Finished dwarf miners

They won me the comp before Lemartes (in which I did have some competition).

Less talk, more pics:




















Pretty pleased with the way they came out, especially since the majority of the painting was done about 5 years ago. The candles and the lanterns came out well for my first try (at least, I think so), they were what stopped me from calling the models done back when I first put paint on them.

Any recommendations for painting candles/lanterns in the future?


On a side note, I ended up picking the Dreadlord on cold one for the competition this month ( this saturday), the store has sold out of them and I haven't got one yet, so it'll be another rush job and I happen to know that there are at least two people already entering, so it will close this month.


Test model for the Spider riders is almost done, but having attempted to learn the new addition with the wee green monsters, I can confidently say I'll be damned lucky if I get above the bottom quarter at the GT in October, hopefully I'll get a nomination for best painted army, but I may just be clutching at straws due to the tiny amount of time I have to paint this horde.

Ah well, I never did say I wanted an easy life!


All C&C welcome, thanks for the comments so far and the following and I hope I haven't bored you too much.


Cheers
E

Lemartes-done for the time being

More as a chaplain than himself, if you know what I mean.









He did win the comp, but a somewhat hollow victory as I was the only entrant.
Painted in one night, so forgive the roughness, he'll be cleaned up once I bring him home.

As to the model for this months comp, several people have suggested I boycott it due to the ubnpopularity of the new manager and the restrictive rules of the comp, but I'm quite drawn to the bundle of free stuff, even if I don't know what it is yet.

So the model for this month, I had decided on the Empire Captain with Hammer and Pistol (This guy) but the full timer has asked me to find a mini that's available in store instead; slightly difficult due to most of the nice character minis being order only now!

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Oh and the goblin test mini is currently in production.


Any questions/comments welcome.

Cheers
E

Templars and another dread

So I managed to find some pics of the dread before it was painted, wasn't sure I'd taken any, so enjoy and please someone leave a comment, I dare you!

You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the fully assembled and converted model.
















I've also done another quick unit, this one for fire support:




The bolters haven't been done yet if you were wondering.

I quite like my way of doing eyes, admittedly it's a little odd compared to the GW version, but I'm not too keen on lenses with reflection, no inner light. Whereas with these it's space wolves grey then skull white so it does stand out but not to the extremity of those that are painted to be glowing, which are a bit much imho.

I've been playing around with skin colours and washes tonight, might get a pic up for you later.

Cheers
E

Finished Emperors Champion

I said in my last post I was going to get him done for Sunday and surprisingly enough he was. The pics:









Only done to an army standard; fairly quick actually 6-10 hours, somewhere around there. I've definately got faster recently.


So, good people of the internet, your opinion please.

Cheers
E

PS Before I go, I found this earlier. Simple idea, but I'd not thought of it, looks good in my opinion.

Pics

I suppose it's a little late, but it only seems like afternoon to me (yes I am still in the UK, just didn't get up till the afternoon on monday), so the pics, yes well, here you go:
My first ever 40k mini; ah, let me rephrase that, my first painted 40k mini, as you will see I have a fair few assembled and/or converted ones.

From a tabletop distance

http://i30.tinypic.com/2enyjvb.jpg (Big Pic Link)

From the front

http://i27.tinypic.com/2i9i0cp.jpg (Big Pic Link)

The right

http://i31.tinypic.com/hs511d.jpg (Big Pic Link)

The back

http://i30.tinypic.com/dwzwqa.jpg (Big Pic Link)

The left

http://i25.tinypic.com/1nzrjt.jpg (Big Pic Link)

All Citadel Colour Paints will be reffered to as "CC"
All Citadel Foundation Paints will be reffered to as "CF"
All Citadel Washes Will be reffered to as "CW"
All Vallejo Game Colour Paints will be reffered to as "VGC"
All Vallejo Model Colour Paints will be reffered to as "VMC"
All Vallejo Model Air Colour Paints will be reffered to as "VMAC"

ALL PAINTS ARE THINNED. SEVERAL THIN LAYERS INSTEAD OF ONE THICK ONE.

Colour list:

1. CC Chaos Black
2. VMC Grey Black
3. CC Codex Grey
4. CC Fortress Grey
5. CC Bleached Bone
6. CF Mechrite Red
7. CC Blood Red
8. CC Boltgun Metal
9. CC Scorched Brown
10. CC Vermin Brown
11. CW Devlan Mud
12. CW Badab Black

Think that's it, if not I'll add them as and when I remembr them.

The colours for the black are, in order:

CC chaos black (basecoat)

VMC grey black (cover all of the areas that are staying black)

CC codex grey (first highlight)

CC bleached bone (second highlight)

CW Devlan Mud (heavy coat)

CW badab black (heavy coat)

The red was:

1. CF Mechrite Red (Basecoat)
2. CC Blood Red (Highlight)
3. CW Devlan Mud (heavy coat, same time as the black)
4. CW Badab black (heavy coat)

The Grey/ white helmet was simply:

1. CC Codex Grey (cover the helmet apart from the eyes, vent's at the top and the bit below the nose)
2. CC Fortress Grey (everything apart from the reccesses)
3. CC Skull White (on the edge)

Just layered with averagely thinned paint (between 1-1 paint - water and 1-2 paint - water). Painted after the washes had been done.

This is one of 5/6 test schemes for my Templar army (Not Black Templar, my own offshoot, fluff will be posted when it's written).

Any questions, just ask.

Btw this is one contender for the army standard, just thought I'd mention that.

Cheers

E