@Cam - Looks good eh, you should see all of them together... oh wait, that may happen soon
@Yorkright - Its a sample, you know to get you addicted before I give you the best stuff
@ingtaer - He bro, happy you like the chappy I have one more to do, which is an old metal one. No idea when I'll do it, but i'll be thinking of you when I do!
@Gits - Aww, thanks!
@Mad - Hehe, we would need for you to face marines or GK for that to happen. Maybe once I've got a better handle on the crons...
@LDP - LDP, a fan of a captain model.... Yess! after you've produced such lovely captains in the past, thats high praise indeed
@Squerkie - It does, having taken them from the huge backlog, assemble, prime, paint and base. Then put them in storage, its very nice. Also welcome to the blog!
Update: Onto the next push, the Deathgaurd from the 8th starter pack
@Yorkright - Haha, try not to get your hopes up to much, these are going to be quick and.... dirty, I guess just what DG should be?
@Zerg - Maybe it'll give you some ideas?
Update: trying a simple scheme on the zombies (Pox Walkers) I thought about doing skin tone across all the models, however elected against it for speed, I would spend far to long on them to add skin tones, where as a light green sickly look with a brown wash may fit the bill. I didn't get to much time but at least they got started
Well, I'm glad SOMEONE can knock them out quick. I found poxwalkers to be kinda tricky to paint well myself. What are you doing to get them done so fast and well?
@Zerg - Done well is perhaps a misnomer in this instance. I've chosen 5 colour and stuck with it, no highlighting nor follow up edge highlights, so the dark and dirty look is then accentuated by a all over brown wash. Not sure if its quicker, but compared to everything else I painted last push it is quicker!
@Graven - Hahah, all inspired by you my friend!
@Mad - With 60 to do, perhaps just go down to 4 colours, maybe even to 3 if you can and brown wash, simple really
@Yorkright - I figured the maggots on the models would be squiggle enough and yes getting through these at a fair pace, only because I wanted quick and dirty
They are looking good for all the time you have taken, simply effective.
Personally I smidgen disappointed, I can understand that they are not all that for you. But was looking forward to seeing just how good you could do a "dirty" job. Do not get me wrong here, brilliant work done and I get it. Was just wondering how you would tackle it.
@Zerg - Cheers dude, to be honest I hadn't thought about doing the bases, these guys are not really involved with my main armies, they just happened to be models that came in a box with models I wanted (and the rule book etc) Maybe I'll go back at a much much later date and do the bases, but it is not this day!
@Cam - Fair call, I would have liked to splash all the love and attention I give to my Marines, if I did that I would be painting these guys for 5-6 months and I have some other models I would like to get to first. The bonus here is the stage they are at would allow me (again much much later) to layer/highlight/weather them as base colours/wash is part of my painting process.
@Mad - 60 in one go... you really are living up to your online pseudonym with that effort, the models are chock full of details so my suggestion would be do them in batches of 20 max, or I suspect you'll go mad.... Pun intended
Okay. It's beautifully painted. But far too... crisp.
Dude, you are a stunningly good painter, but this needs to be filthy. Horrible. Crusty. Break out the sponge weathering, the texture paint. The crud. It might be the lighting, but it just looks too fresh. That big patch of pus green on the surface? Where's the crackle, the rust, the corrosion? The pustules on the back should weep, leak, suppurate.
Sorry man, hope you can take that as the positive C&C it's intended as. I know you can make this a bloody brilliant piece of crap, and I just want to see you make this absolutely foul.
I understand your feeling towards this lot, in so far as you are painting them, but not really interested in them. It is a shame.
You have done a really brilliant paint job on this, but somehow even when you are trying to make it look a bit dirty, it still comes out clean and tidy. Also at this rate you're going to be through them quick.
No worries bud, it is all good, soon be done and back to more pleasant things.
@Zerg - Thanks, I got the idea from another painter who I've known for a while, he put a gloss varnish on his one and it really looked good!
@Graven - I am all for CC, in fact its quite the refreshing honesty I expect from ya! I whole heartily agree with your observations, it is to crisp, there is no weathering nor goop, nor corrosion. These are the exact things I would add if I were to add another pass at the models, It wont happen today, probably not in the next two years, but when I do come back to add more, that's what you can expect
@Nev - These guys would need to adhere to the crisp and grey mentality to get that treatment
@LDP
@Cam - Don't get me wrong these models are insanely detailed, If they had been released like this back in 2011 I would have done a DG army without question! Now imagine that as a change to this blog!
