I love Lydia a lot and in this, our 7th year together, we get to celebrate our Valentines Day in a simple way for the first time as a married couple.
Just to share a picture of us eating at Carl’s Jr:
And… not to forget, the best Valentine’s gift ever (for now):
Just a quick short post to say “Thanks dear, love you forever!” Always will.
Besides visiting people and disseminating Ang Pows, I spent my Chinese New Year painting some. Actually, these two have been projects for about three weeks now and it’s just that I got some time during Chinese New Year to put the finishing touches to them.
Here they are… together with some self-written fluff (backgrounds).
Saint Celestine
She’s the living icon of the Sisters of Battle and the Ordo Hereticus. A repentia (think crazy suicidal woman) that met her death in battle but miraculously came back to life. In gaming terms, she’s an overcosted special character that gets to come back to life as long as she keeps passing leadership tests.
Painting-wise, I used thhe standard three-layer technique (basecoat, Highlight 1 and Highlight 2), together with Chestnut Ink for the Burnished Gold armor and a Flesh Wash for the fleshy bits. The most challenging part was making the fiery effect of the sword, which I still haven’t mastered, and adding gloss varnish to the Lava streams on the base so as to create the “wet” effect.
Brother-Captain Davion
This is your standard Grey Knight Hero model, remodeled with a Psycannon instead of the standard storm-bolter. I needed an avatar on the field of battle and so I made him Davion (a derivative of my name lah). Haven’t come up with a fluff story for him yet.
I love static grass, and all my Grey Knights are based with liberal amounts of Static Grass because it contrasts great with the mechanical looking grey-steel armour. Best thing I love about painting grey knights is the liberal amount of inking and drawing I get to do with my felt tip pen. All the icons are hand drawn, as is his insignia.
That’s it for this update! Let me know what you think?
Gone done myself some painting for me latest army. And I’m so excited, I have to share them here.
These Grey Knights are the best of the Imperium and the Emperor’s finest. Got a bit of static grass on them. I’ll have to pull that off tonight… o_O
