A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Warhammer 40,000 – I recently found a good deal on ebay for a Knight Archeron to add to my collection. This will be my fourth Knight. With all of them I've avoided aligning them with a house. I think Freeblades make more sense to travel from warzone to warzone. As such I've been keeping the colors in the same pallet for each so even though they are unique individuals they still look good with the rest of my forces.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I just wrapped up a group of three Hell Drakes for my Chaos Cultist Client. He wanted them to match the rest of his force with a basic three color plus wash level of detail. When I got these from him they were assembled and primed with a light coat of paint.
The models were pretty straight-forward to paint up using a red base, brass edging and some bone color for the talons. After a quick wash they were just about done. To make telling them apart easier on the tabletop I painted the eyes and bale flamer different colors on each. It's really subtle but if he needs to he'll be able to differentiate them. In 40K you use tokens more often than not that are placed on the model.
Warhammer 40,000 – Chaos Cultists have become the bane of my existence. Although I shouldn't complain work is work. My client continues to find good deals on cultists which turns into more cultists on my table. This latest batch has 71 of them.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Recently I found a really good deal on a Relic Sicaran Tank on ebay so I decided to add to my collection of Forgeworld items. The Sicaran is a nifty fast tank that has a serious rate of fire and can be upgrade to not to shabby armour. It's pretty reasonably pointed as well and since I love to run Techmarines I can run it with my Landraider Achilles in a fairly balanced 2,000 point list.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Finally I'm through the bulk of the cultists for this chaos space marine commission I've grinding away at. Now I'm starting to see some of the more interesting models for the force. First on the table is Belakor. This nasty beast has a data sheet that allows you to use him as an HQ choice in a chaos space marine or chaos daemon list. A flying monsterous creature with invisibility can ruin your day if you're not expecting it. So my client obviously wants him as a center piece for his army.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons – I wrapped up the last of the Princes of the Apocalypse models I've been working on for a client. These were really fun models to paint and the feedback I've gotten from them so far has been really positive.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons - I'm just about done with the second Prince of the Apocalypse. The feedback from my client has been extremely positive. It's been tricky getting the highlights where I want them using all metallics paints and washes but I'm happy with how this has turned out.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Last weekend I participated in a really fun raffle event for Warhammer 40K. This is the first tournament I've played in for Warhammer 40k in quite a long time. Going into it I knew this was supposed to be a super fun casual event. The requirements were to build a battleforged 750 point list. The other limits were it had to be from a single source and Forge World was not allowed.
Read MoreTerrain Making – A while back a friend was kind enough to gift me a 3D Printer, up until recently I haven't had time to really do much more with it than take it out of the box. (Initially the issue was my old ass Mac wouldn't run the software which turned into not having time to mess with it). Last weekend I finally got it up and running and downloaded a few designs from thingiverse.com to try printing.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Recently I was able to play a 2,000 point game of 40K and was able to field my three Knights as a Baronial Court allied with a Combined Arms detachment of Fire Hawks fro the Imperial Armor Badab War Supplement.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons – I've made some significant progress on this Princes of the Apocalypse commission I'm working on. The nature god is just about done. I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out so far. The fluorescent paints and interesting to work with and have really made the lighting pop.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons – My work on these three gods is progressing slightly slower than I'd like. I've been doing research on different OSL lighting techniques and have several techniques that I think will work well with what I'm trying to achieve with this job.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Will the cultists never end? This chaos marine army has been fun to paint since I no longer play chaos marines and sold off most of my stuff to focus on my loyalist chapter, however the fact that there are really only five uniques sculpts for the cultists is getting really old. There's really only so many variations of red, brown and khaki you can do to make these models look slightly different.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Grey Knights, I'm not really sure how I feel about painting them. They seem to be pretty easy and straightforward to paint. But it always feels like they're to plain. Of course once the details are done they look really good. It's just the middle part of painting them that gives me issue.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I was able to get a game in with my Iron Storm list that I posted about before the new book came out. Not much changed with my list points were very close to what they were with the old book and I didn't have to change much.
Read MoreWarhammer 30,000 – So this is probably a bit late, unless you're like me and refuse to buy the Black Library books until they release as mass market paperbacks so they match the rest of the stuff on your shelf. (and a a more reasonable price for a book you'll most likely read once).
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – A little while back I painted up a team of Vindicare Assassins for a client, I had kept them pretty standard looking with just the straps being different colors. Initially he was quite happy with these but after having them on the table he decided he wanted to brighten them up. Part of the issue is he's color blind so it was hard for him to tell them apart.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons – I just started work on a new commission project that is a bit different from what i normally work on. Most of the miniatures that come across my table are for tabletop games war games it's not very often that I get to paint up models for an RPG.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – The decals are done and these marines are wrapped up. I'm pretty impressed with how quick I was able to get these assembled and painted. The decals were probably the most time consuming part of the process only because I have to wait for the chemicals to do their job and melt the decals to wrap the shoulder pads.
Read MoreHobby Tip – Recently I was at a local art store picking up so supplies for a silk-screening project I'm working on and saw that they had a sale on Montana Gold spray paint. I've heard of it before but never tried it out because of the price and lack of project to use it on.
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