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With the rumours of 5th edition on the horison my filthy double lash chaos army is on hold and I'm looking around for something else. I've painted up a sister of battle and I've done a little work on the corner of an exorcist.

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Not much of an army yet, but I'm quite pleased with how the colour scheme is looking. Quite a lot remains to be figured out, like whether I'll actually make a WH army or not. Fun models to paint anyway.
 
#4 ·
Thanks guys.

The stone was pretty easy. I started with a 50/50 mix of enchanted blue and dheneb stone, then gradually added more dheneb stone and finally a little skull white. I gave the panels a very, very thin wash of 50/50 blue and black ink at the end. The gold edges were done after all that with a tin bitz-burnished gold blend.
 
#6 ·
I like what I see. Damn cool so far and I will keep my eye on this one.
 
#8 ·
Always nice to see a classic exorcist around. Very nice painting i espescially like the white highlights.
 
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Exorcist is nearly finished now, after a ridiculous amount of work. I have truly never had so much trouble building a figure or taken such a long time painting it. It would have been a whole lot quicker to scratch build it.

All that said, I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming along. Just a few little badges, insignias and the loader to do now.

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This is the loader. I have a problem with this guy: I think he looks totally ridiculous. I might have to do some converting here, adding further to the time spent on this project :(. Still, I'm not going to let the whole thing be spoiled by having this weird, one-armed piece of crap stuck to it.

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Lookin' good. I'd add some script (or thin wobbly black lines) to the purity seals, being careful not to overdo them. The painting on the organist is nice.

Your new loader does look better but wouldn't it be better for him to have a rocket in his hand?
 
#13 ·
Another update. Working on my Cannoness.

I want my Cannoness to stand out from the other sisters in a significant way, so I'm going for extended robes made from green stuff and maybe a hood. She started out as a Seraphim.

There is quite a lot of work still to do before I can begin painting. The sword needs a lot more work especially, and I have to add scrolls, books and the like. The heretic at her feet is going to look at least partially burned, which will be a bit of a challenge.

What I should really be doing, is painting troops. I'm making this cannoness when I don't even really know what weapons and wargear she is going to have, and that's silly. Fun though. My next project is to get a proper squad ready.

Here she is anyway.

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To get the waves in the robe I extended the lines of the tabard thing that the model originally had. I'm quite pleased with the results.

Some work was needed on the feet since the Seraphim was flying. I opted to copy the John Blanche cover of the original codex for and go for killer heels. She is quite a bit taller than other SoBs, even without standing on a step.

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Hope you like it. C+C much appreciated.
 
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I like it, damn cool conversion! The heels are hysterical and yet awesome at the same time and the pose fits perfectly, especially with the sword held as it is. Going to be a cool model.
 
#15 ·
Some progress to report.

It has not been a good 24 hours for the heretic. In order to make way for a brazier taken from the VC corpse cart model (which is an amazing source of bitz by the way) he has had to part with his legs. He has grown a horn sticking out of his shoulder, but this is probably no substitute.

At time of taking these photos the green stuff was still not set. I've done some tidying up and filing since then, especially on the hilt of the sword, but now my camera batteries are flat.

I want to try some OSL painting and I think this could work well. The metal of the sword and the white cloth could both be interesting with OSL.

Some of the bits aren't glued on yet, to help when I come to painting. The heretic isn't stuck on, but his guts are sculpted straight onto the base, and the brazier is free-standing.

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#16 ·
Brilliant work on the sword hilt. Its always hard to convert the nuns. I'm in the process of making celestine superior from the exorcists organist.
 
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#17 ·
Looks good so far... one thing I'd be careful of when painting is that the base is in muted colours so it doesn't distract from the main figure.

Also I'm unsure of the hood. It's cool but ATM she can't see a thing...

I think it wants to be trimmed very slightly so that she can see along the end of the boltpistol she's aiming and so you can see the very bottom of her face.
 
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Vashtek said:
Also I'm unsure of the hood. It's cool but ATM she can't see a thing...
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The emperor guides her blows...or somthing! The lower part of her face is actually visible, though her eyes are not. I kind of like how it looks now though.

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I suggest you try this on something else first. Take a look at my Tson project and you will see that I originally had white cloth on them as well but ended up changing it because it did NOT look right with the OSL. Not to say that you can't pull it off, but test it on something else before you have to strip and possibly damage this model.
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I've had a good look at your tsons, which are very good. I think that for this figure I'll be doing rather less extreme OSL than you get for standing on lava. She is near a brazier after all, not standing on a volcano. It's good advice to try it out on something else first though, and I think I do have some things I could use. I'll give it some thought.

Salute tomorrow, so probably no more work. Seems I'm going down with a cold though, so maybe I'll be stuck at home painting. :mrgreen:
 
#18 ·
That is fantastic, especially the sword hilt!! I can't wait to see how this turns out. One thing though:

I want to try some OSL painting and I think this could work well. The metal of the sword and the white cloth could both be interesting with OSL.
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I suggest you try this on something else first. Take a look at my Tson project and you will see that I originally had white cloth on them as well but ended up changing it because it did NOT look right with the OSL. Not to say that you can't pull it off, but test it on something else before you have to strip and possibly damage this model.
 
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Object Source Lighting. Basically painting the model as if it were lit by something.
 
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