For Dorn! Reaper's Imperial Fists

[imm0rtal reaper]

Hey all, reaper here.

About a month ago when I was sat at home bored, I decided I’d take another crack at painting an imperial fist marine. I’ve wanted to do fists ever since I started playing but I could never conquer the yellow. Well anyway, here I am, sitting in my room listening to music when suddenly the perfect scheme hit me. I quickly grabbed my brush and went to work.

Here was the result:



I was very pleased with the yellow overall and couldn’t believe I had finally done it! Needless to say, I decided to start a Fist army there and then.

I’ve been hard at work since and I’ve currently got around 1000 points painted up, though I don’t have pictures for them all at the moment lol. Anyway, enough words, how about some pictures!!!!

So here is the first terminator squad of my fist army:











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[imm0rtal reaper]

Here is my first sniper scout squad:









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[imm0rtal reaper]

Here are a few rough shots of my librarian and my assault termies:





Not pictured are 10 tactical marines and a Chaplain. I will get pictures at the start of next week when I go home for the summer.

Comments and criticism welcome.

Thanks for looking

Reaper

[eltanko]

They look excellent. A good shade of yellow, not too bright. He head swaps on the scouts work very well. Are you going to add any icons etc to the terminator heraldry shields?

ElTanko

[Kobrakai]

Beautiful looking fists! So many really great Fist armies on warseer, this is ample proof

[Bob Hunk]

Very nice! Love the Pig Iron heads on the scouts, the tiled bases and the lovely consistant yellow. What's your formula?

[imm0rtal reaper]

Here is my yellow recipe:

Black (I KNOW lol) Undercoat.

Iaden Darksun Basecoat (two coats should suffice for a nice smoot finish)

Wash the whole model with Gryphonne Sepia.

Starting bringing up the yellow with a 50/50 mix of darksun and sunburst yellow. Leave The recesses darkend. This step will take four or five coats to build a nice, even, solid colour.

Highlight with pure sunburst yellow and paint details.

Cheers

Reaper

[Marsekay]

I love your fists, maake me want to do some more myself. although, i do have to admit, i dont like the green for detailing, purple would look a lot better!

[Rinak]

Why do your Fists still have Blood Angels insignia on them? You really should shave off the blood drops, other than that looks really good.

[Petay1985]

looking very nice fella, always a pleasure to see other people imaginings of the Sons of Dorn!! Looking forward to seeing how this log prgoresses fella.

[imm0rtal reaper]

Hey guys. I managed to get some pictures finally. I still havent got decent batteries and my good camera wont run on any of the batteries I have in my house So these pictures are a bit **** but better than nothing

Here's a rough group shot, I forgot to include the scouts though, my bad lol.



Overview of my tac marines and WIP rhino:







The rhino still needs doors, fist symbols and decals applied.

[imm0rtal reaper]

Here's a more head on shot of the libby:



And the assault termies:



And my WIP chaplain:



The yellow has been really messed up in these photos, I think it may have been because of the light coming through the window but it looks really dull and a lot of the highlights have been washed out. They are quite a bit brighter than in these pictures.

This hasty pic from GW shows the actual colours a little better:



So at the moment my painted imperial forces are as follows:

HQ

Librarian
Epistolary
Terminator Armour
Storm Bolter
180

Chaplain
Plasma Pistol
115

Elites

5 TH/SS Assault Terminators
200

5 Terminators
200

Troops

Scouts
Snipers
Camo Cloaks
90

Tactical Squad
Meltagun
Powerfist
Rhino
235

Total: 1020


It may not be the most effect 1000 point force but at least its somthing for now k:

On the goat the moment I have:

2 more tactical squads and a Land speeder storm.

I start work again next week so I may take a break from the fists for a few weeks and work on something that fits in with my smaller amount of free time.

Please feel free to comment, the comments keep me going folks :victory:

Cheers

Reaper

[Petay1985]

Nice to see a group shot fella, i like the use of the spacewolves torso front on the tactical sergeant, consider that idea stolen for a future project!! looking forward to seeing more in not so distant future i hope!!

[El Aartos]

Nice job on your marines man! You did a very clean job and I like the blacklining on the yellow and white a lot.
I hope to see some more cool stuff!

[Breazer]

i always love these colours.....and you are doing an excellent job there

[razormasticator]

Yeah, great work. Very nice. I think your rhino could use some weathering. But still. The fists are painted to a very high quality. Props to you my friend.

[imm0rtal reaper]

Nice to see a group shot fella, i like the use of the spacewolves torso front on the tactical sergeant, consider that idea stolen for a future project!! looking forward to seeing more in not so distant future i hope!!

Cheers dude, good to have praise from a fellow fister. . .

Nice job on your marines man! You did a very clean job and I like the blacklining on the yellow and white a lot.
I hope to see some more cool stuff!

Thanks a lot, there will be more at some point, never fear.

i always love these colours.....and you are doing an excellent job there

Thank you kindly

Yeah, great work. Very nice. I think your rhino could use some weathering. But still. The fists are painted to a very high quality. Props to you my friend.

There is some mud weathering around the bottom done with pigments, but you can't see it all in the photo. It's still WIP anyway, once it's finished I will be adding another colour of pigment to weather it further, may get some black to put around the exhausts too.