Sister of Battle Seraphim 3 3/4" Action Figure

Here is something that has been on my work bench for easily over a year.

Jason designed her, put her together, and bought all the pieces for me (he did all the hard work).

I had started her and put her on the back of the desk because I found myself frustrated with trying to paint an un-paintable object.  But with all the research I've been doing these past few months I was finally able to pick her up and finish her for the most part.  Originally I was trying to paint her like a standard miniature and found myself overwhelmed but this time I used pastels a little paint and lots of sealer.  She is simple for a mini but complex for an action figure.  
I actually broke out the air brush for pretty much the first time and painted the black on her legs with it.  I had to get some air brush cleaner and new paints first but once the air brush was cleaned out she was a breeze to paint.
But enough with the reading here are the pictures! I hope you enjoy.

WIP Tank

Ok so here are a few more pictures after I did a little bit more noodling on the tank. Most of the detailing has not been finished or cleaned up. Most items only have a wash on them (if that). I also darkened up some of the shadows I was painting in.
I still have a long way to go, hopefully i'll get to work on it again in the next few days.



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Tanks Ahoy!

So after getting Fed up with that darn PE I decided to start work on my first Exorcist Tank. It's modified from the traditional tank and a lot easier to work with as far as modeling and painting goes.
For the paint scheme I'm going with subtle shading and I'm also going to be adding a bunch of dings and such as well as dirty up the treads quite a bit.
So here is the first bit that i've worked on. When i told Jason i worked on my tank he walked over to it and was about to call "Shenanagins" on me until he picked it up and looked turned it around to a different angle.
So I'll label that as a success!

Oh and The Rocket Launcher is from Quantum Gothic
http://www.quantumgothic.co.uk/
You can pick one up for £15.00

Saint Celestine

Now here is a mini that i had a lot of fun painting and also cussed at quite a bit. After i took pictures of it i have noticed a few areas that i need to touch up but that will have to wait after Jason and I have moved to our new place. We have been packing and going through old boxes this past week and while i was having my go at the book shelf i found an old box full of sisters of battle along with an unfinished old fashion rhino tank that need a nice dip in simple green. I'm debating turning the rhino into some sort of terraine piece or if i should make another immolator out of it.
In the bunch of sisters were two more multi-melta Sobs, along with some flamers, 3 or 4 seraphim of course too many sister superiors. The awesome find was another old canoness which is an awesome mini and after reading a ton of army lists i've been wanting to add a serephim jump back pack to her.
I've decided i'm going to repaint all of my old seraphim and take all the crappy eldar wings i stuck on them off. I'm so over the whole 'winged' phase of modeling. I think with them i'm really going to work on some fun bases since they are all flying bases right now and i might want to change that.

Ok on to Celestine and the creepy Cherubim holding up her cape.




*edit 2/01/2012
Since I've noticed a ton of hits on this page I decided to retake pictures of her since these are pretty old.
None of the paint has been updated or changed.  Just a new lighting and background set up.

SoB Blue Squad 1999

So what do we have here today? Well i went through and photographed most of my old army to share with everyone. So here is my blue squad, so i basically painted all the squads different color themes so i could keep track of them when making army lists and on the playing field. let me tell ya it made it much easier in the long run. some people put little dots, numbers or symbols on the back of their bases.. not me i have to paint the whole damn thing differently. Now that squad sizes have changed well all that color coding pretty much went out the window. I have to mix and match in order to get full squads now. So much for that cunning plan. I barely have enough to fill out each squad anymore.

I pulled out the old 2nd Ed SoB codex the other day and i realized where all my painting inspiration came from. There were a lot of little things that i did that the minis in the codex also had. for example i'm sure most of you will notice the black lining around the inside of the robes while the base color is white.
Also again these were punk rock sisters with their crazy colored hair. I'm debating if i want to start doing this again (If i paint up any more basic troups).

