It's how big!? (small update)

Sorry to disappoint, but with some stuff going on this week as well as not being able to pick up anything until today (friday) I seem to have fallen behind, rest assured I still have an update but it's a smaller one before I show off the one of the projects I've been working with off and on for a year now.  SO let me start off by saying the Chaos codex is great having picked it up and thumbed through it. I forsee quite a few good matches coming from it's rules and am rather liking the idea of a slaanesh sorc riding around with 9 feel no pain noise marines tooled for assault in a land raider. Also it gave me a good name for my Chaos Imperial fists so I don't have to call them "Dornian heresy" Marines anymore. The brotherhood of Lethe, Which opens up all sorts of ideas for scenic basing. But that isn't what I want to talk about today, what I want to talk about is one of our new toys for heavy support.

Now I was dubious when I first saw the fiends, but have been since convinced that they can fill a much needed roll in our army, so I picked one up and while being surprisingly simple to put together is also quite large, I was actually amazed how big the thing is.

I recall being surprised at the size of the Tervigon when I got one of those too and wonder if I just have a hard-on for Monstrous creatures. But I find that the more I look at this model as well as it's conversion potential to other projects the more I find myself liking it. The guns look good, the pipes on it's flanks look excellent (for just about any vehicle that you want to have a small pipe-organ feel. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the reptilian head, but I must commend them for giving us the alternative shown above.

That's all for now, expect a larger update this week which will also include some W.I.P.s

~SWL

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

Such sweet cacophony

Hey there folks, Hope you had a great week, Before we start things off I have Emailed last weeks winner already, and for those of you who will inevitably ask, the prize they will receive is a box of assorted miniatures from a few different lines.

Now then, this week I decided to paint a bit on two HQ models that have been sitting around, Though admittedly I'm going to use the chaos one as a doom siren captain for the assault squad of noise marines. 

The first of the two I'm going to talk about however is the Blood angel. 

 Admittedly I wanted to paint some red this week, and having this model sitting on my painting table staring at me since I posted him in the first blog of upcoming stuff, I decided to work on him a bit. I had the idea while building the sanguinary guard that I wanted an HQ to go along with them that was not the sanguinor. So after looking through the book I found Brother Corbulo.

 Now if I could change two things about this model I built, it would be to replace that bolt pistol with a chalice, and fix the divide in the middle of the sword. I thought I had fixed it before I started but once I started applying washes to the metal it became vary apparent, much like a fat frog sitting on it staring at me.

 That being said however I really do like how this one turned out, I think the reds look nice and clean, and the whites really pop in contrast.

 With the "good guy" out of the way it was time to focus on one of my long neglected noise marines, more specifically I wanted to make a captain with a doom siren for the noise marine assault squad I use (who knows how that will change with the new codex though right?)

 Now I'll be the first to admit, the only thing saving this sculpt is the doom siren on his back, as the rest of the model is unnecessarily cluttered with things like chains, pipes and leather, but I decided to roll with it, I already have three of them anyway might as well use them for somthing (though if I find someone who will do resin casting for the backpacks the models themselves might find their way into my bitz box)

 Once again I decided to go with gold as the main color for the metals, only using silver for the sword, which I feel could have had more color now that I take another look at it, notes for the future.

 

Again I would just really like to say how much I like the backpacks on these guys, they just look really, really good.

I think I actually figured out what throws the entire model off,  it's the face. if it din't look like it was just slapped in there (and it's eyes weren't derped to hell and back) it might look pretty good, might be worth testing on the next one, remove the head and put a CSM head there. Or possibly just scrap the model and put the backpack on a model that deserves it.

All rants/ praise of these above models aside I would like you guys help with something, I was wondering what you the readers want to see more of, as you can see from these pictures I have no shortage of models to paint. 

 From tribal goblins....

To traitor guard...

Chaos Demons...

The host of Sigvald....

Tyranids....

Warmachine and Malifaux....

 Or even simply my noise marines.

 

But often I find myself wondering what I should paint, and not actually getting it done. So I would like to know from you, the reader, What should I work on next? What would you like to see more of? Less of?  

Thanks for reading, Hope you guys have a great week.

~SWL

Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. (Also new giveaway!)

Well another Friday is here huh folks? First off I'd like to reintroduce you to my Forge world Keeper of secrets, whom I think "Babylon the Great" is a fine title until I decide to make a six or seven headed mount of slaanesh to pull a chariot.

 Now as for why I decided to do my keeper this week, I saw that she had broken in the middle of moving from the last place to this one, and after stealing the idea from her base to kind of use on the chariot I decided he needed a new paint-job. Also I wanted to paint more daemon stuff

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 Now anyone who has ever glanced longingly at one of the forge world keepers will notice that this one is missing spikes on her breast and leg, I only received half of the spikes to attach, and those that I tried to attach to the breast looked horrid, so instead I used liquid greenstuff to fill in the holes as much as possible and then colored them as I wanted to do the latex.

 Speaking of latex, That red on the leg, hand ,and breast is the same mixture 50/50 Vermillion (vallejo) and Mephestion red (GW) covered with a thin layer of 'ard coat.

Thought it would be nice to give a look at this base and break down how it was done a bit for anyone who wants to try their hand at it. I first built up the outer ring with cork and made sure to fill in the open spots so that the water effects could not escape. The next step aw the easy part, place a couple of zombie hands, and tentacles I had laying around and prime white, and then the entire thing got a layer of neon magenta with a purple wash and then I just poured water effects in until it reached the brim, adding a bit more the following few days so that it would eventually harden at the brim.

 For our next section, watch the skies, The parasite of Mortrex is coming....

 I've been working on this guy a bit recently, so I thought I would post him as I think I'm about ready to paint him. In my opinion the parasite is a good fluffy HQ that became at least playable in the new edition.

What really boggles my mind is this though I was going to include him in my list even before 6th ed. So it's like I got rewarded for playing what I was going to anyway, and hiding a flying synapse creature in a unit of gargoyles, that gets up to 6 attacks (need to check my math but I think that is right)all which can spawn rippers, is a cruel pleasure which I will be sure to make my opponent remember.

Anyway now I'm just rambling about cruel ideas, so lets chat about how I made this as it's piss easy. I basically took a ravaner and added two sets of gargoyle wings, to it, the spikes on the back as well as the horn are all talons from genestealer arms I had laying around. I did take the stinger from a gargoyle and add it to the tail as well though, to give it the stinger it has in the book. 

Two more announcements: I'll start with this picture

What better way to commemorate the end of the month and the final touches on my keeper than with another giveaway. Who knows what lay within the unholy walls of the mystery box? Standard rules, Leave a workable email in the comments below, I will not contact you unless you win, winner will be picked before next post.

Other announcement, A couple of my friends started a youtube show called "Stoneface" recently, It involves jump-scares and a shock collar, what's not to love? 

A link to their channel is here (beware use of expletives and lots of screaming inside): Stoneface

Have a great week everyone, and good luck on the mysterybox drawing.