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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Diablo Jon on November 02, 2021, 06:29:02 AM
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After a long lay off I’ve found myself being drawn back into one of my first wargaming loves 40K. this is partly in thanks to, the recently released, Imperium Magazine. I took out a subscription as I figured getting a few miniatures a month, through the post, might make me paint stuff up rather than stockpile more stuff than I can ever reasonably paint which my usual style. I also had a bunch of miniatures laying around from an abortive attempt to get back into 40K during 8th edition so much so that with my new miniatures I had the makings of a workable Primaris Marine force so I figured what the heck.
I decided to go with a homebrew chapter because I like the freedom that gives me with paint jobs. I’ve named them the Crusaders Carmine an Ultima founding purely Primaris chapter this particular army is going to represent Battle Group Vindicta currently fighting of the planet Mundus III a world in the throws of a huge Chaos uprising. In the backstory I’ve been working on the fighting has been going on non stop for months, the world is in ruins and the imperial forces are on the verge of defeat. The last survivors have rallied on the the planets capital Mundus Prime to make their final stand.
This back story gives me a chance to go full Grimdark a style of modelling and painting that has really come to appeal to me. I really enjoy the Inq28 and Blanchitsu style miniatures I’ve seen on the net and my favourite 40K art is always the dark, gothic and macabre pictures full of servo skull and weird looking servitors . Given that I’ve decided to embrace the 40K “There is only war” vibe and go with to many skulls, rivers of mud, way to much grime, buckets of blood and hopefully a few strange looking characters.
After painting a few different marines I finally found a scheme and style I liked so here he is my first Grimdark marine a Primaris Hellblaster. I took a stab at trying some OSL which seems to be all the rage with the kids theses days. First photo has a moody filter added the second one doesn’t. Now I’ve found my style it’s time to kick on and paint some marines.
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Next up for my Marine army a unit of Reivers ( marine terror stealth troops). These guys were part of my 8th edition starter set which I did paint at the time…… badly. So I stripped them and tried again I much prefer the Grimdark look I’ve achieved now. Onto the pictures first one has a moody dark filter on it the rest are as my camera phone took them.
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I'm no great fan of OSL but otherwise I thought your test piece looked good.
But those in your group shot are superb, really make me want to paint some myself.
Wow.
Please feel free to share how you did them.
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I'm no great fan of OSL but otherwise I thought your test piece looked good.
But those in your group shot are superb, really make me want to paint some myself.
Wow.
Please feel free to share how you did them.
Thanks. Yeah I realise that OSL is not to everyone's taste but one thing I wanted to do with this project was try some new stuff out and push my painting skills (though having tried to get my head around it I'm going to avoid NMM which just makes my head hurt) which have become stuck in a rut somewhat. So in the case of these minis I've been trying out sponge weathering and oil washes to represent grime. Its all still in the learning process but I don't think the results so far have been to bad though my OSL attempt needs a lot more work.
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I think they look very fitting DJ. Having painted models in NMM for other people, I can’t see how it’s worth the time or effort. They often only look at their best from one or two directions (good for photographers) but then can just look odd next to well painted, standard style models. OSL is effective but easily done wrong or just over applied and it becomes jarring to the eye. Your palette choice and control are excellent.
Do you have any more chaps that are getting the treatment?
BALM
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I think they look very fitting DJ. Having painted models in NMM for other people, I can’t see how it’s worth the time or effort. They often only look at their best from one or two directions (good for photographers) but then can just look odd next to well painted, standard style models. OSL is effective but easily done wrong or just over applied and it becomes jarring to the eye. Your palette choice and control are excellent.
Do you have any more chaps that are getting the treatment?
BALM
NMM seemed like a lot of work and I'd like to get the minis painted this side of the 2100. Yeah plenty more I have a whole load of Marines picked up from one of the 8th edition starter sets most of which never came off the sprue plus a few new ones I'm planning to paint them up as an army all in this weathering battle worn style. In fact here is the next batch Primaris aggressors
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My first Character model, Lieutenant Gistinus, was one of the new minis I picked up off Imperium magazine. There seems to be a running joke in the 40K community that there are more Primaris Lieutenants than any other type of miniature in the 40K game I have to say I like this one a lot though. Again as with my other marines I’ve weathered this guy with some sponges and a black brown oil wash to try and give him that been fighting in the trenches look. As usual first photo has a moody filter for effect the others are straight up.
