LXVI - Monster March fourth, week: showcase, Bloat drone

Hi readers!

I skipped the third week of Monster March , but I could finish my pledge, the Nurgle Bloat Drone in time, and I'm happy, also because I started the rest of the army, finishing 5 Marine (well, I mean five 5 guys in power armours), starting the 5 remaining, and also the poxies.

LXVI - Monster March, second week: tutorial, rust with salt

Hi readers!
Second week of MM19, I'm in perfect time -small monster, I managed to do the steps of this post last week -, and I'm somewhat proud of it. I've thought that it could be nice to do a tutorial during the event, so here we go!

LXV - Monster March, first week: assembling

Hi readers!
I've decided to partecipate again to the Monster March event created by SwordMaster of Path of an Outcast blog.

LXIV - Showcase: stealth Primaris Marine Army

Hi there!
Finally I'm back, after a long hiatus on the hobby. My last work, the army of Nurgle (commission) simply dried out all my willing of hobby, so, due it's an hobby, I decided to leave brushes and paints away from my life, till I get the inspiration.

LXVII - wip: third wave of Death Guard

Hi readers!
After this hiatus I'm finding some minutes to write down a small post about what I'm doing.
I'm a bit busy, so the blog thing isn't having the proper time it needs, and I'm sorry.
However the hobby is continuing to have time.
I've done some projects for this year, and the first one is to finish a third wave of the DG model I'm doing.

LXVI - Showcase: Mortarion commission

Hi readers!

Today a short post about my last work, the chief of the army I'm painting for a commission, the Death Guard. Here and here the previous showcase of the two first waves of the army.

LXV - Commission: Mortarion WIP

Hi readers!
I've finished the second wave of Death Guard, the Dark Imperium set modified and, if you read this small blog, you know that I've painted also another group without mods.
However I have also to paint this marvellous miniature, Mortarion himself!
Say hello to this handsome guy! What a charming boy!

LXIV - Commission: Death Guard II wave, showcase

Hi you all readers!
I am arrived in the end of the second wave of the Dark Imperium Death Guard! Pigments are applied, and gloss to the trim of the bases, so they are officially finished. Oh well, Mortarion is not finished, but it is a small detail. However I think he needs a special post for himself.
Here we go!

LXIII - Commission: Death Guard II wave, Wip

Hi readers!
I'm alive, sorry for the lack of post.
I'm working on the second part of the Death Guard project, a great commission of 40k goryness.
The work proceed not too much fast, but steady, due also other things in life -out-the-hobby.
However, I managed to finish all the pox (surprise for the showcase post!), the marines converted, I am at a good point of the drone and I started to assembly the big one, Mortarion himself.
Here we go!

LXII - Commission: II wave of Death Guard, wip

Hi readers!
Gladly I have to paint another group of the great Death Guard for the same army, here posted if interested.
I am frankly happy that the customer is satisfyied by the I wave to continue in expanding the army.
Luckily he is giving me the best balance in hints and freedom, making the work very smooth. He had the idea of the painting scheme, and I realized it in my way, making happy all of us.

LVIII - Commission: Showcase, Death Guard

"Amongst rust and corruption, death and life aren't different. Embrace Father Nurgle, to die now, and to live eternally."

LVII - WIP: Commission, Death Guard 2

Hi you all!
Slow and steady, as the Death Guard, the works continues very well. This commission is very nice, also because I'm doing some new things that are very nice but, as always, lets proceed with order.

XLI - Showcase: Dark Eldar Mercenary

"Do you think I'm disemboweling you because I was hired? I have been paid only to kill you, unsavory obtuse human."

Hi readers, I have finally finished my first Dark Eldar Mercenary, after a long (above all in my mind) trip, tracked here, here, and here.

 

I have analyzed my issue with Dark Eldar and I think that my problem is that I love those miniatures, and maybe I think that nothing I do is worth of them, and I have no satisfaction in my work. Furthermore I always thought that DE and Dark Elves (Aelves, that in latin has the same pronunciation ... ae = e like "end": nice joke GW!) are bad but clean: my last projects are not so clean and I like paint dirty and grim miniatures, but with DE-DA I had a block, the must not be dirty and grim (for my standard).

Now I cought the courage to make them more grim and less elegant (for my standard clearly!!!), without exagerate logically, they are not Zombies, and I like the result.

