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Hi, I'd like to introduce all of you to Gun Genie. She's a bit sensitive about her weight (62 tonnes) and is a bit shy around strangers. You don't want to anger her though, she has a mean punch. These are her friends, a detachment of mech inf IG.  You can see the rest of the army in greater detail here here. Please excuse the terrible quality, I only have my phone for a camera. Most of the squads and vehicles are still missing some detailing, mostly because I haven't quite decided on that stuff yet. I've been working on the army, on and off, since the plastic Cadians were released, so there are some differences in technique and quality on the paintjobs. A couple of friends decided to start up small 40k armies recently, which motivated me to try to get these guys done. It's a 1500 pt army missing, a Hellhound I'm trying to finish converting into a proper light tank of some sort.
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SRM posted:She's so stubby! Thanks! I love the aesthetic of IG tanks, but the proportions generally just look terrible. I'm pretty sure the gunner of a standard Leman Russ would get his face crushed every time the gun was fired. Gun Genie was originally going to be a Conqueror-pattern, and I cut up the tracks to make her look a bit more agile in comparison to the standard Russ. The turret is a mishmash of german and british WWII tanks. I'm still thinking about some way to make a simple suspension system for the tracks, but getting her painted was more important. The tank hunter in the back is based on the StuG III, because the StuG is the coolest armored vehicle ever. Also, I wanted a SPG of some sort and open-topped tanks aren't boxy enough for my taste. The album has a few close-ups. The gun barrel is actually made from the handle of my first hobby knife, I occasionally think about making a plug-type bayonet for it.  I really need to do some weathering on all the vehicles, the camo pattern is a bit too flawless at the moment.
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Aug 31, 2015 15:33
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SRM posted:Speaking of tanks, just finished a Predator for my Dark Angels!] This thing is made of a combination of new and rescue parts - the lascannons and turret are from beat up old kits I've had for years, while the body is new. Fun fact - I can build a Rhino hull without instructions in about 20 minutes! I could probably do it blindfolded at this point. The company transfer got a little messed up by the Micro-Sol and matte varnish, but It's not too bad. I used Baal Predator sponsons and Land Raider lascannons since the stock ones snap off too easily. That's a pretty Predator. I like the chunkier sponson guns, the shape is more like the old metal kit.
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Aug 31, 2015 17:12
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I quite like this type of Taurox myself: That's my half-painted Taurox. The original idea is based off a BMP Chimera conversion I saw somehere, I just added the side doors. I wanted a one that looked like it belonged in my mech IG.
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Oct 3, 2015 17:41
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The Mantis posted:Disclaimer: I live in the third world I'm pretty sure that anything called "gloss" won't be good at accepting more paint on top of it. Primer paints can be bought in jars, if you can't get cans delivered. Priming by hand is no fun of course, and the result can be rough on fine detail.
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Oct 6, 2015 17:51
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The Mantis posted:damnit. thanks for the input. It takes a few coats, like the other guy said you'll need to thin the paint down. But if you're starting from grey you'll get the shading for free, sort of.
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Oct 7, 2015 13:15
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Those wheeled Tauroxes have reminded me that I need some wheels for my artillery emplacements. Does anyone happen to know where I might find 30-40 mm artillery wheels of some sort? I had a look at the Victoria miniatures website, but they only seem to have 25mm ones. I think they'll look a bit small when paired with an Earthshaker. It's a real shame, because they look really cool.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:07
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The second looks much better from a distance, and that way you also have a nice flat spot for a vehicle number or campaign badge on the turret.
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Apr 12, 2016 13:21
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After half year break from 40k I got a game in last weekend. I had fun and I was inspired to drag out my paints and get some work done on my converted Hellhound. She's still missing all the squadron markings and that sort of stuff, I'm still thinking about the exact details. Here she is:   I've ruined my "best" drybrushing brush, so I experimented with a sponge instead. I worked surprisingly well on those big flat sides. Anyway, I just wanted to show off my new long range deep frier. Apologies for the image quality, I'll try to take pictures in better lighting when the markings are done.
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Jun 8, 2016 14:23
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I just finished painting a wise, old alchemist for a D&D campaign I'm running. I'm pretty satisfied, even though the cloak ended up a bit brighter than I intended. The lighting is terrible, sorry about that. I'm down to a single half-broken lamp at the moment.    Is there some easy way to create a sandy base? I have a bunch of models for the campaign that would look much better with a textured base, but I'm too lazy to do much work for it.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:14
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Dr. Gargunza posted:GW make a series of texture paints that are meant to be spread onto bases and drybrushed with lighter colors. They come in several colors, and most of them come in two varieties, with different-sized chunks of texture in them; I believe the sand-colored ones are Armageddon Dunes and Armageddon Dust. I'd completely forgotten about those GW texture paints, I feel a bit dumb. Thanks for reminding me! That Vallejo paste might come in handy for a few other projects too. The model is a Hell Dorado alchemist or something, a line well-suited for my Thousand and One Adventures campaign.
