Doomwheel Progress

Holy crap an update! Yes, painting has sadly fallen to the wayside a bit in the onslaught of Fallout New Vegas, Dragon Age II, and Portal 2. But here is some progress! My Doomwheel is coming along nicely I feel with much of the work at what I feel is "ok to good" stage of painting. So, here's my update! I hope to have it done soon so I can either buy a Hellpit Abomination or a Screaming Bell (or both). Also I've got about 50 sad looking Space Marines in the bottom of my display case crying out to be painted. Woof.

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Grey Seer Thanquol and Boneripper

These are probably my current favorite models that I've painted. Both Thanquol and Boneripper turned out almost exactly like I wanted. The muscles and bone on Boneripper, I feel, look great and I love how the parchment and robes on Thanquol turned out. Also, looking at my Thunderlord next to my Dwarf Thane, I need to make his hair smoother. Something for the future, I guess.










Also, I'm assembling Space Marines this week. It is going surprisingly well except for the damn Thunderfire cannon which was a beast to get together.

Dwarf Thunderlord

This is the Avatars of War Dwarf Thunderlord. He is an absolutely beautiful model and was a real joy to paint, even though it took me a long time. He is one of three dwarf heroes for my future Warhammer Army to battle my Skaven. I still need to paint the dwarf hold symbol on his cape, but that'll be done when my freehand skills get better.

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Captain Sicarius

I originally painted the good Captain to sell on ebay but for two factors: I didn't think he was good enough to sell on ebay and I ended up liking how he came out. He was the first Space Marine (and to this point the only Space Marine) I've ever painted and I had a really good time painting the blues on him. I painted the lightning claws green originally and that is what the picture is of, but I later changed them to metal since I couldn't do a good "lightning" effect. I also attempted some freehand painting on the banner and in case you can't tell, it's a lightning bolt on the front and the Ultramarines U on the back.

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Skaven Heroes

When I graduated from high school, I was gifted with a whopping two hundred dollars that I decided to buy a Warhammer army with. And buy one I did. I went to Borderlands in Salem, Oregon (which is still my favorite gamestore) and picked up the recently released boxset of Skaven. It then took me almost 4 years to paint everything in that box. I really like having a fully painted army even though I've rarely played with them and it is fun being able to see the pieces and have a nice way to see how my painting has improved over that time.

My two heroes, a Skaven Warlord and Warplock Engineer, are two of my favorite models of all time. I painted the Warlords shoulder pad green to match my Stormvermin. Unfortunately, the Engineer looks too glossy due to the old school inks I used on him, but I still think he looks great.

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Blast from the Past Part 1

Privateer Press's Warmchine line, Cygnar Warcaster Allister Caine. I thought it was one of the coolest models I had ever seen way back in 2004 and it was the first model I felt really proud about painting. Looking back on it now, the eyes are wonky, the metals sub par, and the cloak not well blended. But it was a total pleasure to paint.

Things that were new to me at the time were trying to paint the goatee and using multiple metallics. I still like how his armor turned out and I keep it in my display case as a lesson.

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What's this all about?

So, for the most part, I plan on this being my miniature painting blog. I mostly paint Warhammer and Warhammer 40k models with a few Warmachine and other models. I will be uploading pictures since the ones I had before seem to be elsewhere....

Oh yeah, and I'll be linking cool miniatures I like here as well.