The Wings of Angels

For those of you who have been following the blog for a number of years, you have already seen the introduction of the Angels Solarus, a Blood Angels splinter chapter, which was painted a few years ago.

Here is the initial introduction post:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-angels-solarus.html

In addition to the horde of infantry created for this army, I also painted numerous vehicles and dreadnoughts.  I believe there were three Forgeworld speeders, two Baal Predators, six dreadnoughts, and five dreadnought drop pods.  Oh yeah, and a Stormraven!

Apparently this post was created but never actually posted!

The format might be a little crazy, but that's because I was using different settings at the time.

There are even more dreadnoughts which were part of this massive project!

The color transitions were especially challenging on the dreadnoughts!

There are also a number of Death Company vehicles, including a dreadnought drop pod.

There are individual posts on each of the dreadnoughts and drop pods...

I hope that you enjoy this trip down memory lane!!!

Spear and Snow

Back to the Legion of Everblight.  These must be the older, metal versions, since I also have several plastic/resin versions as well.

All of these will be painted in the same muted color scheme, with a small amount of the burnt seinna accents.

I have been asked many times how the snow effect was done.  There are a number of different techniques in my arsenal, but here's a video which I did as part of my Painting Pyramid series.

It's one of dozens available at Kings Hobbies and Games:

http://www.kingshobbiesandgames.com/Snow-Bases-by-James-Wappel-p/jwppsnowbases.htm

One Hot Bombshell!

Another Bombshell Babe for you today!  This is Delzira, Demon Princess.

As soon as I saw the figure, I just had to put that on one of my lava bases!  Yes, I could not resist. :-)

The pose itself was also just right, as the arms were extended, and the metal staff would reflect colors nicely.

I have been getting a lot of questions and queries about how I have been doing OSL, snow bases, lava and such, so I will be including a few links to samples of my painting videos, which you can get directly from me or from Kings Hobbies and Games (on a USB drive).

Here's a sample of the Object Source lighting video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqIo-UMSr8

And a link to KH &B:

http://www.kingshobbiesandgames.com/James-Wappel-s-Object-Source-Lighting-p/jwpp4.htm

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221906374445?

Out in the Cold

This set of group shots shows the ten Red Box Games on the terrain pieces that have been a lot of fun!

These particular figures had a lot of dynamic poses, including the archers.

The standing stone is very fun!

This is the first chance that I've had to see 'normal' sized human figs on them.

Quite the crowd!!

The view from above...

This is OUR rock!

Fun times in the forest!

Let's play king of the hill!

The coal that glows!!!

The mining of RJ-1027 has become more and more prolific in the Wild West Exodus universe, thanks to the dastardly Dr. Carpathian.

A number of small terrain pieces such as these are available from the webstore.  They add a great deal of visual impact, and they also work great as objective markers!

I think I have to snag some more of these for the mining game board which we want to create.  The evil red glow of RJ-1027 shall be seen all over the Sunset Lands quite soon!

Not a plain Jane

More work in limited palette, some browns, tans and siennas.

I suppose that the snow setting is quite perfect for all these very limited color exercises.

Stay tuned for much more! :-)

It's almost official! :-)

Well, it's almost that time.  I have been mentioning in recent weeks that Kings Hobbies and Games will be carrying a portion of the Painting Pyramid video series in their webstore.

That will be official on Monday, October 5th.  The focus will be mostly on the "core" videos, which covers the Shaded basecoat and glazing techniques.  In addition, a variety of Non-metallic techniques, freehand, and color theory videos are going to be available.

One of the color videos is called "Yellow Alert", and it is typical of the five which are offered.

As you can see, I explore the whole range of colors that fall under the term "yellow".

One of the reasons I made each color (reds, blues, greens, grays) was to help people with mixing colors, as opposed to searching for the right jar of paint.  If you know how to make certain colors, you will cut down on the number of paints that you need to buy, or haul around with you!!

I made these in response to all of the questions which I get so often on "How do you make your reds lighter without getting pink" and so on. :-)

Each video covers basic topics such as the paint, primer, brushes, and palette.  Also, every video begins with a version of the "Shaded Basecoat", and then moves on to the "glazing" stage.

When I reach one of these stages, you can see that all the colors which will be used are placed on the palette and discussed.

When necessary, I do little asides like this.  Every NMM and skin tone video has one of these 2D representations, so that it's easier for you to see what's going on.

The videos average a running time of 100 minutes.

I have a dozen half hour preview videos, including this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvcMwauXZk

In addition to painting videos, I have a number of basing videos.  There are five on offer right now, but eventually that will expand (I did 12 of them total!)

Here's a link to this basing video preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEP1ILxyGcs

The videos will be offered on USB drives (usb 3.0), and there are discounts for the purchase of multiple videos.  Putting them on USB drives allowed me to get the highest quality resolution, and it gives you a chance to load them onto as many devices as you want.  Not to mention that it is really easy to carry around!!!

So, come Monday, you will have a place to go to at all times for your corner of the Painting Pyramid!!

Don't forget, additional titles will be added over time.

http://www.kingshobbiesandgames.com/category-s/130.htm