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Oct 10, 2017 20:09
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That GW texture paint is pretty decent, though it does take some getting used to. A thinned down wash really brings out the detail. Here are a few quick basing experiments: An old Tomb Spyder I had laying around. It's a giant bone scarab construct now. Just Armageddon Dunes and a drybrysh of Vallejo Desert yellow.  Thinned down wash on this one, looks much better.  My finished alchemist.  Unrelated to the basing, I just like this image. The slight overexposure(?) works with the super-bright highlighting I was trying out. 
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Oct 12, 2017 19:05
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I've been working a knight for months now, and though I'm finally getting close to finishing I've pretty much run out of ideas regarding her heraldry. After googling for it, I posted about finding any existing Ultramar heraldry in the 40k thread, but apparently there's no such thing. I've spent the last few days working on some simple stuff I might be able to actually recreate on the model. Please excuse the slightly lovely pictures, I'll take better ones when I'm all done. The knight in question:  I've finished the right shoulders since taking that picture, shown below.   Some of my less terrible ideas:  The left one was my starting point, and is sort of my favourite. I'm worried that it'll be too similar in color to the rest of the knight. The design is from artwork of Marneus Calgar sitting on a throne, with a red banner across his knees. I added the U to make it more Ultramar, since it's otherwise a bit too generically Imperial. The one on the right might be better with the red and blue reversed, sort of a red planet floating in space.  Making the halo smaller didn't help, possibly making it even larger so the edges only shows up in the corner might work?  I call the last one "the full weaboo". The problem is that one unpainted panel. I'd like to repeat the aquila on the rear panel to maintain the proper Imperial heraldry, but I've toyed around with doing something across both panels as well. The problem there is that spiky bit in between, it'll interfere quite a bit with any designs. I colored the concepts in paint, so the shades are only approximate. I'm mostly worried that having a full aquila next to the half one on the adjacent panel will look a pit stupid. A slightly lesser worry is distinguishing the heraldry enough from the rest of the knight so it looks clearly different. Red, gold and silver is going to be pretty close to the knights personal heraldry. I have a bunch of transfers I can use, vehicle transfers for both IG and SM, as well as the Knight sheet and AdMech stuff. Using some of them would reduce the chance of a major disaster, and is the main reason for such boring designs. I'm not opposed to freehanding some parts though, so feel free to suggest something different too. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, I'm getting a bit tired of staring at that last panel. I'm pretty pleased with the knight so far, and I'm terrified of loving up this last bit. 
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Dec 9, 2018 18:19
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Doctor Zero posted:What the gently caress is happening on that cover? I wondered the same. It's funny how hard it is to create a 40k Imperial emblem that doesn't look like a nazi/neofascist flag. I tried having the eagle carry The ultra in its claws, but that just looks like an actual nazi flag. Phoneposting, so no pics. The silver orb on a blue field looks harmless and pretty nice. For some reason I hadn't considered going just blue with the base color.
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Dec 10, 2018 11:56
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Furism posted:Don't you think that's on purpose? You can't get much more fascist than the Imperium of Man. I'm sure it is. I wasn't expecting it to be this hard though. No matter which slider I move they all just make things more nazi.
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Dec 10, 2018 13:31
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Twincityhacker posted:I thought I would try to help with the heraldry, so: Your suggestion gave me inspiration for another possible design. I did these in a hurry on my break at work, so they're a bit rushed. The previous pics were a bit large, these should be better. The initial idea was a shield with the outline of the inverted omega, to make it a bit less obvious while still being clearly present. The shape isn't quite right, but gets the point across I hope. The shield would be surrounded by a field of white, possibly with some easy geometric pattern to keep it visually interesting.  Alternative color scheme, looks a bit boring.  I tried to get a bit closer to the correct blue shade. I'm not sure about the gold edge, it might get messy with a pattern on the white.  In all of these versions, there's still space both above and below the aquila for some additional detail. Alternatively, maybe painting some stars on the blue to add some detail? Constellations on the shape of the stars that make up Ultramar? I think I'm getting closer to a working idea, but any comments are still welcome.
