I really dig the split! Would love to see this for the other founding chapters!

Too bad the thousand sons are the only marines (besides my own chapter I made as my army), as either traitor or loyalist, eitherwise I really don't care about GW's other official armies >.> :P They're kinda annoying to me, that and some of them get too much love, or really, all of them get too much love except these guys.

Agreed. Tzeenth and Nurgle seme to always get pushed aside in favor of Khorne ad Slaanesh =/

No.....I more so meant ANY of their chapters they've made, Black Templar, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Ultramarines, they give too much to any of them.

-nods- and they've got plenty of othe rchapters to pick from =/

funny when you say that where i live tzeetch and nurgle are the most played.. <.< even the store manager by my place is a loyal tzeetch player in all ways.

huh o.o well...do any of them have the forgeworld death guard conversions?

*points to 2 of them* one guy even is fanatical on the idea of making his own nurgle models.. made up one guyi call squid face as he looks like a floating squid/chaos deamon prince thing o.o with like a nid feeder tendril face.

Yeh know, theres an actual old Rouge Trader chaos marine model of a nurgle marine that actually does look like that now that you mention it.

*nods* i wouldn't be surprized justi doubt there is onetat stands like... 3 to 4 inchs high :P ig model...

How could you forget the rule bashed Iron Warriors? You get a TS specific unit entry and then awesome models. IW got our special rules hucked down the garbage chute and we only get like a commander model that has no more applicable rules and a conversion kit.

Awesome. :3

cool

the compression kinda messed with the quality a bit.
the breaks in the tubes seem to have an issue with depth in certain places, but overall the shapes and colours seem pretty solid.
A little harder specular light at the edges (the parts of the armor facing the light source) would probably let the image pop more.

Yeah, I prolly should have resized to exactly 1280 x 1280, original file is only 1440 x 1440.

I still need to learn how proper lighting works, I still don't exactly get it, but i still try anyway.

Only thing I really couldn't get proper was the glow from the self light sources of the gems and eye panels, the green definitely was a tad bit difficult to get me thinks, but then again i'm also working with a new coloring style, or a way to color, dunno if its proper, I'll explain it to you to see if you think its proper or not.

Make a background first a monotone color, then add your details for the background, then add dark gray all over the area only for the character you wish to color, and then you color over it with a standard brush at about...30% opacity? Coloring from darker to bright as you go on, Either way thats how I did it, this was the....3rd picture I tried using it.

heh believe me there's no proper way. It all depends on the artist and what they're comfortable with. personally, I think coloring over greyscale works best with non shiny/reflective things, but that's just me.

I find it OK !

But you should resize a bit the picture :)

Will try. Will reupload now...

That's way better !

Heh, your colouring is awesome :XD:

and like with all GW stuff old looks better XD

Still say TS's should been kept as a loyalist army >.>

yeah definitely

you could always play a pre-heresy variant...saw a pre-heresy Death Guard army on Bell of Lost Souls

Pre heresy isn't as fun though really to be honest :I would rather have them as a What if army.

-nods- there ya go

The pipe/tubes seem to bright when compared with the rest of the armor. But thats really the only thing my eye picks up on, the gold was one very well.

yeah, its a bit hard to get what you really want, when comparing a gray compared to a red or a blue which both are automatically darker, prolly should have drew the pies darker.

PIES. I FUCKING LOVE PIES. DAMN PIES, I WANT SOME NOW.

Seriously. fucking typos.

I do play, but i never got the new codex yet, not in stores x)

I'd like to see more furry-marines with the crow's beak face mask. That would hold a muzzle pretty well. :3

Corvus Mk. VI pattern helmets? possibly though maybe, but not big ones personally, despite looking like they have more room it barely does xD should look at cut away pics of that helmet, prolly have some floating about on google.

a modified Mark IV helmet would probably be more suitable

No, Mk. IV is too short personally too, its pretty much flat, since there was two variants of them, one was completely flat going down with the trend of like hte makr 2 and 3 helmet. and one that went out a bit like the mark 5 and 7. You'd either have to come up with a complete new design or go helmetless which i think is better anyway. :P

heheh, alright XP speaking of which, I'm getting some Dire Wolves soon to make a wolf pack out of my Khorne Berserkers

Dire wolves = heads too big. Tried it as an alternative.

ah...well I'll cancel the trade then

Yeah, i can take a pic of what i mean, i still have several left over, XD they were a good idea at first but i'd rather use the bodies as taurs now.

Then why not simply make a modified helmet. Something with an elongated face piece to make room? Would not be part of the official armory but still would allow for you to acomidate.

Yeah yeah :P I know you xD so lazy can't even copy / paste. Good ol junnu. i can always count on you :)

How the mighty have fallen.

And isn't it ironic that those sons of Magnus that stayed loyal to the Emperor through the Horus Heresy, those to whom he bequeathed the Beacon Psykana, stand suspected of heresy? That should their history become known, their loyalty will likely be ignored, presumed guilty by association and be purged accordingly?

Its how it always worked. Even with the Sons of Horus the Luna Wolves, the captain of the Scout Company was still loyal to the end, only finding himself utterly decimated by viral bombings with the world being killed off by his own brethren.

Funny thing is. Ahriman and his small cult themselves, aren't exactly followers of chaos either. Despite being considered chaos, they don't show their loyalty to chaos or any of the Gods, aka Tzeentch like they should. Questioning, are they still plausibly still loyal in their own ways? :P its sorta nice to know the back stories.

It would be a terrible shame if it came to that. The Blood Ravens are some of the only people in the Imperium who appreciate the power of knowledge and scholarship.

Ah yes, Ahriman. Seeking power for himself alone, loyal only to himself in his quest for ultimate knowledge. But then, my understanding is that many Chaos champions and sorcerers follow this path.

And yeah, the back stories are my favorite part of WH40K.

i really admire the detailing put into the drawing ^^~

thanks, though. i'm sure with more practice i should try and get better. is till feel lots didn't hold up to the way i wanted it.

daw :: huggles tight:: you'll get better, i know it! you keep amazing me with every new drawing ^^

Thousand Sons are hardcore...but c'mon. Iron Warriors are where its at ;p

Sorta. But they're not as interesting as them via background and how they became what they are today >.> Iron warriors are vanilla~

Interesting? Go buy and read "Fulgrim" and "Alpha Legion".

Knowing nearly nothing about Warhammer, I can hardly critique or anything. But I love the colouring, it's very smooth. Btw, those markings under the "eyes" look very familiar - weren't you inspired by egyptian motives?

No. They're based Egyptian like in theme with their style to be honest. Google up thousand sons and you'll see it really easily, post heresy and pre heresy.