Ethnic Minority Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Here's my WIP log to show my attempt to build a (so far) 30 man plague marine contingent on a budget, using mainly Dark Vengeance Chosen. The first 10 are for my LPC 2013 vow. The first conversions I've made so far involve sawing the horns off and giving them the Deathguard Pickelhaube look. I'm also planning on converting them further to add a little diversity to an army principally made from 4 different models.Here's what I have so far:http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8350/img2253yo.jpghttp://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7272/img2254lf.jpgAlso trying to figure out a colour scheme. Right now I'm thinking of krootox green armour with lighter green highlights, rusty black trim with metal highlights, and topped off with a heavy wash of gryphonne sepia and sparse orange rusting around key areas. Guns will be red and metal to diversify the palette. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Cool start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethnic Minority Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Here's my test paint scheme. For some reason it's not really doing me any justice, so I think I'll go for something a bit more desaturated and less ninja turtley. http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7609/img2262fa.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribesman2004 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Wow, those look pretty good to me! lol If you don't mind, what did you paint them with? I'm a newbie painter, but I think I might be able to pull something like that off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethnic Minority Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 I primed it with white, basecoated it liberally with deathworld forest, painted the trim with 50/50 orange-brown and highlighted with metal. The flat spaces of armour are done with nurgling green. I'm thinking of stripping em and redoing them with a white primer, basecoating it in deathworld forest, but leaving the trim in green but and painting the flat spaces of armour with Rakarth flesh. I'll give it a wash in watered down green and sepia. Last, I'll highlight the armour with white and highlight the trim with nurgling green. This'll bring em closer to pre-heresy death guard but still give them enough grime to justify being plague marines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethnic Minority Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Finally nailed a solid colour scheme. Now I can actually get to painting the lot. http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3411/praguemehrens.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurglez Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Looking good, looks quite similar to my scheme too, which I stole from http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/162940-stripey-white-plague-marine-tutorial/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammonius Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 These are great! You have taken the couple of DV models that I'm kind of "meh" about, and made them awesome. I especially like the painted pair in post #3. What did you use for the helmet spikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethnic Minority Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 I lucked out and found a bitseller who had a batch of warhammer fantasy arrows from some giants kit. I found that most 40k spikes, like the ones found on banner poles, were too big and would look goofy as a pickelhaube. But arrowheads do the trick just fine. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethnic Minority Posted May 14, 2013 Author Share Posted May 14, 2013 http://imageshack.us/a/img62/489/apostles.jpg Finally settled on a colour scheme. Now going for Apostles of Contagion. Did I do good guise? Next up: more plague marines, cultists and assorted FW junk possibly Edit: Blue eyes or red eyes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malatox Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Oh, I like!I especially like the blight grenades ;). Good job, man. Keep it up!- Malatox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Hadden Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Really good job man. Gave me some great ideas for my death guard army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Lovely! Blue eyes ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 That's a couple of very, very nice models you have there, Sir. I'm spotting a number of subtle conversions that add to the models and fit naturally, and your color scheme is very appealing.Oh, and I'd suggest red eyes, but maybe that's just me. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.