Articles tagged with: Painting

Lately I've been playing less videogames and assembling & painting more. I am becoming slowly tired of current games being all the same, meanwhile I read a lot about Warhammer 40.000 and I feel eager to do anything related to it.

Apart from a half-painted Dark Angels Dreadnought and a MK VI Space Marine I found and started painting (to test highlights in Dark Angels green), I am mainly painting one badass I had pending and that is actually taking a lot of space due to the unglued parts: The ork Stompa.

The head is fully done (but not yet glued) as it is the body and legs, excepting some minor details on the front (like the spotlights or the gretchin in the upper right tower)...

... and some details also in the back (mainly the two gretchins arguing at the door.

I've finally glued some pieces like the ramp with the mek gretchin.

The head was already painted, but the body took a while (I didn't had spray, which I will correct for the next time). As soon as I finish with it, I can paint the arms and this monster will be ready to break havok among the greenskin enemies.

I've played with some types of effects, like rusty metal, white + silver metals, and black washes to give dirty and used looks to the back pipes.

But I have another thing related with the Stompa.

Back when I bought it, I also bought an oven, and the cardboard had a shape that inmediately gave me an idea: To build an Stompa assembly facility.

I took some spare parts from my ork trukks, two spare gretchins and some wooden chopsticks. and built this scenery piece:

It is basically a big round platform (in which fits a real Stompa!) with mechanical arms, some decoration and walls, and a watchtower.

The ork trukk spare parts were really handy, both for the machinery and for filling the wall gaps.

This is the section that took most time: The watchtower, made of dozens of chopstick pieces cut and glued together. Plus some cardboard, a few ork grenades and used ammo at the floor, and that big sign is just waiting to have painted a big red "Waaagh!".

Some glyphs and the stairs to walk up to the tower.

I didn't wanted to abuse with the ork decoration, the walls already have an orcish look and feel.

The piece in the middle is from ikea, it was a bit curved so wasn't useful anymore for the hama beads, so it was perfect for filling the middle "crater".

Today I have finally base coated it in grey (spray gift of my friend Vicente ^_^)

It now looks much better (as you don't see the original material colors) and I can better think of the color schemes

My idea is to start with it as soon as I finish with the stompa, not giving much detail to the scenery but focusing on the details like the gretchin.

I progress quite slowly but as the main idea is to disconnect from the world and "reach my Zen" while assembling & painting, it is ok for me.

Posted on 2011-12-27

With the newly released Grey Knights I couldn't resist ordering a few of them to build another small army.

My plan is to have in time 7 or 8 different race armies of at minimum 1500 points, to be able to play with friends and all enjoy as much variety as possible, but as I'm the only one that buys them...

It is also quite nice to paint different models and in different colors, I noticed some time ago that both of my armies were too dark and greenish in general.

Right now I have this armies:

• Space Marine Dark Angels: Endless army, one day I should count the points, but I can play just with a Deathwing sub-army if I want.
• Orks: Another big one. I have almost all models I want (as with the Space Marines) but also is a huge green swarm with lots of orks and heavy stuff (2 dreadnoughs and the like).
• Genestealer Cult: All my old and new Space Hulk Genestealers, the old and new hybrids, patriarch, mages, a Carnifex (big badass and awesome miniature) and one tank small conversion I will show once painted (someday...). Very specialiced and probably not suitable for all battles, but I wanted my genestealer horde to become a true cult :)
• Dark Eldar: Kabalite warriors squad, 3 reavers and one mandrakes squad. right now the smallest army, whenever the 2nd wave of DE miniatures is launched I'll probably expand it.
• Grey Knights: One normal squad, one terminator armour squad, a brother captain and the Stormraven I'm currently building.
  Also they have as allies two inquisitors and two assassins (models I bought a while ago and couldn't use with the Dark Angels due to Codex restrictions!).

I also bought a Chaos Space Marines battleforce, Terminator lord and Soul Grinder.

So the total is 6 armies so far. Most of them unpainted so not worth taking pictures (what is painted is already in my photo albums).

In the future I will probably add an Eldar battleforce and some Necrons (which rumors say will be revamped soon), and that will probably be all. Increasing ranks but remaining races like the Tau or Imperial guard do not engage me enough and have just one or two nice-looking miniatures for me to collect and paint.

Having said all that, I can focus on the initial idea of this post, divided in two parts. First, my progress assembling a "little bird":

I've also learned to not glue everything before painting, so the pilot and cabin aren't glued to allow me to paint everything in detail.

The Stormraven is huge and heavy (and I haven't finished yet), with an amazing level of detail. I'm looking forward to paint it and try metal highlights (it's going to be for the Grey Knights). An expensive (at least for GW range, compared with Forge World items is even cheap XD) but awesome model.

And the second part of the post is that having enough time to paint seems to be a difficult task for me. Anything below 1 hour is not enough, and usually when I have at least that much spare time is after midnight and my pulse is not perfect due to starting to feel tired.

So in painting I advance slowly, quite slowly. But I do advance something.

I finally finished painting the remaining details of Azrael, my Dark Angels army commander. He had a few details still unpainted (weapon, head and banner pole/angel figure at the top), so I finally did them:

I also have started to paint the ork Stompa, not only because it will look great, but also because has 6 fragments unglued waiting for being painted, so now it is both unusable in games (at least without blue-tac) and taking a lot of space in the shelves.

Those are two finished fragments, the back gretching with a drill, and the head with the Ork Kaptain giving orders.

I am currently painting the main body to glue this pieces and then glue each remaining fragment as I finish with them.

Posted on 2011-04-24

Finally I'm being able to grab some time to paint, as I like to mix assembly/modding session with painting sessions.

My friend Lobo666 is helping me with the dozens of scenery props I have (including some huge building ruins), so I'm switching between painting Space Marines, giving the base coat to the Stompa, and painting scenery too.

Until now, this are the finished pieces we've done in two or three small painting sessions:

Rusty defense barricade – front view

Rusty defense barricade – rear view

Small defense barricade – front view

Small defense barricade – rear view (with a nice blood splat that Lobo666 did)

Radiactive materials barrel (missing some decoration, probably a number or something similar). Originally was an old camera film tube :)

Barrels and fuel tank

Objective marker

I'm almost finished with another miniature but I prefer to only take photos of finished elements.

After so many years not doing it is not easy going back to painting!

Posted on 2010-05-11

This beauty is one of the gifts I've received this weekend as a birthday present...

A fantastic lamp and magnifier for modelling and painting!

I haven't yet tried painting with it but, despite the images (which can't fully depict the augmentation the lamp provides) it will help me a lot painting all small details of my miniatures.

Apart from providing a superb illumination and the zoom, it can be easily moved in any direction. Really cool!

Posted on 2009-05-24

A video featuring two painted ork stompas, with close-ups and 360º rotation camera:

They are scheduled to be released on march!

Posted on 2009-01-23