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I am making sme headway on my Mawloc. Am currently working while I write this.




This is a bitch to paint. Here is one of the angles I needed to be at.


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Nasty work that, but it's looking really great so it will be well worth it in the end eh?

Too right. It better be worth it as I am definately going to be running a Nidzilla list once fork out £45 for this new book.


So, here is what I ended the day with a few moments ago. Got the red sexoskeleton based in Blood Red. Just pure Blood Red over black. Used Lahmian Medium to thin it and a few coats to brighten but that's it.




Tomorrow I will wash EVERYTHING in Devlan Mud and do details such as eyes and teeth


On side note; What colour should I do the inside of the mouth- Warlock Purple? Or Goblin Green? I will be doing the eyes and tongue green and the teeth white so take that into consideration please. Prsonally I am leaning towards purple but and not set on it.

On the other side note, I have just realised I have Pg3

On the other, other side note, off to play Assassin's Creed Revelations! Cheerio!

Well can't offer any help with the painting side, other than to say it's looking good.. I assume you're gonna do more on the carapace too.

Also, I'd go for thewarstore or something online, you can usually get the BRB for £30 there.

I'll consider it but am not sure. If I start buying.online my parents will say I have no need to buy from GW and then GW will begin to wonder where I am.buying.them from as there is no other GW store in NI and it just gets complicated there on out.

Besides, I pride myself on brand loyalty and don't mind paying full price.


As for the carapace, yes I plan to do another drybrush of Enchanted blue tomorrow. Currently all I have is edge highlight. My big bugs have a streaky blue design. I'll post pics tomorrow. Bear in mind this is some of my earliest stuff and the quality sucks hard, and the entire models are coated in Gloss

Hi all. I have touched up my carapce on my Mawloc to have the streaky effect my other bugs have. This pic is from my TRYGON PRIME which I have had for a while, not my Mawloc, to show the streaky effect



The effect is hard to see, but is evident on the 2 plates next to my thumb.



The rest are from my Mawloc and its progress.

The carapce on back and head with streaky effect





And done the teeth. Wil be repainting with Bleached bone. The white is just a base




And washed the entire model with Devlan Mud to give a dank, dirty look, as if it had been tunnelling, and I think it worked pretty well

Big bug's looking mighty fine DS.

Keep up the good work dude.

Thank's Dark!


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Here is what I did today before heading to a gamer cafe! Its my first time gaming outside a GW, who were being douchey for the first time. Apparently there was intro (like beginner's sessions) games to 6th ed. But you needed your own rulebook which I couldn't afford.


Blah! Mawloc! Now! I hear you cry. Very little did I paint. Just the tongue and mouth innards.











I used Goblin Green for the tongue and several thin coats of Warlock Purple for the jaws

The worm is nearly done. Woke up early for the 1st time this week to get a little done. Mostly jut fine details.


The eyes in Goblin Green.



Then i redid all the claws in Chaos black,
1- To clean up any stray paint from previous stages
2- To make them a bit shinier



Then I highlihted the edges of the claws with a 2:1 mix of Skull White and Chaos Black. the closest colour would be SW Grey or equivilent of the new range or other party ranges



The highlight. Like I said it is a hgilight so quite hard to see.



Then I opened the box to put it away and saw my Trygon's tail had broken so i fixed it. And i took the opportunity to show a comparison of my newfound painting skills, newfound being the day I started this blog, compared to some earlier work. its a bad picture but I'll upload a better one tomorrow.





Just a few more things to do. A final drybrush. 1 of Snakebite Leather, 1 of Desert yellow and 1 of Graveyard Earth, used to help dirty the model. I won't be basing the sucker any time soon, as I want to have a somewhat scenic base with a hole in the ground, as if he had just come out of it. But after a quick drybrush tomorrow he will be complete. Then I will be spending the rest of my freetime this month doing up a 1/700 scale Titanic, included in which is some rather great stuff, as well as the model itself. it comes with some poly cement, which if I m not mistaken, should work on itadel plastic. It comes in a bottle not unlike Citadel thin plastic glue, albeit with less capacity. It has 10 small (thumbnail sized) pots of Acryli paint which could give me a little stuff if I use it sparily, and also two good looking brushes, which will last a while.

Anyway, Buenos Noches amigos! (That means good night for those who don't speak spanish. Pity I couldn't speak it in a speaking test!)

The Mawloc looks great! I noticed you mentioned using the Lahmian Medium (or however you spell it) to thin the red. Is it good for that sort of thing? I have yet to try out the new paint range at all, and I just wanted some feedback from others.
Anyways, keep up the good work!

Its great.for thinning paint. See, when.you.thin.with water, the liquid and paint parts become seperated, so.it becomes translucent and streaky, especially over dark surfaces. With Lahmian, it doesn't. All it does is slightly liquify the paint. It is still thinning and smoother but doesn't spread out. If you try to apply light colour over dark it will be seen through still but it will take less coats to make smooth.