Right so your going for one and done for now and perhaps hit them again in the future, it's all good. Means you can get onto other stuff as well.
Bloat drone looks good, like others have said a bit too clean, but perhaps it's a newly "shoved in a machine" daemon that hasn't had a chance to be too nurgled yet
LOC looking good, intriguing to see yellow smoke, keen to see what you do with that.
@Cam - So weird, I look at the model and instantly see overspill. I guess thats the curse of painting your own models, you tend to focus on the items which aren't perfect, thanks for the kind words however
@Zerg - Funnily enough this scheme was determined back in October 2015, back when I did some plague marines in a quick scheme to this
Spoiler:
@Mad - This hits it on the head, get them done quick now, means I could go back at a later point and save myself so much time having to not do base/wash stages
@Zerg - They are a ton of fun to paint, If/when I come back to do more to these guys I can totally see myself spending hours on these guys, so much to work with!
You know something, these are really growing on me, was looking at that last, and thought they look ancient, dusty, kinda ghostly, actually a cool look for these. I think the army will look quite cool.
Most of that is due to your hyper-clean paint work, if I took these to this stage and stopped it would look like a massacre in a paint factory.
@AshNomad - Thanks for commenting, it means a lot any particular model you like the most (even from the back catalogue)
@Gits - Yeah, I was going to do it yellow to keep the colour palette down, but it looked really bad, so orange it is!
Update: Group shot - I got through these guys quite quickly, so I'm going to add a Tyranid commission to the push to inflate the model count. Stay tuned
Those Death Guard, while perhaps a bit too clean for my tastes, are really well done. You also blew through them a lot quicker than I ever could and still made them look good! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the bugs!
@Zerg - Thanks dude, I know you were expecting a little more and I hope to be able to provide that for you if/when I come back to the chaos models
@ingtaer - Commissions.... Yes and No, I don't advertise I do it, however, I've had friends on Dakka approach me in the past who were looking for a couple of models here or there. You looking at getting something done?
@Cam - Yeah, in a way, this was a rather interesting test where I had to restrict the number of colours used, as well as no progress past the base/wash stage, trust me it was at time very difficult.
@York - Thanks buddy, appreciate that
Update: I'd been doing mould lining over the past week as well as assembly, I didn't take pics however onto the priming stage
I love the changing blog name I must say as a muted wall of pus, the DG looked rather good. However, I'm proper excited about you tackling nids again thumbsup:
Update: Not sure if I should have done this now or later, but I applied reikland flesh shade 50/50 Lamiem medium over all the skin to tint it to the colour of the army. However I suspect this was a fools errand should I make mistakes with the Black.
Nice so far. As for your concern about messing it up with the black, if you did highlights on the skin first you might have messed up the black instead, so I think it's six in one hand, half a dozen in the other.
@Zerg - Fair point, I do suspect that if I went white on black, black would cover it much easier than the reverse (multiple white coats to fix a black mistake) time till tell
Update: Started working on Deathleaper, other base colours applied
@York - I may have the wrong term, however it was told to me like this:
- dark base
- lighter cover on the inside of the dark base, leaving the dark base visable
- even lighter cover on the second layer leaving all three previous layers visable
From what I believe (Again could be the wrong term) its whats used for the chitin armour colours on Tyranids (see old one eye below on his plates)
Update: Deathleaper done, I really need to refine the purple armour colour, its not quite right in my eyes.
Fantastic, and so quick, really awesome work. Your style seems to transfer really well, we all know how amazing your marines are, but kids and DG, all looking fantastic.
@Cam - Thanks man, I can't claim the scheme is my own, it was developed by my brother, and he wanted something simple and quick to do, I'm glad he chose it like this.
@York - Fair point, when I think of layering, its applying the same colour paint back over a shaded base colour, sometimes in two thin coats (as per our painting overlord Duncan Rhodes)
@Graven - Nidlicious
Update: Swarmy had some black, red and tan applied
Swarmy's coming along great! Looking forward to seeing him all put together. Nids are an army I've always thought would be fun to paint and model, but as I say very often I need another army like a hole in my head.
You're clearly demonstrating your skills go far beyond painting greys and reds. Well done sir. I love the realism in the painting. A great mix between realistic carapace and the flesh underneath it.
@LDP - Having played against him once in 7th, the prospect of battling it in 8th is very daunting, even more so with a slick paint job (It does mean I'm much happier to remove my models when a well painted model is doing the killing)
@Gits - I'm not saying I have it down either. I feel like I mucked up the main head horn in terms of look, I had an idea in my head and it did not translate well.
