Thursday, April 5, 2012

Some more Retinue figures for Inquisitors

Forgeworld makes some fun miniatures for Inquisitor retinues!

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Gamezone Trolls: beating a dead horse

These were pretty useful miniatures from the Gamezone line.  They came with multiple heads that let you use that all important vomit option!  So much for that pretty armor...

Plus, they came toting some interesting items to the battle!

The bases were sculpted from Apoxy sculpt to get them positioned just right.
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My Coteaz conversion

I just finished this guy for my Adepticon Grey Knight army.  It is a blend of an old Confrontation mini I had been saving, a Warmaster High Elf eagle, and a lot of Empire Flagellent bits.

Some pictures:
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Here's the WIP:
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My first Thousand Sons minis

These Thousand Sons miniatures were painted several years ago, but one thing remains the same when I paint them today.  The basis of my blue color comes from Reaper Amethyst.  It is a wonderful dark, rich blue color that can be turned into another type of color depending on what you use to lighten it.

For instance, it can assume a bit of a purple tint, even when lightening with Space Wolves Grey.  It mixes wonderfully with various seafoam and light turquoise colors.  It does not need much added to it in the way of shading if you want a very dark shade.  It is already there.

These bases were among the first of my marble/temple style.  I think this is what gave me the idea to do it for the rest of my armies, which you have seen illustrated many times.  Looking back at these, I really like the white and yellow colors.  The white makes the blue of the armor that much darker.  More recently, I have done a dark blue marble with the demon faces.  Perhaps I should try going back to the lighter bases for that future Thousand Sons army.  There is a new book coming out, after all!

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This was an old Grey Knight terminator painted as a Thousand Sons terminator.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Celebrity Dreadfleet project: Adepticon Charity auction 2012

This ship is my contribution to the Celebrity Dreadfleet project: Adepticon Charity auction 2012.  My wife painted the command vessel of the evil forces, the Bloody Reaver.  My task was the lead good guy ship, hailing from the Empire.

They were some very interesting figures to paint... quite different from anything else I have tried previously, which is saying something!  It was a tiny bit like BFG in a way.   Both ships had to be painted in many individual parts prior to assembly.

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Flamers of Tzeentch

This is a bit of an 'alternate' color scheme for flamers.  Man I hate these things... they always seem to get off 30+ shots, and I can't kill the buggers!

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Wood elf sorceress on giant owl

Here is a fun monster which I painted for CoolMiniorNot last year.  It is one of several, which I will be posting.  The creatures are resin, and a decent quality.  The riders are usually metal.

Now to the images!

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