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Dec 12, 2018 21:36
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I got some progress done on my Ultramar sigil while sitting at home with a fever all day. I really hosed up by aligning the pattern to the left edge of the shield, but I'm reasonably pleased with it otherwise. I think I can save it by either adding a black edge to the white border or painting the border gold. I've been thinking of adding a laurel beneath the golden eagle, but holding off on that until I have the bird in place.
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Dec 16, 2018 21:26
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I added the aquila, and I'm pretty pleased with how it looks. Does it need anything more? Less white? Stronger dividing line between the pattern and the white border?   The pictures suck, sorry. There's very little sunlight around these parts this time of the year. At least they're huge enough to show all the flaws.
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I've been painting a bunch of good boys and girls this winter. I'm halfway done now, and I have to say that though some of the sculpts were a bit annoying to clean the seam on, I really love each and every doggo.   I think I'll go for the druid next, to get some practice painting flowers. I also finished this djinn prince for my D&D campaign. I'm pretty pleased by the skin tone, it's always a struggle to get right.  I'm going to take better pictures in daylight. I was just playing around with my phone camera settings, trying to get half decent images with the limited light that I have.
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Feb 23, 2020 19:43
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Dienes posted:I'm in love with your husky, and the detail on the corgi is great! Thanks! The husky is the most recent one, and I felt a lot more confident about painting fur while working on her. The material is okay, it's just a tiny bit more rubbery than GW plastic. The rubbery feel of the plastic means that the material bends just a hair more than GW plastic and doesn't come away in clean strips when you drag a blade along the mold lines. Another problem was that the mold lines go along the front legs and up to the ears of the animals, so both the heads, particularly around the ears, and the tails were a pain to clean up due to all the fur detail. There might be better way to do it, but I didn't have the tools for it.
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Feb 23, 2020 21:48
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This closeup of the bulldog fighter sort of looks like a painting, right? 
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Feb 23, 2020 21:53
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Electric Hobo posted:The Firestarter joins my Malifaux crew. I need to get some color shift paint, so I can paint a trail of gasoline from the fire to his fuel can. I like really like the lighting effect, very cool! The muted color palette works really well. Same with the Blanche wights a few posts back. I painted a space ship. My Imperial fleet needs a worthy enemy. +++ Report: Unknown capital ship sighted approaching commerce lanes south of subsector capital. Augur pictgrams enclosed.      +++ +++ Analysis: Type: Grand cruiser. Class: Repulsive class Pattern: Unknown, suspected III Delta Chalcographus (Heretical/M34) Name: Unknown Threat class: High. Engage only at squadron strength. +++ I'll add some portholes and markings once I figure out exactly how I want to do them. I have the four box set cruiser and a couple of Iconoclast squadrons to go.
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Mar 7, 2020 22:09
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Ilor posted:Holy poo poo, this is 3D-printed! It looks fantastic. Thanks! It's not my design, a friend of mine offered to demo his 3d printer and I just googled something suitable to test. It was printed in two pieces, top and bottom. The small guns of the midships broadside batteries didn't come out quite right, but apart from that there were only minor problems with the print. The model designer had pre-split the ship into about a dozen components for better print quality, but looking at these results it seems unnecessary. He printed up an Imperial Navy Dauntless light cruiser as well, in pieces, and that one is almost flawless. The picture is a bit bad, but the only visible serration is on the swooping lines on the side of the prow.  I mostly finished two of the original cruisers yesterday as well: Styx class heavy cruiser  Murder class cruiser  Doom approaches 
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Mar 10, 2020 17:10
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Revelation 2-13 posted:I really hope the the rumors of BFG being worked on are true. I don’t care about titanicus, the fighter one, or black keep whatever or even necromunda, but I’d 100% be in on BFG. They should just copy the star wars armada rules though and maybe iterate and remove some of the fighter insanity, because that’s a great game and I really don’t trust GW to make better rules. I hear titanicus rules are great though, so maybe just start there. They're working on Battlefleet Gothic!? BFG is my favourite GW game ever, even with some flawed rules. They'd only really need to figure something out with ordnance, the current balancing method is unfun. I spoke to my friend, and it looks like I'll be drowning swarms of escorts by next week. 😀
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Mar 11, 2020 14:06
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I finished the last second pair of cruiser from the BFG starter box. So at long last, I have two painted fleets! These two have swappable gun decks. Sadly, the original ships only came with a single sprue containing one pair each of lances/gun batteries/hangars. Murder/Carnage class  Slaughter class  I ordered a bunch of official GW 32mm flight stands for the Iconoclasts and the other future ships, I'll take better pictures of the escorts once I get them mounted. I painted the Imperial ships a long time ago, and I don't really like the blue prows on the cruisers anymore. I'll repaint those, but other than that they look fine. There's about 1300 pts in ships for each side. Chaos fleet Repulsive, Styx, 2 Murders/Carnages, Slaughter, 10 Iconoclasts  Imperial fleet Mars, Dictator, Tyrant/Dominator, Gothic, 2 Dauntless, 3 Firestorm, 3 Sword, 3 Cobra  Up next is battleships, transports and more Chaos escorts.
