Finished marines

Been longer than intended, sorry about that.

Anyway, the other half of the giant crusader squad, the Initiates:

The whole unit, impressive aint it? Atleast from a distance.




His eye is a bit off, but being as this is only a low-middle gaming standard I'm really not bothered enough to change it.


The other stuff I've been working on since I last updated, chaplain:



Second attempt at his leg, bionics and artificer style armour.


Another missile launcher armed marine for the two fire support squads, the second of which I am now painting.


The reason for my unreliable blogging:

Pulled this off the base of one of the dreads, proof that old Papa Nurgle had an eye on me.


So anybody got any suggestions or comments?

I'd like to keep up the stream of comments recently, it's been great, thank you.
(and I'm not being sarcastic either)

Cheers and thanks for reading
E

Edit Thought I'd add in that I've got my models back from the store now, so you'll be getting pics of the winning models in the next few days. I've also been cleaning goblins, masses of goblins. I will be able to do that army even if it's not to 2k.

Finished Neophytes

These were an experiment in speed painting, so they're only done to an apoc army standard. Let me know what you think.











I know the bases are iffy, I was told as much within 2 mins of putting them on astronomicon. They will end up closer to the ECs, but I'm short on Badab and energy.

At least they are now legal, being as the base isn't bare.

C&C?

I have pics of other projects, but it's late and I'm tired so G'nite.

Cheers
E

PS Normal standard of painting will be resumed soon.

sorry about that

Painted marines in my previous post.
I have no idea how to delete a post, so this is wasted space.

Cheers
E

Painted marines

Part of a fire support squad, the chap with the lascannon is being painted differently just so I can try another different way of painting black.













My first plasma gun, second attempt though; I started to do it orange/yellow but the basecoat and the highlights didn't come out so well, so dropped that and ended up with this.

Only done to an army standard, so I'm pretty pleased with that little lot. The more observant of you will notice the missing iconography (bah humbug), I think I'll do them as Templars of Eraithia (my version of the B;ack Templars) but I haven't the energy for fiddling around with transfers at the moment, so that'll be left till the rest of this lot is at the same point then I'll just blitz the whole lot at the same time.

The black is adeptus, heavy wash of badab then fenris grey highlights.

C&C anyone? Go on, you know you want too.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers
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Some people

I was trawling the mini sites as I am sometimes want to do and saw this.

All I can reasonable saw to that is: egads girl, you're fantastically mad; I completely approve.

That, I have to say, is one of, if not the most inspring pieces of terrain I have ever seen.


I hope those of you that see this will give it a look, it is worth it.


As to what I've been doing, I'm still slogging away at the Templars, I almost have a unit completely finished; in fact it should be done by the time I go to sleep, so you should get pics fairly soon.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers
E

Finished Dwarf Lord

This would be the guy that got second at the local comp that I believe I mentioned. Thought you might like a look.













The dull pics are taken without flash. He was originally goiung to have a white beard beard but I ran out of time

Painted in about 6 hours, a hell of a lot faster than I intended, but I was doing 7 assault marines, 5 bikes and a dread at the same time, all to the same deadline.

The more I look at him the rougher he gets tbh, but nevermind; I'll do another version in the future and spend a lot longer on him, really is a nice sculpt.

And yes I am aware he hasn't got any eyes, probably the reason he was beaten by a model dubbed "the gay elf" (by the owner, not me).

As for what I'm doing now, the Templars have progressed a reasonable amount and I'm trying to figure out a way to do a 1K goblin army on the cheap for the release of the new rules, being as I already have the Skull pass models ( about 500 pts) it shouldn't be dreadfully expensive.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers
E

Templars and another dread

So I managed to find some pics of the dread before it was painted, wasn't sure I'd taken any, so enjoy and please someone leave a comment, I dare you!

You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the fully assembled and converted model.
















I've also done another quick unit, this one for fire support:




The bolters haven't been done yet if you were wondering.

I quite like my way of doing eyes, admittedly it's a little odd compared to the GW version, but I'm not too keen on lenses with reflection, no inner light. Whereas with these it's space wolves grey then skull white so it does stand out but not to the extremity of those that are painted to be glowing, which are a bit much imho.

I've been playing around with skin colours and washes tonight, might get a pic up for you later.

Cheers
E

Finished Emperors Champion

I said in my last post I was going to get him done for Sunday and surprisingly enough he was. The pics:









Only done to an army standard; fairly quick actually 6-10 hours, somewhere around there. I've definately got faster recently.


So, good people of the internet, your opinion please.

Cheers
E

PS Before I go, I found this earlier. Simple idea, but I'd not thought of it, looks good in my opinion.

Update

Thought I'd let you know that I am still here and plugging away.

Since I was last here, I've half painted the army, finished painting the dread with the pointing finger and seven assault marines. I entered the Golden Demon warm up painting comp at my local GW last saturday and believe it or not both the dread and the assault marines came first! I also entered Balin from my LotR dwarf army (there are pics of him hiding in here somewhere), fantasy dwarf lord and my fantasy dwarf gyro. Balin got first, the Dwarf lord got second and the gyro didn't get a single vote, which I'm a little disappointed about; but overall, fantastic result.

I would give you pics but A) the assault marines, dread and Balin are in the store cabinet and B) it's 1 am and I haven't the energy to upload and sort the pics of the dwarf lord.


There will be pics of everything I've been working on in the near future, honest.

At the mo I'm painting my Emp Champ for the Astro Rumble of Stumble 8 comp ending on sunday, it's about a quarter done and considering I didn't start it till 7 pm, I think my painting is speeding up.


Gnite
E