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.

Painting lockdown shenanigans

Well, I was meant to be taking two weeks off work to go on holiday, which did not happen..... 

However that has meant for some time to be spent painting more minis in my backlog. 

There's been some attempts at wet blending on some of the blades, and after a couple of issues with the wet palette being a little too wet, I think I've got it figured out. 

I've also picked up enough new Primaris stuff to throw together 2k, and was lucky enough to pre-order Cursed City when it came out. There's been a lot of building going on in addition to painting. 

I also disassembled, stripped the paint, reassembled and repainted a Monolith I got off a friend. All in all, pretty happy with how it turned out. 

I also also bought a few Tau things (Broadsides and Commanders). I had an old Tau army sitting in boxes from 4th ed. They all got stripped and reassembled, and now they've also joined to backlog of things to paint. Below are two of the commanders with magnetised weapons, including a commander Farsight, with a glaive from an excess Necron Overlord. 

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.