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Big Ink posted:Where are the lance batteries? Also please tell me they made an announcement I just can't find. Lance batteries? Are you referring to some kind of cheesy fleet design? I only really bought a bunch of different ships because I liked how they looked and wanted to paint different kinds of smaller ships. I did a quick search for BFG announcements, everything seemed to just be rumours based on that one video where the word "gothic" appears among other GW games. I choose to believe.
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Mar 20, 2020 23:22
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S.J. posted:Lances are a weapon type, which hit on a flat number instead of using a gunnery table for conventional guns, usually at the cost of less potential output and some other matchup specific stuff. They're the big fuckoff laser beams, basically. Thank you, I know what a lance is. I was just confused by being asked where the lance batteries are in a picture of my fleet. To answer Big Inks question (assuming he doesn't know what a lance battery looks like), there are lance batteries on the Mars and Gothic class cruisers, the top left cruiser and the one below it. Additionally both Dauntless light cruisers carry a frontal lance armament, as do the 3 Firestorm frigates. The light cruisers and frigates have similar prow stripes for easy identification. I finished my 3rd Dauntless, the torpedo variant. I guess according to the rules, she has to be named either Havock or Vigilant. I'm leaning toward the former. Yellow means torpedoes. 
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Mar 21, 2020 08:27
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ThoraxTheImpaler posted:My kitbashed Lazarus came out pretty good in my book, although through the process I learned to hate painting that banner almost as much as I hate painting yellow in general. That's a cool dude with a cool banner. The lava base is excellent. But hating yellow? Yellow?  What do you know of yellow??  Have you stared into the very soul of yellow???  Have you felt yellow staring back?!?!   Sorry, I'm having a rough time finishing this bastard. I've been painting yellow for two weeks now. It takes six coats of paint to get the yellow to where I want it. Still some detailing to go, along with the heavier turret. At least I'm almost done with the yellow.
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Mar 30, 2020 18:54
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That's a really beautiful fleet! I finished painting two printed fleets as well a couple of weeks ago, a Chaos fleet and a small Ork fleet. Do you have some advice or tips on how to make cool bases like that? I really need to finish the bases on my ships.
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Sep 11, 2020 18:19
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I've spent the last two months (occasionally) painting a pair of battle robots, and I'm really proud of them. I tried for some sort of a retro colour scheme, like some old metal toy robot. Got maybe a bit too excited with the chipping on the arms, but they started out way too clean-looking compared to my army and I got kinda carried away. The bases turned out pretty nice too, my old style was a bit flat and cold. Turns out I only needed a sepia wash to add some warmth and shadows. The lighting is a bit bad, unfortunately, sorry about that.     The rest of the deconstruction crew 
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Oct 20, 2020 19:23
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Spanish Manlove posted:Hell yeah you should be proud of them, those look sick. The chipping is nice and layered, giving a pretty realistic weathering to them. My one teeny tiny gripe is that there's a jarring lack of weathering on the feet, which seems like they would be the most beat up part of the robots as they've been kicking around in a very well put together rocky field (seriously good job on the bases). Thanks! I noticed the lack of foot chipping while finishing the base, I'll probably add a bit more at some point. Thank you for immediately calling me out.  I'm planning on adding some dust effects with weathering pigment powders as well, if I ever manage to learn to apply a consistent layer of it. My test results are awful, I have no idea who to get a consistent thickness. Mixing powder and binder seems to result in completely random results, the wet mix is really translucent but dries into a thick and/or uneven layer.
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Oct 20, 2020 21:38
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Toebone posted:My mom got me a dungeons and doggies set after she found out I like painting little guys, they're real cute Those are some very good boys. I have the first two sets, half painted. I guess I have to get the third set as well.
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Oct 21, 2020 21:32
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I finished up the punching fists for my Kastellans (forgot to take photograph the second set and the light's terrible now). Added some more chipping on the legs too, for balance. I've never really painted larger humanoids, it was an interesting change of pace to have so much more area to work with (and being forced to add detail to it). The cybersmith is in my forge world colors, didn't really feel like doing anything really fancy with him. 
