Minis from every one

Was just thinking, this is a tabletop union but there isn't a place to show up your work.... well if you have some pics of your minis then post them on the board (got the idea from crunk)

The pic quality isn't important, I know my pics look horrible :P

well, sounds good. hopefully get some life kicking in here.

a long story short, since moving back to the states i finally started some minis. my first were for my SM/Renegade army of the True Word. i have repainted them but their is nothing great about their paint job an only one of them have a pose i made fromy cutting and gluing various parts.

but recently...i got into Iron Warriors and Night Lords. the IW are awesome frankly due to Storm of Iron, a book suggested by the former TWH40KU leader. an the NL are just awesome.

so for starters, i give you the most gruesome siege fighters in existence.

i did have to "battle damage" his horns to be able to put on the arms.

i also started on a Tau battlesuit with my own color scheme(i hope its original enough)

I also have 5 SoB painted up(ones with helmets

i have 1 IG sentinel and over half a squad done(after that i have 40 more on sprues)

and as stated i have an SM force of tactical squads, terminators, assualt marine, dreads and a chaplain. but i am holding off on them for a good while. i need some inspiration for them.

also, i am going to paint 1 more IW an start on my NL this week. basically i broke my CSM box into two attack squads. but the ranks will build up eventually.

enjoy.

Nice to see some life on the board :)

Due to the fact that I'm more or less at work during all my time on Gamespot, I'm going to upload my first Blood Angel in 6 years when I get home.... happy painting, and gaming of course.

Always liked the Night Lords.... but about the Iron Warriors, hm when it comes to seiges I preffer the Fists :P

BTW, like the battlesuit ;)

sweet, im pretty excited to see what the BA get after hearing all the rumors.

right now i am concentrating on small units at a time. so five Iron Warriors, then Five Night Lords, then a vindicator, ...etc. just want to paint different things so i dont get too bored and tired of one. i am also looking for inspiration to work on my SM. they are a bit simple and could use some umph.

the battlesuit is a nice mini and i have always been interested in the Tau since they came out. I mostly like how i painted him so smoothly. my skills with a brush went into the negative when i moved to japan...i used "gundam markers"...basically imagine a sharpie that uses paint instead.

Cannot wait to see your Blood Angel.

*also...i let your liking of the Fists slide this time haha. i love that legion/chapter...but painting yellow has given me night terrors

they are kind of simple. depending on what you do... for me it was about 2-3 hours for one. each one i did during a night where i could sleep in the next day.

the parts i wanted gold i had painted scorchedbrown, everything else was painted chaos black. from there i used boltgun metal as it is darker than chainmail and i used burnished gold over the brown. then a lil blood red for the eyes. then badab black over the metal an devlan mud over the gold.

Presto, an Iron Warrior

i also have devlan mud from half of their shins, down. as suggestions i got made good sense that they are in trenches during sieges and obviously they get muddy. but it doesnt really show in the pics...i am also thinking of a stippling brush to add the mud/weather effects to them as well.

the only real problem i have is not being able to give the Iron Warriors their black and yellow chevrons. instead of yellow i tried out Vermin Brown(a paint i used in an attempt to try some dark yellow for Imperial Fists) and free hand the black stripes. it came out ok but i'd like them better. so for the chevrons, none on the basic units, just the heroes(or villians if you are an IF kinda guy haha)/characters, dreads, and vehicles.

i am thinking about make a kind of reaper autocannon thing out of a spare autocannon i had left over from a sentinel for the next IW. it can count as a heavy bolter on the table.

and tonight i am going to paint up the battlesuit arms and start on his weapons layout. he should be done this weekend if i dont get too flooded with my papers.

When I first started with warhammer in general I made a Blood Angel and love him :P even thou the glue didn't like him (fell apart all the time) to this day I still don't know why.

