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Tim the Enchanter

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  1. So after a month I have finished the get started stormcast eternal boxed set. I have had so much fun and satisfaction painting them up and can thoroughly recommend the range. My inspiration comes from listening to the hallowed Knights audio dramas and the tales of Tarsus and his mission to seek audience with Nagash! Its an awesome set and really gets me immersed into the background. This is very much just the beginning of these and I'll be adding plenty more narrative themed units to them as the army grows. So here we are, the beginnings of my Hallowed Knights Alongside the warriors of Sigmar I also made a start on their unlikely ally who will 'help' them on their journey through the realm of shyish... more on this aristocrat coming soon...
  2. After a lengthy hobby break I'm back! The audio dramas have been a huge inspiration for me and I got the stormcast bug! Chatting with local Rotherham GW manager Liam (awesome dude!) he mentioned they had started an AoS event based around building a new force and expanding it over several months. Picking up the stormcast getting started box I've been really loving the models. And they are a joy to paint!after the getting started box is done i'll be adding judicators and some more retributors. i'm going to theme the force on the hallowed Knights 'Bull Hearts' from the audio books. I've got loads of ideas for adding units and writing scenarios for awesome games. more updates coming soon
  3. It's been a while sadly, so busy in non hobby life! My latest efforts have been to get a couple more blood reavers finished, my mighty lord of Khorne completed and purchased Gorechosen for yet more awesome models! Not a great deal I know but some progress! Ive also assembled 10 blood warriors to join the ranks of the bloodbound. So my current plan for the rest of the year is me trying to be realistic. Finish 20 blood reavers, Bloodstoker and 10 blood warriors. Should be possible but we'll see as I got a little distracted by the listening to the hallowed Knights quest to find Nagash audio books. And this happened...Only the faithful then... Be back soon I hope
  4. Hi, Cheers for the comment The axe was pretty straight forwards. Using thinned paints I started with khorne red, followed by evil sunz scarlet. I added kislev flesh to evil sunz for the first highlight and then pure kislev as the edge highlight. thinned evil sunz was used for the slight glow on the blade. That's it really. I tried to keep it simple
  5. Cheers matey, totally flattered! To be honest I followed the painting tutorial from Warhammer TV for the flesh initially. Using thin coats over a black undercoat. Rakarth flesh in 2 coats followed by flayed one flesh in 2 coats. the aim to get a nice smooth skin. After this I washed it all with reikland flesh shade, but thinned with lahmian medium to keep the colour less vibrant. after this it was a case of layering flayed one flesh where I wanted it and working up to pure white in the highest spots. I then added another layer of shading in the really deep recesses using firstly carroburg crimson and then druchii violet, thinned again, to alter the skin tone. And that's it to be honest. Just took my time and thinned my paints. I've learnt to be very...more patient with my painting...
  6. Time is flying by this month! So with the new White Dwarf enjoying awesome, and deserved, success, I have cracked on and finished my free slaughterpriest for my bloodbound. I have admittedly already painted one up for my warband so this time I thought I would add another character. The aspiring Deathbringer is currently being sold with the old Champion of Khorne model so I thought I would update is presence on the battlefield with something new. May I present my Aspiring Deathbringer of khorne. I am extremely pleased with the finished model and I have received some extremely generous comments an Facebook and twitter. I can't stress enough how important it is to keep painting if you want to improve. I've been trying to do at least 1/2 hour a day to keep a brush in my hand and I hope its paying off! Hes going to get a flash picture for the competition running on TGA and then we'll see how I fare. My next project is the Mighty Lord of Khorne and a blood Stoker and assembling blood warriors, but that's for another blog entry...
  7. After a few crazy weeks at work I return!! Finally got some hobby in this week and finished all the base coats and shading on my first batch of blood reavers. I am really enjoying building my bloodbound. AoS is infectious! My small warband is growing and creating its own character as I paint up units and characters. Ive managed to catch up on all my pod casts and particularly annoying recent topics regarding painting time and optimising painting opportunities. picked up my new white dwarf, dropped it in water, bought another and now have 2 awesome slaughterpriest to play with. With Mr Curry announcing a fun painting comp this month with the free model I thought I'd have a go. I'm going to try something completely different with this guy and try a different colour pallette. I really want to improve my painting so any opportunity to do it, like competitions, is an excellent way to help me. Talking of new white dwarf, WOW!!, it's so awesome! This last year has brought my hobby back to when I was just starting out and everything was exciting, looking forward to every release and nugget of newness. I'm even sniffing every new book again ;D GW for life!!
