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@Azazelx: Thanks!

Well, the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived! I now reveal to you my Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage, of the Sixth Host of Khorne's Daemonic Legions:





He was loads of fun to paint! Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I feel that this may be my best work yet! I couldn't be more pleased with how the model turned out! Truly a worthy centerpiece for my Khorne Daemonkin army. It doesn't hurt that the sculpt itself is one of the finest GW has ever made! I can recommend this model to anyone who has any interest in the forces of Chaos (especially Khorne, of course). Please feel free to vote for this guy in the Dakka gallery!

Now that this big angry guy's done, I'm not sure what's next up for me to paint. I'll be doing some Flesh Hounds for next month's painting challenge, so hopefully I can do better than I did on the last ones. I'll probably try to push on with getting my Tau stuff painted as well. Thanks to everyone for looking at this blog and offering words of encouragement! It means a lot to me! Hopefully I can continue to give you all some nice stuff to look at.

Awesome job, he's epic.

That looks freaking amazing. Great work Zerg.

EDC

@Heretic Tom and EDC: Thanks guys, I'm glad you like him!

I've brought my metal Flesh Hounds off of the shelf and onto my painting bench (okay, its just a card table...) for July's painting challenge. I hope to get them started very soon, although it appears I will have to dust them off a bit first!

Also on deck for this month is my squad of Tau Pathfinders. I'm doing them for Azazelx's "Tale of Many Gamers" challenge. Should be a pretty full month, but if I manage to get that many minis painted this month I will be really pumped!

So, now that the year is half over, here's where I am on my goals that I set back around New Year's:
1: Get my Stormsurge assembled and painted. I got that one done!
2: Finish all models that are partially painted. I haven't done so well with that one, in fact the only one that I finished that was partially painted at the start of the year was the Tau Piranha. I better hop to it!
3: Paint at least twice as many models as last year (37 last year, so 74 this year). I've done 29 so far this year, so I'm a little off the pace. Hopefully getting a few squads done will help my numbers. I've got some bigger models to do too though, but I'm only counting them as one.
4: Paint my Bloodthirster. I made it happen!
5: Take a fully painted army to a tournament. We'll see about that one, could be difficult even if I make my goal of number of models painted.
6: Learn to paint small details and freehand better. I think I'm improving a little on that, but I still struggle.
7: Clip all parts off of sprues and make an actual bits box. Not yet, since I haven't wanted to sit there and clip parts all day!
I've got a fair bit to go on most of these goals, so wish me luck for the second half of the year!

No painting progress to show, but I have now finished assembling all my WHFB Chaos Warhounds as Flesh Hounds, meaning that my Gorepack is complete. Here they are, still shiny and...gray:


I recently got the Marine models from Deathwatch Overkill, and have begun assembling those minis. I've done one so far, Ortan Cassius:

I just love the details on these figures, they are so cool! I can't wait to start painting them!

In other news, I will soon be picking up a copy of Dreadball Xtreme from a friend who is trying to clean out his excess gaming stuff (he said he'd just give me the Dreadball game). It will be interesting to do some non-GW minis, although I'm not sure anyone around my area plays Dreadball (my FLGS does stock it though).

I love that Bloodthirster! He's suitably epic, but I'd be terrified that he'll break off the base with only that thin fire holding him up! You've also just reminded me that I need to find and finish my packs of Chaos hounds as well!

@Azazelx: Thanks, man! He wobbles a bit near his base, but I've been using him for a while and so far so good as far as not breaking! For all the complaining I hear about the quality (or rather lack thereof) of GW plastic glue, it has worked for me with the exception of one bottle I used early on in my hobbying (most stuff I assembled with that bottle of glue has come apart at some point ).

I've finally gotten off my lazy ass and started painting my Flesh Hounds of Khorne for Paradigm's monthly painting challenge. So far all I've done is basecoat the red skin, but it's progress, right? Here's the "pic or it didn't happen":

I was very messy with the paint, just making sure to get red on all the skin. I'm gonna cover over the mess with other colors anyway. The paint scheme will be very "quick and dirty" rather than super detailed like my Bloodthirster.

