Flesh tearers and Cryx

Today we celebrate Christmas in Sweden, and this will be my last post for a few days. Next week I´m moving to a new apartment and I don´t know when I will get my internet connection working again. Untill I´m all settled in in my new place and got my internet connection to work I´ll show you some WIP´s on what I will be doning (hopefully) during this week or two.
First is my Flesh tearers scouts who will be ready intill New years eve, they will be entering a ladder challange over at the Wamp forum.

Apart from that some more Cryx will be done, first out is a Deathripper and a Slayer.

 Untill next time, happy painting and a merry X-mas and a happy new year!

Update on my Cryx

I´m doing a 15p- Cryx list to try out Warmachine. My main goal on the minis that will be included in this list is to get them to a decent TT standard. I want to play ASAP and I hate bringing unpainted minis to a game. I might go over them as son as the whole list is done, but until then they have to do as they are.

I will do some more painting on the Nightwtretchers base and the Necrotech belly needs to smoothen out, as well as some weathering. But enought babbeling and on tho the pics.

Next to be done on my workbench is a 5- man strong scout squad (for my flesh tearers), some regular Flesh tearers marines, a Deatch company and of course more Cryx!

Untill next time, happy painting!

Deneghra WIP

Yesterday I started to paint the Warcaster for my Cryx, Deneghra. Since I already hade based and primed her it was straight to buisness with the painting. I wanted to her to have a the "Cryxian green" feeling on the clothes, so I started with a black base and then added green, and later on Stone grey (VMC) to the mix to get it a bit colder. I will probably do some more work on the robe when I see how the skin and armour turns out.

The spear just got some black and Boltgun metal (GW) on the top. I will add som washes and highligt later on. I gave the armout thre coats of wash, started with Black shade (VMC), followed by Gyrophone sepia (GW) and then an really old ink from GW, purple (it´s from the early -90´s).
Anyway, a WIP and hopefully I will be able to get this mini done by tonight.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Scrap thrall

A few days ago I based and primed a Scrap thrall for my Cryx army (that´s Warmachine), and after about 3 hours of painting, this is the result. The mini should be used for gaming and for that purpuse I think it looks pretty good.
There are two thing left.
One, I will
Uadd some water effect on the base, and for that I will use Still water from vallejo.
Two, I will add some front arc markings on the base, not sure what colour yet, but probably grey or green. I would use grey because of the armour in my Cryx army or green because it´Cryx;)
Still, this is pretty much how it will look on the gaming table.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Lot´s of stuff on my desk

Tonight was a night without painting, but insted I did a lot of priming, basing and so on, the other part of the hobby!
Here are some photos of what´s in the pipeline!
First out is 9 Death company marines for my Flesh tearers army. I bought them secon handed so today I just removed them from their bases, cleaned up some mould lines and drilled the pipes a bit more, then they got stuck to their new base.

Next thing is some minis for Warmachine/Cryx that I just based and primed. I like the feeling of WM so hopefully they will get som paint once I have finished my two first squads of Fleshtearers (tacticals and scouts).

At last are some minis for a gamed called Fury of Dracula, they are fun, but small:) I´ll even give you a pic with one of the FoD minis next to a space marine, for comparision.

And that´s all for tonight folk!
Untill next time, happy painting!

Necrotech and Grey knights wip

The progress on my Necrotech is really slow, last night I painted the first layer of paint on his weapon and started on the "tubes" on his side. I will try to make them look like "worms". As for the base I will be adding some more detail, but try not to do "to much", still want a clean look. The shaft for the weapon will be red to contrast the grey mini and base. I think I need some color on the base, not sure what yet. Well it will get to me in time:)

Apart from my Crys who I have put on a bit of hold at the moment are the Grey knights (I will still paint one or two, but I haven´t planned to finish them untill the GK are done are ). The first squad are basecoated and based. The first 4 minis have got there basecoat of silver and "white". Next step is to pick out the red and wash the armour with blue. After that the "real painting" begins:) This is just a qick WIP, showing that the GK get´s their share amount of paint.

And one last thing, I got a small box of paints and stuff from Maelstromgames today, one of the best places to shop paints and goodies from (in my opinion).
Untill next time, happy painting!

Warmachine and Grey knights

I haven´t painted any Warmachine models for the last past week, but last night I did a few strokes with my brush on my Necrotech (the never ending Necrotech...) He still needs a lot of work but at least now I can visualize how the mini will look when finished.  I stripped his weapon for the second time, I still can get it to look the way I wants, but I´ll give it a third try! Anyway, this is how the Necrotech looks at the moment.

Apart from the Necrotech I have my desk full of Grey knights! As I wrote in last post I got a comission on a Grey knights army, and I have started to paint! I still have to strip about 80% of the army, but while waiting for the chemicals to do their thing I started to paint the other night. I work on a Rhino (this one was alreadyu glued so I could not paint it i pieces as i would have want to, but It will be an experience at least) and one test mini right now. But I will start on the first squad as soon as I got an OK from my client.
First is a pic of the first GK that will be used to test squad markings.

And here is a singel shoot an the one who actually got some paint.

And at last an early shoot of the Rhino. This is still with just the base color and a thin wash of blue followed by starting to mark out the squad marking.

 Untill next time, happy painting!

On my desk

There are mostly Cryx for Warmachine on my desk at the moment. I´m trying to finish a Necrotech, a Nightwretcher and another Mechanithrall (still need to finish the first one...) But I also trying to finish some Orks for Wh40k. I´m doing a Meganob and some Àrd boyz, but a Kannon (using the FW Kill kannon as a regular kannon)and the Killa kans are still waiting for my brush. Pics of the rest of the Orks will come up later.

