DZC [001d]

Finished up the Scourge Warriors tonight.  Red Gore base coat twice over the black for their cloaks. Then highlighted with blood red for all the edges. Brown and leather highlights for boots and pants. Black with Dawnstone highlights for guns and backpacks. Then Brown and Bleached Bone and White highlights for helmets.  Then two colors for green eye visor things. Then finally red dots with white centers for squad markings on backpacks. 

Tough to get the lighting right tonight...

I also added an additional yellow shoulder pad to the UCM Legionnaires for their squad markings which I forgot about the other night.  Fun stuff. On the way now!  Now time to start the vehicles with the air brush. Hope to hit this some more this weekend!  Work hard play hard :)

DZC [001c]

No painting tonight but did get in all of the airbrush paint I ordered. Everything checked off and was shipped. Shew!

Also got in some cool matte card protectors for the command cards. Big difference on my table with the overhead lighting in place.  

Now add in a generic mtg deck box and we're good to go :)

That's it for now. Stupid work from home night really hinders the painting itch...

DZC [001b]

So after looking at the book images of these guys and then looking at the actual models of the infantry there must have been some random production changes as the models I have are not as detailed as the ones in the book... Good and bad. Less 10mm scale model painting details but more opportunities for dry brushing!   So yea, UCM Legionnaires first up to the painting plate. God these things are small.  Yet I find myself highlighting leather shaded belt pouches... 12:30am, why not?!  Just in the groove.  Base coat black. Dry brush shadow grey over everything. Dry brush bleached bone over everything for armor camo color I'll be using for my UCM.  Then repaint guns black. Highlight with dawnstone/codex gray. Then paint faces dwarf flesh. Then paint belt pouches and gun holster brown and highlight with snakebite leather. Then dab of red on all left shoulder pads. Times 30 little freaking dudes.  Finally dry brush dawnstone and rust on bases over the ballast and good enough for me. I mean you really have to hold these about 2" away from your face to see them anyway. Maybe scourge warriors tomorrow...we'll see how my eyes hold up in the morning :)

Feel free to try to zoom in on these pictures...iPhone does not quite cut it for these dudes

DZC [001a]

First steps for action are getting the smallest ballast possible and basing the infantry. 

I used fine cinders as I knew I would be baseing these guys black so if I missed any base coated areas they would still be black.  

Then I used super glue and a really old brush (which is sacrificed during this process of course due to the super glue) to spread around a coating area then dip and shake and bake (put your ballast in a separate double zip freezer zip lock type bag so you don't dump ballast elsewhere later). to get the final product.  

UCM

The Scourge

Then repeat a bunch of times and these were ready for base coating pretty much immediately. 

I used the citadel chaos black primer (which I use for about 95% of everything I paint) remaining from my last set of projects and went to town. Also had just enough to coat the 3 UCM Bear APC's.  The rest I'll be base coating with airbrush primer so we'll see how that goes later.   All for that night. 

DZC [001]: The painting challenge

So, I have this great game built up but have not had any motivation to get this painted. I've now just finished a bunch of 40k stuff for the recent Nova Open, so decided I needed a break from that and now would be a decent time to hit this hard.  

I'm giving myself a 3 month challenge to paint the whole thing. We'll see how it goes :)

I'll be also trying to start airbrushing more frequently (something other than red) and will be trying out some new paints and techniques for this project. 

Just placed this order and hope to have them in early next week. I'll try to document the project along the way as well until the end!  Enjoy :)

Zak's-Haks [003e]: The Phantom - Final Video Post

This is the final post to go over some of the things I missed in the blog entries for assembly tips and general features of this model.  Also just to show a size comparison of the Eldar models.  Sorry about the smart phone video quality as it's a little rough at times, but hope you can use some of the tips in case you are embarking on the similar journey of assembling one of these things.  Enjoy!

AS&SH [002]: GM Screen

I mean...we all need one of these right?  After my first game, I'm glad I took the time to put it together.  I have it organized (from right to left), with ability score tables and miscellaneous information, general savings throws, etc. on the left panel.  The middle two panels are basically combat related, how to start combat, combat matrix, typical modifiers, weapon damage removing the unrelated information from those tables, etc.  The last panel is dealing with reactions, hirelings, morale, and item savings throws (boy is that table fun to use).

I loved grabbing some of the great artwork from the books to sneak into the 'dead space' on these screens to liven them up a little.

I have also created pdf/images with crop marks for easy printing/cutting, so that the entire thing, if printed and cut to size, will still fit in the red box everything comes in.  I printed these on 'label' paper (so I didn't have to glue or tape), and put them onto two manila folders. 

I'm not sure if anyone has formatted these yet, but I think the organization and the tables actually used, fit pretty well and flow during the game nicely.  The ability score text was reduced in size slightly for fitting them all on the page, but other than that, the text is mostly the same size as in the main books.

The hardest part of these was the cover art...too many great illustrations to want to include from what's been created so far.  I did use the logos, only because they are very cool and felt that the screens should showcase the game if I ever take it to a store.  Of course, this is in no way actually endorsed by Northwind Adventures, etc. and I can take no credit for any of the artwork...just time to organize them all into a usable fashion.  Thanks to the creators for all of their great content!

Enjoy :)