127. Testing Terryn. Imperial Knight part 4.

As always, let's start this off with...
I KNOW I'VE BEEN AWAY A WHILE

Sorry folks, I've just been not great at stuff.
I'm trying to get back into things, so stay tuned to my various outlets for more info.

On to hobby talk.

So, the new 40k came out...

I'm not totally sold yet.
Mechanically I can deal, however, it currently lacks flavor.
This is something I think the new Codex books will add in, and when they do, I'll be back in it.

But until then, I think I'm mainly gonna play AOS, Bloodbowl and other stuff.
To that end I've mainly been doing some AOS painting.

If you follow me on Instagram you've probably already seen a lot of this, but I'm posting here because I probably should have done that to start with.


So, the first thing back here will be the earliest painted thing I guess


The Imperial Knight .


I finally decided on a scheme ( I think XD )
I'm going for house Terryn, but with a significantly higher contrasting colours; more depth, gradients and richer colours all around.


This is my tester shoulder pad (I for some reason ad one spare)




I'm also not a big fan of the Terryan transfers.
I know there is a third party resin pad available, but it just doesn't quite look right to me, so I decided to have a 'quick' go at free handing the iconography.











I know the eagle isn't quite right, and the Diamonds are also placed slightly weirdly, but then, this is why we do tester models, right?

That's all for now.

40k updates may be less frequent, but I've got a chunk of other stuff to throw up here, so stay tuned Underhivers!


-DH-

94. Paint Factory. Imperial Knight part 3.

So, it's been a while, but I have been super busy working on stuff!
I'll get round to organising and uploading the picture for them soon, but as usual, if you keep an eye on my Instgram you'll get to see them sooner rather than later!


In the meantime here is the Imperial Knight all put together and with a bit of paint on it in places.




I still can't decide on what colour to paint it aha

I've been toying with this scheme;

(Image taken from here - http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/02/showcase-29-imperial-knights-traitor-admech.html )

Either that or one of the Purple/ Turquoise ones.

Opinions always welcome.
In the meantime, I'm going to crack on with other stuff and hopefully be inspired

Peace
-DH-

93. Manufactorum. Imperial Knight part 2.

Honestly I have been busy with hobby stuff and not just slacking off.
The Imperial Knight has been a lot more effort than I thought!

Due to adjusting the positioning of the legs I've had to do some pretty substantial sculpting work on the legs.

The first on to get the sculpting treatment was the standing leg;







It is the right shape and stuff, but I'm not quite sure I managed to get it smooth all over... hard to tell until it gets some paint on it...


As well as scultping legs, I've been trying to magnatise the whole thing... or as much of it as possible.

Where magnets wont do the job, pins will.





I worked a bit more on the base too



And this is the leg that is standing on said rhino



It took a good deal of time to get all of the sculpting bits done.
I'm not the best at it so I put extra effort in to make the shapes as natural as possible.

Probably could have done a better job, but with the shin guard on any mistakes/ irregularities shouldn't be too noticeable (I hope).

Anyway, after finishing all the bits it was time to stick together what I could.



And a shot of it all together (well most of it).



I've left as much of it as detachable as possible for when I paint it.

Got a bunch of sprays to do the base coats with, not sure on the colour scheme though.

Suggestions?

Any thoughts, comments and such welcome as always.

Peace!

-DH-

92. Imerpial March. Imperial Knight part1.

So here we are, a real update with real things.

I've been working on a lot of Bloodbowl, Age of Sigmar, and other assorted projects.

I've also done some work on my Amiibo stuff on The science of selling yourself short.

But I digress...

I've been casting some wings for my Sisters of Battle, but they're got a wee while to go before they are ready for showcasing.
In the meantime I've started my Salamanders. Finally!
But that is not what this post is about.

Today it all about my Imperial Knight.
I got one of these a few weeks ago, and I've been working through it over the last couple of weeks.
I wish I had more work in progress pictures of this, but for the most part it is just a normal Imperial Knight so far.

