Tales of a hobby butterfly

Spent a fun bankholiday Monday painting these chaps.

Went with space wolves as its a nod back to the army my brother used to have when we were kids,my chaos army used to spend a lot of time loosing to them.

Decided on old school goblin green bases just need to find some bright green flock to bring out the 90s charm.

To paint them I base coated everything with the gw paint the fang followed by a Drybrook of ferris grey and vallejo wolf grey.

All the marine packs and tank traks were then painted black with contrast which is amazing at this scale it speeds everything up.

Next all the weapons were painted silver, then the shoulder pads and doors were painted there unit colour.

The grey hunters have red pads, long fangs have white, blood claws have yellow and the wolf guard have black.

Once this was all dry everything got a splosh of army painter strong tone mixed 50/50 with water.

Finally everything got a funky green base using vallejo goblin green.

Look forward to getting them on the table.

Kind of thought it would be cool to have him on a mule or an Ass

So got this baggage mule off ebay then started cutting up some French cavelry legs and some british line infantry bits with some big old side burns made from green stuff and came up with obediah talking to his mother in his shako riding a mule

I gave him an oversized spontoon as its better for keeping things that go bump in the night at bay

Many years ago I built up a platoon of death korps of kried using a couple of sets of the forgeworld gorgon pasengers and lots of green stuff. They moved on years ago but with 10th edition dropping recently i thought it would be cool to star a krieg army up again but this time with the fancy new plastic kit.

This week I have mostly been sticking 6mm deathkorps to metal washers.

These models are from vanguard miniatures, I’m amazed how much detail they fit on such tiny models.

The army so far, I’m going to be using the epic armageddon uk rules.

When I find my old reaver titan this should be 3000 points, just need to finish putting filler on the bases then splash on some paint. Hopefully I can get 1000 points painted  before another shiny thing takes my eye, at least that way I can try the minigeddon rules whilst I get the rest of the force painted.

Cheapest bases i could find were metal washers from wilco you can get as many as you can fit in a bag for 3 quid so i now have enough 25 mm and 38 mm bases to last a life time, plus they can be stuck to magnetic sheet which helps with sorage.

I find cheap filler is great for hiding the puddle bases on the figures a bit of fine sand and glue hides any edges I miss. I was finding that the filler chips a bit when used so fixed that by adding  a layer of mode podge to the bases then letting it dry fully before painting.

The local gaming club is planning a day of 500 point kings if war games to get new players into the game.

I have not played kow before but really enjoy warhammer fantasy so thought I would make a force up to have a go.

I do have a halfling ambush but am going to save that for another day as I liked the idea of the kingdom of men army, old school humans vs the masses of daemons and fantasy creatures is always cool.

Hunted through the pile of shame and found some half painted empire spearmen, a pile of 3d printed great swords, some empire handgunners and some halflings on gryphounds I built for an age of sigmar army that never happened.

This should make a force with good close combat units, a bit if shooting and cavelry of sorts which will give me a good overview of the rules.

The last couple of weeks the butterfly has landed squarely on the horus heresy.

Last year I printed load of marines and shoulder pads for the plastic chaps as well as reconditioned an old broken rogue trader landraider. Then put them in a Box, now it’s time to get some paint on them

I wanted a quick and easy scheme so after lots of Web surfing I followed the mid winter minis tutorial.

Base them in black, cover in vallejo royal purple, dry brush with royal purple mixed 50/50 with said pink then paint light grey on tubes and leg wrinkly bits, dark metal on the weapons, paint the gold bits. Paint the base khaki, once dry cover everything in a 50/50 mix of army painter strong tone and water then leave over night to dry.

The final bits to do are to edge highlite with squid pink, some bright silver to highlite the gold, dry brush the base with khaki then ushabti bone, paint the base edge black and bam job done

This model had been through the wars the last cannons were broken off so I had to pin them and stick them back on, there was a big hole in the side so I stuck some card on the inside then skimed with milliput, the front had a bit missing and had glue damage so I put a plasticard cover over it, this looked a bit plain for the emperors children.

After looking through the horus heresy art book for inspiration I thought a swish shiny eagle would look good on the front as in the fluff I think that  they are the only chapter that can  wear it at that time.

To start I made the basic shape with thin card then stuck it on the front. The symbol was then built up a layer at a time with fine white milliput and lots of swearing when I squishe it multiple times with my clumsy ham fists