Spooktober 2021

Spooktober update, so only fair I post some of the Necrons I've been working on over the last few months.

Converted Flayed one. Its a warrior cut up with some repositioning, and some claws from some spare Ad-Mech kits a friend of mine had. Pretty happy with how they turned out.

Some converted Deathmarks. I had some spare Deathmark torsos, heads and guns. The rest is converted old warriors. Pretty happy with how they turned out. From a distance / on the table they look good enough. 

Last year I got some old Necrons off a friend of mine. He was downsizing his collection, and I offered them a new home. Over the last year I've been repainting them, and converting a few. I've finally finished with that process. 

Before 

After

Illuminor Szeras. Pretty happy with how he turned out. I repainted the carapace and armour as I wasn't originally happy with it. I was worried the paint would be to thick, but think it turned out fine in the end. I tried to do a more colourful transition for the melting flesh stuff, but ended up going for a flesh to green transition (which ties it in with the other glowing green that appears on the model). 

A few upcoming projects. Some 6mm Republic Romans, and some Age of Sigmar Stormcast.

Post lockdown painting update!

So, lockdown ended a while back, and an update to this blog is long overdue. As always, I've been painting, but just not updating stuff. I've managed to nearly finish all of my Necron stuff, only Illuminor Szeras is left to go, so I've made a fair dent into the miniature backlog already this year. 

I've continued to work on the layering / shading technique, and pretty happy with how that's going. Also used nearly a pot of the GW Valhallan Blizzard, which also provides a nice snow effect. The ice on the bases is a very watered down blue wash over some Martian Ironearth painted white; an effect I'm also pretty happy with. 

Mr Glocktopus

Painted warrirors

Skorpekh Lord. Pretty happy with how the weapon shading effects turned out. 

Reanimator, Overlord and a Skorpekh destroyer (of the three in the unit, his weapons came out the best). 

Reanimator. Probably won't see the light of the gaming table.

Painted Necron half of Indomnitus

Painted army that I'll be taking to a tournament this weekend.

Some upcoming 6mm historical stuff that's on the to-paint list. This is a bunch of Baccus 6mm Republic Romans. There's some Carthaginians for them to fight (who aren't in this photo, but there's an equal amount of them!). Haven't painted 6mm historicals before, so this should be interesting. 

New year, new post

As per always, I haven't posted as much as I planned to. December was a slog to the end of the year, and while I painted a few things, I never got around to uploading pictures of them. I managed to smash out a couple of Necrons from an Indomnitus split to finish a list for a Tournament. I went 0-3, which wasn't a surprise considering I haven't played 40K regularly in ~10 years. Anyway, onto pictures. 

All my Necrons out for display 

Some O-12 I got recently, with a plan to play them in N4. 

Finished Plasmancer; trying some new painting techniques on the blades. Pretty happy with how ut turned out. 

Some murder chickens (I mean Cryptothralls)

Old-schoold Immortal next to a Royal Warden. 

Triarch Stalker (one of two)

What's next on the painting bench

Quarantine update 5 - in space, nobody can hear you paint

 Update time! Not that much to show off since last time. A few more ships have been painted up (Emperor, a Sword, more Cobras) and a bunch of bases have been painted. 

One of the things I'm pretty pleased with are the space bases. When I'd painted BFG years ago most of the bases were left black after being undercoated. Some had a ship name label on them, and very few of them had the a star field on them (with the old toothbrush and paint trick). While space probably isn't as busy as the bases make it look, they're a lot more noticeable now / add some colour and variety. The nebulae were done by a couple of sponge applications of paints; building up from a dark to a brighter colour. I've added some facings for ease of reference. 

Cruisers, now with their bases. 

Emperor Battleship, showing its good side. Somewhere, somehow I've lost the left hand side engine covering; so it'll just have to go without / pretend its battle damage. 

Comparison with a Battleship, Cruiser and Escorts (Frigate and Destroyer). 

Revised group shot of what is painted.

Also on the painting table are some launch bay assets; fighters and bombers. I think when these were bought originally they came on the old 30x5mm epic bases. Those have long since been lost or damaged, and I had to scrounge up some 20x20mm bases instead. No WIPs of the bombers, just some shots of them and a comparison to the Emperor Battleship. Red and Gold squadron standing by!

Here are the fighters (and some space stations!) after a nice acetone soak, ready to be based. 

All based, and ready for some priming! They'll be photos of them being painted in the next update. 

All that's left to go are the space stations, two Dauntless light cruisers and a Mars Battlecruiser. I also plan to go back and add some engine effects to the cruisers, and some lighting for the Battlecruiser lances / batteries. Then the painting project is done!