Finished vessel of judgement

Wow did I finish this guy quick. I've pretty well pulled out every trick in my book short of to get it done. I would have liked to have spent more time on it, but my insane time commitments just didn't give me a chance and I wasn't able to assemble without painting.

Having said that, I'm actually pretty happy with it as an overall effect. What's more, it's actedas a test model for my Menoth scheme and it seems to have worked.

I'm intending to work on the basis that where technique fails, scale will prevail.

Vessel of judgement (WIP)

So I has a vessel now:-) that makes all the warmachine battle engines bar the gun carriage that I've worked on and I've loved them all. I can only imagine how cool the colossals will be!

by the way, I hate gold when dealing with this sort of volume. It's just such a hard colour to get right over such a large area...

More orange elves

Mostly just a bunch of Wip photos tonight. I'm generally pretty happy with how the elves are coming along and the client seems very satisfied with the photos, so I suppose its working out.

I will say that the Scibor bases are certainly epic. Actually a tad hard to work with, but awesome in appearance. If nothing else this army is really going to stand out.

Working on the arcanist and Eiryss 2 tonight. They're actually closing in on finished, but its getting a bit later, so its time to finish up finish up for the night.

On another note I bought a tablet the other day. Wow does that make this blog thing easier!

Orange retribution

So I'm doing a commission for a friend as well and he is very keen on a bright orange Ret army. I don't mean a strong earthy orange, he wants bright and punchy.

Long story short? Trying to balance a color that intense is not the most enjoyable exercise I've done. I think I've managed it though, at least on the casters. I was done a favor with the bases he chose - they are large enough to have a significant balancing factor of their own.

Overall I'm really happy with the effect. Against all my better judgement I actually think it worked!

These were also the first things I tried airbrushing. The faces on the bases have all been airbrushed.

WIP on the jacks

So the warjacks are still progressing. I haven't taken a photo of all at this point but there are two death chickens, Erebus, Malice and Nightmare.

Still very happy with how the two-brush blending is going. I can see that getting better. Yet to add glow effects to these guys though.

Thrall update

Still a solid WIP (stupid Christmas lack-of-time), but coming along nicely.

Studio photo update!

Finally remembered to upload some of the skorne photos I took using a studio camera the other day. About time :)

Skarre, queen of the broken coast

Also for the same job as the deathjack. Again, really happy with how the cryx is coming out. That's a good thing coz there is a lot of cryx to go!

Now that I found a new app that doesn't kill the photos so much you'll hopefully see more updates.

Deathjack on comission

I think the glow could have been a bit more thorough, but really happy with how it turned out.

A WIP shot is in there as well :)

Bronzeback

Fairly happy with him so far! There are around 12 different textures in the grey skin and another 8 in the bronze, just trying to keep the leathery look. I'm pretty happy with the result though.

Let's see how the rest of it shows :)

Skorne time!

I've decided to actually play in a tournament at the end of November. I would *like* to use my brand new Skorne that was purchased last week, but I won't take em if they're not painted, so figured I had better get started.

My first to games were yesterday with Rasheth and Naaresh. Fatty was great fun, but I'm not sure he translates well to the 35pt level, so I'll start with a Naaresh list. He kicked butt in his game, so has earned a paintjob! 

I won't be doing the traditional Skorne red, but I'll let the colors develop without blatantly saying what I'm doing - that way if it doesn't work no-one has to know :)

Extreme Warpwolf

Painted this guy a while ago, but figured now was a good time to display!

I actually like the model a *lot* more than it looks in all the photos. This is really quite a nice model and I think it captures the whole warpwolf essence real well. When I had my circle, I loved fielding him! :)

Storm strider fin!

Wow those smiths require a surprising amount of painting!

Storm strider (3)

More progress!

Storm strider (2)

Progress!

Storm strider base

Finished (bar flock) the base for one of my shiny new storm striders. Still fairly happy with how it all turned out (practice vs theory:)) so onwards we go!

Storm Bringers!

So I picked up nq37 and immediately fell in love with the sheer volume of zappy!

Unfortunately, it does require an awful lot to be painted :) at this stage, there are 2 striders, a stormclad, stormblade UA & WA (not sure if I'll run them or the jack), black 13th and mechanics. I'll try remember to keep things updated :)

Destroyer Extreme

So I finally got around to finishing off the companion 'jack to my Juggernaught. All in all, I think the Destroyer actually came together a bit easier than the Juggie.

After a good deal of effort and time, I'm finally really happy with how my reds came together. I think the final count was 30-odd coats of watered down red ink to make all the purples and peaches come back to red. It shows, though , and I like it alot.

He doesn't get as much table time as my Juggie, just because he's not quite as versatile, but he does have pride of place on my painting shelves :)

Trolls!

We all love a smattering of tough, blue, beer-guzzling giants in an army, and an entire army of them was just alot of fun.

Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.



As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).



Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)