Busy Bee - Earthborn

Hi Guys,

With the launch of my new commission Facebook Page I have been pretty snowed under.
Today I finished off my Earthborn Dire Troll.

He was quite fun to paint and I would like to share the colours that I used.

BODY

Gun Corps Brown = Base

Umbral Umber = Shadows

Umbral Umber + Thamar Black = Deepest Shadows

Gun Corps Brown + Menoth White Base = Highlights

CHEST/HANDS/FEET/KNEES

Gun Corps Brown = Base

+ Ryn Flesh (glaze)

Ryn Flesh + Morrow White = Highlight

HEAD

Gun Corps Brown = Base

+ Trollblood Base (Glaze)

Trollblood Base + Exile Blue = Shadows

Exile Blue + Black = Deepest Shadows

Trollblood Base + Frostbite = Hightlight

Frostbite = Highest Highlight

LIPS

Trollblood Base = Base

+ Ryn Flesh (glaze)

Ryn Flesh + Morrow White = Highlight

Umbral Umber + Exile Blue = Shadows

ROCKS

Bastion Grey = Base

Blood Stone = Splotch Randomly (for colour variation) 

Menoth White Base = Splotch Randomly (for colour variation)

Agrax Earthshade (GW Paint) = Wash

Menoth White Base = Dry Brush

Out From Under A Rock

Hello all!

I have been busy painting the Legion of Everblight for commission and am glad to say I have finished them for now! (and can get back to my trolls).

So in the past month I have painted:

Scythean

Nephalim Soldier

Shredders

Spawn Pot

Succubus

Ogrun Warspears

Ogrun Cheiftan

Blighted Nyss Solo

First Commission

Hey Guys,

So I got my first commission job! I sold my legion and the person that bought them has paid me to paint the rest and is paying me to paint other legion he is buying!!

So, with renewed vigour I am painting the Legion of Everblight! Also getting that basing done. Without further ado I introduce eThags, all finished :)

Cheers,

Z

Idrians, Nuptials and WIP

Hi All,

Its been a while.  Finally finished my idrians although their basing still needs a little work and the front arc marked.

I think they turned alright for a unit I did 6 of 12 or more months ago.

I might also mention that I too feel like I had a valid excuse as I am the lucky guy in the photo below.  She is beautiful and a great painter amongst other amazing qualities.

But errr yeah, back to the Idrians.  Finally done except some basing.

And now for a WIP shot for what I am working on this month.  I can't claim all the credit though as Zeiju did the base shading of the grey stone with the airbrush.  My effort on Megalith will be available for viewing later as I tried and failed to copy how well she did it.

Painting Update - March

Hey Guys,

So... It's been a while since my last post, but I feel I have a valid excuse. I went and got married!

YAY!

Now, back to the painting things. last month I finished up the Axer and Fell Caller. I got almost all the way through Rok but lost interest for some reason. I finished 1 champion, got half way through another, failed the @LostHemisphere painting challenge. I painted Cassius (but not his tree), and I have started to paint eThags, because someone has actually paid me for those minis and to finish painting them!

Photo Time: 

Fell Caller Hero

Trollblood Axer

And the work in progress:

YouTubing Warmahordes

Hi All,

Merry Tuesday! You still have 3 more painful work days to go, congrats!

I would like to share the gameplay videos I watch to help improve how I play.

Rules

Party Foul - Great "how to" videos, explanations of various mechanics of the game including terrain explanations! and dealing with not so great aspects of the game... losing.
Gaming with The Cooler - does a great explanation for new players

Battle Reports

Miniwargaming - Camera work is a bit wobbly, games are not sped up and sometimes can get rules wrong.
Chain Attack - Stable camera, games not sped up, loud background noise, not always good explanations and commentary can go off topic.
Advanced Maneuvers - Stable Camera, SPED UP, the players explanations are dubbed over meaning that there is rarely any background noise.
Gaming with The Cooler - Camera work is a bit wobbly, games are not sped up and sometimes can get rules wrong.

Certified for Import into North America Part 1

January 29, 6:30am we leave for Sydney...
...12.30pm leave Sydney for Vancouver...
6:30am arrive in Vancouver same day and press on to Toronto!

After over 26 hours of travel back a couple of months, this was the view from our hotel in Toronto. By all accounts it was a warm night (-4 degrees).

And in the light of day it drops to -11 degrees
#can'tfeelmyface

 Surviving the Canadian winter cold, we venture off FOR BEER AND POUTINE!

Erinn no function beer well without :)

and we eated it all...

