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The Gorax looks really good.

Zefig: Oh my god... the wings. I almost didn't put her together because I keep wanting to save the wings for something else. They are fantastic! And they cost 10$ themselves off Reaper's website, so I was pretty reticent. But I don't have any real ideas for using them just now, so I figure I will wait no more.

For the hair, I just used some ProCreate (GS) and some wire to start the shape. I wanted a Tizz icon (can't tell from the front, but it's there) since it is going to be flaming hair, so I shaped the wire to that end. Then I added some GS around it to keep it stiffer and bind it to her skull. After that cured a little to make it easier to work with I took the tip of my hobby knife and cut some lines in, and turned the blade to the side to pull some bits out and up. A needle in a pin vise or a sculpting tool is good for the same trick. Then I just rolled some small tubes of GS, stuck one end to her head and teased away some more, and repeat.
This method works pretty well for hair and fur since it doesn't really need to look a certain way (usually) and creates a nice chaotic pattern so it looks more natural. At least when I do it it goes all over the place, but then I am not much good at sculpting

SALVAGE! Yea, I love the Gorax. One of the few Hordes models that just screamed "Paint me! I am AmaaaaaZING!" I have lots of prep work on those other two before D-con, then I might settle down and paint the other 79 little celts and make 20mm bases for them. That will be... well, maybe not fun, exactly.

The Apostates though, my dark gods, how I love them! I can't run enough cool exalted heroes to use all of them just now (stupid over priced melee characters) but sooner or later they will all find their way into armies. So great.
Bregan as the Lord of the POO! would be awesome
Are you doing any new ogre action for D-con?

Really nice models

Awww yeah, updates! Gorax looks great, Angel is vastly improved by flamey hair, and that creepy nippleslave guy is coming along nicely!
I'm interested to see what you do with the black orc, currently he's looking pretty standard but I'm sure you'll surprise me.

Cool I've got an interest in the idea of fantasy outside the Medieavel Stasis. Liking the idea for the races really liking the Persian Elves they deserve more respect than they often get. I also quite like the idea of athenian Dwarven democracy. I have to admit I'm coloured by my work with the British Bronze Age. Bronze Age always seems a misnomer to me as I've worked on about half a dozen sites and never seen any in the wild as it were (it's generally only found in funerary or votive contexts and even then usually at random rather than during a proper excavation). Postholes and round ditches in a variety of combinations thats what they're like. Your points are probably valid for the Meditteranean world however.
The fire effect on the Angels hair is looking solid as well.

Wehrkind wrote:The Apostates though, my dark gods, how I love them! I can't run enough cool exalted heroes to use all of them just now (stupid over priced melee characters) but sooner or later they will all find their way into armies. So great.
Bregan as the Lord of the POO! would be awesome
Are you doing any new ogre action for D-con?

Slapped together a list with Bregan as the fellblade jockey, certainly digging it. Big B most likely won't be painted but might bring him along for shenanigans. Though no, I think in the interest of not carrying quite so many army cases I won't be trotting out the ogres for warbands, probably sticking with the nurglings, since they fit the theme so well as is

- Salvage

Awesome, thanks for the explanation!

I used the wings on a St. Celestine conversion recently, they're absolutely fantastic.

awesome choice of models and your painting skills leave me envious. love all of it

Da Boss wrote:Awww yeah, updates! Gorax looks great, Angel is vastly improved by flamey hair, and that creepy nippleslave guy is coming along nicely!
I'm interested to see what you do with the black orc, currently he's looking pretty standard but I'm sure you'll surprise me.

Wait no more!




The color is a bit off in the pics since I didn't really set anything up for it. A little more muted and deep in real life, but you get the idea for now. I am pretty happy so far, though it is a little too much yellow/warm color. I think tomorrow I am going to go over the fuchsia bits in a blue instead. It will tie it in with the Chaos lads a bit better, and add some cooler offsets. (Look at me, talking like I know anything about color theory!) I am quite happy with him so far, and feeling some good nostalgia about my Warhammer: Age of Reckoning black orc he is designed after.

Llamahead wrote:Cool I've got an interest in the idea of fantasy outside the Medieavel Stasis. Liking the idea for the races really liking the Persian Elves they deserve more respect than they often get. I also quite like the idea of athenian Dwarven democracy. I have to admit I'm coloured by my work with the British Bronze Age. Bronze Age always seems a misnomer to me as I've worked on about half a dozen sites and never seen any in the wild as it were (it's generally only found in funerary or votive contexts and even then usually at random rather than during a proper excavation). Postholes and round ditches in a variety of combinations thats what they're like. Your points are probably valid for the Meditteranean world however.
The fire effect on the Angels hair is looking solid as well.

Yea, I suspect the Bronze Age was a time of very sharp differences between cultures, given how trade and travel, not to mention writing, were quite difficult and limited. I would guess that the period was named after what was going on in the Mediterranean area, with everywhere else being sort of an afterthought. Kind of like calling the late middle ages "The Obsidian Age" based on what was going on in Meso America at the time.

