WIP: Ultramarines Bike Squad Assembling

In our recent Tale of Mega Painters recap I raised the question whether I should paint something for my Eldar or my Ultramarines next. Most people voted for Ultramarines, so here we are. This will be a bike squad of five, I will probably only paint three for the time being as painting five models would stall the progress of my Dark Eldar for too long. As you can see, I went for a Sergeant with power sword and two plasma guns. Ultramarines can look a bit boring because they are so vanilla, so I gathered lots of bits from other marine sprues and even got some resin shoulder guards from Forgeworld to individualise the unit. How do you like them?

Tale of Mega Painters: Reader Submissions #2

Last month we introduced Andy and Rory to Tale of the Mega Painters. We catch up with both this month to see what they've painted. We also introduce two new painters to the project, Siph and Manus. Read on to see some amazing hobby from our readers.

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Showcase: Eldar Wraithguards

A mega quick post for the new rebooted Eldar Wraithguards. I personally love the models, and I would say out of all the new Eldar releases these are my favorites. I painted them again with a very similar color scheme to the Tau I worked on about a month ago but added a bit of Geiger. I'm in the process of trying to finish a huge Ogre army and then I have to swiftly move on to some Tau troops, Grey Knights and some Warriors of Chaos. Anyone else pick up the new Wraithguards?

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Showcase: World Eaters Champions

A part of the latest batch of this by now rather large commission project which I was looking forward to the most is the characters. Not only Angron, but also the smaller-time champions and such.

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Showcase: Fell Wargs and The Desolation of Smaug Trailer

Gandalf and Bilbo surrounded by Fell Wargs... where's a Great Eagle when you need one? Read on to see a group shot of the Fell Wargs, my thoughts on painting these evil beasts and the trailer for the next film

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Chat: What goes around comes around

A few years ago when the SM codex which allowed bikes to combat squad and count as troops was released I decided to paint an Iron Hands bike themed army. A few years later I sold it to a guy in Australia. Today they showed up on BOLS in the USA! How crazy is that, these bikes have gotten some serious mileage on the clock now. Looks like the owner has made a few additions but 80% of the work on display there is mine. Made me laugh.

Showcase: World Eaters Apothecaries

Some more blood-smeared World Eaters, but these fellas have a perfectly good excuse for looking like this: They, much like Dr.Satan, Dr.Quinn or Dr.Pepper, are physicians so it's OK.

Maybe you'll remember that I painted these models before for Crimson fists. The colour scheme isn't all that different this time but some subtle alternations were made (like adding more brutal chain weapons and top knots. I love top knots.) I didn't hold back with the blood on these guys due to how they're supposed to hack up friend and foe alike. Which, come to think of it, isn't all that unheard of either for World Eaters but there you go. If you really think about how muc of a mess chain weapons hacking at someone would cause I think I'm really not underdoing the splatter look. What do you think?