Not Much Painting Going On

As you can see I have not been doing much painting for the last couple of weeks. I have been concentrating on getting our house ready to sell. I am planning on moving closer to my work and into a larger house. Part of the plan involves taking down my painting table. It will be moved out to the garage and I might still be able to use it, but I will probably switch back to the cart as my painting area.

I have added some figures to the collection (Sssh! Don't tell my wife). I recently aquired some GW Harad foot for the Lord of the Rings to add to my small collection. I also ordered (through a freind) some Copplestone figures for pulp era gaming. I will get some pictures up as soon as I find time to work on them.

The Night Lords army listed below is still for sale but I am beginning to think no one is interested. Oh well, I guess I will just have to keep it.

Nightlords For Sale

I have decided (again) to put my Warhamer 40K Nightlords army up for sale. This is a very nice army and a few years ago it was my main 40K army. In fact, it is the only 40K that I have a winning record with. I have since moved on to other things (and I have 5 other 40K armies that I am more interested in).

This army has alot of custom work. Most of the figures are conversion with only a small number being stock. My friend Tim built all the models and I did the painting.

I am looking for $300 cash or possibly an equivelent amount in trade. I would also consider a combination of trade and cash. For trade items I am interested in Warhammer Fantasy Battles Beasts of Chaos, Hordes of Chaos - Lord of the Rings characters, Rohan, Gondor, Ring Wraiths - 40k Kroot (Shapaers, Hounds, Krootox), Cadians, Deamonhunters, Assasins, Missionaries, etc. I am also interested in Necromunda and Mordheim figures. Let me know what you have becasue I might just be interested.

Here are some pictures of what I have.

Chaos Lord


Chosen


HQ Rhino

Chaos Space Marine Squad 1


Squad 2


Squad 2 Rhino


Raptor Squad 1


Raptor Squad 2


Bike Squad


Predator


I would prefer to keep this a local deal, so I will only sell to someone that can pick it up in person. It is just too much of a pain to try and ship.

Cutthroat Miniatures

Cutthroat Miniatures

This is an interestesting little painting blog. I found the Kroot entry interesting. Nice to see what the Kroot might have looked like if I was still 'dipping'.

More Kroot

I am going back to work tomorrow and I have just realized that I didn't get much painting done this week. Here are a couple more Kroot.


Maybe work will make me more motivated to paint...

Kroot

This is a test paint of a Kroot warrior for Warhammer 40,000. The Kroot are an allied race for the Tau and do not have there own army codex. There is a Kroot Mercenary list that allows you to field and all Kroot army for 40K. I have been a big fan of the Kroot since the Tau army was released several years ago. In fact, I think they are more interesting alien race than the Tau. They really deserve their own codex and an expanded model line. I have a bunch of these guys...maybe I should build a Kroot Mercenary army...

8th Cadian Part 3

Next up are the stormtroopers. Luke had painted-up 3-10-man squads of stormtroopers. He also included enough special weapons for just about every combination imaginable.

There are only a limited number of poses for these figures and this is most noticeable with the Sargents. This is the stock Sgt fig.

Luke did a nice head-swap conversion on one of the sargents that really works well.

Like most everything else with this army I have only done a few touch-ups and all the basing. I did go back and re-work Creed a little. I don't know if he really looks any better...

I am on vacation this week so I hope to get several projects completed...or maybe I will just keep painting whatever I want. Either way it should be a good week.

Ring Wraiths

Today we have some Ring Wraith models by Games Workshop. These are for their excellent Lord of the Rings miniatures game. The first model is the Witch King.


These models are very nicely sculpted and a joy to paint. Next is a "regular" Ring Wraith.


Painting was easy. I started with a black spray paint base-coat.


Next I used a silvery color (darker rather than lighter) and picked out the armor and the weapon blades.


Next I used a metallic gold color for the weapon details.


Then I used a Black-Grey color to highlight the robes. I also put some brown around the bottom of the robes for dirt.


The horse is just a single shade of brown over a black primer base. I used the same silver color for the metal parts of the barding.

These figures were actually painted several weeks ago but I just got around to finishing the bases tonight. The can of dull coat I am using turned out to be more of a satin rather than flat, so the figures have a little sheen to them. Oh, these figures have been "dipped" as well. It is really hard to tell due to the dark nature of the paint jobs.