Sometimes painting is real Joy!

It was great pleasure to build and paint this Model.... why? It was a Birthday Present for a very good Friend.

The Model is painted in the Colours of my Friend´s custom made Space Marine Chapter. (Medium Blue works well with Blue/Grey-ish tones! ^^)

Hope, he will have lots of Fun with this little Beauty! 

Asteroth Conversion

This Mini is a Gift for a good Friend of mine. He will move to another Town and with this Mini for his entire Dark Angels Army he won´t forget me! 

I convertet "Astorath", a charactermodel from GW´s Blood Angels row. 

The wings were replaced by a pair of (much more impressive) Wings of a Dark Eldar scourge and his Axe was replaced by an two-handed Sword out of the Empire General Kit from Warhammer Fantasy.

Finally i only had to paint him in different Greentones to give him an "typical" Look of an Dark Angel Space Marine. I decided to use brighter Greens as usual to seperate him a little from the "normal" Dark Angels.

Well, here he is: "Estiroth - Angel of Disgrace"

I´m sorry but the Pics are quite bad quality (bad Light etc) But i was in hurry.... i hope i will be able to take some better Photos within the next Days....

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

Creating a custom Space marine Chapter.... (Part 1)

My best Friend (and Gaming Archenemy) supposed to build up a new army for Warhammer 40K. Soon he decided to start with Space Marines. But he don´t like the schemes of the existing Chapters so he was going to create an own Chapter. So he asked me for ideas. After a evening full of painting and testing there was a first Result. Now this will be the base for his new 1500 Points Space Marine Battleforce....

 

 

 

Mein bester freund (und Erzfeind beim Spielen) entschied sich kürzlich eine neue Armee für Warhammer 40K aufzubauen. Schnell stand seine Entschluß fest und er entschied sich eine Space Marine Armee zu beginnen. Nun ist er jedoch kein Fan der bereits existierenden Orden und Schemen von GW also dachte er darüber nach einen eigenen Orden zu gründen. Also fragte er mich ob ich nicht auch ein paar Ideen hätte. Nach einem Abend voller Tests und Farbexperimente gab es ein erstes ansehnliches Ergebnis. Nun wird dies sein Grundstock für seine geplanten 1500 Punkte Armee sein.