Black Moon Cadre - Shadowsun

Sure.. if you allow them to be my battle brothers.

WIP report, NMM is new to me but interesting as I try to make it work. Because of that, after spraying them black, I've only managed to finish the arms and sword, there are still some details I have to work on though.

I roughly get the idea of NMM but I just do how I always paint glowing effects.


The sword is based on tutorial I just skimmed through, since there's no actual tut on purple power swords. Which I have mix feelings about. :/

The power sword looks sweet!

But I think you might need more shadow/contrast for the NMM.. it doesn't quite stand out and look like metal for the moment...

Quick! ask LordAK for pointer

Talk about NMM, this is some awesome-sauce

Le Work In Progress.




Proper pics when they are all done.

Awesome work jake.. your painting skill has greatly improve.. keep it up.

another person to learn painting from... power weapons and their power flares are something new to me... Great job Jake!

Those are real nice model!
The gold parts need to be improved but the rest is looking good already.
Keep it up bro!

@Kadir, I believe I suck at the gold parts, they are a colour similar to bleach bone which I find difficult to paint with let alone trying to paint NMM gold.

Without further a due, the Tau Knights!
It's been three weeks, yes it took a total of a couple of days worth of time to carefully(mostly) paint every millimeter of them, small miniatures are not my best.


The "Shas'Ui" Knight.
Still waiting for my Soda Pop Miniatures to come in.

Alas, time can now be spent... on MOAR painting..!

Very nicely done Jake ... very nice!

Still hobbying, guys. Although it's a bit difficult to do it here, with all the new environment and lacking some tools.
Left all my tyranids and some Tau back at home, miss them. lol


Latest projects that I'm working on at the moment, Fantasy Chaos Warriors - count as inquisitorial crusaders. Will be expanding my allies to 1750 points, probably.

It will be very troublesome when I have to freehand inquisition symbols on the shields, at the moment they are blankety blank.


Among other things, I have a 5-men GK terminators yet to assemble, the justicar will be in circumstances Thawn.

An Infinity model, Yu Jing - Kampeitai, will be counting as a Callidus Assassin.
Bought a large GW carry case and waiting for its arrival.

Still waiting for my Soda Pop models... curse Maelstrom and their "moving warehouse".

Finally, hunting for dreadknights on the E-bay and buying a Brotherhood Champion from GW.

If interested here's the 1.75K list for my GK alliance. A very rare anti-cheese list, gentlemen.

Spoiler:

wow dude, u file off all the symbol on the shield for Chaos Warriors... thats double troublesome..lol

hows the hobby scene around ur area? go explorin yet?

I'm at Aberystywyth, but it's a small town compared to other places in UK so there's not many hobby shops or places to play, only the club in the campus is where people would gathering and there's still quite a number of gamers here.

No wonder I dont see you around anymore.. good luck over there bro.

For the lulz.

I made some major mistakes with the dreadknight, but in the end it's a model that doesn't make sense.

Unfortunately, there's no hidden blades under her arms.

Here's an Infinity model, Yu Jing: Kampeitai used as Callidus Assassin. took about 6 hours just to make it look descent.

The rest of my WIP Grey Knights that's going to be painted, except for the Dreadknight.

From front left, Justicar Thawn, Brotherhood Champion, "Most different" Crusader, an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor (Malifaux), Callidus Assassin and the rest of the lackeys.
Yes, the Brotherhood Champion is holding a Justicar Terminator Force Sword and an "Iron Halo" from the Chaos Warrior sprue.

Not my best paintings.. but it will do.

Chaos Warrior from Fantasy used as a Crusader, first to be shown to the internet (I think).

yis! purity seal on chaos star this is heresy (of Chaos God, death to the corpse emperor!)

The shield looks nice... u did not do the NMM effect on the helm?

Purity seal on chaos star is very very 'off'. Nothing else can be done?

lol,problem?

Yeah, I pretty much don't know what to do with it but shave of the points of the star, but he's the only person with the symbol on his back though.

I did some NMM on the helmet and armour pieces, but they aren't suppose to 'outshine' grey knights so I used less shades on him instead.

I'm churning out models like once every two days...

Justicar Thawn, used a different gold with this one.

I know it might be too late (since you painted a few models already), do you consider invert your color scheme, as in turning white to black and vice versa?

I think if white is the major color the grey knight will look more shiny

They are supposed to be painted with bright silver; I deliberately painted them dark grey (or dark silver NMM), it's not like I couldn't make them brighter.

It gets a bit tedious when you've seen everyone paint their grey knights so similarly, although more uncommon to see them being tried painted with NMM. Another thing would be bright colours aren't exactly contrasting, which is what I try to aim for, because it is easier to pick out the details when you look at them.

One thing I try to keep in mind while painting is to be different as much as possible from the general colours you would see from the armies. There's a bit more flexibility with Grey Knights compared to Space Marines when trying to make your colour schemes.

Also considering these grey knights are allied with my main Tau, the colour scheme stems from them, notice the colours grey and purple are always somehow incorporated whilst they retain the gold, red and white in details.

PS: If you're wondering why even my tyranids are mainly purple, it's really because I just like purple.

I know I said I was going to wait for better brushes, my hands just got a bit impatient.