Sweet transvestites (or Why do old dark elves remind me of rocky horror?)

Hey there folks, Late update this week, but I was quite literally working on these gals until a few minutes ago and I still feel like they lack a few details but are done enough to post. 

So without further delays my company commander's squad of Hench-women.

Yes I know these are dark elf wyches but I thought their dynamic nature as well as impossible body structure (look at those size zero waists) made for a good contrast to the rest of the prim and proper feel of the army. 

 Now I love these models for two reasons, the first, it has a charming retro camp feel to it, but I get that a lot from the older models (noise marines with guitars for example) the other is the fact that conversions seem to lend themselves quite nartuarally to the older fantasy models and this standard bearer was the perfect example I could pull from this, one quick weapon swap where the standard used to be and you almost can't tell it was there.

 I wanted to do something decently funny with the musician turned Vox operator, so this being a chaos army I decided to make her instrument have a mouth like it's alive. already had the fangs, not much more to be done really. Also The rocky horror soundtrack came on while I was painting her and it made me notice that she could not possibly be holding that sword in a more suggestive manner could she?

 This is the gal I think came out looking the best honestly. I love the pose even the face is a little munged up, but I also think that is the second best color I have ever gotten for green hair, all the inks seemed to find their place on this model rather easily and the rips in her stockings are just one of the features I love.

 So with the gals out of the way I move onto the request portion of the blog, I got asked by Crab_Nicholson  to repost my IG shelf but a bit closer and an old Daemon prince project that I never completed, so here they are.

Well that is it for this week folks, Next week I'm thinking it's going to be a skaven and goblin painting tutorial for speed painting. As usual leave any comments, opinions or otherwise in the box below and Have a great week.

~SWL

Watch the skies! (The parasite returns)

Hey there folks, This week I decided to work on the parasite after chatting with a few folk I know IRL and not having enough time to paint a tank this week. 

So time to show off the completed parasite, and the color scheme I have chosen for my 'nid army.

 Well it may be a bit of a cop out, but results from those that I hear from were so varied on the two color schemes that I decided to do them both, the medium to big sized bugs getting the darker color scheme, and the small ones getting the bright green with blue shell.

 

 It's worth noting that I tried out the secret weapon purple ink over vallejo pink for the membranes of the wings as well as a few other spots, which I think gives it a distinct contrast, though I think some butterfly type symbols wouldn't be amiss if I ever decide to touch it up.

 So all in all that is my Parasite of mortrex, hopefully I have some gargoyles completed soon to keep him company.

In other news while trying to finish the parasite I wanted to redo my company commander for my Traitor guard. As my army is fluffed as house guard gone cult, I thought it only fitting that their company commander should be the lady of the house.

 Yes I do realize there are better whips around now, but I really didn't feel like remaking or tearing the piece offso even though it looks kinda bad I still kinda like it.

 For those of you wondering the model is from anima tactics, and she's a 32mm scale, so if you decide to get some for any of your armies he will look taller and thinner than most but I feel that kinda fits for this army so I let it slide.

 Her hair was done simply with the P3 brown ink over white paint, which I was astonished looked so good when done. again the pinks were done with a light coat of purple wash over them.

If I can't get around to another tank this week You will probably see these gals next update.

As always leave any comments you may have below, and have a great week.

~SWL

First of the Sister tanks: Olivia the second

So with Scourge saying last week that I should paint some tanks given the amount of infantry I showed off in my armies last week I decided to paint up the trio of Banewolves I had sitting on the shelf looking pretty with my Traitor guard.

This tank, which I have Dubbed "Olivia II" is the first of three, I am tempted to put a crown somewhere on the hull bit I think for now the arrows and Roman numerals will do fine.

I had actually forgotten how long it takes to paint a tank especially when you are doing layers. I had actually wanted to get something else done for this weeks blog, but Olivia wound up eating all the time I had to spare.

 I note looking at these photos again that my freehand is a bit heavy/shaky with things like that line above the roman numerals, something I will need to fix in the near future. 

As with the traitor guard I built up the pink with white to base coat pink, a wash of purple and then building back up to pink. The metals took a bit of work as I was attempting to use P3 for most of the tanks which did not for some reason or another want to adhere to white until I had done about 3 layers 

I was terribly tempted to put a tramp stamp on that empty spot up at the top on the back... Might wind up doing it on one of the other two.

Well that would normally be where I would end things, but I was given something interesting the other day,  I had given my friend a box filled with my old chaos marine army before I left for Germany, I had of course forgotten about it completely. He returned it to me, it it's previous condition and other than a few broken models it looked the same...That is to say by no means it looked great if there is one thing you can tell form then to now I have improved in painting. But all the games I played with them came rushing back to me as I held them in my hands and admired them, I want to make these guys into an army once more, and with the advent of the new CSM codex I think that will be possible, a few will be assimilated into my current army, but I plan to create the rest of them into a working army, their warbands name will most likely be "The sons of Sean". Just wanted to share this as well as a few pics of the least horrible looking ones, before I plop them into a bucket of simplegreen so I can repaint them in the future.

You guys have a great week, any comments, ideas or requests I'd love to hear, feel free to post in the comments below.

~SWL

Traitors among us.

So, this is going to be a small update covering only a portion of what I've been working on this week, I'm going to post it when it is finished but it's proving more time consuming that I thought having eaten the better part of two days. I've also been fixing my ForgeWorld Keeper of secrets which I am now considering repainting as I am unhappy with the skin and cloth... But enough about projects that are nebulous and I can only talk about, let's get to the meat of the post today. Traitor guard, I was asked by one of the readers (you know who you are) after mentioning that I had an Allied Traitor guard army what I did to make them look like traitor guard. The answer I gave was "Not much." and really the only thing that makes them different from regular Cadians is a paint-job and a few conversions.

 These are the first five I decided to touch up on after looking over my previous work in disgust. I wanted to make them look as though they were more of a guard regiment assigned to an Imperial house that had turned to cult worship. Thus I wanted to make their guns look more ornate and their suits look as though they had little wear and tear.

 One of the little additions I decided to do to cement their "Traitor" status was to include the arrows on their shoulder pads, which seemed a tad blank before I decided to do that (the opposite side has a roman numeral 6 on it, though why I didn't photograph it escapes me)

 Then there is the commanding officer, The spikes were taken from one of the tank sprues and attached to his back, after small holes were drilled in. I decided that even though he had the scars for the face he needed something extra, so I adorned him with a mark of Slaanesh, perhaps it will bring him luck in battle, he'll need it with all the counterattacking I plan on having these units do.

So with the actual traitor guard out of the way I'm moving onto the model I'm using as a commissar. It's a slightly converted Skarre form the Privateer Press line. All I really did was greenstuff over the holes where her horns go and attach the section from the marauder horsemen banner.  I had a thought to remove her dagger but decided in the end it would fit in with the Dark elf wyches that I was converting to also be in this army.

That's all for now, Will update again as soon as I get done with the "other" project, questions and comments in the box below I'll answer best I can.

~SWL