I can’t get around how good this model looks. Nurgle styled painting has been a Everest of mine for years. Finally I know the method to making something look disorderly and orderly at the same time!
All credit goes out to Les Bursley of AwesomePaintJob. I found a video of him painting a Ultraforge Great Plague Demon (now OOP) and it filled in all the gaps in my painting style that was preventing me from painting Nurgle units.
Thank you Les!
I will be sending him a personal thank you via Dakka shortly.
I’m still working on Bubba, but Hoss is done. Painting Achievement Unlocked!
So that theme I was testing “Graphene” broke on it’s second post. I have no idea WTF is wrong with it and I don’t care to find out. I’m changing to this stable theme (Atahualpa) until I can find one that suits my aesthetic tastes or I change this one to suit.
Well my Daemon mojo continues. Here are some new additions.
First up is the sorcerer I painted using one of the new Storm of Chaos sorcerers. I like the results, but I feel more could have been done with their armor. I may pick up 2 more for further attempts.
Next up, Big Hoss and Bubba. I placed a Forgeworld order with some friends a little over a week ago and they arrived yesterday. Nurgle has always been difficult to paint for me because it requires a messy style to look good and that is the polar opposite of how I learned to paint. I try to paint neatly and stay within the lines; those rules don’t apply to Nurgle units so I’ve always avoided them. But no more! I will get this fat bastard done and he will look horribly awesome!
I’m also working on a template model for my Seekers. I’ve finished the mount but not the rider. I’ll post her when it’s up to snuff.
~I had to recover my blog last night after an update killed my theme. So this is a repost.~
Well, it’s been a while and I’m back into painting. I kind of burned through that plethora of hobby mojo with my Tomb Kings army and knocked out a good 2200pts. I still have a great deal to do with that army but WHF isn’t doing anything for me at them moment.
To alleviate my boredom I’ve gone back to my old faithful army: Daemons (40K this time). I have been a fantasy buff for so long and found 40k boring but I have to say that Fantasy has gotten somewhat crazy at the moment and the game is not challenging anymore.
So I’ve been painting/playing Daemons lately for 40k and it’s been great. Here are few models that I’ve completed recently.
Here are two heralds I did using my my disk design. I was really happy on how they came out. I mounted them on my resin bases as well. Sadly the heralds I got for these two heralds came from the Blue Scribes conversion I made last year. I found the conversion broken in the case it had been resting in for months. The original herald I built for this project has been completed as well but I need to replenish my resin supplies so I can make more bases.
Here’s one of those new sorcerers from the Storm of Chaos WHF event. It makes for a damn good looking herald! I’m about to start on the second SoM Chaos Sorcerer to add him in as a herald. Can’t wait to get started on him.
Finally, here’s a Pink Horror I did as a mockup. Painting it was really easy so after I fine tune my process a little I think I’ll crank out a tutorial for painting them.
That’s all I have for right now. More to come as I progress.
So I was digging around on Dakka Dakka last Thursday, when I came across a thread in the News & Rumors section talking about a big sale for Vallejo paints being sold on ebay. I jumped at the chance and snached one lot up and holy crap did I make out good!
5 Vallejo 6 pot packs and 5 Vallejo 16 pot packs. $330 in Vallejo paint for $65 shipped.
I’ll never buy another GW paint!
Now I have to build two more shelves to house them…
Well I’ve started work on some of the new Finecast models GW has released. To be honest my opinion is mixed.
First up is the new Liche Priest. I don’t really know why, but I like this model. Painting him was a breeze, but the sculpt has some muddy detail in some locations. The cloth was pretty ratty and some of the metal collar detail was poor. I’m glad I chose a simple paint scheme for this army, as it would take serious work to get this painted to a higher standard IMO.
The new Ushabti are damn cool, but GW was very lazy making them all the same body. They also suffer from thin spots that will break if mishandled. I’m also not seeing this extra detail that’s supposed to be with these new sculpts that does not exist in the metal/plastic forms. They do glue together with delicious ease.
I painted up the champion first and it came together pretty well.
I do have one problem I don’t have an easy solution for: the lack of command for this unit. I really don’t know what to do about it. I imagine I can make a standard bearer conversion that should look ok, but the musician is eluding me. My current idea is to create a unit filler for the front rank using the large obelisk from the Scibor terrain I have and just inform my opponent of what they represent. The filler would serve nicely until GW decides to release a kit, though I don’t think that would be acceptable in a tournament.
I got a good deal for this model on Amazon and it arrived Saturday morning. I didn’t have enough time to work with him that day but I managed to get him assembled and primed by Sunday evening.
I was a little worried that the scheme I’ve chosen for this army would not translate into the older units in this line but it worked. I’m quite pleased. It barely took a day to complete.
So the OS on my PC died Sunday for the 2nd time. I think the hard drive had a bad sector, which was causing it to fail repeatedly. Got a new drive and recovered from backup (I love you Timemachine) and I’m watching to see if anything funny happens…
That aside, I’ve finished my chariot unit. I added some different parts from other kits to add some diversity to the unit. They ended up looking pretty good. Glad to get them off my table.
I’ve also finished a unit filler for my archer unit. It comes from Scibor’s Egyptian terrain line. I like it, but I wonder if it’s out of place with the other unit fillers I’ve done.
I found some resin models from the Uncharted Seas game called Water Behemoths that I picked up an my local hobby shop a few months back. I got the idea to cover them with sand on a 3/5 inch disks and use them as templates. They ended up looking better then I thought they would!
I’m trying to pin down what I want to paint next. I’m thinking about a couple of catapults or a bone giant. I really don’t know what I want to do next.
I’ve finally started on my chariot unit. The weather lately has been completely horrible for priming with either rain or massive humidity. Yesterday I took a chance and decided to prime them even though it was humid as hell. I broke my own rule, NEVER PRIME ON HUMID DAYS! Some sections of a few chariots look like they’ve been sprayed in fine black sand. I was SO pissed at myself as that stuff murders any chance at detail work.
Here are the first two. The crew will be done when this weather clears up.
It’s been a busy few days but I’ve gotten some work done. First up are two completed characters for my army.
Now to be honest these are my least favorite characters that I’ve built and it appears that that fact showed up in my painting. Especially for the Priest. But they are done and all they need is a coat of varnish I can move on.
Next up are some WiP’s that I’ve been picking at. I’ve started to paint the tower. This bugger will take a few hours to get done but it will be a pretty addition to my scheme. Second is an Obelisk I bought from Armorcast YEARS ago. I think I bought this back in ’04 I believe when I was first painting this army. It’s been sitting around taking up space so I dug her up and now she’ll get some love. Cant wait to get started on it.
Last but not least I think I’ve got my Arkhan model pinned down. I like the look a lot but he needs some green stuff touch up. He will look really intimidating when complete.
That’s all I have for now. The weather here has been horrible. We’ve had 1 rain free day out of the last 9 and we have more rain predicted for most of this week. I may get a free day on Wednesday to get some priming done. We’ll see.