@Azalle - Thanks man Grey and reds are a staple in my painting pallette, blue is also in there I need to work on it. Green however is a really problem for me!
Update: On to the Red Terror next, bit of a terrible model in my opinion, its a real pain to get paint on it.
@Gits - Haha yeah "Red" Terror indeed, Kraken was the first time it was seen, so it got the red look about it, Swarmy and Old One Eye were Behemoth so got blue. Deathleaper was Leviathan and gets purple.
@LDP - All down to my Brother, the base colours, skin and base chitin are to be the same across the board, where as the highlights on the chitin represents which Hive Fleet they were first seen in.
Update: Push shot completed.
Also a preview of the models to come for the 16th Push
1 x Chaplain
1 x Dreadnaught (TL las + PF)
5 x Scouts
1 x Baal Predator
1 x Stormtalon
5 x Space Marines (for Devastators)
1 x Space Marine Captain
1 x Cerastus Knight titan
1 x Roboute Guillman conversion to Grey Knights
You did some good work on those bugs, and your Death Guard all turned out pretty nice too, if a bit too clean (but that's personal taste). Looking forward to the next push!
@Azalle - You and me both buddy, looking forward to some grey love again. I also will share in your concern about the arm sizes, I suspect I wont use this guy to much due to having a lot more awesome dreadnaughts in the army, but having this load out seems to work well.
@Graven - Yeah, he got a bath, dried off and now looking to get dressed now
Update: On to some basic models, first up an old metal chaplain
Followed by a Captain with a sword swap, head swap and banner top swap
@Azalle - Cheers dude, I'll be getting into it soon enough!
Update: All the bases had a whip through for the browns etc, no details applied yet that is to come, and I think all the to be grey models got grey applied, next will be air brushing the normal grey on to their armour (or I'll go to individual models)
Aw, a well-travelled TLAC I do love the way our goodies (and baddies) circulate to happy new owners On a separate note, I am astonished at how tidy your work space is mate. Shames me into... not really tidying mine actually, but still
@LDP - Hahah I should have known this was the best opener to bring on board, a captain or honour guard FTW
@Graven - I know right, the Great GMS swap was such a good idea to promote this! Also, tiny little secret on the work space, I tidied it up before I took the shots, during the build phase I have feth everywhere! I have models perched up near the lights, all manner of Bits/Bags/Boxes scattered all over the place. So its all smoke and mirrors
@York - You and me both, and here is a question for the masses if they opt to read this bit, NotGuilliman's head, seeing as it is a Paladin head I'm tempted to paint it the bone colour - similar to that in my profile picture, however that paint scheme is typically reserved for Terminator Elites who also have dark grey armour, I want NotGuilliman to have my signature lighter grey armour so his head may wash out when in comparison. The question is this - What colour should his helmet be?
I think NotGuilliman would look great with the bone helmet and regular armour colour. I don't know about you, but I think your paint scheme is near trademark-levels of established and classic - accordingly I think it'd be a cool choice to include one of the aspects of your scheme that is so characterful. Choice is obviously yours at the end of the day but there's my two cents
I am a bit partial as you may know. What about some kind of gold or bronze. You have a lovely gray army, a bit of bling may help distinguish him even more.
@Graven - That is a brilliant idea, on to it now (NotGulliman is primed and Grey'd, but I can make do) and this gives me an idea to make a "Kaldor Draigo" version as well, sword and board
@Zerg - Surprisingly the back banner is from the captain kit, but the top is from the new deathwatch sprues
Update: More layers done, I'm doing it a little differently as everything gets a layer but no highlights so the whole thing gets built up. A lot more time consuming imo.
@Graven - Well lets hope it pays off in the long term eh?
@Gits - Thanks bud
Update: Captain done, I used a micron pen on the inside of the cloak, then promptly put my thumb on it when doing the back, which horribly smudged the inside, so I had to wipe that off, re-layer and try again, not a happy camper on that one!
Damn Knightley he is fantastic maybe it took a bit longer on the cloak but well worth it. Bummer we live so far apart would love to set down to a game against your army.
@LDP - Coming from someone who is also known for kitbashes tiz high praise indeed.
@Gits - You reckon? I feel my Chapter Master on the Bike is above this guy in terms of... well everything, however I'll take the compliment
@Zerg - Looking like Shean Connery, shurly you jesht, I think he looksh like an angry Patrick Shtewart with a mighty beard. However I can shee what your shaying (this sounds a lot funnier in my head)
@York - There have been a number of times I've wanted to live in the states, Adepticon, players here on Dakka, cheaper models (NZ costs are insane) to name a few. Maybe in another life?
