the legion descend upon the iron kingdoms

bit of a lengthy title to say iv painted up  5 out of 7 models from my legion of everblight.  I went with a very simple yet effective colour scheme and I did a bit of searching online n found a blue/brown scheme but I had no blue so I went with purple n black which was my original idea.

so here they are

 
these were all painted with washes purple/black/brown the red on the carnivean is red gore from GW n that's it the next to be finished is lylyth then the scythean which will be done after work in the next few days ready.

painting slowed down

well im gunna start a new 40hour a week job so it means  painting will be drastically reduced  but on the pluss side ill be able 2 invest in more models quicker

im looking to  do these come pay day

get a box for my ogres
get a box for my legion
get 2 dark elf bolt throwers

then id like 2 sell at least 1 army so  i can get a new 40k army

more dark eldar

iv bin spraying up more dark eldar so here they are 

so their not yet finished as u can still see the shading  underneath but its not bad for an afternoon of painting

i now have

all wyches done in new paint scheme
warriors are half done
then i have vehicles half done

then ive gotta highlight warriors and vehicles

i also want 2 buy + paint 12 bikes and 10 more warriors

red hot airbrushing

so its blistering hot and iv used up a full pot off carroburg crimson and the void raven is comming along nicely infact its very nearly ready for highlighting

the ravagers are also  half way 2 being completed u can still see the black

on the venoms iv re sprayed and shaded them but ran out of red so here is wat they look like

as you can see the void raven is looking great :D  the ravagers are deepening in colour soon theyll match the void raven and iv jus started the venoms so u can see the shading

short sunny spell

so unlike the past few days  we had a nice sunny day so i spent most of it painting !!  it was very productive i havent taken any pics yet but here is what iv done:

dark elves
all crossbowmen are now painted except their feet
over half the spearmen have their hands n faces painted and washed
all cold ones have been sprayed purple and nearing finished

i still have 2 paint hydras and characters and corsairs

dark eldar
more layers were put on the void raven and its nearly ready for highlighting
i added a few more layers to the trueborn
i started spraying the ravagers
iv re-sprayed my test venom and 2 others as they were black on the bottom and same for a raider

i now need more chaos black and nuln oil so i can shade the venoms and raider

ogre cavelry charge!!!!!!

well finally my mournfang arrived and as i type this im building them!  cant wait to get these bad boys on the table.

so why are mournfang so gd??

well their movement 8 which makes them pretty damn quick for a non flying unit
they are monsterous cavalry so the mournfang make full supporting attacks
they have a gd statline  s5 t4  w3 i2 a4
they get d3 impact hits per mournfang at str5 :D

to make them super efficient at killing give them full command with the dragonhide banner so u can re-roll hit wound and saving throws of 1 so that should improve them no end!! :D

i need to re read their fluff entry to get ideas how 2 paint them

achieving targets - dark elves

so yesterday like 2day the weather is great aka summer is here! so here is an update starting from the beggining.

this is the army after it was based in army painter white

so army breakdown
1 pegasus
1 sorceress
1 assassin
1 dreadlord on cold one
26 spearmen
30 bowmen
2 hyrdas
8 dark rider horses
9 cold one knights

not based is 40 corsairs but the will be based and finished for the final family photo lol :D

so far iv now finished the base colours on everything except characters and hydras. as most models are mainly armoured so i airbrushed them with

chainmail silver
nuln oil

iv also started doing detail work on the archers doing detail work such as skin cloth and ill finish them off by doing the shoes colours ill be using are

tallarn flesh with ogryn flesh wash
scab red with carroberg crimson wash
and chaos black for the shoes

so here is the same shot with all the models based in all the colours mentioned above as well some detail work done to the bowmen

 

the cold ones are  liche purple with chaos black in some recessess to create abit of depth

from here the detail work needs doing  which will take the longest to paint