May Hobby Wrap Up

No games this month - too busy travelling with work, but I did get some painting in between trips on some 40k projects.

First up is Bayard's Revenge, a special Emperor's Champion figure that Reilly kindly gave me for Christmas, depicting a scene from the Black Templar novel "Helsreach".  I played with this over a week and really enjoyed this project.  

I tried a few NMM approaches with the sword (which were rubbish) and ended up going back to it being true to its name of "The Black Sword"...  I enjoyed lavishing attention on the armour to make it look beaten up and scarred without compromised.

And here's how I imagine the last stand of Brother Bayard is depicted in the Halls of Heroes aboard the Battlebarge Eternal Crusader (filters from the 'Snapseed' app)

I also did a Death Guard Kill team, using the lighter colours of the Weeping Legion so that the darker filth and yuck would contrast against it. I used a dark brown oil wash to darken down the bleach bone basecoat and overall it worked out well.  

I wanted to go for a different look than the usual dark green. The white base gave me a chance to use all sorts of subtle colours that otherwise would have gotten lost.

I added rusty things from the bitz box to help the basing come to life 

amongst the puddles of Nurgle's Rot.

Thats all for now - happy hobbying!