tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327370532024-03-13T19:39:22.646-07:00Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends!A blog about my misadventures in learning to paint miniatures for my tabletop gaming hobby since 2010. I may never reach professional quality, but it'll be fun trying to do so.DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-14358340781142350002016-10-08T19:09:00.002-07:002016-10-08T19:12:05.802-07:00Watchers in Death<br />
I'll come right out and say it...I never really cared much for the Deathwatch Space Marines. <br />
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I always thought collecting the best Astartes from each chapter to make a greater elite force was kind of cheating in a way. </div>
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Perhaps it comes from my own background in international martial arts competition where big money sponsors would cherry pick the top talent across the country to create elite competition teams. However, my dojo had a competition team that went head to head with some of the best sponsored teams with all of my teammates coming from a single school.<br />
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It is probably this impression that gave me a slightly disinterested stance regarding the Deathwatch while I was gung-ho for super cool chapters (my love for Blood Angels, Thousand Sons Legion, Grey Knights, and the Minotaurs chapters knows no bounds).<br />
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Then the new Deathwatch Codex and models arrived and holy cow was I impressed. Not only are the models stunningly beautiful, the Codex itself is a masterpiece that reminds me a lot of the 5th edition Grey Knights codex in its tactical flexibility (I DO really miss that 5th edition Grey Knights codex. Not for it's inherent power, but that it allowed such an amazing variety of army building choices that had really good synergy). <br />
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What also really sold me on the Deathwatch Codex was "The Beast Arises" series of books from Black Library. This series was a huge catalyst for me to start looking at the 'boys in black'. Their unique weaponry like the Infernus Heavy Bolter, Frag Cannon (my Furioso Dreadnought wants his weapon back!), and the super cool Corvus Blackstar which is arguably the best looking flyer in all of Warhammer. <br />
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With that said, I took a plunge and heavily invested in multiple cans of Chaos Black spray. I've only completed a few models and I'm steadily working through the Deathwatch Overkill box game and recently purchased a Deathwatch Kill Team squad. The first model I completed was the Watch Master.<br />
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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-69872749683301270892016-10-08T18:58:00.000-07:002016-10-08T19:11:25.771-07:00A quick D&D side projectA few former colleagues from when I was at Blizzard Entertainment have a regular Dungeons & Dragons group. Whenever they start up a new campaign, I'll inevitably get requests for painted models which I'm always happy to do. Here is one of the main characters I completed. She requested magical runes on the book pages, purple fire and glowing blue eyes. It's probably one of my favorite models I've ever painted as I felt the book and face came out particularly well. I learned a lot about glazes and blending while trying to make the eye glow look more radiating and less like blue splotches.<br />
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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-49024777364965891392016-10-08T18:54:00.000-07:002016-10-08T19:11:53.151-07:00Just a few more completed Horus Heresy charactersBeen doing a few commissions for a friend of mine. When I say a few, he has commissioned me to paint one of each of the Horus Heresy Character Series models. It's been a rather daunting task but has been thoroughly enjoyable.<br />
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Here are a few more of the recently completed characters:<br />
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<b>Emperor's Children - Lord Commander Eidolon</b><br />
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<b>Night Lords - 1st Captain Sevatar</b><br />
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<b>Iron Hands - Primarch Ferrus Manus</b><br />
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Completed a set of Sons of Horus Reavers to accompany the Horus Lupercal model I'm working on<br />
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Having picked up one of these murder machines, I've been debating to paint it either in Blood Angels red or Thousand Sons. In the end I went with the sorcerers of Prospero since I have a Deredeo Dreadnought in IX regalia already. Will write up a proper tutorial once it's finished.<br />
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DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-21130204001264585232016-03-01T14:49:00.000-08:002016-03-01T14:49:02.027-08:00The Horus Heresy Character Series - Completed Models<br />
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It's unfortunate that I haven't had much time to consistently update this blog with painting progress. In fact, I hadn't realized how many Horus Heresy models I had actually completed until I decided to write this post. So this post is to catalog and show which models from the Forge World Horus Heresy Character Series I've completed, along with a list of which ones I have left to paint.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abaddon - Captain 1st Company Sons of Horus</td></tr>
