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

Varghulf almost completette

HEEEEEEEEEY YOOOOOOOOOU GUUUUUUYS!!!!

Don't know where that came from but yeah..... good film.

Anyway as you may be able to tell from the lack of post. I didn't get an opportunity to paint this weekend. My son just wouldn't settle long enough for me to paint on Saturday and I was at one of my friends kids parties on Sunday so the progress is only from today (and it's looking increasingly like I'm not going to be finished for Saturday. I'm enjoying painting during my breaks, not really enjoying painting to a deadline)

Anywa today I applied screaming skull as a highlight to the bone areas on the Varghulf, then white scar to the tips of the bones. I then painted the flesh areas (except the wing membranes) with pallid witch flesh with a touch of administratum grey I then did the wing membranes pallid witch flesh with a touch of gehenna's gold (trust me here). I then highlighted the most raised flesh areas with pallid witchflesh and edge highlighted the wing membranes pallid witch flesh also. I painted the areas that are going to have the exposed muscle effect ceramite white. Finally I applied washes. I'm still applying my 3:1 lahmia media (which I accidentally spilled a bunch of today, devastated) and agrax earthshade on the terrogheist wings as well as on the Varghulf's claws and then a 8:1 lahmia media to druchii violet over the flesh of the Varghulf (including the wing membranes)

So hopefully tomorrow I'll have the varghulf finished and be able to work on some of my crypt horrors.

So untill then.

Roleplay dwarf out!!

Today's progress. Varghulf courtier and terrorgheist

Good evening everyone, or whatever part of the day it it's where and when you're reading this.

I know yesterday (this morning but I started the post yesterday.) I kept saying with the terrorgheist that I was done for now but if I get time I'll do other stuff to it. Well I arrived at work early today so I applied the blood for the blood God to the areas I said I would

In between painting layers on the varghulf courtier I applied several coats of 3:1 lahmia medium to agrax earthshade to the wings working from the bottom of the wing to the top finishing a little further from the top each time, this is far from finished and still take many more layers.

So to the varghulf. The varghulf is based a similar way as the terrorgheist (resin decals stuck to the base, layer stirland mud with agrellan earth on selected parts) the whole model was then affiliated Corax white.

I base coated the skin and bone sections of the model with rakarth flesh and the fur with mornfang brown. I then shaded the flesh with a 3:1 lahmia media reikland flesh mix and shaded the fur with agrax earthshade. 

The fur was then dry brushed skrag brown. The sections mentioned so far were done before today as I was originally going to batch paint my warband but then I decided my abhorrent ghoul king on the terrorgheist deserved better than that. So the following short section is what I got fine today. keep in mind what I was doing to the terrorgheist today too)

I layered ushabti bone onto the bone sections of the model and then shaded them with agrax earthshade. I then went over the bone sections with ushabti bone again avoiding the recesses.......... and that's it........ No seriously I told you I was a slow painter

Hopefully I will be able to find more time this weekend to get more done. If I do you'll get my end of day update. If not I'll see you Monday.

Thanks for sticking with my slow ass

The Roleplay dwarf

Been too long, Back to painting

Hi everyone *looks at his number of followers.....1......* Yeah I'm still going with "Hi Everyone" for that opener.

So it's been over a year since my last post and since my 1 follower know me he knows why but to any future followers/ other people who may read this some explinations:

1) I'm lazy and had no ideas. (brutally honest)

2) I got a new job (Yay!!)

3) I got a baby! (found out about my wife being pregnant on the day I got offered the job so double yay!!!)

Anyway recently since I have no time to do painting at home I've been taking my models and paints to work with me and painting during my breaks. I have been sending almost daily pictures of my progress to a couple of my friends and have been enjoying doing it when suddenly I thought "Hey. there's a blog idea!!"

My local Warhammer store (it still feels odd not calling it Games Workshop) is having it's birthday on the 17th of September and is having competitions including an Age of Sigmar painting and a warband tournament (also a conversion competition but I'm still not confident with conversions).

Since I'd bought some Flesh Eater Courts models with the intention of starting Age of Sigmar this seemed like a good opportunity to generate a warband and get it built and painted to a deadline (a deadline that I think I'm going to miss to be honest but I've made a good go of it so far.)

My warband (I chose the abhorrent ghoul king on terrorgheist the rest were randomly rolled):

Abhorrent ghoul king on Terrorgheist

Varghulf courtier

Crypt infernal courtier

3 Crypt horrors

3 Crypt horrors

A fairly small warband I should have been able to get it done but I'm a fairly slow painter and it doesn't look like I am going to have it finished.

Some notes on the kind of theme I'm going for. I think the true horror of the flesh eater courts is that nearly everything in it (except the Terrorgheists and Zombie dragons) used to be human and has been twisted by the circumstances they have found themselves in, the horror to me is that these twisted creatures could be any of us if we were driven to these desperate situations and I hope the paint scheme I chose helps to covey that.

