THE WARMASTER HORUS

Wow, look what I just found in my inbox!

I'm sure that many of you have been waiting a long time for this, as I have!

Here he is on the Forge World website.

Until next time!

FULGRIM FROM FORGE WORLD

Seeing as faeit 212 is down I thought I'd post this picture I just received in my inbox.

Looks like Fulgrim will be the next Primarch well be seeing from Forge World!

TARTAROS WIP

Hey all! I had to stop work on my Tartaros Terminators after having problems with the new metallic Games Workshop paints (a problem I still havent resolved!). However with a few hours of spare time over the last few days and a mad urge to do some painting  I did manage to get some more work done on one of the Terminators!

Being an easily distracted person I couldn't help but skip between stages, hence the reason why the armour on the legs has been completed whilst the metal areas on the arms are yet to be tidied up.

Small posts like this genrally get me motivated to paint so hopefully there will be more updates soon!

until then!

TARTAROS WIP AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Well, I did it! the last Terminator is done and now the whole squad is waiting for paint.

...and a group shot.

Overall the assembly was harder than what I was expecting. I've worked with Forge World before but some of the casting on these guys were alot worse than anything I've built from them before and I'm still gonna have to touch some areas up with modeling putty. However the look of the final unit far outweighs the trouble I had building them. I absolutely love the design of the miniatures and I'm trying to find an excuse to add more to my new army.

My next purchase will be an airbrush just after Christmas. I want to take my painting up a notch with these guys and hope I can do this amazing kit justice.

But for now let me finnish by thanking all my followers and readers for the support they have shown me and the blog over the last year, your all awesome and I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

TARTAROS WIP AND DARK ANGELS REACTION

Heres the fourth Tartaros Terminator.

The completion of this guy means that I have now officially done more hobby work in the last two weeks than I have done in the last two months! Posting regular like this with smaller progress has motivated me to get the squad done so I think I'll be doing more mini posts like this one in the future!

DARK ANGEL RELEASES

Photos of the new Dark Angels Releases are up on Natfka's Faeit 212 Blog!

This looks like its going to be an awesome release! I'm really hoping that the Dark Talon above will be a available for all Space Marine armies, I know I'd definitely buy one.

Until next time!

TARTAROS UPDATE

So I've assembled another Terminator over the last couple of days to go with the squad. Still hoping to have them all built before Christmas.

...the shoulder pads are still however a massive pain!

In some related news I saw some pretty awesome Doom Legion Tartaros Terminators in a White Dwarf daily post. Does anyone know if the artist has a blog? would love to see more of his army!

Until next time!

TARTAROS WIP AND SLOW PROGRESS

So since my last post real life has gone and given me a real running kick to the quads! Progress has been torturously slow as I haven't been at home much, let alone had time to work on my hobby and thus I've constructed a grand total of two Terminators since my last post!

Progress has also been hampered as the kit itself is a pain to assemble! The shoulder pads come in two parts and its hard to get them to fit to the arms properly whilst its hard to get the waist attached to the legs correctly and I had to use Brown stuff to get a good enough bond.

There has also been alot of air bubble to fill in with the models aswell and I've noticed that when washing the kits with water that more tend to appear.

Aside from the problems with assembly I have to say that the models themselves are drop dead gorgeous! They are still bulky enough to be easily recognisable as terminators yet they have a much more human silhouette to them.

I had hoped to have these models done by christmas but that is now looking very unlikely. I'm gonna wait to get an airbrush before I paint these guys so am gonna use all my spare time to get the models assembled and ready to paint by the 25th.

Wish me luck!

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

The blogs been quiet of late and with good reason. What with all the new Horus Heresy releases and rumors of new space marine releases coming along soon, I've decided to start redoing my Dark Wardens army. The majority of it is now finished, however I did start it over two years ago now and the longer I stare at it all the more and more things I spot that I think I could have done better.

Which brings me nicely onto my next mock up picture...

