The Warhammer Models Thread III: A Brush With Death

[Ogremindes]

Should I go the realistic route and make my space marine carry his meltagun with both hands...

Or the badass route and have him wield it one-handed with a chainsword

I think two-handed generally looks better.

[Tarinaky]

If you can do it well, badass.

[Ninja Chocobo]

Should I go the realistic route and make my space marine carry his meltagun with both hands...

Or the badass route and have him wield it one-handed with a chainsword

Dude on the left says "Badarse" despite being converted from dude on the right.

[dsmiles]

Dude on the left says "Badarse" despite being converted from dude on the right.

Agreed. Badass is definitely the way to go on SMs. If he was IG, you could get away with realistic, but...

[Sila Prirode]

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Dude on the left says "Badarse" despite being converted from dude on the right.

What weapon is that in his hand? It looks like a Boltgun converted in melta. Or do my eyes decieve me?

[maratek]

Very Nice Conversion i do think that is a Boltgun with a melta gun nozzle maybe you could call it a combi maybe didnt really like the orginal black reach guy but that looks much better

On a more personal note im getting there with half a squad of salamanders will post some pics when i get home but pretty happy with how the green is turning out.

[HalfTangible]

Very Nice Conversion i do think that is a Boltgun with a melta gun nozzle maybe you could call it a combi maybe didnt really like the orginal black reach guy but that looks much better

On a more personal note im getting there with half a squad of salamanders will post some pics when i get home but pretty happy with how the green is turning out.

I'm almost done assembling my assault marines. I'll post some pics when I'm done painting them (or at least close)

[Ninja Chocobo]

What weapon is that in his hand? It looks like a Boltgun converted in melta. Or do my eyes decieve me?

Combi-melta. He's the sergeant.
Paradoxically, AoBR Marines are really good if you're an experienced hobbyist with some bits around.

[Sila Prirode]

I love the idea of combi-melta being just a bolter with added melta ending, I always found regular combi weapons to be too bulky.

[dsmiles]

Mini-dump ahead:

Gobber Bodger:

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Grundback Blasters and Grundback Gunners:

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Some Ghost:

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Angry Minotaur:

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Hawt Necromancer:

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Best Archer Ever:

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Elven Sorceress:

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Jumpy-Jumpy:

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[CreganTur]

I've only been able to finish 1 of the entries I had planned for the Hasslefree contest, but I really likes the way this turned out. Rally not much to say about it.

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[dsmiles]

I think I recognize those barrels and that platform. GW?

[Jair Barik]

Looks like it dsmiles.
On a similar note I have noticed a number of the wyrd miniatures bases in your work (you used a number of sewer bases on some of your robots I think and the graveyard bases in this last lot).

[dsmiles]

Looks like it dsmiles.
On a similar note I have noticed a number of the wyrd miniatures bases in your work (you used a number of sewer bases on some of your robots I think and the graveyard bases in this last lot).

To be fair, the robots are Wyrd minis.

I'll have some ruin bases in the next batch (one for my Ice Queen and one for a yet to be determined mini). I can't remember who made them, though. (I'm going through and re-basing/re-painting a bunch of my old minis that are in dire need of a new paint job.) I really hate just throwing some sand and flock on bases, but it does make them generic enough to use with any army (for a TTWG).

[Jair Barik]

In general I do love your basing work. In some places they need touching up where flock or sand has got on the side in small amounts and look out of place but particularly with the swamp bases brilliant job.

In that last batch of minis I love the red/blue jacks. Not sure about the 'some ghost' paint job though. The black lines don't do it for me, I prefer the blend up to white technique for doing ghosts.

[dsmiles]

In that last batch of minis I love the red/blue jacks. Not sure about the 'some ghost' paint job though. The black lines don't do it for me, I prefer the blend up to white technique for doing ghosts.

Thanks. The ghost was supposed to be done in negatives, but the white wash got washed out (no pun intended) by the varnish. It all turned blue...

[Jair Barik]

For ghost 'flesh' I'm a real fan of the Wyrd miniatures style on models such as the Seishen bodies, Jack daw's skin and most prominently Lost Love. Look them up if you are interested. Can you link any pics of other models done in negatives? I'm curious to see what it looks like.

[dsmiles]

The PP painted Feralgeist is done in negatives. They painted the normally shaded areas with bright yellows, and highlighted it in progressively darker greens.

