ore Necron progress, and a short blog post to go with it about the limited pallet I've been using on them:

http://www.elementgames.co.uk/painting-blog/

Great work as usual, sir. Love that necron color scheme! That new SM flier look a bit goofy to me though.

Very nice work, Byron. Mierzwa's color scheme caught my attention, too. I think it might transfer nicely to some Eldar, maybe Ulthwe. I'm looking forward to seing your progress and your recipes.

I like the c'tan nightbringer! very ghostly

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Great work as usual, sir. Love that necron color scheme! That new SM flier look a bit goofy to me though.

It's a bit of a marmite model, seeing it in person it's really grown on me! Cheers, stealing schemes is an artform in of itself...

Yellowbeard wrote:Very nice work, Byron. Mierzwa's color scheme caught my attention, too. I think it might transfer nicely to some Eldar, maybe Ulthwe. I'm looking forward to seing your progress and your recipes.

Definitely! I think you could even substituate the blue: it's basically black+white+a bright colour when you get down to it, let me know on here how it goes and I'll have a good old nosy at it

Robbietobbie wrote:I like the c'tan nightbringer! very ghostly

Cheers bud, at the bottom of this lot is a 'night shot' of them, just for you

All pictures are thumbnails to my gallery, plenty more shots there!

Nice job! I think your commissioner will be pleased. Looks great and original

Hey Byron,

great new Colour scheme.
When do you update your blog on how youve done them?

Robbietobbie wrote:Nice job! I think your commissioner will be pleased. Looks great and original

Cheers Robbie! I hope so, I'm pleased with how they came out

Hive2003 wrote:Hey Byron,

great new Colour scheme.
When do you update your blog on how youve done them?

Tonight bud, sorry for the delay!


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Recipe for the recent Necrons is up

Hi guys, I've painted up the new O+G kits and wanted to share my love for them, the models are lovely to paint, I've written a little review/post about them on my blog here:
http://www.elementgames.co.uk/painting-blog/

Here's a picture of the big chap, I'll get some more quality shots soon.

great job! As always brilliant blood effect

Cheers Robbie

Both are up on eBay now: Here's a link


Here's a couple more shots, and also a link to a video (first time I've tried it, I'm still working things out, but please let me know your thoughts on it, good or bad).







There's a video of the little chap as well, but I think he was just too tiny for my camera to handle, both in photo and video form; which is a shame, because the model's amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ElementGamesUK/videos

Byron

Those video's are quite helpful I guess if you're trying to sell them. I like the little guy too although the video of him could be shot from a little closer by I think

Robbietobbie wrote:Those video's are quite helpful I guess if you're trying to sell them. I like the little guy too although the video of him could be shot from a little closer by I think

Yeah, I had real issues with him, he's so tiny! I'm going to work on it for future videos, so hopefully it's something I can improve.


Well it's been a while but I've written a new blog post on batch assembly which may not sound like the most exciting thing in the world, but is a necessary evil (I hate it!). Definitely essential when you get boxes this big turn up to be painted!



Also there's another couple of videos of an annihilation barge and a C'tan on youtube, the models look o.k. at least! My editing is still very non existent...

Lots more necron updates to come, this army is going to be very metallic (no change from normal necrons there), and also very gold (not seen this too much before, anyone got any links for inspiration?).

Omg 8 finecast models? How many need to be replaced?

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Omg 8 finecast models? How many need to be replaced?

To be fair actually they weren't too bad bubble-wise.

I did however have to reposition 6 out of 7 of their right feet so they'd actually look natural on the bases, heat warped throughout the lot :S FC really isn't suited to skinnier models I don't think,

Give me their new plastics any day, the orc+gobbo up above are proof that what can be done is spectacular!

Oh wow that's a lot of necrons O.o

Robbietobbie wrote:Oh wow that's a lot of necrons O.o

Tell me about it! They're part of the reason I've not posted for the past couple of weeks! I've been very busy with other stuff and getting this lot assembled, which has taken a while!

I wrote a blog post about batch assembly: http://www.elementgames.co.uk/painting-blog/

And today I've just written an article on speed painting necron infantry using sprays and washes: http://elementgames.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=231

I'll get some decent Necron pictures up before the week is out!

Those look great! I like their feel

Cheers Robbie Here's some more for you:

More shots here on my blog

And even more in my ever growing Necron gallery (will it ever stop? Probably not: I do love the little terminators )



I'm quite enjoying doing the in a different scheme, painting gold and making the army look coherent and distinct is quite a challenge!

