Painting Points

I recently read about painting points to motivate yourself to paint stuff and to keep track of how much you have painted on Warpstone Flux. Sounds like a good idea so I guess I'll try to do that as well. Time for new blog block somewhere!

And kinda finished

And this is what it looks like. Head and torso still need to be glued on. I don't know about the pose yet. The cables on the arms need some work. And he needs Belials banner. Other then that he's done I say! I even put him on coolminiornot. Be gentle with the poor guy k?
http://www.coolminiornot.com/220764

Quick Tactical Marine

Got a bit tired of all the detailing and minute stuff, so did a regular Marine with missile launcher from the Black Reach set. Took me about an hour or so in total. I tend to paint in short sessions of like 5-10 min and then go back to other stuff so it's hard to tell how much time exactly.

Painting Belial

It has been a bit quiet, I have been slowly painting things on and off after recovering the parts from the bad spraycoat. I got them white again (this time with GW spray).

I started with the torso and the legs as seen in the previous post. Fuzzy pic is fuzzy:

Nothing major here, just finished up going over all the details, highlighting a bit. The eagly on the chest done nice with DA green and Snot Green. The skull was inked with brown ink, the bones around it golden with brown ink. The 'camera' lenses were given a dot of red paint, the lens holder painted gold and then washed in Badab Black. Touched up the red a bit to keep it vibrant and done
The lower legs got their detailing painting. Red sword, white skull, wash black, touch up red. The amulet with skull was painted gold, the hood black and the skull kept white. Used brown ink to get some depth into the amluet and black wash on the hooded skull to darken the eye socket and give it a bit of shade. Touched up the skull with white a bit after that.

The lightning claws and shoulder pads turned out like this.

The claws were painted Space wolf grey, then a layer of Vallejo Sky Blue (love this colour for power weapons, very vibrant) and then highlighted white along the edges. Some parts and studds and trim were painted gold, washed in Gryphonne Sepia. Cables painted black. They still need some work but meh, cables are annoying.

The left shoulder pad got the Crux carefully painted in Fortress grey, washed in black, touched up in Fortress Grey and then highlighted in white. The trim got painted gold, dots of black wash around the studs, and then washed with diluted brown ink making sure the studs still stood out nicely in gold over the darker brown ink. The edge got a very carefull line of brown ink to create more depth and sharpness. The edges should prob be highlighted in gold again I guess, but it looks very nice atm so not sure.

The left shoulder pad rim got treated teh same way. During the scrubbing of the bad white spray paint the top of the sword in the emblem broke of I suppose because it was gone afterwards. I used the tip of curved horn from the Terminator Lord sprue somewhere to replace it. Oh the irony :) The wings got a diluted coat of DA green, wash black, touched up and highlighted with Snot Green. The sword got washed at the same time with black after being painted red, and then touched up to make it all look tidy and straight.

The cloak and loincloth:

I was going to keep it white at first, but then thought that black might suit Belial better to contrast his white armor. The pelts on top were (once again) washed black, then each 'fur bubble' was giving some Fortress grey and some then Skull White.
The cloak itself was painted black except for the trim. The trim was painted Fortress Grey then washed in black. White stripe were painted on the top fo the folds and then blended (or at least attempted to blend) out to both sides. It's a bit funny how it ended up looking like NMM silver. The top of the black folds got a stripe of Codex Grey+Glaze.

The Loincloth Medaillon got painted gold, washed in brown ink. The skull was thinly washed black. The cloth itself was treated as a small version of the cloak.

The base:

I decided to use the base that came with Chaos Lord. I mutilated the point of the star a bit to make it a more broken Chaos symbol. Sprayed it black, painted streakily with Bestial Brown, drybrushed with blood red a bit, washed in black, kinda washed in Vallejo Glaze+Blood red to keep the redness more in. Highlighted/drybrushed the edges with Fortress grey. GlueD on some sand since my other bases are all desert based, and covered that in seriously diluted brown ink. I will prob add a Choas Terminator helmet somewhere on the ground.

And that's all for now folks!

Primed and ready (and washed)

I love GW washes. They make Deathwing armour so insanely easy. Spray paint white (not so easy), smother in Grypphone Sepia wash, touch up with THIN coats of white a few times and voilà. For Belial I will go for a bit more highlighting and all that but so far the result with the above recipe is this:



(It's bluetacked together)

Disaster recovery

3 days of bathing in oven cleaner, scraping with old toothbrush and wooden toothpicks kinda recovered the plastic parts mostly. You always loose a bit of detail alas.

I also switched back to GW white spray paint. The Army Painter one was just plain crud, a test spacemarine model sprayed with it came out rough as sandpaper too. Could be I am doing something wrong, but the GW one just worked better (not brilliant but meh, it does the trick).