Here is a mock up of the first of a squad of Tartaros Terminators I recently received as a gift for my birthday. I'm going to step my painting up a notch with these guys and the next purchase I'll be making is a proper airbrush and some of the new GW paints aswel as some weathering powders from forge world. The construction of these guys is going slowly at the minute as I await some custom pieces I've ordered (more on that next time!).

I still haven't decided the exact load out for these guys yet. I know I am going to have five of them ride around in a Storm Eagle with a Ragnar Blackmane 'counts as' but I need your help in deciding the best/killiest/fun loadout for them. If anyone has any thoughts could you please leave me a comment as I'm not much of a gamer and need all the help I can get!

Whilst on the topic of Forge World, has anyone else caught the Horus Heresy bug of late?...

This is the other Wargaming related gift I received and I must say that this is indeed a fantastic book! Is it just me or can Forge World do no wrong at the moment? After furiously reading through the book I've been fighting of the temptation to start a Death Guard Force! I really cant wait for the next book in the series and all of the new resin crack that will surely follow in its wake!

Anywho please drop me a comment if you have an idea for the terminator Wolf Guard loadout. until next time! 

IV SQUAD

So I'm suffering from a bit of painters block at the moment and decided yesterday to display all my models out in front of me to try and kick start my imagination. Whilst doing this it occurred to me that I didn't have a good photo of any of my rank and file Dark Wardens on my blog. With this in mind I printed off a photo background and got a few snaps with my iphone (no Camera at the moment and still haven't got those desk lamps but here goes anyways...).

These guys were painted over two years ago now (I'm a slow painter!) and as I constantly stare at them I see things I could have done better but I think that there still fairly good for me at least. With the rumours of a new tactical squad getting released next year it made me wonder what to do with my armies current squads, Should I replace them or start a new army? I think that if there different enough I might just paint another company of Dark Wardens and leave these guys as be but time will tell.

LORD COMMANDER UPDATE: Work hasn't progressed as well on him as I like due to my inability to get the mould right. I'm going to find a more accurate way of measuring them before I give it another go. 

Hopefully I'll regain my painting bug soon and I have some progress on the army  to show guys. As always thanks for reading.

Until next time!

LORD COMMANDER WIP

Well the Magnate Guard unit sits mostly complete, all I need to do now is finnish painting the last few bits and then its on to the banner (which will likely be a project all of its own). However I really haven't felt the painting urge of late and so I decided to move on to a project which I have been conjuring for several years now...

I present a very early WIP of Lord Commander Bron Sagar, Chapter Master of the Dark Wardens. He is for now a mock up of what I intend but does give a pretty good idea of what I hope he will turn out like. You will notice that the lower half of the body is a (very bad) resin cast of a 2005 GamesDay space Marine model.

NOTE: Now making casts of a model like this lies within the grey area of legality and so it is worth me mentioning here that I have no intention of ever selling this model and would point out that this conversion would have been very hard/impossible to do using the metal miniature itself and thus is the reason why I cast it up as a resin piece. In other words, please don't sue me GW (or condemn me to death for Techno-heresy!).

This is my first venture into resin casting and I was very pleased with the results considering that this was my first go and I never intended it to be perfect. I had initially try'd to sculpt a pair of walking legs earlier to get the same pose but I could never have hoped to attain the same level of detail. The torso is the MK8 torso from the tactical squad set which has had some details carefully carved away and replace with Rivets to represent a row of studs on the gorget and and shield on his chest respectively.

Next step now is refining the casting process and getting a usable lower half to attach to the torso.

Until next time!

GOLD TUTORIAL

Well I managed to get some progress done on the Honour Guard squad (or the Magnate Guard as I will be calling them) and was able to get enough WIP shots to throw together a tutorial! The photos are not the clearest but should give you a general idea.

NOTE: Most of us know that painting on many thin layers is better than a few thick layers. I have found that this is essential when working with gold paints (at least with the old Games Workshop paint range). The only steps that did not involve several thin layers were the final line highlighting stages.

