Sweet Feathery Pureblood

Here's what I've done with my Pureblood. I lost the shoulder spikes but it's okay because I'm doing a Native American themed Circle army so I decided to just add some feathers to the shoulders tucked under his hood. Here he is ready for priming:

Cephalyx!

So I know people don't play Cephalyx Drudges as Cryx (at least for the most part), but I got a unit of them at SoCal Smackdown thanks to Iron Arena tickets. Anyways, since I had to paint some living skin (Darragh Wrathe), and it's not something I usually do, I opted to test it out on a Drudge Slave. So here you go:





Two things
1) these guys are great models with a lot of character
2) painter's touch double coverage primer from Home Depot is fantastic, and it only costs 4 bucks. I highly recommend it.

Anyways, it's a pretty simple method for the skin. Lay down a good basecoat of bleached bone (took me 3 layers to get it looking good). Once that's dry, wash it with GW's Ogryn Flesh wash. Highlight it back up with very thin layers of bleached bone. Repeat the wash and highlight stage until you get your desired level of contrast. I only did it twice here.

Hope you enjoy my newest flesh tones. Pretty easy stuff :p

Khador Battlegroup -Finished

Ok so I lied about not working on these until the weekend. I finished them up last night, snapped a few pics and now my PG application is ready. I'll probably go back and replace the sandbags with ones about half as big, but for now I think it looks fine.

Khador Battlebox 3

Day 3 of work on my Khador battlebox is complete. Nothing too dramatic, I got both chassis done as well as most of the basing. That leaves finishing up the bases, painting the heads/arms and final touch ups. I won't be able to work on these again until Saturday but I should be able to finish them up in one or two more stretches.

Khador Battlebox 2

Day 2 of working on my Khador battlebox has drawn to a close. I managed to pretty much finish Sorscha. There are some details I'd like to spend more time on but it's close enough for government work and I'm anxious to get the group done. I was also able to get the base coat down on the warjack chassis (I am painting the arms and heads separately). I may not be able to do day 3 until the weekend depending on work stuff but here are the pictures you've been so eagerly awaiting (or skipped ahead to look at and then read this afterward).

Khador Battlebox 1

I'm working on painting up the new Khador plastic battlegroup since 1) Everybody is doing it 2)I'm working on a Press Ganger application. I magnetized both my warjacks in the event that I get the other parts for a marauder/decimator. Here is the primed group shot and my progress on Sorscha after night one. She still needs work on her face, base and miscellaneous details.

eGoreshade + Blackbane's

My schedule for today emptied itself, so I filled it up with painting. Not that I actually did that much today, but I'll pretend. Anyways, Micah and I got 2 35 pt games in yesterday, and I ran my Blackbane's in one of them. They were mostly done, but bases needed work among a few models that missed the painting queue for the metals. So here's my mostly done Blackbane's.

The most important thing that I learned from painting this unit is that I hate painting over white primer, especially units. I've painted some Legion beasts over white primer and it didn't bother me too much, but I think I'm going to go to a great for the rest of them.

Moving on, I also got eGoreshade to an acceptable level to hit the table as well. There are details that I'd like to go back and pick out, but I got all the large swatches done, and a majority of the details.

So with eGoreshade (aka Goreshade the Cursed), I managed to fix the fleshtones from my last attempt. I'm actually quite happy with how his face turned out, but the severed Precursor Knight heads are a whole other story (i.e. I'm not happy with them, but I really don't want to go over them again right now). I think I'm progressing as a painter due to the quality of robes that I have been able to do recently, in addition to my newly attempted front arc markings. My first attempt was on Darragh's mounted form, and I still think it's the best of all the others that I tried today. Practice makes perfect though. I'm planning on just marking the bases with lines whenever a model is fully painted, until I have the time to go back and do the fade.

C&C is always appreciated.

Micah or I should also be posting a battle report of our 2 recent games sometime this week too. (I'm saying this in order to motivate myself to actually write it up :p).