21st Host of the Word Bearers Legion

[Tzen]

Looking pro Rovient!

More Followers of Lorgar!

[DapperAnarchist]

This seems to be "the" Word Bearer army, almost like a Platonic Form of the Word Bearers. The modelling is spot on, the colours are perfect, it's all fantastic.

[Breazer]

These are looking great!
very serious way of painting the scheme...nice work

[RunepriestRidcully]

This seems to be "the" Word Bearer army, almost like a Platonic Form of the Word Bearers. The modelling is spot on, the colours are perfect, it's all fantastic.

Indeed it does, perhaps we should seek out the forms of each army? :P
Can't wait to see more sons of Logar.

[ThePope]

I saw the first picture and actually said "Oh wow" out loud. Totally stunning work.

[Elazar The Glorified]

Everything here looks brilliant but that Contemptor Dread looks perfect. Absolutely epic conversion there and the painting is straight out of the top drawer

[shaw3029]

Lovely army! The Blood letters are beautiful.

[andyg2006]

Very nice painting abilities you have here, Rovient, keep up the really good work.

[Kenzaburo]

wow, i'm very much impressed. as i've said on another thread recently, i rarely end up in the chaos forums (straight loyalist and ork player myself), but opened a thread for my brother'S warbands, so here i am.

to be honest, i don't like word bearers much and can't feel the jive that's going on with them in the past 2 years or so, but these are pretty as hell. beautiful painting, awesome banners and great osl. sign me up for this, i wanna see more.

[Rovient]

Update:

Thanks again for all your kind comments; they're incredibly motivating for me! So, another update.

Word Bearer Rhino:
I'm going to be honest here; I hate painting tanks. This was incredibly tough to finish and I'm not entirely happy with the result. However, I am please to have it completed (bar purity seal on the gunner, gloss work and some other final touches).

Anyway, it's done!









Havoc with Missile Launcher:

After several games at 700 points and one at 900 points, I started to feel that my force lacked any ranged killing power. So, I've been working on filling out both units to 10 men, with a Missile Launcher in each unit. That should provide some nice anti-transport and anti-horde for now... until I get the Soul Grinder painted up, that is!

[VERITAS/AEQUITAS]

Absolutely amazing work. Best Word Bearers I have seen so far. Keep it up!

[totgeboren]

Really awesome stuff, and Domos looks superb! you might have pushed me over the edge of buying a Contemptor.

Oh, and are the shoulder pads from FW or GW? I can't seem to find them on the FW page, and I assume the GW ones are for the old 3ed marines (which would make them too small for current day marines).

But I just have to ask. Why are you not painting the cables and such on the backpacks and helmets in a separate colour? I don't want to seem picky, but the paintjob looks great so you obviously know how to paint well, so leaving them red just makes me curious?

[Inquisitor Kallus]

Hey man, awesome work. Probably the best Word Bearers and Daemons ive ever seen. Better than Eavy metals for sure. Can I ask how you did your letters and their banner, it looks amazing.

[Breazer]

I am loving that Rhino though....i dont think it needs any more work...but its your tank so...
I get you dont like painting tanks...me neither...im not much of a tank user myself...but you sure made this one look special....
keep it up because its a lot of fun to follow this log!

[Rovient]

Really awesome stuff, and Domos looks superb! you might have pushed me over the edge of buying a Contemptor.

Oh, and are the shoulder pads from FW or GW? I can't seem to find them on the FW page, and I assume the GW ones are for the old 3ed marines (which would make them too small for current day marines).

But I just have to ask. Why are you not painting the cables and such on the backpacks and helmets in a separate colour? I don't want to seem picky, but the paintjob looks great so you obviously know how to paint well, so leaving them red just makes me curious?

The shoulderpads are metal and bought from GW - they fit perfectly so perhaps they adjusted the size for the newer marine models.

Regarding the cables and pipes; you're not the first person to ask that! To be honest, it never occurred to me to paint them differently. I assumed they were just as much a part of the armour as the rest of the model, but I can see how that was a bit stupid since I bothered painting the rubber tubing on the inside of the arms and legs, so why not the pipes? I doubt I'll change now since I can't be bothered to go back and do them on the rest of the models, and if I did it on new ones they wouldn't match!

Certainly not intentional. And picky is good! Be picky! It's the only way any of us can hope to improve.

[DapperAnarchist]

I thought 3rd Ed. plastics were the same size as current - indeed, that the multi-pose plastics released with 3rd are basically what's available now, but the new ones pack more stuff onto the sprues.

[dugaal]

Great work, and thanks for the tutorial on your wold bearers, good reminder that neatness is always the best course.
and don't worry about the pipes; The style you have is great without making the colors too busy; It helps draw attention to the cloaks, banners etc.

[avragehuman]

Well congratulations on the GW blog dude!

[Rovient]

Well congratulations on the GW blog dude!

Thanks! I was over the moon when I saw that today.

[horacus]

Awsome army. Well deserved to appear at the GW blog.