Last two Dark Eldar Cruisers

…and here are the last two Dark Eldar Cruisers.  The Stillborn Promise and the Gift of Discord.

Next: Escorts!

New Dark Eldar Ships and a new hosting site!

The names Osan’gar and Aran’gar come from the Wheel of Time, the names of two reborn Forsaken.  Translated from the old tongue, they are left and right handed daggers coated in slow poison.  Perfect for Dark Eldar.

In addition, next month will mark the 3 year anniversary of The Four Strands.  Due to this, I have finally dumped Godaddy as a hosting site and have moved to Bluehost as they are cheaper and don’t have an ad campaign that is complete ass.  Thanks again to Lexington for moving the site successfully.

Next: two more cruisers, then escorts, and then I can be done with Gothic again!  …until I build another fleet…

Dark Eldar Fleet: The Bliss of Pain

Here’s my first finished Dark Eldar Cruiser: The Bliss of Pain.  It’s not TOTALLY finished due to the fact that I left my varnish at my old place.  Durr.  Here’s the final paint scheme:

-White Primer

-Old GW Ice Blue, which was replaced by the new Layer paint Lothern Blue

-Privateer P3 Turquoise Ink

-Old GW Ice Blue drybrush, replaced by new GW dry Skink Blue (WHICH IS AWESOME.  HOLY CRAP THIS WORKS SO WELL)

-Boltgun Metal for the blades

-Chainmail highlight on the blades

-Vallejo Hexed Lichen (dark purple) for the “windows” and thrusters

-Vallejo Squid Pink highlight for the windows

-Generic black and white for the base

Next: some escorts and I go get the stupid varnish and seal this ship.

Dark Eldar Undercoat, Wash, and Drybrush

Here’s a work in progress of one of my Dark Eldar cruisers.  Undercoat: Ice blue.  Wash: P3 Turquoise ink.  Drybrush: Ice Blue.

Next: Details!

New Place, New Possibilities

Hi all three of you loyal readers!  You may have noticed that I haven’t updated in months.  I got a new job in the district where I had my old job, and I moved.  BUT now that I’m all alone, I can focus on modeling to a greater degree, so without further ado, here’s a list of my current projects:

-The Antonius Project: Thanks to Lexington’s generous gift at Gen Con, I now have a Lugft Huron body and two Tyberos arms from Forge World.  I’m going to make a version of Antonius to be the new Chapter Master of the Azure Flames.  Perhaps there will be a story tie in.

-Dark Eldar Fleet: Currently stinking up my new apartment with carcinogens is my assembled and primed Dark Eldar fleet for Gothic.  Paint scheme will be: white primer -> Ice Blue undercoat -> Turquoise Ink -> 25/75 Turquoise/Ice Blue drybrush -> Boltgun metal blades with a chainmail edging -> Purple lights details with 50/50 pink/purple hughlight, -> purple engines with watered down White wash.  Should look just like the fighter counters I downloaded.  Thanks to whoever Hoja is.  Click below to see.

-Blood Bowl Completion: While I have a fully painted team (Konquata Monitors) and another unpainted (Grimfang Scrappaz) I am missing a few key components such as apothecaries, Bloodweiser Babes, Coaches, Cheerleaders, etc.  I bought enough skinks and goblins at Gen Con to fill out the ranks and finish the accoutrements for both teams.  Additionally, I have to re-do a special character for the Monitors due to him actualy being a skink, not a saurus.

That’s a lot to do!  Expect the Gothic stuff soon, and mini-updates for Blood Bowl.

Loads of Ladz

For my Epic Teaching list for the Orks, I included a ‘Uge Ork formation, which is 6 Nob stands, 6 Grot stands, and 18 Ork stands for a total of 150 minis on 30 bases.

So here they are.  Finally.

I did custom details on the flags and shoulders.  I also painted the barrels of the Deathskull guns like other clans and painted over them, like I did with the tanks.

Next: 40K Orks? Perhaps more modeling for Lost and the Damned?

Scion Minis Painted!

I know I posted the modeled minis for my Scion players ages ago, but tomorrow is our final game so I painted them up, as a farewell present.

Esther was the hardest, as her katana sheath broke a while ago and I had to make a new one from scratch.  She was originally going to be in black, but that was a boring color so I went with purple as it’s still dark but looks visually interesting.  It also compliments her gold bracelets.

Kemo was pretty easy, as the Humming-beater was a simple green blend.  He didn’t look great until I added the blood to the obsidian machete, as the red and green compliment each other.

Alex’s white suit was hard to get, as I used black ink for the cracks to accentuate them.  The skin used the same technique I used for Antonius of the Azure Flames.  Namely, 50% goblin Green and 50% Bronzed Flesh as a base for the skin, ink wash, then sloppy drybrush with Bronzed Flesh and another careful highlight with 75% Bronzed Flesh and 25% Elf Flesh.  Gives him a Mediterranean look.  The red power tie also stands out well.

Mecca is a mercenary so I used a military scheme for him.  The Bronze buttons made his shirt less boring, and because he’s african I made his bar red, black, and green.

Church’s jeans took several tries to get right.  I used a glaze of Vallejo Clear Blue to make the blue drybrushed colors blend, and then did one final random drybrush of Skull White, hitting the knees pretty hard.  To compliment this, I made the rune orange.  His hair was drybrushed ever so lightly with Mechrite Red as a nod to his Nordic ancestry.

I googled up some fancy fonts for the names and just copied them.  It was actually pretty easy.

On My Plate: 4-9-12

Recently re-mounted my old whiteboard, and I realized how many dang projects I have.  Here’s a re-hash so you can pity me.

-Azure Flames: YES, they’re back!  Low priority, but I still have to make a Kor’Sarro Khan stand in, add another Scout Bike, and start the Antonius Project, making Antonius my Marneus stand in.

-Orks: Gotta paint some lads!

-Imperial Guard: Low priority, but I’d like to make a 1500 pt. Creed list and paint it up.

-Warmachine: On hold, pending possibly getting out of WM entirely.  I love the minis, but hate the way the game is going: toward even bigger things.

 -Epic Marines: Still have to paint almost 9 companies, plus tanks, Navy support, and the Reaver Titan.

-Epic Orks: High priority is to finish the 3000 pt. list.  Then, just paint lads!

-Epic Lost and the Damned: Thanks to Lexington and a few ebay auctions, I have a good host of infantry and daemons.  Now, I need the more exotic things such as Daemon Engines and Chaos Altars.  A lot of this might be scratch-build.

-Gothic Dark Eldar: All built, and ordnance is printed and laminated.  Now I need to paint.  I’m thinking Teal with purple running lights and boltgun metal blades with a Mithril Silver highlight.

Necromunda: Need to choose a color scheme for the Delaques, paint my starter gang, and then paint all of the other misc. gangers.

Blood Bowl: Gotta model some cheerleaders and Coaches for the Scrappaz, possibly some Bloodweiser Babes, Apothecaries, etc.  Then, paint the Scrappaz.  Also, I bought the old “Astrogranite” styrofoam Blood Bowl board, so I’m going to create, print, and laminate custom End Zones for the Scrappaz and the Monitors.

Epic Eldar: ON HOLD.

If Lexington could just shoot me now that would be great.

Love Letter to Grendel

BOLS posted this guy’s website, but I need to do so as well.  He’s been keeping a modeling blog since about 2000.  He has a lot of excellent looking projects.  Check him out:

Edit: Looks like Grendel took his site down.  Balls.

Lightguard Complete! An Xmas miracle!

The Lightguard are complete!  Huzzah!  Next, more Epic Orks!