Showing posts with label 40k 8th Edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40k 8th Edition. Show all posts

Sunday 16 August 2020

Warhammer 40k Project: Necrons in White from the Indomitus Box, Overlord, Reanimator and Cryptothralls

More progress for my white Xbot Dynasty Necron army built from the Indomitus box contents. I was able to punch out a few more models over the last week or so. Having a lot of fun with the scheme but damn are the troops taking forever!


Necron Overlord in White
Necron Canoptek Reanimator in white
Necron Crytothrall in whiteNecron Cryptothrall In white




Friday 7 August 2020

Warhammer 40k Project: Necrons in White and the Necron Plasmancer

Plugging away at the new Necron Indomitus box sets with my new white, black and green paint scheme. The plasmancer was super quick to paint and the new Games Workshop Necron themed paints have been awesome to use. 

Necron Plasmancer Indomitus Box White paint
Paint Guide is as follows

- Airbrush black

- Airbrush light grey with shading from top down, couple of light layers will make it white

- Seal with matte varnish (important for allowing contrast paints to runs smoothly over the base colour)

- Contrast white over entire model

- Drybrush White

- Contrast black for skeleton parts

- Contrast Tesseract Glow for all the green parts, one coat, smooth and left to dry with no runs

- Runelord brass with a wash of Cryptek armoushade and drybrushed with canoptic alloy

Sunday 18 August 2019

40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Fists bolter boys - Part 3 - Intercessors Squad

With the amazing new Space Marine codex dropped and the Imperial Fists supplement around the corner I am keen to get as much of my 40k force table ready. With that in mind I need Intercessors, heaps of them, so here is the first 10 man unit.

Imperial Fists Space Marine Intercessor Squad

As with previous posts the paint scheme is as follows:

1: spray silver and then a coat of matte sealer (stops the wash pooling) then wash with Nuln Oil

2: wash panels with cassandra yellow shade

3: wash panels with cassandra yellow again

4: a coat of Lamenters yellow glaze on the yellow panels

5: two coats of badab black on other paneling

6: sponge on battle damage and weathering with black

7: highlight black edges and fill in battle damage with a bright silver, I use a flat brush for this

8: fill in any other details to taste!



Bases are done in batches, spray silver and two coats of nuln oils and then details to taste. The green goo is the nurgles rot technical paint and rust is the technical rust paint too.


The feet of the Intercessors are weathered with black weathering powder and then I pin them all to the bases for extra stability when transporting.


The final product just waiting on decals 

Imperial Fists Space Marine Intercessor Squad

As you can see the whole paint scheme looks flat and boring without the weathering


Last pic is of my next project, terrain!




Wednesday 26 June 2019

40k Projects: Genestealer Cult Purestrain Genestealer Contrast Paint Test

With the release of the new GW contrast paints I saw an opportunity to speed up some of my GSC units painting times. I have about 15 Genestealers lying around already primed white and though I would give it a go.

Purstrain Genestealer warhammer 40k, contrast paints, genestealer cult



Paint Scheme is as follows:
1: Prime White with rattle can or airbrush
2: Seal with matte spray sealer
3: wash flesh with Guillemen Flesh Contrast
4: Wash carapace with Black Contrast
5: Claws and talons with normal badab black
6: Purple with Genestealer purple, then a purple wash
7: Seal with matte spray sealer
8: brush on gloss coat on carapace, claws and talons + mouths 

Friday 5 April 2019

40k Projects: Genestealer Cult Brood Brothers Earthshaker Battery

I recently got a hold of some very cheap third party artillery guns that fit into the 28mm Warhammer scale and decided my Genestealer Cult needed some long range punch in the form of a deatachment of Brood Brothers Earthshaker Battery guns. You can find the models yourself on ebay under the keywords “Model, antiaircraft gun, cannon toy” and they go for about $4 a piece AUD. I purchased 10 to cover any bad casts and to also bulk out some 30k milita forces in the future or just plain old terrain pieces as well.

Genestealer Cult Earthshaker Artillery Brood Brothers GSC

Painting was simple:
1: Spray white undercoat and then seal with matt varnish for better wash surface
2: One coat of brown wash
3: Once coat of Sepia wash
4: Drybrush with Bone
5: Paint metals and then wash metals with nuln oil
6: Black for the wheels with a grey drybrush over the top

I will be weathering the whole army at once when the complete force is up to the same standard as it helps me keep consistency doing it in one giant batch.

