21 Nov 2014

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.

17 Nov 2014

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.

13 Nov 2014

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 :)

4 Nov 2014

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.

31 Oct 2014

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.


23 Oct 2014

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.