Those look great! Bases work really well with the colourscheme too

They're my tried and tested ones for metallic armies Cheers Robbie.

Another quicky made some progress and got another couple of shots up in my gallery, the picture's a link to more shots as usual:




Working on 3 Doomsday Arks currently, coming out quite nicely, more pictures as soon as they're done.

The blue contrasts really nicely I think.. Your commissioner should be pleased

Cheers Robbie, we've had a bit of the chat about the gold and I think he's on board with my interpretation of his wants, gold is a hard schee to get right IMO and I think we've come up with something nice between us, here's a shot of an ark:




Well it's been a while since I've had any fantasy updates, although with this being daemons it's for bases of all shapes (and sizes!).








I'll be doing some reviews/tutorials for them soon, however before I write anything properly I may as well say that all of these kits are absolutely brilliant from a painting and modelling perspective, none of them goes under 9/10 for me.

Those daemons and the ark look great! Though maybe i'd make the scarabs on the ark stand out a bit more

Cheers Robbie, scarabs?

I'll have a tutorial up for the screamers as well shortly

For now here's the nurgling tutorial http://www.elementgames.co.uk/forums/1-day-daemons-painting-nurglings-t232.html

And a quick review of both the nurgling and the screamer kits on my blog

The scarabs repairing the warriors on the ghost ark. Maybe they could stand out a little more. Nice tutorial! Relatively simple paintscheme but great results

Some Plaguebearers, when I can squeeze an hour or two I'll get tutorials written up for both these and the screamers:

Picture is a link to my Daemon gallery with more views:


And also another Necron Shot, the army is getting pretty huge now! Plenty more Necron pictures if you click the link:

Those look great as always! Are the things with the doomsday cannon objectives?

Congratulations on making the blog again

 Robbietobbie wrote:
Those look great as always! Are the things with the doomsday cannon objectives?

Congratulations on making the blog again

Cheers Robbie, I've been so busy with the store that I've not had time to send in my stuff to them in case they'd like to feature it in the past few months, so it was really nice to see my work up there.

I'm not quite sure; my 40k knowledge couldn't fill a tea-cup, the requirements were 'ground turrets' and a friend of mine who's a bit of a plastic-wizard converted them, I think they've come out pretty nicely, the shields on the sides break up the flat areas, and they were really nice to weather a bit (the closer to the ground the parts of this army are the more they are weathered).

I've been a bit lazy with posting up Work in Progress shots recently, so here's some half-done khorne stuff (on the left will be a unit filler for bloodletters), I always like seeing what processes people use when they paint.

Quite curious what the commissioner wants to use those for then. I should really learn to make bases like those, they really look great

 Robbietobbie wrote:
Quite curious what the commissioner wants to use those for then. I should really learn to make bases like those, they really look great

It seems I may have written a new tutoral just for you then ^_^, 'Speed Basing Armies' in which I cover basic use of pigments for getting fast effective results, let me know if you have any thoughts.

I found the basing tutorial really handy! I think when I start a new fantasy army I will have to borrow it. Really nice work on the plague bearers and the nurglings too

Brilliant! I'd never have thought of using pigments for things like that.. cool idea

 Thewintersoldier wrote:
I found the basing tutorial really handy! I think when I start a new fantasy army I will have to borrow it. Really nice work on the plague bearers and the nurglings too

Cheers, go for it, that's what it''s there for

Tah robbie, using the dry works nicely as well, they just rub-off less this way and save me a varnishing step, water is fun for sightly more controlled smudging as well.


Painting Screamers tutorial here's another for how I painted these chaps.



Also a couple of shots of the Necrons which I've been working on:

Very good tutorial! Maybe you should post some of those in the tutorial section? I'll bet a lot of people could learn a thing or two

Damn your necron paintscheme really makes me want to collect necrons, but i hate necrons! DAMN YOU BYRON!
(consider that a compliment )

Eurgh I hate that I can't quote multiple messages on here! (am I missing something? Computers confuse me...)

 Robbietobbie wrote:
Very good tutorial! Maybe you should post some of those in the tutorial section? I'll bet a lot of people could learn a thing or two

Hi robbie I may may an index thread on the forum or something, that's a really good idea cheers

Damn your necron paintscheme really makes me want to collect necrons, but i hate necrons! DAMN YOU BYRON!
(consider that a compliment )

Haha. thanks requiem! Why do you hate our little robot friends? They are lovely to paint!

