+ Ultramar Battle Muster - Painting Challenge +

[Runefyre]

Woohoo! Progress!

*pats self on back, arm breaks*

Anyway, finished off 3 dudes today. That leaves 2 more half done, and the other 5 about a 1/3 of the way.

C&C always welcome!

Here's a little group shot with some of my favourite XIII^th models

[Techmarine Harkus]

Finished my vow off last night so now I've got some better light: Pictures! Hope you like them.

 

 

(Click for larger images)

 

In my defence, the bright light I use for photos in leu of a light box makes my highlighting look much more patchy than it does to the naked eye. Apart from that I'm very happy with them. The heat effect on the heavy flamer is the smallest I've tried the technique and it came out well I think, although not so much in the photo. The Praetor's sword is actually very easy to do with an airbrush and some masking tape to be honest. Compared to wet blending anyway.

 

[Runefyre]

Welp....there goes my self esteem

Awesome work!

[Dosjetka]

Wow. :o Those are downright gorgeous.

[Rojo]

Very pretty Harkus!  There's some great work going on in here!  I've been slowly chipping away at the Techmarine himself the last couple of weeks.  Proof:

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/Razzrojo/042c5346-f5aa-4301-854f-50ff17b2118d.jpg

[Dosjetka]

Painted up a test model for my Utramarines. Only the armour is done so far (bar some weathering):

Pic isn't great as the armour is slightly more blue and less purple, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what I'm going for.

Blue armour recipe for those who are interested:

1. Black undercoat;
2. Basecoat with Vallejo Model Color Royal Blue;
3. Heavy wash of following mix: 1:1:1 Drakenhof Nightshade, Druchii Violet, Army Painter Strong Tone (Argax Earthshade);
4. Heavy drybrush of VMC Royal Blue;
5. Light drybrush of Hoeth Blue;
6. Guilliman Blue glaze;
7. Edge highlights with Hoeth Blue.

It took me two hours to get to this stage so another couple of hours and he should be done.

[obsidian quacker]

Hi all. Sorry for no updates in a while but life gets in the way, day after day, hip hip hooray.

 

So a bit of an update

 

10102016518[1] by obsdian quacker, on Flickr

 

All that's left is the gold needs shading and highlighting and the burnt toast (it's only looks like burnt toast) needs turning into some terrain.

 

Also

10102016521[1] by obsdian quacker, on Flickr

 

These marines have decided to comaflage themselves into the burnt toast as well as not being fully built.

 

Otherwise still one 'Blackstar pattern' stormraven to do, both need basing and then transfers to slap on everything.

 

Oh and fluff, hopefully should be easier this time, maybe from the point of view of a mechanic (the future equivalent of one) this time.

 

Nice progress by everyone so far, I do look forward to seeing what everyone does, so I can steal ideas.

 

 

[Prot]

awesome work guys. Very inspirational.

[Grim Dog Studios]

Painted up a test model for my Utramarines. Only the armour is done so far (bar some weathering):

Pic isn't great as the armour is slightly more blue and less purple, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what I'm going for.

Blue armour recipe for those who are interested:

• Black undercoat;
• Basecoat with Vallejo Model Color Royal Blue;
• Heavy wash of following mix: 1:1:1 Drakenhof Nightshade, Druchii Violet, Army Painter Strong Tone (Argax Earthshade);
• Heavy drybrush of VMC Royal Blue;
• Light drybrush of Hoeth Blue;
• Guilliman Blue glaze;
• Edge highlights with Hoeth Blue.

It took me two hours to get to this stage so another couple of hours and he should be done.

Fantastic mate! I honestly wish I had the patience to highlight minis and get results like yours compared to my rough and ready way of painting.

[ShVagYeR]

Greetings Brothers,

 

The move to the new apartment is almost complete and I finally had some time for the hobby.

 

The result is visible below:

 

 

The one on the left is not part of the vow as he was made prior to this event, however for completeness sake he is in the picture. Next to him are two assault marines that are finished, and two more ready for priming and basecoating. :)

[Grim Dog Studios]

Greetings Brothers,

 

The move to the new apartment is almost complete and I finally had some time for the hobby.

 

The result is visible below:

 

 

The one on the left is not part of the vow as he was made prior to this event, however for completeness sake he is in the picture. Next to him are two assault marines that are finished, and two more ready for priming and basecoating. :)

Incredible! Loving those clean lines/highlights, and I really like that shade of blue.

[abadizzle]

Super shoddy WIP pic ahoy! Ugh I wish I had more time to paint. Even if (when I fail this vow I love that this event has made me familiar w more of B&Cs brothers of Ultramar!)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/abadizzilithium/Mobile%20Uploads/termsgt.jpg

The model comp is kinda buggin me- its a real assault on the eyeballs. Oh well... I need to up my 'muster' and push on through! Great work brothers!

