Terminate!

On friday, Steve and I went to Regina it was a bit better seeing that Steve has been living there for about a year so he knows where pretty much anything is in the city. I stopped off at Gamesworkshop, of course, and grabbed what could be called "the usual" these days. Which is blank unit which catches my eyes plus the newest issue of white dwarf. The past issues have been pretty good seeing it was pretty general to all three war games they have going for them, but this one is more about the new giant for Warhammer that was released a month ago and the painting the new Tau Empire. I don't mind it seeing they have to please 3 fan bases now, but this one lacked one very important article, which is Turn 1. This article is one of my favourite reads because it inspires me to continue finishing my army and to try out new ideas. It didn't seem the same without it, but I guess next issue it will be back.

RAPTORS!

I had a day off from work yesterday so I painted my havocs. Started around 1 and stopped at about 4:45, in that time period I managed to paint 2 full models plus the base purple coat for anything that needed it. That night, 9:30 - 12:00 I completed the last three models and added the finishing touches on the first 2. With my Havocs complete all I need to do is work out the points for them and I am ready to go. Well, I did that, but I will tweek it a bit more. I ended up with a grand total of 661 points, but I have to change my Daemon Prince a bit more and add a Havoc champ so I might get to around 700 by the time I do that. I will post some pictures a bit later, but right now I have to go to work.


P.S. My next models to paint are my raptors hence the title.

Finished... actually that was a few weeks ago!

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Well, I completed my Khorne Berserkers, yay, go me. I think they turned out pretty well, my pictures are pretty shitty but I got a pretty good shot of the skull faced one. Anyways, my next project, if I can decide on which mark to make them, are my Havocs. I can choose to have them a sick green colour and throw on a mark of nurgle, but they wouldn't have the special weapons like autoconnon. They would ,however, be able to pick from gear from the nurgling only section of equipment. I doubt it would be worth it that way, so the other option is to go with Slaanesh. They would be able to choose from their normal weapons or trade them in for some sound blasting weapons. So, really, I have already picked which one to base them on, now I just need a non gay purple colour scheme to make them look bad ass.

Hell YES!

I have been diligently working on my Berserkers, watching my collection of DVDs as I do so. Actually I get focused on my work and I forgot that I was watching anything, but I like occationally looking up at the screen to laugh at familiar lines from The Simpsons that I missed or they cut out, great fun! I finished one.. or was it two more minis? Anyways, I have been trying new ideas on them. One of them I tried out the decals that came with the set, it turned out pretty good but a piece of the skull decal was ripped when I slide it off. I also added a holster on the side of his leg and a jet pack on his back. At first I thought wouldn't look good, but I tried it out and it seems to complete the model. I am still debating if I should add it to the rest or just have one in the squad that was privileged enough to get one. My most recent mini has an actual head on his shoulders instead of the usual helm that they normally have. Unlike my Obliterator's face, I liked the way I took my time with this one instead of making him a solid colour for a face.

I know this is most likely hard to imagine, so I hope to take a few GOOD pictures of my minis this time. But right now I am stuck at work, chow for now.

Link!

I contacted the creater of the site that inspired me to create this blog section. He gave me the "Ok", so I am going to throw a link to it on the side, check it out. He has some very well painted models there, then you can come back here to laugh at mine in comparison. No seriously, check out what his site has to offer, he has been painting for quite a few years and has even entered numerous contests.

Special thank you to David Dresch!

Khorne Berserkers!

I thought I should post my current work, so here are the three Berserkers I have beens slowly painting for the last month or so. I usually do one in a short burst then forget about them for days. But now I have four done. I was going to post a picture of it but it turned out blurry so I will have to work on my photography of my miniatures. In fact this was one of the better pictures I took. I will show more once I get the hang of things.

New Blog!

Alright, after surfing the web for ideas on how to paint miniatures I finally thought to myself I should start a new blog on my evolution as a painter of models. So here I am my first post... well it won't be cool untill I actually take pictures of my work and start posting them. But before that I will have to start my miniatures. So, this post is going to be a brief history on my painting.

I was first inspired to start modelling when I seen how good my brothers got at it. They would paint the many model cars and trucks we would all get for birthdays or Christmas and they would turn out great. My first car was a snap-tight, just a small police car, I will later post a picture of it. But like all 7 years that start painting it was very horribly done, I would rush through it just to see what it looked like when it was done. This is still one of my biggest down falls when I paint, I enjoy painting but I can't wait for paint to dry.

Now, I have moved from models to miniatures, but I still have the itch to try doing some old school modelling. I am now throwing together my Chaos Berserkers, which I have 3 of 12 finished. I hope to keep hard on it during the weeks to come. I will also post some of my finished work to show my evolution as a painter.