Here's a bit I worked on today:

Nobz!


TANKS! Firepower, baby! All are being done for my guard: 2 Leman Russ', a Leman Russ Demolisher and a Hellhound.

More Warboss!

A little bit more work down on the Warboss, as part of the 250 pts for this month's Tale of MORKS Gamers.

I added some tubes and hoses to him... cybork body and all!



And from behind.



Annnnnnd... in comparison to the actual unmodified AoBR boss.

WARBOSS!

Upate on Tale of MORKS Gamers:

Nobz are all assembled (5) and primed. Here is my in progress Warboss... a teaser if you will. I am modifying him from the Assault on Black Reach model. Comment!!

I decided, late late last night, that I should try greenstuff. I've had the body of this character for a while. He was going to be an eviscerator wielding priest for my guard and/or sisters of battle but I couldn't figure out how to do it... that is until I looked at the extra parts my cannoness came with. I am greenstuffing some billowing sleeves on him to connect the pieces. So far... so... eh. I am waiting for them to harden over a couple days before doing a bit of sanding/grinding/etching. They might even work as is. They're the right shape and all but we'll see.




And to add to my growing apocalypse force, these Rackham minis shall be used as Vindicare Assassins. I'll be using the Officio Assassinorium datasheet and fielding 4 vindicares. I also have an Eversor painted and hope to get 2 more purchased and painted before then as well.

Chimeras!

Here are a couple mostly done Inquisition Chimeras. They cart around the IST's I generally field. I figured a straight black and red worked as the troopers themselves are the same color. Again... I hate painting vehicles.

Apocalypse... Fantasy... Indecision... and more!

Being home all the time lends me to either be lazy and play WoW or sit and do some modelling and painting. SOMEHOW I've been able to do a little of both.

Rumors are there is an upcoming in store (Readers Comics) Apocalypse game to help promote the store and go in tune with the release of the new Imperial Guard stuff. Rules are this is a painted only game so I've been getting on stuff I've been neglecting! I will be playing an all Imperium army. Small force of Marines, Imperial Guard and Inquisition.

Here's some rhinos for my Sisters of Battle, the Order of the Rekindled Flame.



Yup... huge work in progress. I am having a helluva time with vehicles and I don't know why. I need to go back and soften up the drybrushing. I'll be seeing what washes my work hand in hand with the vomit brown base/bleached bone highlighting. Also gonna do some wear, especially on the left side rhino.

And of course, through all this, I have actually been working on Fantasy stuff. There's another line called Confrontation. From what I understand the game is bunk and their new minis are all prepainted. Readers brought in a buncha the old metal ones and have them on for cheap, cheap, cheap. I have grabbed a good 20 or so of various types for various armies. In the bunch were their version of ogres... some neat models that I see some good purpose in. My purpose? Maneaters for the soon to be Ogre Kingdoms army! A good variety of great weapons, brace of guns and Cathayan Longswords in here (or both!). They don't look like much now but I expect after some green stuffing and painting they'll be alright and unique.

The first one is the first one I did. He's very obviously a pirate theme. He may go with either the longsword or the brace so I modelled him for both! He is supposed to be walking from a beach onto a boardwalk btw.



And his buddy! (not attached, just put there to show you my plan!)



And the rest. I really like the russian style drummer and the elephant masked one!



Yet more Confrontation turned WHFB... in the end likely a troll.


And more! This one, after some more greenstuffing, will be Throgg, the monster king from the Warriors of Chaos army. I absolutely LOVE this model. It's so beefy and intimidating.




I am thinking of trying out some Dragon Ogres as well. My current plan thanks to a fella on Warseer is to combine Black Ork torsos with Cold Ones bodies. I may even do Kholek Suneater using a Carnosaur and a LotR Troll. Any other ideas I could use?

COMMENTS! PLEASE! And tell your friends.

Some more Warriors of Chaos!

I've done a little more work on my marauder/monster themed Warriors of Chaos army. Here's a nearly done hero/lord type. Mark of Khorne, baby! Looking at the photos I took I realize I want to do some more washes to tie the blending in together a bit more. Also realize I need to maybe water down my paints just a tad more so they look smoother.




Here is another! I did some conversion work on him. Some may recognize this particular model as a Nurgle Champion. I replaced the head with a marauder one, cut off the sword and replaced it with an axe and put a shield over one shoulder. I tried grinding down the Nurgle marks but it wasn't working well so figured I'd put a nice undivided mark on it instead. He's likely gonna be my BSB. I am thinking I may plant a banner on the base to represent him as such.

And as always... please comment! That way I know who's checking it out!

Tale of MORKS Gamers February... and marauders!

I said I'd put up my Tale of MORKS Gamers stuff and here it is! Zagstruk, boyz and the first 250 as a group! Pardon the shiny light contrast stuff. This picture taking is new to me. And yes... apparently I like red.






And these are my first painted Warriors of Chaos! Khorne Marauder Horsemen. I made the red specifically dark and grimy. They are barbarians after all, the theme of the army more or less, so wouldn't keep as good watch on their gear. They want effectiveness not prettiness.

Month 2 Declarations and month 1 work

Long time no talk!

So I _DO_ have all my month 1 stuff done (for the Tale of Many Gamers at MORKS) but am waiting to put pics up until the local guys have seen it.

