Thursday 22 August 2013

Sons of Horus Praetors


Hi again, more procrastination sees some more models finished in a familiar scheme. these aren't for me though, but a commission.



FW sent through some very nice casts, though I didn't realise til I painted the face that the right eye of the terminator was miscast, so I turned it into a scar, and in a first for me, the swords were all straight! No hot water required. 


The bases are from Dragon-forge, and were quite nicely cast too. 

Following my normal tradition of taking poo photos though the bases and gold lack depth in the shots, I really need to set up a proper photo booth.

What do you think of the base colour? Should I change mine from the urban to this? I kind of like how the sea green pops off the base.

Thanks for looking.

13 comments:

  1. Crazy beautiful work mate. Love it, the basing is also very nice too.

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    1. Cheers mate :) I have a contemptor to do for this guy too when FW relese the Sons variant, so that should be fun :)

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  2. Dat NMM...
    Seriously amazing work mate, on some of my favourite recent FW minis. What colours did you use on the armour? I really like that shade of green.

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    1. Thanks Alex.

      The sword is really easy to do once you have an airbrush and tamiya masking tape, the tamiya tape is really the secret ingredient, so much better than the stuff you buy from bunnings etc.

      The armour is a 75/25 mix of Vallejo USMC tank crew, and GW astronomicon grey. And highlighted with a 50/50 mix, then straight grey.

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  3. I absolutely love these guys. The NMM is something I will... eventually... try to do (in red) for power swords, I think you have done a very good job here though.

    It's good to see a good horus heresy scheme not done in the forgeworld style, I dont know how they do it but I think their models always look grainy (hard to describe)

    Also good color balance on the Volkite gun, the brass/steel color scheme seems the most appropriate for the weapon but most of the time I've seen it painted it looks somewhat dull and doesn't get across the rarity, power and majesty of the weapon. Yours actually look like ancient but valuable pieces.

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    1. Thanks mate, glad you liked them enough to comment, and follow the blog :)

      I have a feeling that the FW scheme is mass produced to the point where they may use some dry brushing, which for the big picture shots looks amazing, but they suffer alittle close up.

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  4. I love the gold. Which color are you user? Gw? Tamyia?

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    1. Thanks mate.

      It Vallejo real metallics old gold, highlighted with shining gold, then shining and chain mail, then a wash of agrathrax earth shade and then another highlight of shining and chain mail mix.

      Hope that helps mate :)

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  5. Ok thanks but reel Metallica old gold is it old gold alcohol base 792?

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    1. Sorry, you're correct.

      The liquid gold range of alcohol based paints, I don't have the paint to hand for the specific number sorry. But it's called old gold.

      http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/en_US/liquid-gold/family/11

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  6. How do you make battle damage? Brush? Sponge-? I try to make it but i don't have the same result

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    1. I did the battle damage with a sponge.

      First I sponged on astronomicaon grey, then sponged on Chardon granite.. I use the sponge material from the GW blister packs, or the stuff from mini carry cases.

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    2. Thank you for your help. I tried the armour with yours colors but i don't have the same result. Grrrrrrr :(. My armour is more grey than green!!!!

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