Current WIPs

Way too much stuff in progress.  I still have a zillion Satyxis to paint as well.

Warmachine stuff:

Stuff I 3d printed, most of it from Artisan Guild

Reeve Planomap

I picked up 44019: Reeve Planomap to compare Bones Black with Bones (white). Bones (white) was definitely hit or miss on detail. While I can’t speak to consistency, Reeve was full of detail and it was much easier to see in the package. He did still suffer from a few spots where his “I’m a plastic miniature” shone through, but overall I was happy with him. Didn’t spend a ton of time on him overall.

Greylord Adjunct

Lovely resin/metal model.  Outside of coat is Sanguine Base up to Khador Red.  Inside is MSP Red Shadow to Sanguine Base.  Boots/gloves are GW Contrast Snakebite Leather and Wildwood.  Fur is zenithal priming + thinned down coat of Agrax Earthshade.  Pants are P3 Traitor Green.  Metal is VMA Chainmail Silver + VAC Steel with P3 Armor Wash.  Skin is either MSP Fair Skin/Tanned Skin, or GW Contrast Guilleman Flesh (I forget which).

Black Bella / Damaris Walmund

update: better photos

 

official photo shoot to come later

Rook

I’m super happy with Rook’s NMM hammers and chains.  He’s previously been featured on a WIP.  I might put some more work into him if I feel like.  (specifically, he might get more chest and arm hair).

Photo backdrop from Hangar 18.  They had a going-out-of-business sale at ReaperCon.  Sad to hear that, but I did pick up a half-dozen new backdrops.

The whole team:

Legion of Lost Souls (Steelhead Halberdiers)

The Steelheads were 90% at my LGS so I bought them to convert to the upcoming Legion of Lost Souls, a good-guy undead unit. Fitting with power-creep, the new unit has halberds, guns, shields and recursion. The Steelhead unit, while much cheaper (in points), only has halberds.

Painted with GW’s new Aetheric Blue Contrast paint, followed by a white drybrush. The bases are plasticard; the reverse side was airbrushed using new Fallout Hobby stencils. The stencils had a much smaller pattern than I had hoped. In addition, this particular pattern was very hard to pull off the backing and use.

Vladimir, the Dark Champion

I’ve been wanting to paint Vlad2 for a while, and was surprised by how fast I managed to finish him once I finally got started.  (you know, instead of painting Satyxis, like I’m supposed to).

I started out by painting him with GW Blood Angel Red Contrast paint.  I then painted the details, and finally some orange highlighting.  The single coat of Blood Angel Red is very similar to Khador Red Base – I used that color to clean up some of the places where the paint had pooled in the wrong areas.  He comes with that nicely sculpted base.  I just used some desaturated blues and brownish greys.  The lipped base is also Blood Angel Red through an airbrush – a few too many layers though, so it’s more of a crimson.