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

[oldschoolsavant]

Just need that final money-shot of everything together now !

[noigrim]

I like the gold and purple scheme, quite fitting

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the cherub-borne chest.

[RolandTHTG]

Man, these are so great and inspiring. 

[Majkhel]

FAN-TAS-TIC!!
Promethean guild is simply great! Really like the colours you've chosen and those striking cables snaking everywhere. Great job on the flames too!

Coin guild... Well, they already were good, but this flying casket bring them to yet another level! Also, my compliments on the icon

I've been away for a while but you sure have been busy Aug. Bravo! Fantastic work

Edited July 18, 2020 by Majkhel

[Augustus b'Raass]

W00T! 

Although I have a new job at the organization I work at, with a lot more repsonisbiity, I did manage to finish some of the mercenaries I creatd for my Iron Guild. It was a bit of a trek ot settle on a colour scheme that worked. At first I did them in yellow armour, and blue-and yellow cloth, but I couldn't settle on a blue that I liked. Then I went for a blue armour scheme with yellow and pink cloth, but that also didn't really jive. Untill I discuvered a very dark Purple colour in my paint collection - and LO! the following scheme was born. 

Here's pics of the first two mercenaries. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like them. As you can ee, I am experimenting with doing the actual eyes of helmetless minis. It's a bit of a steep lurning curve, but I feel like I could manage this IF and when my new paitning tool arrives. More on that later. 

Let me know what you think!

Cheers

Replies:
 

@ jaxom: Thanks! Yeah that was kinda the obvious choice, no? I actually hesitated to do them as such, thinking it would look weird. 
 

@ oldschoolsoviet: Ask me again, for I will not remember!

 

@ noigrim: Thank you! Yeah gold and purple brathe wealth, no? 

 

@ Bjon FIrewalker: As always, thank you!

 

@ RolandTHTG: great - what are you working on?
 

@ Majkhel: Thank you! Yeah the icon was a bit of a hassle to come up with. I really struggled to come up withsomething within the restrictions I had set myself - but suddely it dawned on me to use theat aquilla bit on the cuvature of the Cult Icon. 

[noigrim]

As a member of the guild would put it: spiffing

[Majkhel]

Very nice colour scheme! That purple is indeed working really well with the yellow
Good job!

Edited July 19, 2020 by Majkhel

[BadgersinHills]

The floating dais looks great, and the mercenaries are so cool. Might steal some bits of that for Age of Sigmar conversions. :) 

[Midnightmare]

That coin guild chest is awesome mate :tu:

 

As are the Iron Guild bois, I like the medevil/futuristic mix to their look and the colour scheme rocks!

[hushrong]

Looking fantastic!!!

 

The coin guild really rocks my socks! And I just love the cherubim gold ark hauling all the goods. That thing is perfect!

[Viridia]

Digging the yellow and purple scheme!

[Augustus b'Raass]

I'm still alive!

Sorry guys, I've so swamped that I sometimes think 'das war einmal' when I think of hobby time. 

Nevertheless, I did finish two Necromunda guys a couple of weeks ago, which I haven't had time to share here. So here goes!

The banner bearer:

 

And fancy shotgun fly guy number two:

So this makes five hive scum (which look so fancy that I may as well field them as a Venator gang! Here they are in all their inglorious glory:

I hope you like them!

 

I've agreed with the GF that I'm going to finish Mortarion in painting sessions stretched over a couple of Sundays. Here's what I did today:

 

Not much, but hey - it's something!

Thanks for looking. Cheers

Replies:

 

@ noigrim: hahaha spiffing indeed! 

 

@ Majkhel: Thanks! How do you like them all five together now?

 

@ NadgersinHills: Well most of the bits used are Age of Sigmar conversions - they're Empire Freeguilders!

 

@ Midnightmare: Thank you! Yeah I think part of the grimdark atmosphere and success of the whole 40k Imperial aesthetic is defined by the mix of futuristic and medieval looks! 

 

@ hushrong: Thank you! I really enjoyed building it too. Cost me a lot, but well worth it!

 

@ Viridia: Yeah baby! Yellow and purple for the win if you want something to stick out! ;)

[Gederas]

He lives!

The new Necromunda guys look good, and Mortarion is coming along well. :yes:

[Bjorn Firewalker]

The "hive scum" models are well-painted. I commend your skills and efforts.

[BadgersinHills]

Excellent painting, really going to look into Contrast paints for the lovely brown you've achieved.

