Painting Update - Part 9

More form the Knights Sanguine today, with a Librarian Dreadnought.

The blade of the force weapon was painted / inked blue first, before the top layer was painted on, leaving the blue in the recesses.

The hand holding the force weapon is the power fist I had left over from the Furioso (using the Venerable Dreadnought kit as that was the most suitable available at that time) I assembled several years ago.

From the other side...

...and finally, attack mode!

That's all for today,

Prospero

Painting Update - Part 8

Today's offering is from my Knights Sanguine - a command squad - complete with 3 plasma guns.

 

The squad was built from the new tactical squad box. I have used the new 32mm bases for the command squad only. This makes them stand out more when compared to the rest of the army, and avoids the problem of mixed base sizes within other squads.

I had run out of apothecary arms for this model, and so constructed my own by combining a power fist and a cut-down chainsword.

I was quite pleased with how the champions sword turned out, and may well finish it off with a coat of gloss varnish at some point. The lightning effect is something I eventually plan to apply to all power weapons across my different armies (though in different colours).

That's all for now,

Prospero

Heroquest and Prospero's Space Hulk painting mission

Another Heroquest session recently resulted in another hole fallen into by the barbarian, and more archery based trickery from the elf. Below are a few highlights...

Undead and Chaos seemed to be a theme in terms of opposition in this quest (note also the Elf's reaction to the appearence of the gargoyle... let the barbarian handle it!)

And now onto some painting. With a new edition of 40k likely very soon, I'm currently waiting to see what the new rules will mean for each of my armies, so instead of adding more stuff, I decided to tackle the pile of unpainted models - starting with the rest of the Space Hulk models.

 This is my first attempt at doing a lightning effect on a weapon, but I'm already thinking of other models I could add this to!

For the marine with the heavy flamer, I wanted to make it look like it was actually in the process of torching a corridor.

I drilled holes into the barrels and inserted a pair of brass rods. To make my 'flames', I added green turf that I normally use for basing, mixed with lots of PVA glue. Its still a bit fragile at the moment, but a drop of superglue on top will make it much more solid.

Of course, these are still very much works in progress. I'm also converting one marine so that it could be used in 40K as a Sanguinary Priest - will bring you all some pics of that soon.

Thats all for now - comments and feedback are welcome!

Prospero

Knights Sanguine - Army Pics

As promised, some more shots of my Knights Sanguine. I'll be using many of the units pictured here in some tournaments this month, and have been making sure the details on everything are completed. So, here goes...

Prospero's Painting Adventures

A short update this time. Several of us here at 11th Legion will be attending some tournaments over the next couple of weeks. Naturally, as the deadline looms, many late nights of frantic painting result.

Objectives Progress

A quick update on my objective markers - painting is going well! Here are some work in progress pics - will hopefully get some much better ones when they're finished.

Medic!!!

Just a quick update on the objective markers.

Painting has finally started - this is one I started some time ago (and is often used as a Sanguinary Priest in games too) but I decided he needed more work - the injured guy was far too clean - four shades of red soon sorted this out!

The blood started as red gore, followed by blood red. This was then washed with baal red, followed by magenta ink (a really old one not made by G.W. any more). Before it was dry a layer of ardcoat gloss varnish was also added.

More to follow after my next painting session...

Prospero's Objective Markers

I've been busy making some objective markers - here is what I've got painted so far...

Far too good a model to just sit in the Space Hulk box!

I've gone for a dead / wounded theme for the markers, and did plenty of digging around for good bits to use.

These are still under construction, but almost finished:

These were made using the wounded marines set as a starting point, with some Blood Angel parts to make them fit with the rest of my army. The banner is from the Forge World Red Scorpians set - with their icons carefully filed off.
Hoping to get these painted soon and then I should be able to provide some better pictures.