You're soaking in it...

OK, not many people will get that Palmolive reference, but here we go.  Another Nurgly base!

This was another experiment with the super light colors and crazy ink/glaze later.

Starting with the lighter colors...

Setting out the inks and glazes.  Some black, some green, sepia and the Secret Weapon Concrete on the far left of the palette.

You can see that I have started watering down the inks and mixing stuff together.  Mixing the sepia and black made a very nice warm dark!

I did a few layers of this, focusing the darkest inks and such in the crevices, while I used some of the sepia and concrete mix on the stained marble section.

I painted in the Nurgle design.  The idea here was to have the darker, cooler color underneath the lighter, warmer colored skull.  You must have dark to have light, and vice-versa!

Now it was time to make sure the liquid swampy areas had some shading and color...

Once I have my colors set on the swampy part, I put a layer of gloss varnish over that.

While that initial layer of gloss coat was still dry, I mixed in the fluorescent yellow with it and made things look really toxic!!!

Almost done!  Finished pics later...

Pilot to tower...

Given the large amount of Venoms that are also included in the army, it was time to figure out what I was going to do with all the pilots.  I could have saved time by just painting the canopies as I did with some regular Eldar vehicles a few years ago, but I wanted to do something more with these.

Also, having established the glowy look with both the jetbikes and the Grotesques, I wanted to maintain a consistency from one set of figures to the next.

The other tricky part to all of these vehicles was going to be painting the cockpits and other engine elements that would be almost impossible to reach if I did not paint them before gluing the two halves together.  So, I painted the intakes and exhaust sections of the engines, and started painting the cockpit as well.

I used some deep reds to paint the pilot and most of the cockpit, and then used the filbert brush to 'damp brush' the glowing colors, working all the way up to the brightest lights.

Then I used a series of glazes to shade everything darker.  By using a blue green mix, the reds were also shaded, and cooled down in the shadow areas quite a bit.  That helped to tie all the colors together.

Then I went back in and worked the middle tones a bit, cleaning up some areas and adding a bit of variation in the lighter colors in terms of hues.

So, task complete!  All set to glue together.

Just 3 more to go...

Stuck on you... missiles and magnets

After trying out the Razorwing a few times, I am not really sure it helps me a whole lot.  It's off the board a lot, and space marine armies can have dozens of skyfire shots for pretty much nothing.

However, this is the only thing I have that has SF, so I guess it stays.  It can drop some nastiness on an enemy scoring unit late in an objective type game, although it seems like the newer fliers also do that a lot better.

I figured that I should magnetize the missiles, since I may not always want the same type of armament.  

I am going with the standard Monosythe to save on points, since they are free.

I started out by putting a magnet on the underside that was the same height as the missile pins that are on the fuselage. 

I chopped off the leading edge pins, so that I could put the metal sheet in its place...

I cut out tiny pieces of sheet metal (always make sure your magnets will stick to it when you buy it...  I found this out the hard way!) and placed them on the sponsons.

I double checked to see if the magnet was the correct height, and in a good place for balance.  Once confirmed, I did all the sponsons.

Getting there!

A quick "shake check" to see if they would stay on, which they did.

Finis!!  This was pretty basic to save time, since I don't know how often I will use this guy.  I think it would be better in multiples.  Again, I am not sure just how much this will help at Adepticon.  At least it counts as a scoring unit in one scenario ;-)

The racing teams assemble...

OK!  With the jetbikes being the featured part of the army (and the fluff!), I had to make sure that we had some interesting stuff going on with them.  This is one of the two groups of bikes that I have been working on...

Lots of bits went into these!  In the effort to make each bike and rider unique, I pirated extra parts from other bikes, vehicle sprues, and even wyche sprues.

Here's a few closer images of the bikes...

Most of the splinter rifles are magnetized, so I can change those out if I ever get the points.

I also magnetized the cluster caltrops, since those are a huge part of the plan!!

So let's go racin'!  I have a few group shots of the other batch, which is already primed!

Painting the ancient and the rare...

OK folks, this is a set of very old (and, I am told, very rare) miniatures from the old Citadel range called Pan Tangeans.  Obviously, these were not the most detailed sculpts ever made.  They were not the easiest figures to paint, that's for sure...

I don't remember why they were all painted in various color schemes, but that was the request, I believe.

The tigers were interesting, at least. :-)

I am pretty sure these were painted back in 2005, so that represents a little ancient history for me as well!

I guess I will keep running across crazy galleries like these for a little while!

Dark Elf Dreadlord

Here's something that was hiding in the archives!

Not quite sure when this one was painted, but it had to be years ago.  Probably when I was painting those assassins...

Here's a link to those guys:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/02/something-bit-different-dark-elves.html

Back to work!

It's for the birds... Odin

OK, another colossal big guy from Eastern Front Studios!

This time, it's Odin.  I think the plaque is 4 inches across, to give you an idea of size.

Obviously, a big pile of baked sculpey carved away to create the ice base!

I will be doing an ice pile on one of the kickstarter painting videos "Painting the Blues away", since that will be a great exercise is painting many different shades of blue!

The freehand was very fun.

The Big Guy...

The Big Head...

More freehand...

Big Bird!