Goberts Gubbins - 10 May 25 - 2025=77 - Void Panthers Reinforcements WIP

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**Yorkright**

That’s a good looking unit Gobert the snow is a nice contrast to the green.

**Theophony**

Love the color of the Necron "Skin".

I have to concur with YouwaShock, I'd leave the eyes that glowing effect, unless your trying to suggest that the eyes are pulling in the light around it. Which is a cool idea in itself.

**amazingturtles**

I am definitely liking the look of the glowy necrons!

**gobert**

Captain Brown wrote:They look good gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, better pics to come soon I reckon

youwashock wrote:While I like the black on the orbs, I think you would be better off leaving the eyes with that cool glow you had. Nice work cranking out that unit. They are really effective en masse like that.

Yeah, I agree, it seemed a good idea at the time to match the orbs, but the more I look at them the more I think the look a bit goofy. Now, can I be bothered to redo the eyes?

Yorkright wrote: That’s a good looking unit Gobert the snow is a nice contrast to the green.

Thanks, I’m liking it some more now it’s dried too

Theophony wrote:Love the color of the Necron "Skin".

I have to concur with YouwaShock, I'd leave the eyes that glowing effect, unless your trying to suggest that the eyes are pulling in the light around it. Which is a cool idea in itself.

Thanks Theophony, skin kind of works I suppose!

. The eyes pulling in the light was exactly the idea I was after, almost like a singularity, but I think the reality of it is the eyes are too small for me to do it justice.

amazingturtles wrote:I am definitely liking the look of the glowy necrons!

Thanks turtles, I’m definitely liking how fast they came together!

No updates yet, but I will see if the camera battery is charged shortly and maybe get some better pics of the Necrons. I probably should redo the eyes with sybarite green instead of the black, I’ll see how the mood takes me

Automatically Appended Next Post:
A double post, but this time with lots of pics!

I decided to repaint the eyes in the Necrons, and I think they look much less goofy now. Thanks guys for pointing it out to me, sometimes we need a little nudge to make the changes! I got my Camera out so here’s a decent picture including using a darker background for a change;

Not bad, though the snow is hard to capture with how dark the minis are!

Whilst is had my camera out I got a few glamour shots of stuff that I’d finished recently but hadn’t got a good pic of. First up we’re my Void Panthers;
Bike Squad

Space Marine Heroes/Adventures Tactical Squad

The whole force to date;

Next we’re the Chaos Cultists from Blackstone Fortress: Escalation that I finished in 1 weekend;

And since I finished the Crusader recently I thought I’d take a snap of the whole gang of Explorers from BSF;

That’s not quite all, I picked my next project;

**ListenToMeWarriors**

Ooooh, some proper classic Silver Helms, that Elven mage on Unicorn is one hell of a great sculpt as well. That is a lot of white...

The Void Panthers look great, individually and together. I really like the SM Heroes range and this colour scheme shows them off really well.

The Necron Warriors look glorious, the eyes was a simple and effective change.

**tzurk**

Some really superb paintjobs there mate and nice photography work too!

Looks like you redid the eyes on the crons? They are lovely and spooky. The cool bases really sell the whitewalker-esque march of death theme the minis have. They are a great unit!

Forgot how much I love the green flame on the cultist leader too.

The explorers look awesome all together (are there plans for bases or are they left black for the boardgame?), and the new old elves project has me tingling.

**youwashock**

Fabulous array of models. The BSF crew is awesome, as are the Marines. Been putting out a bunch of solid work.

**Captain Brown**

Well done gobert.

Cheers,

CB

**Arakasi**

So impressive when they are all together like that.

**darkkt**

These are all great man, but I *love* those BSF explorers. Top work

**Grenb**

In love with that cold metallic colour on the Necrons, matches the basing perfectly.

**gobert**

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Ooooh, some proper classic Silver Helms, that Elven mage on Unicorn is one hell of a great sculpt as well. That is a lot of white...

The Void Panthers look great, individually and together. I really like the SM Heroes range and this colour scheme shows them off really well.

The Necron Warriors look glorious, the eyes was a simple and effective change.

