've been asked.

 

Thanks again for all the comments on the LoS - I really appreciated them, and especially those with constructive feedback about the OSL from his eyes, you guys made me go the extra mile with him!

Edited January 3, 2015 by Augustus b'Raass

[Augustus b'Raass]

TRIPLE POST!

 

Apologies, but I finished the Contemptor. This was last night, but I can only make decent pics when it when it's light out. So here goes.

 

More pics here in my showcase.

 

His name is Hargolan Adun, He's attached to my Night Lords Plague Marines detachement, that travel with the armada aboard a stolen Imperial Freighter.

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Showcase%20Night%20Lords/WP_20150104_006_zpsdea14813.jpg

[Atia]

Awesome Augustus! Now, i want to do a Helbrute-Contemptor for my HH Word Bearers if i come to them :P

[Argent aquila]

Holllleeeeeeeee crab apples that's well done!

 

Thanks for the painting recipes by the way, very tempted to try your bone color. :D

[Chandrian]

Well Done!!!!  The ruptured armour and guts look great Augustus 

[MagicMan]

Errmaahgerrrd...

 

 

Loving that Contemptor, bro. Suitably nurgley, but definitely a Night Lord!

[helterskelter]

Hells yeah! That's an awesome job right there. Also took your blood based advice, so my thanks to you brother

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks guys!

 

With the CoC over for me, I can finally start something I've been dreaming about in the last couple of months. Actually since IA13 came out... a Rapier battery of three quad heavy bolters. With an average of 6-7 MEQ kills per turn and 12 T7 wounds and a 3+ save for a mere 120 points, these things are more OP than a Knight in a 1000 points battle.

 

I plan on giving all of them an interesting base with some cover, but of course I'll also buy an aegis defence line for them.

 

So here's some preliminary shots:

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/WP_20150111_0041_zpsad055a5e.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/WP_20150111_0051_zps78a2c02d.jpg

 

Hope you like :d C&C as always most welcome.

 

Replies!

 

@Atia: you should, buddy! They're such awesome, super posable mini's you can't go wrong with them. Well actually you can, but as long as you keep the pose realistic, you can't.

 

@Argent aquilla: Happy to help out, brother :tu:

 

@Lord Haelim Lev: thanks man, I hope they made you heave!

 

@MagicMan: thanks mate. It's what I went for. :D

 

@helterskelter: Glad it worked man. 

[Atia]

great work on the base :P 

 

 

 

you should, buddy! They're such awesome, super posable mini's you can't go wrong with them. Well actually you can, but as long as you keep the pose realistic, you can't.

yeah, i just need to figure out how to "warp" the Word Bearers Contemtor xD

[Pearson73]

Looking good, really like the bases.

[Brother Heinrich]

Awesome work Augustus, the glow on the Plasma Cannon is ace. Looking forward to your rapiers.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks guys! Pics of the finished rapier can be found here.

 

As this is a WIP thread, I'll from now on just post a link to the finished models in my Showcase thread. I know most Frater just post pics of finished models in their WIP, but I've been having separate threads for so long it feels weird to switch now. 

 

ANYWAY - I've started my first squad of World Eaters. Thanks to some very good feedback from our Resident World Eater KrautScientist over at my showcase (he told me the marines on my Rapier Battery didn't look VotLW enough  ), I decided to make each and every one of these bad boys a character in their own right. I'm not sure if I can stop myself from at least painting two at the same time, but I'll try. The thing is, with the Valejo Liquid Gold paints I'm using, it's very hard to dose, as you cannot paint these paints out of the pot. You have to pour them in a small containter and paint from that. And as the paint is suuuuuper liquid AND it evaporates super fast due to the alcohol thinning liquid, you cannot pour or work with small dosages. The smallest dosage I've ever managed to work with yielded at least half the trim of a contemptor. 

 

Before I get ahead of myself about painting them, I need to build the berzerkers. So here's my first quick build. I'm still not comfortable glueing small parts together using plastic or super glue (small as in tiny details the size of a frag grenade) - especially when it's resin to plastic. So I've only kitbashed a little. No conversions yet.

