Showcase: Captain on Pegasus finished!

This fella is actually an older model that I now have modified and repainted. The old one was nicknamed Skeletor, you can see the old pics further down on this page. Although the old one looked okay in my opinion it didn't really fit with theme anymore also I needed his head for my Knight unit instead.

So I repainted him a little and went with a more traditional looking Empire captain and Ostermark colours. The head is from the latest plastic Empire Captain clam pack, and the right arm holding the lance is from the plastic Griffon box.

This is how the new version turned out, quite happy with how it turned out.

And here is the previous version, now his head will be used in the Knights of the Black Rose unit instead. 

Knight of the Black Rose Standard Bearer finished!

It may not sound like much, just an knight standard bearer. But there is actually a lot of work behind this guy and I'm also quite satisfied with the end result. First of all, some of you may have seen my old Knights of the Black Rose and see that the paint scheme doesn't look match, that's because Iv'e changed the colors yet again. Not much this time, I thought I needed some purple in the unit and less of the red so I changed some of it to purple instead. I will show you the old knights soon but they aren't hugely different.

Anyhow I like this better, and looks more like the example in the Uniforms and Heraldry book. Also googled any Latin phrase that sounded like something any followers of Morr would write on their banners. I ended up with this 'Mortui Vivos Docent' which means 'The living learns from the dead' (end in docent is on the back of the banner because I couldn't fit everything on the front part).

 Tell me what you think!

Tutorial: How I paint Deathwing Terminators

Many liked the Deathwing Terminator test model I painted a while back and some of you seemed interested in how I painted it. So here's my 'How I paint my Deathwing Terminators' painting tutorial.

First up is the primer, I actually didn't have one when I painted this one up. I just painted the base colour straight onto the plastic and worked fine. Normally I would have used a white primer, bone primer or the base colour using a Spray gun.

After I got an even coat with Rakarth Flesh which I used as the Base colour I then painted the whole model with a heavy coat of AP Warpaints Soft Tone Ink which is similar to the old Gryphonne Sepia or the new GW Seraphim Sepia.

When the ink has dried I do a heavy drybrush with Rakarth Flesh and then a highlight with Bleached Bone, I do some vertical strokes with the brush  on some areas first with Rakarth Flesh and then Bleached Bone to give it little of an aged and worn look.

Then there is the rest of the details, for the red parts I used Mephiston Red, much watered down Dark Angels Green for the green parts, screamer pink for the purple/pink parts, Codex Grey for the grey parts and black for all the details that will be metal in the next step, I also painted the shoulder wing black.

So now the model starts to look like something, here I have highlighted the parts that needed it before the washing/final highlights step. Also painted the metal parts, AP Gun Metal for the the Stormbolter, Chainfist chain etc. and AP Greedy Gold for the gold parts. Even though the new GW metal colors are much better than the older versions (I use a lot of the Brass and Copper colors  the Army Painter Warpaints metals are really great and covers really well, together with the Inks they are the best paints from the AP Warpaints range in my opinion.

I also highlighted some parts in several steps here, like the wing on his shoulder which where painted with Codex gray and then highlighted up with Astronomican Grey and added some white to the mix with final HL with pure White. I used the same method on both the Shoulder Pad, Knee pad and the purity seals except that I didn't start with a black base but instead Codex Grey.

I now begin the washing phase and it's quite simple really. I the three of AP Warpaints Inks for this. Soft (Seraphim Sepia in GW range) for some spots that needed some more shading on the bone white armor. Strong tone (Agrax Earthshade) I use on all the red, purple and gold parts. And for last I use Dark Tone (Nuln Oil) for the metal parts expect the gold.

When dried I need to do the final highlight, and here I first do the same color as I washed with the inks and then a lighter version. So for the metal parts first AP Gun metal and then AP Shining Silver, the green insignia on the chest I highlighted with Snot green and then Moot Green, purple parts with Warlock purple. Red parts with Mephiston Red and then Blood Red. And voila done.

So this is the final result, quite happy with how it turned out even if it took more time than expected. This method works better or at least faster when painting like three Terminators at a time as you have some dry time in between. Hope you liked this tutorial and please comment anything you like down below. 

