The Lord Commissar Paints

[The Pounder]

Celestine looks great! 

 

Funnily enough I painted mine blue and gold.

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

Looks great, Lord Commissar. I really like the blue, unique and striking.

[WarriorFish]

Thanks comrades! It took me enough years to settle on a colour scheme but better late than never It's a bronze rather than gold, that's on the sword hilt :) I wanted something a little different to the usual gold I'd go for, and a bronze is similar and I think being less "yellow" works better with the blue I have :)

[WarriorFish]

Celestine is finished

Now I can focus on the Stormies, I hope to get them finished this month all going well ready for a follow up vow

[Banjohero]

Wow such a cool model! Love the blue armor with the red cloak!

[duz_]

Cloak looks great!

 

As others have already said the blue and gold is a great choice LC! :tu:

[WarriorFish]

Thanks comrades! :D The colours work really nicely, and strangely it didn't take too long to settle on the scheme either - which is very unusual for me Perhaps the Emperor's hand was present...

 

It's not too hard to paint which is the cherry on top, though perhaps it feels that way as I'm more used to painting halved power armour these days but I shouldn't get too distracted as I have plenty of Stormies who need paint

[Expendable_Aquanaut]

Celestine looks great! I especially like the helmet on the side of the base. Like she threw it off or something.

 

I'm excited to see the stormies painted up. I think they might be some of my favorite models.

[WarriorFish]

Getting there slowly, the base coats are about done:

Once I get to the wash stage they'll start coming together :)

[Arkaniss]

Traditional Inquisitonal red Stormies. I approve! :tu: :D

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Living Saint. The Tempestus Scions look promising.

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

Celestine looks great. Looking back at your pics from page one of this thread, your painting has come a long way over the last 20 years!

[WarriorFish]

Thanks Nico, it's about 25 years now :lol: I still look at that Russ from time to time, but the scale of the work is putting me off. I think I'll save it for when I've cleared the Stormies off my list as that will be a good point of progress on the (Guard) backlog. The tank must be Toughness 10 with the paint :P

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

This year is exactly 20 years of GW games for me, although I think it wasn't until late 2000/early 2001 that I started into 40K. I don't have any of my original models around anymore, but there's massive difference between those and my current projects.

[WarriorFish]

As long as you're always improving that's what counts :) Of course the new fangled paints and such help a lot too - washes in particular :P

[Expendable_Aquanaut]

Discovering washes was a lifesaver... also, I'm excited to see the stormies finished up. I've always wanted to do some inquisitorial themed ones. This might inspire me... because what I need is more guard projects...

[WarriorFish]

They're better than the previous ones, and miles better than the old inks for coverage - liquid talent indeed :P

 

My Guard have a strong link to the Inquisition (as do all my loyalist armies), so the Stormies straddle the line between Guard and Inquisition so the red works neatly there (aside from being the Inquisitor Lord's personal colour).

 

You're right in that you need more Guard projects ;) Stormies would be a great addition and let you play with your theme in different ways :)

[WarriorFish]

Slow but sure progress:

Pretty much just the detail work left now :)

[duz_]

Pretty much just the detail work left now :)

Which on scions means 90% left to go :lol: :huh:

[WarriorFish]

Here's what's left:

• strapping
• lenses
• plasma coils
• skull mask
• weapon casings
• bases

Doesn't seem that much when you write it out... :P

[codyrstuart]

 

Pretty much just the detail work left now :)

Which on scions means 90% left to go :lol: :huh:

I felt this deep in my soul. So. Much. Detail.

[WarriorFish]

His most glorious Hammer is not for the weak of heart I'll be back to some painting tomorrow all things going well and hope to make decent progress on them

[WarriorFish]

Solid progress has been made, they're almost to the finish line

Plasma worked out quite well in the end but I can improve on it next time, I'll know to pay close attention to the gap to ensure it's smoother.

It's good to start getting my Stormies together finally, but there's still plenty more to come!

[duz_]

Looks great I found a trick with trying to line up the power cables:

 

Big bulldog clips manage to hold them in place fairly well and if you use plastic glue it went get stuck :tu:

[WarriorFish]

Stormies finished, looking forward to getting them on the table!

I'll probably go for another squad before thinking about command/HQ slots but I'll see how I go :)