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Hey guys,

I've not had much motivation to paint this past few days. I'm hanging in there though, and getting a layer in here and there. I dont know where this slump has come from, but it'll pass, I'm sure.

So first up, the Fast Cav.




The horses are done. Just need to work on the riders. Half way there...

I also started layering the General:


Chainmail is done, and layered the hair. The skin tone is patchy, and despite the armour looking silver, it's just primer and wash. Long way off, but I'll started thinking about her. I'm leaning towards a dark blue armour. The details are hard to see, such a small model, hence why I gave it a wash. Long way off, though.

Also made a start on another Silver Tower hero.



Very pleasant to paint. I dont know how I'm going to highlight the gold. Brighter gold? Silver? I dont have any shield pictures, or pictures of the right shoulder pad (I quite like how I have highlighted the blue).

I made my first hobby purchases of the year yesterday. Some new lightbulbs so I can set up the extra lamps with the light box, and some movement trays for my Fantasy. That's everything that I needed to get, so the rest of the budget can go on new models. I dont have anything in mind, which is good, because I have to paint some stuff before I buy.

Have a good week!
Z

Very amazing stuff as per usual Zambro.

The horses skin is looking very nice, may I ask your recipe?

Thanks!

As for the horse flesh, prime grey then wash Reikland Fleshshade/Agrax Earthshade/Nuln Oil. That horse pictures alone is flesh shade. The Agrax comes out a much darker brown, and the nuln oil is obviously black.
It takes about 7-8 layers of wash right out the pot to look like that. Make sure it's completly dry in between. Less layers for the darker washes.

Thanks!

Excellent stuff. The tones on the horse look brilliant.

Silver Tower hero is look good so far too.

EDC


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Excellent stuff. The tones on the horse look brilliant.

Silver Tower hero is look good so far too.

EDC

For the gold, you could use Liberator gold or Auric Armour gold, followed by a highlight of Stormhost silver.

Hey guys,

Tonight is the list submission dates for the T9A tournament. I'll make some last minute tweaks based on games I played today. Nothing major, but it does mean I'll be painting my Hydra model sometime over the next few weeks!

I've got some fast cav that are freshly finished:



And my harpies are 95% finished. Need to make a few touch ups tonight. No more than an hour of work, I estimate.




Who doesn't love audacious and ridiculous hair colours?

Also finished the movement trays I bought last week. My units look much better on them!



Thanks all for the comments. I will be prioritising the Harpies and 2 heroes I need to do for the tourney. But once they're out of the way, I want to paint 2 Silver Tower minis. Finish up the Sigmar dude and probably do the Gaunt Summoner.

Hopefully I'll be on them by mid-week.
Until then,
Z

Hey guys,

I've not been overly productive this week. Moderately productive, maybe(?). But I have some finished models to show!

Here is my Army's General, in all her fabulous glory.


*edit* Added original pictures. Loads of detail is lost in that combined pic^


And my BSB.


The General got more attention than the BSB. I dont think the BSB got the best painting I can do, personally. I find myself painting my DE to a TT quality, which is making me want a 'painting' army...

And I finished the last little bit of the harpies.


I bought some new (old?) minis from Ebay this past week, too. Irony is I changed my army list at the last minute and dont actually need them... oops... Not too big a deal, I was going to buy them at some point anyway for when I want to run them. It just means I wont be painting them any time soon.

The old DE Shades. The rest of the bits are off camera. They're perfectly clean - I dont think they have ever seen paint.

Made a start on my Hydra, too. I wasn't sure that the 2 shades of green would work together, but they turned out really well especially after the wash.

I need to drybrush it and wash it again (forgot the drybrush the first time around :( ) Hopefully the second wash wont change it too much. I forgot how much fun the big guys were!

Ok, enough Ninth Age...

Super cool model, if a little spindly. I'm looking forward to playing with the blends on various parts of the model!

And here are the final 3 Lieutenants for the Descent base game.

I had the airbrush out and thought I'd get them primed and ready. From left to right, Baron Zachareth, Belthir and Lady Eliza Farrow.

