Tactical squad 1

My first tactical squad it's almost completely painted from the last time I was painting my space marines they just need a touch up a new sergeant (I've decided to come away from my old power fist sergeants and go for combi-bolter sergeants and use sternguard models for them). And finish and repair a rhino (I regret building the storm bolters like I did on them) so for now I will just be showing my sergeants progress.

Yesterday's progress

Until later

The Roleplay dwarf

Command squad and captain finished

Sorry it's been so long since my last post i was too tired to post on Thursday and have been on annual leave since then and hurt my back during my leave so blogging has been pretty low down on my list of priorities.

I finished my command squad and captain on Thursday though the new command squad look a little plain next to my new captain I may have to kit bash myself a new command squad at a later date and fashion my captain an iron halo but for now my results:

Unfortunately my back is still in so much pain I decided not to bring my stuff with me to work to paint today but hopefully I'll be back to it Monday.

Until then

The Roleplay dwarf

Captain pretty much done

Hi everybody.

one of the most glorious and useful things I've sound since doing this blog is when I take a picture of the model/models I'm going to be posting it really makes it clear to me if there's a part I missed (like the tassel on his arm in yesterdays picture) or if there's parts that just need neatening up as I have noticed with some of the areas around where I've done the gold on my captain.

So today I started with painting the bases and storm bolter in leadbelcher. I then washed them wih nuln oil. as the nuln oil was drying I applied a gehenna's gold highlight to the gold areas followed by a fine auric armour gold highlight on the most prominent edges. I then drybrushed the bases leadbelcher and painted the bolter leadbelcher avoiding the receses. I then applied a iron breaker highlight to the bolter and fine rybrush to the bases before painting the dirt areas of the bases rhinox hide, dry brushing mournfang brown and then applying a agrax earthshade wash. I still have ome work to do on the gemstones (they need a dot of white and a 'ardcoat but my old 'ardcoat has dried up and I can't afford to get more right now) and there's some areas I need to neaten up/apply more wash to but here's my mostly finished captain:

Hopefully I'll get his command squad re-based and touched up tomorrow

Until then the Roleplay dwarf

Edge highlighting and metallics

Continuing with the captain I started out by highlighting the tabbard, shoulder trim and the back of the joints eshin grey as well as drybrushing his crest eshin grey. I then picked out the highest parts of these areas in dawnstone.

Correction on yesterday it wasn't khorne red I'd layered the red areas it was wazdaka red. The problem is I'm using a combination of old paints and buying new ones once they run out but giving the new names because you can't get the old ones any more so sometimes I will make a mistake. Anyhooz I highlighted all the red areas evil sunz scarlet, using the edge highlighting technique on the bolter case and purity seal wax and used the gemstone technique on the lenses and gems. I'm not using the new gemstone paints because 1) I enjoy doing the gemstone technique 2) I can't outfitted to get them right now but I will be getting them for a different project, stay tuned.

 I then began the thing that always takes me the longest on a space marine model edge highlighting the armour moot green. At this point I also painted a black chevron on his knee pad. I read somewhere that the Aurora chapter don't show their company designation by their shoulder trim they show it by a coloured chevron on one of their kneepads and since the company colour for the 5th company is black that's why I did this. This been done I did done other detail work I'd missed painting the skull on his backpack rakarth flesh followed by ushabti bone washed with agrax earthshade, ushabti bone highlight then a fine screaming skull highlight. While I was doing that I applied a skrag brown highlight to the scrolls and then a thinned down later of ushabti bone over them. I then layered balor brown on the scabbard and Holt of his sword and highlighted them zemesi desert. Finally before I moved onto the metallics I painted the laurels on his backpack caliban green and highlighted then warpstone glow. I painted all the areas that were going to be gold hashut copper and then washed them with agrax earthshade and again that's all I had time for. Hoping to get him finished today. Sorry I didn't post this last night I started writing it but I was so tired I couldn't finish it.

Until next time. The Roleplay dwarf

Captain Ingressus

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey I say HEY what's going on!?

