More Thunderwolf Cavalry

 First up are three Wolf Guard. The second two of them are the Wolf Lord resin kit. The first was given a different head, and I did a simple arm chop/swap on the second one to add a little variety.

Next up are two with Mark of the Wulfen:

High Elf Heroes and an Eldar Farseer

White Robe:
Basecoat P3 Menoth White Base. Shade with Zandri Dust. Highlight Menoth White Base, then Screaming Skull, then White Scar.

White Sash:
Basecoat 50/50 Space Wolves Grey and Ceramite White. Shade with Space Wolves Grey. Highlight White Scar. Shade as needed (in the deepest recesses) with Shadow Grey.

Gems:
Undercoat black. Basecoat Liche Purple. Highlight Warlock Purple, highlight 50/50 Warlock Purple/Tentacle Pink, highlight Tentacle Pink + a little white. Add reflections with White Scar.

High Elf silver armor:
Basecoat Chainmail. Shade with a mixture of Nuln Oil and Asurman Blue washes. Do several of these washes to build up deep shadows. Highlight the armor with thinned Chainmail. Try to make it as smooth of a transition as possible. Paint the edges of the armor with Mithril Silver.

Blonde hair:
Basecoat 50/50 Zandri Dust/Bubonic Brown. Shade with Sepia wash. Highlight Zandri Dust/Bubonic Brown mixture. Add white to this mixture for successive highlights.

Seafoam Green:
Basecoat Scaly Green. Shade with Scaly Green + Black. Highlight by adding white to the Scaly Green for each successive layer.

50 Stormvermin

Forge World Avatar

On this commission, the client wanted the body to be very dark, with a light purple "glow" coming from the cracks. I went with a very dark blackened steel for the armor, and a bright gold to compliment it.

The blood dripping from the hand started out as very thin strips from a plastic sandwich bag. I drilled a hole in the hand and glued the pieces inside. The drips were built up with super glue. A mixture of Golden polymer varnish, magenta ink and red ink was used to build up transparent layers.

Canis Wolfborn and some Thunderwolf Cavalry

Painting Ultramarines: A Step-By-Step Tutorial

I picked up one of the new Tactical Squad boxes, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. I decided to pick up some and start an Ultramarines force (I've got a bunch of unpainted Space Marine stuff sitting in boxes anyway).

I decided to go with a clean, tabletop quality. I went with yellow on the shoulder pad trim instead of gold, because I just like the old school 2nd edition figures too much (I also have a massive amount of unpainted 2nd edition marines, which may show up on here at some point too).

I thought it might be a good idea to have a step-by-step tutorial on how I paint these guys. This will be the first of a couple installments. I don't have a ton of spare time, so it will have to happen over the course of a couple weeks.

Anyway, back on topic. Here's the Sergeant, which is also the test figure:

I also filed off the skull/details on the power fist, to give me more room for caution stripes (another 2nd edition thing I like). In the future, I think I may file off the wire thing on the bottom of the power fists as well.

After assembling, I gave the models a black spray undercoat. This was followed with a basecoat of Macragge Blue. Use a large brush and focus on making the basecoat even. Don't worry about making a mess at this stage. A couple thin coats is better than one thick coat.

Next, basecoat all the metal areas with Chainmail. (I think the new paint equivalent is Ironbreaker)

Next, use Nuln Oil to wash the metal areas and line in all of the cracks. Neatness isn't too important here. Just make sure the wash is placed in all the cracks.

Next, use a small amount of Agrax Earthshade on the metal areas. Then use Macragge Blue to touch up all the armor areas, making sure to avoid the cracks.

Lastly, use Ultramarines Blue to highlight all the edges. (I'm not sure of the new color equivalent. I'm sitting on 5 pots of the old stuff, so I have no need to buy it).



That's it for now. I'll update this with more as I can.

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