Moar Eldaaaaagh!

I've been really busy painting this week. I suppose it's just a sign of things to come, but hey! It keeps me busy, and I'm actually getting the army painted. That said, I've spent as much time stripping paint off old models as I have actually painting. I have around 8 or so Warlocks, 2 Farseers, an Autarch, all my Dark Reapers and a few others in there right now soaking, and hopefully soon I'll be ready to give them the paint job they deserve.

Anyways, I got off topic there! This week, I painted up 3 of the 10 or so Jetbikes I have. I've been meaning to do these guys up for a loooong time, around last summer I think, kinda like the Vypers. I picked these ones up and said "Why not?" They were already primed and had terrible looking blue and red paint on them. I more or less intended to go in there and clean them up. What I actually did was give them all amazing looking paint jobs. Using my new technique for gems, I made some very shiny gems. They actully shine in low light, giving them a very Eldar look. Otherwise, this is actually really simple! Lots of Blood Red for details, such as the Rider's eyes and pouches, with Mythril Silver for their grills (that's faceplate for those not as gangster as me.) The racing stripes were something I randomly came up with after looking at my Rangers. I painted them all on by hand using Blood Red first, a slight overlap of Codex Grey, and another overlap of Fortress Grey! I'm very pleased with the results.

The Wave Serpent... yet another project I half did and tossed to the wayside. Maybe it's not a bad thing that I can't afford new models right now, seeing as I can finish what I got already!It's still a work in progress right now, but I figure I could give out a sneak peek. I fully painted the cockpit and pilot as I put it together, so that was luckily already done. Most of what I did was just redo the red in the grooves of the hull. It's extremely time consuming, seeing as you have to carefully apply the paint, or you wind up having to go back and paint the edges black where the paint overflowed or whatever. It's hard to desribe, but a pain in the ass. Trust me.

Otherwise, it was more of the same with the gems. I like this picture, the light was angled just right to make the gems show how shiny they are. They look like they have a sort of depth to them, and it's gratifying to see them look so good.

Walls and I are going to go halfers on the AoBR boxset sometime soon, which means I'll be starting to paint marines soon! I dislike painting yellow, but I'll deal with it. I still havn't even figured out my points yet. Or made a list to build up to. I really need to get on that I think. If I do it right, my Marines will almost look orky. that puts a smile on my face! Anyways, that's all I got for now. I post more when I paint more!

~Til next time!

DECISION

Yup. I've decided I'm going to do the Angry Marines for my Tales of Four Gamers event the club is holding. For those unfamiliar...

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines

Be forewarned, there is so much anger and sheer awesome your mind may combust. Be sure to look at the .pdf of the Codex: ANGRY MARINES in there too. I'll wind up using it once in awhile.

Less than a week until I start painting them. Goody.

So.... I've been bitten by the painting bug again. Not a bad thing I suppose... it means I get my army painted. That gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside.

I got an Apocalypse formation when I went up to GW in Calgary last summer for my Eldar Army, The Wind Rider Formation I think it's called. Basically, it's a bunch of Guardian Jetbikes, an Autarch on a Jetbike, and Two Vyper Jetbikes. I sorta got started on the Vypers last summer, but they've been collecting dust until now. I just got one all painted up and figured I'd toss it up for people to look at!

More of the usual stuff one could expect of me. Primed it Chaos Black, used a fine detail brush to do the Blood Red in the lines. Boltgun Metal and Mythril Silver for shiny highights. Skull White for the Bright Lance and under slung Shuriken Catapults.

The gems are hard to do. Well... hard to do well that is. For the red ones, I started with a base coat of Red Gore. I did two coats of that to make it a nice deep red and ensure I covered them evenly. Afterward, I took Blood Red and did a partial coat, only painting maybe 80% of the gem so that the darker Red gore could show through. I then took Blazing Orange and drybrushed a little bit on the lower 25% to brighten it futher. I added a speck of Skull White to make it look shiny, then put on 'Ardcoat. Shiny gems. The process was the same for the Blue Gems, But I used Regal Blue, Enchanted Blue, and Ice Blue in that order instead.

I'll take this moment to explain that the camera I'm using is my Webcam. It used to be really good, but I guess it's getting old. I can't afford a proper camera, so it'll have to do. My apologies.

I'm proud of the quality of my work. I always paint these things as they go together. In that way, I'm able to have fully painted interiors, and it's easier to do pilots and stuff too. A trick I learned from a friend for painting in the grooves is to glob a paint on you want, then run your finger along the groove, spreading the paint along with it. It's a trick I learned back when I was jut starting out and I still use it today. I'll probably use it for a long time to come too.

Maybe I should work on those War Walkers I got from the Desert Rat sometime soon... maybe after I'm done the other Vyper. Anyways, thats all for tonight.

~Oyasuminosai!

A start...

Last night, I was stuck by the sudden urge to paint something. I scurried around my room looking for something to paint. It looked as though I may have been forced to actually paint my Striking Scorpions.With a sigh, I opened my case to retrieve some paints when I saw... HIM!

Cheesy picture, I know. But a friend of mine had given my a few bases I needed to finish a unit of Kroot. In return, I offered to paint something for him. He gave me an Ork Warboss, the one from the AoBR (Assault on Black Reach) boxset.

He told me he would more or less let me do what I liked with him. He's a member of the Bad Moons Clan, so there would have to be a certain amount of yellow that needed to be involved. I gave the model a good basecoat with a can of Skull white and sat down to appraise him. There was alot of metallic bits on him, which meant I would be using a ton of Boltgun Metal. In fact, I used that first on almost all the metal bits, then I painted over that with with Red Gore or Bad Moon Yellow. I used Bleached Bone for the cloth bits, his teefs, and the lovely skull on his shoulder. I did a dry brush of Blood Red on the red things to brighten them. I used Flesh Wash (The best wash EVER) to do the thing on his back and give it a natural leather look, and used it watered down on his pants to give them a dirty tan look. I then started to make him look more orky by doing dry brushes of Boltgun Metal, and then Mythril Silver. I also used the Mythril Silver to do highlights on the Power Klaw, Big Shoota, and metaly bits. With the Flesh wash again, I used a light watered down coat on the tassle of the bosspole to make it look dirty and generally more orky. I used Regal blue, then Enchanted Blue on his eyepeice to make it stand out. I gave it a tiny touch of Skull White to make it look shiny, and applied 'Ardcoat to make it actually shiny. I finished by basing it with GW Modelling Sand.

I'm quite pleased with how this model turned out! Doomby now has a great centrepiece model for his budding Bad Moons army, and I hope it leads him to victories on the tabletop, and encourages him to paint up the rest of da boyz. WAAAAAAAGH!!!

That's all for now. More to come!

New Place, Different Face...

So this is my first post on a new blog. I currently already have a blog which I maintain on LiveJournal, but decided to start a second one here to show people what I've working on. Those reading this likely already have a good idea of what I mean by that... and if not, you'll soon find out.