Daniel36's Log - Vindar 136th and other stuff

[Daniel36]

What do you do when you are having a really bad, sucky, supercrappy day?

Right!! You take pictures of your beloved Nurgle tank!!


My Land Raider likes to keep an eye on things...


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! Exactly how I feel right now! Like ramming my head straight through a door hatch and scream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!


Hey baby, how you doin'? - said the bottom left head on the engine.

[Daniel36]

Gyaaaaah!


Though it's not very clear, I have given the tank an extra couple of highlights, where I mixed in Camo Green with the Catachan Green and Rotting Flesh mix. I also ended with a bit of pure Rotting Flesh.

Well, that's what I have been up to last weekend...

I am now going to continue feeling like a worthless sack of cowdung! Cheers!!

[aad]

dude that is so disgusting....

i love it

[tinfoil]

Your land raider body work is incredible! Really like that model.

[Daniel36]

Thanks everyone!!

I feel like such an ass though... Just when I thought I was feeling like crap... I hear a good friend of mine has lost his young brother... That leaves my situation to be soooo insignificant!

And here I was just feeling a bit bummed out by not being able to go to my next schoolyear... Goodness....

We should all be thankful of the things we get, and not let small inconveniences that get in the way be such big problems....

Well, my prayers go out to him tonight!

[aenimosity]

Damn.

This looks so cool. I really dig the eye in the first picture.

I know how you feel about things that aren't the big picture ruining your day. We've got a puppy that chewed on all 5 of the dark reapers I was working on. I felt so pissed off after all the effort that had gone into them already - and they weren't even close to being finished.

It took me about 4 hours before I could properly put it in perspective... they're just toys after all Not being able to get schooled is a lot bigger than that.

As for your mate, well I can't imagine what things would be like if one of my brothers had died. I hope he's okay.

Good to see this thing progressing mate. I'll pull my finger out tomorrow and post a picture of what I've been doing lately.

[Daniel36]

Well, it's about time I updated this.

I actually did some more work on the Land Raider. Boy was it a tough and scary decision!

I had wanted to do rust since the moment I started work on this tank, but it was a scary prospect.

At first I stole some ideas from a friend's tank who painted small patches of rust on it. I made mine slightly bigger since the tank was bigger, and it looked awful. Then I went all out and this is part of the result. I'm too lazy to take pictures of the other side but I liked this part best.

It's still work in progress as the edges need highlighting and shading, but you get the basic gist.



Now that wasn't all I've been doing.

Someone at our club brought along his Warhammer Quest boxes and I was HOOKED! I knew the basic idea of the game, and I played Heroquest a couple of times ages ago, but I never would have thought this game would drag me in so much!

I played a Dwarf Warrior, and we decided to keep our characters after this introgame. I didn't really like the model from the Quest set, and it was poorly painted (not by him by the way), and I always wanted to paint a Dwarf anyhow, so I went and bought myself the coolest model I could find.

Here is a small preview of my work in progress on the Dwarf Warrior:



I also bought a set of Plague Monks, to be turned into Skaven Warriors (so with shield and sword). I just like the models so much better!! I even did some cool little conversions, but I can't show them yet. Unpainted models can't be photographed well with my crummy webcam.

We're also planning on creating 3D floor tiles for Warhammer Quest, but that is something for the (near) future! For now I will be content finishing this up.

My fiancee also bought me Dark Elf Cold One Knights! Those models are SO awesome!!! I don't own Dark Elves nor am I planning on using them for anything, but the models are just too sweet, and so is my fiancee!!

Cheers!

[aenimosity]

That rust looks great as usual. All the details on that thing are awesome, but I'd love to get a look at the tank as a whole. How far along would you say you are now?

Your dwarf looks like he could use a serious bath.

Are you going to chuck those floor tiles for WH quest into a log at all? This thread has some pretty cool stuff if you need inspiration at all:

http://warseer.com/forums/showthread...ighlight=quest

[Harry]

Well I said I would come back and check out the painting of that greenstufing ...
... and I have to say I am mighty impressed.

Rust and gribly bits look wonderful.

This is going to be a very special model when it is all finished.

Look forward to seeing your 3D tiles and the COK
You will have to get this log moved to the general Logs. (It's where the cool kids hang out anyway. )

[Daniel36]

Thanks guys!!

@aenimosity: I am going to continue a bit of work on the tank tomorrow. It's even going to get a cool looking base, Golden Demon style! I might turn it in for a competition here.

About the Warhammer Quest tiles by Cyrus, I actually know the guy. Not in person, but I know him through another (Dutch) forum. Online, the Dutch Warhammer scene is pretty tightly knit.

@Harry: Thanks for the kind words. As you know your work is incredibly inspiring to me, so it humbles me that you are so enthusiastic about my tank.

To both, the 3D tiles are still a ways off. I have to finish up some other stuff, and my fellow Quester Bas is starting work on them first. I will use his calculations as a base for tiles themed around the Tomb of Terror supplement, but I will wait for him to finish some stuff up while I paint up some encounters.

I will probably take your advice and send this log over to the general section, but not now, as it is late and this is my last reply.

Thanks everyone for taking an interest. It is extremely motivating!!

Edit: Well, I have sent this log to the General section, where it belongs. It really started out as a 40K log, especially for my Imperial Guard (which I still love), but right now I am doing so many other fun things that aren't science fiction, that it belongs to the General section. I don't like creating too many project logs, so this is fine.

[Daniel36]

As I am reading my first post in this log, I can tell you that while the Vindar Imperial Guard and the Death Guard thing actually happened, the Imperial Fists idea has been canned. I haven't gotten around to doing anything with my Eldar and probably won't ever, but I did start some new exciting projects along the way.