SoB Blue Squad 1999

Canoness

Next is my Canoness, since i am revamping my old army i needed a new canoness and i actually like the model for it. She was actually a lot of fun to paint and i'm pretty happy with how she came out.
I got to experiment with Non-metal Metallics which i'm not sure worked or not but I'm happy i didn't have to paint with metallic paint. After looking over my old models i've been trying to avoid the use or over use of metallic paint. Although i think i'm going to experiement with shading and highlighting metallics and see if i can reach Zen with them again.
Back to the Canoness, it turns out i painted the flames backwards and they should be white at the base and black at the top. Ooops, next time i'll fix that. (I also did it on my inqusitor so don't be surprised when you see it again)
But i did get to play with the flame coloring on her hair and cloak. Hell i don't even know what that technique is called in the painting world. Realisim?
I found her armor to be over crowed with junk everything was squeezed into such a tight area it was quite hard to see what was going on.
I would list all the paints used on this one but i honestly can't remember all of them since there was a lot.
Also this was my first attempt at painting white robes and they didn't quite turn out how i expected i found the white to be quite difficult to blend and i ended up blending my colors right on the miniature to get the effect i wanted.

Celestian Squad

I have quite a bit of catching up to do as far as posting pictures in this blog.
Since the last time i played was third edition it seems like a lot of things have changed in the game since then. I figured a squad of my sisters needed a change as well. This squad was given to me by one of my store customers already painted. I was never fold of the paint job i just never had the time to repaint them. So the other week they were soaked in simple green for a night and the paint got scrubbed off of them. Those fabulous white Immolator tanks in my last post have inspired the color scheme for this squad. White and Red.... What was i thinking? Basically It was like painting storm troopers (star wars) with red robes.
I painted them all assembly line style which is really the way to go when painting a squad although i think I left too much for step four and step five since they seemed to blend together.

Step One: Prime/Drill out the gun barrels
Step Two: Red Robes /Wash/ Highlights
Step Three: White Armor/Blue-Grey Wash/Black Wash in the cracks/ White
Step Four: Guns/Shoulder Pads/Pouches/Fiddly bits/Faces/Hair
Step Five: Clean up the white again adding black when needed.
Step Six: Paint all the Back Packs
Step Seven: Base

Brushes used:
Round 0, Round 3/0, Round 5/0, Round 12/0, Round 20/0

Paints Used:
Vallejo:
Flat Red
Ivory
White
Black
Bronze Fleshtone
Skin Wash
Livery Green
Blue Green

GW:
Bleached Bone
Badab Black Wash

Now the Sob with the Melta is missing her back pack i guess i didn't have one for her as well as two other sister superiors i have that aren't included in this lot. I'll get a new back pack some day for them.

Intro Post

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I've started this blog to keep track of my Witch Hunters army. But let me back up a bit. How did i get started with this hobby? Well about 10 years ago i use to manage an awesome game shop in Seattle. We had a whole floor dedicated to Warhammer 40k & Fantasy, unlike most stores now we carried the full line of Games Workshop Miniatures. Like all of my employees as a manager i was required to learn Fantasy and 40k at the time GW was just switching over from 2nd Edition to 3rd Edition and for our little store it was a big deal. But anyways as a girl i really didn't like any of the male based armys and i'm not really into space elves at that point i had seen way to many power gamers. So naturally i decided on a SoB army. If you are wondering for Fantasy i had a killer Skaven army, unfortuanatly a few years back when I hit rough times I sold most of my big pieces including my white rat ogre named "Fluffy". *sniff* But at least i got to pay bills and eat for that month, so it was worth it I suppose.
So after my store hit rough times in 2001 and closed down my Sob army was packed away and not seen again until this year. I finally have a group of friends who actually want to play, my boyfriend Jason has finally put together an army after 20 years of collecting different GW miniatures simply because he loves the modeling aspect of the hobby. I also have time to enjoy the hobby part of this game now, i'm no longer rushed to put together an army for my job and can actually enjoy painting my miniatures instead of slopping on some paint and calling it good.
Even after not painting a miniature for 8 years my skills as a painter have increased quit a bit. i'm not sure if it's due to patience or just the amount of tutorials and information for painters that is available now.
So now that this intro is out of the way lets have some pictures right? Ok so these tanks were not painted by me they were painted by my good friend Alfonzo at the time he had a kick ass IG army and made amazing terrain, some of which i still have. Well tanks were never my thing so i bought a couple boxes of Immolators and handed them off to him to assemble and paint for me.
I absolutely love these tanks and they are the inspiration for my army. So you are sure to see more white & red Sob models.

Immolator 1:

Immolator 2: