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The HQ carry your sheme really well. As does the infantry.

Thining down paints to washes has often really interesting effects.

Maharg wrote:Just caught up on your blog, great summary of last year, I think the elves are my favourite, I'm especially impressed you fought through the huge batch painting on those spears! Looking like we're in for another bumper year with the progress on the Necrons, and looking forward to seeing you expand on the Blackstone Fortress

Thanks Maharg, I’m really happy with the Elves en masse, it was on bell of a slog, but totally worth it! Hopefully the Necrons give me a good leg up this year too.

Olthannon wrote:Bloody excellent Gobert. Your colour scheme is dead good. I really like the croissant model, interesting design.

Thanks Olthannon, it’s a really cool colour scheme, I wish I could take full credit, but John Prins is the OG on the colours. I just tweaked the arrangement! Yeah the croissant is a cool and odd design

darkkt wrote:Great necrons - the croissant is very nice, and the guass blaster wash is a really cool effect.

Thanks darkkt, the Gauss blaster wash is dead easy and looks really good to my eye.

Not Online!!! wrote:The HQ carry your sheme really well. As does the infantry.

Thining down paints to washes has often really interesting effects.

Thanks Not Online, I’ll have to get some close ups once they’re all done

A good session was had tonight, I think I’ve pretty much got the minis themselves done. Though I did spot a few orbs and random base scarabs that I might go back and touch up. One of the big slogs and huge consumer of paints is the base coat on sanded bases, but I smashed it out in a single sitting whilst vaguely watching a few painting videos and a formula e race on YouTube. Here’s where they stand right now;

That was pretty fast for a full army gobert.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
That was pretty fast for a full army gobert.
Cheers,
CB

It’s especially fast for me Captain!

I’m edging ever closer to the end of this little project. Over the past couple of days the stone bits on the bases got a mid grey applied. Then tonight I slapped on a dawnstone stipple and drybrush followed by Administratum grey. Next will be white to give it a nice cold and frosty look before I redo the scarabs on bases, fix up some missed glowy orbs, paint up the dead marines on the leaders bases (I’m thinking they’re Void Panthers) then lastly throw down some Valhallan Blizzard

Thanks for looking

Fast and fierce work, they look fantastic. Like the ideas you have planned for the bases, looking forward to it. You'll have to do some close up shots when all's done!

 Olthannon wrote:
Fast and fierce work, they look fantastic. Like the ideas you have planned for the bases, looking forward to it. You'll have to do some close up shots when all's done!

Thanks Olthannon, glad you like my base plans, as you’ll see they did turn out to be dead Void Panthers. I’ll be sure to take some nice pics when they’re all done, but the OG squad of warriors was pretty hard to photograph with all the reflective surfaces

Last night I powered through a fairly long painting session despite my arm giving me pain. Annoyingly it seems the problem with my arm is exacerbated by painting minis, more than anything else. I went to a physio who gave me some tiny exercises that should be easy but are actually quite painful. Hopefully they’ll do the trick and I’ll be back to full capability soon.

Anyways, enough about my ailments and on to painting progress. I completely ignored my previous post and skipped a few steps to mainly focus on the bases. I started with a drybrush of white to add a frosty look. Next was a subdued version of my Void Panthers on the dead marines; Retributor Gold, Liche Purple, Black & Leadbelcher. Instead of the usual Nuln Oil Wash I went with Agrax to dirty them up. Then I stippled black around any gouges before adding some Blood for the Blood God in the open wounds. The hidden base scarabs got a Leadbelcher coat before the ghostly green wash. The missed orbs on the Skorpekhs got their first glow stage too. All of the bases got at least one spot of Valhallan Blizzard.

As they were finished I threw some black on the rims of a few bases, making 3 Scarab bases my first finished minis of 2023:

The rest aren’t too far off, there’s a few skulls on bases, and the orbs that I missed. There’s also a couple of bits of Kastallan robot on the Canoptek Reanimators base. The cape on Doom Croissant could do with a highlight too.

That’s all for now, Thanks for looking!

Keep at it gobert.

Hope the arm feels better.

Cheers,

CB

Good luck with the healing process and your arm. The Necron force looks good. Dead Void Panthers? That's heresy! Certainly the Emperor's gold and purple guys would never fall to this xenos scum!

Nice work.

