Release the Boars

Just a little progress update. I've been a little busy for blogging lately. Also my new camera is sub par..eh, what are you going to do. I need to mess with the settings. So with the warning that these photos suck..read on..

I think I pulled in a little too close on these ones. I'll have some more official photos when the project is closer to the end. 

I've also started the humans needed to run the demo scenario. So far they all have their skin done and I pulled this guy off to the side to finish. He's about 75% there in this picture. He's missing a few highlights and bad ass Tattz..God I hate that word. All the more fun to use it.

Enter the Wreck Age

I was fortunate to meet Anton and Matt from Wreck Age over the Adepticon weekend. We hit it off and by the end of it I had every sculpt they have in print. Looking good has it's advantages sometimes.

http://wreck-age.net/

I'm happy to say I'll be painting a great deal of their starting line :)

To get the ball rolling they asked me to paint the figures used to run their demo. 4 Stakers and a group of outcasts: 3 boars and 2 men. 

Very cool sculpts. They have that whole true scale thing going on.

After priming them with the black and white I dusted on some khaki tan to set up my canvas.

Next up I started to sink my teeth into some bases.

I've decided to start with the boars. Correction, the boars with explosives strapped to them.

I've been painting away on them and should have some more pictures after this weekend's camping trip. Maybe I'll be eaten by a bear. Maybe I'll come back and make a blog post. The world is full of options.

Hive Tyrant on the way

This evening I finally found the time to finish off the Hive Tyrant from the previous post. He was difficult to photograph due to the size of this model but I wanted to throw up a little teaser shot.

I'll be sorting through the final pictures tonight.

To alleviate the tunnel vision I started painting a model from my Infinity collection. A great model, I was pleased that the body was cast in two pieces to avoid a large flat spot on the bottom of the coat. 

So far so good, just a quick shot.

Tyranid Hive Tyrant step 1

First off, I'm back from Adepticon. This year was bigger and better than ever, I missed some things but there was plenty of newness around the corner to more than make up for that. I'll get around to posting about it soon, at the moment though I'm just getting back into the swing of things. So more on Adepticon later, for now I need to get my blogging juices flowing again :)

Day 1 being back from Adepticon had me going to the store and picking up a Hive Tyrant for a Commission I'd postponed until the post Adepticon time slot.

I started by sculpting up his base and doing my best to eliminate the massive amount of joins on the kit. Here are the legs after a white primer. I've always enjoyed the artwork of the Tyranids where they're in the midst of a full blown invasion and half the planet is already taking on a more Tyranid form. 

The next step was to do some brush work. The air propelled kind ;)

The next steps will be laying down basecoats and deciding where which colors will go. The basic idea I'm going for is a muted red, white, and blue scheme and since he has no metal areas I don't have to worry about metallics or non metallics. I'm going to take a movie monster painting approach to this guy use a lot of glazes and inks..plus plenty of slime.

3 days Left!

Are you ready yet? 

I'm talking about Adepticon and I'm happy to say I've completed four entries for the Crystal Brush, which at the moment I'll have to hold off on showing just to be safe and preserve the integrity of the online voting...I guess, nearly nobody reads this so we can feel special that we know of honor and the secrets others do not.

Upon meeting my goals it was back to business as usual. Earlier today I had some time and finished off a Grey Knight Librarian I had started a few weeks ago. Just an out of the box conversion. In this piece I've exchanged an electric pointy stick for a box of skulls charged by psychic powers. 

Get your exclusive psychic skullbox wielding superhuman here.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330718827204?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1156

That's all for now, see you at Adepticon! 

March of the Fennblades

This afternoon I finally finished my first chunk of Fennblades. Six down and six to go. My Trollbloods army is really starting to take shape, so far I've concentrated on the heavies and the casters so it feels good to knock out a chunk of the rank and file grunts.

There was a slight obstacle, I was trying out my new camera on this group. I think I can get some better photos in the future but then again, groups of models are always tricky.

I've also decided I need some objective markers for my Dark Eldar. What else would they be after at Adepticon if not custom objective markers? So I got to thinking, what exactly could they be out there to accomplish. I let my mind wander and decided they would have to be rounding up some favored pets of one of Commorragh's Haemonculi...Sort of goofy but in a good science fiction way and now I have an excuse to build some pathetic creations of an equally bored and cruel 300 year old Haemonculus.

So we have these...

6 Days until Adepticon. Now are you ready?!

Display boards a plenty

I sat, crouched, leaned, stood, and dug with Brother John this Sunday. I had a tall order, complete 2 boards for Kevin and jazz up my own. John had one on deck for his Crimson Fists. So here we gooo.

First a group shot of all the boards in various stages of progress.

Here's a good example of something simple. Both of these were made with soil, pva glue, and a few assorted kits. Also a helping of grass.

Here's a little more advanced piece. Not complete but John's been making progress since Sunday. 

Looking good so far though :)

I've also started a unit of Fennblades for my Trollbloods. I'm trying to squeeze out one more unit before Adepticon.

At this point I'm about to work up the metals. Here's a little shot of the colors I plan to use.

9 days left, are you ready yet?