Dreadtober painting and playing with oil

I didn't progress as well as I had hoped for in the Dreadtober challenge. I was supposed to be ready with the painting and the base this week but I have been slacking a bit to much. The major colors are there and the bases are somewhat ready but not at the point were I would be happy with it.
The coming week will probably not be that productive, with some upcoming events and work.
A picture of the current status, except bases are almost done.

I also gave oil washes a try, very interesting I have to say. The first guinea pigs were the Tiger family. Next will be the dreadnoughts, hopefully with a good result.

 One of the dreadnought bases also got a treat of oil blending, a pleasant and interesting way of painting I think. There will be more of this in the future.

Dreadtober - Build week

I joined the Dreadtober challenge hosted by https://brokenpaintbrush.com/
It seemed like a perfect challenge for me since I have four Dreads that has been ignored for too long. So I will join up with two participants, one Death Company Furioso and one heavy equipped with a twin-linked lascannon.
This week I picked them up and prepped a little bit, made the base for the heavy and glued some pieces together.

I also managed to prime them, but I had all my masking tape in the other house so I could not prime the black parts on the heavy dread.

This coming week they are supposed to have all the main areas painted.

Baals to the wall

After quite some time now I have managed to get my three Baal Predators done, just in time to make it for the ending of E Tenebrae Lux IV.
They will need some more details in some places but for now they are good.

Up next, some SAGA Vikings maybe?

New Arrivals: BA, SAGA and some blisters

The last batch of things from Waylands arrived today. Two rule boooks, SAGA and Bolt Action together with a blister of Gebirgsjägers, some static grass and the rest of the plastic bases for my terminators.

Finally!

Progress week 24

This week I have finished the painting of my Space Hulk terminators (excluding the bases). It took a lot longer then I first thought it would but who is in a rush?

I think they came out pretty well, maybe it would have been nice to have more battle damage on them but they will do. They are gonna get some 40mm round bases so I can use them for normal 40k games too.

Got eyes for you

The Space Hulk terminators are getting very, very close to being done. Maybe a game fore midsummer is possible, just six months late.
Had some time Friday evening to paint the eyes on the Librarian and the Tyranid corpse, minus the guts. The Librarian still has to be given a nice grip for his force axe but then he is done (I think).

E Tenebrae Lux IV

Over at the Bolter and Chainsword the "E Tenebrae Lux IV" has started, so I'm joining the Blood Angels forum with my Flesh Tearers. My first vow is to paint three Baal Predators. They have been sitting around for many years now and I pimped them with some more boxes, bags and stuff so the one with some paint has to be re-primed again.
Link to the forum: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306913-e-tenebrae-lux-iv-blood-angels-strategium/

Space Hulk terminators almost done

I am getting near the end of the Space Hulk terminators now, almost there for the first game!
While junior was sleeping I was able to paint the eyes and some more highlights.

What I have left now is the bare heads, bases, the Tyranid corpse. The librarian will need some more attention as I have painted him separately. I have also ordered some 40 mm bases and I will magnetize them so I can use them for both the Space Hulk game and for my Flesh Tearers.
When I'm done with them I will post some more pictures of both the marines and the Tyranids.

E Tenebrae Lux II - Done for me

My contribution to the Blood Angel's sub-forum is now done.
Four characters: Commander Dante, Corbulo, a Reclusiarch and Mephiston.

Basing will be done later as I am saving up a bunch of miniatures to do at one go.

More assault marines

A proper army for Flesh Tearers should have a lot of assault marines.
So here are some more to join the fray. Basing is not done as I am saving up a good bunch of minis and base them all at once.

Death Company Storm Raven finished

Today I finished off my Death Company Storm Raven.
I put some scratch marks on the edges to make it look like it has crashed down from the sky a couple of times to deliver its cargo of crazy, angry, raging lunatics.

For the base I tried to build something to hide the plastic stand a bit and to match my upcoming jungle terrain. I started off with some cork on the base to make a stony foundation. Then I used a bit of foam left overs and covered it with a plaster mix. After this I added some stones and gravel.

On the table - August 2011

Next up on my table for some care are two 10 man JP assaulters and my Vanguard Veterans. I have been eye balling the Space Wolf sprues for some time and in my last order I got a box of them. They have some pelts, runes and teeth and I think most of this can be made to fit in to the theme of Flesh Tearers (killing tigers with their bare hands or something). With some green stuff and a file I guess the most blatant evidence of wolfyness can be erased.


First up is my Vanguard.

BP/Chain sword, Power weapon/BP and Lightning claw/Storm shield

Thunder hammer and Lightning claw/Bolt pistol

I think I will have to do something about the storm shield, maybe file it down and add some more fleshy items?

The first ten man jump squad, minus the sarge who is almost done and not in the picture. Two arm less melta gunners are in the picture too.

Magnetizing predator sponsons

This is how I have magnetized my Rhino-chassis. I have four Rhinos, which can go as Rhinos, Razorbacks or Predators.
What you need:

• 3 mm magnets
• 3 mm drill
• Some sprue
• Scalpel (optional)
• Super glue
• Marker pen (optional)

First, I drill a hole in the sponson and glue a magnet in there. 

Then I cut a piece of sprue to fit on the chassis. I make sure that I cut it down a bit so the sponson can fit. After this, drill a hole in the middle of the sprue (I use a scalpel to make a small dent to guide the drill).

Finally, glue another magnet in the sprue. Make sure that you have the polarity in the correct direction. Easiest way to do this is to let the magnet go on to the sponson, mark it with a marker pen and then use the mark to remember which side goes first in to the hole in the sprue.

Baal Predators, ready to mow down some xeno scum!

Smoke markers

I decided to make some smoke markers, good for 40k when you pop smoke for example.


What I used:

Poker marker

Paper clip

Some aquarium filter thingy

Glue gun

Skull White and a light grey primer

1. Glue a piece of the paper clip to the poker marker
2. Take a piece of the plastic filter thingy, glue it to the paper clip. I just wrapped it around and then glued the seam. 
3. Prime with grey primer, then add some white when it has dried.

The result

Sanguinary Guard - Update 3

Some haze and highlighting of the edges, pretty happy with it and I don't think I will spend more time on them now. Next I will add some soot effect on the infernus pistol and the jump packs.

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Sanguiary Guard - Update 2

Had some time left over, so I sat down and started painting the weapons of the Sanguinary Guard. I found a small tutorial on lightning effects over the Bolter and Chainsword
I didn't have the same colors in stock, so I have used the foundation Necron Abyss, Valljo's Blue, Vallejo's Electric Blue and a white.

The blades were based with the Necron Abyss and then I painted a lightning like pattern with lighter and lighter blue and finished it with a thin white line. To finish them I need to do some highlighting on the edges and the white haze effect mentioned in the tutorial.

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Sanguiary Guard - Update 1

My Sanguinary Guard are getting closer to the finish line. I have fixed up all the feather parts, blood drops and engine exhausts. I have the weapons, both swords and guns, parchments and cloth, heads, wings and bases left now. Maybe some minor details too, they will probably show up in a photo when I have varnished them.

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I got the colors for the engine exhaust here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=209978&view=findpost&p=2504715

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Some projects and some games

Been busy times at home and here are some updates on what has been going on.
The office/hobby room has been redone. We have painted the walls, put up cabinets and built a better desk.
The room before, just a desk and no space to put aside anything. It looked really messy no matter what:

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Fresh, tidy and orderly, meet the iRoom 2011:

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I have had time for a few games of 40k, all of them 1000p games.
One game vs Orks, a foot slogging list with some Deffkoptas. I tried out some jumpy assaulters and a sanguinary guard. It was a five objectives game, spear head deployment. I smashed up the Orks pretty good and won.
The second game was versus a Tyranid force. I had some good luck with my shooting, routed a group of gaunts off the table and in the end it was down to a draw with both of us holding one objective each.

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The third game was a guy at the local game club who threw together a quick list of Grey Knights. It started off quite OK, but then it went down the drain and I lost 5-2 in that dawn of war with kill points. GK are really mean in CC with all those power weapons. The shooting I can take with the FNP bubble, but those swords, ouch!

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Some painting has been going on too, a shot of my Sanguinary Guard unit:

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We had a game of Axis & Allies 1942, my first. I really enjoyed it even though I was on the losing side. It will probably be more of these nights coming up in the future.

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And finally, the best project of them all: my self.
Me and my wife has changed our eating habits and work out habits a bit, I have now lost about 20 kilos, my wife about the same.
Here is a before-and-after picture of me (I don't think my wife would like to pose):

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FT Librarian

Put my last painting touches on my Librarian last night, now he just need some varnish and basing done. At least for this time, I need to paint up the bulk of my army and I don't want to spend to much time on individual characters at the moment.

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First projects for 2011 started

The first house project for the year has started, our office/hobby room is getting a face lift and some needed storage space.
We will put up some cabinets and shelves where we can put some things away, hidden behind some doors instead of being spread all over the desk. The old desk has been given away to my wife's brother, in it's place we will build a long desk along one of the walls with space for two instead of a big, curved desk taking half of the room.

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On the miniature front, I have cleaned up and put together my Honour Guard, a squad of Vanguard Veterans, another Dreadnought, a Sanguinary Guard and some bikes. I have also converted some Melta guns from Bolters/Infernus Pistols.
On the way to finishing those 1000 points, I am trying out some NMM and glazing technique on my Librarian that I found on Youtube.

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Tried to practice some steel NMM on a horse's ass. I am not sure if I got the shine correct, maybe the colors should have been switched. I also made some misstakes with the highlight (too much and thick paint in the bristles).

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