That is the reason why this log is now in the General section. I still like the title as the Vindar 136th IS predominant....

As you can see I have fallen in love with Warhammer Quest and I will post my progress on that stuff here.

Also, I have some older stuff that I never posted here that I will post here now for you to enjoy. Feel free to post any criticism on it. It's older work though, so who knows if I will do anything with your criticism haha!!








Enjoy!!

[Daniel36]

And on to some more stuff!!

Here is the lovely Skaven Plaguelord model.



I enjoyed painting this and the High Elf Hero so much, I wonder why I didn't just stick to the "paint whatever you like" credo, instead of holding on tightly to the "army" I am "playing".

Seeing as I never really PLAY Warhammer all that much, it's kind of silly that I wanted to do armies so badly... Although I have to admit that having an entire army looks SWEET!!

Anyhoo... Speaking of armies, here is my really old, and really ugly Nurgle Chaos army, complemented with some nice scenery to make it look like they are actually quite nice!

I do have to admit that I am rather proud of the small conversions. Not a single regiment has the same banner OR musician, and there's one rather nice Champion conversion in there... Oh well, enough with the chatter, on with the pictures!!

[Daniel36]

Oh dear, I really shouldn't be too proud of that now should I?

Seeing as I am rather good at doing rust effects, mayhaps I should submit these warriors to a nice rusting up of the armour huh?


These daemons are UGLY! But I don't care...



This model is even older.... He is probably the oldest fully painted model I still have... I liked the model so much I ordered another one to convert into a REALLY cool Mordheim Possessed Brethren. I will see if I have a picture of that guy bouncing around the net.

[Daniel36]

Sending this log to the General section was a smart idea!!

Here are some pictures of my Wood Elf army... I REALLY should get back to work on them sometime... I waited for ages for them to rerelease the Wood Elves, and now I have only a fraction of what I have lying around finished...

Oh and I HATE how I based these models, so that is going to be radically changed wheneve I feel like doing so.

Anyhoo, on to the models. You already saw the Treesinger model a couple of posts back, so here is the Lord.





Next up are two pictures of the Treekin unit I painted. Notice I based one of them using a Micro Art Studios base. Their bases are truly wonderful and add a lot of character to your armies. You ought to see what I did for my Necromunda gang (GOHHH I am SUCH a nerd... I don't even PLAY Necromunda)

Anyhoo, Treekin I promised...

[Daniel36]

Redwood Dryads





Ghostwood Dryads

I took the inspiration (and the names) from the online article on the Games Workshop website. I didn't like assembling the models but painting them up was quite a lot of fun, so I am happy I went with these colours.

[Daniel36]

Alright, one more Ghostwood Dryad.





The master at work! I AM SUCH A NERD! I usually don't look that... Unintelligent... I actually usually look like my avatar.

Yes, that is a Nintendo t-shirt... And yes I have worse...

[Harry]

Arrrggh. There I was happily scrolling down looking at the nice pictures then ...

Well apart from the last picture that all looks great.
The Favorites for me are the treekin and the Skaven and I can tell you why....

The treekin I just love the naturalistic colours, that grey that real bark goes and the subtle changes in colour across the mini to the green wood at the end sof the branches. Also the attention to detail on the bases really sets these apart. I also like the way the colours match so closely ...the models seem to be growing out of the forest floor.

Skaven dude is again very naturalistic ... well ar natural as you can get for a giant walking rat swinging a flail but.... I mean is its believable , not cartoon. the skin tone ...he looks ill, the muted colours the, the grubbyness, the rust on the flail. If a giant rat existed this is what it would look like.

These sort of paint jobs "suspends the disbelief". You have painted these as if they were real and in doing so you have made them 'real'.

Now you have inspired me to sometimes try and make my stuff less cartoony and more like these.

[Daniel36]

Thank you! I never really thought about it that way. I do tend to choose very earthly, darker colours for my models. I guess that's what makes them look more realistic.

The Skaven Plaguelord is one of my alltime favourite models. I don't play Skaven but I painted this (I guess a year and a half ago) just for fun, and it turns out that approach really works for me. I did the same with a Dwarf model just yesterday. I am still waiting for the pictures of that model. I can tell you it looks quite like the Skaven in terms of the way I painted it. It took me quite a while to get the colours right on the Skaven, especially on his tummy, but it paid off. I also like the hair, it goes from dark to almost white at the tip... I kind of like that!

It doesn't always work out swell though. Choosing earthly tones can sometimes make a complete mess of my model. Looking at it from afar it just looks like a smudge of colour tones, without being an actual model. I sometimes wish I could be braver and choose colours that are slightly more bold. I guess it works well for the Treekin though, they are kind of amorphic anyhow.

I will however take that Plaguelord off of its base. The base is absolutely horrible, and boring too!

I ought to take some pictures of my Mordheim Possessed Warband. The Beastmen in that band have the same kind of paintjob as the Skaven, and it has some truly nasty looking other minis in it too! I will keep you guys posted on those!

[Daniel36]

It really is quite amazing how well my crummy old webcam takes pictures, if the lighting is alright. As it so happens it's daylight and my webcam is close to the window, so I made some fun pics of my now finished Dwarf warrior Sabeth Balorkin, for use with Warhammer Quest!!


Something fishy going on down here!!


Shiny Bracelet!


How I long to return to the mountains. *Sigh*


Still something fishy going on.

[aenimosity]

That dwarf looks like he's been questing for months. He's a greasy looking little bugger. And the way you've painted his eyes makes him looks like he's at a bar and someone's just spilt his drink...

Well you've shown us a few different things you've painted over the years. Now how about a look at your eldar? You've got to have painted at least one model.

I definitely don't think you're as bad a painter as you say you are. Quite the contrary in fact.