Grimslice Fangspittle

I threw together a rather quick plaguebearer conversion for a little experiment.

Me and a bunch of other painters are going to try painting a mini each in under three hours. Constraints are always good for creativity and it will be really interesting to see what happens when the clock is ticking... I decided early on to paint a plaguebearer - they have lots of skin where I can really go to town with drybrushing and washes and not that many other details to slow things down.

On a sidenote, he was named using this rather nifty deamonic name generator:
http://totalchaos.free.fr/chaos_daemon_name_generator.pdf

Primaris

Here's the finished primaris psyker. Not that different from the last update. The base is done, some details and freehand stuff and I added a cable linking the wand to his arm to represent a psychic conduit doohicky of some sort. 

Psyko-billy

The primaris psyker is nearing completion:

I decided to paint him in the same colours as the stormtroopers, but gave him a slightly otherworldly skintone starting with a purple base and working up highlights with light grey. I'll post more pics as soon as the base is complete and the final touchups are made.

Leftovers

Putting together a box of scions leaves you with quite a collection of cool unused bitz. Of course I couldn't leave them unused for long... After rummaging around in my bitzbox I cobbled together this primaris psyker to lend the stormtroopers some psychic support. 

It's all in all a pretty simple conversion (though rather effective - just the way I like 'em.)

Sarge part II

And he's done! 

The weather today was rather horrid, so I could sit inside and finish the stormtrooper sergeant with a clear conscience. That also means I painted my first five-man stormtrooper squad in one week. 

Which means I could have ten of them in two weeks, and fifteen in three, and...

Sarge

The stormtrooper sergeant is coming along nicely, except for the antennae that snapped under construction, got replaced by plastic rod, and then broke off again during painting. 

I'm going with metal wire next time...

A storm is coming

Here's the first four stormtroopers painted and ready to take on the enemies of mankind (or the enemies of the inquisitor in command...)

Coming up is the sergeant (I refuse to use the word "tempestor" ). Trying out some variant heads inspired by Krauts article:

Not sure which way to go yet...

Batch painting

Haven't done this for a while... It's been one model at a time mostly. 

It seems the paint scheme works in batches though and is fairly quick to boot. Lots of washes and drybrushing makes for a steady and relatively speedy progress.

Stormum Trooperus

Here's the test model for my first squad of inquisitorial stormtroopers (or militarium tempestus or whatever).

I put the other four together today and will start painting them this week so if you have any suggestions visavi paintscheme let me know!

Here´s a quick guide to how I painted him.

Undercoat: Chaos black followed by light dusting of army painter grey

Cloth: steel legion drab, washed with camoshade. highlighted by adding zandri dust to the mix

Armour: standard grey washed with nuln oil, drybrushed with mix of standard grey and zandri dust and edge highlights in celestra grey

Bone: Zandri dust washed with seraphim sepia, Highlighted with celestra grey and skull white.

Red: Mephiston red mixed with black, washed with agrax earthshade and highlighted with mephiston red.

The cyan/blue/turquise is an army painter paint whose name eludes me at the moment but it´s probably pretty similar to sotek green. Highlight by adding white to the original paint. 

Headless guardsman

Finally - after a period with little time and even less enthusiasm for modelling, the release of the new storm troopers / scions / militarium tempestus ("a beloved child has many names" as we say in sweden...) has yet again spurred me into action. 

The kit is simply amazing - arguably one of the best GW has ever produced - and the modelling possibilities for those with inquisitorial leanings are endless. The sprues are just teeming with useful bitz (stars of the show being the powerfist and tempestor coat). 

I just bought the kit and the plan is to put the first squad together more or less straight out of the box and use the as inquisitorial stormtroopers - here's the test model on which I'll try out the paintscheme: 

I did however try out some alternative heads before glueing on the helmet. Some of theese look pretty cool and illustrates how versatile this kit can be - a simple head swap can completely change the mood of the model. 

Scout

Valkyrie pilot

Marauder

Space wolf

Marauder

Hellboy 20 years

This might be rather unrelated to wargaming, but my favorite comic book "Hellboy" (and, incidentally, the favorite of just about every other illustrator I know...) celebrates it's 20th anniversery this year. 

This is a big thing for me. Few things, except perhaps 40k, Star Wars and Bruce Timm's Animated Batman, has influenced me as much as an illustrator like Mike Mignola. Therefore I naturally wanted to celebrate this bidecennial in some way. So, without further ado - here's my homage to Mike's greatest creation:

Happy birthday Red!

Grey Knights for sale!!

As might have been mentioned I'm moving out and as usual in such circumstances one often takes the oppurtunity to get rid of some unecessary baggage.

One of the things I'd like to get rid of are my Grey Knight strike force. The main reason being that the truescale bug has got a complete hold over me - I'd like to start over using only biggerised marines and contemptor dreads with a new paint scheme similar to the questing knight. 

So, who wants to buy these guys (or know someone who might want to)? 

Strike Force Grieg

5 man Grey Knight strike squad Ravel

 5 man Grey Knight strike squad Holst

6 Grey Knight Terminator squad Grieg

Venerable Dreadnought Brother Dvorak

I have no idea what to charge as I've never sold painted minis before - if anyone's interested just give me an offer and we'll figure something out. The cost of the actual kits is roughly 1200 SEK / 130 € / 110 £. It's up to the potential buyer to judge what the paintjobs and conversions might be worth...

Drop me a line if interested!

van Kushings retuine

Took some group shots of Ordo Xenos Inquisitor van Kushing and his merry band of men. 

I stress men as I strongly feel this retuine needs a feminine touch. Not sure what to add though - perhaps the sister repentia I made a while ago, perhaps an eldar advisor or a female mystic of some sorts - I'm open to suggestions!

From left to right: Executioner Maunsell, Private Lister, Ordo Xenos Inquisitor van Kushing, Battle-brother Sirius and Operative XIII.