Counts-As Mephiston

I posted a bad picture of this a while ago, figured I'd add a higher quality one. Parts are from the Death Company kit, a Dark Angels sword, random plasma pistol, and cloak from the Dark Elf Corsairs. Psychic Hood built from an extra shoulder pad and some green stuff.

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Counts-As Sergeant Telion

Because I just love this guy. The grizzled old war veteran who insists on teaching the youngsters. It's almost a trope. Anyways, I spent quite a bit of time cutting and filing away at the Ultramarine symbols on this guy (the right bracer and the shoulder were the most irritatingly difficult), and then used greenstuff in an amateur fashion to put my chapter badge on his left shoulder. As with all my scouts, I replaced the head with a Pig Iron helmet. Because I'm pretty sure they should go over wearing your helmet in Space Marine Basic Training.

Scout Squad Complete

Here's the Space Marine Scout Squad that I've been working on for a while, finally complete. The helmets are from Pig Iron Productions and work wonderfully with the scout models (because as I usually insist - a dude without a helmet is just asking for a bolter round to the face).

Space Wolf Terminator

Surprisingly enough, I finished this while taking breaks studying for my music final. This is a part of the Space Wolves army that I've been working on over a long period of time. For gits and shiggles, I put hazard stripes on the chainfist so that the Xenos scum know to get out of the way.

Upcoming, I've got a couple projects starting to flesh themselves out more. 

1) I'm going to be painting up a Unicorn by Reaper Mini as a Christmas present for my girlfriend. Not just any unicorn. It'll be a Robot Unicorn.

2) As soon as I've edited them, I'll post photos of that scout squad that has been in progress for a while.

3) Lastly, I'm finally getting around to getting started on a Warmachine Army, but I'm still beating back and forth between what to start.

Avatar of Khaine

I was looking for something to add to my Eldar army and finally thought: "You know, the Avatar is kind of iconic - even if the pewter model is crap in compared to Forgeworld." So I did some cutting and pinning and greenstuffing for the following result. Both the arms are reposed, the torso is taller and bulked out a little more and the hair has been turned and bulked out so it doesn't look atrocious.

Rather than painting the upper most lava layers as a super dark red or black, I just left it at red since I really wanted this guy to pop out from the rest of my Eldar army. I spray coated with white primer and gradually worked up through yellows and oranges and then to red. All the armor got a coat of black and then painted up with usual gold recipe. The sword has a slightly blue sheen to it due to a thinned out wash of blue ink (yes, I still have a bottle of blue ink. It works just fine for what I need.)

I also tried experimenting with some basings effects - blending the blood spatter on the snow into a (hardly visible in the photo) pool of water effect around the Avatar's feet to represent the fact that he is the flaming god of war and his every step scorches the earth beneath him. Didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, but oh well.

If you notice the helmet on the ground, it's painted in the same color scheme as the Space Wolves commission that my friend hired me to do.

On another note, I turned 21 today. Bar run tonight!

Gorgon Knights Scouts

Here are a couple of Scouts from my Gorgon Knights chapter. Rather than go with the usual gold, I decided to make it a much darker scheme than usual, while simultaneously making a subtle reference to the Iron Hands (their parent chapter). They are after all Scouts, they infiltrate and tend to rely on stealth. Wearing bright colors doesn't help that at all. A subtle detail that I'll be incorporating is (with the exception of the Sergeants) is the fact that the Scouts don't bear the chapter emblem, a right that they earn when they become full battle-brothers. The most noticeable thing is the use of Pig Irons' Heavy Infantry heads. Even though they're space marines, they still wear helmets into battle. Doing anything else mere combat stupidity.

The paint scheme was heavily inspired from the Halo series of video games - mainly on the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (the best of non-augmented human soldiers). I have a hard time painting with darker pallets. I find that trying to stick to it creates a rather boring model. Fortunately, it allows me to play with metallic paints much more than I'm usually able to and try to simulate a True Metallic look. The helmet visors were definitely a nice contrast to the rest of the model. 

As usual, C&C welcome.

Cheers,

Squirrel_Fish

Counts-As Commander Dante

Throwing up some pics of my counts-as Commander Dante.

Cheers,
Squirrel_Fish