Boston Brawl is now LIVE!

Greetings one and all. I am proud to announce after the tireless and volunteer work of our web designer Brain J. the Boston Brawl Indy GT website is now LIVE!!!! Please visit at http://bostonbrawl.com/ . See you all soon.

Weekly update on road to adepticon.

Well after a very busy week with an even busier one to come I thought I would show everyone a few pics from this weeks works. The traitor gaurd is rolling along as well as finishing up my contest winners prize form my dec blog contest. So to keep it short and sweet heres the pics.

How to traitor Gaurd Armor Part 2

Greetings all, well I meant as usual to post sooner on this but the job can interfear in many aspects of the hobby, but I have made a lot of progress on my adepticon army and will be posting pics in the weeks to come. That said I have also been finishing up the other contest winner from my dec. 09 blog so it has been a very busy week. All this coupled with doing a FOW AFRIKA KORP commission that is also almost complete So without futher Ado the final installment of the how to traitor gaurd armor

If you remember we left off with a wash of Badab Black. Now this will darken the tone drastically so make sure you thin it a little more then you want. This way you minimize the chances of messing up and can do multiple coats.


To finish you will take Mithril silver and paint either in lines or as I like to do in ticks around the edges where ever you please. This is so show ever nicely the chips the trooper would have in their armor. Well hopefully you find this usefull but I decided to add some WIP of the commission contest winner, as well as some pics from my game night last week.





Here's Some pics from game night. Had a blast of a game testing out some khorne bezerkers vs Gil's space wolf drop pod army. Great army great paint job, and was a blast of a game.



till Next time fellow bloggers!

How to traitor Gaurd Armor! Part 1

Greetings everyone, I hope your New Years was a fun and hopefully pleasant experience. I for one had an army buddy and his wife over to the new home to toast the ball drop. I will say that one of my resolutions this year is to start a different page with the blog. Show more work in progress pics, and hopefully increase the readership. With that said I thought I would cover a how-to on doing traitor gaurd armor. This is a very simple tech. that I have adopted from Dave Taylor. He was so kind as to share it on the dakkadakka forums so I thought since I was using it for my traitor gaurd I would share it with all of you. For starters you will need GW paints. Now I am sure you can find an adaptation paint to suite your needs and if you do please share as I would love to check it out. This technique though requires Tin Bitz, Boltgun metal,thrakka Green (wash),Levathian Purple(wash),Devlan Mud(wash), Black wash, and final Mithril Silver. This is the order they will go in as well so remember that with the pics. They aren't the best(hence another resolution is to buy a light box), but just bare with me on these.


Now this is with the model going through the tin bitz which will be applied first as your base coat. The next which can be seen in the pic above is a drybrush of the boltgun metal over the tin bitz. Be sure to leave some openings in the armor as this will help with the end result.


The next step as shown yet hard to see is an application of the Thrakka Green wash. You will want to do this is random spots as it shows almost a rust oxidation to the armor. Adds lots of flavor, and depth.


Our next step after the thrakka is another random application of the Levathian Purple. This is the later part will give off the discolored part that coppers show/most metals when they are rusted from water damage. Yes it is hard to tell with the pic, but this is just for a general idea atm.


The next step is a semi heavy application of devlan mud wash. This will dull down the colors to a more natural tone thankfully, and will go over all the metal.


Our final wash is the Badab black. This will really dark the tone of the metal and in my opinon help you for the final step of the mithril. The washes will help show to light the natural spots that the paint would either chip or be rusted.

The conclusion of this and more tomorrow!

The first contest winners done with updates form the past few weeks.

Alrighty well it has definately been a crazy few weeks with moving, and painting, and the holidays but I can say I am glad I made it through it all. The first contest winners model is done, and I rather enjoyed painting it I must say. He wanted black armor where it would ahve been green and green where black. The rest I was given freedom on and I definately had some fun. As can be seen I made the top flames blue for a multiple of reasons. First off this is THE vulkan he'stan and to me that makes him da man!!! Blue flames also give a lovely contrast that offsets the model on the battlefield. I did this as the eye catcher. Next I drybrushed up the cloak and gave it a wash in devlan mud. Finally I used bronzes up to silver to make the golds as requested. Also to note I did not do the base as I wanted the customer to be able to match the model to their army. This way they can pop it off the base do it up and BAMPH instant gratifacation. Honestly my picture taking sucks and I really need a better camera but hopefully they will enjoy the pics anyways. The next delight is an Eldar pheonix lord and let me tell you I AM STOKED ABOUT THIS ONE JUST AS BAD!!!

These pics are some of my traitor gaurd I am doing for adepticon.

Just thought I would post a pic of a friends roman army he did. I have to say I was quite impressed with one the speed of it as well as the level of detail. As stated my pics do not bring justice to these models.

fast update

Just thought since it has been over a week I would shoot you all an update. Things have been a little crazy and I hope to be able to post some pics tomorrow on recent work, and what not. After a few first and second degree burns from cooking oil today I was able to get down and get some commission work done on a vulkan hes'tan model for one of my contest winners. I have to admit I am rather digging this model, and have completed about 60% of it already. I also the other day recieved Ba'roth or however it is written and got him cleaned and ready for painting for this next week. I plan on getting pics of all of it for you all. Also I have been busy building my traitor gaurd for my adepticon team so pics to follow on that as well.

Seasons Greetings/updates on boston Indy GT

Greetings one and all I come bearing seasons greetings to all of you. It has been a very busy week for me, as with the holidays rolling around, and buying a house and all here in lovely Mass. I must profess I have more gaming room in the basement then I imagined so that for me is a short but very sweet Xmas present indeed.

Sadly my camera is still being unpacked atm so I will have to share everything with you all instead of take pics which I was hoping to do. this past week I finished a Historical commission for 40 Marines (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ARMY RULES!!!!) from the boxer rebellion. Despite my noticable alliegances I completed this progect, and will admit I really enjoyed doing it. Those I was able to get some snap shots of before I packed them so once the cameras out I will get those on the blog. I also began working on Vulkan He'stan from Games Workshops warhammer 40k as part of my free commissions to my two winners of my blog contest. The other winner choise a very Lovely Jan'zar(however it's spelled) from the Games Workshop Warhammer 40k Eldar Line. Sadly I am still waiting for this to show up in the mail as being the holidays things tend to go extra slowly fro some lovely reason:) . I am really looking forward to doing these as well I always injoy a bit of a challenge, and the paint schemes these winners chose should look amazing so I only hope I can live up to their hopes.

In other news I have advanced my Indy GT a little bit more that will be held here in Lovely B-Town Mass in May of 2010. With one of my VIP's Locked in and some sponsers too this is slowly shapeing up to be a great event that I am very excited for. On that note i will leave you all with the website to it, and if you have any questions on the event please email me at Boston_Brawl@yahoo.com. Here is the website address, and again happy holidays. http://bostonbrawl.wetpaint.com/

-alex