The Great Challenge

I really have to gather some steam for this lot. I just recovered from painting the Librarian in terminator army... wonderful sculpts, and the finecast is actually looking good.

I hate white

I wish there was some kind of quick secret to learning to paint white, but I have this grim feeling it's just hours and hours of practise. Case in point: my Relic Contemptor, which is getting its basecoats. I'm thinking it will look a lot better with a wash and some more layering.

Layering

This is a good shot of what thin layers above a washed basecoat can do.

Big Momma

Starting a birthday "commission" for a friend.

Watching paint dry

So looking back at my last post, what I have accomplished in two months and a week is the following:

Ultramarines

• 1 x Predator
• Lasplas Razorback turret
• Tactical squad (10)

Dark Eldar

• Reaver jetbikes (1/3)

Tau

• XV-8 Crisis Suit w/ drones

Not bad, eh? This is just what is finished, there has been some other WIP as well. 

Eldrad Ulthran

Finished painting Eldrad Ulthran. Really fun model with many small gems and details. Some parts of the model was painted several times in different colors before I could decide on a scheme I liked.
I should probably add some runes (transfers or freehand) to the cloak, sometime...
Overall, I'm very pleased with how he turned out!

Eldrad Ulthran, front

Eldrad Ulthran, back

State of affairs

So this post is something of a status update and a to-do list for my painting. Maybe not as interesting for you guys out there as it is for me; sorry for being egoistic here. But I think it will be interesting to look back at this post and see how things actually turned out.

Dark Eldar take a bit more time to do since I hold my self to a higher standard for my second painted army, and also I decided to base each model when painting and not wait with that until later, since later never comes...

Edit: when writing this list I am quite pleased with the progress, and I actually feel more motivated to attack the "ongoing" projects! Great stuff.

Ultramarines

Not started

• 2 x Land speeder
• 2 x Predator
• Scouts squad (5)
• Lasplas Razorback turret
• Dreadnought

Ongoing

• Tactical squad (10)
• Assault marines squad (5)
• OOP Librarian

Finished

• Stormtalon Gunship
• Razorback
• Rhino
• Tactical squad (10)
• Scouts with sniper rifles (5)
• Captain
• Chaplain with jump pack
• Dreadnought
• Scout Sgt. Telion
• Devastator squad (6)
• Terminators (6)

Dark Eldar

Not started

• Wyches (10)
• Warriors (10)
• Haemonculus 2
• Wracks (5)

Ongoing

• Lelith Hesperax
• Raider
• Ravager
• Venom
• OOP Wyches (5/10 painted)
• Reaver jetbikes (3)

Finished

• Razorwing Jetfighter
• Haemonculus 1

Tau

Not started

• XV-8 Crisis Suit