Moor Warlord ready to ride...

Finally finished the banner which was a pain. Without knowing it I somehow got super glue on my thumb and touched the bloody flag while I was assembling it to the flag pole. When I went to release it, well let's just say some bad words came out of my mouth about how stupid I was. I was able to slowly rock it back and forth and get it loose without ripping it, but I had to mix some colors up and do my best to match the print. 

I am not gluing the flag in place (in the following photo's I just kind of stuck it in his hand and did a balancing act) as I am shipping this to my friend. He will also be finishing the base to match with his current army. Other than that I just have to spray some sealer on it, wait till it dries and pack it up. 

Cheers

Kevin

Emperor's Children Horus Hersey 30K

There is just something about the Horus Hersey that reminds me so much of the Roman Civil Wars of ages past. I am very excited about entering this period. It's always a slow process for me, but my Wife has promised a few extra units of this proud chapter to be joining my ranks in August. I do hope this comes true. In the meantime I have plenty to paint. I've given my attention to a few friends projects, but these I have finally caught up on and will be able to work more on this one. This is a Contemptor Dreadnought that I am just in love with. I am taking my time painting it up. It's a resin model from Forge World and resin is not as forgiving as plastic, so I have proceeded at a snails pace on top of doing other stuff for my pals. Here'w what I have so far.

Yes it's not much, but I already have a vision of what it will look like when done. It will be beautiful. Of course everyone's children are beautiful to them (get it, Emperor's Children, my Children.... Okay never mind).

Cheers
Kevin

Showcase: A little bit of "I'll be back" love

Been catching up on a few projects I've promised to a few friends. Here is a completed one (yeah I got one done!!!). These are the last five of a group of ten I've done for a friend and will complete his unit.

Cheers and thanks for looking
Kevin

WIP: Saga Moor Warlord vignette

Some real life issues have placed my hobby in the back seat for a bit, but not completely. I've been keeping up on my favorite blogs and doing some light painting so as not to go completely mad. Most of all I've been trying to get some painting done for friends I have promised for them, so here is one of them in a Moor Warlord vignette for the popular Saga game system. I have not completed the base on purpose so that my friend can match it to his Army with his material. I used liquitex matte gel to build up the base. On hindsight next time I will use a different material as this took forever to dry, probably because I applied it pretty thick. I saw a picture somewhere in an Osprey book of a leader on a small rise with his banner man on a horse slightly below him. That's what I was trying to accomplish with this one. I have yet to place a proper sword in the hand of the Warlord, and make the banner for the other. But it's pretty much done.

I've worked on a few other projects, but will post separately for period reasons.

Cheers

Kevin

WIP: Emperor's Children 30K Horus Hersey

One of several projects I have going simultaneously, Today I felt like painting purple (that's right Skip, Purple! Live with it or I'll paint your horses purple!!!;)). So out came my Emperor's Children. I screwed up reading the 30K supplement codex (basically an Army book of what you can and can't have) and thought I could equip my regular Marine squads with the weapons choices I made. Turns out I was looking at the Veteran squad (Elite choice instead of regular Troop choice). Oh well, it's fantasy Science fiction so ha!

The above is my Contemptor Dreadnought I started building. I talked about and showed the build pictures of this in a previous post. Here it is with a little work done to it.

Here is one completely painted Emperor's Children Marine to show you what the squad will look like when finished.

...and above is the group shot of my Dread and Veteran Squad halfway there.

Tomorrow I get to have the Dentist dig around in my mouth to fix some problems, so will see how I feel when I get home if I can knock some more of these boys out.

Cheers
Kevin

1941 lego world WWII battle of Brody

My friend Dave found this on Youtube and I was pretty impressed by it. Though it's done with lego's don't sell it short. I found it to be pretty historically accurate and well done, for lego's. Prepare yourself for a 6 minute history lesson;)

Cheers
Kevin

Less time means more projects of course!

Things have come to a crawl as my Wife underwent surgery last week and hobby time took a back seat to more important real life time. With my Wife feeling a bit better I was able to mess about in my hobby room and I started a few more projects. Nothing focused just did a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It felt good and was fun and that is what counts. So this is what took place:

Finally assembled the last five Necrons for my buddy Al, As he has patiently waited for these, I promised myself for every color I place on one of my own projects I would match it by placing a color on his. This picture is a little further along, but here they are with the primer on them.

Same thing with my buddy Skip, time to get his Moorish Warlord base on the move and I finished the horses and now only have the riders to go.

....and finally my little Horus Heresy project with my Emperor's Children Contemptor Dreadnought. Forge World resin kits are really expensive, beautiful, but expensive. This means taking ones time to get it right the first time, because my modeling skills are not the best, I didn't want to have bad things happen that would challenge those skills. As you can see with the picture below there are quite a few parts. Maybe not as many as on a plastic kit but what differs with the plastic kits (normally) is there is no slot A connects to slot B thing going on here. You have to figure out the positioning beforehand and I used a pencil to mark where I wanted stuff to go. Figuring out the feet was first. You especially have to be careful with the glue. Unlike the plastic kits using the insta-cure (super glue) on resin is it bonds almost immediately so you need to be precise off the get go when it comes to where you really want the part. Hence me using pencil to exactly mark.

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Once I figured out the stance it was lining up the joints to look like a realistic pose. I think it didn't turn out to badly.

Finally the prime and I've decided to paint up everything in a sub assembly fashion. So I will complete this part before adding on the next so I don't have to worry about getting around bits with the brush.

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Kevin