DONE: Yaktribe Competition 4, Loriel

Loriel is done. It took me a while to get him painted but I got it done.

Base:
The base is Citadel's Calthan Brown, the sand-glue-paint-water-mix is also colored with it.
The cork is painted with Citadel Codex Grey and washed with Citadel Devlan Mud. Then the cork wash drybrushed with Citadel Dheneb Stone.

The grass on the base is Army Painter's Highland Tuft. Bits on the base are painted with Citadel Dwarf Bronze and Citadel Chainmail. The bronze tube was washed with Devlan Mud and wash made of  watered down Vallejo Hawk Turquoise and the steel bits were washed with Devlan Mud and watered down Citadel Blazing Orange.

Also made a shady gif. I need to construct a some kind of 360 photo stand for these kind of gifs for the future...

WIP: Yaktribe Competition 4, part 4

 Just a quick update on Loriel, started painting. Base coats done, some washing done and started highlighting things.

 It's still needs a lot of work but there's still some time left.

Also started making x-mas tree decorations with plastic beads with the kids, here is one of them, the Shovel Knight. Going to fill the x-mas tree with retro game characters.

WIP: Yaktribe Competition 4, part 3

 Just a quick photo update on my Yaktribe competition. I got Loriel all built and primed. The new smaller book fit his hand well and the all was ready for the primer.

Loriel is made of following components:
Head: GW Vampire Counts Zombie head
Body: GW Iob High Elf Seaguard Stantard bearer
Left arm: GW CSM Chaos Cultist
Right arm: Mantic Zombie
Backpack, knife and belt-buckle-pocket-thing: GW Astra Militarium Cadian Shock Troop bits
Book and hair: greenstuff

WIP: Yaktribe Competition 4, part 2

 The first book I made came out way too big, so I needed to sculpt a new one. This time much smaller. :)

 Then I glued the left arm to the miniature. It's a hand holding a autopistol, it's from a 40k Chaos Cultist.

 To the back side I added a knife to his gear, it's from Cadian Shock Troopers kit. The original High Elf model had some long hippie elf hair on it, so I used that to make the hair look long on the back and bolding on the top by adding hair with GreenStuff.

 The model I still missing the right arm, it's going to hold the book when it's cured. Since that is all that is missing at the moment I thought I just might base it already.

The base is a piece of a cork, with some plastic bits here and there. I used Citadel's Liquid Green Stuff to fill the gap I superglued the miniature in.

Also I drilled the barrel hole, never forget to drill the barrel hole if possible. :)

WIP: Yaktribe Competition 4, part 1

 My Yaktribe competition entry is moving along nicely. Smoothed the robe/trenchcoat a little more and made it look a bit worn. I added a belt buckle and some pockets to the sash that formely was the bow's sash.

 Then I added a small courier like backpack and continued the frontside's sash to go on the backpack. Then I took the knife and made it look worn.

 After the backpack I started sculpting a big book for him to carry around, I thought that it will suit him well because the usernamer Loriel just sounds like a wizard kind of bookworm guy :)

 The book is a piece of a plasticard wrapped in greenstuff.

WIP: Vampire Counts: Hexwraith, part 3

 Started the drybrushing progress on the Hexwraiths. First trying it on one. The one on the left is drybrushed with Vallejo Wolf Grey, the original basecolor. The right Hexwraith is not yet drybrushed but it's in the picture just for reference and comparison.

Same with this picture, showing the comparsin on the progression, left one is the drybrushed and the right one is not.


Now all of them are drybrushed and one I finished highlighting. Also started to  fix the mould gaps on the horse's heads.

 The highlighted one, used Citadel Skull White for the highlight. The thing next to the left eye socket is a thrash from the mould gap fixing progress, noticed it just as I uploaded these pictures, better ones when they are all done.

Yaktribe Competition 4

I decided to take part in a community competition over at YakTribe. It's a competition where you make a model based on another community members username.

If you don't know what YakTribe is you really should check it out, it's a great community for Necromunda, Mordheim and Gorkamorka players. They have the rules, fluff and everything else there for all of these great games that GW doesn't support anymore.
Go check it out now: http://gaming.yaktribe.org/

So about my competition entry, I decided to make a model for the user Loriel. First thing that popped to my mind was a fantasy wizard, but I want something different for Loriel. I'm planning to make somekind of a cyberpunk mercenary psyker/wizard, in the spirit of Necromunda style. I'll post pictures when I get something scraped togerher.

Oh, and here's the link to the actual competition post:
http://gaming.yaktribe.org/community/threads/yaktribe-competition-4.3137/

I started throwing bits togerher and mindstorming what to do, since Loriel's avatar looks like a High Elf from WHFB I'm thinking about starting of a Island of Blood High Elf.

 The body is a Seaguard stantard bearer, I removed the quiver, armor scales, bow and the spear.

 I smoothed the removed scales with Citadel Liquid Green Stuff. It still need some work, but it's a work-in-progress.

WIP: Vampire Counts: Hexraiths part 2

 I continued my Border Patrol list's hexwraiths a bit last night. I blasted the wraiths with Vallejo Wolf Grey over the grey primer. This gave them a whiter basecolor. The aim is to paint them ghosly white at the end and with white you need to start with a darker tone and build up to the bright Citadel Skull White.

 Then I washed them over with Citadels Thraka Green -wash. It looked good on the first wraith so I went and washed them all with the Thraka Green.

They are ready for some drybrushing with the Vallejo Wolf Grey now, but that's for the next part. Also I need to fix the gaps on the horse heads, they just stick out to me too much, can't have that, must fix :)

Goblin Doomdiver

 Painted this Doomdiver fairly fast, I promised to borrow it to a new player, who joined the local gaming stores tournament. He didn't have one and he wanted to play it on the list. So I said I could loan him one. This one is painted with my Night Goblins colorscheme in mind.

I forgot to list the paint's I used but I'll get back to that when I have the pots in my hands, so I get them right on the first try.
With this model I used the brown Maston Primer spray, I thought it suited this model better when it had wood and rusted iron parts.

The marker you can see on the backround is just plasticard with a nightgoblin musican's disk clued on to it, I couldn't find the any extra small flying base laying around so I made the marker out of plasticard. It's the same size as the original small flying base and does the job.

Terrain: Bunkers, a quick weekend project with kids, part 1

 I started a quick terrain project last weekend with my kids. The goal was to craft somekind of terrain pieces with the kids. I got these cartboard boxes from some computerpart package. I dug around my bits-box and found some un used Ork-looted wagon sponsons (the white boxes), some lcd-tv-wallmount-spacers (the black circles), some pvc-pipe bits, straws, plasticard and Mantic-bases.

 We decided to make some scifi bunkers. We made the doors from plasticard and hot-clued some bits and pieces on to the boxes.

 Here some of the Necromunda Enforcers for scale.

 The kids wanted to make them grey, so slammed a coat of grey primer on them. This weekend we are going to finish the painting.

Random hobby update #560934052

 The mailman delivered me 36 inches of green stuff, nice.

  Fell Bats and uncle Kemmler primed, nice.

 Fixed a missing arm on a Blood Dragon vampire. The arm made of green stuff, used another Blood Dragons sword arm as a model, then attached a Black Knight lance to it. Riding Lord Von Carstein's barded Nightmare, he is just borrowing it, Lord Von Carstein will get it back.

Then a sneakpeak of my border patrol armylist. Also Black Knights have their shields already, not shown in the picture.