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Subjugators Razorback
The first to be painted as part of my Subjugators space marine army, this Razorback will be the command squad’s transport and also served as a tester for the army’s colour scheme. The method was as follows:
- Spray Army Painter “Army Green” spray primer
- Ink with Badab Black
- Drybrush with Knarloc Green
- Drybrush Kommando Khaki
That was the armour sorted, and then I moved on to battle damage and mud etc. The battle damage was simply painted on with black, and then again with Boltgun Metal. Various browns were used to drybrush on the mud effect around the bottom and “shadows” which not only gives it a muddy feel but also general dirt.
All I did after that was finish off the details – gund, metals, lights, scroll etc. The fist icon on the door was done in freehand, which I roughly drew on in pencil before painting it as a guide.
Prospero Burns Extract Posted
An extract from the eagery awaited “Prospero Burns” novel has been posted by Dan Abnett himself on his blog today. This, the next book by Abnett in the series is definitely not one to be missed, but being a Space Wolves fan is going to make it much more special!
Blood & Oil Victory!
Yesterday was the third “Blood & Oil” Hordes/Warmachine tournament held at Gifts for Geeks in Leicester. It was the first time I’ve taken part (was involved in organising the last two) and had a great day playing some varied forces.
After some tough games and much head scratching from the tournament organiser I managed to squeeze into the top slot with 3 caster kills, grabbing myself a nice shiny winners coin.
Next stop the UK Masters in Birmingham in two weeks time…
And Finally… A Colour Scheme!
Ahh the tale of my Lizardmen… They’ve been in boxes for well over a year, in fact some of them still are! I’ve had some stuck together for a while, including the great Stegadon kit. Lately I’ve found the love for them again and have been steam rolling ahead, having put most of them together now. The only thing is a colour scheme…
The Lizardmen army book doesn’t really include anything other than different types of blue, and searches on the net only seem to bring up blue and green. I was thinking green just to be different from blue, however after painting a test model I thought to myself “I might as well just be painting orcs!”. The next try was turqoise, which turned out too dark and too complicated to paint lots of troops. I’ve been contemplating white, red, orange, yellow… even black!
Today though I had a change of heart. I think I’ve realised why I didn’t like any of my ideas – I like blue Lizardmen. There are a few key points I’ve been considering for the scheme and blue seems to tick them all – easy to paint, they’ll look coherent and I wanted a bright army without being garish. Blue has always been easy for me to paint and do well, maybe its my painting style or maybe its just the amount of blue things I’ve painted in the past – who knows. But I think I’m settled now, having painted a test model and happy with it!
I have been experimenting with inks and drybrushing and sprays, all in search of speeding things up, forgetting one thing – why change what’s broken? I have a technique for painting blue flesh, so I’ll stick to it. And because its a technique I already know, its not really that much slower. The whole model took just under 2 hours to complete, and if I’m batch painting 3 or 4 at a time that’ll be reduced even more as most of the time was spent letting things dry.
So for now here’s the test model, I still need to decide on bases, however I’ll paint those in bulk anyway. I’ll also get up a guide to how I’ve done these at some point.
