A sweet ride for the King...

OK!  The War Gods kickstarter has just 27 hours to go!  

One of the recently unlocked units is the Mycenaean chariot.  So many fantastic things are now available, such as the Amazon Cavalry!!

I had a lot of fun painting this, and I am sure the new chariots will be equally as wonderful.

I will be posting some how to articles on the bases, but I wanted to rush ahead with the finished pictures before War Gods ends.

Obviously, it would be so much fun to paint and entire army and base it in this fashion.  I am hoping to do much more in the future...

This all went together very easily.  It was metal, but that was not a problem at all. :-)

So, get in your pledges while this lasts!  Check out all the Demigods and Automatons!

You will love painting these as much as I have!!

Here is the link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820979427/wargods-of-olympus-mythology-miniature-battle-game

War Gods Chariot WIP

After assembling so many of my Tomb Kings Chariots (including those Khandish LOTR conversions!), I have been itching to try out this set from the War Gods line.

Here are the basic pieces, along with some bases.

The painting begins in the usual way, setting up the future glazes with the shaded basecoat layers.

I work the colors lighter and lighter, knowing that I will be shading and tinting them darker later.

Just about ready to start those glazes!

You can see the difference once the chariot has some of the extra shading.  It does help when the figures have a good casting for this technique!

The same goes for the out runners.  I learned during my Tomb Kings research that the bulk of the armies fighting at this time had these guys running around.  Their job was to go into the mess once the chariots were in combat with each other.  The goal was to wipe out the opponent's chariots in this way.

Shading and tinting of the runners...

And some shading on the horses.  I will be painting the grey just like the one for the painting videos. :-)

Here is some concept art for the War Gods of Olympus kickstarter.  They are very close to unlocking these!!!

And some more fantastic concept art!!

Give this a look:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820979427/wargods-of-olympus-mythology-miniature-battle-game

The Red Sea. Celebrate!

OK!  Time for some more freehand.

This figure is from CoolMiniorNot.  It made a great choice for the freehand cloak video.

The text on the cloak roughly translates to "Honor the Painting Pyramid".

Had some fun with the shield as well!!

Time to celebrate!!

The Red Sea never parted!

Walter the Penniless...

That reference will probably not matter much to anyone who has not played Age of the Renaissance.  :-)

This is Walter, the companion of the Konigsmark Sisters from Raging heroes.

You saw Charlie, companion to the Kurganova Sisters.  This one certainly has a different feel to it!

The Raging Heroes campaign is headed towards the final stretch drive.  Here are some of the recent unlocked figures and freebies.

How about these snipers!

These would offer some fantastic basing and painting opportunities.

This image was posted earlier in the week to show a sample render compared to the concept art.

This is the newest stretch goal.  Someone has forgotten to take their vitamins...

I believe this was the miniature I wanted to use for my Commander Chenkov.  Who wouldn't want to recycle 20 conscripts over and over again?

This makes a rather fearsome Inquisitor!

Blood Angel character finished!

OK!  Here are the finished pics.  As I mentioned in the step by step post, this was an unusual piece in terms of the armor pattern.  The weapon was also something I had not seen before.  Sort of par for the course on Pre Heresy :-)

The base is another DragonForge Designs product.  Jon really picked the prefect base for this pose!  The cloak sweeping out over the front of it is so neat!

I was glad that I chose to make the cloak black.  While red might have been the most traditional choice, I felt that the darker, cooler color would serve to enhance the brightness of the Red armor.

Given the large sweep of the cloak, there was less competition visually with the base, which also had some of those same greys...

A perfect practice for the Freehand cloak video, since the cloak has the same kind of red... and even the interior design. :-)

Blood Angels in progress...

As I was working on the freehand cloak video, I used this guy to "get in the groove", so to speak.

Here are a few pictures that I shot as I was working on it.  The huge cloak was obviously an opportunity to do some serious freehand. :-)

I will post the finished pictures late tomorrow night or Friday morning!

Stay tuned!

Getting the most out of your yellows...

Here was the exercise for working your yellow colors beyond the "Yellow Space Marine" effect.

Just like the previous color theory videos, this one describes how to use those warmer and cooler versions of a color to create contrast and interest.

I made the feathers the lightest and most 'pure' colors, with the amber gem on the end of the staff, with the idea of making that a focal point.

Many of your 'shadow' colors are brownish, but making these redder or greener allows you to get a whole range of colors.  I also used some leaves to do more orange yellow.

This was very fun, since I have only been using yellows as part of NMM or painting Imperial Fists.  The one color set I left out was the fluorescent paints, which is a key component of the Gold NMM.