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What's this?! A new blog post over on Mengel Miniatures?
Find out about the return of the step-by-step tutorial format you've come to expect from me and where you can find it going forward!
40K be like: Look, thinking-machines are banned, so we found this one guy who took the Emperor’s name in vain once, lobotomized him, chopped off his limbs, hardwired him into the wall, and now his only job is to pull the lever that opens the door when he sees you approaching 🤷♂️
Worked on some stew last night. Pretty happy with it. I still have to do the flames at the bottom and the rest of the scenery piece hasn’t been primed yet.
Some people may think that Indiana Jones 5 is a cash grab, but personally, I say, what better time for a movie about punching Nazis in the face than now?
Here’s the Skaven Bombardier I painted at the Painters Weekend while testing out the new Contrast Paints. Besides the metallic base coats this guy is 100% Contrast paints over top the new off-white spray primer. Took about 2 hours? Lots of testing things out though.
Behold! My converted Mortis Engine is finally complete!
The idea was to tie it into the deadwalker theme a bit more with the horses. I also used the tree to tie into all of the roots going through the zombies.
Today, the legendary artist John Blanche who was my Art Director on Mordheim, Realm of Chaos and WFB has retired from Games Workshop. He was the last of the titans. Truly an end of an era. However, we will see more of John's genre-defining art as he can work projects of his own.
The only good ‘Nid is a dead ‘Nid!
GW kindly sent me the new Cadia Stands box early and I painted up this guy using as many quick methods as I could think of.
Say hello to the Cadian 323rd, “The Roughnecks.” Tutorial coming later this week. Would you like to know more? 😉
Ok, now that I have the Contrast Medium and Grey Seer in a pot I was able to really test out the paints. This guy has no highlights except for picking out the eye and the hair a slight bit with Grey Seer cause I went to dark on accident with it. Almost every color has Medium used
Time to finally clip this off the sprue, only been holding onto it for around 20 years. I feel like
@warhammer
should do a made to order run on this classic piece of terrain.
Painted up the first 2 of the new Stormcast Vindictors from Dominion, courtesy of a review copy from GW (
@WarComTeam
). These are my own Stormhost, the Celestial Purifiers. I first used this scheme on the Steelhearts warband from Shadespire years ago.
Thank you to
@WarComTeam
for sending me the Kill Team Into the Dark box!
I decided to paint up one of the new Kroot & his loyal Kroot Hound & put them in a little diorama. Such great sculpts! I’ve always been a fan of the Kroot so I’m excited to see them revisited.
#KillTeamITD
Hi everyone, just a quick announcement.
I have decided to take a break from being part of the GW influencer program so I can focus on my own hobby. All this means is I won't be showing off new models ahead of release, nor will I have a model to show for every release. (1/4)
Finished up the Blightkings I was working on. There’s only 4 because I used one of them to make my Festus conversion 2 years ago. I’ll be adding in the 5th one still.
This, to me, is the single most iconic set of minis in all of Warhammer and I'm super grateful I got to see it in person when I went to the WHW Exhibition.
Legendary.
I also tested out this quick and dirty Imperial Fist with the new Contrast colors
@WarComTeam
sent me.
The armor is Imperial Fist with some of the new Casandora Yellow shade in the recesses. Weathering and sponge highlights on top. The trim is Baal Red w/ Wild Rider highlights.
Thank you to
@warhammer
for sending me the Leviathan box early for review. I have a few different things painted to show off, but I gotta start with my boys in red and yellow, the Howling Griffons, now in Tactical Dreadnought Armor!
#warhammercommunity
#AdWIP
#Leviathan
#New40k
FAN MADE: I love doing little mockups like this
Thought it would be cool if GW did historical campaign books for 40k. Something halfway between what Forge World did & the more traditional 40k campaign books.
These were 3 big campaigns I'd love to see. Which ones would you like?
A big thank you to
@WarComTeam
for sending me the Nachmund box to paint up. I decided to do the Shrivetalon in the colors of the old poster boys of Chaos, the Crimson Slaughter.
Check out all the other awesome painted minis here:
Good for either the war torn days of the Horus Heresy or the even more war torn days of the 41st millennium, today I have my quick tutorial on how I paint my Ultramarine's armor!
I am the Lex!
@warhammer
was kind enough to send me the Soulshackle box ahead of time and I managed to get this guy painted up in time for today.
Such cool models! I’ll probably do a bit more with the base like some rubble and random civilian detritus.
The call of Chaos is strong &
@WarComTeam
was kind enough to send me the new Slaves to Darkness box early, so I painted up this Chosen.
Simply brutal & beautiful models. I’m calling this warband the Crimson Reavers because I used the Red Corsairs as inspiration.
Tutorial soon!
My Deadwalker themed Mortis Engine! It still needs greenstuff work, but I think I’m done with the kitbashing part. I figured all the new Deadwalkers have roots coming out of them so some sort of corpse tree would make a better fit. The bats will count as the ghosts/banshees.
I call her my Contrast Eternal. All just contrast with one highlight and then metals with a wash. I may highlight those later too. I’m surprisingly happy with how she turned out for a gaming piece! Would people be interested in a tutorial?
Continuing to add to my C'tan collection, I finished up this wonderful model to use as my Deceiver.
I'm super happy with it. Not only do I think the sculpt is great, but I painted it using the new Warpaints Fanatic & really enjoyed blending the metallics & acrylics. So smooth.
I ran out of time to take nicer pictures on my own before leaving for Adepticon, but here is my finished main entry for Golden Demon! Spent a ton of time on it. If you’re at Acon be sure to check it out in the cabinets 😁💀
My first Chaos Warrior for my Warriors of Chaos Old World army. Was originally meant to be a much quicker scheme, but I got drawn into the cape and then decided to make more of him match that quality.
He's done! Such an iconic mini & a truly evergreen sculpt! I painted his skin in true metallics to really drive home the living metal bodies thing.
I added the lightning from some endless spells and also changed it so his cloak is fading back into living metal near the ends.
I’ve had multiple people comment that they’re glad I drilled out the barrels on my Terminator’s bolters, when I haven’t. They’re just black dots I painted on
I feel like this just proves that you don’t really need to drill them if you don’t want to, apparently looks the same! 😂