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The lobster claw is a thing of beauty. Now he just has to be careful about anyone approaching him with a little bowl of drawn butter

The purple looks good so far!

I’m liking the direction of the purple added to the chaos marines, helps tie them in with those renegades.

youwashock wrote:I really like that look. Still reads as black at this point. Hope your daughter feels better.

Thanks youwashock, hopefully it’ll still read as black once completed. My daughter is a bit better, but has passed the bug around the family, just one of the joys of children!

Viterbi wrote:CSM are looking very nice with the purple accent!
Incidentally those were the models (+7 traitor guardsmen) when I didn't want to paint BSF minis anymore, but get the villains done so I just painted them greenish-ghostly. Perhaps one day they get a bath in biostrip and a nicer paintjob

All the best to your daughter and to you, sick children always equals no sleep for the parents.

Cheers Viterbi, I think the ghostly look is pretty good, I like the idea of Fallen Marines wandering the halls of the Blackstone Fortress for eternity!
Sadly you’re right on the no sleep for parents, also the accompanying illness too! Still, they’re somehow worth it!

amazingturtles wrote:The lobster claw is a thing of beauty. Now he just has to be careful about anyone approaching him with a little bowl of drawn butter

The purple looks good so far!

Thanks turtles, I think the Marines might have a napkin tucked in to their belt just for that very reason!

Theophony wrote:I’m liking the direction of the purple added to the chaos marines, helps tie them in with those renegades.

Thanks Theophony, I’m glad you liked them! I’m hopeful they do look cohesive once complete, whilst the marines still look like Black Legion. Hopefully we’ll see soon enough if the lurgey departs my family!

In between sickness, sick children and sick wife, I managed to get a few hours this evening to paint. I finished up the edge highlighting on Mallex, then moved on to the gold. Given how well Yorkrights Black Legion came out I’ll be following their lead and Using GW Duncan’s tutorial for the Gold on the Marines, starting with Retributor, which gives a nice sheen, much better than my old ancient gold paints! After that it was Boltgun metal on the rest of the metal work. Followed by some Bestial Brown for any leather straps or holsters and to help towards the bits that will be bleached bone.


They’re coming on ok now, though the Black is maybe a bit too purple. Perhaps a nuln oil wash to line the gold will help bring them back to black?

Anyway, Thanks for looking!

I am torn on the purple. On one hand I agree that it might be too strong, on the other hand I like the contrast and think it might not be so prominent once the models are complete. You can always hit it with a wash and knock it down. I don't know about straight Nuln Oil. It may desaturate it too much. Maybe a mix of black and purple or black and blue? I don't know how experimental you feel like being.

 youwashock wrote:
I am torn on the purple. On one hand I agree that it might be too strong, on the other hand I like the contrast and think it might not be so prominent once the models are complete. You can always hit it with a wash and knock it down. I don't know about straight Nuln Oil. It may desaturate it too much. Maybe a mix of black and purple or black and blue? I don't know how experimental you feel like being.

Looking at the pics again this morning I think the purple edge highlight is a bit too thick in places. The Eye of Horus shoulder pad on the guy in the left of the image is close to what I imagined. Putting Mallex in the centre cheats the eye a bit because of all of his purple cabling. Tired typing changed what I was planning for the nuln oil; to line the gold. I agree, to fully wash the black would probably be too desaturated. Hmm, decisions!

Well that was a marathon! I’m up way too late but I’ve managed to complete the Chaos Space Marines including Obsidius Mallex!

As planned I neatened up the purple edge highlighting and lined the gold with nuln oil. I think they look less obviously purple now. Whilst the nuln oil was out i gave the metals and purple a wash too. The steel stopped after the wash as I wanted them to be subdued. The gold got a flesh wash followed by a retributor the auric gold highlight, I think it’s the nicest gold I’ve yet painted! The tabbard on one is just dawnstone grey with nuln oil then dawnstone reapplied as a highlight, the rest of the cloths I just did bleached bone with Agrax Earthshade wash. Their eyes were done with emerald green base and scorpion green over the top. And i think that was about it, so here they are;







Looking at them now I can see I missed the Agrax on their holster straps. I also reckon the Marine with the purple round symbol on his shoulder pad could probably do with a brighter purple in there so it stands out a bit more. Oh well, maybe next year, I’m claiming them done for now.

