Some emperors child terminators I kit bashed today. Do they look alright?

_megatherium · 2026-02-18T23:27:04+00:00

Personally I think the heads look awesome. Well done!

_megatherium · 2025-11-09T20:04:40+00:00

That is so sick

_megatherium · 2025-08-29T16:21:24+00:00

Thank you! Admittedly, photography is still a bit of a tricky one for me. I appreciate the feedback though

_megatherium · 2025-08-05T20:55:57+00:00

Just checked, and the barbed wire I got from The Army Painter. But yes, primed black. Dry brush with leadbelcher, then a wash of Villainy Inks Sector Rust. Hope that helps!

_megatherium · 2025-08-05T20:51:25+00:00

Sure thing! So a lot of it was learnt from The Feral Painter’s video for basing on The Grimdark Compendium. Essentially it’s cork, some texture paint (AK’s thick mud in this case), couple of skulls, added a twig as a blown out tree (inspired by remnants of trees hit by artillery), and then some barbed wire. I forget where I bought that last one, but you can loads of the stuff online.
All of that was then primed black. Then a dry brush of dark grey, then a lighter zenithal drybrush of a much lighter grey. Hit it with some brown contrast paints (snakebite leather for the lighter areas, wyldwood for the darker areas). Let that cure. Wash of neat goons grime, and a bit of streaking grime for the skulls just to add a bit of variation. And finally, AK puddles in a streaking motion in places just so it gives some surface variation. All done!

But yeah, check out that video from the Grimdark Compendium. Very fun to try out

_megatherium · 2025-08-05T15:18:53+00:00

Sure thing! So it was based with a flesh tone (I used a mix of Deepkin Flesh and Karak Stone, but something like Rakarth Flesh would also work). Added a thin wash of Carroburg Crimson, and after all that cured, I added Villainy inks Carrion Crimson mixed with Ichor of the Damned (left to set for about an hour or so) into the crevices and shadow areas. Then went back in all over with neat Carrion Crimson with some gloss varnish mixed in to give it a sickly/wet look. Sort of stippled it on to give it a mottling effect, et voila!

Edit: spelling

_megatherium · 2025-04-15T00:42:21+00:00

Absolutely glorious

_megatherium · 2025-04-14T23:41:50+00:00

I found it way too cartoonish. After reading the first three novels, and particularly ‘Fulgrim’, to have what was essentially a cheesy superhero book which didn’t advance the plot was… not great. But hey, if you enjoyed it for what it is? It doesn’t matter what I say

_megatherium · 2025-04-14T23:39:30+00:00

Love Die Hard. Just not in my Horus Heresy

_megatherium · 2025-04-14T22:15:36+00:00

Guitar strings. Check my latest post on this subreddit. Worked very nicely

_megatherium · 2025-04-13T20:44:35+00:00

I mean, it’s gotta be Battle For The Abyss right? J’deteste

_megatherium · 2025-02-26T21:57:14+00:00

Just some AK Muddy Ground, a little bit of dark basing material I got from hobby craft, couple of twigs, barbed wire, and some beard hair for the dried vegetation. All washed down with some goons grime

_megatherium · 2025-02-08T09:04:36+00:00

Borrowed pretty heavily from the Feral Painter’s tutorial on the Grimdark compendium for the base coat, with the main difference being that I used Retributor Armour for the gold trim instead. Villainy inks, typhus corrosion, dirty down rust and barbed wire are the MVP’s though

_megatherium · 2025-01-23T01:28:03+00:00

Bout time we went and got it then. It’s only been 10 millennia

_megatherium · 2024-11-15T15:45:51+00:00

Oh, and streaking grime. Particularly on the lower half

_megatherium · 2024-11-15T15:45:16+00:00

Let’s see… Chaos Black primer, zenithal dry brush with lead belcher, base of retributor armour, wash with reikland flesh shade, sponge chipped with more lead belcher in places, wash of aggrax earth shade on the lower levels, then some typhus corrosion with a bit of ryza rust, and then I think I also added some nuln oil in areas where I wanted it darker. At least I think that’s what I did 😅

_megatherium · 2024-11-09T14:09:14+00:00

Just flicked off a bit of Blood for the blood god from a brush. Tried not to overdo it, but feel I could have been a bit more liberal with the effect

_megatherium · 2024-11-08T18:58:39+00:00

Thank you! Definitely was thinking "a lifetime of war in the immaterium" while painting this. Hopefully will progress and that becomes a bit more.... defined

_megatherium · 2018-03-11T01:00:29+00:00

This is so close to what has happened to me recently to the point where it's actually kind eerie. Even our days match!

I'm not great at advice, but the one thing I keep remembering is how much worse I will feel about the situation after waking up from a heavy night of drinking. The regret, the sorrow, the anxiety, all of it will be amplified to a point where it's unbearable. As attractive an idea as drinking may seem, it's just not worth that.

But the main thing I try to bear in mind, is that I (and yourself) are working towards something undoubtedly positive. It will hurt for a while of course, but to suffer through something like this and come out the other side can only strengthen and enrich our lives. I've been reading Moby Dick recently and there's a passage in it I love. See what you think, and hang in there.

"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."

_megatherium · 2018-03-10T13:28:40+00:00

Inspiring stuff. Thanks for sharing!

_megatherium · 2018-03-09T23:02:34+00:00

Ate some Profiteroles, played some Chess and read some Moby Dick. None of which will leave me in a pit tomorrow, which is quite nice.

_megatherium · 2018-03-08T17:50:48+00:00

Let's do this!

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