New Space Marine Project

For those that remember my Minotaur Chapter project, you’ll know I’m a fan of the Badab War. It’s one of my favourite parts of the 40k lore and it’s extremely detailed thanks to Forge Worlds Imperial Armour books. Since finishing the Minotaurs I’ve wanted to create another chapter that took part in the war: The Executioners.

Unfortunately the project stalled because I couldn’t get the armour colour right. I experimented with contrast paints and washes and eventually found something that worked. Unfortunately it was too difficult to replicate and was totally impractical on vehicles. So there the project lingered until I saw someone online mix the Fang with Iron warriors to create the above colour. I painted up a test model and confirmed it worked. Since it didn’t involve any contrast paints for glazes, I could use it on vehicles too. Here’s the first tactical squad painted up:

The chapter decals are from Fallout Hobbies and I’m really happy with them. Fallout Hobbies has some bad online reviews dating from the pandemic. Like most industries , they were hit hard and customer service suffered. I can honestly say that whatever issues they did have were fully resolved. Orders are shipped within a week of purchase and shipped via DHL to Canada. This is a bit pricy, so make sure you order everything you need in one go! The decals are as good as anything GW can do and the pigments are strong enough that the underlying colour doesn't bleed through.

The squad painted up fairly quickly, so I hope to have a bunch of these guys done by the end of the year.

Thanks for visiting!

End of Summer Update

 While still blessed with some warm summer weather this last week, we are rolling through fall into inevitably into winter here in Manitoba. I haven’t posted in a while, but I have been both painting and building models. Last I left off, I was painting fantasy miniatures for Frostgrave and Forbidden Psalm. Here’s the rest of the fantasy stuff I painted since then:

Corpse Collector 3d print with Reaper vampire for scale.

Reaper ghost, golem, vampire. Armoured skeletons are from Diehard miniatures.

Giant frogs from Reaper Bones

Skeletons from Oathmark. These are super light so I strongly recommend a metal base to give them some heft.

That’s it for Fantasy for now, though I hope to do more this winter.

Some Desert Terrain!

So I just wanted to knock off a quick terrain project, so here it is... some LOS-blocking terrain for the desert boards.

Pretty straightforward. Just cut out some shapes from plasticard, superglue on some rocks, slather on the thinned acrylic gel medium...

Sprinkle on some sand, spray prime black...

Then paint with Steel Legion, Zandri Dust, Rakarth Flesh, and Ushabti Bone on the rocks...

Garnish with tufts and lichen, done. Now I have a couple of LOS-blocking pieces of desert terrain for use in Western Desert and maybe even Old West games!