As the center piece model I knew the Abhorrent ghoul king on Terrorgheist would take the longest so I started there.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures from the very early stages of my work. the model was built as per the instructions and I stuck some of the older Warhammer resin decals on the base put down some Stirland mud and once that had dried some agrellan earth on areas the base, then sprayed the model corax white.

I layered all the bone segments and the ghoul king with Rakarth flesh then I painted ushabti bone on all the bone segments. After looking at some pictures of vampire bats and using this chart for a side by side comparison  http://imgur.com/PqKmYyU I decided to start the wings, fleshy areas and the ghould kings loincloth with mournfang brown which i then shaded with agrax earthshade

Sorry that this one was blurry I was trying to hold the 

model take a picture and hold a wriggling baby all at 

the same time.... all considered it could have been worse.

Next I applied a agrax earthshade wash to the bone areas and went back over them with ushabti bone being careful to avoid the recesses next a highlight of screaming skull on the raised areas and then a touch of white scar to the tips of any bones. With the bones of the wings that extended past the skin I mixed a 3:1 mix of lahmia media and agrax earthsade and  applied that in many layers each time starting a little further up the wing and working towards the tip I did the same for the claws.

 while each layer of was was drying I applied a skrag brown edge highlight to the wings flesh and loincloth followed by a deathclaw brown to highlight to the tips of the wings, tips of the hairy bits on the side of the terrogheist and the bottom edge of the ghoul kings loincloth.

On top of the ghould kings rakarth flesh layer I applied a 2:1 mix of lahima media and reikland flesh shade. Once this had dried I added a touch of administratum grey to some pallid witch flesh and painted it ontothe ghoul king avoiding the recesses. I then allpied a final edge highlight of palid witch flesh to the t zone of the ghoul kins face and the more defined edges of his body.

Next I made a 8:1 mix of lahmia media to druchii violet and applied it to all of the flesh areas on the ghoul king focusing especially on the areas where the brighter colours met the recesses. the ghoul king has a few raised areas that look like spots, to them I dotted on some ungor flesh, then corroburg crimson (just a dot you want it to form a very small pool around the pustule) and then dotted ungor flesh on again.

Now I started working on the exposed muscles of the terrorgheist. Using a 3:1 mix of lahmia media and  carroburg crimson and applied it in many layers leaving the bits closet to bone whiter and applying more and more to the thicker areas of muscle, with the muscle around the ribs I left the parts that would be close to a rib with less shade than the recesses further from the ribs While each of these layers were drying I painted the underside of the tail, tongue and the organs inside the rib cage mephiston red and shaded it with carroburg crimson.

Since each of these washes took a while to dry. While they were drying I painted the rocks on the base abbadon black and highlighted them dawnstone (I'm not happy with the effect that gave if I have time before the competiton I'm going to go back in and cover most of the dawnstone areas with eshin grey leaving the dawnstone only on the most raised areas). I also painted and rimmed the base in mechanicus standard grey, washed the entire base in nuln oil (that was alot of wash) then dry brushed dawnstone over the base and then a further lighter drybrush of admistratum grey. 

 Back to the muscle, the muscle was looking a bit pink so to the thickest areas of muscle and deepest recesses of the muscle and the ribs too I added a 2:1 of lahmia media to druchii violet and did 2 or 3 layers of this. While those were drying I painted the scraps of cloth under the neck and the inside of the eye socket Macragge blue, washed them with drakenhoff nightshade (drawing a bit extra out into the socket to try and get a bit of object source lighting) and then highlighted with altdorf guard blue. I made a small mix of about 1;1 deathclaw brown to ushabti bone and highlighted the tip of the ghouls loincloth with it.

To the parts of the ghould king and muzzle and claws of the terrorgheist where I was going to be applying blood for the blood god to I made a 3:1:3 mix of carroburg crimson, agrax earthshade and lahmia media and applied it to the areas going a bit further than I intended to use the blood. I then added the blood for the blood god to the teeth, face, inside the mouth and down the tongue of the terrogheist as well as to it front claws (I then ran blood for the blood god down the rocks on which the front claws were placed and pooled it where it would) I also added it to the face of the ghoul king and to his hands (upto the wrist) and finally added it to the deepest recesses of the muscles and ribs and also around any recesses where flesh meets exposed muscle (if I have time before the competition I will be doing to same for where flesh meets exposed bone)

So for now I'm considering this model "done" I'm not 100% happy that it's complete and there's plenty I still want to do to it if I find the time (as well as the things mentioned above the wings look a little flat so I'd like to do a gradual shade on them and I'd also like to apply some blood for the blood god to the internal organs to give them a sheen) but I don't want to spend all my time n this one model and have nothing else from my warband completed before the competiton

So there we have it. My last 2 weeks progress. Tune in tonight to see what I achieve at work today.

Until next time

The Roleplay Dwarf