Heresy era Legio XIV, 'In sterquiliniis invenitur'

[NightHunters]

lovely, lovely work, love the mixing in of primaries parts, remarkable how well they blend in.

[Sandalphon]

Late to the party - great thread! Your attention to detail is both incredible and inspiring!

[Pearson73]

Some nice base work on that sneak peak, the two legion officers look good too, not ostentatious and showy, but still with a commanding presence, just as Mortarion's sons should be.

[Markus_]

Sherrypie:
Majkhel: Cheers! I'm especially fond of the pilot.
NightHunters: Thank you!
Sandalphon: Thank you, I'm glad to hear it!
Pearson73: Cheers. I think the Warmonger especially turned out nicely, gritty and humble look fitting his Legion.

Okay enough fooling around. I wanted to make something special and a bit of a breather from all the 'serious' projects so I made this little diorama of two notable characters locked in a deadly duel. The project entailed a lot of fine detail work, subassemblies and some material testing. Building these tiny dioramas is so much fun and also a cool way to respect all the stories involved in the Horus Heresy I think. I hope you like it!

Ahzek Ahriman vs Geigor Fell Hand







Geigor Fell Hand








Ahzek Ahriman









The diorama base.



That's it. Comments and critique are always welcome.
Cheers!

[Isengrin]

Now that's a nice surprise. You really nailed Geigor's armour with the colour gradient and Ahriman's got a nice and rich colour. Did you use metallic paints for the red?

[BadgersinHills]

Great minis! What paints did you use on Geigor's armour?

[Markus_]

Isengrin: Thanks! Ahriman's armour is Tamiya clear red applied over warm gold.
BadgersinHills: Cheers! I built up from Army Painter necromancer cloak to an almost pure wolf grey with Citadel Stormvermin fur added in the mix for tonal variety.

Without too much rambling and continuing the theme of post  #344 here's the Terminator wing and Lord of War of my army now that everything is finished.

Mortarion and bodyguard












Praetor in Cataphractii armour





Deathshroud Terminators










Grave Warden Terminator squads I & II
Something of note, the legs on these models were plastic Cataphractii legs extended and with details and bulk sculpted over. I then did a silicone mould of them to produce the lot. 

And that's that! The next time I do a showcase post it will be my Contemptors and hopefully my finished tanks. The weather is getting warmer and the airbrush stirs in it's case...

C&C always welcome, thanks for looking!
Cheers!

Edited April 21, 2020 by Markus_

[Sagentus]

the conversion work is amazing and the painting tops it all off. Epic work!!

[Sandalphon]

Oh my..

[Pearson73]

The Terminators look smashing, as does their Lord. Solid work on the grime and weathering, as per.

[hushrong]

The duel diorama is a nice distraction. Also, Mortarion and his terminators look fantastic. Still loving the conversion work you did to the plastic Deathshroud for Mortarion's bodyguard.

[DuskRaider]

You're killing it, man! I'm actually surprised how tall your Deathshroud are compared to Mortarion, especially since he's one of the tallest Primarchs. I said it before but I'll say it again, I love his repose and half-mask!

[Markus_]

Sagentus: Thank you!
Sandalphon: Cheers!
Pearson73: Thanks my dude.
hushrong:  Cheers!
DuskRaider: Thanks! The 40k Deathshroud models are big boys.

Here's another distraction for the weekend. It's a statue of an unnamed Unification era veteran doing an ancient Terran warrior salute.





Cheers!

[Majkhel]

That statue piece is simply marvellous! 

I love it!

 

The Deathshroud are also magnificent

[BadgersinHills]

Terminator force is brill. The Praetor is a great mini!

 

I giggled at the statue, I'm unashamed to say.    Good work on it.

[hushrong]

I feel like there needs to be scroll work beneath that statue bearing the ancient Terran war-cry: "YEET".

[Lucerne]

Can we get a side by side for the various Terminator model conversion types? They all look amazing!

[Sherrypie]

What's next, Fortnite dances on the esplanade statues :D

 

Great termies, especially the Deathshroud. Making them bulkier helps sell their power way better than the malnourished twigs they originally were.

