The neverending paintstory (SM-DH-IG), pictureheavy++

[steevn]

hi

i've been playing and painting for 4 years now, i'd like to hear this community's comment and advice

it started out as a greyknights force with some guard, but then i realised with the arrival of the apocalypse expansion that a big imperial army under inquisitorial command would be a lot of fun (especially since this gave me to excuse to start any army of the imperium that i like)

i'm planning/working on or have finished :

Grey knights
Imperial guard (mostly cadians and vostroyans, some dkok and catachans)
superheavies
flyers
salamanders as basic marineforce
ravenguard as assault force with some backup
whitescars as bikers/speeders
spacewolf loganwing

i'll post what i've done in this thread and any wip to force myself to continue (i'll be starting simular threads for fantasy and xenos i have laying around) because otherwise i'll end up with many plasic without any paint on them

[steevn]

well here are
SALAMANDERS
Mr vulkan hestan




Capitaine flame

[steevn]

command squad


random marines, heavy weapons, special weapons en sergeants (in total 4 tactical squads and 1 devastator squad, some random sergeants)

[steevn]

terminators with chaplain (old model)



assault terminators




droppod

[steevn]

razorback with twinlinked heavy flamer




dreadnoughts


Ironclad
close combat weapon and seismic hammer

[steevn]

redeemer


landraider terminus pattern with chronus



Vindicator






Still working on : space marine captain on carnosaurus, term armoured librarian, librarian, term armoured chaplain, 2 HF/MM land speeders basing and drilling out gun/melta barrels.
that will be all for the salamander part of the army

[Trukson]

Welcome to the forums!

I really like your Salamanders, and the others look good aswell!
There are 2 things that (in my humple opinion) would make your armies really pop and wouldnt require alot of effort on your hand:

- Drill your gunbarrels! A drill is a cheap investment and all models (especially large-calibre guns like Heavy Bolters and Multi-meltas) will look ALOT better from this simple procurement!
- Put just a LITTLE bit more effort into your basing. Some of your units arent based at all, but for example your Salamanders would look better if you just painted the rim of the base in black (to contrast with the grey of the sand and the green of the marines).

[Photographer]

Great job on the Imperial Guard!

[Doppleskanger]

Wow, really nice collection. I think you're right, an apocalypse army of lots of different Imperial factions will be great fun. And nice to see so much stuff already painted up! Good luck gaiming with all those different codexes though, it would make my poor worn out brain hurt!

[Tonberry]

Sweet Salamanders, wish I could do flames like that.

[steevn]

thanks

all gunbarrels except for the larger ones (melta,...) have been drilled out allready, just have to get my lazy ass to a hobby shop for a larger drill

i'll try some better basing, i have the intention to base them all but like to do basing in large batches because i always make a mess with the glue and the sand, at that moment i also check the models for paintingmistakes again

i wonder of my highlights aren't to harsh ?

[steevn]

oh the flames aren't that hard

foundation red + foundation orange + foundation yellow + work up with sunburst yellow and some fiery orange

here the progress of last week

vostroyan squad 1 ready for basing, do you guys drill lasguns out also??





ravenguard snipers ready for basing



10 space wolves, one question: how do you choose what colour to use on the rims of the bases?

[ArchHeretic]

Looks good. I like some of the freehand on the models. Nice touch. One thing though. Get better pictures lol.

[steevn]

wolfwing work in progress

arjac rockfist


ravenguard scout wip with conversion combimelta, needs some filling up on the side

[jpwyrm]

The wolfens are great! Where did you get those heads???

[steevn]

The wolfens are great! Where did you get those heads???

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.ph...014c91c71bffad

[jpwyrm]

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.ph...014c91c71bffad

Thanks a lot! I'll be getting those for Wulven too!

[steevn]

here you go, first long fang squad ready, the wulfen, wolfguard and runepriests will follow soon enough





question: the decals are being a pain in the @$$ , advice please? varnish ?

[npow34]

WOW! You have alot of mini and alot of different armies. I have to say that my favorite thing in this log is your deathwatch razorback! Striking!

[steevn]

WOW! You have alot of mini and alot of different armies. I have to say that my favorite thing in this log is your deathwatch razorback! Striking!

thanks to forgeworld

as a kid i used to do a lot of tamiya tankkits, now i can also play with the tanks
this is just the imperium unfortunately i'm also very fond of tau and eldar and nids ... and fantasy...