Winterdyne

A sniper squad for the large ultramarines commission I'm working on. No major conversions, just greenstuff hoods. They've since had a thin layer of putty over the top of the greenstuff to smooth it a bit. The heavy bolter guy will also have a camo net hide stowed on his back, but that will be added after painting.

Winterdyne

Got some paint on the sneaky lads now. 3 are done, the other 2 either later tonight or tomorrow...

Brother Wolf

Those are fantastic Winterdyne. The subtle design on the cloaks is very well executed and the hoods look like they were part of the original sculpt. Very nicely done.

Kampvarg

Let me second the other wolf here. The cloaks are excellent!

misterjustin

Another voice chiming in to compliment the work and especially the camo cape. Brilliant work, mate!

You probably already know that I'll be begging for another photo for the Secret Weapon site but... PLEASE?!!?

Winterdyne

Sure, I'll be taking and posting more tomorrow in daylight. The side lamps I need at night seem to be giving a bit of a yellow tint to things...

Brother Wolf

Might I request a possible tutorial on the camo? Even just a bullet list of the colors and order of layers? It really is sublime and I might like to steal it for my Crimson Fist scouts.

Hell, I might consider revising my old school stormtroopers a bit like the way you handled the heavy bolter scout, (beats the dingy, wool, bedroll look I originally painted their pack rolls)

Winterdyne

Actually it's pretty easy... but time consuming!

Basecoat of catachan green (I used VMC 095 US green)
Squiggles in Khemri brown (I actually used VMC 134 USA tan earth)

Do the squiggles by randomly drawing a '6' in various orientations and flips. Space em out a bit. Now, between each '6' continue the tail in a meandering curve to meet a nearby 6. Try to avoid small closed circuits. Thicken up the lines till they look nice.

Apply an allover wash of devlan mud. I personally would skip this for future attempts as it'd also cut the next stage... If the dark line is desired, perhaps basecoat the brown with scorched brown rather than khemri and then just paint over the brown to get the lining...

With your base colours, colour in the pattern again, leaving a bit of the darkened colours showing, don't worry too much though. This provides a fuzzy dark line between the colours. Skip this if you didn't do the devlan mud wash.

Drybrush gently with khaki and then bleached bone to highlight.

Where it's a bit chalky glaze with your base colours to tone it down. I found this to mostly be on the green.

Now mix about 50-50 thraka green and devlan mud washes, and do an all over wash. Don't let it pool too much.

Finally drybrush up the bottom with some muddy brown colour (I used VMC 147 leather brown).

Winterdyne

Ok, last two done, and a group shot. I played with a bit of water effects on the bases here. Quite like how they've turned out.

Brother Wolf

Brilliant, thanks mate. I can totally see the 6's now that you mentioned how you did is, unreal! Jotting those notes down now.

Group shot looks terrific, you really did justice to this simple group of recruits. And might I say that those are some snazzy looking Trench Works bases you have there! Whereever did you get them, (teeheehee).

Inquisitor Lord

they look great, but the H-bolter marine seems so out of place. He looks like the line backer hanging out with the chess club.... that's the best analogy i could come up with.

Winterdyne

Yes... brother-initiate Tubbs... as my gf put it, 'he's not exactly subtle, is he?'.

Vaaish

there's at least one in every bunch that fails sniper training and just has to take something a little more.. intimidating

basuatreya

Did you make the bases yourself? I like how they are straight rather than tapered.

the herald

Brother Wolf posted a link to the bases basuatreya, MisterJustins I think; really should pick up a batch for myself.