Nurgle Daemon Prince

And here is my Daemon Prince. Need to pick up some wings as what good is a DP without em.

Plaguebearers

Alright, finally have a space to do some modelling and painting again! Woot, so here are my latest project. Nurgle Plaguebearers... Not sure how often I will actually use them in my lists, but none-the-less, I like the sculpts. Now its off to Tanksgiving in OakPark with 3 Vindicators. Will repost later and tell tales from that adventure.
-eric


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Really Old Plague Monks and an Odd Coincidence

Did someone say Warhammer Fantasy? (Actually, Nick and Anton did)

I painted these skaven miniatures around 1997 when I was starting in WHFB. Back then, there were almost no plastics for Skaven. Needless to say, the difficulty of collecting a horde army of only metal miniatures took it's toll and the army was never completed.

When the multi-part plastic skaven came out a short time later, I hated them. Plus the 6th Edition focused a lot more on Clan Skryre rather than my favorite clan, Clan Pestilens.

I lost interest in WHFB after that. I worked briefly on a Goblin wolf rider army, but have focused mostly on 40K since then.

However, when I saw the new Skaven minis, I knew that I would very likely get drawn back into Fantasy.

Luckily, I kept most of my old skaven. Unfortunately, most of them are still buried deep in storage. I did find these plague monks, so I figured I'd take them out for a photo session.



Pretty much every one of these was a test mini. I couldn't really decide on a paint scheme. These minis will probably now get a bath in Simple Green and a new sickly green paint job.



And this is funny...



Above is the Sorcerer that I built for my Thousand Sons army about two years ago (and no, it's still not painted)

Below, is the brand new Games Day mini for 2010.



I'll leave you to make you own assumptions.

You're kidding me, right? the contest model is a dwarf?

Ok, so I'm racist...

I hate dwarves.

They are dumb, slow, dumpy, and drink too much beer. I never in a million years thought I'd be spending upwards of 10 hours painting one... One of the local GW stores was having a painting contest, and were giving away an undisclosed model, which you then had a week to paint up. Entering the contest gave you a raffle ticket to win a free painted army, and the winner would get free product.

I walked in to get the model, (and picked up some defense lines that I want to use for an arbites precinct that is shaping up) and found out, to my chagrin, that it was a limited edition dwarf champion... for falk's sake... seriously???

I almost said: "thanks, but no thanks", but I figured it was worth a shot, and nothing was going to be more testing of my abilities and focus than trying to paint up something so silly looking as a gigantic beard on legs.

I knew that I would have to do something to make it more fun, so I decided to turn it into a project incorporating something I could relate to... goblins!

Since it was a contest model revolving around a dwarf, I decided that I should probably NOT have the dwarf getting chopped in half, although I will admit, I was very tempted...

I took an older edition herder model, and hacked up the arms, and put a newer night goblin shield and sword on it... There was excessive building up for the arm and blood/entrails/guts... I didn't get a great shot of the goblin from the front when taking the pictures, but I think that for one of my first real sculpts, the arm came out pretty decently... Up until this point, I had only used 2 part modeling epoxy for fixing holes, and smoothing out joints/etc.

I took a couple of in progress pictures, and then a couple of the finished project. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and I can say that I have completed something I never thought I would ever work on... a dwarf champion.

Enjoy!

p.s. oh, I won a core box of my choice, but I didn't win the raffle, which was... guess what?

A dwarf army.

Not winning that prize has never felt better!

preliminary work on the gobbo

blood and guts

the finished product

Epic Armageddon: the first 10,000 points

A few years back, I picked up a couple lots of Epic Steel Legion models from various sources for cheap. I found myself the (at the time) not-so-proud owner of a couple of forgeworld models, and a ton of infantry and armor.

The casts were kind of poor, and I had never messed with the scale at all. It seemed to lack details, and ended up sitting on the shelves for months (maybe years, it's hard to remember).

I piddled with them a little, but they mostly sat unused until I was asked to actually play a game (please note that this trend continues with my nearly 1000 point Soviet Flames of War army, that I still haven't played a single game with) by a fellow compatriot of this blog. I think his excitement was contagious, and I ended up getting really amped up about the 6mm scale and tactical aspect of GW's Epic game.

Since then, a lot of things have gotten kicked into high gear for me, but I've tried to make painting models a priority for me lately, and have been quite prolific.

So, I wanted to document my work towards my first 10,000 points of epic, that I plan to have done sometime before the end of the year. I really have grown to quickly like the scale of the models, and the ease in which they paint up.

For this army, I'm not going for ultra-detailed, but rather "completed". I'm doing a very quick 2 color grey drybrush over black primer, and then throwing on some details. I am generally painting up a unit a night on average, with weekends seeing a bit more completed.

The titan is of the War Griffon Legio, and the rest of my army is a standard Steel Legion force.

I'm currently at a little bit above 3000, with another 4000 or so partially or nearly completed... Here are the first glimpses.

In progress shot of warhound for scale comparison. This model was very poorly casted. I turned it into some battle damage

My first completed superheavy company, also from Forgeworld, and also poor casts. Some of the details were completely washed out. I have another Shadowsword company that i'm working on that started out in much better shape.

Two More Red Scorpion Space Hulk Terminators

Click on these photos for the full image. They're huge.

Mike Hughes has sent us pictures of two more Space Hulk Terminators he has painted in the Red Scorpions color scheme. Mike Hughes is originally from Buffalo, NY. He worked under me at Games Workshop Walden Galleria 1999-2001 (I think I have those years right, haha). He was often referred to as "the painting slave" because he could churn out models 5x faster than any of us (and 10x faster than me!) through effectively streamlining the process of any color scheme we discussed and targeted highlighting. Needless to say, he was practically tethered to the painting table at all times. His greatest weakness at home has always been brainstorming an exciting and effective technique to carry out a color scheme and then getting 5-10 models into that army and then scrapping or selling the models. I once remember a group of kids coming into the store all excited about models they found in the garbage in their neighborhood and I was like, "Where'd you get these!? These are Mike's!" He honestly had just thrown them all out. It should be noted that Mike has also placed at the Baltimore Golden Demon - when he isn't trying to speed up and streamline he can totally knock it out of the park. He currently lives in Japan.

...ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war...

I dedicated a small amount of time every night this past week to working on my ever-growing Epic Black Legion (I know, I know...about 3 years too late...although the Epic Armageddon Living Rulebook was finally updated this past October!). At this point I am attempting to finish up a series of test models in hopes of refining my techniques and thus speeding up the overall process.

Black Legion Rhino

Black Legion Land Raider

Daemonettes of Slaanesh

Daemonettes of Slaanesh

Lesser Daemonic Packs

Khorne Berzerkers