Ready for the painting competition

After a Friday night of painting and flocking the base is finally complete. I don't have a light box to kill the glare yet, but all in all the base came out better than I believed I could pull it off. I am extremely happy with the results.



The nice thing about only having to paint one model of something is that it allows you to mess around with extra detailing you would never want to do across an entire army. Instead of wasting a lot of time highlighting up his armor, I decided to keep the majority of the skin simply and instead make him pop by stippling on his head, and focusing on the highlighting of his carapace. The carapace is definitely washed out due to my light source, but on the real piece you can see a more complicate lining pattern that I washed with Leviathan Purple as I did with the rest of the model.

Need a hand?

If it bleeds . . .

Basing for painting competition step 1

Salamander Land Raider

There is a tournament coming up that actually has a painting score. it finally motivated me to finish up those few random unpainted weapons and vehicle options. Of course it was also finally time to paint one of my two unpainted land raiders. I usually only play one anyway. I am really digging the Chapterhouse Studios conversion kit. The kit does come with cool Salamander looking gun turret covers but they do not fit on the weapon options as you see here. Still worth it as I just used them on my Twin Las Razorbacks instead.

On deck