New compressor and basilisk

Hello everyone! Finaly, i bought my self real compressor so i dont have to work with my old home made one, looted from old fridge;-) I have to say it makes real difference, even its cheap fendga. Just with no experience i noticed less grainy finish and my work is faster and more precise than ever. Buying one was definetly worth every penny i spent for it. My first model i wanted to test my new piece of painting gear was basilisk model. I made a few mistakes as i was learning hot to set PSI and what ammount to set for different steps but in the end i really like ressults. Finaly found compromise that works for me between traditional shading and zenital lightning. Decided to shade vertical surfaces as always, try to darken colors by panel lines and highlight by cenre of the panels and horizontal surfaces are done with help of zenital lightning, highlighting part of each panel closer to the light source and i really like how the model looks after this adjustment to my working habits. Unfortunately my old camera is not able to catch the model colours properly, but under naked eye its best piece i ever made if i exclude mistake with decal on gun barell. Anyway this is last guard model for couple of weeks i ve been doing as i need to get some rest from guardsmen. Im planing to order my self grey knight terminatros and death guard marines as i want to practice figures painting. See you soon!

Painting vendetta - finished

Hello everyone! Finaly, after about 20 hours of work on this piece its finished. Since yesterday i sprayed delvan mud wash around rivets on the wings and darkened oil streaks. Then finished few details like lenses, never fitting canopy and few things i cannot remember about. Last step was adding decals while wathching adventures of sherlock holmes series and aplication of vallejo decal softener. Still have to make base but i dont have any idea for it yet, so i guess i ll left base unpainted till i got idea as i dont want just glue sand and grass to it. Still having unpacked box of cadian & chimera as it was for great price, but i ve got an apetite to paint few more marines. Unfortunately no more space wolves as i sold all of them at discount price to my neightbour as i dont like packaging and going to post office with dozen of packages. But i ve seen couple of inspiring blood angels lately so im playing with idea of painting furioso dreadnaught just for fun of painting and then sell it as i dont have room to store all the models i would like to have in my collection:-/ Hope you like lates addition to my imperial guard army and see you next time. Probably with cadians & chimera combined box or maybe blood angels?;-)

Painting Vendetta - part 2

Hello everyone, still working on vendetta today. As on pictures i masked what was needed to spray camo pattern and other details like stripes and nose. As model look awfuly clean at this moment i started sponging with mix of black and brown all the edges and worn surfaces. Then everything started to be a bit wild with oil paints. To achieve somethink like i did is very simple, however not ideal. Anyway if you are interested in somethink like this all you have to do is to paint a few dots where you want streak to begin and then drag them down with dry brush. You can help the paint with bit of turpentine on brush but be careful with that. Last step i did today was shooting washes through airbrush to add more color variations to model. Still much to be done, and actualy im in mood i might rework wings completely as weathering did not turned as well as with last valykrie i ve done. We ll see tommorow;-)

Painting Vendetta - Part 1

Good morning all, while drinkin my morning coffe i decided to upload first wip pictures of vendetta/valkyrie kit im currently working on as begining of new campaing in our local wargaming club is every day closer and closer and i hate playing with unpainted models. This is first of about 4 stages im going to post in following weekend and in the end we ll see vendetta painted to my standart.

First step:

I primed whole model with vma grey primer, then preshaded it with black and white colours as i want to avoid flat looking surface at all cost.  Firs i sprayed panel lines with black and then started adding white in direction from light should be hitting the model and always masked the oposite side of the panel. Its hard to say by words but you can see what i mean on the first picture, especialy on tail wing. With model preshaded like this i covered bottom part of model with vma pale blue. And upper parts with vma german grey. Especialy german grey was thinned to 1:1:1 ratio(paint:vallejo thinner:vallejo airbrush cleaner)as i wanted the coat to be semi-transparent. Shades and highlights were paritaly visible after this but not as i would like to, so i decided to help them with some highlighting.

Highlights:

You can see on first picture how i masked off the panels to create somethink simmilar to this. But not that strong as all of this work ll be later covered by camo, all the chiping, rusting and washing. I started building up highlight with vma german gery with a drop of vma light grey. Aprox ratio was about 5:1. On the second picture you can see the ressult of this method. You dont have to mask everythink by tape and can help your self with piece of plastic card or piece of harder paper(i used empty rolling papers). However i ve tried this kind of highlighting for first time and i quickly noticed mistake i did. If you ll attempt this as well please keep in mind its good to build highlights in one chosen direction, not as i did on second picture. However i left highlights like that as everythink ll be cover by another layers later.

Enjoying command squad box

Hi all! Just a quick update about what i did during this weekend. As you can see i ve been playing around with cadian command squad box. No conversions at all, but i tried to pay a little more attention to bases, posing and giving the miniatures "living" feel. I dont know how much i succeeded, but to me they look pretty good, almost like alive. Im not talking about paintjob itself right now, but about atmosphere of first impresion when you look at them. Could be, its just me who is impressed and pleased with them, but even if so i enjoyed painting this weekend a lot. See you soon as i have couple of unpacked ig kits waiting;-)

Moar cadians!

Hello everyone, while waiting for my payday as i allready run out of money on my nerd budget this month i decided to unbox cadian command squad and cadian snipers boxes. Why snipers? As my ig army is going to be army for friendly at home games im not aiming for competetive list and instead of that im buying models i like and building army list thats going to be fun to play with. To be honest im allready bored with my space wolves as every game is just missile spaming & rhino rushing and i would like to avoid this scenario with ig. Idea of my army is armoured column, possible composed from 3 leman russes.Chimera with command squad and 20 humble guardsmen with commissar and sargeant armed with power fists advancing behind tank wall. While covered by two veteran squads with lascanon heavy weapon team, forward sentry doctrine and snipers. And all of that backed up by two vendetas and valkyrie. Not the best army list, but i think i might enjoy playing with force like this as having fun is top priority while building this army. Anyway, here are pictures of my latest additions i did last week. Hope you like them and see you later by vendeta kit!

Unexpected mini

Hello everyone, i just finised painting unexpected mini this morning and im here to share the results with you. I ve got this krieg commissar yesterday when i visited friend of mine and while smoking my second cigarete by coffe he asked me if i want krieg commissar for my collection as hes got one he ll not need for his fresly started army. Of course i agreed and for cheaper price than box of cigaretes i been sudenly rushing home to undercoat the mini. I bought second hand cthan nightbringer in terible condition as well, but thats another story. I tried my best while painting this piece and mini came out pretty well. Of course there is still room for tons of improvements but i like mini how is it....hope this feeling ll last at least till tommorow when i ll probably rework its base. But i think i improved my figure painting a bit since my last mini so its beginig to look like all the hard work finaly starts to bring the ressults.

With basecoated cthan on my desk i feel like finishing my small imperial guard army ll be delayed a little but if nothing these two pieces ll bring some variety to my painting diary and im really looking forward to paint nightbringer as it is ideal piece to practice painting black and blending. I always wanted him for my sisplay but i did not wanted to pay full price just for a piece to practice cloth painting on so yesterday discounted offer realy came handy and deciding was quick as drawing my vallet out of its pocket.  Hope i ll be be able to bring him at least to tabletop quality to dare sharing the ressult with you. So wish me luck and steady hand with next piece as i ll definitely need it and see you by next piece.