So what's been going on is I was ill the end of last week so didn't manage to get back to painting but took my stuff in today on the off chance that the system was working again and I'd have room to paint. It was and I did YAAAAAAAY!!

First a bit of background: As I said in a previous post I got my space marines when the battle company box set was released to coincide with the release of Apocalype in 2007. The store had a massive game going on a couple of days after it's release so I had to get the models built ASAP, so I enlisted the help of one of my friends who now works for games workshop. On the up side we got them built in time, on the downside he built my captain like this:

He has "affectionately" become known as "Captain Gangster". I hated it from the moment I saw it I've also never thought the captain model looked ostentatious enough to be a captain. Hence when I bought the strenguard box set to make my squad sergeants stand out more I took  the opportunity to make a new captain from the kit.

I had already stuck the captain to a  25mm base and will be leaving him on that while I paint him so it won't matter if I get any paint on the base I will then be removing him and placing him on one of the new larger sector imperialis bases.

So I sprayed him chaos black and then painted castellan green over all his armour plates. I did his lenses, gems, storm bolter case and purity seal wax mephiston red and I painted the scroll on his leg, his scabbard and hilt mournfang brown. I then washed all the armour with nuln oil the red bits with carroburg crimson and the the brown bits with agrax earthsade and left to dry. I applied a laer of warpstone glow over the armour trying to be careful not to get it in the recesses Ithen painted all the red areas Khorne red being careful to avoid the recesses which is all I had time for today (see previous comments about being a slow painter)

Now that it's starting to get darker in the room where I paint the lighting isn't great for taking pictures so we either end up wtth something that looks like this:

Which to me looks alot darker than the model actually appears.

Or like this:

Which I think looks too bright.

So which one looks better in you opinions  without flash or with the flash.

until next time

The Roleplay Dwarf

Potentially back to painting soon

Well it's clear now that pollcode.com is shit.

I know at least two people voted on out yet it's not showing their votes YAY!

Thankfully they told me what they voted. One had voted grey knights the other had voted flesh eater courts.

So that in mind tonight I'm going to be picking up some supplies from warhammer and then I'm going to start making preparations to paint my Aurora chapter.

Now hear me out it's not that the vote didn't mean anything it's just I don't know if anyone else voted on out and the votes I got were a tie I decided to make the decision myself. This was partial based on one of the staff members at the datasheet store saying to me "I'm going tip have a chapter painted before you are" he only started his chapter in the last few years. I've had mine since *checks apocalypse release date* wow was it really 2007........ God I'm shit. So seeing that as a challenge I have vowed (too myself and now you, he doesn't need to know about this view yet) that I will get this done now before him. This is going to be a real challenge as I want to rebase my models on the larger bases now too.

Also a challenge because at the moment the computer systems at work ate down which means that the room I'd usually use to paint it's full of paperwork with us trying to keep up do there's no real room for me to paint until at least next week (at least being the key point) but watch this space and I'll let you know how it's going on and when I start

The Roleplay dwarf

The Roleplay dwarf and the cursed class

Hey dudes and dudettes, how you doing?

So while I'm taking my short break from painting I though that I'd make a post about Roleplay.

As the title says it's about a D&D class that's cursed for me. Now I don't just mean a class where bad things happen to that character (that's wizards for me) but all will become clear over the course of this post.

My favourite class in D&D is the Paladin. I like everything about it, the lore, the abilities, the code of conduct, everything. I like the idea of the role-playing Challenge of someone with a strict moral code like that but trying not to be a dick with it like soon people are (Paladins don't have to be played like strict nannies)

However i have never got to play one. The first time I decided to roll a Paladin the gaming group I was post of broke apart. I've spent a long tinge playing in two evil campaigns. My friend (stygianheart go check out his blog) was running a pathfinder game I'd rolled a Paladin for but never manage to make it to for one reason or another and now the gaming group I'm part of is running D&D 5th edition ahead of schedule that I'd rolled a Paladin for that I was really looking forward to playing but due to new baby I've not been able to get down to play.

So do any of you have a cursed class or set of situations like that

Looking forward to hearing from you soon

The Roleplay dwarf

Photos of my finished stuff taken by a staff member

Warhammer Leeds birthday bash

So this it's what the last 3 weeks of painting has been all for I headed into my local store.