Have been thinking of starting to paint new BA but I havn't had the balls to paint bright colors but I gave it a try and I personally think it didn't end up all to horrible :D

Comments and questions are more then welcome(bad & good) keep on painting and lets make this a 40k site :P

If the pics don't show could someone help because this has happened to me before and it's starting to piss me of :|

A miljon thanks to Hush :D this has been a good day I've learnt something new :D

the picks are in your C drive. the best thing to do is stick them into a photobucket account and use the IMG tags an link them here.

when i get the link from photobucket, i use the HTML upper case , img src=***URL HERE*** upper case .

basically if i put in the actual tag nothing will show up but i think you know what i mean by upper case comma an period, the greater than an less than symbols.

Thanks man, I never like to paint faces.... that's why all my SM have helmets :P Well I'll try to explain because I more or less always improvise, but I'll try.

This is just for the face.

1st (white prime spray) basecoat dark flesh, with drybrush but with pretty much water.

2nd dwarf flesh, all over the face with any brush... again water it down.

3rd a little vomit brown mixed with devlan mud(wash) and allot of water, put down a heavy "wash" on the face, it doesn't matter if you can't see the face because of the wash it will be good when it dries... make sure to get rid of all bubbles in the wash before you let it dry.

4th when the wash is dry start by painting dwarf flesh on the whole face except in the resesses(all the cracks in the face, and deep places like the eye sockets and on the side of the nose).

5th the first highlight will be done with elf flesh mixed with dwarf flesh, the amount you wish to mix is up to your onwn taste... paint for fun :D

6th now apply just a very small highlight of elf flesh on the pointiest areas, like the nose tip and the cheek bones for a more musculare look.

7th the hair and beard, base it with a light color like.... hm, well desert yellow might work think I used shadow gray(always a good 1st base for white) then just work your way up from grey to white with layers until you get a good result.

8th lips and eyes, just paint the lips red gore mixed with tentacle pink(one layer). For the eyes, well that's why I don't usally paint faces :P but just a very small strip of white and then a dot of black.... yes it sounds simple but it's not :cry: the only good advise I have for eyes is paint allot of faces.

Well I don't know if what I said is of any use, but a question deserves an answer.... even if it's not the best :P

sweet blood angel, love the red and weathering effects.

also, glad you got the pics working.

hate to double post but some pics of my works in progress.

This is a Gamesday 2009 Chaos Champ i picked up in a trade. I saw this mini in WD 352 and fell in love with it. So i really wanted this guy really bad and was happy to claim one. Also, this one mini got me interested in WHFB...so i hope to add more chaos to back this fella up and i got some Empire units coming in from another trade. Some SoB and WH for Teutogen Guard w. command and an Empire Pistolier. for now they will be modelling projects until i get serious with them.

I added arms to this fella. I have to de-mold the weapons, paint them, and add them an this fell will be golden.

this will be my fifth Iron Warrior. i stole the pose from my home made sternguard i did for my True Word army. i do like the pose an the fact that he is a lefty.

I also have been thinking of way to paint future Chosen for my Iron warriors as i am still pursuing them as my main army.

Hope you like it

@crunk: i'd love to see some Tau. i really like their background and minis. they are a xeno race i dont get to see too much of unfortunately. when it comes to non-humans, it seems to be a fight between Orks and Tyranids for most popular, followed by eldar, and then some tau an dark eldar.

also, they have one mini that is the best thing i have ever seen in my life, the Tau Manta. well, its not a mini but its awesome. i have to say...i think i like that beast more than the titans. i also cant believe a guy made one from scratch.

@Ash: no, i just started. what i did with him i did with a sternguard i made before so it was kinda simple. i really dont like trying to glue arms that hold bolter/lasguns because i am worried about messing up an over gluing a part of the body. so doing it where he is firing one hand an the other is free is more easier for me. i really want to learn how to sculpt so i can make some good conversions in the future.

wow, great work everyone!

i collect tau, i'll see if i can post some of mine up soon 

@HushRong if your worried about glueing stuff across the torso, put that thing on after you've painted the main parts of the mini.... just a thing to keep in mind.

Another good thing is to use an empty paint pot to put your minis on while painting, easier to paint the base and you don't have to touch the paintjob.

Just a little example, this board has really got me fired up about my painting.... hoping to get a devestator squad ready for the new Blood Angel codex :P

@bobdabuilder380 it took from the build start to the finished base about 3 days or with other words about 9-11 hours.