Update; Started applying colours to the Stormraven, took fricken ages!
Love the AoBR (or whatever it is called now) captain conversion. He did suit your style and does look mint! I am suitably inspired and might dig around for my bare plastic one and have a go.
Your metallics are turning out really good on this model! Is the bronze just a bronze color with silver edge highlights, or did you drybrush Necron Compound (or something similar) to get the weathered effect?
@Zerg - the Bronzes are warplock base, purple wash, warplock layer again, hashut copper edge highlight, mithril second edge highlight. I try to do zero drybrushing on the sea of Grey., its usually reserved for quicker to paint armies
@Cam - Thanks Cam, I hope everything is good with you?
Update: Working on the reds, add some sqiggles and we can call this done
Nice! Looks great. Yeah, before I read your update I glanced the picture and it looked unfinished, but I couldn't pinpoint why! All the paint stages were done, but of course, papa squiggles has the name for a reason.
@Graven - I tried a lighter approach to the squiggles this time, will be interesting to see how it plays out.
@LDP - Hahah indeed I do have that moniker for a reason eh.
Update: that moment when you finish the Stormtalon and sit back happy with your self and spy a brown blob of a base on the desk and realise there is still some more left to do...
While I've never been a fan of doing canopies on flyers that way (I leave mine clear so you can see the pilot), you executed it well. Indeed, the whole ship looks great in your color scheme and squiggles!
@Anpu-Adom - Welcome to the blog, stay a while and watch
@Zerg - Cheers dude
Update: So this weekend was a bust, literally, I busted my ankle so I'm in a cast, can hardly walk and on some pain meds meaning painting is taking a break till I can manage it. Unhappy Knightley is unhappy.
Oh dude! What happened? Sorry to hear you got hurt, and I hope you focus on healing first and then painting as you are able. Hoping for a speedy recovery!
@Graven - Truth is I have been hopping everywhere, and I am totally over it!
@Zerg - So the TL;DR version, I was playing airsoft, my body went one way, the ankle another, boom.
@Cam - I have been working from home with my leg up resting (as per the Doc's recommendation) I tried sitting at the painting desk, but it ended up to painful so I've put it on hiatus at the moment.
Update: So I've tried a couple of times to paint, both have not lasted more than 5 minutes before it was to painful. Today marks 2 weeks so this cast is coming off stiches removed, new xray and new cast put on. with the new cast it might be more tolerable.
Hey knightly just slogged through your back log, great stuff. In older editions grey knights were my nemesis. lol. When I did a sea of silver (I painted iron warriors >.< I thought I was gonna go nuts I do love your knights. my favorite model of yours is your helbrect conversion. sorry to hear your leg is up hope it gets better soon man. hopefully they gave you some awesome pain killers or at least prescription strength motrin to keep the swelling down.
Hello and greetings from a fellow Commonwealth country, I had checked out your Stormraven Gunship and it is very sharp paint job sir!
You are a very accomplished hobbyist, the dedication to your army builds is very motivating! Have yourself a fantastic morning and keep up the great work!!
@Bama - Consider me impressed reading through all this nonsense and I also like the Helbrecht conversion it was one I'd been waiting to do for about 4-5 years when I came across the metal version. Stoked you like him!
@Private Benjamin - Welcome to the blog, enjoy your stay, shouldn't be to much till I'm back painting again.
@LDP - Hey buddy, yeah still in the cast, but its due to be removed next Tuesday and then I'll see what I can do! Enjoying your BA's btw
So its been a very long time (in the fast paced world of painting blogs) since I've had anything to show.
An update on my ankle first, after a long time in a cast, then a moonboot, I'm now able to walk around well enough, standing for medium periods of time is still a no go, sitting at a desk is uncomfortable but its a pain I can tolerate which leads me on to the next update, paint has been applied to a model! I do have to say holding a brush again was like greeting a long time friend after being away, so good.
Wonderful news! It's great to hear from you, even if the healing process is still underway. Your injury sounds properly debilitating, it's a real bummer. Here's to an even speedier recovery and some therapeutic painting sessions to help along the way. It's going to be great having you back in the plogosphere - Dakka really hasn't been the same without you Very eager to see some crisp and grey work flash across my computer screen again.
@Zerg - I mean technically I hadn't left, I just had nothing to share, but its good to be back
@LDP - I always had that light at the end of the tunnel, in 2 months I'll be painting, then in 1 month I should be painting to now where now I can say "yesssssss, painting!"
