Fireworks...

On this 4th of July, you can't have a post that is not on fire!

These are some of the Reaper Bones figures that I will utilize as the 3 swarms which the Spider Queen can pop out at the most opportune time! :-)

All primed and ready to go...

Starting with some yellow mixed with the fluorescent yellow.

Then a bit of the fluorescent orange...

Then some 'regular' blazing orange into that mix.

A bit more of the orange...

At this point, I start using some cavalry brown.  I try to create some cooler flows in the lava stream...

Then some blue black into that mix for the bits that have cooled down the most.

Same color on top as the base for the spider swarms.

I 'damp brushed' some lighter colors onto that...

Even a little brighter, knowing that I was going to do lots of glazing later.

After the first layers of glazing.  Now I will work back into the middle tones, and get the reflected orangey light on the rock surface.  I hope you all had a Happy Fourth!!

Thundering hooves...

Time for some individual shots of the chariot and the outrunners...

This really was a fun project.  While the chariot was somewhat similar to the GW style, it was a little easier to deal with.  I also enjoyed having real horses to paint :-)

Everything fit together so well.  I didn't have to squeeze things to fit on the base at all.

I definitely wished that the Tomb Kings chariots had this much space in the howdah for the driver and crew!

And finally the outrunners.

Well, hopefully there will be much more War Gods to come!!!

Asharah's Revenge... the unit and the ride.

Tonight we have Asharah, leader of my Dark Eldar army.  She is with her Incubus retinue, and their Venom.

Asharah is another hero figure from the Raging Heroes line.  She had a number of left over options for heads, weapons, and other decorative elements.

I was able to use many of these extra bits to convert some GW Kabal warriors into the Incubus retinue figures, as the scale was perfect.  I have a few posts detailing how those were made, which you can find in the Dark Eldar army section.

I had a lot of fun with the base of this Venom.  Those who saw the original posts know all about the homage to the "Crashed plane sculpture" that we love to make fun of outside Midway Airport. :-)

Here are some of the latest unlocks and stretch goal from the Raging Heroes Kickstarter, which is almost down to the final 36 hours!!!  I wonder if this shoudl be my Guardsman (or Guradswoman) Marbo...

Halfling snipers, anyone?  These will make fantastic Urchins on the mean streets of my Hive City!

Superfantastic Mecha!

An Ogryn you really don't want to mess with, especially on a bad hair day.

Seeing Red...

Here are some shots of the mini for the Raging Reds video.  As with the other videos on this kind of subject, the idea is to show as many ways to get varieties in a color as possible.

In this case, I tried to do many different reds... warmer, cooler, less saturated, and so on.  The parts of the armor that face upward have been made a warmer read, while surfaces facing towards the ground were lightened with a much cooler color.

Since I have been asked so many times over the years about how to lighten red without making it either blazing orange or chalky pink, I knew that this particular video had to be made.  That is why it was in the very first set. :-)

Off to war...

Well, the Urban Mammoth figures came in at last, so it was time to get all of them prepped.

You can see that they come in some nice packaging.  They also have a set of stat cards.

And to the minis.  These are called Junkers.  They will be used for the painting reds video, for obvious reasons ;-)

The minis prepped...

But they also need bases!

Bases painted.

The next post will show you the painted miniature!  Stay tuned...

Flying around...Venoms and Wyches

It just occurred to me the other day that I never shot any images of the Venoms with the folks riding in them!

Images were shot of both things separately, but never together, with the exception on a few shots of them on the display board.

The Wyches in these images are from Raging Heroes.  They were perfect for giving the impression of crazed fighters about to leap off their transport!

They had to leap off those transports a lot at the tournament in April, since the Venoms were shot down on the first turn in almost every game.  There was no place to hide, and there were lots of Aegis quad guns to make that an easy task, even if I was going up against Orks.

These units were far better for blowing up tanks than fighting anything else. Between the overwatch and lack of any real AP for their power weapons, fighting anything 'live' proved hazardous.

I put a few of the Kabal warriors in the next few images to show scale...

I suppose it might have been better to have Kabal warriors in the Venoms to boost their shooting, but I thought having this sort of anti-vehicle unit would help me clear out those tanks.

The Grotesque unit in the big transport could really do some harm to armor, but staying aloft (even with flicker field and night shields) seemed impossible.

This is the second Venom, along with a few of the Wyches from the other squad.

I also have the Archon's Venom and crew, so I will post those as well!