FW Heresy Era Mechanicum Magos

Absolutely awesome model, very detailed but be aware getting the large resin gate from the back of the trailing edge should be done with a cutting disc or saw as side cutters will very likely break something, like it did on mine *sigh* and also one of the 'vanes' on the rad cleaner barrel was so thin it actually snapped off during drybrushing....think i may just make another from green stuff as the original was an extremely thin piece of resin.

Other than these minor mishaps, a pleasure to assemble, not too much cleaning of mould lines to be done, just a bit here and there then glued to the base and ready for undercoat.

I chose my usual black spray undercoat, as a large proportion of this model will be metallic of various types, with the robes being the largest chunk of non-metallic (red of course) colour.

As the metallic area's are in the majority I started here by drybrushing them all with Tin Bitz (Warplock Bronze) then a wash of Devlan Mud (Agrax Earthshade). Once dried I followed this up by drybrushing with Boltgun Metal (Leadbelcher) this results in a quite nice brushed steel look I think.

The robes were then base coated in Scab Red (Khorne Red), given a heavy wash of Devlan Mud (Agrax Earthshade) and once dried raised areas were picked back out in Scab Red (Khorne Red)

**Seriously GW, who the hell thought up these new names??

Here's some early pics I took at around about this stage.

Back again!!

So life's been a bit hectic again recently so until now haven't had any time for modelling/painting sadly, however that's all changed, and everything's settled down a load and I have time to do stuff again!!

That being said, I have gotten myself four new kits to be working on and as I work on them i'll be posting pics and explanations of how I modelled & painted them in varying degrees of detail.

Soul Grinder

I got this model the day they were released as tbh I think its pretty awesome and totally embodies the fusion of daemon & machine typical of the Dark Mechanicus, and after spending a fair bit of time on it, it's 99.9% finished (always something you can touchup or make 'better' heh)

Overall i'm very happy with the end result (bit fed up of red paint tho lol), and is a signifigant improvement over my last miniature i'd say. Next I have an old limited edition Games Day (1999) Space Marine Captain & a box of Bloodletters to keep me going, however i'm still deciding which larger model to start next.....Tyrgon maybe ;)

Anyways enough rambling, here's the pics :)

1st Miniature Painted in a long time...

Well heres some pics of the 1st miniature i've painted in years, a Daemon Prince by Games Workshop™, a very nice model, I enjoyed painting this tho I know I can do better, more to come though soon.