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Daemons – Skull Cannon Final!

Posted on March 30, 2014

This model was a lot further back the last time I wrote about it.

I added nothing else to the metal “chariot” piece. Although I wasn’t overly happy with this part of the model when I finished it, adding the cannon piece inside of it really helped to balance the colour and provide a solid focal point. With this, the “amorphous metal” looks super good!

The cannon I just did successive layers of the blue and red glazes and went back afterwards with a few Kislev Flesh mixes to keep it the right colour.

The plaguebearer on top I followed a similar scheme as I’ve done previously. Same with the portal he’s walking out of!

You should click to open these photos up – I think they are stunning looking photos!

Work-in-progress

Skull cannon…cannon.

Posted on March 28, 2014

It’s a penis cannon. You know it, I know it, everyone who looks at it knows it. My theory is that Patrick wins all of those painting awards because of his Penis Ratio, and I wanted to try to increase my own for my Daemon army. I don’t have quantity, but I do have quality. As in, my penis is bigger than all of his combined. (Also, he converted the Skull Cannon for me :P)

After the base coat I highlighted up the pink flesh with consecutive mixtures of Kislev Flesh and Bone White. Usually I wouldn’t mix up with white, but because the Kislev is already so bright, I didn’t feel like I had another choice. The primary problem with white is that it removes colour and leaves the surface looking pastel. But because my plan was to go back in with glazes, I felt that this was ok – there would be plenty of colour by the time I was done!

Cannon after all the highlighting.

Cannon after a single application of 1:1 Bloodletter:Water

I painted the Bloodletter:Water mixture into the recesses and the undersides of things. My next step is to do the Guilliman Blue, but to water it even more so that I don’t end up with parts that are blue.

Work-in-progress

Skull Cannon – Base….coat?

Posted on March 17, 2014

I don’t even know what’s going on with this model anymore. I think it’s going to be cool when I’m done, but right now I’m torn between thinking it’s the worst thing I’ve ever painted, and loving the shit out of it because it’s the worst thing I’ve ever painted. It’s not done. It’s still ok.

I started with Boltgun Metal over just about everything. After the Rail Golem skin, I wanted to start darker so I didn’t have to bring it down as much. I did a layer of Guilliman Blue along the bottom edges of things, and crevasses, Lamenters Yellow at the top of edges and…well…it looked like ass. So I went and did some edges with the Boltgun, and Bloodletter in the middle of things and Soft Body Black in crevasses and…well…it’s a mess. But from a distance, it might be a good looking mess. A little purple. Or blue. Or…red. Only Tzeentch knows. Or Khorne. Maybe sleep will help it out. My sleep. Of course.

The gun is obviously a giant fleshy thing. If I’m lucky, when all is said and done, no one will look to closely at the metal. Giant fleshy gun calls to you…

This is my priority this week. Get this done, and the rest of life is easy sailing.

Work-in-progress

Skull cannon

Posted on February 10, 2014

(This message has been pre-recorded for your reading pleasure, but I’m probably back in town by now…)

The last thing I built was…

Well, not this. Patrick built this for me. When we dreamed up our Adepticon team army, he was going to do Tomb Kings and I was doing Daemons. We had an elaborate conversion of a necrosphinx planned, which was going to be absolutely brilliant and gorgeous. As the plan continued, Patrick decided that “Chaos Empire” or, potentially, just “Chaos Warriors” would be his team army. The conversion was going to be for a Skull Cannon, and I still needed one, so he built me a Dark Elf Cauldron of Blood with a giant fucking Tyranid gun in the middle.

I built some bases for it. The Cauldron is on a giant base that’s huge, and the Skull Cannon is a chariot base, so I built up from a chariot base to something that this conversion would sit on.

As I was building this massive base, I realized that we had decided that the Skull Cannon would sit on his side of the table we were building. So I built yet another base…with the same technique as I’d previously built cobblestone.

I won’t be doing this technique of cobblestone for the entire display board…