Rev's 'mostly marines' Showcase

[rev]

OMG!! (picks jaw up off the floor) that is the most amazing squad i have ever seen, i love the deathly palor on the skin and the metal is stunning. (muttering under breath) right, now I must find rev's house, get a balaclava and find my crowbar........... But only after he's completed the drop pod.

Thanks hellheart. Drop pod is 95% finished. Its in the same style, trying to get a functional look rather than the cartoon look I normally end up with. pics soon.

I almost want to see the odd sickly vien on the side of their foreheads. Very cool looking force I like use of targeter eye heads. The blue white insignia looks great.

You know the same thing crossed my mind, but I was so pleased with the skin tone I didn't want to mess it up - do you ever do that?! I try to do an army with the same bits. for instance the blood ravens all use mostly aquilla eagle or skull and wings torsos, which meant I had all teh hosing ones left for this army. Similarly with helmets, I horde all the bits I need until I've got anough (the IH horde took me 2 years! but it was worth the wait for the encouraging comments!!) and then I stick them all together.

Excellent squad mate, really unique touch with a lot of love put into them!

These are some of the best, if not the best looking iron hands I've seen around!
I love the red, gives a nice ad mech feel to it!
Keep up the great work, I will be watching this space!

thanks Boymilla, appreciate your checking in!

Awesome stuff Rev. Whats your recipe for the skin?

Its dead easy (as is the whole scheme in fact) rotting flesh base, add white a few times for a highlight and a touch of badab black in the eye sockets.

its that simple! no secrets here my friend!

I have to say, I like them a lot Rev, very nice work. Just a little...niggly bit...nothing in particular, the bionics look a bit...samey, if you know what I mean. For example, why not put a coloured wire in somewhere, not garish or anything, just something to break it up a bit Nothing big though, these look amazing

Always a critique Shad ;-)

What I've done is pick out a few cables on the sgt and leave the rest deliberatly with a 'functional not fancy' look.



it works in two ways in that, one it draws attention to the sgt and two, means I can knock them out pretty fast. thanks for keeping looking in though mate, really appreciate your support.

so, wait there are no other highlights on the black other than Mithril silver? Genius!

I know - it shouldn't be this easy, but it is.

I spent ages agonsing over the scheme but I think i've hit a good balance of looking nice without being highly labour intensive.




Drop pod and a sample biker over the weekend.

rev

[fiore hellheart]

Thanks hellheart. Drop pod is 95% finished. Its in the same style, trying to get a functional look rather than the cartoon look I normally end up with. pics soon.

hehe i better get moving then not long to go

[Toyship]

Originally Posted by Toyship
so, wait there are no other highlights on the black other than Mithril silver? Genius!
I know - it shouldn't be this easy, but it is.

I spent ages agonsing over the scheme but I think i've hit a good balance of looking nice without being highly labour intensive.

About how long would you say it takes for you to paint a bog standard marine? (BTW none of your marines are bog standard)

[tcraigen]

I totally understand the fear of messing something up, more times then I want to count an attempt has lead to a fail, and the second attempt/repair has never been as good as the first. Eyes seem to be a big one of these for me.

[Dictator]

thanks Dictator! All hail the omnissiah indeed have you read mechanicum yet?
rev

Sadly no, but I hope soon. I love the mechanicus and your awesome iron hands. Great update too. I am assuming you read mechanicum? If so, what did you think?

[Shadowphrakt]

Always a critique Shad ;-)

What I've done is pick out a few cables on the sgt and leave the rest deliberatly with a 'functional not fancy' look.

Sorry Rev I don't mean to sound negative or anything, its just my personal opinion I had in fact seen the ones on the sergeant and had just wondered why you hadn't put them on anyone else - but your explanation makes it clear!

[synapse]

that sergeant is tasty! really good job, especially with the red and the paint chips.

[rev]

hehe i better get moving then not long to go

lol - you got some spare ££ in these troubled times and they're yours my good man!

