Weekend progess

• Friday night I greenstuffed my Daemon Prince along his gaps.
• Saturday I spent the day modeling. I pinned the arms to my DP and greenstuffed him, built the base, added more greenstuff to the rhino, I think it's done. and tried out a couple more ideas for paint schemes.
• Sunday I sealed the flocking on my daemon prince base (cork, plasticard tubing, and basing material [sand]).
• Tonight I will pin his head and prime him and his base (seperate).

• Still waiting on those catachan flamer backpacks from JC. Once I have them i can finish modeling the Plague Marines in progress.
• My ork capital ships fell Friday morning and broke. I will have to glue them back together :(
• Listening to podcasts really is getting me in the mood to play (especially 5th edition). I'm listening to 40k Radio, The D6 Generation, and This Week In Wargaming
• I absolutely love the new washes. Really making some nice-easy work for me.

BFG Progress

Worked on the BFG fleet last night. Over the weekend I worked on my BFG fleet, I got my Brute Ramships all primed and got my Kill Kroozer and Terror Ship painted. I thought I needed some more detail on those two so last night I went ahead and added some more detail to them with checks on the tail of the Terror ship. I added a white stripe to the underside of the bow of the Kill Kroozer to have dags or more checks. The ships are almost solid colors with metallic weapons and launch bays. The Terror ship is red, the Kill Kroozer is blue. I think the capital ships will be solid colors like this and my escorts will be more metallic with color highlights.

Naming the fleet:
In nautical lore it's bad luck to have an unnamed ship, so I wll be naming my ships.
Flagship - Hulk - will be named the "Waaagh!mato"
I am thinking of orkifying some other ship names for my fleet:
SS Minnow, Nautilus, Orca, Red October, Argo, Octopus,
Also orky words:
Dakka, Zap, Boom, Waaagh!, Grim, Gork, Mork
Ideas:
Jolly Waaagh!ger
Noah's Ork
No, Siriusly

Minor work

So I'm still working on this stuff. What's on deck:
1.) Plague Wing - may be changed to Sons of Mortarion, thinking of changing up composition. Still modeling the basics, HQ, troops and such. Waiting on some Cadian flamer backpacks to mix into the rest (skull+crossbones=awesome).
1a.) Modling daemon prince, attached right leg yesterday, left leg going on tonight then going to greenstuff the holes and seal it better.
1b.) Rhino needs more greenstuff work, TBD.
1c.) Need another rhino.
2.) Battlefleet Gothic - Started painting my Ork BFG fleet. I like the look so-far, but the limited pallette is not quite right, i think i'll add in some more orky looks tonight, checks, dags, etc.
3.) Aeronautica Imperialis - I'm hooked and I haven't played on game yet. I'm trying to get some fellow gamers to place an order with me to Forgeworld and have the order shipped to one place so we can save on shipping. No luck yet, if I don't hear from them by 7/4 I'll place my order without them.

Paint tests

So I've been working on my paint tests since Silver Dragon has been sold out of Chaos models for a while now. I've been able to paint there and give advice and receive some as well.

My paint tests, as I posted these are the results of my test paints. i'm happy with the armour, not sure how i feel about the trim and not sure how i feel about the backpacks/guns, weapons. i am really unsure about the skin on the models whose heads show. this is tough because in my next wave of chaos space marines i convert i want to add some Zombie arms and make them look all rotten.

anyhoo, here's my pics of the test paints.

More painting

Well,
went back to the Dragon yesterday to paint some more. Met with the resident paint guru, Mike, who gave me some advice on the rust i was trying to paint.

Paint scheme for rust:
Watered down Fiery Orange 1:1
Drybrush Dark Flesh
Ink Wash Brown/Fiery Orange/Water 1:1:3
Drybrush Tin Bitz

For Armour Edging:
Bestial Brown
Snakebite Leather
Graveyard Earth

Mike also wanted me to try for the "glowing eye" effect. I tried it on a couple of models. I'm not that good. but here's the progression:
Drybrush Dark Angels Green - this goes out the furthest, touching armour, weapons, shoulder pads, etc.
Drybrush Goblin Green - this comes in a bit, leaving the Dark Angels Showing
Drybrush Scorpion Green - This comes in even further
Drybrush Skull White - The tightest, this should only be in the eye and around the socket of the helmet.

I need a lot more practice and perhaps a better brush.

Paint scheme...chosen

So i've decided on a paint scheme for my plague wing.

back up...

the store i'm using now, Silver Dragon Square sold out of Chaos models a few weeks ago and has not been able to get a new shipment of GW stuff. In the mean time i've considered an Eldar Saim Hann army and a Dark Angels Deathwing army because he has the models in stock...gah! But methinks my wife would kill me for that.

i resorted to buying a 7 man unit of chaos bikers from ebay (7 models retail for $15 each, paid $39.99 shipped) they will probably only be used for BIG games (more than 1500 points)

well yesterday at the Dragon, I went to paint and play WOW TCG. i sat down with my metal plague marines (hate those models) and devised a paint scheme for my Plague Wing.

Plague Marine Paint Scheme
Prime Black
Heavy Drybrush Skull White
Drybrush 1:1 Skull White/Catachan Green
Light Drybrush Catachan Green
Light Drybrush Rotting Flesh
Ink Wash 1:1 Dark Green/Brown Inks
Ink Wash Brown

I think i want to do something different for my Terminators, perhaps a more pale color scheme for them (like the Deathwing)
Backpacks, guns, etc, i'm trying out a rust effect:
Watered down Fiery Orange
Drybrush Dark Flesh
Alternate Blood Red and Fiery Orange (the GW website where I got this doesn't give the technique for this, i am going to assume it's stippling.

1st 10 Plague Marines - Check

Ok, so I can officially say that my first 10 plague marines are modeled.

after seeing Davicious Prime's models onB&C i had to go back and add some nurgle iconography to my models.

I got my inspiration from his GS work here.

Again, crappy lighting = crappy pictures. Sorry. Someday i'll be able to shoot in daylight with a lightbox...





once i paint them the GS work should stand out a bit better...

Plague Marines

Bought a box 'o' Plague Marines a week or so ago. The package says "multipart metal and plastic miniatures". When they say "plastic and metal" they mean that the base is plastic. oh, the backpack is plastic as well.

i hate metal minis. a.) they have to be pinned. b.) you have to use super glue. c.) they're fragile. d.) they're hard to convert. e.) they have gaps which need filling.

so, needless to say, i built them. some of the scuplts are okay, but they're a bitch to convert and i didn't have the patience to pin them all. so i think they'll be my paint tests.

Saturday i bought a box of chaos space marines. 10 marines. the plastic ones. i love 'em. ised my pin vise and xacto to put holes in the armour. think i'll get a sculpting tool next pay period and greenstuff some boils and sores onto them.

then to the paint shop. gonna be primed white then painted camo green. metal will be done boltgun any boils and sores should be pink or purple, skulls and horns bleached bone. then to tha dip! minwax polyshades walnut stain. this should give a good shading to the model. then perhaps a layer or two of highlights.

to do list:
finish modelling
get sculpting tool
make boils and pustules
prime white
buy camo green (2 pots?)
basecoat camo green
metal boltgun
horns/skulls bleached bone
pustules/boils pink or purple (maybe purple with a pink highlight after dipping?)
buy poppy seeds for bugs
Buy Purity Seal
Buy Testors Dulcote

i really think these will turn out well. must make sure to paint test models first.