Monday 10 April 2023

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - base and prime TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing Terminators, here they are all primed with Halfords Red Oxide Primer.


Then Army Painter Skeleton Bone, with a slight zenithal highlight to keep some of that red oxide underpaint. The sepia wash will help eventually help blend it together.


Meanwhile, I had another Terminator body, legs but no Thunder Hammer and Stormshield, or at least not a Dark Angel one. I did have Space Wolf shield and hammer, so I took a Dark Angel upgrade symbols and bent it with pliers across the wings [you can see the white sterss points]. I then shaved the front of the shield.


I then glued it and held it in place with crocodile clips.


Which gave me this fella.


Based, with sand and slate.


A better shot of the Storm Shield, and while the Thunder Hammer still has a Space Wolf skull on it I'm hoping it won't be too apparent when it's painted.


 Great Big Big Build RUSTY Stamp of Approval for the build.

I then primed and based the terminator.


As well as all the other terminators, which I haven't taken pictures of but they look like this.


Which gets me a Great Big Big Build BASE RUSTY Stamp of Approval. 



Friday 7 April 2023

#BloodBowl - Orc Team, Varag Ghoul-Chewer - DIRTY DOWN RUST!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Orc Team. Like many I've watched those on YouTube create amazing rust effects with Dirty Down Rust. I've tried repeatedly to achieve the same results but with limited success.


This was my most recent attempt to get it right and although I wouldn't say I'[d recreated what others had I was happier with the result. It might not have created the range of oranges but I did get some sepia to rich browns which I really liked. This was only on the three models on the right. The Blitzer on the left is still at wash stages.


It's here that I began to question how you go about fixing this as my brush on Army Painter Anti-Shine appeared to reactivate the Dirty Down so would I need a spray varnish to seal them?


Or could I brush on my varnish to the one on the left and then add the Dirty Down afterwards to achieve the results on the right? Then what do I do with the 3 already with Dirty Down in place? Would whatever I decide be the same as the others?


Questions - are the death of progress and suddenly my momentum was pulled up right sharp.


I'd finished all the black highlights. All the damage effects and weathering.


All that was left was the rust and how to achieve that - it totally killed my buzz. Having delayed things to get the decals this was not a welcome disruption.


All the extra effort had managed to tone down the red accent colour though. They were still far from my inspirations but I was liking what I had, in fact every WiP pic has had something I was actually comfortable with  but I was determined to persevere with exploring what I hoped to do with weathering effects.


The markers also got washes to add preliminary rust and damage. I particularly liked the different scales of check patterns.


It made them quite interesting and varied.


Varag Ghoul-Chewer also moved on, only to be stalled. At least I chose the Ghoul's colours.


It might have obscured some of the white pattern but it'll get there in the end and I liked picking out his running shoes too.


So, I was left contemplating how to get these over the finish line - the varnish was the issue. Did I need to buy some Army Painter Anti-shine spray? It can be prone to the same frosting as Purity Seal/Munitorum Varnish - do I risk it? Do I even try my half unused Purity Seal, which has sat idle for 11 years and haven't used since it frosted my Hive Guard. But I know how to use it now, but even so, 11 years isn't going to do it many favours...


I got a bunch of sacrificial test models to try some alternatives and in the mean time I had some random models to move along while I resolved this quandry.

Wednesday 5 April 2023

#BloodBowl - Orc Team, Varag Ghoul-Chewer - checks and red

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Orc Team. I continue to be inspired by, but deviate from Tyler Russo's amazing Orks at Billion Dollar Clown Farm and this Orc Team by Robbin Cruddace.


I've added the Orcy checks, stripes and 'dags' - trying to have fun and be varied in what I do and how I apply them.


I also added the decals for their team numbers.


As well as the Orcy horned skull motif as Robin did.


Red accent colours were added in so they were suitably Goff aligned.


The white bits where painted on thinly so it would look poorly applied. 


Rust and weathering will add even more texture to it in the end so I'm not fussed about great coverage.


Varag also progressed, I'm really liking how he's coming along.


And he looks great among his team mates. Although the red accent is a greater deviation from Robin's limited monotone scheme I still like where this is going.


I'd love to have the confidence not to do it but I just can't help adding in those accent colours. Washes and weathering next...

Monday 3 April 2023

#BloodBowl - Orc Team, Varag Ghoul-Chewer and Troll

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Orc Team. I've added all the silver in place and painted the green skintones after my test model.


Of course I did the green skintone on my test model years back so getting it to match is somewhat challenging.


I seem to have gone a bit more yellowy on the newer one.


But now it'll only be the test model that is different, the question will be if it's noticeable...


One concern is the paint is already chipping off, you can just see the end of the spiked knuckle duster on the right sharing bare green plastic.


Having used these in game [just in base coats] other areas are also slightly worn. Blood Bowl players get a lot more handling than 40k models, which is a worry.


However, I don't play Blood Bowl that often and if I do I actually have other teams I could play so maybe their durability isn't an issue at all?


While I was at it I added Varag to the team.


Got his skin painted and picked out some other details.


Really quite happy with him so far.


Although more to do to reconcile the face to something I can call 'finished'.


And my Troll too, I painted the Goblin.


The Goblin will be from my Mongrel Horde team [that will eventually get painted from leftover 2nd Edition models]. But the Troll will float between them and this Orc side, which I still have to decide on a name for.


Highlights to the black and all my Orcy patterning on their team strip next.