This is a wip shot of my thousand sons sorcerer for my custom Chaos marine army, sorry for the bad photo quality but I do not own a decent camera. Also, let me know what you think of the power sword, it's the best one I have ever done, it's only my second one, the other I did when i collected a different army and was just starting out in 40K, comments and criticism welcome.



Also it's is not neat because it is only a basecoat done, apart from the sword which is done completely.

the power sword looks nice,but if your wanting better photos,purcahse a posable lamp or something,for that little bit of extra light,and from what i can see of the sword,looking good,

I've got no money and any I do get goes on minis and supplies and events like my local GW's halloween day on Saturday, I might ask for a ligh box for christmas so that my camera will get better quality shots. Also I was using a posable lamp.

the more i look at the photo,the more i can tell lol,is this your first model? or is it your first power sword done to this effect?

It's the first model in my second army and the power sword is my second but the first one did not use this effect. I can put up a tutorial if you want as I have a terminator sorcerer that heeds his axe done or possibly I could do a spare combat knife.

Here is a better pic taken in daylight:



I'll try to do some more work on it on wednesday and monday, possibly sunday but I have so much homework and it's half term so I might go out.

Also if you want to see what is happening with the army take a look at my project log http://www.bitzbox.co.uk.php5-2.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=424&sid=575f40a7e054c894232a56294d0de679

that second pic is better than the first,and i think a tutorial would be good ,keep us updated

Got some free time tomorrow so maybe then. I'll use a combat knife.

should be cool,looking forward to it

ill keep an eye out for it

Here is the tutorial:

Example shown uses purple, other colours may be used however make sure they are light.

The paints you will need are:



step 1


First prime black

step 2


Then basecoat with a 2:1 mix of chaos black to warlock purple

step 3


Wash with leviathan purple

Step 4


Drybrush with warlock purple

step 5


Wash with leviathan purple

step 6


Light drybrush with warlock purple

step 7


Paint the top of the blade with warlock purple and drag it down with your finger, this may need to be repeated, I did it 3 times, not much paint was used

Here is a look at the final product:



Enjoy, comments and criticism welcome.

I have done no hobby since I did the tutorial and it looks like there will not be another update for a long time as school is starting back this week, I will keep you posted on when I do some hobby.

could I do a brown and brass colour scheme and say that they broke away from the thousand sons pre-heresy and turned their armour brown instead of red? I realy like this scheme but am not sure if it fits Tzeentch's fluff.

Thanks in advance, Lima0100

you can paint anything however you want,this is one of the blessings of Warhammer,as long as your happy with it,use it

I no I'm just thinking about fluff that's all.

you can always come up with the fluff,making it fit your army

When I enlarge the images I get a weird text...