@Nev - Thanks man
@Gits - The body is care of Graven so thats a ton of fun, the arms.... well they are spares from my own contemptor so not as fun
@WarbossDakka - Cheers!
@Graven - Thank you, this one is a tribute to your model you sent all those years ago.
That's a work you can be proud of after so long away from the brush! He'll slide into your force perhaps more seamlessly than you think. It's bold to return with a dread I think he looks super neat! Maybe i'm biased because I really like the custom GK dread sculpt. Anyway, i'm looking forward to what's next in the pipeline.
@LDP - Thanks buddy, I guess I wanted to just paint one model that wasn't to large (like a knight or my Gulliman/Draigo conversion) and not to small like a chaplain.
@Zerg - Cheers buddy, there are some 'large' models in the pipeline.
@Graven - Oh but of course
Update: Apologies for the delay I had done some painting this week, just forgot to take a picture, but here is some scouts with the base colours completed
The long shot of the scouts made me wonder what heads you were using. First glance looked like bug-eyed aliens or Greys. Close up made a lot more sense once I zoomed.
Those turned out really nice! You really should drill out your gun barrels though, or at least put a black dot on the end if you're like me and can't center the holes consistently.
@IceAngel it says Honor, if I'm reading right. Still a decent chaplain name but one that also fits the stereotype of iconic marine scriptures.
He looks really good Knightley! Somehow your paintwork has brought out some posture from that old metal which I haven't really seen before. He's truly been revived and given new life!
@Graven - Chaplains aren't known for being bunny huggers right. although its probably an untapped market.
@Gits - Thank you!
@Ice - Technically it was supposed to be Honor, but you know what... his name is Monor now!
@LDP - Cheers buddy
@Cam - I have to wonder if the sculpting team at GW just happened to have nightmares about that witch before the got the job to design the chaplain? certainly seems so
Really digging your paint scheme, and the paint job is nice and clean. Also cool to see those Scouts with Scion heads work so well, I'm going to do the same for my Scouts when I eventually get to them..
Just flipped though the most recent stuff you have painted and holy emperors big right pinke toenail how did you get your paint soo smooth??
Nice job as a blood anges player it’s intriguing to see a Baal pred in grey.
@Stormatious - Thanks for stopping in, historically I used brushes for everything till I did the tank push in 2014, after then the base armour colour was applied by airbrush. Everything else however is done by brushes using water as the thinning medium.
@Gits - Thanks mate.
@Cam - Cheers.
Update: So over a year after I started this push I finished, first up the remaining pics of the Castigator.
The gun:
Shoulder pads
Carapace
Body now done
Sword
Castigator done!
The Push is now done
Now for the review, I had some goals for 2018, I was making some good gains on them, infact I was on track to making all of them within the year! Then I broke my ankle and basically took a 6 month break while getting back to fighting fit, on to the Goals:
2018 goals:
1. Paint up the Nurgle models from the 8th Edition starter set
I had smashed this out very early on and was very happy with the quick and dirty look I gave them, perfect for table top
2. Convert and paint a Robute Guilliman model for my Grey Knight army
Very very happy with how the conversion came out and stoked with the paint job as well!
3. Interact more with folks here from Dakka, I've been very quick to look through blogs I'm subscribed to and not post my thoughts, I hope to change that this year.
I started out so well, then as soon as I broke my ankle I holed up and even towards the end of the year and this first part of this year I've remained in the hole and I don't know why.
4. Paint at least 1 more special Character for my Brothers Nid army
Smashed this out with the Nurgle models 5. If time permits, finish the last LoW the last remaining Cerastus Knight (not hopeful on this one)
So, I did have this listed as a green, but I had only completed it this year (2019) so it was completed but not in time
In 2018 I had painted, 51 models a drop from the previous year, but to be expected with a 6 month break.
Goals for this year, I'm not sure so open for some feedback here, I want to get through more models painted and maybe help my brother with some of his army, who knows.
The next push has the following models:
2 x Chapter Masters
5 x Bikers /w 2 Grav guns
5 x Sternguard
5 x Space Marines (for Devastators)
5 x Command Squad Marines
1 x Corvus Blackstar
Must be nice to finish a big push like that, huh? The Castigator turned out great! I love seeing big army shots like that too; gives me inspiration to get more of my stuff done so I could maybe eventually post such a picture.
@Zerg - Yeah finishing off all those models was great, seeing them all on the table was even better
@Nev - Thanks!
@Gits - Cheers
@Graven - All these models and all painted to my exacting standard!
