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Brothers of Dorn! ✊

Finally finished my first Redemptor Dreadnought, ready to join my growing Imperial Fists 3rd Company!

Got back into the hobby this summer after nearly 20 years away, and after finishing my first 10 Intercessors, I wanted to tackle something a bit bigger.

Had a lot of fun with this one, particularly the sarcophagus interior, transfers and experimenting with battle damage and sponge weathering for the first time.

Still plenty to improve on, especially my edge highlighting, but I'm really pleased with how he's turned out alongside the rest of the company.

For Dorn! For Terra!

Airbrushed primer and base coat, thinking I was too heavy handed but I worry about the primer showing through to much

Cant wait til these hit the table!

Seems like a no brainer, no matter what 1DP detachment you take you can get what we had with the 3DP version of Ceramite Sentinels. Re-roll hit and wound rolls of 1 in terrain.

Missed a good few spots, and there's a bunch of paint in the wrong places. Fun to try though.

So I know it's only small improvement but I've given him a health glaze with the impirial fist contrast paint (pause) I've manged to paint the respirator on his helmet too which I'll admit was abit tricky to get into that tight of a spot but we got there in the end now it's just added those finer details on with the red and metallics and I think a good wash down with agrax then cure for 24hr

Local game shop was having a painting competition- only thing was you had to use this one stormcast eternal model, but, you can kitbash to your hearts content.

I had to go all in 😤

I've tried my best to clean him up and wouldn't say I've done half a bad job he's definitely not perfect at all but for a first time 40k mini at a distance its decent enough just gotta paint In the last few things like lenses and the gun shroud I believe the aspexs lense on his helmet needs to be done too

I'll definitely be paying more attention to prep work on my next one and making sure all those mold lines get scrubbed before priming but hey it's all apart of the learning curve I've enjoyed this alot and it's taught me to keep pushing on even when I don't exactly feel great about the process sometimes you've just gotta keep going and just see where it goes

I popped in to my local Warhammer store to try the new paint range as I (like I guess many of you) will be thinking about what the yellow is like!

There is a yellow which is pretty close to Averland Sunset and above it has a yellow more like imperial fists. This was the ‘3’ yellow I think.

I chose a black primed model that a pauldron had already been painted green by a previous user and just went for it. It was initially patchy but I realised I had used a wet brush and got the paint a little watery on first go (as in the wetness you’d normally use on existing paint). The store guy said to sort of ‘splodge’ it on and let the drying process do the work. It dried slowly but putting it on “thick” like that felt wrong but worked. Sweeping brush strokes seemed not to be what it wanted.

I put the red on and then found I needed to wait before doing the usual back and forth where the lines aren’t right (normal paint dries faster so you can correct straight away without the paint wet blending at the red/yellow margins). I painted the base and then a bit of blue before going over it with a really watery black. This behaved almost the same as nuln oil so that was handy. I did some playing with a blend on the flamer and that felt like it would work nicely with practice. I then went back over the red and yellow to tidy where the black ‘wash’ was over the middle of panels.

Overall I’d say it is a really easy paint to get colours like yellow down. I think with practice I could get a sense of how much paint you need to ‘one coat’ in yellow (ie how splodgy) but I ended up touching up on a second coat. The good thing was that over black you didn’t get that greenish tinge you normally get. I figure you wouldn’t need to undercoat in pink with this paint.

This was about 75 mins of chatting and painting. I’m no painting expert but for an ‘Everyman’ painter, these paints feel like they would help slay the grey with more ease than the previous generation of paints. I think I’ll get their yellow and white to see how they feel and then go from there.

Hope it helps!

I’m so excited this is my first codex ever and it looks soo cool

This is meant to give people a bit of inspiration/hope - and it might be a bit of a flex, apologiezz

First picture is over half a year ago, the other one is today - imo progress is one of best thing about this hobby - let’s go IF !

I don’t usually post my minis on Reddit, but I thought you might appreciate my heavy yellow brother here. Happy to hear any feedback.

Quick kitbash of an ancient’s banner with a regular terminator.

I've been attempting to clone this incredible Yriel and Skrag Brown mix from Infernal Brush which is a ratio of 2:1, every version I make of this looks like a caramel brown. The Eavy metal mix in the recent Imperial Fist recipe they published is 4:1 - even then I get a light caramel tone.

Trying lots of other brand alternatives as well, the closest I've got is using a high ratio of vallejo 6:1 Sun Yellow and Parasite brown which is nowhere near as vibrant, warm yellow as this video.

Has anyone got a mix or a ratio they have that is anywhere near similar to infernal brushes in this video?