Work in Progress: Necropolis Knights

Once I had the bases painted, it was time to start working on the Knights themselves!  On Wednesday I started by laying down the initial colors, keeping the color scheme of the Stalkers in mind:


Obviously, the bodies of these serpents are completely different from the Stalkers.  It did create some heavy duty thought process to figure out how to make them look similar.

There was a very fun happy accident in that the bodies of the snakes intertwine with the design on the bases!  Unfortunately, 99% of the folks looking at this at Games Day will never see it.



As usual, the idea was to lay down all the colors as quickly as possible, using a technique that I posted yesterday.


I decided to go with more of a metal look to the backs of the hoods, leaving the front to have more of the color...




In keeping with the shaded basecoat technique, I continued to lighten the colors everywhere, using my trusty #4 flat sable brush!!


I tried to get everything to the glazing stage by the time I had to pack up.  I was pretty much there after 7 hours...


Over the last few days, I did the dark glazes on both the knights and the serpents:


Today I did some more of the details on the knights... the serpents will be next.




So this is how it is left for the time being.  Hopefully by Sunday the snakes will be done as well!!

Girls just wanna have fun

Or, they just want to whack you with a giant sword!  I have not checked out lately if Brigade Models has made any new additions to this line since they purchased it.  Does anyone out there know what they have (or have not) been doing with it?  It was always a fun line of miniatures to paint.  Every sculpt was clean, with none of those "mystery blobs" like you get on a lot of miniatures...

More Bow Ushabti!

Well, the celebrations have concluded.  The smoke of the fireworks has faded away, the cake eaten, and time to move on to post 501!

This post brings the return of the Tomb Kings for Armies on parade with more bow Ushabti.  This leaves me with two more to paint.

Post number 500!!!! A little window into my demented painting world...

OK loyal Wappellians!  I have been wanting to do this one for a while, but I figured I would save this post for a special occasion... number 500!  Hard to believe that this whole thing started on February 3rd!

This is a set of images showing how I go about using that 'shaded basecoat' technique you hear me blather on about so much to paint some Saurus warriors.  I hope that you can find it useful!

Here is the link to the page:
http://wappellious.blogspot.com/p/using-shaded-basecoat-technique-to.html



A few images of the whole unit...


And the finished saurus example:

Magnets galore: Multiple wargear for Grey Knights

These squads of Grey Knights have been a real challenge, since a lot of stuff is magnetized.  The original weapon choice was halberds, but with 6th edition now here, who knows how that will change!

Here are some pictures showing a few of the options:












Getting the banner to be magnetized to the same arm as the regular halberd was very difficult!  That thing is so much heavier than the halberd.  I also had to change the arm angles on most of these to make that happen.

Here is a group shot:


And some WIP images:

Sneaky Snakes: Painting bases for Necropollis Knights

It is now time to get around to the Necropolis Knights!  I probably won't be using these in a game until I can expand the unit to six, but I have been wanting to see what they look like with some color on them!

First I began by drawing out the basic design:


Then setting down the basic colors:




It was time to start shading the snakes lighter, using the same color scheme that I did on the Stalkers:


I continue to lighten the snakes, working up to the same brightness level of the stalkers:


Once I had the shading complete, it was time to create the scale patterns from the Stalkers:


I proceed with the pattern, and I begin to paint the skull design as well...


More shading on the skull, and getting some color into the eyes.  The rest of the usual demon faces and skulls are started in the marble areas...


Now I focus more on the faces in the marble sections:




The demon faces and skulls are almost complete, and more colors are added to the main skull design.




At this point I go back into the small skulls and demon faces to reclaim the darkest colors:


Once the darks are re established, I put the glowing elements in, and work the crown of the skull design.


Almost done!


Here we have the bases ready to go!