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Is that the Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld? Paint that one next please. Looks awesome.

Camkierhi wrote:Fantastic looking group shot, nice work on the girls.

The up and coming looks exciting, looking forward to watching you this year.

Cheers Cam, I hope I can do the models justice

Archer wrote:Is that the Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld? Paint that one next please. Looks awesome.

Yeah it is Archer with Elspeth, its a lovely model. I'm not sure it will be next its a bit of a daunting model

Done a big catchup X. Loads of different stuff. Awesome!

You delight as always matey. Even the cheesecake

Sorry long time without posting its nearly been two months , real life still sucks for me at the moment! Updates will be very sporadic for goodness how long!

But I have been dipping my brush every now and then and have quite a few things to show you today

First off Batman minis, I've finished a few more to add to my collection.

A couple of ninja's



And the very lovely Nyssa Al Ghul, pics aren't great for her!





Then we move on to the Death Guard Raptors these were so fun to paint, you cant go wrong with Nurgle














I was painting them to use in a tournament last weekend for my Death Guard army using the new Codex Traitor Legions which is class by the way lol, I didnt place but thats to be expected I did however walk away with best painted army

How cool is that! Got a little trophy and a gift certificate for £10



I also did some undercoating some when in the last few days, some more Batman minis undercoated ready for painting and some Dark Lands skeletons which I'll talk about in a minute. I think theres also Sara from Willy Miniatures for Blood Bowl, very cool mini!




So whats up next well, there's another Batman mini on my table who's nearly finished and will be in the next update which hopefully wont be another two months away . After that I'll be concentrating on my next project which is a Death army for Age of Sigmar which needs to be done for a tournament in June or July, I cant remember but never mind lol. So I'll be using a mix of Dark Lands and GW minis, no idea what I'm going to be using yet as I want to wait to see if the new generals handbook is out before then so I'm just going to paint everything I've got thats undead

I think I have the following
30 Spearmen (mix Dark Lands and GW)
2 Screaming Skull catapults
5 Black Knights
Neferata, Mortarch of Blood
Vampire on Zombie Dragon (will be using Elspeth on Carmine Dragon to represent this from FW)

I think thats it not sure what else I should pick up, the FW Mourngul looks interesting but that would be three monsters and there isn't a tournament pack out yet so I'm a bit unsure whether to pick him up at this time.

All ideas are welcome

Thats all I have for now, I'll hopefully be back soon!

Those raptors look terrifying. Great job!

Awesome raptors, great conversions and paint !

Thanks guys they were really fun to convert and paint.

Nice league mate, great job!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Nice league mate, great job!

Cheers Graven, I've got Shiva and her girls still to paint for the league. I need to pick up Ra's at some point prob both versions so I get the other ninjas and I think DKR Bane just to round them out. I still think we need an Anne Hathaway Catwoman model

Congrat on your Paint win. Glad to see your back.. Hope things pick up for you.!

Nice work and congratulations on the win (the painting is far more important than the gaming ).

Solar_lion wrote:Congrat on your Paint win. Glad to see your back.. Hope things pick up for you.!

Thanks Solar it makes all those hours behind the brush worth it.... yeah me too!

Dr H wrote:Nice work and congratulations on the win (the painting is far more important than the gaming ).

Thanks Dr H I totally agree

Painting went well last weekend and I bashed through a load of minis!

First from the Batman miniatures game is Killer Croc





And then is a horde of Jute skeletons from Darklands



This I spent today assembling more Darklands skeletons, they seem to take forever to put together

Love those Skellies! Awesome work!

Cheers Para theres going to be tons of Skeletons over the next few months!!!

Those skellies are class. Love how the rust and purple work so well together.

I like your croc but he's a bit dark all over? Maybe ramp the pic contrast a bit?

Zambro wrote:Those skellies are class. Love how the rust and purple work so well together.

Cheers Zambro

inmygravenimage wrote:I like your croc but he's a bit dark all over? Maybe ramp the pic contrast a bit?

