APoD! May 20, 2010

So, I finally get around to making my update, not because I haven't had time, but because I'm a bum. Anyway, I managed to paint most of my assault squad, stopping only because I got sidetracked by Marneus Calgar. I'll be painting him to 'Eavy Metal standard (or the best I can) before moving onto the next unit. The Sternguard are finished. At this point, with six weeks left to go, I have thirty-five models to paint. A little daunting, but I know I'll get it done.

I love Monster Hunter

It's true. The title says it all. Capcom has made a game that gives me a unique sense of accomplishment like no other. I found an article on IGN today by Mike Thomsen that pretty much summed it up:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/108/1087446p1.html

Pictures

As an addition to my post from yesterday, I also did some painting on my Adeptus Rahn model from Warmachine. I'm going to try and upload the pictures from yesterday's post, along with a pic or two of Rahn. Behold:

APoD!

I figured that I need to do more regular updates on ApoD here it is:

Its the beginning of May, meaning Just under 8 weeks remain in our challenge. At this point, I have 45 models left to paint. That's a little daunting, but given my extra free time now that school is finished, I'm confident I'll make the cut.

I'm pretty much finished the Sternguard unit, not counting the bases, so I thought I'd upload some pictures of them.

First, a picture of the force in its entirety. Then, a pic of the squad, and the front of each individual model, along with any interesting features.

...ok, well, blogger has decided that it doesn't feel like uploading my pictures right now. I'll try again later, likely tomorrow.

Special Characters

More on my painting methods, now for special characters.

For armour, I paint as recommended in "How to Paint Space Marines":

Basecoat with a mix of Chaos Black and Regal Blue (or straight Necron Abyss Foundation), then layer on a mix of Regal Blue and Ultramarine Blue, then highlight with Ultramarine Blue.

For red cloth, I follow a method that was shown in White Dwarf 361, Feb. 2010:

1. Basecoat the cloak with Scab Red. Shade the area first with a 1:1 mix of Chaos Black and Scab Red, followed by a 3:1 mix of the same colours

2. Begin highlighting the areas with pure Red Gore, before blending up to a 1:1 mix of Red Gore and Blazing Orange

3. Continue to bend the highlights to a 3:1 mix of Blazing Orange and Red Gore. Apply a final highlight of pure Blazing Orange

4. Create a wash using a 1:1 mix of Devlan Mud and Regal Blue; apply this directly into the recesses. Overlay with a wash of pure Regal Blue to finish

For Purity seals and parchment, as in White Dwarf 360, Jan. 2010

Wax part:

1. 1:1 mix of Scab Red and Chaos Black was applied to the purity seals

2. Layer on Scab Red

3. Highlight with Blood Red

4. 2nd highlight with Blazing Orange

5. 3rd highlight : A 1:1 mix of Bazing Orange and Skull White

6. Dot highlight of pure skull white

Scroll Part:

1. Basecoat with Dheneb Stone

2. Two watered down washes, Baal Red, then Devlan Mud

3. Layer on Dheneb Stone.

4. highlight with a 1:1 mix of Dheneb Stone and Skull White

5. final highlight of Skull White, then letter with watered-down Chaos Black

For pretty much everything else, its the same, except with a few extra intermediary colours on some things.

Painting?!

Well, I'm done school. As in, completely done. Graduation is on June 17. That being the case, I'll now have significantly more time to do the hobby related things I want to do.

Apocalypse Paint or Die! Is passing us by, and most of us have slowed our progress down significantly. None of have quit, but we've slowed down. I, for one, plan on not failing, and will enforce the rules if someone doesn't finish, myself included.

To that end, I thought I should post my methods for painting each piece on my miniatures so that I would have central place to look, should I forget, or someone is curious. I paint things slightly differently depending on if its a normal trooper or a special character. I'll list "Normals" first, then any differences for "Special Characters".

Normal Troops

Armour

Base: Mordian Blue Foundation, washed with blue

2nd Layer: Ultramarines Blue

1st Highlight: 50/50 Ultramarines Blue/Space Wolves Gray, wash with asurmen blue wash

Points highlighted with white.

Anything Red:

Base: Mechrite Red Foundation

Layer on Blood Red

Highlight with Blazing orange, wash with Baal Red

re-highlight with blazing orange

Anything Metal:

Boltgun

Wash with black wash

(sometimes) re-boltgun on raised surfaces

highlight with Mithril Silver

Anything White:

Astronomicon Gray

Skull White

Anything Gold:

Dwarf Bronze

wash with brown

shining gold

(sometime the steps above may be reversed)

highlight with 50/50 mix shing gold/mithril silver

Parchment, Etc

Base with Dheneb Stone

Bleached Bone

50/50 Bleached Bone/Skull White

Skull White

I have some other things to get done right now, so I'll update later with my methods for painting special characters.

APoD! Week 5(?)

Well, my progress over the past couple weeks has been fairly limited, due in no small part to the release of Mass Effect 2. Between this game and school, my life has been effectively ruled over since Jan. 26. I will however, post below the progress that I had made up to this point. I'm quite happy with how the vehicle portion of my force has turned out, and look forward to painting the troops and completing this challenge.

Feast thine eyes: