Engel's Imperial Fists Blog

[Promethius]

I really like this army Engel. You're inspiring me to take another look at my Fists and do some painting/modelling. If only I wasn't knee deep in cadians atm...

[Petay1985]

Lok looks fantastic, well done fella.

[Kroot Lord]

Your Fists look amazing, and have improved immensely since you started painting them! I was wondering what paint scheme you're using for your models (like the Assault Marines, for example)?

Thanks, and keep up the good work

[Inquisitor Engel]

Your Fists look amazing, and have improved immensely since you started painting them! I was wondering what paint scheme you're using for your models (like the Assault Marines, for example)?

Thanks, and keep up the good work

My yellow formula.

1. Spray with Tamiya PS-19 Camel Yellow (http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=86019) Make sure it's the PS-19, the TS-34 is a different, much lighter colour.
2. Drybrush 2-3 layers of golden yellow. This can be rather difficult. I keep a mini from the previous squad on-hand to check consistency. Make sure it's not TOO chalky, otherwise it spoils the effect. I have a brush where this is ALL I USE IT FOR as any other colour or moisture on the brush will bring out the green in the mixture.
3. Apply a wash of 33/33/33 Gryphonne Sepia, Devlan Mud and Water to the recesses and along the edges of the armour. Anywhere where there's a join or place where two plates come together. I have a giant batch pre-made for this.
4. Black-line where the shoulder trim meets the pad itself (with micron-pen, see below) and then paint the trim whatever colour you need. (Fists use Codex colour patterns, White for 1st, Yellow for 2nd, etc. Mine are the 5th company)
5. At this point I usually paint the bleached bone if it's needed on skulls/oaths of moment/etc.
6. Paint the joints (and anything else that should be metallic) with boltgun metal and the chest eagle blood red. My seals on oaths of moment/purity seals are also red, so I do them here.
7. Apply black wash to all the metal bits and chest eagle and purity seal seals. Just a little bit to tone it down and add depth.
8. Paint the eyes goblin green. Add a little dot of white in the corner.
9. Highlight any edges with straight golden yellow. Highlight shoulder trims now as well.
10. Black lining time! Any join you think could do with the definition. I use a 0.05mm Micron-Pen, which allows me to do script on purity seals (and elsewhere on the armour) as well. The eyes have a line of black painted on the outside as well.
11. Apply decals (which is an art in and of itself!) and you're done!

[Dejay]

Those Fitsts looks fantastic on the tabletop Engel, great work dude.

[swifty2]

The latest fists look really cool mate, and as said they look totally amazing on the tabletop.

[Inquisitor Engel]

Just a taste of my current work:



Legion of the Damned [annoying to paint nicely].

[swifty2]

Be good to see your legionnaires finished mate, but seriously you think they're annoying

I thought they where absoloutely lovely to paint, that said i've only painted one so far

[Inquisitor Engel]

I thought they where absoloutely lovely to paint, that said i've only painted one so far

I'm actually so not satisfied with mine at this point (started doing the bone last night) that I'm going to strip them to metal and start again. I'll probably avoid doing the all black prime, probably sticking to white prime for the flames and Denheb Stone for the bone and paint the areas black when they need to be, avoiding a good goop of black in the process.

They've been pushed to back so I can do my Counts-as-Vulkan (Captain Culn with a spear and flamethrower powerfist) and a cheap captain for smaller games (power sword and bolter, the end). I'm going to pick up a sonic cleaner this week.

I guess I'm just too used to painting really bright models.

[Inquisitor Engel]

RISE! RISE FROM THE GRAVE LOG-TYPE-THREAD! RISE!

*ahem*

It's taken nearly seven months but I think I'm starting to get back into the swing of painting. Truth be told I'm still not happy with the photographing situation in this apartment, but thins will have to do. I got insurmountably busy at work and had to balance all of that with friends living much further away than they used to, video games and all sorts of things.

I also don't typically paint much in the summer... I just don't seem to be in a very Sci-Fi mood...

Now with Halo: Reach occupying a lot of my time I'm back in Sci-Fi mode and things have tapered off at work. I'm painting up my Vindicator currently and am working on a stand-in generic captain just to bring my skills up to par again.

See what happens when you take a break:



My abilities haven't dropped off as sharply as my last three-year hiatus so that's good...The good/bad news is I leave for Mexico on vacation next Monday. Ah well - still, more to come!

[Petay1985]

nice low lighting/shading, the crisp edges to the armour will look great with a highlight. nice progress. I particularly like the use of the MkIV helmet.

[Providence89]

Looks great

[<cyphon>]

i have to say this is one of the best Fists army iv seen in a long time!
i might have to take some inspiration from this!
keep up the good work dude!

[Inquisitor Engel]

Thanks for the kind words.

The pictures make them look SO BAD sometimes, especially having to take them with my phone due to the current lack of photo space. I can see all the worst mistakes and little lines... ugh.

Anyway - In addition to work on the Vindicator (which really just lacks the dozer blade, which I have NO IDEA how to paint! Ideas?) I've also been slowly putting paint onto an old stripped Emperor's Champion for Pugh's command squad.

I've been wrestling with what colour/how to do the command shoulder pads for a while now. Obviously they shouldn't have white because that's first company and these guys are beyond it. All yellow is meh.

