Forge world Masterclass (February)

In my first post I mentioned that I attended the Forge World Masterclass where Mark Bedford and Phil Stutcinskas demonstrated some great techniques that help make the most of limited hobby time. They concentrated on how to paint large monsters (the Ogre Thundertusk/Stonehorn) quickly. As always the day was fantastic and I learned a lot. I even went home and finished the figure off!

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HG

Golden Daemon Masterclass

Last weekend I went do to Nottingham for the Golden Daemon masterclass, where Darren Latham and Joe Tomaszewski showed us how to paint non-metallic metal (NMM) gold, object source lighting (OLS) and free hand. The day was brilliant; Darren and Joe were friendly and extremely helpful. I was really impressed with their enthusiasm for painting throughout the day offering tips and advice about how to improve the figures that everybody had brought.

Below are pictures of the three figures that I painted using the NMM technique. The first was a Sanguinary Guard in NMM gold. We painted the shin and top of the foot of one leg due to time restraints. I was pleased with the way mine turned out. I will have to paint a few more figures to learn the technique properly but I thought it was a good start.

Next we did some OLS. This seems to be a lot easier than I thought it would be. Essentially just a glaze of the light source colour carefully applied to the areas that the light would shine on. I think this will be a technique that will be easy to learn but difficult to master. Knowing where to apply the glaze and how much OLS to use on a figure, too much will just not look right. We applied this technique to the eyes of a Dark Eldar Warrior. I think I will use it on my Necrons as well, around the guns and the eyes.

The last technique that we were taught was free hand. The focus of this tutorial was how to plot the design before you start and choose an appropriate design for the area in the first place. I wasn't massively happy with my attempt But I think that ws due to the lines being too narrow. I'll have to keep trying and next time I will spread the design out a wee bit further.

I have been painting up one of the Forge World show only skin wolves for a friend and only have to finish the poor soldier he is holding. On Saturday night after the masterclass I decided to do the soldiers helmet in NMM silver. The helemt pictured below is the result of two and a half hours in Warhammer World on Sunday morning.

Pictures of the rest of the skin wolf will be in a blog all of its own in the future.

Hopefully I will be posting more often.
Thanks
HG

New army for new edition

Sixth edition 40k was released yesterday woohoo!!!!!! The rules look very nice with a feel of 2nd edition to them. There are loads of reviews and discussions online about the differences this edition brings and I am not going to add to them here. 

Today's post will be about my newest army for 40k, the Necrons. I started collecting the army back in February, with the view that I would use it when the new edition came out, and quite surprisingly I have amassed a few painted units in a short space of time. Now these figures are not going to win any Golden Daemon prizes but I think they are of a good gaming standard that most folk would be proud of. 

I started this army in my usual way, I had a look in my cupboards in my parents house to see what I already had. Turns out I had a box of warriors and a lord. I had painted up one of the warriors in a white scheme many moons ago with the vague hope of painting a whole army like Clone troopers from Star Wars!

With this army I wanted to paint them quickly and in a dark metallic so I went to Halfords (a car parts shop) and bought a tin of Citroen Arctic steel spray, which is very close to mithril silver, sorry runefang steel. After being washed with black/sepia then two washes with just black, I then edge highlighted the armour with runefang (mithril) then aded some brass and green details. Its a nice simple paint job so I can get through them at a good rate. 

Without further ado here are some pictures.

Warrior squad with lord. I have another 10 warriors done and 10 still to finish. I also have a ghost ark half done that most of this squad will depoly in.

10 Immortals tesla carbines (yes I know most folk don't like them but I do and with snap fire they will be overwatch kings).

5 Lych guard plus Overlord.

Scarab bases I have 8 fully painted.

I still have five deathmarks and three wraiths to start painting. I want to expand this army to apocalypse scale therefore the next thing on my to buy list will probably be a doom sythe but the canoptek spyder and the triarch stalker are both very cool and then there are the tomb blades ...........Oh well don't have to decide just yet. 

I'll put a proper guide together as to how I paint them in the next wee while. I'll just have to remember to take the picture in between each stage.

Thanks for reading. I hope you are enjoying the blog so far.

HG