Aside from working on call, I had a little time to work on the Avatar some more. It's nearly completed and I'm liking the results. I'd like the lava to have a very "hot" look to it, so I will probably go over it again with skull white some more.

This was a test for the lava on the base.


Dry bushed Scab Red followed by Red Ink


From here I started at blending from Red Gore to Blood Red to Blazing Orange.


Blending up from Blood Red to Blazing Orange to Sunburst Yellow and a little skull white

Started the detail on the head piece with a thin coat of Commando Khaki (shown on the left of his face) followed by Bleached Bone (right side of face)


Cleaned up a little with Chaos Black and added Tin Bitz (woot) to the armor

More pics to come :)

Here's my work so far on my friend's Tech Priest. I'm hoping, work permitting, to have him painted by this weekend.

I learned from my first few Pewter models to wash them before you prime them, lol. They have some sort of residue on them that makes it hard to paint.

The Servo arm on his back was not cooperating, lol. It sits on a ball joint that's not sized very well. Oh well, a little green stuff can fix that :)

Primed and ready to paint. I removed some excess green stuff from the Servo arm and changed the base a little bit. Looking forward to painting it

Working on the Eldar Avatar. I had to put it on hold since I wanted to re-prime the model. I noticed some areas of the base coat were chipping off as I was painting and decided to start over. While the model was in the dip tank I decided on adding a green stuff lava base to it, rather than the normal glue-n-sand method. I'm pleased with the results so far. It's subtle, but won't distract from the model like some bases I've seen. Check it out!

- - - Avatar of Khaine - - -

- - -Basing - - -

While the green stuff is still soft I added a few grooves to it. It is much easier to sculpt with the surface and tools wet.


After an hour I went back and started molding some detail to the base. I added some textures to the surface areas to help with highlighting later.


Primed and ready to paint

The next step is to start the lava flow between the armor and similar effects. I'm looking forward to finishing the base. Going to try a new tchnique for lava. More pics to follow in the next few days.

This week we worked on various models for an upcoming 2v2 tournament. Next week I'll have the completed Avatar and Tech Priest and maybe some new terrain

Over at Hoot's place

Chi3f: Attaching the Tech Priest's servo arm on his back pack. It sits on a ball joint that won't stay with glue alone, so I had to improvise. I also finished Commissar Yarrick and started work on a Ratling Snipers Base.

Hoot: Finished another Eldar Sniper for the Tournament. Only two more to go and his new list will be fully painted. Nice!

Kr1ch: Painting more Ork Burnas for the Tournament as well. They are turning out sick. Now only another 30 to go :p

Here's a few shots I took the other day. They turned out pretty good for a $100 digital camera.

Tech Priest and Avatar WIP.


Testing the camera on Ginger :)


Here's a video of the world's most ferocious dog.