Step One


Undercoat the model with Chaos Black spray paint. Once this has dried use a large brush to apply a thin layer of chaos black paint to ensure a smooth and consistent coverage.


Step Two

For the Basecoat use a 50/50 mix of Scorched brown and Shinning Gold. I found that I had to paint three to four layers using Eavy Metal Medium as a thinner


Step Three

Next, apply a slightly thinned wash of Devlan Mud. I applied a second wash to the deeper parts of the model.


Step Four


Reapply the 50/50 Scorched Brown and Shinning Gold Mix form step two, making sure to leave some of the last step showing through in the more recessed areas.


Step Five

Apply a layer of shinning Gold over the last layer again leaving some of the previous stage showing through in the recesses. This is the most visible layer and will take around three to four thin layers to get a good coverage.


Step Six

For the first highlight stage use a mix of approximately 60/40 Shinning Gold to Mithril Silver. Apply as a line highlight to all of the edges of the model.


Step Seven

Finally use Mithril Silver as a line highlight over the previous stage on areas which would catch the most light. Make sure not to overdo this stage as too much Mithril silver will ruin the effect. I often applied the Mithril Silver as a small 'dot' rather than paint it as a line.

Finished

Put it altogether and your done! Thanks to Rev over at Stahlys Tale of Painters whose recipe I adapted.

This tutorial was made using the old GW paints but should not be to hard to translate over in to other ranges.

Until next time!

MODELING PUTTY AS AN ADHESIVE

Well todays post was going to be a general update post. I'd got some snaps with my Nikon of my entire army as it stands but due to a shadow in the warp I've been unable to transfer them over to my laptop. So instead I grabbed my trusty I-phone and got a snap of my Land Raider.

This is the first finished picture I have of this beast (once I have the funds for some more desk lamps I'll post some proper pictures of it). Unfortunately I had a problem. The side sponson had fallen off several times, no matter how much glue I used. I was also trying to avoid adding glue to the very edge of the sponson as I did not want to get any on what I had painted so far. Enter the Brown Stuff!

This is a modeling putty very similar to Green stuff (albeit with a slightly funnier name). Just like Green stuff it can be sculpted to create detail or entire models. Brown Stuff dries harder than Green Stuff and sculptors will often use it to sculpt hard edges such as armour plating ect. and reserve Green stuff for organic things like fur and skin. The two can even be mixed together. However many people often overlook the fact that modeling putty can be used as an adhesive.

Granted, it uses are limited but if you are struggling with a large surface area where the the parts are not quite close enough together then you may well want to consider it. I wouldn't use it on smaller models with the exception of pinning where again it it useful if the pin is preventing the model from fitting together properly.

The bond on my Land Raider is now rock solid and much stronger than the glue I was using. You can use Green Stuff to do the same thing but Brown Stuff is probably slightly better and I went with it as I have both! I bought all of my sculpting gear from Heresy Miniatures a couple of years ago.

I hope people find this post useful. As soon as funds are available I'll being buying more desk lamps and this will hopefully mean alot more posts!

Until next time!

HONOUR GUARD WIP

 Below is a (Blurry) Picture of a 99% complete Honour Guard Marine.

There are only a few small details left to finnish on the rest of the squad excluding the banner (Which will likely be a small project in itself!). Work on the unit has been delayed recently due to a combination of a hectic work week, a lack of supplies and finally a bout of the dreaded man-flu, so virulent that Nurgle himself shed a tear of joy!

As always thanks for reading. Until next time!

Oh and incase you haven't seen it already check out the how to sculpt series by Mr Pink Here. Its awesome!

HONOUR GUARD WIP

Here is a tiny update on the Honour Guard unit.

I finished painting the Black on the armour and Stormbolters and also completed the bases. The black took me a long time to do but isn't very evident in this picture as most of the black armour is on the back! At the moment I'm working on the Power weapons and am working out a decent recipe. I started work on the helmets aswell but I'm still thinking over how I'm going to do the marble on the banner pole.

Until next time!  

