Garibaldi's non specific painting thread

[Mr Garibaldi]

Hey folks. I hope posting old figures is ok here, most of these are actually conversion pieces featuring converted Mk VI legs. To have long term repeatable quality i made casts of my conversion work giving me 8 different styles of the legs to use along with some torsos without the eagle on. I also took the time to remove some of the many skulls. Some of the arms are also resculpted or repositoned and things like the pelt on the terminator and the warhammer on the mantis have been sculpted/built from scratch.

 

When starting out my idea was to make a display board featuring a Horus Heresy era army using some rare figures in my collection and using my heavily converted Mk VI figs. Please bear in mind that I'm not massive in to all the fluff and was ignorant even to the fact that GW had even made a Horus Heresy game system! As such this is a road map to picking a Legion for this project with some paint tests, some of the figures are not finished, rather left at the point I became bored or the idea had been realised. The Mantis chapter figure is a display figure that is unfinished, it has been heavily converted and has been waiting for some love for some time.

 

Test fig 1 Dark Angels figure

 

 

I enjoyed the simplicity of these, black undercoat and a deep green zenithal spray shaded with a scab red nadir spray and some fine washes of scab red to line the joints and shadow ares makes for very fast troops. Another bonus point is the chapter symbol is a doddle to hand paint. The downside is they are very dark and that makes for quite a bland looking army at any sort of distance in my personal opinion.

 

Test figure 2. Death Wing terminator

 

 

This figure was painted to make use of the legs in the Dark angel upgrade sprue from way back when... I remember it was a ton of fun to paint but not however quick by any sense lol! This did make me reconsider my bland from a distance remark from earlier. I also used this as an opportunity to paint Hawk Talon, Eagle Wings ancestor from the first 40k novella 'Death wing'

 

 

Hawk talons personal heraldry. In the short story he is entombed in a venerable dreadnought so this must predate that time

 

Test figure 3. Emperors Children

 

 

Yet another fun one to paint! also a very quick mini to paint starting from black with zen Vallejo purple of some sort and again scab red/black nadir and some washes in same to do lines and recesses/shadow. The chapter symbol is a pain in the bum to freehand quickly but boy do they look purdey! Probably the Mrs favourite of the lot and her suggestion to paint from the Visions of Heresy book (next from her is Night Lords!)

 

 

 

Test figure 4. Space Wolves

 

 

Yet another fun figure to paint! This was made using some bits gifted to me from the manager of a local GW (yes before it became War Hammer) and a healthy dose of green stuff to make the pelts. This was in no way quick, mostly due to the fun in enjoying the process. I would love to revisit this paint scheme as it is a little basic and could do with some very dilute scab red and turquoise washes to the shadow areas to reinforce shading and to add depth to the colour. I would also do the battle damage very differently now.

 

 

Chapter symbol not too hard to freehand but still not a quickie, the fact that its on a yellow background also adds some challenge.

 

Test figure 5. Imperial fists

 

 

Well this felt like a perfect balance, plenty bright enough to be interesting at a distance. Relatively easy to paint with both a standard over white with basic zen - nad spray to keep simple but also plenty of scope to push contrast and depth of colour with the character figures. The red spot colour works nice to keep everything readable at a distance. This also fits with the molded detail on one of my rare and to be used figures although it will make for a hell of a lot of work for a whole bunch of others, sometimes it is worth the struggle.

 

 

 

Chapter symbol not too tricky to freehand once I had figured out some cheats.

 

Bonus. Mantis marine WIP

 

This figure was built as a conversion project on its own, a bit of a challenge to make a weapon from scratch and get involved with some mini sculpting after working in a much larger scale for quite a long time. Lots of stuff here to finish with no Chapter icons, no wear or tear on anything, base coat head and the limbs stuck on with bluetack...

 

 

I like painting green and according to the painting masters, painting the colour green makes you happier and helps with stress release.

 

 

Getting this mini out to photograph made me want to give it some love

 

 

Yet again green shaded with a dark red in thin glazes. The hardest thing with this for me is trying to figure out what combos of paint I had been working in, Vallejo something or other I guess.

 

Anyhoo, Mr Garibaldi signing out. Off to watch some Bugs bunny, eat some Bagna càuda and get a nice stiff glass of water

[W.A.Rorie]

Great work so far! 

[Heraclite]

Those are some lovely and pretty well painted marines you've got here!