Mephiston WiP - getting there!

Bit of a major push on Mephiston last night. Almost all of the main colour detail has been done, then gloss varnished and some oil washes and shading applied. Not happy with the detail on the face so that will be touched up as well as the blue shading on the winged areas needs neatening up. Should be done in the next couple of days.

Excuse the shinyness of the pics, the gloss varnish used to protect the acrylic layers from the oil wash does not make a good photographic subject. Ultimately once it is finished it will get a coat of satin varnish to bring everything back down.

Mephiston WiP - Cloak detail

Mephiston enters his 4th paint scheme (and final!) So far I have only worked on the cloak detail. I painted it gold first and highlighted and shaded it then masked out the detail I wanted to come through then airbrushed the red layers over before finishing off with some blended shadows.

Next is an old limited edition Sergeant with jump pack.

Blood Angels Drop pod - started some weathering

Bit more progress last night. The beginnings of some weathering have been applied. A bit rough and ready at this stage but they will be built up upon tonight. When thinking about the weathering my thoughts were that this is a drop pod that would hurtle down through the atmosphere at a hell of a rate of knots before firing retro engines but will still hit the deck with some force. Therefore I have gone for vertical paint scratches on the doors and side fins and have started to apply some pigments to them to give that scorched motion effect. The base is being quite heavily layered in dark pigments to simulate atmospheric burn effect during entry.

Blood Angels Drop Pod 90% done

A few quick and dirty pics of the Blood Angels drop pod I am working on. The main colour is all down. I need to finish the badges on the doors and then weather it and job done.

Curious Constructs - new webstore

A friend of mine who goes online by the name Col Gravis and runs a fantastic blog full of good content at http://colgravis.blogspot.co.uk/ has opened up a webstore to sell some of his sculpts. There is some great stuff on there, check it out at http://www.curiousconstructs.co.uk/

Light tent finally up and running

A while ago I forked out a tenner on a cheap light tent from Amazon which has pretty much just sat there doing nothing. Well I finally cleared some space, assembled it and dusted off my DSLR which has been way under utilised recently.

So this is my first photo taken using a halfway decent set up (two daylight lamps, a tripod and a decent exposure).

The results

Hopefully it is a massive improvement on the iPhone pics I usually take. I need to work on the exposure a little bit and print off a decent graduated colour background as the white becomes rather stark and starts to wash out the colour on the mini but overall I am hoping it is as step in the right direction.

Thanks for looking.

Corbulo pic - this one is in focus!!

I should really not post picture updates late at night taken with just my daylamp as the sole light source. A slightly better pic of Corbulo from yesterday evenings work.