So, Yeah. The hobby butter fly strikes again.

DA START OF DA WAAAAGH

So this is the start of the Waaagh. After a week away with nothing to do in the evenings ,I managed to prep 15 Killer Kans, and with some inspiration from the GW store in Portsmouth I settled on a colour scheme that was quick and effective.  

I decided to use Halfords red undercoat as i was going to be doing a chipping technique and if I accidentally took to much paint off, then it might not look all that bad...  the bases were all done with matt black (also Halfords)

Sod Ya poxy Nid Sticks, I give you a Glyph stick!

So about an hour later everything was under coated..

So I did have plans to go and see Deadpool, but I was taken over by Nurgle or something and shortly after taking the last pic I had to take my self to bed whilst some random fever or something took hold of me...

So after waking up with a head full of lead and now being somewhat rested, I found myself with a free evening...  starting for about 2000 hrs.

One free evening later and I managed to do all the base colours.  All rusty tones done haphazardly, no planning went into what got sprayed where.

 The following day and I started with a rough dry brush of bolt gun metal, again, no great thought was put into this the reasons will become apparent later.

 After a wash of devlin mud though the airbrush the models were given a health coat of hairspray (not from a can)

The Blue Ork Group

And so the onslaught continues... the hairspray did not take long to dry so everything started I started with the blues.  I've used VMA intermediate blue (71005) as an 'undercoat' flowed by VMA Blue (71004) .  Again, no great precision was used, just thew it on...

So, once all the the chaps were done  it was time to make with the chipping.  All I used was a stiff brush and some water, being careful not to take too much of the blue paint off.

 This is the final effect of the chipping.  The random painting of the rust tones and the rough dry brush show through after the chipping is done, there will be more washes of the rust tones to bring that orkiness through and the rivets will all be picked out...

But for now, thats 18 Killer Kans and a Def Dread ready to start :)  not bad for about 14 hours work :)

Hidden and Dangerous (or Obvious and ineffective)

Another monthly competition, another race to the finish line.  This months competition was 'Hidden and Dangerous' and having been watching some of the Painting Buddha series, I

felt like doing a scenic base with something on it... and a sniper was the obvious choice.

The model was painted in place with the base so that the camouflage was as close to the base as I could make it.

The water effect was my first attempt and something if a failure TBH, it got stuck on the plastic card that I was using to keep it in and ended up less that smooth, nothing that a lot of layers of Gloss vanish could not mask...

 The foliage is from woodland scenics as are the Lilly pads in the water

 The Wild life all over the base is from Busch (HO gauge) there are two birds, a frog, three fish and a butterfly. 

 The water effect was done by painting gloss varnish along the line where I wanted the water to be flowing.  Then a plastic glass was meted with a  lighter and pulled into long thin strands, these were held in place with gloss varnish and left to dry.  After this I used clear UHU glue to build up some bulk in the stream and along the course of the water.

 The ivy is from MDP (ModeldisplayProducts.co.uk) and is held in place with matt varnish.

And there you go, you can see on the front of the water is slightly wonky.

More big stuff!

I just can't help myself,  I can make models like stink and get them to this stage, its the second half of the painting process that gets me into trouble...

Terminator Protocols

Just ten termies I put together whilst I was doing nothing...

 We've got 5 out the box and five with the 'World Eater' FW extras (the LRs are still in the box)

Oh yeah, the base coat was Khorne Red from a GW can, then from 90 degrees to vertical was VMA 71085, Italian red and a zenithal highlight of VGA 72709 Hot red/orange?.  I think I may be going back in with a red ink as some point to knock the orange back, but its a starting point.

The Brass Monkey!

Oh yeah, I do one of these long things...

So I've been away with work for a few weeks and not had a chance to do any painting, but here is where I am up to with the Brass scorpion.

The main carapace is coming on and there is still plenty to do.  I've used the same methods on this chap as I did with the Impaler and the Slaughterer so there is nothing new to add here... however...

 

The metal on this chap was done with a can of silver car paint from Halfords (just before I found out GW were doing lead belcher in a can) and to be fair the result is pretty good!

The Brothers Grim.

So there we go, the Brothers Grim are done, time to switch to their big cousin.

 I'm going to do some tinkering with the base to hide the spots of glue, but that should not be a big thing.  oh, and the corpses in the main body need a touch up, but, he's game ready.

So, I'm currently not a fan of the GW bases as I think they are extortionate for what you get and since I have a boat load of expanded PVC sheets knocking about (and not the kinky kind, seriously, don't google PVC sheets!).   The Green sheet is a stuff called Sintra board, its used in robotics as a light and sturdy construction material and I've seen it used as poster board as well, I'm yet to find a cheap source in the UK, but in Germany I found it in the german equivalent of B&Q.  the stuff I have was being thrown out after being used as a notice board.  I cut it with a circular cutter (http://www.pk-pro.de/TS-Compass-Cutter) that cost €7.50 and I've got about a 1m by 2m sheet left... much cheaper that the GW option.

Aaaaaany Hooo, the two large bases are 150mm and the smaller one is 120mm, the Dreadnought base is there for comparison.  Can you guess what they are for, and Nope the scorpion will not be going on one of them.....

The third of three

Oh, go on then, this will round out the bloody trilogy :)