Blood Reavers

Only just realised that i had painted these up and not posted anywhere, even after already taking some snaps.

well this is another unit type of batch painting that i have done. that for the first time ever i think i may of reached a point where i havent hated painting them.
some of it lending to the models actually being fun ones to paint.
mostly though lending to the newer styles of painting ive implemented.

this entire unit took me about 8 hours maximum to paint and complete. Now for me. this is good. over the course of about 4 days 2 hours each day. and ive wrapped up a unit.

how this would of panned out in the past. due to me not enjoying painting units i would probably of done an hour a day at very most. then taking breaks inbetween (because i wasnt enjoying it) and would take me anything around 3 to 4 weeks to complete purely based on me avoiding. and taking longer to paint in general. so to go from that to 4 days and done. i feel thats a great step forwards for me.

anyways here they are. hope you enjoy :)

SKULL GRINDER

Hello again!

with my recent shadows over Hammerhal journey posts featuring me moving through the game, out experiences as well as the model i am painting. i also paint a few other things.
this is somewhat linked. but in order to keep up with regular posts i decided to split the painting for their own features.

we only have a few quests left of Hammerhal. but the 3 extra bounties that came in White dwarf gave us a little bit more lifeblood for extra quests

and speaking of blood. i purchased a mighty adversary to go along with the first bounty mission. being Khorne themed leads us to lovely chap.

wielding a mahoosive flaming hammer head on the end of a chain should make him a mighty adversary indeed??!!

I used a variation of methods to paint up this guy. starting with a recess wash of black over the top of white, then giving him a drybrush of white to bring out all the details.

I then painted in very thin glazes to make up the skin (that shading is natural from the recess wash as the start) all i dit was build up to a lighter tone.

i used the old GW method for edge highlighting the armour

and again some thin glazes for the flames. the purple pouch is is just 1 glaze. no highlighting and no shading involved..same for the boots 

 

painting in this way has also helped me speed up my painting in general. and i am finding i am much more happy with the results because i am not painstakingly spending stupid amounts of time on them. as well as actually saving the rainforest by not having to use so much paint :)

All in all. this guy took only about 4 hours to paint and i am really happy with the result.

the model itself is pricey (18 quid!!!!) but was actually total joy to paint as well.

i have been hitting my rhythm this year. and have already painted up more minis than i painted in the entirety of last year...so more posts to follow :)

peace  

Warhammer quest spell cards completed

I seem to of found my groove with these cards.

having already wrapped up the dungeon, treasure and event cards
i have also now completed the spell cards.

opting this time for a more familiar card backing (i did consider a grimoir style leather book cover for the backs. but decided to keep it the same in design as the originals so that the cards stood out more)

Having gotten a response back from printer studio i can now confirm they will be my printer of choice. because..they offer a usable and affordable price.
i mean some of the options will only take bulk buys. and some of the prices reach crazy proportions
so printer studio it is!

only 1 snag.....card amounts.
printer studio do options in batch amounts and i think in order to maximise my prints...it would probably be worth me doing all of the addons and expansions cards as well.
due tot eh fact ill be printing a lot....it is most likely the bast way to move forwards.
not a biggie. but means more work than i originally planned.
but things are going well at the moment. so might now be too much of a problem.

onwards and upwards!

Warhammer quest more cards completed.

I have now wrapped up the Event cards as well as the Dungeon cards.
And i'm really happy how they turned out.
i also received a message from the friendly generated email folk at printer studio who assure me ordering through the U.S website.

WARHAMMER QUEST EVENT CARDS - Help needed!!

So first phase of my warhammer questy quest thing starts in photoshop. approaching a recreation of all of the cards.
i have wrapped up all of the base game event cards.

ive gone for a familiar but cleaner design to the originals. mimicking the design just with new graphics. i also wanted to give them new backs. again something fresher and high resolution.

the next part however i require assistance. so i'm putting out a call for help

LIGHT THE BEACONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So...how the hell do i get cards printed in the UK?
i have no idea. everywhere i have looked points to a website called printerstudio

there is also a UK version of the website.. i follow the steps to create the cards and
its broken!!!!

404 Page not found (Unexpected Event)

Oops...Sorry!

The page you have requested cannot be found. Please try looking again or you could contact our friendly sales team for a direct repsonse!

so lets contact your friendly sales team via the link.....oh guess what? BROKEN ALSO!! (TRAP - take 1D6 wounds with no penalty from armour or toughness)

now printer studio appears to be the best i have found. but highly suspect i will be better of using something UK based than getting my cards created in america and shipped over.

so the call out for anyone uk or european based that may of printed custom cards or the likes...please please. someone throw me a lifeline?

it would be very much appreciated.

anyways here's a few close ups of some of the cards :)