Month 2 is starting as well. I am taking it fairly easy this month as I want to do a heavy conversion piece (one of my biggest projects thus far) and have some commission work and other stuff I want to do. I am doing a Warboss and some nobz. Simple... or is it!

Adding onto the Warboss I'd like to mention the newest White Dwarf. It has a fantastic painting article for orks. Check it out, it's a really neat way to do skin.

Onwards... hoooooooooooo.

Stormboyz... hooooooooooo!

I dare not reveal all, but I really like these dudes. Comments always welcome.

First: Group shots!



And the other four individuals!





(Editor's note: Man, it's funny how bad you think your stuff looks when it's like 4 or 5 times normal size. I don't know how the pros do it. Better lighting and photography must play a big role. Not to mention they're all amazing painters. Oh well... I've gotta start somewhere.)

TEASER!!!!

Wow, I got stuff done! Here's a lil teaser for what's to come for this month's "Tale of a Buncha 40k Gamers".

So while working on my stormboyz tonight I was doing another side project... a retinue member for an Inquisitor. This fella can be either a mystic or sage I figure depending on whether witch or daemon hunter.



And here he is doing some math!



I think I may wash the robe in red still for better blending. I tried Ogryn Flesh for the first time. Works well, very similar though less metallic then the old flesh wash.

No pictures of my boyz yet. I've only been working on the skin, slowly. It's gonna be a tough month. I wish I didn't get some caught up in other painting. Oh well, I will get them done fo shizzy. I think they'll look pretty swell too.

I've started my orks for the local Tale of 40k Gamers contest we have going on! 250 points a month for 6 months leading to a big old, fully painted 1500pt round robin battle. Here are some pictures of the minor work I've done. Some jump packs in progress for my stormboyz... and then the stormboyz and Zagstruk themselves. I put together their bases before priming them. Why someone had to tell me this was a good idea without me thinking of it myself I will never know. Comments welcome!

Lots 'o stuff!

I have started my Tale of Lots of 40k Gamers project finally! As you can see here I've been assembling the 5 Stormboyz and Zagstruk first. I am trying to give each guy some unique characteristic. I need to fill in some cracks and spaces with green stuff still and want to green stuff some extra scarves and what not still. The one on the far right is gonna have two grots... so awesome. The one on the left is my favorite. El Bandito!

Zagstruk is an absolutely gigantic model. Here he is in comparison to the Stormboyz.

That's not all I have been working on though! Am getting farther on my commission. I got the skin going pretty well. Still have a couple layers or three of highlighting plus started some of the metals on the weapons. I like doing green first generally. You can just go crazy and let it get on stuff. Some people do the metals first.



As well I more or less finished my Arco Flaggelants for my Sisters of Battle Army. I am making a concerted effort to get them and my guard done. With the new codex for guard coming out I've been getting pretty excited.

What I've been painting lately...

I figured I hadn't posted, but might as well say what I've done in the last bit. Maybe seeing it on paper will make it seem more of an accomplishment.

I painted up one last Veteran Sister Superior and an Eversor Assassin for my Sisters of Battle. It was weird. I had this VSS almost done, yet... unfinished. Was a bit baffling. Also did two plasma gun troopers to accompany my inquisitor

For my guard I painted up my entire command squad: the Officer, Medic, Standard Bearer, 2 plasma gunners and a commissar. My normal configuration for them. As well I just finished up 8 more hardened vets that can second as a Special Weapons team.

I am trying to make sure I am not just painting orks. It's gonna start bogging me down, so need to keep my sanity.

I will take some pictures soon of what I have done and post them.

Next up... time to start the "Tale Of 40k Gamers" stuff!

SOooooooooooooo many guys doing Orks.

I'll just have to make sure mine are that much better. I am putting some heavy expectations on the quality of my work. Yikes.

I HAVE DECIDED!! My declaration and February vows.

...and I shall be getting some Green Feevah! (tm Matthew Fosen)

I have decided to finally cave in. I went to the local gaming store, Comic Readers in Medicine Hat, looking at all the various 40k stuff. I've had it in my head to help out my girlfriend with her army, build a big one together. This will be the perfect opportunity. I picked up a few things today.

My February vows, the first month of 6 in our Tale of More Gamers is as follows:

Boss Zagstruk
5 Stormboyz
10 Boyz including a big shoota and a Nob w/ Power Klaw and Boss Pole



250 points on the dot if my math is right. 1500pts of orks is probably insane considering I still have 48 left to do in my commission work (which btw the customer was very happy with). Oh well!

ALSO... I picked up, rather was given, around 500 or 600pts of guard! Creed and Kell, a TON of heavy weapons, an entire platoon with 5 squads and about 10 each of plasma and melta guys. So fantastic. Thanks to Dennis for it! Right place right time.

Here are some more pictures of my first commission work. Man, after doing a ton of orks, my blending is gonna be down pat.

Yellow is a mofo though. Not really sure how else to do it. If anyone out there has good yellow tips that don't involve yellow ink, let me know!





And oh yeah, still can't solidly decide on an army. I hate indecision.

Some pictures!

I am still undecided on my "Tale Of" army but certainly leaning towards Chaos Marines or Eldar. We are even getting more players.

However, what I do have are the first pics I've taken from my first commission work. I have a ton o' orks to do. I've been working on the skin on the first twelve, lemme know whatcha think!