Finished High elf spearman

Hey guys, you might remember my first WIP post from November where I showed you some progress on these guys, well they are now finely finished! The banner turned out to be quite a pain, first of all the sculpt is nice but quite busy, there are a lot of things to see on the banner and if you would give them all a other color the whole thing would look like a rainbow. I decide to go for cool blue tones with some white that "jumps out" just like the overall color scheme in the army. If I had painted the phoenix on the banner red it wouldn't look good and it would be in conflict with the rest of the army. So I painted a blue phoenix, with the new book you could name it a frostheart phoenix but it still has flames. While I was thinking about this I kinda came to a theme for my high elf army jeez did that took so long? My army will represent the army of the holy blue flame and what you see on that banner is a holy blue phoenix born in that flame.

I Painted the banner separately from the banner bearer and gluing those two on each other might be harder than it looks, then banner is quite big so you have to hold the two piece good and long to each other and wait until all the glue has dried, it took me three times to get them finely on each other(drie maal is scheepsrecht as we say in dutch) Some more pictures and close ups;

Keep on happy painting!

Korhain

WIP December 1

Well it has been a while but I am back with a new WIP post for this month, as you can see I haven't made a lot progress the last three weeks. I got sick two weeks ago so could't paint for like a week and after that I had a lot of work for school and a little motivation to paint, a really bad combination! Last two days I have worked some more on sicarius his display base and it has been finished now. I went for a quit quick and dirty paint job on the base this to draw the eye to the miniature standing atop it. some more picture's;

Hope you like it & keep on happy painting!

Korhain

WIP November 3

Hey guys 3th WIP post for November already(we're doing good!) and I have some more progress on Captain Sicarius for you, also there have been some little changes to the layout of the blog yesterday, I have rewritten the "about me" text and added a picture to my blog tittle(the same as I use for my profile). I hope you have seen these little changes and like them feedback about them is always welcome!

Alright up to the painting part, as you can see from the picture above I have painted some more details on Sicarius his  main body, I only have to do the golden eagle on his right shoulder... and I got some idea's for free-hands and symbols on his cloak. Talking about the cloak, as you might see I have made the inner cloak a bit brighter because it looked better in my opinion. (You can see how it looked like before here)

Just to go on about his cloak, I tried another way of painting red than I usually do on this model, I started with a dark brown base coat, blended red in to get some kind of "dark cherry red" and from that I blended my highlights to bright red. I am very happy with the result and mixing the dark brown with red also gave me new idea's about painting blood.

Last post you saw a WIP picture of  his display base, lats weekend I have added sand to the base and undercoated it. After that I dry brushed the base with P3 Greatcoat grey and old citadel codex gray to get a view on the shadows and brighter pieces, anyway it looks way better then the pre-build from last post, below are a picture and one for size compering to the model.(the wood has been covered with tape for undercoating and the painting process) 

WIP November 2

Hey guys quick WIP update for today, I am working on a display base for Sicarius and this is what I have made yesterday. (you have to do it with these phone pics :P)

Of course needs the base some sand to finish the whole thing and then we can go to the painting part, I am really looking forward to that because I want to try out some other ways of painting to make the base look more realistic.

Next update will have more eye candy I promise!
Keep on happy painting!

Korhain

WIP November 1

Hey guys this post was actually planned for last week but there was a little delay because somebody sawed in my finger(I didn't even do it myself!) and yeah that made painting a little harder. So here are some pics from what is going on on my desk. I am working on my High elf spearman for my high elf army again and they are almost finished, I only have to do the banner, shields and the champion.

Keep on happy painting! and don't let anybody saw in your fingers.. :P 

Korhain

Showcase Skaven Assassin / Death Master Snikch

Hey guys another addition to my skaven army in person of Death Master Snikch which I use as an assassin. I am really happy with how the base turned out, the empire armor where he is standing on looks old dusted and rusty and that is the effect I was going for. I mostly use this guy in a unit of 9 gutter runners, give the runners poisoned attacks and slings and with there ambushing rule you can use them to sabotage the enemy's artillery. some more pics:

And I have this for you; a hint for what is coming next post it is something that has been WIP a little to long even for my standards :P.

Keep on happy painting!

Korhain

WIP October 1

Hey guys it has been a while but here are the first WIP pictures for October. We start with Sicarius, I have worked on the gold trims on his power armor and I started with the inner cloak. The inner cloak will get some kind of a free hand pattern (probably ultramarines symbols) which I will paint in white. The cloak has a little green tone and I am still doubting if I keep it like this or make it more khaki, what do you think about it?

I also started working on his hand that holds the sword, I really like to paint this kind of big marines hands because it quite easy to highlight them but if you build you highlights careful up the effect will be real good.

Furthermore I have painted another stormvermin, doing these guys really reminds me that I have to put some more time into my warhammer armies, winter is coming and that is the time me and my friends play most of or warhammer games and yeah I want to have some painted models for that. I am still thinking about adding battle damage to the red armor because it is kinda flat this way.

Keep on happy painting!

Korhain