114. PK FIRE! Salamanders part 11.

Update!

Built all of the Devestators.
I know I said I'd post when they're fully done, but I thought you'd appreciate an in between  post...



















Just got the detailing to go;
Blades, Pounds, Pistols and Greenstuffing (which I have a tonne of to do XD)

So yeah, a super quick update

Enjoy!

-DH-

113. Coil, coil, melta and trouble. Salamabnders part 10.

Half a month eh?
Well, a lot has happened. I am officially 'unemployed' now after being made redundant (something I will post on my main blog about at some point).
I have some agency work to fall back on, but times may be tough in the coming months... we'll have to wait and see.


Good job I have enough hobby to last me until the end of time right?

So, speaking of hobby, let's move on with some.

A while back I managed to get myself to Warhammer World in Nottingham.
If you are unaware of this magical location, it is GW's head office and as such has a Forge World shop.

I got some bits and bobs; namely, 5 multi metlas (the resin under slung heresy ones) for my Salamanders.




The cleaning up wasn't too bad... a good deal of flash between the melta barrels, but nothing a good, sharp knife couldn't fix.



This was the main problem.
The power coils are straight and to not be.
Bending resin is not one of my all time favorite activities.
I always feel like I'm going to bend it too far, or it wont be warm enough and then break or I'll melt it with a hair dryer.

With a little effort and some patience I managed to make a start.



Have done the rest, will post with pictures of each individual devastator, and again once I've added details and green stuffed some stuff.

The Power armoured contingent of the Salamanders is almost complete!!

Until next time.

-DH-

112. Armour up! Salamanders part 9.

This post will pretty much a carbon copy of my Bolter & Chainsword post, so...

Anyway.
I've been doing some more hobby. Huzzah.
But to be honest, it has slowed down a little (holiday, buying more hobby, other stuff).

I'm coming up on my imminent unemployment, and my productivity is dropping off to be replaced with existential dread haha.
I digress.

You came here to see things.

I've been working primarily on getting the Space Marine armour built.
So First off we have the drop pods.





I would have finished these.... but I wanted some brass etching (which I forgot to buy on my last trip to Warhammer World )
And I needed to know how to paint them in stages.

Now that I'm aware of the process, and once I get myself some etchings, these guys are good to go!

Next up is the Vindicators.
These are my old vindicators.
There was nothing 'wrong' with them per-se, but I just wanted to make them more secure, get a few mold lines I'd missed, and fill in some gaps






I decided to do the sisters ones at the same time, as I never got round to them before either.

But yeah.
I now have the Multi Melta's I need, as well as some extra Salamanders shoulder pads, which should be enough to finish off the Devastators.
next step is the Dreadnought, so... look out for that one!

Anyway, that's all for now.
I'm hoping I get back the hobby bug once I've sorted through my horde of new things haha!

Peaceout.

-DH-

111. Techpriest Dominus single figure part 3. Project complete!

So here is some more photos of my Ad Mech Tech Priest while I paint other things (Y)








This project is now complete!

WOO!

-DH-

110. This is a thing now. Stormcast Eternals part 1.

So after painting some Stormcast Eternals for the shop, I kinda caught the Age of Sigmar bug a little.

So I'm actually going to carry on with them for my own self.

So I started with a box of Liberators.

The thing that has always kind of bugged me with Age of Sigmar is the supposed lack of customisation.
Once you open the box you can tell there are a lot of weapon options, but in terms of possibility there is very little you can do...
Or so you'd think at first.

With a little bit of twisting and turning, and a few bits of creative cutting (some wrists to move positions of hammers) you can get a decent amount of possibility.
Having some green stuff helps.











I wanted to keep the 'everyone has shields' kinda theme, so I made a strap for the Liberator Prime's shield so it could be slung over his back.
I also threw in some Blood Angel heads to give the Stormcast a bit more of a human touch.
I based the idea off the limited edition Warhammer World Errant Questor.

So that's it... a few mold lines to remove and then on to painting...
Though I am painting several other things right now, so that may take some time XD

Anyway, until next time

-DH-

109. Techpriest Dominus single figure part 2.

A fan of the paint eh?

So, here is some more!






Carried on the Dark Mech look with red glow on the face and gun.

A bit more detailing to do, and then some basing stuff.

Woo!

-DH-

108. Techpriest Dominus single figure part 1.

I'm off work for the next couple of weeks, so to celebrate here is something completely different.

A few weeks ago, I decided to paint a Tech Priest Dominus.




Going for a very Dark Mech look for this model...
I should note that this scheme wont be the one I use for my Ad Mech when I get round to them.

This model is finished, so expect more pictures soon!

