Right now I'm working on assembling my Sanguinary Guard. They're quite fun and dynamic, although I'm not sure how I'm going to go about painting the gold. Anyway, I figured that I would also start putting up some of my older stuff, and first off is my Terminator Chaplain - Chaplain Stone.
I painted Stone on April the 5th last year, and he was my best miniature to date at the time. The miniature itself was a lot of fun to paint. I've been asked why I decided to go grey instead of the pure black like most chaplains and truthfully I really dislike pure black as a large surface color, even highlighted splendidly it still looks like wasted space. I was very happy with the end result, especially the gems, which for me have always been a problem; one which still plagues me...
Here are two of the terminators from the Space Hulk box set. With the detail on the figures and my pretty slow painting speed these are going to be taking me a awhile, but that's ok... Claudio was first, and I tried to follow the guide in the White Dwarf which came out at the same time as Space Hulk; it taught me quite a bit more about paiting red and how to get a better depth than what I had. The second one, Brother Leon, was done with the same colors, but I also tried to blend the red a lot more to mixed success. Additionally I had some trouble with the undercoat which has resulted in a powdery finish, but as they same, we learn from our mistakes. When I had finished Leon I also got some advice on how to make my gems look better which I'm going to be trying on my current Sanguinary guard Minis...
