Hi everyone, i recently decided to start a small lamenters army project. i already have quite a few different army projects going, a while back i even posted some WIP stuff for tzeentch beastmen on here! (that i've forgotten to post updates on for years). Anyway, for ages my mind has wandered to making some sort of blood angels project, but never pulled the trigger on it until a couple months back and started converting up some sad bananas as i love their whole deal of always getting wrecked and the flavors that can be derived from that. but today i hit the threshold of feeling like theres enough to actually show it off as i did a couple test paints first of theres a regular assault intercessor marine with some conversion work. the freehand is a little rough and ready as it wasn't my main focus and i kinda rushed to get done as a proof of concept... I tweaked the canon color scheme of the lamenters a little bit for my own personal taste and to make them a little more fun to paint. deciding to go with white pads to contrast the yellow armor, and dark brassy shoulder trims to frame them for some contrast to the light of the yellow and white, helping to seperate the two from eachother. For my first try at ever painting yellow armor, or really yellow anything (other than tiny details and hazard stripes here and there) i think it went quite well! Second, i painted up a sanguinary guard! now if i remember right lamenters aren't supposed to actually have these, but to put it bluntly i don't really care, the idea of them fits my take on the lamenters very well (which is to crank up the gilded ornate gothic looks quite high and try to steer towards a general death/funeral -theme with it. 'cus you know lamenters die a lot.) I've always wanted to try to do some dark-looking sanguinary guard trying to cram as much black into the color scheme as possible, and i think it actually works really well, and it fits that whole "gothic funeral" theme mentioned above. He's converted from a heavily modified stormcast liberator, waist resculpted to add extra height, and armor modified to work better with the space marine parts. a 20 year old powerfist and a bolt pistol from the intercessors kit. I went for the classic style of jump packs on my sanguinary guard, as they are well, classic, to me. and i don't like the look of the regular sanguinary guard ones or their wings all that much. i got 5 more of these guys sitting on the workbench awaiting paint, all looking somewhat different, and they were quite a bit of work to build. Heres' the base, pretty simple paint wise but i really like how they came out (i've tried to figure out a good recipe for dusty rubble bases for years). almost have abit of a Gardens of Hecate look to it which iam very happy for, being a big fan of her work.