Games Workshop Graveyard

 

 So, this is something of a record for me, I just got this item from The Netherlands about 8 days ago, and I have finished it off, shocking! I did look around on the web for inspiration, and used what I found to colour the earth, and to go with a lighter wall shade. I was determined to add some variety to the crypts rather than just one grey colour, I think that worked. The walls started off as grey primer over the base dark grey colour that the model was cast in. It seemed to look good enough so I kept with it but added a black wash and a sepia wash all followed by a dry brush of craft paint Dove grey. 

The statue is a bones miniature that I had just lying around. Not really certain why I ever bought it but I figure it works well enough here. Without some statue that plinth just looks odd. Oh just to remind myself, the earth was done with DecoArt Burnt Umber with a very light dry brush of Delta Ceramcoat Raw sienna. 

If I had waited for the Analogue painting challenge this would have netted me 80 points! Oh well I could not wait to paint this. What I really have to do is get back to the horde of partially painted items so as to clear space for new items that I shall start as part of the challenge.

 

GW Empire steam tank

 

 My Empire painting and builds continue. My photography seems to leave something to be desired (as does my painting) The sides of this are lightly tinted with a blue metallic paint burnished on over a silver/dark metal base. The model itself was built a long time ago and has simply been rattling around in a box. As always the pictures show me where I need to touch things up some more and maybe another wash!

 The Empire war wagon actually should have been done first but somehow this crept into the cue. At any rate the war wagon and some cultist will be done this week. 

 

 

GW Goblins on spiders done!

 

 Not really certain why I painted these up, or even why I bought them in the first place. The spiders resemble real spiders only in the fact that they have eight legs. That said sine there was nothing I could do about the sculpting I decided to go old school 4th/5th edition and paint them as gaudy as I could.

Some Orcs and a few more Empire troops

 

 So, 52 more figures moved from the to do pile into the tabletop ready status. This brings the total for August to 112, which is very good for me, and when you consider I only started up painting again mid to late month! I am basically pleased with having completed these, they are not spectacular paint jobs, but they certainly are good enough to put on a gaming table. The Orcs came out better the the humans and I believe that is due to the fact that I used contrast paints on the humans, but painted the Orcs in a more traditional way. 

Two more Empire units done!

 

 So, two more units done in a reasonably short time (at least for me) The Flagellants were done a few days ago, and within a day the unit of pike men were done. For the pike men I really tried to do a speed paint process, started in the afternoon just after flocking the Flagellants, and all painting done by 2pm the next day. For the most part I went with GW contrast paints on the pike men while the other unit was a mix of traditional paints and some contrast.

First War Hammer Empire troops that I have ever painted! Only took a few decades...

 

 Now to be fair to myself, I have only had these figures for, at most 3-4  years having picked them up at a bring and buy. But all the other hundreds of Empire (and proxie Empire) troops have been in my lead pile since at least 6th edition War Hammer.

Robots, robots, robots, I seem to keep painting robots

 

Some old school GW robots finally painted! Three different types, some have ersatz weapons attached as I was unable to locate all of the original parts. The substitutes came from Adeptus Titanicus weapons, and from the Gear Krieg.  

GW Imperial Guard test

Just a test to see if I like the colour palette that I have selected. So far I like it well enough to green light this project.

Games Workshop Wall of Matyrs; Defence line, Bunker and Defence emplacement

 

I am very happy to see this project done! They are nice enough models, but all the extra little details were annoying and not worth the effort.

Games Workshop Balewind vortex

 

 My take on tis model. 

Games Workshop Imperial ruin

 

Not much to show for today's work, only this Imperil ruin. Somehow the photo has made it look even more red than it looks in person. The last picture in the set is closer to reality, as there are multiple shades of red incorporated into this model.

I tend to work on multiple items at any one time, in part because I do not like to wait for paint to dry before proceeding to the next colour. The thought is that it is better to apply some paint or basing material or whatever to another project than mess up something because I did not wait long enough for it to dry. So I do have 9 or so more almost completed and should have them done early this week.

Games Workshop 40K Quake cannon craters

 

So I am continuing my strange, paint GW 40K scenery even though I have no 40K forces painted to use on said scenery kick!

Two gates finished and based

The dark stone gate had been mostly painted and sitting around the basement for more than a year, while the desert tan gate had been unassembled in a bag. 

On a roll, this time a relatively simple paint job

Another one of those "this model has been around for a while" paint jobs.

 

Games Workshop Ork Trukk

 While working on the rhino/woods scenery, I also had time to work on this vehicle.

So, flocking it is...

 Well, this is finally finished, I guess. In the last couple of days I have 'finished' this 3 times! Every time I think I'm done, it drags me back in to do one last touch up.

First item for 2021 finished, oddly not one of the items that I posted about yesterday

 So, today I was suddenly inspired to paint this old bit of GW scenery, thankfully it was already primed black, so I could get right into it. I also spread some more paint over some of the other GW items from yesterdays post, and dry brushed some metallic paint onto the Ork Trukk.