Just a quick update on some Grey Knights

I assembled the first of my Paladins for my Grey Knight force just recently and decided to paint him before assembling any more. Given that I don't yet play any games with this army, i'm not in any great rush to complete assembling them all and will instead attempt to paint each model before building the next.

A project most likely doomed to fail given my history of flitting from one painting project to the next, but the person who fails is the person who never tries.

I'm still undecided as to how I plan on basing them.

Also, as a quick side note, our local rpg group put in for a kickstarter last year for a company called HeroForge, they perform 3D printing of models that you design on their website and as part of our kickstarter package we all were able to choose a model.

Unfortunately I didn't grab a picture before I put some paint on it, but here it stands after the first run through of painting. It's not the greatest paint work of my life, far from it in fact, but when it's down on the table it works for me so i'm happy.

That is, indeed, a terrible photo and I shall provide another one when i next fish him out of whatever box i stashed him in.

WIP on some Space Wolves

And here I present some unflattering photos of Krom Dragongaze, Wolf Lord. I have since drilled out his bolter barrel as it was pointed out to me at length that I had not done so. I also really need a photo booth.

Given that he is a wolf lord I did spend some more time on him than other models. This guy, however, was painted sometime before christmas. Given the unfortunate hot summer we experienced I have done very little painting indeed and have only just started picking up the brushes again. Much to my dismay some of my paints have decided that the near egg boiling temperatures my room met that they would go hard on me and become mostly useless.

Apart from my Iron Priest mounted on a Thunderwolf conversion, my Wolves have seen next to no action with the paints. Apart from the flyer, which I sporadically work on, albeit unusually so. I undercoated it a soft grey and have since been adding on some detail here and there over time. My plan is to knock out the detail and then carefully put in a wash into the obvious recesses of the model and perhaps try my hand at a wet blend of other areas to give the grey tone a shading effect. I mostly want to leave it strongly grey and fear that I will spoil it if I go overboard.

In the meantime, I began some paint work on the warmachine starter box for one of the factions, this was, and might still, going to be a giveaway from the facebook page once it reached a certain level of likes. However, after simply attempting to paint one model I decided that I really don't like the models, especially compared to the Trollblood Hordes models which I actually enjoyed painting.

I've also been working on my Grey Knights, taking time with assembly and posing and I just spent the last few days painting the banner for the paladin unit. It still needs some shading work done to it, but overall I could leave it where it is and be happy with it for tabletop work. I played with a few armour colour schemes for the boys and have opted for a silver with a blue wash, silver drybrush and black wash. It gives the grim dark feel to me and the occasional blue shiny parts offset the usual dull metallics I often see with them.

As always, comments and criticism is welcome and appreciated.

Space Wolf Update

So, after a hiatus of modelling and painting I'm finally back in the saddle. I most recently converted and painted a Space Wolf Iron Priest mounted on a Thunderwolf. My brother, who has some awesome photography skills will help me take some pictures of that guy soon, but in the meantime i'll add some dodgy pics from my phone.

Now, i'm currently working on assembling some grey knights and thanks to the inspiration of another member of a popular forum i frequent i have a plan of assembly for one of the dreadknights in order to create a somewhat heroic pose. Here's hoping it doesn't fail horribly.

Anyway, here's the picture of the Iron Priest:

The Fenrisian wolves in the background are now currently painted and the basing is mostly done, I'm just still attempting to decide if and how I should make some of them look like cyberwolves.

The Trollblood Giveaway is ready

When I first opened up the commission painting page, I announced that I would giveaway a painted Trollblood starter box. Well the models have been finished and are ready to be sent off to a random winner.

Here's the models and their bases, I just have to pin them to their bases and take some pro photos and once the Facebook page reaches the golden number a random person who has helped share them out will be chosen. This photo is just from my phone, a proper camera photo with them mounted will be done once the competition rules have been met.

The starter set group with custom made snow bases.

You can find the facebook page here: The Gaming Yeti - Commission Painting. If you'd like to be part of the contest, jump on there and join in. We'll sort out postage costs if and when you turn out to be a winner.

As a side note, here's some WIP shots of my Space Wolf Grey Hunters, and Battle Brother Artemis:

Unit Shot

Wolf Guard Pack Leader with Wolf Claws

Grey Hunter with the Wolf Standard

 And here's a headless shot of Artemis with my beginning work on airbrush blending his power sword:

Some completed Dark Elf units

So these are some completed units for my Dark Elf list, I'm using these as sample display units. Painting the models is nice and easy now that I'm getting better control of the airbrush, though I still suck at mixing the right consistency when trying to use game colour or GW paints, so I tend to mix colours using just the model air range.

Which makes me thrilled that there is now a Game Air range of paints, so that's now on my to buy list for when I get some spare hobby money going.

Enough talk, time for some pictures:

Doomfire Warlocks

Basic colours with a thinned down black wash.

Dreadspears

Undercoat black, spray it all chrome/silver, then spray purple on the tops, touch on some gold details and spray with a thinned black wash. Same deal with the Darkshards below.

Darkshards

So, to finalise, as per usual, comments are welcome, and now, so are commissions.

A move into Commission Painting

So, I've decided to make an attempt at beginning a commission painting business. Just taking on small tasks for now, primarily with the concept of aiming for a tabletop standard of painting at a cheaper rate than most other painters out there.

If anyone who reads this is interested in checking it out so far, here's the Facebook page for it:

https://www.facebook.com/thegamingyetipainting

and I shall be moving this painting blog into a side part of documenting various jobs that I undertake.

To start with building a portfolio, I've been documenting the painting of my dark elves, a fine example of the standard that I would like to offer out to people. I will also soon begin document the painting of an Eldar army that I shall be doing over a long period of time as the buyer can pay for it.

Working on some new basing styles

So, I got some supplies for myself for my birthday, and I'm using them to work on some new basing techniques.

Specifically, I got some Vallejo grey pumice, some Secret Weapon highland tuft, and I still have some Secret Weapon crushed glass that I have yet to use. So the plan is to make some snowy bases, slightly raised, the first test is on my Khorne Lord for my Warriors of Chaos and on a Trollblood model as well, so I have one square and one round.

The basic assembly begins with the base, a piece of corkboard and then a thin coating of grey pumice to make the cork look more like a piece of rocky terrain, it has a fine gritty texture and is fairly easily put into where you want it. I spread it flat over the top, and then mushed it around the sides and so ends step 1 of this attempt.

And here's a pretty (yet still dull) picture of the progress thus far:

The next still will be painting them, the chaos one will get some skulls and blood, cause you know, lord of Khorne and all that, and the Trollblood base will be a reasonably standard rocky grey with some tufts and snow on the edges.