Space Marine Project: Iron Warriors ready for war

Allrighty then... here´s few WIP-pics first.

Here I´m done with the high lights. Gold parts with Burnished Gold... adding some Mithril Silver 4:1. Metal parts done with with Chain Mail.

Here´s group shot with the Chapter symbols done. They turned out ok, I think... They´re not identical, and that wasn´t actually my goal, but instead I tried to make them individually cool :)

Then I added some IW-stripes to different places. Sword, shoulder, legs...

Heres a bit lower perspective... Now you can see the sripes on the Heavy bolter dude also :)

And here they are... Four Iron Warriors advancing from the ruins...

And fleeing back for cover... No, really, Chaos Marines don´t flee. Maybe the nature is calling ( these guys really do everything as a unit :).

Space Marine Project: Iron Warriors WIP 2

Here´s some more pics of the Iron Warriors... I have used the same colors as in my last posting.

Metal parts painted with Bolt Gun Metal

Gold parts with Tausept Ochre...

Followed by a layer of Burnished Gold.

Then a heavy wash with Devlan Mud... (Muddy Goodness:) As I´m writing this, I have allready painted the high lights and added some details... Like horns to the Bolter guy and some free painted IW symbols (wich turned out to be quite tricky) But I´ll post those pics tomorrow, hopefully... Bye now! Gotta sleeeeep...

Space Marine Project: Iron Warriors WIP

I started working on the Iron Warriors... here´s few WIP pics of what I´ve done so far.

Assembled minis. Poses came out pretty nice... I just had to take the Heavy Bolter to the group :) It´s the coolest looking weapon in 40k...

Chaos Black undercoat to the whole group...

I picked up one mini from the group to be the experiment piece, and painted the metal parts with Bolt Gun Metal. (forgot the sword at this point)

Then I painted the gold parts with Tausept Ochre.

After that I painted a coat of Burnished Gold on the Tausept Ochre.

Here I gave the whole mini a coat of Devlan Mud.

After the wash I high lighted the metal parts with Chainmail and the gold parts with Burnished Gold again...

Here I have added some details, like the stripes on the Plasma Pistol, red eyes, red sword grip, and stuff...

Here´s a daylight picture :) Little better I think. I will add the chapter symbol later, and maybe some more IW stripes.

One more pick from the back. I´ll be back soon..! :)

Space Marine Project: Emperors Children done

Emperors Children are ready! So here´s two pics of the minis. Hope you like em. I think the Iron Warriors are next chapter under construction... we´ll see :)

Emperors Children WIP: Three done

Just a qick update posting. I got myself a terrible summer flu that doesn´t want to go away... Crap! But I have managed to paint something anyway :), and  so I finished the third marine today. Here´s a couple of group shots of the first three Emperor´s Children minis.

I did some repainting on the Sonic Blaster marine, and I think it looks pretty good now :) 

The Chapter symbol on the Sonic Blaster dudes shoulder came out nicely. Ok...I used a bit different color on it (purple instead of yellow) and changed the symbol abit... But hey! John Blanche does it all the time, and nobody judges him :D I used some Army painters Battle Fields "Jungle Tuft" on the bases. Nice stuff! I have started painting last of the Emp´s, so I´ll be back soon! Bye...

Space Marine Project: Emperors Children 2 WIP

Here´s the second mini of the Emperor´s Children, and my paint job step by step :)

I started with painting the power armour and the bolter with Warlock Purple ( three layers ) and some Vallejo Squid Pink to some parts ( two layers was enough ).

Then I washed the painted parts with one heavy layer of Leviathan Purple.

Here I have high lighted the armour and bolter. Warlock Purple parts I made with 3:1 mix of Warlock Purple and Squid Pink, and finally few dots with pure Squid Pink. Squid parts I high lighted with the base color again. I made the "leather face" and marines face with Dwarf  Flesh, washing with Ogryn flesh, high light with Dwarf Flesh adding some White in it... Then washed again with Gryphonne Sepia and high light again (wery carefully) with 1:1 Dwarf Flesh and Skull White mix.

Here I started with the gold and metal parts... First I painted the metal parts with Bolt Gun Metal, then the gold parts with layer of Tausept Ochre. It really helps to make the gold very shiny with just one layer of gold paint... I like it.

As you can see... just one layer of gold, and its shiny shiny, blinky blink..."My Precious...yessss".

I gave the gold and metal parts a heavy wash of my favourite, the allmighty Devlan Mud...

High lights with Burnished Gold and Chain Mail for metal parts. And that´s about it...

I also painted it from the back... It´s not necessary, if you´re certain that you´re troops never flee :)
I try to take some daylight pics when I get the basing done... Bye now!