This month I'm actually taking on two units, the other being a squad of Tau Pathfinders for Azazelx's "Tale of Many Gamers" painting challenge. So far all I've done is the first basecoat of the skin, but nevertheless here's a pic:

That Tau skin tutorial that WarhammerTV's Emma did back in December is a godsend! The results are wonderful, so I highly recommend it to anyone painting Tau.

In other news, I've now finished assembling all the Deathwatch minis from Deathwatch: Overkill. Here they are, awaiting some primer and paint:


I also assembled my Be'lakor model:

He also obviously needs some primer love. I'm looking forward to painting this guy, as it's a truly awesome sculpt!

Sadly, priming may not happen soon, as here in mid-Missouri the weather is extremely hot and humid right now. And when it's not hot and humid, it's raining and making sure the humidity stays high. Gotta love a Midwestern summer [/sarcasm]. Hopefully I can stay focused and keep working on stuff. When I do, you'll see it right here, so stay tuned!

Man you've got plenty done.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing how the fleshhounds turn out.

EDC

@EDC: Sorry to curb your enthusiasm, but I'm setting the Hounds aside for a while, as I'm just not finding the willpower or inspiration to paint them right now. I'll get back to them eventually!

Finally time for another update after over 2 weeks. I just haven't gotten much painting done, between being busy at work and other RL stuff, plus this oppressive heat has just sapped my energy. Anyway, here is some stuff I have managed to get done. I put the final basecoat on four of my Tau Pathfinders (I'm only doing 4 at the moment, I'll get to the others after I finish these). Now they have all the main colors in place:

They'll need some touchups before shading, plus I need to add some yellow on the Shas'ui's left shoulder pad and sensor vane.

I also have begun painting a few of the models from the Dreadball Xtreme starter set. Here's a WIP of one of the Free Agent models, the Avaran Treebeast:

I'm almost done with him actually, just needs a bit of green on the vine parts and maybe another light drybrush highlight. I've got a couple more Dreadball models primed as well.

Assembly-wise, I've gotten a Tau Strike team assembled, as well as a bike Librarian for my allied LIbrarius Conclave (will be painted as Blood Ravens so any chapter tactics!).

Hope to have more to show soon!

I've made a little bit of progress. Very little has been done with the Tau Pathfinders I was working on, although now I may be able to take a fresh look at them after leaving them alone for a bit. Hopefully I can get the entire unit done in August, plus some other Tau stuff if possible to make up for the lack of painting in July.

As for the Dreadball Xtreme stuff, I have finished two of the Free Agents as my entry in July's painting challenge:
First, the Avaran Treebeast:

Second, the Vlorox Spinpede:

Finally, a shot of the two together:

Far from my best paintwork, but at least I got something done in July. What a beast of a month it's been.

Next month, I should be able to do the two jump pack models from Deathwatch: Overkill. They are primed and ready to paint. Also, as I said above, I intend to make some progress on my Tau army. Look forward to some progress on that front soon!

I've made a little progress on the Deathwatch jump guys:

Just the silver stuff, plus the gold details on Delassio's chainsword. I intend to get more done very soon on these.

No additional WIP's of the Tau Pathfinders just yet. They are ready for shading, though. Speaking of Tau, a friend of mine sold off his Tau army, but had a few models left over, so he just gave them to me (Thanks a bunch, buddy!). Here's a pic of that haul:

The lot consists of 2 Devilfish, a Sky Ray, a Razorshark, a Piranha with Fusion Blaster, 3 old metal Broadsides with Rail Rifles, 1 old Broadside missing his weapons, a set of spare Devilfish engines, a couple of vehicle weapon systems, and a completely wrecked Crisis suit body (that will probably make it onto a base as a battlefield casualty). Everything is in pretty rough shape overall, but with a little work I can make most if not all of it serviceable. Mostly I need to track down some bits and stuff. The weaponless Broadside can get the rail rifle from the Broadside kit I built (I used the HYMPs). Most of the stuff is not competitive, but now I have some more models to use for casual/fluffy games.

Also in that lot of bits was a head from a Maulerfiend (not sure why that was in there). It will be used with the body from a Star Wars Miniatures Junk Golem and the herald left over from building a Skull Cannon to make a Juggerherald. All I've been waiting for was a suitable head, and now I have one. That conversion is not a high priority for me right now, but at some point I'm gonna want to try a Juggerherald, so I'm glad I can now proceed with that at my convenience.

More to come, hopefully soon!

