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Here’s what I got when I brought a mates army

26/05/2018 by Chilvers Industries Leave a Comment

I’m waiting for a nice new painting and photography lamp recommended to me by the guys at Siege Studio to up my painting and camera game, in the meantime here are some Imperial Guard painted by Morat over at Morat’s Miniatures. I purchased these from him a couple of years ago back in 7th edition when Guard had a terrible reputation in the game and he was having trouble selling them on eBay. Times have changed and due to the need for screening units, these are now extremely viable in competitive play.

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Maligning my Malign Portents entry

16/05/2018 by Chilvers Industries 1 Comment

So as the final armoured Stormcast Eternals get shown off it’s time for a mega post on the entire range so far…  Let’s start with the timeline of events:

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Blanchitsu Stormcasts – Part 3

24/02/2018 by Chilvers Industries Leave a Comment

The Prosecutor below photographed better than expected, I think its something to do with the angle of the miniature and the varnish not reflecting as much. I really should have cleaned up the front of his hammer though.

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They really are huge, if I had the time I would go full Dieselpunk on them and add 40k heresy era jump packs instead of golden wings. They are just begging for them.

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This guy is a massive failure, I tried to fix the model by removing the excess detail and adding a new head and thats pretty much where the mistakes started. Not only did my greenstuff skills fail to make it look like he’s wearing an ancient helmet but the photo gives the face no definition for some reason.

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The highlights for the black I added to him now make him look out of place.

  • Mechanicus Standard Grey has failed me.
  • All hope is lost.
  • Maybe Eshin Gray is the answer.
  • I should have just blended it.
  • Forgive me John Blanche, I have disappointed you.

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The sword is photographed in a way which makes it look glowing white in the below photo. I don’t even know how satin varnish works. As far as i can tell it seems to be some kind of photographic Mandala Effect.

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God that black background is messy.

I wonder how everyone else did.

 

 

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Blanchitsu Stormcast

10/02/2018 by Chilvers Industries Leave a Comment

Its done. The Start Collecting box has been painted within the month allotted. I think its about 40 hours work but i’m including mistakes and test colour schemes that were quickly painted over.4BEC917E-713B-4595-8344-C75CE54A2E1B_polarr

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Iconic Miniatures: The Pulsa Rokkit

28/12/2016 by Chilvers Industries Leave a Comment

In 2nd edition 40k if there was one model that summed up the role of Gretchen in the Ork army it was this one, the Pulsa Rocket.

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Missionary with Plasma Gun

21/12/2016 by Chilvers Industries 2 Comments

One of my favourite miniatures of all time just got reprinted, the “Missionary with Plasma Gun”. This beauty was sculpted by Brian Nelson in around 1997/98 to accompany the first Sisters of Battle Codex. Although you wouldn’t have guessed it unless you were around back then (or unless you guessed from the colour scheme).

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I thought I’d put the miniature in perspective with other miniatures available at that time

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I’m being overly harsh of course, with any release there were highs and lows, this brought us some fantastic other miniatures like:

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The plastic moulding at GW hadn’t shown its full potential so you still had models like this in the second edition boxed set.

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I think this might be the very first example of a standard bearer type model with a sculpted standard rather than the stick that GW expected you to wrap in paperork_perso_ghaz_2

I like the way that the models isn’t crowded with detail and so things like the eyepatch, the chainsword slung on the back and the general gait of the figure showing how heavy that plasma gun is for a normal human to carry one handed really stand out.

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The whole “downtrodden look while holding extremely powerful weapons” reminds me of this guy

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