I did however, want to make a bit more effort with it.
I will be reposing the legs, so I've been cutting them up to re pose them.
I also wanted to make the base of the Knight match my gaming board.

So here is where we are at so far....



I originally wanted to have a smashed Chimera on the base, but a Rhino was a lot easier :P.
Especially when you're armed with a hammer and a saw XD

The only issue with the Rhino is that it has no interior at the front.
So I set about the detailing...






The driver and engine are taken from the Landspeeder with some plasticard, guitar string, cogs and so on.
The driver needs to be....damaged somewhat.

Once detailed it looks a bit more like this;



Considering where the foot is planned to end up, the top hatch needed to be more damaged, so I started hacking it apart...



Which I think looks a little better.
None of this is stuck down yet, as I have to 'tarmac' the road and find a few more details/ debris to add.


I've prepared the rest of the basic structure of Imperial Knight ready to build once the base is finished.
I just want to add more details to it... I'm thinking cogs as I have a good few spare aha



So yeah, that's one of the things I've been up to.

Feel free to throw comments, constructive criticism or whatever at me.
You can do so on here, on my blogs, on my Twitter or on my Instagram.

That's all for now...

-DH-

91. Test...Bloodbowl. Bloodbowl part 13.

So, while I try and find some more pictures of my Lizardmen Bloodbowl team I have a little update for y'all.

This was the test scheme for the team.


This is pretty much it for this update haha!

So far I've painted 2 models total for this team!
Super slow as always, but I am working on it!

The usual gubbins; comments, constructive criticism, conversation and other socially acceptable words beginning with c.
Either on this blog, my Twitter or my Instagram.

Peace out!

-DH-

90. Catch Me If You Can. Bloodbowl part 12.

It has been an extremely long time since I posted an update, and I must apologise for that.
It isn't like I've been inactive in my hobby exploits either, far from it!

I have actually done a fair bit, but I've mainly been posting it on things like my Instagram so if you want to keep up to date, then follow me on there!

In the mean time I'll try and bring this and my other blogs up to speed again!

First off, I've posted an update of at The science of selling yourself short about a new custom Amiibo project I'm working on!So check it out!
Secondly, and more relevant to where we are now....
Last time I posted was about Bloodbowl, so let us begin this revival there.

So, this is all of the catching stuff in my team, and my attempts to sculpt them.












They're all done now, I'll have to grab some pictures from either my instagram or take some new ones.
Either way, I'll share them, and more things, with you soon!

As usual, feel free to comment, hit me up on Twitter or instagram.
Whatever floats your boat.

Peace!

-DH-

89. Wide Receivers. Bloodbowl part 11.

Consistent updating is a thing now.

More Lizardmen BloodBowl goodness for you guys.

This post can has Skinks plz.

Seeing as the vast majority of my Lizardmen team is Skinks (7 in total), I obviously had to do some of these guys.













A few alternate poses thrown in for fun.
A reasonable amount of greenstuff and such to be done on a couple, and adding arms to the rest.

Not a great deal to say about these to be fair.

Next post will be almost exclusively about greenstuff I imagine

Anyway, until then

-DH-

88. Hold The Line. Bloodbowl part 10.

What's up sports fans?

More Bloodbowl goodness today.

It's time for the Saurus.
Their job is to hit things.
That's about it.

Decided to use Temple Guard for my Bloodbowl Saurus; their more ornate heads and bulkier frames seem to suit the role of Bloodbowl better.





I decided to keep the shields to use as bracers, after all, the Saurus main job is to make blocks.
It was just a case of chopping off weapons and finding some interesting posses.

The two 'Blitzers.'



The 'Catcher/ Runner.'

This guy will be carrying a ball under his arm.



The Saurus Captain.






The 'Thrower.'

This guy will have a hand catching a ball sculpted onto the stump of his wrist.






The 'Star Player.'

