Cranked out the Boomhowler Squad!

The paint job was very simple.  Two coats of GW Seraphim Sephia wash on all the Armor and cloak bits.  The metal is PP Quick Silver, with GW Nuln Oil wash.  The flesh is PP Trollblood Base followed by PP Trollblood Highlight dry brushed.  

 Some of the guns have PP Solid Gold applied to the bottom of the Blunderbusses.  I tried to make the blunderbusses look varied because I figured being Mercenaries some would kit out their guns.

 I made the lenses on the goggles darker by leaving a pool of ink in the lens recesses.  Greygore's Teeth are just light application of PP Morrow White.  The "hair" on the models is PP Umbral Umberon the bottom half with two coats of PP Skorne Red applied to the top of the "hair" strands.  The red is watered down so it smoothes the transition from brown to red.  

The stock of the guns is two layers of watered down PP Bloodtracker Brown.
I will post a final pic after everything has been based and sealed.  Have a great weekend!

Paint Rack on the Cheap!

I've been getting the man cave in order and I ran into a problem with my painting table. Most of the available "real-estate" was taken up by paint pots. So being the guy that buys first and thinks about it later I went shopping around to see what was available. I was disappointed to find nothing at all at my local hobby stores. So I turned to the google, and found one that seemed pretty neat but I decided against it.

WarStore Paint Rack

The carousel was really cool, but it was almost 50 bucks, and still would have taken up space on my desk. I really didn't find any others that I would even consider. Next I checked around to see what other gamers had done. The 40k radio freeboota forums have a great thread on man caves that is several pages long. Most of the man caves had something like this:

http://tastymonkeybrains.blogspot.com/2010/12/diy-paint-rack.html

The theatre seating style paint organizer, which is cool but I decided that what I really wanted was to get my paints off my desk all together.

This is what I ended up with:

Materials Needed:

3 Plastic Tackle Boxes (3 at $6 each)

1 Set of mounting hardware (97 cents)

Hammer

Pilot Nail (Slightly larger nail than your mounting nails)

Yes its a fishing tackle box. I found a new gamer use for the tackle box. If you don't own any of these I got it for $6 at a large store that rhymes with Paul Blart. You can get these from pretty much any place that sells fishing supplies.

Step one. Rip the lid off, and put it in the recycling. You won't need it.

Next run a pilot hole into the two top corners. This is what makes your tackle box into a wall mount rack. You really don't need to swing hard to drive the pilot nail through.

I found the easiest way to mount it was to place the mounting nails in the mounting points you just created before lining it up on the wall.

These little dividers can become your shelves if your paints are too tall for you to mount the rack horizontally.

This is your finished product.

I mounted three of them. It looks really slick and grand total ran me $20 for this enormous paint rack. I hope this DIY was enjoyable and informative. Feel free to comment, and let me know how I'm doing.