I finally got around to re-doing my Crimson Fist army. I sold off the entire lot a year or two ago, but rebought into it but just the Primaris Marines stuff. I'm just doing Kill Teams right now for 40k.
Here is a tutorial I did on how I did my Crimson Fist armour.
I cannot believe that this board game is finished! I have so many projects I want to work on and it felt like it took forever!
I do have to say that I definitely saved the best for last... and I'm talking about Knuckle. He was definitely my fave.
The last two... I can't wait to be done with these models! I fully airbrushed Knuckle for this and with a bit more colour and some touch-ups, I think he'll look sweet.
This one might be easy as I used a zenithal prime and since he has a white coat, I think I can get away with just keeping it mostly as is. I don't think I like the orange and green together but that's what the card appears to have. Go Gators I guess?
I think I'm going to be going the YouTube route!
Here's a shipping container I 3D-Printed from Warlayer.com.
In my first ever D&D campaign, our DM threatened that our characters might not survive the campaign and that we should have a re-roll character ready. I was kind of bummed about that, but looked at some models at a games store. I fell in love with a race called goliath and I took a fighter model intending it to become a barbarian.
I found an orc fantasy axe and swapped it out for his knife. I want my guy to be dual-wielding axes. I also put on some Chaos and Space Wolf bits as well.
I had a few genestealers and termagaunts in a lot I bought used. I told my 5-year-old that she could have them. Secretly, I wanted them for a basic kill team.
Anyway, I convinced her to help me airbrush. Originally, I wanted to have an orange/blue scheme, but she saw some pics of Hivefleet Kraken and that's the route she wanted to go.
Some in progress pics... I don't expect to finish these for a long time though.
Man, I forgot to post this a looooong time ago!
This is one of the main characters, Lumpy, after washes. I tried painting a grey filter over the zenithal highlights I did with the airbrush, but I think I washed it all out. A learning experience I guess...
I really enjoyed painting these - I used Vallejo metallics through the airbrush and that saved me oodles of time. I'm not sure if my shading and highlighting worked as well as I had hoped though.
The washes are all done... just some airbrush of the eyes' glowing and base to go. I didn't feel like cleaning up the airbrush again so I called it a night.
I've been going at these guys for a couple of days. It was really in the ugly phase for a white... if you understand what I mean. I guess it all came together. I'm not too happy with the bases... the problem in the game is that the location changes so much that there really isn't a base scheme that would fit (from carpet to a junkyard to a town, etc.). I'll go with just black for now until later in the game I notice something that captures it perfectly.
Haven't been motivated in the evenings. During the day, yes, but not a reality to paint during those times.
A little bit of progress before my wife asked me to take my turn with the puppy.
Well, it's time to take care of the other half of the Blitz Bowl set. I have a backlog of these teams, so best get on it.
I have two human teams, so one will be modelled after the Philadephia Eagles (because of the logo) and I think the other one will be the Atlanta Falcons.
I decided to try out the away uniforms for the Eagles since that's what they wore the last time I saw them play on TV last week (I'm a Seahawks fan in reality, but I'm saving that scheme for the elves team).
I started with black primer, than a 45° zenithal spray of grey primer, followed by a top down of white. This will allow me to have some differentiation in the white (while most of it being grey). That's the theory anyway. I'll brush on the forest green on the pants with a brush.
I deepened the shadows a bit more and then really pushed the highlights with my Krome airbrush. Then I used Vallejo's Ultramarine as a filter (really water-downed) and softened the highlights to a blue. Then it was the old brush and some DR white on the veins of the warp.
Since it's terrain, I think I'm going to stop here. I glued it all together and I watched a video where a guy glued felt to the bottom so it was softer on the table, so I'll probably do that at some point.
I have been slowly working on these pretty much every night since the last update, however, the highlights that I have been painstakingly doing are so minute I felt it wasn't even worth taking pics!
Here are the final pictures. We got a freak snowstorm, in October of all times, so I won't be able to put a matte varnish on it until the weather gets better, unfortunately. I'd like to put it in the case where it belongs!
I'm actually really excited to paint these... for now! Two squads at the same time though...
I did three levels of priming on these for an end-result zenithal highlight. I primed them black, did grey at 45°, then white from the very top. If I was doing a monochrome scheme only, I'd be tempted to keep it just like this!
Well, I power through this model tonight.
I'm mostly pleased about how it turned out. The colour choices I made in 2001 are just wack though!
I still need to matte finish the model... especially that red section on the back, but I think the idea comes across.
I started playing miniature wargames with Warhammer 40,000 back in 2001. I came across my first ever model last month (I'm so glad/surprised I kept it).
Someone online suggested that I paint up a new model at my current painting skills. Challenge accepted!
I'm using CK Studio's airbrush method... I realised two firsts though:
1. First time painting an intercessor (wow!)
2. First time painting yellow.
There was a learning curve and I had to start over once.
It was looking really ugly and then I started the filter phase... I might have overdone it. However, I'm not doing Golden Demon here and I'll just keep trucking. It still will look better than back then!
