Khador Plastic Warjack - It has a base!

Well, I didn't quite manage to finish this liked I hoped.  This was mainly down to an overly long Canadian Grand Prix, a couple of bottles of wine and half a bottle of rum.  Ooops!  I did however get this fellow off his stilts and onto a base, decided to throw in a bit of snow as Khador is supposed to be a bit wintery and it's something I don't normally do.

So here's the mini-update photo:

I'll be trying to crack on with this some more before I get distracted by Game of Thrones later tonight.

Khador Plastic Warjack - Nearly Finished

So managed to get back to some painting after a little sojourn into europe.  I've cracked on an done my best to get the warjack I started a VERY long time ago to a point where i'm hoping I can fit in finishing over the weekend between work and the watching the Canadian Grand Prix.  After getting some basecoats down with the airbrush, as well as some pre-shading, I went back to my trusty paint brushes to continue what I started.  The photos are just taken on my desk under daylight from the window, but they give you a rough idea of where i'm up to here.

Without further ado here's the photos:

So i've still got the axe blade to do as well as the "bonnet hatch" handle.  I'm going to do some work on the piping either side of the boiler.  weathering wise i'll be adding some rust, chipping and some soot in the appropriate places.  I suppose I should build it's base at some point as well lol

Charcaradon - Rhinos Part 1

So I sprayed a base coat on all the tanks using my airbrush, they are now mostly a solid coat of Vallejo Air Medium Sea Grey.  This was a great and very fast way to get a good start on this army, something that will be repeated on the other models to come.  Now as I stated many moons ago, this army is going to be a departure from my usual clean painting style and I will be trying out lots of weathering techniques (shamelessly stolen from the Forgeworld Masterclass book).  So here is as far as I have gotten, mostly spongework applying GW Charadon Granite over the basecoat.

So there you have it another new beginning, more from these to come soon as well as an update on my Scythes of the Emperor.

Khador Plastic Warjack - Continued

If you remember ages I go I put together and primed a khador warjack.  I decided to get some more practice with my airbrush messing around with this. Here are the results in dodgy photo fashion.

So I tried to get a bit of shading on the red and then masked it all off to spray the metal basecoat on.  The shading has worked better in some areas than others but an ok start, the vallejo air paints are so much better than standard paints and I noticed a definite difference when I changed between the two.  My masking was also a lil shoddy and I probably should have taken more time over it as there were a few spots I missed and got some bleeding.

The intention was always to heavily weather this jack anyway so shouldnt be too obvious in the final outcome. So next up will be to use some washes to shade the metal and to darken the shadows on the red before I get to work with some traditional highlighting and Glazes.  Then onto the weathering.

TTFN!

Demons!

Ye gads! Not another distraction!  Yes, kind of. This is me trying to get back into Warhammer Fantasy taking advantage of a campaign i'll be taking part in with the Wednesday Goths at GW Poole.  It's only 1200 pts and like the Grey Knights it will only be table top standard, also I'll be taking advantage of demon units being very mono-coloured to BLAAT on the basecoat with my airbrush hopefully cutting down on time a lot. So without further a do some photos.

First up I converted some furies using plastic GW Ghouls and GW Tyranid Gargoyle wings, Fez's to be added when I'm green stuffing the gaps.

A lazy conversion on the Changeling to create a Tzeentch Herald with winged horror.

And some fairly bog standard flamers and seekers.

And made a start on my personal nemesis, skirmish movement trays.

So as you can see I've been keeping myself busy.  Here's the list I'm working to also.

Herald of Khorne BSB, Armour of Khorne - 140

Herald of Tzeentch Winged Horror, Master of Sorcery - 160

30 x Bloodletters with Full Command - 390

6 x Furies - 72

5 x Seekers with Full Command - 140

5 x Flamers - 175

1 x Fiend - 55

1 x Fiend - 55

TOTAL - 1187

TTFN!

Grey Knights

Ooops I jumped on the bandwagon.  Deciding that the new sculpts were too nice to pass up (even if it is more to power armour to paint yawn!) so I've got some stuff put together namely these terminators (photos are pants soz!).

Not very interesting I know however I also previously had put together a dozen grey knights in power armour and a dreadknight together to test my airbrush out on.  For these I primed black, sprayed the Vallejo Air (VA) Rust, then VA Silver before a couple of washes and a brybrush of Citadel (GW) Mithril Silver.  I have to say the VA paints go on super smooth and it's so fast getting a basecoat on with an airbrush, literally amazing.  Photo quality again is bad however the dreadknight is closet to how these look for real.

These are ready to start having detail cut back in, i'll take some better photos when there is more to see.  However I'm definitely pleased with my cheapo airbrush the performance and convenience is top notch.

Following is the list in working towards.

Grey Knights - 1750

Xenos Inquisitor with 3 x Servo Skulls, Force Weapon, Psychic Communion - 64

Librarian with Shrouding, Sanctuary, Warp Rift - 165

3 x Multi-Melta Servitors, 2 x Jokaero - 100
Dedicated Transport - Chimera - 55

6 x Strike Squad with Daemon Hammer and Psycannon - 140
Dedicated Transport - PAssBack - 85

6 x Strike Squad with Daemon Hammer and Psycannon - 140
Dedicated Transport - PAssBack - 85

5 x Terminators with Daemon Hammer and Psycannon - 225

5 x Terminators with Daemon Hammer and Psycannon - 225

Psyfledread - 135

Psyfledread - 135

Dreadknight with Nemesis Greatsword and Heavy Psycannon - 195

TOTAL - 1749

A quick catch up......

Well you may or not have noticed I have been somewhat remiss in my presence of late, this is mainly do to getting distracted and being busy sticking things together (not the most interesting thing to blog about).  So now I've made some progress i'll be posting some updates to show where i'm up to, then I keep can you all up to date as I go on.

Also I touched up Sevrin up a bit and entered him in the GW Poole painting contest taking first place, i'll edit in a photo montage of how he looks now one I get the photos taken.

So theres the happy lil fellow as promised.