Captain Brown wrote:Keep at it gobert.
Hope the arm feels better.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks CB, being my dominant arm I can’t seem let it recover, so I figured I may as well get on with painting minis!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Good luck with the healing process and your arm. The Necron force looks good. Dead Void Panthers? That's heresy! Certainly the Emperor's gold and purple guys would never fall to this xenos scum!
Nice work.

Cheers DJ, I’m sad to report but the Panthers ultimate fate is to morph in to my Black Legion. There’ll be a it more loyalist VP painting to come before that happens though!

Last night I managed to sneak in a bit of hobby time as Mrs gobert was out for a work dinner and I managed to smash through the bits I needed to finish off! The missed mini scarabs got the lit glow and orbs, the cape a highlight, the skulls painted, the Kastallan bits highlighted and all of the rims painted black. Here they all are!

I even took some smaller group and individual shots, but they’ll take AGES to edit and upload. For now you’ll have to make do with pics of the Scarabs (again, sorry) and the squad of Warriors:

In this one you can see the Void Panther leg poking out

And it’s heel

I think the glow and black orb combo works pretty well on these

Next are the Warriors


These new warriors have a great shambling horde look

There’s a couple of near duplicate pics extra in the gallery if you want more pics. If not, I’ll be posting the more interesting units over the next few days

As ever, Thanks for looking!

Looking supoib Gobert! The Necrons look great, really get a frozen metal feel combined with the snowy base. Hope your arm feels better!

These scarabs are adorable in that scheme. Good job, you made an ancient horror machine look adorable.

Olthannon wrote:Looking supoib Gobert! The Necrons look great, really get a frozen metal feel combined with the snowy base. Hope your arm feels better!

Thanks Othannon, frozen metal was certainly the aim point, glad you like them.

Not Online!!! wrote:These scarabs are adorable in that scheme. Good job, you made an ancient horror machine look adorable.

They are tiny and cute aren’t they

As promise here’s another batch of pics, this time the Desthmarks. When I bought the combat patrol box I didn’t really look too closely at the contents and thought l was getting some immortals and Lychguard as I wanted both for Space Marine Adventures. As it turns out I quite like them, the glow on their guns was fun even if they were a PITA to build and it looks like a missed a few cables too!
I like the pool of blood by the Panther helmet in this pic




For those mourning the loss of Void Panthers, the helmet was a cast of the Space Marine Adventures flamer chap. It was terrible apart from on one side with a massive seam, so it got chopped and out here. The others are beyond repair eBay rescues and a space 2nd Ed Bolter hugger

Thanks for looking

Those Deathmarks look really cool, gobert. You have quite successfully adopted the "Prins Technique."

 youwashock wrote:
Those Deathmarks look really cool, gobert. You have quite successfully adopted the "Prins Technique."

Thanks youwashock, johns technique is really good. I’m not as fast as he is, but it speeds me up loads and looks great!

As promised, I’m back with more. This time it’s the turn of the Immortals. I bought the Combat patrol box predominantly for these guys with using them to play Space Marine Adventures with my daughters. Now they’re all painted, maybe they’ll want to play?





I was looking forward to painting these guys, but head stripes aside I think they’re the weakest link in the colour scheme. I think it’s the gun that the problem, the glowy bits are a bit dull and they are missing black orbs. Still I look forward to Space Marine Adventurers shooting them!

Next up are the stars of the show, the Lychguard. I’m really chuffed how they turned out, the so low on their shields are my favourite bits of the entire army. I also think I managed to get some decent poses on what were fiddly and fairly benignly posed stock minis.




I took a few closer pics too

And there’s a bunch of individual shots in my gallery


This evening I also resumed Void Panther activity. Back in the autumn I started the second half of an Assault Squad. I then got distracted with the Necrons, but now they’re finished I’ll finish the Panthers before moving on to something fresh.

I really enjoy the gold on the panthers now that I’ve got the recipe down and use the reflection of my lamp from the metallic paint to plot out the highlights. That’s all for now, more Necrons to follow

Nicely done on the Lychguard! The sword-and-board ones are hard to pose well, you did good!

Brilliant work Gobert, the Lychguard are very cool.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Nicely done on the Lychguard! The sword-and-board ones are hard to pose well, you did good!

Thanks Gwyn, means a lot form such a necron officianado! Yeah, quite a few of the early poses were really derpy, I was relieved to get them posed nicely

Olthannon wrote:Brilliant work Gobert, the Lychguard are very cool.