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As I’ve mentioned before I’ve subscribed to the Imperium Magazine, so while I’m more interested in the struggle between the Imperium and Chaos, I’m going to end up with a bunch of Necron miniatures by default. I figured I might as well paint them up anyway.
I’m still figuring out the background to these guys, in my head, but I’ve named them the Utukku dynasty (Utukku were a type of Shadow demon mentioned in Ancient Mesopotamian Mythology).
I’ve never painted Necrons before so I looked around for some inspiration and decided I wasn’t overly taken with any of the official GW schemes or many of the bright funky coloured Necrons I saw online. In the end I’ve plumped for dirty rusty metal and blue Gauss weapon effects which I hope are quite Grimdark in style. Here are the first three warriors I’ve done as a test piece as usual first photo has a moody Grimdark filter added the others are straight up.
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Following hot on the heels of my Necron test warriors are a group of Skorpekh Destroyers and their accompanying Canoptek Plasmacyte. I really like these minis though I wish they were a little more poseable being easy build miniatures there is no way to vary their poses.
Painting was easy mostly involving dry brushing and washes. I had another stab at OSL I think I’m improving slowly but it could still be better. Anyway here they are.
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Very nice
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Looking good :)
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Thanks guys.
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Another Necron this time a Royal Warden which I’ve named Ikunum with the title of Qēpu (an Assyrian term meaning Trusted One). Not much to say about the mini really it was a easy build mono-pose so not much room for customisation. I painted him up like my other Necrons with a gun metal dry brush over black , silver highlights dry brushed, then an oil paint wash, a couple of washes of Greenstuff world rust washes and then picked out the details and done.
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And a quick photo of all the Necrons so far
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Really enjoying these.
Keep them coming.
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Really enjoying these.
Keep them coming.
Thanks
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Another unit for my Marine army this time some Inceptors. I found in my plastic pile, though I have no idea why I had four, and not some multiple of three, but I painted them all anyway.
I hate the GW flight stands supplied with these miniatures if you attach them before painting it makes it easier to paint them but you end up getting paint on the clear plastic and ruining the look. Without attaching them the Inceptors are PiTA to hold and paint. Either way the overall look was unsatisfactory and the minis felt precariously balanced.
In the end I borrowed an Idea, I saw online, and had them jumping over bits of terrain (apparently it’s coined the term Parkour bases) probably not everyone’s cup of tea but I really like the look. the scenery was supplied by cutting up a piece of GW ruined wall scenery and A GW barrel.
Here are a couple of photos. First photo has a Grimdark filter the rest are straight up.
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The first of two intercessor squads for space marine army. These guys seem to be the equivalent of the original tactical marine so not the most exciting option but a fluffy one. I found ten in my plastic pile some were already painted, so I stripped them in a bit of isopropyl alcohol and cleaned them up, so I created two units of five.
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Brill. I like the blue skin, it’s a good contrast 8)
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Brill. I like the blue skin, it’s a good contrast 8)
Thanks that was my thinking. I've dressed it up in the fluff that the chapters home world is a night planet so the inhabitants, the marines recruit from, have evolved pale blue grey skin due to a lack of sunlight.
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Here is the second Intercessor squad for my marine army. With this squad finished, a unit of Assault Intercessors finished and awaiting photographing and with a squad of Hellblasters awaiting basing on my painting table. That’s all the marines, I currently have, painted up until my next Imperium magazine subscription drops so its back to painting Necrons now.
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With my first batch of marines done I thought I’d post a quick guide on how I painted them because a) I find it useful when other people do this and b) In case I forget what I did when I come to paint my next batch.
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Step 1 start with four layers of dry brushed red over a black primer. Each layer of red gets increasingly drier and has more yellow added. the first layer goes all over just leaving a few black recesses and each layer after that tries to pick out more edges.
