Topic: Winter Painting Challenge [Month 1/3]

[1-i]

@Corvid thanks, I think brutal thralls shall now be my Dark Eldar Grotes

In painting/pic news I have the finished pic of vow 1, apperently lighting is an issue now.

[Final Justice]

Got my first Hawk done finally. Whilst pondering what to do with the bare metal I decided to ask the wife for her opinions. I then trotted out one of each of my aspects so she could get a feel for what the rest of the army looks like. She then came up with a colour scheme I wouldn't have thought of echoing real Hawk colours and picking out the paints she wanted from my collection. The only thing I added was the blue as I decided I wanted to reference Beldin's blue banded hawk from the Belgariad. The process was quite fun actually and I might have to repeat it in the future. She was quite pleased with the results I painted although she said the orange wasn't quite what she'd been after (more of a burnt orange she said)

So here's the base coated Hawk



Now with inks and washes added



And now the completed Hawk with highlights and further washes.





I feel as if I've got a pretty good idea of how the washes work now and I may abandon the old inks most of the time now. I've also realised that the earlier wash step is fairly unnecesary and I could probably do all the base coats and highlights and then wash.

[Lord of Winter and War]

Besides small details like words on scrolls, finishing up metal on the weapons and backpack, touch ups and basing, the three sanguinary guard squads, Dante and one priest are finished. I've begun work on the Sanguinor and the second priest. I may alter my vow, as I don't really want to build a fourth squad for a while, so unless I see one for a good deal, I'm going to stick with the three squads as that keeps me at 1500pts.

Squad 1


Squad 2


Squad 3


Dante




Priest 1




Priest 2


Sanguinor


Whole thing

[Colhir]

5 Marines down 4 more to go. All base coated just need to get on with it! I do have pictures but I can't find my camera cable, that age old excuse.

[JusticeCetin]

Well although the vows got locked, i am now going to an escalation tourney, and since i swore i would NEVER bring unpainted models to a tournament.  I therefore, although it is technically a fail, i will paint 4 Chimeras for this month, and i will vow the rest next month (the tourney is Jan 28th)

[CorvidMP]

Damnit killersquid, your making me regret not trying a to make an all sang guard army.

In other news- my vow is already a fail, I broke the scythe off the unmounted Darragh Wrathe model and have spent several nights trying to get it back into place with having to pin the tiny wrists. 
I'm no longer sure where the calluses end and the superglue begins on my fingers.
Soooooo....I'll be taking a break from him before trying to pin it because at this point if it goes like my other repair attempt's I'll wind up getting an excessive force complaint at my next traffic stop....

Pistol wraith is done though and looks awesome, plus I've started Black Ivan.  What's more I'm trying out priming with  gesso on him (btw gesso is hard to work with in dark patrol car lol).

[angel of death 007]

I got the greatcoats painted along with the armor and weapons.   I went back and forth between colors to try to find a good accent color.  I went with red which makes them look more like traitor guard or blood pact.   I still got to work on their bases, gas masks lens(going for a gem effect here) and I am going to weather their great coats.   Hopefully it turns out well.

[Lord of Winter and War]

You guys need to post more pictures.

Basically finished my challenge.

The Sanguinor





Dante





Squads







Priests

[1-i]

Vow #2 complete, Dreadnought is done
Also got most of Vow #4 (random vehicle bits) done.

[Lachdonin]

I have to say, Squid, that those Guard look awesome. But i actually prefered the Glaive Encarmines before the striations... I don't know, it just looks too busy now.

[enlg]

Killersquid, what colors did you use on the sanguinary guard? I'd love to try replicating that look with a greenish tint for my nurgle chaos who aren't painted up to my contentment standards.

[Lord of Winter and War]

I have to say, Squid, that those Guard look awesome. But i actually prefered the Glaive Encarmines before the striations... I don't know, it just looks too busy now.

Maybe it's the pictures, but I prefer the stripes more then the flat colour. Mostly, as I wanted the blades to stick out a bit better. I appreciate the feedback, however I don't think I'll go back to the solid blue though.

Killersquid, what colors did you use on the sanguinary guard? I'd love to try replicating that look with a greenish tint for my nurgle chaos who aren't painted up to my contentment standards.

Do you mean for the armour? It's a basecoat of fortress grey, two seperate washes of Gryphonne sepia, highlight with bleached bone, highlight with skull white and then one more wash of Gryphonne sepia. I went through three bottles of the wash while painting the army. The highlights of white don't need to be so neat, as the final wash blends it together and fixes any sort of 'mistakes'.


@ 1-i

I really like the Dreadnaught! I like the muted warn out colours.

@Final Justice, I missed your swooping hawk when you posted it. Looking good, I cannot wait to see more.

[Lachdonin]

Maybe it's the pictures, but I prefer the stripes more then the flat colour. Mostly, as I wanted the blades to stick out a bit better. I appreciate the feedback, however I don't think I'll go back to the solid blue though.

It must be the pictures then, because the earlier ones don't look solid blue, and have more of a fluidic, sea water s look to them. I do agree in principal though, striated blades look alot better than matt blue.

[Lord of Winter and War]

No, it's not full solid. A light blue wash on white. But, I wanted to try something a bit more challenging.

[TheGeneral]

So, started the Deathcompany. The Black is finished

[angel of death 007]

Seeing a lot of great work this month.

I decided to paint these up to enter into the manufacturers Painting Contest.
They don't really match the rest of my guard army but I am hoping to try a renegade guard army with (hopefully) a new chaos renegades or chaos traitor type codex.



Up close and personal

[CheesyRobMan]

So far I have put one colour onto one Killa Kan.

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Teh failz, I haz them. But there's still time!

[1-i]

I completed the turrets that I had the parts for, turns out I was two plasmas shy of completing a second las/plas turret.
Still Ive completed my vow for this month. I feel good.

@Angle of death, love those eyes

@Killersquid, the modes great, the swords in final form     well I have two thoughts.  One is that under the close up inspection of the swords Im not nor have been a fan of all the little lines, My second tought is that from a total model display and table perspective that isnt singling out a particular model I love the effect.  Still no matter what I think on the swords I still belive you are a better painter than me.

[ΦMacGyvorkΦ]

Is it too late to participate?


I had ( previously ) vowed to my self to paint two Nurgle tanks + one Space wolf test model that I would be working on this month.


If I am able to participate I would love to post WIP and finished results as this would be a great idea to motivate me 

[IainC]

You can participate whenever, it's just that you can't change an already pledged vow after the tenth.