Mint Green Necron Paint Test

I wanted to do something different with my Necrons, so my first paint scheme test is mint green ceramic plates with boltgun metal joints, and a Space Wolf grey head. The idea was to paint this as quickly as possible and then weather the armor with sponged damage, powders, or streaks of dev mud wash. The gun and barrel are not completed either, I just wanted to see how bad the lime green barrel looked. I plan to test my weathering before I dip this guy in simple green. At the moment I am on the fence. I like seeing painted Necrons, but I really can't imagine how this guy will look finished yet. I suppose when the gun barrel is painted to look like blue plasma, and the gun is shaded grey it will help. Any opinions on the color scheme so far?

Ghost Ark Rant

So like many of you, I rushed out an bought a whole neuron army this past weekend. I've got a color scheme I am really looking forward to painting, but the deal is that I cannot start painting until the whole army is built. That way, I can ensure the colors and blending are the same, as well as minimize base color painting time, since I can do it in bulk with my airbrush. I had planned to share photos of my mint green enamel colored nectrons tonight, but that was before I met the ghost ark.

Ok---now the rant.

Seriously..what do I have to do to keep the spine of the thing together. I have glued, scraped, re-glued, and repeated the following process so much at this point that I am slowly dissolving the spine. It looks more organic now that when I bought it. Why on earth did they not just create a support spine running the length of the kit, and then have the spines snap into it. The two sprue symmetry would still work. I love the finished ghost ark kit, and I really want to paint it, but glue has to dry...again.

Cracked Desert Bases Using Crackle Paint

After seeing a great video making dry mud using some unobtainable material from the UK, I decided to give DecoArt Texture Crackle(brown), and Tim Holtze Distress Crackle Paint(Antique Linen). I am pretty pleased with how both materials worked. It did take all night for them to dry, and I have not figured out how to keep the chunks from falling off, but with the power of resin casting I can stand to ruin the master in order to make a better mold. One of the key advantages of this stuff is that in addition to looking realistic, it can be painted around embedded objects such as skeletons, rocks, or any other bit I might want to add to a base.

Warhammer World Tables

One of the great things about Warhammer World that I did not get to fully enjoy was the gaming area. Maybe next time I'll try to find a way to sneak a tiny army into my luggage, but given how irritating international travel is these days, probably not. The tables do beckon me. As you can see from the first photo, the room is packed with really good looking gaming tables, including some really nice Tau themed tables. I really wish I had the opportunity to game on tables this nice looking. GW store tables are nice, but fully themed tables with appropriate amounts of terrain, roads, rivers, and all manor of other cool scenic features really add a lot to the game. I imagine my Blood Angles would look pretty good on that snow blasted wasteland, or fighting through Osgiliath.

Now if I could only work up motivation to paint for the competition tomorrow. I might have to bow out. Jet lag is hitting pretty hard, and all I want to do is relax and watch the snow fall.

Images From Warhammer World

With a day to spare in the UK I found a way to get myself up to nottingham to visit the Warhammer Museum.   I'll have a separate post showing the wonderful themed tables, but I wanted to share my photos of all of the studio magic. I've poured over this stuff for years, so seeing it in person was really gratifying. I highly recommend the visit to anyone who has the chance. My only complaint was that I was really hoping to see more forgeworld stuff.

I'm going to warhammer world right now!!!!

I've always wanted to go, so this is really exciting. If you see two exhausted Americans wandering through in about an hour and a half say hi!

How awesome is warhammer world?

I really need the intertubes help with this one. I am flying to London for business and wanted to know if warhammer world is worth the 2 hour train ride. Convince me!

Blood Angels Earn A Display Case

My parents are visiting us this week, in preparation for a family vacation. My father brought his new camera, that I am thrilled with. Maybe the Cannon DSLR is done. In any case, I haven't posted photos of my blood angels in their new IKEA display cases yet. There are numerous unpainted bits, but I am so thrilled with how the color was being captured by the camera that I wanted to share. I can't believe I painted most of those tanks and the storm raven(even less finished than the rest) for the NOVA open. I think I am still recharging my painting batteries.

I am definitely going to buy one of these once rush hour traffic is not a problem.

--Camera Bought --
Behold---some....er...tau