Emperors Children WIP: Basing done

Two more pics, with the basing done. The colors look a bit better now :)

Space Marine Project: Emperors Children WIP

I had to take step back, and think again about the color theme. After looking at the first mini for a day, I discovered that I´m not happy with the first plan, and the paint job was not good... at all. I think I did too much surfing in the internet, looking for ideas and styles... and forgot to make my own ideas and  use the style I like to paint. I guess that was my mistake :(

Anyways... I got back looking at the Space Marine game pics again, and started to plan the colors. I got down to four colors... Warlock Purple, Burnished Gold, Boltgun Metal and Vallejo Squid Pink. All washes were done with Leviathan Purple and Devlan Mud. Finally I made the High Lights different mixes of the base colors... I give you more proper tutorial later :) Here´s one pic of the new Emperor´s Children paint job.

Basing is not finished, but otherwice this is ready. High lights jump out little bit because of the flash... I´ll try to take better pic next time... Bye now!

Space Marine Project: Colors for Emperor´s Children

Vacation started friday..! Hooray :) So now I´ve had time to plan some colors on the first group in the Space Marine project... the Emperor´s Children. I´ve been looking for some pics and fluff on the internet about anything related to the chapter... Some of the "old school" Post Heresy Noise Marines pics were just wonderful. They were brilliantly painted with flashy colors, just like they should, but for me... they looked too much like going to the Mardi Gras. They didn´t quite capture the feeling of the oncoming action spectacle. Well... I tried to find some color theme from the middle of these lovely festival marines, and the Emperor´s Children in the actual Space Marine game. And here´s what I have now...

So... the colors are flashy, but I try  to keep the palette very simple. I think this could work... If it doesn´t, at least, I did it my way :)  I´ll be back with some WIP-pics soon. Bye now!

Space Marine Project: First minis

Just a quick update posting. I decided to start the project with some Noise :) Noise Marines box was first one to open... The bitz and stuff was so cool, that I just had to start building Emperors Children group! Here´s one pic of the assembled marines...

I´m quite happy with the poses... I used all the metal parts and the "heavy noise" stuff, for they looked too cool to stay in the box... I´ll be back with some WIP-pics soon.

Space Marine, The Drop Pod has landed!

The goods arrived today..! Four boxes of Marines, and some paints. Thanx for the guys at the Puolenkuun Pelit again..! I´m very excited to finally get my hands on the Space Marine project. I purchased some new bruhes and all ;). Now I just have to figure out wich Chapter to start with, and get my hands dirty :) The sixth Chapter is still a "secret"... so can´t start with that one.  I´ll post the name right away when I hear some news. While waiting for the marines, I´ve been working on my Goblin horde and the Descent skeletons. I might post some pics if I´ll get the time... But now, gotta glue some Marines together :o Bye now!

Space Marine is coming!

Get ready for the Emperors wrath... The 3rd person 40K mayhem is gonna be released at 9.9.2011  for PC, Xbox360 and PS3... I had the privilege to see the game in action few weeks ago at Pan Vision… And it was amazing! The action was intense and brutal, the world of 40K looked just like it should (in my eyes anyway :), and most important, the weapons were devastating and sounded cool!!! Now I just have to buy a new computer to play it with the full gore goodies :D (And I will)

I also heard some Space Marine news… (Yesterdays news by now, but I´ll tell them anyway :) With the Pre-Orer Pack you´ll get some cool skins (Power Armours) of Space Wolves, Black Templar, Iron Warriors and Emperors Children. With the Pack comes also some kind of “Elite Armour Download code”, that gives you two more armours for Space Marines and Chaos Marines..! I don´t know the chapters yet, but I´ll post them when I get some information about it.

Space Marine Collectors Edition is really cool! It comes with Space Marine game, Hard cover 40K-art book, the original Sound track CD, Space Marine character cards, and… 20cm long, magnetized Purity Seal!!! (That´s gonna look cool on my car)…

I  have a reason to be particularly excited about this release… I get to paint some 40K miniatures for a good cause again! Pan Vision and Game Reactor Magazine are throwing in a Draw in Scandinavia (All countries are not locked yet)… Just like there was with Dawn of War 2 Retribution. There´s gonna be some miniature and game prizes! (More details about those later) I´ll paint some Ultra Marines, Space Wolves, Black Templars, Iron Warriors, Emperors Children... and maybe one more Chaos Marines chapter, that THQ and Relic haven´t announced yet ;) So there´s lots of research to do for me, to learn the tricks of painting those chapters. I´ll start with visiting the hundreads of talented 40K hobbyists on the Blogisphere...

Right now, I dont have the patience to wait for the "prize miniatures" Drop Pod to land at my door steps... So I think I´ll go and kitbash some bad ass Marines from my own stockyard...(And put all other projects on hold... again :)

Here´s some links too if you want to learn more about the game... http://www.spacemarine.com/gb
and for Pan Vision Finland pages. I´ll be back with some news, and most importantly, with the WIP-pictures of the minis :) Bye for now!