DoW-Terminator with Assault Cannon, WIP

I started painting Terminator with Assault Cannon... and this time I remembered to take some pics too :) I actually got carried away with the camera. There´s maybe too many pics for a short update :D Sorry...

 

                 
                       Here´s the Termie with just the "Army Painter" Red Primer and heavy wash of Devlan Mud.

 This time I started with the metal parts, and gave them a coat of Boltgun Metal. I really like this color, for it covers the areas very neatly with just one coat of paint...

Then I washed the metal parts with two layers of Devlan Mud. I usually wash metal parts with Badab Black, but I have started to turn on the Devlan Mud, for it makes the shadows contrasts little softer...

       I made the high lights. First with Chain Mail, and second with just a few drops of Mithril Silver.

 

Then on with the white parts... Three thin layers of Bleached Bone for starters on all of the white parts.

                        And then a wash of Gryphonne Sepia... I tried to keep it light as possible.
 

   High lights with Bleached Bone again... and final high light with few careful brush strokes of Skull White.

Finally I added the Chapter symbol on the shoulder, and some battle damage... Damage is made with just little spots or strokes of Graveyard Earth. Underneath of the damaged parts I used a high light of Skull White to make them stand out more clearly.  Well that´s all folks... at this time.  I´ll be back with new pics shortly :)

Dawn of War - Painting Project started

The first Drop Pod has landed... bringing me some goodies. I got two of the four Terminator boxes, and some paints. It was enough for me to get started... and I did.

I started to put the first squad together right away... assembly, cleaning up, and drilling the barrels... I tried to give them some cool poses, and I think they came up quite nice :)

For me, the great thing about plastic minis nowadays is that it´s so easy to make them unique with just a pose... Turn the hip or raise the arm, and you got a mini that no one else have ;) Anyways, I had orders (from the Emperor) to assemble the squads to the Maximum Fire Power..! So the upcoming  Blood Raven squads don´t follow the rules of the Codex Space Marines... They follow the rule of "Give em Hell". So, following the orders I put all the heavy stuff in the box on the lads here...

I got really carried away painting the first two of the Termies... And forgot to take any WIP pics. Sorry bout that... Still, I got eighteen to go. I hope I will remember to take them at some point :D

Here´s Sergeant Thales and his buddy. Yes... they are still missing the basing. I will add that later. About painting... I started with Army Painter "Red Primer". After that I gave the minis a heavy Devlan Mud wash. I painted up all the white parts with Bleached Bone, and gave them a very light wash of Gryphonne Sepia.After that I high lighted the white parts first with Bleached Bone and then with Skull White. Then I high lighted the red parts with Blood Red, following the high light with Blazing Orange. Metal parts are made with a Boltgun Metal base color and wash with Devlan Mud (twice). High lights first with Chain Mail and second with Mithril Silver... The Chapter symbol is not the "official" one I guess. But it´s a symbol that I can paint freehand, twenty times  in a row... and make it look decent :)

Hope you like them... Over and Out for now!

Terminator and his little friend

While waiting for DOW-painting project to start... I had to dig out my own terminators to get into Terminator mood :) Here´s the first one painted...

He has a friend too... The vulture has found out, that it´s practical to hang out with this dude! Lots of corpses to feast on, when Auto Cannon starts to sing...

Auto Cannon is from Dark Angels veteran box... as are the other bits with the feathers on them. They were really cool details and I just had to use them on this one. From there I got the Idea of a vulture on his shoulder, for I was thinking... Where the hell did he get those feathers on his armour :o I  took the birdie from WHFB Giant box.

About painting... On armour I used the old Hellfire recipe: Base coat of Red Core. Wash with Devlan Mud. First dry brush with Blood Red, following an other with Blazing Orange. Finally some high light spots with Yellow. Vulture was painted with base coat of Graveyard Earth. Wash with Devlan Mud. First highlight with 1:1 Graveyard Earth and Bleached Bone. Second with Bleached bone only... Can´t remember the mix on the vultures head... Sorry :(
I tried to make the Auto Cannon look like it was gilded long time ago... and now the gilding had worn out.
Didn´t quite capture the feeling... but it´s ok :)  Maybe I´ll post another picture when I get the base done... 

Dawn of War - Painting Project

Massive cool painting project fel on my lap the other day...  Old friend who works for PAN vision Finland contacted me. He told me there´s going to be Warhammer 40 000 related competition (or a draw) in Game Reactor-game magazine , in honour of upcoming Dawn of War II - the Retribution..!

The "competition" is held in four countries... Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.  And the price is going to be (this is where I come in) five fully assembled and (master class :) painted Terminators!!! The chapter is going to be Blood Ravens of course... as they are in Dawn of War. I´ve never painted Blood Ravens before, so there´s going to be some research coming up...

Finnish game store Puolenkuun Pelit was kind to come along in the project, and is going to deliver the Terminators, some paints and hobby stuff to get the job done! Humble thanks for that..!

In the meantime... Better go and practice on my own Terminators before the goods arrive. Painting twenty Blood Ravens is gonna be huge job... And I´m gonna try to paint them in best standard I possibly can. There will be lots of WIP pictures from the project of course.

Merry Christmas everybody! And happy New Year... if I don´t have time to write before next year.
Over and Out...

Duck for Rune Quest

Finished this cool little mini last night... I happen to have one player in our Rune group that plays a Duck (don´t ask me why), so now that I got my hands on this mini, I decided to give it some paint job.

Nothing special to say about the paint job... Just took the high lights a bit further than normally... First I painted the whole mini with base colors and washed it with Devlan Mud. For high lighting I used the same base colors just added white to the base color after every layer. This result is made with three high lighting layers.

I really like this mini... Just don´t know the sculptor, for I bought it from a
acquaintance, and didn´t ask him. Only thing I found online was Duck Adventurer box sold by http://www.trollandtoad.com/p155086.html . It seems to have come out from one of these boxes...

Bonus picture of the week... "Encounter near the river of Cradles" :)  Lunars vs Adventurers