Revival... Yay... oh dear god what have I done

It begins.... again...

So after being out of it for awhile (40K not just this project). I have decided to take a look at everything again and realized that I actually like 6th edition. Thus the dust was cleaned off bottles and palettes. I've done some painting on models to get back into the groove of things. Did about 1000 points worth of Dark Angels using the new Dark Vengeance set (x2) as my solid foundation. Boy was I rusty when I started that up.

Anyway, time to start this project back up. What better way then with an escalation league. So my next few entries, which will be starting this week, will be about putting together and painting up 500 points of Elysians. The question now is, Vulture in the first 500 or not....

Also I need to see about finding something like this so I can keep track of the colors I paint things. This is a great idea:

I'd like to make this for all the armies I have for the different game systems.

So stay tuned and hopefully I'll get this project completed finally.

Veteran Grenadiers

So I completed my test model for my Veteran Squads with the Grenadier option.

May I introduce Lance Corporal Davis:

He is my Meltagunner from my AT Veteran Squad. They'll be cruising along in a Valkyrie thats equipped to take out infantry. Pop the vehicle with the MeltaGuns and then have the Valk eat the infantry.

I'm really pleased how he turned out, although the flash washes out a lot of his detail work. Still I'm liking him.

Now to paint a heck of a lot more. Ugh...

At least I now have paint schemes for my troops and my "spec ops" guys. I really like the look of these STs over the newer Kasrkin models.

Paint Scheme Redeux

So with a huge delay in getting pics, here's one finally. I present to you Trooper Callahan:

New Paint Scheme

So back to working on my Elysians. Going off what Col. Hessler's idea of washing the entire model in badab black I tried it. Did not like the way it looked, so added some sepia to the wash and it gave me the shading I liked. Basically I've also changed paints, I'm using Tamiya paints. I am using Desert Yellow as my base coat, which I then wash with the black/brown wash and then highlight with I believe it's Deck Tan.

I'll see if I can get some good pictures this evening and post them. Right now the clothes are the only thing painted since I wanted to insure that I got good colors.