Over ten years of rubbish - my old models.

I have now been painting 40K and Fantasy models for over 10 years, and posting pictures of them online for nearly 7. I missed my 10th anniversary by 2 months, but here's a belated selection of pictures from the last 10 years. I painted most of these models years ago and as such, they are painted and photographed awfully. You have been warned!

Here's an example : not particularly good!

Click on the images for a closer look, if you dare...

Salamanders 

These were the first ever models that I posted pictures of online! They were painted in May 2003 for a friends army (most of which are in my bitz box now!), and as they were the first pictures we ever took they were terrible! I have no idea what happened to these two models in particular. The Epic Salamanders were painted 2 years after this, for my own army.

 

LoTR

I really enjoy the LoTR game, although I rarely get to play it. These models were painted between 2003 and 2007, and some of them are almost competent.

Chaos

I've collected Chaos in both 40K and fantasy, and I do like the army. I did really well in games with my Chaos Marines army, but eventually sold them because they were painted terribly. I still have the fantasy models somewhere wrapped up in a box, and may use them one day.

 

 

Other Space Marines

I've collected several different chapters before setting on Blood Angels again, and here's a collection of the different marines I've painted and fielded.

 
 

 

 

Tau

This is one of the only armies in this post where I'm still pleased with the paint job I did, and will one day big them out of the loft and finish the army. I got very close to a completely painted army with these.

Misc 40K

Here's some other odds and ends that I've painted for 40K over the years.

 

Misc Fantasy

Here's several different photographs of various other Fantasy models over the years.

 

 

 

Other Misc

Here's some odds and ends, pictures of old painting desks and other such things.

That's all for now, I'll go back to painting newly painted models shortly. To close, here's the army lists I took to the two tournaments I competed in (one of which I jointly won!):

1,000pt Tau Army - Golden Throne 2006 Tourney

HQ

-Shas'O - Cyclic Ion Blaster, Missile Pod, Shield Generator, Bonded, HW Multi-Tracker

-1 Shas'vre Bodyguard - Burst Cannon, Missile Pod, Shield Generator, HW Multi-Tracker

Elite

-6 Man Stealth Team, Bonded, 2 Fusion Blasters, Shas'vre

-2 Man Fire-Knife Crisis Team, Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi-Tracker
Bonded w/ Shas'vre

Troops

-12 Fire Warriors, Bonded w/
Shas'ui w/ Target Lock / Markerlight

-12 Fire Warriors, Bonded w/
Shas'ui w/ Target Lock / Markerlight

-12 Fire Warriors, Bonded w/
Shas'ui w/ Target Lock / Markerlight

Result - Halfway up the board!

600pt Space Marine Army - Golden Throne 2005 Doubles Tourney

HQ

- Commander with Storm Bolter and Power Sword

Troops

- 9 Man Tactical squad in Rhino (with Extra Armour)

- 5 Man Tactical squad with Missile Launcher

- 5 Man Tactical squad with Missile Launcher

- 10 Man Tactical squad with Heavy Bolter 

Result - Victory!

- Gavin

Blood Angels Assault Captain

Another one of my Blood Angels characters has finally been completed - this time it is my 8th Company Captain, currently nameless. This guy is equipped with a Jump Pack, Combi-Melta and Power Fist, making him my most expensive character, which means he'll probably only see action in larger games. Click on the pictures for larger versions.

This model was converted way back in August 2007, appearing in my 18th Club Workshed post. As I'm one of the "fastest painters in the world" it only took 2 years and a month to finish it! To mark this model out as a captain I used a larger base and a lot of gold detailing, and I used grey paint on his heraldry to represent the 8th Company.

I'm quite chuffed with the combi-weapon, I think it turned out quite well! I'm going to use the yellow/black hazard marking on all my hand-held melta weapons.

If anyone has any good ideas for this characters name, please post them in the comments section!


- Gavin

Blood Angels Devastator - aka Burnt Face Man

We've all made mistakes when modelling or painting our miniatures, both small and large. Even the largest mistakes can be covered up by sheer ingenuity, as this Land Speeder and Land Raider from the Drunken Samurai aptly show. I have never had to cope with that, the nearest I've been is 3 coats of paint on a Rhino - although there is a mistake recently that I've had to cover.


