Pre-rubric Thousand Sons Commission

[theirkin]

Hey there, I'm new to BoLS Lounge and new to commissions, and I was hoping for some feedback on the work so far. This is a summary of the last 3 weeks of work, so don't worry, I promise to be less picture heavy after this.

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/bc402379.jpg
Progress on squad one

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/413ee230.jpg
The same squad, finished

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/ed279b65.jpg
Close up of the sorceror

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/c79d6d82.jpg
Basecoating the rest of the army, there's two more squads of thousand sons who have been basecoated as well

I've almost finished the gold, and I'll post up progress later tonight. Let me know what you think guys.

Joe

[Thornblood]

They look awesome. Good job. like the lightning on the sword.

[theirkin]

Thabks thornblood, it's the first time I really was satisfied with the result of the technique. I'm excited to use it more with the other sorcerors and a few other places. I plan on changing all the radiant parts (power sword, eyes, maybe so vents) in colors based on squads.

Joe

[beno]

Not bad work, nice and tidy. Three weeks seems like a long time to wait for the models though. How much have you got left to do?

[Lord Inquisitor]

Looks good, the only thing I see on the predator and some of the models is the chaos star. Would pre-rubric Thousands Sons have that?

[Typhonian]

Very nice. More pics from squad 1 please?

[theirkin]

beno: I don't know, I feel like a month is about right for a commission, but that's by the by. I've going to be finishing them by Saturday evening, when I'm giving them back to him.

lord inquisitor: Thanks man. As far as the chaos star goes, that's something that we agreed was up for interpretation. The way we see it, these Thousand Sons are post heresy, so they would worship tzeentch (and the chaos on the whole), so the star would fit in. That being said, my client wanted the original red color scheme, so we reasoned that the only time Thousand Sons are explicitly shown as blue is post rubric and therefore it's reasonable to say that post heresy but pre rubric Thousand Sons can be in their original color scheme.

It looks like I've got a lot left, but in reality everything after the gold flies buy. I'm excited to paint Asurman and the two big baddies.

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/af8a4202.jpg
another picture of the finished squad

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/e1cfc8ed.jpg
and a better picture of the finished sorcerer

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/316a5261.jpg
close up of one of the finished marines

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa387/enderci/fec3e541.jpg
the start of the daemon prince and the awesome conversion that my client made with the thousands sons dread

Joe

[beno]

Oops, managed to miss the pic with the tanks. If you've got them to work on + the big daemon/dreadnought guys & Asurman then three-four weeks makes a bit more sense - I thought you just had a couple of squads of marines - my mistake

Looking good though. Keep the updates coming, would love to see 'em finished

[Colonel Bindoff]

Looks good, like the concept too. Do any of the models exhibit signs of flesh change? I know in ATS it seems a little like mutation in the legion is all 'Spawn or nothing', but I always figured that some of the marines would have some minor gifts from Tzeentch too, especially after Magnus teleports them all into the warp.

[theirkin]

Beno: no worries, I've done it too. Thanks for the kind words, and hopefully I'll hsve some mo pictures of finished models up tonight.

Colonel Bindoff: Mutation would be a really interesting idea, although it wasn't in the mind of my cient when he built the army. If I were to explain it away, I would further define the time period of this army to be before they fled to the eye, probably soon before or during the siege of Terra.

About to start the purple and then it's on to the detail work. Wish me luck.

Joe

[vorlauf]

They look awesome. Good job. like the lightning on the sword.

Agreed! Very well done!

[ozybonza]

I would have thought "pre-rubric" would imply "pre TS having Daemon Princes"... but even so, it's a great concept and I look forward to seeing them finished.

[hodgdog]

WOW they are looking Great. from what i remember about the book Thousand Sons, they turned to tzeentch before the rubric. Doesn't that imply there is Just a small period Of time they would havE had their old colors while worshipping chaos? I would think so.

Are you done yet? We would all like to see more!!!

[Dalleron]

I would have thought that as well, regarding the demon prince. But they would know better than any other marines about tzeentch. I do remember a demon being present when the wolves were fighting the Thousand sons on Prospero. Maybe that's a representation of it, or something along the same lines.

[hodgdog]

Sounds like a good explanation to me. Is it done yet?

How about that Dreadnought conversion? I think it looks cool with the staff thing in its hand.

How about Ahriman? lets see him!

[volrath8754]

Fantastic painting man out of curiosity what were you charging for this particular commission.

[Ironwolf]

I love the paint job you did on those 1k sons. Amazing done on that dread conversion as well can't wait to see pictures of the whole thing.

[MatthewTiger56]

/drool

Nice job! That's a very nice looking WIP.