Being as Canadian as possible, Jamie "Northblade" Bell of Lost Hemisphere was most generous and hooked us up with Lacrosse tickets for the Toronto Rock vs Calgary Roughnecks. Totes appreciated, Bell! Our host for the evening was the awesome John "Steady" Steadman whose enthusiasm and love for the game was just so damn infectous. 

Half-time with cheerleaders or somethin'

Packed up and out of Toronto after the weekend and suddenly a wild Gdaybloke of the Lost Hemisphere appears! After a huge lunch and a tour of Burlington, we head to the FLGS for games.

shiny-head.jpg

Turning the cold and Canadian-ness up to 11, we hit the Falls.

not pictured, piss stained snow and ice...seriously who'd whip it out here?

aaand high fiving bears...

for reasons.

At last, we were on the road to Rhode Island! TempleCon madness coming up next week so stay tuned goddamit.

"I am the Highway" not sorry :P

I'm Back - Finally Finished

Well I am back in Australia and back to painting.  It has been almost a year since I finished a model and about a year since I first started this Reckoner.  It was one of those models that I just couldn't get to look the way I wanted it to.I couldn't get the shading right, I couldn't get the metals right, I was just so frustrated I kept putting it down and looking on it. I even painting the fulcrum between starting the Reckoner and finishing it.  it came out alright in the end, still looks messy to me but I am not going to torture myself over it anymore.

I still have to paint, mark and furnish the base.

Unleashed - Painting Review

Hey Guys,

Lokius has the Unleashed box set! I was pretty excited to see this first hand and before it is available to the masses. Something that is quite rare for us Aussies.

This set has so many models from PP and have mixed with RPG. Where could they go wrong?

This is a write up of my impressions of the Unleashed models.



1. They come with no assembly required.

Pro:

• No assembly

Con: 

• They are already on the base, making it hard to paint underneath. Also it makes it hard to paint the areas behind weapons.

Note: 

• Still requires "greenstuffing", there was still a sizeable gap on some of the minis
• Also still requires cleaning of mold lines. And there is ALOT of cleaning.... Also these lines just seem to fall on the worst places! Over detailed surfaces, faces ugh.

2. They are made of a different plastic to the regular PP minis.

Pro:

• The plastic is quite flimsy and bendy, this makes it easy to... pull an axe away from the rest of the mini to paint underneath
• Nearly impossible to have pieces snap off

Con:

• Even with a primer, the paint was really difficult to brush on! Even when painting straight from the pot, it pooled and didn't stick properly (when I airbrushed the minis this was less of an issue)
• Soft plastic made it harder to clean

Note:

• Needed a very sharp blade to clean the minis as you basically have to carve rather than scrape. 
• Airbrush = awesome

3. The detailing on these minis was appalling in my opinion, when painting the player characters I ran into a multitude of issues. "The Chief" being the worst... the edges are not crisp, one sleeve was completely forgotten it was flat with no folds and just kind of... ended, the whelp had weird legs that made no sense also the face on the whelp appeared to be the play-dough face a 5 year old could make (two dents and a denty curve, kindof), the axe kind of just melded into the skirt with me having to draw a line where one starts and the other ended on both the shaft and the head. Suffice to say I was not at all impressed with the detail!

Painting these minis is arduous at best and I would not recommend it without an airbrush. Good luck cleaning the minis without compromising detail, and managing the areas blocked by weapons or bases is near impossible. I didn't enjoy painting these and was disappointed the quality of the minis was not up to the regular PP standards (ignoring pGrissel of course.)

I will do a picture dump at a later date of miniatures I have painted.

"What has four tusks, four cannons and four thumbs? This guy" - Skorne Mammoth

Hey Rawrmachine fans (that's right, talking to both of you :))

Recently I've completed my first Hordes Gargantuan and thought I'd kick off a new painting series where I go though the various parts of the model and write a bit about which colour recipes were used.  Amongst it all I mention some of the delights and challenges of putting the model together and the experience overall - so 'ere it is, the Skorne Mammoth! (Mammooth! Meh-mouth!...)

Standing atop his Dragonforge base and about 5 pins holding him to it!

Let's get to it, after it was primed with black undercoat I started by airbrushing the skin but after that the remainder of the model was painted using two-brush blending.

Skin
Base - Bastion Grey
Shade 1 - Greatcoat Grey
Shade 2 - Coal Black and Greatcoat Grey. This was done heavily on the underside of the hands, frill, neck, armpits, chest and the base of the tail.
Highlight 1 - Beast Hide and a little Rucksack Tan
Highlight 2 - Beast Hide and Trollblood Highlight
Highlight 3 - Trollblood Highlight and Menoth White Highlight (used sparingly)

The colours were finally given a glaze of Beast Hide and Mixing Medium to tie the transitions together.

