Pale death

And as I promised an undead legionnaire. This guy is actually a crew member from the unholy cannonade and as I pointed out before stripping him one of my favourite minis.

 Blue cloak, went for grey bones instead of white or  yellowish. I as always keep a quite limited palette but I felt he needed a spot colour so I finally decided to paint his eyes. The idea to make them bright blue came from death in Terry Pratchett's discworld, who's eyesockets are said to get an spooky blue glow when he's angered.

And From behind, have I mentioned I love washes? On the subject on washes I would like to point out that the base is actually drybrushed which is generally something I don't do. The idea came from Malebolgia on the WZR forums. Though as you can see I'm far from good at the method thus far.

Well until next time.

Algeroth Nepharite

Lo again folks just thought I'd update you on my first finished warzone miniature, and without further delay, here's an old school Nepharite.

 Now when painting evil minis most people reach for a red or a brown and then as dark a metal colour as they can get. I wanted to avoid that so I went for a standard of chainmail rather than boltgun metal on this guy and then shaded it with nightshade. I'm not entirely sure about the purple skin at the moment but I think I'll leave it on this model regardless, he is a pain to paint simply because he's heavy and tends to start chipping while being painted.

And from the other angle. Astute viewers will notice the Algeroth runes have a slight blue tint they have been washed with blue ink before the nightshade wash (the wash takes the shine of the ink), the one on his abdomen have as well but it's not that easy to see.

And one from behind, now if you'll excuse me I'll stick this guy on the top of some shelf and not touch him until I have bought some hardcoat, because if I didn't mention it this guy has a habit of chipping.

I'll probably have another mini up before the end of the day. But Until next time.

Red Sand

Lo folks, those of you who have played mass effect will know that Red Sand is a drug in the mass effect universe, but here it refers to the red sands of Mars, I'll be basing warzone minis, I have made a couple of different versions and feedback on whichever is better would be greatly appreciated.

The question is how do we paint this:

here we go:

Macharite red wased with earthshade.

Calthan Brown washed with baal red

Blood red washed with earthshade

illyaden darksun (dark yellow) washed first with baal red then earthshade.

darksun washed with feugan orange and then earthshade.

The last one isn't quite so shiny when the last wash has dried.

I myself like the last two, which are very similiar.

Any thought? if not, then until next time...

Daemonic Flesh!

It does sound like a metal song doesn't it? Not as dramatic really, i have been trying to decide on a colour scheme for my dark legion. Now the most common way is black and red, which to me is a pretty good reason not to do that. Also I'm considering black and red for my Bauhaus (Inspired by Killzones Helghast) so I don't want that again. My brotherhood will be gold and white (Inspired by the Sons of Light of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, best fantasy series ever). So what to do with the legion, I finally decided on blue, it'll fit nicely when they release Illian too (my favourite apostle), or perhaps purple. So I painted up a  cultists robes in dark blue and it worked very well.

 Now this is just straight up Gw Midnight Blue (or mordian blue or necron abyss or kantor blue, gw likes changing the names of their colours), I'll need to find a way to shade it later too, perhaps jsut a coat of earthshade.

 And I also tried to find a flesh colour for the semi-human members of the legion like necromutants and centurions, I'll do something else for undead legionnaires havent decided what yet. I based the idea on the old Paul Bonner artwork  of a centurion, human skin but with a tinge of green so I just painted the skin flesh colour (tallarn flesh) and washed with green. I'm quite happy with it I might give him another was later.

I have no undead legionnaires stripped at the moment so I decided to see what I would do with the non human members of the legion. Things like razides, nepharites, templars and immaculate furies. I had two theories, start blue and wash red, and start purple and wash blue (you will have noted by now I like washing, at least this kind). So I tried my methods, i started with dark blue (again midnight blue) and washed red (baal red)

The only place i cna see the red is where it happened to land where it wasnt suposed to, the blue was simply to dark to be washed. Kind of sad since my next shade of blue is enchanted blue...

So we try the other method I thought and painted an imacculate fury purple (warlock purple) and washed blue (drakenhof nigthshade)... But it didnt get very blue so i washed again. and then i relaised that drakenhof was more cold grey than actuall blue, so here is the result.

