Assault Squad

[Bringer of Redemption]

These are just pics for the Librarium painting challenge WIP requirement.

The four marines that I will be painting, one of which had received his green coat by the time I hunted down a camera.

Marine #1

Marine #2, with wet paint

Marine #3, with wet paint (and I'm not sure why there's a spare base in that picture)

And marine #4, again with the wet paint (I was in a hurry)

[Bringer of Redemption]

My second WIP post. At this point, the marines are only waiting on boltgun metal, highlighting, final details, and retouching.

The skull at his feet came from a sniper scout set, for anyone who's interested.

[Cyrl]

Looking much better now that the paint has dried, the red detailing really helps define the models and sharpens up the image of the squad. One little thing - the left most marine in the last shot has green jump pack straps, just paint over it with some Chaos black and it should be the same as the rest of the squad.

 

Apologies if you've already done this, I can't tell as the models are out of focus. Looking at the Tac Squad in the background of the last image I might suggest some watered down chaos black/scorched brown or black/brown ink could be applied across the boltgun metal areas, it should help tone down the glare of the metallic paint - will look much more in keeping with the DA Green/Black of the rest of the model and let the red "pop" more as it's a single bright colour.

 

Also, how come the 5th squad member is lurking round the back of the paint pot? 4-man limit for the Librarium Challenge?

[Bringer of Redemption]

Thank you for the advice, Cyrl, and the reason why the last man in the squad isn't present (or shouldn't be) is because he was already painted when I heard about the challenge, so I couldn't enter him, making it a self imposed limit.

 

--BoR

[Asrech]

I agree with that they look much better now that they have dried, they looked a little nurgle-esk before ;) A nice solid green, I'd say do the harness (packpack-straps) in a mithril highlighted metal or some other lighter color to make it pop a bit more. What are your plans for the bases?

 

Had the same issue with self imposed restrictions, had just painted 2 terminators ( one from each squad ) as tests when I heard of it.. so the vow was 18 in stead :)

But just cause it isn't in the vow doesn't mean it can't be painted ;)

 

Cheers!

[Bringer of Redemption]

And here are the completed marines

The skull at his feet is loosely colored after a friend's, "splinter fleet retribution" 'nids

The full squad

And just for kicks, the DA Task Force they are attached to:

--BoR

[The instigator]

Looks great. I would have added some more highlighting especially to the intake fans, but to each his own...Turned out really well.

[Bringer of Redemption]

Thanks, and I did highlight the sides of the intake fans on the last two models I did, I'm not sure how well it shows. (whenever I do a large amount of highlighting, the last couple of marines look the best)

 

Also, in normal light the highlights apear more subtle than they do with a camera flash, so that looks slightly better.

 

And the reason the shoulder pads are hand painted is because 'transferables' as GW like to call them, or decals to the rest of us, hate me. And I feel the same way, so atleast I got an army with easy emblems to do.

 

Finally, instigator, no comments about your nids' color scheme apearing in my scenery? :devil:

[Capt. Lysander]

I like how they've got lots of grenades: a tank bustin', wall crunchin' group! ;).