++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[BadgersinHills]

Oh man, the Blood Throne looks great! Did you do the swords of the Bloodletters with an airbrush? 

[Augustus b'Raass]

You are definitely crazy, buddy, but it's the good kind of crazy, so I approve

Meh, it's not that much work. The only 'real' painting one bloodletters are the hilt of their swords, their nails, teeth, eyes, and tongue. The rest is either done by airbrush, wash, or drybrush. If that makes me the good kind of crazy, then hurray! :D

 

Oh man, the Blood Throne looks great! Did you do the swords of the Bloodletters with an airbrush? 

Thank you! Yes, the swords are done by airbrush and masking tape. :tu:

[The Traitor]

The throne looks great, the blue of the swords really pops up. Also, do you have any plans for the cannon? It is a pretty cool bit to have, and with your excellent kitbashes I can only expect something awesome!

[Teetengee]

Dang, I liked those black bloodletters... Oh well.

The blood throne is looking good, although the bottom right bloodletter looks a little washed out/flat, is that an artifact of the pictures?

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks, guys. :)
 

@ The Traitor: Cheers. The cannon is indeed a col bit and I'll have two after the second throne. I'm thinking about making it into a AA gun for my Khornate Knight...

 

@ Teetengee: Thanks, buddy! Yeah, the pics came out somewhat washed out. The Blootlettersa re actually very vibrant!

[Midnightmare]

Man,your Bloodthirster reboot is seriously awesome! Well done that man

 

Loving the Bloodthrone too, those dudes look seriously aggro!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Cheers, Midnight Runner! They indeed look aggressive as all hell - and they should be, as this mofo does Mortal Wounds on impact!

And now for something completely different: as you have all probably read, Xenos are now allowed on the B&C. A big decision, that will ultimately do the community good. Things had become quite superfluous with the introduction of Genestealer Cults (literally half-xenos/half-human) and the reappearance of Squat armies with the introduction of the Kataphron AoS miniature line. All in all, something cool to look forwar to, as no we can all share our other armies set in the 40K (and 30K?) universe. 

I currently do not have any Xenos armies - but that was largely because of the restriction here on B&C, and I love sharing my hobby here. It has become somewhat of a second nature to post my updates here, as the feedback, inspiration, and camaraderie of the B&C community has become part of the hobby experience for me. Thus, in a way, the B&C restricted my 40K hobby, as I was unable to post non-allowed armies here. Now that I can, I have started to think about starting either a Dark Eldar, an Ork, or a Tyrannid army. These are all future plans, though, as I am a long way from finishing my Khornate army, and have just started collecting a Nurgle Death Guard army. More on those soon. 

 

For now, though, let me share my first steps intp the world of Xenos painting. Almost a year ago, I visited a friend from loooooooong ago. He and I were part of a group of geeky nerds that all shared all games sold by our local independent retailer Fantasy Fanatics in the Dutch city of Haarlem, a store at which I was an employee. He and I reconnected after having not seen each other for over 16 years. Our group fell apart as we all went to university, higher vocational school, or started a career. Plus the Fantasy Fanatics went out of business because GW had screwed them royally. That was also part of the reason I stopped with the hobby - my loyalty to my old friends and boss made my visiting a GW store feel like betraying what we had. Anyway. I and the friend reconnected and hit it off as if those 16 years had not passed by. Turns out, the old friend group still exists, and I quickly found myself laughing about the same jokes as back then, telling the same stories, and generally feeling the glee at having like-minded people. I quickly found myself in an RPG campaign (which sadly was in its final strokes - so I started one myself, mixing old friends and new ones). Also, I saw a sealed GW Ork Bommer box at my friend's place, and asked if he wanted it painted. He told me he bought it as soon as it was released, and had never come around to it. I relished the chance to paint something completely different than what I normally do, so here's the whole point of this banter:

 

So I painted his Ork Bommer. Of course it's red, because, you know 'RED 'UNS GO FASTA!'. I finished it at the end of last April, but because of the B&C rules, couldn't share it here. Now I can - for which I am thankful, because I loved painting it and was very please with the end result. Take a look yourself:
 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/temporary_zpsyjhru9kv.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/temporary_zpshudujzff.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/temporary_zpsuxgpdmyy.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/temporary_zpsblafhdbv.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/temporary_zpsf6vm6ibr.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Xenos/1485e8b8-f08c-4acc-81d3-9df1941a68f2_zpsbfttdhew.jpg

 

So, thanks for looking at the pics of this wonderful machine. I certainly had a blast painting it, and learned a lot from it: painting Ork skin with the new citadel paints (the last time I painted an Ork was for my Blood Bowl team back in 1999, when those horrible octagonal painting pots had just been released), making metal look rusty and worn, painting spirals and a checker patterns, and especially applying enormous transfers (the checker patterns on the wings is one big transfer, but the one on the nose was hand painted).

There's lots of details too that I love: the shark faces on the bombs (did you notice the one that's upside down? That was intentional - because Orks are idiots), giving the pilot a Burrberry shawl, the faded glass of the glass (achieved by spraying it with thinned down Tamiya Smoke), the matt black paint streaks to simulate smoke and air stains, and many more. 

