New painting method

So I was thinking the other day, and realised that there was a better way for me to make the base coats on my figures.

I use a grey undercoating medium (grey liquitex gesso - I have nowhere that I can spray prime) and needing a blue-grey colour, I wondered if using the blue GW wash would give me the right colouring. I bought a bottle and tried it out last night and it works brilliantly. Using 2 coats to get a nice even coverage and get rid of any obvious pooling look. In relatively short order last night I was able to get the blue coat onto one terminator and do a first coat on all 6 of my new Long Fangs. Its a great technique as it also manages to do shading for you at the same time.

Its not exactly the same as painting with fenris grey and washing as my previous technique was, but I'm going to continue with that technique for the units I have already begun to paint, but use this technique for my newer units - its close enough to not be obviously noticeable, but at the same time will be nice to use to differentiate the rank and file that I have already painted from the newer, more specialised units that I am beginning to paint.

Giant Wolf Model

So finally someone has stepped up to the plate and is making a wolf model for thunderwolves (that doesn't look like a chinchilla I mean).

John over at Santa Cruz Warhammer has been in contact with MaxMini and they have just confirmed that they are indeed making a multi-option giant wolf model that can be used to make thunderwolf mounts (post1 and post2, post 2 has an image).

I'm going to be keeping very close eye on maxmini to order one as soon as they become available to see what it'll be like. YAY!

Full Wolf Force

So, with the additions of the last two posts, and the 5 AoBR termies that I finished the basic colours of last night (see below)

I've now got a pretty decent force building up. Below is an image of the whole force.

It includes:

• Lord with twin lighting-claws
• 7 Terminators: 5 with storm-bolter and power-fist, 1 with assault-cannon and chain-fist, 1 with storm-bolter and power-weapon
• 10 Grey Hunters with power-fist, power-weapon and flamer
• 9 Grey Hunters with power-fist, power-weapon and melta (there's only 9 of these guys as the wife took one as her something blue on our wedding day last week - she's awesome!)
• 12 Blood Claws with power-fist, power-weapon, plasma-pistol and unknown special weapon
• 1 Dreadnought with multi-melta and storm-bolter
• 2 Drop-pods with storm-bolters

Not bad for 7 months of collecting considering there's probably been at least 1 1/2 months during which I've been completely unable to hobby due to work trips and organising a wedding. Just need that new codex to get here to see where its going next really ;)

That brings my painting points up to 64 tabletop ready and 4 completed. As ever, comments/criticism/pointers etc more than welcome. Cheers, bG

Painting competition terminator

I'm not sure if I mentioned at the time, but when Space Hulk was released for pre-order, the local GW did a bit of an event in celebration including giving away a free termie or stealer to all those who placed a deposit in store. They also said they'd have a painting comp for them on the following Saturday, but seeing as noone turned up it never happened. Anyway, I was able to grab myself an assault-cannon and chainfist terminator and set to wolf-ifying him. One night was spent on cleaning him and attaching some of the greenstuff. A second night was spent finishing up the greenstuff and then basing and undercoating him. This left me with evenings to paint him. Below you'll see the results. I'm pretty proud of him, the photos don't entirely do him justice as I had to take them indoors and then touch up the colours with Gimp.

Dreadnought

The first in a series of posts updating what I've managed in terms of painting over the last couple of months. My time to paint has been drastically reduced, right now I get about one evening a week when I can paint solidly, outside that I can get in the odd 30mins in a morning before work but even that is a push. As such, progress has slowed, but my batch techniques have improved so its a bit better. Below are some pics of my wolves dreadnought STAMPY (in his last battle he lost both his arms in 2 turns, but then proceeded to stomp on guard for 8 rounds of combat killing 1 or 2 a turn).