Walk On!

The paint goes on, I'm on a roll.  Walk and Roll, I mean walkers.  Dreads baby.

Yeah a little tired, but I'm knocking out more miniatures.  Tonight I finished assembling the last of the models I need to do (my forgeworld order arrived), and I finished painting the Contemptor Mortis Dreadnought as well as two Guard Sentinels. 

Bases were done with the Dragon Forge Sanctuary basing with some leaf and grass scatter. 

I'm up to about 800 out of the 4k painted!  Tomorrow I should have the other 5 bikes and I'll start up on my next batch of stuff. 

Let's see how long the baby stays baking, 2 weeks from today is the due date!

Marine Bikes & Adepticon Plan

Tick tock, tick tock... the clock is counting down until Adepticon.  The Adeptus Film Co. team is now on our third year and I've been having a blast with these guys.  It's just a bummer that we don't live closer, we could get together more often.

This year we're going for Imperial theme.  Unfortunately we base all of our miniatures different and my OCD kicked in and volunteered myself to paint all 4k of the imperials while the rest of the team focuses on the display base and all of the fun extra stuff.  I'm hoping I can knock out a good chunk before the baby is due (Feb 12) because I have no idea if I'll be able to paint after.

We're emphasizing on a bit of a glass cannon with speed. We'll see how that goes.

Here are 5 of the bikers I knocked out to set the paint scheme.  It's following my standard Knight's Angelus that focuses on red and silver as primary colors with gold accents.  I trim most of the weapons in black.

Bases are done on Dragon Forge Design, I'll be doing a combination of the Sanctuary and Ancient Ruins series.  Sometimes I'll throw in some scratch built ones if they will be mostly covered in grass.  I still need to add static grass and dead leaf foliage.

To help me move along on what I need to paint. I also calculated in rough terms how many points I have to paint.  Drumroll please...

Only 511 out of 4k painted! 

Back to the painting table...

Sicaran Battle Tank

Ah the pressure of Adepticon!  I made the stupid decision to try and paint all 4k of our team tournament list, but more on that later.

I got the Sicaran Battle Tank from forgeworld a few weeks ago.  Great model in the game, and impressive looking too.  I finished this up but I'm debating on whether I go back and add some symbols or keep it clean.  I could always slap a few decals on. 

I magnitized the two side gun sponsons.  Very easy, and I'm glad I did it.  That way if I want to run the heavy bolter variant I'm ready or go cheap and strip them off.  

Two months left, tons to paint.  I have a very understanding wife with the baby on the way in less then three weeks!  Back to the brush...

Cerastus Knight Lancer with more Stabby!

I finished up my first of the Cerastus Knights, with the Lancer.  My oh-so-helpful cat jumped on it while I was painting him and snapped the lance banner off, so I'll swing by the hobby store to pick up some jewelry chain to fix the banner.  As with all my knights, they are magnetized at the torso to help for transportation.

I tried to keep him pretty simple and followed my color scheme I've been running with the Knights Angelus.  

For the base, I used Dragonforge's ancient ruins and added in some pillars from Secret Weapon Miniatures.

Decals were a mixture of the standard knight ones and that limited run decal pack (I wish I would have picked up more)

Next up on the docket is a ton of bikers, it may be a certain adepticon project... hint hint!  I'll leave you with all my knights lined up in their smashy glory!

Imperial Knight Paladin #2 - with Suns!

Yeah yeah yeah, I have a thing for suns.  A little borderline obsession.  Here's my homage to my Imperial Suns, adding the sun in splendor in the heraldry of this Knight Paladin.

For the basing, I ended up making up my own on this one.  I used some card stock for the squares and some of the Lord of the Rings terrain (which is awesome).

I'm getting close to finishing up my Knight Lancer, pics to follow along with some terrain picture updates!

Imperial Knight Errant

It's been forever since I've posted last but no lack of work.  I finished up my first three knights and am working on some of the forgeworld ones.  In addition I've done a ton of necron stuff and have been working on terrain both for 40k and Infinity.  More posts to follow!

Here is my completed Knight Errant.  I went with a sinister approach with the heraldry on this one and figured I could double him as Grimauldus if I need to in a pinch.

The basing was from Dragon Forge Design.  I used the sanctuary basing and added in a broken column.  Added a little grass and dead leaves to break up the color.

Back to sorting out my gaming area.  It's been a big project getting the basement where it needs to be.  We have our first baby on the way in a few months so I need to have my fortress of solitude to escape to!

Massive Infinity Terrain Part 1

There has been a lack of posts lately, my apologies... but no lack of hobby action.  I'm almost finished with two more Imperial Knights (posted as soon as they are done) as well as a Warhound Titan.

Since it is the summer I know I need to make the most of the good outdoor weather for priming.  With the next generation of Infinity coming this fall and my desire to make my basement a gaming mecca, I've decided to get my butt outside and start painting all this terrain I've been collecting.

The thought about painting all of that was daunting.  Finally my friends convinced me to get over the fear and really make the most out of spray paint.  They taught me some cool tips to get the first few coats of paint down in minimal time.  My Home Depot trip was a lot of fun... got a ton of different colors all for about the cost of 5 cans of GW black primer.

Got some strange looks from the cashier

Here's all the terrain I've been building... lots of manufacturers!  My goal is to have at least two full tables of "modern-day" terrain, 2 full tables worth of futuristic city terrain, and a jungle board for Paradiso.  Almost all of the buildings allow to get inside each floor.

Demo's Laser Cut Designs: Shops, and Office Building
Sarissa Precision: Modern day houses, and all of the silos
Warmill: Futuristic linked buildings and shipping containers
Impudent Mortal: Holo bilboards and signs
Micro Art Studios: The "official" infinity terrain and bridges
CNC Workshop Miniature Scenery: Very cool infinity style buildings and the awesome walls

NOTE: All of the terrain you're about to see has only been started with spray paints.  My goal is to get everything painted to the first level with sprays, then go back and start detailing.  This way I can have playable scenery out of the gate while I work on the finer points.

Now to meet our host... Louie the Loup-Garous.  He'll be showcasing everything where it is now.

Louie says hello

I started with my basic tiles I'm going to use for some tables.  I decided that until all the cool Secret Weapon Minature tables come, I'll make some quick 1'x1' squares out of MDF that can be used as street tiles.  I started with a grey spray paint then used the textured asphalt looking spray and concrete looking spray.  I then went back on the asphalt and hit it with black.  I'll have to go back as some are a little light.

Tiles baking in the sun...took forever to dry

Here's a big batch spray paint of all of the cool buildings from Warmill.  I really dig out they fit together, they're very versital.  I'm going to go with a real light bluish white.  I'll go back and add orange striping and accents.  Trying to keep some of the terrain bright.

Here's the rapid fire shots of all of the first level spraying of the other buildings I knocked out.  All in all, I probably spent about 6 hours of spraying.  Not too shabby!

they stack or are great stand alone

these will look great with awnings and some detail

Finally, I started spray basing the 6 tiles from the new GW boards as well as I picked up two of the manufactorum tiles from forge world.  I'm going to see if I can get some infinity work especially out of the forge world tiles.  Not sure how well they'll play for 40k, but I technically can now get 8 feet out of it.

Phew, this is stage one.  I still have twice as much bare MDF yet to spray!  Lots of little things, and a ton of scatter terrain (cars, vending machines, etc.) I can't wait to go back and start adding posters, graffiti, weathering, etc.  I'll also knock out another 4 foot square set of basic street tiles.