My WoC on White Dwarf Daily!

Thanks to Minitrol for bringing this to my attention or I may have missed it out totally. So on the daily blog over at the GW webpage called White Dwarf Daily they had a focus yesterday on some of my Warriors of Chaos, you can find the post here. This is of course really fun for me and I take great pride in this I must say, well I always do when people recognise and comment on my work. And it really works as a great motivator for me to continue painting my what it feels like never ending supply of miniatures.

So how did they find my work? All I did was to take some photos on some of my miniatures and then put them on GW:s  Flickr Group. So go and check that one out as well as there is so many good miniatures in there, and if you want to put your photos up there as well you may be in the next White Dwarf Daily. Anyhow the Flickr group is a nice way of showing other like-minded people your work as well as looking at others peoples greatly painted miniatures.

I know I haven't been doing much painting updates lately but I am painting again since after the move and everything. I'm currently painting a little bit of this and a little bit of that, like for example my Knights of Morr, Demigryph Knights, Khorne Lord on Juggernought, a Goblin Wolfrider and a new Deathwing Terminator is done and I'm currently working on a a painting tutorial on how I painted him. So there is more stuff to come, also I pre ordered some more WoC stuff yesterday. Two boxes of Skullchrushers and one Warshrine, no characters this time as I still have plenty of them that need some paint first. So until next time.

Review: White Dwarf November 2012

The second issue in the new format and it continues in the same style. But there are some minor changes, continue reading to find out more.

Design
A lot of focus on this in the last review of course and there is the same design in this issue. Nice and robust format and the layout with pictures and stuff is the same. And I still like this more minimalistic design even if I still want more and bigger pictures for their Battle Reports. One design change they have made though is the background and lighting for the New Release photos. They where red and black back in the last issue for the CSM releases, this time around though we get light blue backgrounds which gives us the feeling of snowy barren landscapes. Suiting for the tribes from the north. It will be interesting to see if they will change the backgrounds each month depending on what the new releases are, I think this approach is great.

New Releases
I don't think anyone have missed all the new WoC stuff coming out, no new book but a smaller release similar to the previous VC and DoC releases. So what do we get? Two new unit entries to the army in the form of Skullchrushers of Khorne and Hellstriders of Slaanesh. I like the look of the Skullchrushers even if they aren't that exciting, but cool models non the less. The Hellstriders I like more and more but I still don't like the idea of Marauders on steeds of Slaanesh. Hopefully we will get uniqe units for Tzeentch and Nurgle as well in the next wave of models for WoC.

We also get a new plastic kit for the Chaos Warshrine, I don't know what I think of it actually. I kind of like it but I also think the whole model looks a little bit to busy for my taste. May have to do with the paint job as well and I see a lot of potential for converting the whole thing and grab bitz for other things. There are also some new Finecast sculpts for Valkia, Festus and Scyla, I like the first two but Scyla not so much. We also get a lot of the older WoC models remade in Finecast like the Tzeentch Lord on Disc, Be'Lakor and Chosen. We also get so see the new White Dwarf model looking like an Director and Wh40k Cultists in boxes of five to enlarge your Dark Vengenace Chaos Cultists hordes, so no new Cultists sculpts for now. Other new releases includes the new Ultimate Paint Set with a cardboard storage system. Strangely we don't get the newest additions to the Citadel colour range called Edge colours. If all these things weren't enough we also get a red paint station +, four new cool but expensive Basing kits and the Imperial Defence Network for Wh40k. The last on is a big bunker system, also called Wall of Martyrs because of  all the the dead Guardsmen around the entrenchments. It's really cool looking but expensive and comes at prize of £100, $ 160 € 130. Lastly we also get four Mega Forces for Empire, Space Marines, Vampire Counts and Necrons and all seems to be good value deals.

