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Seraphim |
Showing posts with label 40k. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40k. Show all posts
Friday 15 May 2020
750 Points of Sisters.
Tuesday 30 July 2019
Another Rhino
Sunday 16 June 2019
Blackstone Fortress Ambul (Citadel Contrast)
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Ambull |
So, in case you were somehow unaware, today Games Workshop launched to much fanfare their Citadel Contrast line of paints. Basically, a very heavily pigmented transparent paint with slightly odd flow properties. The idea is you can paint your model in just 'one thick coat' of contrast and get a passable tabletop standard.
I had pre-ordered a bunch of contrast painted in the colours I tend to favour (black, red, bone) but due to funky distribution issues, I have not yet received my pre-order. However, Helen decided to go down to Games Workshop and pick up some other contrast paints so we would have some to play with. I looked through my shelves to find something that would look good painted in mostly blues and greens.
This is the Ambull from the Blackstone Fortress expansion set which I picked up essentially because I wanted to play the game. I never had much interest in the model, and therefore it was in the 'unlikely to ever get painted' section of my staggering collection of models.
Enter contrast. This is maybe 30 minutes work bashing paint on straight from the pot like I used to paint when I was eleven. It just dries with magical highlights. Could I do better if I invested far more time? Yes! But the Ambull undoubtedly looks better with some paint over no paint.
There is a bit of mottling on the top of the carapace. It looks okay on the ambull because he is a creature. I think the contrast is going to look suboptimal on space marines, however. Best to stick to natural textured things like Lizardmen, Tyranids, Skeletons, Nurgle Daemons or Skaven.
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Crimson Fists Kill Team
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Crimson Fists |
As I have explained before I run a Warhammer Club at school and I have had these guys knocking around my office for ages and ages. I like to have a simple project on the go so I did the basecoating and edge highlighting over a couple of lunchtimes. At half term, I decided to take them home and get the rest of the details done.
The aim of this project is kind of twofold. First of all, I had a pile of marines knocking around. The three Intercessors are from the push fit starter kit sprue: although with some conversion. The lieutenant is from the endless parade of limited edition primaris lieutenants Games Workshop seems intent on producing. So I had some models without a purpose.
The second aim of the project was to test out painting Crimson Fists, as I may decide to paint my currently assembled-but-not-undercoated space marine army this way. Let me know what you think.
Sunday 26 May 2019
Fallen Librarian
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Fallen Librarian |
The paint scheme was a matter of some debate, as there is very little in the way of description of how librarians dressed in the time of the Horus Heresy. There are references in some of the novels to the Librarians having blue robes. I decided to interpret this as being the inside color of the robes. To hint at the fact that this marine now uses spells from the Chaos spell list I decided to paint the blues in the slightly more turquoise tones used by the Thousand Sons, rather than the royal blue of most imperial librarians.
Monday 4 February 2019
Tempestus Scion Kill Team
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Kill Team (with two commanders) |
Thursday 20 December 2018
Sister Hospitaller
Saturday 15 December 2018
Sisters of Battle new army list review.
Sisters of battle army list review: Chapter approved 2018
I don’t often do tactical reviews on here – I’m mostly about
painting cool models. However I do love the Sisters of Battle, and so here are
my initial thoughts on the Beta codex. Unless you play a lot of 40k, the rest of this post is going to be fairly incomprehensible.
Friday 14 December 2018
Another Dark Eldar Commander.
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Dark Eldar Succubus |
I am also going to try and paint 500 models next year. And count them down on this blog.
Monday 10 December 2018
Christmas?
Monday 3 December 2018
More Dark eldar kill team, and a bit of a ramble.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Dark Eldar Kill Team
I decided to make a second kill team, this time Dark Eldar. Partly I was frustrated by the Tau's total inability to kill things in close combat which is a requirement of one of the four core matched play missions for kill team. However mostly I was inspired by the addition of Dark Eldar to the Inquisitor: Martyr video game. (If you want my 5 second review of that game: It's a beautiful narrative experience for fans of Warhammer 40,000 with excellent art assets and voice acting, which is let down by repetitive game play) I decided to paint them in the very traditional Dark Eldar black-green with red accents. Also they are all girls without helmets, because it just so happens that in a Wyches box you can build six girls (out of then) and in a warrior box you can build four girls (out of ten).
I actually finished these a little while ago, as any of you who follow my instagram will know but I had to finish my dissertation, and deal with a small mountain of new school year work agro, and my back is playing up and some other annoying personal stuff. However I have finally carved out some time now so enjoy.
Tuesday 24 July 2018
Tau Killteam
Saturday 30 June 2018
Imperial Knights
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Knight Lancer |
Friday 1 June 2018
Grey Knights... and another knight.
Tw updates a week in the small hours of the morning? Can you tell it's the half term holiday? I decided I wanted to paint more stuff and I had these guys sitting around on my half done projects shelf. So a little while back I decided to only collect imperial armies in 40k to try and cut down on the number of little painted figures I have to share my appallingly tiny flat with. (that's not working out so well). One of the side effects of this was that I needed to replace the small army I use in my school Warhammer club when we get an odd number of students. I have always had a kinda-sorta relationship with Grey Knights. I always thought they were really cool in small numbers but was a little leery of giant armies of them. So a small 35 power army of them seems like a cool way to scratch that itch.
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Grand Master Voldus |
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Shadow War Armageddon
With the release of Shadow War Armageddon I took it upon myself to paint up some extra Adepta Sororitas to use if a campaign ever surfaces at the local club.
These are on the new 'Sector Mechanicum' Bases because I thought they looked interesting.
These are on the new 'Sector Mechanicum' Bases because I thought they looked interesting.
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Inquisitor Grayfax and Friends
Sunday 29 January 2017
St Celestine
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So I was indeed planning on painting my Horus Heresy stuff, and then Blood Bowl came out and now, plastic Sororitas. so obviously, I had to drop everything to paint those. I think I did darn well. Apologies for the green background, but it was probably the best contrast of the options available.
Sunday 18 December 2016
Canoness Veridyan
I have always been a big fan of the Sisters of Battle, and the John Blanche illustration that this model is based on in particular. So I simply knew I had to get hold of one. I talked about rules in my last post so this post is going to be all about the model.
Saturday 17 December 2016
Codex Imperial Agents: A Review
So, this isn't the sort of thing I usually post up but, given that Codex: Imperial Agents came out today with a new army list for the Sisters of Battle, among other things. I thought I would give some thoughts.
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