New paintings and repaintings

I didn't really like how the FW venerable dread turned out (the top part at least) so I spend a while cleaning that up entirely.

It was a pain the get the basecoat off. That basecoat turned out to be reason it looked bad because it was rough and not smooth at all. Lots of Muscle ovencleaner and old toothbrush scrubbing later it was ready for a respray.

It turned out better this time, with some painting it now looks like this:



Also my Ravenwing squad needed some more bikes, WIP pic:

Terrain Board

Only took us about half a year but we finally finished the terrain boards. We had a few dismal failures, but once we got the colours right, it went pretty smoothly. There is prob more room for improvement with detailing (like the skull pits) but good enough for now.

Updates

Deathwing Company Commander Belial.

Deathwing, 1st squad


Deathwing, 7nd squad


Deathwing, Landraider


Ravenwing, 1st squad bikes

Ravenwing, 3rd squad Attackbike


3rd Company, Command squad


6th Company, Dreadnaught

New terrain

Been quiet a bit since the great Belial Conversion. I finally decided to do a bit more and make some terrain craters for the new battleboard.

The crater technique I found somewhere (Prob TMG or Terragenesis).
And this page has some nice arid colour advice.

So we start out with the materials:

Tinfoil cake/mini pie forms, plaster, sand, some old cd's and the inevitable woodglue.


I cut off the thick edge of the tinfoil, formed a crater like shape (helps to form it over a round form to get the crater depth right) and then fill it with plaster to give it solidity. Wait for it to dry. Zzzzz...


Glue it on to an old cd, cover the edges with some woodlgue/sand paste so the crater edges form nice and smooth against the cd. Wait it for it dry... more zzzzzzz.


Spraypaint it black.


And use some paint colour advice from the above mentioned pages. Basically a lot of drybrushing various shades of brown and yellow for the sand, grey and white for the crater itself.

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.