Dantay's VI Legion. Hvarls Headtakers

[Lord Blackwood]

i like the reversed grip better i think it makes more sense given the post of the mini

[betrayer41]

Man your grey is looking. Better and better everytime I check this thread!

[quinnwolf]

Quantity AND quality, very impressive, lets make this a haiku.

Edited January 5, 2017 by quinnwolf

[Dantay VI]

Thanks Quinn, what is a haiku though?

 

Betrayer: I have found using some metallic black from Vallejo is pretty good, I am using it n the trim and being slightly darker tan leadbelcher it gives a darker heavier look to the armour.

 

Bladewolf: Yeah I prefer the reverse grip as t seems to flow better, but from the models POV the normal grip kinda makes sense as it would be the natural position if he had just drawn the weapon

 

Oh, BIG NEWS.... RUSS arrived today, so do I work on my half finished stuff, or do I chuck it all to one side and start on the Lord of Winter and War?

Edited January 9, 2017 by dantay_xv

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

I'm of two minds

 

While I want to see how you do Russ, I think you should finish what you are working on...it's not like Russ has real rules right now

[Pearson73]

Reversed grip looks good.

[Dantay VI]

Thanks Pearson73, yeah I prefer the knife that way. Sucks the actual blade went missing though.

 

WLK, yep should probably just knuckle down and get my other stuff done, Russ can be the reward :)

 

So what have I been doing?

 

A bit of hacking, a bit of chopping, some greenstuffing and borrowing my wife's hairdryer

 

And this the pig is almost complete. Dubbed the Pig, because it has been an absolute pig to build.

 

It has sat unloved and half built for the best part of a year on my dsk as I hav picked at it and then put it down deeming it too much hassle to work on.

 

She was one step away from getting diced up and turned to scenery,but as I cut into it, something half-way miraculous happened.

 

The Pig finally took shape.

 

Here she is:

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095317.jpg

 

The Aquila on the front is going to go, as it was not n common use during the Heresy, engine bits still to be added

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095439.jpg

 

The body is slightly twisted and not symmetrical, but overall it is okay, need to fill some gaps and straighten up the missile pods

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095250.jpg

 

Talking of missile pods, I lost the bits for them, so fortunately I had some FW sprue bits to hand which will hopefully do the job, What do you think? Too tall?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095332.jpg

 

So yeah, tons still to do, but a lot of progress form the wreck on my desk. Te Fenryka irfoce is slowly gathering strength

[Slips]

Oh my! Youre one of the Brave (or Masochistic - it gets blurry).

 

Glad it worked out, I know at least a few people who went " :cuss it" when working on one of these.

Edited January 11, 2017 by Slipstreams

[betrayer41]

Thanks Pearson73, yeah I prefer the knife that way. Sucks the actual blade went missing though.

 

WLK, yep should probably just knuckle down and get my other stuff done, Russ can be the reward

 

So what have I been doing?

 

A bit of hacking, a bit of chopping, some greenstuffing and borrowing my wife's hairdryer

 

And this the pig is almost complete. Dubbed the Pig, because it has been an absolute pig to build.

 

It has sat unloved and half built for the best part of a year on my dsk as I hav picked at it and then put it down deeming it too much hassle to work on.

 

She was one step away from getting diced up and turned to scenery,but as I cut into it, something half-way miraculous happened.

 

The Pig finally took shape.

 

Here she is:

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095317.jpg

 

The Aquila on the front is going to go, as it was not n common use during the Heresy, engine bits still to be added

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095439.jpg

 

The body is slightly twisted and not symmetrical, but overall it is okay, need to fill some gaps and straighten up the missile pods

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095250.jpg

 

Talking of missile pods, I lost the bits for them, so fortunately I had some FW sprue bits to hand which will hopefully do the job, What do you think? Too tall?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170111_095332.jpg

 

So yeah, tons still to do, but a lot of progress form the wreck on my desk. Te Fenryka irfoce is slowly gathering strength

Never again.......

[Dantay VI]

Slipstreams, yep I nearly became one of those, but it was weird how cathartic it became as I started lopping away at the knackered front end that was all crooked, and it just started coming together.... I gotta admit, this is the closest a model has ever come to getting junked. Hairdryers for the win.

 

Oh and masochistic probably (don't tell the wife though).

 

Betrayer, sadly enough, no. Now I got the worst behind me, I actually kinda want another one, partly for symmetry (I imagine a flying V with the Sacestus down the middle, then a raptor plus eagle on each wing) and partly because I want to see if I can do a better job than this one, learned quite a bit from it (mainy about patience and not swearing around my 6 year old son).

