Renegade HQ Complete

Well the militia side of things any ways. This week has been difficult to get motivation, the weather is drawing in and the man cave (garage) is not as warm as it has been, but I'm determined to get these guys finished.

This is my second Command Squad, i really like the old guy with the flamer and monkey with a burning tail.

My psykers, additional HQ addons to the core HQ choice, really pleased with the mud weathering, first time I have use powder weathering techniques.

These are my favourites of the army so far, love these enforcers, they really have the corrupted commissar feel I was going for.

And finally the preacher for this unit.

All in all I'm quite pleased with the turn out, they are a good table top standard, and if I'm blowing my own trumpet, some of them, the Enforcers, are a little better.

Right next to finish off the Marine HQ choices...

(PS need to get better pictures of these, job for tomorrow)

Big Heads...

Painting 1:18 scale or 100mm figures is a lot different to painting normal 30mm gaming figures, as you might have seen in the first post about this project, the techniques from smaller models don't translate well. So I did some research into different painting techniques, and here are my results, these figures are no where near finished and are definitely still WIPs.

This is my first attempt at a more realist method of painting skin tones, using colour i would not normally use on miniatures, but I think it has some pleasing effects, think it looks better than the previous attempt.

Second and third attempts, these are a little better in my opinion, but still need some practice on this method to get it looking right, but I do like the dirty street urchin feel these future wasteland warriors are developing.

Armour is also coming along well, i like the dirty grubby feel these figures have, yet at the same time i think the flesh tones are looking soft.

Group shot!!!

Not quite ready for the poster but not long now I hope :)

And a change of scale...

First bit of work for the challenge in 1:18 scale.

Only blocked in a few basic colours and started to get some tones on the skin.

These guys are gonna be a challenge in and of themselves, the sheer amount of paint and work to get her to here was daunting, will have to work on softening those face lines, looking a bit cell shaded at the moment.

She and her 19 siblings are gonna kill me, so any tips from the bloggers out there on getting better tones on such a large scale, never done this scale before.

Busy Week, but still grinding away.

It has been a struggle this week to get much time to blog about my progress, it was blog or do, so I chose to do instead :)

Reawakening the painter inside me, been asleep a long time, but he's started to rouse. Tried some blending and rewoking some of the harsher tones in all this weeks set.

So fist up we have my Command Platoon HQ, with the advisers attached to it.
(I thought after my initial splurge on some disciples I should start to form this army up, and get it some way organised, so starting at the top)

Command Group: Commander, Rifleman, Grenadier, and Heavy Weapons Team, I know they aren't on a single base, but I hate them being on one base,  I think it looks weird.

Enforcers: These wont actually be in the unit, but are attached and will be placed in the other militia, they are for those not in the know a little like heretical commissars.

Additional Advisers, Psychic and the Apostate Preacher. Yup the psycher is big, but then again this is the nurgle psycher in an army that is supposed to look very chaos.

And the other side.... of the psycher, not sure why I didn't turn the preacher.

So that's my update so far this week...but there's more...

Catching up with this weeks 6MMRPC

After a long weekend away I'm back on the challenge, so here is the work I've been doing this week, putting together the next 3 squads of Disciples for my Heretics army.

My Sisters of Alpharius, still needs a 2nd heavy weapon figure, still searching for a mechanicus dwarf or similar.

Heavy weapon sister, quite pleased with the ammo backpack conversion along with the ammo belt chop and refit.

Champion sister.

Personally very pleased with my heavily converted squad.

Next up. WW1 style British Disciples.

Very pleased with the overall look of this squad.

They even have their own Enforcer.

This squad was an idea i had for a upper spire hive world noble unit, well equipped with renaissance themes. 

A very provokative pose, 'C'mon you scum'

Cant wait to get paint on these guys.

Woot 100

Got to 100 views today :)
(I know not much but its the first mile stone :))

Squad One Day 2 6MMRPC...almost there

I know I haven't based them yet, but I don't know what terrain the field of battle will be yet, I suspect snow... but I'm waiting on conformation.

Anyhow, here is Squad One finished to my standard table top.

I'll get the hang of this camering thing... one day

The squat mechanic is my favourite, think I'll look for more... after this challenge obviously o.O

Pleased :) now on to the second squad :)