Update: Another month gone, the new push is underway, I spent a LOT of time on magnets for the corvus blackstar, just check that out below:
Storage is a real thing when you have many models, the fliers are by far the worst for space taken up, I wanted to come up with a way it would 'break' down and store with the minimum of space, the first hurdle is the tail, I needed to magnetise that
This bit sits inside the tail section.
I messed up and didn't put magnets on the inside before I glued the body together, I got them in though.
The wings needed some creativity
All of them done
Lightening claw terminators
Group shot
Paint begins!
On to a command squad marine with a special weapon
Interesting thoughts on storing the flyer. Im curious on how to will look with all those magnets. Looks like you went big, so that should help.
Btw, i love the annual shot with everything. Very impressive and probably fun setting it up. How often do you find yourself criticizing your own earlier works?
Update: Another month gone by so quick. I continued with the last set of marines for my devastator squad.
Black lining
Then started on edge highlighting of the marines, got one done
before going strait onto the heads and back packs to get them completed
However I also took a small commission from my bother to paint some of his nids in his scheme for his birthday, so started assembly
Some stealers
and I have a helper with building! Made me so happy he has shown interest in what dad is doing.
@Ice - Not only stealers, but nids in general. My brothers scheme is very quick an easy meaning I can get through quite a bit.
@Graven - Yeah, he was super excited to be doing 'Dad' Stuff.
@Gits - All painters know that grind!
Update: Another month been and gone, I did a bunch of stuff in the past 30 days:
I worked on the marines, edge highlighting done
Red's whites etc also done
Bolters got a whip around
With the squad all finished up
Then worked on the Nids, I magnetized two Carnifexes
Primed all the gribblies
Went to work on half of them, with 4 genestealers and three ripper bases
Half the hormagaunts
Done
Half the Termagaunts
Spent a bit of time on the base colours on the Hive Tyrant
Then just this weekend had a 2 v 2 (Necrons/Tzeentch demons Vs Wolves/Astra) and wanted to trial 3 squads of destroyers, so on to the quick build was
We eeked out a 1 point win, so much death on the feild and had it gone to turn 7 we would have lost handily. Well thats all for now, check back next month!
I always imagined Tyranids to be a nightmare to magnetize because of the organic shapes of the parts, but is that actually true? Maybe the parts fit together easier and there's convenient places to put magnets? Just curious. The Marines look great as always!
@Graven - Yeah tell me about it, a full swam got smashed out as well as some other cool stuff!
@Zerg - I agree with them being a pain, I ended up with one hefty blister on my index finger from over use of the drill bit. Its healed up nice now, but it was touch and go there for a while
Update: So, things got painted, at a great rate of knots
So my Brother popped by to check up on the progress and brought with him two extra models for me to look at
He wanted them to be unique enough that they looked to fit in his army, but different enough they were individual, so I broke this down to trying two different washes
It was at this point I realised my biggest mistake, the old GW 'Washes' weren't washed, but more an Ink... Tzeentch save my soul I think I ruined a model... But I took this as a learning experience and figured I would layer paint on this one.
The other gets the classic dry brush option
Necrons got a touch of love as well, via a black wash
Followed by a silver drybrush, black layer and first layer red
Back to the Tyranids
The Hive Tyrant got all the love.
His weapons
Done
and equipped with weapon options
2 Carnifexes complete with magnets were next on the menu
The weapons
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The Bodies
Cant forget some warriors!
Or the remaining gribblies
All in all a mighty looking swarm
With that all done, back to the marines
Also, great news, I'm heading to the USA tomorrow to the D23 convention in California will be there for 2 weeks, can't wait!
Wow, this is an impressive blog. I don't know if I have ever seen such a long blog working mostly on the same army for so long. I have only started to scratch the surface, but I am mightily impressed by the scale and quality of the army. I tip my hat to you.
I really like the look of your scouts from a few pages back. Interesting little kitbash and well painted.
Mighty mighty pic dump! Great job sir. I love the crons, they're very low-key, in a good way. At some point I might managed to do some, always had a notion to do a few as a terracotta army of sorts. Also, that swarm of nidly bits is very intimidating! Loving how the LoCs are coming along.
The Tyranid critters look awesome together, and kudos for getting all those weapon options done too! I need to do the same thing for my Tau army (get all the weapons painted, I mean). The big bad birds are coming along nicely too; I really love that kit and I'd get one if I wasn't already planning to downsize my Chaos collection.
Over the years GW inks/washes have changed a lot. And with the new contrast paints, even more. I use that blue “wash” all the time for my Ultras, but it’s an ink though and through. Different effects from the assorted styles.
