Nurgle, Nurgle, All Hail tiny Nurgle...



Painting on holiday means just one thing, Warmaster! This time it's the turn of some Chaos Daemons that I bought with the intention of using as quick-to-paint stand ins for Chaos Marauders in my Mortal Chaos army. It turns out that they are quick to do, though I'm not sure my scheme quite does the miniatures justice as they're really nice sculpts with lots of fun detail, much of which I've largely ignored. Anyway, here's the test strip lurking amongst a pile of dead beetles that I found in the garden today.

Purely for my own reference, the speed-paint scheme went like this:

1. Spray Chaos Black
2. Paint everything Coat d'arms Olive with a massive brush
3. Sword Chainmail
4. Red bits Blood Red
5. Horn Kommando Khaki
6. Base Graveyard Earth
7. Wash everything Devlan Mud
8. Wash swords Ogryn Flesh
9. Highlight horn Kommando Khaki then Bleached Bone
10. Highlight flesh Olive + Camo Green
11. Eyes white
12. Boils etc Rotting flesh

Really quick and, I think, pretty effective. Some of GW's very bright static grass should bring them out a little more, I'll post pics of the unit once they're based to see how this works out.

 

 

 

Micron pens...

As you'll see, I've just merged three blogs into one here, bringing together more of the stuff that currently lives in my games room, and hopefully this will breath a little life into the blog and that the blog will, in turn, breath a little more life into the much neglected painting and modelling I would like to be getting on with.

Today's attempt to move things forward was the default 'spend money' option, this time I've bought myself a Micron 005 pen (£3.85 from ebay) that I'm hoping will make it easier to write some text onto my Grey Knights:

I'll post a review of this thing when it arrives.

Over the next few weeks I'm hoping to get on with far too many projects but my priority ones are:

Grey Knight army (1750 pts)
Imperial fleet for Man o War
Gyrocopters for Man O War Dwarf fleet
2 units of Khorne daemons for Warmaster
2 Autocannon emplacements for 40k (now that they're so useful).

More soon...

I jolly well did it, I finished something... One Griffon Tank:

Paint and paints

I've had a scout about on the GW website and looked at their paint conversion chart. It seems that there is a match for mechrite red (according to the chart) but I'm going to have to go in to a store to take a closer look as the swatch that is shown on the website looks nothing like. In fact it looks  blue! (not true, just a silly joke).

Time for some jazz flute.

I'd also agree with your comments about the sheer number of paints available now - the range is huge. If you follow the suggested painting recipes then you would need around 4pots of paint for every colour you put on a mini. Wowee!

San Diego... Nobody knows the true meaning of its name.

Going to bed now, but will try to paint some minis this week - it's time to finish off some Khorne dogs.

Back to Valhalla!

It's been over a year since this blog last saw any action (and since my Guard saw any painting action) but hopefully it's all about to start up again as the Valhallan's prepare themselves for another Tyrannid invasion... To start things off I'm tackling the vehicles with the idea that they'll be relatively quick to paint and will have a good impact on the look of the army (i.e. the time to result ratio will be high).

So, the tasks for the coming weeks are:

(1) Build demolisher tank
(2) Finish painting Griffon Mortar tank
(3) Paint 3 Chimeras and the demolisher (in one big go)

Hopefully I'll have something to show pretty soon.