Forge Father Drakkarim

Long time with no updates! I was on vacation for a week and didn't get much painting done but I'm back at it now and here are the first batch of painted Forge Fathers for my Adepticon army. I went with good ol' feldgrau for the paint scheme. Next up, I'm working on Lord Zhufor for the Black Crusade 2012 Charity Auction.

Thunderspuds

Here's another model I'm working on for my Forge Pappies. The Hailstorm Gun is a pretty nifty little model but I can never seem to leave well enough alone. I added ammo drums for the bottom two guns and converted the barrels so two of the guns were in recoiled positions. I also added a little hydraulic recoil mechanism to each cannon. I also chopped the seat off the back and added a Basilisk-style crew platform. I'm going to use this thing as a Thunderfire Cannon and the platform will allow me to put my "Techmarine" on the gun carriage and then pop him off if it is destroyed. It still needs a few rivets and a little finishing work but it's pretty close to done. Here is the unaltered model for comparison.

Skrimps

This week I've been getting started on the Forge Father army I plan to take to Adepticon next spring. I will be using it in a one of the tournaments for a certain game that takes place sometime between the thirty-nine and forty-first thousandth millennium.  I've worked out my army list and I will be using these little guys as proxy for the ubiquitous floating leathernecks. Here are the Sergeants for my first two squads. More putty buddies to come soon!

Nimh-rods

I just finished these guysup for Joe at Mantic Games. He'll be using them along with the Corporation Marines to Demo Warpath at various stores and conventions. He'll be doing demo games at the Grand Opening of Dropzone Games in Glen Burnie, MD on June 23. Tom Gruhala, the former Manager of the Glen Burnie Battle Bunker, is opening Dropzone in the same space the bunker was in before it closed. "I'll show 'em, I'll re-open it my damn self!" He didn't actually say that, as far as I know, but I like to imagine he did.

Mantic Corporation Rangers

I painted these guys for Joe at Mantic Games to use in demo games at stores and trade shows. To speed things up I started out by airbrushing them with a dark brown color and then hitting them again with successively lighter colors with the airbrush held a high angle. This created a nice zenith light source effect and lessened the amount of blending I would have to do with a brush. To finish the armor, I highlighted the top/left edges with a lighter brown to emphasize the light source. Skin, fabric and webbing were all added in next with a brush.

Next up: ten Veer-myn for these guys to duke it out with.

PS. I'm still getting the hang of the settings on my camera, so bear with me!

Veer-myn Night Spawn

This rat bastard was given to be by the guys at Mantic Games.  He's a pretty nifty little fella, definitely the nicest rat in terminator armor I've ever painted. In a departure from my usual style, I went with metallic metal. I mostly used Games Workshop Boltgon Metal with a few highlights of Chainmail. I need to track down some Mithril Silver, as I don't think their is an equivalent in the new GW paint line.  The armor is based with the Privateer troll flesh color and everything was given a healthy rub down with violet powdered pigment from Secret Weapon. I'm a big fan of these Secret Weapon pigments and oddly enough, violet is my favorite.