Thanks Olthannon, I need to get them facing off against the Void Panthers soon

Carrying on the Necron posts, we’re on to everyone’s favourites; the Murder Buckets! I love their nickname so much I keep having to google “Necron murder buckets” to remind myself that they’re supposed to be called Cryotothralls




I like how they’re looking lovingly at each other in this next one!

And a couple of individuals ones


Thanks for looking

Ha! Murder buckets! Love it.

I feel like necrons get all the best nicknames, like with their croissant fliers.

I like your no nonsense paint scheme. Feels very true the army.

You’re necrobs are looking great! Awesome work

theCrowe wrote:Ha! Murder buckets! Love it.
I feel like necrons get all the best nicknames, like with their croissant fliers.
I like your no nonsense paint scheme. Feels very true the army.

Thanks theCrowe, it’s a John prins special, and he rarely disappoints with quick and effective colour schemes! And yea the Necrons definitely get the best nicknames

itsonlyme wrote:You’re necrobs are looking great! Awesome work

Thanks itsonlyme, I’m glad you like them and welcome to my plog!

A couple of individuals tonight, the Plasmancer and his Plasmacyte. First up the little dude;

For such a small simple mini, he’s actually pretty characterful, almost inquisitive from some angles

Grub like from others


And menacing

All in one little package

Their boss though is very much a withered old man


Not intentional but I like how he ended up with a Void Panthers hand on his base!

I like how the skull on the base is hollowed out on this mini, a neat little detail

I also like all of the scarabs crawling on their bases, adds a nice creepiness to them I think

Thanks for looking!

Murderbuckets and the plasmancer look awesome!
Touches like the voidpanther hand make this just that much better.

Great looking stuff Gobert, been a while since I last checked in but loving the Zoat and the BSF characters from a few pages back! Great work on the Necrons too, very cool scheme going on and the gloss back accents really set them off.

Not Online!!! wrote:Murderbuckets and the plasmancer look awesome!
Touches like the voidpanther hand make this just that much better.

Thanks Not Online, they’re cool minis aren’t they. Some times we all need an extra helping hand sorry!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Great looking stuff Gobert, been a while since I last checked in but loving the Zoat and the BSF characters from a few pages back! Great work on the Necrons too, very cool scheme going on and the gloss back accents really set them off.

Aye, it’s been a while TH! Good to see you’re still around. The Zoat and BSF characters were great fun, so much so I’ve spent a load on all of the Annual and White Dwarf characters! I agree, the gloss black orbs finish the look well, I think the black of orbs is my problem with the immortals. Btw, what’s your insta username (the link in your signature block isn’t working :’()

Some more pics of Necrons today, carrying on with the Characters, we have the Royal Warden and the Canoptek Reanimator. First up the Warden





And the Reanimator




Closing in on the end of the gang, with just the Overlords, Skorpekhs and Croissant to go

Thanks for looking

Man, those look legit scary. The moody green + the black orbs have a great nightmarish effect.

Really fantastic work Gobert. I really like the black for the "metals" it really adds to the cold feel of the models. The detritus on the base of the Reanimator is a nice touch.

muette wrote:Man, those look legit scary. The moody green + the black orbs have a great nightmarish effect.

Thanks muette, they’re pretty ghostly aren’t they and yeah with the black orbs I was going for bottomless pit/antimatter kind of vibe, so kinda nightmarish to me at least.

Olthannon wrote:Really fantastic work Gobert. I really like the black for the "metals" it really adds to the cold feel of the models. The detritus on the base of the Reanimator is a nice touch.

Thanks Olthannon, as I was putting them away the other day I think the latest batch have a nicer looo ok their black metals, and it sets off the glow and the green metals nicely. The detritus was fun, adds a bit of variety after the slog of the horde!

I’m back with some more Necron action, this time it’s a trio of Lords; the Indomitus Skorpekh Lord and Overlord, plus the combat patrol box Overlord. So I’m ascending Rank and seniority;



This view gives a good view of the Void Panther I think



Next up is the Indomitus Overlord




And finally the Overlord from the Combat Patrol box



And to prove there’s no hard feelings between the competing Overlords, here’s a nice brotherly pic

Thanks for looking

I love the work on the blades on the overlords, it looks great!

Stellar work on the Necrons! Enjoyed looking all the pictures
The contrast between the snowy bases and the models themselves works very well.

The lords look awesome. The bases look great aswell, what did you use for the snow?