Hortwerth's painting, sculpting and converting log

[Morthai]

Very nice bases and GK grand master. I find his blade too long and too thick. With your skills I think you can do better than that

Edit: The lion I also top notch and you even sculpted all anatomically missing parts. The Valkyrie looks promising. Nice storm troopers conversions and I love the guy on the rope.

[Ganymene]

The Grandmaster is amazing, although the blade may be a bit long. The amount of detail you have put onto the model really makes it worthy of being the centerpiece for an army.

The techno-lion, in addition to being a very characterful idea, is simple awesome. I love the lightning claw paws and the exposed spine.

Looking forward to seeing them painted!

[Praexes]

That's a proud pair of lion balls. It makes the model look so much more... distinguished. I don't know, it makes him look like a real, battle-worn alpha male rather than some kid's plush toy.

/freudian rant.

The grand master is amazing too.

[Slaaaaaanesh]

Beautiful inquisitor model with cyber-lion. I much prefer yours to the Forgeworld model. Also cool realisation of the troopers coming out of the valkyrie, I've read many people talk about this in a conversion but this is the first proof of the pudding.

[Overdrive]

Great work as always. I really like the Grey Knight Grand Master, look forward to seeing it and especially that LandRaider painted.

[Frowbakk]

I'll be interested to see how the Valyrie paint job turns out.

[Ostling]

Some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen. How cool is the guy one the rope? genius !!


Greetings,
Ostling

[Daniel36]

Hey there Hortwerth.

Amazing stuff you have here. Can I please say that your new Powerplant bases are absolutely amazing!!

I would really like them to become available in "GW" style. I have a Necromunda gang that I am working on, and I just acquired a new set. The first set I got I have based on the Trash and Tech bases, and these new Powerplant bases would be absolutely awesome to have for the next batch. It makes otherwise identical models (of which I have quite a few) unique, and I am in absolute love with the Micro Art bases.

So if it were up to me, I'd definitly want to see them in GW style.

PS: Has Micro Art ever thought of creating small modular scenic "walls" or panels, similar to the Cities of Death modular building tiles? Seeing your bases (especially the trash, tech and factory ones), I can only imagine how awesome such things would be!

Keep up the great work!
Cheers,
Daniel

[precinctomega]

Huzzah! Lion balls!

R.

[Imus]

uber work. Can i ask how you did the cracks on the spider raider??

[Hortwerth]

Cheers for all the comments folks, I see that the Lion Balls are generating much of the traffic here!

The cracks in the Land Spider were made using rotary tool and fine dental disc bore bit. I just "drew" the cracks on, and the disc's thickness kept them look uniform.

With the GKGM's blade, it was hard to find something that would comfortably accept 1,5mm brass rod that I used to rebuild the weapon's shaft. I'm confident it will look much better when painted.

Now, let me present you with some primed pics of the GKGM, which btw found the client's fancy as for now.

[Hortwerth]

Please spare me the comments on the actual meaning of the lettering on his blade. Let's just assume it means that the "Ordo" Malleus is triumphant, ok? I find it quite perverting...


Ok, time for some lion balls love.









No, sorry, he just doesn't want to show off this time. Move along, nothing to see here...

[Hortwerth]

Maybe some of you would rather like to see some flying bricks over the lion balls? Then the next posts are for you.

There are some mixed feelings about my choice of the camo pattern on the Valkyrie in the Studio. I just wanted the dotted german-style camo, and so it is. Some others might have preferred me to paint a "normal" random stripes camo or even the "angular shapes" camo... Well, I just felt like I'd do some spots, let's keep the others for the next Valk... if someone commissiones one, that is. It's a terrible amount of work, so I assume there's the one-and-only that will go on ebay from me.

[Hortwerth]

I'm having trouble setting the contrasts and levels right with the new background. I feel the Valk is a bit darker in RL than in these pics, but when I set it so the background looks so dark! Maybe I'll try to come up with a new set of settings over the weekend.

[Hortwerth]

[Hortwerth]

As a sort-of afterthought I decided to add magnets to hold the roof and the rear hatch, plus the pivotal mounts of the heavy bolters. I should have thought about it earlier as drillng holes for magnets in a painted model is never good news... Well, I was lucky this time! No damage.







The guy on the rope is held with magnets to the base and to the Valk. This way the transport of this beast is possible at all.

[Praexes]

Canada has a Navy?

[Izzy Logan]

Loving your pieces mate. I had a similar idea for the lion based on the previous 40k rulebook illustrations but had wondered how to do it and it not look like just a high elf lion that some general abducted. That idea is getting swiftly nicked. Loving the valkyrie aswell, keep up the good stuff mate.

[odmiller]

Beautiful work on the Valk and stormtroopers. I like it a lot.

[DirtJumper]

Canada has a Navy?

Yes, it does.
http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca