A True Gift from the Chaos Gods

Here's a piece of work... that I made as a Christmas present for my friend. I'm a bit late from the schedule, but they say that it's better late than never ( I'm not sure in this case ). The paint job might be sloppy, but the piece itself brings up my skills as a convertion wizard ( shmizard ), and my sophisticated sense of humour ( of a six year old )...

Sorry about that... Bye now!

Goblin Shaman Wolf Rider

Hi there! My Wolf Rider unit worked as a dream in my last game against the Dwarfs. They got two warmachines down, ran the Master Engineer out of the table, and supported from the rear, as I finally got to charge the Dwarf infantry with the rest of the Green Skins. So they did alot better than I hoped.

So, inspired by their triumph, I dug out my Goblin Shaman with Wolf by Game Zone Miniatures, and did some painting on it. This fellow hopefully brings some boost to the vanguard in the next game... Or it sucks the whole unit in to wortex with a brilliant miscast :D

Really nicely sculpted model, but not very nice to paint. Some details were hard to dig out. Still, I like alot about that "howling at the moon" theme in the model... Bye now!

Kit bashed Boar Riders

Hi there! Been awhile since the last update... I've been lazy with painting at Christmas time. I finally managed to get something done, for I have a WHFB game tomorrow, and had to assembly one unit for it. I used bitz from Orc Boyz regiment box, Black Orcs, and of course some boars that I've been buying from here and there along the way. Here it is...

This is the first rank. Middle model counts as Boss, the one on he's right counts as standard bearer... still have to make a  musician at some point.

Second rank is more balanced. Only the Orc on the right end stands out... it's from the good old chariot set. One on the left is actually a "real" metal boar boy :)

Here's the whole unit of ten. Now I just have to grab the paint brush... Bye now!

Spider Riders: First rank done, and how to fast paint a spider

Here's the first rank of my Spider Rider unit. I'm happy with the color choises I made. Unit looks coherent, not too many colors. Spider standard brings some extra tone to the rank. Purple wasn't so bad after all :)

Here's briefly what I did with the unit champ...

Everything was primed separtely with Army Painters "out of the can" stuff. Goblin Green, Ultramarine Blue, Leather Brown.

Spider was washed with Asurmen Blue. Champ was base colored with Leadbelcher (metal parts), Ushabti Bone (bony parts and teeth), Genestealer Purple (feathers and shield icon), Tau Light Ochre (strings 'n ropes), Skag Brown (leather parts).

 Same champ from the back... just to show the nasty piercings :)

Ok... back with the spider. I gave it a swift layer of Ultramarines Blue.

Followed by layer of Lothern Blue. Leaving the Ultramarine layer to show below...

Then I mixed some white to Lothern Blue, to make the final high lights. As you can see, everything was made pretty roughly... (for I still got fifteen of these waiting in the line). Took me little over twenty minutes to put on all the blue parts. It might look Ok from other side of the gaming table :)

I painted the fangs with Genestealer Purple, and eyes with Averland Sunset.

Washed the fangs with Leviathan Purple, and the eyes with Agrax Earthshade

Fangs high lights with Emperors Children, added white for the second layer, and finally little white dots to give shiny effect. Eyes were high lighted with little dots  of Golden Yellow.

Here's all parts painted. Purple parts on the champ were painted with the same recipe as the spider fangs. Everything else was washed Agrax Earthshade, except the metal parts, where I used Nuln Oil. High lights were made pretty much with base colors, where I added some white for the second layer. Time to put Humpty Dumpty together again...

And there you have it. Champ ready for action. More to come soon. Bye now!

Spider Rider Standard Bearer

Here's one more for the first rank...