SW Drop Pods

It looks like I’ve got one of those droppy space wolf armies. Here’s the first two.

Minitaire airbrush paint collection finally arrived! I have 84 new colors to spray around!

I was going to get the Vallejo Model Air, but these were almost twice as much paint (30 ml vs 17ml) for close to half the price ($145 vs $269).

The only negative things I’ve heard is they dry on the tip a little faster, but I can always drop a little retarder in.

I’m excited!

Got a new battle mat in, it looks killer. I think I finally have a good landscape to field the DA/Chaos from the DV set!

Found this too. I think it’s cheap foam core in layers, painted with texture. I like it.

Great use of granny grating.

Looking for snow board inspiration. Found this. It’s awesome.

Love the dollar store for warhammer stuff. Found my new wet palette!

Found 3 boxes of storm claws at my FLGS today (and for $90 each!). Kept all the wolves and sold everything else. I made $400 and got to keep 15 space wolf terminators, 30 marines, one special edition wolf lord and a copy of the 7th mini rulebook for free! Win.

Looks like I just started a new army.

First Tau Camo Paint Job

So I started a Tau army, and I got this Hammerhead off ebay. I really like the chopped up camo style Tau paint, so I did it in a combination of purple/greys. I started with a white primed model.

Next I took some electrical tape and I cut lines into it to make the shapes I would use as masks.

There are three layers of paint colors for this technique, and they have to look good together. I picked three colors that were subtly different. Ulthan Grey, Slaanesh Grey, and Warpfiend Grey (Citadel Paints).

I decided to go light to dark, so I sprayed Ulthan Grey first, then after it dried, I put some of the electrical tape masks on the model.

After the mask was on, I sprayed the middle color (Slaanesh), let it dry, put more mask bits on the second layer, and sprayed the third color (Warpfiend).

After the third layer dried, I removed all the tape, and the camo print was revealed. It turned out to be killer. I intended it to be more grey and less purple, but when I finish it with washes, then I’ll tone it down.

It’s a cool effect. 

Finished the roughing level of my new urban table. In true punk rawk fashion, I used tattoo ink in a spray bottle to set the lines in the board. Tomorrow is silica and PVA.