They had cake

And party food and some author or another was there (David Guymar...... I'm sure he's never heard of me either). But I want there for any of that I was there for the warband competition and the painting competition.

So they lined up my first opponent for me to eat. A slaves to darkness army. We're using most of the path to glory rules but the battles are pitched battle games.

For my general I chose the tomb blade and the red fury command trait for all my battles.

So first game, points of power.

My set up

Slaves set up:

He conceded at the start of turn his 4 having lost most his forces and me having a 12vp to 3vp lead

My next battle was against stormcast eternals using the escalation pitched battle. It was clear from turn 1 I was going to lose but I don't concede and he wiped me out in turn 3 having killed only 2 retributors 

I first to take a picture during set up so here's the stormcasts final positions

My final opponent was an aelf player I especially liked that he was using a Dread Maw with an elf on it as an archmage on a Dragon that was cool. 

We rolled and got the points of power mission again and 3 turns later he was wiped out.

So the final tallies from the games (only 4 of us turned up with warbands) were.

Stormcast eternals 3 wins 0 losses

Flesh eater courts 2 wins 1 loss

Slaves to darkness 1 win 2 losses

Aelfs 0 wins 3 losses

So the stormcast player win the best general certificate.

As the only player with his warband fully painted the slaves to darkness player won the warband painting competition with me coming second

The slaves to darkness player also Won best converted being the only one who had done any conversion work.

Finally I won the best themed warband

So there we have it all in all I'm proud in both how my warband performed and looked even though I'm disappointed that I didn't get them finished. But if you're in Leeds in the next two weeks and in warhammer go have a look at the display case and see my warband.

Going to be taking a short break from painting but when I come back to it is there any of my particular armies people would like to see me handle next?

What should I paint next

Grey knights

Aurora chapter

Dwarves

Empire

More flesh eater courts

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Mission failed

So I didn't manage to get everything painted.

I did so much painting today I lost track of the order I did then on and what I actually did today (the informatics system went down art work today which meant there was very little I could do at work so I didn't the extra time painting.

I finished my brown pubes unit of crypt horrors and this is how they turned out

All in all I'm happy with the way they turned out and I'm starting to wonder if there's anything blood for the blood God can't fix?

So here's my warband 56% complete as a whole I'm happy with the way it looks as a unified force and it will only look better when I finish the other stuff.

So off it goes for its first outing tomorrow..... wish me luck and I'll let you know how I get on.

King Lymphguzzle's war patrol

The Roleplay dwarf

Happy little accidents

Evenin!

So today I messed up a bit but more on that later.

Today I started by painting the pallid witch flesh with the touch of administrarum grey onto my last crypt horror from squad brown pubes. I then highlighted the sharpest edges, the t zone of the faces and any scars with pallid witch flesh. I then mixed my 8:1 lahmia media to druchii violet and applied it to the models. Now either I added too much druchii violet to the mix (more seemed to come off my brush than usual but I put that down to using a larger brush and since I was using the same brush for there media the ratio would still end up right..... right?), I applied the wash too thickly (see previous bigger brush comment), crypt horrors have larger flat areas that I put the wash over or all of the above. Whatever the reason my wash strained the models more than I'd have liked it to if you remember my initial specification of being clear that once these were human before dire circumstances dice then to vandalism and all that followed, but these were now distinctly too....... purple. 

I feel it's moments like this that mark me out as a novice painter rather than a skilled painter. Firstly a skilled painted probably wouldn't have made that mistake to begin with, if they had they'd be able to diagnose exactly what caused it and apply a quick fix. Unfortunately the only fix that was occurring to me was to take it back to rakarth flesh and try again but I don't have time for that so over to Bob Ross:

Thanks Bob.

So the idea now is to try and make it look like that colour was my intention from the start. So I continued.

