Sunday, April 10, 2011

Flesh Tearers Chaplain finished!

Greetings!


 Coming up from my previous post, I have just finished the Flesh Tearers Chaplain I have been working on for the past few days. Following my client's requests I changed some things and added some more details as you can see compared to the previous WIP pics. The main change was the glow in the eyes. I had a feeling that it wasn't right and I couldn't get it done correctly. After many tests and failed attempts I decided that the problem is the helmet, it has no distinct eyes to work on the glow effect so therefore it fails to be accurate enough... so I scrapped it altogether and returned to the previous scheme.



Continuing from my last post where I accompany my posts with a music track that accompanied and inspired my painting on the figure, this time music is dark, gloomy and slow... and I feel that it fits the model's character perfectly! Enjoy (well at least those that are into this kind of music, but I think we all like Black Sabbath don't we? :P )




I am quite happy with the result, hope that you like him as well! I would love to hear from you as always and of course see your votes on CoolMiniOrNot

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Flesh Tearers Chaplain WIP

Hello once again!

I am currently working on yet another commission, this time its a fully converted Chaplain.





The conversion is courtesy of my client, a great one and so much fun to paint by the way!

Ah, and for those that wonder about the change from the usual Blood Angels, the conversion started as a BA Chaplain, but changed camps somewhere in the middle... :P

Still have some things to finish, probably in a couple of days I will have the final pics! 

One last thing that I will experiment with my blog, starting from this post onwards is adding a music track to accompany my posts. I thought of this as a nice way to share with you people the music that accompanied me during my painting and maybe the tunes that inspired me.


 Züül is an American Heavy Metal band that - believe it or not - released this song last year... talking about a giant leap in time for those familiar with this kind of music. The title also played its part in the degree of inspiration for me as well ;) 

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Sergeant Torias Telion ~ The Imperial Fists Version

Hello everybody!

Its been quite a while since my last post but here I am with another finished model...



I have been playing quite a lot with my Imperial Fists lately and I have decided to include Sergeant Torias Telion in my list. He is a really handy upgrade for any scout squad and he has served me well so far.

Only problem was that the model (and the fluff of the model for that reason) is an Ultramarine. As with any other characters in the Space Marines codex, that are not Imperial Fists (thats everyone except Lysander actually :P) I have to covert something to play as a "count as" so in this case I had 2 options. One was to create a completely new model from scratch. The other was the one that I eventually followed, take the original Telion model and make it an Imperial Fist Sergeant! I followed this solution since I really like Telion's model, although it eventually was proven to have a really bad casting quality.


After filing off the Ultramarines symbols, I used some photo etched fists to give him the needed flavor and painted him in the appropriate colors. Nothing really fancy in terms of converting but I didn't feel he needed it anyway! Placed him in a MicroArt Old Factory base and voila, ready to lend his expertise to the young and inexperienced scouts!

As always your comments and votes are more than appreciated and welcomed!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnought Finished!

Helo again!

I just couldn't let this bad boy WIP for long and got it finished today! I have tested myself to several new things on this one, mainly ways to improve my weathering techniques. I am overall happy with how it turned out (and it seems that my client-friend is happy too :) ). I especially like the reds (although AGAIN the pic is not the best I could get... this red is the biggest pain in a photographers life I'm sure about it!).


So there it is, finished and waiting for your comments and votes


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnought WIP

Hello again!

I would like to share some of my work again with you people, this time is a WIP of yet another Blood Angels piece, a Furioso Dreadnought.

This is not the new model as many would have thought, its a conversion using parts of the plastic Venerable and some Forgeworld claws and other BA bits.

I paint so many Blood Angels lately that people may think I actually play with them, but they are all commission pieces. I always liked BAs though, for their rich fluff and their paintsceme so it comes natural to me to have fun painting them even though they aren't my models.

Anyways, enough with the chatter and on to the pics...







There are quite a few things to finish, mainly the claws which I haven't yet decided the colorscheme (maybe some suggestions would be nice of you!) and of course the base. 

So what do you think? Am I in the right track here?