 

Anyway cracking through the backlog of its and got these worked on last night

 

How about them apples?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095252.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095333.jpg

 

All magged up & ready to go, will add phosphex launchers after re priming black

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095201.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095014.jpg

 

Leviathan is awaiting something special like a T-son dread or some Scarab Occult to go underfoot, btw WLK what are you gonna name him?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095101.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095150.jpg

 

Hodor Jotunsblud... Was a name Fytharin came up with ages back.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095133.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170113_095122.jpg

 

The as-yet un-named rage monster.

[Dantay VI]

Been a bit quiet lately.

Decided that to heck with it I am going to have a crack at the big man himself.

 

Also apologies for the tiny pictures.. Photobucket issues again.

 

This is the third attempt and now quite happy with he metallic, still not 100% on the sword. I haven't done the glazes yet though... It might help pull the sword together. Not even sure I want to glaze the axe (blue like the swords and siege breaker hammer) Trying Stormcast silver for the first time and man does the light really bounce off of it.

 

 

Still al lot of tidy up to do.

 

Plus what colours should I do the centre of the axe??

 

Thanks for looking :)

[Dantay VI]

Okay, so here is where I am at with Russ.

 

Started blocking in the armour

 

Got the metallics on the main body about 95% done and this is the damage from the silver post clean-up... Was a lot worse before this and I still have a random blob to sort of the brassy backpack.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_185012.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_185025.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_185033.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_185051.jpg

 

And this is now where I am currently at, got a lot of the upper body armour blocked in.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225337.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225349.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225355.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225401.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225442.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170125_225431.jpg

 

Let me know what you think.

[Lord Blackwood]

ill take 3 

[Petitioner's City]

Thanks Depthcharge12 and Lokkorex.

I agree on the IW helm for the Iron Priest, looks good and the optics help reinforce the techy aspect, just need something subtle to make him a wolf.

Oddly enough you say the wolf helm is too Wolfy Mcwolf, but if you read Leman Russ from the Primarch series, it appears that Russ wears a wolf head deathmask, when out chopping stuff up, just as the lion also wears a helm. BL seem to be making 30K wolves more 40K in appearance, but that is my interpretation.

Personally I like the more stripped back look

 

Wolf-themed details on the legion aren't new. They were part of space wolf iconography in the series since MacNeil's A Thousand Sons, but in a way that can be seen to be both the same and very different from how 40k is depicted. But reread that scene of the arrival of the Wolves early in the novel - it's all pelts and wildness. This is seen also in Prosperous Burns, but of course there is difference too - the leather masks, for example.

 

Also consider how much individualisation is mentioned for officers' armour in the series - the lines etched in The First Heretic, for example, or the armour of the XIII in Know No Fear. So wolf details - but amongst a wider iconography reflecting multiple origins and more complex identities of a legion - can make sense. But that wolf helmet is definitely not one of my favourites, I really struggle to use it :D

[quinnwolf]

I had hoped that Russ would come with his helm, as currently worn by Ulrik, would have to be a little larger though. Would have looked nice mag locked to his belt. 

 

Your headless Russ looks great Dantay. I haven't warmed to the head sculpt yet, or perhaps its the angle that irks me slightly. Nevertheless looking forward to seeing him complete.  Armour looks great, brutally functional as we'd expect from Russ.

[Dantay VI]

I was having a discussion about that with WLK the other day.

 

I do have a spare helm so I could try i when I get home in approx 11 days.

 

My other idea was to use the wolf helmand graft it on to russ' head like a mask, leaving the hair flowing out the back like a mane. In Wolf King he was described as wearing a deathmask while fighting on Dulan... Immortal Joe for 40K!!

[betrayer41]

Holy Hell man, i was half asleep this morning admiring your russ and didn't even realize it was yours! He looks great!! And that base, i need to know how you did it. Beautiful stuff all around bud!

[Dantay VI]

Thanks Betrayer41,

 

Base was pretty simple and is dybrushing all the way, although I expect you could do it just as well and faster with the airbrush.

 

Note, each time you drybrush go a little lighter to leave some of the previous colour showing

Plus I work from the centre out when drybrushing.

 

Lastly drybush te whole base as you are using te same colours to tie it all together, but the shades will give you the different colour variation

 

Prime black

 

Heavy drybrush with dryad bark

 

Heavy drybrush with baneblade brown

Wash tiles and nice bricks with gryphonne sepia

Was rubbly bits with agrax earthshade

 

Drybrush with baneblade brown

Dry brush 50/50 baneblade brown & ushabt bone

Drybrush ushabti bone

 

Wash tiles and nice stuff with sepia

Was gravel rubble etc with agrax

 

Drybrush Ushabti bone again.

