[Tale of Painters] Angels of Fire SM Bikes

[ShadowZora13]

Please excuse the double post...

More progress! Behold:


Lighting solution and picture quality has become acceptable to me.

Now... the crozius head, I am at a dilemma on how to paint it. Would gold look good, or a marble white, with codex-fortress gray shading? I'm leaning towards the marble look, but I don't know how that would fit with the rest of the model... hmmm

Thanks for looking.

[ShadowZora13]

It seems as though I'm the only one posting on my own blog, but thats fine...

So I finished up my Chaplain today, and I am very happy how he turned out. Also have 2 bikers that I painted up last month with that months deadline, and just didn't take pics of since it was part of a different deadline.




Hope you like him. This was my first attempt at highlighting black, and I like how it turned out, though I might not do as much layering on my Iron Hands marines that I will be painting who knows when... On that note, I'll let you guys know whats next for me after this project is done.

Firstly I have a smallish 13th co SW force that I got for next to free after selling off some necron stuff. Its all new unbuilt, but its small enough and likely to obsolete soon, so thats my next project, and I plan to do a more vibrant speed paint style of layering when painting those and the next project, which is my Kroot Mercs. I have had the beginnings of them for a while, but they never got off the grounds before I kept buying more stuff, so I want to get them out of the way as soon as my SW are done. Lastly is my IH which I bought years ago and have yet to see any lovin' except for a half built Dreadnought and a few test painted models. After all that I'm looking forwards to maybe some IG with tanks if they get a new dex, but thats probably 2-3 years down the road. problem is I'm going off to college after summer, so I am not sure how much time I will have for painting. Should be interesting though.

Well thats what I will be doing AFTER I finish these bikers. Expect some WIP shots of my next squad, which is the last of my regular bikers-2 melta gunners, a serg, and an attack bike. After that is my veteran biker squad, the devs and the 3 whirlwinds. I can see the end of this project now, as right now is probably the middle, and its all down hill from here on out, right? Someone remind me to take a comparison picture of my painted stuff vs my unpainted when I do my next army shot for April. should be very motivational.

[Brother Tiberius]

ive been lurking in this thread for some time and i have to say i am astounded at the quality of your red and flame theme. And the small fact your painting those god awful bikes (hates the models)

however, you've managed to hook me in and this is the thirst thread i check evrytime i log on to LO.
i just thought i'd show this thread some love since no-one else has - Your highlighting of the black on the chappy is brilliant, i've done BT's and never been able to master it so for that i salute you.

- Tib

[jaNDo]

I've also been lurking in here. Every time I see an update I'm glued to your pics for more time than I'd care to admit!

Keep up the great work - you should be proud of your army.

[Tsele]

I was lurking and responding from time to time...

To tell you the truth... he is awesome! A very nice highlighting and flaming effects... ;? It is not how I had him in mind... he is better!

[xbanditsx]

I think the highlighting on the black looks great. They are subtle, but the fact that the model isn't straight black (there are lots of colored details that make your eye go all over the model) allows the highlights to still be really effective. Your paint job gives the model a ton of character.

[ShadowZora13]

Thanks for the feedback. Thats the kind of stuff that akes me like painting, even when it gets tiresome and boring painting the same models over and over (started work on the 16th-19th bikes out of 25 in total). Hopefully support like that and the alure of more interesting models like my whirl winds, will keep me going and finish this project.

In other news, I've been working on finishing building my librarian biker. Hes got some green stuff work on him, which I am satisfied with for the purposes of this project. just need to glue on some rivets/studs, and a few purity seals then I'll prime him and get pics up.

Also, I've been playing around with the idea of adding a 4 man suicide scout/reg biker squad so tank busting using extra bitz and a few of the remaining bikes that are in really bad condition that I have. When I bought my Biker army, I got a lot of used bikes, some of which were in really bad shape, so I got a raven wing battle force to replace those bikes that were too beat up (warped, too much glue, primer wrinkles). I did end up having to use a few that were pretty bad, and those were my last entry of just bikers(Post #11). It's not noticeable too much, but those ones had some cosmetic defects that are visible under close up scrutiny. Then this librarian and a techmarine I plan on building are also using the best of the worst bikes I had left over, which left me with 4 more that were in one piece, so I think I am going to sprue them up with lots of random bitz to hide the damage, maybe some cammo netting, put some converted power armor marines on and call em scouts with meltaguns/bombs and run a cheap 4 man tank buster squad.

But enough of my ramblings, I should really get back to my librarian, since he's so close to being ready for primer.

[Cyric the Mad]

That chappy looks incredible. Solid work all around. I don't know that I'd do much more with the black for fear of making it too busy. Exceptional work.

[Brother_Kendo]

The Chappy look amazing, and the bikes are exceptional. The flame detail is great and I love the theme. Great job.

I give you props for the painting of all your bikes. I never got mine to turn out exactly the way I wanted and all of yours look great.

[xhivetyrantx]

I've been wanting to see how people paint red tanks for a while as i need some help painting my own blood angel tanks. Can't wait to see those whirlwinds!!!8X