Yep, Proper Silver Helms, and LOADS of white! I forget how much of a pain it can be to paint! Mind the normal Celestra Grey is easier than the air variety! The Others were right to point out the eyes, so it was the right choice to switch

tzurk wrote:Some really superb paintjobs there mate and nice photography work too!

Looks like you redid the eyes on the crons? They are lovely and spooky. The cool bases really sell the whitewalker-esque march of death theme the minis have. They are a great unit!

Forgot how much I love the green flame on the cultist leader too.

The explorers look awesome all together (are there plans for bases or are they left black for the boardgame?), and the new old elves project has me tingling.

Cheer tzurk, the camera helps with the photos! Yep, the eyes were tweaked, to be less goofy, I suppose they do have a wee bit of white Walker about them. And yeah, I’m pretty chuffed with the Cultist Firebrands flame! The bases of all my BSF stuff are waiting for me to decide what to do. There is some cool 3D printed terrain which I’m tempted to get and they have some bases. On the otherhand there are a few cool schemes out there that I might try.

youwashock wrote:Fabulous array of models. The BSF crew is awesome, as are the Marines. Been putting out a bunch of solid work.

Thanks youwashock, it was good to get three Explorers together

Captain Brown wrote:Well done gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB

Arakasi wrote:So impressive when they are all together like that.

Thanks, weight of numbers has a certain quality to it!

darkkt wrote:These are all great man, but I *love* those BSF explorers. Top work

Thanks darkkt, the Explorers have been a fun bit of variety, even if I’ve moved the imperials towards a common theme.

Grenb wrote:In love with that cold metallic colour on the Necrons, matches the basing perfectly.

Thanks Grenb, I can’t take the credit for either scheme(Necrons by John Prins and bases by tzurk), but it was fun to combine them!

I picked up the old paint sticks tonight, eventually, once the kids decided to go to bed! A 4 year old up at 21:15 is not a recipe for fun! Probably won’t even give us a lie in either!

. Anyway, back on topic. I bases up the horses on Thursday night, and spent a good bit of this evening giving them hot coals bases, I gave them a base of yellow, then dry brushes of Blazing Orange, Evil Sunz Scarlet, Khorne Red, then Abaddon Black. Whilst the line troops have ash wasteland bases, I want the elites to be closing on the Chaos Army so have Lava or Hot ash bases. The drybrushing got all over the horses, so I spent a while sorting out their Caparison(?). Starting with Ulthuan Grey to get decent coverage over the glowing embers and black. I then highlighted 2 up to Celestra Grey

I’ll get them to white I think, they deserve white, what with being an elite unit. That’ll probably be the next two painting sessions though! I also need to decide what sort of horse to go for, I’m thinking a pale brown, possibly keeping the blond tails. The Champion might get to keep his grey, they might all get Greys. I think the box art had them as pale brown. What do you guys think?

Thanks for looking!

**youwashock**

Going to be an impressive unit. Love that unicorn mini.

**theCrowe**

Fantastic photos gobert. The BSF crew and the cultists really look great and the Void Panthers are a very impressive sight.

The hot coals bases are really nice too. I'm looking forward to the super bright elves feeling not a bit of heat. Magic elf horse shoes made of... aloof disdain, perhaps?

**Not Online!!!**

ohh, i love the cultists... unsurprisngly...

Also really good job on the bikers.

I like the necron scheme aswell.

**amazingturtles**

It is a lot of fun seeing everything together like that! The chaos guy with the green flame is still one of my favorites. I will always wonder what it is about chaos that makes them have the huge ponytail hairdo, but that is for another time.

Those are very nice lava-y bases, though i feel for the horses and their poor hooves

**Ezki**

Great pictures gobert!
These new shots from the Cultists really bring out the best in them.
I like the background you are using

As mentioned by others: you've been putting out a really solid bunch of models!

**gobert**

youwashock wrote:Going to be an impressive unit. Love that unicorn mini.

Yeah, the Unicorn is really cool, so muscular and beefy!

theCrowe wrote:Fantastic photos gobert. The BSF crew and the cultists really look great and the Void Panthers are a very impressive sight.

The hot coals bases are really nice too. I'm looking forward to the super bright elves feeling not a bit of heat. Magic elf horse shoes made of... aloof disdain, perhaps?