I have written another tutorial,which is my take on How to paint rusty/chipped metal

He hates them because he keeps losing to them when I play them

another great tutorial! helpful as always

 Robbietobbie wrote:
He hates them because he keeps losing to them when I play them

another great tutorial! helpful as always

Haha, so it's all your fault Robbie, how dare you! Cheers, I think there's potential for a very different necron army all rusted up there, which I believe could look fantastic, all dirty and bloody and rusty, would be cool.

I have done another tutorial, this one is a fairly big one - a step by step of how I painted my plaguebearers, it's fairly similar to the nurgling one but a lot a few people asked how I did them, and I had the pictures so it would have been pretty rude not to oblige!

How to Paint Plaguebearers

That's brilliant! I'm currently working on a nurgle chaos spacemarine army so this will come in handy if I decide to add some demons to it

Cheers robbie, the necron icon has changed!

Yes it has.. Fully pledged to chaos now! Mostly due to complaints from people who can't figure out how to beat necrons

Good job keeping the dream alive over here, Byron. The colors on those screamers are especially nice. And wow, that's a lot of necrons--I bet you're tired of painting those guys!

Robbietobbie wrote:Yes it has.. Fully pledged to chaos now! Mostly due to complaints from people who can't figure out how to beat necrons

Haha! At least you've still got plenty of power armour

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Good job keeping the dream alive over here, Byron. The colors on those screamers are especially nice. And wow, that's a lot of necrons--I bet you're tired of painting those guys!

I have had enough of painting gold, but I've got another 'white' army coming up, which I'm really looking forward to! I never tire of painting Necrons, just assembling them!

Part of what's kept me busy for the last month or so has been finishing off my own army (finally!) so I could attend a couple of tournaments, one of which I was lucky enough to win best painted, which I was really pleased with!



I've written a little How to Pin Models toturial guys, nothing majorly exciting, but something that I use almost daily, so maybe it'll be of some use to people.

Hello again guys, another tutorial is up: How to Paint Skyshield Landing Pad - in this I've covered how to approach painting metallics efficiently on a large scale mini such as this one (and my god is it huge!).



As ever any feedback or requests for other tutorials let me know.

Great tutorial mate, and fantastic results. One thing though, some of the pictures and steps took alittle to figure out, maybe if you numbered the photos as well as the instructions.

 Sheep wrote:
Great tutorial mate, and fantastic results. One thing though, some of the pictures and steps took alittle to figure out, maybe if you numbered the photos as well as the instructions.

Thanks for the feedback sheep, it's always really appreciated! Do you think my posting multiple pictures per step complicates things? As it's such a big piece I found that one per step wasn't quite working.

Numbers is a good idea though, unfortunately that'll require some neat way of doing it so as not to ruin the pictures, I may have to advance beyond microsoft paint if they're to all be in the same place etc...oh oh, technology.

Great tutorials as always. The army looks spectacular!

Cheers Robbie


Two new tutorials guys:
How to Paint Skullcrushers of Khorne

How to Paint Stringy Gore/Blood

Finally I see how people do those stringy gore bits. Now to find an UHU equivalent. Thanks! Those skullcrushers look great by the way

the nurglings are excellent

Robbietobbie wrote:Finally I see how people do those stringy gore bits. Now to find an UHU equivalent. Thanks! Those skullcrushers look great by the way

You should be able to track down UHU wherever you are Robbie - if in doubt go to eBay

DasFluspferd wrote:the nurglings are excellent

Cheers!

Hi guys, the skullcrushers from the above tutorial are up for sale on eBay, please feel free to take a look y'all

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290813310014?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I'll try that stringy stuff out one day. It's pretty much a must for Grandpapi Nurgle.

Question! I'm sure you've seen these Necrons before: http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-came-from-forums-swamp-necrons-and.html

How would you suggest getting the swampy look on the minis like that?

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:
I'll try that stringy stuff out one day. It's pretty much a must for Grandpapi Nurgle.

Question! I'm sure you've seen these Necrons before: http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-came-from-forums-swamp-necrons-and.html

How would you suggest getting the swampy look on the minis like that?

My apologies for the delayed response Lt! I've been incredibly busy recently and have forgotten my manners it appears...

The reeds are the easy part - reeds + basing tutorial here I outline use of water effects in the dreadstone blight tutorial I did, for the same effect just add murky green paints to the water effects to get that swampy look instead of the blue washes I used and you're done!

As far as the stuff on the models themselves I'm not too sure, it looks like cotton wool that's been teased apart and soaked in paint possibly... any other ideas guys?