 

Hope you and family have been well! :) 

[Augustus b'Raass]

I live indeed. Man I don't think I've ever been away this long. Work is drowning me. Promotions are great and all, but they do drain your hobby time. Hell, I barely have any me tmie at all these days! The only reason I'm posting this is that the missus has an eveninng shift lol

Anyhoo.

Morty is finished!

Pictures:
 

 

 

 

 

And detail shots:

 

 

YOU FEEL LUCKY, PUNK!?!?

 

 

 

 

I hope you've enjoyed looking at the pictures as much as I have enjoyed painting this guy. 

I loved it.

Cheers

Replies:
 

@ Gederas: Cheers! I hope you like him!

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: My thanks, oh he who comments oft.

@ BadgersinHills: Go for it. Contrast paints are certainly the be all and end all, but they have a place in any painter's collection. Mixing them with lahmian medium produces a glaze-like paint that is excellent!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Primarch.

[BadgersinHills]

Love it! The repose is great. :) 

[Gederas]

Love the Mortarion, Auggs

 

The colours are awesome

 

 

Edit: Also, maybe this will allow Kraut to comment on your thread since it hasn't been two months in your thread without any updates ;) :P :lol:

Edited December 5, 2020 by Gederas

[Urauloth]

That's a sick looking Mortarion. In the colloquial sense and, you know...

[Majkhel]

GREAT job, Aug! 
This type of model really brings our painting to a whole another level, no wonder you had so much pleasure working on it :)
I like the colour palette you have chose, especially the white'ish armour plates of the original Death Guard scheme 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone!

So... a while ago, I managed to get my hand on the McFarlance Assault Intercessor. 

It's already painted, and it's a loyalist. 

 

It's truly a remarkable piece of toy technology - the amount of articulation in the figure is amazing. So I took it apart. 


And decided to turn it into a Khorne Berzerker. I've been working on this project for the last couple of weeks but failed to post any updates here, so I figured I should really post some on the B&C to share it with my old online buddies. 

I thought about how to approach it on and off for a couple of weeks, and then remembered that I had a Lord of Skulls chainaxe in my bits box. That sparked a massive drive, which I failed to share here. So I will for what's still to come and here's a montage of what I've already done:

Turns out, the chainaxe is not the only bit from the Lord of Skulls kit that is pretty much to scale:


Besides the chainaxe, also the vambrace and a piece that fit the backpack perfectly. I also sawd off the backpack exhausts and connected them back to the backpack with an armature, which would serve as something to sculpt the backpack 'arms' reminiscent of the classic chaos backpacks.


I then cut off the front of the helmet and created a grille using plasticard and plastic rods, as well as a bionix eye.

 

Removed the ridiculous Imperial Aquila and added trim to the legs.


Added plasticard suports to the pauldrons and scupted on details to make them look as MkIII pauldrons - with skulls from the Citadel Skull pack for studs!

 

And then I started finishing many of the details, like the mouth grille and the bionix eye. I also added a Ogor gut plate to act as a World Eaters Legion Symbol on his chest. 


That's it for now! I hope you like it! Let me know what you think so far, and I promise to share more about this project in the coming weeks.

Cheers

Replies:

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Thank you!

 

@ BadgersinHills: Repose? Mortarion can actually be constructed in one of two ways - with lantern in his right adn the manreaper in his right, and vice versa! It's an excellent piece of kit!

 

@ Gederas: Yeah.... I'm sorry about the lack of updates. I have so little hobby time I'd rather spend it actually hobbying then putting in the time to share my limited progress. Is two months the cut off time to make a thread go in zombie mode? 

 

@ Urauloth: hehehe I get your meaning! ;) :P Also, welcome to my thread! Never seen you post here before. :)
 

@ Majkhel: Yeah man, thanks! It was a joy to paint for sure. I will admit that I'm quite tired of painting Death Guard - I've painted over 10.000 points of them in 2 years, so it's maybe time for a change?

[Gederas]

Now this is an update! :tu: Very nice start. I'm guessing the bulbous areas of trim on the legs will be cut to shape?

And I think three months is when a thread is considered dead/necromancy'd if anyone other than the original thread maker posts in it :P

[Dragonlover]

I've been following the Berzerker on Instagram, but it's nice to see all the pics in one place. Absolutely love the skull studs on the pad rims, feels very 2nd ed Chaos Codex somehow.

 

Dragonlover