[Jair Barik]

hmmmmm can't decide if I like that colour scheme or not. On the one hand it makes it look almost translucent but on the other there seems something fundamentally...wrong about it. It's something that I seem to have trained myself to avoid and when I end up with a lighter colour/shade in the recesses it seems like a mistake to be corrected.

Think I might be tempted to try that technique myself on something at some point, see how it works out.

[dsmiles]

If I look really hard, I can still make it out on the ghost, but she needs to be re-painted. Unfortunately, I pinned her to the base.

[maratek]

Salamander

Im pretty happy with how he turned out green to me at least seems to look even Just need to higfhlight the black a little with some grey and id call him done except for the lack of gun and backpack but there on the way primed and drying as i type. never really done flames before so its a first on right shoulder the left ones were part of the shoulder pad so that ws pretty easy. hoping to make each look pretty unique so ill post again when i have a few more done

P.s only thing i dont like after seeing it is how the base looks even just primed it looks silly so i think ill just go with a standard basing thing i was hoping for crazy paving and the added height looks better next to my IG but think ill go against it.

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Pictures arnt that great did them from my iphone think it was the light sorry.

I am always open to improvement so feel free to pick apart what looks daft and stuff advice is welcome.

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Edit ! Bad ass Pose!

[CreganTur]

You've got some really good contrast in that green, which really makes it work rather well. I also like the freehanded flames. Nice job.

[HalfTangible]

When priming, should you point and give a short burst (like a fraction of a second) right at the model, or move the can from side to side (think it's called dusting)

[dsmiles]

When priming, should you point and give a short burst (like a fraction of a second) right at the model, or move the can from side to side (think it's called dusting)

Well, if we're calling it dusting, then I dust. Mostly because I rarely prime (or varnish) just one mini at a time.

[HalfTangible]

I just tried the burst method.

Dear LORD it looks BEAUTIFUL

[dsmiles]

w00t! New stuff:

Kirai:

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I went full-on Carrie on the blood spatter, here. I also used some water effects mixed with red wash to pool the blood in the hole at her feet,and some coming out of the pipe. You might not be able to see the blood pooling in the hole, but it's there, you'll just have to take my word for it.

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[CreganTur]

Wow- that first one is pretty gory. She must have hit an artery.

They're looking good. If you started to thin your paints more then you'd be able to blend in your highlights more- just a thought.

[Eldan]

I just noticed that I haven't posted anything in here in months.

Well, a quick cross sections of what I did this year.


Vampires!
Lord NotVlad!
Note: I can't paint faces. Never could.

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Not his brother!

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I just noticed this guy's face is not visible.

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Blood Knight!

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Skaven!

My new Moulder Baby.

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And I had to make up for that by giving Skryre some new toys.

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And I tried for half an hour, but I can't get a good picture of this guy. I need a new camera.

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[dsmiles]

Wow- that first one is pretty gory. She must have hit an artery.

Then I've achieved my goal. She's the only Japanese-esque master for Malifaux, so I went full-anime. Large eyes, small mouth, mega-blood-spray...the works.

They're looking good.

Thanks!

If you started to thin your paints more then you'd be able to blend in your highlights more- just a thought.

Yeah, I'm still working on the consistency of my paints. Sometimes I grab a paint that I haven't used in a while, and forget to thin it.

[CreganTur]

I've had this box of Nobz sitting in my lad mountain for over a year and finally decided to paint one up. I'll be entering him in a competition at my LHS tomorrow morning- grand prize is a copy of the new Space Marine game. I wasn't really interedted in this game until I read a review of it over at Ars Technica- now I really want to win!

I tried to do a lot of new things with this guy. The skin was rushed, but I did the bet I could on it- tried to really emphasize the face by picking out the scars and going extreme with the highlighting.

All of the metal is painted over an under layer of rust. I used liquid latex masking to help me get the rusted look. I also used a few washes of VMC smoke (love that stuff) to dirty up the brighter metals and make the leater look worn.

Went with a camo pattern for the pants- just felt like the right touch for this guy.

For the bloody strings and blood effects I used Water Effects. I had to use fishing line as a structure for the strings. I mixed the water effects with a mixture of some old GW red ink, blood red, and scorched brown- it was a streaky mixture so that different tones would show. Once they dried I came back with very dillute black ink on the thickest spots of the blood and then a general, but still very dillute, wash of chestnut ink. The saliva is pure water effects over a very small fishing line structure.

I hate that the writing isn';t showing up in these pics- the look good in RL. The gum has "BooM" on the smaller plate, "CLAW" is on the power claw, and there's a little red arrow pointing up on the power box, and on the top section is the word "ON."

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