Ebay Auctions Up

I put two Epic 40k auctions up on Ebay on Sunday. I have put up both a Space Marine and Ork army.

I found both of these in my Warhammer box when my wife made me go through it so we could save space. It helped a lot actually, as I found these things to sell and I was able to assess what I have.

On an unrelated note, I found my old bitz box. It's got parts from the original storm guardians sprue, with a guardian powerfist, chainsword and powersword as well as some other goodies. For some reason it has a ton of Chaos bits even though I've never played Chaos.

Shining Spears Completed

Here's my latest project. Coming back from vacation I finally put the finishing touches on these guys.

I went with a different color scheme than the standard GW one. The codex says that aspect warrior colors and stylings vary among different craftworlds. I thought the GW one was too similar to the Dire Avengers. I went with a dark purple since no other aspect uses it.

My craftworld's main color scheme is black and green, black being the predominant color. To unify the aspect warriors with the rest of my army, I decided that every aspect will have black on their armor. For the individual models, they have black gauntlets, greaves, and helmet while the breastplate, pauldrons. and cuisses are the aspect color scheme. The exarchs have inverted color, with a black center and aspect colors on the feet, arms, and head. Furthermore, I inverted the jetbike's colors.

I'm not sure what to work on now. I need to finish up my windrider host, maybe I'll finally get around to that.

Dark Angels Drop Pod

This is something I gave to a friend for his birthday. I learned a lot about washes on this model. The metallic areas are where I really put them to use. I still have a lot to learn about it, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. I also learned a lot more about hard edge highlighting as well as working with metallic paints.

Over at Bell of Lost Souls they have a great tutorial on building one of these. It's not hard, but you do have to build and paint it in a certain order, or you're in trouble. Basically, I painted everything separate then glued it all together. I had to do some touch up painting after, but it wasn't bad.

Above you can see some script on the doors. I hand painted some latin phrases on the doors, including the famous "Ave Imperator morituri te salutamus." The hand-lettering was pretty tough. I had to calculate the halfway point of each phrase, and then make sure it would look ok. I wrote half of it backwards to make sure I didn't get to the end of my space and still have more letters.

Tyrant Guard Update

Here's my newest Tyrant Guard update. I repositioned the arms to make the shield more defensive, and buffed up the head carapace even further with a leftover carapace bit from a carnifex. I'm more satisfied with this one. Now I just need to learn how to take better pictures of my miniatures.

Updates

I had to strip the paint off my jetbike autarch. As I did so, all the glue fell apart so I have to redo everything. This is a good thing as I think I can do much better than that. I found a better way to do the wings, and I'm going to put the fusion gun under the fuselage with a magnet so I can swap it out for a reaper launcher. Almost everything else of mine is magnetized; why sell myself short on this one?

I've also discovered airbrushing. I got 40 something gaunts basecoated a bit ago in a matter of an hour. By hand that would have taken days.

I also painted a Dark Angels drop pod for a friend, I'll post pictures of that later.

Furthermore, I am building a hinged game board. It's 4x8, but is hinged in half for storage. It's hard to fit a big board in a small house. I've been taking pictures of the process, those will be posted soon.

Autarch Tragedy

So I was working on my autarch for Way of Saim-Hann's contest. I used Armory black primer, and it destroyed my model. It came out looking like he had ridden straight through a black, sticky snowstorm. The model was covered in powder. Not to mention, it wasn't black but a dark gray. So I'm never using Armory again. It did the same thing to my Scorpions, but not as bad. It didn't powder my vehicles, but I did have to go over them in black because the basecoat wasn't actually black. And while I was holding it one of the flags broke off. So no contest for me.

Settling Down

Well we're finally in our new home, and my Warhammer stuff is mostly found and mostly unpacked. Once things are really settled around here I'll be posting some new stuff. I am currently painting my Jetbike Autarch, and am finishing up a Windrider Host. Still a ways to go on that one.

This weekend, I'm hopefully going to begin construction of my own gaming table. I have only attempted to build terrain once, and while it looked nice it fell apart after just a few months. The proper building foam isn't available in California, so I'll have to wait on building it until my friend goes home for a vacation, to pick some up for me.