25 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
Another Techmarine. I think I need to start painting some of the other specialists of the Steel Guard, they’re lacking Librarians and Chaplains. The Techmarines are fun to paint though.
I must say that I have real trouble getting enough light and no shadows in my photography. Learning to paint (ish) has been hard enough, learning to get good photos seems to be something else I need to do now.
Brother Baris is in a very artificial pose here.
25 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
Ancient Binahus is a great hero of the chapter whose mortal body was reduced to a thick meaty paste by Orks one afternoon. His brain, bits of nervous system, and a few rashers of crispy marine bacon were interred into a dreadnought so that he could fight on. But his dreadnought is also his chapter’s secret shame. Don’t tell anyone, but this Steel Guard paintjob hides an earlier Ultramarines job! Can it be that the Steel Guard have yoinked one of their allies’ dreads?
Binahus is a dedicated tank killer with a multi-melta and power claw.
24 Monday Sep 2018
Posted in Battlemasters, Chaos, Empire Knights
Tags
Battle Masters, battlemasters, beastman, beastmen, beasts of chaos, empire, Empire Knights, gobbos, knights panther, lord knights, oldhammer, orc, orcs, wolf riders
I haven’t really been anywhere, I’ve been painting plenty of things, but somehow never got around to taking photos and putting them up here… poor blogging form.
Still working my way through the Battlemasters pile. Once these models are all painted there will be two fine armies, although I might need to go back to the beginning and repaint some of the early figures! I’ve improved gradually over the years and I expect some of the first BM minis I painted will look even more amateurish than my usual output! If that ever happens I will of course take some bad photos of the armies!
Savage Beastmen wave their choppers in the air!
Knights Panther and Gobbo Wolf Boyz meet in battle!
Imperial Knights Panther and Lord Knights charge into battle!
Some battle hungry Orcs!
21 Monday May 2018
Posted in Orks
There are few pleasures greater than modelling Rogue Trader Orks. Lots of dice rolling and consulting of tables, then figuring out how to fit it all together, then finding the parts and building the models, and finally many hours worth of painting. All the things I enjoy about this hobby!
The two biggest influences on this mob were 1) rolling five times on the ranged weapons chart, and getting four flamers; and 2) rolling five times and the bioniks chart, and getting some fantastic modelling challenges.
Without further ado, may I present Kaptin Durskab and his Fiery Flashaz!
Kaptin Durskab’s Fiery Flashaz!
One half of the mob
And the other half
Durskab himself. He has an explosive cranium and a power axe.
This boy has a bionic arm with a kustom autocannon that is almost impossible for him to hit anything with.
this boy is holding an autocannon like a bolter!
this boy has a stainless steel skull and the flamer from a chaos landraider.
this boy’s flamer was built from an ork bolter and RTB01 flamer
i’m sorry for the dark photo, i have a new camera and haven’t gotten used to it yet! i love this squig!
the head graft was fairly simple to make. i picked the shouting head because i felt that there would be a certain amount of disagreement between the heads.
this boy has a flamer and a magnetic arm. i decided to use a terminator forearm because i thought that having an absurdly huge bionic arm would be a very orky thing to do. the top half of the arm is a spare from the mek gun set, and is supposed to look like orange flashing lights.
this boy has a meltagun
this boy has a missile launcher from an early space marine devastators set
20 Sunday May 2018
Posted in Battlemasters, Finished Work
Battlemasters is a fine game, but there really are a lot of miniatures to paint. I think that this is possibly its biggest failing. The miniatures themselves are pretty basic, but that was about right for the time. But there are so many of them! I have painted loads and yet there are loads left to do… Will I ever finish?
17 Saturday Mar 2018
Posted in Elves, Finished Work
So now I can play Warhammer 4th Edition with all the minis from the box set painted. And I just might do that!
16 Friday Mar 2018
Posted in Chaos, Dark Imperium, Finished Work
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Finally finished these tricky bleeders. I’m not very happy with them. Like the Death Guard, they are lovely minis that I think really encapsulate the Nurgle plague zombie look. They are heavily detailed, and you can see by looking at them how much time the poor sculptors must have spent looking at icky pictures of diseases and weird infections and gross skin conditions. But they are blinking hard to paint. There’s just so much there, so many different textures, so many tiny details. In the end I had to accept that there is only so much a boy can do!
04 Sunday Mar 2018
Posted in Chaos, Finished Work
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C02 Casslin Spellweaver, C02 Smantha Phox, C02 Spectalus Lorewise, CH5 Chaos Familiars, Hero Quest Chaos Sorcerer, LE7 Wizard with a Machine Gun, Mormo Jabberbinder, Oldhammer Weekend Mini 2017, Realm Of Chaos, Thrall Wizards, Tzeentch
One of the bits of The Lost And The Damned that is often overlooked is the section on Tzeentch Thrall Wizards. Instead of a Champion and warband, you can have nine wizards instead. The wizard champion is enhanced by their followers and becomes more powerful in the game. They can all receive chaos gifts and rewards and all that stuff. This has long appealed to me, and so I finally got around to putting a warband together.
There are some fantastic oldhammer miniatures here, all of which were a pleasure to paint. Probably the one I’m least happy with is the Samantha Phox, which is an atrocious mini really – not for the sexism (though it is mildly sexist), but the terrible anatomy of the arms and head (and boobs). My favourites here were the wizard with the staff and bare feet, and the Hero Quest evil magician, but they were all a pleasure to paint.
I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed painting them.
The whole warband.
The wizard with the biggest staff must be the champion, right?
Oldhammery goodness
Wizard with a machine gun!
Gondolf the purple
Early Orc Shaman becomes human wizard easily
15 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
I’ve had these knocking around for a while now waiting to be posted up here. I am still struggling with eyes, but I’m getting better I think. I liked the early scouts much more than the modern ones – these plastic ones aren’t exactly dynamically posed but their outfits are fantastic. I love the mix of military and flouncy, kind of like Prince!
Sgt. Fe and his squad prepare for an infiltration and elimination mission.
14 Wednesday Feb 2018
Posted in Chaos, Dark Imperium
Sometimes a hobby can feel like a chore and trying to get this lot done was one of those times. I found them very difficult to get looking this good, and I don’t think I did a very good job at all. Beautiful minis but there is so much fine detail!
Death approaches
The Noxious Plaguecaster
The unstoppable march of death
Ring-a-ding-ding!
Plague Marines in the house
More Plague Marines.