  8. Cheers dude To start is a black undercoat, followed by dry brushing! Doombull brown at first, followed by Khorne red. Leaving pure black in the deepest areas. A wash of abbadon black over it. Then using a wet pallet I used Khorne red, evil sunz scarlet and troll slayer orange in varied and escalating mix to build layers of colour where I wanted it. The deepest shaded parts are pure black and the dry brushing and wash give it a gradual blend right up to orange. the final highlights are Kislev flesh mixed with a small amount of white. the scales are individually highlighted in this way as well. i wanted to create the impression the skin hues were shifting colour and the brightest areas are where the most violence was building up! hope that helps? And thanks for the great comments
  9. A quick update... So, frustratingly, I have not gotten much done last couple of weeks. Real life stuff etc... Anyway, I have managed to get some more done on the blood reavers and really love the new bloodbound range. However, just recently I picked up a couple of audio books starring the hallowed knights and one mannfred von Carstein! I am completely enthralled with the character and built this guy... Still early days but I think I'll model him in such a way he is fighting in one of the great battle scenes from the audio books. More of that later...
  10. Thanks for your comment. I find myself using the colour pallet a lot more and using thin layers instead of solid hits of colour. Also letting the sculpt dictate the paint effect has helped me. The lines and curved of the detail really help in making colour choice. Do I think I'm better? I hope so! AoS has really reignited my hobby mojo and I am enjoying painting again My problem now is to go back to my models I painted a few weeks ago and bring them up to par
  11. We have those moments when we realise out painting style has changed. This is normal over time as we pick up new skills as improve outr hobby life! It seems overnight my paint style has changed and it's all a bit weird! I picked up Scyla Anfingrimm recently to enter into my local GW store competition. It seems I've changed tack completely on how I approach miniature painting but only a week or so since I painted my last mini! I'm putting this down to inspiration so will chalk it up to experience. Anyway, the finished Scyla for your viewing pleasure ;D Back to rank and file this week now I think. This model has been so much fun to paint. I love the fact that he's like a red hulk, stomping into battle and getting more angry and dangerous the more you hit him! More soon in the form of bloodbound foot sloggers!
  12. What a week!! Just when I needed to get in some painting I have hell of a work week!! Still, got my blood secretor completed and started my blood reavers. And this horror is getting ready for paint... I want to get my initial warband painted but No! Endless obstacles! But I battle on and here I present what I will have done to start my global campaign battles. Mighty Lord of khorne Slaughter priest with hack blade Blood secretor Blood stoker Bloodmaster herald of khorne 15 blood reavers 10 bloodletters daemon prince of Khorne with daemonic axe Scyla Anfingrimm hardly a terrifying force but, at the size of battles I'll be playing, will be great fun! obviously loads of options to add units to this so expect more after these are complete. But so close to my first fully painted army since...FOREVER!! Love Age of Sigmar, it's everything I've ever wanted from my gaming!!!
  13. Working weekends...yeah! But I managed a bit of hobby on my break! Ive got a couple of weeks until global campaign begins. My humble force will be around 40 models with a mix of bloodbound and Khorne daemons made up of units I like the look of. My store is using an escalation campaign so I can keep adding to my force. I managed to get this chaps base colours and washes done today. I'm totally blown away with the new GW models, they make the older stuff look childlike in comparison!! I'm so excited about the hobby and can't wait for more amazing stuff from GW! Next week my reinforcement will arrive...
  14. So no pictures today and instead some meandering thoughts. I'm sure there are many like me who work, married, kids, pets...it goes on! So where do we find the time for out hobby? That fine balance of real life and the 'other' life of pushing, or in some cases throwing, our lovingly painted armies into war! On most days I manage to get between half an hour and an hour painting. This includes any assembly so time is short! Army building is troublesome but I'm working hard to get my collection worthy of wars in the realms. So counting the days...because my hobby time is so precious I have to really plan my time. Does this lunch break give me time to do this? Have I got time before work to do that? I have a plan in mind. Next year I want to enter the South Coast GT. I have never experienced a tournament environment and as this is the big one of U.K Tournaments I want to be a part of it if I can. The podcast chaps do an amazing job of spreading the Age of Sigmar hobby and how can you not get excited by such an experience. So I have a goal for my hobby time this year. As well as playing more Age of Sigmar, I want to expand my bloodbound and Khorne army. I'll be blogging the growth of this army as much as possible so hopefully updating on here as much as possible. My immediate goal is to start painting some blood reavers...lots of them! I've been enjoying painting the army "heroes" but now it's time to expand the blood tide! So next update will have fascinating photos of blood reavers in various states of build/paint/finished! I hope Take it easy sigmarites!
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