The test spacemarines. Ignored the scraping and the thick paintcoat on the shoulderpad, I was experimenting. Most of my precious Belial items came out looking like the circles areas.


So now I got most part primed white again, and some painted up and washed a bit. Pics will fillow.

Aand disaster strikes

Spray can warnings:

• Shake properly
• Do not use when it's cold
• Do not use when it's moist
• Try new cans out on a spare piece first

Guess which ones I failed to take into account. Yep all of them. All of my nicely crafted Belial parts are now resting in a glass bowl of oven cleaner trying to remove the pitted and very unsmooth spray coat. This should teach me :P

Scratchbuilt Rhino

Here is a Rhino I built ages ago. The templates are floating around on the net somewhere. It's made with plasticard and a few bits from the bitzbox. Looks pretty well cept for the hatch. I gotta replace that with a real rhino hatch sometime now that I have a few spare. The picture quality is a bit meh, cameraphones tend to do that :P

Citadel Modular Terrain

Amidst all the screaming and gnashing of teeth that it's a piece of overpriced junk and that you can make it yourself for 10% of the price, we bought it with some friends. We like it, we think it's worth it. So all you haters can go continue flock and sand your homemade stuff while we actually play a game or 2 :P

Anyways here we are painting it, did this in an hour or 2. The boards really looks nice and are very solid. The stripes are mainly the result of paint drying, hardly any visible on the dried boards.



Next step will be working on the rock faces and cracked earth. After that drybrushing into desert colours for the rest.

Belial Loincloth

Well the loincloth had a chaos symbol, so that got filed of. In place an amulet from a terminator sprue. Some holes might still need to be filled to make it look less tattered.

Just for Tari

A small tribute to Terry Pratchett:

This is a transcript of "Gold--Gold", by L. Fern-in-gully, a prominent Dwarf Beat Poet.
Gold--Gold, (Gold!) gold gold
Gold, Gold. Gold?
Gold Gold Gold. Gold (Gold) Gold (Gold) G(old) (G)old.
G;O;L;D.
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Gold--Gold, (Gold!) gold gold

Belial Cape

Well this was easy and hard at the same time. Nothing to cut, shave or file down. It did however require me to fill all tatters with greenstuff and I already mentioned my love for greenstuffing before. Oh well, hope it turns out ok after the 2nd spraycoat:

Belial Lightning Claws

Next up, the lightning claws. I like these more then the loyalist ones, part of the reason I went with this model. Fixing these was easy. Clip a few redundant spikes and all done!

Belial Shoulderpads

First thing to tackle are the shoulder pads.

The left shoulder pad has some icky demon skull and chaos sign on it. These need to be replaced by a Crux Terminatus. Since my green stuff skills are rather non existent, I decided to go another way. I had some shoulderpads left with a Crux. So, I carefully cut the Chaos shoulder pad in 2 following the raised rim. Next I cut and sanded the Crux shoulderpad so it would fit against the rim of the Chaos one. Glue that together, add the little 'wing' thing from the bottom of the Chaos shoulder pad and done.

Next was the right shoulderpad. I could have use a decal (too fiddley), green stuff (not likely) so I ended up trying something new. I took a DA symbol from the DA upgrade sprue and removed the lil standard at the bottom. Then I sanded down the backside till I ended up with a a very thin plastic DA symbol that was pretty flexible. I gently curved it over a round pencil till it matched the curve of the shoulderpad. GLued it on and made sure to keep pressure on it so it would stick the shoulderpad curves while drying.

The end results looks pretty cool :

The Plan!

The sprue with pretty circles and numbers:

The plan:
1. The cloak. Green stuff it so it isn't as tattered. Otherwise fine as is.
2+3 Lightning Claws. Remove some spikey bits.
4. Tabard/Cloth. Icky chaos symbols! File it off and replace with a more heroic loyal bit.
5. Shoulderpad. This needs to become a Crux Terminatus. I could green stuff it (Rhather not, sculpting skills are crappy).
6. Shoulderpad. Needs a DA symbol. Decals, green stuff or something else.
7 Back Torso. Yeah there is no 7, I forgot to circle it. Can be used as is.

The legs, front torso, head and assorted bits will come from loyalist terminators/my bits box.

Belial, the start

I had been looking around for some model to convert to Belial, when I ran across The Sainted Swords and specifically this model.



Now this started out as a Chaos Terminator Lord like this :


From this sprue:



This looked like a good start, so off I went to purchase one of these.

Layout

I already hate the layout stuff, fixed page width ftl. I guess I need to go html haxzor to fix that. Meh.

Belial conversion

After looking around for a nice model for a while, the Chaos Terminator Lord looked like a nice candidate for a conversion. So now I am sanding, cutting and green stuffing away to get rid of all the nasty chaos stuff. I'll update with WIP pics of this.