Wednesday 12 December 2018

40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Knight Gallant and Knight Helverins WIP - Part 1

Work in progress for my Imperial Knights for 40k and to be also used as allies to my Imperial Fists 40k force as well. I used the same painting scheme as my 30k Terminators and Dreadnoughts with the metallic yellow and heavy weathering.

Imperial Knights and Helverins 40k Metallic Yellow

Imperial Knights Warhammer 40k Yellow


Imperial Knights Gallant Warhammer 40k YellowImperial Knight Gallant painting Warhammer 40k Yellow


Still lots of details to go on these guys but at least they are table ready!

Thursday 19 July 2018

40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Fists Redemptor Dread WIP - Part 1

Picked up a cheap easy build Redemptor Dread the other day on a whim for my Imperial Fists army and found it a delight to assemble and paint. I am using this as a prototype for upcoming vehicle additions for this army as I was unsure if I could pull off the wash technique on the bigger panels so here we go.

 Imperial Fists 40k Dread Metallic Yellow

I followed the Exact same process as my infantry so far for the metallic yellow:
1: spray silver and then seal with matte varnish, then wash with nuln oil
2: wash panels with cassandra yellow
3: wash panels with cassandra yellow again
4: a coat of Yriel yellow glaze on the yellow panels
5: two coats of badab black on other paneling
6: sponge on battle damage and weathering with black
7: highlight black edges and fill in battle damage with a bright silver, I use a flat brush for this
8: fill in any other details to taste!

Imperial Fists Redemptor Dread in metallic yellow 40k

Imperial Fists 40k Redemptor Dread in metallic yellow
Imperial Fists 40k Dread Metallic Yellow


Thursday 28 June 2018

40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Fists dream of metallic yellow sunsets - Part 1

Finally back into the hobby again! It has been a good 6 month hiatus inflicted with a move and job change but lets get back into it. I have been inspired by the smashingly good Dorn release from ForgeWorld and keen to bulk out an Imperial Fists army that can be used in both 30k and 40k

Imperial Fists Cataphractii Terminators Metallic Yellow 40k


After experimenting with metallic paint jobs and techniques I must say I am very partial too the spray silver and then wash camp. I lack the space for an airbrush friendly area currently so away we go with washes again. I had been scouring the internet for ideas to

make a very unique Fists paint theme and came across a gent called Corai on the B&C forums back in 2014 who pushed out some fantastic conversions and was able to pull off a brilliant metallic yellow scheme. So in true internet fashion I stole his hard won wisdom and decided to apply it to my dudes.

I had a whole bunch of Cataphractii Terminators spare so I decided to build a Terminator only force to accompany Dorn when he finally arrives on my door. I started with 3 squads and 2 HQs and will expand from there

Painting is super easy for this scheme:
1) Spray silver
2) Wash with nuln oil
3) Wash the panels you want yellow with Casandra yellow wash 1 layer

Imperial Fists Cataphractii Terminators Metallic Yellow 40k

4) Fill in your black and red sections to taste

Imperial Fists Cataphractii Terminators Metallic Yellow 40k

5) Wash the panels you want yellow again

Imperial Fists Cataphractii Terminators Metallic Yellow 40k

6) A thin coat of yellow glaze on your yellow panels


7) Fill in details and weather accordingly to taste

Imperial Fists Cataphractii Terminators Metallic Yellow 40k

Lots more work to do on these guys yet like all the faces, weapons and lenses, will do an update once they are table ready!




Wednesday 25 October 2017

40k 8th Edition Projects Death Guard and Nurgle: Tanks for the Tank God! part 3

With an event looming the worst thing to do would be add more to the painting 'to do" pile right? so that is exactly what I did! Got a 2000pt torny upcoming next weekend and most of the army still to finish painting so I went out and purchased two of the new Plagueburst Crawler Death Guard tanks like a spaz. I'm not looking to do well or win much at the event I just wanted to rock up and have some games with the models I had painted on hand, especially since I am really keen on eventually running a pox walker and cultist horde army backed up by waves of Plague Marines getting cover off Miphitic Blight Haulers that aren't even out yet (sadface)

40k Plagueburst crawlers nurgle

I really enjoyed assembling and painting this kit, it was a dream to put together and the armor and trim of the tank complimented my lazy painting style for this army immensely. I did the usual trick of basing black followed by a couple of zenith highlights of yellow with an airbrush, dry brushing the raised edges and details bright yellow and then drowning it all in green wash.