Having previously washed the bones with agrax earthshade I went back over then with ushabti bone avoiding the recesses. I then applied some ungor flesh to the pustules on the models and applied a carroburg crimson wash over them. While I was on a carroburg crimson wash I decided to do the areas where the bone was penetrating the skin. Bit I'd heard two different schools of thought on this. one was the red the other suggested druchii purple looked more realistic for a bruising effect. So I decided:

I'd do the red where the bone had gone through to give the look of a histamine response with the purple around the edges of the red to also give it a bruised look but rusty I only got add far as the red.

Hopefully I'll get these finished tomorrow and find a but if time tomorrow evening to get done what hasn't been done yet

So until next time

The Roleplay dwarf

Crypt horrors

ROLEPLAY DWARF BATCH PAINT MODE ACTIVATE!!!

So with my deadline rapidly closing and still having 7 models left to paint I made a decision. I was going to batch paint my units of crypt horrors. The first one I was going to do to the same standard that I've done everything else the second one I'm going to do 3 colours basic just to have some colour on it when it takes to the field and if I have time I'll do SOMETHING with the Crypt infernal courtier.

With that in mind I give you the start of my first unit of crypt horrors.

So for the crypt horrors I decided that they were going to be organised into squads by the colours of their uniform.

"BUT ROLEPLAY DWARF!" I hear you cry "They don't wear uniforms!!" ah my poor naive reader, not to your eyes the don't but to their deluded minds they do.... and what on this model is going to show uniformity between them and their bretheren with the same uniform colour........ That's right, their massively long pubes!

So my first unit: team brown pubes.

with some of these I strayed a little bit from the instructions to give the models some variation. When doing this some of the bits didn't quite fit and had to be forced but all in all I've been left with some variation.

So I based the models as previously described but without the resin decals this time, sprayed the model corax white and then applied a base coat of rakarth flesh to the whole model. I then did a 3:1 was of lahmia media to reikland flesh shade over the skin parts of the model.

so for the hair (pubes) I painted them mounfang brown. washed them agrax eathsade and highlighted them skrag brown.

I thought these models wouldn't take as long because there was less bone details on them than the terrorgheist and varghulf and it's been the bones that have been taking me the longest but oh my god the amount of bone details on these models!!!!!

I painted ushabti bone on them and washed them agrax eathsahde and while that was drying I move on to painting the flesh. I applied a palid witchflesh with a touch of administratum grey in to the models (one of them has turned out much brighter that the other but a variance in skin tone is fine) and I didn't have time to do the third one so here is where we are:

Hopefully I will get then finished tomorrow.

Until then

The Roleplay dwarf

Varghulf and terrorgheist complete

Oh hi I didn't see you there. That's technically true.....

So with my terrorgheist when I took it in to earthshade the staff pointed out to me that the wings looked a little flat because I'd used a different technique to the rest of the model. They weren't wrong. So I've been adding a 3:1 lahmia media to agrax earthshade wash to the wings starting a little further down each time and adding muon oil to that mix a little at a time once I'd got about halfway down the wing. I then applied a harsher highlight as rakarth flesh to the highest bits of the wings and adding a little deathclaw brown each time and working towards the centre.

A quick picture of finished effect:


I also FINALLY  fogged out how to get the blood splatter by blowing sharply over a brush loaded with blood for the blood God:

Back to the varghulf. I applied 2 (I'd like to apply more but I'm short on time) 3:1 washed of lahmia media to seraphim sepia to the wings of the varghulf. I then applied a light drybrush of deathclaw brown to the most raised areas of the fur and applied a nuln oil wash to the fur. I painted the eyes with averland sunset then highlighted with yriel yellow and a final highlight of flash gitz yellow before applying the line of abbadon black. On the exposed muscle I did my serial 3:1 lahmia media carrouburg crimson with a 2:1 lahmia media druchii violet at the edges. Final wash was the 3:3:1 lahmia media, carroburg crimson, agrax earthshade where I was going to be applying blood for the blood God. I then applied blood for the blood God and painted the based (for base see previous blog as I have only 9% battery left.

Today's blog was bought to you despite my baby demanding 3 feeds, 3 nappy changes and exploding vomit all over me. If this was sesame street today's episode would have been bought to by the number 3 and the colour vomit.

Hopefully we'll have more look tomorrow

The Roleplay dwarf