Glad you like the hair too. Got the lass primed up, and will put some base coats on her and get some shots of her tomorrow.

Boss Salvage wrote:

Wehrkind wrote:The Apostates though, my dark gods, how I love them! I can't run enough cool exalted heroes to use all of them just now (stupid over priced melee characters) but sooner or later they will all find their way into armies. So great.
Bregan as the Lord of the POO! would be awesome
Are you doing any new ogre action for D-con?

Slapped together a list with Bregan as the fellblade jockey, certainly digging it. Big B most likely won't be painted but might bring him along for shenanigans. Though no, I think in the interest of not carrying quite so many army cases I won't be trotting out the ogres for warbands, probably sticking with the nurglings, since they fit the theme so well as is

- Salvage

True on the ogres = space consideration. I am bringing 3-4 armies for 3 systems or so, so I understand the need for compactness (Can't believe Steve is talking me into playing 40k again, but the new rules set on the horizon does have me interested, I must admit.)

Zefig wrote:Awesome, thanks for the explanation!

I used the wings on a St. Celestine conversion recently, they're absolutely fantastic.

Nice use of those wings, that's a great Celestine! I really like what you did with the flowing ribbons/sash going down to the base.

tarnish wrote:awesome choice of models and your painting skills leave me envious. love all of it

Thank you sir Hopefully I won't disappoint this week as I am on a painting kick and have lots to do in a week and a half! Mike requests a big fancy banner for my army, suitably Tzeentchy, so my brain and fingers will be kicking into overdrive to come up with something cool!

Nice orc, pink eye make up and all

Just dug out Bregan, dismantled, cleaned up, converted, GS'd and rebased the bastich. Think I may just have to get him and my two mortars primed and painted for DCON afterall

Cheers to you and the lads for getting me excited about modeling random things quickly again

- Salvage

Boss Salvage wrote:Nice orc, pink eye make up and all

Just dug out Bregan, dismantled, cleaned up, converted, GS'd and rebased the bastich. Think I may just have to get him and my two mortars primed and painted for DCON afterall

Cheers to you and the lads for getting me excited about modeling random things quickly again

- Salvage

Rock on! Now that you have a full week and a half, instead of the 3 days you thought, you had better come up with some gems!

I am really happy that Mike is doing this Apoc style warbands craziness for this Dakkacon. A great motivator to come up with some cool models you never really would use in a "real" list. I have had that orc and 4 of his buddies for I think 2-3 years now, but suddenly want to get him finished. I think after D-con if I have time I am going to get around to painting up the rest of the command group and trying to eBay them.

When I do I see pics of your conversion?

Bragan isn't allowed for warbands, he's way too butch for that My warband list isn't too crazy, mostly lots of nurglings + their more functional friends (as is usually the case )

I'll take a phone pic of Bragan Apostate of Evil Robots at DCON and hand it to you

- Salvage

OK! Not dead, actually did a crap ton of painting! Well, a LOT of painting on a very small area.

Firstly, Urgrok got some blues, makes him look a little better.


Colors look a lot better in the pic too, oddly. Gonna get his base done over the weekend with his new mates, and call him done. Though I might do a little with his skin tone... looks a tad flat in pics.

Ok, here's the kicker. Making a Chosen Champ standard bearer for the warbands business. Word is that if we model them up with a fancy banner they get bonuses. Well... sounds like it is time to try out some fancy.


Banner is still very WIP. Probably will spend tomorrow evening out some of the colors, tidying up parts and adding some more intricate bits, but that's the general idea.
As for the man himself, pretty basic:




Just some minor conversion, with a magnetized banner arm so if he is rocking out as a regular warrior he can just get a shield.

Also, haven't forgotten the angel chick, just have her on 3rd tier since she probably won't make the list the way it is looking now. Still, blocked out some colors to get an idea of what I am doing.


So, that's it for today! Another big day of painting tomorrow. Stay tuned, and let me know what you think of things!

I really like that banner. The less visible purple text behind the glowing blue symbols is just really awesome! I might have to steal that idea from you at some point.

I love the blue effects!!

Thanks guys The fellows are currently getting flock and snow glued to them, then I will post up some pics. Main change is a blue wash to the banner to bring the color more towards Tizz and make the highlighting symbols more subtle. Might be a little too subtle... but we'll see.

Pics tomorrow!

Ok, so this evening I am heading up to PA for Dakka-con, so this afternoon the brushes go down and I am set with what I have. So what's that?
Well, Urgrok and Daergash the Swollen for starters!





Yay! past that,.... well not a lot. I finished up the warp wolves and just need to glue some flock to them today. Then I need to do a little more touch up on the 3 knights. After that, if I have time from packing, I am going to try and finish Kromac (both forms) which I started yesterday and I think looks worse now than he did when he was monochrome :(. The angel of Tzeentch is going to have to wait, since she didn't make it into my list and I want to do something really special for her pattern wise, and I just don't know how crazy I want to get with it yet. I am thinking all NMM gold armor and a lubriciously complex skirt, but I don't know what I want to do for the wings. All white with pale blue shadows? All blue? Blue fading to purple? Blue fading to green? Taste the bloody rainbow? I dunno. But I have much more time to think on it now than I have to do it, so we'll see.
Glad to be back in the painting mood again though! This warbands campaign has been really great for getting me excited about putting paint to models!