Whilst painting my latest batch of Blood Angels, I slipped with the brush and covered a portion of a face with a black streak of paint - no big deal really, as I could just re coat it. There was also one more thing nagging me about that models head though, while I was assembling it I was really sloppy with the mould lines on that side of his face. This was my Plasma Cannon marine for a tactical squad, so I decided that at some point in the past his cannon had misfired on him, leaving him horribly scarred....

Behold, burnt face man! A bit of stippling with dark browns and blacks, coupled with some ink use, has made me less embarrassed to have missed such an obvious mould line. I just have to finish the rest of the model, and then I can rest easy.


UPDATE - I've also decided to enter the Jawaballs Painting Competition, so I've started work on a Blood Angels terminator a little early. Here's the start of the model, an ex-salamander and an AoBR arm that will hopefully work well with normal Termie arms. Apologies for the poor picture.

- Gavin

Old Models- Better Camera

I've borrowed a decent Sony camera from a neighbour, and played around in photoshop. Before I upload pictures of my latest models, here's some of my older models reposted with better pictures.

Eldar Guardian - Painted this year, this was a very quick and simple paintjob, followed by a dip in the quickshade. Turned out quite well, and I want to one day paint an army in this scheme.

Chaplain Grimmauld - This model was painted this year, and is one of my better painted Blood Angels. This model was the first Blood Angel of the army, in fact it inspired me to collect the Blood Angels again!

Sniper Scout - Painted around 2 years ago, you can see white specks on this model from poor varnishing. I'll get rid of them eventually, but they're not noticeable in the 'flesh'.

A new Blood Angels combat squad and an Assault Marine Captain are coming soon, and maybe some more old models.

- Gavin

Blood Angels Whole Army (so far)

I have borrowed a much better camera for the time being, but I'll need to get hold of a card reader before I can use it - until then, here's my current complete Blood Angels list, alongside some blurry photographs! I've picked up a bit of pace in the last few days, but It'll be a while until they are finished.

HQ

7th Company Captain

Power Sword, Storm Shield

120pts

8th Company Captain

Power Fist, Combi-Melta, Jump Pack

155pts

Chaplain Grimmauld

Jump Pack

120pts

Librarian Novella

120pts

Elites

5 Death Company

Jump Packs

25pts

5 Terminators

Assault Cannon

Chain Fist

235pts

5 Terminators

200pts

5 Sniper Scouts

Missile Launcher

120pts

Dreadnought

Multi Melta

125pts

Troops

10 Tactical Marines

Power Sword, Heavy Bolter, Flamer

230pts

10 Tactical Marines

Plasma Cannon, Melta Gun

225pts

5 Assault Marines

Power Sword

155pts

Fast Attack

Attack Bike

Multi-Melta

50pts

Heavy Support

Whirlwind

Storm Bolter

90pts

10 Devastators

3 Missile Launchers, 1 Heavy Bolter

275pts

10 Devastators

2 Lascannons, 1 Multi Melta, 1 Plasma Cannon

310pts

Allies

5 Deathwatch

Librarian, Power Fist, Kraken Bolts

235pts

Roughly 2800 points so far assembled, with a further 2 Dreads, Baal Predator and Tactical Squad in boxes under the bed.... hopefuly next year I'll have a post showing my fully painted army!

- Gavin

WiP - Blood Angels Faces

I've been doing some more work on my tactical marines, and this time I've been working on a section at a time. Here are my latest faces, my third combat squad so far...

Since I never completed my painting guide, heres how I paint red:

- Black Undercoat

- Flat coat of Mecherite Red

- Drybrush of Blood Red

- Wash of Red Ink/Magneta Ink Mix

- Flat coat of Blood Red

- Baal Red Wash

- Blood Red Highlight

- Blood Red / Blazing Orange Highlight

- Blazing Orange Highlight (characters only)

I've got 6 or 7 more models completed so far, but I'm not going to post them till I get hold of a better camera!

- Gavin