Thanks man! Aloof disdain seems right! It almost sounds like a spell the Mage could cast!

Not Online!!! wrote:ohh, i love the cultists... unsurprisngly...

Also really good job on the bikers.

I like the necron scheme aswell.

Hehe! Heretics really do spread quickly it seems! Thanks for the kind words on the other minis too!

amazingturtles wrote:It is a lot of fun seeing everything together like that! The chaos guy with the green flame is still one of my favorites. I will always wonder what it is about chaos that makes them have the huge ponytail hairdo, but that is for another time.

Those are very nice lava-y bases, though i feel for the horses and their poor hooves

Everyone loves a good group shot! I wonder if it’s the implausibly big hair that attracts the cultists? Maybe they’re happy to receive the mutations because their hair is so impressive! Dont worry about the horses hooves, the Mage has cast Aloof Disdain making them invulnerable to the heat!

Ezki wrote:Great pictures gobert!
These new shots from the Cultists really bring out the best in them.
I like the background you are using

As mentioned by others: you've been putting out a really solid bunch of models!

Thanks Ezki, the proper Camera does most of the hard work! The background for the BSF guys was from the main BSF Box and the rest used the picture from the Indomitus box.

Edit: I nearly forgot the main reason for my post... the Space Marine Heroes box arrived. I had a quick look during a boring meeting today. I got the Captain

but not the Ancient

I got the Cyclone Missile dude and Assault Cannon chap too. I then got duplicates of one of the Thunder Hammer & Storm Sheild chaps and another duplicate of one of the Storm Bolter dudes... I’m totally going to have to buy the Space Marine Adventures box with some in too

Edit2: I’ve just seen this years Battle Force boxes and there is zero temptation there for me... Phew!

Edit3: I went rummaging through the pile of shame and pulled out the last of my High Elves. I thought that after the Silver Helms I only had 10 Archers to go... it turns out I have 53! 40 Archers, 12 Spearmen and a Tiranoc Chariot! It got me thinking it would be good to finish an army, and wouldn’t it be great to finish my first army first? So I’m going to say it on the internet, then I have to do it, right? Is it a New Years resolution if you make it in November? But being realistic 53 minis is about 4-6 months of painting for me and doing them all in 1 go would be would destroying. So by the end of 2021 I’m going to get them all done by weaving them in as every 2nd project. Here’s a pic of what there is to look forwards to!

**theCrowe**

Every second project sounds possible. I applaud your dedication to ancient plastic. I am in a similar predicament with my goblins but have no such resolve.

Anyway in honour of your red hot riders...

The Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain

Spoiler:

Celebrimnare the Smith's son who was doomed to love the maiden of Ellyrion did smithy upon the prince's anvil a token of his affection for the Royal daughter. Devotedly he laboured always by moonlight and starlight and often beneath the Prince's withering gaze. In only twelve short years the boy produced for his beloved princess a suit of armour wrought of finest ithilmar the like of which not even the prince himself did possess. And upon the night of the Feast of Deliverance he did present it to her father in token of his great love.

But the maiden herself never saw it.

For her father the Prince, in his aloof disdain would not have his young daughter duped by the new-made trinkets of a lowborn craftsman. He thanked the lad for his efforts and paid the boy's father handsomely but no sight of the maiden in her ithilmari battledress had any elf that night or ever thereafter.

The only elf ever who beheld the work of the blacksmith's son was the prince's farrier, who though he wept at such folly did as his duty bound and so produced four hundred ithilmari horseshoes for the prince's cavalry.

Yet it is said that a virtue lay upon them. That so dearly were they forged once in love and then once more in such great disdain that ever will they gird the feet of their wearer, granting both the surety of youth's first love when the riding is hard and vigorous and the disdain of all evil and foul influence when the ground underfoot is unforgiving and treacherous.

Now though almost all have been lost through the years of terrible war yet still the Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain remain a tradition among the people of Ellyrion. Whereupon on the eve of the Feast of Deliverance any young elf of ignoble birth is suffered to present to his Lord a token of affection wrought in ithilmar and fit to adorn the noble daughters of the court. And though they be masterfully crafted as oft is the case the Lord does still receive each gift in aloof disdain and hand it over to the farrier who collecting the treasures of devotion and disdain will fit as many horses for war as may be shod.

And so the tradition and production of Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain continues to bless the Silverhelms of the house of Ellyrion to this day.

**youwashock**

That's awesome, gobert. I look forward to following the progress as you breathe life into those old elves.

**Don Qui Hotep**

Holy cow, that Void Panthers group shot is

Excellent job! Love how those shoulder pads ended up popping. They look really impressive arrayed as a fighting force.

Really cool take on the Necrons! I like that ghostly glow a lot. Thanks for sharing your step-by-step, it's valuable data to inform further Contrast experiments.

Excited for the elves!

**Viterbi**

Those glamour shots are really great, Necrons look cool on their snowy bases and cool to see the Void Panthers in all their glory again and all the BSF minis.
Gotta echo the others, that's a cool 2nd project for 2021, good luck in getting your high elves finished, will watch with interest.

**howie**

They're some very old high elves. Looking forward to see how they progress and what you do with them.

**Captain Brown**

gobert,

Never did find a photo of my converted High Elf Spearmen. But here is the description: I used a craft knife to separate the bottom of the spear shaft from the foot and a careful cut at the should under the should armor. Now you had one spear arm and spear separated from the mono-pose model. Mount the spearman on a diagonal base and glue the shoulder joint back on a bit of an angle. Makes it so you have a slightly different pose from the others and it can fit nicely in between the unmodified ones. I even went to town and cut the heads off and re-positioned them looking forward as well for some, but it was not necessary.

Cheers,

CB

**Yorkright**

Love those pics with all the models together from Blackstone and the marines. I really want to pick up those cultists now after seeing yours. Helms are coming along nicely too!

**gobert**

theCrowe wrote:Every second project sounds possible. I applaud your dedication to ancient plastic. I am in a similar predicament with my goblins but have no such resolve.

Anyway in honour of your red hot riders...

The Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain

Celebrimnare the Smith's son who was doomed to love the maiden of Ellyrion did smithy upon the prince's anvil a token of his affection for the Royal daughter. Devotedly he laboured always by moonlight and starlight and often beneath the Prince's withering gaze. In only twelve short years the boy produced for his beloved princess a suit of armour wrought of finest ithilmar the like of which not even the prince himself did possess. And upon the night of the Feast of Deliverance he did present it to her father in token of his great love.

But the maiden herself never saw it.

For her father the Prince, in his aloof disdain would not have his young daughter duped by the new-made trinkets of a lowborn craftsman. He thanked the lad for his efforts and paid the boy's father handsomely but no sight of the maiden in her ithilmari battledress had any elf that night or ever thereafter.

The only elf ever who beheld the work of the blacksmith's son was the prince's farrier, who though he wept at such folly did as his duty bound and so produced four hundred ithilmari horseshoes for the prince's cavalry.

Yet it is said that a virtue lay upon them. That so dearly were they forged once in love and then once more in such great disdain that ever will they gird the feet of their wearer, granting both the surety of youth's first love when the riding is hard and vigorous and the disdain of all evil and foul influence when the ground underfoot is unforgiving and treacherous.

Now though almost all have been lost through the years of terrible war yet still the Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain remain a tradition among the people of Ellyrion. Whereupon on the eve of the Feast of Deliverance any young elf of ignoble birth is suffered to present to his Lord a token of affection wrought in ithilmar and fit to adorn the noble daughters of the court. And though they be masterfully crafted as oft is the case the Lord does still receive each gift in aloof disdain and hand it over to the farrier who collecting the treasures of devotion and disdain will fit as many horses for war as may be shod.

And so the tradition and production of Horseshoes of Aloof Disdain continues to bless the Silverhelms of the house of Ellyrion to this day.

Ha! That’s brilliant! Thanks, I’ll have to paint their shoes in silver now which might be a bit tricky, but I’ll give it a go and try for a close up shot of a raised hoof or two.

youwashock wrote:That's awesome, gobert. I look forward to following the progress as you breathe life into those old elves.

