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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Pilot for the Dakkajet

Hi gang,

I've been able over the last couple of days to get some hobby in, and that entails continuing on with the Ork Dakkajet project I've started over the last couple of weeks. I have the initial work done on the body of the plane and I thought I could get started on the pilot.

So after about a two hour paint job on him, he has been finished and even if I do say so myself he looks delighted to be flying a plane!

His skin was very simple Vallejo Caymen Green with highlights of Vallejo Dead Flesh and a couple washes of the new GW Glazes to bring the Dead Flesh back down a little bit. The Bomber fleece jacket was just Vallejo Desert Earth and a wash of Devlan Mud. But I am most proud of his lips and ear tips with are done in a really simple way. A basecoat of Vallejo Dead Flesh, a wash of purple wash followed by a wash of Baal Red and jobz a gud un!

So now that the pilot is done I've no excuse to put off painting the highlights on each of these paint chips. SIgh..........

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

40k Battle and Updated Vampire's

Two posts in two days! What the hell is going on?

Game of 40k:

Well my regular gaming buddy Phil, sent me on a couple of pictures of our game of 40k the weekend before last. A classic Ork vs Guard match up, 1500pts each. I was playing a boy heavy Ork army (90 slugga's) supported by 3 deffkopta's, an eight strong Nob mob with a painboy and a Weirdboy, a Big Mek with a Shokk Attack Gun and a looted wagon with Boom Gun. I can't remember exactly what Phil ran, but there were definitely 3 sentinels, some snipers, a couple of platoons, a veteran squad in a chimera, three autocannon teams, three heavy bolter teams an a Leman Russ of some sort.

Phil's Deployment (with objective)

My Deployment, beginning my first turn (with objective)

We had a great game, despite the fact we were both fairly rusty with the rules having not played a game of 40k in a couple of months. I gave Phil a bit of a shock in the first couple of rounds with my Weirdboy warping the unit of Nobs up the board right into his lines. The painboy made the unit quite durable and they caused a lot of damage initially, but eventually weight of fire wore them down. By this stage two of my maxed units of boyz were almost on the Imperial Guard lines. But Phil stayed disciplined with his firing and eventually wiped out both boyz units. He eventually counter attacked in turn 5 with his veteran squad in the chimera for my objective. It would have been a drawn if the game finished on turn 6 but his chimera tank shocked the remaining boy unit to contest my objective in turn 7 and earned him a hard fought win.

I really enjoyed this game and about half way through thought I had a good chance to win it, but two mistakes really cost me. Firstly I just didn't have a enough anti-armour weapon's in my army. I had neglected to give any nobs power fists, and relied two heavily on the Shok Attack Gun and BoomGun to do the damage. While the Shok Attack Gun was decent (I managed to roll a str9 shot for 3 turns) and only rolled a double once, relying on the looted wagon with a BS of 2 to do a large amount of damage may not have been the best plan. Especially with the amount of terrain we had on the board. The second mistake was calling the Waaagh a turn too early, and not actually getting any of my ork units into CC. A rookie mistake made due to lack of game time with my boyz.

But a very enjoyable game over all and well done to Phil for staying the course and eking a win out of a hard fought game.

Vampire Counts:

So here is a quick update on the painting of my vampire counts. Firstly I did a quick basecoat and wash on the mounted vampires base. It was a basecoat of GW Khermi Brown followed by a heavy wash of Devlan Mud.

Inital work on the skelleton's

I have spent more time with the female vampire (stop snickering down the back!), focusing mainly on the reds. I have been experimenting with shading and highlighting with complementary colours.

Initial work on the red dress

Back

Currently the closest to finished part of the dress

So the recipe so far looks like this:

1. Undercoat Black

2. Basecoat Vallejo Gory Red

3. Shade 50:50 mix of Vallejo Gory Red and Dark Green

4. Darkest Shadows Vallejo Dark Green

5. First Highlight 50:50 mix of Vallejo Gory Red and Livery Green.

The use of complementary colours to shade and highlight is only something I have recently come across but I think it's a very interesting technique and something I would really like to get to grips with.

Until next time.

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Finished Death Korp of Krieg Commissar

Hi gang,

I can today reveal what miniature I painted for the Librarium-Onine secret Santa, since Allonnairre has informed me he has recieved his package in the post. As the title may have given away it was a Death Korp of Krieg Commissar.

I really love the Krieg range of miniatures from Forge World and have a full unit of riders of Krieg that I am as of yet afraid to touch incase I ruin them with paint.

Anyway here is the finished miniature and I hope he finds a lovely home and Allonnairre will love having him as much as I loved painting him.

Sunday, 18 October 2009

New Legion of the Damned!

