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Sabtu, 12 Oktober 2013

How to Paint Uthwe Craftworld Eldar

Here's a quick tutorial on how to paint up Uthwe Eldar. Back in the day (2nd edition) I had an Uthwe Eldar army. I sold them on ebay when I got back into 40k a few years back. That was back in the metal bodies, plastic arms days... yikes, those sucked for coming apart during transport.

Anyway, here's a quick tutorial on doing the black armour with bone contrast.

Kamis, 10 Oktober 2013

Skycutter Finished

Here we go with a tutorial and a bunch of finished pics. I'm glad to have this guy done as its been on my desk all summer. I kind of wish I did the wings pointing up because this thing doesn't fit into my display case very well with the rest of my High Elves.

Anyway, check out the pics below, and the paints are at the bottom.

Scouts and Landspeeder Storm WIP

I've always wanted to paint up some scouts, and when the Landspeeder Storm came out years ago I thought it was a brilliant model. I've even considered a scout focused army... maybe it goes back to my memories of Advanced Space Crusade. That was way back in my early days of 40k... remember those Tyranids? I still have some of the scout models and maybe I'll paint them up in my Ultramarine colours.

Anyway, here's the Storm and a squad of scouts to go along with it. I base coated the blue with Army Painter spray and will do some weathering at the end.

GW Gives away free Codex books... in Japan

Just came across this news story... apparently GW is actually giving things away to gain market share. In Japan pdf's of the Codex books can be downloaded for free (some, mostly fantasy). I don't know how long this practice has been going on, but hopefully it works there and they think about doing it for some of the english language ones.

In browsing the site (via google translate) it looks like some of the updates and campaign books are free kind of like how GW used to do this for old WD articles.

Check it out here (you may have to change the country to Japan):
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/articleCategory.jsp?communityArticleCatId=5500004a&articleCatId=5500004a&catId=&section=community

This story was found here:
http://www.fanhammer.es/2013/10/06/gw-japon-los-codex-libres-en-pdf-por-el-pais-del-sol-naciente/

Sabtu, 05 Oktober 2013

Skycutter WIP (Almost done)

Well, I finally found the will to finish this guy off. Thankfully once I had the base colours done it went pretty quick. The eagle was basically done a while ago, so it was just the flying boat and crew that needed the most attention. In exploring some other blogs I found a neat tip for blending... its using Tamiya thinner (X-20A) instead of the usual acrylic medium. Its an alcohol based thinner and works really well with the new GW paints. I've also heard that it works well for pin striping with acrylics instead of oils, so I'll have to give that a try.

Anyway, these guys are looking good and will be done shortly (with a tutorial to be posted).

Skycutter WIP

This guy has been taking up room on my painting desk, and I'd really like to finish it off. I think the hard work has been completed (the eagle and base) so it shouldn't take too much work to finish off. I've decided to go with the bolt thrower, so I'm only going to paint those guys for now. The paint scheme will be a pretty standard High Elves colour scheme to go along with the rest of my army.

Ultramarines Tactical Squad Finished

Alright, the first (of many) Ultramarines guys that I've got to paint up to make an army. These guys will form the backbone of my army, so I'll have to paint up a bunch more of them. I'm using the normal GW colours for these guys, and I'm sure I'll get faster at painting them as I do more of them. Hopefully I'll get a vehicle tutorial posted soon.