So Games Workshops Digital Edition page on Facebook (their best and possibly only way of engaging with customers), has after getting 5,000 likes given us a picture of the cover of Codex: Inquisition, and it looks awesome!
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Look What's Happened
Been ill with the flu for a few days but look what's happen since!
Citadel Weathering Paints
They look awesome, I have plans on adding some Death Guard to my Chaos Space Marine army in January so the Typhus Corrosion and Rhyza Rust will come in handy and I am currently painting some World Eaters Berserkers, so I will certainly be adding some Blood for the Blood God to them.
Thousand Sons
Started work on my Thousand Sons while I have been sick, well I built the Rhino I am goanna use for them, and will build the marines this weekend.
X-Men Trailer
Looks absolutely awesome, and Prof X looks positively like a porn star!
X- Men: Days of Future Past Trailer
And One Last Thing…
Codex:Inquisition, enough said!
Needless to say I will be building an Inquisition retinue to ally with my Space Marines and Dark Angels, it will be epic!
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Winter Solider Trailer
The full trailer is here, and it looks pretty good, can Marvel deliver on the promise of a political thriller.
No idea how to embed this so have a look here.
All I can say is that the Winter Solider himself looks just perfect!
If you haven’t I highly recommend that you read the Winter Solider, both parts as its a really good book, well two books.
Michael
X-Men: Days of Future Past Teaser
First time that I have ever seen Vine used, but then again as I pay very little attention to Vine so its probably not a hugely new thing, anyway here it is.
Chorizo and Chickpea Soup
This was an experiment, fancied making a smoky soup.
So I threw in some chorizo, and dry fried it to get some if that lovely oil out so I could throw in some onion, carrot and celery a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes, two tins of chickpeas, some pepper, garlic, cumin and paprika. Then I covered it with chicken stock and let it cook for a while. The soup was a little thin so I threw in some red lentils to thicken it up.
It was very nice, comments from Lindsay and Megan were that it needed less chickpeas and more chorizo. Next time I might add a pepper, and some Savoy cabbage.
Winter Solider Teaser
So this looks pretty good!
Come on America its the 24th here already, upload the full trailer!
Winter Solider Teaser
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Dark Elves Wave 2 Trailer
Dark Elves Wave 2 Trailer
The complete revitalisation of the Dark Elves gives me hope that a similar treatment will be given to the
Anyway for details of whats coming, check out what Natfka has to say over at Faeit 212.
Michael
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Painting a Realm of Battle Board
So I have acquired a Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard (lets just call it the RoB for ease from now on) from Games Workshop along with the two extension tiles, now I am not going to get into any kind of debate about its price or if its easier to build your own. Whilst its price certainly put me off, I paid nothing for this so I am happy, and the girls I live with said if I built my own board it had to be easily storable, and well the RoB is very easily storable.
Anyway this is how I have been doing mine, so lets start with materials.
So I have the Citadel Scenery Painting Pack, which is no longer listed for sale on the UK site, which is a shame, and that comes with 400ml tub of brown paint, one 40ml pot of ochre paint, one 200g bag of Scorched Grass, one 25g bag of Static Grass, one 118 ml tub of PVA glue and one 2" scenery brush. I also have some spray paint, now I am not a rich man, so the Citadel Chaos Black spray is beyond my means so I buy my sprays from Poundland, now in all fairness its actually pretty good paint, and it goes quite far for what you pay. Also from Poundland was a mini roller with a tray, and from Games Workshop some paints for the infamous skull pits, I have Rakarth Flesh, Ushabti Bone, White Scar and Agrax Earthshade, and I also have some Game Inks form Vallejo, Black and Brown. I also have a collection of odd brushes from my tool box that are perfect for this project.
So to prepare I gave the boards a wash with some washing up liquid to make sure the surface was perfectly clean for the paint going on, but my major concern is those damn skull pits, well I am not that opposed to them, but what is annoying me is that they are sculpted so they are laying on a flat surface in the pit.
So I decided to deal with this by filling the gaps with some sand, so it appears as if the skulls are sort of emerging from the ground rather than laying on a flat surface. So I start by painting some PVA glue into the gaps, and even obscuring some of the skulls to try and give it a more natural organic feel, well as natural and organic as a pit of skulls can be.
