More Sorcerer WIP Shots

Here are more in-progress shots for my Chaos Sorcerer. The shots above and below were taken last week sometime, but I forgot to post them.


I dragged out my aspiring champions and a couple of Thousand Sons just to make sure I was keeping the colors consistent.

Here is what the sorcerer looked after this morning's painting session:



A lot of the blending is still pretty rough (particularly around the helmet, but I'm happy with how it's going so far.

Also, does anyone out there remember this paint company:


This used to be my favorite brands back when I started painting in the late 80s. I held on to this bottle long after it dried out. It's metal cap makes a great place to stick my magnetized mini and use as painting handle. I knew I held on to it for a reason.

Anyway, I don't see myself getting any more painting done before Adepticon, so that's it for now.

Speaking of Adepticon, keep an eye on 2nd City Warzone for what me and the other guys will be doing. Hope to see you there!

On the Table 3/12/10

Feels good to finally be painting power armor again. I don't usually paint in sections like my friend Nick does, but this is a special model.

Also, I finally picked up some daylight bulbs, so hopefully, my pictures will be coming out a lot better from now on.

Quick Update

I've been super busy this week, but I couldn't let a week go by without an update. So above is the only miniature related work I got done this week. It's my HQ for my Thousand Sons Army. I attached his right arm with a magnet for easy storage/ transportation. I'm especially happy with the way the halberd came out (hereafter referred to as "the can opener").

Blogsplosion

I have a couple new blogs that I've added to my links that I'd like to point out.

First off, my friend Aaron has started a blog to showcase his many painting and sculpting projects. Aaron's a great sculptor, so I'm sure we're going to see a lot of great conversion projects from him.

On the other end of the gaming spectrum, Bill Kim, the winner of the 2007 Chicago Warhammer 40K Grand Tournament, has started a blog talking about strategy. Since I'm kinda dumb when it comes to basic strategy, I'm looking forward to reading this.

While on the subject of blogs, I've been a big fan of Bell of Lost Souls since around Adepticon this year. Then, I meet these guys at Adepticon and they were super cool. I've been secretly hoping that they'd link me from their site and recently, they added me to their blog roll!

I felt terrible when I realized that I hadn't added them to mine. Oops, bad form on my part. That has been corrected.


Thousand Sons HQ Update

Not much has been happening on the Thousand Sons front. I've been painting slowly, but nothing that would be that interesting to anyone. I'm still in the early stages of the models.

I have however done some work on my Sorcerer HQ.

Look, I glued an arm on:



The other arm is complete, but I'm waiting on an order of magnets that I need to attach it.




The picture above is generally what it will look like when I glue the head on and put him on his base. This picture makes me realize that this base is way too tall and I'll have to trim it down a bit. Also, I need to take a picture of it someplace other than my cluttered desk. The camera has a hard time focusing on the mini with all that junk behind it.

Back To Work!

All right. Enough about Games Day and all that noise. On to more Thousand Sons goodness. Above is my first of what will probably be several rhinos.

I've also done some work on the base for my sorcerer lord riding a disc of Tzeentch. This has been a bit of a headache. When I first put it together, it looked like this:

I want it to look like my lord is riding a flat-topped floating rock over a ruined urban scene. I'm not crazy about Games Workshop's current Disc of Tzeentch. I was also partly inspired by this piece of Tzeentch-themed scenery.

The problem I had with it was that the post looked odd in front of the buttress. If the flying post (or do I call it a "flight stick"?) isn't supposed to be there, it will look super obvious if it was in front of one of the main elements of the scenic base.

Anyway, I was pretty annoyed so I tore the whole thing apart and re-positioned it. I even drilled a hole through the buttress so that the flight stick would be even less obvious.

This is how it came out (sorry for the blurry picture):

The hole didn't come out as straight as I had hoped, so I'm hoping some paint will hide the imperfections.

Those damn Xenos!

I know it's been a little while, but I've been busy hunting Xenos. In fact, I found them:




It turns out they were in Philadelphia.

Anyway, the other thing I want to show you is a WIP picture of my HQ, a Thousand Sons Sorcerer Lord on a disc of Tzeentch.

First, I want repost this image from the old blog:




And here's where he is now:


You'll notice that I switched from the old metal Dark Angels Veteran bottom to one of the new plastic ones. The old metal version has a lot more detail, but the new version is a lot lighter. This is important since he will be precariously perched on his disc. Also, since that metal version dates back to 2nd edition, it's a slightly different scale than the current models.

I have a lot more WIP pictures of this model that I'll be posting soon.