Colore ton Monde: December II

As I mentioned in my last post for this month's challenge, finding minis to paint in a winter theme is not an issue, anfterall I have two warmahordes armies that fit the bill. So here we have some pics of my painted Blackfrost Shard figure. Well, one of the three brothers to start.

The cape came out much better than I expected. I was left wondering how to complete the runes round the cloak edge, but a simple dab or two of Mithril Silver over the runes, then a dark blue wash and they look fine.

The other two members of the unit better jump up to the front of the paint queue before I forget how I did this guy!

Going to have to go back and finish the face, it's looking really crude and unfinished there.

Colore ton Monde: December

I'm a little delayed in posting this month's challenge, but here we are. First off, here are the results of last month's challenge to paint a sub-commander, some great paint jobs as always. My entry has it's own post here, although the pictures don't do him justice, he seems very red when compared to other pics on the Club Chaos site. Still, I can't be an expert in everything!

Moving on to this month, the theme for December is quite an obvious one,

Petite neige féérique, ou maudite marde blanche

Décembre est officiellement le début de l'hiver. Cette année, nous avons eu de la neige tôt, et contrairement à l'habitude pour les bordées hâtives, elle a l'air d'y être pour rester. Pour le mois de décembre, on vous invite à peindre un modèle principalement en blanc, ou avec un thème hivernal.

Pretty fairy dust, or Cursed white sh*t.

December is the official start to winter. This year we had the snow early, and unlike usual early snow-falls, it looks like it's here to stay.For the month of December, we invite you to paint a model in mainly white, or with a winter theme.

Thankfully for me, I have a whole winter themed army (two in fact) in my Legion of Everblight, just waiting to be painted (with Khador being the second).  I have the Blackfrost Shard ready and waiting to go (already started now, after all, it's the 10th already). These are really nice minis, and they're painting up well. Pictures will be posted shortly.

Here be Dragons

From time to time, my 4 year old daughter catches me in my minis cupboard, and sometimes asks to see them and or play with them. Mostly they are unpainted, so I let her play with them. However on Saturday, we had some time to ourselves, and it came about that she wanted to paint some with me. Who am I to argue? So out came the brushes and paints.

She wanted to paint one of the ladies (she has little or no interest in the male figures). The 'lady' I offered her to paint, was the middle one of these models from Reaper. However, she needed to be undercoated, so I explained undercoat to her and I slapped on a coat of Gesso, then we left the mini outside to dry. Meanwhile I asked her if she wanted to paint a dragon, and showed her one of my shredders of which I have many, and all but 2 are painted (even those two were a birthday gift from a friend and came to me painted). She was all for painting a dragon, and set about choosing her colours. Here are the results. She did all the basing herself (I only helped by getting the grass and flowers off the packaging they came in).

She saw the number on the back of the base of the shredder I was painting and asked about it (when you run 8 unpainted shredders, you need to be able to distinguish between them), then told me the number of hers would be 41. Also, I asked her what it would be called, to which she replied without hesitation 'Rosie', so Rosie it is.

My effort, painted whilst she was doing hers. She wanted to know why I was only painting with one colour when I had so many to choose from. Another session and he'll be finished. Not yet sure what colour scheme I'll be going with on my Everblight beasties, but the shredders are great little minis to try things out with.

This is the lady she wanted to paint from Reaper. However, after looking at it once it was dry she noticed bits she had missed. We had to put the paints away as her little sister had woken from her nap (and we needed the kitchen table for lunch), so I'm sure there'll be another session to finish this mini. I may have to go looking for other minis, maybe in a larger scale, for her to paint in the future.

As to gaming, that may be a step too far as yet, but we'll see. She has an interest in gaming (board games etc) like all children do, but she may not be ready for wargaming yet. I don't want to push it on her either. If anything I'd try her on RPGs first, as they can get the imagination flowing without necessarily being based on bloody conflict. Anyone out there got similar experience on introducing youngsters to the hobby?

Painting Everblight 2

Two minis to show off here. My first painted Legion model was also my first Legion 'Lock. Lylyth. The mini is simple and yet does everything it needs to. It's not as spindly as the Nyss models that followed, and as befits a warlock, has presence on the table. I'm rather proud of this one, especially the mud on the back of the cape, and the use of the white and blue feathers on the cloak to draw the eye to an otherwise drab coloured mini. The skin tone isn't one I have since used on my Legion troopers, not preferring a bleached look, but it kinda works enough for me to leave as is.

 

 

The second Legion mini to show off is my Blighted Ogrun Trooper. I bought this just before the release of the Blighted Ogrun Warlord, who in MKI kicked all kids of ass with the Rhyas list I was running into the ground at the time. There's a slight conversion in the addition of a spare Nyss Hunter head as a trophy. I think there's just enough gore splattered to be effective. The snow is white glue and baking soda. Works like a charm.

Painting Everblight

A couple of years or so ago now, I decided to finally get round to painting my Everblight army. I got as far as doing this harrier as a test model. I was quite pleased with the result, although I really should have made a note of what I did to achieve this scheme, as it's been a little too long now, that if I wish to go back and do the rest of my beasts, I really would be starting from scratch.

Also, I need to work on my photography, the pics are a little bleached out compared to the mini in real life.