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Power Armoured Beard’s painting table: Season 2 preview

Posted in Wargaming, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warmachine/Hordes on May 25, 2012 by xbevisx

Hello folks,

Here’s some photo’s I’ve just taken of some of the projects I’m either currently working on, planning to work on soon or simply forgot to upload last time I was blogging.

Vladmir of the Khador faction from Warmachine. For more details on Vlad head over to Battle College. I’m pretty happy with the freehand design on the cloak/cape.

Cobra from Hasslefree Miniatures. I think we all know who this is really. I don’t usually do camo, but I wanted to get this model as close to the real Snake Plissken as possible.

I like this new Ogre scheme, and it’s really quick to get a model done. I’m happy with the tin bitz/chainmail on the metal parts of the character, as I was going for a bashed up/scraped metal effect.

Again, a really quick scheme to pull off, which is good because I have hundreds of marine models to paint. Charadon granite and Chainmail (possibly Mithril).

Oh, these paints don’t exist anymore. Yaaaaaay, thanks GW! (/sarcasm). The silver won’t be too hard to replace, but Charadon Granite is such an odd colour. Sometimes it looks grey, sometimes green, sometimes brown!?! I did squirrel away 15 pots before it utterly vanished. I hope it lasts!

New Ork scheme. Featuring a very similar palette to the new ogre scheme.

You should be seeing more of all of these in upcoming posts.

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More Warmachine and Hordes

Posted in Wargaming, Warmachine/Hordes on October 10, 2011 by xbevisx

Hello folks,

As I’m having a cack-handed day (they happen now and then, and when they do its best to just step away from the painting table) I thought I’d do something else constructive and post some photos of current work. Please enjoy!

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Step by Step: Hordes Trollbloods Winter Troll

Posted in Wargaming, Warmachine/Hordes on September 29, 2011 by xbevisx

Hey folks.

Lets jump straight in with the pictures.

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Step1: Undercoated black and then Adeptus Battlegrey.

Step2: Drybrushed all over with Codex Grey. Hair painted with Ice Blue.

Step3: Drybrushed all over with Fortress Grey.

Step4: Drybrushed all over with Astronomican Grey.

Step5: Inside of mouth painted with Mechrite Red. Little “rocky” bits painted Regal Blue. Wash of Asurmen Blue then Ogryn Flesh all over.

Step6: “rocky” bits highlighted with Enchanted Blue and washed with Asurmen Blue. Hair highlighted with white.

Step7: Teeth and nails painted with Deneb Stone. Loincloth painted with Khemri Brown and Calthan Brown then washed with Delvan Mud. Base painted and flocked.

Quite a simple model to paint, and mostly hassle free!

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Getting back in Warmachine and Hordes

Posted in Warmachine/Hordes on September 27, 2011 by xbevisx

Hello all,

Yet more apologies for the massive gap from my last post. Lately my life has been controlled by zombies. Either planning and running my Inquisitor story based campaign or killing hundreds of the undead bastards in Dead Island, which I am really enjoying. Besides 1 potentially bugged mission I have nothing bad to say about that game at all. Other than that there’s been a lot of painting and band/work related stuff.

Amongst all this I have returned to the world of the Privateer Press games, Warmachine and Hordes. Well I say returned, I got out of Warmachine before Hordes was released I believe, so learning that has been interesting.

Really quick summary for you. Warmachine/Hordes are set in the same fantasy steampunk world where there are many factions vying for power with their own motives. The games are quite small skirmish scale, and forces generally revolve around one warcaster/warlock, who is your leader, and a number of Warjacks (Warmachine: Big steam-powered, heavily armoured robots) or Warbeasts (Hordes: Pretty self-explanatory. Big monstrous thingies with teeth and claws) and any number of other units. The warcaster/warlock controls the Warjacks/Warbeasts and once he/she is defeated it’s usually game over.

I’ve decided that I’d quite like an army for both Warmachine and Hordes, although they are completely compatible. On the Warmachine side I’ve opted for Khador, Russian type chaps that don’t piddle around with light warjacks, they just build huge ones that want to smash you to pieces quickly. I like this straight forward approach! Hordes side I’ve gone for Trollbloods, mostly because I really like their models, they have a really nice character to the sculpts and they are pretty much the closest things to good guys in this world, as a lot of the time they are merely fighting for survival.

So here are my first few paint jobs:

This is a Khador Juggernaut built from the Khador Heavy Warjack plastic resin kit, which is a truly excellent kit and OTHER COMPANIES could really learn a thing or two about decent plastic resin. I really enjoyed painting this model and luckily I’ve found a paint scheme that doesn’t take too long to finish.

Next up are some Trollblood Fennblades. It took me a couple of attempts to perfect the scheme I wanted to use. I wasn’t happy with these first 2 and I will be stripping them to re-paint.

Below is the scheme I’ve settled on. The others never felt quite right but this one really clicked for me. I can’t believe I even actually painted tartan!