Thanks Graven, hows this with the contrast ramped up lol





You can just about see the green on his trousers in these pics, when we have some proper daylight I'll try again!

Much, much clearer - lovely!

Well that's all looking brilliant. Great job on the cloth work on all of it, really smooth looking figures.

inmygravenimage wrote:Much, much clearer - lovely!

Thanks Graven

Camkierhi wrote:Well that's all looking brilliant. Great job on the cloth work on all of it, really smooth looking figures.

Cheers Cam

good job on Croc.. the green is perfect!

 Solar_lion wrote:
good job on Croc.. the green is perfect!

Cheers Solar

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Back again with an update on what I've been doing in the world of modelling. I've mostly been in assemble mode, I'm signed up for an Age of Sigmar tournament in June so have been assembling an impressive hoard of undead!

I was planning on using Elspeth on Carmine dragon as my vampire on zombie dragon but shes not well! It appears the model is covered in release agent as all the primer started to come off, heres the poor girl not looking so hot after a rub down!



So I've emailed FW and they said to bathe her again and then spray with sealer and undercoat and spray with seal again and see how that goes!

Here's Elspeth having her bath



And after her final coat of sealer out and about enjoying the sun today!



She's in the window now taking advantage of the last of the afternoon sun, so we shall see how she fairs after that!

Assembling models is what I said I've been doing, lots of models and many more to go when the other half of my rambling horde arrives!

Here's the metals Batman Suicide Squad and more Darklands skeletons



The plastics



And the finecast! Theres another of these to assemble still, was a bit of a pain.



Oh I also have some painted models from Malifaux as well, This is Dr Grimwell from the starter set with his guys and nurse



Next up will be more assembling I'm afraid I've the other catapult and 40 skeletons to go, they all need to be painted by mid June so I say I should have enough time but you can never tell!

After that I might be going to an Infinity tournament so you might see some Nomads pop up every now and then to break the wall of undead, thats in June as well. I have a bring and play thing the local club is doing next month as well, i listed all the games I have armies for and of course I seem to attract the Xwing people , not to worry though as I picked up a striker the other day which I blame Graven for! Will be fun to try out I might try two they look pretty nifty.

I think thats all, lots of undead to look forwards too

What! Where! When! Why! WOW where did that lot come from, OK. Fantastic work but, looking forward to that lot.

Looking great, love those malifaux minis (I'm not a fan of wyrd as a rule)

Camkierhi wrote:What! Where! When! Why! WOW where did that lot come from, OK. Fantastic work but, looking forward to that lot.

Cam theres so much more where that lot came from, I paint a lot slower than I buy!!!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looking great, love those malifaux minis (I'm not a fan of wyrd as a rule)

Cheers Graven, they came out a lot better than I expected, theres not much detail on them though.

What a cool combination of everything. Poor dragon. Still it was nice to see green grass in the picture. I miss that !

 Solar_lion wrote:
What a cool combination of everything. Poor dragon. Still it was nice to see green grass in the picture. I miss that !

Cheers Solar, dragon is now happy the under coat is staying on and I've started painting him.

Green grass, its all that rain we have

And here's my progress shot of Elspeth and her dragon.





My painting calculator says I have to paint 1 1/2 models a day for the next two months to have my AOS army ready on time, well I didn't finish one today!

I also have to paint models for an Infinity tournament which is before the AOS one, this is going to be a really tight deadline for me as I'm only painting half a day a week at the moment!

No work on the dragon tonight, instead I've been basing my initial lot of undead warriors for my death army!

Here's my little painting area covered in undead there's a few other minis there as well but who has one project on their painting table at a time!!!



my one armed contemptor made it into the picture as well!, hes waiting for me to order a second arm from FW, that is the first mini for my 30k Thousand Sons army That project is a long way away really, waiting to see what happens with 8th edition first and you cant buy the latest FW book anyway as its out of stock awaiting a re-print!