Fresh into my inbox from GW, new metal legion of the Damned marines. I know there was green's of these guys previously shown at a games day somewhere, but seemingly they were offically unveiled at Games Day Italy.

This guy is looking good. They do look like a slightly updated old school Legion of the Damned. I'm looking foward to seeing the rest of the squad.

I won't be buying this squad though. Why? Because I already have an old-school squad which I painted up during the year.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Inital work on an Inquisitor Band

A friend of mine, suggested that we give the game of Inquisitor a try. Now not willing to shell out money on a load of new 54mm models, we decided to give it a go at 30mm. So I went rumaging about in my bits boxes and unpainted mini's to see what sort of models I could find. I was mainly aiming for characterful mini's that really display some character and these are the guys that I came up with.

Grand Redemptionist Arin Lova.

Born a high ranking member of the Cawdor house on Necromunda, which is known for its loyality to the redemptionist cult, Lova was in the postion where his firey zeal was noticed by the Inquisitor Lord Marku Joback. Taken under this senior puritian Inquisitor's wing he quickly moved up the ranks in the Inquisition. This dispite his extreme puritan views have lead him to butt heads against many in the Inquisition, who would have more 'open minded' views when it comes to dealing with the taint of mutation especially. Like all members of the redemptionst cult he has an unhealty obession with the cleasing purity of fire, and strives to clear any planet he arrives on with flamer and multi melta.

Captain Ivan 'Three lungs' Forrest of the Catachan III

An experienced career soldier, Ivan has seen action in almost all theatre's of war, from deadly zero g battle's on the moon of Kord IV, to the subterranean fighting on Dulma'lin with Colonel Straken of the Catachan II. He earned his nickname after being severly injured in the chest with a autogun slug in a bar-room brawl on Necromunda. A metal replacement lung allows him smoke foul cigar's accured from a Rogue Trader who assured him they were all the rage amoung the 'Wild Races' in the Halo Stars, but prove almost fatal to human's causing them to collapse into a coma. When waking from his surgery he found himself looking into the buring fanatical eye's of Inquisitor Lova, who had witnessed the brawl where despite his injuries it required five men to actually pin Ivan down and throw him out.

Private First Class Kirk Lam

Kirk is a recent recuit to the Cadian Army. He became attached to Inquisitor Lova, in unknown circumstances during the 'Eye of Terror' campagain. Neither man talks about what happened the night Lova introduced Lam to the other members of his escort, but it is widely rumoured that it might have something to do with a long running, seemingly friendly set of bets Lova has with Ursarker Creed.

Pysker Regius Krumb

Another member of Lova's escort which he has aquired from Ursarker Creed. Krumb has an ability to see true into the hearts of men, for even the slightest hint of corruption. A skill Lova values most highly, even if it strays dangerously close to hersey itself. Maybe because of this Krumb is a quiet man, saying little and smiling even less.

Continued Inquisitor Band

Sorcha Ikald

Sorcha was freed from a death warrent put out on her by the Enforcers of Necromunda Hive Primus after a particularly brutal shoot out between Gang Escher and themselves. It was rumoured that her heavy stubber accounted for five enforcers and an equal amount of cyber-mastifs. When pushed on the matter, Sorcha just says that "she's more a cat person"

'Wild' Joe Johnson

A freed slave from the pits of Necromunda Hive Primus, Joe has a wild temper and an eye for the ladies, something Lova does not particularly agree with, but is willing to overlook due to Joe's ability with his pistol. One of Joe's tasks in the depths of Necromunda was keeping the rat population under some measure of control, combined with the darkness in the depths and his razor sharp hearing, his ability to aim true is almost supernatural. He's latest target though is Sorcha, something she's not too happy about.

Sunday, 29 June 2008

Lamenters army Progress

I haven't posted an entry on here for a while, and I must counteract that a bit.

The Lamenters army is proceeding at pace, and I have most of the army painted now. Its currently standing at 1400pts, so only 600pts to go and with only three units left to paint I can see the 2000pt finish line. So onto some pictures

This is the unit I painted this month, a ten man assualt squad.

and when this unit is pictured with the rest of the army, my army currently looks like this

The limit for this competition is 2000pts as I have said, but I did a little bit of a stock take of my current amount of models and I do have enough models to reach about 3000pts. I also have my eye on the upcoming 5th edition 40k box set which gives a huge amount of mini's for a reasonable price, both marines and orks. So I will pick that up in the future.

Now onto the next Lamenters unit which I think is going to be the second devastator squad, and I must also continue to paint my madpuppet gobbo for the swap with Andre.

Thats it for the moment, I'll hopefully post again soon.

THE PAINTING PAUPER