Still Plagued by Yellow Paint!!!

After four days of steadily working on more involving painting and sculpting projects, i decided to take a quick break and paint something up for the blog.  Yes the Ork Dreads are still being worked on, however there is only so much yellow one person can take, and after an unfortunate accident where a yellow coloured primer decided to start to desolve one of my killa kans i became a little dishearted with the whole deal.  (the killa kan has been fixed with a new replacement faceplate care of the Stompa Kit).  On the sculpting table are nine space marines, currently receiving robes made of green stuff, so that they fit the theme of my robed dark angels army.  If you scroll down you can see the prototype of the converted and painted dark angels marine, it's going to take some time, but it will definitely be worth it.

Now i know this model isn't going to win me any golden demons, and it isn't the most striking looking model ever, but it was incredibly fun to paint none the less.  After being generally dissatisfied with all the internet tutorials on how to paint death guard i decided to give a go at the rotting minty green armour that is typical of the death guard.  I was actually suprised at how simple it really was.  I started with priming the model black, and then applying a general base coat of Chardonite Granite to the entire model (this was done some time prior to the actual painting of the mini).  following this the model was then given a general base coat of knarloc green covering all but the deepest of recesses.   After debating on a highlighting colour for quite awhile, and several seemingly useless dried up pots of rotting flesh later, i decided to use dehneb stone mixes 1:1 with some white just to get the mix closer to the off white of the rotting flesh colour.  With this mix i then ran a test gradation  on my wet pallet running from gnarloc green all the way to the mixed dehneb stone, needless to say i was instantly happy with the results and used the gradation to then highlight the model.  The recesses of the armour and pockmarks were then given a treatment of a controlled laviathan purple wash to achieve the bruised recesses on the model, the portions joining the armour plates were also treated in this manner.  The trim was then painted entirely in a dark brown (something around a scorched brown, bestial would work as well) and drybrushed mythril silver after the brown had dried.  To tone down the brightness of the metal parts they were washed in devlin mud, followed by bedab black.  The few hoses and tubes on the model were painted fenris grey and washed black.  To paint the eyes i started with some warlock purple leaving a ring of black around the outside of the eye, and highlighted almost to white towards the center of each.  The last step was to pick out the rivets on the model with some mithril silver to brighten things up a bit, and there you have it, a finished Death Guard Plague Marine!

Why Don't You Start Wearing Yellow!

It's almost finished!  Yes the Ork Killa Kan is almost finished! So here's a quick progress update on the status of the new plastic ork dreads. 

Yellow! I Hate Painting Yellow!

Up there on my list of colours i do not like to paint, among black and white, upon a pedestal all to its own is the colour yellow.  I don't think I'm mentioned before the degree at which i don't like painting this colour... mind you in small amounts it's a reletively harmless innocuous colour, but when you are painting it on tanks with huge amounts of flat surfaces it is in a category all to its own.  Other than using white primer and working from the brightest of colours and working down to the shading i have not found a reliable way to paint yellow.  I'm thinking that investing in a can of yellow primer (if it exists) might be a good idea.

Work In Progress... soo much yellow paint!

Today, I've started working on my amassed ork dreadnaught collection,  3 Killa Kans and 1 Deff Dread.  After a great deal of playing around, washing, mixing, scratching, denting, etc... i've managed to come up with this paint job concept.  Only the central portion of the dreadnaught is painted so far as i'm still working on the rest of the armour, but in another day or two this model should be complete. 

Searing Hot Plasma

This is the second addition to the Dark Angels Devastator squad that I've been working on.  This rather shiny plasma cannon toting marine was painted in the same way as the other Dark Angels Marines in power armour to date.  I've opted away for the red trim that Games workshop is currently using on their 'eavy metal dark angels (although some of my older painted models do feature this) in favour of the older darker scheme of the pure green armour that fades nearly to black.  The guns for the vast majority are either going to be painted with the green scheme of the armour (for the larger weapons) or black (for the smaller weapons).  I'm still not exactly sure if i like whats going on with the cloaks, but i believe it will tie the marines in with the death guard a little better to have them similar colours.  Now on to paint some Ork stuff!

Dark Angels

After a quick coat of paint, this is how the AoBR space marine with sculpted cloak turned out. I have to find a way to blend the green stuff for a smoother finish than this, as i noticed when i was painting the model there were plenty of dips and crevices that i did not originally think were there in the first place. If any one knows how best to do this, pleas feel free to comment on this post with an answer. Currently on the painting table are 4 devastator marines that go with the veteran sergeant that i had posted a few days ago. I'm hoping that the red eyes of the dark angels don't clash with the blue eyes of the deathwing terminators. It should be a striking contrast with the green suits of armour next to bone white terminators and black bikes and landspeeders. I'd also like to add a witch hunters component to this army, something along the lines of two battle sister squads with rhinos and a Canoness or Inquisitor lord. We'll see what happens.

Dark Angels Green Cloak

Although not another noise marine sculpt, i've decided to put the green stuff to the green marines. As the Assault on black reach marines can be a little bland i've decided to sculpt the traditional dark angels cloaks onto the models. There's about 20 of them or so to do so this should take some time, especially as seeing the steps to complete this one mini nearly took me five days in its entirety, waiting a full 8 hours between each sculpting session. As the cloak extends from the body, there is a great deal of filler work that needs to be done on the model, slowly layering on the detail ontop of a smooth guide layer. Even after all the sculpting was complete i found that i went back with an exacto blade over the edges of the cloak to give it sharper edges and more defined corners, by trimming away a small portion of the cured green. This model has been primed and is on the table to be painted.