Techmarine

Gal Vorbak

finished off this squad.  Am very pleased with how the Vallejo Flat Red serves to highlight their 'Red' color. Fun models to paint, even if a Word Bearers Army is unlikely for me.

New Projects continued 01

First of the Gal Vorbak is done...

New Projects...

Bloodthirster model ... just because.  Base will be a burned out Rhino from the 13th Legion as an homage to Calth.

Gal Vorbak because I've wanted to paint these models for a long time.  The medley of Marine, Neverborn, and ceramite is so well done in these sculpts.

 

The Half-Dones 01 - Khorne Lord

Clearing off the workbench begins...

Hobby Resolutions for 2017

With the new year upon us and my hobby room firmly reestablished, time to put a marker on the wall for some goals for the new year.

First, finish off all my half-started projects -- all the stuff that's sitting on my workbench that's 60% of the way done ... talking here about Wolf Guard, Wulfen, the characters from the SW Imperial Assault Core Set, my Space Marine bastion terrain piece, etc.  It's frustrating to see all these half finished projects lying about.  So my plan is to get aggressive in the next 4-6 weeks and crush those out. 

Second, organize and purge my collection.  I have too much lying about in too disorganized a fashion.

Third, paint two complete armies this year, maybe three if time allows.  Currently, Im thinking:  Sons of Horus, 30K Ultramarines, and Warhammer Fantasy Battle Empire. This last because I've long been looking to dig into them, but just never got around to it.

Fourth, learn to use my airbrush.

Fifth, update my photo archives for the minis in my collection. Time to move away from all the amateur shots of my guys and get to work with the lightbox and a real camera.

Space Wolves Reclamation Project 01

When I first took the plunge into a Space Wolves army, I decided to try to paint them to the GW color scheme. In this effort, I painter up a number of vehicles, Dreds, and terminators. And I tried to do a fine line highlight on them, which worked from 3ft away but felt chunky and clumsy up close.

Over time, I decided to just paint them the way I wanted to paint them, which resulted in the work I did for the 2013 Hobby Progress Challege put on by the Independent Characters Podcast.

But that left me with a mixed force of blue space wolves and proper members of the Rout done up in grey.  And I've always wanted to address that issue and get them properly painted up.

So... My test model, before and after.  This is just a quick Vallejo London Grey with Nuln Oil, and then a touch up to some heretofore neglected Metallica, and an Agrathax wash for his face.

Nothing special, but it gets him where he needs to be ...all in just 20 minutes.

He could still use some highlights, but the grey scheme makes him much less cartoonish.  

Some older stuff...

I got a light box on EBay.  It's not the best, but it does have me reshooting some of my older work where the backdrops I used were less than complementary. 

Loyalist Iron Warrior

This model has long been a favorite of mine, but I didn't want to paint him up as an Imperial Fist. 

I deliberately hacked off the crux terminatus from his shoulder and threw on some rust over black to highlight where his legion icon was deliberately (but crude) taken off. 

As for the mace, I see its green tones as some sort of Xenos weapon 'counts as' for a power weapon. 

Sons of Horus Runes

When I set out to paint my SOH Dred, I realized I couldn't find any online.

So I compiled the below based on Books 1 & 2 from FW (Betrayal and Massacre).