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I have been playing Raven Guard for around 15 years or so, the army is vast and most of it is painted. Have been wanting to add an ally force to it but after painting a few Carcharodons for that purpose, I am now in love and want a whole predation fleet. Tyberos will be in the army but I plan on focusing my forces on another predation fleet. I would assume that his fleet is the 1st predation fleet so I will go with the 3rd fleet, because whyyyyyy not.

 

(also assuming this is how the Carcharodons operate on their sacred duty to travel the empty spaces beyond the Imperium's borders, seemingly forever, to seek out and destroy the enemies of Mankind. That way many predation fleets can patrol all over the edges of the galaxy independently bringing the Emperors will to the Alien.)

 

Took a lot of pics and I just can't get close up shots that look good >< Frustrating to say the least but maybe I will learn as I go.

 

Also any tips or ideas would be awesome and I plan on asking for opinions on some of what I'm doing. Like should I paint the master of the forge red or just a shoulder pad red? Should I paint his personal Land raider Achilles transport red or just a door? What should I work on next a Storm Eagle or Fire Raptor? Stuff like that.

 

Contemptor Dreadnought Nykan

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0567_zpsbda90ed3.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0561_zps03089885.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0553_zps533d9880.jpg

Sicaran Ketos

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0555_zpsfeef7d18.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0557_zpsc013e4bb.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0564_zps0c43f8a8.jpg

Tyberos and the first five Red Brethren WIP

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/DSCF0576_zpsce2b69f3.jpg

 

Cheers

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Looking great! I love the bloody chunks next to the Contemptor.

I vote Storm Eagle next, over Fire Raptor... after all, you'll want to get your sharks up close and personal as soon as possible.

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NovemberIX: thank you sir!

 

Urael: StormEagle would be the better way to go and I have one assembled now. Pics soon

 

Sun Reaver: The cloak is far from done but I'm glad it looks good already and I have plans for painting more troops!

 

Greyshift: The black is straight forward. Chaos black, black wash, sponge on some damage with grey and metals.

The grey is: Mechanicus Standard Grey then a layer of Dawnstone. Seraphim Sepia wash. I use another brush to lightly brush away the wash after about 10 seconds of it being on the model. Leaving only a slight yellow to it. A watered down highlight of Dawnstone and sponge damaging/weathering powders. Pretty easy and I'm sure ill add or change things as I go.

 

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Working on the Brethren now. Sadly my camera just died so I'm recharging the battery, otherwise I would have some wip pics. Ohhhh and Tarvik your sharks(or shark lol) was an inspiration from a while back when I considered starting up the grey beasts. :)

 

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Tarvik: Get to work on yours!!! True scale sharks gives you a lot of options to really bring their personality out.

Here is WIP on Valac my favorite Red Brethren. He is also my Deathwatch Rpg character that I finally got the renown last game session for terminator armour and lightning claws. Couldnt wait to build the model msn-wink.gif

And a question. So power weapons and lightning claws: "Power Weapons generally exude a hazy, blue-coloured field of energy that wraps around the primary impact region of a melee weapon, be it a sword's blade or warhammer's head and is capable of disrupting the molecular bonds of matter when it strikes." Does that mean the energy from the weapon would be hot? Evaporating/heating liquid like blood off of them? Meaning blood would not be on power weapon types, it would only be around it (fingers, hilts etc.)

Don't want to paint blood on the claws if it wouldnt be collecting on them. Just around them. Thoughts?

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/8af54f60-a782-4f0f-9998-f64738000865_zpsba90ce91.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/35dd3ff1-51f1-44c5-ba64-d975fa85d639_zpsf42f5696.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/41df1981-9df7-4afd-8e0a-608193d0f5e9_zps58699f01.jpg

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You'll probably want to do OSL on the claw blades, so do blood effects would be a misted splatter pattern halo from the blades. Wrists, elbows, and knees would get the brunt on the non evaporated blood; shoulders, face, and feet would see less.

He looks brutal, btw. :)

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Well if it evaporates then its a no go and I will just paint it around them then. Glad I checked this, since I am about to start painting the blood right now :) Ughhh and I noticed I missed the ETL registration by a few days...

 

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The first of 10 Red Brethren is done

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/0a193b9c-39d5-4adb-bb2a-15982c5e2165_zps00092db2.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0303_zps74f5340b.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0307_zpsf2ec55aa.jpghttp://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0306_zps972fbd7b.jpghttp://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0309_zps270c4351.jpghttp://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0302_zps7888019c.jpg

 

Tyberos and Red Bredthren transport

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0311_zps62bda5ac.jpg

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Tarvik: Astral Claws it is then :)

 

Here is the Contemptors Drop pod. I bought this off ebay from a guy a few states away and I think its a recast... A ton of terrible spots on it but it was cheap so I guess its ok. Going to make it incredibly damaged to hide that fact.

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b549/Corvuscorax83/IMG_0312_zps840eb2bb.jpg

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