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/2015-01-12214646_zps52493bde.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/2015-01-12214704_zps06f4fb8c.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/2015-01-12214652_zps21066fea.jpg

 

Hope you like. Feedback most welcome.

Edited January 14, 2015 by Augustus b'Raass

[KrautScientist]

Haha, you're not wasting any time, are you? Coming along splendidly!

 

Did you get the whole Skullcrusher kit or just the helmets? because the little round armour plates look excellent if used at the center of that Mk 3 (?!) breastplate. Like this:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/4/9/601549-30k%2C%20Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Horus%20Heresy%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

Edited January 12, 2015 by KrautScientist

[Noctem Cultor]

Damn you made me like a Chaos tainted Dread And a NL one too.

 

Also stop making me question if I need to learn to Airbrush, I don't have the time or money in just one man!

 

But seriously more fine work.

Edited January 12, 2015 by Noctem Cultor

[Augustus b'Raass]

Just got the helmets - but that too is a good idea. I have some really tiny khorne symbols somewhere, I'll have a looksee. ;)

[ElDuderino]

Love that guy. i might need to get some iron armor, the skull crusher helmets looks slightly mk3-ish anyways and all the details means they might mesh with dark vengeance chosen reasonably well.

 

Looking forwards to more red guys!

[oldschoolsavant]

Ah, on the right path finally. That LoS has awakened the thirst.....

[Augustus b'Raass]

Two nights ago, KrautScientist gave me two pieces of advice. They've both turned out to be some of the best advice I've had in years, hobby-wise. First, he told me to see each Space Marine as a character in itself. And it's been a stellar experience. Suddenly I got the infantry vibe flowing again, creating models like I did a couple years back. Getting poses exactly as I want them, putting small details on 'm, everything. They come to life in my hands! The second piece of advice is to use WFB chaos warrior arms+ weapons to affix the FW chain axe heads to. Lemme show you what I mean:

Everybody knows and loves these:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/WP_20150114_003_zpsc19440e2.jpg

But how to affix them to your models in a sturdy manner? Most of us have tried something like this:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/WP_20150114_004_zpse70a3316.jpg

But the best method is this (remember to pin them using a 1mm rod of paperclip):

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/WP_20150114_002_zpsc50ba949.jpg


Now that that is out of the way, lemme show you the three Khorne Berzerkers I've made so far...

 

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

You've seen this guy:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/KhorneBerzerker2_zpsd7baf950.jpg

This was number two:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/KhorneBerzerker3_zps19022ad5.jpg

And this is number three (I swear to khorne I bought these MkIII bits from ebay three years ago, in a naive presumption that they were the genuine product (I didn't even know what recasting was back then, as I had just re-started the hobby))
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/KhorneBerzerker1_zpsdb66562a.jpg

They're not glued yet, but they will be soon enough. I have a wonderful method of trying and then pre-fixing everything with poster buddy, so as to get the best pose and bits.

Hope you like, lemme know what you think! C&C always welcome.

Replies:

@ElDuderino: Great idea to mix the DV guys!

@oldschoolsoviet: Yup, on the path to collecting skulls and spilling blood in the name of Khorne!

Edited January 15, 2015 by Augustus b'Raass

[KrautScientist]

Hmm, I somehow wish I hadn't given you all those golden nuggets of advice, because now your 'zerkers actually look way cooler than my own o_O

 

Seriously, though: You're too kind! And those models are amazing, as expected. Don't just blow your entire load of bitz yet, though, because a care package is on its way from the blasted plains of Jhermani to the Hive Slums of Amsterdam

 

Oh, one small thing, though: Make sure to swap in a different head or two: Great as those Skullcrusher helmets are, they also seem a bit "expressionless", for lack of a better word. And you'll have to include at least one bareheaded guy -- don't worry, though: I've got you covered ;)

 

EDIT: Must-see update on the prior page!

Edited January 14, 2015 by KrautScientist

[Midnightmare]

GREAT looking World Eaters - such movement. And Rage. Lots of Rage 

 

Nice work 

[oldschoolsavant]

Would've thought Mk3 was too bulky and clumsy looking, but it just serves hulking brutality rather nicely !