Hobby recap of 2018

Hi all!

Happy New Year to everyone!

Em... I am a little bit late with my post, just as usual.

Anyway, I would like to wish to all my readers success, a lot of positive emotions and of course fortune in a new year.

Let's summarize together what I have done in hobby during 2018:
1) I started one new big project - Dark Angels. In this project, I will collect all extra Space marines miniatures that I have. I have already painted 31 figures for this project.
2) I painted 42 miniatures. It is nice result for me as I painted more miniatures that in 2017 (40 models). I would like to increase this result during 2019.

3) I wrote only 6 post here. I understand that it is really poor result for me. I will try to fix quantity of posts this year. I would like to add that I didn't show a lot of miniatures here that I painted before. I am going to show them this year.

I would like to write a couple of words about my activity here. As you see, I wrote too little post this year. The reason of this is that I decided to focus more on painting and little bit less on blogging. I am trying to speed up my painting process and to paint as much as I can. But I have problem - I don't have much free time. I think that everyone facing such problem. That is why I decided to spent less time on blogging and more on painting. In spite of this, I am paying some time to my Instagram page. I am posting there WIP photos and photos of ready miniatures. So you can follow my updates there. My nickname in Instagram is the following - the_9th_host. And here you are link on my profile - https://www.instagram.com/the_9th_host/ 

You are always welcome.

As you see, I have mixed results during the 2018. On the one hand, I succeeded, but on the other, I failed. 

Sorry, no photos today, but I promise to show you soon new painted figures.

See you soon.

Guide: Painting bases

Hi everyone!

I didn't post anything here for a long time and now the moment has come. In this post, I want to show you how I paint different bases. I am going to show you four little step-by-step guides. I use all of these ways of painting bases for my models.

1. Wasteland base #1.
Step 1: I applied two thin coats of Citadel texture paint - Armageddon Dust.

Step 2: I washed all over the base using shade - Agrax Earthshade. I did that only after the texture paint has dried. Again, in this step I washed base using two thin coats.

Step 3: I drybrushed all over the base using The Army Painter - Skeleton Bone.

Here is the final result.

2. Urban base.

Step 1: I painted all over the base using Vallejo Negro Black. By the way, it is my favorite black paint.

Step 2: I used drybrush to apply Mechanicus Standard Grey. In this way, I painted only edges of the model sand.

Step 3: I drybrushed base again, but this time I used Dawnstone and I did that a little bit slightly, to make it possible to see previous  layer of dark grey color.

And that is all. As you see, it is a really simple way to make nice base. Usually I add some additional details to bases to make them more interesting and less boring. This time I added bolter.

3. Swamp bases.

Step 1: I painted base and all the details using Vallejo Negro black (there is photo, from the previous guide).

Step 2: I drybrushed model sand on the base using Caliban green.

Step 3: As next step, I used Rhinox Hide. I drybrushed some areas of the ground using this paint. Not all over the base just some areas to see the previous layer of dark green.

Step 4: Using PVA-glue I attached some swamp bushes from Citadel. Before these bushes, I used cheap model grass, but I decided not to use it anymore.

Step 5: Using one of my new paints - technical paint Nurgle's Rot, I made plague puddles.

And that is all. Swamp base is ready.

4. Wastleand base #2

Step 1: I covered base using Citadel Skrag Brown.

Step 2: I drybrushed all over the base using The Army Painter - Skeleton Bone.

Step 3: I painted the rest of the details on the base - this time it is part of the sword. 

I used such bases for my figures from inquisition retinue. As you see, it is very fast and simple way to paint base in this style. 

To sum up, in this post I showed to all of you my ways of painting bases. All of them are simple and a little bit cheap. But I like the final result and I hope you like it too.

Thanks for reading!
Good luck!

Hobby recap of 2017

Hi everyone!

Today is January 9, 2018 and all of us made few steps in New Year.