[ShVagYeR]

Thank you Wulox and thank you Brothers for all the likes. :)

 

My vow is finished:

 

 

More pictures as always in my WIP thread (click). You're welcome to comment as recently I seem to be the only one posting there. :D

 

The next vow will be coming along in a few days. It will feature some metal boxes for my marines. :)

[Dosjetka]

Excellent progress so far, chaps! Keep the pictures and updates coming. :tu:

[Grim Dog Studios]

Some fantastic progress so far guys!

I am ashamed to admit I haven't done much on my vow, only starting 6 of the 15 tacticals I vowed. I did paint a rhino though that I forgot to add to my vow!

[Joe]

I wish I'd remembered to get my vow in on time. >_> As luck would have it, I've not really had much free time to work on it recently.

Just as a FYI: I've removed the "first vow pledged before x date" to allow anyone to jump into the challenge at any time (it lets abadizzle participate and likely fail ).

You have no excuses now.

In that case, that's awesome. I'll push ahead with my vow and sort him out for this weekend. \o

I, Isinfier, proud member of the Sons of Orar, do swear to fully paint one Brother-Sergeant Caetius of Tactical Squad Ortellus, equipped with combi-flamer and power sword, by Sunday 6^th November 2016. In that time I shall provide at least one 'start' picture of my models and one 'finish' picture of my completed models before the given deadline. If I succeed, I shall bring glory to my brothers-in-arms. If I fail, shame and grief shall be my only companions.

For Guilliman and the Emperor! Courage and Honour!

[Dosjetka]

Wulox: I'll add it to your vow, no worries. :tu:

 

Isinfier: Great! Looking forward to seeing how you go about painting him! I'm considering painting some Sons of Orar soon so I'll be watching for recipes and the like. ;)

[Joe]

I'll probably be basecoating him with Army Painter - Dragon Red as I did my Word Bearers, before giving him a general wash of Carroburg Crimson on the plates and Nuln Oil in the recesses. I'd imagine the biggest issue for me will be the helmet plume, as I don't have a reliable pot of white at the moment, so I might just basecoat the helmet with white as well.

 

That aside, I just reserved my Burning of Prospero box, so I'll have plenty of MKIII to toy around with soon. :p

[ShVagYeR]

I, Shvagyer, proud member of the Ultramarines, do swear to fully paint 2 Razorback armoured transports with Twin-linked Lascannons by Sunday 6^th November 2016. In that time I shall provide at least one 'start' picture of my models and one 'finish' picture of my completed models before the given deadline. If I succeed, I shall bring glory to my brothers-in-arms. If I fail, shame and grief shall be my only companions.

 

[Grim Dog Studios]

Wulox: I'll add it to your vow, no worries.

Isinfier: Great! Looking forward to seeing how you go about painting him! I'm considering painting some Sons of Orar soon so I'll be watching for recipes and the like.

If you're offering I won't say no, as long as nobody else has a problem with this!

Here's the finished rhino:

http://i.imgur.com/weXOxnr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zmCT3tA.jpg

And just to prove that I'm working on the actual vow of tactical marines, here is the 6 that I am currently working on!

http://i.imgur.com/bdGavZ5.jpg

As you can see, I am in dire need of a better painting station. One that can fit both GW paints and Vallejo paints!

Thanks for looking!

[Saul Invictus]

Everyone is doing so great, and here's me with just basecoats and washes done...

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/10/20/834058_sm-.jpg

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/10/20/834057_sm-.jpg

[richmarine]

I Finally did something, really in the mood now to finish these...

 

Right after I buy Battlefield 1.

 

Untitled by Richard Jones, on Flickr

 

Untitled by Richard Jones, on Flickr

 

Untitled by Richard Jones, on Flickr

[Dosjetka]

It's great to see pictures of models with paint on them! Keep up the good work, folks! :tu:

[Saul Invictus]

Managed a bit more work on half of the Tactical squad.

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/10/22/834408_sm-.jpg

[Grim Dog Studios]

Great progress guys!

And just to show I'm still working on my vow, I've got 6 of the tacs done minus transfers. Only 9 more to go!

http://i.imgur.com/X6gmC5D.jpg

Apologies for the absolutely shocking photo, will get proper pics up with good lighting once the entire vow is finished.

Edit: Just wanted to add a small gripe. The B@C heads are dreadful, no matter what I do I just can't get decent looking eyes on them compared to resin MK IV heads. In future I think I'm going to have to buy a bunch of resin heads separately to use!

James