Painting and Modelling 
 Like last month we also get an Army of the month article, this time it's Rich Packer's Empire army, some really cool conversions and paintjobs in there. Also like last month we get the segment called Blanchitsu with John Blanch:es heavily converted Inquisitor Warband, toghether with Johns characterful painting we get some truly unique looking models, really nice. We also get Parade Ground featuring tanks this time and 'Kitbash' focusing on Wh40 k Warlords, really nice segments both of them that I hope WD will keep in the future and develop even more. In Parade ground this month we get to see a big Whfb board with an really tall Tower in the middle, truly inspiring and something I want to try out some time in the future. For the Painting part we have the Paint Splatter segment, this time showing how to paint Chaos Warriors, skulls, horns etc. Also Juggernought armour and how to do salt weathering on tanks so some good reading here even if there would have been nice with some more in depth tutorials as well.

Rules and Fluff
 Not much in the fluff department more than the little text accompanying the rules for the new unit entires for WoC, which we get in a little two page booklet together with the magazine. I would have hoped for more rules changes but hopefully this means we won't have to wait long for the WoC Army book.

Gaming
A nice Battlereport with WoC versus Ogre Kingdoms testing out the new units for WoC. Nicely written but as the last issue I think it's a little bit short and we need more overview pictures of the battle and the pictures should also be bigger as it's hard to see everything as it is now. After the Battle Report we also get a post -battle review from the army book authors and Adam Troke which is an fun and interesting read.

Sadly we didn't get The Rivals segment this time, I really liked that and hope it shows up again in the next issue.

Conclusion
WD contiues what it started last month and I's really fun and interesting to read with something for everyone, not just the current released army owners. The 'This month in' articles is also nice showing what is currently going on in the Design studio, White Dwarf, Forgeworld and Black Library. Other than that this issue is actually shorter than the last one with both the Rivals segment and the Horus Heresy stuff missing with nothing instead. So this month we just get 136 pages instead of 152 like the last one, with the same price tag of course. It's a shame and I would have liked to see them filling out those missing pages with something instead. Other than that it's still a great Magazine nowadays and I hope it will continue in this fashion.

Rating: 4 out of 5

First look: Nov White Dwarf Pics

Got my White Dwarf today and it's packed with stuff. All the WoC stuff of course but also a lot of other stuff I haven't heard of before, including new paints called Edge paints (used to paint edges of course), a new mega paint set called Ultimate paint set,  new really cool basing kits like the Northen Wastes kit and Under-Empire Kit. Also new is the Imperial Defence Network for Wh40k with bunkers and the Wall of Martyrs.

So a lot of stuff and I must say that this issue continues with what Octobers issue started and WD is really fun to read nowadays.

Cool looking diorama picture.

A lot of cool bitz in this kit it seems. Not to much customization though so most will look pretty much the same. Will be buying one though. 

You get a Icon for each of the Chaos Gods.

I like the look of these guys and there's plenty of extra heads in the kit, eight in total.

Still don't like the concept of these guys but some quite nice bitz in this kit.

Nah not my cup of tea at all, although not as bad as most think.

Like these more and more, especially Valkia and the little details on Festus

Edge paints? Dunno if it's needed but the colours looks quite good.

Really cool new Basing kit, hoping for more of these. Will be buying the Northern Wastes for my WoC.

Wall of Martys with a lot of dead Imperial Guard, promising stuff.

News: More WoC Pictures, 2013 White Dwarf sub model + new Bundles info

So got some more and better pictures from the same guy as before where you can see some of the models a lot better, here you go. Also showing this time the new White Dwarf sub model, really nice I must say.

 Pictures are from here.

Info from the same guy again and also via Warseer.

New Bundles are:

SM

2X tactical squad
1X command squad
1X Commander
1X scouts
1X LandraiderCrusader
1X Ironclad
1X Razorback
1X Droppod

Necrons
1X Walker
1X Bark
1X Glider
6X Jetbikes
1X Spider
2X Worriors (24)
1X Extinctors
6X Scarabs

Vamps
1X Dragon
1X Shrine
1X Corpscart
1X Vargheists/Crypt (3)
1X Zombies (20)
1X Skeletons 20
1X Ghules 10
1X Knights 5
1X Necromancer

Empire
1X Karl Franz
1X Hellfire
1X Shrine
1X Knights 10
1X Commander/BSB
1X Spearmen 20
1X Greatswords 10
1X Technicus

Prices:

Empire: 195€
Vamps: 200€
SM: 200€
Necrons 200€