10/13/14: Welcome to Fort Hope Armies on Parade Display

Howdy folks!

This is my entry for the upcoming Armies on Parade contest Games Workshop holds every year! Got it done early as an upcoming commission is going to eat all of my time until the event. Enjoy the pictures (and my dining room set) and be sure to leave a comment below!

I present 'Welcome to Fort Hope'!

The access to the LED switches is magnetized for easy concealment and access. 

And the board with the completed army!

Had a lot of fun with this project, and I'm already constructing some new ideas for next year. Scion kill team, methinks?

Anyways, I have a big project start to show off on Tuesday, so stay tuned!

Granesh

7/13/14: Finished: Khorne/Slaanesh Word Bearers Daemons Detachment

Hey guys!

Been a lot of daemonic forces crossing the paint table over the last couple of weeks, both commission and personal! I'll share my new Nurgle guys soon but, for now, this post is for the commissioned group! This group consisted of:

• Skarbrand (Made from the FW Bloodthirster)
• Skull Cannon of Khorne (WHFB Hellcannon conversion)
• 28 Daemonettes (The old Juan Diaz ones!)
• Daemon Prince of Slaaneshi/Keeper of Secrets (Raging Heroes Asharah model)
• 2 FW Renegade Psykers

Enough chit chat though, pictures!

Skarbrand! I received the model with an average paintjob. My client had me clean him up, rebase him, tarnish the wings, and sculpt a new axe.

I tarnished the brass with Nihlakh Oxide; it really compliments the red skintone and the green eyes.

The axe was built with cardstock, plasticard, and greenstuff. Not my best sculpting job, but it works!

The wings were tarnished with a dremel tool, and the edges were greenstuffed to show the old torn leather hanging off. The wings weren't totally destroyed so my client can run him as Skarbrand, a stock Bloodthirster, or Angraath.

The Juan Diaz Daemonettes. These were all secondhand models; they were stripped, rebased, and cleaned up rather nicely!

Just wonderful models!

That's a lot of death right there....

The first renegade psyker. Really creepy model, he painted up really quickly and to good effect!

Even threw a little script on the back for extra detail!

This is the second time I've gotten to paint this model, so it was really nice to come back and play with it again.

Even went for a skull tearing effect to really make the psyker look desperate.

The Skull Cannon of Khorne! Really interesting conversion, the hounds are Barghests from Puppets War, the cannon is a Hellcannon from Fantasy, and the rider is from the Chaos Warshrine!

Wanted to go for a glowing blood look, complimented with the greens of the rest of the army.

TO WAR!

The Slaaneshi Daemon Prince! I'm sure she'd double nicely as a Keeper of Secrets too! The model is the limited edition Asharah model from Raging Heroes with the Terminator Lord familiar on the base.

The reds tie her back into the Word Bearers, as does the green on the book. Even opted for some tattoos and streaks in the hair to add to the Slaaneshi feel.

The pictures don't show it, but the Daemonettes also got flames on their loinclothes. I feel this really added needed detail to the model, and looks great too!

And the little familiar! The client had wanted to use the hand holding the book on the Daemon Prince, but preferred the sword and lash, so I still tried to work the book into the model!

And the finished group!

The Daemons of Slaanesh clash with Nurgle's chosen! 

Alrighty! Next up are a trio of Wraithknights, more Imperial Knights, some Necrons, and another addition to the first Legio Titanicus commission I completed back in May! Will have some pictures of my new Nurgle daemons too! Whew! 

Stay tuned and keep painting!

Granesh

6/30/14: WIP: Nurgle Chaos Army...or Armies?!

Howdy folks!

Wow! Almost two weeks without a post! That's no good! It's not that I haven't been super busy, I just haven't had a chance to wrap any projects up! After the Heldrake, I've been working hard on the Chaos Daemons and Good Game's second and third WHFB tables, my birthday was mid-last week, and, while projects and glue are drying, I've been working on my Nurgle army!

For those of you who don't remember, I traded that ork army I had that caused me so much grief for a Nurgle Chaos Marines and Daemons army in so-so shape. Nothing I can't fix, of course, but I've been using this army to repurpose models I've had sitting around forever and finally give them life again! Dark Vengeance Chosen, old Land Raiders, Daemon Princes, and terminators, just to name a few! While its still WIP, you can get an idea of where this army is going!

