Sorry it took a little while to get to painting the little guys on the Marauder team, things have been kinda crazy here in the studio for the past week or so. But things are starting to settle back down into the realm of normal. Or at least normal for the studio.

Okay some of you may know from personal experience or from similar post that I made last year, but for those that don't know the studio is in Wichita, Kansas. And for those of you that live under a rock the city was hit by a tornado yesterday afternoon. Well I must get out there that myself and my family are fine, and so isn't the studio. The tornado was on the opposite side of the city from where we are at. So painting and commissions will proceed as normal here. 

This is serving as a test model. I am almost positive that I am going to stick with this paint scheme. I wanted to stick to something close to how Mantic painted the models because I liked the way that they looked. I just wanted to give them my own spin.

Well thats it for this team gang. With the completion of the Strikers this team is finished. I just need to get them sprayed with a matte varnish and then they will be ready to play. Also at that point I will get pictures of the whole team all laid out for the team photos.

And hopefully those pictures will turn out better...

So the other night I finished off the last of the Guards and tonight I decided to get to work on the Jacks. Well I managed to get the 6 of them all done. All that leaves is the 6 Strikers and I am done with the Corporation team. When I get the whole team done I will get pictures of the whole team all laid out. For now... just a taste of how they are starting to turn out.

Thats right, I am finally working on Dreadball stuff. This is just a test run on a paint scheme for the Corporation team. I wanted to stay with blue and silver but change things up a little bit. I started by making the blue the primary color of their armor and then I changed the shade of blue to a softer aged looking blue compared to the true blue that they used on the studio models.

Thats right... don't let the title confuse you. I converted a librarian to be riding a Ravenwing bike.

Well actually I sorta stole the idea from the April 2013 issue of White Dwarf, page 109 if you want to go and look it up. On that page Mark Bedford took the Librarian from the Dark Vengeance box set and combined him with a bike from the new Ravenwing Command Squad box and BAM there is one of the coolest ideas I have seen in a while and I thought to myself, "Hey I can do that one too. I have the stuff here in the studio to do it. I just have to convince the owner of the Dark Angels stuff to let me do it." Which honestly it wasn't that hard to convince him of this because after all he is building a full fledged Ravenwing army and was trying to figure out how to work a Librarian into the mix. So I showed him the pictures and the rest was history.

The hard part was trying to figure out where I could fit this into the schedule of the studio since I keep having things just kinda pop up on the list of stuff that I need to get done around here. Well I finally had a clear spot after I got those Pathfinders painted up to showcase the Tau Ceti bases. Then I wanted to get something else painted up for the Blood Angels before I started on something else and he only took a day to paint up. That brings us to today... the hardest part of making this conversion is cutting the Librarians legs off and shaping the waist so that it would fit on the bike. Also like on the model in the WD I took the keys that on the loin cloth of the Librarian and trimmed around the keys and did a ton of shaving to the the piece nice and thin and attached it at his waist once the top half was mated to the bottom half.







Now to prime the model and hand it off to the owner for him to get painted.

Here is the first of what I am planning will be three Sanguinary Priests for my Blood Angels Project. This one just happens to be the Finecast model with a little kitbashing fun added in... like the winged jump pack and the plasma pistol and the shoulder pad stolen from the Death Company sprue. I decided to go with the winged jump pack on this guy too because that is going to be a running theme through out the whole army when it is all said an done.

The model is mounted on one of the Ruined Temple resin bases from my friends over at Secret Weapon Miniatures. Which that is also going to be a theme for the army. It took me several days of going back and forth before I finally decided on these bases and let me tell you... I am glad I chose these, as they really are kick ass bases.

Paint wise this is the red that I think I am going to go with for all the models in the army. I am not trying to win any Golden Daemons or anything like that with this army I just want them to look good and draw some attention. When this army is all done I want people to stop and look at them and be like "that is a good looking army". BUT that is still a long way off as there is still a bunch more stuff to paint and a few more things that still need to be bought for them.

As promised I finished up the Pathfinders that I started over the weekend. Well here they are in all their red and black glory. They are mounted on the new Tau Ceti bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures. If you are having a hard time trying to figure out how to base your new Tau army then I highly recommend heading on over to see Mr. Justin and the rest of the crew over at Secret Weapon and picking some of these bases up. I think that they are really cool and really help give the models more of a story... like maybe they are defending their home Sept world from the evil Ork invaders.

Man April was a rough month... kinda glad its all over. Anyway... not much happened here in the studio last month except I did paint some non-gaming models for one client and I painted up a few Firestorm ships for Phil over at Firebase Delta.

I helped assemble a bunch of models for my gaming buddy's Dark Angels... had a little fun doing some kitbashing and converting. I have one more model that I have to get assembled for him then he is going to work on getting them painted. I will get a picture of this last model that I have to assemble as soon as I get it done. Also in my last post you might remember the Pathfinder that I painted up as part of the Farsight Enclave... well that squad is almost done, I am down to the last three models in the unit and they should be done shortly.

As for what all I am going to be working on in the wonderful month of May, well I am a little unsure. I am thinking of FINALLY getting to work on the Dreadball set that is sitting here as well as working on some of my Blood Angels... well maybe if I can ever get my FW Rhino doors to arrive.

One last thing... and personally I think I saved the best for last. A few weeks ago I posted about the Secret Weapon Miniature Kickstarter for the Tablescapes. Well I can happily report at the typing of this post it has over 900 backers and over $175k in support. It only has like 10 days left so PLEASE don't miss out on your chance to get in on this one and show your support. That and I really want to get the Ruined Temple set unlocked... and we are almost there. So head on OVER and show your support.