Warboss Tae's Painting Table

Puppies, Corpse Carts, and Krell

2012-02-06T00:04:00.000-08:00

Sorry its been a while, I know! It doesn't help that Papa Nurgle blasted me with one of his plagues again and I've been sick as a dog this past week. But, hopefully, all of you have seen my newest set of videos on YouTube! Here is just the first of my two newest taetorials for the Vampire Counts, on how to paint the Dire Wolves, and how to paint Lewis' pimped out ride!

You also may have seen my newest video, just posted today, on Krell. Here it is if you haven't!

Also, I'm trying to add to my reviews a little more structure with the following formula, what do you think:

1) How easy is it to put together?

2) How easy is it to clean off the mold lines and flash?

3) What sorts of extra bitz come with the kit that you can put into a bitz box for later?
4) What is my general opinion of the way the model looks and final thoughts?

By implementing this structured review at the end of my unboxings and product reviews, I think people will have a clearer idea on all of the things that I think are important to prospective purchasers. Do you have any suggestions or creative criticism on my checklist? Is there anything you would add or take out? Let me know!

Puppy! Dire Wolves coming soon!

2012-01-23T12:20:00.000-08:00

Here's a test model for my upcoming Dire Wolves taetorial video. There is still some final highlighting I think I'll need to do before I can say its finished, but overall, I think it came out pretty well. Its amazing what washes can do!

Here are the paints I used (all GW):
Dheneb Stone
Adeptus Battlegrey
Red Gore
Calthan Brown
Ogryn Flesh
Baal Red
Leviathan Purple
Badab Black
Bleached Bone
Skull White

Unboxings and Tutorials!

2012-01-22T17:36:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! I just finished filming a "How to Paint Less-Armored Vampire Counts Skeleton" video, and it should hopefully be up later tonight. In the next week, I've got a lot more unboxings and tutorials planned so keep watch for them on YouTube. I'll be posting all the pics here so keep checking back to my blog as well, and thanks for all of your support!

If you haven't seen my newest Bragg the Gutsman unboxing video, here it is!

Ogre Updates, and Izzy Taetorial on the way!

2012-01-17T00:13:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

I know I haven't posted here in a while. Things have been pretty crazy in real life, not to mention the release of the Vampire Counts has kept me pretty busy. Anyway, I want to thank everyone for subscribing to me here and for all of your submissions to the Warboss Wishlist, I have a great list of side projects now that I will definitely try to get to as the year progresses. My hope for the year is to get the majority of them knocked off the list for your viewing pleasure (and my wallet's pleasure as I intend to sell off most of the one-off pieces that I don't currently have an army for).

Anyway, here are some pics of the Ogre Ironguts that I've been working on lately, as well as some pictures of the lovely Isabella von Carstein model that I'm currently working on a Warboss Taetorial for.

The Ogres are part of an Ironguts squad that was seconded to the Nordland Navy, and they still wear their former regimental colors of Blue and Yellow.

As for Izzy, you'll notice that she's not nearly done, but the majority of her basecoats and washes have been applied. Part 1 of the Taetorial is rendering for upload as I type this, and as soon as its on YouTube, I'll get to work on Part 2. Thanks for all your support in reading this blog!

Warboss Wishlist

2012-01-07T17:54:00.000-08:00

I've decided to start compiling all of the requests that I've received over the years, through my Youtube inbox. I'm going to try getting to them as much as possible, and I'll show off the list once I have it all written out, but if you'd like to get in on this action, just write a comment on what you'd like to see me paint up in a tutorial and I'll be sure to try getting to it.

(please read the following out loud in a fast, monotone voice for the best effect) WARNING - having your model on the Warboss Wishlist does not necessarily guarantee that Warbosstae will paint it. Warbosstae is very busy with painting other models, making awesome videos, and living a life outside of the wargaming hobby that is also very awesome. Adding your request to the Warboss Wishlist may or may not result in the following side effects: Involuntary Blowhole, Sweat Pants, and Mind of Mencia.

"Iron Hammer" and "Brunhilda" join the other Leadbelchers. Unit's DONE, son!

2012-01-07T01:30:00.000-08:00

Leadbelcher Tutorial Incoming!

2012-01-06T03:44:00.000-08:00

That's right, playahs!

As my computer goes about the herculean task of rendering and uploading the massive WarbossTaetorial to YouTube, I thought I'd upload some pics of my 2nd Leadbelcher, and the one that I used for the painting tutorial.

He is a little cleaner than the test model, and I haven't yet given hi a tattoo, but I did freehand his gutplate with the name "Long Tom" which was the name the Empire troopers had given to the cannon he bears into battle. Let me know what you think!

In order to paint the gutplate banner, I started with the base of Chaos Black, over which I painted a strip of Khemri Brown. Then, I used my Micron .005 pen to outline the scroll, after which I painted in Bleached Bone and Skull White highlights. Finally, I used the pen to carefully write in "Long Tom"

Sometimes, a girl just wants to look nice while she bashes yer face in!

