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Its nice when your hobby can do some good, so I was pleased to see on Tables of a Tabletop Skirmisher their Little Heroes for Little Heroes event.
In their own words then;
“So, What is Little Heroes?
For this fundraiser we are asking for people to paint up some Hero or Villain miniatures and donate them. These will then be gathered up and auctioned off here on ToaTS with ALL proceeds going to the Downs Syndrome Association.”
Its been a while since I blogged rather than just posted some pics so hello again MyWargame, here’s some hobby Neil of Orange style.
I recently made the decision to rebase my entire Iron hands army from 25mm to 32mm round bases. Simply put, it looks so much better and it is the new standard, officially or not.
I did a quick proof of concept on an old base for the style before making the move. Previously I had caked the bases in orange MIG pigment, but that was very messy and after fixing the pigment, it lost its vibrancy. Here he is in the middle amongst my older style bases.
Neil of Orange here with a hobby update. I’ve been playing with various fire effects recently, for two different styles.
I did some internet research and found an excellent 2 part tutorial from hot-lead.org, you can find Part 1 and Part 2 here. I was planning a very traditional fire effect initially so this was perfect and I was even using Reaper minis too. My Bones kickstarter bundle came with a huge fire elemental and I managed to find a second so I had a pair of the monsters to paint. These chaps are destined for my Kings of War Forces of Nature army but I sadly wasn’t happy with the translucent red they came in.
The Luna Wolves, and their later incarnation as the Sons of Horus, are one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions who get a lot of attention from pre-Heresy fans. Despite this, there is little official material from GW by way of a guide to their appearance. As the Sons of Horus, we’ve got no officially-painted miniatures and a handful of textual and artistic references.
My inspiration comes from the illustration in the Index Astartes article and a handful of references to the armour being a ‘metallic sea green’ in colour. I should mention that I’ve since seen a handful of examples painted using a Vallejo colour which is a very close (non-metallic) match for the Index Astartes illustration and looks good, although the precise name of the colour escapes me. The Collected Visions art books depict them in various tones, from pale green through green-grey to a very dark, almost black grey tone. I suppose one way to look at this is it leaves a lot of freedom for us to interpret things our own ways.
