Man-flu Painting

So this week has been a bit slow painting wise due to the dreaded man-flu that I picked up on Tuesday. I have however now finished my Khorne Daemon army by painting this Soul Grinder. The Khorne Daemons have only been painting to a tabletop standard as they have been part of my Freebootaz motivational challeneges each month so I didn't have enough time work on them as I would have liked, however as far as tabletop standards go I am really happy with these. I will most likely give the gold areas a wash at somepoint.



Also on my desk this week was my Crimson Fist Vindicator. He's seen so many battles recently but not seen a paintbrush so I thought I would treat him to a paint job. Again this paintjob is nothing special. The yellow and black stripes were done using masking tape and a few edges of yellow will need to be cleaned up. The metal areas are just boltgun metal with a black wash. The whole tank was painted with a mix of Necron Abyss and Black and highlighted with Ultramarines Blue.

Slaaneshi Daemon Prince is Complete!

He's taken just under a week to paint (I've painted very little else in this time). I'm sure on total of hours but I would guess around 10 hours which isn't too bad.



As you can see I've had a poor attempt at NMM gold on his trim. I've been studying NMM a lot recently and I'm finding the whole light sourcing difficult to grasp and my application of the colours needs some work. I'm only really happy with the gold around his crotch. Maybe one day when I really grasp it I will come back to is and make it look a lot better.





I decided to add turquoise as an additional colour to make certain areas stand out more such as the demonic face on his right hand. Bright colours such as pinks, purples and turqiouse really scream Slaanesh for me and I've made sure all are used in this model and the black areas really contrast well and will match the black armour of the Noise Marines (whcih I will make one day in the future).

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh Painting Update

I thought i'd show you where I am at painting wise with my first of my two Daemon Princes. This is the Daemon Prince of Slaanesh (yes he has lash!). So far I've only painted the skin, the teeth and basecoated some of the gold areas.

Updates at last!

It's been a while since I last posted. This was due to my painting time being used to practising NMM and a colour scheme for the bases of my Chaos Space Marine army. I have came up with a sandstone looking effect on the ruins. I am quite happy with how it's turned out and how quickly I can produce the effect.

As you can see the base below will be for my Slaaneshi Daemon Prince. Next up will be working out a colour scheme for him.

Toys for Tots Squad

Well here they are. Pretty much done now, I will be sending them off next week so may do the odd little touch ups before they go. I'm a bit disappointed they are only going to be tabletop standard. I wanted to spend more time on them but just haven't been able to find it and I really want these to get to Maldus as quick as I can incase of delays.

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch

I have now fully assembled my Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. I will make the most of him in this state as i'm sure it's only a matter of time before he falls to pieces. He is held onto the Scibor base a lot better than I had expected although I had to use a few stones to weigh down the base to stop him from tipping over. I'm very happy how he has turned out. He is pretty much how I imagined he would be when I planned to make him. I have yet to decide on a paint scheme for him and the whole army yet.

Cortez has no alibi, he's ugly

Way back in 3rd edition Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists was a special character in the Space Marine codex, and he was also the pin up on the front cover. GW thought this was too much for a 4th Company Captain of a chapter who wasn't the Ultramarines and made one of the worst models ever to represent him. I'm normally a huge fan of GW sculpts, but what were they smoking?

That said it didn't stop be buying and painting the model..







The eagle was my first attempt at NMM, that's why it just looks yellow. I did have a go on the metal but painted over it as it looks too grey. SInce I've taken the close up photos I've noticed I really should highlight the base.