Empire: Demigryph Knights Wip 3

Suffered a bit of painting burnout today after a hectic; but productive; bank holiday weekend of painting. Instead of forcing myself to paint the knights, I spent the day doing other things related to my Empire army, a little building, a little basing and some eBay searching. I did manage to get the block colours in place for Demigryph Knights, but other than that I barely picked up a paintbrush. I also started the cleaning process on Mordax (Great Imperial Dragon). I got almost all the paint and old superglue off and  have applied one final coat of degreaser over night to shift the last bits, if I am fortunate enough to finish the Knights tomorrow, I will probably take a crack at building. The Demigryph Mounts are for all purposes complete except bases, I did have an issue over the weekend getting the feathered manes right, but after some mixing and a long tea break to think things over, I got there in the end.

The knights should not take too long, just two coats of metals and detailing. I have two solid weeks to make sure I have an army built and ready for my first game, Lorna has had nothing to do at all really, since she finished building her army a week ago..a testament to just how slow I am at model making ha! If I am unable to field all units in my list, the game will still go on, albeit with a penalty. There will be no proxies, I will only be allowed to field what I have built for my army - which is quite an interesting underdog scenario should it occur.

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios

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Auctions Ending This Week

Greetings, here is a list of auctions coming to end this week, there is a wide variety of second hand, brand new in box (BNIB) and out of production (OOP) miniatures from popular wargaming systems. Most auctions are starting at .99p and will be sent by Recorded Delivery (UK) or International Signed For (rest of world) for buyer confidence. So check out the auctions and catch a potential bargain this week!

Auctions ending this week are listed with direct links to view specific items, or if you would prefer to see everything on offer on in one big list, please visit my STORE.

• Warmachine Khador Winter Guard Mortar Crew with Card
• Warmachine Khador Koldun Lord with Card 
• Warmachine Khador Destroyer OOP MEtal Version with Card
• Warmachine Kommandant Irusk (2009 Sculpt) with Card
• Forces of Warmachine: Khador Hardcover Book
• Warhammer 40K Chaos Daemons Soul Grinder BNIB 
• Warmachine Khador Greylord Escort With Card
• Warmachine Khador Great Bears Of Gallowswood With Card
• Warmachine Kovnik Joseph Grigorovich With Card
• Warmachine Mercenaris: Eiryss, Mage Hunter Of Ios
• 40K Forgeworld Chaos Dreadnought Autocannon Arm (Right Arm)
• Warhammer 40K Forgeworld Nurgle Dreadnought With Arms
• Warmachine Khador Koldun Kommander Zerkova With Card
• Warmachine Khador Widowmaker Marksmen With Card
• Warhammer 40K Dark Eldar Raider Still On Sprue
• Rachkam AT-43 ONI TacArms OOP 

Thanks for looking and happy shopping.

DiStudios

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Empire: Demigryphs Wip 2 & OOP Dragon!

Demigryph mounts are nearing completion this week, which means I can work on the riders over the bank holiday weekend - three days of solid painting, can't wait! The photos came out really bad this time round and do not show the depths of red I have put into the barding, something I will need to consider when I do the Gallery shots. I honestly can't see these figures taking much longer, as all that is left to do is highlight the demigryph skin, golds and feathered mane. It has been a long time since I have painted gold the 'GW' way so I expect to lose some time playing with the palette, will be fun non the less.

So I managed to pick up another OOP Citadel bargain, this time from 1985...

Auctions Ending This Week

Greetings all, lots of auctions coming to an end this week, the following are listed with direct links below to make it as easy for people to view specific items. If you would prefer to see everything available on in one big list, please visit my STORE.

• Forces Of Warmachine Khador Hardback Book
• Warhammer 40/WFB Soulgrinder BNIB 
• Warmachine Khador Great Bears Of Gallowswood with Card
• Warmachine Khador Grey Lord Escort with Card
• Warmachine Khador Kovnik Jozeph Grigorovich with Card
• Forces Of Hordes Minions Hardback Book
• Taban Miniatures Eden ISC Serial 5 BNIB
• Taban Miniatures Eden ISC Yellow Shinigami BNIB
• Black Library A Thousand Sons Unabridged CD
• Warmachine Khador Koldun Kommander Zerkova with Card
• Warmachine Khador Widowmaker Marksman with Card
• Warhammer 40k/WFB Chaos Daemons Plague Drones of Nurgle BNIB
• Black Library Prospero Burns Unabridged CD BNIB
• Rackham AT-43 ONI TacArms OOP

Thanks for looking and happy shopping.

DiStudios
The 14th Legion

Warhammer: Demigryph Knights wip & a Small OOP Treat!

With the Warrior Priest finished and painting I decided this week to keep the momentum up by doing some work on the troop stuff. Firstly I magnetized the halberd horde and characters; including the Warrior Priest. It is so much easier moving this unit around now, and not having to worry about the regimental standard and battle standard bearer toppling over! I am using 10mm diameter discs at 1mm thick, with a little greenstuff underneath. This weekend I am intending to work on the Demigryph Knights, as I really like the miniatures, however I have had one minor issue so far. The problem is a testament to how long it has been since I last put cavalry together; considering my last two Warhammer armies were Beastmen and Dwarfs; I made the rookie mistake during the building process of gluing the riders to the mounts. Naturally once I had undercoated them and was about to start painting the barding, I noticed the problem immediately. Needless to say after much cursing, ripping and re-gluing, the riders are now off the mounts.