The Broodlord!

As you know I play Tyranids for Warhammer 40K. I enjoy painting them because they feel both very natural, and at the same time very unnatural, giving it that somewhat creepy and uneasy feeling. Well recently I've been painting up a broodlord and I think it looks pretty good. I'll give you a rundown of how I painted it. 

I started the red with Khorne red from the Citadel paint range. I then layered it with Wazdakka red. After that I layered it with evil sunz scarlet and gave it a wash in Carroburg crimson. I then highlighted with evil sunz. 

As for the white I started with Celestra Grey as a base. I then layered up to the Vallejo White-Grey air paint. Afterwards I gave it a wash with Abbadon black that had been mixed with a fair bit of medium. It was around 4:1 or until it becomes very runny. This was then layered with the White-Grey again and then highlighted with pallid wych flesh.

The purple for the veins began with a base of the xereus purple layer paint from Citadel. I then made a 50/50 mix of xereus purple and the Vallejo air White-Grey paint and layered that on top. I then took that mix and mixed another 50/50 ratio with the Vallejo air White-Grey paint and used that to highlight all purple areas.

The claws were pretty simple. I started with Zandri dust as a base, layered with screaming skull, washed with agrax earthshade and highlighted with screaming skull.

Here he is in all of his glory 

Well that's it for me this week. Next week I'll be showing off my Flesh Eater Courts Vampire! Have a great weekend and Happy Halloween 

New to Battletech

 Hello everyone, it's been some time since my last post hasn't it? Well I plan on fixing that and keeping posts coming at a regular rate, hopefully.

At any rate I've recently bought the Beginner box for Battletech by Catalyst games. I haven't played any games yet, but I was able to paint these models up and get them tabletop ready. 

I started by spraying them with the Citadel Skull White spray, with the intent to test out the new Citadel contrast paints on them which seemed to work like a charm!

After the contrast paints, which honestly worked better than expected with the red, I touched up the red with some Evil Sunz Scarlet edge highlights to make the red really stand out.

I then decided on a blue contrast colour to make the red really stand out. I started with Caledor Sky, highlighted with teclis blue and washed it with nuln oil. 

The other one I painted with the Citadel yellow contrast paint Iyanden Yellow. Honestly I liked how that one turned out a bit less so I touched up the yellow with the Base paint Averland Sunset to get some solid yellow colours on the flatter parts of the model. I then combined Averland Sunset with the Vallejo air paint White-Grey in a 1-3 mix (1 part yellow to 3 parts grey white). 

For the green on the yellow fellow I started with death world forest as a base, layered with Elysian green and then highlighted with ogryn camo and then gave it a final wash in Athonian camoshade.

The bases were painted using the Citadel texture paint Astrogranite, washed with nuln oil and drybrushed with Dawnstone and then Pallid Wych Flesh. 

The cockpits were painted with Russ grey and a line of Pallid Wych Flesh, with a little dot.

Here they are all completed.

Not too bad if I do say so myself. I'll have another post in the next week or so. See you all then.