Miscellaneous painted stuff

Been a while since my last post; been a bit busy with everything. Have gotten into Kingdom Death and Gloomhaven, painted a few guys here and there. Will be sticking to mostly just pic posts for a while to keep from burning out on updating this thing.

Papa Nurgle

Hey guys! Gonna be taking on a couple big projects after this, so it's gonna be a bit before I have any real models/progress to show. My first attempt at Nurgle stuff. Really looking forward to starting the rest!

Salamanders Commission - Complete

So it's been a while

Been hard at work on that Salamanders commission (and dealing with some lemons from life, harshest of mistresses) these past eight months or so, and I've finally got something to show for it. Hopefully my next post won't come after several months' break! Anyways, on to the good part. 

Current commission - Salamanders Base Colors

Got the client's approval for the final draft of the base color (second picture). First picture is the initial color before any washes.

New camera, new commission, new photos

Alright, so I finally snagged a camera for this explicit purpose - a Nikon D3300. Got a great bundle on ebay. Memory, tripod, 3 lenses, and half a dozen other things. Took tonight as an opportunity to start fiddling with it and got some pictures taken. The first set was before image adjustment in photoshop, and the second is after (Did auto-color. Will likely just adjust the white balance next time I use the camera). Any advice on the photography end would be greatly appreciated, since it's far from being an interest or passion of mine, and I'm just getting started. Obviously critique on the models is welcome too. Will be working on getting some backdrops so I can get some more pics up, hopefully better quality with each new post.

Next images will likely be a small DKoK post as promised, followed by extensive work on my current heresy salamanders project.

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Salamanders Heavy Flamers

Alright, finally got around to *finishing* a Salamanders squad with the new recipe. Decided to go a bit overboard with it.

Salamanders Tactical Squad (without light bleaching)

Alright, got the squad done. Going with an Urgall Depression theme for these guys, though I'll be adding more debris and such to the more important squads to give a bit of variety.

Green was Vallejo's Gunship Green, highlighted along the right shoulder, arm, leg and head with a mix of light green and escorpena green. Was my first attempt at simulating a light source and I was pretty pleased with it. First attempt at pin washing with Rhinox Hide also. I like the result, but I can tell I'm going to have to do a bit of work cleaning them up in the future.

Salamanders Tactical Marine

Alright, so finally got my first Salamander done. Still need to base it (and subsequently take better pics), but at least now I know what I'm shooting for!

Current Projects - Pre-Heresy Lernaean Terminators

Alright, so it's looking like I took a step down after the first unit of Alpha Legionnaires. I didn't like the way the grime, dirt and battle damage turned out on the first unit, so I tried to apply it a bit different and it came out way too heavy and thick. The NMM gold didn't turn out how I'd intended, and the Sergeant's face looks like crap. That said, they're good enough and took long enough that I'll keep 'em. Ah well. Will do better lest time

Early Beginnings - First KotE HQ Choices

Alright, pumping another one of these out. In a way, I'm trying to get these out of the way. All the models of my Space Marine chapter represent a time when I was absolute crap at painting, and in a rush to get them all done. I'd much rather focus on the stuff that doesn't make me look completely incompetent, but well...it's part of the story, & part of my growth into what I do now (which still isn't amazing, but at least it's not terrible).

This was my original chapter master, librarian and Captain Sicarius, since the Knights of the Eclipse are technically an Ultramarines successor. Was gonna do blood angels, but no thunderfire cannons over there, so...nope.

Now that I've 'upgraded' to a semi-converted Marneus Calgar for my chapter master, here is Captain Clegane. He's another of my earlier, sloppier attempts at shading and blending. Sword 'effects' done with light brush strokes of orange followed by lighter strokes of yellow, followed by accidentally-not-so-light strokes of white. Added the dead termagant head on the base as a 'fluff' centerpiece, since the lore of the chapter involves enmity with the tyranids (since I've got about 10k in them too...). Still pretty fond of that, even if it's so caked with paint you can't make out the detail.

Here's Captain Not-Sicarius, painted before I ever tried to make a glow effect with the plasma pistol, and before I had a clue in hell what drybrushing was (Yes, the base is dried, but I did all of the snow basing after the army was finished; til that point, all the bases were black and bare. Yes, basing 200 models was tedious as fuck). 

And last, here's the company's designated Codicier. Caked on paint again (lot of that early on...dark days indeed). Loin cloth turned out ok though. Slightly deviated from the Codex Astartes on color scheme; all the Librarians are white to represent the purity they must maintain when dealing with the warp. Overall I was proud of this model; still am to an extent. Decent highlights on the cloth and torso, good (well, better) brush control on the axe details...May not look like it, but I *did* water down my paints here. However, this was before I had a clue in hell how to paint white, so I had to do about 5 layers of the crap before the black (STUPID) primer didn't show through.