Ork Forgeworld Biker Boss

Here's a painting tutorial and some pics of the Forgeworld Biker Boss that I painted a while back. Below you'll find a list of the equivalent paints in the new GW range.

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Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors WIP

Here's how these guys are progressing. I posted last week about giving them a base coat with my airbrush, well now I'm laying down the other base colours. I'm following the painting guide from the 2012 How to Paint Citadel Miniatures, except for the armour which I've done in greens with my airbrush. Coming along nicely and should have this batch of 10 done quickly enough.

After the airbrushed base colours I drybrushed them with the Helion green dry paint to pull out the edge highlights.

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Dark Eldar Airbrushing base coats

Here's some pics of the first stages of my upcoming Dark Eldar army. Like I've mentioned before, I've accumulated enough stuff for an army and now just need to paint it all... so to help speed that up I've airbrushed the base colours on the vehicles. I used the dark eldar green blue base and layers. I started with a black spray then covered everything with the Kabalite base and did the highlights with the corresponding layers.

For using the new paints in the drybrush I watered them down about 50/50 with water. They seemed to work well and I didn't have any issues. I bought a bunch of disposable droppers from ebay to transfer the paints to the airbrush and mix the water. This meant I didn't have to pour them and worry about wasting them.

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Wolf Standard WIP 2

I've made a bit more progress on this guy... a little delayed because I'm getting geared up to work on my Dark Eldar. I spent most of last night airbrushing the vehicles with the new GW paints.

But back to this guy... he's getting near completion as all the big areas are done and its just a mater of finishing off the pelts and smaller details.

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Wolf Standard WIP

Here's my current painting project, the Grey Hunter Wolf Standard that just came out in finecast. I'm using all the new paints again, so it'll be interesting to see how the armour compares to the rest of my army.

In other news, my dark eldar army is getting ready to be painted. I've been accululating different kits, and I'm not at the point where I can put together a decent army, so I'm getting motivated to paint it. I'd like to do an alternate paint scheme, but I can't decide so I may end up going with the one from the 2012 How to Paint Citadel Miniatures book.

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Skaven Doomflayer Complete

Here's some pics of the finished doomflayer using the new GW paints. I've shown the ones I used at the bottom of this post. The patina finish was done with a watered down coat of Sotek Green then a smaller coat of Temple Guard Blue. I used to do this by mixing Dark Angels Green and Hawk Turquoise in the old range.

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Skaven Doomflayer WIP 2

Here's the rest of the work in progress shots of my doomflayer using the new GW paints. Like I said before, I like how they work together and don't really see any big difference (apart from the selection) from the old paints.

In other news, I played a fantasy game tonight... my Orcs and Goblins against some Bretonnia knights. I brought Grimgor and 29 black orcs as the anchor of my army, and would have won if not for a mix up with a rule about the green knight. I should have killed him in the first round of combat because of his ethereal rule, but it was overlooked (I've never faced him, and it was my opponent's first time using him). Anyway, fun game otherwise, and great to be rolling some dice.

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