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Step 2 Although it doesn’t look to bad in the photo your miniature might be looking a bit orange at this point so a quick glaze of very thinned down red ink is applied just to tone down the orange.
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Step 3 Sponge weathering. Take some make up sponges (I got a bag of 24 for £1 in Poundland) and apply three layers 1. same colour as your last dry brushing stage 2. black 3. gun metal silver. dip the sponge in your chosen paint dab it on a paper towel to get most of the paint off and then dab it on your miniature where you think the armour would get wear and tear. you will get some paint on places you weren’t aiming for but don’t sweat it to much.
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Step 4 Block in the rest of the details on model that you don’t want red at this point.
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Step 5 Oil wash the miniature. to oil wash i use a mix of black and burnt umber oil paint thinned down to a wash with artists white spirit. cover the whole mini in the wash and then (and this is the important bit) go over the mini with one of your make up sponges with a little white spirit in it and wipe of the wash from the raised areas or pooling. Because it’s oil paint you don’t have to rush to get this bit done if you are batch painting because even dry oil paint can be reactivated and removed with white spirit. I’ll leave the oil wash to dry over night and then you can move on to the next stage.
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Step 6 At this point I apply and decals using micro set and micro sol to the miniature. Again ill leave the decals over night to dry properly.
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Step 7 Apply a wash of Greenstuff world dark rust. Don’t wash the whole miniature but just pick out spots like knee caps and joints also wash around the helmet to dirty up the white. when that has dried repeat the process with Greenstuff world light rust wash. You will also see I sponge weathered the helmet with some grey paint I was supposed to do that before the oil wash but forgot doh.
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Step 8 Touch up the details like painting in the eyes, adding a few highlights to the chest eagles and the helmet and paint in any purity seals.
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Step 9 Use some wood filler to make a muddy looking base add battlefield debris as desired.
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Step 10 Paint the base with a mixture of sand acrylic gel black and brown paint. Paint in any details on the base. When its dry add a light highlight brushed over the base and paint the edges of the base black. Finally when everything is dry seal with a matt varnish.
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Finished one dirty battle worn marine of the far future ready to fight for the god emperor.
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Thank you so much for this write of of your techniques - I suspect I will be applying them almost step by step in the coming weeks as these are, without doubt, the best looking Space Marines I've ever seen.
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Thank you so much for this write of of your techniques - I suspect I will be applying them almost step by step in the coming weeks as these are, without doubt, the best looking Space Marines I've ever seen.
Thanks that's a very high compliment o_o
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Thank You, that was very informative. Your Figures look really great!
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Thank You, that was very informative. Your Figures look really great!
Thank you.
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Thanks for the info - very useful.
Nice work on your marines, they really do look the part.
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Thanks for the info - very useful.
Nice work on your marines, they really do look the part.
Thank you.
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This miniature is an Imperium magazine exclusive Primaris Captain. I actually have two one I got one as part of my subscription and an extra one I picked up at the local newsagents. As I had two I felt quite happy doing some conversion work on this one. I replaced his plasma pistol with a bolt pistol and gave him a head swap with a marine helmet I found in my bits box. As he was originally bareheaded the miniature had a helmet hanging from his belt which I had to cut off to over up the damage I added some grenade pouches.
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These are the three assault intercessors from the Imperium magazine. It took me a while to get them done because I was put off by having to carve all the, moulded on, Ultramarine details on their shoulder pads in the end I used my Dremel to clean the pads up.
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A bit of a change from space marines this is a test model as I try to nail down colours and a style for the Chaos army I want to build. I’m not planning a Chaos space marine army but rather an old school Lost and the Damned style army made up with cultists, mutants and traitors. This guy is one of a number of Blackstone fortress miniatures that fit that theme well and he was really fun to paint.
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Another little test piece for my (hopefully) soon to be started chaos army. He was, in my head, supposed to be very Grimdark but he came out a lot brighter and cleaner than I had imagined when I started. I think the grey fur should have been black and the red cloth is to bright. Oh well live and learn. This another little gem of a miniature from the Blackstone Fortress game that I manged to source online.
