Silver Skulls land speeder completed

Completed my first land speeder and i must say i really enjoyed building this kit. The fit was quite good and i had a lot of fun painting it up. As with my skulls drop pod, i used a lot of black into the scheme in tribute to the classic Silver Skulls rhino which i saw in a very old SM codex....don't remember which edition. 

I wanted the scheme to look really retro/old style and went with simple block of silver and black. I'll share why i choose the Silver Skulls in another post. What i didn't realise was that they have been around for a long time in 40k lore. Am really happy i decided to paint this chapter.

This being my 3rd 40K army i'm experimenting with the weathered look. No clean models for this Wildhost version. I know i could have done more with this model but i just ran out of time and steam. A secret to good weathering, i believe, is knowing  when to stop.

I still need to put some flock on the base but otherwise i'm happy with the end look . Thanks to Jeff for the assault marine shoulder pads. And Dynath for designing the Silver Skulls shoulder pads. More on that in the next post :)

Tomorrow, we change from painting vehicles to some infantry models....in the shape of 6 mean rough tough 1st company terminators.

As always i appreciate all comments. Cheers guys :)

Silver Skulls land speeder almost done

Progress pics. Just some weathering and chips for the marines i think and we should done by tomorrow.

 Primus inter pares!!!

Silver skulls land speeder progress

Some progress pics of my first ever land speeder.

I'm going for the multi materials look for the engines similar to those of modern fighter planes. Hope it'll come out nice after some washes and highlighting :)

3 more days to go....... should be more than enough for me to finish it.

Means its painting for me tomorrow at Legio Hobby Night.

Silver Skulls land speeder

Started on my land speeder tonite and spent most of it on masking. Its tedious work and reminded me of 3 colors camo scheme i used to do for WW2 fighter planes. In hindsight i shouldn't have assembled the whole kit to make airbrushing easier. Lesson learnt for the 2nd speeder i guess.

I used normal masking tape and tissue rolls. A tip from my aircraft modeling days. Just stuff the cockpit area with tissue until it covers all the internal area snugly. With careful airbrushing you'll manage to avoid over-spray from getting inside.

I used GW chainmail as the silver color for this vehicle. After some washing, the color will be toned downed and should fit the Skulls scheme nicely in my opinion. Didn't want to use boltgun because for large surfaces it'll make the model look dark esp after applying washes.

I painted on a layer of boltgun on the front metal bumper guard and that's all i managed tonite. The masking process really took a good portion of my limited hobby time. But i'm glad it's all done. I should be able to make better progress tomorrow nite. So stay tuned :)

Goodnite everyone.

Silver Skulls project is a GO!!!

I'm starting a Silver Skulls 1500 points army and setting myself a time frame of 10 weeks to complete it. This project actually started last Monday. My list will be :

HQ : Prognosticator (Chaplain in terminator armor)

Troops : Tactical squad A (10 men)
              Drop pod A

              Tactical squad B (10 men)
              Drop pod B

Elites : Assault terminators (6 men)

Fast Attack : Land speeder squadron (2)

Heavy Support : Devastator squad (10 men)
                          Land raider Crusader

37 infantry models and 5 vehicles (42 in total) in 10 weeks should be doable :) Let's see.

I decided to paint the first drop pod last week since i've never painted one before. And yes...it is the very same drop pod that i won from the Gameforge event hehe. I forgot to take daily progress pictures but i'll do that for next week. In the meantime, this is the my humble take on a Silver Skulls drop pod.

I've decided to build the 4th company and have green as the company color thus avoiding my unconscious preference for red :)

Nothing to shout about but one drop pod is completed and we're on schedule :)
Next up is a landspeeder....another model i've never built. Progress pics tomorrow.

Gameforge Island of Fire tournament : we iszzzzz best paintedszz :)

That's right folks!!! The Lizardmen of the Wildhost cometh...and we conquereth!!!
Just the painting part of the competition though ;)

That's Rueben, the event organizer handing out my prize which was actually a shop voucher worth RM75.
And that's Doc selvam in the background, the generous and hensem sponsor for the painting prizes.

We also managed to tie for 3rd placing overall but missed out on more loot by victory points count. 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 lost was not a bad showing by the slow Initiative 1 Lizardmen. How i loved the expression on my opponents faces when i informed that my saurs scar vet would be hitting first on Initiative 10 from the gold sigil sword hehehe. Initiative 10!!! How is that/really/errr!!! Good laughs all around.

It was nice to have won the best painted army I must admit. All those nights spicing up the lizardmen was worth it in the end. It was even nicer because the best painted army was decided by players voting. So in essence i got the people's choice award. Warm fuzzy feeling being acknowledged by your peers and friends :)

I had a great time and played against some very fun and upstanding gentlemen. I forgot to take pics of my 3rd, 4th and 5th opponent coz i was on a 2 win record then and forgot all about it heheh. First round, would u believe it ...i met.....

And second round....

My last game against Kang and his chaos warriors was truly memorable. It was a story of 2 halves. Unfortunately he got the better of the 2nd half and TAed me. He was eventually the 3rd best. Thanks for the game man!!

Special thanks to Rueben and his crew for organizing the event. Gameforge Penang for hosting it. All my 5 opponents who were truly fun to play against. Special mention to Peter, my fourth round opponent, whose 3 winged horses didn't exactly look like they were flying....more like crashing to the ground hehehe. Shame on you man :P

Super duper kudos to Wood elf Lord Iqbal for winning the event. More of his exploits on the Legio site.

I leave you with Scar-Locke and his mighty warband who won the best painted honor for the Wildhost.
Truly you guys were from the blessed 7th spawning of the 7th spawning :)

 Cheers everyone :)

Sd Kfz 234/2 Puma panzerspah platoon I completed

These guys took forever to finish :) Plus being away for the past 4 days on holidays didn't help the situation much. The vehicle in the center is the company command vehicle which i showed in the last post. I won't be showing individual vehicle pics coz if you've seen one puma then you've seen them all. I'm maxing out on pumas for this list so in the end i'll be having 13 recon vehicles with ROF 2 and anti-tank 9. This should scare the living daylights out of any soviet tank commanders come May when the Bagration campaign starts :)

The second platoon will also have  6 vehicles but a three color scheme which i'll post up soon. Not sure why the pic is kinda grainy. Also i think i over-did on some of the exhaust smoke residue on certain vehicles. Another thing i need to post in the future....a review of MIG flames of war pigments. They're just too good and easy to use :)

As you can see, i got carried away with puma 11. Another six to go then i need to start building the another platoon that i'm dying to start on. Plus i have a project to start this month with Jeff.......sighhhh where did the time fly.....

So many projects and so little time....

Cheers everyone :)