You have more spare weapons then bugs there! Good for you to get them all done. I frequently magazine parts, but paint up the spares a lot less often then I should. One of my ongoing goals is to catch up on that.
@The Riddle of Steel - Thanks, I'm impressed you've gone through the lot! not an easy feat.
@Graven - Thanks buddy!
@Zerg - Cheers
@Nev - Yeah, that blue messed me up a touch I haven't touched them in a month due to 'other' things going on, I hope to soon though.
@Cam - Thank you!
Update: So the trip to the USA was action packed, 2 weeks of Disney Land, Universal studios, D23, Santa Monica Peir and Hollywood boulevard left me very tired and with little time. Then after getting back Wow Classic was released, another massive time sink. Then on weekends theres been kids parties, skiing away from home and baby showers. So the actual time spent painting has been very low. I've slowly plugged away at some marines and thats basically it.
Beautiful work as always Knightly, have to say I really love that knight-titan. Paint work is crisp and the highlighting on the sword and engine is exceptional!
I love how you did the little vials and stuff on those Apothecaries! They look great! Also I feel you on the distraction thing. I've wasted too many hours that I could have spent painting playing video games (Warframe is my current main time sink).
Update: Another month done and dusted, slow progress, but progress non-the less.
The Lord of Change got a little bit of attention this month. I haven't figured out what I'll do with the skin yet, but thats a later thing to worry about.
I think the Lord of Change is one of the most intimidating models to paint, looks like you are going to do it justice. Termintators are looking sharp as ever.
@York - not going to lie, both of them have been lording over me for a while, they are both very intimidating!
Update: Well I'm not dead, nor have I given up the hobby! The holiday break was what I needed to unwind from the end of last year, work got super busy leaving me no time to paint nor no desire to. I dripped and dabbed my way through a few and had a couple of games as well.
On to the models:
Finished up the rest of the Lightening claw terminators
With the final one
done
Leading the squad to completion!
The models just assembled
And with Paint
Launched into a Bike
Done
Leading to a Sternguard
He'll be done soon, just waiting on the scribbles to be dry
On to a Chapter Master
Finally some photos of an Apoc game I attended, there was a slight miscommunication between the traitors and Loyalists with the Loyalists fielding competitive regular armies vs our goofy LoW heavy force. We ended up deploying first
Our deployment from left to right
Their deployment
With a view down the table
As I had 12 lascannons opposite me with a number of other high strength weaponry I knew my only units choice was to not die in our lines and used its full movement to sit right in front of their lines
I killed a bunch of things and stripped a big number of hit points from the felblade, I then charged into the centurions to hopefully stop the free round of shooting. Next turn saw then fall back and the Warhound died to Gulliman in Close combat. It failed to go nuclear, but I had save 1 reroll Command point, which then changed to an explosion. Killing a lot more. That made it all worth it.
Hey, welcome back! The new painted stuff is looking really great- I especially like that biker. Nice to see you're getting to play with your cool toys too.
@Gits - Yeah, agreed, I've been playing my Necrons this edition (can be lack lustre compared to all these new power lists out there) so getting to see grey on the table was a nice change. Words on the wind... there might be another Apoc game coming up this year... one I hope to attend with the big guy...
@Gwyn - Thanks! I felt like a true imperial commander sending my units to their death!
@Graven - Cheers, There have been a few I've not been as happy over and if given more time I might try fix them up, but over all I am happy with how they come out.
@Zerg - Slow and steady wins the race? or is it, any painting is good painting? I feel at this rate I'll be 50 by the time I get through the Gray Nights....
Update: I hope everyone is staying safe with all thats going on in the world. I've been inching along through another month, had a game vs Orks and was table bottom of turn 3, ouch. Then played Dark eldar and managed a handy win due to going second and keeping objectives secured, all very polarizing. I did get some painting done however...
Finished up the Chapter Master
I'm stoked with the robe bit I keep looking at it and wondering how on earth I painted it.
Back again after a month, I hope everyone is doing well despite the current climate and restrictions.
I am one of the few who can be considered lucky having a job that is considered an essential service as well as having the ability to work from home, this does mean that I have had more opportunity to paint, but haven't really taken the the reigns there.
However, I have done some painting, and mainly the bigger models, finishing up from last month are the completed pictures of the marines:
The Grav Biker
One of the Sternguard
The chapter master
With those having been completed I focused on one of the lords of change
Started on the base
And all done - It feels really good to get this guy done, hes been staring me in the face every day for a while now.