Mallex got similar treatment, but a few more steps, mainly on his grey cables (I decided more than one being green would be too much), his hammer and plasma pistol got a bit of a glow on too. The former of which survive his hammer going purple metallic! His skin turned out pretty well, nice and pallid, having started with bleached bone his mouth and eye sockets got a light Nuln Oil an lD Agrax Earthshade wash. His whole head then got a druchi violet wash before a dry brush with bleached bone then skull white. I couldn’t decide for his hair l, so went classic Black Legion with a red top not. That was him pretty much done then;






And that’s the Chaos part of the Blackstone Fortress set complete for now. I’ve really enjoyed painting them, so really interesting models. It’ll probably be the new year by the time I get around to the Ambull and the good guys. I think I’ll start with Amalynn Starguide, the Eldar Ranger. I had toyed with tying them all together with a colour, but the goodies are such a rag tag bunch I don’t think it’d work too easily. As such Amalynn will get the stock green and white of Biel-Tan. Next will be some Rogue Traded era goodness, but to finish this long rambling post here is Obsidius Mallex and his Chaos Space Marine henchmen;


Thanks for looking

Three good looking Chaos Marines Gobert. How about a group pic of all the chaos together.

Yes! A rogues gallery shot for sure. They look awesome. The purple plays off that gold so nicely.

CSM look great really nice highlighting. Makes the models stand out and work perfectly with your traitor guard.

They look quite nice gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Merry Christmas Dakkanauts! I hope Santork brings you sacks of plastic crack!

Yorkright wrote: Three good looking Chaos Marines Gobert. How about a group pic of all the chaos together.

Cheers Yorkright, I’ll see if I can manage to pull them all together for a daylight photo shoot over the holidays.

youwashock wrote:Yes! A rogues gallery shot for sure. They look awesome. The purple plays off that gold so nicely.

Thanks Youwashock, everyone loves a group photo, so I’ll see what I can do.

Viterbi wrote:CSM look great really nice highlighting. Makes the models stand out and work perfectly with your traitor guard.

Thank you Viterbi, I maybe could’ve taken a bit more care on the highlights, but I’m happy still! They all look good on their shelf together, nice and purpley!

Captain Brown wrote:They look quite nice gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, glad you liked them!

BOOM! That’s 100 done for 2019!

As hinted earlier I hit the Ton with a classic Rogue Trader miniature; introducing Leman Russ;

Now some may call this cheating as all I did was tart him up a little. He was over painted last time I dabbled with miniatures about 6 years ago. Looking at the big images I really should have stripped him, but hey, I’m counting him as complete. The main bits I did were his base and his chainsword. The base took a couple of goes as i neglected to give him a level stone to stand on! The Chainsword just had the Guard and blade painted yellow to better match the rest of my Wolves.




He looks ok to me, but I’m happy to have hit 100 miniatures since returning to the hobby! this past year has been the longest I’ve partaken in the hobby since being a teenager. The difference has been a bit of variety and using YouTube for inspiration. But the key has been Dakka, for all the great ideas for poaching and the encouragement you guys have given! So thanks, and here’s a sneak peak of the Leman with Freki and Geri (though I don’t recall the model ever having the metal Wolves)

Tonight I’ve also been preparing the Blackstone Fortress Goodies who will be next in the queue after Freki and Geri (and maybe the Ambul). Thanks for looking!

Congrats on hitting 100 painted models! Russ looks great all spruced up, though he seems a bit short for a primarch. :-D

Yeah!

His facial expression is actually pretty nice for a model that old. Oh, and nice to see you stuck with your return. I think/hope it will be much the same for me. The online community is just miles above what it was when I left (although, maybe not as active on traditional forums such as Dakka as it was back then).

