I hate Black armor!

So, as I'm finally doing some painting on the marines, I thought I'd give you guys an update. Not much done yet, most of the highlighting on the armor is finished though. The pic with the 3 marines showing miss some final highlights. I tried to capture the highlighting on the armor, but I guess that's something to see better in the future (due to the lighting). Expect updates soon now, as I'm getting the hang of the 'batch' painting!
But I don't like painting it.. there is only highlighting, but you can't do too much or it will look too gray. Marines with other colors are more fun to paint I think, as you can do more things with the armor (real blending etc), ah well, there is still much left on the model to paint with that in mind!

Restyle and upcoming plans!

As you guys see I've redone the style on the blog, must say I like this template better!
Since my brother hasn't returned yet, I might aswell tell you guys what my plans are for the few weeks.
I contacted Col.Corbane for his new column on the FtW Blog regarding terrain and playing boards. Recently I have finished my board, including some scenery. I will finish the several scenery pieces and I'm planning to do some tutorials on several of them.
Next I'm planning to give some hobby tips. I have a few of my own, and I think this could help several other gamers, even if it is just one gamer that found it useful I'm happy!
And regarding the painting.. I have to finish a LotR model, doing it as a commission piece and this one has priority. Other then that I'm currently working on 7 marines and a Rhino.

Guess these are my plans for the next couple of weeks, if anyone wants some thing clarified just ask!

Finished!

I found some time these days to finally finish the Neophyte. There is quite some time invested in this model, but most due to experiments and finding the new mixes for the Pads for example. I will add some grass/high grass to it, but not until I have finished more marines. Photo's of the WiP marines will come not until next Tuesday, my brother is on a trip and he has the camera with him, so stay tuned!

Frosting...

The Dreadnought base is finished. And just as I thought.. it frosted when I varnished him.
I knew this would happen! The last week I heard of frosting with spray varnish for the first time. I read it somewhere and I was interested in this 'phenomenon', so I wanted to find more info about this. Apperently this can happen on several occasions, but I have never had this myself. I am doing this hobby for about 2 years now, and have used about 2 or 3 GW Satin Seal varnishes. Never did frosting occur. This week I read something about it, and immidiatly it crossed my mind.. 'I bet I will get frosting real soon now'. And here ya go.. the first 'mini' I spray gets frosted. These kinda things always happen to me!

Ah well, tomorrow I will try to find those topics and sites again. See what solutions they have for this.

Neophyte update

So, I've had some time to paint today, and I worked on the Neophyte and the EC. The EC didn't got any real improvement so I don't bother to post an image. The Neophyte is closing to completion, and as I can't update the blog with pics the next couple of days (very busy, no painting time) I figured I gave you guys the Neophyte as he currently is.

Bear with me, the picture isn't taken in daylight, hence the lower quality of light in the pic ;)

Painting Faces

My hands were really itching to try new techniques for faces. I bought myself some Tallarn Flesh, a wash and several other paints and wanted to it a whole other way. Previous I began with Bestial Brown, then I blended it towards Dwarf Flesh, and after this up to Elf Flesh. Always have done this, without checking really how others did it.
With a fresh 40k army and some new paints I wanted different, I checked this article (you might want to need an account to check it) and used this as my main focus for my new style.

This is what I ended up with, and I must say I'm quite pleased with the result:



Still haven't found the best way to take pictures.. still experimenting on that ;)

In the meanwhile I've updated my Dreadnought a lil'. Nothing major, expect for the base, redone it now that I have weathering powders.

Dreadnought

So I began painting. My hands were itching to begin on the Dreadnought. The base and the legs arent finished totally yet, but the end is near.
After this is done 5 marines are waiting to get some painted slapped on them. Stay tuned!

HQ and magnets!

So I want to make 2 Marshal/Castellan's, with several magnets so I can change them however I want. One of the Marshals I'm intending to magnetize the backpack also, having the option to make it a chaplain, but these still await arrival.

In the meantime I began work on Marshal#1



The magnets in the socket are big. These were tank sized, but I couldn't hold myself drilling the magnets in. The infantry sized magnets arrived today, so I finished him up. Here with another head and a fun setup (termies are magnetized too).



Here a pic with without any, will do a step by step perhaps for the 2nd Marshal.

Emperor's Champion

The Emperor's Champion, a fierce warrior, his blows guided by the Emperor's hand. A model well presented in each BT-army, and thus it stimulated on making my own.
Several parts of the Dark Angel range, Warhammer Fantasy and some other bits later gave me this:

Golden Bolter/Librarium Painting Challenge

So there's still some time left to enter the Golden Bolter competition, which I will enter with at least my Emperor's Champion in the Single Miniature. If I finish my Dreadnought and some marines I will enter the other 2 categories as well.

On the other hand I have accepted the Librarium Painting Challenge, in which we need to finish the models you stated before the end of March. If not, you will get a big banner in your signature which says you failed, and your obliged to do a tutorial.

Well anyway, here is the LPC wip pic, 1st one. I vowed to finish at least 1 rhino, 1 Emperor's Champion, 2 magnetized Marshalls/Castellans, 1 Dreadnought, 10 Marines, 5 neophytes and 2 Terminators. There are missing 3 neophytes and 1 Castellan on this picture, but they aren't even build yet, so they will come later on.

The Beginning

"High Marshal Helbrecht himself gave me the lead of this Crusade. Our task is to go in front and explore the worlds which report any risen number of the green Xenos. The foul Xenos leader must be found, as Helbrecht swore an oath to pursue and destroy him. Our Strike Cruiser, Dorn's Revenge, is closing in on a system of multiple reports. We kill any Xenos we will find, in the hope to close in on Ghazghkull. He will find his death, for this is The Viridis Crusade."

- Marshal Brunner, Viridis Crusade



I wanted to give my army some fluff, based upon the hunt for Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, the Ork leader that led the Waaagh! on Armageddon. After Ghazghkull's suspected command ship was seen retreating from Armageddon, Helbrecht swore an oath to pursue and destroy him. This is that crusade, the Vidiris Crusade.

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