Plagueburst Crawler

Hey there,

it's been a while since my last post here and I'm not sure if anyone stops by this days. Nonetheless I'd like to share new pictures with you. Even if no one comments, I still like to see my past works here on my blog now and than. :)

The Plagueburst Crawler is a great model and I like the beetle like design. I think Game Workshop should individualize there Space Marines much more like they did with the Death Guard. At least that's what I would like.

I'm not finished yet, but I like how the paintjob worked out. It is not perfect and it is far from being a showcase model. But on the battlefield it will look gorgeous! I tried some new thinks like the crackling medium used on the tank treads to simulate sticky dirt. It worked out quite well an through this dirt I could link the Plagueburst Crawler to the base design of my Plague Marines. But I'm open for suggestions. Do you have something in mind you don't like, or an idea what I could make better? Let me know. ;)

Two more Marines to go for my first squad. I'm getting excited. :D

Tokusetsu inc.

Finished my Tokusetsu. I admit the colorsheme is flashy, but I imagine her to be part of an elite guard from a rich and influential Japanese politician. Therefore she has to represent her boss and look good in his traditional palast-like mansion.

 

 

Next project? The bot for my Tokusetsu.

 

 Tokusetsu and Kempeitai - A good start for my JSA forces!

JSA Kempeitai

Yesterday I finished a coloursheme test for a JSA army. I wanted my japanese warriors to take up the flair and colours of samurai and I'm pleased with the result. How do you like them?

New Hellcat

Hell yeah! I finished my Hellcat! :D

Nomads

I took new pictures of my Nomads. Hope you like them. :)

Death Guard 5 man squad

My first squad is ready for action. Well I should add two more marines to get a unholy seven man team, but I'm still really proud at the moment. :D

Death Guard - Plague Marines

Today for something different. Up till now I couldn't find anything that would make me play 40K. Even though friends of mine have been playing GWs main system for ages, I just didn't like the different Space Marine models. To me they all seemed rather similar. Something that I found quite sad. I've read the Horus Heresy (well at least the first 3 books) some years ago and they were very fascinating. Therefore it was even more frustrating for me, that GW didn't work on more different looking models for the different orders. Of course there were exceptions like the Grey Knights but after all I wasn't interested in the rules and there was no faction I wanted to get my hands on.

All this changed with the 8th edition. The Primaris Ultra Marines looked great. The proportions seem more ... coherent. Even so Ultra Marines are not what I wanted. The second faction of the starter set on the other hand? Holy shit!

I knew of the Death Guard from the Horus Heresy books, but what GW made out of their artworks was astonishing. Corrupted Marines with demonic touch. Beautiful! The artist in me wanted nothing but to paint some of them. Lucky me a friend of mine bought the starter set and just wanted to have the Ultra Marines. So I bought his Death Guard and started painting. Up till now I have 4 Plague Marines finished and every one of them was like a little adventure. I tried different techniques on each of them and though they look rather different if you look close up, they still make a nice little squad. Well it is no squad yet. One more to go for my first 40K unit. Let's see what I can try on the next one. :D

Shieldmaiden #2

Well, well it's been a while and I'm glad this blog hasn't been deleted meanwhile. :D

After a long break I wanted to paint something again. And once more one of the beautiful Shieldmaidens from Shieldwolf Miniatures had to take up the roll as test dummy. Poor girl. That said, I really had a lot of fun with her and I really do like the result. Of course there's always a lot of things one could have done better, but at some point I just wanted to finish this little experiment. What I tried to do? I just wasn't satisfied with my current NMM anymore. It was not contrasty enough for my taste. So I added more black and white into it and now I really like it. Or what do you think?

Here comes a direct comparison between the new and old NMM to show you what I mean. Furthermore I changed the color of the base to brown to make it less dominant.

The beautiful maidens holding there ground against some sinister vermins.

And the newcomer in bigger pictures.

I hope my motivation doesn't run off to fast, so I can get some more miniatures painted. :)

Infinity Impressions

Just a bunch of pics from my latest game. I like the progress my board is making. :)