Very cool. Always good to see something like this. I remember when they ran LR's origin in White Dwarf. So swesome to read about when the Emperor was out walking around and getting that deeper lore that set up the rivalry between LR and the Lion. Also glad you are feeling good about the hobby and your future with it. Congrats on the triple digit!

Nice looking Russ. And re- or overpainted models definitely count!

Much congratulations! Russ looks great as well, and of course the puppies are also my favorite (yes i'm going to call them puppies)

Yorkright wrote: Congrats on hitting 100 painted models! Russ looks great all spruced up, though he seems a bit short for a primarch. :-D

Thanks Yorkright, he came out ok, and he’s incredibly small for a primarch. I reckon he’s about half the height of the Forge World model! I had to give him a sizeable base to get anywhere near the height of the other Space Wolves!

Aestas wrote:Yeah!

His facial expression is actually pretty nice for a model that old. Oh, and nice to see you stuck with your return. I think/hope it will be much the same for me. The online community is just miles above what it was when I left (although, maybe not as active on traditional forums such as Dakka as it was back then).

Cheers Aestas, I agree the detail on his face is up there with modern equivalents I think, but I only have BSF to measure against! Hopefully you keep going, you’re knocking out some cool minis. I’ve found the variety helps so your current paint list should help in that regard. The first time I left the hobby, I didn’t even have internet access!

 youwashock wrote:
Very cool. Always good to see something like this. I remember when they ran LR's origin in White Dwarf. So swesome to read about when the Emperor was out walking around and getting that deeper lore that set up the rivalry between LR and the Lion. Also glad you are feeling good about the hobby and your future with it. Congrats on the triple digit!

Agreed, it really brings back the memories does a bit of Oldhammer! Some of the old fluff pieces in White Dwarf were just amazing, often to the Caliber of the 2nd Edition rulebooks! I’ve been digging through my pile of grey/poorly painted, there’s going to be plenty more Oldhammer to come!

Viterbi wrote:Nice looking Russ. And re- or overpainted models definitely count!

Yep, I’m counting him for sure! Rebasing counts too in my head!

amazingturtles wrote:Much congratulations! Russ looks great as well, and of course the puppies are also my favorite (yes i'm going to call them puppies)

Yep, the pups are coming along, will try to finish their bases soon. I might be tempted to do a bit of a scenic base for Russ and the Pups to share. Will see how the mood takes me!

No painting to update on, but I got the Blackstone Fortress Chaos Warband off their shelf and got a daylight group shot of 3. All similar shots, I just can’t decide which one is best;



Instead of painting I finished up the door to the shelf to help keep dust off my compteted minis. Clear Polystyrene is a to work with, hence the rough edges and shoddy workmanship!


I also sorted through the pile of minis and grouped them in to projects and the amount of work they need;


The columns running left to right are; requires stripping (Bjorn the Fellhanded, 2nd Edition Box Set Marines, Mordian Iron Guard, Space Wolves Long Fangs and a Wolf Guard Captain, more 2nd Edition Box Set Marines), Nearly compete old painjob, but needing rebase (all High Elves, Archers inc Champion, Repeater Bolt Thrower, Spearmen inc Standard Bearer, Champion, Musician and Silver Helms inc Mage on Unicorn, Champion and Standard Bearer), ready for painting or tarting up (BattleMasters Chaos Archers and Chaos Knights, Orks & Gretchin inc Ghazghull Thrakka, Blood Angels to finish my first squad plus a Standard Bearer), need priming and/or building (Dwarves, Ork bikes, a Silver Helm and Elf Spearmen to compete earlier listed units and a box of Ork boys). Not shown are my BSF goodies and Ambull and 2 Space Wolf Characters shown previously. I also have some RT Terminators and Wolf Guard Termnlinators bathing in Dettol.

That lot should be more than enough to see me through 2020! But I’ve also just bought BSF escalation... whoops!

Sorry for the long post, thanks for looking!

Wow, you have been busy since I last visited.
Glad your back is getting better.

I'm really digging the purple scheme you got going on woth the chaos guys. I especially liked the traitor guard models. Makes me want to finally get a bunch of them too!

Plenty of exciting things to look forward to. Happy New Year!