HONOUR GUARD WIP

Here are some WIP photos of where I'm up to on the Honour Guard!

As you can see all of the Gold and most of the other details are done. I've still got to highlight the black and finish other things like the power weapons and bases but all in all I'm quite happy with how these guys are turning out.

I also managed to snap a photo of the Scabbard I made from plasticard and rivets (the Fabricator General would be proud!). My i-phone's camera was insufficient to capture it in proper detail but none the less I'm still quite chuffed with it!

Thanks for reading, until next time!

P.S. Some of the more eagle eyed of you will have noticed that the banner pole is painted a dark green. Im hoping to paint a marble effect on it and wondered if anyone has any tutorials on how they would do it? I've done one before but want to see if there are better ways out there!

HONOUR GUARD WIP

So heres a quick update on the Honour Guard unit.

I haven't applied the Gold very neatly in this ruff and ready picture so the black areas are gonna need a repaint but you can get the idea of the overall color scheme of these models.

The marine to the far left has had all the highlights applied whereas the rest have only had the first highlights done. I tryd applying the gold in several thin layers to get a better effect with mixed results ( the last two were better than the first two). I'm painting the heads separately and I think that ill take some photos of each individual step and make a tutorial on how its done.

So what do you think? As always your comments are appreciated!

STORM EAGLE, REAL OR FAKE?

Well I'm interrupting our usual schedule to bring you pictures of a supposed Storm Eagle by Forge World.

Awesome right? or is it? Some people have already pointed out that this comes suspiciously near to april 1st and we all know how games workshop love their april fools pranks (I'm sure we have all had a giggle at how to roll Citadel Dice!). That being said it is also possible that this is a real kit! I have to say that at the least it is a very high quality fake. What do you guys think?

LAND RAIDER UPDATE:

I feel the need to apologize for the lack of Land Raider pictures. The truth is is that I've been rushed of my feet lately as I'm having to attend several weeks of courses in order to be trained for a new job (This and the fact that I'll probably have to find a new home soon are also the reason for my gloomy february post which again I need to apologies for!). However I have a course and work free slot coming up in just over a weeks time where Im hoping to give you guys a proper post.

As always thanks for reading!

HONOUR GUARD WIP

I was able to get more work done this week than I had been expecting. I had two different Bitz orders arrive meaning I could finish the Land Raider (which will be getting its own post in the coming weeks) and also finish making my Honor Guard unit which will be played using the Wolf Guard rules.

I haven't got a name for the unit yet though the fluff is that each marine represents one of the eight companies and act as an envoy and champion for their respective Captains as well as a bodyguard.

They all wear a highly modified suit of MKIII armour and each wield a Storm Bolter and Power Weapon (or Relic Blade depending on points) with the exception of one who has a combi-flamer. One will also carry the Chapter Standard. I plan on painting most of their armour gold which should make them look suitably regal.

I'm also starting to get the hang of my camera and only need to sort out some 'shiny' issues when I take photos of my models. I would appreciate any advice if any of you guys know how to fix the problem as I really want to get some high quality pictures of the rest of army.

Thanks for reading everyone, until next time!

LAND RAIDER CRUSADER WIP

So here are some more WIP pictures of my Land Raider. Again these were taken on my phone and this time also in atrocious lighting so some of the highlights appear much more stark than in real life.

I still need to Tidy up some of the paint around the details and also need to finish painting the headlights and add paint chips as well as the sponsons and hatches.

That's all for now, feel free to drop me a comment and I'll see you soon!

LAND RAIDER CRUSADER WIP

Here's a quick phone pic of a Land Raider Crusader I've been working on (my first Land Raider ever in fact!). The cream areas consist of a base coat of Bleached Bone followed by a wash of Gryphonne Sepia with a final highlight of Skull white.

I don't paint the interiors of my vehicles to my normal standard which is why there are some blotchy areas and heavy highlights, however I must say that I'm quite pleased with how the engine block at the back came out. Hopefully I'll get some more pictures up once the whole thing is complete.