Bits and pieces and guild ball season.

Two projects on the painting table at the moment. The second marauder squad and two guild ball teams.

I do love skirmish games and have a few in my possession. I have been planning on making a gallery for all the models for all of these “smaller” games in the future but I think I will add them as I go along. Now guild ball is a game that me and my partner in crime (my wife to be), got our eyes on some month ago. We instantly ordered one team etch and then other things came in the way. But now I will finally sit down and paint the models up so we can have our first game. It will be nice to paint something different as well for a few sessions.  

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Horus Heresy. Marauder squad. Black shields.

Done and finished. Now the marauder squad is complete and I can look forward to some more conversions. I think the next project will be five more marauders to start off the second marauder squad. We will see what I can cook up. Everything is in bits and pieces right now so it feels pretty far away at the moment. But I will start to sort it out and see what I have parts for and hopefully I will end up with a marauder squad when it is all finished :) .  

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Horus Heresy. Marauder squad continued. Part 2.

Next step of the paint scheme for my marauders is accent colors. It is pretty straight forward. Add the color you want for you models. I would say not to overdo it but it is up to anyone what that is. After that I dry brush the models with I light brown color. Here I try to pick up some details like tubes and bolts. As well as giving some areas some life with the warmer color. I then go over the model with a sand color that will more or less match the color of the base. This is also dried brushed on. 

Tomorrow I will use a sponge and light silver again to break up some of the dirt. 

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Horus Heresy. Marauder squad continued. Part 1.

So the last four marauders are on the painting tabel. Well the last four for the first squad that is. I got a question the other day of how I painted my reaver lord. There is no great trick to it or any great secret. So I thought I could share the recipe here on the blog. Maybe it can inspire someone. 

First step is to paint the model black. I do this with a black spray but you can easily just do it with a paint brush. After that I dry brush the model with a light silver. There are many ways to dry brush something. But the best way I have found is to dry brush first in one direction and then go over it again in an intersecting direction. That way you end up with a nice criss-cross pattern. Next step is to sponge light silver on the model. I know some guys don’t like this method. But I think it is a nice easy way to give some open areas some texture. Last step for today is to wash the whole model in any black wash. Idea is to dull it down a bit. You might need to do this one or two times to get the preferred darkness on the surfaces.

Tomorrow we will add some contrast color and try to dirty the model up a bit. 

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Horus heresy. Black shield terminators. Part 5

Just a couple of small things to do on the terminators and then we will call it. I really like the look and feel of these models. I am planning on getting my hands on five more terminators of some kind and make this squad ten strong. And in time maybe a Spartan to transport them. The most fun with this project is the converting aspect. So I will start look around for parts for the other five. I think I will base them on Cataphractii but I don’t want them to be plain Cataphractii. I will try to mix armor pieces and/or marks with some other random elements. 

Super fun project I have started here I must be honest. Let’s see how long I will keep this up. It is the usual story with me. I get super exited on one project and work heavily on it until I run out of steam. Then I pause and continue with something els for a while. I don’t mind working like that, but maybe it can look a little chaotic from the outside. At least my blog won’t be the same old thing over and over again. You, just like me, never know what will show up the next day ;)    

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Horus heresy. Black shield terminators. Part 1.

The rapier crew is more or less done. I just need to take a proper picture of them. But sometimes things come in the way. You shift focus and get inspiration in another direction. I should be finishing the rapier crew and the marauder squad but this is a hobby and one of my passions so I dont mind if I side tracks from time to time. 

I got an Idea for a black shield terminator squad and i wanted to test it. I will paint it up and add them to the force but thay may be replaced down the line if it dont turn out the way I pictured it. The black shields I am making is going to have alot of conversions. I want the force to be very original and visually intresting. Hopfully I can make that happen :) .

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Future plans and baby sabotage.

Having a young daughter is some of the best things that have happened to me. Even if you occasionally have hard times as a parent. Like the past nights when my baby girl just won’t sleep and are keeping her parents up through the night. The constant crying have left a ringing in my ear. However, this is small things to pay compared to all the love I feel for her and how much happiness she gives me every day. But the consequences of nights like this is that daddy just can’t find the energy to sit down with his little plastic men. Now I have more or less been working on something every day for one years’ time. I think I can take the day off considering. Right? I do have vacation as well so I will give myself a pass.

But when I can’t paint or build stuff I plan and think of future stuff and I thought I could share some of my future plans with the world.

I have been making a lot of progress on my Iron warriors. A lot of units have been made and tested and slowly I have solidified an idea of how I want my legion to run. But when I take a look at all of my stuff I see a half made legion. Plans I have had before was to get the iron circle, more havocs, a Spartan, big walkers and more cool tanks. Now if would get all of the things I want to get I would not come any closer to making my legion “whole” or complete. So I have decided to start working on my legion with the goal of finishing it. Now this sounds like I will sell it or stop playing with it once I reached my goal. That’s not going to happen. But I want to focus on making the army whole before I start buying more cool units. One of the things that did set these thoughts off was my resent plans of continuing on my mechanicum force. The mechanicum force will absolutely happen but every time I start making plans for it I look at my Iron warriors and feel like I am leaving something un finished and un done. So instead of having two armies that is half finished I will try to finish one of them at a time.

So what do I feel would finish my iron warriors then? Well a close look at my army and I can see that I do lack vehicles and specially transports. Right now my legion walks on to the board and walks off. Now I don’t have a problem with this when it comes to the tactical squads for example. But terminators and breachers on the other hand seems more awkward to just footslog forward. So first thing will be to address this problem and that will mean I need to add land raiders and maybe some rhinos. Now I don’t really like rhinos. I don’t know what it is but I can’t imagen me siting down and making three of them. I become bored just thinking of it. But this is something I need to do. I need rhinos in some of my lists and some of the game benefits is just too good to say no to. So I will start here. Time to mount up! I have more ideas like adding one more predator to finish the squad. Maybe something really dedicated to take on super heavys. I also have one unfinished medusa still not painted up and that one will need a partner. Yeah stuff like that. How long this will take I have no idea. And will I be able to keep my path straight? I doubt it. But I will try to finish my legion so I can feel ready to move on again. So first step will be the rapier crew. This is the week they will be finished!