40k - Blood Angels - Knights of Blood Captain - Dark Vengeance Finished

 

After completing all the highlights here is the finished model.

Once again I am not happy with the picture quality of my camera and probably my light setup.The reds are flat and you cant see the difference between the highlights and base colour. The black armour is a tricky one to shoot at bets and I cant capture the metallic look of the armour as well as I would like.

Besides the picture quality I am really happy with the conversion and it looks the part in real life so to speak.

Let me know what you think.

Vitor

40k - Blood Angels - Knights of Blood Captain - Dark Vengeance WIP

I am still not settled yet so here is a post I had saved for these types of occasion.

As I don't collect Dark Angels but had the every nice model of the captain in the Dark Vengeance set I set about converting him into something I can use in my Knights of Blood Army. I cut off all the Dark Angel iconography and where possible replaced it with some Blood Angels bits. Next was a head swap which curiously is a Dark Angels bit..lol and finally a nice straight sword.

Primed black then painted up the base colours using my custom mix for the black armour which is essentially a mix of silver and black giving you a metallic black, not very visible in the picture.

I then started to build up highlights with layers of a lighter shade of the base colours.

Next up the finished model.

Vitor

Blood Angels - Tycho - Improved

When I finished my Tycho conversion and posted it up on my blog, Ron at From the Warp saw it and contacted me with two suggestions that would make him even better. See his post on painting faux details on models here http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2012/03/hobby-focus-faux-painting-to-trick-eye.html

The first was a tip to improve the gemstones. Ron suggested that I paint a white dot at the top of a gemstone to represent the reflected light and a coloured dot, depending on what the gem colour is, in my case red so the dot is to be orange on the bottom of the gemstone to represent the light travelling through the gemstone and coming out the other side.

The second was to improve the mask on his face by accenting the contrast between the two pieces more with a shadow on the flesh and a black highlight on the metal mask side. I tried to increase the shading on the flesh side but could not really improve the black highlight on the mask side much. My painting skills not quite there yet, its a pretty thin line to paint!

I really am happy with the way this conversion came out in the end and it shows you that small things can make a big difference to the end result.


Vitor

Blood Angels - Tycho - Completed

All done, finally! Here is the completed conversion all painted up and ready to succumb to the 'Black Rage'.
I am really happy with the end result and in particular the experiment with painting his face to look like he is wearing a metal mask, idea taken from Ron at From The Warp post here  http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-detail-to-other-areas-of-your.html

Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

Any comments are welcome.


Vitor

Blood Angels - Tycho - On the Painting Table Part 3

 My plans of finishing Tycho on the week end didn't work out but I did almost get him finished. Above you can see the completed angel on the shoulder pad. I also made a concerted effort to improve my gem painting skills and the gems here are much better compared to the ones I painted on my Sanguinary Guard unit.

Here is the other shoulder pad were I again made more of an effort to have a bigger contrast in the blended red areas, you can actually see the light to dark gradations. My Knights of Blood Terminators in the pictures the blending is non existent, so either my camera skills are improving or my painting is?? I also used a micron pen for the lettering on the seals.

You will have noticed that his head is missing, well I painted that separately and also I was not sure of how I was going to represent his damaged face. One idea was to sculpt the mask on but my greenstuff skills are nowhere near good enough for that. The other idea was to get a head with a metal bionic half and sculpt the hair part on with greenstuff. The third idea came from Ron at FromtheWarp where he painted a tabard out of cardstock to look like leather strips, see link here http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-detail-to-other-areas-of-your.html . I decided to try Ron's method and took a normal Blood Angels head and began to paint the mask on the face with a black base coat as I want a metal look to contrast with all the gold on the model. Also I will paint his hair very yellow to match the Blood Angel figure in this picture of the Primarchs at the bottom.

Well that's as far as I got, will complete his head later.

Next post Tycho will be revealed with all his body parts attached.

Vitor

Blood Angels - Tycho - On the Painting Table Part 2

Did a bit more work on my Tycho conversion and he is starting to look good. I managed to paint up the cloth tabard and the white symbols as well as do more work on the gems.

Here you can see the work on the shoulder pad starting to take shape nicely. Hoping to finish him this weekend so stay tuned.

As always your comments are appreciated.


Vitor.

Blood Angels - Tycho - On the Painting Table

I did this conversion/kitbash last year for the Miniature Conversion Contest. This year I finally got around to painting him up. I asked readers, in my previous post on Tycho, which armour set they liked more, the Death Company black armour or the gold Sanguinary Guard armour. One response from Snake88's blog said gold so decision made!

I started off with a nice base coat of Tin Bitz, then a dry brush coat of Shining Gold followed by a wash of devland mud in the recesses. The Shoulder pad and angel started off with a base coat of Scab Red, then a coat of Red Gore followed by a wash of Baal Red. The grey areas are Codex Grey. Tycho's combi weapon is Boltgun Metal and the Melta muzzle is Tin Bitz with a coat of Brazen Brass over the top.


Let me know what you think so far.

Vitor

Aurelius Legion Captain - Improved

After I did my original post on this guy, I looked at him again and said to myself, there are a few obvious things I can improve on. Firstly I wanted to improve the shading on the underside of the shoulder pads in line with Ron's suggestion at 'From the Warp'. The second big thing was to improve the scrolls, which I did with a micron pen and it came out way better. I also did a few highlights on the banner in red and painted in the armour joints on the arms in metal effect. Overall these few small things made a big improvement to the model.

Here is the old picture above and new picture below for comparison.

What do you think of the improvements?

Vitor