Honor Guard Update 7: Champion power sword

Here is a couple of pictures of my Honor Guard Chapter Champion. I found a good picture of a power sword on another blog: http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/2008/03/few-thoughts-on-power-weapons.html This guy has a fantastic blog! Any way, I was looking for inspiration on how to paint a power sword, and found this guy. My application of it was a little clumsy, but it wasnt bad for my first try. With a little practice, maybe I can get it done better before I submit them. Any way, I went with a green crackling lightning effect... Hope you enjoy! JB

Honor Guard Update 6: Sanguinary Priest Jump Pack and Standard Bearer

Here are a few pics of my Standard Bearer and Priest near completion. I have to HL the priest jump pack, but there is a decent pic of the Angel Wing on his jump pack, I am going to do a large 2nd company blood drop on the other side. The bearer is justabout done. I need to clean up his highlights and finish the banner, but he needs the least amount of work of the 5. I would say the whole squad is about 65 percent complete. The other three have interior lighting effects, power fist, power sword and Plasma Gun which are going to be hard for me to perfect. I decided to mount them all on Scenic Resin Bases, the same ones available on my E-store. So there you go! If they are good enough to be in my Golden Daemon entry, they are good enough for the table! I am going to have the 5 of them on a rock outcropping that is mounted on a wooden base for display. Their individual bases will be removable as per the GD rules. More to come!

Updated: Check out the angel wing on the heal of the priest!

Honor Guard Update 5. www.jawaballsproductions.com

Ok, in this update, I am playing with an internal lightsource coming from the glow on my power fist model. I drasticly enhanced the brightness of the glowing power fist, and then used those same highlights to shine on the armor. I made some circular shapes on the helm and edged it onto the edges of the armor, and almsot covered the red of the fist with blue highlight... Did I do to much? Is it just too messy? Ive never done this before... can any one think of any white dwarf articles where an artist did something similar?

I attached the shield onto the arm of the champion, but am not sold on the arm pose. This arm is extended out shooting, rather then drawn in using the shield as a defense. In a way I kind of like this though, it is different from how you usually see combat shields on assault squads. It is almost secondary to his main intention... "screw the defenses... kill that genestealer!"

Any input? At this point, feel free to be uber critical. Any input is ok. It will help me look at the models from different angles. Thanks for all the input so far!

Honor Guard Update 4. www.jawaballsproductions.com

I am uploading 3 more pics. Here is my apoth, standard bearer and champion. The combat shield is at his feet. I am painting a unifying checker design on all 5 models, and will design a new banner for Dante with a checker on it to bring them all together. I dont know, but will probably do the lower legs of the power fist guy, or his fist itself... and on the last guy I will have to do one more part, maybe his legs and the fist on the 4th. I will post more pics of the jump pack checkers soon!