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December 14, 2011September 16, 2015

Skaven Warlock

Skaven Warlock from the Island of Blood Box set. Painted according to the GW colour scheme (as is usual for me, I’m so creative). Was pretty straight forward, probably only took me about four hours which for me is speedy. Pretty happy with the results though perphaps the elven shield under the warlocks foot/paw is a bit bright and sparkly in comparison. But this is fantasy.

December 14, 2011September 16, 2015

Skaven Warlord

Here is the finished (or almost finished) Skaven Warlock. It’s the same one that I started in an earlier post and was busy detailing my painting of it step by step. Obviously that flew out the window after it sat in the cupboard for about a month and I decided that I better just finish it and be done with it. I’m still annoyed that I tried going down the road of a base coat of gold on the armour, I don’t know what I was trying to achieve. Took more paint and time to rectify which meant that I have been rather hesitant to do a lot more to the armour as I did not want to obscure any of the detailing that was slowly being painted out. I haven’t painted on any skaven runes onto the banner yet and the green warpfire is not quite right either, so I like to think that I might go back and finish those bits but realistically I think thats unlikely. All in all though I think it’s turned out pretty well. Not one of my best pieces but then certainly not one of my worst.

November 14, 2011September 16, 2015

Konigstigers and the Paasche Talon Airbrush

This is my first real attempt at airbrushing my models. That is to say with the exception of an F4 Phantom that I airbrused when I was about fifteen and a couple of evenings mucking around with Martin’s airbrush, this is my first attempt. So not really my first attempt at all then.

Anyway having recieved the Paasche Talon Airbrush set (http://www.chicagoairbrushsupply.com/patastsetg1.html) for which a good review for the Talon itself can be found here http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3675 this was my first crack at using it apart from spraying a bit of paint and water on a piece of card. So naturally I chose two of my most expensive flames of war models to start with. To be fair these have been sitting around for a while because I wanted to airbrush the camo scheme on them rather than attempt to paint it on with a real brush, so they were in part why I got the airbrush. Still I probably should have practiced a little more.

Base coating the dunkelgelb was fantastic. So much so I’ve since basecoated some warhammer stuff. So much faster than using a brush and a better finish. I notice base coating stuff gives me the opportunity to practice with the brush a little controlling the flow of paint etc. After the yellow I painted on the green and brown. I’ m pretty happy with it. There are a couple of areas where I’ve got a bit of water spray (which wasn’t moisture I just had quite thin paint and allowed it to dump a bit much of it on the model in one spot, it’s this bit I need to get better at most of all).

Not totally sure where to go from here, whether I try to fix up the couple of splatters with more yellow with the airbrush or some careful paint brush work, inks and drybrushing. At any rate I’m reasonably happy with how they turned out and with the airbrush too.