Hey guys and gals, decided to make this project log to show my mediocre progress on all my projects, so here you are, hope you enjoy and all criticism is welcome.
Iraqiel, i took the liberty of correctly translating your Latin
If i am right in assuming its supposed to mean, skill and mars, and all etc, it would be;
'artem et Martem', third declension nouns
Also the second et isnt necessary grammatically, Latin sentences are notoriously short.
Iraqiel, i took the liberty of correctly translating your Latin
If i am right in assuming its supposed to mean, skill and mars, and all etc, it would be;
'artem et Martem', third declension nouns
Also the second et isnt necessary grammatically, Latin sentences are notoriously short.
Ha 'by skill and force' is the official line, though really it translates to 'twist to open'. Most of my latin is habeus corpus and res judicata and the like, which as we all know are not classical latin anyway.
Did you learn latin in school, as history study, for work or for interest? I rather like it as an interest topic, I haven't studied latin academically.
So like i said, iv started work on a small Death Guard force, trying to salvage the boxes of marines i have in various conditions.
Im going to work on two things simultaneously so i dont get bored, a squad of 7 plague marines and a more complex project, my custom vindicator, which i am also entering into the monthly conversion competition, and im going to start a new thread in the modelling section detailing the step by step of the construction. http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2024666#post2024666
So here is the start of the project in all its broken glory, i will post links to the other threads below when i get them up and running.
Hey everyone, just a small update today, been trying to improve my painting skills in two areas, painting black and using washes, so i combined them to do this marine, enjoy:
unfortunately the black doesn't come out very well in the photos, but i'm really glad i took the time to do highlights and a light dry brush before washing it and highlighting it again. In person it looks much better.
You've got some pretty thin and subtle grey highlights there, which I can imagine didn't show up too well on camera. Have you tried extreme highlighting with a celestra or fenrisian grey? that can have a really nice effect like you can see here:
Yea im just doing singular mini's now just trying to practice highlighting and washes because they are definitely my weak points at the minute.
That particular marine did all ready have a coat of paint on him, but anything i do, properly, i do strip first so they look as good as they can.
But especially with the black i was using, it was a very old pot of paint, so it had gotten pretty thick, so i might have to go buy some new ones soon.
I am stripping the painted parts of my russ/vindi combination tonight so i can get that finished soon, lots to do
A quick group shot of the first squad of plague marines, minus the champion, made a mistake on him so he is going back for paint stripping with the practice guys, woops.
As you can see i have tried to make them look really chaotic with a mix of plague marines, regular marines with zombie heads or warriors of chaos heads. I have also brought in some possessed and dark vengence models for champions etc in the other squads and used berserker and possessed backpacks on some models, just to make them all look abit different.
The first unit i have painted up for my Imperial Guard force for the army painting challenge.
I'm using Steel Legion models for my army, painted with a dark blue overcoat with leather gloves and boots etc. I have tried to paint wooden gun stocks etc, but it hasnt come out very well so i may have to re do that one day.
Just an update linking in with the army painting challenge.
Finished another squad of infantry, this time with a plasma gunner and a rocket launcher.
Made some changes to the sergeant, for some reason who ever I got them from decided to chop his head off, so I cleaned it up and used a head from the catachan command sprue, his chainsword was also broken so I replaced that with a cadian one.
And now I am working on a pair of sentinels, one of them is old and is going to be taken apart and re-painted. The second one is new and still in pieces. They are both going to be armoured and equipped with lascannons for tank hunting.
I'm really happy with how they turned out. If you look closely you can see that it is a kind of mottled blue armour plating, with a couple of layers of drybrushes and washes.
As I said before, I have made them both armoured and closed top, I had to do a bit of cutting and sticking to get the roof to fit on the second one, as I wanted to use the different armour plating on each.
And they are both armed with lascannons. I would probably deploy them together and let them do some tank hunting.