For example, if you were to apply water-thinned red paint over black, and try to get a solid coat it might take 4-5 coats.
The same paint thineed with LM might take 1-2.

Interesting... Thanks, Deadshot!

Never got drybrushing today. I was planning to do it when.I came home, but my aunt's dog was neutered today and she wanted me to hold him in the car. On the upside I won my game today. 2 for 2 wirh Nids!

Tomorrow I want to do the drybrush, and then use the rest of the month to do up an Aegis Defense Line

Hey DS, don't suppose we could get some pictures of your entire armies?

I have been planning to. Will do later

Hi all. Finished Mawloc.

I started with a heavy drybrsuh of Graveyard Earth, followed by a light one of Desert Yellow. To appear like mud and then dry dirt that got stuck.




Desert Yellow






And some showcase pics here. Please have a look and vote on them and the other images in that gallery too. That's why its there, so I don't have a clutered WIP gallery.



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Here.

That turned out quite well Deadshot!

Hot damn that's one sweet looking Mawloc.


Just needs a good base now.

Thanks. I think I mentioned it in passing but I want to have a scenic base for it with a tunnel entrance and bits of dead marines.lying all over, as it he had just sprung his TftD.


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Thanks. I think I mentioned it in passing but I want to have a scenic base for it with a tunnel entrance and bits of dead marines.lying all over, as it he had just sprung his TftD. And currently I have neither the tools, supplies or know how to do that.


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Oh, and Thanks Gitsplitta. Missed you there!

Project No. 4- Imperial Style Aegis Defense Line with Quad Autocannon

Its me with.my.project.for the second half of July- as above lol!

So all.I have done is cleaned up the mouldlines and stuff. I have had this kit for over a year, designed to provide battlefield terrain for me and my little brother (who is a damn sore loser and won't play anymore). BUt now it is an option in an armylist, here I go!!!

Cleaned and lined up




Here is the line being put to good use by Helstrom, A vindicare and 2 Space Wolves (Frost axe, and Chainsword+Stormshield). For those interested, the Imperials won this fight.





Tomorrow if.it is dry and I have time I am priming this ADL along.with.other.stuff.I have lying around

The Mawloc looks sweet! Nice work there, Deadshot!

I used to have time to paint too. Those were the days. *sighs*

Thanks Cas. Sorry to hear that you don't have time for hobby :(

Deadshot, how did you paint your space wolves?

I already have a very effective way, turned out brilliant on the one test model I have painted up.. but it's using the discontinued paints and it involves lots of mixing (something that scares the living hobby out of me), so I'm curious as to your method.. hoping it's a simple but effective one.

Close ups of the SW's too maybe?

They're not mine. A little while ago a friend left them at a local store along with a custom Sentry gun (some sprue and a Predator Sponson on a 40mm base). I recognised them and have been.holding on to them.


Edit- Actually, its not a little while, its a big while. Amost 2 years! I don't see him often, but I always keep them in my.case just in case.

Still, pictures would be nice.

I'll put pics up if the guy is ok with it. I'll contact him tomorrow. No clue how he painted them though. To me it looks like Space Wolf Grey, with Iyanden Darksun for the shoulders, but at the same time they are too patchy to be a base. Am in bed now so pics tomorrow

Hey, all. YEs I'm back. Back again.

Now, because we are.now into summer and I have no use for my desk other than painting, I bust out this bad boy!



With all my paints neatly aligned in order of purchase. First is an old, dried up pot of Skull White, with the old black lid pot. Then my Goblin Green, of which it is.my longest lasting paint. It is one of the 1st 9 paints I boughy in a starter paint set. I need to soften.it with water or Medium but it still works. And then so.on and so forth.


So, today I sprayed my Aegis Defense Line along with some other bit.






And then based the armour with Goblin Green





Here is the size brush I am using for the basecoat. No numbers or anything, but here is a size comparison



And the entire line based




And that's all folks.

Here.is the design basis. The green panels and the metal edges done on one short piece and the entire gun+platform






Once I have painted all the silver, including the built in bullet holes, I wash heavily with Badab Black, or that's the plan at least, giving extra heaviness to the bullet holes.

Hey guys. This isn't an update, just a bump post to sort.of say that I am still alive and that the blog will go on. The Aegis line is coming very slowly. I have all 4 short pieces blocked out along with the Quad Gun and one long section.

I have discovered a lot about me. I hate painting terrain! It is dull and boring for something I will rarely if ever take in place of of a squad, as my local club has a 1000pt max restriction unless its an exceptionally slow day.

I think I was being a little ambitious trying to get 2 projects done.in one month. I think I will put my Aegis Line down for August and put my Tyberos away untill I have Superglue.

In other news, I have a couple projects to add to my lengthy waiting list. Firstly, I have decided to get some SW allies to add to my Space Marines. So for my Troops I get a pack of Grey Hunters and For HQ a pimped out Thunderwolf Lord. However, as the only reason I want SW is for the awesome look of TWC I will simply get a pack of those and use the 3rd TWC as my Lord.


