An a little more....

I didn't want to clog the first post back after a while with lots of photos so here is another post.

As you can guess the painting is going hard and I have a few treats for you.

This is one of the three Helbrutes that I own. This was painted before I decided I was going to do Night Lords. I am not particularly happy with the skin as painted but the armour I am very proud of. The striping effect is only on a few plates of the model, I was careful with my highlights and as a result managed to give the impression that all the plates are scoured. Force wise it is going to be okay as I plan on having some Death Guard to go in the army so it can be an alliance of Nurgle and Unaligned.

An now for some works in progress.

Some Blood Angels Assault Marines, they are almost finished but I like how the skin has come out and strangely their blonde hair as well.

Some of the Chaos Cultists from the Dark Vengeance set. The second guy may or may not look like a Cawdor gang member. I may have been unable to resist painting him in that colour scheme.

Now the good part (as if the other bits weren't), I was mulling this over for a bit since the job advertisement came up and after some suggestions from a number of people (including Staff at the HQ) I have decided to go for it. The Army Painter job with Games Workshop.

Now I need four high quality photos of models representing my painting skills. It suggests pictures of squads as well as single models. Now that I have set my mind on applying, I need to pick what I will submit. Now I think the key will be showing as much of my talent as possible, so different colours and techniques.

So far I have decided it will consist of two 40k photos, one Warhammer and one Lord of the Rings (or Hobbit if you want to be picky). Now 40k I have a lot of choice with 5 big armies and some models from a variety of others. I think we will need to have some Space Marines in there as they are the staple of the GW hobby. It is the other three that I am undecided on at the moment.

Over the next weeks I hope to have selected what models I will be using and also painted them where necessary.

Toodle pip!

An then a mighty break....

Well it has been a long time since I have made a post...a couple of hours and it would of been a month since I updated.

So you aren't really bothered to hear my excuses for the delays you are here to see some painted models. So without further ado we have some Dark Eldar.

Be warned there are a lot of photos, I did try to fit three on every line but it wouldn't let me :-(

It's a real simple colour scheme but involves a deceptive number of washes. I think in the future I will paint the dark red clothing underneath first. It is modelled slightly on Nick Bayton's colour scheme.

In other news I managed some 40k games over the past month. I decided to use my Necrons and went for an experimental list as well. I dropped the Annihilation Barges, the Wraiths and the Scarabs. Instead I went with some of the lesser seen Elite options. In this case it was the Lychguard with deflection shields.

The first game was against some Iron Hands with the mission Relic. I narrowly lost due to my Overlord dropping dead to an overwatching stormbolter. As a result a dreadnought with only one arm stopped tore through what was left of my army.

The second game was against Iron Warriors (you sensing a theme here?). This one wasn't so nice for my opponent as I tabled him in Purge the Alien. I had Vargard in my list and the special rule forcing Chaos characters to issue a challenge was a drawback for my opponent. Vargard slowly made his way through several champions, a War-smith and then defeated the rival warlord all in challenges.

The third game was against Imperial Guard. Now I haven't played the new (for some people too old) incarnation of the army. My opponent had gone for an elite heavy Guard army with a smattering of Special Characters. Other than Iron Hand Stracken and Sly Marbo there were only two vehicles to contend with a Chimera and Hellhound. This game was also a tabling at Warhammer World but I have discovered a new found fear for Sly and his appearing trick. When he comes armed with a S10, AP1, large blast demo charge which he can use when he appears, lots of Necrons get blowed up. Thank the C'Tan for we will be back rolls.

In other news I have submitted to the lure of Warriors of Chaos especially with the new release. So I have dug up some of the models that have been languishing away for a bit.

I think my favourite of the two has to be the Khorne Exalted Champion. The other is the special character Wulf model but I replaced the head which was a little gormless and any warrior of chaos should carry an axe not a pansy sword. Looking at the pictures now I think I may have been a little too subtle with the red highlights cause at the moment it looks very similar to the cloak (It is totally different, honest).