Nearly black, a bit darker than what I had intended. I needed some way to wash blue isntead of draknhof for one of the coats. So i reached down in my colour boxand dug up an old pot of glue ink. Now i didnt have any more mini's to try on but fround a spare ogre arm i has used for siiliar ourposes before and tried it. purple then blue ink, and then it didnt really feel like the purple mattered any more cause the arm was blue... very blue. Anyway I let dry then washed with drakenhof again and here's the result.

the shinyness is mostly because of the drakenhof not being all dry, my sunlight was running out. It's not nearly as bad as it first seemed.

Anyway what I want from you is an opinion which is better? or should I try other methods?

the floor is open.

The glory of days past... and bases, don't forget the bases.

Lo folks, this time i have some minis I painted years ago. I'm very proud of them... well to be honest I'm going to strip them of paint. I've dug up my old Warzone minis and realised how horribly painted they were so I decided to strip them, these photos were taken before i stripped them, now it turned out some of the colours i used was no acrylics but enamel, so I'll see how that goes. But without further ado, minis I painted well over ten years ago.

 wolfbane heavy weapons specialist. This is one of the miniatures painted in enamel, the hair is painted in GW acryllics though.

Wolfbane close combat guy, propably one of the coolest minis ever. This is the other guy painted in enamel. The truth is I didn't paint them in enamel these are really my brothers minis but he quit wargaming many years ago so I took care of them, he's the one who painted them in enamel. That's right I'm blaming my brother.[insert evil laughter] It's not like he going to see this anyway.

 One of the crewmen for the unholy cannonade i pactically dipped him in goblin green, what a painter I was.

 

Another crewman and propably my favourite warzone miniature, I dont know it's something awesome about a robed skeleton on a  desert base.

 as I said i really like this guy he looks so ominous, and y idea of painting back then was painting half the model in red gore. My first or second pot of GW paint ever by the way. I remember painting a space ork in Red Gore, I had no idea they were suposed to be green. I painte dhis clothes green though... scorpion green, my second pot of gw paint ever (or first if Red gore was the second)

Did I happen to mention scorpion green? Yeah I know. I'll be sticking this guy to a large and quite busy base to avoid him looking small on a 40mm base (which is what stalkers in WZR will be fielded on) it'll also add some height and help me avoid players complaining how I'm exploiting true line of sight. Oh and it's a praetorian stalker.

Illian templar with kratach. As you may notice while still  badly painted this guy is a lot better than the previous ones, well that's simply because he was painted much later. This guy may actually just be ten years ago.

 Illian templar with templar mace, same thing againb, not a good painted when i did this guy but atleast i knew that you could paint them more than one colour. Note how the tilted base means he gains more momentum behind his swing. If you scroll back up you'll see I did the same on the wolfbane with the sword. I'm so tired of seeing heroically posed minis on stones facing upwards, why would they do that? Are they trying to reach someone tall? Now I get it if they're fightign a dragon on a diorama but otherwse, no just no. The only worse thing is shooting minis doing the same, why would you stand up on a stone and be a target unless it's to get some extra range on a charging enemy?

Illian (I think could be semai) heretic. For the reasons above he's on a  quite plain base.

Running heretic, open base cause a running person is usually crossing open ground.

 Same mini again? Nope if you look the base is different, the heretics come in only two varieties. This one is standing on a  more scenic base and note he is again facing slightly downwards as if taking short on an enemy who's charging him.

 And another of the running heretic, this time on a rocky base, simpy because I wanted him somewhat different from his clone.

 Another crewman, the necromutant, from the unholy cannonade, now I've glued this guy to his base and I'm not certain I should have done that becuase what if i want to use him as a hero level necromutant until the canonade is released (and that might be years).
I might consider removing him from his base and magnetizing him actually, I'll have toi think about it.

 Nepharite of Algeroth, this guy is massive, now if his pose had just been a little more dynamic he could've been a really awesome mini. But even as he is he's very nice, i chose an open base and positioned him far back hoping to give him a sense of movement but I'm not sure it worked.

Immaculate Fury. Yeah he's tilting I wanted to give the impression he was walking up the slop when he heard something and turned to bring his nazgaroth down on whatever unfortunate creature it was that drew his attention. Problem is the mini is pretty easy to knock over I might have to hollow the base out and add some extra weight.

That's it for today... oh yeah the bases are from secret weapon, really nice now I just need about a hundred more of them when my WZR minis show up, and even ore when my raging heroes minis show up. I need to stop doing kickstarters.

Well until next time!