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:o awesome beast...well done!!!
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Thank you kindly sir
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The last unit for my space marines (for now at least) is some Hellblasters. yeah they have a silly name but honestly I don’t think it gets much cooler than space marines totting plasma guns. This unit also gave me the chance to practice a bit of OSL. I know its not everyone’s cup of tea but all the cool kids, on 40K reddit, are doing it and I wanted to try and master the technique. For some reason, when I went through my plastic pile, I had eight of these miniatures which isn’t a codex number but I decided to paint them all anyway.
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Hell those are good😳👏
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Hess those are good😳👏
Cheers mate
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I’ve been working on the background ideas for my Necron army and have come up with a little opening fluff piece to introduce my Necron Overlord. I should give a shout out to Iron Maiden, at this point, as Days of Future Past, a song on their new album, basically gave the me idea for my overlord. Its amazing what comes into your head, when you are painting in the hobby room, while rocking out to a bit of heavy metal. One quick disclaimer I suffer from Dyslexia it takes me a long time to write even a small fluff piece like this. I use spelling and grammar checkers and rope in family members to help me with stuff like this. Mistakes do get through so I apologize in advance if my mistakes ruin this for you. I have lots of stuff floating around in my head but getting down on paper is not always easy for me.
There was a knock at the chamber door Inquisitor Gallan, turned from his writing desk, and saw Acolyte Hereon at the door. “The seer has started to speak my lord.” “Very well Hereon gather the scribes and start recording everything she says. I will meet you in the holding cells shortly” Hereon bowed ” Yes my lord” before turning swiftly away.
Gallan laid down his writing scribe and carefully placed some blotting paper over the report he was writing once the sacred ink was dry he carefully closed the reports cover. Standing Gallan slipped on his sword belt and placed one of his grey cloaks over his shoulders. As he made his way down to the the ships holding cells Gallan mouthed a silent prayer to the God emperor for bring a tool like the seer to him.
He had discovered the young girl on a backward border planet. Almost right away it had been clear she had the wych sight and powers of prophecy. Gallan was convinced that the Emperor himself spoke through the girl. Her insights had help Gallan stop half a dozen xenos threats to the imperium saving countless lives in the process. Her acquisition had come at a great cost but one Gallan was willing to pay. The fact that Gallan had to kill a fellow inquisitor to save the girls life, from death by holy promethium, weighed on his conscience but he convinced himself the ends justified the means.
Gallan arrived at the holding cells unlike the others on the ship the seer’s cell was comfortable and well furnished. The seer was a valuable weapon, against the xenos threats to the Imperium, and Gallan always maintained that you looked after your weapons to get the best out of them. Acolyte Heron was there, along with numerous other members of Gallan’s staff. Several servitor scribes were already busy transcribing notes
The seer was sat cross legged. Her small delicate frame balanced on some cushions, her eyes closed, her dark hair damp and stuck to her perspiration covered face. She was silent seemingly far away. Gallan looked at Hereon “Has she said much?” “A few mumbled lines Lord nothing of note yet” Gallan wasn’t surprised these episodes, the seer had, could last mere minutes or go on for days.
The seer suddenly let out a long moan her eyes snapping open to revel her eyes glowing, pale blue with wych light. The seers whole body snapped taught, her back arched and she started to speak. The seers voice sounded odd instead of the lyrical voice of a young female, Gallan noted, her voice had become robotic and machine like.
“A war in heaven in gods rage
they put me in this metal cage
Holy fury locks me in
Imprisoned by my deadly sin
Every hour the shadow king
Wonders what his enemies will bring
I’ve lived and life I now abhor
My fatal quest forever more
The days of future past to wander in the void
A king without a queen to live for ever devoid
To wander in the wasteland
Immortal to the end
Waiting for the judgement
But the judgement never ends”
The Seer’s head snapped forward until she was starring right into Gallan’s eyes. Her breathing was hard her voice thin and stretched “The Shadow king he comes, he is darkness, he is death, he will end us all”
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This is my first squad of Imperial Guard to ally with my Space Marines against the forces of chaos in the battle of Mundus Prime. Mundus prime is the capital, and last city still in loyalist hands, on the planet of Mundus III. The Mundus PDF have suffered heavy causalities and their depleted squads have been reformed with drafts of any citizen who can hold a gun. Surrounded and with nowhere to run imperial forces must fight on and hope relief comes..
