Rocking the Inquisition

Who can say no to the inquisitor who rides a dreadnought into battle, has a 3 barrelled multimelta, and is more then willing to launch missiles from space onto his own men, if it might help... maybe.

This one was more of a challenge then it should have been, this model has been hanging about in a slightly painted state for over 2 years now, with a very grey body and getting a few changes in scheme.

Still its done now and ready to drop lots of bombs all over everyone.

Home-Made Abaddon for Homebrew Army

Well This is my home made model for Abaddon to use in my Chaos Army should I ever actually play a game big enough to fit him in! 

Made from the Chaos Lord kit and a few home made parts, like the Shoulder Pads (made from Green Stuff)

He is not a complex paint job, and was made to just fit in with the rest of the army. Also he is not Failaddon, maybe the new colour scheme will make him become Winaddon!

Also I appear to have forgotten to paint the sword.... Dang!

Ogre Butcher... Ommm nom nom

Ohmmm nom nom nom...

This is my Ogre Butcher, mostly painted to try out the new Blood paint from GWS. He is originally a River Troll model with an Ogre head.

I layered extra green-stuff around his back and hips to fatten him up and make sure he looked like he was so fattened by his Orge Magic (its powered by eating) that he was having trouble moving.

I also built on an apron and boots and added a dagger to be his cleaver.

The paint job was started with Tallern Flesh colour, and then a green was to really make it look like it is ill. That was then layered with some Rotting Flesh, and then a light wash of Devlan Mud aaaand another layer of Rotting Flesh.

Then comes the bloooooood. Its really just slapped on.

Necromunda Gang: Inquisitor Krane's No Hopers

Blood Raven Captain on Bike

An Old project that got pushed to the side a couple of years ago.

It is a simple counts-as for a captain on a bike.

This guy has been on my shelf for 2 years with just the grey and red bases.

I really need to look at doing some directional lighting from the plasma cannon and engine, I think it would add loads to the look of the model.

Blood Raven Centurions

Bring out the big guns!

While at first I was not sure about these models I actually came to really like them once I realised that the massive shoulder pads were not needed.

I like to use them with Gravity Cannons just for the fact that its the only why to get access to the gun. Its mostly a novelty for me!

They have only been in a couple of games so far but have always been fun, even if they are usually popping away at enemies with armour saves of 6+.

The paint scheme is a simple Blood Ravens theme to match the rest of my current Marines army. Nothing special to report here!

The only thing I have changed is the head options, as I do not like to official heads and rather like the idea that these suits are reserved for the most experienced marines who are still rocking the older MK helmets.

 

Plague Terminators Version 2

So this is the final idea for my Plague Terminators.

The Scheme is simply the same as the rest of my army, Teal with Bronze edging.

The corruption is greenstuff coated in a mix of patchy bleached bone and the washed with scorpion green, dry brushed with bone again and then once more washed with green. It is then glossed for extra gooey shine.

The Bronze is washed with teal as well to tint it and give it another corrosive look.

With any luck the rest of the squad will follow eventually!

Plague terminators

So I have been trying out some gritty and messy paint ideas to make a squad of Plague Terminators for my Chaos Marines.

I'm not sure which one I like most though so going to leave them here while I think it over.

So having thought it over I think the answer I am looking for is... not in these pictures.

I was looking at the other models on my army (of which 2 are painted, and will be posted later) and the theme was meant to be an undevided army that would have a universal scheme with slight changes based on their leanings with the gods, rather then totally disparaged squads looking like they have just got together for the weekend for a quick black crusade.

As such I think I will re-aim my ideas as nurgleing the squad a bit more with pox marks and rot, before painting them in the correct colours (Teal and Bronze) and then go nuts with weathering and corrupting them!

Tau Colour Scheme

Pink Tau, for blending in.... nowhere!

Not a main project by any means, just me playing about with some colours and a few spare tau figures who were annoyingly grey.

A Dash of pink and they are now standing proud on the shelf!

Wraithlord number 1

So having established the scheme I wanted to use with the warlock previously, I have continued to apply it to the pair of Wraith Lords in my army.

The Paint job for this model took alot longer then I would like and the second Wraith Lord was alot faster after I tweaked it a bit.

I started with a base coat of Orkhide shade, the darked green, and then a coat of goblin green over that to get a nice solid green.

Then I layered in Scorpion green all the way up to sunburst yellow, before then using a little green wash in the joints to clean up the deep shadows.

This layering took forever and I would not be repeating that style except for maybe a special character. The result was really nice and I really like the look after but this was about 10 hours of painting yellow, over and over.

For the second Wraith Lord I skipped right to Iyanden Darksun for the Base coat, and then green washed the whole thing before doing the yellow layering. This gave a very similar end result for about 1/4 the time, though the green did not quite have the same feel to it.

I think for any other models with this scheme I will start with the Iyanden Base, a sunburst layer over that, a very watered down Scorpion Green over that to get the same original feel, then carefully green wash the recesses before cleaning up the yellow to finish.

I think it will take a little longer then the last try, but most of that will be drying time rather then painting time!

Warlock Recolours

A very quick Post on this one.

After a bit of thought, I redid the robes to greys and whites.

I had thought that I was going to go for a Purple shade highlighted up to bright Res, but after the aforementioned thoughts, I realised this would over colour the figure and give the eye nowhere to start.

Now I'm happy with the result and I think any other elder I try will be with this scheme.

Armour: Yellow with Green Shading.
Weapons and Gear: Purple with Dark Greys for blades and spots.
Gems: Teal
Cloth: Light Greys and Whites.

Space Marine Terminator Chaplain

Just a short post to show an older model of mine, painted about 2 years ago now.

Not actually intended for the battlefield either, as I don't really see him doing anything that I can't get something else to do (and I like more librarians anyway!)

Eldar Warlock - Craftworld Malantai

So here is a test paint job for the Craftworld Malantai Eldar.

I've tried to focus on a mix of greens and yellows for the bases and then using grey and pinks to pickout weapons. I'm not sure if the greens and yellows work to well here though, but I do feel that on the rest of the army (due to the lack of cloths to actually use the green) it will look alot better.

I may try to redo the cloak in something else, maybe a complimentary purple-blue to off set the yellow-green of the armour.

For the yellow armour, I based the whole model in Orkhide Shade (these are older GW paints) and then dry brushed him with snot green to get started.

Then is was a case of layering up some Goblin green, followed by scorpion green and then many many layers of sunburst yellow.

As some of you might know, Sunbust yellow is a terrible cover paint, but actually lent itself to gradual layering, since you normally need at least 3 layers of it to get a reasonable cover anyway!