Overall I think they match the rugged, abused look that I am going for with my guard, with them having been fighting a few year long war over the planetary capital and in all honesty, they are losing.
Loving the badass steel legion dudes you have going there, they look great!
So with two vet squads and two sentinels, will you next turn your attention to a command squad or something suitably dirty fighting style like a wyvern or battle psyker?
Your plague marine looks really good too, a bit like he's been percolating in something really nasty that's crusted over him for a long time.
Thanks mate, appreciate it. For the time being I am trying to work through the stuff I have before buying anything new and exciting, so I have a command squad in the works. I am trying to convert a cadian vox caster to look more steel legion and making an autocannon team with a wheeled gun mounting etc. After that I may make another three autocannon teams the same way to give me some decent fire support.
So as some of you may have seen, I am attempting to get back into fantasy, or age of sigmar, so I have started a Lizardmen army.
I have gotten my first unit of Saurus warriors made with clubs and shields:
For the paint scheme, I wanted to move away from the normal scheme that games workshop uses, so will be doing a more greyish skin with a blue hint and turquoise scales. Hopefully I will have a test model ready soon.
Sounds good with the greyish paintscheme. A more natural colour should work fine with the lizardmen. A bright spot colour to bind the army together and make it pop is recomended though.
What I was thinking of was to paint each unit's crests a different bright colour to bind the unit together whilst the whole army shares a similar paint scheme. Thinking a nice orange for this first unit.
Looks like a good base, but some suggestions:
1. Give a light drybrush of hellion green over the scales to give the impression of highlighting and, potentially, light source over them.
2. Claws and teeth in Reikland fleshshade, then smash agrax earth or a lighter brown over the underbelly.
3. On the club, drybrush the wood with a mournfang brown, then wash down with agrax earth, then very lightly drybrush again. Follow up with painting the teeth black and gloss varnishing them for an obsidian look.
That's the direction I'd go with it, but like I said it's a sweet looking base mate!
Ok so I still cant decide on what colour to do the skin, I have tried three different ways after I didn't like my first attempt, so everything else is the same apart from the skin.
Each one has been base coated sotek green, then temple guard blue. The scales are Kantor blue with a skink blue drybrush, and a nuln oil wash over that.
The first one has had a Ulthuan Grey dry brush over the skin, then washed with Coelia greenshade, to give it a dry, duller green skin:
The second one is also a Ulthuan grey drybrush, but with a Asurmen blue wash, so has come out as a dark blue colour, my worry with this one is that it all looks to dark with the dark blue scales.
And finally, worried about the fact that they both look pretty dark, I have done one more in lines with the standard scheme; with a Coelia greenshade wash and a skink blue highlight
Which one do you think looks better? I know its hard to picture without the weapons and shields done etc, but based on the skin and the scales.
The contrast between the skin and scales looks good in the last picture. I'd stick with that. Are you going to stay with the square bases or change to rounds?
I think I will update them to round later on. Lots of the lizardmen line are currently out of stock on the website, which makes me think they will get re-released with the round bases soon.
So whilst work continues on my lizardmen, I could no longer resist the temptation and have brought two imperial cruisers for the battlefleet gothic system. Cost me £35 to get two new, which is pretty terrible, but well worth it. They are stunning models with lots of detail and I fell in love with them the first time I saw them all those years ago, now I can actually do them justice this time around.
So I have built them as two Lunar class Cruisers, which are the main workhorse of any fleet and a good place to start. They will deploy as a pair supported by a squadron of four cobras.
So I have built them as two Lunar class Cruisers, which are the main workhorse of any fleet and a good place to start. They will deploy as a pair supported by a squadron of four cobras.
This so so much, I'm still hoping that the PC game will get them to redo BFG if its sucessful though it is a faint hope.
I think £35 for two new isnt that bad all being said. If you love the models as much as you seem to imply im sure you wuill do them both justice regardless. Cant have a good model without love.
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