Nice haul. Never hurts to have 'uncompetitive' options up your sleeve, as you say nice to more fluffy games and secondly you never know when they might be good again!

EDC

@EDC: Good points, especially since I enjoy both competitive and non-competitive games.

Progress update on the Deathwatch guys. I've gotten a good chunk of the basecoating done, here's a somewhat blurry WIP shot:

Just a few base colors to go, then I need to clean up the armor where I've made a bit of a mess.

Good news! The basecoating on the Deathwatch Jump Marines is complete:

Now its time to put some shade on the areas that need it, and then do some highlights (oh, and Delassio's blond hair, as soon as I find a good method for painting blond hair). I'm gonna keep it real simple for the bases, as they already have some nice decorative elements on them.

More progress on the Tau: I've shaded the four Pathfinders I was working on, and painted the yellow on the Shas'ui's sensor vane and shoulder pad:

Now I need to highlight everything, including painting the brighter final yellow color on the Shas'ui. Then I need to get the other 6 guys in the squad done. These guys are just kind of tedious to paint for some reason, hence the slow progress.

I've got a box of Chaos bikes and Start Collecting: Space Wolves on the way courtesy of eBay, so I'll soon begin putting together a Cyclopian Cabal for my forces of Chaos. The wolves will serve both as a small ally force for casual games (using the box formation), and the start of a Superfriends list (I'll need a bunch more Thunderwolves first...).

I'm back again with another progress update. The Deathwatch guys are done except for the bases and possibly a highlight on the Raven Guard guy's bird motif (on the jump pack). Here's the (final) WIP shot:

I'm pretty happy with how Delassio's face and hair turned out (I'm not very good at doing either of those things). I should have final pics of these guys soon.

On the Greater Good front, I've finished the Pathfinders other than their bases (although I may add squad markings as well), here's their final WIP shot:

Rather than try to slog through 6 more of these guys, I'm gonna see what I can do to some Stealth suits first. I'll come back to the rest of this squad later.

RL has been slamming me to the floor this month much like last month. I feel like it's a lame excuse for how little painting I've gotten done, but it's true. Thank you to all who have been bearing with me and continuing to comment on my blog, I really appreciate it!

Good job on the face, Zerg! that is really hard I find too

looking forward to the Tau, really like those models

@Guildenstern: I'm glad you like it! And as for the Tau, more are coming!

I've gotten the Deathwatch guys and those four pesky Pathfinders done! Now they can all stop giving me the stink-eye. Here's some pics:
First, a pic of the two Deathwatch guys together:

Next, a couple of shots of Edryc Setorax, formerly of the Raven Guard:

A note about this model: I painted the feathers to look like blue jay feathers, as I've never seen any feathers on models painted to look that way. I figured it would be okay as the blue jay is a distant relative of the raven. For those of you who are not from America and may not have any idea of what a blue jay looks like, I suggest you google it, as I think they are very pretty birds.
Here are a couple of shots of Antor Delassio, formerly of the Blood Angels:

Overall I feel like these guys turned out okay, although my paintwork is a bit sloppy on the details. I find that sometimes if I try to do too much to fix the sloppiness, I just end up making it worse, so I've let the models be for now.

Finally, here's a pic of those Tau Pathfinders:

I'm happy with how they look, and there will be more pics once I finish painting their 6 other squadmates. I'm gonna knock out some other Tau models first, as I'm a little burned out with infantry right now.

Feel free to vote for these images in the Dakka gallery, and as always, thanks for looking!

Nice work there Zerg. The fly boys are looking grand. Who's you next. I recommend big bad Bran - he was really fun to paint too

@Januine: Thank you very much! I may not take on any more of the DW guys soon, as I intend to "reward" myself with painting them after knocking out some ordinary joes first. Might motivate me to stick with my regular dudes instead of just my cool stuff. When I do come back to these guys, I'll probably do Cassius or Natorian next. They're all so cool, it's hard to pick!

Well, I have now begun working on a Tau XV25 Stealth Battlesuit team, here's the first WIP shot:

I'm going for a darker blue than on my regular Tau stuff, as these guys are supposed to be stealthy. For their yellow sept markings, I may just do the Averland Sunset rather than layer over that with Yriel Yellow, to give a more muted tone. Whenever I get around to it, I will use the same scheme on my Ghostkeel suit.

