Colour and Clay

Just a small update today.

I’ve received so many wonderful comments and thoughts from so many people in the past two days! I also received a supercool feature over at Ironsleet, complete with a nice analysis by Scriptor Patrick Gray.

It feels great to receive such a fantastic welcoming into the blogosphere.

 

now to business

I got some odd wips for you today

Firstly, I did a super quick test paint of a Sicarian gun. Just to get some ideas for how I want to paint metal.

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I’m pretty happy with the result. But as someone who paints on large canvases I know that small-scale hides faults. I enjoy adding agrax earthshade in pretty thick chunks. It gives neat matte negative spaces on the model that somehow almost seems to have an inner soft luminescence.

 

And now for the clay.

I decided to test sculpting a custom face for the Adeptus Astarte in my last post.

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(flagellant head as size comparison)

I used some of the faces from forge-world as a reference. I still have to fill the eye socket with some actual eyes. But I’m waiting for the greenstuff to cure. I’ve left the back of his head a bit thin and weird as I’m planing on filling it with cables.

Cheers!

WIPs aplenty

Until the Pilgrym overtook me and brought me back to Terra and the Emperor, I most recently delved inteo Chaos and mutations, those legionaries who had burned in the corrosive Eye first and longest.

But now I’m rediscovering my old wip casket filled with techpriests, administratum officials and alike.

Here are some wips, you’ll have excuse the tackiness of these chaps.

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A group on a mission.

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A variation of the Mechanicvm henchman on the left.

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Idea for greenstuffing.

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closeups of a fighting gimp and a sinister priest.

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on a separate note: this striding nightmare might be walking in the golden bowels of Terra.

I was reminded of him and his cathedral face yesterday when I saw John Blanche’s superb painting over at ironsleet .

I have never recorded my thoughts on stories behind my minis and I won’t go into deep storytelling mode just yet.

These men are searching for something. They were first conceptualised months ago. Back then they where hunting an ancient mechanical construct named the “AETHER HORSE”.

This mystical being was sought out with great fervor by the Adeptus Mechanicvs as it was said it held records of mankind’s efforts and ideas during the Dark age of technology. The sanctified men of the imperivm sought after this being as it was seen as the pure embodiment of the Omnisiah. Machine and meat in natural beauty.

It’s ability to teleport, as well as having a natural occurring disruptive field forming for miles around it, has made the being incredibly elusive. In this century it has only been seen twice.

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+ AETHER HORSE +

 

First Post!

Hello!

The name is actually Marcus, but marco works better when constructing catchy webpage names. I prefer to be called Marcus though(yes this situation is not as streamlined as it could be)

I’ve been converting and concepting a lot of warhammer miniatures for the past year and a half or so, but I’ve never felt a need to show them.

Until now!

The fantastic group effort known as The Pilgrym and the wonderful people behind it has inspired me to start this blog. If you haven’t seen it go check it out now at ironsleet, it’s as rad as all hell! in the spirit of the reason for me actually getting off my ass and stopping lurking in the shadows, I’d like to start out the blogging by posting a fan art piece I made with the Pilgym setting in mind.

The gilded carcass of Terra

the gilded carcass of Terra

This blog will be an attempt at getting closer to the heartwarming community around INQ28.

The blog will showcase my conversions, sculpts and sometimes painted art. Painted art like the thing above and conversions like the thing below

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