Articles written by: admin

Imperial Fist Chaplain
Showcase

Imperial Fist Chaplain

The Special Character chaplain from the Dark Vengeance box set was painted as Imperial Fist Chaplain. This special character is only attainable for a limited time through the Dark Vengeance box set. There was some minor conversion work done to the miniature.The Dark Angel heraldry was scrapped and cut off the […]

Imperial Fist Bike
Showcase

Imperial Fist Bikes

Some Space Marine bikes from the Dark Vengeance box set join the Imperial Fist army. Like the other Dark Vengeance box set Space Marines, the Dark Angel heraldry was removed (cut, filed and Green puttied). The commission request was to leave the wings and feathers on the bikes. The wings at […]

Last Hearth Lancers
Painting Tutorials / Showcase

Wardens of the North

More Battle of Westeros miniatures completed, this time it’s for the Wardens of the North expansion. Just like the previous expansion painted, all the miniatures follow the same colour scheme as those from the reference cards that came with the expansion. Wardens of the North    

Imperial Fist Lysander
Showcase

Lysander

Lysander was the chosen commander for the Imperial Fist Space Marine army that is currently being painted.  Being  a commander model and the focus of more scrutiny than a regular model, more care with details and a slightly different colour pallet was used to paint him. Purple was chosen for […]

Ultramarine Captin
Painting Tutorials

Correcting Past Mistakes

In a past post  I talked about issues and mistakes that happen and in particular about a Space Marine captain i was painting for my own Ultramarine army. This is an update post so that you can see the before and after. Originally I had a decision to make after painting […]

Wardens of the West troops
Showcase

Wardens of the West

As part of a commission to paint up all the expansions of the Fantasy Flight game Battle of Westeros, I’ve just completed the Wardens of the West. Here are some shots of the colour scheme that follows the game cards imagery.

Imperial Fist Librarian
Showcase

Imperial Fist Librarian & Tactical Squad

An Imperial Fist Librarian & Tactical Squad have been painted up for our new commission. Again these tactical squad members and librarian are conversions from the Warhammer 40k Dark Vengeance box set. They’re Dark Angel heraldry have been stripped which was a very painful exercise with the librarian! Next up will be the terminators and them […]

Imperial Fist Terminators
Showcase

Imperial Fist Terminators

The next batch of Imperial Fist marines have been completed for the army commission. These Imperial Fist terminators have been converted from the Dark Vengeance box set to have all dark angel heraldry removed. They were painted in the same way as mentioned in the post below. The only part […]

Warhammer 40k Imperial Fist Commission Paint job
Painting Tutorials

Painting Imperial Fist

I have just started on an Imperial Fist Space Marine army commission. The commissioner wanted their chapter to have a deep yellow colour rather than the usual bright canary yellow that he has seen around the place. So I took to the internet in search of some colour recipes or some ideas […]

Dreadfleet Volcano Island
Painting Tutorials

Painting Dreadfleet Volcano

I’ve been asked several times on how to paint the volcano for Dreadfleet. So here are the steps I used in a recent commission. Apologies for the photos, there were quickly taken whilst the painting was occurring – due to way this was painted I couldn’t let the paint dry to […]