I like the effects on the axe.

The Ork's armor is a little too well-maintained though, dontcha think?

Freshly slapped on paint is all!

Looks great though, I still really love that banner.

Thanks guys

The orc is actually a lot less purty than these pictures make him out to be. For some reason the camera doesn't like to pick up all the brown streaks and chipped paint spots. In person the armor looks fairly rusty with lots of bare steel showing through. I guess all the tones are so close together that the camera assumes they are the same. Maybe with a blue background, I dunno. Camera's been acting a little iffy lately when it comes to capturing stuff the way my eyes see it, so maybe after 3-4 years it is time to put it out to pasture.

Hope to see you lads at Dakka Con! Updates to resume Monday!

That banners great I didn't quite realise how ornate it was at first glance then I noticed the pale purple freehand all over it. I have to say the Taste the Rainbow comment amused me for a second then I thought of Saruman of Many Colours from the Lord of the Rings and realised it would be quite appropriate for a Tzeentchian Fallen Angel.......

I should totally stop being a bum one of these days.... but not today.

Sorry for disappearing for like a year there. Haven't gotten a lot done in the hobby realm other than producing resins for Brushfire and Endless: Fantasy Tactics for Cyporean here, but I have been getting some games of Hordes in, and started up a little Mercs force. Mostly when I should have been doing research or studying...

For the time being, here's a test paint job for my stand in Tharn Ravagers:
got a pile of pre-primered plastics from Rackham. Here's the test paint on a counts as Ravager:



I am thinking a little more grey/blue or brown to bring him closer to my White Mane, but otherwise he works pretty well. He is on a 40mm base, to get an idea of scale. He is one of Rackham's prepainted plastic Wulfen lads. Not bad models, and the paint works as primer pretty well.

What do you boys think? Would you accept that as a Ravager?

Oh My Grob Wehrrrrrrrrrrr!!

Dig the repainted prepainted, honestly would have assumed it began as a standard unpainted except for some lingering moldlines - assuming they're a big rubbery and were hard to remove? Nice paint as always, though I continue to be bugged by his hands, especially the fist. Guessing that's not done yet, beyond just his nails? Even if the intent is to transition as his feet ...

- Salvage

Yea, dem hands... I am going to have to figure out how to do that transition better without wanting to kill myself doing it on on 12+ men. Likewise the sword... tonfa... thing. I gotta clean those lines (which are not terrible to get, just not as responsive) and decide if I really want to commit to doing that much NMM, or calling them stone and painting as such. I am starting to think the latter, as I have some others that have stone tipped spears, so that might work thematically.

Hooray for Woad on Celts return! This is one of my favourite Dakka blogs. Interesting minis, vibrant paint schemes and decent chatter.

Hope you get more done this year Wehrkind. I need to get up off my arse some day soon and do some painting. It's close to a year since I picked up a brush in anger.

Welcome back, looking forwards to lots more painted minis

Wow, so I am back! And I painted something! Almost finished! And... wow that model was sitting half done for YEARS.

Getting a copy of Of Gods and Mortals has me casting about for little war bands to put together with as little effort as possible, and hey! I have all these painted Celts sitting around in a box! All they need is a large, suitably impressive god....

The Sorchimera, after nearly half a decade on the paint bench across 2 states and 4 cities is finally going to get finished. Armor is mostly done, as is her skin and lion parts. Just some more shading to do on the latter two, and perhaps something to make the lion bits a little more angry looking. I want to play up the juxtaposition of light and beautiful female human on top with heavy and brutal lion on the bottom.

I am going to try and get the sword and crystal ball thing finished up next week along with the body tweaks and base. Plus I have to decide if she needs woad or tattoos, but at the moment I am going with no.

Enjoy!

What a cool model!! The WIP is looking amazing, especially the lion part. I'm going to list out my wishlist for features for finishing

1. You said the orb and sword are up for next week, I'd love to see a NMM sword and swirling orb, almost like with thin cloud wisps swirling round in it.

2. I think the face needs something, but not sure what to suggest

3. I love your tattoo painting so I hope you go for some markings on the skin!

Overall really love it, but since you're a great painter I feel more free to make ambitious requests

Thank you sir!

1. Yup, I am thinking that sword is way too big to not do NMM on, and really get a good grasp on that. I plan to do some practice runs on cardboard first to practice in fact.
For the orb, I am going to do a swirling effect with a stylized skull in the clouds. Which may be entirely beyond my skill, but we'll see!

2&3 Yea, the girl's got a big, empty forehead. I am thinking a tattoo on her left arm/shoulder and then one on her right forehead and eye area might tie things together nicely. I am nervous about it, but I think I will play with designs during office hours next week.