Paint and Assembly Night

Spent yesterday evening with the Warhammer Geeks painting and assembling miniatures. I finished some terrain (WIP post here) and made nice progress on my first Howling Banshee.

Home made terrain

Howling Banshee (weapons not finished)

Magnetizing War Walker Weapons

I have started magnetizing weapons for my war walker and falcon.

I bought these nifty rectangular (5 x 1.5 x 1mm) magnets from first4magnets.com for the war walker.

Eldar Missile Launcher before magnetizing

Using a scalpel, the protruding part that fits in the socket is removed

Make the new surface flat using a file

Attaching the magnet with super glue (I used the end of a drill to apply the magnet)

Leave i to dry

Voila!

The socket on the weapon mount had to be expanded a little to make it possible to fit the magnet. I used 2mm drill and a scalpel to accomplish this.

Make sure you get the polarity correct on all magnets you attach. If not, you might (as I did) need to remove some magnet to flip it.

DIY Lightbox

Created a lightbox for miniature photography, following this easy tutorial. The lamps on the sides are the cheapest I could find at IKEA (39 SEK each), the top lamp is my regular desk lamp. I'm quite happy how well it turned out for such a small effort invested!

The setup

Result of Striking Scorpion in lightbox. f/5.6, 1/5 sec, ISO100, 135mm

Terrain, Ruin WIP

Started to experiment with some terrain modelling.

Base is 4mm MDF, the walls are pieces from a plasterboard. Not sure the plaster will be durable enough, but it was really quick to build something useful.

Painted with cheap acrylic paints. Brown for the ground  (will add flock on the ground), and three layers of different shades of gray on the stone pieces. The two lighter grays were sort of "wet" dry brushed, turned out ok and it was really fast.

Wraithlord and War Walker WIP

Wraithlord and War Walker WIP, been experimenting with shadows, layering and highlights. 

First Finished Striking Scorpion

Finished my first Striking Scorpion. This was a great learning experience for me, and I'm sure the rest of the squad will be much quicker. 

Cuddly Tyrant

I did some work on a Hive Tyrant I borrowed from a friend, just because I thought it would be fun and a learning experience. It was both! Perhaps you will see more Tyranids on this blog in the future. Perhaps.

I am especially pleased with the contrasts and the poison sac which turned out delightfully revolting.