Angry Griffin's Oldhammer

Author: The Angry Griffin

  • Metal Space Marine with Plasma Gun 0421 2

    Metal Space Marine with Plasma Gun 0421 2

    This guy is part number 0421/2.

    Looks like he was designed in 1992.

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Base Coat: Scale75 Artist Primary Blue, shaded with Cobalt Blue, shaded further with Prussian Blue

    Red: Scale75 Artist Pale Flesh, followed by Crimson, highlighted with Primary Red, further highlighted with Orange, recess shaded with diluted Prussian Blue. Plasma gun had a further blend and highlight of Primary Yellow

    Plasma glow: Scale75 Artist White, with Spring Green around the edges, blended to Scale75 Fluoro Green, then to straight White. Then LIT pigment (eBay affiliate link) glow in the dark pigment across the brightest sections, mixed in with Scale 75 pigment binder to get it to stick.

    Joints: Scale75 Artist Black. Same with the grips on the guns. Highlighted by Violet Grey.

    Eyes: Scale75 Artist White, followed by diluted Spring Green, followed by diluted Fluoro Green, followed by diluted Emerald Green

    Silver: Scale75 Black Metal

    Gold: Scale75 Necro Gold, highlighted with Elven Gold, further highlight Citrine Alchemy

    Leather: Scale75 Burnt Sienna, shaded with Black/Burnt Sienna 50:50, highlighted with Pale Flesh:Burnt Sienna 50:50

    Skull on hand: Scale75 Buff, shaded with Buff:Burnt Sienna Umber, highlighted with Vanilla White

    Varnish: Vallejo Mecha Varnish Matt


    Here he is now:

  • Metal Space Marine Devastator 0813 3

  • C100 Chainsaw Warrior with Reaper Cannon – Vintage Games Workshop

    Sculpted by Rob Naismith!

  • Rogue Trader Metal Space Marine in Mark V Heresy Armour 0702707

    Rogue Trader Metal Space Marine in Mark V Heresy Armour 0702707

    This guy is a 1990 sculpt, and appears in the 1991 catalogue as Mark V Heresy Armour 070270/7. The minis on his catalogue page are marked as “Designed by Jes Goodwin and the Citadel Design Team”.

    Colours used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, with some Prussian Blue as a shade, and some Cobalt Blue + Art Black as a shade. Highlighted with Cobalt Blue + Pro Acryl Titanium White
    • Red: Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red, shaded with Targor Rageshade, highlighted with Bold Pyrrole Red + Golden Yellow
    • Lenses: Scale75 Art Spring Green, highlighted with Golden Yellow and a touch of Titanium White, shaded with Art Black
    • Freehand decals are Cobalt Blue + Titanium White
    • Gold: Scale75 Necro Gold, washed with Targor Rageshade, then Dwarven Gold, then Citrine Alchemy
    • Base rim: Vallejo Model Colour Black Grey
    • Base: Soilworks Dark Mud around the rim, then Natural Soil on the inside, then Sand inside that, then Gypsum to highlight the rocks. Natural Soil on the legs.
    • Silver: Black Metal, shaded with Targor Rageshade, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal
    • Gold shells: Dwarven Gold, shaded with Targor Rageshade

  • Metal Vanguard Veteran with Relic Blade

    This guy was part number 99060101416.

    No date on the tag – just Games Workshop!

  • Metal Space Marine Jump Pack Sergeant 1 0426 3

    No jump pack on this guy but I’ll find one!

    “Space Marine SG” on the tab, and 1993 as the date.

  • Stone Town Kickstarter: Painting the well

    Today I’m looking at the well which is part of our January Kickstarter.

    Assembled it looks like this – I painted it in pieces, however:

    The paint recipe I used was this – all with a brush, no airbrush used this time around:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Well base coat: Zandri Dust

    Well recesses: Aggaros Dunes

    Well highlights (left and bottom of each brick): Instant Phoenix Egg 50:50 with Instant Medium

    Well highlights in lower left corner only: Flayed One Flesh 50:50 with Vallejo Matt Medium

    Well highlights on edge of topmost bricks: Flayed One Flesh

    Well brick center: Sponged on XV-88

    Well upper pigment: Vallejo Dark Yellow Ochre

    Well lower pigment: Vallejo Dark Yellow Ochre 50:50 with Scale75 Reddish Brown

    Water stain across back of well: Vallejo Slimy Grime with Vallejo Petrol Stains in recesses

    Wood base coat: Mournfang Brown

    Lines in wood: Averland Sunset or Steel Legion Drab

    Wash for wood, at random: Gore-Grunta Fur, Guilliman Flesh, Snakebite Leather or Wyldwood

    Pigments for wood: Well lower pigment: Vallejo Dark Yellow Ochre 50:50 with Scale75 Reddish Brown, mostly rubbed off high points

    Check out the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/angrygriffin/3d-printable-stls-stone-town-terrain-pay-what-you-want

  • Rogue Trader Furibundus Class Destroyer Dreadnought Fury 070184 3

    This guy is nicknamed Fury in the catalogues!

    Fury has the wide-body 070184/9, the right double bolter arm 070184/1, the left lascannon arm 070184/10, standard shoulder mounts 070184/6 and short legs L/R 070184/11 and 070184/12 respectively. More pics to come once he’s assembled and painted!

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha black

    Blue: Scale75 Artist Prussian Blue blended up to Cobalt Blue, blended to Primary Blue with a highlight of Primary Blue

    Red: Scale75 Art White covered in Primary Red, highlighted with Orange, then Primary Yellow, shaded with Primary Red + Art Black

    Silver: Scale75 Black Metal, shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Thrash Metal

    Green: Scale75 Art White followed by Sap Green, then Spring Green, then Lit Green Pigment

    White: Pearl Grey, highlighted with Art White

    Work in progress:

    Started over.

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Cobalt Blue, shaded with Kimera Carbon Black, highlighted with The White
    • Red: The Red
    • Lenses: Scale75 Art Spring Green, highlighted with Kimera Cold Yellow then Art White, shaded with Carbon Black
    • Base: Kimera Iron Oxide drybrushed with a mix of that and Yellow Oxide, then Soilworks Reddish Brown, then Soilworks Natural Soil, with Gypsum for the skull highlights and Ash for the skull shadows. Army Painter Wasteland Tufts used.

  • Finalising our first Kickstarter

    After many hundreds of hours of test printing and playtesting we have finally got to the point of taking proper photos of our first Kickstarter products.

    Not long now! Stay tuned for a link…

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