[Markus_]

Majkhel:Thanks!
BadgersinHills: Cheers!
hushrong: I came, I saw, I yote.
Lucerne: Sure!
Sherrypie: Thanks man!

Quick shot for Lucerne before we continue.




Okay time for some work in progress shots. It's been a sunny couple of days so I broke out the airbrush and went to work on a bunch of models, mainly tanks.

This was an experiment as I've never done weathering in this style. The tanks were painted flat and sealed with a gloss varnish, followed with a mix of AK Interactive washes via airbrush. After that I cleaned them up with a makeup sponge, old brushes etc. to get a nice grimy, runny effect. I'm still gonna wait for the enamels to set properly, seal them with a coat of varnish and then add powders and technical paints and do some final fixes. Overall I'm pretty pleased with the look.



My public funds siege drill.



Legion Land Raider Per Aspera.



Rhinos.



Castellax automata for the Legion Praevian. These are 3d prints. Please don't ask for the .stl's.

In other news I've been working on another fast attack choice for the Death Guard in the form of Sabre strike tanks. These models were also 3d printed from files I found off the net. I'm still undecided on what to actually think about 3d printing models, but I guess it has a lesser impact on the hobby than recasting. I did have a lot of fun making these, failed prints aside, so that's positive.





I added all sorst of tanky gubbins to them for a more realistic feel.

That's it for now, I think I'll go pass out from all the mineral spirit fumes for a while.
Cheers!
 

[Pulse]

The 3d printed tanks look great, i resin cast a lot of my models and have been seriously thinking of going over to 3d printing and seeing quality vehicles such as yours only makes me want to do it even more!

Edited May 4, 2020 by Pulse

[infyrana]

Very nice, that drill looks great :D

 

I've been having fun with the 3d printed stuff too, mine's all filament and things like rivets often like to be badly printed - but yours don't seem to have that issue and look great.  All my models are for my personal enjoyment at home on the shelf, your post here is definitely giving me incentive to work on the Caestus Ram I have sitting in a box in pieces having been recently printed.  I also grabbed a can of primer filler for helping out where some of the prints come out bad, but I had already planned the mud trick to help out too (go DG and their grime!) :D

[hushrong]

Dang and DAAANG! Armor looks great and you are churning out even more. Painting looks fantastic and it makes me happy they’ll look great with the rest of your army!

 

Your Saber tanks make me want to look up Perturabo storm tanks and see if any tried designing/making one.

[Pearson73]

Great chipping and ageing on the armour and automata; those are some great prints too.

[Isengrin]

Excellent as always! I'm quite jealous of those rhinos. 

 

3D printing stuff like tanks doesn't really trouble me, on the contrary I think it's a cool avenue to get exciting new vehicles and such into 40k. Lunax for example printed an absolutely mad truescale spartan.

[Markus_]

Pulse: Thanks! I've been doing resin casting bits too since I started this project basically and jumped on the possibility of 3D printing when they first introduced Mars.
infyrana: Thanks! The SLA style of printing has no problem with rivets or small detail. And yeah, it's all for personal enjoyment anyway.
hushrong: Thanks dude!
Pearson73: Cheers!
Isengrin: Thank you! I get you, doing personal prints is a nice way to make say tanks that are mentioned in the fluff but have no models or bits that hark back to ages of past glory. The sky is the limit pretty much with it's application.

The ever reliable Legion Rhino armoured transports are now complete. The pintle weapons are magnetised so I can swap them if need be. It's so nice to finally have these boys done, oh my Lord! They've been biding their time for a few years by now, waiting in their undercoats for some miraculous method to get them to look right as large models and still close enough to the standard troops to not stand out too much.
I basically did my own version of this tutorial so I owe my thanks to mr. Paintalist.

Without further ado.










On another note I had a bit of a slow day today with nothing to do, so I picked up some bits and mashed together a Moritat. I thought the grinning face would fit his job description perfectly. Looks like he's had more than a few rough experiences and loved every second. Just need to figure out a jumppack for him.





Lastly I'd like to mention my boy Mekol has been persuading for us to jump into Epic now that models are no longer a problem so I ran a test print. The detail is just ridiculous.





That's all for now, C&C is always appreciated.
Thanks for looking, cheers!