A tale of three occasional painters

[Xepher]

Broodlord (painted by me)

is that a metallic red? or is a gloss varnish or water effect? looks quite glistening/fleshy in a good way

[Hadriel Caine]

The effect is actually just made by about 15-20 layers of red. working from foundation paints through to light highlights with blending with badab black and baal red washes. I think there was a red ink wash early on too (from the old paints)

glad you like him. I'd be more specific but I painted it about a year ago and made it up as I went along having never painted a tyranid before.

I will try to update soon but real life has gone into overdrive recently.

cheers

Adam

[salarath]

As much as I hate to say it-you probs should be learning your lines! I will post an update soon though, my 5000 word essay can wait....

[Hadriel Caine]

in fairness I wrote that on a break from rehearsal :P nailed em today so thanks for the help mate.

[Hadriel Caine]

double posting myself. poor form guys! :P

made a venom for my DE today (see sig for more details)
couple of alien mercs on it atm


oh and I found some termies I want to paint up


cheers

Adam

[Radical]

Sweet, cant wait for the termies, however one question, where did that skull helmet come from?

[Halaker]

and so starts the unstoppable slide into yet another DA army... on a side note I may have sat down and reworked my 'nid list with some exciting new additions so hopefully will have some other updates soon!

[Hadriel Caine]

@ Radical- thanks for stopping by! The skull helmet is from the WHFB Chaos Warriors Sprue. I'm fairly sure its not an original usage of the part on these forums but I did the original conversion a rather long time ago.

I picked up the very nice new Empire Greatswords the other day at a substantial discount hope to resurrect/ reconstruct my Mordehiem warband using it. assembled a couple already but need to grab my existing warband and bitz box from Salarath and Halaker's house...

speaking of which:
@ Halaker- Lies and slander. I definitely do not want to do a Deathwing army using the Wolf Guard terminator, Logan Grimnar spam list from Codex: SW. not even a bit.

cheers

Adam

p.s. ok so maybe a bit...

[Hadriel Caine]

Well. I'm aware this is a general '40k' log.

So here's some Mordheimers:


group shot


It was nice to paint these again, I'll try to get my warband done soonish so it can go into storage/ display before the next campaign. (the one in the middle was done ages ago)

I had some issues reproducing the colour scheme after what seems like years but I think the work as a group

cheers

Adam

[salarath]

Looking good bud, I'm planning on doing an update myself when this essay is out of the way

[Hadriel Caine]

Yeah. I was in the same boat to be honest... but I needed a break on Sunday so I went and chucked a ball about with Rob and Martin and then I did some painting.

Actually Rob did some too which I might post when completed for general interest. I think its a warmachine diorama, but I'm not too sure.

looking forward to your update Salarath, my final assessment is tomorrow morning and it'd be lovely to do another Hellion or some more Mordheimers before I travel home for Xmas.

[Hadriel Caine]

So... what have we all been working on?

Trueborn

(you're being spoilt- I haven't even put these in my DE log yet )

Mordheim

I now have a separate log for my Mordheim stuff as the project has taken more steps than I was planning and this is a 40k sub forum.
see the link in my sig!

@Halaker- I'll send you those image links this afternoon.

feel free to drop by my DE log and comment as well lots of progress there!

cheers

Adam

[Halaker]

Update time!

So the 'nids were my first ever army and I finally got round to completing them with the help of Mr Hadriel Caine and the first 5 seasons of CSI NY (excellant painting tv, little to no effort to watch but still interesting!)

Anywho I recently sat down with the codex again and had another gander at my army list and decided on some changes...
Hive Tyrant


changed from ur basic hive tyrant to one with lots o scything talons and eventually wings! should be an interesting conversion to do.

Carnifex


Just a carnifex I found lying around that had two barbed stranglers on it (loved that combo in the previous codex!), so Ive simply made it legal for this codex. Probs not gunna use it in my 1500 list.

Tyranids Warrior


New improved warriors now with rending!
Tyranid Prime


And finally a tyranid prime to go with the warriors, sumthing to buff them a little and also stop them from dieing to lascannons/ dark lances from hadriel's darl eldar (bloody annoying that they removed instant death from tyranids).

Anyways thats my update could probably have done this sooner and in smaller chunks but hey its Christmas!

[Radical]

Wow, love the conversions on those things, though is the head carapace on that prime a bit bent? seems like it to me.

[Hadriel Caine]

Nice work Martins! Going to look cool when your done with them. I couldn't find that other dragon wing. Looks like you'll have to order the balrog ones.

@Radical- the carapace was pretty straight last time I saw it, the picture might be a crappy angle though.

@Salarath- Happy Birthday:


look what I managed to find!

Adam

[Dreffbuilder]

Ghazghull thrakaaa! Nice. Great birthday present! I'd at least love it!

Those nids look cool! The only thing I don't really like is that Prime... The head seems just so huge! (Wonder how it can even keep its head without falling to ground) Or then its something lightweight material!

Cheers

[salarath]

Great stuff guys! That Thraka is much appreciated, I have great plans for this model, oh yes...

[Hadriel Caine]

@Dreffbuilder- The head is smaller than the Zoanthrope one and is on a larger body with legs so I don't see a huge problem with it tbh. It might be my picture taking however as its sort of top down...

@salarath- Glad you like him, I'll bring him down on Wednesday or thursday I reckon.

Happy New Year everyone. I've got a few random 40k things smiling at me on my desk but for now here's a pic of the two or three things I did over the holiday:




More details and pics in my logs as usual (follow sig)

Expect some traitor guard and or Inq28 stuff soonish.

cheers

Adam

[Hadriel Caine]

Ok doing nothing for you? how about my Necromunda warband (less a couple of guys that need finishing up)




Goliaths originally painted ages ago with bright mithril weapons and darker skin. I've updated them with further highlighting and strategic washing with badab black. I've also painted a couple of the weapons and pouches again and all the faces since they had got chipped during gaming. I have two more guys at least (possibly a third) to paint for these guys

thoughts?

Adam

p.s. I'll get salarath and Halaker a swift kicking and force them to update soonish. getting awfully lonely here. (i may have taken all of mine and Halaker's paints home at xmas though )

[Dreffbuilder]

Thoughts? Nope I don't have a one... But recently when I saw your empire guys I remembered that I have my oooold Dwarf army collecting dust at the shelf... Packed them up. two cannons, 50 warriors, 20 thunderers, 20 rangers, 20 miners, Thane, Runesmith, Master engie and a dragon slayer were the ones I found... And now I started to make them up again. Thanks Hadriel!

Yeah, Cool guys.

Cheers
Dreff