About how long would you say it takes for you to paint a bog standard marine? (BTW none of your marines are bog standard)

these guys? difficult to say, with accelerated drying times I'd do one from start to finish in around 2 hours? thats a wild guess though - I batch 4 or 5 and often have a few batches on teh go in different stages so a precisefigure would be impossible unless I sat down with one guy and timed it. Which I might do one day, you never know!

I totally understand the fear of messing something up, more times then I want to count an attempt has lead to a fail, and the second attempt/repair has never been as good as the first. Eyes seem to be a big one of these for me.

yeh eyes are a pain in the ****, they never look right huh.

Sadly no, but I hope soon. I love the mechanicus and your awesome iron hands. Great update too. I am assuming you read mechanicum? If so, what did you think?

yeh I did, it was good. I think I'm going to have to read it again to fully appreciate it though. bits of it were great, bits were rushed or poor - but my view mught change with a re read. if you were in the UK I'd offer to lend you my copy!

Sorry Rev I don't mean to sound negative or anything, its just my personal opinion I had in fact seen the ones on the sergeant and had just wondered why you hadn't put them on anyone else - but your explanation makes it clear!

hehe no worries buddy, *must take the good with the bad* !!

that sergeant is tasty! really good job, especially with the red and the paint chips.

Thanks Synapse, appreciate your checking in.

rev

[Shadowphrakt]

hehe no worries buddy, *must take the good with the bad* !!
rev

Please don't think my comments as bad! They are meant in the most positive of lights...which I need to turn on...

[T_55]

Fantastic work, the techmarine conversion looks great! Good work on the Iron Hands.

[Ganymene]

The Iron Hands look awesome with the bionics and the pale skin.

The Techmarine to Sergeant conversion is a stroke of genius.

Great work as always.

[Suicide Messiah]

Wow. Those Iron hands are great. Liking the weathering.

[Dio´Ra]

Excellent stuff here Rev....but I do have a question about the use of bits....we see the same head, the same pair of legs several times in a squad...making the poses repetitive by the legs alone...won´t that make the superb army look a bit broing?

or do you plan to convert your own mechanical legs/arms?

[childofnurgle]

Hey dude, that squad looks AWESOME!!!

Seeing as you`ve got the black down now, try a Raven Guard assault marine! Go on, you know you want to......Lol

Wish I had a few quid, i`d take those hands off of your hands...

Peace and love brother

[childofnurgle]

Oh yeah, i`ve also stolen the squad pic for my new wallpaper mate

Peace and love

[rev]

Please don't think my comments as bad! They are meant in the most positive of lights...which I need to turn on...

lol - no worries Shad, thanks for keeping checking back at all!

Fantastic work, the techmarine conversion looks great! Good work on the Iron Hands.

Thanks 55 - another techmarine conversion coming soon.

The Techmarine to Sergeant conversion is a stroke of genius.

Great work as always.

Thanks Ganymene. It was fairly simple actually, nothing to technical. Two arm swaps and a standard SM backpack is all. positioning the Auspex arm to fire the combi melta was the only bit that took more than a few seconds thought. The second one will be harder because he's staring off into space (thunderfire techy).

Wow. Those Iron hands are great. Liking the weathering.

Thanks SM. I'm really pleased with it too as an alternative to black highlighting.

Excellent stuff here Rev....but I do have a question about the use of bits....we see the same head, the same pair of legs several times in a squad...making the poses repetitive by the legs alone...won´t that make the superb army look a bit broing?

or do you plan to convert your own mechanical legs/arms?

Its a really good point Dio.

The answer that my use of bits is quite deliberate. I tend to amas huge stockpiles of sprues etc, which I then clip off my favourite bits (beakie helms, running legs, whatever) and then do a themed army using just a small selection of bits.

For instance, the fleshtearers which I sold earlier this year used bits only from the assault marine and devestator boxed sets. The Blood ravens have over 30 beakie helmets and the Iron hands will be all very similar looking.