 

Along the edges of the brickwork and the tiles etc, edge highlight very gentle drybrush of longbeard grey

Very edge highlight with White Scar

 

Washes again.

 

Edges of tiles etc with either White Scar or Longbeard Grey & done. Slight shine to the tiles is because of over handling the model and having slightly oily skin. You can replicate this wit satin varnish. 

[Griz]

Thanks Betrayer41,

 

Base was pretty simple and is dybrushing all the way, although I expect you could do it just as well and faster with the airbrush.

 

Note, each time you drybrush go a little lighter to leave some of the previous colour showing

Plus I work from the centre out when drybrushing.

 

Lastly drybush te whole base as you are using te same colours to tie it all together, but the shades will give you the different colour variation

 

Prime black

 

Heavy drybrush with dryad bark

 

Heavy drybrush with baneblade brown

Wash tiles and nice bricks with gryphonne sepia

Was rubbly bits with agrax earthshade

 

Drybrush with baneblade brown

Dry brush 50/50 baneblade brown & ushabt bone

Drybrush ushabti bone

 

Wash tiles and nice stuff with sepia

Was gravel rubble etc with agrax

 

Drybrush Ushabti bone again.

 

Along the edges of the brickwork and the tiles etc, edge highlight very gentle drybrush of longbeard grey

Very edge highlight with White Scar

 

Washes again.

 

Edges of tiles etc with either White Scar or Longbeard Grey & done. Slight shine to the tiles is because of over handling the model and having slightly oily skin. You can replicate this wit satin varnish. 

 

This was for the armour on Russ?

[Dantay VI]

Ah no that was for the base.

 

For the armour, I am doing it the same way I do all my Wolves

 

Standard Mech grey & chaos black (2:1) over a black primer

The I will do Standard mech grey, dawnstone and highlight with Administratum grey.

 

Oh I just realised that all te time spent on th back of te model is wasted, as it will be all covered up by the shield and the wolf pelt :(

[Rift Blade]

We all have those moments Dantay. Considering how much painting you've shown us, once in a while is pretty good. LOL!! Please keep it up. Love what you're doing. Waiting for Inferno to drop before placing my order for the Big Man himself. My issue will be what other toys to get with him & the book. LOL!!!

[AceofAllTradez]

Do you paint the armor by hand or do you use an airbrush?

[Dantay VI]

AceofAllTradez: I have been using the airbrush more for vehicles or getting lots of infantry done at one time.

 

Russ and the last few models have been done by hand. I use e airbrush paint to paint by hand as they are pre-thinned so really are awesome for doing regular brush work.

 

Riftblade: Aye and thanks for the compliment. I have to admit Russ is one of the few models that I didn't just glue everything together and work it out from there. I tried the sub assembly way, and it is good, but I struggled with working out where highlights should go. 

 

I have to say Russ is very concentration intensive as there are so many little bits and pieces. Almost at fatigue point with him and it is starting to sow in a few areas where I am saying "screw it". Might take a night off from painting to recharge the old batteries

 

So where were we??

 

Well, just doing some odds and sods

 

Gave the sword a glaze, not sure if I was a bit heavy-handed with it. Noticed FW gave the sword a purple tint, so tried the same.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170127_195557.jpg

 

What do you think?

 

Also, decided to not spend too much more time on areas which will be hidden away, so this happened.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170129_214928.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170129_214935.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170129_214954.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170129_215014.jpg

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20170128_231341.jpg

 

Not sure about the shield, might swap the gold and bronze around.

 

Let me know what you think.  Thanks for looking :)

[Doctor Perils]

Oh wow, he really is magnificent! I love the shading on his armour, and the pelt is awesome. The sword's glaze is also very effective, though it's true you may have been a bit heavy handed (though nothing you can't save with a bit of edge highlighting)

Can't wait to see the metallics shaded up a bit :-)

[Dantay VI]

Thanks.

 

Besides the rear plates which are now mostly covered up, I have only applied the first layer or 2 down, so a lot more to do. :)

 

I have decided that I like t look of the gold on the outer edge of the shield with the bronze on the inner circle. It will break things up a lot better I reckon.

 

I am still trying to work out if I should give the axe a blue glaze like the frost blades, what do you think? Will need to leave it until I get home though, as my Guillemann blue has disappeared into the warp.