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(Reblogged from fuckyeahroguetrader)
The Orks at the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Elder have failed, or the humans, on the road to ruin in their turn. And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn’t even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.
Culture vs. Kultur: Thoughts on Orkish Society by Uthuan the perverse, a controversial Eldar philosopher (via fuckyeahroguetrader)
Finished Grey Hunter squad.
Todays battle! 750pt battle between Blood Ravens and my Orks. As you can see I didn’t fare very well and the lesson learnt again was MORE POWERKLAWS! But they held their own and I only admitted defeat once my Warboss was killed (the only thing left on the board that could destroy the two Dreads left. On the plus side one was throughly disabled weapon wise). Another loss to rack up in my long list of losses ahahaha.
On a side note didn’t get great pictures of my friends current Blood Ravens WiP but they look simply fantastic, especially the Assault Squad which are posed in a truly dynamic way. Also caught a sneak peak of a model he may be giving me which was TRUELY epic and was a Space Wolves Lone Wolf… and I don’t know how to describe it other than it looks incredible! I’m in awe of his work.
Another fun hobby day, and then a pleasant evening with my friends! This is why I’m glad I got back into the hobby, although I lost I had an amazingly fun time!
My Ragnar Blackmane HQ- Finecast hmmm
My finecast model, should I return it/swap it? If you look at the backpack there’s bits missing from the vents… and it’s not the greatest cast of the backpack. Just it bothers me a tiny bit that it’s not perfect ahhaha.
Other than that the model is pretty damn lovely the cast of the main body is spot on, no miscasting or mishapen parts, didn’t realise it was originally designed in 1992… it just makes me love it more. What should I do internet?
The boys… just chilling…. 3 down
a Noob helping noobs: PART 2
RIGHT, sorry for the delay goddamn REAL LIFE got in the way!
So now I’ll focus on the hair (which went HEAVILY wrong so this isn’t technically the right way to do it but I got an effect I kind of liked)
First I coated the hair in Snakebite Leather (NOW Balor Brown) and then gave it a Devlan Mud wash, I then drybrushed Bleached Bone (Ushabti Bone) onto the model and added another DM wash (as a sidenote I was going to use a ‘eavy metal technique to create blonde hair, I won’t go into details but it went horribly wrong because I’m crap ahaha)
The fur was basecoated Calthan Brown (Mournfang Brown), Drybrushed Bleached Bone and given a Devlan Mud wash, this was done much heavier at the top to create a darker to light effect. The gun was painted in Boltgun Metal (Leadbelcher) and the yellow wolf head in Yellow (until I improve on my technique for painting Yellows I won’t update that here just yet because I need to try a few different ways, my paint to water mix just isn’t cutting it at the moment). The shoulder pads were coated in Chaos Black and then I draw in Red Gore the Grey Wolf livery. The shoulder pad was basecoated in a Yellow base, washed with Devlan Mud and then covered in built up layers of Golden Yellow, this is done to TRY and prevent it looking like there’s brush strokes/ a smoother look…. I kind of failed but I’m getting there.
The back skull, which you can see on the right was basecoated in chaos black, then kommando khaki and then highlighted with Bleached Bone, covered in a Devlan Mud wash.
The model is nearly done I’m still tidying up alot of it and hopefully should have it based and finished tomorrow… so yay for another update? On an interesting note I seem to be going for much more bold colours than I thought I would, especially after my gritty and nasty Orks. Also I’m going to re-do the writing on the chest later because I have NO idea why my hand got that shakey when doing it ahhah.
Oh here’s a handy Citadel Paint Conversion chart for people, I’m excited to try the new paints. I wish they hadn’t changed the names but the products do look fantastic.
Seems to be an introduction video for investors and/or business partners. The good stuff about the manufacturing take up the better part of the last three quarters.
A noob helping noobs: PART 1
So here is PART 1 of my guide, it is full of errors and no where NEAR the same standard as some of the amazing painters here, but I found fellow noobs guides and tips as handy as some of the pros so here goes:
PAINTS USED (so far):
Shadow Grey, Fortress Grey, Chaos Black, Badab Black Wash, Chainmail, Boltgun Metal, Shining Gold, Burnished Gold, Bleached Bone, Kommando Khaki, Elf Flesh, Calthan Brown, Ogryn Wash, Devlan Mud, Skull White
I began by spraying the model with Chaos Black, I then mixed Shadow Grey and Fortress Grey in about a 50:50 mix, added water and proceeded to paint the armour with that mix. When dry I then did a wash of Badab Black.
I then re-painted the armour with pure Shadow Grey leaving the shading that the Badab Black had done. I then did the lazy mans highlight on the back pack by really lightly drybrushing it, I did a similar thing on the armour but then brought out some highlights by hand. I also began to paint the seal on his chest, which I could of done in gold BUT I decided to paint it like a paper seal. I used Kommando Khaki as the undercoat and then a Devlan Mud wash, this was then highlight and top coated with Bleached Bone. The various exposed bolts etc were painted gold.
Then I began the face, undercoating the skin with Calthan Brown and then covering in Elf Flesh (you should really use tallarn flesh but I haven’t had a chance to get some yet), then an Ogryn Wash to blend it and finally highlight with Elf Flesh, the eyes and teeth were painted Skull White.
At this stage I started to clean up the paint job, and that’s what I’m still currently doing. So more will be updated tomorrow…. or soon.
Also the model had a tiny bit of converting using the gun hand I just stuck one of the many Ork blades I had spare…. I’m sure he killed one to get it.
Guide Prelude
I’m going to a step-by-step guide of how I’m painting my Space Wolves currently.
As I’m not a great painter this is more for people who are just beginning and want an easy way to paint their models.
My desk is a mess, but I love my lamp.
Skin Tones
This is how I did the skin tones and was told to me by a friend and mixed with GW’s technique. In the following order
Black Undercoat
Calthan Brown
Elf flesh
Ogryn Flesh wash
Highlight and raised edges Elf Flesh.
IDEALLY it should be
Black Undercoat, Calthan Brown, Tallarn Flesh, Ogryn Flesh Wash, Elf Flesh for highlights and raised.
Also has everyone heard the news…. THE BIRD IS GW NEW PAINTS AND NAMES.
2 down…. 23 to go…
A Belated Update
Well an update is needed…. or not but I feel like sharing this is what I have been doing.
- I have stuck the Soviet Orks on a backburner at the moment, mostly because I am tired of painting Greenskins and if you aren’t fully into something then the painting and modelling becomes shoddy. I still think they are a fantastic idea and will contain you them after I….
- Finish my Space Wolves battleforce. I chose the Space Wolves luckily as it coincided with the release of the new models. I chose them due being the army I was going to originally choose and also I love the novels A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns.
- I have a backlog of models to paint and my lamp broke so I have become majorly behind my predicted schedule. I now have a nifty Magnifying lamp… I love this thing more than anything right now ahahah
So in the next week I will post pictures of stuff I’ve been doing
