Tuesday, August 24, 2010

I Told You I Was Sick!

Hello to all the people that don't look at my blog. I haven't really done much lately, as I have been rather unfortunate to have caught a cold. I would like to turn around and say it's like a major flu virus, and I have been clinging to life, but that's not really the case. I've just been feeling like crap and not much else.

Anyways, my life and death predicaments are really not that important. Painting, gaming and modelling are. Well I've done bugger all on all three counts. I have nearly finished around 3 Khorne Berzerkers, and will definitely look at uploading some pictures in the next couple of days.

While I have been ill I did take up reading again. I have a fascination with older Sci-Fi novels, especially Post Apocalyptic stuff. The last book I read was a novel called Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. The significance of this book is that the final chapter plays out like a modern computer game. Plus my wife pointed out that it seems some ideas of the book were possibly used as inspiration for the movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Berzerkers Pt 2

Hey,
Been a little while since I posted. I've been playing too much SC2 (starCraft 2) and not enough model painting.

Anyways I have spent a little time on the Berzerkers I was intending on painting, and made myself a nice little area down in the cellar for painting and modelling. It's cold, dank and smells like mould. But it's a nice little spot, where I won't get in peoples way or make the house look messy with my clutter.

As for the Berzerkers. I have gone for a base coat of Chaos Black, followed by a heavily watered down paint over of Scab Red. I literally splashed the Scab Red on like a wash, then blew vigorously to remove bubbles. This was followed up with a wash of Baal Red, then a wash with Devlan Mud. You could probably skip the Baal Red and just use the Devlan Mud.

You could alternatively go over it with Brown Ink (if you still have a bottle of the Citadel stuff). This was very nice, but very glossy. I would in hindsight advise NOT putting on the washes till after the highlights, you hit the red and it's a turd to match once the wash is on.

Next up was painting the details which is very much a straight forward affair. Gold, white and silver on their respective areas. Once I've finished this first model, I'll post up pictures to show the end result.