Still waiting for Crunks stuff..... me wana see :D

sorry for the ridiculously large image and the fact that its not painted but heres my attempt at an true scale devestaor

if your wondering whats so special about him let me show you the tactical marine I did a while back.... now only to get both painted up

@ash, very nice, is that a sternguard?

@pael: Dude, where've ya been? also, awesome work on the Truescale, your project is really coming along. *an dont worry about the big pics...i got the same problem.

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just finished my fifth squad member for my Iron Warriors(so now i have 6 an im lovin them)

@paelkeizah Liking that converted terminator :D good to see your back by the way.

@HushRong yeah, it's a stern in progress.... but due to the fact that BA can't use veterans with bolters, he's just a devestator :P nice to see your geting some speed on your IW, are you thinking of doing some tanks ?

@ash: yeah, i actually want to pick up an paint a vindicator. a true siege engine that would fit well. but i am going to pick up my night lord goodies this week an churn some of them out. this will be my first piece of GW armor to paint, an the last time i painted a tank(a merkava, i think thats how its spelt) was a few years ago. so im a bit anxious an excited.

but i am also excited about making some Chosen for the IW. i accidently typed in Iron Fists into lexicanum an saw this awesome mini where it was all silver metallic with golden arms and i want to use that for the Chosen as they have a higher status. and i want to get a techmarine and make him their squad leader.

i think i put this here on on the other WH40K site that my to-do list is

• 5 Iron Warriors
• 5 Night Lords
• Vindicator
• after this i want to do a rhino for NL an some other stuff i cant remember off the top of my head.

but i may pick up another CSM box an finish off the squda with 5 more marines an a chosen squad.

also, waiting for some tau pics! :)

NICE, can't wait to see your IW tank. I was thinking way back in the days to start with IW just for the chance to use the basilisk :P with CSM.... don't know if it's a choice you can take in your army with the new codex thou.

@ash: thought sounds awesome. i dont think it in the codex...BUT you can always build one for the heck of it. or build one up for traitor guards(basically the slaves/soldiers that the IW use)

i just got in some FW Venerable assualt marines from a trade...but i am still thinking about my new SM scheme so its gonna be awhile before i can touch those beauties.

also, out of boredom i started making my own techmarine(not an actualy techmarine but looks like one that i can use with my IW Chosen). i got started on the torso. now i just have to figure out a head, legs an backpack for him.

will you be starting a plog pael?

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and another WIP project in the works.

I have had a set of sternguard just chilling and going to waste. I start to paint the one above in my True Word colors but never finished and now i am re-tooling the True Word so he wont get the black an red paint job.

then i thought about making the sternguard pre-heresy IW or post-Heresy. but fluff wise the armor wouldnt work. newer marks and having the eagle on the chest wouldnt work. i know i could do whatever i want but i want to stick to fluff as much as possible here an there. as for post heresy...i thought about it being a group of IW killed the sternguard and took their armor an weapons...all i would do is add some chaos looks to em.

but i went the way of the Imperial Fists. Painting yellow is a challenge for me...so doing this will be an awesome boost for my experience skill raising. hopefully in a week i can get this fella done up.

@pael: hopefully the lazy block will lift soon.

but some little updates...

overall i am very happy with where i am on the yellow. i am just afraid of the next coat. i am debating if i can be happy with this yellow(foundation) an not have to apply any regular paint. he still needs some detailing an washes...but like i said, i am happy where i am with him.

i will be paint stripping my terminator chaplain and emperors champion this weekend an they will be getting an IF treatment. basically...anything from ym True Word army is up for a new paint job.

and this little fella will be causing some serious terror soon!

Some Blood Angels for my devestator squad.... with no arms :o

I have sprayed the bolter/arm for the right one so hopefully I'll get around to paint that soon, havn't really had time due to the PC giving me some problems :( Happy painting people.... hoping to see some Night Lords soon ;) my fav chaos legion.

good addition there ash. I really like the flat/matte look you have on your BA. It looks much more realistic i have to say.

i may have missed this but do you use the GW paints an do something with it or do you use another brand? I am thinking about trying some other company's black for my legion of the damned after seeing the results other people got with it.

