More shock troops

A few members of my shotgun and dynomite squad

A better picture of cobra commander

update already :P

So I’ve badly neglected this thing. But I haven’t exactly been idle.

A little repaint of a hero clix deadpool.

The first of many squads of great coat troopers, these ones are my stormtroopers.

And here’s a closer look at their sarge.

Continuing the future theme here are purple corp’s troops

And their two robot henchmen.

And some reaper ladies of the evening. Or proof that I watched way too much anime.

I’m pretty sure I posted the girl before, but the robot is new. He’s a Reaper assistant bot.

And now Mantic stuff.



These three pictures are the contents of 1 box of mantic skeletons. these things are great and cheep.

And some dwarfs.

these two were made using mantic ghoul bodies, and Wargames factory great coat squid heads.

and finally an assassin who’s been sitting unpainted on my shelf for years.

Hopefully it will not be nearly so long till my next update.

mini update

Just a quick little minis update:

I got a few reaper strumpets. I figure every adventure seems to either start or end with ale and whores.

Mr. Purple is a Reaper Nova Corp Sergeant. I needed a break from grim dark, so a little shiny future stuff.

And because I am a total masochist I started another 10 demonettes. This one is their leader, one generic herald of Slaanesh. She stole an eldar arm, and was rewarded with even greater excess. (No the absurd breasts are not indicative of the rest of the squad. They’re just there to distinguish her from the rank and file.)

End of February Sketches

Got a few things done since the last post, not all of them great, but well, it’s practice.

A side on view of a robot.

My favorite new character in Mass Effect 2, who for some reason never gets fixed.

Well, he is the only one on the ship who’s hypoallergenic.

And this week’s remake remodel, Sky Rocket Steele. I’m not all that keen on this one since I had a decent idea, but couldn’t think of a good way to do it without words. Steele was supposed to be dressed in an absurdly impractical macho way because underneath it he’s stuck wearing a relatively girly mechanical pressure suit.

omegle 1

Where chat goes to die.

Stranger: hey!
You: hello mr. 4 mr. 3 could not make it
You: called away on urgent business to guam
Stranger: oh thats sad, I was expecting him:(
You: yes I know it is sad we were all looking forward to the doughnuts mr. 3 brings to meetings
Stranger: ye, but really we shuldnt eat so much doughnuts, im startig get a little bit chubby1
You: and ms. 7 had a bit of an encounter with a train, never walk again the poor dear
You: mr. 1 is of course fictional
You: and ms. 2 is still recovering from the cone of silence
You: mr. 5 and ms. 6 are still in deep cover
You: so that of course leaves no one but you and I
Stranger: oh, life sucks:(
You: it does in deed
You: this message will self-destruct 35 seconds ago

Krogan charging!

Just a couple more pictures today

I’ve been playing Mass Effect 2, so it’s kind of on my mind. And yes the joke was probably done to death with Mass Effect 1, but I hadn’t played it. There are a few more of these I’m finishing up.

Another picture of Unther

sketches early feb

Since I have a snowday today I scanned and uploaded some things that have been lurking in my sketch book

A buried robot for this month’s Post apocalyptic sketch prompt

More of the robot wars’ aftermath

A robot that just quit

Weirdness

And a fighter lizard

paints and things

Since I was writing this up for Todd any way, here’s a list of the paints I’m currently using:

Apple Barrel -these are super cheep craft paints from Michaels, they tend to be under 2 dollars, sometimes when they go on sale they can be less than $.50 a bottle.
pewter grey – medium neutral grey
Country grey – lighter slightly cool grey, good highlight to the above
white – thin, but then almost all whites are. good for highlights
sandstone – light slightly yellowy grey/brown nice for IG cloth or stucco on terrain takes about 2 good coats
Any of the neon colors. Mix a bit with white to make Eye bleeding chaos color schemes
Kings gold yellow with a bit of brown to it, I use as the intermediate step in painting gold highlights
English Ivy Green close to catachan greentakes about 2 coats. was used on basalisk bastian

Ceramcoat Another super cheep paint in the craft section Sort of a mixed bag in terms of quality
Passion – a sort of thin matte finish purple, 2 coats will usually do a nice job.
flesh tone – a good starting point for making skin tones, mix with soft body brown, or taupe, mix in white to do highlights
blue heaven I used this on some tau and demonettes, it ends up nice looking, but is extremely thin upwards of 5 coats needed in some places

Liquitex soft body $5-$10 depending on color, some need to be thinned a bit for minis use.
Mars Black – a good opaque black, needs to be thinned
light portrait pink – a light pink, I use it in some flesh mixes, and for scars
light blue violet – can be mixed with above pink to approximate tentacle pink, makes good tau flesh
bright aqua green – used on jewels/lenses and nids
taupe – FIND THIS PAINT! this is my go to base coat for golds, leather, and light skin absolutely opaque, thins nicely, do not use as a wash
burnt sienna – a basic brown, good for dark skin, and dark leathers, mixes nicely with flesh tone
burgundy – a great replacement for GW mechrite red
cadmium red medium – basic red, a bit translucent, but layers nicely above the burgundy

GW
Macherian solar orange – A must have if you plan anything with large parts of orange
mordian blue – good opaque dark bles are hard to come by, but this is one.
silver metals, mythril, gunmetal etc. No others I’ve found do decently opaque silvers.

reaper pro paint

Sunlight yellow – I am not thrilled with this, but I am yet to find a better yellow.

vallejo panzer aces – got as a convention sample, no idea of price.

Black- this is really miss named. it is opaque dark grey, and can be used in a wash or to highlight black armors

Stuff:
liquitex BLACK acrylic gesso – do not get white or grey, they clog details. I use this in place of spray primers since I have no place/time to spray
liquitex clear acrylic gesso – I use this to paint details over Rackham ppp minis
Acrylic gloss medium – use to clear coat over minis you want to be extremely shinny (I use for eyes and lenses mostly)
Acrylic matte medium – clear coat for matte finish, can mix wit the above to make more of a neutral finish
acrylic heavy gel medium – used for effects, fires, lighting etc.
acrylic medium with stucco/ sand – I have basing, these are brush on alternatives.
fluidifier/thinner for arcylics – I am out of this at the moment so I don’t know the exact name it is used to make washes more fluid, it takes a very long time to dry, and should absolutely never be allowed to mix with any of the clear coats. It must dry entirely before you continue working

Painting minis getting stuff done

I started converting and painting a squad of demonettes more than a year ago, these are the last four.



They still need some basing, and the yellow and blue ones still have a bit more detail work to do, but I’m closing in on it.

So next on the list after the demonettes, is Space Hulk. I bought it when the new version was released last year, and up to this point I’ve only finished the broodlord. Because I wanted a break from soft fleshy things I’m painting the terminators first. And here are the first two in progress.


Brother scipio is easily my favorite sculpt that GW has ever made for a terminator.

How could anyone not like that, he’s trying to throw the floor at things.

drawing 2010 so far

Since I’m starting the blog with 2010 already in progress here’s a little back fill post of what I’ve done so far.

Lord classy was drawn while sitting in a coffee shop wondering why the person across the room was dressed up like a Victorian gentleman. Apparently he had just come from some sort of drama class.

Work makes me feel like this most days.

Just tormenting spiral twist with reminders that there are new nids.