IT'S ALIVE!

Got one of Doctor Arkadius' Gorax painted up a.k.a. Weapon X:

I decided that I was not happy with the sculpted helmet I made for him before so I ripped it off and converted one from an Ogre Kingdoms Cannon. The colour scheme is a bit of departure from my normal colour scheme as there is no reddish brown skin or purple hair for him, with Weapon X sorta having a Morlock look to him.

Also Alten Ashley:

Maximus!

Got this bad boi finished today, pretty happy with the way it came out. My only beef with it is the undercoating I used as I noticed that the model was chipping alot whilst painting. I can see the paint falling off the model by tomorrow so have taken an excessive amount of pics to capture his glory. So beware next time you go to B&Q and see Diall surface primer for under a fiver, DON'T!!!

Pictures!

Finally got a camera to take some pics of models I painted. Enjoy!

Lord Carver, BMMD Esq. iii

Road Hog

Gun Boar

Doctor Arkadius

Warhog

 

Saxon Orrik

More pictures of these in the gallery

My latest creations....

With the Arkadius NQ tier list being all the rage decided to whip these guys up for Smogcon tomorrow.

For the Gorax with the Iron Jaw I used this Tutorial : http://www.talkwargaming.com/2013/09/how-to-make-ork-iron-jaws.html to make it entirely out of Plasticard

For the next Gorax had a idea to make it look like Weapon X having just torn himself right out off the testing table and going on a bit of a rampage

UK Games Expo Masters 2014

I went to the UK Games Expo for a Masters Tournament in Birmingham and was I impressed cause the sheer volume of people at the Hilton hotel which was muhassive but also the amount of events they had taking place. It was also quite sad as well cause I was amongst my kind and the dudes, as well as the occasional chick, looked alot like me: bald and bearded. What was even more disconcerting was that they were overweight... I need to start running again. Anyway I digress...

The reason I was there was for the Warmachine/ Hordes Tournament which was 3 x 50 pts lists on the first day and then 2 x 35 pts lists. I wasn't expecting much of myself as its a new army and even now I'm still trying to get used to the faction. On the first day I did alright winning 2 (Menoth and Convergence) and lost 2 (Circle and Cryx). Second day was abysmal losing all 3 and this was down to stupid mistakes on my part. But I have learnt alot especially with Sturm and Drang and what I should be doing especially with his feat. I was right about using him against Hordes and one of the players, Brett, agreed and that I need to be more aggressive with the list. Anyway since then I buttoned down and start painting some models:

These are still a work in progress (just needing washes and highlights) but once they're done will put the proper pics up. With my farrow have decided to go for a garish 80s feel to them with bright colours but am being hella lazy with the skin by drybrushing it. This is gonna look better than most armies fielded anyway so may as well be a bit lazy and have something nicely painted rather than nothing at all.

Squeal piggeh

Been a while since my last update, RL got in the way blah blah blah. In that time I've pretty much given up on my Menoth army in favour of another faction, The Thornfall Alliance. They may not have much in way of diversity in the game but have a bad ass faction leader and have one of the best sculpted models in the game:

Though I think that this is one of the models PP have made spam 3 identical models is a bit lame so decided to hack one of them apart to make this bad boy:

Not a really good pic cause I was using my shitty phone for this. Didn't think the motherfucker would get made but involved hacking apart his arms and legs as well using bits from the Cryx Slayer kit. The bit am most proud of was using the arm of the Warhog to turn into a gas mask. I I've seen from conversions online of people themeing their Warhogs based on other faction models and thinking of doing the same. The next Warhog to make will be Khadorian as I have the parts already for that. Watch this space

Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Chariot

I had this idea for a Chaos Lord of Nurgle on a Chariot of Chaos years back (I think this was during the Storm of Chaos campaign) and I managed to acquire all the parts of it. This included parts from the old Nurgle palanquin, wheels from the old Skaven Doomwheel and other miscellaneous parts.  However I never knew how to actually have it all stay together as I had pinned the wheels onto a beastmen chariot chassis and it would wobble. It was only until I was told that I could use plasticard shaped as a girder to keep it all together that I was able to complete it last year:

The only problem is that its not WISYWIG as there ain't an extra Chaos Warrior on the chariot but fuck y'all!

Night Lords Bikes

(I posted up these bad boys in another page but am changing things around so that people can see the end results of my models in a dedicated page to the army that I am collecting.)

I bought the Dark Vengeance box set a while back as I loved the look of the chaos models and I wanted to be able to use most of the models for an army. I wanted chaos bikers for my army and had to come up with a nifty way to convert the Ravenwing bikes into a Chaos Space Marine Biker. So first off I removed all the stinking Dark Angel heraldry from the bikes, the heads and shoulder pads with my trusty knife. At no point did the knife slip and went into my finger. Honest.

Then to cover up the scratch marks on the fuel tanker on the bike I sculpted a rib cage onto it (make it more chaosy) along with spikes/ body parts/ mini face to the front of the wheel. To get rid of the wings from the front of the bike I decided to cover them up with green stuff and then extending the front with plasticard, reinforcing it with green stuff. After that I began making the bat wings staring with the ridges for the wings, making a base outline first and, after drying, added more to any crevices that were missed. Green stuff was then added in between the wings, using the sculpting tool to gently scratch it to give it an organic look.

Here are the final results below:

Menoth

Another reason why I haven't been doing much with my Night Lords is because I am also playing Privateer Press's brilliant Warmachine. My friend from Hull Dave (http://doublehandedthrow.blogspot.co.uk) introduced me to it several years back after severely beating me in an introduction game (forgot to says thanks for that). Still I did not let it deter me from playing and got into Cryx first and the Protectorate of Menoth afterwards. At the moment I have wood for Menoth am slowly and surely painting them. The painting is slow because I don't think I've found the right way to paint with red as the army's main colour. I've tried several ways and still am not happy. Epic Feora has been painted and stripped on two occasions and still I am not happy with the fucking thing! Here are some of the models I've painted so far being vaguely happy with a couple of them. If you have any criticisms as to what I can do to improve the red please please please tell me as its driving me mad.

High Exemplar Kreoss

High Executioner Servath Reznik

Warrant of death signed by yours truly :)

Choir of Menoth

Vassal of Menoth 1

 Vassal of Menoth 2

Redeemer

Vanquisher

I have to say though painting Reznik was a joy because there is so much going on with that model that it was never boring. That and I think there was hardly any armour on him that needed to be painted red. Some of you may also notice that the red armour on the infantry is brighter than the armour on the warjacks and this is because I am still trying to find a better way to paint with red.