Sons of Horus Test model

9 months since I last update this blog... Really busy at work in 2013...  working crazy hours almost daily and spent most of my spare time sleeping. 2013 seems to pass in a flash and I'm not really sure what I had done for the whole year...   

Anyway I did had some time to continue enjoying the hobby (rarely) except painting. Took a break from work recently and did some painting - A MK4 Power armour from Forge world that I bought last year.  

Some pictures and painting steps:

Model primed with Mr Hobby Resin surface primer.
Base coat GW new layer paint - Kabalite green.
Next painted the second layer with GW layer paint - Sybarite green.
Eyes and back pack strap painted with GW layer paint - Ushabti bone.

"Washing" the model

Washed the whole model using Army painter - Strong tone. The strong tone is exactly like GW delvan mud, is much cheaper with larger quantity and comes in dropper bottle. I liked it alot and will continue using it.

Before weathering

Bolter painted with GW paint - Regal Blue  Necron Abyss.

Power pack and metal parts painted with P3 - pig iron, vallejo air - rust, copper & GW- dwarf bronze.

After weathering 

Tried GW new dry paint, it is a very interesting concept & type of paint. It's like painting "dried jelly" but the effects are very similar to using pigments. Will be buying more dry paints to try out.   

The above picture was painted (dry brush) with the following dry paint:

Etherium blue on the base and the heels of the power armour. 

Tyrant skull on the armour for the dusty weathered look. 

Lastly picture of the make shift painting table..

The tools 

Satisfied with how the test model turned out and now to paint the rest of my Sons of Horus army.

Completed Model

Death to the false Emprah!

Tau Army List Ver 1

Had been awhile since I updated this blog. Really busy with work... but still manage to get some gaming time.

Though the first model I bought was a Chaos marine with lascannon. The first army that I bought was 3rd edition Tau. Subsequently sold the army (Tau) after a few games as I had no fun with it partially due to 3rd edition rule (sweeping advance). Once anything reach my firing lines, its time to pack up. Now with a new book I am back to the "Greater good".

HQ
Commander
Iridium
Puretide chip
Fusion blaster            
Plasma rifle
Shield Gen
Target lock
185

Ethereal                            
50

Elites
3 XV8 team

SGT equipment

1. C&C node
2. multi spec suite
3. drone controller
4. 2 gun drones

Normal troops equipment

1. TL missile pod
2. plasma rifle

2 shield drones

237

Troops
12 FW with SGT
SGT marker light/target lock
133

12 FW with SGT
SGT marker light/target lock
bonding knife
145

FA
10 Pathfinders with SGT
*3 ion rifles
bonding knife
DT: Devil fish
240

piranhas
fusion blaster
50

Heavy
Hammerhead
disruption pod
black sun filter
Sub munition
146

2 XV88

SGT equipment

1. Default
2. target lock

Normal equipment

1. TL HY missile pod
2. shield generator 

2 shield drones

bonding knife

196

        
1750

Salty 花生 Game

Had a good 6th 40k game against Enrgie (nids) over at Anything but Ones blog spot.

Khorne by nooblar (deviant art)

Go over to http://anythingbutones.blogspot.sg/2012/12/batrep-1750-tyranids-vs-chaos-space.html  for the battle report.

I got tabled though hahaha. My first tabled game in 6th 40k. 

I BLAME THE DICE! 

Resin... good

Back to blogging after a 9 month hiatus. Busy with work... Playing mostly Fantasy, Malifaux, L5R CCG during these period.

with the release of 40k 6th edition, the gaming group is back to playing 40k. Had my first game last week against jaeroler IG with my dark eldar. I think we played the night fight rule wrongly (night fight for whole game) and my army was hiding in the cover of darkness shooting the grunts easily with night version. won the game (crusade) 7-5, if we had played the night fight rule properly I could have lost, even tabled as the night fight cover save really help my army.

Anyway with the impending release of new chaos marine codex (my first 40k army) I can go back to playing my favourite army.

With some spare cash I decided to buy something from forge world that I always wanted for many years.

Chaos Warhound 2810

The loot!

chaos warhound, hell blade, decimator, and their weapons. Recent forge world order also came with a horus heresy  pin badge.

Painted Terrain Update

Back to updating the blog after a long hiatus. Besides actively seeking employment during these period and finding out the answer to number of basketballs that can fit in a room... I also did some painting. A piece of terrain I bought many years ago, Amera block ruin.

The terrain can be use for 40k and Malifaux which the gaming group had been playing alot recently.

One of the sides

I "stip" the surfaces of the ruin using some left over paint from house painting to create texture on the smooth plastic surface, making dry brushing easier later. After, I primed the whole building black with some cheap flat black paint. The base coat was painted with GW Adeptus Battle grey and later drybrush with Vallejo Model Color Light grey. Next was spraying the terrain with Gunze Sangyo Mr Super Clear flat and dusting the whole surface with Mig pigment concrete and sealed with Mig pigment fixer. 

How to "stip" the surface to create concrete like texture using house paint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6_aFyM5Q0&feature=channel_video_title

I textured the floors using Coat d'arms Brushscape dark earth which is a kind of texture paint. The beams were plastic frames cut out from sprues. The floors were kind of weak even when splash with a large amount of plastic glue, so I decided to strengthen the floors using the plastic frames. Metal miniatures won't have problems standing on it.     

The beams were painted with GW dwarf bronze and wash with diluted Vallejo Game Color Verdigris.
The ground were dark brown (Coat d'arms Brushscape dark earth) dry-brush with Vallejo Game Color Ghost grey, spray with Gunze Sangyo Mr Super Clear flat, lastly dust with Mig pigment concrete and sealed with Mig pigment fixer.

The other side

Free hand and decal

I tried free hand some heretical graffiti to make the terrain more interesting using Vallejo Model color flat red. Created the streaks to make it look like some heretic wrote it with his mutilated bloody hands. 

The chaos sign is from a CSM decal. Using Gunze Sangyo Mr Mark softer - a decal solution, the decal adhere well to the surface did not gave any problems and looks perfect. 

Next I would be painting the Dreadstone Blight or my Dark Eldar army or my Malifaux crew... so many stuffs to paint lol...