Skin hooks and Piercings
Sanguine Base, Murderous Magenta and Mixing Medium glazed over the areas and blended out.

Tusks and Horns
Base - 'Jack Bone and Gun Corps Brown
Shade 1 - Added Bastion Grey to Base mixture
Highlight 1 - 'Jack Bone
Highlight 2 - 'Jack Bone and Menoth White Highlight

Black (really anything black on this miniature was painted with the same colours!)
Base - Coal Black and Thalmar Black
Highlight 1 - Hammerfall Khaki added to base mixture
Highlight 2 - More Hammerfall Khaki
Highlight 3 - Moar! Hammerfall Khaki
Highlight 4 - MOAR ...well you get the idea

Gold
Base - Rhulic Gold (several thin coats to get good, even coverage)
Shade 1 - 1 part Red Ink, 2 parts Brown Ink, 3 parts Mixing Medium
Highlight 1 - Rhulic Gold (just to tidy up anything)
Highlight 2 - Solid Gold
Highlight 3 (optional) - Solid Gold and Radiant Platinum

I've gone through a number of variations with the gold and this one has worked the best so far but I've got at least one more variant to try out in the future.

Red Armour Plates
Base - Skorne Red
Shade 1 - Exile Blue and Umbral Umber added to Skorne Red (in varying amounts)
Shade 2 - Exile Blue and Umbral Umber
Shade 3 - Exile Blue, Umbral Umber and Coal Black
Highlight 1 - Ember Orange and Skorne Red

I've gotta say between the extremes of the brown and blue shades to the orange highlights, it really brings out the best of the red midtones.

Lacquered Gold
Base - Rhulic Gold
The gold is then given two coats of equal parts Red Ink and Mixing Medium
Shade - 1 part Red Ink, 2 parts Brown Ink, 3 parts Mixing Medium

Metal
Base - Cold Steel and Pig Iron
Shade 1 - Greatcoat Grey; depending on the area this was mixed with some Mixing Medium.
Shade 2 - Exile Blue and Battlefield Brown
Highlight 1 - Cold Steel
Highlight 2 - Quicksilver

These are by far my favourite colours to blend with, they give a real weightiness to the metal. (Note the spike on the left knee "HHNNNNNGGG")

That just about wraps it up, please make a mark in the comments section if you'd like any more info!

Yes... Let's Lock in that Schedule!

Hi all!

I will be your Monday reprieve. Never mind that I am posting on a Tuesday right now!

I have done a lot of painting this month and would like to share it with you all. 

Please leave a comment if you see anything here you would like a recipe of or a tutorial on.

Lady Aiyanna and Holt

Min to Max Pyg Burrowers - 2 Points

eMorvana - Warcaster

Skaldi Bonehammer - 3 Points

Borka Kegslayer - Warcaster

Razor Boar - 2 Points

Locking down a schedule - but first! #DonateorPaint2015

Well it's all over for TempleCon this year which was an absolute blast and there will be a full photodump in the near future! I'll have a post up here every Wednesday so be sure to check out the TempleCon goings-on and more painting and gaming natterings.


But first, following up from the Lost Hemisphere charity fundraiser, Chain-Attack has one going of their own to help out a local gamer and the challenge has been past on down to me from Gdaybloke of Lost Hemisphere. So check out the vid, it has the deets!

This time I've painted Baldur the Stonesoul (in what has to be some sorta record for me, finishing it in an evening and an early morning!) The webcam doesn't get any of the detail in the video but here's a clearer pic of it below :)

New Year - TROOOOOLLS!

I am back, better (and more enthused) than ever!

In the month of Jan I completed a min. unit of Pyg Burrowers (love those little guys) and a Night Troll!

Min. Pyg Burrowers

Min. Pyg Burrowers

Night Troll (front)

Night Troll (back)

I meant to submit one of my burrowers into the Lost Hemisphere, Paint the Target: January alas, I was too late (the guy back row on the left! He has a super special hat). Do not fear though I plan on submitting a piece in the February thread!

Thoughts on RawrMachine going forward: 

  - MOAR Painting tutorials

  - MOAR Battle reports (possibly videos!) 

  - MOAR Posts

  - MOAR Trolls!

Personal goals: 

  - I want to start training for the Aussie CanCon, not sure where to start... maybe timed turns :)

  - Painted Trollblood lists!