Monthly Update: Painting Points

The month of May went by in a flash. While it feels like I have been painting all month, the actual points earned don't really reflect what I accomplished.

Last Month's Total: 20 Points

Points Earned in May: 3 Points

Total Points in 2009: 23 Points



Next month looks to be a big month for points. I have a number of models that have been in process that should be completed. More exciting is that in June, the first incarnation of the embodiment of the Emerald Eye will be finished.

If you would like to see the original post about Painting Points, check out the following link.

Special Thanks to Lone Pilgrim for introducing such a fun idea to the 40K blogsphere.

On the Bench: Imperial Guardsman

I am back to the drawing board with regards to how I will compose my Imperial Guard army. In my prior posts I talked about what I was hoping to build based on individual unit stories and concepts that match the theme of my army when paired with my buddy Ernie’s army. Using those earlier writings as a foundation, and based on what I have painted so far, this is what I think I know as fact for what will be in my army.

Elite – Ratlings (3) 30 pts
Elite – Ogryns (4)170 pts
Troop – Infantry Platoon
-Platoon Command Squad w/ medic and commissar 115 pts
-Infantry Squad 50 pts
-Infantry Sqaud 50 pts
-Heavy Weapons Squad w/ 3 heavy bolters 75 pts
Troop – Veteran Squad w/ Gunnery Sergeant Harker, 3 sniper rifles, heavy bolter, and forward sentries doctrines 180 pts
Troop – Veteran Squad w/ 2 flamers, 1 heavy flamer, and chimera w/ hull/turret flamers 155 pts
Total Points 825 points

This list looks more realistic at the moment since I own all of models listed already and don’t need to purchase anything else until after I complete the list. I have some options for the HQ slot, but haven’t decided on what I will do for the mandatory unit at this point. (I am shying away from the commissar lord at this point.)

Back to finishing the model...

The barrel of the gun was completed using the same color scheme as my grey knight terminator from March.
Vallejo Black Grey (70862)(3:1, paint:thinner) [Size 1 American Painter]
Black GW Wash
Black Grey (4:1, pain:thinner)
Black Grey/Vallejo London Grey (836) (2:1:1:1, black grey:london grey:thinner:glaze)
Black Grey/London Grey (1:2:1:1, black grey:london grey:thinner:glaze)
Black Grey/London Grey (1:3:1:1, black grey:london grey:thinner:glaze)
London Grey (4:1:1, london grey:thinner:glaze)
London Grey/Light Grey (70990) (4:1:1:1, london grey:light grey:thinner:glaze)

The base was a couple coats of terra earth (3:1, paint:thinner)

Weekly Update: Online Contest

DAKKADAKKA 'Get Your Teach On!'

THE RULES:
1) Your Tutorial thread must be posted in the Dakka Painting and Modeling Tutorials forum (this one) during the month of May.
2) All of the tutorial content (text, images, videos, etc) must have been created by you and may not have already been displayed as a tutorial elsewhere on Dakka or any other website. Tutorials found to have been posted elsewhere or that contain someone else's work will be disqualified.
3) The tutorial must actually be a tutorial about something pertaining to the wargaming hobby. It must include pictures and text explaining the different steps, and it must have different steps; just posting a beginning and ending picture of a model won't cut it!
4) All photos used for the tutorial MUST be hosted by Dakka (we don't want 'em disappearing a few months down the road). This can be most easily accomplished by uploading your photos to the Dakka Gallery. If you need any assistance uploading your pictures to Dakka (or how to link to your photos once you've uploaded them), feel free to post your questions in the Nuts & Bolts forum.
5) The day (or so) after the deadline, a thread will be created listing all of the qualifying tutorial threads along with a public poll for the community at large to pick their favorite tutorial from the bunch.
6) Public voting will last for 4 Days. At the end of which, the top five tutorials with the most votes in the poll are the finalists.
7) From the five finalists, a winner will be selected by a panel of judges. Judges will be selected by the site's administrator (me).
8) Admin and Mod participants can't become finalists or win the prize, but don't let that keep you from voting for them! Defeating one another is more than enough of a reward for us... THE

DEADLINE: In order to qualify, all tutorial threads posted must follow the rules above and must be posted anytime during the month of MAY 2009.

THE PRIZE: The prize for this challenge is our biggest yet! It is £130 (GBP) in-store credit plus free world-wide shipping with one of Dakka's fantastic partners, WaylandGames.co.uk. That's nearly $190 in US currency worth of product!!! A tremendously huge THANK YOU has to go out to Dakka user the sponsors for this challenge, both WaylandGames.co.uk and Dakka user LBursley, who not only came up with the idea for this contest (just because he wants to see what amazing tutorials people can create) but also put up a tremendous amount of his own money as part of the prize!

Note: There will be no blog entry next week (06/06/2009) for the Weekly Online Contest Update. Please remember to check back starting on Monday to vote for your favorite entry in the TRoE: Attention! contest.

On the Bench: Imperial Guardsman

At this point in the process, the model is base coated or better except for the base. I am now working on the details. I begin this phase by painting the blue sections of the model. I begin with another coat of Dark Blue (4:1; paint:thinner). Once applied twice, I add a layer of Dark Blue/Skull White (dark blue:skull white:thinner; 8:1:2) along the edge. The last layer was a thinner line along the edge of Dark Blue/Skull White (dark blue:skull white:thinner; 4:1:1)




The next detail that I attacked was the eagle insignias. I decided to keep this simple as somewhere in the back of my head I kept thinking that I needed to be able to repeat this process many times before the army will be done.
Reaper Chestnut Gold (09073) (4:1, paint:thinner)
GW Sepia Wash
Palomino Gold (4:1, paint:thinner)
Buckskin Pale (4:1, paint:thinner)

Next Time: Let’s Wrap this Up!

Imperial Guard CoD Stratagems

GW has posted a set of Imperial Guard specific Cities of Death stratagems. This was a very nice surprise and is going to result in me heading to the store this evening and buying a new building for CoD as my way of showing that I support this move by GW. I hope with each new codex that we see more of these kind of updates.

Special Thanks to Reds8n and Warseer for originally posting this on their site.