After finding this image by the extremely talented badaboom at B&C, I hit upon the idea of black trim and white shoulder pads, a la Black Templars.



The Fists seem to maintain close ties to the Templars, or so it would seem and since the Black/White was the original colour of Sigismund, the original Emperor's Champion, I thought it might be a cool way to distinguish command units.

So, what do you think? VERY WIP by the way, lots of tidying up to do! And flash apparently makes the white look thicker than it really is... it's actually quite smooth.



I'm thinking of making the tabard (and therefore everyone else in the squad's capes) red. That's obviously a first layer of white on there. Thoughts?

[Inquisitor Engel]

It is done.



I've also started some work on a Deathwatch squad (obviously another Sternguard squad) because I like the idea. I'm trying to find sculpted, individual shoulder pads to represent the Chapters. Having already procured Ultramarines and Blood Angels I'd love it if anyone had resources for individuals for the one GW sells as 10-packs (Mentors, Genesis Chapter etc.)

Pics of them to follow.

[Inquisitor Engel]

Well the Emperor's Champion is done!

I'll have pics of him tomorrow but he's turned out EXCELLENTLY. I unfortunately had to waste a couple of decals trying to get my method down again (and thanks to the microsol, redo the white on his shoulder pad) but I'm genuinely thrilled with the result.

Now, in the meantime I've taken a lot of bitz from the Blood Angels Death Company box (oh man, I wish I could do Blood Angels, those things are amazing) and a lot of spare bitz myself and started making a Deathwatch Kill Team.

I plan on solely using the metal Deathwatch pads as the plastic ones just don't do it for me but I also plan on not having a single Imperial Fists marine in it.

I do however, need your help!

I've posted a thread in the Wanted Ads and gotten a little bit of traction.

Ideally, I'd love to have sculpted shoulder pads for each of the Chapters represented (aside from two planned Blackshields) but unfortunately GW only sells them in batches of ten and FW only does terminator pads. (Boo, hiss!)

So I turn to you, Warseer community.

If you have a single or a couple of sculpted Space Marine CHAPTER shoulder pads (no plastic Deathwatch or Crux Terminatus ones please).

Specially I'd like some of the following:

• Forge World Raven Guard Should Pads (the less ornamented the better)
• Aurora Chapter
• Eagle Warriors
• Genesis Chapter
• Mentors
• Ragnar's Company

If anyone has 10 or so of the metal Deathwatch shoulder pads, that would be awesome. The plastic ones just aren't as cool.

If anyone can help, that'd be lovely.

[Inquisitor Engel]

Now, for a brief change of pace.

I think it's fairly obvious that I wasn't happy with my first attempt with the Legion of the Damned. Doing them ALL black and then going over the details made for poorly done detail.

So I stripped them and went for it again, this time avoiding painting anything that need to be painted flame or bone. I am much, much happier. This is simply a test model, but I'm quite happy with it. My apologies for the quality, I'm still working on getting a decent light-box.



Tonight? More Deathwatch modeling (sans Chapter shoulder pads still... see above.)

[Hushrong]

The LotD marine is looking sweet. Looking forward to seeing those Death Watch marines too.

[Inquisitor Engel]

The LotD marine is looking sweet. Looking forward to seeing those Death Watch marines too.

Though they're not painted I can give some show to the poses and ask for some poster input! The Deathwatch have arrived...

They're really just an amalgam of bitz really. There's a captain, some Death Company, some Command Squad bits... all over the place really. I prefer the ornamented and decorated veterans for Deathwatch, rather than MIB style smoothness.


This is the Captain. He's got a powersword from an Empire Wizard kit which I thought was more fitting of his Lamenter's roots (he'll have that checkered shoulder pad facing forwards!) since the BA and their successors have a Renaissance vibe going on. I really enjoy the pose.


Generic run and gun.


In-progress aiming marine. This one will be a Blood Angel.


A Space Wolf. Dual-wielding hand flamers just count as a normal flamer. I thought the mayhem he could wreak suited a Space Wolf's style.



The Ultramarine in a very 'aliens' sort of pose... "They're in the walls!"

See the next post for the choice of the Blackshields! You choose two!

[Inquisitor Engel]

So the following are candidates for Blackshield. For those not in-the-know, Blackshields are Marines whose chapters were destroyed, excommunicated or went rogue why they were deployed with a Kill-team. The Marines paint their Chapter-pad all black. I imagine they're total badasses given that they have basically no down time and are PERMANENTLY serving on the Deathwatch.



The old Deathwatch rules had an Assault 3 Heavy Bolter available. To do them justice, I thought a running HB marine would fit the role nicely.


Apothecary to recover gene-seed for Chapters represented and to study alien life they encounter. Someone with biology experience might be needed every now and then...


I just like how serious this guy looks, taking down aliens left and right, making sure he gets the most out of every shot while still acting like he owns the place.


Just a simple run-and-gun.


And finally, the marine surveying his damage. I liked doing something simple with the kneeling legs.



So I have a plan for two Blackshields. Currently I'm in possession of a Red Scorpions shoulder pad, a Raven Guard shoulder pad, an Angels of Absolution decal or 40. Still looking for other sculpted ones if anyone would like to donate or trade. Any suggestions for which shoulder pads go where would be delightful.

Happy hunting!