 

I hope you like him and would much appreciate your comments and critiques. :)

 

Edited July 2, 2017 by Augustus b'Raass

[The Traitor]

So xenos huh? ;) I would really like to see you try Dark Eldar or Tyranids, the Ork Bomber looks great, but we already know that you can paint red :P! But nids or DE would be a radically different army to what you have and I'm sure we would see some awesome conversions!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Nah, Ork Bommer was just a one-off. Orks really don't float my boat as much as space marines do. Plus, I'm quite liking my new flesh recipe, and I've always wanted to do a tyranid army using bone and purple colours. But first, I have some Khornate Daemons to finish...

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsarioapwx.jpg

[rednekkboss]

Nice looking Orky plane! Stellar work....as always. I've 3-6 of those on deck to build...someday.  Loving the Khorne deamon thingy... I can see how it'd be "fun" to paint, definitely the kind of thing to do in sub assemblies.  Its pretty cool looking though.... might have to get one.

[hushrong]

Love the original flyer. That is one of my favorite kits in GW as I just love how it looks.

 

Looking forward to the horde of Khorne growing!

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

Nice skull throne and ork bomber! I used the skull cannon on my khorne knight and it looks legit : )

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks, guys!

@ rednekkboss: Yeah, those Ork planes are  dream kit. I love how they look and how they come together. The variety you can get out of them is also extremely big for such a relatively simple kit. Geedubs did a great job with them. Also: go get a Bloodthrone! I'd love to see your take on it!

 

@ hushrong: You and me both, brother. As I replied to rednekkboss, that kit is fantastic. If the orks weren't so cheap in points (and thus so expensive in currency), I would start an Ork army in a heartbeat.

 

@ Eldrick Shadowblade: Thanks for that - good to hear that idea would work out. Care to share a pic through PM?

[Sagentus]

as always Aug I am amazed/jealous at how you pump stuff out so quickly with such high quality ;P 

[Augustus b'Raass]

as always Aug I am amazed/jealous at how you pump stuff out so quickly with such high quality ;P 

Hold up, I haven't painted anything in a week! The Ork Bommer was painted back in May, I think. Those Bloodletters have only just received a basecoat of Khorne Red. 

[Sagentus]

I meant with how quickly you painted the Blood Throne. it only took you 2 days between post's. Really like the ork bomber btw, looks great.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Ah right! Well, to be fair - that was two days straight of painting. I had a week of vacation days and indulged myself with this weird model. :tu:

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

Will do. Have to sort my photobucket problem out and I'll be back to posting. : )

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hurray, I finally finished the Bloodletters. Here's some pictures. I decided to use 32mm bases for them, which leads to a hell of a lot more stability for these miniature. They're quite wonky on 25mm bases!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsx9fys805.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zps0s8gskmx.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsdor9j5vq.jpg

 

For some reason the eyes show up orange, while in reality they are light blue. Weird. 

 

Also, I finally started work on my August  Arena Event challenge: creating a Nurgle Daemon Prince.... It sucks that the left metal BT wing is damaged. I aither have to find a workaround, or abolish the idea completely...

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Death%20Guard/temporary_zpsiw7axpv7.jpg

 

Lemme know what you think!

 

Reply:

@ Eldrick Shadowblade: Yeah you like everyone else seem to have problems with Photobucket - with the eird warning showing up instead of your pictures. If you pay them their $3/month and apply an add-blocker, it runs quite smoothly...

[Chandrian]

Its Nurgle.... can't you just damage it some more and decay it a little haha!  Honestly, might be worth the challenge to do so! Broken half fallen off wing on a D.Prince sounds pretty cool.

[KrautScientist]

Those Bloodletters are gorgeous, buddy!

 

Regarding the Bloodthirster wings, I have some plastic Manticore wings I could send over as a replacement. Or you could go for insectile wings, like the ones on those Nurglite daemon flies. Or maybe an altogether more biomechanical setup, like a corrupted jump pack?! Somehow seems more fitting for a Nurgle DP anyhow.

[Sagentus]

Either either what chandrian said or try press molding some of your own spikes out of gs

[ElDuderino]

I have a pair of the 90's dragon wings that i'm willing to part with too:)

 

Otherwise, just sculpt some claws, it's Nurgle after all, it doesn't need to be perfect. Take some spikes and sculp some bulging flesh around it, partially covering the claws like it's swollen from an infection

[Teetengee]

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Also, I finally started work on my August  Arena Event challenge: creating a Nurgle Daemon Prince.... It sucks that the left metal BT wing is damaged. I aither have to find a workaround, or abolish the idea completely...

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I know I mentioned it in the auggie's arena thread, but I wanted to reiterate using oyumaru to clone this piece to replace the missing claws. Ideally, you would use another copy of the bit to clone from, but I think the claws are similar enough you could get away with copying one of the other ones a few times.

 

Have you used it before? (I recently used it for the first time, and it was a magical experience for working with old models. My metal talos was missing some spines that I was able to quickly copy up.)

[Brother Aiwass]

Maybe you can work on the damage by adding more. A couple of big holes, a fair amount of small ones; in both wings. You need to file the membrane where the claws are missing so it touches the end of the finger's remains; this area would gladly enjoy some heavy drilling to show where the battle damage/corruption is greater. Alternatively you could add -heavily rusted- swords where the claws used to be, and cover the jointed parts with GS to make fleshy growths over the wings covering the implanted metal parts.

 

Or just scrap the wings, get some feathered ones and paint them very decayed.

Edited July 6, 2017 by Brother Aiwass