More Troops needed!

Don't have a specific unit or model I need to get painted so I decided to finish off my tactical squad and devistator squad from Christmas. Got them prepped for another spray of two more shade of yellow. 

Also started making a few of my Skaven Pestilens well 10 to be exact. The models are really nice I'm pretty impressed and will get a few pictures up at some point. 

Aegis defence line complete

Pretty happy with it's turn out, first time I have painted any type of fortifications before.

On a side note I have wondered for a while why the photos were of such poor quality on my blog and I have put it down to because they were taken on my phone but it actually seems to be the blogger app that is uploading at a poor resolution. So in the future I shall not be using the blogger app as it is pretty poor. 

Edit* I have re uploaded the photos. Should be of better quality now. 

Force so far

This is as of yesterday my full painted army so far. 

I'm pretty happy with it and how it's progressing. 

Drop off!

Drop pod is not done, think I'm going to attempt to spray a varnish over the pig,net but other than that it's good to go

Land Raiding across the universe!

Aaaand the land raider is done.. Nearly. Just forgot the wax on the purity seals but will do that tomorrow. It's taken me quite a while and I'm happy with how it's turned out have noticed a couple of finger prints on it mind after seeing the photos but will wipe them off. I named it Lysander's Vindicta which means vengeance. For me it's Lysander's personal Wheels so him and his centurion mates can go for a ride in the country together. And should they bump in to any trouble it's mince meat time :D. 

In the photographs it is a redeemer but the weapons are swappable so it can also be a crusader for the extra transport capacity for when I take my chaplain along with Lysander and his homies. 

 I have been experimenting more with pigments and sealing them with a mix of white spirts and varnish. I know it's best to spray varnish to seal but I had a bad experience with the purity seal stuff and am just a bit apprehensive to spray varnish onto a finished model again. 

Next up is my drop pod which has been in the works for donkeys years as well. 

You dirty rat!

Slight side step to the norm. I have decided to have a go at Age Of Sigmar after talking to a guy from my gaming club. The models are amazing and I know there's a fair bit of hate for the game but I think it looks pretty easy to pick up and the narrative games appeal to me. 

So that said I have took the plunge and decided to get the skaven pestilens start collecting set. As it stands I have no plans to increase this army before having a few games. So I shall get them painted up and if I don't like it I shall sell them. 

Hopefully it should come tomorrow and I shall stick a few photos up. 

Back to 40k I have been doing a bit on my land raider but don't think I will finish it next as I need to get my drop pod and aegis defence line painted up for the ongoing tournament. 

Predator ready sire!

Predator is done and I think I went a little overboard on the pigment and weathering :/

Still it will look decent in a game. 

My navigator came today. Really happy with the miniature I didn't realise when I bought it that it was metal. 

The miniature was from Pathfinder miniatures and it's the Valmarius Elazarin model.

I have attempted to turn him into a navigator. I'm pretty happy with how he has turned out. I made the staff from my bits box. The gun is a shaved down bolt pistol and I drilled out a third eye and added a bit of green stuff for the eye ball. It's not perfect but looks decent for my character Dragos Gideon the insane tainted navigator. 

Whirlwind number 2 finished.

Just finished whirlwind number two. I'm kind of happy with it. I think it's an improvement over the last one still need to have more practice. I have used pigments for the first time on this model around the exhausts. I sealed it with white spirits. Not sure if this is a permanent seal or not may have to varnish it.

Also finished a couple more smoke markers. They're are nothing special but for how simple they are they don't look too bad. 

On another note I had my first go at an RPG on Sunday. It was the start of a rogue trader RPG run by a  really good gm and nice guy from my club. I ended up being an insane and slightly tainted navigator. It was a real good laugh. Unpredictable events made up some great situations. I didnt realise miniature can be used whilst playing and so I looked up navigator and found a nice image. 

So I searched eBay for a sorcerer and after a fair bit of digging found this miniature. 

Not a millions miles off. Should be good if I can pull it off. I shall use a bit of green stuff here and there to attempt to bring it into the 41st millennium. 

It should be here tomorrow so I will get some pictures up then. 

Where there's smoke there's ... Cotton wool?

Made a quick blast marker using this guide as a base:

http://youtu.be/E732Xx3cww8

Just didn't go as dark with the black and sprayed a bit of yellow at the bottom. 

In all it probable took me about 15 minutes to make which is nice and quick for some half decent smoke effects. 

I think I will be making some using battery tea light candles. But for now these will do 😀

Time for a quick un

Not updated in a while but been plodding along.

Finished my new Techmarine is done. Again poor photo taken on the iPad. It does look better in person I promise. 

I won't be buying a decent camera any time soon but my phone is due an upgrade to an iPhone 6s and so will take them on that in the future (proppa gud fotos!) 

The whirlwind and predator have been base coated with white primer then yellow. Started addin colours to the predator tonight but I'm supposed to have these done for Thursday as this is when then tournament adds another 250. 

Balls to it though I shall slap base colours on and it should be fine to play with then I can crack on. So much to do my wife dispairs at my little plastic toy soldiers. Ha 😀