Space Marine Sergeant

After watching a few more painting tutorials and how-to´s on youtube, I felt like painting a Space Marine from my stash of 28mm minis to practice advanced painting techniques.
After three days of painting this guy (I think I spent about 5-6 hours on him in total, including assembly), he is finally ready to be presented:

Note how I managed to remove all skulls from this model - I still don´t get how Games Workshop forces their sculptors to put skulls all over the model. There´s just no other possible explanation - it´s rather hard to find models that don´t have skulls somewhere, there must be a corporate order to maintain a skull-per-miniature ratio of at least X  over their entire range...

Anyway, I carved away the skull on his helmet and sculpted a gem into the centre of the wings of his chestplate - I also managed to find shoulder plates without skulls to fit onto the model.

Then I went with classic blue scheme with some yellow and red here and there.
I attempted to paint some non-metallic metal on his belt, eagle wings, knife and gun.

All in all, I´m pretty happy with the result. There are some learning points I´ll take with me for future reference and I still have to work on improving the precision brushwork to create very fine lines, but I am very happy how this mini turned out.

...even if it´s a Space Marine :P

"They´re in the bush!" - Portugese Rifleman

And number two for the Portugese squad, another plain old rifleman.

"Colonial Conflict" - Portugese Infantry (Leader)

Time for more painted figures, and no Fantasy figures today.
It´s been more than a year ago that I started work on my Portugese line, after gathering a group of supporters on the Guild who put up the starting money to get the first set produced.

For several months now these figures have been waiting go receive some colors, so I can put up nice pictures on the website. Now, I finally began painting them and here is the first figure.

More pictures will follow as I progress with the unit. I have one more figure to show you tomorrow, the rest will follow sometime later.

"In the tight spot" - Part II - Code Red Ambush Scenario

After getting stuck in a vicious ambush, the battle hangs in the balance. US Forces have taken casualties and are creeping ever closer towards exceeding their threshold for defeat, but have now taken up positions to launch their counterattack in the south.

"In the tight spot" - Part I - Code Red Ambush Scenario

Last saturday I had the opportunity to set up a scenario at our monthly gaming day. As usual, I used the opportunity to playtest some aspects of the game.
This time around, my intention was to test a potential scenario setup that had hence been tested just once. The scenario was set up with the help of the scenario generation procedure I devised for the rules.

More on this might be discussed in a separate dev diary as soon as my thoughts have matured and undergone more testing. 

The US force of two infantry squads in Stryker ICVs plus attached MG and command team found themselves surrounded on their patrol route through Resistobynsk, a troublesome hotspot somewhere in Eastern Europe...

"I saw horrible things..." - Horror of the Swamp

I picked up some Fantasy figures again as they were sitting on my paiting shelf waiting to be finished. I´m trying to practice with these minis every now and then to get a better feeling of manipulating colors or to try new techniques or shortcuts to improve my painting.

With this Horror, I tried working with NMM gold on the bracelets and experimented with coloring the base in a way that gives it a swampy look - it´s all painted, no special effects.

All in all the figures was finished relativey quickly if you don´t count the time that passed as he was waiting but only estimate the working time.

"Gotcha!" - Russian Marksman (SVD)

Russian Marksman number two, zeroing in on his foes.

He is going into a set with the other marksman (presented yesterday) and the PKM gunners (here)

Tomorrow, more painted stuff...