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Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Blast templates and blades

By The Megapope Posted at 02:15 Ultramarines No comments

This week I decided to make a start on my squad of Devastators. I easily had enough spare space marine sprues to make all eight weapon options, plus of course the sergeant who'd been painted up a few months ago.

Behold, WIP of some heavy weapon fellas!

For the eagle chestpiece on this marine I tried a simpler method of just painting it brown, then painting most of each feather tip gold while leaving a small part of the inside. I then ran earthshade wash over the bits I hadn't painted gold. I think it looks really effective.

But wait, there's more! I also made a start on the Khador Manhunter, because why not. He's got his green vest on to fit in with the rest of the army. Digging how nice the black ink makes the fur trimming and fuzzy boots.

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Ultramarines Rhino

By The Megapope Posted at 14:35 Ultramarines 2 comments

My first (mostly) finished transport vehicle! Man, I gotta tell you I seriously need to get an airbrush before I try painting something like this again. Pain in the buttocks.

It took me a while to figure out how to make it look halfway decent, some advice from the Warhammer Reddit forum had me layering down some ink along the bottom to give it more depth, plus a brighter tone along the top. This would have been WAY easier with an airbrush right from the start.

I'm mostly happy with it, though I'm probably going to be touching it up for a while. But have some photos!

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Rhinos and bikes, oh my

By The Megapope Posted at 00:29 Ultramarines No comments

This poor neglected rhino transport tank has been sitting around undercoated for almost two years. The shame! Well today is your day, Rhino. Here are some work in progress pics!

The extra large sexy decals and side-door brass plague both come from Forgeworld.

Hopefully you can also make out the battle damage I'm working on, this was done with the tried and true method of using a corner of sponge to dab on black and then carefully filling it in with boltgun metal using a brush.

Also! I completed one of the four bike marines! He even has eyeballs. I'll take some better pics using the light-box soon for the gallery page.

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Finished Butcher and some inspiring awesome

By The Megapope Posted at 23:43 Warmachine 1 comment

Hi there! So I totally finished the Butcher. I'm fairly happy with the streaked, drying blood effect on his axe as well as the splatter on his armour.

Here are some pics!

Also today I saw an absolutely amazing airbrushed model of the same character by a guy on Reddit. You should check out this imgur album of his work. I SO need to get an airbrush.

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

New blog design! Khador painting! Madness reigns!

By The Megapope Posted at 18:22 Warmachine No comments

Welcome to the shiny new Ministry of Miniatures. You've probably noticed that the blog's undergone a bit of a revamp. I was getting really, really sick of the stock-standard Blogger templates and found them very limited and a bit dated, even with a bunch of changes applied. So I ended up looking at 3rd party designs and settled on this one, originally made by MyThemeShop for Wordpress and converted for Blogger by BloggerTheme9.

There was some fiddling around to get everything the way I wanted, which was an entertaining experience with no CSS experience whatsoever. But I got there! Hurrah!

(Also I finally got around to getting a custom domain name, smurfsinspace will now be redirecting to ministryofminiatures. You don't have to change your bookmarks.)

During the meanwhilst!

Khador is still happening! Namely the Butcher, with his impressively large axe and penchant for running screaming into large groups of hapless victims. Here's some progress photos:

So shiny! So green!

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GO-wait. Wrong game.

As always my trusty wet palette made the blending a lot easier. I used Vallejo model colours for the green, mixing together gradiants between the light and dark green. To help the paint blend together I'd also dip the brush into the water immediately after painting and carefully feather each tone step into each other.