Underworlds Eyes of the Nine

Another warband painted up for Warhammer Underworlds.  These guys were a combination of contrast paints and standard methods to get a decent outcome in a reasonable amount of time.  One of the challenges with this warband is that there's such a diversity in painting the different troops.

Realm of Battle Finished

Here's a walk through tutorial showing how I painted up the Realm of Battle modular board from Games Workshop.  It is on the pricey side of things, but nice details and durable.  I've also done a modular table for much cheaper if you want to check out that video.

I had my first games on this on the 27th with my brother and it was a blast. I also made up a wood frame to keep everything together and stable on top of a table that isn't quite 4 feet wide.  I'll have to make up a tutorial for that one when I get a chance.

High Elf Teclis Finished (painting tutorial)

Here's that Teclis model I was working on a while ago.  He painted up quite quick (two evenings) using the same paint scheme as the rest of my high elves.  Nothing fancy, just a quick paint job to get him up to the level of the rest of my army.  Painting video after the break.

Ogre Thundertusk WIP

Another project that I have on the go is my Ogre Kingdoms Thundertusk.  I airbrushed a base coat on the fur last week and I'm done doing highlights on the individual strands now with Reaper Golden Blond.  I really like this model, so its jumping the queue a little.  Should get back to the Thunderwolves...

High Elves Techlis WIP

Here's a nasty character that I'd like to learn how to use, but need to paint first.  He's going to be quite fast, so here's a couple hours work and halfway already. Just using the same paint scheme as the rest of my High Elves, so nothing special, and much easier than painting 40 guys at once.

High Elves Spearmen Complete

Here's the video tutorial for the High Elves I have been working on for a while.  I cut the process short a little because I desperately wanted them done.  Back in high school I painted some high elf spearmen for a guy named Barney and it was a painfully dull process.  This was marginally better, but doing 40 at once is tough.

High Elves Spearmen WIP 2

Here's another work in progress post for the high elf spearmen I'm working on.  These guys are taking forever, but I'm getting close.  I knew it would be a challenge, and I've been away from the painting table for a little bit, so its taking longer than it should.  The big problem with this batch is that I'm going to have to do it again as I have at least another 40 to be assembled and painted if I ever want to get my high elf army completed.

Every time I go back to these guys I'm reminded of a commission I did back in high school.  I painted up a batch of high elf spear men from whatever fantasy box was out at the time.  That was way before washes, foundations and coloured primers, and I recall that it nearly drove me insane.  But that was before I really enjoyed painting, and I was just doing it for the extra hobby money that the painting would bring...

Ogre mob complete

Here's that Ogre mob of 6 all done.  I used the same paint scheme as the rest of my Ogres to help make them fit in.

Ogre mob WIP

Another unit in the pipeline... 6 ogres that I had previously stripped.  These were part of an army that I bought and stripped at the same time I picked up some of the new kits.  I'm using the same paint scheme as the other ogres, so I'm hoping to have a uniform looking army when I'm all done.  I haven't done any tattoos on these guys or blood stains... Not sure if I'm going do that, but I might wait until I have a workable army before I go and add those details.

High Elves Spearmen WIP

This unit is going to take for ever, but won't be anything particularly special... 40 high elf spearmen.  I used a silver spray paint base coat, so we'll see if that helps.  I followed that with a black wash and am putting the base colours on now.

Ogre Firebelly Finished

After a couple work in progress posts, here's the finished model.  Overall I'm pretty happy with him, and the fire as a light source was a cool learning experience.  I'm actually more happy with the fire than the OSL look... I've never really had much success with the flame look, and I think this one turned out ok.

Outside of the paint job I'm pretty disappointing with the finecast aspect of this mini.  For the price I'd expect something much higher quality, and this ended up having bubbles and seams all over.  Not enough to call it a miscast, but disappointing considering the price.  I've done a fair number of finecast models and as a whole the only upside I can see is that they are lighter (therefore don't need pinning) and easier to clean mold lines.

Arachnarok Painting video

Here's the follow up to the assembly of the Arachnarok... the painting video.  To save time on the spider I airbrushed the base coat, and I think it worked out well.  All the spider webs took forever, so it ended up being quite the project.  In hind sight I wish I hadn't done the flinger option, but I'll just make it count-as the vanilla one.

Firebelly WIP 2

Here's some pictures of the object source lighting from the flames.  I used reaper paints to accomplish this, and I think it turned out pretty well.  The majority of it was done with Marigold Yellow and then I added some highlights with Sun Yellow and Lemon Yellow.  These went on nice and transparent, so I'm pretty happy with the result.

Firebelly WIP (Ogre Kingdoms)

Working on this guy... same as the rest of my Ogres, except for the OSL with the flame.  I'm going to paint him up fully then do some glazes to do the flame reflections.  I think that should work ok.

Azhag Painting tutorial

In the trend lately, I found another older video that isn't in my main feed... so I remastered it and here you go.  Its a metal model and I show how I pinned it, so its not as necessary for the new finecast version, but you could still pin it.  Nice model, great centre piece, but expensive and not super competitive.

High Elf Prince mounted (video tutorial)

Same deal as the Hell Pit, in that this is an old video that I remastered when I realized that it hadn't been posted.

Skaven Hellpit Abomination painting video

Here's one that I overlooked posting... so you get it now.  Enjoy.

Ironblaster Assembly video

Here's another Ogre Kingdom video showing how I assembled the new Ironblaster kit.  I have since primed it and added it to the painting queue... hopefully to complete soon.  Its a long video, but I walk through the whole assembly.

Ogre Stonehorn Complete + Painting video

This guy took some time to finish, but I'd say it was well worth it.  Lots of cool details, and an amazing model overall.  I used basically the same pallet as the Ogre Ironguts I did a while back, and I'm going to use the same colours for my whole Ogre army to get some unity.  I really like using the Reaper brown triads, as I can get subtle differences consistently without having to worry about mixing things.  Some of the inspiration came from http://fantasygames.com.pl/blog/ogre-kingdoms-stonehorn/, which was also featured on the GW site.  I like the colour combination of fur and blue/black.  I like the snow effect he does, but am not going with that look for my Ogres.

I used Army painter tufts for the base, which are basically the same as the new GW ones... although I want of pick some of those up to compare.  I also magnetized the hunter's weapon arm to allow switching between options.  Everything else is glued in place.

Ogre Stonehorn WIP

Here's some work in progress shots of the new Ogre Kingdoms Stonehorn.  It a wicked model, and is actually painting up fairly nicely.  I'm using lots of the reaper browns for various parts and I really like how they are turning out.  I have been away from the painting table for a little while due to Christmas and New Year's events, but I hope to get back into the swing of things soon.

I magnetized the hunter's weapon arm because I couldn't decide.  I might magnetize him as well... still thinking about that.