Now that he was done, another large model gets some love, the Corvus Blackstar
Blacklining and edge highlighting done on all the grey, this one took a while..
@Graven - Yeah, the lighting made him look a bit under the weather, he's the same grey as the rest of the army, trust me
Update: A very productive month I have to say! Anyway onto the pictures!
The Corvus wings and tail section got the love
Along with the base
This lead to the completion
With its completion I turned my eye on to my least favorite models to paint... marine bikes... I was going to do them one at a time, but my stomach couldn't handle that, so all once it is.
Leading to completion on them as well
With that I sat down and smashed out a cheeky Necron crytek in an afternoon
And with that I move on to the last model I was working on, a terminator captain
Wow, that flyer looks AMAZING in that color scheme! Bikes and the Necron guy look great too. The fact that you did the Necron in an afternoon blows my mind considering how good he looks.
@Graven - Ah, should have said latest, last model is below
@Gits - Thank you!
@Zerg - Cheers bro
Update: After we we're supposed to go away for skiing this weekend which was called short I pushed hard and finished up the last 7 marines!
And done
So with these guys done.... This means this push has been completed! Now lets see, when did I start this... Oh, 21st April... that's not to baaa... 2019.
Oh.
Perhaps I've been going a bit slow.
So heres some closer shots of the ones done this weekend.
Terminator Captain
Sternguard sgt
Squad shot
Command squad (Which is no longer an actual thing in 8th. they were in 7th which was when I dreamed them up
@Graven - Cheers, yeah that big plane is pure amazing, and.. its magnetised, so once I figure out where I'm going to store it I can do that
@Gits - Cheers!
@Zerg - Thank you, I'm still not sold on Free hand, I always feel its to flat and the design is uninspired, but happy to hear positive thoughts.
Update: So over the course of the last 30 days 9th has been released, with it I brought the new box set as hey, it has marines and it has Necrons. Using this opportunity I also picked up the new illuminor szeras as I've run him in a large number of my 8th edition battles.
The box turns up and I figure, hey why not do this as a single push, rather than dilute it with multiple different units, upon taking them out of the sprues, this changed to only doing the Necrons first, then I'll do all my Primaris as a new push, just for sanity's sake.
So without further ado, the stages
Primed silver - the observant among you will notice there are some random models included, well my son has expressed interest in painting so I got him to assemble and mold line a bunch of spares models I have.
Washed with Badab Black
Drybrushed silver
Rust applied
Two coats of black on armour plates
Blue applied to energy weapons
First red edge highlight
Second red highlight
First blue Highlight
Second blue highlight
Bases done and the push is complete!
So I then decided I'd do a full Necron Army shot, cuz why not
While I was building and painting, a close mate of mine asked if I had any interest in painting up his new Primaris Ragnar model, of course I said and set to work
After priming and putting down base colours I went to work on the chain blade, having inspiration from the old version of the model with a colour transition I tried one as well
The state after I finished the blade
A close up shot of the cape and starting on the yellow on the shoulder pad Under the cape
Shoulder pad done
Did some work on the base
As well as the other shoulder pad (with some advice from my mate)
Then went to work on the face And almost done
Presenting Ragnar
With that done I started on the next step, this one got rather muddled as I've been sitting on a kickstarter I signed up for... for a number of months, which was the Critical Role mini's (I am a critter for sure) As well as doing a primaris push... I'm a glutton for punishment... for sure
@Graven - Cheers boss, the Necrons were just so swift!
@Gwyn - Thanks!
@Gits - Thank you my man
Update: Another month has come and gone, I got a little bit done, mainly the basing, priming, grey armour air brush of all the Primaris, and a full squad of 5 done! sprinkle in some Critical role models and you have the month
My conversion for the Judiciar
Full army with bases done
Primed
Airbrush underway on the grey
Edge lining on the squad
Edge highlighting the squad
Base colours underway
Washed
Squad done
Assault Marines underway
Edge lining underway
So my son has been a painting machine recently and asked if I could paint a marine like his army, so I cobbled one together
Work still going on this one
Update: Another month done and dusted, continued quickly with the half Intercessor squad smashing them out, but then his a brick wall with the Inceptors, holy moly what a terrible set of models to paint, the connector is so bad. those models took so long as it sapped my motivation. continued on with some HQ's for the last bit feel free to check out below
Completed
Completed
I got a new grandmaster for my GKs
And some more from the little guy, hes been really enjoying the building and painting
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Very eager to see some crisp and grey work flash across my computer screen again.
I think he looks super neat! Maybe i'm biased because I really like the custom 
he looks cross, doesn't he? 
