warmachine Ogrun Bokur for hire...

One of the lads at the club was getting rid of some random bits that he had and decided to nab a ogrun bokur off him,

I've liked the model for ages but never really thought about buying one and as I've been on a model spending spree cut back, with the ogrun being the only model that I've bought this month I decided to splash some paint on him and add it to the pledge.

So I decided to subtly convert the bodyguard and I'd spotted a conversion via google images and decided to rip it off!

I replaced the head with a spare khador jack dead and the shield from a man O war kovnik with the khador symbol filed off, a spare sword in a scabbard from a everblight blighted swordsman and he was good to go!

Undercoated and then tin blitz base coat

I decided to give the new GW dry paints ago, and grabbed a necon compound and the contents surprised me a little....

its really solid state but you don't need a great deal on your brush to get a good effect

 so a few moments later one dry brushed chap

I added some basic colour and washed him in army painter dark tone (badab black) and was quite happy with the result, 

I hit him with some seraphim sepia and then re highlighted the leather straps and the blue around his cloak, a touch of red wash for a battle worn look and apart from the base he's done and dusted!

So onto the "pledge" its been a cracking month again...

Bought - 1
Painted - 38
Difference +37

so nearly 9 months into the year and this is where I'm currently standing...

Bought - 203
Painted - 326
Difference +123

lovely! plenty of room for the new chaos stuff that comes out next month!

Celts good as done & lots of goodies....

Well with the final push on the hail Caesar celts the Cav & final warband are good as done just some basing left on the warband and a quick anti-shine coat and they'll be ready to rock and roll!

I need to some kind of unit "filler" any suggestions?

It was only after I PVA'd the sand did I find a few more spare bases! 

Looking a tad shiney! 

but in between the dip drying and all that I decided to crack on with the Bushido models that I picked up at expo a couple of weeks ago,

I don't normally do a work in progress but I'm liking these so far and they are a real joy to paint, 

A close up of one of the Bakemono, a bit of a fucker to put these together but nice detail though,

Zuba, the "standard" colour is going to be red no doubt due to the studio painting there's red and it does kinda remind me of hell boy! but after a bit of wiki-reading about Japanese mythology and all that it turns out that the Oni which what this basically is could be a number of colours and as I was thinking about an Ultra Marine army for 40K I figured I'd better get some practice in doing blues!

But as always some thing distracts me...

So the warmachine Cryx Wraith war engine, its a great looking kit and the detail it real nice, should be a doddle to put together and with the techniques that I've used for my cryx army & death guard shouldn't take too long to paint.

But I'll do that as a "treat" once I've done the Bushio stuff and the other odds and sods that have been on my painting table for far too long!

and whilst I was putting together the Bushio models this caught me eye...

Superb sense of humor that only the English can get away with!

Misson Impossible? Yea Right!!

Well I must say I've surprised myself with the speed and quality that I got the whole lot done,

I spoke to Danny as I posted each new day and he liked what he saw so thats good!

So the final unit is done, Overall I enjoyed painting the everblight and this might push me to do my skorne that I kinda started but then never returned to, maybe the Mk2 hordes rule book will get me on board?

In the mean time I've worked on the new cryx guy a bit more and trying to suss out the glow effect but not too sure at the moment, may be another wash might do the trick?

Recently I've become a bit bored of 40K, I suppose my army is becoming a little "samey" so in preperation for 8th Ed of fantasty I decided to do the unthinkable and pick up a entire Army in one fell swoop!

So Orc's & Goblins are green for Go!!

Now I didn't quite realise how much I'd picked up but this is the rough list of what I'll be fielding...

Orc Champion - Wargear unknown!
Orc Shammy - Wargear unknown!

Boyz Unit (19) Standard, Musican, Champion, Addational choppa, Shield
Boyz Unit (19) Standard, Musican, Champion, Addational choppa, Shield (or might go spear??)
Spider Riders (10) Standard, Musican, Champion
Night Goblins (20) Standard, Musican, Champion, Spears, 3x Fanatics
Night Goblins (20) Standard, Musican, Champion, Spears, 3x Fanatics
Black Orc's (10) Standard, Musican, Champion
Chariot
Boar Boyz (5)
Wolf Riders (10)

points wise I'm assuming about 1.5k as the units are fairly cheap, but I'm going to have a good gander at the magic items and see what funny ones that I can pick out, I'll play fair light hearted so the randomness should be a laugh.

I've started working on the army and will be doing an "Anton" special with regards to painting the entire army and doing a step by step guide for each model type starting with the Night Goblin's but more of that to come at a later date!

Misson Impossible Day Three

To quote Ross "are you a painting superhero?"

Well I might have to agree....

Now I've been told that the "reindeer" are called raptors... Na I'll continue to call them reindeer ;)

Only the skin left to do on those do good as done,

The Archers/bowmen also know as blighted archers, are done and dusted,

The samurai sword welding loonies boringly names as blighted swordsmen only need there skin doing so again good as done

The Shepard, sort out the skin and again thats done

Now this is where the plan kinda fell over I was quite happy pumping these guys out and ran out of black ink, so if it wasn't for that these would be done, but hey ho I've plently of time now so decided to crack on with the new cryx caster that was released last week...

