Marneus Calgar Cont'd... Plus basing materials

Good evening,

Work continues apace (kinda) on Marneus.

I have used a leather colour on the strips that hold the ultramarines symbols around his waist.  Added in some green details, I decided on that colour for the tassels to go with the green detailing on the shoulder pads.

Yeah...tassels... I know, not very butch.. meh.

Also washed that brown colour with agrax earthshade and detailed some more gold on the sword and shaded with the same.

A blue wash has been added to the white details as well.

Getting near to the point where I can no longer put off starting to highlight the cloak and armour.  Once that is done things will really fall into place.

I also took delivery of my big basing materials pack which I snagged from eBay.  I will let the pictures speak for themselves. I think it is 21+ bags of different gubbins.

Some of the stuff looks the same but it is just a similar shade really.

Bonus picture of my basing materials drawer... I have a prep/paint additives drawer and two little paint drawers :D

Marneus Calgar & Tomb King Skin & Gold

Slight design change on the blog, I really like the tag cloud :) which didn't show on the old magazine type design.

I have done some work on Marneus today, and put together my tomb king.

His face has been base coated, I think ratskin flesh basecoat looks amazing. The snakebite leather has been covered with shining gold, this will then be washed with sepia and highlighted with a combination of burnished gold and mythril silver.

So far: happy :) and the tomb king was only £3.50!

...loving my new palette!!

Kingdom Death Miniatures - King's Hand & Flower Knight

If you ever find yourself wondering if you should buy something from Kingdom Death... don't hesitate and do it.

Didn't have much time tonight so thought I'd work on my assembly backlog... It's funny assembly used to take me 5 minutes but nowadays I spend ages on the preparation of the model.

Finally putting together these two minis which I bought many months ago.  The flower knight is dauntingly detailed, just look at the picture below to see how tiny some of the bits are, I don't think my painting is of a standard that would look good on these beasts.

Casting is ridiculously good as well, just google some reviews, literally no prep, just snip and glue together (admittedly a bit fiddly)..... massive contrast will be ages of filing and sanding and clipping on the White Dwarf Dwarves I will be assembling next!

http://kingdomdeath.com and they are running a Kickstarter campaign to get a full game (Monster) off the ground here.  I would encourage anyone who's into the Kickstarter thang to give it a look.

Also if you are into collecting, a lot of the miniatures they sell are very limited run and you see them on Ebay for silly prices which I don't agree with... but meh... supply and demand...