Working on the "Reaper"

Work on the "Reaper" Daemonprince is comming along nice, but a bit slow - there are a lot of other painting-projects that are a lot more fun right now.
But this is the progress as of right now:

Land Raider, day-by-day, part 4

Part 4 of these postings includes the progress from day 4 and 5 on my Land Raider for my Raptors Chapter space marine army.
After painting the interior of the tank I thought fitting all the pieces together vould be a breeze. I ran into some problems, especialy when it comes to fitting the roof-part into place. Even after I dry-fitted it all together two times just to be sure, I had a hard time putting it all together. But in the end it turned out ok.

Next step was to assemble the heavy bolters and the Las-cannons with it's mounts.

Now I have done the overall colour of the tank to match my army and some detailwork on the cannons. Late last night I started assembling the two hatches that go on top of the roof. The colour is quite flat right now so I need to do some shading and some highlighting, paint the tracks and continue on the engine-piece at tha back, also the headlights need some paint.

Land Raider day-by-day, part 3

So the work continues! I finished the detailing on the interior of the Land Raider last night. I also added a trio of Bolters to the empty gunrack.

The hatches and the engine-compartment:

And a nice close-up of the engine-compartment, with the name of the machine-spirit: "6 4 2".

Land Raider, day by day, part 2

This is the second day of this day-by-day experience. Last night I spent a lot of time on the computerpanel and the weathering-effect on the left side of the interior and the floor.

The computerpanel was a bit time-consuming to paint but a fun part of the project. Tomorrow I'm planning on having the right side of the interior completed so I can move on to the engine-panel.

Land Raider, day by day

Last night I started working on a Land Raider kit for my Raptors. For some time now I have been spending my time working on other armies but after I did some touch-up work on my Terminators for my Raptors Chapter army I decided that the army need a bit more love - in the form of a Land Raider.
Since I plan to work on this kit until it's finished I'm going to post a "day-by-day" update.
Day 1:
I started on the interior pieces of the tank, I also started with some weathering on the floor-piece.

 

Tonight I will continue the work on the inner details, the computer, the shrine, seats etc. And I will start on the other wall if there's time.

Painting the Ogryn Autocannon Support Team

Started the painting on this one two days ago. Right now I still got some detailwork on the metal and the autocannon left to do before I finish of the base with some scorched grass.

What I've been up to...

Last week I started on a new infantry squad for my renegade army.

These are just the part of the squad that's still in the painting-in-progress stage. I mixed in a lot of different pieces into this build.

These three are the only ones that I've finished so far. The two guardsmen in the hoods are clearly inspired by the Vraksian Renegades, and I'm quite pleased with how they turned out.

Dark Commissar Update!

I did a bit of work on my "Fallen Commissar".

To get the right "tired" look on his eyes I used a dash of Asurmen Blue-wash before I started on the white. The scar and the lips are shaded with Baal Red. To define the scar a bit more I highlighted the edges with a mix of Elf Flesh and a bit of standard white.
The original wash of Gryphonne Sepia and the following layers of paint gives his face a very thin and tired look - in my opinion.

Here is a shot of his face that I took right after I washed it down with a liberal amount of Gryphonne Sepia.
I tend to switch between the Gryphonne Wash and the Ogryn Flesh Wash. As a rule of thumb I use the Ogryn Wash when I'm painting something more "fleshy" like this one:


My next post will be about bases!

Ghoul Servitors ?!

Some time ago I found myself with some Warhammer Fantasy Ghoul minis that I didn't have any use for. So what can you do with som skinny-looking, mean-spirited, human-eating minis? Well you can add some stuff to them and make them into something more fitting the 40K universe.

Chain-weapon arm, a Necromunda pattern Lasgun and some other stuff was added to them and after just some quick brushworks they are starting to look like some creepy servitors.

I have no idea what i'm going to do with them once they are finished. But you never know when you are going to need some servitors. My first thought was to use them as "gangers" in some Ad-Mech styled Necromunda gang. But since I haven't played a full Necromunda game in years I don't see that plan really comming together...

Hmm... I have to clean some of my minis, on these pictures it almost looks like they have fur on their backs! No, they've just been standing in the window collecting dust for a while now...