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@Hush no, I really like the citadel line I just use allot of water in it to smothen out the stroke marks from the brush that can show otherwise. I ones tried a brand that I don't really remember the name of, but they looked like small flasks somewhat white but still so you could see the paint on the inside.... didn't like it a bit.

About the matte look, I really like that too but I have no idea why it gets that way :P thanks again for the feedback.

@Ash: i forgot the name of the company but i saw a Youtube Vid with some guy makeing a tutorial for painting Black Templars (i was trying to find a better way to paint black as my first army was mostly all chaos black and looked Blah". they guy in the vid mentioned going to michaels and picking up this thing of paint. Similar quality to GW, you get three times more paint, and you pay alot less. and for black paint an how much i use, thats a good thing...even though i like gw/citadel products.

I like the flat look(i always have, especially with cars) and the detail adds a bit to the model greatly. Plus, the coloring an highlight work added looks really great.

also, another Fist has been rolled out.

i had the champion for the heck of it for my True Word Army but a simple green bath an two hours of paint and i got him! just got to do the head an the other arm will be holding a bolter. i dont like the Imperator Rex sword that these guys come with so i am turning him into a sternguard. I also like the lack of detail and the more, open an bare plates of armor to paint.

@crunk. Uruk Hai are cool, definitly post them!

and an arm got added

Imperial Fists NICE !!!!!!!!! just remembered that I had a converted emperors champion somewhere, did him some years back when I was doing Black Templars..... was sopposed to be a sword brethren squad member, never got around to painting him thou.

Found this guy as well, probebly one of my fav among my BT, ones again unpainted sword brethren. Back then I had some strange idea that all my BT should have capes :?

Happy painting and gaming :D

Yeah, Imperial Fists. i seem to have a thing for Siege Warfare armies at the moment haha.

That conversion is nice(but in the pic it looks like he has little legs). But i really like this mini for its pose an simple body, unlike the sternguard with all the details on them that need to be painted around.

What king of tools did you use to to remove the arm? what i have now isnt the best thing to use on metal.

And that sword Brethren is a nice mini. alot of good work you've done there.

Thanks, and I have also always had a certein thing for both the fists and the iron warriors :P but I don't dare paint yellow :cry:

Well for the removal of metall on the minis, the clippers that GW sells works well for the smaller more fine last touches and for the heavy cutting a bigger more handyman clipper, don't know the english word :?...... and ALLOT of pure rage :P

Yeah, i got the gw clippers an they seem to work well. i had this awesome set of clippers i bought in japan that i think was for metal(it snipped plastic like a lightsaber through butter) but it has been lost. I ended up using the GW one on metal and didnt realize i had done so...later i went to go an check back an there were still pristine, no damage from clipping little bits of metal. so i was forunate with that.

I would like to do awesome conversions with the metal minis, i just need the right tools. Doing those two Fists has made metal awesome to me, before i heated metal minis.

One thing i have to ask is if there is something i can put on the metal minis before painting to make the paint stay on it better. Thats the real hassle i had. i was worried about it when i stripped the champion but when i coated him with black it stayed on perfectly. *also, when i stripped the paint from my termie chaplain it was like a horror move. the paint peeled off like some kind of freakish skin.

and for painting yellow, i did ok as a newbie...its not perfect but i like the color i got as it looks more like a yellow that has been sullied on the battlefield.

How is progress coming on that devastator by the way?

One problem I have had with the GW clippers is that when cutting thicker metal pices it kind of feels like the clipper blades gets soft somehow :? so that's why I try not to use those for the heavier stuff.... but then again I'm useing the old GW clipper, the yellow one :P

About metal and "priming" just make sure that there isn't to much dust, best if non on the mini before spraying. And yellow try spraying white it really works wonders for bright colors :D

When it comes to stripping paint I tried it ones and it was to much work so I just spray over the old ones I want redone, works fine in my opinion.... for example the two BA stern guards that I posted they were part of my sons of ashe army and completley blue, just reprimed with white and they were as good as new ;)

About my devestators, well there coming along but at the moment I'm doin a bigass build on my PC and overclocking and checking and rechecking temps and stuff.... so I don't know if I will have them done for the new codex release, the last parts for the PC are due in the begining of march and there are allot of really nice new games in march so... but I'll at least try my hardest to get the arms done for the two up on the board and maby build two or three more soon :D

Happy painting & gaming....... :idea: multi melta devestator with walking legs......

