Astro's three colour contest

Just finished my entry for Astronomican's latest contest.

I choose an old conversion using genestealer, cadian and flagellant bits to make a genestealer cultist. Though judging from his face I'd better rephrase that and change it to a hybrid. For my colours I choose:
- ultramarine blue
- sunburst yellow
- blood red
- chaos black, skull white and boltgun metal


That's right, I choose the hard road and started with nothing nbut primary colours. Which was a bit of a challenge and really took me back to my old painting days. Just mix and you get secondairy colour:
- blue + yellow = green
- blue + red = purple
- red + yellow = orange
After that you can either take it one step further by adding black and white to create different shades or simply start mixing secondary colours in a 1/3, 2/3 ratio to get more and more differentiation going. Using a wet pallette things get a whole lott easier, both with mixing and blending:


Luckily I managed to borrow another camera tonight, so I have some pics of the finished thing. No wip unfortunately, spent all afternoon working on this guy. The brown of the rob shows up a tad dull, shame the glazes aren't showing all that well. Really enjoyed working from nothing but the primary colours, sure I wasted some paint but the result is pretty decent. Even if I say so myself.



The skin in particular seemed like a huge challenge, but turned out to be pretty simple and enjoyable. A quick mix of blue, red and white created a soft pink basecoat. After this followed a series of purple and purple glazes, as well as a more peachy layer of highlights. This was created by adding a tiny bit of yellow to original skin colour.


Not even sure if I'm actually still in the running here, but I have no idea where I'd stand in comparisson with the rest of the entries. I was a bit more ambitious with colour mixing, but some of the other colourschemes are really striking. Ah well, time will tell!

Might even have to take on a new avatar for a while

Humble beginnings, welcome to Hephesto's Forge!

Well, it looks like I've fallen to the lure of starting another blog. A minor introduction and describtion of the motivation behind this blog seem in order.

My name is Willem-Jan, though I go around the web using Hephesto or Heph. In addition to my univeristy work studying Psychology and my job as labcoordinator I'm also a long time warhammer fanatic. A couple of years ago I pretty much found myself without gaming buddies and time to put into the hobby. That was until I was persuaded to drift over to the Astronomican forums, a place where I've been lingering ever since. Eventually rising through the ranks to the position of admin. Though the place is a relatively small forum, I do like to thing we do our part in promoting the hobby we all love and spend way too much cash on!

Now why a blog on blogspot you may ask, well there are several reasons. First of I'd like to reach out a bit to more hobbiers than the people I normally interact with on the few forums I visit. Secondly I feel like a blog like this will give me that extra needed bit of motivation to say focused on my gaming projects. And I really do need some extra focus, especially with some many different new things constantly popping up. And finally it just seems like a whole lott of fun to do!

To finish of this first entry I'd like introduce some minis of my latest project - a small Relictor force, partially build from the new starter Marines. Mostly I am just somebody who's in the hobby for the gaming and painting, so this will not be the most competitive army.
And some of the other stuff on the painting table - Terminators, Librarian, Dread and some Subjugator allies:

And there you have it, the first post. In the future you'll (hopefully) be able to see this Relictor force grow, find some Lord of the Rings minis pop up as well same some more Tyranids!