SM Drop Pod (W.I.P.)

Some of you might remember, that i´m going to paint a Space Marine Army for one of my best friends. Nearly 2000 Points of Space Marines waiting for Colour! ^^
Now, his ordered Drop Pods arrived and so i started to paint the first of 3 Pods....

The Coloursceme is custommade. We decided to use medium Grey/White tones with Blue Contrasts. Citadel´s "Astronomican Grey" with a wash of "Gryphone Sepia" and a light Drybrush with Vallejos "Dead White" work well together. Later there were applyed further strokes of the Wash and finally i added some Chipping. First i painted irregular Stains with Vallejos "Dead White" which were filled afterwards with Vallejos "German Camo Dark Brown" to create the look of old Metal underneath the Grey/White paint. 

Adding stains and sketches to the Blue parts will be applied next (after finishing the blendings to lighter Blue on them.

Here you can see the first Works on the Interiour of the Pod. I wanted to go on with the "used" Look even inside of the Pod and so i added silver spots with a small sponge to the Metal (painted with Vallejos "Gunmetal" and a wash of Vallejos "Smoke" and "Black Shade") by using Vallejo "Plata Silver".

The Black/Yellow Areas were weathered the same way like the Pylon shown above, but with Silver as the first Colour of the Stains instead of White. 

Last but not least, a Picture of the Progress at the Hull of the Pod...... 

Much Work to do....... (and there are another 2 Pods waiting.....)

Greetz Wiking

Comissions for Valdemar Part 3.....

Here some Photos of actual Works for Valdemar....

I´m not really glad with the Heraldic on the Shield. It was difficult because the Leatherbelt is laying on the Front of the Shield.... 

Well, this Heraldic was easyer to do.... 

Last but not least, another Danish Marksmen. I only added a few scratches to the shield because it looked "naked" with only the danish Warcross on it.

Hope you like them....

to be continued.........

Bioshock-styled Dark Eldar Cronos Parasite Engine (W.I.P.)

At the moment, i´m very busy , painting Commissions for Valdemar. I have no "Deadline" but i want to finish the Minis as fast as possible. (further Pictures will follow within the next Days)
When i´m painting Stuff like this the whole Day i need some different "Brushstrokes" in the Evening.

Well, the following is one of these "different" Things i do actually.....
One Week ago i bought Reinforcements for my Dark Eldar Forces in form of a Talos Pain/ Cronos Parasite Engine. I love this Kit because of it´s weyrd and really disturbing Look. This Engine seems to come out straight of some morbid Nightmares...... That´s the Way i like! ^^

Well..... Bioshock is nearly the same kind of Disturbing Design. Additionally, it "works" with a great Choice of  cold and dark Colours to raise the Effect of Fear.

That´s why i decided to paint my Engine "Bioshock-styled" . Means: i try to use darkgreen and Turquoisetones as Maincolours and further Browns and Orangetones for Corrosion. The whole Look will be rounded up by Brass and Copper for the Metalparts. 

Contrasting to this dark colours i will try to apply some very shiny sourcelights in White/Blue, Green or Orange.

Now, here´s the first Pic. As you can see, i assembled the Arms of the Talos instead the Cronos´s Tentaclearms. I started to apply the first scratches, Chippings and weathered/altered Areas.....

Still a lot of Work but i think i´m not to far away from my conceptional Idea......

Greetz Wiking

Open Letter to Games Workshop...

Nothing more to say...... just watch it!