In other news, I'm assembling a trio of Black Legion Sorcerers to form a Cyclopian Cabal. I've begun assembling them and their bikes. 2 of them will have axes, one will have a staff. Here's a shot of what I've put together so far:

On the left is the bike, torso/head assembly, arms, and shoulder pads of one sorcerer, and on the right is the head, right arm, and kitbashed staff of another. I will paint them in pieces so as to make it a little easier to reach the details. The one on the left in the picture has some Slaanesh-related parts; this way I could choose to run him with the Mark of Slaanesh (as unfluffy as it is to do so in a unit from Khorne Daemonkin, it is permissible within the rules to do so provided the Khorne unit is only Daemons, like Flesh Hounds). Most of the time I'm going to run them all unmarked, though. These will be my entry in next month's painting challenge (It's a Kind of Magic); expect plenty of black and some gold trim since they are, after all, from the Black Legion.

Wow this is really cool plog. I love the way that BL biker is looking and your tau is pretty awesome

@DaemonColin: Thanks for the kind words! If you think the biker looks good now, wait till I get him painted, not to mention fully assembled!

Cool idea with the Blue Jay feathers, even more bonus points for them being related to the raven. Your Tau are coming along nicely as well, the TV25 has always been my favourite battlesuit design. The biker looks like it will be a successful kit bash as well.

Looking food Zerg. Nice work on the Deathwatch and path finders. I reckon those bikers will look ace too.

EDC

@Thraxas: I'm glad you like the blue jay feathers, I was afraid people would just think it was weird, so your comment is very reassuring. I'm actually enjoying painting the stealth suits, as I'm a big fan of the design myself. That's part of what I love about the Ghostkeel; it is to a Stealth suit what a Riptide is to a Crisis suit, a bigger, badder version.

@EDC: Thanks, I'm glad you like them!

Work continues on the stealth suits, more slowly than I'd hoped due to some RL things unexpectedly popping up (nothing major, so no worries!). I also got some bits in the mail today (from eBay) and that Razorshark that I got from my friend now has all its pieces. Only thing it doesn't have is a base, but I can borrow one from one of my other flyers. Now I need to repaint it in a scheme that matches the rest of my Tau army (not gonna happen real soon I'm afraid, too much else to do first).

Should have more to show you soon!

Now those are cool colored Tau, makes me think a more aquatic world got settled!

@shasolenzabi: Actually the fluff I'd worked out for these guys in my head was that the planet they're from is covered in blue foliage, but aquatic works too! I'm glad you like the scheme, as it's really fun to paint and looks better in person than these photos would suggest.

I'm not making much headway on the Stealth suits, as I've been throwing some paint on my Chaos Knight and my Cyclopian Cabal. Here's the latest WIP on the first Sorcerer from the Cabal:

The Black Legion color scheme is definitely coming together, as well as the skin and horn on the Sorcerer. You may also notice the stretched skin on the bike seat area; best not to think too much about what kind of skin that is...

I'm doing the sorcerers one at a time, so that way even if the painting challenge deadline catches up to me, I'll most likely have something to submit. More to come soon, I hope!

Nice start to biker.

Yeah.. Best not ask too hard where chaos gets its leather.

@jhe90: Thanks!

I've made a little more progress on the first cabal Sorcerer. All the basecoating is done and I've applied some shading, now all that's left is highlights and details. Here's a (somewhat whitewashed) pic:

Hopefully I can get this guy finished up soon and start working on the other two guys.

In other news, I've recently acquired a trio of Broadside Battlesuits from a friend who is liquidating his Tau collection. He pretty much always plays Space Marines or Astra Militarum and has recently started playing Orks, so he's selling off his Tau models. Here's a pic of the Broadsides and their accompanying Missile Drones:

As you can see, they are painted to tabletop standard. I may repaint them to match my other Tau at some point, but since I have so much unpainted stuff I'm going to let them be for now (it's not like they're ugly or anything). My friend also sold me the parts to a couple of the old Forge World XV88-2 Broadsides. They are officially my first Forge World models. I probably won't get to them anytime soon either, as I've got so much else going on hobbywise.

More updates to come soon, I hope! I'm gonna see what I can do with my Stealth suits, as well as putting some more work on that Sorcerer in the meantime.