121. Plastic reinforcement. Sisters of Battle part 23.

As an Armies of the Imperium fan, I obviously had to get the first Triuvirate.

Inquisition, Ad Mech and Sisters of Battle?
yesplzkthnx

I set about building the Sisters first (I did actually build Grefax first, but ya'know)

They're a bit fiddly, especially Celestine.
But I got there.

Here they are, with my marble style basses to go with them;













The eagle eyed of you will recognise that base from a previous post, which can be found here!
Yes, I canabalaised my old Celestine base for the new one.
Fear not though, the old one will be getting a new base...I'm not abandoning her just yet!

All that's left is various girts of sand and cork dust to make the rubble and they're ready to be primed,

I am stuck in two minds weather to keep them in their original colours, or to use something different that will tie them into my current Sisters of Battle more.
It'll be a good while before I paint them, so I've got time XD


That's all for now.

Peace!
-DH-

119. A prayer filled road to glory. Sister of Battle part 22.

So yes,
I promised more updates of painted miniatures for the Sisters of Battle.
So here is the completed priests (minus the bases) and a completed Jacobs (with bases).

Enjoy picture spam (side note, my light is very yellow);















And here is the the shotgun wielding maniac himself!







I've been back and forth in my mind about how to to the basses.
I originally wanted white marble, but with bone coloured Sister's it doesn't exactly stand out.
So I then went with black, however using grey for marble effect is actually surprising tricky in comparison to green/ turquoise.

So yeah, there you go!

I paint models.
It happens.

-DH-

117. A Road to Glory. The Ecclesiarchy. Sisters of Battle part 21.

Another update!!
I know.

It is a bit of a cheat, considering I've done a fair bit, and am just rationing out updates XD

Ah well.
After basecoating all of my Battle Sisters I was pretty burnt out on them, so I decided to do some other painting bits and pieces as a 'break.'

I moved on to something Sisters of Battle related at the very least.


So, you guys may or may not know, when I built my army initially it was designed to have Uriah Jacobs in my list.
(here is a link to the whole built army back then - A road to glory that never seems to catch a break)

So as my break from Sisters of Battle, I decided to paint up Jacobs with a squad of Imperial Priests.

As with Jacobs, my priests are a mix of Empire/ Free People Flagellants from WFB/AoS, Necromunda redemptionists and Imperial guard bits.







A bit of a close up so you can see what they're like (also I really like how I painted the hair on this one)




The scheme may look like a generic red priest scheme, but is actually based on some real life stuff, most notably Jacobs.
Cookie to whoever can guess what it is from .

As always Constructive comments, criticism, feedback/ general related conversation welcome.

-DH-

115. A Road to Glory. Butter Biscuit Basecoat. Sister of Battle part 20.

I know, I know, it has been a while.

Being made redundant a while back really hit me hard emotionally and financially.
Lucky fr me the cover work I spoke of has carried me through just about, but November, December and January where not comfortable for me.

I did a bit of hobbying here and there, but didn't really feel any joy from it... in fairness I didn't feel a great deal of joy form anything.

Over January though my mood has improved, and I've focused on making as much progress I can, in the areas under my control

One of those areas is my hobby.


Sometime in November I set about the task of basecoating all of my Sisters of Battle.

This was a pretty long and arduous process, especially considering
a ) I'm a terribly slow painter
and
b ) I hate batch painting
Purples, Greens, Browns and Blacks (for the black parts and in anticipation of the metal parts)

I'm happy to report though that they are all done... or hey were, until I acquired some more XD
( I couldn't turn down the new canonness and plastic Celestine!)



That's a lot of girls!

Here is what they look like up close




It took me until late December to finish these basecoats, and then I took a break from them and did some work on some other stuff (which I have subsequently completed, so expect pictures soon)

I'm going to try and forge ahead.
I imagine I'll get distracted at some point though, so no promises.

Thanks for reading

-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-

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-

93. A Road to Glory. Fly You Fools! Sisters of Battle part 19.

#TBT

While I'm deciding what colour to paint my Imperial Knight I thought I'd work on some other stuff I've been neglecting...so I've been doing a spot of painting and trying to finish off projects here and there.

On project that has been crying out to be finished is my much loved Sisters of Battle.



I had someone make a mold of the metal prototype and have been casting these from green stuff.

As well as this I've started the long process of undercoating and base coating, as well as tidying up the tanks and stuff.

While I've been doing this I've thought about expanding the army a little.
Someone bought me a squad of Sister Repentia. I love the way this unit looks so I've been considering building them.
As well as this, I've got enough Battle Sisters spare to throw in another Battle Sister Squad for extra bodies if needed.
I pretty much 'need' to build 4 heavy flamers and a Promethium relay pipe for my new 1,500 point army anyway, so it wont hurt.

Who knows what else?
Another Exorcist maybe?
Some extra priests?

We'll see.
But expect to see an appearance from L'ordre Des Angels soon!

-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-