2012-01-05T07:47:00.000-08:00

That's right, playahs!

Who's the meanest of the mean? Not that Golgfag sissy. "Kim" Karr-Bash-ya-in!

She's always rockin' the finest handbags and goes to the most expensive Cathayan Nail Salons. Her make-up is always in place and she keeps herself warm with a beautiful "authentic" Yhetee fur her baby daddy got her for Christmas. Don't be hatin!

Leadbelcher Test Model

2012-01-04T12:33:00.000-08:00

I present to you, "Ol' Cranky". Hope you like him!

Nuln Leadbealchers!

2012-01-03T21:26:00.000-08:00

Just had an idea that I think will carry over to the rest of my army. I've decided that my Ogre army will be largely a tribe of roaming Ogre Mercenaries. With the inclusion of my many manly Maneater models (try saying that three times fast), and with the already vaguely Imperial Bull and Gnoblar units, I think I'll carry the theme over into my Leadbelchers.

FLUFF WARNING! Read on at your own peril! =D

My fluff for this unit will be that these Ogre mercenaries were paid to join a small Imperial army specifically to guard a battery of Nuln artillery for a campaign against insurrectionists. Seeing how they admired the large and devastating weapons, an intrepid Engineer decided to teach these Ogres some of the more basic points of the artillerist's art while on the road between battles.

Showing an amazing (for Ogres, anyway) aptitude for learning, the lumbering hulks spent their nights poring over sketches and drilling simple arithmetic tables and equations of range finding and wind adjustment into their muscle-bound heads.

During battles, they would watch the cannon crews work, memorizing their routines of loading, sighting, and firing their cannons. While other Ogres would have stood around waiting for the enemy to bring the fight to them, the Ogre mercenaries were cultivating their appreciation of artillery and its use in battle.

Then late one evening, while camped deep within Reikwald forest, disaster struck. Chaos-worshiping traitors within the ranks assassinated the army's Generals and Captains as they slept, and a horde of filthy and crazed beastmen allied with the mutated insurrectionists stormed out of the forest to destroy the now-leaderless army.

The Engineer Captain and his men were among the first to be slaughtered, and seeing that the great and powerful cannons were left without masters, the Ogres ripped the great weapons from their carriages and brought the fight to the enemy, blasting them with whatever grapeshot they could find and using the massive cannons as clubs if any of the beastmen drew near.

At some point during the bloodbath, the beastmen lost their nerve and routed.

As the sun rose, the Ogres saw that they were among the few living souls left within the once-great army of the Empire. Without proper leadership, the disheartened state troopers began the long trek back to Nuln to report the slaughter.

None thought to ask the Ogres to go with them, and the cannons were chalked up as a loss.

/FLUFF

So in keeping with what I think is an awesome background story to my leadbelchers, I'm going to be painting them up in the army colors of Nuln (they haven't thought to change their clothes since the great massacre) and I'm going to call them by the names their old cannon crews called their cannons. They've long since forgotten their original names. "Long Tom" "Ol' Cranky" "Ironsides" and "Brunhilda"

Ogre Ninja!

2012-01-03T11:56:00.000-08:00

Here are some pics of my Ogre ninja, Steve, and his pet Gnoblar, Hitoshi Fukunabi (pronounced foo-koo-gnobbie lol). I decided to give him a 'Yakuza'-ish tattoo on his left arm and am also including some work in progress shots. Once I painted the base colors, I used my black Micron .005 pen to trace the design. What do you think?

I was really happy with the way the scars on his chest came out. Here is the recipe I used:

1) Paint Leviathan Purple into the scars, when dry paint the following colors one by one
2) Baal Red
3) Scab Red
4) Dark Flesh
5) Let scar dry, then paint a thin line of Gloss Varnish in to give the appearance of fresh blood and pus.

New Tripod!

2012-01-03T01:57:00.005-08:00

That's right, playahs! Thanks to my brother finding an awesome baby tripod that will fit right on top of my modelling table, I can now do painting tutorials where I actually PAINT while I'm talking, which I know is one of the things I enjoy watching Girlpainting and Les at APJ doing. I'm counting down the days until I have to go back to school, but until then, I'm going to work my butt off to get as much content online as possible.

Starting off the new year with Gnoblars!

2012-01-01T23:08:00.000-08:00

2011-12-31T03:53:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years Eve, my friends! Here is the video update of my finished 6 Bulls unit. Hope you enjoy them!

Vampire Counts Skeleton Boxed Review

2011-12-30T17:27:00.000-08:00

A very cool little (#sarcasm) boxed set of the GW skeletons, getting read for the new VC release this January. Enjoy!

6 Man Ogre unit DONE, son!

2011-12-30T11:16:00.000-08:00

Hope you like them! Video should be up on YouTube later today! =D

Fiddly Skeletons!

2011-12-30T03:06:00.000-08:00

Almost finished with my Product Review - Vampire Counts Skeletons!

Wow, are they fiddly! Small joints, delicate joins, each mini looks like it has half the plastic content of an Orc Boy. Praise Sigmar for the small applicator tip of Model Master Liquid Cement!

