A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Warhammer 40,000 – Tyranids might be on the rise again with the Genestealer Cults getting a new release. These Gaunts were painted to match an existing force.
A pretty basic paint job bone, light green with a wash to shade an tie the colors together.
Warhammer 40,000 – This is the last part of the Tome Keepers custom space marine chapter I recently painted up.
I’m a big fan of the Heavy Intercessor models, they’re bulky and carry some pretty impressive firepower.
Warhammer 40,000 – Creating your own space marine chapters is one of the more rewarding experiences you can have as a Warhammer player. The background “fluff” for Space Marines leaves a ton of room for you to create your own story, and that story can make the games you play with friends more meaningful than just kicking the crap out of each other of moving pieces around a board to get the high score.
Anytime someone asks me about getting a space marine force painted I always suggest creating your own chapter or unique scheme. In doing so you open up the possibility to use any of the plethora of rulesets, special characters and source material that Games Workshop creates for their poster boys.
This chapter is based off the Tome Keepers chapter with a few tweaks to the scheme so there isn’t any confusion on the table. Their owner has an existing Black Templar force that is nearly complete and as such wanted to incorporate the First Born keeping a black scheme with the Primaris Marines decked out in a bone color. Once I started painting the force that idea changed a bit and the force may be primaris only at some point.
With this first batch done he has a big enough selection to start a crusade force and grow it. Next up I’ll have some additional Primaris Marines and a small Imperial Knight contingent to give him options as the crusade continues.
Warhammer 40,000 – Blackstone Fortress is a cool looking game. Having still not had a chance to play my own set I can only comment on how cool the game looks. One day I’m hoping to play through it as well as get my own set painted but right now there are too many other games that are grabbing my attention.
These models are some of the most characterful models Games Workshop has made combined with the expansions and previous Kill Team box set you really get a feel for what a Rogue Trader and Crew look like. A weird cross between a pirate and cyperpunk with a little gothic thrown in is how I describe the Rogue Traders.
The villains of the set are also quite unique Traitor Guard, Beastmen, Cultists, Chaos Marines, and some random gribblies make a force that your heroes will have to face in their quest for the secrets of the Blackstone Fortress.
Warhammer 40,000 – Sometimes I feel the names in Warhammer are a bit one dimensional, especially when you get a variety of armies that have similar names for example there’s Deathguard, Deathwing, Death Korp, Deathwatch and I’m sure there’s a bunch more.
In this batch I painted up a few Relic Terminators in the bone Deathwing scheme as well as several sets of the new plastic Death Korp of Krieg infantry models from the new edition of Kill Team. While I really like the new models, I don’t care for the revised game.
I’m sure the game is better with the revised rules and weird symbol based movement, but for me it feels to similar to other skirmish games that do a better job like Marvel: Crisis Protocol. The appeal of the previous edition of Kill Team was how close to 40k it was while being a different scale with a little more customization. It really felt like the in-between step between 40K and Necromunda. Honestly the new edition is probably fine and will catch up, but I have all the books for the old system (including the one that came out months before the rerelease, another sore point) so I can just build forces using that and enjoy it when I want to play a skirmish game in the Grim Dark.
Warhammer 40,000 – Gaunt’s Ghosts hold a spot near and dear to many people’s hearts so when they came out in plastic I assumed I’d be seeing them on my table. These were really fun to paint up and the camo was way less complicated than I assumed it would be. By using contrast paint over the green base it was pretty simple to add the patterns.
Warhammer 40,000 – Grey Knights recently got a little boast with a new model.
Terrain – I really like the terrain from TT Combat while it’s not as detailed as the stuff I got from Knights of Dice it is significantly more affordable.
Warhammer 40,000 – Imperial Agents have been in a weird place for several editions now. Initially introduced as part of the Gray Knights and Sisters of Battle books back in 3rd Edition they’ve since been pulled out and shoehorned into some odd places. You’re once again able to include them in a Imperial force with minimal effort.
