Ork Trukk!

Hey! So it's been a real long time since I've posted anything here lately. I've been incredibly bogged down and hit one of those creative road blocks after a recent bigger project finished. It left me absolutely drained! October was a KILLER month for me creativity wise. November, I just chilled out and played games for a change, and worked on this one little by little. Sorry it took SO LONG Matias. That's my bad. I hope what I have here though is awesome, and you'll love it.

Kroooooooooooooooooot!

Right! So after the elf I started on these guys. I'm trying yet another thing. I didn't paint these guys in pieces and assemble them later, instead, I painted them fully assembled. They didn't come out to bad to be honest. On top of that, I only painted 4 out of 12. Turns out, doing this really helps me focus on getting a couple of models done and not feeling like its a chore. Is it faster to paint 12 at a time? I think so actually, but will they look as good? Definitely not. So from now on I'm only going to paint 4 or so troop models at a time, and then paint a special guy or a small squad of something else in between. I'm hoping this will pick me up and help me produce more stuff! Not that I need that... =)

An Elven Druid

This was another commission for a friend of mine. They wanted an elf painted up, and when I looked at the model, I said "Sure, probably easy enough to do! There doesn't seem to be that much complex about her, just know that I don't really know how to do skin tones that well." Which, is true, and that was the learning experience for this model, among a few other things I came across when it showed up at my work place.

Autarch, Space Elf Badass.

Well, I'm going to call him done. I mean, he looks done to me. I really hate taking pictures of my stuff some times though, as that's when I can see a lot of problems. Sigh, I'm going to have to go back and fix his head dress. I swear I hold the thing as lightly as possible and paint STILL falls off the thing. Growl! Oh well.

So anyway, finished. This guy was a lot harder than I thought, and took me more time than I thought I'd take. I'm hoping I can call him done for now, but my friend will tell me what he thinks first. It took me some time to figure out how to do the high lights, and I'm not sure I'm happy with them. I look at the model picture and it's way different. Funny note, the blue I'm using seems to be morphic. Ya that's right, it changes. Both Graeme and I have noticed, that when painting with it, at times we think it's darker, and other times we think it's lighter! We can't figure out why it does this, but it does! He painted up 5 dire avengers using the stuff, and four of them look fine, while the last one looks darker. Go figure! =D

Drones for the Greater Good

I've created a squadron of drones now. Six of them little buzzing things. They remind me of an old movie called "Batteries Not Included." Well, they kind of remind me of it. Whatever! They're all painted up now and ready to fight for the greater good! Whether they register such logic or not.

Incoming Eldar Air Transport!

Incoming! It's another jet plane! This one however is far bigger than those other ones I painted up a month ago. This guy is meant to carry in the troops and drop them off into battle, as well as blow shit up on the way in. He was pretty cool, and fairly easy to assemble. There wasn't really anything complicated about this guy, which made him a relaxing vehicle to paint.

The Start of a New Army

And so I've finished yet more little dudes. I've picked up a new army box now, and as a test I put together the fire warriors and started painting those first. I really love this army, and their style. The iconic long barrel rifle is just awesome, and they all look so "techy" too which is a lot of fun. For a first, these guys are ok. I've learned a number of things now, and I want to test out some of these new thoughts on the paint colors with maybe a few of the drones in the box. So, those might be the next guys you see. Either them, or stealth suits.