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Oct 28, 2020 19:46
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 Raiders at dusk (I played around with some image editing sliders on my phone, I think the result was pretty cool.) The last couple of months have been a pretty productive time for miniature painting. Here are some highlights, most of these pictures were taken at night and aren't very good. I couldn't figure out how to add links to the albums. Serberys Raiders   I pretty much bought and painted these guys only due to the sergeants pose holding the sabre. Though I do like the models otherwise too. I have a pretty decently sized painted AdMech army now, so I'm taking more time on these new units.Pteraxii   These dudes were a pain to paint. It took forever, since I decided to do them in sub-assemblies. I'm happy with the result, but I will absolutely never paint another one again. The bases were fun, I got to test some weathering pencils and foliage painting. The color shifting paint on the wings is pretty hard to photograph, it looks pretty good irl. Black Consuls Devastators    A few weeks ago I came across a squad of primed devastators from forever ago, and decided to give them a go. My first army (in 2nd ed) was Ultramarines, but I stopped painting marines when the Cadian box was released. I still have an entire army of unpainted marines in various states of assembly boxed up. The plan now is to paint combat squads worth of 2nd founding UM successor chapters. These Black Consuls are the first, on account of having an all black color scheme. Freehanding chapter symbols etc. was a fun and also a bit of a pain, not too bad with only five marines. I think I'm going to paint a squad of jump pack assault marines as Doom Eagles next.I also finally finished my Ultramaines 3rd company captain (base and transfers). I like how he turned out, I was very new to converting back then. 
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superh posted:Holy cow! These look incredible - I'm painting some right now. Mine will not be as good as these, haha. Thanks! I didn't do anything special with these, apart from trying to be as neat as possible and making sure my paint consistencies were exactly right. I was trying out a wet palette for the first time, big recommendation for one of them. It's really great for both maintaining paint consistency over several models and having different colors immediately available if I need to fix some small mistake. If I were to do it again I wouldn't glue the riders onto the dogs before painting. That gave me some trouble with detailing, even though it did speed up other parts of the process. Don't worry about painting all the details, I left a lot of stuff just basic metal colored. Just pick out the interesting stuff. Please post pictures of your dogriders once they're done!
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lenoon posted:
I love scratches on the gun and shoulder pads! The rest is really cool too, of course, but those reminded me to tidy up the chipping on my current project. I'm working on some marine bikes. They're far along enough for some wip pictures.   I started on these about 15 years ago (just basecoated blue for UM), came across them recently while trying to organize all my unpainted stuff. I just spent 90 mins painting Novamarines symbols, counting time spent waiting for my hands to stop shaking. I'm happy how they turned out, except for the sergeants bottom spike. I'll fix that tomorrow. Pretty happy I don't have to paint any more of them though, ever. It would have been so much easier if I hadn't glued the shoulder pads on.
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Those Eschers are really cool! Just finished my Novamarines bike squad:  I haven't done much weathering on space marines before, pretty pleased with the results. The heat shimmer thing on the meltagun worked out pretty well, the multimelta not so much. But I'm pretty sure I know what went wrong. Do you think the banner needs some streaks of dirt or something? It looks a bit too clean now that I'm looking at the picture.
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Oct 14, 2021 19:27
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I managed to finish some Assault Terminators just barely before the new year. It took me almost two months of an hour or two of painting most days, which was way too long. I'm satisfied with the results though. Patriarchs of Ulixis Assault Terminators      
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Jan 4, 2022 22:39
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Nice work! Let's put it in the center of the action. That's amazing. My project to paint up my old marine models is advancing slowly. I just finished a Librarian from the Libators Chapter. That's 6 out of 13 chapters of Second Founding Ultramarines successors for my Ultramar Honor Company collection. (Looking at the glued together model I think I have to go back and paint a black border for the blue Libators chalice on the banner. It looks a bit wierd right now)  My first model for this year was an old Predator, in Aurora Chapter heraldry.  
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Here's a project that's been years in the making. I bought a pair of Basilisks back in ~4th edition, but decided to build them into Chimeras for my mechanised IG. The plan was to turn the remaining Earthshaker parts into gun platforms, but I could never summon the motivation to scratchbuild the legs. I found some small tracks being sold by Victoria miniatures a couple of years ago, and so finally here is the first of my towed Earthshakers! Thanks to the posters (I forgot who) who had good suggestions where to find extra arms with a wider range of poses than the IG sets. The crew is only blutacked on for now, I'll probably drill some pin holes for them eventually to keep them stable but removable.       The second gun is only missing it's crew, I've only barely started converting them. I'll have to upgrade the shell cradles a bit too, but I was just so eager to get this first model completed.
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