I've done a little round-robin of a blog post, briefly outlining what I've been up to over the past month: blog post linky

And I've painted some more Necrons, I do a lot of these guys, but these may be my favourite group of infantry so far, apologies for the pic not quite being good enough - the white bits throw the camera a little:

Click the pic for a bigger version


I've got some more updates to come when I can squeeze a moment, things are very busy with the store currently!

You've gotten pretty damn good at painting necrons! And congratulations for another appearance on the blog

 Robbietobbie wrote:
You've gotten pretty damn good at painting necrons! And congratulations for another appearance on the blog

Cheers Robbie (on both accounts), it's been a while and I was pleased with the final result of the curshers so it was brilliant to see them up there, it brings me a warm fuzzy hobby feeling inside

Thanks, Byron. Your bases are always great. But yeah, my main concern is definitely the swampy look on the models. I tried it with some grass flock and vallejo water effects along with some green wash mixed in on some scarabs... I mean, it looks okay, but nothing like those pics. It looks more like a mossy fungus or something. Shroomcrons?

Those new necrons are great! I agree, they're my favorite as well.

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:
Thanks, Byron. Your bases are always great. But yeah, my main concern is definitely the swampy look on the models. I tried it with some grass flock and vallejo water effects along with some green wash mixed in on some scarabs... I mean, it looks okay, but nothing like those pics. It looks more like a mossy fungus or something. Shroomcrons?

Those new necrons are great! I agree, they're my favorite as well.

I think you need to get something fibrous in there mate, cotton wool is probably your best bet.

Yeah it's been a while, I have been busy though! Running the store is taking a lot of time, but here's some shots (all shots are links to their relevant army gallery):

















And I've actually done a bit of painting for myself:

It sure has been a while! Good to see your painting is as good as always. Nice work

Wow, just wow.
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Robbietobbie wrote:It sure has been a while! Good to see your painting is as good as always. Nice work

Cheers Robbie! Nice to be back matey.

Novelist47 wrote:Wow, just wow.
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Tah Novelist!

I've written a couple more tutorials (click picture for link):

How to paint planking bases:


How to make planking bases:


As ever all feedback welcome!

A couple of progress shots, I've been getting up super early before work to get more than a hobby half hour in if possible and have been making a bit of headway, slow progress but progress nonetheless!

Had a peruse through this blog, gotta say I thoroughly enjoy your painting style.

Very bright, bold colours, especially those night goblins.

Nice refreshing change from all the muted, dark, gritty schemes that are the current trend

I agree with the above. The purple on those goblins is really good

Leigen_Zero wrote:Had a peruse through this blog, gotta say I thoroughly enjoy your painting style.

Very bright, bold colours, especially those night goblins.

Nice refreshing change from all the muted, dark, gritty schemes that are the current trend

Cheers bud . I've had to force myself to involve bright colours, its a habit that took at least 3 years to get into! I used to paint stuff in a lot of browns and blacks etc, but bright colours make people's eyes happy, especially across an entire army. Yellow is the #1 happy colour (scientifically actually). Basically I'm trying to drug people's eyes into liking my stuff...

Robbietobbie wrote:I agree with the above. The purple on those goblins is really good

Tah robbie, I love purple, it's prob my 2nd favourite colour to fall back to after hawk turquoise.

Hoppers are all but done:






This army is killing me!

These are just so good! Those mushroom thingies are really sweet

Amazing greatt stuff!! Inspiring.

Robbietobbie wrote:These are just so good! Those mushroom thingies are really sweet

iheartlargeblasttemplates wrote:Amazing greatt stuff!! Inspiring.

Thanks very much guys! The mushrooms are good fun, but incredibly time consuming, at about 5-10mins each they really mount up!

Test Boar:

I've written a blog post about the benefits of repetition today, it even references Japanese drift racing :S

Maybe I've done a little too much repetition..

http://www.elementgames.co.uk/painting-blog/?p=304&preview=true

Good read! And yeah, repetition is good, my edge highlighting has gotten so much better after painting my necron vehicles (which took ridiculously long)

love your work byron. subbed! the NG are beautiful. love the purple. trying to find a color for my own.

I had never tried pre highlighting/shading and painting with glazes until seeing your tutorial. great stuff.

I am having a hard time getting a good once over coverage like you do, but hopefully in time i will figure it out.

i assume you pre highlighted/shaded the goblin shaman? Did you paint and hard white lines on him or is all the shading solely from the pre highlight/shading and a single glaze? or did you highlight the glazed skin ?

Pardon all the q's. just very impressive work!