Well, since I seem to be settled in here now, and as my Chaos Dwarf Blood Bowl team is finished, I figured I'd start a log here echoing the one on Warseer. As such, expect Blood Bowl, more Blood Bowl, some random non-GW figures, even more Blood Bowl, and possibly Mordheim, Necromunda and my 40k work.
Anyway, with one team finished, it's on to the next one! Seeing Willmark had started on his Halflings, and feeling like painting faster than him, I set to work! I was at GW yesterday, and managed to blitz through (ohoho...) 5 team members, with another 7 being semi finished.
I present to you, the Wyrdstone Wranglers!
Not bad for a day's painting I reckon. They'll most likely be finished in a few days due to revision for upcoming exams, but here's hoping they're done quickly so I can move on to the next team, either Necromantic or 3rd ed. Human.
(s a side note, I'm after the following 2nd edition Skaven BB figures to complete the team: Linesmen 3 and 7, Blitzer 1, Thrower 2, Kicker 2. if you have these and are willing to part with them, please PM me.)
Cheers Xander. I use display bases from Heresy Miniatures due to their low cost and low postage for orders under £10. Pretty good place.
Thanks WarplockMonkey, those are indeed epic baking gloves. It's one of the reasons I like the old 2nd edition Skaven team, characterful figures. Gotta love any rat with a hockey mask, heh.
How you paint these bone-thingy armor?
For the bone armour, I basecoat with Khemri Brown, then add a wide highlight of a 50/50 mix of Khemri Brown and Dheneb Stone, leaving Khemri Brown only in the recesses. Then I do a thinner highlight of Dheneb Stone on all the edges, raised bits etc. Finally a 50/50 mix of Dheneb Stone and Skull White is used for fine edging.
Of course, there's actually about 8 or 9 mix stages, but the above 4 are the general process.
For the bone armour, I basecoat with Khemri Brown, then add a wide highlight of a 50/50 mix of Khemri Brown and Dheneb Stone, leaving Khemri Brown only in the recesses. Then I do a thinner highlight of Dheneb Stone on all the edges, raised bits etc. Finally a 50/50 mix of Dheneb Stone and Skull White is used for fine edging.
Of course, there's actually about 8 or 9 mix stages, but the above 4 are the general process.
Thank you very much! 
Thanks. Unfortunately I haven't updated this log for a while due to exams, but I had the last exam last Thursday, so over summer no doubt this will take off again. Chaos Dwarfs are next though, and my goal is to get 2,000 points finished over summer, so the Bloodbowl may have to wait a while.
Aha, time for an actual update at last! I've been rather busy painting of late, but for my Chaos Space Marine army, rather than Chaos Dwarfs. I, the last 5 days I've managed -
- changed the scheme for my marines to one I'm happy with.
- finished 60 Chaos Marines.
- finished 4 Rhinos.
- finished 24 Plague Marines (bases).
- finished 3 Obliterators (bases).
- painted the gray and finished the bases on 35 Terminators.
- painted the metal and finished the bases on 6 Obliterators.
I've also acquired another 30 Marines, 10 Veterans, 15 Terminators, Rhino, 2 Predators, Whirlwind, Razorback, Dreadnought, 10 Scouts, 10 Assault Marines, 6 Bikes, 3 Land Speeders and assorted Characters. This haul was in fact, deliciously ironically, the Dark Angel army I have a 15 match winning streak against, as my friend finally gave up on them and decided to stick with Chaos. As such, these'll all get added to the Penitent Spectres in time.
The pictures below reflect what is entirely finished, which comes in at a healthy 2,362 points. Not doing too bad overall.
Also, on the 8th of next month I'll hit 20 years old. ye gods, it's not much but it feels incredibly surreal...
Hello all once again.
As it was my birthday yesterday, I naturally spent a chunk of the day in my local GW, painting with my girlfriend and hanging out with friends in general. Therefore I have more progress -
The 31 Terminators had the metal areas painted. That leaves just two layers for bone, two layers of blue for small details and several layers for any flesh. Not too far from completion now.
I also managed to finish up another 6 Obliterators, bringing the total to 9.
Last but no means least, and more importantly, I also got this guy finished, and I'm quite happy with him considering I spent around 2 and a half hours overall painting him in the new scheme:
Once the Terminators are done I'll be up to around 4,500-ish points painted, so I should be able to get past a healthy 6,000 points of my large collection painted by the end of the year, considering I have a 2,000 point Chaos Dwarf army to tackle soon.
Till next update then.
I'd be happy to do a tutorial Vexxus (for an unreasonably high number of slaves no doubt) but what exactly would you like a tutorial on? It's quite flattering for you to ask. As for speed, I tend to 'production line' paint. That's why, for example, I finished 60 marines in one go... Plus I use Foundation paints and the new Washes a lot, since thin layers that still give good coverage and instant shading and highlighting are very handy indeed for simple tabletop quality figures.