I followed this up with my basing mix with is a mixture of bird sand and bird grit with some cat littler (unused obviously), though i did sift it to keep out the bigger lumps of grit and litter.
Once I did this, I just tapped it to get he excess off and reveal a pit of skulls lying on sand, and well here is the result.
So I leave this to dry overnight and then the next day I undercoat the boards using the Poundland black spray paint, now this gives some pretty decent coverage in my opinion, not too thick and quite even, from one can you get one board fully done and about 75% of another one done.
Here is a close up of the skull pits.
So once that's done on areas where its pretty rocky, such as the roads and cliffs, I use a grey primer to get a dark grey undercoat on for these areas.
So once that's done I use the roller to get some of the brown paint on, now I didn’t actually take photos of the intermittent stages of the next few steps here but here is the end result of the brown, which took two coats.
My next step was to give the brown an ink wash using the black and brown inks, at a ratio of 1 part black to 3 parts brown mixed 50/50 with water. The prupose of this is to really fill in the shadows and give it a nice dark tone.
So I leave this to dry overnight and I wake up to this.
Which is now ready for some drybrushing, again, I forgot to take some photos of each stage, but I have to do some corrections to the rocky areas so I will upload some photos in my next entry.
I have no idea if this will turn out any good, but hey I have given it my best shot.
Update
Here is part two!
Anyway this is how I have been doing mine, so lets start with materials.
So I have the Citadel Scenery Painting Pack, which is no longer listed for sale on the UK site, which is a shame, and that comes with 400ml tub of brown paint, one 40ml pot of ochre paint, one 200g bag of Scorched Grass, one 25g bag of Static Grass, one 118 ml tub of PVA glue and one 2" scenery brush. I also have some spray paint, now I am not a rich man, so the Citadel Chaos Black spray is beyond my means so I buy my sprays from Poundland, now in all fairness its actually pretty good paint, and it goes quite far for what you pay. Also from Poundland was a mini roller with a tray, and from Games Workshop some paints for the infamous skull pits, I have Rakarth Flesh, Ushabti Bone, White Scar and Agrax Earthshade, and I also have some Game Inks form Vallejo, Black and Brown. I also have a collection of odd brushes from my tool box that are perfect for this project.
So to prepare I gave the boards a wash with some washing up liquid to make sure the surface was perfectly clean for the paint going on, but my major concern is those damn skull pits, well I am not that opposed to them, but what is annoying me is that they are sculpted so they are laying on a flat surface in the pit.
So I decided to deal with this by filling the gaps with some sand, so it appears as if the skulls are sort of emerging from the ground rather than laying on a flat surface. So I start by painting some PVA glue into the gaps, and even obscuring some of the skulls to try and give it a more natural organic feel, well as natural and organic as a pit of skulls can be.
I followed this up with my basing mix with is a mixture of bird sand and bird grit with some cat littler (unused obviously), though i did sift it to keep out the bigger lumps of grit and litter.
Once I did this, I just tapped it to get he excess off and reveal a pit of skulls lying on sand, and well here is the result.
So I leave this to dry overnight and then the next day I undercoat the boards using the Poundland black spray paint, now this gives some pretty decent coverage in my opinion, not too thick and quite even, from one can you get one board fully done and about 75% of another one done.
Here is a close up of the skull pits.
So once that's done on areas where its pretty rocky, such as the roads and cliffs, I use a grey primer to get a dark grey undercoat on for these areas.
So once that's done I use the roller to get some of the brown paint on, now I didn’t actually take photos of the intermittent stages of the next few steps here but here is the end result of the brown, which took two coats.
My next step was to give the brown an ink wash using the black and brown inks, at a ratio of 1 part black to 3 parts brown mixed 50/50 with water. The prupose of this is to really fill in the shadows and give it a nice dark tone.
So I leave this to dry overnight and I wake up to this.
Which is now ready for some drybrushing, again, I forgot to take some photos of each stage, but I have to do some corrections to the rocky areas so I will upload some photos in my next entry.
I have no idea if this will turn out any good, but hey I have given it my best shot.
Update
Here is part two!
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