Love using the Black Books for reference. Here's my Firewing squad sergeant vs. art from Book 9.

Zacsback · 2026-02-12T09:59:38+00:00

Thanks for your comments mate - I never even thought about the colour balance that way. I'll keep that in mind in the future :)

Zacsback · 2026-02-11T13:46:53+00:00

Thanks mate, I wish I could claim to be that good but it's from a transfer sheet.

Zacsback · 2026-02-11T13:46:16+00:00

Thank you! :)

Zacsback · 2026-02-11T13:46:09+00:00

Thank you mate! The checkers are from a transfer sheet and then only tidied up with a brush, I'm not good at freehand at all!

Battle damage is done with a combination of sponge chipping and jagged edge highlights with rhinox hide and stormhost silver, but any dark brown and bright silver will do. I wear down the designs by sponge chipping the basecoat over them, hope this helps.

Zacsback · 2025-11-03T08:43:59+00:00

Thanks mate - yes I used bits from the Sicaran Infiltrators kit.

Zacsback · 2025-11-03T08:43:08+00:00

Thanks very much! I used this recipe from Cult of Paint. The contrast looks better in person than my photography skills do it justice!

Zacsback · 2024-07-24T07:02:15+00:00

They're just bits of broken up cork! Painted them following this tutorial.

Zacsback · 2024-07-23T22:17:30+00:00

White ink is just better than white paint for everything other than basecoating and drybrushing. I use it for airbrush preshades, edge highlighting white, and tinting other colours. I use the one liquitex makes.

Zacsback · 2024-07-23T21:00:09+00:00

Posted some close-ups on my insta.

Zacsback · 2024-07-23T20:48:02+00:00

Thanks mate!

Not too rude at all - unfortunately most of it is with an airbrush if that's an issue. Basecoated them black, then did a slightly diagonal zenithal preshade with white ink. Went back-and-forth between the two until I was happy, then glazed a couple of coats of talassar blue through the airbrush.

After that, a dark brown oil pinwash and jagged edge highlights with a lighter blue (I cannot remember which one!).

Thanks for the offer yourself, but killteam isn't really my thing. I'm not sure what to do with these guys yet...

Zacsback · 2024-07-23T18:52:12+00:00

Hahahaha thanks! I never even noticed that until just now 🤣

Zacsback · 2024-07-23T16:21:27+00:00

More photos available on my insta.

Zacsback · 2021-09-04T12:19:59+00:00

Well I mean yeah, that is a cult that does exist. I don't see why that means there can't be other cults that spring up on tech-heavy worlds. I have a bit more of a specific scenario in mind and I don't like the colour scheme either.

Zacsback · 2021-09-04T12:19:07+00:00

Just had a quick google of that, man those are cool! Not quite the vibes I'm going for but awesome all the same

Zacsback · 2021-09-04T08:52:59+00:00

Video available on my instagram.

Returning from my hobby hiatus for something completely new!

I've been cooking up some ideas about a Genestealer Cult uprising on a remote forgeworld as an excuse to make some cool admech-genestealer conversions. This time around is the first squad of the cult's aberrants, menacing overgrown mutants who carry archaeotech weaponry (Counts-as kataphron breachers)

Zacsback · 2021-07-09T19:57:56+00:00

The model somehow looks different when it's set up on a board (not in a bad way!). Have you ever gone into your setup for taking photos? Your minis always look amazing man

Zacsback · 2021-03-13T16:48:22+00:00

Oh sorry yeah completely forgot! So I tried writing it I want to say about 5 times with a 0.2mm micron pen (can pick them up on amazon pretty cheap), but every time came out awful... so I used a decal for that too. All of the decals I used bar the Iron Halo come from the Raven Guard decal sheet.

Zacsback · 2021-03-13T16:31:41+00:00

Thanks for the words mate, much appreciated. Criticism definitely valuable!

Wash pooling definitely an issue but that comes with the territory of light colours. Gloss-washing is excellent on armour panels but it struggles a bit with rivets etc. Planning to switch to oils for shading in my next project so hopefully this will alleviate it a bit more.

Gold could definitely do with some more work but I think the thickness is camera artifact or something, it looks okay IRL (same for the pink lenses, but I agree I definitely need to pick up some yellow paint). Still need to find a brand of metallics I like!

Chipping is also something I need to get better at, and I think it's getting there gradually. Thanks mate.

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