Skin Tones for Beastmen, Revisited

I have an unpainted Choas Blood Bowl team, which I'll get to eventually, but before I start I'd like to have a plan. With that in mind I painted one of my mini-taurs, again...

The pallet was very limited with black, white, Doombull Brown, and Rhinox Hide. The Doombull is very red, and it comes out really pink when you start adding white. I believe that with some blues and greens on the pallet one could make great human flesh tones (to be investigated due course). With what I had out he just ended up looking like a pig (pink).

 I didnt finish the piece, but it was a nice exercise. The leather, loincloth, horns and other bits were all Rhinox with different amounts of white. I ended up pulling out the blue to try and do some work on the sword, but got frustrated and called it a day. All in all it wasn't a total waste of time, but it certainly wasn't a win; I'm not convinced this is the color for my (or your) beastmen.

Cheers,

HMP

Grot Tanks

I've been having so much fun converting the Sentinel Scout into a captured piece of armor for tbe Grots, I figured I should make an entire armored division! Enter Airfix 1:76 scale tank kits. 

These things are too small for Space Marines, but they totally hit the mark for Grots. It should be a lot easier than building tanks from scratch, but they will still require heavy modifications. 

 

Reviews to come.

HMP

New Tools!

Some things arrived in the mail! New drill bits, and micro saw blades. The drill bits are sizes 61-80, which in practical terms, are small, to really really very small. The last set of bits that I ordered were from Amazon, and they turned out to be non-functional Chinese garbage. How these people are ever going to put someone on the moon... 

The other new treat, is a set of 5 micro saws. They are awesome. Unlike the Chinese "drill bits" (read twisted wire), they perform exactly how they should. They effortlessly glide through sprue like a hot knife through butter. The maiden cut, as it were, freed the sprue of its Lascannon, which, as every 40K fan boy will tell you, is the backbone of the Imperial Guard, and therefore the new primary armament for the Grot walker...

More to come,

HMP

Accidents Happen (Walker pt. 7)

More of a show and tell than a proper update (Ed. Thus is a stupid opening line, all blogs are show and tell, it's not fine litereture). I further developed the "TP-mache" lump, and applied a bunch of texture. Some grays on the rocks and bits, and Doom Bull brown on the "dirt". A whiff of Agrax here and there, and things were looking pretty good. There was some gentle drybrushing, probably with Zandri Dust.

The addition of the squashed comrade was either pure genius, or pure stupidity. To quite Bob Ross, "we dont make mistakes, we have happy accidents". Which brings us to the title of today's post, "Accidents Happen". Keen observers will notice that Dobby has been squished while facing the walker, but in he should have been charging the enemy... perhaps he heard a noise and turned, only in time to see the cause of his gristly death

I'm fairly certain that this is the perfect title for this piece. The reasons for this are twofold; 1) it correctly depicts the scene, and 2) it's how we arrived at the situation we currently find ourselves in.

Regardless of whether he should have been coming or going, he's not moving now. 

So that about sums it up. Until next time. Dont miss good while looking for perfect. DMGWLFP

Hack

Grot Walker Pt. 6

Last night, while my spouse sought inner peace and tranquility through guided human pretzel-fication/chakra alignment, I sought inner peace by working on death and destruction in the 41st millennium. 

I began by planning where the walkers legs were going to be positioned and then I started gluing bits of cork to the base with Modge-Podge.

After the initial application I added more of the goop, and then 1 single square of TP. Using a damp paint brush I gently worked the TP into the base, added another layer of goop, then repeated the whole process. 

After cleaning up the edges I let the base dry overnight. The next morning this was the result. 

Pretty impressive, right? I was quite pleased with my discovery, until I realized that I was and old man playing with what amounts to papier mache. Not much of a discovery...

Sometimes it's the journey that matters, while other times it's the destination. This is a fine example of the latter; a natural looking randomly uneven surface upon which more materials can be applied. 

HMP

Grot Walker Pt. 5

It sort of looks like something the cat dragged in, so maybe we should recap and see how we got into this mess

I watched way too many of Nightshift's youtube videos, and now "boys and girls", I use way too much Tamiya putty and there are flame cuts and weld lines everywhere.

The texturing looks good, just dont get too stupid with it. Same with the flame cuts.

The flame cuts are hard to see, but it does make a difference. I kinda buggered up the weld lines. They were done with 2 part epoxy (Army Painter green stuff), but really where I went wrong was not making them small enough, and I turned bolted panels into bolted and welded panels (oops).

The smoke stacks were super fat and ugly, and instead of drilling them out I chopped them off and then drilled out the heat shroud. The shroud is kinda stupid, it reads "occupational safety"... whatever. Anyhow the new stack tips are parts of a BICcpen held in with epoxy. I'm not sold on them, as the shroud is still too thick and I'd like it better if the holes were real... so I'll be looking to chop all that off in due course. 

The whole thing looks like a hot mess because no one part is complete, and I keep priming, adding puty and sanding, but all at the same time. 

The next big decision is what the primary weapon will be...

HMP