Ancient Typhos WIP

I've been cracking on with my New Year Hobby pledges, with style, having been driven into a flurry of hobby activity on my few days off over New Year. I've achieved the following:

• I've built and basecoated roughly 20 Thousand Sons (minus weapons)
  
• Stripped my Sons of Horus fleet, then repaired and re-undercoated them, ready for their new and improved colour scheme
  
•  Stripped and cleaned 10 Inqusitorial Stormtroopers
  

On top of that, I've also started work on my second Contemptor Dreadnought, whilst I decide whether or not to redo the paint job on my first one.

As you can see, there's still a lot to do on him, but I'm really liking it. This will probably end up beig my first completed model of 2016.

This one's converted from the Betrayal at Calth Contemptor, with a quick and easy reposing of the legs and some of the sarcophagus detail cut away. He's also going to be getting some parchment scrolls (once I get round to making them), Multi-Melta and Power Fist with Graviton Gun, to turn him into a roving vehicle hunters.

A mighty hobby quest

I should know better than to venture into GW in the run up to Uni deadlines. I always end up with far too many ideas for projects that i have nowhere near enough time for.

But, in a feat of incredible self-control, I've decided that those can wait until New Year, when i have a six week break and my student loan. In the meantime, I'm going to focus my hobby efforts on getting my current projects done and dusted.


Here's my 'To Do' list to lead me nicely to the 1st of January. You'll notice most of it's stuff that's been featured on The Wandering Mind over the course of 2011 and never seen again.

- Build my new hobby area (more on this next post)

- Finish up my Dark Elf Corsair and Witch Elf units

- Paint my Dark Eldar Kabalite unit that's been sitting on my desk for the last 4 months

- Finish painting my Hochland Empire force

- Finish building and painting my first Grey Hunter unit

- Finish painting my Soul Drinker Tactical and Assault Squads

- Finish my Thunderwolves, including my Lord

- Finish Bjorn

- Paint my Rune Priest

- Paint Trazyn the Infinite

- Finish building and painting my Zombie Dragon Bloodthirster/ Shard of the Void Dragon

- Paint at least 50 (out of 350)of my Zombies

- Strip down my previous failed attempt at Deathwing ready to start anew in the new year

- Build my Throgg the Troll King conversion, ready to lead my Ogre Kingdoms/ Warriors of Chaos monster force

As you can see, it's a fairly substantial list, but one I feel i can manage. The theory is, if i get all this done, I can start the new year without an huge backlog of stuff, allowing me to focus on my new projects.

I'll post the stuff up here as I do them, so you can see how I get on and I'll do a follow-up post in the New Year, where hopefully I can congratulate myself on a job well done. Hopefully.

Here we go then...

Back with Gobbos

Back from my holidays at last. We stayed a little longer than planned but it was a fun trip, that's all that mattered.

Anyway, Here's the progress on that Night Goblin unit I started before I went. I havn't done much, but i've been working mainly on their faces and weapons, as that's what people are going to pay attention to in-game

My first rank...




...and with a Shaman - complete with tin foil hat! (in his words - "to stop 'me brains gettin' zogged")



I've decided to used the wooden rabbit as a Snotling Pump Wagon and will be mounting it on a chariot base shortly. I'm also planning on building a larger contraption to use as a Giant.

But more on all that soon, for now, let me know what you think of these guys

Lunchtime Progress 10th May - Cauldron of Blood

Today i've been working on painting up the base and improving the blood in the cauldron. A hairdryer was my best friend here, otherwise all the progress you see would've taken me the better part of a week!




I've been dabbing in more red paint and layers of gloss varnish to try and add some depth to the blood. I'm personally quite pleased with the result and now that's done it means that i can move on to freehanding runes around the rim.

Lunchtime Progress 5th of may

As promised, better pictures of the Cauldron of Blood, along with the scenic base I made for it at lunchtime today. It's the first layer of a stepped structure I'm creating, sculpted from spare bases and green stuff.




I'm currently in the process of highlighting the blood in the cauldron and adding an extra layer of gloss to make it a bit more realistic, so that will probably be the next update.

Lunchtime Progress 4th of may

May the fourth be with you

Sorry, it had to be said. Now on to why you're here.



My Manticore is based at last. Now i just have to do the details on him and find a good donor model to use for Hellebron herself.



If anyone knows of a good model, i'm open to suggestions. At the moment, i'm leaning toward this one....





My Cauldron of Blood is nearly done. Not the best of pictures but i was in a rush to snap them before heading back to the studio (hence the food wrappings in the background too)

All i need to do is find and paint the arms of the statue, detail the bottom and make a scenic base for the whole thing.

I'm getting there. Slowly but surely

Any thoughts or critiques are welcome

Lunchtime Progress 22nd April - Dark Elves galore!

Cauldron Witch Elf undercoated. This one is going to go with the one i put up a few days ago.


Crossbowmen nearly done


Closer view of the WIP freehand banner for my Crossbowmen


Cauldron of Blood WIP, layering wash after wash of Thraka Green over Shining Gold


Finally, one of my Plastic Executioners converted from the DE spearman box. There will be a tutorial one day. Honest.

Lunchtime Progress, 20th April

Ok, so i didn't get round to the Manticore wing today like i said i would, but the prospect of finishing off this Witch Elf was too tempting.

She can either be used as part of the Cauldron of Blood crew or as Death Hag in her own right. The cauldron itself got a round of washes too, but i can't be bothered to get pics of it right now, so i'll do that tomorrow.

It's amazing what you can achieve if you work in little steps