Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Chaos Space Marines

This is the 2nd attempt I've made on airbrushing these guys! The first time I didn't trust the process and I didn't do enough grey shading. This time, I think I did a good job, but the black filter I sprayed wiped some of the highlights out. C'est la vie.

This is painted up until the wash stage. Highlights to come, as well as the bases for these guys and the Rogue Psykers. I hope to get a bit more painting in this weekend to finish these guys off.

Next day update:

Managed to get a bit more painting in and finished these guys off. I also did some more bases as hoped.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Bases

I was going to leave all the bases to be painted at the end, but I was sick of looking at the ugliness! Especially if I get a game in some time.

I 3D printed these bases off of the Dragon's Rest collection. I had hoped to just glue them onto the regular bases, but unfortunately, they are a bit bigger. They are not quite as tall as a standard GW base, but they are close enough and if all the models are on the same height, it wouldn't matter.

I was truly scared of dealing with the Spindle Drones... they are barely on the base as it was!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Rogue Psykers

I got a late night session in tonight... and managed to take care of the Rogue Psykers. Thankfully there's only two models to deal with!

I mostly enjoyed painting them. I might do some blue effects on the one who's touching his head with his fingers to show he's using psychic powers. We'll see!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Beastmen

I got a bit of a start on the beastmen. I wish I could use the airbrush more on these guys but there is too much small detail!

This is a work in progress pic. Hopefully I'll get to paint a bit more tomorrow night.

Next night: Finished it off!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Ur-Ghuls and Spindle Drones

I was originally going to do the Traitor Guardsmen, but in the end, I decided to tackle the easiest of the mobs in order to get some momentum.

I watched a couple of YouTube videos and I really liked how the GW videos went - I didn't exactly airbrush a whole lot with these two though.

For the Ur-Ghuls, I did a grey primer and then a zenithal white primer. I just followed the video with a lot of shades and dry brushing and voilà!

For the Spindle Drones, it was virtually all dry brushing. I decided to tone it down with some shades after though - they were a bit too bright for my liking.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 14

Well, it's all done!

I just finished off all the tokens tonight. Thus concludes the base set of Blackstone Fortress. Once I get my 3D printer working again (still puzzling that out), I can print off the Escalation terrain, as I just picked up the models.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 13

I did these up last week and I forgot to post them.

The only thing I'm not happy about is my attempts to do something with the light purple lines on the lift. It looked too purply so I thought it could break it up. From a distance it's okay, but up close it's not very good!

I just have to paint up the tokens and then it's off onto the actual figures and I'm done!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 12

Oh... so close to being done all the core set terrain! I can taste it! I just have the lifts, the auspex, and the tokens to go!

I got some painting in tonight in between taking care of two sick little girls and a wife with a migraine!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 11

Just a few little things last night. I'm close to finishing all the terrain and then it's off to paint the characters!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 10

Wow, it's been a really long long time since I've posted, but also since I've painted! Being a teacher, this has been a really hard start-up this year. I've got quite the class!

I've probably been the most excited to tackle the hallways and I've held off to near the last for that reason... I wanted to do a good job. My experience with pink from the lightning helped a lot and I used the Sotar instead of the Patriot. I don't particularly like using the Sotar that much, but there was too much fine detail on this one.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 9

It's been a while! Work has been kicking my butt....

I managed to get 4 hours in on these tiles tonight (it's like 2 am). I'm not sure if I can get the colours to match any more than I already have... I feel slightly unsettled with them being done, but I'm not sure if I have the skill level at this moment to take it further. These two were the ones I was least looking forward to (especially all the skulls). I think I brought up the yellow into a lemon colour direction rather than a gold.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 8

Gold Sharpie FTW!

I was dreading this one. I've gotten so used to airbrushing that I don't really ever want to touch another paintbrush ever again! So with that in mind, I'm using Carl Tuttle's (from the Independent Characters) gold Sharpie trim. It worked fairly well, then I stuck some Nuln Oil around the edges.

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress Terrain Part 7

Well, it's been a long while since I've had time to paint. As a teacher, this is a hellish season! I decided that since my wife went to bed early on a Friday night, this would be a great night to paint.

I was still not happy with the previous entry that I've posted twice (man, the amount of matte varnish on those tiles!). I was listening to an interview with Caleb from CK Studios about his Night Lord's army that he did for the NOVA Open Charity Raffle. He was focusing on lightning and I felt that my lightning was missing something. Turns out, it was just a simple white line! I used Daler Rowney White for this. I probably didn't give it as much care and attention as he did, but this is just terrain and I'm hoping to be done it soon!

Here are the final results for real:

Then I managed to do two simple tilesets in 90 minutes or so. I enjoyed doing the blood on the floor. I kept the one with the pillars more simple just so not all the tiles are overwhelming with colour.

I'm not sure when I'll do my next painting (maybe it'll be a Friday thing?), but at the moment I have 0 subscribers and this is more of a reflection/posterity piece I guess!