Old Stuff Wednesday - August: Crimson Fist Captain

 Somewhere around 2007.  I bought several of these metal Captain models a long time ago.  I the intention to include them in my Cerulean Templars army, but never did.  Then in 2006-7, I painted a number of one off pieces up just for fun.  I later sold the bulk of them. 

I remembered long ago painting a blue power sword with crackling energy and I definitely wanted to do that again.  I think this sword turned out pretty good.  I carried the color scheme over to the plasma pistol.

 My favorite color is blue, so I'm a sucker for cool looking blue schemes and consequently have always felt that I paint blue very well.  And having painted lots of Khorne over the years I think my painting of red gets a good depth and vibrancy in the color.  I did hand paint the crimson fist symbol on the open shoulder pad.

I also hand painted it on the backpack.

Wish I would have done something different with the base.  That was a bit of a let down.

I also hand painted the skull on the knee pad.  Its a fun model and cool pose.

Until next time keep painting and building models.....

Old Stuff Wednesday - September...Grot V. Crimson Fist

I’ve forgotten how long ago I did this sort of diorama piece, but I do remember I had this idea and used it as entry in GW’s Gamesday Golden Demons – Duel Category. Now this was several years ago, and my paint skills were not as good as they are now, but it is still one of my favorites. I thought it was a comical piece, something a typical Grot would do, taking shots at a downed enemy combatant, and maybe not doing do well with his accuracy. They are after all a BS 2 right?

The Crimson Fist, was at the time the first one that I painted, but the blue paint scheme was right up my alley, since it was essentially the same paint scheme that I used with my Cerulean ( or Blue) Templars. I wanted to have a spacemarine that was all battered and pinned beneath some rubble, struggling to fight off this little twerp.

The grot, is one of the old metal ones. These models always have a lot of personality. I remember I was very happy with the way the greens turned out.

The basing was a combination of cork and sand. If there is one thing I look back on and I am not happy with, it’s the basing and rubble.

One of these days I plan to revisit this idea, but I want to make it more dynamic and attractive, with even more detail.