Da Red Gobbo

Games Workshop have been running a little competition, where you create a wish list and tell them what you love and why you should win. So seeing some other entries I was inspired to do a little art based on the Red Gobbo, maybe I'll win something, but mostly it was just a nice drawing exercise.
Please, if you stumble across this page, do feel free to print these out and give your little Gobbo's some alternative colouring. There is a example at the bottom of the page. Happy colouring.

Adeptus Titanicus - Pallidus Mor Banners

Now while I don't mind painting banners, with Titans, it seems like there are a lot to paint. Banners for the Titan, banners for the weapons, banners between the legs. So to save me a bit of hobby time, I've put a few together in a image package I have on my tablet. I've yet to test them, but the few that I did print out seemed to work out okay. At the moment I'm think the weapon banners need to be about 140px (pixels) to fit the scale, but I'll revise this as I do some test.

The image above was the first test I did, its take from the Pallidus Mor image you can find online and merged with a 'Griffins' banner that I found. It worked okay, so I moved on a bit and came up with the next set. Which as you can see I've tried to give them a background image to fold the paper behind, then did the same with some weapon banners that I found. All this while trying to make each banner a bit different, with changes in the number of markings.

After this I started working on some plan banners for the Titans, while adding some more for the weapons, replicating the image be changing them a little.

Then finally with the ones below, I've added some text, also with a little variation. Though they work rather well, I still have some more work to do with them in order to make each one unique.

Eldar Bright Avengers

Got some Space Elves painted, though just a few more done this time, there are another 6 to finish as well. These few allow me to have a complete squad with options. Once again the theme is the Craftworld Alaiborn (origins of the Alai Mercenary Corps (in my head)). These are the elite troops of the Dire (Bright) Avengers, with their vintage Aspect armour, using the 'pink' tones of the Alai paint scheme. The Dire Avengers are known as a noble and merciless warrior, and are the most tactically flexible of all the Aspect Warriors of the Eldar paths.

The three newly painted models, the Exarch in the middle with her twin Avenger Catapult.

Two new paint Dire Avengers.

The other side of each.

Hopefully what you can't see is that the new Exarch is a metal conversion that someone had started, I acquired her in a box of bits. Originally she is a Banshee body, a Avenger Head, Exarch sword arm and 2 plastic Shurikens I adapted. I did think about swapping out the sword arm, but I like the look. The conversion had a pistol, but I think the twin Avenger Shuriken Catapult looks much better.  I've re-pined the sword arm and 'filled' in the gaps around various parts of the model to clean up the ordinal trimming. Hopefully it looks like a 'original' variation now.

Joining 2 other Avengers and a Exarch on the left (with the same sword arm). 

  Original Exarch in the squad, for variation in the style. 

Space Nebula Farseer - Final!

I'm calling this one done, any more painting and such, I'm either going to get lost. Make a massive mistake, or cause a distraction from the work I've done. So this is Nebula, my Space Elf, or Eldar or Aeldari Farseer.

More Greene Space Nebula

Things are progressing on my Space Nebula Farseer. Most of the washes and some of the base highlights are done. Just the main highlighting to do, cleaning up of any overruns and mistakes and adding a few little details like runes to break it up.

Greene Space Nebula

I had one of those painting moments last night, I'd been thinking about painting a Eldar Farseers cloak with a fancy space pattern and stars on the back. But I wasn't really sure how to start it, I had the basics there, with a green base coat. Then, just before bed, I got the urge, so I acted on it. It was about 1am before I was done but I'm pretty happy with the look and the little stars. As always it does need some clean up and the rest of him isn't finished, but it does create the impact I was looking for.
As always, its all hand painted, no spraying or anything. The only thing that wasn't brushed on is the dots for stars as that was the end of a toothpick.

 Cloak, with the basics of the mini already painted in.

Then the back, with the nebula and stars.

Graceful Hawks of Craftworld Alaiborn

Continuing with my slow painting of Eldar (Space Elves) of the Craftworld Alaiborn (origins of the Alai Mercenary Corps (in my head)), I've moved onto their more graceful flying elements. Aspect Warriors know as the Swooping Hawks, normally blue. But when something tells me it needs to be this way, immediately I want to change it all.
Researching some hawks, I noticed how they are more likely to have a lighter coloured body, with a dark back feathers. In cloudy areas, this blends them in with the sky while also reflecting light. The dark feathers when on the ground help them blend in, and means they are harder to be seen from above when flying low themselves. Figuring these Aspect Warriors would take their colour scheme from the 'giant hawks' of their now lost home world I had a little test paint. 

This is the start of the test scheme, which seemed to work very well. Brown on the wings, with a deep red to break up the pattern and the same on the head. The body is all white, with a light red wash. This gave it a pink look, but that is only the start of the scheme so that will change. The weapon is just a black or dark colour to pick it out, I'm highlighting with grey to give it a bonish look.

This is after the highlights and other things have been done and a satin varnish. The body is picked out with more white to tone down the pink, and a little brown wash in key areas to darken those bits up more. The 'leather' look of pouches and belts is a 'bone white' washed with a brown at least twice.

So the finished model on it base, wooden with a brass pole, and a varnished bit of drift wood picked up from a walk on the beach.

The model in the middle I'm using to represent there group leader, hence the aspect rune on its head, unlike the others.

Before any asks, I hand painted the rune, I've never used transfers.