Dave's OGPurchases Plog

[Dave]

More Malifaux, Lady J done, based up the exec and finished all 3 death marshalls.  The Judge is lagging behind due to having to pin his hand before I could get started but he's all basecoated and shaded now so will be done soon.

[fatolaf]

Stunning work Dave, love the Fat boy the best...

[Veldemere]

You have got a lot of character into the dead cowboys.

[Angelus Mortifer]

Wicked skin tones on the fat boy - really stylish mate.

[Dave]

My continued wanderings through various games systems has led me to painting up this lot (apologies for shoddy picture taken on my phone).





A nice little bone and purple scheme which I've never seen used with Eldar before and is quite simple to paint on the Epic scale without taking an absolute age.

Bought the Epic stuff off a club mate who'd never gotten round to painting it up and was looking to sell out so was 50% of retail.  Epic is quite big down the club so I'll look to get a full army painted up and then see if I like it or not, hopefully do, if not can hopefully sell it on for a profit as a coherently painted army at a decent standard.

[fatolaf]

Nice scheme buddy, reminds me of my old Eldar Epic army, given away long long ago for a  measly pint....

[Dave]

Foolish sir, foolish!

[Dave]

The grind continues, but for a change I've just painted something a bit ratty. A guy down the club had been running a silver/grey horde of skaven for quite some time but had expressed an interest in tournaments but didn't fancy coming along to any as would have to use his woodies because he couldn't get his skaven done quick enough (plus he dislikes painting).  This was why I dipped up my IoB skaven a while back, to show him how a quick easy paintjob could get it to an acceptable standard and it didn't have to take ages.

Well it all worked rather well he's been blasting through his skaven at a decent rate and then got lucky as a guy rage quit and sold him his fully painted skaven army (which was really nice) he's now combined the two together to give him a suitable 8th Ed horde army with loads of slaves. 

The one thing he's been missing are some of the big centrepieces.  He's got a rather poor looking abom currently sprayed brown, but it's a bit small.  He's an old metal bell which was painted a long time ago and looks a bit shoddy and he has a furnace which was sprayed black.  Because he loves his monk/furnace unit he asked if I would paint it for him, his original plan being to use it in Tempest.

Well because he only gave me it last wed he'd dropped it from his list thinking it wouldn't be done in time, but I busted a gut to make his dream come true.  (actually the reality is it took me 5 hours and I did it in the morning before work a couple of days and then finished it off wed night).





Came out pretty well given the amount of time spent on it.  And now for the recap (so that when I get round to doing one for myself I can remember how it was done).

Steps taken
1. Undercoat - white
2. Airbrush wood basecoat using vallejo air range ochre
3. Go away on stag do for weekend, return feeling like death
4. Painted the stone 'field blue' a Coat d'arms colour which is a grey but with a lot of undertones of blue which come out when thinned.
5. Drybrush stone with mix of field blue and dheneb stone
6. Pick out metals with chainmail: dwarf bronze 3:1
7 Wash all wood and metal with devlan mud and let dry (I aided this with a hairdryer)
8. Wash stone and metals with asurymen blue
9 pick out ropes in dheneb stone
10. wash ropes with thinned devlan mud
11. Wrecker ball metals done as above but not washed in devlan and make sure all the smoke trail is still white.  Wash this in thrakka green.
12. Crew colour scheme was provided - red cowl and off coloured cream robes.  Here I had to take a bit of a punt, he had clearly worked over a black basecoat so not really my style,

Robe - I guessed for dheneb stone, washed it down with devlan and highlighted back to dheneb then further with a bit of white mixed in.
Red cowl - Dark flesh basecoat, devlan wash, highlighted back up with scab red.
Fur/skin - graveyard earth, devlan wash, some dwarf flesh/graveyard earth mixed highlights to fleshy areas.

You'll notice everything gets hit with devlan, that was all done as a single step doing usual basecoat, wash, highlight process.

It all then got hit with a layer of gloss and then matt varnish for protection and is ready to hand over.

[Dave]

Also this morning I tried out my Epic paint scheme on a 40k guardian.


Looks ok, but I'm not sure if I want to roll it out or try something different.

[cunningmatt]

How on earth did you paint that Screaming Bell in 5 hours!!!!!! - just because it's a good opportunity to use this smilie!