Ashen Sentinels - my Primaris Space Marine army

[Brother Christopher]

As always, great work. I'm ceaselessly impressed (and in a way, envious) with the quality, speed and quantity of what's going on here

[firestorm40k]

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring - except for me still chipping away at Heavy Intercessors 

 

 

I think another couple of weeks and I'll have these done. 

 

In more exciting news, I've finally finished the Bladeguard Veterans 

 

And finally, as a Christmas treat  here's a pic of everything I've painted so far for the Ashen Sentinels (minus Scouts, as I forgot/didn't have room to set them out ) 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Honestly, they're a really nice-looking army  

[Rusted Boltgun]

I particularly like those Bladeguard. 

I hope they fare better than Captain Ouranos on the table.

Happy Festivities!

[firestorm40k]

1 hour ago, Rusted Boltgun said:

I particularly like those Bladeguard. 

I hope they fare better than Captain Ouranos on the table.

Thank you  I used them for the first time in a game of Boarding Actions, and they were shot off the table by Tau with Railrifles 

[TheArtilleryman]

1 minute ago, firestorm40k said:

Thank you  I used them for the first time in a game of Boarding Actions, and they were shot off the table by Tau with Railrifles 

That would be the dreaded NUS: New Unit Syndrome

[gaurdian31]

Army looks great! Love the bladeguard! 

[phandaal]

Always enjoy seeing more of your army! These guys are turning out great. Looking forward to chunky intercessors!

[firestorm40k]

So I've finally finished the Heavy Intercessors and Captain:

Later than planned, I caught some flu type thing in the new year so I didn't touch any paints or miniatures for a few days! 

 

I've started the next units for this army - two Desolation Squads. The merry go round of panel-lining and highlights starts again! 

 

Finally, I've started work on an Apothecary. Question out the Fraters here: what colour for his tabbard? The options are either:

- Company colours (so, red) 

- Chapter colour (grey) 

 

Thanks for any input and suggestions to help me decide which colour he'll wear 

Edited January 19 by firestorm40k
Pressed post too early

[firestorm40k]

Double post (apologies ) - more pics of the HIntercessors as these were too big for the previous post! 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I vote red tabard given the success with the cloak in the previous post.

[TheArtilleryman]

Very nice as always.

 

Have you changed the recipe for your guys, or is it just the lighting that makes them look a bit Space Wolfy? The captain photo especially has a very blue tint to it.

Edited January 19 by TheArtilleryman

[firestorm40k]

7 hours ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Have you changed the recipe for your guys, or is it just the lighting that makes them look a bit Space Wolfy? The captain photo especially has a very blue tint to it.

I've not changed the recipe, but you're right, the Captain does look to have a tint of blue  It's just the lighting, the camera on my phone seems to struggle with certain colours under certain lighting conditions. The red helmets often end up looking washed out, for example.  I'm due a new phone later this year, hopefully it'll be one with a better camera 

[TheArtilleryman]

1 hour ago, firestorm40k said:

I've not changed the recipe, but you're right, the Captain does look to have a tint of blue  It's just the lighting, the camera on my phone seems to struggle with certain colours under certain lighting conditions. The red helmets often end up looking washed out, for example.  I'm due a new phone later this year, hopefully it'll be one with a better camera 

I didn’t think you’d have changed it but there’s a notable difference in the photo. It’s amazing the difference it can make. Some colour combos are harder to photograph than others I think. I got the same problem when photographing my t’au. The difference between these two pics for example:

 

 

Top one with daylight behind me, bottom one with artificial lights. It was so hard to get the photos to reflect the actual colours used. Top one is closer to reality but neither are correct.

Edited January 20 by TheArtilleryman

[Heraclite]

I'd go with red too for the apothecary's tabbard, as you'll still have the shoulder pads to display the chapter colour

[ZeroWolf]

I'll third the choice to go red  itlit'll help him look "right" next to the other squads in the company

[TheArtilleryman]

lol just looked at the thread again and the colours look normal - realised I was looking at the thread late in evening so my phone had the night shift display mode on 

 

Not sure why it would enhance the blue though as it’s meant to reduce the blue light, but :shrug

 

Captain photo does look a lighter shade than the other models still, but a lot less blue.

Edited January 20 by TheArtilleryman

[Firedrake Cordova]

8 hours ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Some colour combos are harder to photograph than others I think.

If you're using a phone, then there's probably a lot of additional processing being done (saturation and contrast/curves enhancement, automatic black- & white point point adjustment). On top of that, automatic white balance isn't perfect, and sometimes gets fooled or gets it wrong for no apparent reason, e.g. I shot a 3 image burst with my DSLR, and the middle image had a different white balance, despite the the first and last being within 0.3s of each other.

[firestorm40k]

22 hours ago, Rusted Boltgun said:

I vote red tabard given the success with the cloak in the previous post.

 

12 hours ago, Heraclite said:

I'd go with red too for the apothecary's tabbard, as you'll still have the shoulder pads to display the chapter colour

 

11 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

I'll third the choice to go red  itlit'll help him look "right" next to the other squads in the company

Thank you all for your feedback about the tabbard - I agree with all the points made, so Red it is 

 

Figured I'd do the tabbard before finishing the armour, as I'd rather touch up the white if I get red on it, before it's all highlighted 

[ZeroWolf]

That looks good already 

[firestorm40k]

A quick update - working my way through highlighting the armour on the Desolation Squad - 6 finished, 4 to go:

 

 

And still making slow progress on the Apothecary - having done the tabard, I've just finished highlighting the armour:

 

 

Next I will proceed to go over much of the highlights by adding chipping effects  I'll hopefully be able to share the results of doing that soon. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

The Apothecary's tabard does look rather nice

[gaurdian31]

Seems I missed a slew of updates.  The heavies came out great! I think red was the right choice for your apothecary, it is looking really good!