Folding back into TPC

After some discussion, I've decided that Reinforcements will find itself folded back into The Painting Corps with a bit more detail as an irregular feature.

I appreciate those of you who've taken the time to follow what's been happening on this end, and you can expect to see much the same as you've seen here over on TPC entitled, you guessed it, Reinforcements!

All the best!

Guardian Test

I've had this guy finished for a while now, but was waiting until I'd get some additional guys done to post a photo. The additional models haven't come yet, so I thought I would put him up as I was testing out my new photo set up!


Again, no true black past the base rim for this guy. That's the hallmark for the army, and will continue throughout. The blued highlights are also a break from standard Ulthwe.

Hopefully I can get caught up with school work to get back to these guys a bit more. They're not hard to paint, not all that time consuming either. Just need to find the motivation and time!

Eldar Farseer Finished

Took some time to knock out my first model for the Eldar! I've decided to go with an Ulthwe scheme for them, with a little twist to the black. I haven't actually used black paint on the model past painting the base rim. The black was German Grey airbrushed on with a grey highlight washed down with Badab Black and final highlights done using Shadow Grey followed by Space Wolves Grey.

I'm not trying to take forever with these guys, I just want to paint them. The farseer got a bit more time taken on him, mostly because of the details. Hope to work out more tomorrow!

Eldar Progress

Just a quick snapshot of the eldar I've assembled and primed so far. Still have a bunch more stuff to go. Apparently, I've got around 1500 points spread around my hobby room from some things I've purchased, gotten in trade or picked up from friends that wanted to get rid of them!

Airbrush parts are on the way which will facilitate the paint for these guys. Picked up a metal siphon cup and some more pots/tops/covers for it as well. Once airbrush parts get in, I'll be doing base coloring for everything at once! Stay tuned.

Sons of Medusa Dreadnought

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He's done! I'm happy with how he came out. A bit more weathered than Perseus, but right on par with other armor in the army, he fits in nicely. Not sure what point value having him finished puts me at, but I am looking forward to fielding this army again more and more.

Dragonforge Based Eldar

A couple of weeks back I entered a quick contest Jeff Wilhelm was running over on his blog. Jeff runs Dragonforge.com, one of many resin basing companies that have popped up in the past few years. I've never been huge into the buying resin bases thing, I picked up some a few months back during BoLSCon and while nice, they always seem to fall into one of two categories, too detailed or crazy for use for an entire army, or just too easy to make on your own for a fraction of the cost. I kept this mindset for a long time, right up until I found the Lost Empires set from Jeff. While I loved the set, I still didn't see myself snagging them due to cost restraint. Then, out of nowhere I check Jeff's blog and see that I'd won $50 worth of bases!

I came home today to see the package sitting in front of the door waiting for me, and since then I've been hard at modeling some spare Eldar I'd picked up from a friend. Check out the pic above to see a quick example of the bases and be sure you head over to Dragonforge.com and see if anything strikes your fancy. I'm for sure picking up more of these from Jeff in the future as I exhaust this supply! Also keep your eyes peeled for a bit more in depth thoughts/review on TPC as I finish some of these models.

Sons of Medusa Dreadnought WIP

My latest project is another addition to the boys in Green. Did most of what you see on him this past Sunday. Airbrush made my base colors far easier to get down, and as of now, he's about halfway finished. Still a lot of detail work and weathering to go, but he's already fitting in nicely with his big brother Perseus!

Expect more progress soon!

Emperors Champion

Painted this guy up randomly today! Needed a fun one off piece to get my painting back in the swing of things, and he fit the bill perfectly. The photos didn't come out great unfortunately. I'll likely be taking some new ones tomorrow so they feel a bit less flat.

Oh, and if any Templar types are looking to add to their force, this guy is on the market for a good home!

Sons of Medusa Attack Bike

The recon forces of my Sons of Medusa gain another member today! This time in the form of an Attack Bike. Really happy with this one, it's not a super clean paint job, but it was fun and I actually enjoyed painting it. Check out the pic below for a bit more detail.

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Hrmmm....What's next?

Pods are 'Done'

Finished them up finally! It took me a while to get around to finishing them, but mostly because I didn't have a set sit down and paint time at the end of the day. I've decided to see to that as part of my day off of school routine ( along with a little bit of skating and gym time! ).

All in all it was a great learning experience using my airbrush on this project. I need some additional equipment that I'll likely order soon.

I guess it's time to get back to work on my other projects while I sort out the next commission.

More Airbrush, More Learning

I'm really going all out with the airbrush on the drop pod commission. Learning a lot as I do as well. I'm obviously going to have to go back in and do a bit of clean up here and there with the brush, but I'm really happy with the knowledge I've picked up so far!

