Nurgle lord - More base coating

Hi there,

Did a bit more base coat work.  Mixed some green into the tin bitz base.  Probably not enough green but it's cool.  All good.

Another layer on the skin as well.  Happy so far :)

 

Nurgle Lord - basecoat

Evening,

work has finally started on my next model.

The Nurgle Lord... extremely popular model this - everyone seems to be painting it.

I have started with a basecoat of Gretchin green. 1:1 with water and doing a couple of layers. I am attempting to not make his skin green... Seems strange when my basecoat is green.

I do have a plan of sorts though.  As you see him below, the darkest areas are about as "greeny-dark" as he is going to get. I plan to highlight up through rotting flesh and bleached bone then use some red/purple/pink washes - just really thin ones - to pick things out.

I think this will be a trial and error job though and determined I am not going to allow it to turn into a time sink with millions of layers of colour.

He should end up being a very pallid rotting flesh colour with bruising around the skin and gory red details.

Probably going to go a more metallic - verdigris design rather than straight up green which some people do.  Like a scabby power armour.  I've always liked metallic paints.

A couple of pictures below. One of the basecoat in progress and the other is of my notes and colour choice.

I nearly went down the route of doing a much more human looking flesh but couldn't bring myself to do it.

My Arms hurt...

Had a good stab at checking all my paints. added water when necessary and putting in my little mixer balls if there was not already one present oh and shaking... a lot.... All of the paints have held up really well.  Games Workshop must really be making some progress with the paints.  I am sure they would have dried up a bit in this length of time in the past.

I have a fair few paints as you can see in the picture below :)

Going to take an inventory of all my stuff.  I forgot I have a whole drawer full of modelling stuff I had half forgotten about.

So I cleared out my tip of a painting desk...

Look at it!

I find it a bit funny that people have totally different opinions on my stuff to my own. Someone said Marneus Calgar was my best work... I'm really not sure if he is overall, I like the base and very happy with the job overall just not sure it is my best work!

Couple of things I'm going to have to do before I get back into things. (I was in London for a month during my absence... so not as long away as it seems.

• Shelve the elves.
• put the Warmaster Ancient stuff away.
• Move back to single miniature projects.
• try and do a painting schedule so I can keep it regular.  The new job isn't so consistent as the old one....
• Go through my paints and check they aint as dry as tarzans heel.

Wish me luck! Should get a chance to do something tomorrow night, Tuesday and Wednesday not looking so good.

Taking a wee break

Waaah - work so busy at the minute I am not getting anything done.

Will be back soon I promise!!!!!!

Magister Militum Historical 10mm (Norse & Saxon)

Evening,

I have been working away on a set of warmaster high elves and I can see I am getting pretty damn bored already.

I swear if one more spear comes off I will chuck them all in the bin!

Some progress pics below but once I have finished this "plank" I will be moving on to my ancients and the Nurgle champion... Which you may remember I bought a while back.

Some progress pics of the elves are below as well as some packet shots of my two historical armies.  They use the Warmaster Ancient ruleset and are worth 1000, points each. (rough army setup diagram included :)  )

Marneus Augustus Calgar - Completed

Hello there,

completed the base work on marneus calgar! water effects and crushed glass..... (mixed together for first layer in first two pics.... then dusted on top for second two...)

Next project is the Warmaster Army!

I have also taken delivery of a couple of 10mm armies :)

I need to take a fair few photographs first though..........

Warmaster High Elves test paint completed - Marneus base work

I have completed a test paint on the high elves.  Looking good actually, I wont be bothering painting them all black...

Also did some work on the base for marneus Calgar, quite happy with the blue ice look :) Some gloss varnish over the top as well. Just need some crushed glass over the top!

Oh did some white edge highlights on his armour as well.

Warmaster High Elves test painting.

Still not sold on the white undercoat, even with the black wash it is still acting a bit meh, metal on white just isn't adding up.

I'd need to think about washing the metal and that is a PITA. Oh and you need to cover up residual white so that means painting the staffs brown... doesn't seem like much but with the amount you need to paint in warmaster it sure as hell adds up.

Although reviewing the pics it does help keep the whites bright and the blue edging/gloves quite vibrant... it's just the metal that is annoying me.... 65% keep as is..... 35% change to black is my current thinking..............

Some pictures below but its looking like I might grab some time with my spray can at the weekend....grr.

Gotta find a balance of JFDI and something I am super happy with, my massive painting backlog (not including stuff on the way) should be enough for me to JFDI ! :)

still to do on them:

• red gems on spears?
• skin?
• rest of shields (duh)

marneus Calgar, hair, metal, armour, leather part 2

Hi there,

some more updates. all the below points have now been done since last update.  He is complete except the base.

I am starting with ice blue then highlighting that up by adding white.  Then I'll be using my crushed glass mixed with water effects. then a quick dust of crushed glass.... contrasting black base.

As with all projects, I am freaking desperate to get it finished to move on to the next thing :D 

• skin highlights
• gold highlights
• make the black black then highlight.
• highlight the green areas.
• hair highlights.
• eyepiece.
• BASE (looking forward to this.)

Marneus Calgar, hair, metal, armour, leather

Hello,

Marneus Is getting very close to completion.

todays done list:

• hair basecoat
• armour highlighted and completed.
• metal basecoated.
• leather completed.
• details made white.

to do:

• skin highlights
• gold highlights
• make the black black then highlight.
• highlight the green areas.
• hair highlights.
• eyepiece.
• BASE (looking forward to this.)

Oh and I have got a High Elves Warmaster army. I count it as a fair bit over 1.000 points.

• 3 units spearmen
• 3 units archers
• 1 unit chariots
• 1 unit bolt throwers
• silver helms
• the other cavalry
• general on dragon
• general on giant eagle
• general
• wizard
• hero
• 10 casualty markers.
• the rulebook
• giant eagles...

think thats about it... and for 40 quid!! 

I have started work on the spearmen... The previous owner has used a white base coat.... I don;t really like this but I dont seem to get any daylight hours to paint very often.  

The compromise is to black wash the miniatures then paint.  It might end up working really well as it adds shading and depth but doesnt dull the colours too much.....