XL - Genesis of a Project: a new painting scheme

Whoa 40th post of the new blog, time is flying!
The Glottkin are put apart for the nice Monster March, so I can continue to torture myself in search of the perfect (read: not real) DE painting scheme.
As you can read, my struggle versus a painting scheme for my Dark Eldar continues. I hate it, I love Dark Eldar, but this is something like the 6th or 7th painting scheme I change. Lets proceed with order.

As always this is a Frankenstein wip, updated during these days.

The ideas on the table were:
1 - a bunch of modified Dark Eldar, not a big Kabal -till now-, mercenaries in the WebWay;
2 - grey painting scheme, because I love grey;
3 - monochromatic;
4 - despite I did it often, my Kabal is not going to be repainted another time.

all those ideas are here, and here.
The point 2 and three are death. Despite I really enjoyed in painting some miniatures with very few colours, and I advice you to try to do it as a great technical exercitation, that does not satisfied me.
Also, I've found some very cool colours, and those damn colours whispered to my ears "dark eldar": the trouble was set.

The laughtable thing is that probably I'll neither use those colours for my DE, because I've found other beautiful colours. I think that you, my English-language friends, could define this situation as "well you are f****d up". Yes, colours are my addiction, I confess, and as a good Dark Eldar, there is a pleasure in the pain of changeing painting scheme!

The walking ones are something like preparing to fight with knives, so I added knives, and so on.

The shooting ones are simplified, less spikes.
The idea of flat faces really enjoy me, so I keept it from the last part of the project
And now paint! Black primer with airbrush: slower than cans, but funny and more precise and light. Than black metal (I..I_ ) and some highlights.
After that, I glaze the metal with w&n blue to keep the shining, I added black to shadows, and painted the red.

I know they are quite similar to my old kabal!
And then it happens. The change.
I love the wabi sabi way of art, beauty in imperfection.
So I have casually found this : forgive the pic cought from the pc - horrible thing but when I cannot save the pic or the link I have to do those horrible thing.

And I wanted to try to get inspiration from that.
Here the result.



And we arrive at today. I have modified sa bit the upper result, I was not too much happy with the blue. Also, I added a bit of shiny to the armour. This is already a wip, but I think that I reached an intermediate result that satisfy me. Maybe.

I think that something is missing but I really do not know what, maybe I ought do blue eyes or something.
Please Monster March help me, take away  from this hell!

XXXV - De silentio umbrae Published!

Hi readers!
I have to break my new rule of doing long post but this is worth of it.
The nice news is that desilentioumbrae.blogspot.com is published on the golden d6 online magazine!

pics taken from the golden d6 site.

XXXIV - Showcase: Nurgle Daemons Army Shoot!

Come to daddy my small maggots, lurking in the cold blood, drinking pus, rotting every breath, come to daddy following the toll of rusty bells, if your eyes are melted, or veiled by cataracts.

XXXIII - Showcase: Nurgle Drones

Hi!
In these days I've painted the three Nurgle Drones, the last chapter of the daemons part of the Nurgle wave that hits my hobby desk in December. I've not done a wip simply because I did not find a meaning for it, the drones were "almost painted" for a while, so I've thought "why do a wip, they are almost finished" and so on. Well now they are really finished, and, I am happy to say that the daemonic part of the nurgle miniature I got is ended.

XXXII - Showcase: Plaguebearers and Chaos Spawns

[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes. H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (from Wikipedia)
 

XXXI - Tutorial: Nurgle daemons

Hi!
As you are seeing, I am working on a big (for my standard) group of Nurgle miniatures, daemons and "humans". Probably this is going to be Nurgluary, or something similar (probably Plaguary... well I am not so good in these things!).


However, once I made a tutorial about Nurgle daemons but it is floating somewhere in the Warp, so I decided to do another time it, with some variations: that post was one of the most read on the old blog, and painting Nurgle is damn fun, so here we go.

N.B.
I have removed the downloadable tutorial, they did not convinced me at all and, frankly, quite useless imho. I left the grid with image, and the step by step are going to be in a classical way. Hope you enjoy it.

XXX - Showcase: Nurglings

Hi
 Here we go, new year, new miniatures!

30th post of this blog, quite proud of what it is becoming.

In this post the first results of the work on the Nurgle wave, Nurglings: not too much words, hoping pics are going to tell more.

I got some ideas about them, so I tried to do the best for those small terrible guys. Must say, they are very funny to paint, but you sweat a bit painting some parts hidden by the layers of this little monsters.

As already said, I like them because they seem that they are doing stupid poses and faces when someone is taking a pic of them, maybe a proud Great Unclean. I glued one also to make it seems falling, adding a bir more of disorder.