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Models currently in-progress:</h2>
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Horus Lupercal - Primarch XVI Legion Sons of Horus<br />
Ferrus Manus - Primarch X Legion Iron Hands<br />
Roboute Guilliman - Primarch XIII Legion Ultramarines<br />
Archmagos Draykavac - Dark Mechanicum<br />
Nathaniel Garro - Knights Errant<br />
Sevatar - First Captain VIII Legion Night Lords<br />
Eidolon - Lord Commander III Legion Emperor's Children<br />
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I've recently switched gears from painting my beloved Blood Angels and started working on a Legion that I, and many other fans, have been waiting for for a very long time: The Thousand Sons. There's something tragic about their story, how they were loyal and still were turned upon by the very father he tried to warn about Horus' betrayal. </div>
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One thing I love what Forge World did was try to create a distinct visual cue for each Legion. There are already several red-colored legions (Blood Angels, Word Bearers, Thousand Sons, and eventually World Eaters) so rather than doing a flat red that is the trademark Blood Angels scheme, they made each red army different so they're recognizable.</div>
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Here's the recipe I used to recreate that candy red armor that Forge World uses for their own Thousand Sons models on their website.</div>
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<li>After your model is primed in the primer color of your choice (I tend to use either Gray or Black spray primer), I airbrushed the model in Vallejo Jet Exhaust airbrush metallic. It's a very dark, gritty metal that even on its own is an awesome hue.</li>
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<li>Next, using a very bright whitish silver, Vallejo White Aluminum, I used zenith highlighting with my airbrush to coat the model in order to capture directional lighting. This is done by spraying the model from above, thus the unpainted areas retain their dark metal hue.</li>
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From there, the detailing is up to you. Keep in mind the Thousand Sons use a lot of white and gold trim, so these are the recipes I've used for each.<br />
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Brilliant/Bright Gold:<br />
Base: Retributor Armour Gold<br />
Wash: Reikland Fleshshade<br />
Layer: Auric Armour Gold<br />
Highlight: Liberator Gold<br />
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Base: Balthazar Gold<br />
Wash: Agrax Earthshade<br />
Layer: Gehennas Gold<br />
Layer: Auric Armour Gold<br />
Highlight: 50/50 Gehennas Gold/Runefang Steel<br />
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Base: Celestra Grey<br />
Wash: Nuln Oil<br />
Layer: Ulthuan Grey<br />
Highlight: White Scar WhiteDarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-53430379587456223802016-01-26T10:43:00.001-08:002016-01-26T10:43:44.247-08:00Vallejo Chipping Medium - Creating weathering effectsI've recently discovered Vallejo's chipping medium. This stuff is frakking boss. I was never able to paint on natural-looking weathering effects, but this gave me renewed confidence in painting skills. I thought I had plateaued a while so it's nice to have a new tool under my belt to use now.<br />
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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-76661639402632462362015-10-15T19:56:00.001-07:002015-10-15T19:56:04.445-07:00Vulkan, Primarch of the XVIII Legion Salamanders<br />
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Finally finished Primarch Vulkan, possibly one of the coolest models of the Heresy line. <br />
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<li>Spray black with Chaos Black</li>
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<li>This was followed up by painting the
pattern lines onto the armor with a fine brush using Mechanicus Standard Grey.</li>
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on the naturally light parts of the armor using Dawnstone, followed by Administratum
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<li>This was finished up with thin
highlights of Ulthuan Grey and spot highlights of White Scars White.</li>
<li>All edges highlighted with line
highlights of White Scars White</li>
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<li>Re-base coat the head with Chaos Black.
It’s probably best to paint this separately from the body.</li>
<li>Airbrush a zenith highlight of Tamiya Flat
Black mixed with Tamiya German Grey onto the head.</li>
<li>Follow this by airbrushing highlights
of Tamiya German Grey and a mix of German Grey and Sky Grey.</li>
<li>Then with a brush add highlights to
the most exposed area of the flesh with Dawnstone followed by Administratrum Grey</li>
<li>Next it’s time to reset the skin tones
to a darker color. Use Nuln Oil (or another black wash), highly thinned down
with gloss varnish medium. Apply this over the whole face using several thin
layers of this to tone the skin back down to black.</li>
<li>The last steps are to add interesting
tones to the face. Purple glazes were added to the shaded areas using thinned Druchii
Violet. Then exceptionally thinned Lamenters Yellow across the raised areas.</li>
<li>The face was finished by going over the
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Green followed by a few successive highlights of this colour plus Ushabti Bone,
adding more Ushabti Bone each time with a final highlight of Ushabti Bone.</li>
<li>Every scale had eight to ten tiny dots
of Dryad Bark added to it followed by four to five tiny dots of black towards
