So here are some terrain pieces I recently made for a customer. He wanted desert terrain to match his game table, specifically hills and razorwire.

Ork Stormboyz

Okay, well, most of my space marines have been finished, to at least a level that I'm not completely embarrassed to bring to the table, and really I used the idea of finishing my orks as a motivational reward to get my marines repainted. So, utilizing some new techniques I picked up online, I decided to paint some old minis to see if the results would be good enough to warrant a redo of the rest of the Waaaagh! Have a look.

The new process uses washes to achieve what has been up til this point impossibly good results for me. I am colorblind, therefore subtle shading and blending is truly not feasible, or at least not at the speed at which I like to paint.

Step 1: Prime (White)

Step 2: basecoat, get your main colors on there. I decided to go old skool, grey khakis and black boots.


Step 3: Wash (Im using a water-based stain, but don't tell anyone)


Step 4: final details: here I do a bleached bone on the teeth, and some other little details. Again, my main goal is table-top quality, and here is a pic with half the unit, all of these guys at once, looks far better than anything I have previously done, and I am stoked.

Chaplain Redux

So because it has taken me so long to paint all of my marines and because I have discovered the awesome technique that is dipping (sort of), I have decided to "upgrade" my faithful leader, the Emperor's Pride Chaplain MacGregor. He's okay as he is, but he lack depth of shading. Wearing all black will do that, but the white of the skull mask, shoulder skull, and chest wings makes me want to do something for my beloved Chappy.

(here are some before/after pics so we know from whence we came)


That crozius needed some attention, though I don't particularly care for the sculpt either, perhaps I will try and find something better but for now... (btw, you have just witnessed why it takes me so damn long to get everything painted)

So a better look at that crozius...pitiful. Note: No decals yet, but I like to put them on gloss varnished models to help hide the edges. So now we're ready to go.

I didnt really want to dick around with shading black, and he's a chaplain, so I'm not changing the black armor to some other color. my plan was to shade (using the dipping) the helmet, shoulder, greaves, crozius and purity seals. I attempted a gem effect on the chest gem. then I inked over it to make it less dramatic, perhaps the keen-eyed can see it. I then gloss varnished him (not the gloves) and will give him some decals. I also redid the base to match the rest of the army, which helps too as it was grey with didnt make his black stand out, now it does. Nice little update for the old vet, methinks.

By the way, the orginal conversion repositioned the left hand and crozius, and replaced the left shoulder pad, and added the jumppack. No leading from the rear for the dear Chappy.

AoBR Terminators, I might have to get my buddy Val to send me the rest of his AoBR Orks because I love these minis, they are really detailed and nice. I'm not sure these guys are done, but they are close, and I like them. You can barely see the Crux Terminus or whatever on their left shoulder plate, but they were done with the dipping method for shading and I really like the result. you can see it also on their chest plates... what do you think?


So in addition to the little bit of painting I've been doing I also made some terrain. Woods, in my experience is the least seen terrain piece. This in part is due to the lack of good trees to be found in the hobby.

These trees were made with fake plants that I found near a cemetary. Now, yes they were at some point used to decorate a grave (I'm not sure if that makes them more or less suitable for use in tabletop warfare!), but it was after a really bad windstorm and I found this selection a good ways away from any grave site...I'm not that sick! :o)


Here's my Rhino for scale. Eventhough GW did away with area affect terrain, if I ever played I think several of the woods stands on an area marked out as woods would be best.

Assault Squad 2

This Assault Squad was done recently, it uses the dipping method to get the wash result on the chestplates, which I really like. Compared to my first assault squad I likes these much better.

Tactical Squad 3

Okay, so I've been gone from 40K for a long long time, and from blogging about it even longer, but occasionally I get some stuff done and here is some of it to show... (not sure how this got underlined. heheh)

Tactical Squad 3 consists of mostly the AoBR marines. They have 3 white marking across the backpack to make them easily identifiable on the battlefield.