Iron Lords Librarian

So, here he is: the first model I've painted since my break. I wanted to paint up a character figure, that I'd really enjoy painting, in order to get back into the swing of things. But I didn't want to make things too simple. If anything, I wanted to jump in at the deep end. This guy has blue armour, something I've never done before, yellow robes, that I've never done before, a new type of power sword, that I've never done before, and OSL, which I've never really done before. This should go well!

The armour and robes were kind of a stab in the dark. I wanted to do something slightly off the norm, while staying within the codex colours. For the robes, I painted them up as I would any cream robes, and glazed them yellow. The armour was based with Kantor Blue, but then I went with Sotek Green, Temple Guard Blue, and Baharroth Blue. I don't know, but I feel like it's far enough from the norm to stand out, but enough to still be clearly identifiable as a Librarian.

The shoulder pads are both made at least partially with greenstuff. The chapter symbol was cast from a mould I have and then trimmed down, nothing too fancy. The librarians symbol on the other hand was a pain. The one on the model was the third attempt, but it was something that I was determined to do. 

The power sword was something that I really wanted to try, as the model is intended to use pyromancy, if the discipline continues into the next edition. I knew what I wanted, and how to do it, but looked up a few tutorials online to back me up. Confident that I wasn't going to balls it up, I went on and did it. I'll post up a tutorial in a week or so, with a spare sword, because I didn't take any WIP pics.

This is where the fun began; my previous attempts at OSL involved precisely zip. I kinda just winged it, but basically I blended from red, through orange and into white at the centre. The blends aren't really smooth, and its not winning any golden demons, but when its not zoomed in twenty times like this pic, it looks pretty good I think. Any mistakes are really hidden by the tiny size of the area. 

All in all, I had a great time painting this guy up, and I have already started painting a few tactical marines. I also have a conversion finished to paint up after them. Hobby time will be limited this week as I have exams, but thereafter it's the summer! I love being a student! Finally, here's a sneak peek of next week! 

Guess Who's Back (Back again)

So my fellow bloggers, I'm back! After a hiatus I'm launching myself into the hobby again. College life, a ridiculous level of commuting, and recently a part time job on top of that! The free time that I had spent in activities that involved no concentration! This meant that my hobby got put to one side for a while. In many ways I'm actually happy about that, but that's for another post. This one is just here to say, I'm back!

My plans for the hobby now, are clearer than when I took the break. The painting side of things is what interests me most, and as such, that is what I will focus on. I will be painting models individually, with a vague aim of building up an army bit by bit. The first goal is 750 points of my favourite army: my Iron Lords. I will be interspersing painting the rank and file guys, with more interesting single figures, not always necessarily to do with the army. Many of these will make up an inquisitorial warband, that can support my army. I have already gotten started, and painted up a model to get me back into the swing of things. Stay tuned, as I will be posting him tomorrow. For now though, here's a small peek. 

Iron Lords Underway

This is just a quick post, to show my progress on the Iron Lords (ie not much). I already had this guy done and the other two in the picture were painted as I was trying to figure out the quickest way to paint these guys. The remainder of the squad are in the process of being batch painted, but may not be done for a while (college starts this week). I'll have WIP pics soon, and pics when they're done. For now, here are the two new guys:

Nurgle Chaos Lord Finished

So here he is, completely finished, ready for the competition on Saturday. He was a blast to paint, simple as. Basically, he had lots of stuff that I don't normally paint. I really had fun and can't wait to see how he does. 

Nurgle Chaos Lord Finished (except the Banner)

This guy is now done, except for the banner he's going to be holding in his left hand. That's built, ready for painting. I'll go through him, bit by bit when he's completely finished. for now, the basics of certain parts.

Nurgle Chaos Lord Part 2, Speed Painting(?), and 500 pageviews

He's coming along nicely, slowly but surely. The armour just needs the metallic weathering powder, when the models done, the axe needs to be done, the skulls etc. need to be painted, the horns need a bit more work and the gore, intestines and cloth are all done. Hopefully the next update will be the finished model and a few how to's!




The day of the painting competition, theres also two speed painting contests. One of them I'm considering entering: you buy a plastic character (like the lord above) and have two hours to build it and paint it! I'm thinking of painting the necromancer (I love the model!), but am undecided.



As a final note, I hit 500 page views earlier today! Thank You!!

Nurgle Chaos Lord: Part 1

This is the Nurgle Chaos Lord fully built. He was done before I painted the stealth suit in my last post but I nearly chickened out out of painting him. Not fully, but I might have left him until the last minute and not painted him well. I was really nervous about painting this guy as he was going to be an experiment in a lot of things. I'll get to that later though!

The First Stealth Suit

So here is the first of soon to be five XV25 stealth suits. 

This guy was done with the same idea as the model below but with the "active camo" being the same colours as the base. I also wanted to avoid really light, contrasting highlights. This defies the whole point of the "stealth" if the highlights really stand out!

Stealth Suits and Reposing

These guys have been built for a while but I only got around to taking photos today. 

This is the Shas'vre (team leader for those yet to see sense and join the Greater Good). He's armed with a fusion blaster and has a target lock as a support system. This lets him blow stuff up, without stopping the unit hailing nearby squads with anti infantry firepower. He is however magnetised so he can swap out his fusion blaster for a burst cannon, like the rest of the squad.

National Painting Competition

This is simply an update post. I'm taking a break from painting my firewarriors for a short while to take part in this:

It is being billed as the national painting competition but seeing as there is only one GW store in the country, it's  basically a store competition. Nonetheless, I'm entering it for the fun of it. I'm planning on entering a stealth suit squad that I've built and a converted Nurgle Chaos Lord that I'm getting tomorrow. Basically I'm going to concentrate on these two entries until they're done, then return to the fire warriors.

The First Iron Lord Model

I've been concentrating on my tau of late and my poor marines have been a bit neglected. I'm planning on at least getting a tactical squad before the codex is released (supposedly September but I'm not getting into rumours). In the meantime I have been working on my fire warriors but I got the time to paint up an older model that was only primed. He is going to be a sergeant for the unit as well as a tester for the rest of the army. So here he is.

Swamp Bases: How To

I'll begin with a disclaimer: the paint scheme is my own work that I tested on several spare bases, the flock though was applied using the techniques explained in this video by "misterjustin". So, on with the tutorial.

First up, I cleaned up the bases, removing the small amount of flash from the edges, then washed them in cool soapy water. This is standard for resin. then, to be sure, I sprayed them with a light dusting of purity seal  from GW. This prevents any remaining release agent from damaging the paintjob.

Fire Warrior Test Model

I just finished this guy a while ago. He is the test model for my tau army and I personally think he went well.