Talty's WIP #1 Roses

I realized that some artists make work in progress (WIP) updates, and they're quite enjoyable. It's fun to see what they're doing, how they organize their work area, even how messy or neat they are. Well I decided I would try to make some myself and see how it goes. I decided to start with roses, because that's what I was crafting when I decided I wanted to make this kind of blog entries.

Please keep in mind that my WIP photos will be a bit "raw". I don't want to spend too much time editing them or trying to find a good lighting, so please forgive the relative low quality. Pretty much the only thing I did was crop them so the files aren't too big.

So, this is how my petals start, pretty much a skinner blend bull's eye cane. I don't worry about making it too perfect, roses aren't perfect after all. I cut slices and then cut them in half. I find it easier this way.

Then I flatten the petals one by one. I like to shape them like a real petal, I know a lot of people like to make circles but making petals makes sense to me. It helps me.

Here's a bunch of them ready to be used. I swear that paper is clean! The greasy spots you see is the plasticizer being leeched out of the clay, that's actually a very useful technique for which I plan to make a tutorial one day.

Here's a couple of finished roses, ready to be baked. Notice the tv's reflection in the baking pan, having a good tv show or movie is an essential step of my creative process. My favorite are old movies I've already seen so I don't get distracted, but good enough to get me in a good mood. We also watch re-runs of Friends for the 1000th time.

That concludes my first WIP. I can already tell that it's very poor and uninteresting. I didn't take photos of me making the roses because I can't yet figure out how to do it, making roses requires that I use both my hands all the time. I plan to make a tutorial for this, as soon as I can figure out a way to take photos.

Painting!

Hello there!

It's been a while, but I'm back! And its not that I've been slacking quite the opposite, I'm, as many gamers, constantly juggling the daily chores and professional interests with the hobby, and on that I've been pushing my painting a lot lately.

With my renewed love for my Blood Knights (BAs) I picked my brushes, shacked the slaking and did my best to finish my army to get it ready to the tabletop (Even tho I feel the quality is above just tabletop...) And as I get to a very important milestone on my hobby career, I'll proudly start uploading my work as I take some pictures.

You have been warned!

Grey Knights Ping Pong

Recently I have been talking about grey knights, And its seems that it wasn't been only me, but EVERYONE

I remember back then, when we first glanced the new Grey Knights, we all were like: OMG full army of terminators! Paladins, are undestructables! Draigo and Librarians Melt everything on the touch!

and more blah like that, I clearly remeber just a few of us thinking, ok, they are strong, how do we beat them?, and took a look at our own army, what are our strengths, how about our weaknesses.

I Myself look and compared my Blood Knights, and they indeed shared some similarities;

-Low model count

-Highly Durable

-Lots of Power Weapons

-High Damage output

-Vulnerable to low AP

So I indeed knew their power, but there was one basic and big difference, As Blood Angels I was A LOT more mobile and dynamic

Honestly i hadn't seen all the GK perks and rules but I was clear on that, and I based my counter measures on that.

That was months ago, and since then there has been a lot of talk about the Grey Knights.

First some said, they weren't as good, then suddenly everyone was having hard times against em, and finally they are everywhere kicking everyone's butt!

And for months I've read dozens of articles about it, lately I've rode a couple about "How to finally defeat em!" and you know what, after finely analyzing every aspect and detail of their strengths and weakness..

"Use your own army strengths against their weaknesses"..."If your mobile (like Blood Angels) beat them there"...

At this point, I'm not trying to say "Told you so" but instead, not to get yourself guided by the popular opinion, even when they seem much more experienced or knowing.

Instead trust your insight, know your army, understand its nature, embrace its feeling, trust the Card's Heart.

Just then maybe tons of "experts" dissecting the new army for months get to the same conclusion you got on a moment of insight.

Willkommen nach Baal

Cruor Angelus by MajesticChicken

So, After weeks of doodling around many army options and likes I ended up where I started, with Blood Angels.

