To the halls of Valaskjalf!

Meet Raygnawrr.

I have been experimenting with color schemes for my Space Wolves for a while. I’ve never really been satisfied with my attempts at painting them bluegrey. It seems that the greyish tones always swallows the reds and the yellows. Instead I chose to do something unorthodox and paint them black instead.

The idea is that they have been separated from the rest of the chapter for a very long time. They are a small band of raiders who fight primarily for riches, targeting xenos colonies and vessels at the fringe of known space.

From time to time they lend themselves as mercenaries, if the price is right. Since they operate far from the watching eyes of the Imperium, they can even let themselves be employed by xenos. A center piece of the army will therefore be an Eldar farseer who has left her craftworld and gone rogue.

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Experiments with glazing

I am trying to learn the technique of glazing. Usually I just layer my colors onto the miniature when I paint. However, I want to find a way to make the transitions even more smooth.

There are many ways to blend layers of paint, but I feel that glazing is the one that should be the easiest to pick up. Yesterday I tried the technique on one of the terrific Khorne Bloodbound models from Age of Sigmar.

I mixed my paints on a wet palette with some tap water and lahmian medium from Citadel/GW. The fleshtones in the mix is from P3, I used Steel Legion Drab from Citadel Air (don’t have the regular pot) to dull the fleshtones down a bit and added Old Rust from Vallejo Panzer Aces and Hull Red from VMC in the shades. For the highlights I added Pale Sand from VMC.

I am happy with the results, considering that I am a newbie. It looks pleasing to the eye and will be an excellent tabletop miniature. With that said, however, I realize that I have a lot to learn. The shades are not as deep as I want (especially on the back of the model which I don’t have a photo of) and the highlights are a bit grainy and chalky.

If I would have been more patient when highlighting I would have been more careful when diluting the paint and I would also have unloaded the brush more. But since I painted the highlights at the end of the session I was both tired and anxious to be done so I went sloppy. That is definitely the most important lesson to be learned: immediately stop painting when feeling tired or impatient!

Tonight I will continue with the rest of the miniature.

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Dark Eldar Warrior

With this Dark Eldar Warrior, I wanted to tone down the Comic Book Villain-aspect of the army by painting it a bit flatter, with less exaggerated highlights than what is commonly seen on the army.

The color scheme is the result of a lot experimenting with all kind of different styles and colors. This is what I settled for and it pleases me greatly.

I just hope that my airbrush stencils from Fallout Hobbies will show up soon so I can post some pictures of my Venoms and Raiders!

Hydra WIP #2

So, this is the result of tonight’s work. I think it’s going in the right direction.

Still a lot of work to be done though. I need to put on weathering powder and mud on the lower part of the tank.

I have been practising alot with streaking using enamel products. I also tried to do some oil wash, but I mostly got bad tide marks.

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Hydra WIP #1

The Hydra is a great model. It looks absolutely terrifying with its huge cannons. I have made some modifications to it, as will be shown in later posts, but this is as far as I have got so far.

I am trying to get the hang of color modulation with the airbrush and a weathering sequence that works.

Tonight I will add some chipping, streaks and other effects. Probably some kind of spidery camouflage as well.

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