For yellow i have heard a mix of things, but on my little plog i have a small tutorial of how i painted yellow and what my inspiration was. http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245640

im following a fluff chapter but taking my own twist with some things. mostly just the change in red to beige with things like the aquila.

as for stripping paint i use Simple Green. i mostly leave them soaking for a night up to a day. so far, stripping metal minis has been the best. plastic takes a bit more work. also, simple green can wear away adhesives(to a degree and depending on how much glue is used), so little purity seals came right off the plastic minis and the arms of my terminator an chaplain came clean off after being soaked.

right now i am looking at doing some more IF and i am waiting for next week to start on my Night Lords. i just have to pick up some paints/foundations. I cant find a midnight blue that someone suggested...so if i cant find it i am going to get a blue foundation to use. hopefully i can achieve that black-blue color.

an have fun with the computer!

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some work done on my Assualt Marine

Dude, that ultra sucks.

I guess i will go the road of foundation, regal blue, an a leviathan purple wash. its a shame too because i hear/an see colors used for minis that arent being made anymore and most people make their own mixes to compensate(an i suck at mixing).

im painting up 5 chaos warriors and a few guardsmen so im officially out of my painting block :)

concerning your marines hush I wouldn't bother with foundation paints just spray white apply the yellow you want in a slightly watered down layer (i'd sat 2:1 paint to water) then wash the model a shade you want then repaint using the thinned yellow leaving the wash in the recesses then highlight may seem long but its a similar technique ive been using for my reds the only difference is that I apply a glaze at the end using coloured ink to make the colour a lil' deeper 

glad to hear you are back with a brush pael. hope to see some of the minis here or on warseer.

as for yellow i may give that a try. i'd have to find a dark yellow however as vomit brown is too much. this style sounds like a good way to do vehicles. so far iyanden darksun has been a blessing i must say. its gets a good enough color of dark yellow an with a light wash it gets a dirty look.

i also dont mind too much variation in my yellow, i forgot the painters name but his IF were on GW's website awhile ago and i liked how he had different shades of yellow. i found some other yellow tutorials on bolter an chainsword that i may try out as well.

also, i have read about it...but what is color ink? i hear it mentioned but have never seen any.

*i still need to finish my two IF sternguards and this Assualt marine before i start on the chaplain and a Dread for the IF.

ohhh, i have been looking for stuff like Red Ink an Chestnut Ink but its OOP (that means out of production in GW terms right?)

but i have been a busy bee...

the novel Soul Hunter has been a huge motivator for me to work more an more on this fella.

other than that i am practicing painting flesh an prepping a newly acquired techmarine for Iron Warrio service.

Tamiya is pretty good, i used to have some of there stuff as well. but my paints got all f'ed up in the move from japan to texas. i still got some of their nazi models, a squad of guys an a gun crew...with the gun(like the one used by the germans at the end of saving private ryan)...an a box of generals (like rommel an some others.)

i may have to experiment with tamiya stuff if i can find a store here that carries it. right now im on a mission to find cheaper, finer detail brushes.

an show us some WoC when you get a chance bud!

and some little updates!

to start off, the almost completed Assualt marine

and his new friend...

then some dreadnoughts...

this guy won my first "mock/practice game" even though he was immobilized. he survived several rocket attacks while rolling 6's with his autocannon.

and his little brother

this dread i guess is the 5th ed one (its from AoBR) and its ok but its smaller and i dont like that.

these are the two dreads for my future 5th company...for now...

and then the techmarine...who i am trying to figure out how to paint.

the detail is AWESOME on this guy.

an i am working on a squad that will probably end up being a combat one. even though they would make great Cmd sqd with thunderhammers for my future captain. so just waiting for some minis in the mail while i start to man up to re-paint my other marines!