Each of my Bloodbowl teams has a star player in case someone wants to use one, so I thought I'd make one for the Lizardmen.
Who better to use than Chakax for the base of it.





Group shot of the Suaurs/ Temple guard unit.



Team Photo.




These guys are next up for the greenstuff treatment.
In the meantime I'll get o building my Skinks and thinking up names for all of them.


That's all for now.
If you want sneak peaks of my stuff check out my instagram as I post pictures of things as I do/ get them.
You can find it here.

Also, if you want to chat Blodbowl, modelling or about any of my other projects/ blogs, either leave me a comment or hit my up on Twitter @DarKHaZZl3.



Until next time!
-DH-

87. Tipping The Scales. Pun Intended. Bloodbowl part 9.

Just a little update for this one.

After doing all of the gap filling on the Kroxigors, it was time to sculpt some scales on the legs to make the parts fit in visually.




That's pretty much it for the whole update.
The Kroxigors are 100% done at this point.

On to the Skinks and Saurus!

-DH-

86. Lustira St Germain. Bloodbowl part 8.

Hey guys.
I know it has been a while, but work means I don't get to work on my own projects anywhere near as much as I'd like.
That being said, I have managed to get quite a bit done on my Bloodbowl/ Age of Sigmar Lizardmen team/ Army.

Without any further delay, here are the Kroxigors!
All three of them!

Kroxigor Captain.







The original Kroxigor





Kroxigor with a corner flag.







Bonus!
Skink Priest Roshambo = Head cheerleader aka The General of my AOS army.





I even have a little story for the team;

Lustria St Germain have, despite all odds, managed to get to the Chaos Cup Bloodbowl final, and despite thos eodds are actually winning against the world famous Reikland Reavers.
With mere minutes left on the clock LSG are mounting an epic defense; their fearless Saurus line battling strong, while the Skinks manage to be everywhere at once nipping at the humans heals.

Victory seemed assured.

Suddenly the ground began to rumble.
With the teams lock in scrums across the pitch it couldn't be a charging blitzer or Kroxigor.
The players stopped in their tracks, bemused as to what was the cause of these sudden tremors.

As suddenly as it had started, it stopped and was immediately replaced with an holy cracking sound.
The earth beneath everyone's feet was tearing itself into pieces.
But this was no mere earthquake.

This was the end of the world itself.
The damage wrought by warring factions half a world a way had caused the planet to die.
Chunks of the planet tore themselves from their foundations and were flung into the air before being dragged into the void.

This insanity was too much for the occupants to take, and one by one they blacked out.

Roshambo, the head cheerleader was the first to regain consciousness.
The scene that greeted his opening eyes was vastly different to the previous one.

It was like another world; there were floating islands of earth, seemingly from different areas of the planet, and indeed, some the didn't look like they belonged in this very existence.
On top of that, they were alone. The Reikland Reevers and their fans were gone.
It was just LSG and their supporting Skink fans.

As the team awoke, Roshambo gathered his thoughts, and called the team together.

'Looks lads, I know this is a crazy turn of events, but we need to focus on what's important.'

The team murmured their agreement.

'It is up to us to do what's right'

A louder rumble of assent came back to him.

'It doesn't matter our surroundings have changed...'

Chats of here here were shouted by the team.

'If we stick together there is nothing that can tear us apart!'

A mighty cheer errupted.

'We were winning, so lets go get our cup. It is ours by right!!'

'Yeahhh... wait, what?'

It was too late. Roshambo had stormed off towards what remained of the team transportation; A Stegadon and a Bastiladon, climbed aboard and shouted, 'Who's with me?!'

The team looked at each other, shrugged and headed to the team 'buses,' and the fans followed suit.

And so began their quest for glory, or whatever else they might find in this new realm.


I've done a lot more than these guys, but I'm going to post it in separate posts, so stay tuned for more Bloodbowl, and other things.

Peace!

-DH-