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[One-eye]

Definitely go with the flier! A flier would fit the whole phoenix imagery perfectly.

 

Ps. Incredible paint work on the marines. The Terminator/Chapter Master(?) looks amazing

 

Yep, think I will go for the Stormtalon. I have to find time to convert it a little bit, I don't like the stock one.

And it's the captain of the 1st company (page 9 if you want to see him closer)

 

Phoenix -> bird -> fire bird -> FLIER!!!!!! By the Emperor, it shall be so! Your command squad is just so badass.

 

Okay, I see the trend !

 

Damn. These are just awesome

 

Thanks Dorns fist, yellow marines ftw !

[Candleshoes]

Black, yellow and teal... wow... did you think of it naturally, or did you get the idea from somewhere?

 

I am very impressed at that colour palette you have here, and the skill and talent that you have applied.

 

Blown away.

[Nomus Sardauk]

I'd suggest a the Stormraven (and maybe a Stormtalon too if you can afford both), your fantastic Sternguard could use it for heavy fire support and rapid redeployment (especially I taking & holding objectives).

[Kizzdougs]

Sounds good! I was thinking more along the lines of a Stormraven or Stormeagle, but whatever you decide on I'm sure it will be awesome

[Firepower]

So glorious 

 

Much as I love to see well painted Scars, I'm sad that this army will be on the back burner.  I was already sad that it was on hiatus until now

[Lysimachus]

Fantastic to see this thread back!

Definitely agree about the flier, although I'd say you should do either a Stormraven or if doing a Talon, convert it with wings (or maybe do what I did and use a DA Darktalon as a counts-as). We need to see that beautiful graduated orange/yellow across the body and wings, looking like a real Phoenix!

[One-eye]

@ Candleshoes :  I wanted a yellow / black scheme, and after trying the red as a pop-up third color, I was disappointed. I tried the teal and never went back

 

@ Sanguiniusreborn & kizzdougs : thanks a lot ! It'll be a stormtalon or stormraven.

 

@ Firepower : thanks a lot, unfortunately my hobby time is really reduced and I have to make choices. But I will certainly hop from one army to another, and besides the flyer that I want to complete in short terms, I still have a chaplain to paint, and black armour is quite easy to do.

 

@Lysimachus : thanks for your ongoing support, which is more consistent that this thread itself I like very much the idea of a Darktalon, but I already have a stormtalon... Might have to do something...

[One-eye]

In the process of building my White Scars Sicaran tank (which is actually quite boring imho), I decided to "rest" in painting a mini which was built since a long time (some may recognise my participation in Grotsmasha chaplain challenge^^). And it went surprisingly fast

 

Here is Kael Jaqen, Ashes Priest of the Phoenix Knights, member of the high council of the 2nd expeditionary fleet.

 

Kael Jaqen is the youngest chaplain of the Phoenix Knights chapter, but after the Siwas campaign and the death of the great Chaplain Derdmor, he was given the honor to bear the Helmet of Faith, one of the oldest relic of the chapter, which belonged to the Imperial Fists prior to the chapter's creation.

 

    

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

I was looking for a different look than the usual chaplain skull helmet, and tried to achieve something close to a "Punisher" painted skull. Finally,it's closer to a NL terror mask... but I'm still ok with him. 

[GrandMagnus]

Brutally awesome chaplain!

[Lysimachus]

Great use of bits but the thing that stands out most for me is the lovely depth on the gold! Been looking for a metallic for the trim on my Knight, recipe please?

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Great Chaplain. I second the feedback on the bronze/gold, it is really nice. Looking forward to seeing that Sicaran!

[WilhelMiniatures]

The Chaplain looks brilliant. I like that you used Khârn's head on him. 

[Grizzly_bear]

That is an awesome chaplain

[Argent aquila]

WOW, simply, WOW very nice and cleanly done work on all your marines!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Superb work on that Chaplain.

[KrautScientist]

The lords of the warp will without a doubt prepare a very special torture for you for desecrating Khârn's head like that But even so, the chaplain model is nothing short of spectacular. Fantastic job!

[Andromonoid]

After a long break, I'm back in the saddle again (@ Aerosmiths).

My hobby time will mainly be focused on my HH White Scars, but I wanted to finish the last member of my second tac squad : the veteran sergeant Eudes, one of the most experienced brother of the 2nd company, and his holy combi-plasma.

 

    

 

 

 

 

I LOVE this guy. Great paint-job, and that combi-weapon looks so cool converted, I think I will have to borrow that.

[NightHunters]

Simply fantastic work on the chaplain, its all the little details, the helmet's little winged skulls as an example, just really nice work!

[One-eye]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments

 

Great use of bits but the thing that stands out most for me is the lovely depth on the gold! Been looking for a metallic for the trim on my Knight, recipe please?

 

Great Chaplain. I second the feedback on the bronze/gold, it is really nice. Looking forward to seeing that Sicaran!

 

Here's my "recipe" :

 

Black undercoat

50/50 mix of bronze and Gehenna's gold

Agrax earthshade wash

Nuln oil controled wash (only in deepest recesses)

base 50/50 bronze / gold again

Highlight Gehenna's gold

Highlight Auric armour gold

final dots Runefang steel

 

The Chaplain looks brilliant. I like that you used Khârn's head on him. 

 

I thought he was close enough to a skull without being, well, a skull

 

The lords of the warp will without a doubt prepare a very special torture for you for desecrating Khârn's head like that But even so, the chaplain model is nothing short of spectacular. Fantastic job!

 

My chapter wait for them ! from such a talented hobbyist, this comment means something to me. Thanks a lot !

 

 

After a long break, I'm back in the saddle again (@ Aerosmiths).

My hobby time will mainly be focused on my HH White Scars, but I wanted to finish the last member of my second tac squad : the veteran sergeant Eudes, one of the most experienced brother of the 2nd company, and his holy combi-plasma.

 

* SNIP *

 

 

I LOVE this guy. Great paint-job, and that combi-weapon looks so cool converted, I think I will have to borrow that.

 

 

Thanks a lot, the problem is the first tactical sergeant is so dull besides him that I will have to redo him...

 

Simply fantastic work on the chaplain, its all the little details, the helmet's little winged skulls as an example, just really nice work!

 

Thanks, he's a 40k version of Asterix

[Lysimachus]

Here's my "recipe" :

Black undercoat
50/50 mix of bronze and Gehenna's gold
Agrax earthshade wash
Nuln oil controled wash (only in deepest recesses)
base 50/50 bronze / gold again
Highlight Gehenna's gold
Highlight Auric armour gold
final dots Runefang steel

Awesome, will be testing this out later, thanks!

[NightHunters]

Ha!

 

Love it, clearly you will need an apothercary with a bottle of magic potion who takes after Getafix!

[LutherMax]

Moar! MOOAAARRR!

[mikefrench178]

Oberon is Fantastic! Your yellows are also very nice. Any chance you have done (or will do) a step by step on how you painted and what colours you used for Oberons spear. The finest power weapon iv seen. I'm just starting a preheresy fist force and this bloke will be the template for my terminators.

Cheers

Mike