Another Hasslefree Goblin painted

Here´s another of the Hasslefree Gobbo's... This time with a spear and shield. Again, it was really fun to paint.

Bye now!

Hasslefree Orcs and Goblins arrived

I got these goodies few days ago... Now I had some time to open the bags and look into minis!

I chose to buy these goblins, for they're sculpting reminded me of old LotR pictures, painted by Angus Mcbride. He had brilliant visions of Orcs and Goblins... which are still in my head as the true O&C for me :)  I guess it was the helmets of the minis that made me make the purchase, for I remembered an old game book by I.C.E. that has a cover picture I really love. Still have it in my bookshelf!

Well... I got one of them assembled and painted. Here's some pics...

It was really lovely and fast to assemble and paint. And the sculpting is great!

Here's just for comparison... with a Marine. Hasslefree Goblins are really tiny...  Gobbo has a chance, for he has one sneak attack. Hope he goes for the groins :) Bye now!

Another Dark Vengeance Biker

Hi! Here's another Biker from the Dark Vengeance box. I converted it slightly to make it fit in my DV successor chapter "Serpents of Hellfire".

First I took off all the DA symbols from the bike. Then I cutted off the wings from the back of the bike, and replaced them with two Chaos Marine heads. Iron Warriors were my choice of trophys :)

The backpack is taken from DA veterans box. Otherwise it's all Dark Vengeance biker...

I'm pretty happy with the paint job, and I think I've finally found the painting method and style for the whole Chapter... And now I have to go back to my old painted marines and give them an fast updete in colors :) Maybe not the first tactical squad that I highlighted with dry brushing... those I'll leave as they are, but rest will get a more "fiery" and "blazing" high lights, as the bikers have.

I tried to pose this one leaning abit to the sword side, to make him look like he's picked the nex target, and is about to get another trophy... :)

The base is from Micro Art Studio as with the previous biker... and the next to come. For these bases are sweeeet! Wroom Wrooooom... Bye now!

Dark Vengeance Librarian

Hello! One mini that I was missing in our tutorial game was the Librarian, so now I have to fix that before our next session...

As I´ve done with the bikers, I had to get rid of the too many Dark Angel details to get the Librarian fit in my own chapter... Original DV Librarians shoulder pad was just too much for my sculpting blade to handle, so I decided to take an Terminator arm from my DA veterans box, and on that, I added a shoulder pad from my bitz box. To cover the DA symbols on the chest (and to get blessings from the 40K dice Gods:) I glued on some Purity Seals.

The shape of the "Blade of Caliban" suits the mini just fine... Successor Chapters have to follow some traditions and heritages...

Hope I get to paint it soon... Bye now!

First Dark Vengeance Biker Painted

Hi there! We finally got around to play the tutorial missions of the Dark Vengeance box with my friend (well, the first four anyway)... And we had a really good time. I had pretty much all the Marine minis painted that I needed in the missions, but my bikers had just the primer on them... So after playing the game I found some inspiration to give the first of three some washes and highlights and stuff... Here´s some pics.

I replaced the bolt pistol with a flamer with this one... and I cut the wings off from the back of the bike. They had too much Dark Angels mood in them. My Chapter "Serpents of Hellfire" are DA successor chapter, but I don´t want them to look precisely like DA marines. I also knifed the DA symbols off the mini...

I take the high lights just abit over the edge, to give the Serpents armour some flaming feeling... I used to drybrush the "effect" before on my earlier SoH marines, but I like more "clean" high lighting at present :)

Serpents of Hellfire marines don´t usually wear black helmets. I decided to paint the bike squad helmet black, to honor the Ravenwing of the Dark Angels... The coolest unit in 40K :)

Well these guys also have to have a cool name! I thought I´ll call the 2nd Company of the SoH the "Serpent Sting"  Swift, poisonous and... cool! :D

Bye now!