And the final two Hell Dorado warbands.

I realized that I hadn't posted the final two Hell Dorado warbands that I painted last year for the hobby articles for Cipher Studios. Well, here they are. First (above) are the Immortals. This Chinese-inspired faction has been in Hell for quite some time, and the foot soldiers sport a few tainted/mutated body parts. Very fine and delicate miniatures, these ones.

The final war band I worked on was a little larger, primarily because it doesn't have a starter box, so I had to pick out the models based on what I liked - I liked a lot of them. These are the Mercenaries. I have enough of them to play a decent sized game of Hell Dorado, and I can also ally them with my Westerners (or any other faction, really).

The Officers here are Andre de Montbard and Marcus Leblanc. Both have a fantastic Templar look.

These are the Troops for the force: two Deserters on the left and two Templar Squires on the right.

And finally the Independents: Thirty Coins (the blind sniper), the Russian Trapper, and one of my favorite models in the range - Angelo Casaviecchi (a lemure trapper/trader).

Such wonderful character in all of these models, and a joy to paint.

A couple more cool Hell Dorado warbands!

And as the US prepares for the Super Bowl this evening, I figured I'd post up a couple more photos of finished starter sets for Hell Dorado from Cipher Studios. As I mentioned in my last post, there's a series of articles headed up to the Cipher Studios website over the coming months, including quite a few step-by-step walk throughs of these cool models - the Saracens above, and the Lost below.

Cheers
Dave

Crazy times! Helldorado hobby articles.

My apologies for a lack of recent updates, things have been quite busy for me at work and with the family (both obviously good things), and that has left me little time to wrap up my Dracosans (I'm about 80% through the next one, I promise).

Anyway, I thought I'd show you a couple of photos of things I did last year : )

One of the cool things I worked on was a series of 18 Hell Dorado hobby articles for the guys at Cipher Studios. These articles covered all manner of things, from an overview of the game and the factions, to step-by-step painting and interviews with Thomas David, to building terrain for the game.

The first three articles have been posted, with the rest to be spread out over the next few months (being posted on Thursdays, I think). You can find them here:

• What is Hell Dorado?
• Who are the Factions of Hell Dorado?
• Painting Westerners for Hell Dorado

The whole idea of the game is very cool, and the miniature range is fantastic! I've shown you the Westerners and Demons here in the post, I'll put up the Lost and the Saracens in the next.

Cheers

Dave

Mechanicum - Knights, and more...

While I've been waiting on the custom decals for my Heresy-era House Taranis, I've taken my Knight Paladin a little further. Of course, once I reach a certain stage with him I'll use the same custom decals, and then just need to build his power blade replacement for his Reaper chainblade. The base is the Knight base from the Tech Deck range by Dragon Forge Design.

A few folks have asked me about my metallics recently, in particular the base metals for my Knights' super-structure. Well the basic approach is this:

• Prime GW Chaos Black spray
• Heavy dry brush (with "Tank Brush"-sized brush) with Vallejo Game Color Tinny Tin
• Drybrush (with "Tank Brush"-sized brush) with Army Painter Gun Metal
• Wash with Army Painter Dark Tone
• Selectively shade with thinned washes of Vallejo Game Color Charred Brown
mixed with Army Painter Matt Black
• Highlight edges (as appropriate) with Amy Painter Gun Metal
• Highlight edges (as appropriate) with Army Painter Shining Silver

I hope that helps : )

For those who would like to get a closer look at how I do my metallics, I've been coerced into running two classes at AdeptiCon 2015. More details to come!

Another work project I've had on my painting table are a bunch of the fantastic Hell Dorado models from Cipher Studios. Much more information to come as this project nears completion : )

Cheers
Dave