Blog Ritual's Army - Lizard on Lizard Action (For the Waaaaagh!)

Woke up early so got the base done... Was going for dank old battlefield with life returning.

 

Very nice! The base and the freehand look great!

 

The shoulder art looks great! I'm pretty sure Xenos are going to want to stay well away from any army with that in!

 

He's magnetised so pops right off. The arms are also not attached so I can get him off for painting the rest of it easy enough...

I'm trying to fit in painting where I can, it's reasonably quiet now we have the garden sorted and the weather is bad - so getting a decent amount in. Need to get this lot painted before I decide how to expand for some proper 40k stuff...

 

Figured my first space marine may as well be an ultramarine... Lots of little details on these guys, they're annoying to edge highlight!

 

Not really, went for Deathwatch so I would have less dudes to paint. Anything is better than painting another 40 skinks in a row anyway...

 

It's the lack of variety that makes me sad. I feel like if Seraphon had a higher pointed, more elite, unit of guys that weren't just chaff designed to die and be resummoned then I would have more fun painting them as I could come up with individual customisations and modifications for each guy.

As it stands I would put in the effort for a unit of cool looking warriors and they'd get nuked in a turn by some rat bastards.

 

Tried a bit more freehand this evening. Not totally sure how I feel about it, I'll try and smooth out the lines a bit and and maybe try and add some weathering to tie it together a little more. At the moment it looks painted on, and not in a good way.

 

I liked the skull but the other side is even better. I thought it was a transfer at first quick glance, you really made the white pop on top of the background. Looks like chains and flames? Maybe the dreadnoughts inner furnace?

 

I added some weathering and battle damage to the dreadnaught. Think I may have taken it too far - so just going to get it finished now.



Got some blending done on the cloak on Artemis too. Should definitely have done this in sub assemblies, but too late for that now - you live and learn!

Starting to think maybe Deathwatch isn't for me, so going to get the rest of the guys painted up quickly to tabletop standard and then consider my options once the rule book drops.

 

Yeah, I don't think painting space marines is for me... but it could easily just be the black colour, so going to grab a freeby from the local GW and paint one up in another theme and see how I feel.

Following that I will just read the rules and see if anything jumps out at me, oddly thinking something horde based might be interesting to play - despite what I said before.

 

The thing with a lot of horde based armies is you can get them to tabletop standard really really fast with airbrush > wash > drybrush.

I am looking at necrons now, but I am also really interested in skitarii. I'm getting the main rule book and the rest of my stuff on Saturday, so might grab the rulebook that covers one or both of them and see how I feel.

Definitely think "way more techy" is the way I should be going as that is what I truly enjoyed painting on Fabius. Having said that the leather and green goo was also cool.

Hell if I know. I think I'm going to paint what I have and whatever I feel like picking up I'll just do that.