I do it deliberatly for two reasons. Firstly because I really like a force to look unified not only through colour choice, but also through the use of bits - almost like a 'uniform' of sorts. The second reason is that I personally find it a lot more pleasing to my eye to have a force which looks strongly coherant on the table.

I do try hard to make sure that no marine with one type of helmet has the same type of legs or pose etc - and that marines with the helmets or suchlike are looking in different directions, and spread the use of limited metal bits fairly throughout any force to get an even distribution of bits.

That said it does get hard. The bikers all have some kind of home made bionic (except the tester biker below) and I've got 4 of these on the bench atm.

Wish I had a few quid, i`d take those hands off of your hands...

Cheers buddy - I might try a raven guard for a laugh, just for you. On the note of sales, the Blood ravens are up for grabs if anybody wants to spend their christmas money. I'll even consider offers on the Iron Hands even though they're not finished!

The pod and first 10 man squad are done, just awaiting photographs, in the meantime here's a test biker;







I've tried to build up a small snow bank around his front tyre to mak eit look like he's stopped in a drift.

I've used gloss varnish rather than drybrushed dirt on the tyres, as when I've just driven through snow my tres are glossy with liquid not all muddy and gritty.

Hope you like, comments appreciated.

rev

[Shadowphrakt]

Like the biker alot Rev, very nice, I like the front...tire...especially...


The Mithril highlighting works very well - you're a very talented person

[rickie8437]

class

very nice mate i have to say your work is very good

question?

can you still get the iron hands tac squad and if so how much for? or did gw rip the **** out of it and charge an arm and a leg?

[CaptainSenioris]

Me likey.

I just wish that the body of the marine was as detailed as the helmet/shoulder guards. Thats not something that can be helped really, without spending more time on an otherwise rank and file model though. Edit: I just realised that this is a test biker... answers my statement pretty well.

EDIT: To answer rickie8437's question, the Iron Hands box set is direct sales only and can be found here.

[Dio´Ra]

Its a really good point Dio.

The answer that my use of bits is quite deliberate. I tend to amas huge stockpiles of sprues etc, which I then clip off my favourite bits (beakie helms, running legs, whatever) and then do a themed army using just a small selection of bits.

For instance, the fleshtearers which I sold earlier this year used bits only from the assault marine and devestator boxed sets. The Blood ravens have over 30 beakie helmets and the Iron hands will be all very similar looking.

I do it deliberatly for two reasons. Firstly because I really like a force to look unified not only through colour choice, but also through the use of bits - almost like a 'uniform' of sorts. The second reason is that I personally find it a lot more pleasing to my eye to have a force which looks strongly coherant on the table.

I do try hard to make sure that no marine with one type of helmet has the same type of legs or pose etc - and that marines with the helmets or suchlike are looking in different directions, and spread the use of limited metal bits fairly throughout any force to get an even distribution of bits.

That said it does get hard. The bikers all have some kind of home made bionic (except the tester biker below) and I've got 4 of these on the bench atm.

Hmmm interesting explanation...I don´t mind having a whole marine force with beakie helmets or the maximus pattern helmets...because they are like uniformal pattern helmets....

But when it comes to bionics...I see its rather personal to the marine...it gives the marine a background story...yet when you see the same marine bionic head trice in one squad you become to wonder how three marines got the same wound on the head and the same treatment?...well maybe bionic treatments can be very normal and standard....so standard that the injured marines get on a factory line belt and get the same procedure....but to me always from the Iron Hands background was that when a marine received its bionics its like a whole ritual performed by the Iron Father himself on the injured marine?....

anyway rev you must have quite allot of spare bits laying around for trade?

And can´t wait to see the other four bikers of yours....the blue headlight is something new to me on the bike...personaly think the yellow would give more contrast to the dark model and make the headlight stand more out....but then again the bright yellow might not fit with the ice theme and the ice blue/white of the iconography.....

Anyway keep up the goodwork rev its great to see an iron hands army done justice....