ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY SPACESHIP

For my recent birthday, my wife and children got me some rebel spaceships for my chess set Death Star project. I choose to go with the Armada size craft as they would look more in scale with the project.
The first thing I had to do was clip off the locating pegs they come on, as I will be using paper clip wire to attach them to the Death Star, once that was removed I then put in a pin on one of each type of ship to do a test paint for each.
My first attempt didn't go to well as I tried to paint each little panel, so I tried drybrushing the ships instead, this proved a lot better. Then I picked out a few details and markings to give them the proper feel.

For an idea of size the A-Wing is 12 mm in length.Quite pleased with the result, only have 5 more of each ship to do.
That's it for this post, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED !

For any of you who has been following Michael's thread 28mmvictorianwarfare you'll know he has taken on a massive undertaking to build the attack on Schloss Itter during WW2 to run as a game at Salute 2020. With the help of James who now has a blog makeitminiature they've been progressing well.
Now anybody who has taken on a massive project like this knows how daunting it can be, so I've been looking for a way to help them, then they posted an article about adding interiors, and I found a way to help. James had made some bunk beds for the barracks, and Michael mentioned he would think about getting some mattresses for them, now finding a mattress that would fit perfectly could be a tall order, so I emailed Michael and said what about ones where the bed was made, just got out of, and still in, to help show how it was a bit rushed when the attack happened.
I did a quick Google search and found that the mattresses at the time were very thin and sometimes were just a folded blanket, I went with a mattress as I thought this would have the greatest appeal as a product when I release them. I also wanted to get the rough blanket feel that you often see.
So here's what I created

Once I've sorted the one's Michael needs I'll put them on the website, that's it for this post, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

In what seems a very short time (well for me anyway !) Angron is finished, yes I know I only posted the green yesterday , so I'm as surprised as you are !
I kept the red skin in the artwork but changed the head cables to dark metal, and cloth and wings to black, I feel this helps define the areas better.

This is the first space marine I've painted in a very long time, and the first Ultramarine in even longer ! LOL
Just a quick one today, don't know what I'll be posting next all depends on what I find or what I happen to make, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

ANGRY RON !

As I continue to clear my daughters models, I've been concentrating on finishing the sculpting of Angron. I've used a bit of artistic licence with some of the sculpt compared to the artwork, but tried to keep with the general feel of the artwork.
I thought taking a picture at this stage would be a good idea to show just how much green went into this conversion, as once it's painted you'll hopefully not see the difference.

Once I've finished a couple of little details, I'll be onto the painting, which I want to get done as soon as possible. I'm going to change some of the colours from the art as there is too much red, on red, on red.

That's it for this post, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

IT'S ALL WHITE NOW !

After a few teething problems, I've managed to blitz through the rest of the Stormtroopers and now have all 8 finished

Here they are with the character figures as well

and a shot of just the characters together

and lastly a shot of all the hero characters together

This will be my entry for azazelx scenic-squaddie-september as board game figures count, and chess is definitely a board game.
All I've got left now is 8 rebel troopers and the Death Star base, plus the finishing touches like lightsabres and gloss varnish in places, at this rate I might get this project done before my new room, I personally hope it's the other way round ! LOL
That's it for this post, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

CONTRAST

There's been a lot of talk recently about GW new contrast paints, not to jump on any band wagon, I've been watching reviews on different blogs and review sites, with some very mixed reviews.
With the chess set I've got 8 Stormtroopers to paint so decided to give the Apothecary White Contrast paint a go.
First I laid down an even coat of base white

Then applied a layer of the contrast paint, my first impressions were it's a gloopy form of a wash, and moves a lot like the GW Gem Paints. This means you need to spread the paint a lot more than a wash, but not too much that it doesn't cover the surface.

After this I needed to go back to normal painting to make the armour look clean as you normally see on a stormtrooper

Once I've found my gloss varnish I'll coat all the armour plates to give the shiny feel, and I'll call this one done, only 7 more to go.
Do I feel the contrast paint made a difference ? Not massively as I still had to use normal techniques to finish it off, but then white is one of the harder colours.
That's all for this post, until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave

CLEAR THE DECKS !

Many years ago my eldest daughter started a 40K Khornate army, I originally helped her work out her army list, and gave her a load of converted models to start her off, then as she got more of the bits she needed I promptly converted those for her as well.
The painting of the army was to be her responsibility except for a few centre piece models, which I agreed to paint for her.
Recently my daughter moved into a new place with enough space to hold her army, which she picked up the other week, I thought great a bit more space once my new room is finished, until she noticed I hadn't finished painting a few of the pieces for her.

Above is her heavily converted Defiler, this had two extra claw arms added, and multiple custom khorne icons added, then painted in the traditional red and brass colour scheme of the Worldeaters Legion.

Then I finished her dreadnought Kraal the soultaker, the background behind this is at the start of a battle his armour is a blank dark red, then as he claims souls for Khorne they appear as skull across his armour, which are claimed be minions at the end of a battle through dark rituals.

Last is the remaining piece to be finished Angron Demon Prince of the Worldeaters, the model originally started as a Bloodthirster body and the wings came from a Dark Elf Dragon, a lot more greenstuff needed yet but will end up like this at the end

That's all for this post so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave