Games Day Kill Team progress

Evening readers, small update time

Been working on the Kill Team for Gamesday a little more, they are getting close to being ready to paint with it just being arms that I need to finish off as well as a heavy bolter conversion:

These guys are coming out pretty well, the GS work isn't up to my normal standard but they needed to be done quick instead of taking an age on the details of each trooper.
Colour scheme wise I'm thinking of black armour, with the visors painted a nice blue and urban camo fatigues, the bases will be metal to tie in with the other Kill Teams that have been produced for the table.

For those interested you can see the table here: Spiders Web an AB Gamesday table

Focussing on these has meant that my inq28mm and hierodrule have gone relatively untouched, I have however been adding some details to the hierodrules base going for a urban ruins look:

In other hobby related news my Zombie Apoc stuff might be on the go again soon mainly thanks to Brummie and his blog, hes been working on a load of copplestone castings models and supplied me with a link to their store, some really awesome models on there especially in their future wars range and they are pretty reasonably priced too. Getting close to ordering some :)


In other news another artbook that I ordered turned up today this time the DC and wildstorm works of Jim Lee:

Massive beast of a book but utterly awesome think it was quite a bargain off amazon.

As well as that keeping me busy I've also downloaded Bloodrayne: Betrayal off xbox live after seeing some previews of it from E3. pretty ace game very much like Castlevania or Metroid, got a really cool artstyle too, which is what drew me to it really. Well worth checking out even if you only download the demo :)

so given that I've been playing that and that I havent done a quick sketch to put up for a while I though I would draw bloodrayne:

quick and simple sketch, hands are a mess hate trying to draw them on a tablet always come out messy :(

but there bit of a change from the normal pics of models :P

Also welcome to new followers Adam and Drkmorals cheers for the support guys

Thats it for now, shall update in a few days time with the pics of the full finish Kill team conversions :)

Something Big and Gribbly

Evening readers, random update time :D

After having a chat with Rictus on MSN the other night about how all the updates I seem to do are GS based I decided I would find something to paint. After a bit of a search I stumbled upon my old Tyranid Army that have lay in a box untouched since 3rd edition.

Amongst them one of the few Forge World models I own a scythed hierodrule. I have left my nids for all these years with the hope of one day returning to them and doing them proper justice, problem is that bringing them up to date with the newer plastics such as the carnifex, genestealers and so on would cost a small fortune :(

So for now I shall settle on repainting the Hierodrule as a break from constant GS work, who knows might lead to me bringing out more of the nid units to re paint :)

progress so far:

Mainly focused on getting him reundercoated and the base coats down, the carapace will be black and his "Skin" blue I chose black so that if I ever do decide to repaint and update my army it would make things far quicker haha.

I have however got side tracked with the mouth as I wanted to try a sort of dripping saliva effect on him, which I achieved by heating up a clear flyign stand with a lighter and then pulling it into a thin strand which was then cut to fit and super glued in place.

Messy and fiddly yes but I'm rather pleased with the results :)

In other news my signed J Scott Campbell art books finally turned up :

really happy with these, and plan to buy a few more art books likely an Adam hughes one and possibly a Marko Djurdjevic one (if he has done one that is)

also given teh blog a bit of a face lift, more subdued blue seems better, less in your face than the orange one. Took off the scrolling blog lists too as I couldnt figure out how to fix the problem with how they displayd in Internet Explorer :(

Well thats it for now as ever let me know what you think :)