Not dead!

Honest.


Or at least thats what the papers say.

I've been busy oddly enough; college, rl, painting. Sucks but such is life.

Just started painting my entries for this sundays GD, I swore last year that I'd leave myself plenty of time to do a good job this year, but I have no idea where the last three months went, so...

My entries this year: LotR dwarf banner this one, though not that scheme. and an ancient goblin netter that I managed to get my hands on recently. Neither has had any work done to them (except a sculpted base for the dwarf) and both are currently at the basecoat stage.

So yes plenty of time again, but at least the dwarf will be done even if the goblin isn't and you shall have pics in the near future, whether or not that will be before sunday I can't say.


Thought I'd just check in, oh and welcome kuffeh :D


Any thoughts/advice welcome.

Cheers
E

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

HELP!

Help desperately needed and fast.

Firstly im in a rush,

secondly hello to the new follwers, nice to have you with me!


Right the reason for the rush, The last pics I posted were from a comp, between then and now there was another comp (which I won!) there's another comp today at 1pm (1 hour and 10 mins away), but (and it's a BIG but), I'm not sure whether to put eyes on the model or not (its the new angry Blood angles chaplain, keep forgetting his name), those of you who have him will know that there are no eyes sculpted on. Aha, Lemartes (I remembered!).

So, he has no eyes, do I either leave the holes blank or put a white dot in there?


Any responses within the next 20-30 mins would be most appreciated, unlikely, but what the hell.

Cheers
E

Edit a slightly distant pic



I'll put some better ones up after the comp, haven'ty time now.

Finished models

I finally have pics of some of the stuff from the comp (that I'll stop harping on about soon, honest). I've only got time to put up some of the pics, but hopefully they'll tide you over for a little while.

Without further ado, Old Death Company Assault marines:












I understand and agree that the bases and weathering a little rough, but they were done to as trict time limit and whilst working on several other things as well; aside from that, I think they're a pretty reasonable army standard, anybody agree?


Balin:








Only thing that's changed since January is the base. I'll admit I'm starting to see why peole stress the importance of the base, it has set it off quite nicely, even if I do say so myself.


A question before I go, would you rather I update all of the stuff I do or should I stick to my best painted stuff?
I should warn you that the later would mean very few pics from me, as I've been on a speed painting bent since I did so dismally in terms of painting an army for the GT.


All C&C welcome.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers
E

Phaarphenootie

As I saw an american kid on the tv once say.

Well I had pics of the painted dread, the marine squad I'm working on for the astro rumble or stumble 8 or 9 and one of the bikes that I'm working on, and most helpfully Kodak easyshare has eaten them, so my apologies but no pic updates tonight, I'm too tired.

I did however, meet the new store manager of my local GW today and got one of the last skull pass boxes. Now I'm not sure whether or not I mentioned it on here or not but I'm currently trying to do a goblin army on the cheap, to get me back into warhammer, what with the new ed and all (as I'm sure is fresh news to the internet community). Adding them to my first box (from when it was first released about 4-5 years ago) it makes about 2k with a few upgrades and conversions. How to do the fanatics cheaply is beyond me though, so I think I probably will have to get myself a box of them, though I might be able to stretch the usefulness of the box a bit.

I'm half way through a couple of conversions for them at the moment (pics were also eaten), I've cleaned 38 spearmen (2 others had already been used) and I got through 15 archers tonight, so not doing too badly but it's looking a little unlikely that I'll have a 2k army for the 10th.

Especially with the new manager planning monthly painting comps, which I am pretty my honour bound to compete in.


Good to get all that out of the system, well done for suffering through it (all 0 of you that read this far).


Oh and hello to the new members that've popped up since I last said it, hello! Welcome to the ramblings and infrequent pictorial updates :D


I think that's it, I will get the pics in the next couple of days.


Gnite
E

Finished marines

Been longer than intended, sorry about that.

Anyway, the other half of the giant crusader squad, the Initiates:

The whole unit, impressive aint it? Atleast from a distance.




His eye is a bit off, but being as this is only a low-middle gaming standard I'm really not bothered enough to change it.


The other stuff I've been working on since I last updated, chaplain:



Second attempt at his leg, bionics and artificer style armour.


Another missile launcher armed marine for the two fire support squads, the second of which I am now painting.


The reason for my unreliable blogging:

Pulled this off the base of one of the dreads, proof that old Papa Nurgle had an eye on me.


So anybody got any suggestions or comments?

I'd like to keep up the stream of comments recently, it's been great, thank you.
(and I'm not being sarcastic either)

Cheers and thanks for reading
E

Edit Thought I'd add in that I've got my models back from the store now, so you'll be getting pics of the winning models in the next few days. I've also been cleaning goblins, masses of goblins. I will be able to do that army even if it's not to 2k.

Finished Neophytes

These were an experiment in speed painting, so they're only done to an apoc army standard. Let me know what you think.











I know the bases are iffy, I was told as much within 2 mins of putting them on astronomicon. They will end up closer to the ECs, but I'm short on Badab and energy.

At least they are now legal, being as the base isn't bare.

C&C?

I have pics of other projects, but it's late and I'm tired so G'nite.

Cheers
E

PS Normal standard of painting will be resumed soon.

sorry about that

Painted marines in my previous post.
I have no idea how to delete a post, so this is wasted space.

Cheers
E

Painted marines

Part of a fire support squad, the chap with the lascannon is being painted differently just so I can try another different way of painting black.













My first plasma gun, second attempt though; I started to do it orange/yellow but the basecoat and the highlights didn't come out so well, so dropped that and ended up with this.

Only done to an army standard, so I'm pretty pleased with that little lot. The more observant of you will notice the missing iconography (bah humbug), I think I'll do them as Templars of Eraithia (my version of the B;ack Templars) but I haven't the energy for fiddling around with transfers at the moment, so that'll be left till the rest of this lot is at the same point then I'll just blitz the whole lot at the same time.

The black is adeptus, heavy wash of badab then fenris grey highlights.

C&C anyone? Go on, you know you want too.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers
E

Some people

I was trawling the mini sites as I am sometimes want to do and saw this.

All I can reasonable saw to that is: egads girl, you're fantastically mad; I completely approve.

That, I have to say, is one of, if not the most inspring pieces of terrain I have ever seen.


I hope those of you that see this will give it a look, it is worth it.


As to what I've been doing, I'm still slogging away at the Templars, I almost have a unit completely finished; in fact it should be done by the time I go to sleep, so you should get pics fairly soon.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers
E

Finished Dwarf Lord

This would be the guy that got second at the local comp that I believe I mentioned. Thought you might like a look.













The dull pics are taken without flash. He was originally goiung to have a white beard beard but I ran out of time

Painted in about 6 hours, a hell of a lot faster than I intended, but I was doing 7 assault marines, 5 bikes and a dread at the same time, all to the same deadline.

The more I look at him the rougher he gets tbh, but nevermind; I'll do another version in the future and spend a lot longer on him, really is a nice sculpt.

And yes I am aware he hasn't got any eyes, probably the reason he was beaten by a model dubbed "the gay elf" (by the owner, not me).

As for what I'm doing now, the Templars have progressed a reasonable amount and I'm trying to figure out a way to do a 1K goblin army on the cheap for the release of the new rules, being as I already have the Skull pass models ( about 500 pts) it shouldn't be dreadfully expensive.

Thanks for looking.
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