Showcase: Astral Knights Standard Bearer.

Here are the photos of the finished model for my Astral Knights Standard bearer. Lots more after the break...

Tutorial: Freehand Banner.

Here's a tutorial for the freehand banner that I did for my Astral Knights standard bearer. Read on below...

WIP: Astral Knights standard bearer.

Being the chicken I am I've painted the figure before I attempt the free hand banner. More pictures below...

WIP: standard bearer and a little surprise...

Now I love snipers. So when I saw these cute little guys on eBay I couldn't resist. Five little ratling snipers, and not the modern ones, these guys must be best part of 20 year old designs.

WIP: Astral Knights Standard Bearer.

 Next month's painting competition for my local GW store is themed 'standard bearer' so I thought I would practice my greenstuff skills and have a go at converting an old Dark Angel model to fit with my Astral Knights. More details and photos below...

Showcase: Perfidious Relic of the Unforgiven.

I had great fun painting this little guy. He's for the local painting competition. To see loads more pictures and how he fits the theme click below.

For The Win...

So my astral knights librarian won the monthly painting comp at my local GW store. I was really impressed by the standard of the young blood entries, the winning paintjob was a very good attempt at radaghast the brown. More after the break...

Nearly there: Astral Knights Librarian.

As I said last time I wasn't quite happy with the psychic bits of my Astral Knights librarian. The flames coming out of the book didn't look quite right and the shaft of his force stave was distinctly underwhelming. Having got some good advice from zab, here's my attempt to improve those areas...

WIP, I think: Astral Knights Librarian.

I've technically finished painting my old school librarian model but I'm not entirely happy with it and could possibly do with some advice on how to really make him pop. Loads more pictures after the break...

WIP: Astral Knights Librarian for painting competition.

I thought I'd share the progress so far on my Astral Knights librarian. Loads more pictures and details after the break...

WIP: Astral Knights Librarian

After my plea for help posing my old metal librarian model Zab and Ieuan came to the rescue with some great ideas. Read on for more details of how he's going...

Resurrecting the dead: redoing an old librarian.

Wish I could make mine look this good!

The painting competition at my local GW store has changed format slightly and now we are given a theme for each month rather than a particular model. Hopefully this will encourage more people to take part as they can tailor it to fit their own collection.  This month the theme is Wizard.

High Marshall Helbrecht converted to Astral Knights Company Master.

Here are the photos of the finished Company Master. As I said in my last post it started off as High Marshall Helbrecht of the Black Templars and has been converted to make an Astral Knight.

More Bikers.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have managed to get a bit of painting done. 

The photos below are of the last three bikers, brining the total to six. I haven't done the pennants for them yet, or any freehand on the bike armour but other than that they're finished.

Loads more pictures and a few extra bits after the jump...

Showcase: Guardsman 'little' Belwas.

Here are the images of the finished Guardsman.  Loads more pictures after the jump...

Painting Competition: Nurgle Lord/Guardsman 'little' Belwas WIP

I've completed the modelling for my Nurgle Lord and he looks nothing like a Nurgle Lord now.  From this point forth he will be called Guardsman 'little' Belwas (apologies to GoT fans but I couldn't resist). 

Showcase: Lamenters scout bike.

Here are the finished pictures of my Lamenters scout biker. Loads more  after the jump...

Painting competition: Scout biker WIP

Here are the promised images of the biker for my space marine scout bike.  This is my first attempt at painting yellow power armour.  More pictures and details after the jump...

Painting Competition: Scout biker base.

The completed base for my scout biker. Loads more after the jump...

Painting competition: Possible chapters for scout biker.

I've narrowed down the possible chapters for my scout biker to the above, from left to right; Lamenters, Howling Griffons and Imperial Fists.  You may notice a slight tinge of yellow to the proceedings, but I've never tried painting yellow power armour and I fancy a challenge.

My current thoughts are as follows:

Lamenters; cool chapter badge and fun doing the checks but the chest eagle looks a little washed out in bone and I'm worried the bike might end up looking like a New York taxi in yellow with black and white checks.

Howling Griffons; nice bright colours but I'm not sure that I could pull of that chapter badge in freehand.

Imperial Fists; I like the bright yellow armour with red chest eagle and the chapter badge looks do able but I know at least one other person is thinking of doing them.  On the plus side I found these on 40k giveaways blog.

A really nice looking scout paint job ready for me to work from....

So votes and ideas please, which should I go for.....