Painting Hellcannon - Some More

I am pretty much finished the Hellcannon. I need to do some slight touch up but for the most part I am pleased. Overall, it was a difficult model to work with. The crew was fairly easy to paint though.



Here you can see the inside of the Hellcannon's engine compartment. I painted the flames in a fairly basic fashion and simply painted the skulls and washed them. I think the entire engine area turned out great.










The dwarf crew was fairly easy to paint. I painted the helmets gold and most of the armor red to match the look of the Hellcannon.

Painting Hellcannon Continued

So I have continued work on the Hellcannon. I put a few details in and reattached the spikes to the wheels, which I had to remove to paint the inside red. Take a look.



This picture is basically showing the rear engine which I gave a rotting flesh look. I simply painted the area with Deneb Stone, dry brushed Rotting Flesh over that and then washed it with black and brown wash.



Here you can see a side few of my progress. I've painted and washed the bone on the front of the cannon. I placed the decorations back on the large wheels and cleaned up the model. I'll post more pictures tonight.

Painting Hellcannon

Lately, I have been painting a number of boring models. Tyranids and such. Nothing too crazy. So I was excited to start working on a Chaos Hellcannon. I picked this model up for commission work. The model itself is incredibly detailed and looks awesome. Take a look at my progress so far.





The buyer has asked to give the wheels a red look, so I started doing that by simply applying Mechrite Red and washing it with Devlan Mud. The skulls are nowhere near finished. I gave them a simple coat of Iyandan Dark Sun and then washed that with red wash. I need to highlight these skulls a bit with a yellow-white mix. Should have a fairly cool result.

Still alot of work left. I will be updating my progress as I go!

Demon Prince

Below are some first stage and last stage pictures of my new plastic Demon Prince. It was a great miniature to work with. I think the finished mini looks great too.



The skin was really just an experiment. In the picture above, I have yet to complete the skin but you can see that it involves a mess of colors. Going from a dark red (Blood Red and Scorched Brown) to a bright orange. I would say that I put nearly eight shades of red into the skin. I also washed certain areas of the miniature with Badab Black and Devlan Mud to bring out the raised areas and to also meld the different shades together. Since it was an experiment there was really no way I could recreate it in text form. Basically, Start with an extremely dark red and continue to layer on brighter reds. Scab Red to Red Gore to Blood Red to line highlights of blazing orange. Do not hesitate to drop some Devlan Mud in areas that are too bright also. The skin should look alive so try to avoid displaying one single tone of color throughout.



This picture just shows another angel of the Prince after my first stage of painting. You can see there is still an enormous amount of work to be done.



So here is a top down view of the Demon Prince at completion. The sword was actually the most difficult part of the model to get right, and I fear it still does not look perfect. Basically, I layered several shades of red. Then I placed some Blazing Orange at the top of the sword moving into the center of the sword. Finally, I highlighted the tip of the sword with Sunburst Yellow. I used the same technique for the inverted areas of the Prince's shoulder pads.





Overall I think the miniature will look great on the table. I also feel like I learned some new techniques that will most certainly help me paint miniature's of this size in the future. Next up: Imperial Guard Manticore!

Im Back!

Been quite a while since I last posted. Summer was pretty busy, plus - my camera broke. I finally got a new camera and hopefully I will post some new pictures soon. I am currently working on the new Demon Prince model for my Chaos Space Marine army. I will hopefully post a picture of my progress sometime this week.

Over the last couple months I have really only been painting Empire. I have recently added, five outriders, three mortars, ten statesmen, ten gunners, and eight knights. (Mortars in 8th edition are really great.)

I also wanted to mention that I went to Games-day this year in Baltimore. Overall, it was a great convention. Much better than years past... I played a couple pick-up games on really awesome tables. Best of all, I won an Imperial Guard Emperor's tank company. If you do not know what that is, It is 10 Leman Russes, and I won it. FOR FREE! I also won a number of other smaller things. Free stuff is always fantastic!

In any event, I will be posting some of the work I have been doing over the last couple months within the week.

Sternguard

I decided to paint these Sternguard for a friend's Ultramarine army. (I guess I was fairly bored that week.) Check them out below, I think they turned out fairly nice.



To paint the armor, I use a very basic method (although time consuming). I start by painting all the armor areas in Ultramarine Blue. When this drys, I wash the armor with blue wash which should darken the color of the original coat immensely. When the wash drys, I highlight the armor with Ultramarine Blue again, making sure to leave dark lines at the joints, air vents and other areas to give the armor more depth. Finally, I line highlight the armor with a 1:1 mix of Ultramarine Blue and Skull White. The result is nice and easy to do.

Because I spray my miniatures with black primer, it is usually really difficult to get white to look right. The white on these models turned out okay, but could have been better. I started by painting all the areas of white with Dheneb Stone mixed with just a little black paint. Then, I applied a watered down Dheneb Stone mixed with Skulls White. Finally, I applied one last coat of pure Skull White.

The guns were painted with Chainmail, washed with black wash, and then highlighted with Mithril Silver. The black area of the gun was simply line highlighted with Codex Grey. The straps on the guns were painted with Scorched Brown and highlighted using Snakebite Leather. The scope was painted with Gore Red. Then the bottom half of the scope was highlighted with Blood Red. Finally, a very small dot of Skull white is applied in the upper corner of the scope. Using this method will get you really cool optic looks. Using more layers will really make the optic (or jewel depending on what you are painting) really stand out, however, make sure to always leave a dark version of the color surrounding the entire area.

The awards, decorations and ribbons on each Sternguard were also painted using a fairly simple yet time consuimg method. I started by painting the paper material with the Darksun foundation paint. After that drys, I apply a 1:1 mix of Darksun foundation and Bleached Bone/Skull White and apply it to raised areas of the ribbons. I then do a 1:2 mix of Darksun and Bleached Bone/Skull White to the more raised areas of the ribbon. Finally, I apply a pure Bleached Bone/Skull White. The result is usually pretty nice. If you'd like (and if you have an extremely small brush) you can even put some wording onto the paper to really make it stand out.

Keeper of Secrets

With 8th edition looming, I decided to paint all my Warhammer Fantasy Battle models left on my painting table. The Keeper of Secrets is not my favorite Greater Deamon, however, I bought this model several months ago and just never painted it. I decided to throw the model together and give it a really quick paint job. Look below for the results.



The skin of this model was painted identical to my Deamonettes. I started by painted the entire model Hormagaunt Purple (including the claws). After that dried I took a 1/1 mixture of Hormaguant Purple and Dheneb Stone and dry brushed the entire model. Finally, I dry brushed a pure Dheneb Stone over this. The skin tone was finished, however, I wanted the claws and breaks in the skin (the rigid areas) to stand out. I took purple wash and carefully placed it into those crevasses and covered the large claws. The result is a great highlighted purple look and helps those areas really stand out.



I decided to go with silver on this model as gold and purple do not compliment each other. I painted Chainmail onto all the emblems, chains and special designs on the miniature. I washed these areas with black wash and once dried I highlighted them with Mithril Silver.

Overall, the model took a very short time to finish (about 6 hours). The colors are very complimentary and this model will look great next to my other Slaanesh models. I do not plan to use the Keeper of Secrets much with "Rocket Hammer" on the way, but I still think it is a great looking model.