This latest batch includes a few Witchhunters, the Throne of Judgement, Jokero and some Daemon-hosts.
Warhammer 40,000 - As of late I’ve been getting more and more 3D printed models on my table many of which have been unique sculpts rather than recreations of existing models. It’s exciting to see creative ways to “scratch-build” models. However with new technologies come new hurdles, for example, these models painted up really nicely, but after i took photos and packed them up for delivery I ran into a major issue.
When moving the box I had these models packed up in I noticed the bottom of the box was wet. Odd, I thought not seeing anything else in the area that could have caused to box to get wet. So I opened it up to investigate and saw everything was covered in a grayish slime. Confused I removed the models and noticed several seem to have exploded, bursting open.
After posting some photos of the mess on some other groups I learned that this is common with resin printing it something is printed “hollow” without holes. The resin inside doesn’t drain or cure so it can swell and cause the models to “burst” open.
I now have them sitting in the sun to see if I can get the mess to cure and potentially fix the models by adding more gore.
Warhammer 40,000 – Big Green Stompy Robots are ready to roll. With tournaments coming back I’m seeing quite a few clients prepping their lists for what they think will be the new ninth edition meta.
Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve been painting parts of the Space Marine army for a client for quite some time. He recently decided to pick up some iconography from Pop Goes the Monkey to finish off the green marines. I’m a big fan of how the white shark looks on the army green pad. I’m not sure what he’s going to call his chapter but they look great. Tournaments are being scheduled again so he’s sent over models that he needs for his GT list, this is the first batch.
Warhammer 40,000 – Purple and gold just look good together, I was very happy that this Adeptus Custodes project uses a different color scheme than the traditional gold, red and black. I’m just getting back to a regular 40K rotation so I’m not sure what the sudden interest in Custodes is all about but this force is so nice looking that I’m tempted to look at building a similar force. (Probably won’t but who knows)
Warhammer 40,000 – I’m not sure this headline is entirely accurate, but it seems like it could be the case given the number of Custodes projects I’m seeing has increased significantly.
This project is all resin from Forgeworld, painted in the traditional color scheme.
Warhammer 40,000 – This Iron Hands Successor Chapter just keeps growing. Just when I think I’ve painted the last of it my client finds a few more marines that he needs done to match. Which is great since I love this color scheme and it’s relatively simple to keep unified over the course of several batches.
Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve painted several Space Wolf forces over the years, each one of them follows a similar color scheme and style to this latest project. One of the nice things about well established chapters is the depth of lore and the fully realized look of the army. Once you figure out how you’re going to cary out the look it’s pretty straight forward.
I always start with a slate grey color as my base, it’s a lighter cool grey color that I then apply a heavy wash over using Nightshade. You can get a similar look by applying the Contrast Space Wolves grey, but I tend to stick with tried and true techniques I’ve used before. The yellow is Iyanden Darksun which when you’re painting yellow is a lifesaver, a quick wash of Cassandra yellow really bring out the color. To paint the pelts I combined Contrast colors with traditional techniques.
Warhammer 40,000 – Blood Angels Terminators were at one point the most ornate models GW produced, that mantle has been passed on to newer releases, but these guys still hold up.
This batch was painted for a client that will be running a big Space Hulk event this fall and he needed a few more guys to fill out the game.
Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve painted Eisenhorn a few times now and each time I enjoy it. The sculpt captures what I imagine the character from the novels looks like even if he rules aren’t the best.
Warhammer 40,000 – The Eversore Assassin is unique in the fact that it’s not a stealthy option, this killing machine is kept in stasis until he’s released on an unsuspecting target to wreck as much carnage as possible.
This pose is pretty cool, even though the (what I imagine is) wrecked stasis pod is an odd choice for the base.
Warhammer 40,000 – The Forgeworld Avatar is a pretty nice model. The molten details come across really well in resin. This particular project is for a Biel-Tan force that I’ll probably have a few additional elements to paint.