Now all I've gotta do on this guy is the inking and I was going to go for a greeny glow effect on the groves in the shoulders as well as the weapon and the top of his thighs

Now I've had these kicking around for ages so whilst I was in "warmachine" mode painting wise I thought I'd crank these out as well!

So onto the pledge....

Thanks to Danny asking me to paint his army that has put me very much in the black, something that I wasn't expected to happen, I enjoyed doing the commission work so might try my had at it and see what happens,

Bought    Painted
    33          44

Comments welcome as always,

Cheers Anton,

Monkeys with Harpoons!

Well I've had a very productive (well deserved) day off and was painting like a mad man!!

Not only did I get the noise marine Rhino done, I also managed to crank out an ogrun boarding party for my warmachine cryx army! now these bad boys have eight wounds each and have a special combo attack that they get to twat what ever they drag in with there harpoons! over all sounds good to me!

Now the only reason I decided to get a unit of these was due to stef's trollblood champions and watching the amount of damage that they can take as well as dish out I went on the hunt for the cryx version. Now I'll admit when I first saw them I was a bit humm... to the actual sculpts but as I started to paint them I grew to like them and now strangely enough I love em! loads of little detail on them that I hadn't noticed.

The whole gang, now I'm not great at doing skin heavy models so I kinda went with the flow with these chaps, and I happy with the overall look.

So the rhino, now it looks quite pink in the pictures but isn't that bright in real life,

this little lot seems to have got my painting mojo back and I'm going to be cracking on with a unit of slannesh choosen that I've put togeather, all I really need to do is jigg about the lighting claws that I've got off the space wolf sprue and put some wires onto the models and await the effects that I've ordered from armourcast and they'll be ready to slap some paint on.

I'll more than likely get the converted oblit's done and some soul hunters for the cryx that I've had for years but never done anything with!

Warmachine Banethralls

I figured its been a while since I updated and before Spencer starts giving me "that" look I'd do a quick update with whats happening in Ant-Land.....

Well I finally managed to get the bane thralls for my cryx army finished, I wanted to get these done in plenty of time for the expo torney thats happening on the 5th & 6th June rather than the last minute.com factor that the rest of the guys are currently doing, (and some very nice looking stuff I might add)

I'll be honest I struggled to get these guys done for some reason I was in the carn't be arsed to paint mood for quite a while....

But there done so here you go!

As the actual "rank and file" are pretty much all the same I've done some close ups on the unit attachment,

So the new boss man of the unit, really well detailed and lovely to paint

And the standard bearer, now this little guy makes the whole unit tough, god help who ever I play!

Close up of the top of the standard and the "attempt" at some freehand random rune type writing

And thats it!

I need to get the focus back on doing something cool so will be hitting the newly named "bus of love" aka the slannesh rhino, and with a couple of days off work that should be a good deadline for myself to try.

comments welcome as always,

Thanks,
Anton

Month end update April & WIP

Well that one went by fast!

so what did I manage to get done in the "hours & days" leading up to the end of the month???

Well I finished the third squad of noise marines, and then promptly went on ebay and got a shag load more bits for the "children"

and what I've done so far, I'm going to do an "assault" unit so the same heads and paint scheme to be lead by Lucuis mounted in a rhino, maybe... who knows!

After a sound kicking from Jack at warmachine a couple of weeks ago I decided to paint tartrus aka tartar sauce, well if I carn't beat him on the table at least I can show him what a fully painted army looks like ;)

he was painted using the same technique as the bane knights and the bane thralls, the washes make the painting of metals so easy now, it feels like cheating but nice guys finish last!

Whilst I was on a roll I finished off the firestorm armada escorts so there ready to get the bejesus shot out of them, well according to Ross anyway but we'll have to see on that on, hell I might even do a battle report showing my glorious win or crushing loss!!

So onto whats coming up.....

Getting ready for the steamroller torney at expo in a couple of months time I decided that tartus needed some more mates to wander around the table and ruin peoples day!

so a full bane thrall unit with the new unit attachment, I forgot how expensive it is to have full metal models!

Now I follow a chap called dave taylor over at Dave's Blog and drool over his conversion work and scratch building this guy really does have some skills and inspired me to do some that has pushed me outside my comfort zone,

and after "discussing" with Spencer various things about oblitrators from the chaos codex I decided to give them a crack, I'll happly admit that on paper they didn't really appeal to me and I don't really field that much heavy support apart from vindicators I love them combined with the lash of submission makes me smile just thinking about it!

So this is where I'm at with them so far, still got some green stuff to put on them to give them the man/machine melded togeather look, and the powerfist on the "las cannon" one needs finishing off but they are about there and so far I'm quite chuffed with them, I've not done this kind of conversion work for years!

So onto "the pledge"

I knew Salute was going to be a killer, combine that with that I managed to get some emperors child bits and bobs cheap I only just managed to finish in the green!

Bought         Painted
   29                35
 
So comments welcome as always thanks for you time,