Thanks Sojourn. The wings simply got basecoated black, painted Scab Red, were given a wash of Leviathan Purple (one of the new GW washes) then drybrushed Scab Red again. For the upper bone parts, it was a basecoat of Khemri Brown (I think that's the name...) a mid-range brown Foundation Paint, then light drybrush layers of Dheneb Stone (another Foundation paint from GW).
At any rate if you wanted close-up pictures of stuff feel free to have a look around here, my project log from the very beginning on the Bolter and Chainsword forum:
The Penitent Spectres. The third (last) page has an example of my painting when I spend some time doing it, a lilac Sorceror Lord I painted for my girlfriend. There are also, conveniently enough, closer pictures of the first 3 Obliterators I painted.
Thanks Soujourn for the painting complement. It's nice to know others think I can paint well when I bother, heh. It's been 9 days since my late update though, and I've not managed as much this week due to several days being spent starting my first complete sculpt (sans shield base and sword), finishing it and painting it. As such not much time has been spent on The Penitent Spectres.
However, I have managed to finish another 650 points, in the following 16 Terminators, which I finished today:
In the past few days I also received my 20th birthday present, a 24" monitor. Now the desk I do painting on at home looks like this:
The figure I sculpted was a Diopsid fighter for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, since as far as I know there are no Diopsid figures at all. It's in the Dragon Magazine Compendium, and mine is fairly badass, what with owning enough magical gear to garner an AC ranging from 46-51 and a ridiculously high miss chance on all hits against him. I'm quite chuffed with him, considering he's my first complete sculpt, so here's Carapaesen:
That's all for now, but next time with luck I'll have finished the remaining 16 Terminators I have currently ongoing, as well as getting my 30 Raptors nearly finished. On the Bolter and Chainsword forum I pledged last December to paint 3,000 points by this coming December. Well, now I'm up to 3,167 points and still have an ungodly amount to finish, heh. Not too bad...
As for Chaos Dwarfs, I'm bound to start them eventually, right...? If only someone would buy the mere £28 BfSP box in my sale thread, as well as the £10 box of Dwarf Miners, then I would be free to start a Chaos Dwarf explosion... (hint).
Cheers. I have around 50 Terminators overall, so a happy 10 squads when they all get done. It's overpowered thanks to the Deck of Many Things, and managing to draw 2 red Kings (of Hearts I think) which granted 2 mansions and 12 ranks to diplomacy. The funds after selling them were, suffice to say, 'sufficient'.
As to how Diopsid look, it's a slight annoyance that there doesn't seem to be any pictures on the net. Ah well. Feel free to use the design if you wish, since I followed the Diopsid look.
The sword is painted chainmail, with progressive layers of the green Citadel wash, interspersed with chainmail highlights.
You're forgetting about Apocalypse. As such, I can use them all legally, as part of my 'fairly large' Chaos army.
To be fair, I'd generally fear the 20,000 points of Chaos overall than just 30 Raptors (I have 40 overall) and 50 Terminators. It'll no doubt be a while till it's all finished however, since once the Chaos Dwarf project properly starts I won't really have the time to paint this army. Once the Chaos Dwarfs are finished at the end of the summer break, then I'll have University and there won't be much progress for anything till the next summer holidays.
Yet more updates! I've knuckled down to painting again for the beginning of this week, and as such have made a reasonable amount of progress.
The main accomplishment is finishing the first 30 Raptors yesterday and today, here:
I've also managed to finish the first Attack Bike (for Apocalypse) and it's shown here with a current progress army shot. Bear in mind all of this has been painted in the new scheme since around mid-June.
Overall then, that's a happy 4,803 points painted. Quite suitable so far I would think. That's not all however, as currently in the WIP stand I have the following:
When the above is done (hopefully within a week or two) that'll add another 1,486 points, bringing the total to 6,289 points overall. Nifty, and that's not counting the HAL Dreadnought or any of the other stuff I need to assemble, such as another 5 to 6 Havok squads, 11 Bikers, etc etc.
After the above is done I'll be starting on my 2,000 point Chaos Dwarf army, so there'll still be updates, just not overly about The Penitent Spectres.
Till next update then.
Cheers. They're made from combined Space Marines, Chaos Marines, Assault Marines and for one squad, Dark Angels robed bodies. Since I won't really be painting much during Uni I probably won't get much higher than 7,000 points done by the time I start again in October, but some day when all 20,000 points are painted I'll be a very happy guy.
As for not being able to find your stuff, you're welcome to buy the Space Marine or Imperial Guard deal in my sale thread. Or why not go wild and get both?
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ooooh, Geck. that's really nice. I love the brass and green combo. so great.
Geck, I think Dark Eldar can do very well too if you play them right....I've seen a few armies win GTs and Rogue Trader Tounries. Though I think the rumor I heard was that the new Dark Eldar are coming in the first half of 2009. (1st qtr maybe too). It might not effect what you want to do with it, as i had heard (from a rumor bug again) that the figs will be redone (or at least most of them), but that the rules will only change slightly (whatever that means). But you could do some sick conversions....and hey, ya got to at least respect anyone els who keeps slaves....their just getting the masses ready for our domination ;-)