It’s going to be a slog, but spaced out through the year shouldn’t be too bad.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Holy cow, that Void Panthers group shot is Excellent job! Love how those shoulder pads ended up popping. They look really impressive arrayed as a fighting force.

Really cool take on the Necrons! I like that ghostly glow a lot. Thanks for sharing your step-by-step, it's valuable data to inform further Contrast experiments.

Excited for the elves!

Thanks Don, I’m liking how the Panthers are coming along, bling but a little grimdark too. The Contrast Crons have been refreshingly quick to paint, they’ll be good palette cleansers after the Elves I reckon.

Viterbi wrote:Those glamour shots are really great, Necrons look cool on their snowy bases and cool to see the Void Panthers in all their glory again and all the BSF minis.
Gotta echo the others, that's a cool 2nd project for 2021, good luck in getting your high elves finished, will watch with interest.

Thanks Viterbi, the dark background seems to help my camera better deal with the brightness of my lights. I’m kind of excited about plans to get the Elves finished, even if it’s going to take a while!

howie wrote:They're some very old high elves. Looking forward to see how they progress and what you do with them.

Thanks man, they’ll take me a while but it should be good to have them done!

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,

Never did find a photo of my converted High Elf Spearmen. But here is the description: I used a craft knife to separate the bottom of the spear shaft from the foot and a careful cut at the should under the should armor. Now you had one spear arm and spear separated from the mono-pose model. Mount the spearman on a diagonal base and glue the shoulder joint back on a bit of an angle. Makes it so you have a slightly different pose from the others and it can fit nicely in between the unmodified ones. I even went to town and cut the heads off and re-positioned them looking forward as well for some, but it was not necessary.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the pointers CB, I might give that a go when I get around to the Spearmen, it’ll be good to have a few slightly different poses. I’m thinking that one of them will get to be a banner bearer as he’s missing his spear having donated it to be the sword of the other units banner bearer! I just need to find a suitable icon for the top

Yorkright wrote: Love those pics with all the models together from Blackstone and the marines. I really want to pick up those cultists now after seeing yours. Helms are coming along nicely too!

Cheers Yorkright, most of the BSF stuff has been a pleasure to paint. Some of them have daft gaps between parts, but great other than that!

**amazingturtles**

I love the shoes of aloof disdain. It's that kind of collaborative storytelling that makes me happy to be here. That and the excellent minis, of course.

It may be a lot of elves but i have faith! magical things can happen with elves over the holiday months or something like that

**gobert**

amazingturtles wrote:
I love the shoes of aloof disdain. It's that kind of collaborative storytelling that makes me happy to be here. That and the excellent minis, of course.

It may be a lot of elves but i have faith! magical things can happen with elves over the holiday months or something like that

I can’t claim collaboration, I just removed the spoiler to share the joy! It seems the Crowe is a s talented with fluff as he is with feathers!

. Hopefully this lot will join the rest of my Elves on the shelf soon enough!

I think I’m making progress with these guys, I’m not sure how much though as I spent about 3 hours painting white Caparison

Here’s my first pass;

Clearly the folds aren’t deep enough to handle such wide shadows as Ulthuan Grey is too far from the white. So I ended up mixing a 2:1 layer with my white and that seemed to step down the transitions quite a bit. They’re still far from smooth, but the white is so chalky (I’m not overly impressed with Army Painter) I was losing the will to continue! I might need to find a better white for the rest of the army (any suggestions? Maybe I’ll try apothecary white). Here’s where I knocked the shadows back to;

I’m calling the Caparison good enough, I might add the blue line back to the Champion. The symbol on the horses head seems to have survived. I think the horses will be a mixture of greys and palaminos. They’ll be the next job where the mage will rejoin the party.

Thanks for looking!

**Ezki**

Painting white is always a pain. I understand the feeling when you lose the will to continue, especially after painting so much white.

Did you use a white primer? If I'm to paint white, that's usually my way of cheating.
I also tend to avoid pure white, and paint the areas with Ulthuan Gray for example, then highlight the highest parts with pure white.
An off white color looks a bit more natural in larger areas and the coverage is slightly better.

However, in my opinion they are looking quite good already!

**youwashock**

Up close the transition may seem harsh, but in the pictures it looks good.