the top of each scale. Then a thinned down wash of Athonian Camo Shade was
added to the whole cloak area.</li>
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Druchii Violet in the reassesses and edges of the scales followed by several
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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-75222230113470610922015-07-25T12:26:00.001-07:002015-07-25T12:26:20.604-07:00Horus Heresy Character - Alexis Polux, 450th Captain of the VII Legion Imperial Fists. It's been a while since I last posted. Things have been quite busy at work with our recent 1.1.5 patch being released for Star Citizen.<br />
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I intend on using my Knights in my Horus Heresy gaming. Since one of my Questoris Knights is painted up in the colors of House Taranis, I figure it's the House that I'll stick with for the rest of my Knights; although I may paint my Cerastus Acheron in the heraldry of a different House. There are some pretty awesome color schemes in <a href="http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/Horus_Heresy_Books/THE_HORUS_HERESY_BOOK_FOUR_CONQUEST.html" target="_blank">Book 4 - Conquest</a>. <br />
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This model was fairly straight forward to assemble. Nothing tricky, and the parts were pretty well cast. I only had to heat the lance in order to straighten it out.<br />
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One thing that's cool about this model is that it comes with a Throne Mechanicum. I'm trying to see if I can fit an LED kit into the throne, just to give it that extra bit of coolness. <br />
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DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-27225477131341461812014-09-03T02:17:00.001-07:002014-09-03T02:17:17.920-07:00Imperial Knight #2 base<div>Been working on a base for the Imperial Knight, using plasticard I-beams and GW barbed wire, painted to look rusted over. </div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nx5TNgu4IoA/VAbcl7EMZTI/AAAAAAAAG5g/QuhO84Fhx8A/s640/blogger-image-685725476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nx5TNgu4IoA/VAbcl7EMZTI/AAAAAAAAG5g/QuhO84Fhx8A/s640/blogger-image-685725476.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-VJmScTbSfUk/VAbcm8VM_lI/AAAAAAAAG5o/6gvDZUdEkZQ/s640/blogger-image--857835451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-VJmScTbSfUk/VAbcm8VM_lI/AAAAAAAAG5o/6gvDZUdEkZQ/s640/blogger-image--857835451.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CRB1ei8v5oM/VAbcjaTQrmI/AAAAAAAAG5Y/oCZEjQAlehQ/s640/blogger-image--1687716569.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CRB1ei8v5oM/VAbcjaTQrmI/AAAAAAAAG5Y/oCZEjQAlehQ/s640/blogger-image--1687716569.jpg"></a></div><br></div>DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-33814637243314081602014-08-29T22:44:00.001-07:002014-08-29T22:44:52.914-07:00Reclusiarch IncandaelPossibly my favorite GW model of all time, definitely one of Juan Diaz's best sculpts ever. It took me about 11 layers on the chest, skull, and other bone-colored parts. And in between each layer was a watered down glaze of sepia wash. <div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6zGTxadP_Ao/VAFk0Ggtz7I/AAAAAAAAG48/kybau65aIsc/s640/blogger-image--542377794.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6zGTxadP_Ao/VAFk0Ggtz7I/AAAAAAAAG48/kybau65aIsc/s640/blogger-image--542377794.jpg"></a></div></div>DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-31604711193105327532014-08-29T19:55:00.000-07:002014-08-29T19:55:16.405-07:00Remind me to never paint one of these again...Been sitting on a friend's Reaver Titan for a while now. Work and lack of time has kept me from really working on it until recently. But I was able to get some work on it done. <br />
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Sprayed a mix of Liche Purple and Codex gray in a mottled random pattern, then did a mix of Tallarn Flesh and Tausept Ochre in a mottled pattern. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JrBRbWP3S0c/U4gFWGKEkzI/AAAAAAAAGT8/ZYQHX7xxaKA/s640/blogger-image--851649340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JrBRbWP3S0c/U4gFWGKEkzI/AAAAAAAAGT8/ZYQHX7xxaKA/s640/blogger-image--851649340.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2. 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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-43469589626125348882014-03-19T15:22:00.003-07:002014-03-19T15:22:52.640-07:00Imperial Knight - The Amaranthine FreebladeThe Amaranth flower is a favorite of mine. It was once thought to grant immortality, but is now used as a cooking spice. Plus it's a name I'd love to give to my future daughter should I ever have kids.<br />
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<br />DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32737053.post-2547355215749156712014-03-13T15:03:00.001-07:002014-03-13T15:03:17.774-07:00Fulgrim the Illuminator<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T2h-JkhWezE/UyIrHVytDxI/AAAAAAAAFYo/tknoTTEAX4o/s640/blogger-image-2092957079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T2h-JkhWezE/UyIrHVytDxI/AAAAAAAAFYo/tknoTTEAX4o/s640/blogger-image-2092957079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FE3lUe59ceA/UyIrI10Q67I/AAAAAAAAFYw/Ml2us7GT4dQ/s640/blogger-image--577284489.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FE3lUe59ceA/UyIrI10Q67I/AAAAAAAAFYw/Ml2us7GT4dQ/s640/blogger-image--577284489.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T2h-JkhWezE/UyIrHVytDxI/AAAAAAAAFYo/tknoTTEAX4o/s640/blogger-image-2092957079.jpg"> </div>DarianZGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767027861405542404noreply@blogger.com0