The army is currently a mismash of various models and projects. These are functioning great as airbrush practice and let me play with them really quickly. Trying to decide if I want to make it two separate armies; CSM and CD, but we'll see what happens. Plan is to sell them eventually.

The Forgefiend with his little Nurgling passengers! Love this model, he painted up really nicely really quick!

I know, no one really runs Predators, but the lot had one so I had to paint him up and get him rocking! The Dozer Blade comes from an old IG Chimera kit, and really helps the Nurgle feel, methinks.

Typhus and his Terminator Sorcerer. I repurposed my old Princes of Ecstasy Terminators I had, gave them all Combi-Weapons and Power Axes, and Nurgled them up. The squad will go in the Land Raider in the back; somehow, I'm missing the sponsons for it, so I may have to order some new ones. I also speed painted some Plague Marines (on the left) to give the army some lasting power. I'd like to do all DV Chosen for them, but we'll see how that goes. Not pictured is the Plague Zombie Cultists I did back in May; I've got 50 of them, and currently half are painted.

The Daemon side of the army! The lot I got had right about 30 Plaguebearers and a Herald, so I've slowly been working through them. Been a simple job with the airbrush, then all the nasty areas were done with washes of red, purple, blue, and yellow. The Herald got some extra time being a HQ and all. 

I picked up a box of Nurglings when I was in Nebraska visiting my little brother in May, and have only finished one base of them. They paint up really quickly, and with Shrouded and Swarms, these guys are perfect for sitting on objectives! 

There's a couple things missing from these pictures; namely a Heldrake and the big group of Plague Zombies, but you can get a feel for what I'm going for here. Like I said, I'm trying to decide on whether or not to make both groups separate; if I go that route, the CSM will be Typhus and his bodyguard, lots of Zombies, some Plague Marines, Heldrake, Predator, and the Forgefiend. The Daemons will probably get another Herald, Epidemius, more Nurglings, and some Plague Drones. Might even go Forge World and get a Blight Drone or two!

If anyone has any suggestions on where to go with these armies, please leave a comment! I'm not a competitive gamer, so anything bashy would be appreciative! \

Alrighty, back to Slaanesh and terrain!

Granesh

6/6/14: Finished: Nurgle Daemon Prince and Forgefiend

Hey guys!

Sorry for the week of silence here! I was in Moab last weekend, celebrating one year together with my girlfriend, so the end of the week and early this week was devoted to that. Its beautiful country, and I've never been camping, so it was quite an experience! I'd started two projects before I left, though, and upon my return, jumped right into them! These are part of that Nurgle Chaos army I traded my old orks for, as well as just getting some paint on some old models I'm finally purposing!

First up is the Forgefiend! This was part of the Nurgle lot I picked up, so it has the Hades Autocannons arms rather than the Ectoplasma I'd prefer. 

I added some spare Nurglings to the carapace to keep the Nurgle theme going!

Lots of weathering powder work here, as well as some airbrushing effects. I'm really digging the green glow on the eyes and the chest, it compliments the burn on the cannons and the rust effects.

Lots of weathering, it's been a while since I could play with the powders!

The second was an old Nurgle Daemon Prince I had sitting around for ages. He deserved some paint, so I threw him into the Nurgle army! I'm gonna run him as a Chaos Daemons prince, as I'm just not a big fan of them in the CSM book.

I'll probably go back in with the powders and weather the armor plates more. I'm happy with the orange rust, but it'd look even better with the powders.

The sword was also a good opportunity to do a mirror effect with the airbrush. I've never had a chance to really do it, so I'm very happy with this result! The green was carefully painted in afterwards, washed, and rehighlighted back up.

This army is mainly airbrush practice, so I'm painting them pretty quickly and experimenting with effects and styles. Knights and superheavies are different from infantry, elites, and even monstrous creatures, so its all been a learning experience!

Alrighty! I'm currently working on another Mars Pattern Warhound Titan, as well as some Daemons and Necrons! I also just got another project in for fun; I'll be selling it like the Knights when he's done...

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WAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Granesh