Silver Phoenix's ETL III WIP Thread of awesometacularness

[Brother Argent]

Okay so I have finally decided to enter the magical world of a WIP thread again, after my last two died horrible deaths. With buying a house and my first child on the way my hobby life is taking a major shift so I figured I needed the encouragement of you, my Brothers and Sisters of the B&C to keep me going. Anyway, for the ETLIII I learned from previous years of failure and only vowed small to begin with. I intend on painting a Tactical Squad and a Vanguard Veteran Squad for now, starting with the Tactical Squad.

The army I am painting is my revived DIY Chapter, formally known as the Leopards Argent now called the Star Leopards. Their colour scheme is based loosely off my family heraldry:

Grey being metallic silver. I also vowed to myself that every model in the army would have a story and tell a story, basically I am writing fluff for all the army and making minor conversions etc to show that fluff.

So onto the models, as I am moving house at the moment I have only got the Tac Squad out but here is the basic WIP/Beginning shot of the squad

So thats it for now. Hope to get some progress shots up soon as these guys have to be finished in about 20 days, ready for the move.

SP Out.

[Madwolf Shadowmane]

Glad to see your return SP

[Ace Debonair]

Models are looking good, brother.

Loving the colour scheme, too.

[Brother Argent]

I cant help but find it amusing that my camera phone takes just as good photos as my actual camera... and they are easier to get onto the site too...

[Darth Mustard]

Love the color scheme !!

[deathspectersgt7]

Ditto on the Colors.

[Brother Argent]

Well there has been a disaster on the painting front. Stupid new gw paint sucks. Instead of the deep yellow green I intended I end up with a light peppermint green. Will have to head back to the shop to get a different colour.

[TDF]

I know the feeling. Last time I painted anything (this time last year, in fact, during ETL II) I ran out of Liche Purple. I looked at the pdf GW produced allegedly showing what new colours were equivalent to the old ones, got the appropriate replacement and it was utterly wrong.

[Dosjetka]

Bad luck with the paints. I've had that problem before too. Good luck with finding a replacement!

 

Also, glad to see you back among us, brother :)

[Forté]

Take a look at Coat D'arms range.

[Ace Debonair]

Well there has been a disaster on the painting front. Stupid new gw paint sucks. Instead of the deep yellow green I intended I end up with a light peppermint green. Will have to head back to the shop to get a different colour.

I know how that feels!

Strange how they can go from Warlock Purple to Screamer Pink and yet make the one called pink look more purple than the purple.

Curse you Games Workshop logic!

[Brother Argent]

So after another failure with the GW range I face a tough decision.  Keep going with the colours I have, that I am not truly happy with, or have another crack at buying the right colour.  Seems every time I try and get a yellow green I end up with a brown green.  Thinking either Warpstone Glow or maybe branch out to Vallejo or Coat D' Arms.  Any suggestions on how to achieve the above green?  I was hoping to get these guys painted by the time I move into my new house, so the 20th at the latest but it is starting to look less and less likely...

[Brother Argent]

Excuse the double post but to prove I am not dead as well as continue on my merry way with the ETL I have a couple of really bad blurry camera phone pictures to share with you. Firstly there is the before shot of Vanguard veteran squad Charon:

Deliciously blurry I know. Secondly there is another really bad photo of my WIP Tactical Squad. Yep thats right in the past two months I have completed a grand total of this:

Bear in mind only the first guys face has been painted as I seem to have misplaced all my Caucasian skin tones in my recent move... but at least its progress.

For those whom are waiting for better pictures dont worry it will come.... Probably when they are finished.