The plan from here out is to go brush in the black and touch up over spray by hand as well. After that they should be good to go! And while this took a bit longer than expected, future projects should be much faster with the airbrush up and running now. Just need to plan things out a bit more!

I'm hoping to start sharing what I've learned from this so far with those of you out there looking to start using an airbrush! Expect something on TPC in the next month or so!

Airbrush Up and Running!!

I finally got an Airbrush up and running with no small donation from my good friend LBursley! To get me started in learning the thing and it's abilities, I've used it to help paint the Codex Grey onto the Drop Pod commission!


I'm headed out to GW Onley tomorrow for a pot of Mechrite Red and possibly some Boltgun Metal as well.

I'm already really impressed with how the airbrush works for me. I'm just doing the simple stuff right now trying to learn the limits of the new tool, but I can't believe I did without it for so long!

Pod Drops

They look so impressive en masse!


Just a quick update. Final drop pod assembled and primed today. Pretty happy with the speed of assembly and hope to get the first pod painted tomorrow. Stay Tuned.

Pod Progress and Something New

Just a bit of a 'progress report' for the Drop Pods Commission today. I've assembled another and was able to get both primed. One more to assemble tomorrow and while that's drying, I'll likely start painting the first Drop Pod to set the scheme.

And a little something extra: Space Marine Attack Bike!


This was going to be a second try for an entry for the Dakka Painting Challenge, but I ended up being sidetracked once I had it primed. But it is still on track for some paint. You might be asking, 'How is he going to paint it?', and to you I give only this hint.

Can't wait to break my paints out tomorrow.

Back at it!

Hey all! Sorry for the hiatus! But now that the Dakka Painting Challenge has finally ended, I'm back to work on 'other' things.

To start me off, I've begun working on a commission for some Space Marine Drop Pods. The goal is to clean, assemble, and paint to base coats.


For assembly, I'm keeping the pods in three parts. A method brought to light by Realgenius. This is purely for the clients ability to continue paint a bit easier when he receives them.


I'll update with progress as it comes!

Might be a bit..

..Before you start seeing anything new from me. I'm currently entrenched in a project for the new Dakka Painting Challenge. I can't share it with you all yet, but trust me, when I get the chance I'll be plastering it around. Hopefully I can get the whole thing finished rather quickly, but we'll see. This is a vehicle based challenge, so it will be a bit more of a time crunch.

Sculpting Trials

Well, I've finally broken down and dove in feet first into this whole 'sculpting' thing. I bought a set of paint shapers finally after knowing about them forever and seeing the results from good friends. I've had a set of sculpting tools for a while now as well.

So what have I done? I've started messing around with an old Catachan model that's been sitting in the bottom of my bits box for the past few years now.

So far this is where we are:


I'm likely adding a set of wings to the skull on the shoulder later today, but unless I can come up with some more additional detailing, he's pretty much done. I'll have to pick out a new bits model from by box to give a go on sculpting some additional details.

I'd love to hear what people think of my first foray into Green Stuff, and if you have any ideas for more details let me know! I need to come up with some good practice work!

Marauder Horsemen #2 Finished!

I've finally finished #2 of the 5! I'm having fun messing with the colors so far on these guys, but it's slowed my progress on them a bit.

Skin tone is Cork Brown (Vallejo) washed with 2x Dark Flesh Wash (awesomepaintjob.com) brought back to Cork Brown and highlighted with 60/40 or so Cork Brown/Bleached bone. A few spots were washed back once and blended in a bit more with successive highlights (using a bit less bleached bone).

Likely start on the next guy soon! A bit less color play this time should mean he moves a bit faster. Only play should end up being the skin tones.

More to come!

Marauder Horsemen - Progress!

Just thought I'd throw a quick update out so folks could see the direction I've taken with the marauders! Still a bunch of work to do on the second guy there, hope to have him done by the end of the weekend!

C&C Welcome!

Marauder Horsemen

OHHHHHHKAAAYYYY....

It's been FOREVER since I worked on these guys, but I'm REALLY digging on the army and the game so, here we go again.

BUT, I'm at a stalemate. I want to paint my Marauder Horsemen to get them out of the way and on the table top, but I'm really having 'direction' issues with them. I worked on the one marauder a long ass time ago at work, didn't like how he was coming out, and haven't touched the army since! And since they're a helpful testbed for the characters, I want to work on them before hitting my big mammajamma Khorne Lord on Juggy ^_^.

Here are some quick shots of where I'm at:



As you can see, I'm really at an impasse. I just don't know what to do with the model to make it more interesting 'fun'. The skin tone is rather dark, but I wanted him to be tanned, I'll do different skin tones throughout the army, I hate doing the same skin color all the time on every person, it's just not true to life!! The colors are almost directly from the Khorne Knights, and I think that's the issue. Where they were able to rely on the use of metallics to make them interesting and fun, these guys only have a few metallic bits and pieces.

So HELP!!