Love your sorting of the possible projects for 2020. That's a good idea I'll probably use myself

Ezki wrote:Wow, you have been busy since I last visited.
Glad your back is getting better.

I'm really digging the purple scheme you got going on woth the chaos guys. I especially liked the traitor guard models. Makes me want to finally get a bunch of them too!

Thanks Ezki, welcome back to my blog. The Traitor Guard have been great fun to paint, and snipping the spikes off was an easy way to make the two units distinct. I’d highly recommend this Blackstone Fortress boxset for nice and fun to paint minis! I’m sure you’d make an even better job of them!

youwashock wrote:Plenty of exciting things to look forward to. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you too youwashock! I’m pretty excited about the forthcoming projects. I had to stop myself bagging up more when I realised I had over 100 minis lined up in the queue!

Viterbi wrote:Love your sorting of the possible projects for 2020. That's a good idea I'll probably use myself

Steal away Viterbi, it was strangely satisfying, and now I have a few options of what to paint next!

I forgot I’d taken this picture when going through my pile of shame;

The Sergeant on the right is from the first fully painted squad I ever did. I must’ve tarted him up at some point as he looks pretty decent. The other guy is probably one of the first conversions I did, including a, rather ambitious for young gobert, head swap. I think the head came from the RTB01 Marines that my brother had. The weapons were just from the old assault marine medley of weapons you got back then.

I’m still fairly gutted that I couldn’t find the RTB01 Marines and my own RTB09 Terminators. The RTB09s were the first marines I owned, and can still remember getting my dad to drive us all the way to Sheffield in the pouring rain whilst they were building the SuperTram just to get them! I’ll have to look for them again when I go visit my folks this weekend!

Thanks for looking

gobert,

Congratulations on reaching 100 figures in 2019.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
gobert,

Congratulations on reaching 100 figures in 2019.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, it’s a meagre number and lower quality than some achieved, but I’m happy!

Today was an inset day and it was my turn to take the day off to look after my daughter. Sadly that means it’s back to work tomorrow, but happily I got some 1 on 1 time with my eldest! Better yet she’d been fascinated by daddy painting his “Little guys” and wanted a go herself. Looking through my bags o’projects I spotted the 2nd Edition box set Gretchin. I seem to have a ton of them so she had a go with half a dozen little guys. She had a go at washes and dry brushing, but didn’t enjoy painting in thin layers and doing multiple techniques just to get the skin right. In hindsight I should’ve just gone with colour blocking. She loved the metallic paints, giving gold and silver a go. Her friend came over so we stopped, though she’s keen to finish off her little guys! Here’s her WIP;

Whilst she was busy with her little guys I decided to get my batch paint on with 29 other grots and a base of snotlings (do they count as 1 mini or 9?). It was actually quite enjoyable, seeing their faces come out as the dry brush went on! Kinda brought me back to those early hobby days, made even more enjoyable with my daughters chit-chat! After bedtime I got a bit more done, getting their primary colour blocked in and some of the off white started. I’m mixing up what gets painted what colour but sticking with black, white +1 colour. Most of my Orks are currently Goffs so I’ve gone with red and blue (goffs often had blue trousers back in the day!), I’ve also got a fair number of Evil Sunz so some will be orange. Here’s where I got to;

They’re arranged based on what part of them will be what colour, and hopefully they’ll all be unique.

Thanks for looking!

Painting with family is always worthwhile, i'm glad she enjoyed it! And she did a pretty good job too, i mean, that's about how i handled guns for a long time.... or maybe still

gobert,

If you can track down some extra Goblin or Gretchin heads a simple head swap makes the mono-pose Grots look a little better and unique.

Cheers,

CB

Awesome that you can share this with her.

Nice little grots, and it sounds like a great family moment.

If I ever make it across the pond I'll have to bring the Iron Warriors and have a 2nd Ed. fight.

Looks like quite a few fun projects you've got there, can't wait to see what you do with them!

You've been busy since I was last here. Blackstone baddies look great together, good work and well done on reaching 100 models last year. Looking forward to seeing you fill that cabinet this year