First of all, I want to say - Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all of You. I wish you many bright and positive moments in the New Year. I wish You a lot of inspiration, may all Your dreams come true!

Time has come to summarize what I have done in hobby during 2017:

1) I started two new projects. They are - Rogue trader project and Daemons of Khorne. First project is a commission one. I am painting models for a tabletop game called Rogue Trader for my friend. And in previous year I started new army - Daemons of Khorne.

2) I wrote 12 posts here. I showed both the old models that I painted earlier and the new ones, which I finished during 2017. I did not have enough time to show all models that I painted previous year, so I am going to present them later.

3) I painted 40 miniatures. I painted only 15 models a year ago, so it is nice result for me. And I hope to beat this result next year. Here are models that I finished in 2017.

Fenrisian Wolves

Battle Spaceships for Rogue trader

Seneschal 

Navigators

Wolf Guard Sergeant 

Ork Warmaster

Necron Warriors

Daemons Of Khorne Bloodletters

I did not have time to make photos of Necron Warriors and Khorne Bloodletters. I will show them to you later. 

I wanted to add; this time I made two separate messages - about Anniversary and later (now) about hobby results during the year. I did not sum up the results in October (in Anniversary post), as before, so I had two additional months to paint and to score more finished models. And it is the secret how I painted more miniatures than earlier. However, since this year I am going to make Hobby recap in the end or in the beginning of the year. 

Now a few words about 2018. This year I am planning to finish Space Wolves army (one of the oldest), to finish Rogue trader commission project and to paint more models for my army of Khorne Daemons. Moreover, I am going to finish something from what I have already begun, if only I have free time. So many ideas, so little time. 

Thanks to everyone.

Good luck in 2018!

Ork Warmaster

Hello everyone!

Today I want to show you an unusual miniature that I painted earlier. It is Gormakk, Ork Warmaster from Raging Heroes. How did I get him? My friend gave this miniature to me for a commission painting project, but in the end he was not needed for that project, so my friend just left him for me. I had spare time that is why I painted this ork. 

Some words about this model. I like Gormakk, because he has dynamic pose, nice detailing and ferocious appearance. This model fits Warhammer 40000 on the role of a warboss or just and ork commander.

I painted him in dark blue colors and I like the result.

Some details on photos above are not visible, because miniature has a bent pose. That is why I decided to make some closer photos, and here they are.

Fifth anniversary

Hello everybody!

I wanted to write this post earlier - 29.10.2017, but I was too busy at work, that is why I missed that moment.

29.10.2017 was Birthday of my blog. On this day 5 years ago I wrote my first post here. I am periodically showing my painted miniatures since that day.  

For past years I did a lot of things in hobby, I always tried to do something new. But the most important is that I have a lot of ideas what I want to do in future.

This time I won't list models that I painted during this year. I am going to do it later, closer to the New Year holidays.

In this post I just want to say 'Thanks' to people who are interested in things that I am doing in hobby.

Miniatures for Rogue Trader (Part 3)

Hi everyone.

I continue to paint models for Rogue Trader Game commission project. In this post, I am showing four new miniatures. They are - Seneschal and three Navigators. I don't know how my friend got this Seneschal miniature, but it is amazing. He looks like in arts, and I tried to paint him close to pictures. As for Navigators, for this project I received three Navigators and I had to paint one of them. They were so thin and fragile, that is why I decided to paint all of them.

Now photos.
Seneschal 

Navigators

Miniatures for Rogue Trader (Part 2)

Hello everyone!

Time has come to present you some more battleships that I painted earlier. Here I am showing only two of them, nevertheless I hope you like them. As I said before, I am painting these miniatures for a little commission project. For now, I painted seven spaceships and four members of crew. These guys I am going to show later.

And now photos.
Sword Frigate

Lunar Class Battle Cruiser 

And now the whole Imperial Fleet from the project together.

And one more photo.

It was difficult to identify all the battleships, so I could be mistaken in their names.