Gee Whizz! A post!

I'll start this up with an apology for not putting any blog post up sooner. It's been pretty hectic recently. Full time job + painting a commissioned army + Forge World order arriving + Bioshock Infinite coming out + managing a youtube channel + being a moderator/community events runner for Guns of Icarus Online.
Call me ladies.
Before my mind blows up would be nice.

Aaaaanyway. A few updates. Minus the pictures.

I'm currently in Wellington. Capital of this tiny country I call home. Met up with the wonderful Harpreet and Ashton. We played LoL. Kicked bum too. It was excellent.

As Harpreet is the one I'm painting the necrons for, he got to take a first hand look at what his money is getting him. Seemed pretty pleased about it too.

For the other two people that read this.. I assume that's all there is at any rate... The two squads of warriors are done. Necron Overlord is... sort of done. I pulled an all nighter prior to coming down to Wellington and painted him up along with one of my pre-heresy Death Guard. Still not happy with the overlord though. Not unique enough to be a unit that commands the entire army, so I'll be revisiting that once I get home. The Death Guard looks excellent however. I was also bored yesterday and painted and assembled my Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought and it looks godly. Can't wait until I get two more.

While at Games Workshop, we played a three way (giggity) game. Necrons v Marines v Guardsman. Small armies. Two troops and an HQ. Somehow I managed  to break my curse of only rolling 1's and 2's, and even pulled off a win. Somehow. Ah well, I won't complain.

It was rather hilarious however, the guy running the Games Workshop... really intense. Especially about the new Tau. Yes, they are very cool. No, you do not need to get 3cm away from my face to tell me to abandon all other armies to play them. I'll probably get the Fireblade model. It's awesome.
Heck, I may even look into actually starting that Tau army up properly. I have a few models already that can be seen earlier in the blog, I could just go back to them after I finish wave one of pre-heresy. Well... once I have 2000 points.

I'll be getting some pictures up of the so far completed necron army when I get back home, along with a painting guide, because that will probably be a good thing to put on here.
Also pictures of the Dreadnought, because it's huge. And awesome.

God that was a long blog. This is what happens when I don't blog for a while. Once more, sorry about that. mind has been in overdrive. Holidays are nice. Work on Tuesday is going to be hell.
Morbie out.

Test painting!

Ok, no instructions on how to paint the necrons today. But I have got an example. Seeing as I have never painted a necron in this colour scheme. Or even a necron before (ermahgerdwhatamIdoing?), I have decided to just take one of the warrior units, and paint it up as a test.

So here we have an image of the necron warror in-progress. I decided to paint him up in parts like this to get a better feel for the necron warrior as I've never painted one before. 5 Paints were used to paint this happy chap, I'll list them when I do a step by step for how to paint them.

Now for some finished shots! Wuhooo! Hilariously, the only way I could get decent shots was by holding the warrior up outside. So enjoy the nature in the background.

So that's all for now.
Will start mass production on the warriors tomorrow.
Morbie out.




I like nuln oil.

Undercoats and brain damage

 Alrighty Ladies and Gents. We've done a quick sub assembly of the necron warriors, making the torso and gluing it to the legs, and the legs to the base. Then using a dash of PVA glue on the base and putting some basing...stuff... on it. I've then laid all these sub assembled warriors out on some old newspaper along with the sprues that contain the remaining parts. Generally I like to get some blu-tack and put them on a ling piece of wood (think paint stirring sticks), but given a recent move, I no longer have any of that. So I've snapped a few images of pre-spray and post spray for yah.

I see these necrons and I want to spray them black.
no colour anymore I want to spray them black..

I took my spray can and then I sprayed them black!

Ok, I've run out of ways to continue to kill The Rolling Stones. So here's some images of the necrons Post-Spray.

I don't know how common it is to put the basing...stuff... on the base prior to spraying, but I felt it could be easier then going in there with a brush later and having to worry about the possibility of getting black on the painted warriors. It took a pretty concentrated spray to actually get the bases done though, and I may have to go over it with a brush at any rate. Not sure if I'll use that technique again on the rest of the army.

 And there you have it. Sprayed necrons. Only just managed to get them done prior to it starting to rain. That was lucky. Sadly I don't have any mask or anything to use when I spray them, so I have to play my second favourite game of all; Hold your breath, whenever I want to undercoat minis. This is of course followed by my favourite game; Remember to start breathing again. I hate to think of the amount of brain cells I just knocked off. My head certainly hurts in one location now. Might have to look into something there.
I'mma professional!
Tomorrow we paint!
Morbie out.

A rather amusing coincidence.

So I'm watching Terminator 4 while building necrons. Rather hilarious, no?

They have awoken

The models for the commissioned Necron army finally arrived after two days of the couriers pussy-footing about. So here are a few images of what we have to work with. Deadline is easter, so I'll be painting and uploading images like a boss over the next two weeks.



So here's the basics. A very large army case, which includes the custom foam on one side for the Ghost Ark. The Necron Battleforce; an excellent place to start. And it's rounded off with an Overlord. What surprised me about this model was that the golden rim around the shoulder armour that you can see in the Heavy Metal colour scheme is actually painted on. No separating groove or anything. I'm also really quite glad I picked up that pot of liquid green stuff a few days ago. Quite a few places on this mini that it'll be useful for.

Next up we have an image of what you see when you open up the battleforce box. Good golly is that a lot of sprue.

And finally I've snapped an image of all of the sprues from the battleforce laid out so you can really appreciate how goddamn much they managed to fit in the box. Top right we have 5x necron warrior frames. Top left is the Immortal/Deathmark frame. Along the bottom is the Ghost Ark.

Tomorrow we'll be starting on the 20 necron warriors! Stay tuned.

Morbie out.

Older work

Thought I'd post a few examples of what level I'm trying to get my painting back to. Then of course we're going to push that boundary as far as we can.

We start with a Games Day Space Marine Captain. In a depressing turn of events I can't remember what year it was from, but I'm sure you can find out if needed. In all hilarity, the thing I'm most proud of with this mini is the base. I never was good with basing.

Followed up by a Commissar. Similar colouring of the two. Funny that. I don't have a limited palette. Don't be silly. So I've been trying to push what colours I can use competently. One of the reasons behind having white and purple Tau.

And last up we have an absolutely disgusting relic from the past: Morbie's first ever mini.
Enjoy! (I certainly cringe whenever I see it, but I keep it as a reminder of how far I've come)

Until next time,
Morbie out.

Some pictures!

About time I got a few pictures up, don't you think?

First up we have the basic colour scheme for the tau. Rather white, no? This isn't actually the original stealth suit. That one was fully based and whatnot. I'll get him up once I've done a few touch ups; he's been smacked around a bit over the past year and moving house 3 times.

Next we have the Piranha as it was when I started. Now the crew is quite happily chilling out in there, with their pretty control panels.

And finally we've got a Fire Warrior Shas'Ui. Slight conversion on him too. A very basic one, I cut away at the right shoulder plate, and replaced it with a right shoulder armour from the stealth suits that I happened to have sitting around.

I might get a bit more work done on the piranha today too. I'll get some pictures of the current state of it up later on as well hopefully.

Morbie out.