After an evening of assembling Genestealers and thinking about paint schemes, I spent the rest of last night leafing through back issues of White Dwarf for Tyranid content. My initial idea for Hive Fleet Balaur’s color scheme was the bi pride flag: pink, purple, blue. Along with the symbolism and the colors, I also like […]
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There are relatively few Adeptus Custodes units, and from what I’ve seen they all use pretty much the same colors (adapted per one’s shield company) — kind of like Deathskulls Orks. So I have a feeling one main color guide will cover most of my army. Bases As ever, I’m using a recipe from White
Adeptus Custodes Dread Host color guide and painting steps Read More »
After doing some serious noodling yesterday, I decided today to start a second 40k army to paint alongside my beloved Blood Angels — and after much decidedly un-Orky consideration, I chose Deathskulls Orks. Why Deathskulls? Lots of reasons! Some are purely practical, like not wanting to paint a second red army (ruling out Evil Sunz)
The Waaagh! is in the mail Read More »
After washing Squad Karios’ bases yesterday I was worried I’d screwed them up. Today I drybrushed them: Grey Seer on the terrain, 50/50 Grey Seer/Corax White on the rocks, Corax White on the skulls (all thinned a bit with water. I probably went too heavy on the drybrushing — my default — but there’s definitely
WIP it good: Squad Karios bases turned out fine Read More »
I’ve got a basing recipe in mind for my Blood Angels army, and now I have all the components: The basic concept is “plains of Armageddon” (an important planet in the 40k universe), which conjures up a sort of Moonscape in my mind — a wasteland of heavy gray dust and dying grass, site of
Cooking up a basing recipe for my Blood Angels Read More »
