Hey guys and gals, decided to make this project log to show my mediocre progress on all my projects, so here you are, hope you enjoy and all criticism is welcome.
First of is my space marine project, rather short lived they got lost in the warp (I left them on a bus in Manchester) and they have not been seen since.
Was a shame i lost them, but i guess thats life, time to move on to another project :grin:
Hile gunslinger! I like your color scheme quite a bit, although it looks like in that closeup picture the light is washing out some of your highlights. Nice crisp, clean style, especially on the tank.
I am sorry about the loss, hopefully you'll be able to replace them.
I suffer from the same issues with images when I take photos, typical northern english weather. Instead of using flash (like your close up) try and cobble together a cheap light box (A4 white paper and a box top works well) and having a well lit room.
Hope that they eventually turn up so that you can use your lost in the warp fluff.
As my sig may suggest iv been working on a vampire counts army whilst doing my space marines, and since their disappearance they have made a jump to the foreground.
My plan is to have one horde of 40 spear armed skeletons, the first few are made here:
And a necromancer to keep that big unit up to full strength:
Hey guys, to replace my space marines im going to start a Space wolves army that has gone renegade, lead by a possessed Rune Priest.
Picked up both battleforces to give me a decent basis in troops with lots of kit bashing:
And here is the army list, more pictures as I get them done.
Rune Preist
Chooser of the Slain
Wolf Preist
MeltaBombs
Dreadnought
Heavy Flamer, Wolftooth Necklace, Plasma Cannon
Traitor Space Wolves sounds like an interesting concept. Really like that you've bought both battle forces to mix and match, you should get some good conversions out of them.
Due to imminent release of 6th edition iv decided to put my space wolves on hold just in case I need to make any changes in the army list.
So to keep me occupied until then iv re started my High elves from last years Storm of Magic tournament at my local gw, so iv bought some new models and have created a new paint scheme.
First up is my Spearmen unit, which will later become a mini horde of 32 spearmen, all of which can fight:
And my Sentinel, which iv used spare parts from elsewhere to make more unique:
My archer unit will probably be made smaller as my list gets finalised, but until then here it is:
And my Hawkeye, again tried to make it look special:
Hey Gunslinger I noticed you are in Golems home town
Have you seen this? LINK
We are looking to help gamers and to have a Heresy people there would be amazing. Also we have a gaming room should you ever need a place to play
Just thought i'd mention it as you are localy placed, an if you want your Necrons destroying by my Eldar i'm always up for a game
Hey mate thanks for the link. Once I get a decent sized army and get back into playing with the new edition il be sure to look you up, always looking for new opponents.
Trying to force my self to paint some skeletons in between doing my dissertation, repainted parts of the ones iv done before and am happier with the colour scheme, and have finished ten, now working on another ten, want a deploy-able horde of 40 plus ten or so more for extra summoning.
Its hard to see in the picture but they are based with mourn mountain snow.
Im not sure what made me want to go snow themed when i first did them last year and now im not sure. i just left it for now because i seemed to have based about 30 bases ready.
what do you think? should i look to change? i dont really have an established fluff yet either so thats not helping make the decision for me
Nice models. The metallics could do with a bit of scruffing up though. They look a bit clean for undead weapons. Also, what happened your pics from the first page?
I knew i forgot something, got the pot of nuln oil out all ready and everything.
And im not sure what happened to them, i cant remember what i was using to host them, i had to re do the undead ones. im sure il figure it out at some point.
iv re painted the sword black and then heavily dry brushed necron compound across the blade trying to keep the back more dirty and then highlighting the edge of the blade chainmail.
i will do some rust when i get an orange paint.
Also heres a close up of the bases. Id really appreciate some feedback on whether or not the snow scheme works and if not what you would suggest as a alternative.
I would wash it with a watered down black wash and a blue wash to give the show depth. I would also look for some fine sand to use to simulate smaller clumps of snow.
It looks a bit flat to be honest. Maybe painting the sides of the bases a different colour might help the snow effect stand out more, like a brown shade. Also, if you added some static grass and had the snow sort of drift up one side of it it would look much better.
Ok guys cheers. Been looking at some tutorials online and I think I'm going to have to abandone the idea that this will be a easy gw texture paint job and do a more complex basing on them.
Also in another note really appreciating the feedback and advice. Cheers.
Woodland scenics. Buy a snow shaker and you will have enough snow for ever and ever and ever. Just watch what glue you use as some glue will yellow with age.
Whilst i have been trying to decide what style of basis to use for my army i'v realised that i also need to start thinking about a theme for my army. Anyway i think i want to do a Lahmian army with a converted Isabella at its head. really like the model, not so sure about the head though.
All the fluff i'v read seems to suggest that Lahmian armys are often more like a tomb kings force so was considering getting some tomb kings shields of a bits site and try and create a tomb kings style force whilst still using the new better skeletons.
I was also considering using the tomb guard models instead of grave guard.
What does everybody think?
Cheers
I found a great tutorial for basing so they should look much better now. I have some dead grass for the other ones but the necromancer's has a lot going on as it is so im going to leave it the way it is.
Iv also nearly finished the necromancer and another 9 Skeletons now that all the bugs have been worked out so should have more to show by tonight.
Ok completed my Necromancer. Im fairly happy with how he came out, especially the face (i hate painting faces hence why i went with undead) Let me know what you think.
Looks good, very neat and tidy. I think a few washes would really make it pop though. Sepia on the cream of his cloak, agrax earthshade on the brown, badab black on the staff, and maybe a very light blue or green on the face to portray how unhealthy a necromancer should be would be a good start. You jthen just highlight with the original colour. Very simple, but very effective. I find washes have helped a lot of painters raise their game a notch or two.
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