Painting the Deathwing

I'll be there first to admit I love my dark angels a tad to much, it didn't matter what army I go to collect (and I've had a go at most of them at some point) I always come back to my dark green marines. This time is no different, sheet working on my Taghmata Omnissiah list for a while, I'm now preparing for the Apocalypse Tournament in November, 10,000 points. To start off this ordeal, Im back to painting my deathwing terminators, so far I've finished the first 25, so im just about a quarter of the way through them :) I figuired I'd posted a quick guide to how i do it. I apologise for the picture quality, its the best i can do with my current camera

Starting with the base colours, i spray the whole model bleached bone army painter spray, and then put the base colours on the rest of the model, so they look very flat

Next up is chipping, lightly dabbing the colour you want, in this case rhinox hide (actually i found a 50/50 mix of rhinox/abbaddon black is preferable, as it gives two tones in the chipping), then fold the sponge back slightly, to spread the material out, giving less blobs of paints, and more chipping effect

This is then followed by washing the whole model with Oils, i really like the burnt umber oil, with AK White Spirit, theres cheaper options for white spirits out there, but this is what im comfortable with, i actually just pour some of the oil paints straight into the small container, and then mix it through, so it becomes a pot full of the wash, instead of having to mix it each time individually. That definately stemmed from efficiency, not laziness ;)

This is then followed by a spray of mat varnish, to seal it. The bases for all 100 terminators will be done together, this is to minimize variations in the basing styles.  

Ultramarines Pt.3 - Painting Blue!

SO,

After a couple of days of procrastination and uncertainty, I've managed to knock out the five tacticals and the MK.IV command guys I have (almost...one guy still needs finishing touches).
Now admittedly, I haven't started weathering my guys yet, largely because I lack the right tools to weather them the way I want to, so naturally, once they're weathered expect them to feature again.

Post Inferno

Well I ran my first event since I left GW on the weekend just past, a 2500 point Heresy tournament. The quality of the armies there was generally fairly high, with only a few needing to see more paint, but even these you could tell had a huge amount of work done on them, be it in conversions throughout the army, or the painting so far. It was a shame that in the last week we saw a few people have to drop out for one reason or another, but we still finished up with 10 people taking part. Next time we'd like to double that though

Congratulations to Nath and his Iron hands who took out Best General, Aaron whose Death Guard won Players Choice and to Andrew who picked up Best Sports.

The event was great fun to run, with the guys not having many rules questions, and those that did, sorted it out with what would be cool. I'd definitely like to run another event down the track.

If you'd like to check out more pictures of the event here's some places you can (thanks to everyone who had their camera out on the day, especially Tim whose been doing match reports up for his Ordo Reductor)

Match Report 1

match Report 2

The Facebook Event Page

Pictures of the armies taking part

Ultramarines Pt.2 - The Arrival

So after an incredibly long wait, the first portion of my Ultramarines army has arrived!
5 Mk.IV tactical marines, a Mk.IV Command Kit and a mighty Spartan!

This is just the first of several deliveries I am anticipating and whilst I'm waiting impatiently for the rest, I'm still SUPER excited to have some blue to paint!

So here's what the first members of my legion look like;

Adam's Friend

Hey guys and girls,

Well I'm Nick and I'm here invited by Adam as I have somehow convinced him that I have some ability when it comes to painting minis.

So a bit about me.... I have been playing Warhammer 40k for longer than I care to admit, (somewhere around 2nd Ed I think) on and off the whole time and always seeming to need to start again when my interest peeks and I succumb to the call of war. When I think about it, I have dabbled with every army when it comes to painting, but each time it comes to starting an army, I am always drawn to the mighty space marines. Nothing screams "bad-ass" then shoulder pads bigger than your head and a gun with a muzzle big enough to eat small children that shoots mini-nukes at anything that get in your way. 

For me the hobby began when a friend of mine was playing the wizards of the coast game "Magic the gathering". I opted to fill in for one of his games he was short, using his deck and I beat him.... Long story short and much frustration for him being beaten by his own decks repeatedly, we opted to have a go at something that required more tactical acumen, that had more diversity and there was no chance I was going to beat him.....

Ultramarines Pt.1 - Bases

Hi all, Felix here!

Since we're in the leadup to the Horus Heresy Inferno Tournament in June, it's a great opportunity to start posting on the progress of my army for the event.

As stated before, I've chosen to do Ultramarines for my Legion, the problem here being that I have very little time (two and a half weeks at time of writing) before the event itself yet I have a grand total of ZERO resin soldiers to paint!
I'm checking the mail frequently for postal slips so I can get started, though it's really starting to look like I'm going to have a mad rush to get things painted and ready in time for the event.
Figures crossed!

Enter the Felix

First things first,

Welcome to the Warrior Lodge, a Warhammer 30k (Horus Heresy) blog that hopes to follow the hobby exploits of myself (Felix) and fellow contributors, Adam (see previous post), Nick and Cameron.

So, for introductions, my name is Felix. I have been a Wargamer for well over ten years at this point, starting at an age of 10 when I was given my first starter paint set by my grandmother.
14 years, dozens of games and, many, MANY thousands of dollars later I've found myself almost back at square one when it comes to my favourite passtime.

Introduction!

I'd been meaning to start one of these for a while, and was fortunate that the other night while chatting with Felix, that he suggested we give it a go (the Galaxy in Flames blog by some of the WW40k guys is what really inspired myself). I figured I'd also invite my mate Nick along as well, so theres at least one talented painter on here to make up for my shortcomings!

A little about myself (and I'll let the others explain their history in the hobby as well). I've been collecting for coming up to 15 years now, starting before my teens, when one of my mates at high school suckered me in, though living no where near a store that sold it, always left us looking forward to our occasional trip up to Brissy. It wasn't until i finally moved here just before my 21st that i really got into the Hobby though, when i was fortunate enough to score a job working at GW for a few years, most of this time spent in a Bunker.

I left there just as the Horus Heresy stuff started to get released from Forge World, and though 40k was starting to leave me a tad burnt out, the Legion list looked amazing, the book itself blew me away with its quality, there was no shortage of background to read, and the list itself offered so many options. The biggest issue it left me with was which Legion to collect, originally going to go with Dark Angels, I ended up changing my mind a half dozen times until finally settling on Imperial Fists, well at least until I saw the Taghmata Omnissiah list in Book III, now I'm painting up an army for that as well which I'll be progressing along with pictures and musings on the list itself, while I'm also organising a Horus Heresy 2500 point tournament that will be run next week (thanks to Games Workshop Mt Gravatt for offering their bunker up for our use).

And to start with, here is what will be one of the first units for my list.

-Wiseman