Workbench Wednesday - 6/5/14

Greetings! I'm actually making this post on Wednesday! Hooray for me. It has been a very successful and very fulfilling hobby week. After finishing my Medusas I was able to paint my 10 man Tactical Support Squad with Volkite Culverin in Mark4 armor. I have worked out an expedient way to paint my Death Guard, as evidenced by the fact that I finished a 10 man squad in a week! I'm waiting for the bases to arrive from Dragon Forge, after which I'll weather the marines with pigments and they'll officially be finished.

It should be a couple weeks, so in the meantime I'll be working on a 10 man Destroyer Squad with Jump Packs and two Apothecaries. After that will be  two 15 man Tactical Squads in Mark2 armor. I'll also be placing another Forgeworld order this week in which I'll be getting 10 more Mark4 marines to finish the second Tactical Support Squad, 15 Breacher Marines and some command elements. This project is proving to be as rewarding as I hoped it would be. Very inspiring. Hopefully I'll be on track to have a small tournament at the end of the year!

On to the pics!

Workbench Wednesday 5/7/14

Greetings!!  I missed last week's post, though I don't have much to report since then. I finished a 'good enough' paint job on the Heldrake and finished painting the sorcerer's corpse cart bike. I've hit a bit of a wall with motivation, and assembled Kazyk the Befouled and primed him. I also have prepped some Secret Weapon Miniatures bases for paint. I think some weathering and basing, thus finishing some models completely, will help a great deal. I'll keep updating as I paint the spawn and Kazyk, after them it's just cultists until the cows come home.

Closer pictures after the jump.

Workbench Wednesday - 4/23/14

So the post is a couple days late, one of the side effects of having a 6 week old daughter! Haven't made a ton of progress in the past week, as I'm pretty uninspired by the Heldrake. It's nearly finished, I just have to go back over all the black another time and do the metals, maybe touch up the OSL around the eyes. Really just need to get it finished before moving on to the sorcerer's cart, which should prove much more inspiring!!

I have a finished Heldrake on the left, WIP on the right. Could have done a better job with the shading but it's good enough. They'll looking intimidating screaming on from reserves, so that's a plus! Also really looking forward to getting going on the bases. My FLGS (Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA) finally got my Secret Weapon Miniatures Scrap Yard bases for me, so I'll do sort of a review and painting tutorial for them when I get to them. With about a month until Kublacon I'm not sure if I'll finish everything, but will certainly get the core of the force done, barring any setbacks. 

The Heldrake WIP. 

I'd like to take an opportunity to plug a Kickstarter campaign as well. It's the first campaign I've ever backed, and am really excited to see what the rest of the campaign has in store and get my minis around November: Jeremy Glen's Creature Caster

They're huge, beautiful sculpts of daemons, and I'm a sucker for daemons of all kinds, especially big scary ones. I'm going to finish the Heldrake in the next couple of days and hopefully the cart before the next update! Until then, Happy Hobbying!

Conversion Corner: CSM Sorcerer on Bike WIP #2

I got some work done on my corpse cart tonight, and it's coming along nicely!  I've assembled the main body of the cart completely stock as it comes from GW. I like the kit a lot, and it fits together pretty well!

Trying to fit the Forgeworld Nurgle Sorcerer where the corpse cart charioteer stands was impossible, as it was too small a space and obscured the sorcerer. Turns out the sorcerer fits well standing on top of the pile of corpses, which suits the feel of the model perfectly. I assembled the rider with a long stake carrying an impaled corpse, whose task it is to feed corpses to the engine of the cart.

Conversion Corner: CSM Sorcerer on Bike WIP

With the release of the Crimson slaughter codex, I've added a Chaos Space Marine sorcerer on a bike to my Kublacon list. Divination is the bee's knees. As my CSM army is Nurgle themed, I didn't want to just convert a Chaos Bike to have a sorcerer on it. That bring us to the Corpse Cart. Really cool model, obviously oozing Nurgle (quite literally), and perfect for a Sorcerer to ride into battle. Here's the problem though: