D&D

I've never played D&D but I've always wanted to.

I recently joined a group and we had our character building session the other night and played one encounter.

I decided to go with a gnomish monk which will be interesting. I got this model from Stonehaven miniatures. I also got an elven ranger and a half-orc fighter as possible characters down the road (and funny enough, those two exact race and class are in this campaign!).

I also splurged and got a custom one from Hero Forge miniatures. It's 3D printed very finely but Ilif the rendered image on the screen comes to fruition, it'll be exactly what I envisioy character to be. I like this model but he doesn't have the quarterstaff that I want.

Terrain - More Platforms!

I think I'm starting to get the hang of airbrushing black. I still have a ways to go on the filter. I've been using roughly 1:1 black templars contrast with water. It might be a bit too much black.

Terrain - Platforms

It's been a while since I've painted!

My patriot airbrush went down and I only had detail airbrushes. So I spent some time assembling and trying to convert (not good at this yet).

I just got back from a camping trip (covered in mosquito bites) and the part I needed for my patriot was in my mailbox.

I've been trying to paint up some terrain that I printed from Warlayer. It's really good stuff. However, I got to find a quicker way to paint it... otherwise,

it'll take me forever!

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard - Part 3

I finally got some painting time in tonight. I did a long session and got these guys finished (except for the bases)!

I'm pretty happy how they turned out... especially because I bought the Lychguard second hand and they were glued wrong (now fixed) and they were this really badly painted purple and black scheme.

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard - Part 2

I managed to get to the next stage tonight... I did my original colour scheme like 5-6 years ago and I'm having a hard time remembering what greens I used on the gauss weapons. Good thing there's only one on that old 3rd ed. model.

Hopefully, only one more sitting to go.

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard

So funny story.

I've sold pretty much all my 40k models over the past 2 weeks.

I didn't have the energy to start 9th. I'm barely playing and with the whole Necron line about to be redone (and about time), I didn't want to have to deal with buying a crap load of new models.

So, I sold all my Eldar, Space Marines, Dark Angels, Necrons and my Death Watch and Orks are still up for sale.

But, I kept all the full amounts of kill team models for each of these armies. I can manage that.

So this is all that is left for me to paint for my Necron kill team options (other than buying flayed ones).

I managed to dry brush and wash these guys.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 5

OMG! They're finally done!

I'm so happy! I was really pressing in once I got the recess edging done. I really like how they turned out.

I still have to matte varnish them and I think I'll paint on a gloss varnish on the white armour as well.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 4

I finally finished all that dark recess stuff. Man, how could I have believed that these would have been the easiest to paint! I still have 2 more squads of these guys that I'm definitely saving until last!

My favourite has to be the orange pauldron. I used Daler-Rowney orange after building it up with a mix of brown.

I think there are just gun highlights to go and then the bases... I hope that's it!

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 3

Working on some shading. This may take a while!

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 2

Well, the motivation for starting off Star Wars Legion with the Stormtroopers was because I thought it would be a 3 colour job. Hell, this is taking forever! It doesn't help I'm taking on 2 squads though.

Base colours are now complete... they look pretty good... I think they will look amazing when done. I'm following Sorastro's YouTube video for inspiration.

My only complaint is that Vallejo's Heavy Orange is turning out to be Heavy Creamsicle. I don't know how I can possibly shake it any more... I might have gotten a bum bottle maybe. I had to depend on FW Daler-Rowney Orange Ink... we'll see how that change turns out.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers

I started these models over a year ago - Blackstone Fortress got in the way - and it's time to go back to them. Now I remember why I stopped... such monotony. And why am I doing two squads at a time? Because I'm a sucker for painting burnout! Thank goodness for Netflix while I paint!

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Core Box Complete!

Wow! It almost took me a full year, but it's done! All the core models have been painted!

Here's a summary of my favourite to least favourites to paint.

I still have some Escalation models to paint, but I'm going to reserve that for when I finish the game and move on.

For my next project, I need to complete some stormtroopers for Star Wars Legion that I started last year!

1. Pious Vorne (sorry for the over-exposure)... loved doing the flames with the airbrush!

2. Janus Draik... his details are amazing

3. Amallyn Shadowguide... Just because I'm an eldar fanatic

4. Taddeus the Purifier... I was happy with the details and the whites turned out pretty good!

5. Rein and Raus... I think because they went super quick and they were the first heroes I did.

6. Beastmen... the drybrushing turned out awesome!

7. Ur-ghuls... the first baddies I did and I enjoyed the easiness of painting this plus the purple hands.

8. UR-025... I just love his orange hand... great complimentary colour scheme.

9. The two squads of Traitor Guardsmen... Took the longest, but lots of dark washes to make them look really drab!

10. Espern Locarno... I thought the purples would turn out better but I think it was just my beef and my edge highlighting was a bit too chunky for my liking.

11. Rogue Psykers... Just two models so it wasn't that bad.

12. Obsidious Mallex... Not a Chaos fan... but my blacks turned out okay I guess.

13. Chaos Space Marines... same as Mallex

14. Spindle Drones... too spindly

15. Dahyak Grekh... it was a pretty boring model and I made it too orky

16. Negavolt Cultists... the. absolute. worst. And I screwed up a great skin tone by using the totally wrong wash. I hated painting them so much that I just didn't care. They're boss in the game though.

And... here's the whole hero gang together:

Airbrushing Blackstone Fortress - Janus Draik

I started this guy last night but my phone died just as I was taking an in-progress photo.

I put it off until the end because I dreaded painting him but he ended up being one of my favourites to paint!