The Singing Nails, a Legio XII Project Log

[Mastermind_015]

Oh man, I'm just loving how clean your models are. The usual World Eater motif seems to involve plenty of blood, but I love that you're keeping them so clean! There's just something nice about seeing a nice crisp paint job. The gold details on the face masks look nice too. Uniform, but not too matchy.  

[Guiltysparc]

A couple updates...

The Spartan is starting to come together. I tried out the new gem paint on the view port glass and the round thing on top.

I really liked how the silver rivets turned out so I went back over the javelin and leviathan and hit the rivets with silver. Once i'm done with the spartan i'll do the same on the drop pod.

[Knight of the Raven]

I suggest you name your spartan assault tank Sun Eater because the planet looks like a sun when painted in gold. Speaking of those door symbols, will you paint their rivets silver as well?

Lovely white as always!

[Guiltysparc]

yep, all of the rivets on the white will be silver.  I see now that i didnt take a great picture of that legion icon, lol.  The rivets in the maw are a brighter red and the rivets on the bolts are a brighter gold.  I wasn't going to do those in silver, although now that you mention it that might look really cool and it would be easy to do/undo.

[Guiltysparc]

First track on the spartan is almost done!

[Guiltysparc]

Tracks are on, lasers and decals left and then this monster is ready to roll on for the 12th.

[Guiltysparc]

Spartan is finished! Fun model to build and paint, pretty happy with how she turned out. I also put a couple decals on the Javelin. These two are finished, so i just have one more javelin for my ETL vow.

[Knight of the Raven]

Lovely!

 

Fun model to build

I think that's the first time I see this opinon on the spartan assault tank. :P

[Guiltysparc]

Closing in on the 2nd javelin and the end of my ETL vow, woo!

[MordentHex]

view look very nice and clean detailing. that's also my only criticism, they look too clean for world eaters. :p

[Guiltysparc]

Got the 2nd javelin done and with that my ETL vow is finished...time to take a couple days off then back at it with some infantry.

[Guiltysparc]

Got back to work on my mkiii infantry. Finished up the squad sargent and changed up things a little. I hit the rivots with leadbelcher and only did the top par of the soulders in gold, i think this looks much better. Too much gold on the original.

[Guiltysparc]

I am thinking this for my Gahlan Surlak Conversion. its really just a kit bash, but i think it will work. I'm using the mk4 apothecary with a sanguinary guard power axe. Then i slapped on some mk3 shoulders to give him that melee forcused, up armored feel. I'll green stuff the wings on the axe and make that part smooth.

[Knight of the Raven]

Hm, I'd have given him a right (resin) mk2 pauldron to match the apothecary's natural left pauldron, but then again the only assymetrical pauldrons I like are the rimless one with an equally rimless but studded one.

I liked your mk3 infantry better with fully gold rims on the pauldrons too.

But yeah, they look good.

[Guiltysparc]

Interestingly, both are mk3 but the world eaters one does that larger upper plate.

 

I didn't dislike the all gold rim on my mk3 guys but they were a little too fancy for line infantry with that way I have been using gold to mark out the sargents. With the blue bottoms they blend in a little better with the mk4s in that unit.

[Flint13]

Oh, small pedantic point.

 

Gahlan carries a needle pistol instead of the stock apothecary bolt pistol.

[Guiltysparc]

oh good point!  Need to think about how to model that...

[Flint13]

I used the barrel and body from a dark eldar splinter pistol ^_^

[Guiltysparc]

I am thinking a dig through my bits box will yeild some sort of spikey items that may look like a needle.

[Brother Aiwass]

Gorgeos work sir. Really good paintjob and the white is amazing. Love your javelins

[Guiltysparc]

Gorgeos work sir. Really good paintjob and the white is amazing. Love your javelins

Thanks! I love those models and the recent change to their rules in LAAoD makes me want to buy a couple more, lol.

[Guiltysparc]

Praetor Tribune looking pretty good...really enjoyed working on this model.

[hushrong]

So crisp and sharp! Your World Eaters are truly outstanding!

[Guiltysparc]

Thank you!

[Pyroclast91]

Just read through this entire thread and I really love your method of painting up your eaters. I've been trying to decide on how I was gonna paint the loyalist WE I've been wanting to do. And I think the Guiltysparc method may be the winner