I was out the other day and collected some basing materials for a tutorial. This is what I mainly will be using.

And...it look´s like I´m allowed to enter round two of the Sverok Painting Challage, so keep you eyes open for Death from above! It will probably be a two model piece...where one part is the the Imperial guards from the Preatorians.



Untill next time, happy painting!

Cryx: Mechanithralls wip

Just a quick WIPshoot from my desk. I work on two Mechanithralls among other things. I have almost compleated the shadowing on these bastards. Now it´s time to start work the highlights!

I´m also working on my Slayer, a Nightwretcher and a Necrotech. So more to come in a few days.
Untill next time, happy painting!

Played my first game of Warmachine tonight

I played my first game of Warmachine tonight. I was using my Cryx against Cygnar. Since it was my first game of Warmachine we decided to play using a 15pts list. This is what I put on the table:

Warwitch Deneghra
1 Slayer
1 Deathripper
1 Nightwretcher
1 Helldiver
1 Stalker
1 Necrotech and Scrapthrall

The game itself turned out to be a lot of fun, it was rather easy to get the way the turns worked out and get an idea about the basics. But I guess it takes many, many battles to master the game. Of course my Cryx got beaten up, but who cares when the game turned out to be a real challage!
And who on earth will I fiund motivation to finish my Orks now? Maybe they are for sale...if you are intrested, drop me a mail with an offer and i might just take it.
Untill next time, happy painting( and wargaming)!

Project Cryx!

A while ago I decided that I should start playing Warmachine, and the choice fell on Cryx since I really liked the models. Good looking models is the first step an army has to make before I start playing with them. Beeing mor of a collector then a gamer, the apperance is important to me.It doesn´t matter if I win or loose a battle as long as I got the chanse to paint the models. Anyway, enough of this.
This is what i got for my Cryx so far...
Warwitch Deneghra
1 Slayer
1 Nightwretch
1 Deathripper (actually two, but failing several attempts to remove paint from these minis made me realise that I was beaten by the thick-layer paint god)
2 Stalkers
1 Helldiver (already painted)
1 Necrotech
6 Mechanithralls

I have already started to paint one Mechanithrall, and as soon as that mini is done I will do the other five. This is the begining of my Cryx era. We will se how fast i will paint them, but my goal is that they should be ready in a month or two.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Last night´s work

This is what I did last night, continued to paint my Grot for the Sverok on line competition I mentioned earlier. I also did the first layer of water effect on the base. To get a break painting Grots and Orks (feels like I have painted something green before...)I continued to work on my test mini for my Mechanithralls. It´s still a lot of work to do, and I´m not sure about the colors but We will se how he turns out when finished. Anyway, let me know what you like or dislike and if you have any tip on improvement, I will be happy.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Cryx Helldiver

Now I think my Cryx Helldiver is ready to hit some battles! hope you will like it!

Untill next time, happy painting!

Some WIP´s

I thought that i will give you some WIP´s on a Helldiver I´m doing right now for my Cryx. Please feel free to give me some pointers on how to improve.

Until next time, happy painting!

Some projects

Right now I got several projects I want to paint, and it´s hard to decide what to do first and it means that I paint several different things at once. Ok, I get some variations in my painting but it takes forever to build a force of some kind (if you are a wargamer, that is). Anywa, enought rambling! Here are some things on workbench at the moment. I dont see any need for individual shoots at the moment since it´s only the basic colors on alla models except the shoota boy and the Árd boy who I just begun doing the weathering process on.

More pics and a few updats comming shortly.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Stryker with snow

Ok, so I did finish my first warmachine model, Commander Stryker from Cygnar. Not only was this my first Warmachine model but it was also my first real attempt to make a snowbase and some NMM for the sword. The NMM is a real challange and I can honestly say that I´m a long way from beeing able to using the NMM technique. Maybe I´ll do another attempt on a different model another day, but I´m glad that I gave it a shoot!
The strukture of the base was built using sand, some bark from a tree (fore the stone)and some folige from a blister pack. After the regular glueing and painting I covered the base with some Foam & snow (from Vallejo) and then I took some natron and sprinkled over the "snow", took me about 2 miniutes to do the "snow" and I´m rather pleased with the result considering the time it took. What do you think?

Untill next time, happy painting!

WIP Warmachine

Ok, long time since my last post. The truth is that i haven´t had time to paint as much recently. Work, family and illnes had pretty much occupied my time the last week or so. But, I have put some paint on Strykers sword, but I can´t get it right. My intension was to try some NMM (None metallic metals) for the first time, it turned out to be much harder than I could imagine! Maybe some of you can point me in the right direction?

Next time there will be a pice about my latest purchase, water effect (transparent gel) from Vallejo!

Untill next time, happy painting!

Some Slugga boyz

Ok, here is a pic of my first compleated Slugga mob.

I did some weathering on my trukk for my sluggas, the entire process only took about 20minutes. God, I love pigments!

Ok, I realize that the pic isn´t top quality, but it´s the best I can archive at the moment. And as a little bonus I´ll give you a sneek preview on a new project I will start. Some Warmachine models.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Warmachine

I have heard a lot of good things about Warmachine from Privateer press. Warmachine is a miniature based strategy game, but with bouth miniatures and cards (a bit like Wh40k I suppose) who takes place in a steampunk world. I got a bit curious about it and since I wanted to try something new I plan to buy a model just for fun and paint it up. At this moment I´ll just going to chose a model I think will be fun to paint and If I like the model, I´ll give the game a shot!
Anyone tried Warmachine and do your recommend it?

Untill nex time, happy painting!