Duelling Paintbrushes: Day Two.

Day Two. 21:10. My eyes are going. I've been painting non-stop for about two hours. I've remembered why I never finished the unit when I first started painting them several months ago. Khorne are boring to paint. But there are another seven of them completed. Just two more batches, and one of those includes the unit fillers, which are much more interesting to paint.

I've taken photos for a PFH ishoo on these guys, but I honestly cannot be bothered posting it now. Maybe tommorow.

Duelling Paintbrushes: Day One

Day one. Despite my opponent's cheating (he failed calendar reading 101 and started yesterday) I remain confident. Mostly because all he managed to do in that day was undercoat and base his stuff. In my first day I have completed the first batch of Khornrauders, apart from basing which I always do at the end. So, seven down, twenty-five to go. Also I have started to convert up a Khorne lord on Juggernaut, using the Avatars Of War Netherhound (a sort of Chaos Cerberus). He'll do double duty as Arbaal the Undefeated, who is not very impressive, but will add colour to the mighty Gates of Kislev battle.

Here's the first batch of Khornrauders:

In keeping with the Nurgle part of my Chaos army, I'm using somewhat more 'muted' colours than the usual Chaos schemes. I'm also using an odd skin tone since these guys are half-beastman due to their fanatical worship of their blood-thirsty god.

And here's the Jugger Lord. There'll need to be a bit more work on him, especially the shield, and the saddle.

In the next thrilling instalment of Duelling Paintbrushes, I intend to provide a full Painting For Hippos write up of the Khornrauder technique. It's not quite as much fun as painting Nurgle, but it's fairly quick.

15mm Fortnight:TFH Ishoo Firty-Nin: Alien Monolith

It's sunday afternoon, 15mm Fortnight is almost over, but there's just time for one more project. This time we're going to look at some Alien Architecture. It can be quite a challenge making something of obviously non-human origin. One favourite way is to use as many round or curved shapes as possible, because you rarely see those in our buildings. Curves can be very hard to produce. You could use round packaging, dessert tubs, plastic plates etc, but you often run into problems with getting paint and glue to stick to the slick plastic these things are made from. There must be an easier way... possibly one involving hippos...

There you have it hippos fans! The final instalment of 15mm Fortnight. I think we've proved that painting, modelling and terrain building in 15mm scale are so easy a hippo could do them quite conclusively, don't you?

Don't forget to vote in the latest People's Choice Poll, and stay tuned for Duelling Paintbrushes, which starts tomorrow. After that, we'll be back to our normal haphazard programming...