The Sneakiest Carp

So as a quick note, I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be at Gamesday this weekend mostly to hangout in the Forgeworld line and meet up with friends.  That being said, I do have a few purchases I was planning on making but I also was wondering what you guys (assuming there are any of you) wanted to see painted.  Send some comments of what forgeworld goodies you might like to see painted up and how, and who knows, if I can afford them I just might feature them for you.

Now, all I have to decide is do I want a Storm Eagle or an Assault Ram.

Sorry about the delay in posts.  I’ve actually had the imperial guard army finished for a few days now, and it’s already with it’s owner I’ve just been kinda busy around here and forgot to post the pictures.

Not a lot to say about these.  I did enjoy getting to build the hydras a lot as I had never built them before.  Plus they are a lot of fun to just swivel the turret around while looking down the gun barrels.  Makes me want to pick up a few my self.

I should point out the infantry in the photos had their bases cleaned up before I shipped them.  I took the pictures before hand so that’s why they look the way they do.

Anyways, enjoy!

Hey!  I’m back from Wisconsin with much better quality photos of the imperial guard stuff I’ve been working on.  I would have posted more but honestly it was just kind of a pain in the butt to do so without the benefit of an actual keyboard and a stable Internet connection.

Not a lot to say tonight.  I’m just going to let the pictures do the talking.  I’ll try to post more info for you on the actual painting process at a later date.

Enjoy!

So this is not much of a post but I have been working on my commission while up here in the north woods along with fishing. Not at the same time obviously. Point being I have a small update of the infantry that I’m working on.
I am slightly disappointed as I had to switch over to gw’s new paint line for certain parts (the guns) and there is no be equivalent. Also the new greys have an almost semi gloss finish to them. This will go away after the washes and matt varnish but, it’s annoying you can’t use it straight. I’ll give them some more experimentation in the future.
Anyways here is the picture. Hope it posts since the Internet is a bit hit or miss up here.

As I mentioned I started work on a commission project of a good amount of imperial guard.  The first day I got all the infantry finished up, which wasn’t too hard as most of them were metal which meant assembly was limited to mostly mold line removing.

The last two days however I’ve been working on vehicles.  Fully finished are 2 hydras, 1 manticore, and the medusa is technically finished I just have it in parts so I can paint the interior.

Some things I’ve learned while doing this that I’ll pass on to you in case you start building any of these models.  First, Forgeworlds designs are still based on the old chimera chassis.  This means that when you put the hydras together there is either a large piece jutting out of the back of the vehicle or you have a huge gap.  I find the easiest way to correct this is to test fit the secondary floor plate while you have the resin back mounted up and draw a line where it meets.  Cut this and then file it at an angle to match the resin piece.  For the medusa you have to take to primary floor plate and cut the little slot piece out and make the lip that you would mount the second piece to flush across.  otherwise interior insert doesn’t fit.  I realise now that all this would make more sense with pictures to really show you what I was talking about but, as usual I got so into the building process I forgot that pictures would be a good idea.

So instead you get a shot of what I have done on the vehicles.  The Basilisks only need their hatches and heavy bolters and they’ll be ready and I still have to assemble a chimera, hellhound and bombard.  So I’ve got my work cut out for me tomorrow.  Hopefully I should have everything primed by tomorrow night.

So I figure that since I worked all day so I wasn’t able to get any painting done, I’ll give you a model from my past I’ve painted to tide you over.

Pappa Nurgle, has been one of my favorite models to paint.  It’s like a really gross pox infested canvas.  All the little details such as the nurgling hand reaching out of the guts it’s a fantastic model.  I painted this up with a base coat of catachan green and started highlighting up to camo green.  the sores and missing chunks of flesh were done with a mix of dark flesh and scab red that was washed with devlan mud.  When ever I paint nurgle models I find it appropriate to do the eyes up in a nice yellow and this model was no different.  I’ve seen a lot of models do the eyes in standard white, I just feel it doesn’t fit the theme.  The guts were painted with warlock purple up to tentacle pink.  There was of course a decent amount of ‘Ard Coat used as well.

That’s about all I can remember about how I painted this model.  I finished it over 2 years ago, and actually have long since sold it along with what was the rest of my nurgle army.  Kinda wish I hadn’t but, I needed the money at the time I’m sure.  Coincidentally it’s for sale on ebay currently.  Listed as “Professionally Painted”  so that was kinda flattering.  Granted the guy said it was painted with Vallejo which is a total lie considering I didn’t even own any vallejo when I painted that model but, whatch gonna do?

Anyways, enjoy!