I dont find myself having much progress worth showing after a few days. I think I'm going to switch to weekly updates. It feels like they have more content. Plus it means I dont have to set aside time to set up the light box, edit pictures and ramble about painting every few days.
I'm going to be buying new paint brushes this week. Mine are starting to get a bit tatty. -Oh wow! I decided to go back through my book keeping to find out when I last bough paint brushes... Jan 2016. 1 whole year ago. Sh*t. I guess that's a statement on how worthwhile brush soap is. Get some.
And I'm going to buy some 40k stuff. It's between the tactical squad/drop pod boxset and 5 assault marines. Undecided at the moment. I should probably start chipping away at that battle company target...

And on a personal note, I signed up for a 10k run the first weekend of March. I dont consider myself a runner (at all). But I have 5 weeks to train... Lets see if I can do it! Target is to do it in less than an hour.

Lots of rambling and lots of pictures... But that is all for me.
Z

Nice selection of stuff. I like your general. Her armor looks like a total mish-mash of inpractibility, but overall looks cool. The extreme close ups do look a little chalky, but the arms length looks great.

The two greens on the hydra are perfect. Looks like a real live lizard monster thing.

Lots of interesting stuff getting ready for pain, quite the assortment.

Good luck on the run.

Liking the BSB, she looks pretty awesome!

The Summoner is a great sculpt, and you can pull off some really cool effects with the cape. Best part is, I know you like blues and purples

Nice looking DE you've go there, may I ask where you got those movement trays from?
Thanks

Nie stuff here . Fast Cav and Hydra lokks great .

Hey guys,

Not much on the painting front for me this past week. I finished the Hydra, Knight-Questor and did a few layers on The Guant Summoner. Probably the absolute minimum... But we're all entitled to slacking off every now and then

Here is the Hydra:


I'm super-duper happy about how the purple blended into the green. Stole the idea off the box art - so no points for originality. There are a lot of red parts, which in hindsight I should probably have done differently. Tail, back fin and head crests should stay red, horns and spikes should be a different colour - bone maybe? Happy with how he is, in any case.

And here are the finished Silver Tower pics:



Decided to retake the Darkoath Chieftain's pictures. 2/52 finished. Getting closer...
And a WiP on the Summoner. Finished the cloak / blue parts and the feathers.

Really happy with how they came out! Need to touch up the yellow around the top, but otherwise I really like the blending! Again, another copy-the-box job. Any advise for being more 'creative' / seeing off-the-wall colour combos (I would have never thought to shade green with purple or blend yellow with blue...)?

And finally, what you've all probably clicked into here for, my return to painting 40k:

I got a little excited unboxing it...

Unfortunately I'm not going to get much painting time this week. And when the weekend rolls around, it'll be The Ninth Age Team Tournament.
So this is pretty much it for me for the month of Jan. Thinking back to my year long hobby goals, pretty much on track with all of them. Too early to start ticking them off. But I am going in the right direction. Oh, and I'm changing "Before making any purchases, paint an equivalent number of models already owned." to "Paint more than I buy". Same idea, but I can buy the models without needing to meet a painting requirement. Minor things...

That's all from me!
Z

Yeah, totally knew the Gaunt Summoner was gonna be awesome .

Glad to see you get back into the Marines, but at the end of the day you should paint what you want. After all, it's your hobby. Great update!

Shouldn’t the hydra have a hull mounted heavy bolter? I guess he could be holding one. Nice to see him reared up, ready to snap flyers out of the sky. I agree that bone might have been a better choice, but the red does work. Fine looking monster!

Nice work on the Silver Tower stuff. Cloaked guy is off to a great start.

Good to see some marines. The new assault marines are a fun kit. Good to see some new brushes! We will often plod along with older worn out ones, we forget how nice it is to have clean, fresh tools. It can make such a difference when the brush is working for you, rather then against you. Makes the painting side of the hobby a lot more fun.

Hey guys, a little bit late on this update... It's been a crazy busy friday-monday.

The Cardiff team tournament was a blast! I went LWWLL. Was aiming for two wins, so go me!
Our team came second last (oops...) but who cares. We had a blast, and it was the first event for 3/4 of our team.
Fun time, all around.



I had great fun putting these guys together this afternoon.
They're big and bulky and so familiar, it really was a joy. I didn't magnetise the backpacks. I didn't really feel like going through the hassle, tbh.
Not sure when I'll prime them. Weekend, maybe?

