Bitterstone Mines, First Piece Done

Hi there! Here's few pics of the first scenery piece for the "Bitterstone Mines" scenario. We're gonna play the campaign game week from now... so I'm a bit in a hurry :) Other projects going on too... outside the hobby, so that doesn't make the schedule any easier. We'll see...

This piece was really nice to sculpt and paint. Painting stone is pretty easy and fast... but sculpting the details takes a lot of time. I hope I find enough time to make at least another one of these before the game, if not all three. This is the smallest one of them of course:)

Ta daa..! It's easy to turn it to a jungle terrain piece too :)

One more pic just for scale... "Group of Adventurers exploring ancient ruins". Bye now! 

One of the Emperors Children

Hi there! Here's few pics of the Emperors Children figure, that I painted for my friend, as a birthday present :). One more Marine to he's large and constantly growing collection of Chaos Forces...

Here's roughly what I did...

 I startedwith assembly (surprise)... Went through my bitz box and glued this together.

Then I painted the prime colors. Warlock Purple, Squid Pink (Vallejo), Leadbelcher for metal, and finally some Tau Light Ochre for golden parts...

I painted the gold parts with Burnished Gold, and washed with Agrax Earthshade. Rest of the figure got a wash of Leviathan Purple.

Then highlights were made with mix of 3:1 Warlock Purple-Squid Pink. Squid Pink parts were highlighted with the original color again... For more contrast I wanted to add another layer of higlights adding white to the mix... but I ran out of time :(

Well... I think it's a nice "tactical squad" standard figure anyways. More Emperors Children figures can be found under lable "Space Marine Project" in my older postings :) Bye now!

Dark Vengeance Bikers Done

Finally I got my self to paint the last of these beautiful bikers. I got some inspiration to finish it from our last sunday 40K game... where this unit assaulted to close combat at turn 2, with only two of the bikers alive... and held a unit of Chaos Marines with a furious anger... untill turn five, when sergeant, as a last man standing, finally got it from a Chaos chain sword through he's chest. It was a big deal for winning the game, and amazing four rounds of close combat :) Here's some pics...

Bye now!

Old Epic and FB Gaming Stuff...

Hi there! Just a fast update... I took pics of old gaming stuff, that was gathering dust at my friends cupboard, for he pretty much quit wargaming long ago. So he decided to give the stuff away.

Good old Space Marine game here... I have picked up my  Eldars from this starter box, when this game was new :) We purchased this together long long time ago. Here's some good collection of Marines, Rhinos and Land Riders. Quite many orcs too. Over twenty Wagons still in sprues... Buildings still looks good, and come very handy when we start playing this again :) The Titan has suffered some serious injuries, but nothing that a plastic glue can't fix.

Here's the old (5th?) edition starter that came with Bretonnians and Lizardmen. Lizards are long gone, but the Bretons are still in the box. My friend actually collected Empire Army that was also in the box... but as we split Empire the loot, I got few ranks of core, and ten Great Sword figures... I don´t know what to do with these minis. Maybe some painting practise for my kids :) There was also Handgunners, Flagellants, Hellblaster, Pistoliers and other stuff in the box. They went for my friend, who had a dream, where God told him to collect an Witch Hunter Army or something... So I guess he had to have them. But the old rulebooks are very inspirational, with bright colored pics minis on almost every page. Some interresting scenarios and experience tables for campaigns too. Brings back some memories... Ah, the good old days! Bye now!

Bitterstone Mines WIP

Here's what I've sculpted so far... I started off with the smallest piece, and tried out some ideas.

I took the symbols on the pillars from many sources of inspiration, to give the piece some recycling value... Wargaming and RPG use :) Next some basing and painting... Bye now!