40k Space Wolves & Daemons Boot Sale Bargain – Help Lawnor identify and fix please (Spring Cleaning)
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About the Project
I was helping my karate club run a stand at a school fete that had a boot sale of 6 cars. While handing out leaflets at the boot sale I saw a box and some drawers with some GW in. I asked how much and they said £10. I assumed per tank, but then thay said, "for the lot, not just the box. You can tell we don't want to take it home again". I don't play 40K and don't know too much about it, but how could I say no? I don't know what all of this is, and I don't know what parts are mising. Please help me return this to fighting shape.
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge (Old)
This Project is Completed
The Finished Bloodthirster
And here she is all done and finished. As I’ve said elsewhere the wings got in the way of everything. If I was building another I would paint them and the whip separately if possible. I could have done a better job that way.
Another problem I have just discovered is that the whip dips down below the base in to the table. Any time it rests on a surface the whip is being bent upwards. I wish I had noticed this before decorating the base and not after gluing her on to it, as I would have built up the ground more to raise her up.
She’s not my finest work, but ultimately I am happy enough with her. The sculpt wasn’t the finest (how old is it anyway?), one wing was broken and missing a chunk, and I never had anywhere to rest my hands so never had any real brush control and still she came out ok. I hope to learn from this when I paint my next Khorne Daemon.
And here we have the wing that I had to resculpt one of the talons for. Would you notice if I didn't tell you? I know its not perfect.Soul Grinder - Beginning with the Warp Sword, Flesh, Horns, Eyes and Black Panels
The model was zenithally primed and then everything except the blade was masked off using silly putty and a plastic bag
The blade was then airbrushed with Turbo Dork Blue Raspberry colour shift paint. I tried applying this over the preshade as some of their colourshifts react differently with black or white undercoats. Blue Raspberry does not show up over white so I re-based it with black gloss before applying a few thin coats. I tried to apply more coats towards the end of the blade to give it a gradient. I may have done too many coats over it all though.
After leaving it overnight to dry (and so I could sleep and go to work), the blade was carefully masked off with Silly Putty. Please note the stylish, high end Airbrushing Hood. Nothing but the finest for me!
The Soul Grinder was then airbrushed and washed the same as the Bloodthirster, except I skipped the Gory Red paint as I never liked that colour for this work.
I didn't have enough time to do any more to the Soul Grinder, but had too much time to call it a night so I also based and washed the flesh on my Daemon prince at the same time.
I've got the flesh as far as finishing with the Nipple Pink Shade following the same scheme as below. He looks good in my hand, but somehow rather rubbish in the photo. I hate when that happens.
I've now taken the flesh tones to the same stage I left the Bloodthirster. I think in many ways I've done a better job, but the highest highlights are looking near white, and the boundaries between layers show up well under camera and up close. I think I am going to mix up a glaze from P3 Red Ink and apply a few layers over everything except the recesses to try to unify all the layers. Lets see if I regret it.
It has now had a few glazes of P3 Red Ink. I also cleaned up some of the recesses with a little GW Carroburg Crimson. I then mat varnished it because without a base I am going to be handling this all the time which will wear off paint. The varnish should also help bring the colours together a little.
The horns and eyes were painted the same as before. Pretty much everything else needs a black undercoat now.
After spending what felt like years undercoating everything black, the black panels were base coated with Revell Aqua Colour Tar Black. I tried to follow the same scheme as with the Bloodthirsters black arounr, but the transitions seemed too extreme on the flat angular panels. I based with Tar Black, then added a little Gunship Grey to the Tar Black to highlight where needed. I then edge highlighted with Gunship Grey. Finally I lightly washed with GW Nuln Oil.Soul Grinder - Metals
After everything was undercoated with black, the bulk of the Iron was painted with P3 Pig Iron. The spine was painted with Vallejo Model Air 71.064 Chrome, and the feet and pistons were painted with Mission Models MMM-002 Cold Rolled Steel, for a darker iron.
All the iron and steel was then washed with GW Nuln Oil
The Spine was highlighted with more chrome, and everything else was highlighted with P3 Cold Steel. Some of the black panels will need redoing after this and some of the red might need another glaize of red ink before I am done. When my drybrush was as empty as I could get it, I gently rubbed the side of it against parts of the corners of the "knee pads" to make them look a little worn.
The bronze was then painted using the same methods as for the Bloodthirster. The black had to be redone afterwards. I also painted the finger nails as I missed them while doing the horns.The teeth were then painted using the same methods as for the Bloodthirster. Everything was then airbrush varnished gloss. The blad was masked off and everythign was varnished matt. The teeth and eyes werre then brushed over again with gloss.
Daemon Prince
I’ve finished my Daemon prince. He was mostly painted the same as before, but with a few exceptions, detailed below:
Wings
They were sprayed up the same time as the red flesh, which left them with a nice gradient I wanted to preserve, so I experimented. I washed over them with GW Druchii Violet, trying to be a little heavier near the edges. Once dry, a Nuln Oil wash was applied into the recesses, along the edges, and over any sections that would be darker. I was careful to not let this pool over any of the open surfaces. I was considering going back for a second coat of Nuln oil targeting just the darker sections, but I chose not to this time. Perhaps next time?
Fire
I mixed up some watery Ivory and let it run in to the recesses on the shoulders. Once dry I did this again. Then I painted it with Mr Paint Deep Yellow. A thinned mix, almost a wash of Mr Paint Fire Orange was used to go around the edges of this, trying to preserve a yellow middle. A thinner mix of Mr Paint Deep Red was then used to edge that. A little thinned ivory was added to the very middle of the bigger yellow patches. Everything was given a careful coat or two of Coat d’Arms Yellow ink, trying to cover the Ivory, but not dilute the red or orange too much.
Horns
Undercoat white. Wash with P3 Thornwood green. Wash with Nuln Oil. Wash with Thornwood Green. Wash with Nuln Oul. Drybrush with P3 Mouldy Ochre/P3 Menoth White Base mix. Drybrush lightly with White.
Claws
Basically the same as before, but in a different order and heavier handed with the highlights.
Based with a mix of P3 Cryx Bane Base and VMC German Grey, allowing the Bane to dominate. Add some GW Karak Stone to the mix and drybrush up. Extra drybrush of just Karak Stone on the hard edges. Wash with GW Nuln Oil, then drybrush again with the same 3 paint mix, favouring towards the tips.
Skulls
Painted the same as before (Jack Bone base, washed with Seraphim Sepia, and drybrushed with Menoth White Base), but given an extra final drybrush of Menoth White Highlight.
The tufts this time are Serious Play Scenics Burnt Grass 4mm
Update 23/7/19: After speaking with some people I decided to revisit the wings and apply a few targeted glaze layers of Nuln Oil to give them depth and darkness, while preserving some of the red. Here is what I ended up with afer around 4 coats.
Random Unidentified Zombie
I received 3 random halfling zombies as a bonus when I bought the Cockatrice from the TTCombat Kickstarter. I have no use for them, but I do have a Kings of War army that has never seen the table so I thought I’d paint up these 4 guys to match their scheme then one day they might conceivably get used.
This human zombie was in the box. No idea what he is from. I would assume Warhammer Fantasy but he isn’t holding a weapon and something about his clothes suggest hes from a more modern setting not a fantasy? Anyone recognise him?
This just leaves a Genestealer, a (high?) Elf, and a Lizardman, some broken. I have no use for them. They may get turned in to statues and used as objective markers. Anyone know a suitable source of statue bases/plinths beyond cola bottle caps? Something I can mount on a base and put grass around.
