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Well, now the hubbub has died down and everyones left the house, I can update a little about my Games Day. I'm not going to post all my pictures, (there are about 70,) but I will add some of my favourites. Important bit for me was my Empire Captain making the finals! Very pleased with that - a finalist pin at my second attempt is very encouraging and pumps me up with motivation for next years entrys. I already have lots of ideas - watch this space. The Wharf Captain in the finalists cabinet for Warhammer single - Ben Jarvis' Slayer sword winning Clockmaker and the two other winners are on the top shelf. Lots of titan models on the day, and overexcited friends. Battle for Prospero was an interesting participation game. Space wolves everywhere! Scott "Iacton"'s Warhammer Single finalist, Empire "Brian the Burger King" Captain. Massivley, massivley pleased for Platoon Britannica and the haul they richly deserved on the day. I'm proud to know these peop...

I took a break this afternoon/night on the space hulk models. Before kickboxing last night I started painting another terminator (pulling at the floor one,) and nearly finished his face, which I think is the most important detail area of a terminator. So anyway, thought I'd concentrate on some of the models for the upcoming tamworth games club 40k tourney. I decided on 2 landspeeder storms. I thought I'd proxy using normal speeders at first, but decided I would at least invest in one. Lovley model. How much of an understatement! This thing is the best multipart vehicle kit since jes goodwin redid the landraider back in the late nineties. So much kit. So many options. So much story to tell! Obviously, I'm going for the vietnam/dropship idea. Thats what it is. afterall. I decided to go for at least one scout rapelling down, after seeing a particulary compelling GD entry last year with a valkyrie similary posed. Bit small for on mass, so just one had to do, and well suited - t...

As promised, picture of the Librarian from the Space Hulk box. If anyones reading, lemme know what you think! couple of pics of Pre heresy stuff I'm working on, excuse the questionable picture quality on these. Bit ad hoc. 1st Legion Terminator Sergeant Standard Bearer Rhino Some marines. Note the lion helm from empire bits, some bretonnian armour plating, beaky melta gun and old bolter. Sergeant for the above, ignoring the unfinished combat shield. Legs were done mixing a normal veteren and a ravenwing biker leg, and sculpting the join together. Sword was reversed so hes gesturing with the hilt as if directing orders, or something. Helmet is from the empire knights box, with plumes removed and two ravenwing icons used as wings. Librarian that grew from nothing. Very pleased so far, plan on adding details like a basic psi hood and wires etc. Why does blogger post some of my pictures sideways? Try as I might I cant sort it out. Anyway, this is my PH terminator heavy weapon brother, ...

Been busy. Space hulk is time consuming! I stopped painting Brother Valencio for a bit and gave myself a break from red. (I'll need it, only 11 more termies to go) Started painting the librarian. As the only marine in the box not stark red, it gives me oppertunities to try other things) Started first building up layers of flat blues on the armour, before adding any shading or highlites. Then started work on the force axe, working in a blended shine point, trying to give the impression the axe was giving off its own light - which I then began to blend into the armour, reflecting that source. I was careful to try and keep those highlites only where the axe's light would hit them, and the effect has worked pretty well in contrast to the "dark side". I've also done the same thing with a differing technique on the Librarian's face. Highlites as usual, but mixed into the final highlite of bleached bone/elf flesh was a touch of ice blue. I did this a couple of times,...

Started Space Hulk almost as soon as I got the box open. Spent a good day (see previous post,) clipping and shaving all models including the dead terminator, relic and C.A.T. unit. Undercoated all the marines in black and got underway. I decided to make these special. I could just paint them as gaming peices, just enough to get by and an acceptable standard, but owing to the special edition nature of the game I've decided to paint them to a high standard including non metallic metals, and to make a sort of display stand for them too - more details on that as the project goes on. This is Brother Valencio, as I'm sticking to the background specified in the books provided. I've painted the red armour pretty much as I would normally, although I started with a dark flesh mix as shown by Anja in this months 'eavy metal masterclass article in white dwarf. I've gone for the non metal metals, which im pleased with - but they dont show up so well in this pic for whatever reas...

EEEE! I imagine these pictures are gracing blogs all over the place. I can't overstate how excited I have been since GW annouced they were re-releasing Space Hulk. So the "limeted" status of the release might be a little controversial, and the GW hating nerds out there seem to have latched on to this as another reason to disect their multinational business plans from thier bedroom computers instead of getting some sunlight. Anyway. The quality is amazing. The weight of the box alone made me excited, this thing weighs a ton. I've spent the best part of 5 hours clipping and cleaning components from the sprue, and I still have roughly 15 genestealers still on the frames. I can't wait to start painting these guys, especially the termies. These are the nicest space marine models I've seen in ages, and its about time they did some up to date blood angels. More as I paint it!

Fancied starting something new tonight, so I picked up this little gem. Its a half drow female called Shimmer from Hasslefree. I think I picked it up at Kelham hall in 2007 - Shes been in my bits box ever since. I really enjoy the detail on the hasslefree stuff - Sometimes not always as clean as Citadel, hasslefree and heresy always seem to cram more little details in for it. You can clean them up, but they're twice as creative. I find that this is particulary true of their female models. They might have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with sculpting nudity but they're nice models for it. So yeah, anyway - just a practice peice for me, not a competition or comission or anything. Trying out painting bluesteel with the sword, and more shiney gold trinkets instead of the shiny brass I've been doing in NMM until now. Not sure what to do with the face, being hidden it'll be hard to detail it. Maybe try something with shading.