Gotta have grunts!!

Oddly enough, these guys were the very first figures I worked on back in the day... as in May 2011.  I remember having lots of fun mixing and matching new Dark Eldar parts with the ancient ones, once I realized that you could get them to fit together!

Here we have some WIP images as I was getting them all painted.  This will look pretty familiar, as the pattern of painting was not very different form all the vehicles you have seen.  This picture shows the shaded basecoat technique used on the armor.

Now the same treatment for the weapons and other items, such as hair, trophies, vials, and so on.

This is all designed to set up the next stage, which is glazing and shading!  You can see a few articles on the shaded basecoat on the top bar of the blog, as well as countless other examples embedded withing previous posts.

So we are ready to go!  The idea is to work all the way up to the lightest highlights, and then re-work the middle tones and darks with the glazes.  I used a series of GW, Vallejo and Reaper glazes to do this.

The the Glazing begin!  Quite a dramatic effect.

Once the glazing is done, I went back in to do other details on faces, weapons, as well as freehand.  More to come, so stay tuned!!

Baseball was glad to see the Sox begin the season 2-0!!!!!

A few more images...

I almost forgot to post the rest of the Venom images!

There are still those remaining details to finish on this and the other vehicles, but that will wait until everything else is at this sane stage.

I would rather not do that piecemeal, which could lead me to forget something, or not have consistent results...

There are other details that I would like to add, but that is only if there is time.  Now that I have to spend some time reworking a Tomb Kings unit of chariots, that will cut down on the 'extras'.

Hopefully I will get the chance to do most of the fun extra touches on this army...

Stay tuned for a lot more in the next few days!

This little Piggie...

The last batch of figures from MSB Toys.  I don't know what they had in mind with these guys, but they were pretty funny. :-)  I painted these way back in 2005.

A piece here and a part there...

Pieces and parts.  The story of my life.  Typically spending most of my life painting jigsaw puzzles with no picture of what it;s supposed to look like. :-)

This particular puzzle was even more tricky!

Here you see the main hull, rudder and weapon with the freehand...

And then the ventral section with more engines, prow, grav whatever, and so on...

Gotta have a crew!

This was good training for figuring out how to paint the Kabal Warriors.

And now for some images of the whole collection.

After it is assembled, it will be time to do the finishing touches.

Is it wrong that this is making me super hungry right now?

An MSB TOYS collection from the vault

Here's a set of figures from MSB toys that I painted between 2005 and 2006.

It is certainly a very eclectic collection! ;-)

Some of these were still fun to paint, though...

Gotta have zombie pirates!

And zombie Firemen!

And Angels...

Getting there...

Some more images of the third Venom so far.  More stuff to do yet.

This is definitely starting to look like an actual army now :-)

I will be really happy to be snapping pics of all three Venoms together once all the little stuff is done!!!

Stay tuned for more!!

High Strung... more Fenryll

Or should this be called "No Strings Attached" :-)

In these wee hours of the morning we have some more Fenryll figs...

I did not realize just how many of these that I painted back in the day!

There was certainly a wide variety.

More to come tomorrow!