I have done a little bit of progress with the Dark Elves, too.


Just a quick one from me today.
Hoping to get a handful more executioners done by the weekend along with more progress on The Gaunt Summoner.

Z

My favourite models from the Dark Elf range right there. It might be the light, but the swords are exceptional. Fantastic Excecutioners!

Executioners are looking sharp and regimented. Good work on them all around. The metallics are varied enough not to be bland and overwhelming, and the cloaks are ace.

It does feel good to get back to marines. I remember when I was cleaning mold lines off of Dire Avengers, and being miserable. Switched back to marines (and I think they might have been assault marines as well) and was pleasantly surprised how effortless and easy it was to get them together in cool poses. From box to table, they are just easy!

It’s been a bit since I fielded my assault marines on foot. Might have been in the last codex when it was a free swap packs for pod. It’s still nice to have the option. I think it would be more necessary if you were going full company gladius with the free transports. But jump packs remain my preferred way to get them to the table.

Might want to weight the sarge’s base. Look like he might have some center of gravity issues.

Great capes on the DE!

Thanks guys!

Here with some more progress on the Marines.



I'm loving working on them!
I'm going to hold off painting them until the Executioners are done. It'll give me a light at the end of a 30 man unit...

Speaking of executioners


I finished these 5. And got so frustrated at only being 'half way' done that I started batch painting the last 15:


Just finished the base layers + wash. They need layers, highlights and touch ups.
(I just want them done)

Hopefully the next update will have finished Executioners...
Z

Those Executioners are badass models. if they were a little more dynamic I'd have to have some for AoS.

Looking forward to seeing those Assaults, I agree it's just such a joy to go back to painting Marines after a while without them!

It's something different from Fantasy models, so you have to think about it in a different way. You can't beat going back to the poster boys!

Big blocks can be a real pain sometimes, but they are looking awesome, even more so when they're done.

Hey guys,

Got a small update for toy today. Progress on my first assault marine and more gaunt summoned progress.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.






Just phone camera pictures with poor workbench lighting. Cba hauling everything out for a picture setup.
It's also my first time updating this blog using solely my phone. I suppose uploading and typing are easier on the pc, but the convenience of this is shocking. Why didn't I do it before?

I've made a little commitment to do nothing serious on the DE army for the next two weeks and focus on the IFs and ST.
Not including the summoner, I'm 5 minis behind on the average of 1 mini per week for ST. Need to catch up.

Z

Well, since you've been doing a few characters and big blocks of guys (serious burnout potential), I think being under 1 mini a week is fine. Your technique for painting yellow is really something else, very refreshing to look at. Well done!

The dark elves look ace and you are a brave man painting yellow! Well done so far!

Hey guys,

Thanks for your comments on me painting yellow. It's all airbrushed, I'm not confident enough to try it with a paint brush.

Before I gave you those WiP pictures, I finished the Executioners and Corsairs. I was just waiting for a good time to set up the light box. Here are the final pics.




Happy to have gotten those out of the way.

I'm slowly working through the SMs.


He is ready for decals. But I'm going to get another one to this stage and do decals for 2 of them at the same time.

Oh, and an almost finished picture of the Gaunt Summoner. Just need to finish off the dagger and book (ideally tonight...)



I signed up last minute to a Ninth Age Tournament next weekend. I'm excited about it. But I need to get a few things done for it first.

More soon,
Z

That is a brick and a half of Executioners. I didn't think they'd be that many! They are all done to a fantastic quality as well, particularly the banner.

Knew this one was gonna be one of your best. The Gaunt Summoner has been shaded perfectly, I have to say. All the eyes are on point as well. Top class work right there Zambro, keep it up!

Let me present to you, The Gaunt Summoner himself.



Easily my favourite thing I've painted since my Kraken.
I'm really pleased with it. The blending particularly. The feathers are my favourite part of the model. Followed closely by the pink smoke.
Enjoy.

Great stuff, the colour fades on the feathers are indeed the standout part, it adds just enough colour to really make the model pop.

You can tell you enjoyed painting it, I think it has a special quality to it. Very well done!