40k Nurgle plagueburst crawler

40k nurgle plagueburst crawler tanks

These two pics are before the tidy up and weathering was complete, I probably need to go back and smash out alot more fine details but time is short on getting this army table worthy before the event.

Death Guard Mortarion Daemon Primach 40k 8th edition painted

Also taking Morty as well just even though i don't have his delivery units or protection bros converted up and painted yet, but damn it he is like just under 500pts I have pretty much painted at this point and even if he gets shot up at least he will look cool doing it. Morty isn't finished yet but as you can see he has come along much further than my last blog update, will base him up this week and try and finish his attendants off as well.

Will try and take as many pics as possible of the event, apparently about 60 players are attending so should be a wild ride.







Monday 25 September 2017

40k Raven Guard Successor Army WIP Part 2: Paint it black....and purple!

Almost finished the Raven Guard successor recon force I have been working on, the purple iridescence armor has come out alright I think. I was suss on the bases but whatever they seem to work. The stormravens are spooking me with having to wash them due to the large flat surfaces haha, anyway here are the pics so far. Painting with washes and metals is fun but defiantly a new challenge for me and took me out of my comfort zone, would love to try some emperors children or alpha legion with the same technique just for a laugh.


Oh and seems this first pic of the Rievers got picked up by GW on Instagram and are now part of the product page previews!

Raven Guard Succussor 40k 8th edition force
Raven Guard Succussor 40k 8th edition force
Raven Guard Succussor 40k 8th edition force
Raven Guard Succussor 40k 8th edition force





Friday 11 August 2017

40k Raven Guard Successor Army WIP Part 1: Shiney birds are best birds!

I am addicted to the new Reivers... sneaky skull helmeted crazies chopping and shooting up your backline? yes please! also they look sick, so of course I had to start a new marine army just for them. I experimented a while ago with a 30k Raven guard color scheme based on the purple iridescence of  actual ravens wing coloring. I was please with the outcome but with the failure of 30k heresy to transition into 8th edition anytime before the next ice age I have pulled out of all my 30k projects and will be selling them on as I have no love at all for the 7th ed ruleset and was only playing it for the sweet sweet 30k lore and fluff in light of 7th ed 40k being so unbalanced. So now I wanted a dark purple and black shiney Raven guard army and 40k was the format to do it in.

Reiver Primaris marines

I really wanted a more purple look on this army instead of sheer black so held back on the 3rd black wash and this allowed me too retain a strong base color coming through. As with most metallic paint schemes you first chuck down a primed layer in this case silver then build up the color tone you want with successive washes. I was able to get it down too 2x purple wash and 2x black wash and then just batch painted the infantry. The two Stormravens with have to be done via airbrush due to their large surface areas so I will attempt that once all the infantry are completed.

 Primaris Librarian 
  

Snuck in a cheeky primaris/cypher conversion for a captain model to suit the sneaky theme as well as a basic headswap on the primaris librarian. I am torn on bases for these guys so if you have any ideas please let me know








Monday 26 June 2017

40k 8th Edition Projects: Drukhari as Larry, Bleached Blonde Bones

All hail our 40k 8th edition overlords, its finally arrived! With a few test games under my belt I can confidently say 40k is back on the menu boys, and to celebrate I have dug deep into my hobby larder and started work on a long time dream of a bright yet dirty Drukhari (Dark Eldar) army.

Drukhari Dark Eldar 8th Edition

I picked up some super good army deals from local lads selling old projects to fund them buying the new starter and now have about at least 3k points worth of Drukhari to paint............. so lets get to it!

Drukhari Dark Eldar 8th Edition

I recently painted up and sold off a 30k Deathguard army and really took to the dirty worn bleached bone look with heaps of weathering and really wanted to try it on a Xenos army to combat all the primaris marines that will be popping up now with the starter set. The big change from my Heresy Death Guard scheme to Drukhari will be using vibrant purples and slick blacks as the contrasts colors to make them stand out on the table

Drukhari Dark Eldar 8th Edition

Drukhari Dark Eldar 8th Edition

Drukhari Dark Eldar 8th Edition

 I managed to get trounced in a test game with a mate of mine on the weekend but at least the army is starting to look good haha. For sure I am getitng more wracks and dark lances painted first for sure.

annnnnd to finish off here is a sneak peak of the next project cooking in the background..... love me some cheap starter set splits :)