Diving Deep into 40k with Pustules and Tentacles

So I lied...

2010-07-24T20:25:00.001-07:00

I'm almost done with this little guy. But it's not my Blight Drone... It's an Iron Lich.. :P

New images soon..

2010-07-08T10:03:00.000-07:00

Finishing up my Plague drone very soon. :)

BoLS Tyranid Challenge...

2010-02-10T11:03:00.000-08:00

Jason, the guy that's teaching me a bunch about sculpting, has entered and is one of the top ten for the BoLS Tyranid Challenge. He did a Tyrannofex and it is quite interesting.

See all the Finalist here!

Bag-o-Bits

2009-12-31T17:00:00.001-08:00

Order a Bag of GW Bits today. I hope to have it before I head down to portland again. I think we may try to have a session of here is a bag, what will you make with it?

No other bits can be used unless it is from the bag... Green stuff is allowed..

Theme maybe? I guess that would depend on what is in the bag.. The bags are huge so maybe split it up into 2..

It's a fun way to get inspired to do something and or more..

Not my idea, but my bestest friend's idea.. I hope to get her in on it also if she's not too busy. ;)

Troops...The building up..

2009-12-29T10:11:00.000-08:00

Here are a few shots of my normal troops. I am still going with a highly dirty look of all my guys since that seemed to be the best thing to do for them. They still need the bases to be finished and finish with some gloss on the pustules :D

More to come... this is just a few of them.

Time flies... when you're busy...

2009-12-26T14:48:00.000-08:00

(Paint jobs left me, right Jason H.(and conversions by him on right, left me))
I haven't forgotten nor did I stop doing things with my army... I was just busy with working on my small businesses..

Anyways...

Spent the holiday time with my best friend, who some of you are following also.. http://daughteroftheemperor.blogspot.com/

Her and her boyfriend (who is a great painter and scuplter!!) were nice enough to allow me to stay over for about a week and we painted minis and worked on other projects.

Painting of Terminator by Jason H.

Painting of Terminator me.

My Blackreach HQ Conversion to Nurgle HQ guy..

now to just finish some bases... Yes I have more, but I thought this would be a good start.. I've have about 12 other figs to that pictures of.

Heat... = no paint..

2009-08-01T18:57:00.001-07:00

It hit some record numbers here for heat this past week. Which meant no paint and NO modding..

lots of pool work.. with swimming..

Ennie Awards! Please go and Vote for Jess Hartley!

2009-07-24T08:30:00.000-07:00

Jess Hartley (http:www.jesshartley.com) wrote The Rose-Bride's Plight. Jess is a long time friend of mine. She's awesome and has been working hard these last few years. I would love to see Rose-Bride's Plight win. Jess also worked on Hunter: The Vigil, both books published by White Wolf games.

VOTE HERE!! Please :D
http://www.ennie-awards.com/voting/ballot.asp
Category and Product: Best Adventure: The Rose-Bride's Plight

The ENnies
The ENnie awards are, arguably, the gaming industry's biggest and most prestigous awards. Game companies from around the world send in their products, and a panel of judges chooses their top few in each category. Those choices become the nominations, and are released to the public, who then vote on the winner. Anyone can vote (once per computer) and the voting ends on August 1st.

The Product
The Rose-Bride's Plight is a murder mystery with a twist, that draws on elements of Snow White, Romeo and Juliet and introduces a dark and intriguing cast of characters for players to interact with. It is designed for use in a Changeling: The Lost game.

Terminator WIP

2009-07-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

Another guy I'm working with. I still need to add the shoulder pads on him, maybe a bit more decay.

Enjoy!

Terminator Lord WIP..

2009-07-21T14:25:00.001-07:00

So I decided to break out my terminator lord to figure out where I wanted to go with him. Lots of pustules and I might still add a tentacle or two to the base. I decided to go with a nurgling on the base instead of the little guy it came with. Lots added to him, and I think I might need some more near the leg area to bring it all together.

Blackreach HQ Mod

2009-07-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

What you think I would leave all these space marines alone?

I have a few more I'm working on with green stuff. :)

Forgeworld!

2009-07-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

Hello Mr Blight Drone, Hello MR Nurgle Dreadnought...

mmmmmm

yes that is how the box came... no padding in it... not too happy about that part.

The joys of hobby knives...

2009-07-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

While cleaning up a model today I rammed my hobby knife into my finger. Not stabbed (so it didn't cut through my finger) just the full length of the blade cut into my skin a bit (lots)..

damn I'm a bleeder..

Epidemius Mod Painting part 4.4 (WIP)

2009-07-15T15:46:00.000-07:00

Started to wrap this puppy up... I moved up the back and to the front of Epidemius's chair and highlighted a few areas. Puke is running down the front with the maggots rolling down in it.

(please don't mind the background, I don't know if I will be setting my photo area back up anytime soon)

Epidemius Mod Painting part 4.3 (WIP)

2009-07-14T11:23:00.001-07:00

Mr Nasty is coming along nicely. I put a black wash over the tentacles and adding some dry brushing to highlight the little monsters/nurglings on him. I also added some red gunk in the bursting open pustules.

Not that much work done this past weekend as I had visitors for 4 days... bleg.

Chaos Space Marine

2009-07-13T16:34:00.000-07:00

Well since I've been painting, I have one finished... or at least I thought I did before I took these pictures.

Now... I'm not too happy with it. Fail.

Don't mind the outside pictures, I took my photo area down because I was painting my walls.

(yes I know he is wearing the wrong back, I found out just last week what that was actually for... oops)

Painting.. is still moving along fine.

