Stahly

Stahly lives in Craftworld Hamburg, located in the north of Germany. He has been involved with Warhammer since childhood and has painted several armies and countless warbands and kill teams over the decades. When he's not painting miniatures incredibly slowly, he's writing tutorials and testing the latest miniature paints, hobby tools and kits. He founded Tale of Painters to pass on his knowledge and bring inspiration to your hobby.
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OOP Space Marine metal models for sale!

Along with Marneus Calgar I found some old marine models of mine and stripped them very cleanly. There is an Apothecary, Terminator Seargent, Terminator with Cyclone Missile Launcher, a Veteran Seargent, a melta and plasma gunner from the Bike Squadron kit, a Devastator and the...
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Classic PA Marneus Calgar

Next up is classic power armoured Marneus Calgar. It was one of the first Marine models I bought and I really want to do him justice this time. All the old Marine metals are a bit smaller than current ones so I glued a 1...
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Wave Serpent finished!

Finally done! I finished painting the turret and added some decals. The same Saim-Hann serpent is on the right side but mirror inverted. The only thing left to do is varnished. But maybe I’ll wait for the Fire Prism sprue because I’d like to add...
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New Fire Prism Conversion Idea

Of course I will get one of the beautiful new Fire Prism/Nightspinner kits. I really like how they completely rethought the shape of the turret, more in line to the Forgeworld Mark II kits. However I’m not sure on the long barreled Prism Cannon, so...
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Progress of the Wave Serpent

The hull is done, as well as the underbody. The underbody is my favourite piece of Eldar tanks to paint, because it’s just primed black and then drybrushed. Highlighting the underneath structure by hand would drive me insane. I also started work on the field...
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Courage and Honour

So with all the Eldar goodness coming along, what does the future hold for my Ultramarines? I will paint the already shown Scout Squad after I finish the Wave Serpent, along with classic Marneus Calgar. Power armoured Marneus was one of the first UM models...
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Wave Serpent Hull almost done

Painted the spirit stone and highlighted the black areas today. All that is left to do for the hull is the second stage of highlighting on the red areas and some minor corrections.
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Wave Serpent WIP

Further progress on the Wave Serpent hull. The first layer of highlighting on the red is done, I painted the canopy and started to highlight the black. I will do the second highlight for the red parts at the end, as it will allow me...
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