Also, in the SW Pack you get a pair of right handed LC. So if I get a SM commander and pick up a Jump Pack from a friend's bitz box then I bave my Captain Shrike Kitbash!

Not only that, but an idea for a Pedro Kantor Conversion! Just need a Commander, a spare GKT Stormbolter and the Powerfist from basically anywhere (The commander kit itself has one) and Presto!

I have an idea for Khan I could do for £8! Just buy a SM biker, add a GK sword, of which I have 10 Termy sized and 5 PA ones, and sorted.


Not only that, but theres another terrain/objective marker I want to make, to embrace a bit of Chaos, as I feel a bit goody-goody with 2 Imperial armies, soon to be 2.5.

In the SW box you get 52, yes, 52 heads. Most are unhelmeted, and these will go into this idea. However, 13 helmets will go on the SW guys. The other 39 along with the 6 in the TWC, and all the many, many other heads from other SM kits, will be making a Tribute to Khorne. Stay tuned for the THRONE OF SKULLS. Made from nothing but marine heads piled and.glued together!



Anyway, thats's all guys. Maybe this month I'll get my Aegis Line done.

Project No. 4.5 & 5- Sgt Cronos kitbash and Forge World Tyberos the Red Wake


Hey guys, I is back with finally somke stuff done. My attempt to do up my Aegis Lione failed, and I still have 1 long section to block onto some silver, then wash everything, then a quick highlight on them. However, in the interim I managed to do up a conversion for Sergeant Cronos. Only the tank version so far but I can proxy a standard guy untill I make a footsy guy. So here he is.


I call him Colonel Oceanus

Here is him undercoated



Here is a basecoat shot, slightly blurry but it is simply blocked in colour, not much to see detailwise. As usual, my new painting scheme for my Blood Ravens dictates I use Mechrite red mixed with some black.



The Devlan Mud wash along with the silver blocked in in Chainmail. The silver was not washed in DM.



In this image you can also see I have based the shoulders in Dheneb Stone


Here is the first highlight, a 2:1 mix Mechrite red to Blood Red. Because this guy is a decoration on a tank I decided to just do two highlights, instead of the 4ish for Vulkan and my next project.



Here is the basecoat fopr the gold, a 3:1 mix of Chainmail and Calthan brown (though Tin Bitz is best). I also blocked the eyes using goblin green using the point of a GW large brush (which I use for everything).



The 2nd highlight of thin blood red on the high points, along with the Shining Gold. I highlight the eyes with a 3:1 mix of Sunburst Yellow and Goblin Greena and glazed over with Waywatcher Green


The detail on the fist done in Shining Gold (which hails from the SM Commander), the Bleached bone one the pauldron, the crux done in various shades of grey. Starting with a 1:1 mix Skull white:Chaos Black, and build up the ratio of White: Black untill it beomes 4:1. I also washed the gun and hatch in badab Black.



Here is that Crux finshed up and given a quick wash of badab black to darken the recesses.



And that's it, bar a shot of the gold bits washed with badab Black and highlighted Burnished gold, of which I need a pic. I orgiannly intended this guy, who I have had since last year, to be an alternate Stormbolter mount for one of my tanks. The idea was the actual stormbolter got ripped off, so, Ultrabadasss tank commander punches the hatch off, grabs a stormbolter and begins firing widely with his gun.

"Drive me closer, I want to punch them with my fist!"




So, that's all of project 4.5 done.

here is number 5!

Tyberos the Red Wake from Imperial Armour 10, AKA, Blood Raven's 1st Captain Leonidas Hedromus. Now before anyone says anything, all names, fluff and everything in my blood ravens is completely non-canon, and Bar the Name Gabriel Angelos, everything is my own creation and idea, taking place after the renegade Chapter Master was defeated. A link to such fluff can be found in the OP.

Without further blabbering, here is the parts in prep, all the way back in April when I picked this guy up from Warhammer World. Unfortunately my superglue seemed top have a problem of becoming think, gunky and not very useful. So on Friday I was in town and picked up a new one, along with some Liquid Greenstuff, always useful.

Claws, which needed straightening, and after many attempts I finally found my mum's hairdryer to finally get them done. Hot water didn't work.




And body


Built and undercoated. I actually undercoated them right after I got the but without superglue I couldn't build. I just stuck some blutack over thecontact points to make sure I was resin to resin rather than resin to paint to paint to resin and have a weaker bond.



Stage1- basecoat front and back



Stage 2- Devlan Mud wash front

The wash here is still a little wet so slightly shiny.



And that is me finished for this blog post.


In other news, another project to add to my lengthy waiting list, which will move to the top as I want to get it done by the 21st Aug for a painting comp, a Khorne Chaos Lord, pinned to have either dual LC or an Axe (Power Axe or Daemon Weapon, depends on mood) and twinbolter. The Chainfist and combimelta will be going into storage for when I manage with find an Imperial Termy, so I can convert up my 9th Captain, who wields a Chainfist and Combimelta. Chainfists I could make or had, but finding combimeltas to fit termies is hard.