Today's champion is the Juggernaut. He has the head of a juggernaut and hence has the most fearsome headbutts you can find in the wastes. I imagine his axe is merely here to chop cadavers and bring the skulls back to Khorne's throne. Even is mace tail sweats blunt force.
I really like the fact he shares his whole body woith Mr Bloodletter head from my previous post and though gives a totally different feeling.
Still not much on funky painting or markings, he is one of the champions I purposedly left with little marking to have a "clear" unit, while some other models get more attention and colours (an dare yet to be seen as you've understood).
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| Khorne champion with the face of a Juggernaut |
Another thing that got my attention lately is this whole wet palette thing, this is mostly because I have absolutely no personnality and I am totaly influencable. Thanks to Paradoxon's and Sean's review lately, I decided to make a step towards technologically enhanced painting.
One minute after I made this decision I had already cut a thin sponge, put it in a plastic case and added some baking paper on top (with water where needed). And Bob definitely was my uncle.
I tried it right away and loved even quicker. The only drawback I find is that I will use making paper a lot now (not good for mother nature and it costs money even if not a lot), but apart from that I have to say it's been a real pleasure to be able to use the same mix for over 2 hours. The day after the mix was not even completely dy! Another good thing too is that is tends to dilute your paint a bit more than you normally would which is absolutely perfect (I still tend to not dilute paint enough).
1 minute to build + cheap parts = best painting ally since devlan mud/badab Black
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| My wet palette |
Oh and for you people who've commited to Orctober, here's some teasing. It's my first time painting orks (or orcs) and and I'm having incredible fun, I'm even leraning quite a few things and I've upgraded my skills abit on these, still WIP but the final result shall be right on time for the end of the month...
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| You like my rear? wait to see my front and my frineds huhuhu |
Stormboyz of Khorne FTW! Looks great so far! I left mine on a bus in Nottingham ca. '97 and I am still raging inside.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake myself but I've been told that these are actually skarboyz. Losing models this way is hard, I understand, if I could go back ni the past and kick asslessboy's butt into not losing models this way, I definitely would...
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Ah yes, this is the most Stormboy looking-dest of the Skarboyz. Well, I lost those too, and they were even painted.
DeleteI agree, this guy has "khorne stormboy" written on his face though he has skarboy written on his tab... :D
DeleteI'm sorry for your loss and it saddens me to know how much good lead gets lost every year...
Nice deep red om the Champion! Thought many time to try out a wet palette but never got round to it. To keep the colors wet can't be anything but a really good idea - hard to quit old habits though.
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Thanks !
ReplyDeleteI have to say though I'm sometimes reluctant to changing my old habbits, I gave it a try because I had all the parts under hand. I have to say it came very handy considering it took only 1 minute to build. It might be very good for your painting style . Trying it is not very hard nor expensive so you don't risk anything here.
Anyway, you're already too good to need such things to improve ;)
The champion and orc look good. Thanks for the mention, I'm glad the wet palette worked for you.
ReplyDeleteWell I have to say you made it look so easy I gave it a try, just to realise it was even easier than I thought !'ve managed to paint without it for 23 years but I have to say it will be a great help especially for batch painting.
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