Brevik's Lament

Mrs Brevik and I went to see the Moctezuma (apparently "Montezuma" is wrong) exhibit in the British Museum last night - the exhibit was really good, but has the side effect that I now want to do a Lizardmen army in the style of the Mexica (apparently "Aztec" is wrong too...).

I don't need new army ideas right now...

No painting done so far today, but I've been trying out a few new things when taking pictures.  I can't seem to get enough light, so even though these pictures are better, they're still a bit too dark.

Lamenter Sergeant

This guy was painted a month or two ago and was an attempt at "better battle damage". I hadn't got the Modelling Masterclass book then, so I was still trying to paint battle damage on, rather than using the sponge method.

Here I used Scorched Brown as the dark colour, rather than using black, and it's a much subtler effect.  I washed the greaves and feet a couple of times with watered down Devlan Mud to "dirty it up" a bit.

Lamenters are supposed to be a Blood Angels Successor Chapter who follow the Codex Astartes, hence the red helmet.  The bolter was Chaos Black highlighted with Scorched Brown and Codex Grey - it's the paint scheme I'm using on my Legion of the Damned models, rather than the normal black.

Comments and Criticism welcome...

A night of no progress...

Well, not much happened tonight, due to me being down the pub playing skittles...

So just the one picture, just to keep things interesting:

Tzeentch Chaos Champion

A relatively quick paintjob, not too much in the way of blending, but it looks pretty effective.  I'm toying with the idea of giving him a wash of watered down Devlan Mud, just to take the edge off the colours, and tone it down a bit.  I think the axe needs it anyway, so that will certainly happen - advice gratefully received though.

In other news, I've been doing some research into better photography - looks like I might have to build my own lightbox, as the one I've been using (obviously not for the picture above) has panels that are perhaps too opaque, and aren't letting enough light through.  We have a whole stack of white tissue paper which might do a better job, but I'm going to have to make a frame for it.

I kind of wish we hadn't chucked away all those carboard boxes now...

Why did I bother getting up this morning?

I've had one of those days.

Stupid slushy snow made the walk to work "interesting" this morning.  Work was decidedly uninspiring.  Walk back from work was cold and unpleasant.  This evening I watched the rather dull Liverpool v Tottenham game (2-0) rather than what appears to be the rather more exciting Aston Villa v Blackburn game (6-4).

So I decided to take some pictures of some of my latest work:

Huron Blackheart

These two (not great) pictures were taken before he fell off the desk and bounced off the floor, knocking off his backpack, bending the talons of his claw and chipping the paint off his head.

...and yes, I was a little upset...

He's now on the shelf awaiting me to get the motivation to repair and repaint.

Classic Skaven Sorceror

This is the only picture that came out well of this guy - I've put him in this post as it's my best attempt so far at Object Source Lighting (based loosely on the tutorial in a recent White Dwarf), and I needed a positive...

As always, comments and criticism welcome.

Guitar Hero

Got 3 of these old noise marines, and this is the first one I've painted:

Not quite finished, and it's been suggested that the greaves should be another colour. Not sure about that, especially as I spent a lot of time getting the black right!  The purple was Hormagaunt Purple, washed with Leviathan Purple, and then highlighted up through Hormagaunt Purple to Astronomicon Grey. I'm pleased with the result, and it's more of a pastel colour (more befitting Slaanesh), than a bright purple.

It's had some really good feedback at the Bolter and Chainsword WIP painting forum, which I'm really pleased about - I'm trying to concentrate on painting for me, but it's nice to get some praise/validation.

Chaos Champion of Tzeentch

An update of sorts.  A while back I got my grubby little hands on 2 old Tzeentch flamer models - as in really old, from the early 90s.  I'm usually a "preserver" of older models, but the base/trunks/lower bodies of the models have always looked like they could be used for a Tzeentch chaos warrior/champion conversion.  Not having done a huge amount of converting before (my GD entry was about as adventurous as I get), I thought I'd actually try it.

Kurze, Chaos Champion of Tzeentch

Most of the miniature is made up of components from the OOP "hunchback" plastic Chaos warrior boxed set.  The sword strapped across the back is from the accessories sprue and the metal right arm with axe is from the champion bits from the box.  The fungus lower body is a long time OOP "Flamer Body 1" (Stuff of Legends link).  The slate bits on the base come from the WH40K basing kit.  He's not brilliant by any means, and he's probably quite a bit out of proportion, his upper body being a bit too big for the lower half, but hopefully when he's painted up he won't look too bad.  He's meant to look like he's waving forward his troops with his axe.  He'll also be carrying a shield in his left hand (see below).

Colour scheme wise he'll be mainly painted up like this:

Blue: Gradual transition through Fenris Grey, Space Wolves Grey, Astronomicon Grey

Yellow: Tau Sept Ochre, washed with Gryphon Sepia, then highlighted through Tau Sept Ochre, Iyanden Darksun, Dheneb Stone.

Comments and criticism welcome.  Photos of other stuff to follow.