Sergeant Klay tried to look calm tried to give the impression he was in control. Methodically he load a new magazine into his bolt pistol noting the small tremor in his hand as he did so. All around him was pandemonium, enemy artillery shells rained down, around his position, throwing up huge plumes of dirt and filling the air with dust and smoke. The instantly recognisable sound of a heavy bolter could be heard firing in the distance accompanied by the mournful cry of wounded soldiers. Above it all Klay could hear the crazed ravings of Samuel “Oh lord of mankind give us the strength to smite the heathens!”
Klay took a deep breath and steadied himself. Orders had just come through, on the Vox caster, the enemy had taken the forward trench line in front of Klay’s position and high command had order an immediate counter attack to regain the trench. “Emperor’s blood” Klay swore quietly to himself. “High command have lost the plot. If I had a full trained squad of PDF soldiers this task would be hard enough but with this..”
Klay turned and looked at his squad. They stared back at him looking bemused and frightened waiting for Klay to tell them what they should do. A couple of old men well north of fifty terran years, a young women, two miners from the south, Samuel the half crazed preacher clutching his supposed holy relic, a factory worker plus two PDF soldiers corporal Shen and private Glin. He hadn’t even had time to get to know them properly or remember their names. His new squad was three days old formed of surviving members of the PDF and any citizen that could hold a gun and stay upright.
Between them they had three regulation issue las-guns, a plasma gun, that Klay swore has seen service in the great crusade it was so old, some worn out autoguns and a couple of guns he didn’t even have a name for. Like the soldiers, under his command, Mundus Prime had had been scoured for any weapon that could be used in the cities defence.
Klay Cleared his throat “Fix…..” he stopped himself most of them didn’t have bayonets. “Alright the Heretic scum have taken the trench in front of us and we are going to take back before they get comfortable! Keep moving until I tell you to stop and if you see a traitor shoot him in face! Klay winked and grinned there was a ripple of laughter from the squad. Whistles could be heard blowing, along the trench, as squads assembled for the counter attack. Klay gave a curt nod and corporal Shen organised the squad by the trench ladders. The order came through the static of the vox caster. Klay clambered up the trench ladder “CHARGE!”
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Great stuff. This is a cool project.
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Brilliant background and figures 👍
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Brilliant background and figures 👍
Great stuff. This is a cool project.
Cheers guys
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I concur. Terrific stuff and so much character there in the Home Guard squad.
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I concur. Terrific stuff and so much character there in the Home Guard squad.
Thanks matey
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When the Faceless king launched his rebellion on the planet of Munda his army had three main elements. the first two elements were the Chaos cults, which varied in size and efficiency from a few dozen men with homemade weapons up to well trained and armed groups the size of a PDF regiment, and rebel PDF units most notably the 13th Munda regiment. the last part of his armed forces were the outcasts from the wild places of Munda outlaws, mutants and abhumans. Desperate, persecuted groups that were only to happy to throw in with the Faceless king and gain revenge on their imperial oppressors.
The Faceless king’s rebellion was years in the making and in that time he was able to bring these outcasts under his sway arm and train them turning them from poorly armed bushwhackers in to effective shock troops to throw into the fray.
Here we have some beastmen for my heretic Chaos army a mix of Blackstone Fortress and fantasy beastmen with conversions using spare fantasy beastmen arms and heads and Necromunda Goliath arms.
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Your painting skills continue to get better...and you had a high bar to start with.
Really enjoying this thread.
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Your painting skills continue to get better...and you had a high bar to start with.
Really enjoying this thread.
Thanks I'm really enjoying learning to paint in a Grimdark style it's a nice break from on more traditional styles.
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That's pretty brilliant (as usual) 8)
I once did about the same with a couple of the old WHFB monopose beastmen, adding some weapons and other kit to 40K them up. Worked pretty well, but the end result was not as dynamic as yours, for obvious reasons.
I made them in a few frantic hours at Poldercon a number of years back, where one of the timeslots could be filled in with a kitbashing session, and it was great fun. I later expanded on the existing 2 or 3 I built at the time, but I didn't have enough to make a full squad, so they're still in WIP limbo I fear.
Yours are inspirational though, so who knows? :)
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That's pretty brilliant (as usual) 8)
I once did about the same with a couple of the old WHFB monopose beastmen, adding some weapons and other kit to 40K them up. Worked pretty well, but the end result was not as dynamic as yours, for obvious reasons.
I made them in a few frantic hours at Poldercon a number of years back, where one of the timeslots could be filled in with a kitbashing session, and it was great fun. I later expanded on the existing 2 or 3 I built at the time, but I didn't have enough to make a full squad, so they're still in WIP limbo I fear.
Yours are inspirational though, so who knows? :)
Thanks
You can't beat some 40k beastmen wish I'd kept those metal Imperial Guard ones I had back in 1st edition 40k they were lovely sculpts.
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That's some lovely converting and painting there.
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Lovely work , mate.
I like how you converted fantasy minis to scifi.
They would work great for a Siege of Terra scenario ( seeing there were multitudes of mutants involved ).
You might look at what I did with converting fantasy beastmen from old skaven to add more variation.
I think they can be converted to scifi also with a bit of work.
Apart from the fact that a lot beastmen in 40K do not have the luxury of firearms just horns & brute force.
So I guess fantasy beastmen can be used in 40K also.
One might also use Kroot weaponry for them.
Here
http://castrarunis.blogspot.com/2019/03/converted-old-gw-skaven-to-beastmen.html (http://castrarunis.blogspot.com/2019/03/converted-old-gw-skaven-to-beastmen.html)
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Here we have a squad of Munda 13th set up for an assault role in the great trench battles that took place around the city of Munda Prime. A mix of Blackstone Fortress traitor guard and a couple of the more guardsmen looking old OOP chaos cultists plus some head and weapon swaps. below is their background lore
The Munda 13th were unique among the PDF regiments of Munda III. Designated as a fortress regiment the 13th garrisoned strategic points across the planet including fortresses, the Starport and the planets Defence Laser and Defence missile batteries. Most Munda PDF regiments consisted of two battalions of five companies each of around 250 men and officers. The 13th instead consisted of around forty independent companies ranging from size from 50 to 1000 men depending on the garrison requirements of their post. In keeping with their role the 13th had few armoured vehicles and little organic transport but had access to more artillery and heavy weapons.
When the Faceless King was planning his rebellion he specifically targeted the 13th infiltrating and corrupting the regiments officer corps. When the rebellion started this not only gave the Faceless King control of the planets defence network but also several strategic fortresses. In addition he gained a large body of trained fighting men and heavy weaponry.
It was quite possible that in the early days of the rebellion many of the private soldiers in the regiment were unaware that they were the rebels and by the time they realised, their mistake, it’s was to late their souls already belonged to Chaos. In the later stages of the war the 13th embraced the Dark gods and revealed in their status as the Faceless King’s elite fighting force.
Equipment wise the 13th used exactly the same equipment as loyalist PDF units which resulted in some confused battles and numerous friendly fire incidents in the early days of the rebellion. To counter this units of the 13th took to wearing scraps of red cloth, as a field sign, latter they also often sported fetishes and symbols showing their allegiance to the dark gods.
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Great work: these look suitably grimy.
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Great work: these look suitably grimy.
Seconded👍
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Nice work all round!
8) 8)
I am thinking of doing something similar for my next project, well effect-wise if not subject-wise, and will follow your progress so that I can steal all your ideas.
:D ;)
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Thanks guys. Mason steal away goodness knows I've used plenty of other people's work to fuel my own projects :)
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Great work. This may not shock people, but I love the subdued palette. The OSL is great on the plasma pistol too.