When I first started with Warhammer, I liked the IG, and I even started working on em and for some months I was thrilled and even today, I deeply enjoy how on the grim darkness of the far future they are the closes as simple humans, I can understand em.

But then, (and for this I blame all the SM propaganda) I started to like the Power Armored fellas, back then I didn't knew nor was fond about any Chapter, so I started looking on what seemed the most heavily armored units, which lead me to terminators, subsequently Deathwing and Logan Wolfs, but what really got me was the SpaceHulk board game, I loved those Blood Angel terminators, so I decided to go the aesthetic path.

So back then I em went Blood Angel based on the looks, and tho it was a superficial pick, now as a more mature player I find it was right.

Moral of the story, Trust your Instincts.

Inquisitorial Warbands

Last time I talked about Grey Knights I focused on what I knew about them, which basically was the power armored, I mean, i knew about the Inquisitors and their warbands, but didn't really cared, until I heard some bat-reports about them kicking buts, (again, Grey Knights Everywere!)

So I took a dip on the codex again, and review said units, and let me say, they are just as good as their power armored counterpart.

First of all, the inquisitors are their focus HQ, and they can be customized from a Caparace armored mean looking guy, to a fully armed terminator-like killing machine. That itself its something to look for, but then we have the Warbands.

This units are basically the henchmen from the Inquisitors, and anyone who has encountered any Inquisition related data, know that could be almost anything and everything. Dex-wise we can mix from Psychers, arco-flagelants, demon hosts, to the very variably Acholythes (Dark Heresy RPG Characters :D).

For me this opens a whole new world of options, almost as a whole new codex itself, all of that with the option to combine it with the already known awesome Grey Knights.

I still have to review the ramifications of this recent enlightenment, but for sure I'll come back to talk about it.

Grey Knights a-Lot

So, today as I was reading my regular blogs, I was shocked that 3 out of 4 were talking about their Grey Knights! I know ppl follow trends, I know ppl belive on the Codex Creep (belief that the newest codex is the strongest) and I Know damn good that Grey Knights are awesome! But this really gives me crashing feelings.

When I started my Blood Angels, GreyKnights were around the corner, I didnt knew em, and thats probably why I didnt chose em then. I build an elite Blood Angels Army, and I even named em "Blood Knights". So I couldnt avoid noticing the similarities with the then-recently Grey Knights.

Well, I couldnt change my mind back then, mostly because I fell in love with my Blood Knights, but since then I've had the Grey Knights on high esteem. Not so long ago I was thinking about getting some GreyKnights myself, but they are starting to look to mainstream now =/

Im not sure, I'll probaly just let them cool of some time on my wish list. Whats sure, is that I'll start getting ready to beat em on the fields, as they seem to be gaining ground, AND games.

Deathwatch RPG

So, after 1 weak I finally received my pre-order promo skins for Space Marine, it was a big hassle but finally i got my Iron Warrior and Emperor Son's Armour pack, nor that I cared much about em anyway :D

Aside from that as I was talking about Dark Heresy RPG, now I'll take on "Deathwatch" another RPG from the same producers:

This time we take our Power Armour and bolters, and play as SpaceMarines, but not any space marine, but from the not-so-secret Secret Chapter "Deathwatch". This group, nor a chapter per-se gathers some of the best brothers of the Imperium, to fight alongside the Inquisition, specifically the Ordo Xenos.

On this Mix-up of chapters, every brother has to fit themselves with diferent and even oposing ideologies, Space wolfs, and Dark angels, side to side, or Blood angel and ultramarine desciding wich is the best tactic, it all makes facing the Xenos a more complex thing this time.

about the mechanics of the game, it follows the same engine as Dark Heresy, and its even compatible, Obviously its on a different scale level, as we are now fighting Hordes and even Carnifex'es which is awesome!

As usual, any interest on this, beep me.