Space Hulk Termi's

Like I need another distraction... but with the upcoming Tyranid invasion campaign over at Welland Warhammer club (miniwargaming.com) I've decided to try and get my terminators ready for next Saturday. The campaign will start with a space hulk game, then some city fight. The next week will be planet strike, then followed up with an Apocalypse game. I disassembled my space hulk terminators (pictured below) and have since sprayed them a deep red. Hopefully that makes them fairly easy to paint up quickly.

Spiders almost done

I feel like I keep saying almost... but time has been limited (I've got a midterm tomorrow), so I'm just picking away at these. I managed to highlight the green, give it a green wash, paint the bases and base coat the fangs and stinger (they'll be off white).

Spider riders (done the red)

I think the red portions of the bodies are done on these guys. I finished the red/orange highlight and gave them a red ink wash. Then a black wash on the ends of the spider legs. I think they look decent enough, but in the process I realized that I should have airbrushed them. I guess I'll do the next batch that way.

Magnetized bases and movement trays

Here we go, finally have a good result with this project. I've already covered how to add magnets to bases and using magnetic sheets for your trays but I think this is a better (an cheaper) method. The secret ingredient is magnetic paint.


I picked mine up at Michael's craft store (about $10 with a coupon), and its more than enough for all of my needs. 2 or 3 coats is required to get the magnets to stick well. I also used proper green stuff this time, and it works better than the other 2 part putty I was using. A small amount of ribben did 43 night goblins and 10 spider riders. Super glue of course between layers.

The magnets you see there are the 1/8" x 1/16" from store.miniwargaming.com. $15 gets you 100, so its not too expensive to do whole units.

And of course, everything hold really nicely.

Even less progress

I barely had time to do anything last night, but I was able to add another layer of highlights to one spider. Its a combination of Macharius Solar Orange (foundation) and blood red. Just 9 more to go with this and I'll do a red wash and either a black wash or devlin mud.

Small progress with Spider Riders

I've been a bit busy with things (including the Ork Bastion posted yesterday), so my progress has been slow on these Spider riders. Anyway, I finished the green base colour and added a bit more red highlight. I think it still needs a brighter red edging and then maybe a wash or to to deepen it again.

Ork Bastion "upgrade"

Here's a project I did yesterday... An ork bastion "upgrade". My FLGS is doing a planet strike campaign so I didn't want my orks to have to use a plain old human bastion. Everything is magnetized, so the bastion can be "downgraded" back to the original setup. The magnetized pieces are able to stick on nicely with just a magnet on either side of the bastion walls, so even the inside magnets didn't need to be glued. Obviously I could have gone further, but I stopped there because I felt it made for a decent bastion upgrade, and I had limited time.

I made this for an article for miniwargaming.com. A free login is required to see the full article (with lots of pics and explanation).

Starting Spider riders

Now that the cave trolls are done I'm moving onto the next thing... Spider riders. These are from the Skull Pass set, and are the first of two batches. These were base coated with the same red that the rest of my army (Flat Burgundy red Krylon spray, Deep red touch up, blood red drybrush). Here I've started adding some green. I was using the miniwargaming club's reaper paints for that, but since I don't have that exact same one I'll probably use GW's goblin or snot green as a substitute.

Cave Trolls Complete

Here we go, I even finished the bases on these guys. All I really had to finish were the spots on the cow and the bases. Since there were only 3 of them (and one was done) I figured I should finish them off. Here's some pics:

Cave Trolls (almost done)

Getting closer... I hopefully will have them finished tonight. I finished the red, bone, rope and metal sections. Now its just some details and the cow before I finish off the bases.

I've noticed a couple things have been added to the clearance bin over at miniwargaming.com. Most tempting for me right now is another copy of Assault on Black Reach for $63 CDN (I can never have too many orks, and I plan on starting blood angels when they come out), the ork Truk for $25.20 CDN as well as a couple other deals too good to pass up.

Cave trolls Con't

A little more progress on the cave trolls last night. I used bronzed flesh to bring out the face and started on the stuff on their backs. Some more washes to bring out the colours as well.

Airbrushing cave trolls

A little late, but I finally got around to base coating my additional cave trolls. I wanted these two to look similar to the one I had done previously, and since I airbrushed the base colours on it I did the same with these. I used my Tamiya paints thinned with isopropyl alcohol. Rather than explaining what I did I'll just post a bunch of pictures. Nothing too fancy was done, just using the airbrush to get smooth transitions between colours.

Night Goblins unit 2

Wow, I think I'm getting faster. This unit of Night Goblins went much faster than the last bunch. These had the red done (based and highlighted) and green skin base coated a while back, but the rest was done in about 5 hours total. Started with the brown belts, boots and wrapping on the spear. Then I base coated the shields a mix of Astronomican grey and Chaos black. Bolt gun metal for the spear tips and any exposed chain mail or belt buckles. The grey and silver were then given a black wash. Next was the green spears and shields. This was done with the pale green triad from Reaper (Jungle Moss, Highlands Moss, and Pale Lichen). When this was done I highlighted the skin with Scorpion Green and gave the skin a green wash. When this dried I did the teeth off white and the eyes with deep red then blood red (reaper). The browns were given highlights with the earth brown triad (same as the last night goblins) and that was about it. Since this batch went so fast I included the other 20 when I did the eyes, and touched up the yellow on their shields (gave it a wash and lighter yellow highlight).

Night Goblins finished

Well, it turns out that I only needed one more night to get these guys to a table top standard. I managed to get a bunch of painting done at the miniwargaming club last night, and was able to finish them off at home. The only things that I'll have to go back and finish are their eyes (red) the yellow moons (need a highlight and wash) and the bases. I'm showing them here on a movement tray that I cast in resin. I'll have to do a tutorial on that on in the future.

Painting done last night:
GW Astronomican Grey Foundation (shield and boots)
GW Bolt gun metal (spear tip and chainmail)
black wash (shield, boots and spear)
GW scorpian green (skin hightlight)
GW Thraka wash (skin shade)
GW bleached bone (teeth)
GW Tausept Ochre Foundation (moons)
Reaper Earth Brown and Leather brown (spear and belt)

Night Goblins

Ok, so I had to take a small break from the trolls of yesterday while I filled some of the gaps. I used some super glue on them, and while they were drying I went ahead on some of the night goblins I had already started. I just added some GW Schorched brown to the spears and their rope belts. This will be hightlighted with the reaper earth brown triad.