DanPesci's "Metalica but not" WIP thread

[DanPesci]

OK!

So, inspired by seeing Prot get work up on here really fast the other day, I thought id share my WIP so far on my admech. These guys have been worked on over the last year and are about 2/3rds complete...quite a bit of tidying up to do and slight details to improve on (and bases...always bases!!) but im getting to a point where im generally happy with the overall look/feel

Bit of a background to this, ive played/painted space wolves for years, but last year ran into a bit of a wall with what i wanted to do with my wolves, and was fed up painting power armour, so i picked up an admech get started box, and have slowly been growing my collection since.

Loved the Metalica colour scheme (despite not liking the name...goes back with me having issues with the band..and always hating their name too haha)...so these are gonna eventually be a DIY forgeworld that just happen to look very similar to Metalica.

Photo quality aint great (espeically on the closeups) but thats what i get for using my old phone in the middle of the night last night.

Skitarii Vanguard

TechPriest & Kastelans

Destroyers

Onagers

And finally - some vangaurd alongside my new SW scheme I've just started on after the admech break gave me just what i needed to get back to my wolves.

Gonna be writing some full fluff to justify why these mkIII wolves are kicking about with an admech contingent (post prospero warp storms may feature quite heavily), but idea was to keep the heresy era grey, but have the weapons be more themed to my admech, as theyve been working on their weapons for a few millenia

Edited September 14, 2017 by DanPesci

[Prot]

Love that scheme! And great clean paint jobs. I like the contrasts, and you've worked a white in with a cream/bone colour... what is that bone colour? I like it.

 

And that Kastelan head... nice touch. :)

Edited September 14, 2017 by Prot

[DanPesci]

Cheers!

 

The base 'bone' colour is rakarth flesh with an agrax earthshade wash, and then the 'whites' are pallid wych flesh highlighted up with skull white (or whatever skull white is called these days!)

 

Yeah i really didnt like the standard kastelan heads, so having my guy with the alt one crushing an inferior kastelan seemed like a fun way of getting that leg pose i wanted

Edited September 14, 2017 by DanPesci

[Bjorn Firewalker]

A fine army.

[MithrilForge]

Very nice army, i thought the Kastelan had ripped his helm off with a blurt of binary saying "i can see better without it" which would mean he's a true space wolf machine then eh?...

 

I love the Icarus   and the grey wolf is Nice!!!

 

cheers Mithril 

[DanPesci]

Very nice army, i thought the Kastelan had ripped his helm off with a blurt of binary saying "i can see better without it" which would mean he's a true space wolf machine then eh?...

 

I love the Icarus   and the grey wolf is Nice!!!

 

cheers Mithril 

 

cheers mithril!

 

Ha loving the idea of the wolves 'rubbing off' on the kastellans, reminds me of the 'honorary' word bearer robot in one of the heresy books...although with less scummy traitor behaviour obviously ;)

 

Running these guys out fo their first 8th edition outing this weekend so looking forward to seeing how they do.