The Knights of Orion

[Arkaedin]

In prep for 'Ard Boyz, I went pack to painting some marines.

Here's my scratch-built Land Speeder Storm which I built in about an hour.




And then the Scout crew being transported!

[kishvier]

Looking real good man! Hey are you going to play in the 'Ard Boyz?

[Solun Decius]

Wow,far between updates here
I guess I missed the last two but the Rhino (feb) and Tactical Squad (may) are looking good. These scouts & speeder are better still. Good faces and nice camo on the capes. The blueish white pants are coming out very nicely.
Good scratchbuild on the Storm too!

[Arkaedin]

Thanks guys!

@Kish- aye, I'm going to 'Ard boyz. I'm still ironing out a few kinks in my list but I got a massacre result last night against another 'Ard boyz list so I'm feeling pretty good right now

@Solun- What are you talking about, I update weekly! Yeah, I have on and off bursts of activity. Biggest problem is being distracted by the Valhallan army I recently picked up

[Arkaedin]

Another infrequent update (at least it's in the same month, right?) Well I picked up the new Kor'Sarro Khan model (absolutely LOVE the thing) and decided to try a technique I've never done before: NMM armor. And not the Silver/Bronze/Gold NMM armor, I mean purple shiny armor. A daunting task for someone who has no background in art or anything besides line-highlighting. I finished up the arms (sorta) and am very happy with the way they turned out. Hopefully they look good on the rest of the mini!

[kishvier]

Whack-tacular. Nice model man, hey you and Alex should come some time to open gaming with me since you didn't play 'Ard Boyz.

[Arkaedin]

Finished up my Ironclad (I name him Thor. Long story but involves me listening to "Twilight of the Thunder God" by Amon Amarth). I tried two new things to some success... first, I tried to bled the purple on the armor in the same vein as the Salamander Ironclad on the GW website. The other thing was that I only did NMM on the model's metallic part. I've done this before (a model having no metal paints used) but never to a scale this large. Usually it was confined to guardsmen (my Commissar that made it to the Chicago Golden Demon Finals being a good example). In the end, while the effects are certainly not perfect, I am incredibly happy with the way everything turned out. If I had to pick my favorite parts of the model, it would have to be the searchlight, the leg armor, the skull/cross thing on the left armor plate and the purity seal. Anyways, onto the pictures...






Pics continued...

[Arkaedin]

[Arkaedin]

Finished up Khan:

[kishvier]

Wicked! Sword is a little on the dark side, but the NMM, Highlights, and Blending is wonderful.

[Arkaedin]

Thanks kish!

So these pieces of plastic...err...soldiers of man have been sitting in my army case for about 9 months now. This is their second repaint, so they're not the best thing I've ever painted. In fact, they're pretty terrible. The only thing that brightens them up a bit from looking like utter crap are the purity seals and eyes, honestly. Well, here they are..

[Wintermute]

Thread Closed at the request of the OP and I'm moving it to the Hall of Heroes Forum.

Wintermute