2009-07-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

No pictures currently as I'm packing away my house, painting, and doing yard work, so my photo area has been taken down.

Updates very soon.

Epidemius Mod Painting part 4.2.. (WIP)

2009-07-10T14:27:00.000-07:00

I put the pieces back onto mr nasty earlier. (Mr nasty almost fell 5 feet, which would've made him explode instead it was 1/2 a foot into my hand) But I wanted to show the progress on painting I made yesterday. More washes and some coloring on the different parts. I will be working on more of the details soon to bring the interesting parts out. So far I'm happy with it.

klutz....

2009-07-09T20:20:00.001-07:00

I dropped mr nasty. he's ok, just a few things came off. I can fix it no problem!

GreenStuff Fav Tool...

2009-07-09T14:19:00.000-07:00

So far, I'm enjoying working with green stuff, as you can likely see from my earlier post. I normally use about three things working with green stuff (so far) a color shaper, a shot glass with water (yeah not licking stuff sorry it will make me sick at some point), and my curved modeling tool. Of all I like my color shaper the best, because I can actually smooth things out... Now I've been working with mostly organic looking objects, so the tools may/will change a bit depending on what I am working with.

Then again most people likely already know about even better tools. These are what I've been shown so far and these work well for me.

Epidemius Mod Begin Painting part 4.1.. (WIP)

2009-07-09T10:41:00.000-07:00

Since I totally covered the base in green stuff I needed a way to hold onto the mini. cork wouldn't work, but I do, do a lot of crafty stuff. I realized my 1oz white cosmetics jars would work perfectly (I hoped). So far the fig hasn't fallen off so I think we're good. (I buy the jars by the hundreds so I have loads)

Lots of washes, browns, reds, greens (of differenting shades), and a bit of yellow. It needs more work but it's coming along ok so far. Still learning and growing to understand how the paints work over figures.

I've decided his name is mr nasty, because by the time I'm done with him he will be completely nasty looking.

Forgeworld..

2009-07-08T20:01:00.001-07:00

My order finally (ok I just ordered it/them) showed up on my card so I'm guessing it'll be about 20ish days from now till I see my order.

Yes, I'm a bit over the top on somethings. Yes, I've only been working with 40k stuff for a month. I need something else other then Millinery and Perfumery sometimes.

Yes, I will take my time with the items I ordered.

Epidemius Mod continued part 4.. (WIP)

2009-07-08T19:49:00.000-07:00

Alright, primer has been added. I'm currently testing some painting styles on it to see what I like. Lots of washes and waiting.. I'm also working on some of my normal troops. I use a grey base primer because it seems to have the best coverage and doesn't fill in any of the detail.

Epidemius Mod continued part 3.. (WIP)

2009-07-08T10:35:00.000-07:00

Green stuff all done with for now? I think so. If I put the primer on it, I'll likely stop adding more stuff to the "little" thing. Over all I think it's coming along well and having the back along with Epidemius make it look not as busy as first thought.

For the tentcales to keep their shape and to defy gravity a bit I used this same technique that my friend posted about on her blog.

This so far is the largest amount of green stuff I've ever used, I've only done little pustules and spikes breaking through armor or guts hanging out of my terminators. All of this with the help of my friend showing me first, then telling me to slow the hell down and think about what I'm going to do next.

This figure was /mostly/ thought out as I had an image in my head of what I wanted to do, with a little kick for another friend to raise him up. I believe we have a most interesting figure now.

Epidemius Mod continue.. (WIP)

2009-07-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

finishing up on the base... looking... very busy..... Oh well

(how the hell am I going to paint this... I'm still very new at this)

Epidemius Mod..

2009-07-07T10:49:00.000-07:00

So Here is my current mod that I'm working on. I picked up the Epidemius Mini as it seemed like I could really play around with it. First up was bringing the fig up to a higher level. It lacked being interesting and the sculpt is well... yeah highly lacking.

So Pustules and Tentacles are being added to the nurglings holding up Epidemius. I'm also adding some more nurglings to the bottom of the tentacles to it does not just look like the tentacles are sprouting out of the butt of epidemius and the nurglings.

Intro... of taking a dive into a new hobby..

2009-07-07T09:28:00.000-07:00

I'm already a bit of a geek, and so are my friends. D&D, shadowrun, MMOs,...etc...

My friends started to pull out their Armies of old and there had been talk about warhammer before. It was over my head so I would just smile and nod. Over the years (8 or so) of knowing everyone I have picked up knowledge that must have seep into my skin. Just last month I decided I would go out and buy some figures to paint. This took about a week, no rules ready or any type of background. I wanted a look and feel that was interesting, so I went with Chaos. (you might be able to guess the runner up) Next was deciding who they would follow if anyone. So I went with Nurgle, I thought I could have an interesting time with it. I also had my friend offer to help teach me some tricks into modding.. . . . Well low and behold we now have me modding many of my figures. Which you will see below this post and likely after this. And within all this excitment, no I haven't finished reading all of the books I need to, or have I finished painting or putting together all of my figures. I would have to put together a list of all the figs I currently have. So I'll leave that for another post. Next up is a work in progress shot of a cross over fig that goes between fantasy and 40k..

Pulling from my personal Blog..

2009-07-07T09:26:00.000-07:00

So I spoke of doing another hobby on the side and it is going pretty well. I didn't get to do as much on them in the post couple of weeks because of vending, but I do not have any events coming up for the next couple of weeks.

Jason is awesome and has started to show me how to mod and use green stuff to give extra life to my minis. I'm still pretty new at it, but he is a good teacher :D and totally geeks out that he has even more friends that are interested in warhammer.