Keravin does a lot of Privateer Press (plus other fantasy)

[Keravin]

Managed to finish off the two Caberthrowers



Nice and simple and actually surprised how easily they came together. Bodes well if I'm buying any more Kriel warriors shortly for Grissel's tier list.

You can see I've done the front arc markings on these and pretty much any WM/H model I have near my painting board is getting done so should get them all done over time.

[basher]

i think those are the best trolls you've ever done

[Keravin]

I think it might be I've figured taking the photos from slightly further away so it's not showing up all the stuff you wouldn't see if you looked at the model

[Keravin]

I've finally managed to finish the two Mordheim warband members that were sat on the desk as once I did work on the bone areas I was suddenly a lot happier with them.




And alongside the handgunner already done as the test model.


Might look at doing a few more shortly.

Going to be getting ahead of Tale of Skirmish painters in here as don't want to swamp them too much. So the other figure I got finished was the monk for my rpg group.


Really like the colour on him and he's got me wanting to paint up a few more adventurers to do different colour schemes for a bit.

Since I took these photos I've actually started and finished another figure. Blame a Fringe/GOT marathon whilst the wife snoozed. Pictures of the stuff I'm working on tomorrow probably.

[Keravin]

Still working on EGrissel and probably have her done next weekend. Got asked to take an army shot and this is everything minus the Sluggers which are not even primed.






The plans to add to that shortly are another min unit of Kriel Warriors to give me 3 mins which can be run in different combinations, a second unit of Champions (and an extra Champ leader) to run Borka's new theme, Rok, probably a plastic Blitzer and a battle engine. Not all at once obviously and definitely waiting on the Storm Troll coming out.

[Keravin]

WIP I'm also working on a Nomad who I intend to mainly use with Shae and Magnus hence a blue colour scheme.


Lots to do and need to figure an icon to go on the shield.

And as I said I painted another figure over the weekend, this time for Freebooter's Fate.



Here she is alongside the other model so far finished for the Brotherhood.


Planning on working on a few more models for the band as part of the Tale of so I'll see who to do next.

[mdiscala]

I really like how those caber tossers turned out.

[Tiny]

I agree, those caber tossers look great. That is one seriously huge horde of trolls!

Moar please!

[Keravin]

Thanks Mdiscala and Tiny.



The nomad is pretty much except the shield. I need to decide on an icon to paint on it. Going to have a look around and see if I find one to use.

Then finally for over here




Epic Grissel is done. This means until next weekend I only have 5 sluggers left to paint for my trolls. I'll have a few more after Salute.

[mdiscala]

Your Trollbloods are always my favorites. Grissel looks great.

[Keravin]

Thanks very much Mdiscala. You'll be happy with my troll heavy haul from Salute.

Well spent the weekend down in London working at Salute then stuck on a train for most of yesterday. I've got a few photos on the other camera of the show which I'll download at some point this week - the best display I saw were the Freebooter demo tables which were just phenomenal.


My Swag from the weekend.

Mostly Privateer Press otherwise except for the Governor's daughter and the new Lady pirates from Black Scorpion and the FW enforcer.


Not actually that enamoured with all of them, but...


She is great. Need to figure exactly what I want to do with her.

I started assembling stuff last night and partway through making Rok, the new character dire troll.


Got a bit of filling to do so I'm happier with the joins.

[Keravin]

Not progressed a lot apart from finally finishing the Nomad.




Next up is to work on finishing the Greylords and Valchev, plus probably start on Rok. I've also separated the bits out to allow me to convert Rocinante, a Mule and a Rover from a plastic merc warjack kit, and a metal nomad and mule kits. Those parts may not divvy up exactly as you might expect.

[mdiscala]

I like the checker pattern on the shield. Very cool.

[Keravin]

Thanks Mdiscala

I've not got loads done as I've been away helping run things like the Uk Warmachine/Hordes Masters. Trying to finish off the new unit of Greylords and Valchev if I can.



Cloaks are pretty much done so it's armour and skin next.

[Keravin]

Managed to finish the Greylord contingent whilst I was working on other stuff.




Valchev who I like in the Ming lookalike stakes, but not sure when I'm ever going to use him. I tend to keep my Mercs with my mercs.



And the new greylords. Modified the scheme to allow me to differentiate between the two units on the field, but I like this look to them more than my older version.

Hoping to finish my Freebooter assassin soon then figuring what apart from Rok I'm working on.

[Keravin]

I recently picked up a metal Nomad and Mule plus Rocinante's bits and a plastic Merc warjack kit to start converting. I wanted a mostly metal Rocinante and then to use the spare bits to make up other jacks.

Here's what the original Mule and Nomad kits look like.

The Nomad body and shoulders are all one piece.


So last night I started cutting up and assembling.

First up

Mainly Nomad body with Mule left arm which will form my Rover. Arm gap to be filled shortly.


Plastic kit which is being made into a mule using the metal parts. I've pinned the arms so far and need to go over the gaps before adding on the hose and club.


And the body I wanted that started all of this. It's been assembled so it marries up with the plastic jack body. I'm now working on pinning the cannon arm and then adding in the chains. I'll be using the plastic sword arm to make it look different to my nomads.

Still a fair bit to do on all of them, but I'm hoping to start painting them with this extended weekend I have.

I've also started on painting up objective markers as well.


This is probably all about getting my mind distracted from the one figure I have to finish in the next week, but keep getting hung up on his colour scheme.

[Keravin]

Finished the conversions on the Merc jacks and they are now being primed.




Probably the easiest of the conversions as it was made from the leftovers. Rover is also the one I haven't quite decided what colour scheme to do.




I'm really happy with how the Mule came out. The last issue to sort was where the hose was going to go, but quite happy with the solution.

[Keravin]

Then Rocinante. Big issue was how to line up the chains and get them to fit where the arm was. In the end I cut off the chains, stuck the two ends of each to their relevant points and used other chains in their place. The back chain is actually what was the front chain. Really happy with how he's come out.

These guys are all getting primned now so hoping to start work on them later.

[Keravin]

Started painting the Merc jacks last night and trying to remember exactly how I did my half purple and black scheme as I go. Made some good progress on all of them.

However I managed to finish things that were on the table as well.



A unit of Kayazy Eliminators. Done to match up with the style of the rest of my Kayazy.




Then my latest Brotherhood member for Freebooter's Fate. Tried working with pink for a change on her to see how it would work and generally pleased with the effect.

[Keravin]

I will be running a 32 player tournament in Leeds in October for Breast Cancer Brawl - details here.

As part of the setup for the event my wife and I will be painting 2 35 point lists for Everblight. These are the first Everblight figures we've ever done and we'll be going with a pink and grey scheme.

The plan at the moment is
Pink skin beasts - work up from Sanguine base, through magenta to a yet undecided pink highlight.
Grey armour - work from Greatcoat grey through ironhull grey with fortress grey probably as highlight.
Nyss skin - probably starting with fortress grey, then white with a pink wash. I want to get a white almost bloodshot look.

How this works in practice we shall see.

Anyway the planned stuff to paint.

PLlyth
Carnivean
Ravagore
Shredder
Hex Hunters (Min)
Deathstalker x2
Striders + UA

EThagrosh
Typhon
Angelius
Scythean
2 x Shredder
Forsaken
Shepherd
Got 1 more point so maybe another Shepherd or a Spell Martyr.

Started assembling to then prime the first batch. I suspect I may not adhere solely to those lists as I have other things that may get painted along side them.