"Hey, you kids! Get off my Plastic Cement!"

I thought a fun little modelling thing would be to have the guys in the front with their shields up, protectively, while they march forward, implacably, to meet the foe!

Hope you like them! The product review video should be rendered and uploaded by tomorrow.

Ogre Update - Standard Bearer

2011-12-29T16:05:00.000-08:00

What up, playahs!

Here's what I was able to finish yesterday. A WarbossTaetorial on How to Paint a regular old Ogre:

And a standard bearer for one of my units. Praise Sigmar it was the only one that I put together with a cloth front, because I don't think I could do another free-hand one.

So as my Ogre army is coming together, I am starting to develop a little bit of fluff for them. I think I want my army to be a wandering band of mercenaries globetrotting the Old World and getting into all sorts of crazy adventures. Where I am in Hawaii, sometimes groups of tourists or college kids from the University will rent out mopeds on a Saturday and just drive around the island in one large noisy group, stopping at a beach here, or getting shaved ice (or an ice cone for my mainland or world-wide readers =) shaved ice in a cone with flavored syrup) and generally having a good time.

That's how I see this army. The Great Maw called out to them to take a holy pilgrimage and be like Russel Crowe in that South Park episode ("Making movies, Making friends, and Fightin' round the world!") One day, they get in a scrap with some Empire troopers and after smashing up a unit of Greatswords, they decided to take up their banner and use it as a trophy.

So THAT'S what all the fuss is about!

2011-12-29T06:16:00.000-08:00

I'm 2/3 of the way through the Eisenhorn omnibus trilogy and I fething love it! Over the last couple of years, I've wondered why the first 40k rpg ever released (Dark Heresy), along with many expensive supplements and add-ons, was based around the idea of being a part an Inquisitor's band, furrowing out mysteries in the grimdark far future. I don't even think you had the opportunity to rise to the rank of Inquisitor, itself, until one of the much later-released expansion books. And, with most (if not all, I can't remember off-hand) of these books being in hard-back, I couldn't understand why anyone would be interested in exploring this side of the 40k experience. Remember, at the time of release, Deathwatch, Rogue Trader, and Black Crusade were just twinkles in the eyes of Fantasy Flight Games developers.

Why couldn't we have an rpg about a party of ragtag misfits, comprised of a grim Space Marine, a wise-cracking Catachan Jungle Fighter, a sultry Eldar Banshee, a crazy Ork Freeboota, and their trusty Kroot Hound traipsing around the galaxy getting into all sorts of misadventures? No, not grim dark enough. Plus, you must remember that all the races in 40k pretty much hate each other, unlike the (slightly) more tolerant Old World of Warhammer Fantasy, where you can at least walk into the local tavern and possibly see an elf or dwarf, either of who would still sooner punch you in the face than talk to you, but regardless, the fact that they can be in the same breathing space as humans is telling.

But an rpg that was basically a detective story/Call of Cthulu in space? I didn't get it.

Until now. 2/3 of the way through the Eisenhorn omnibus. Thank you, Dan Abnett. Now I'm going to be purchasing the core rulebook for Dark Heresy, as well as the follow-up omnibus Ravenor, as well as some 40k Inquisitor models and the Grey Knight codex, which I swore I would never get because I don't like the idea of Grey Knights bathing in the blood of Battle Sisters (Waaaard!).

Really, though, what a great book. What a great story! Taking place over centuries in the illustrious career of Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, it frames his grand adventures with a glimpse into the life of the rest of the Imperium. The civilians, and day-to-day workers, Arbites (cops), and citizens who fill the hive worlds, agri-worlds, and mining worlds that make up mankind's great domain.

Rarely do Space Marines come in to steal the spotlight, and that, in my opinion, is wonderful. As the be-all, end-all solution to all problems, praise be to the Emperor for the mighty Astartes, the Space Marines are almost a deus machina that a lazy author could just drop-pod in to save the day, and Dan Abnett is NOT a lazy author. He has done his 40k homework and has weaved a sector of Imperial space that lives and breathes, and is filled with terrific characters.

Thanks, Dan Abnett! I'm sorry I ever walked past this book and scoffed at reading about something other than Ultramarines or Space Wolves. Eisenhorn and his entourage prove that its cool to be a regular human being in the grim darkness of the 41st millenium.

Welcome to my blog!

2011-12-28T23:04:00.000-08:00

So with the new year just around the corner, I came to the decision to finally get myself a daily blog to post my work! I plan to include pictures and updates, along with links to my YouTube video. Thanks to all my friends and supporters who have watched my progression through the years as a painter and hobbyist. And thanks to my busta foo' brother for helping me get this blog set up and started!

For starters, here are a couple of my most recent WarbossTaetoials, starting with my biggest Taetorial ever, THE SKAVEN DOOMWHEEL:

How to Paint an Astral Claws Space Marine:

How to Paint an Alaitoc or Iyanden Warlock:

How to Paint a Talabheim State Trooper: