Christmas Mini's WIP Madness

Here's where I left off after last nights painting session. I'm hoping after tonight He'll be ready for some finishing touches. The idea with the metals is to paint a good base of the second brightest color I'm using and then glaze in successive shadows much like the technique Scibor uses on their figures. I used that technique on his skin and it's looking pretty good so far, not finished but close enough to paint in the rest of the model. 

I should mention he's a 54mm model but a dwarf so he ends up being about an inch and a half from his base to the tip of the mohawk. Neat, here's a link to Scibor's version (http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=628#i/54mm/big/sigurt_the_slash_01.jpg) After he's complete I plan on adding some tattoos covering the left half of his body. Kind of like these. Hmm looks like they went for the tattoos as well.

While I was working on the Dwarf I was simultaneously prepping some E-bay sales. I'm drumming up another Grey Knight Librarian and a Sanguinary Priest. I doubt I'll be able to finish them very soon but every bit helps. 

Here's the base for the Librarian, I had fun on the last one with small freehand designs and this time I added the pattern to a tile floor base.

The Figure itself is coming along. He's a bit of an experiment. With the last knight I painted I based the shadows on a blue tint. This time I wanted to see what a purple tint would look like. Purple and Gold looks good on a wind suit so why not on some tactical dreadnought armor?

He looks a little goofy right now but I'm going to see him through. I think the dark purple will contrast nicely once the other elements of his armor are painted in with warm and bright colors.

Well back to my night with a dwarf, mermaid, orc shaman, and a geisha girl.

What do these models all have in common?

They're all Christmas gifts!

I have my work cut out for me over the next couple of weeks :)

More as they come along.

Necron HQ's Ready to Serve (Pain)

Here are the Necrons I finished off earlier this week. They're safely on their way to Switzerland at the moment. It was very fun working with the true metallics but man they are hard to photograph. 

First we have Imotek the Stormlord. This model was the first (and hopefully last) finecast model I've ever painted and modelled. My heart goes out to Matt Fontaine for his close look into his trial and tribulations with finecast. Check out his Chronicles here: http://www.akaranseth.com/blog/7-8-fail.htm

I was lucky to get a decent cast on try number 2. I should add that Gw replaced the parts I needed in good time.

The Command Barge was a different story and went together very well. I really like the look of this model with the Necron lord riding high.

Since this was a Christmas gift for a younger and newbie to the hobby I thought I should make the Lord removable and with a separate base. Hopefully the little guy gets more mileage out of his gift this way.

I was also asked to list a way to recreate a similar scheme for the rest of the army.

Basic scheme:

Metals- Vallejo oily steel basecoat followed by and wash of badab black then a thinned down wash of asurmen blue. Highlight with mithril silver.

Turqoise- Hawk turquoise wash with asurmen blue. Highlight with a 50/50 mix of skull white and hawk turquoise.

Yellow- Iyanden darksun washed with devlan mud. Highlight with bleached bone.

Green- scorpion green washed with thraka green. Highlight with scorpion green then a second highlight with a 50/50 mix of scorpion green and sunburst yellow.

Base- Bestial brown drybrushed with graveyard earth then a drybrush of bleached bone. Wash with devlan mud.

That should do it :) Good luck on the rest of the army Christophe!

Ravenguard Captain Complete

I finished this guy off yesterday night in another fit of late night motivation :)

Enjoy

Place your opinions here:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/293452

Ezekiel, Graaaand master of Librarians

Never to be caught without his battle gown I'm proud to present Ezekiel. In a fit of motivation I finished him off around 11 last night. I need to keep up a steady pace to hit the goals set before me this week. Having Ezekiel finished is a great start. I wasn't scheduled to finish him for another couple of days but now I can rock out my next single mini commission for the week undistracted :)

Vote!

http://www.coolminiornot.com/293273

Knight of the Obliterated Table

Oh haha what a funny title...

He's off to the races:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WH40K-Pro-Painted-Grey-Knight-Space-Marines-Librarian-/330653009477?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cfc748645#ht_500wt_1202

Good fun with True metallic metals. It was a challenge to control the metallic paints in the same way you can non metallics. Then Photograph them, I see why many pro's use Non Metallic techniques.

Yesterday was a great day for painting, I finished off all the Nercon commissions and the Knight up top. I was still motivated though so I got an early start on this weeks objectives.

My plan for the week is this, finish Ezekiel here, a Ravenguard Captain, begin my Dad's Christmas mini, and start up a big big project starting from the ground up. I almost forgot, I have some tabletop quality space wolf terminators to rock out as well. There's also this week's personal project Friday which is a day I'm growing to love more and more.

Here's that Ravenguard Captain as he was sent to me.

Oh precious resin, save us from finecast.

Metal Minds

My next goal is to paint a small Necron Commission composed of Imotek the Stormlord and a Command Barge. Since I'll be working with all that silver I also Put together a Grey Knight Librarian. 

First, the Necrons. I'm planning on building a seperate base for the lord that's missing from the command barge. As far as a scheme I think a turquoise and yellow theme seems nice. I'm not sure how all the green tubes will interact with this scheme. Maybe keeping the yellows to a minimum will help a bit. Hmm...

This model was very fun to build, I just went to it and this is what came out. I like the way the servo skull is filling the negative space. in front of the model.

We'll see how he comes along :)