Irish Miniature Painting Group

Hi gang,

only a short post this time around. I wanted to advertise that I've started up a forum for the Irish miniature painters, to try and get like minded people together.

If your an Irish (or not!) and a miniature painter (of any skill) we'd love to have you visit us at

http://irishminiaturepainters.webs.com/

Vinny

Malakim Phoros PtII

Now I have a confession to make. When I was posting my last pictures I was going through the Imperial Armour entry for Malakim I realised that the weapon entry did not say just a "two handed, master-crafted power weapon" but a "two handed, master-crafted power glaive". This meant I had to do some last minute conversion. Luckly I had just the right piece to replace the right arm. So a quick pinning job later I came up with this.





I'm quite happy with how it turned out. How I've just to paint it obviously.

I've also done some intial work on the base for Malakim.



Inital basecoat of Sorched Brown, with a wash of Brown Ink. I then basecoated the concrete grey and the metal Boltgun Metal. Using some forgeworld weathering powders I 'rusted' the metal. I also basecoated the space marine helmet half red and half yellow, the colours of the Lamenters hated enemies The Minotaurs, who more or less wiped out the chapter during the Badab War.



More updates tomorrow I hope!

Malakim Phoros

Once again I've moved onto another project I'm working on in my usual hobby buffet style of doing things. Why oh why can't I focus on and finish one thing at a time!

At least it's the same general type of thing, that being Lamenters Space Marines. In the new Forgeworld book (IA9) there are rules for the chapter master of the Lamenters; 'Malakim Phoros, Master of the Lamenters, Lord of Ruin, Watcher of the Deeps'.

Obvoliously I'm not going to give his stats but his wargear consists of Artificer Armour, an Infernus pistol, a two-handed, master-crafted power weapon and an iron halo. Of course as a Lamenter player/collector this is an oppertunity I couldn't pass up to convert a miniature. This is what I've come up with.


So it's the old Emperor's champion model with a Deamonhunters sword and converted pistol. This is very early WiP though and I've only really done work on the talbard and the models left leg, so the right leg as we look at it.


The model is being undercoated with Iydanden Darksun and shaded by adding successive amounts of Scorched Brown. It was then highlighted with Golden Yellow, but I think I might need more highlighting at this stage.

Lizardmen Finished! (For the time being)

Hi gang,

well as the title suggests I've finished up painting the Lizardmen Battalion I purchased years ago, but which I only started painting maybe a month and a half ago. I had left the Cold One riders to last as they seemed like the most complicated unit, and thats what they turned out to be. I really struggled with finding a colour for the Cold Ones that I was really happy with, and eventually settled on the colour I had used on the skinks for their skin, and a grey colour for their boney crests. The riders were painted in exactly the same manner as their footslogging collegues, the only difference being that I went with red on their shields as I felt that the shields would blend into the Cold ones otherwise if I stayed with the blue. 

Cold One Riders Headlong Charge!

Cold One Riders Profile Shot

That unit polished off the battalion, but I did have a Lizardman hero which I wanted to paint to make this mini army at least playable if the situation ever arose. I did not spend too long on him and painted him to the same standard as the rest of the Lizardman army. He was taken from basecoat to varnish in a single day.

So that mini finished off my Lizardman experience for the time being. I took a couple of photo's of what I've painted over the last two months.

Overall Lizardman Army

Hero and Cold One Riders

Skinks with Blowpipes and Sauras with Hand Weapon and Shield

Skinks and Sauras with Spears

I'm very happy with how they have turned out, I really like my Sauras colour scheme and think they look very unique and striking.

Next project? Vampire Counts, starting with 60 zombies!