Thanks for your kind words. Those are indeed FW Dreadnoughts, and hastily purchased when it seemed FW Epic was vanishing completely. It seems to be one of the few items I purchased that is still available, but at least the rumours got me starting on an Inquisition Army. To my demise, the Terminators are still missing, and I will just have to pull some fiddly conversions off.

/Fredmans

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 If you need them that badly I'm sure we could have a whip-round.







Very nice work on what you do have.  Brilliant highlights on the armour - a man after my own heart.  There's the argument that they don't need to be that detailed 2-3 feet away on the table, but you still have to lean close or pick them up sometime.

Didn't there used to be a wink smiley here?

I wish I had been more productive during the forum shut-down, but work and family has impaired my hobby time lately. At least, I have finished a Grey Knight Strike Cruiser for my Inquisition Strike Force. It is a FW BFG Grey Knight Strike Cruiser, the "Gladius Iratus", Asterix-inspired, pseudo-latin for Sword of Wrath.



I intended to mimic a medieval font, but finally settled for an Old English approach



I have some transports coming up, inspired by IA7



And, as a WIP, I offer you the painted but not based Khorne Coven. I have some IG and Tyranid infantry on my desk and intend to base them at the same time.

Daemon Prince, five Big Mutants:



two (Renegade) Fire Support, a Chaos Hound and six cultists:




I intend to portray two themes in this army, mutation and a malign force orchestrating the insurgence. I use beastmen and beastmen parts among the cultists. The big mutants come in two sizes, almost beast (the ogres) and pure beast (the minotaurs). To show the real powers at work, I have sprinkled Chaos Marines among the cultists to act as leaders or skills (as with the Fire Support Teams). The daemons are painted a little bit differently than the cultists and marines, using a more brownish shade of red.

That is it for now, but I have picked up momentum for the moment, so more things are on the way.

/Fredmans

Great stuff! The strike cruiser looks great, but its the cultists and mutants that really stand out for me - the mix of old and new models, the conversions, and a characterful coloursheme all comes together to produce something that perfectly portrays a Khornate uprising. Very excited to see how they develop...

Looking forward to seeing your work on the Thunderhawk as well - I'm halfway through painting one myself, so will be watching closely for potential inspiration...

awesome strike cruiser! really!

i have to buy some....

please share how you painted the ship! but in some detail please, not just "oh I used grey and red and stuff and added it all together and voilá..."

cheers,

I will try, even if the description above is a far easier way to do it

What I aimed for was a not-smooth finish. Instead I wanted to emphasize the structure and architecture of the ship.

I first painted the entire ship in Vallejo Model Colour Neutral Grey. I love the Model Colours as base colours, but really GW Codex Grey or Vallejo Cold Grey would have worked equally well.

This was followed by a thinned-out black ink wash (again Vallejo ink).

I then re-painted the ship in Cold Grey, but left out all the recesses and parts of surfaces that would be shadowed. I also used a "graphic" approach to highlighting, similar to sketching, but instead of sketching shadows, I sketched highlights.

I then started to highlight the edges of the ship in a 1:1 mix of Cold Grey and Stone Wall Grey.

Final highlights in pure Stone Wall Grey were left to elevated/visible edges.

This method produced a six-step highlight (black, inked neutral grey, "sketched" parts, pure cold grey, cold/stone wall grey, stone wall grey).

My reds and golds for my Grey Knights are really not complicated to paint. The hardest part is to decide where to apply which colours. The reds of my Chaos Coven is much more complex, and I think it pays off to realize which colours are more important than others on a model (or as an army theme).

The red in this case is Red Gore with a watered Brown Vallejo ink wash. Red Gore was re-applied, then the edges were painted in 1:1 red gore/blood red, and finally some edges were painted in pure blood red.

The gold is Bright Bronze, with a brown ink wash, followed by higlights with Glorious Gold.

Gun barrels and other metal parts are Boltgun Metal with a watered-down black ink wash followed by a Silver highlight.

Hope that was of some help,

/Fredmans

I like your toy soldiers alot fredmans....

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Wow, that cruiser is crazy cool! The vertical highlights on the fin/wings thingy were really well done.

One question though, why do you paint your infantry stands before you base them? Surely you have to go back and clean them up?

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Depends on how you are going to base them.. if it's old style flock.. I would paint them then flock them.. With my Nurgle I do the rocks, PVA and flock mix and green stuff first, then paint them, then add sand, and green moss stuff (that's it's tek-nikal name), then add the slime (GW water effect and camo green), then once dry and I have about 20 bases I'll edge in Humbrol Enamel Black for strength.

Nice cruiser & excellent job on converting & painting the Big Mutants.

The freehand on the cruiser is impressive.

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Anyone heard from Fredmans recently? (Swedes?)
I've tried to PM him about his 'Nids for NetEpic Gold, but so far no response. Just wondering if he's still into Epic or real life issues or something like that has intervened...

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I'm alive. Took some pictures today. Will send them tonight, after my daughter falls asleep.

/Fredmans

Awsome Thanks mate

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Just a minor update, I'm afraid. I finished a "Brooder", that I will use as prototype for the upcoming Burrowing Ravener and Trygon Swarm. It is an old school Ripper with added claws. The intention is to make it look like the Trygon, only smaller.



from various angles



...and a zoat. It is a Warmaster Dragon Ogre, an Epic Minotaur torso, a Genestealer head, some Tyranid bitz for weapon and some greenstuff. I will use it as a Broodlord.



and from some more angles.



I have a lot of models, just waiting for the finishing touches, but I am stuck in a marathon painting session to finish a WHFB army for an upcoming tournament. Anyway, thanks for watching.

/Fredmans

Brilliant zoat

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