-DH-
 

107. Annihilation! Salamders part 8.

I promised more pictures, so here they are!


Assault squad 1




Assault squad 2




Bolter Marines with Librarian Dak'ir




Bolter Marine squad 2




'Command Squad' With Librarian Pyriel




Captain.




Drop pods in progress.




Woo.
The Bolter Marines form the core of my Devastator squads.
I need to wait until I can get the 5 multi melta's I need from Forge World before I can finish those squads.

I'm building the drop pods into sub assemblies for painting, and when that's done I'll move on to refurbishing my two Vindicators.

It's getting there.... painting, not so much XD

Ah well.

Until next time

-DH-

106. Don't lose your head! Salamanders part 7.

And we're back to the Salamanders!
Expect me to yo-yo between several projects...I just can't seem to keep my focus on any one at a time.

So, today we have the assault marines that I need for my Skyhammer annihilator force.




2 units of 7. Each with a flamer and Eviscerator
Headless, I know.
I'm working on it!


The army is getting there.
Here is all the infantry so far;



A few bit to add here and there, and I also need like 5 more multi meltas XD
They will have to wait until my trip to forge world for sure.


That's all for now, but expect a new post sooner rather than later!

Peace!

-DH-
Peace!

105. Celestant.

I told you there would be more updates!

Though this is almost like a demo than a full fledged release.


While at work (what little of it I have left), we somehow ended up talking about stars and painting them onto figures.
I've never attempted it personally, but thought it would be cool to paint them on to a cape or something...
Now, when I envisaged it in my head I didn't think of the little flicks of white on a bluish background that a lot of people do.
I thought of a nebula.

A giant cloud of gas with stars of various sizes and intensities dotted around it, and so, I thought I'd give it a go.
This is the result.



Not bad for a first time I think.

There is a lot of things I would do differently;
More colours, more stars underneath / in amongst the cloud with the 'gas' layer on top.
Overall I'm pretty happy with it :)

That's it for this one.
More stuff soon though!

-DH-

104. Bon Anniversaire! Salamanders part 6.

We're back on the 40k train baby!!

I know it's been a while, and I'm sorry.

There was a good stretch where I just lost enthusiasm for the hobby again... couple this with moving all of my hobby to another room (nothing kills a hobby groove like not knowing where anything is anymore), and painting for work and it just dried up.

I've recently been made redundant too (I'll talk more about this on the Science of selling yourself short soon).
As of the 1st of October I'm officially unemployed, so I've had to look for work.

Weirdly though, this kinda kick started my need to hobby again XD


So, let's see what I've been up to eh?

Post hobby move, I decided to get all of my bits out and get to work...
I didn't quite know what I wanted to do though, then I saw this guy, still BNIB sitting on top of the pile, and he just had to have the Salamander treatment.





Nothing drastic, but enough to start.

There is more coming... and soon.
So stay tuned, and refresh your memories by flicking back through the previous posts.

Thanks for checking in, and I'll post again soon!

-DH-

103. Liberate.

Haven't done a decent post in a good while, so here are some Stormcast Eternal Liberators I've painted for the cabinet at work.

They've taken a good while to complete, but I'm pretty happy with them.






So yeah, enjoy!

-DH-

102. From base to space. Silver Tower part 1.

Hey Underhivers!

I know I haven't been very consistent recently, but I have been working on other projects (as always).
If you'd like to chock those out head to The science of selling yourself short for more info!


Back to it.
I hit a hobby wall in the shape of too many boardgames with miniatures that are un built and unpainted.
So I've made it my mission to get these out of the way.

The problem with this is that building miniatures as they come in the box bores the life out of me...
So far I have built all of the Miniatures from Assasinorium Execution Force, and it nearly killed me.

So going into my next task; The Silver Tower, I've decided to try and make things a little more interesting for myself, without converting any of the models.




The game is fairly varied in all fairness.
unlike Execution force, there isn't 15 of essentially the same figure... the most of one type is 8.

But I still want to make them 'my own.'

This starts from the ground... no up, just the ground.

Most of the tile sin Silver Tower are this cracked turquoise stuff, with gold banding.



The plan is pretty simple; copy it onto the basses.
To do this I've used the Games Workshop palette pads to created the crazy shapes that are all over the board tiles.





Obviously, these will be painted gold, and any 'raised' areas will be added in using shading and highlighting.

As for the cracked floor, I decided to cheat...kinda.



Agrellan earth; a self crackling paint from the citadel paint range.
All I ave to do now is paint it!
I'll be using Stegadon Scale Green, Sotek Green and Temple Guard Blue to do the job.
Before that though I have a ton more basses to do...

That's all for now!

Keep you eyes peeled for more soon.

-DH-