Neutral-Evil t-shirts

In addition to posting at the new blog (http://neutral-evil.net) I had a t-shirt made.. Because I wanted a t-shirt. http://www.zazzle.com/anything_but_a_1_neutral_evil_t_shirts-235784912530399099

Posting to a new Blog

I know I don't see a lot of regular traffic here but wanted to point out that I'm now posting a lot of my model and hobby posts to a shared blog.

http://blog.neutral-evil.net/

We're just starting out but hopefully we'll have some good content in the future!

Baneblade progress!

It's springtime so my hobby time has been impacted by needing to clean up the property as well as getting some time in my workshop working on my cars.  However I've slowly been working on getting my Baneblade together.

My plan from here is to start adding extra custom bits to it to step the detail up another level, and then Primer!

We all started somewhere

A little background, I started playing 40k in 1998 at 16 years old.  I had played with and painted battletech figures, however all my work was done with enamels and was primarily two tone bright color paint jobs.  The only paints I had access to were either GW paints, craft store paints or Testors acrylic and enamel paints.

These paint jobs are bad, they are bad even by the standards of the time which were far lower than in the modern Internet era.  The point of this is, I got better, in fact most of my growth came in more modern times.

My first real advance came with making washes from inks in the early 2000's this was a technique I hadn't really seen or heard of until I started to see it around the Internet.  This made simple basic color paint jobs gain a new level of depth and shading.  The last 3 or 4 years have been when I've seen the most growth in my skills.  Every model I paint, I try a new technique, I work with better materials, I push myself to try something more difficult.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't the important thing is I'm always getting better.

In these pictures you can see two of my new models behind my three old Black Templar models.  These aren't even some of the worst examples, but due to sitting in boxes for a couple of decades, most of them are in small poorly built badly painted pieces.

Angry Maximilian The Rogue Trader

With Mad Max in the theaters and my buddies talking it up I felt inspired to create a Mad Max themed scenario.

Armies: Both armies must consist entirely of units capable of moving at least 12" a turn in the movement phase, or be mounted in transports that can move at least 12" a turn.

On a 6x4 board the middle 6" lengthwise will be the Road.  Deploy terrain across the rest of the board as usual leaving the road clear.

Place the objective vehicle 12" from one short board edge in the road.

Deployment zones:

The Defender deploys within 6" of the Objective Vehicle, any reserves come in from the short board edge that the objective vehicle starts at.

The Attacker deploys within 6" of both long table edges.

The Objective vehicle has a front AV of 14 and side AV of 13, it does not have a rear AV value, you can't risk destroying the precious cargo by shooting the rear! It has 4 hull points.  It always moves 12" straight ahead at the start of the defenders Movement phase each turn.  Any unit that is in front of the objective vehicle suffers the effect of a ram or tank shock.  If the unit survives the ram or tank shock it is just moved immediately to the side of the objective vehicle.

The attacker wins by immobilizing or getting a 'destroyed' result on the vehicle.  Defender wins if the vehicle makes it through 6 turns.

I still need to flesh out the vehicle more and play test it but I think it has potential to be a fun scenario.  I don't have any relevant pictures so here's some sleeping office dogs and a grim dark port o potty.

Pictures of Completed Chimera

Now it's time to get real, the next project is already lined up.

Chimera finished

I've finished up the Chimera, I've only got a potato camera pic so far, I'll take better pics later and create a paint guide video to go with it when I have additional time.  So for now, here's what I've got.

I'm not entirely happy with the final product, I liked the dozer blade and I liked the Tank chassis, I just don't care for the way the two came together.  Oh well, it was a definite learning experience.

This Chimera is still coming along

 I'm pretty much done with the painting the Chimera's tank body, I'm working on weathering the dozer blade now.  This was my first time using decals in over a decade and I'm mostly happy with how they came out..

Another pack of 5 genestealers finished

I really like painting these guys, after doing a relatively intense project like the Death Company assault troops it is such an easy laid back paint job that gets great results.

A sneak peak at my next projects

My genestealers sitting on my desk are just waiting on one more coat of sealant so while they cure I've started on my next projects.

I've got two squads of Catachan Veterans waiting on their regular lasgun troops to round them out, so I'm going to build out ten Catachans in the color scheme below.

Of course veterans need a sweet ride, so here's their Chimera, I've eliminated the lasguns and replaced the openings with mesh as well as a few other doo dads.

File this one Under You've got to have goals. Massive Forgeworld collection

I saw this video and it transfixed me.  I ended up watching it three times just to catch all the models and all the details on the board.  What a fantastic collection!

Sanctum Imperialis Paint guide and pictures

I finished my Sanctum Imperialis, my goal is to buy a second kit and join it to the first kit so I have a larger building so I built it in a way where I could do this and saved the paint steps for guidance.

For those just here for the pretty pictures!

I also figured out how I want to paint my Shrine of the Aquilla to match the style GW used on their website.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Shrine-of-The-Aquila

Feel free to let me know what you think or if you have any questions!

Citadel Mephiston Red Compare to Minitaire Nebula Red

I shot these photos real quick on a piece of scratch card so a little bit of blue that I didn't realize was on there might be shining through.

Straight out of the pot the higher saturation of the Citadel Foundation paint makes it look starkly different.  At the bottom as I diluted it closer to airbrush thickness (this is ~2:1 I usually end up diluting to 5:1 or so) it starts to look closer to the Nebula Red.

As you can see as you layer on the Nebula Red it does start to get the same saturation as the Mephiston Red.  Here's my Captain Karlaen from the Shield of Baal: Deathstorm box as an example.  I intend to use this same technique and color for my Terminators as well.

Started on Space Hulk Genestealers for my Hive Fleet Kraken Army

These are the first models I'm doing in addition to my existing Hive fleet Kraken figures from the Shield of Baal: Deathstorm

I'm using the new larger 32mm bases for these guys since they fit better and it gives me more room to work.

Here's the scheme I used on the Shield of Baal figures.

Shield of Baal Deathstorm: Death Company figures finished

These figures are awesome, tons of detail incredible lines and fitment lots of bit and posing options, and a total pain in the ass to paint.  One of these guys has 20 gems and vials 8 or 9 purity seals and just tons of work...

The figures are based with vallejo surface primer black and highlighted with minitaire Badger Fur.