Painting faster

So, after all these years and I still haven't finished painting one army. Really terrible on my part. I tried to paint the miniatures to look better in pictures. Doing so made me get tired of painting fairly quick and take long breaks between painting sessions. Well, no longer. I am now painting to a lower standard but that's getting me to get ready to play faster.
For example, here is a 1500 points army ready for the tabletop:


I had the wave serpents, the wraith knight, hemlock wraith fighter, and the farseer painted. I painted the dire avengers in one go:



and the wraith lords and war walkers at the same time:



Now that I got that done, I'm starting with a chaos space marine army. This was the second army I got and was unpainted for the longest time. I have only gotten one game with it and most of the models were gray at the time. Next time I get them out to play they will be painted and looking good:






and I'm currently painting a vindicator, predator, and two rhinos:



I will paint all the bases at once so that they all have a unified theme. I'm happy I'm finally getting my armies painted and will stop playing with unpainted models. Wish I had done this before

Hemlock Wraithfighter and WraithKnight

So, after a weekend of painting I finished the Wraithknight's base and did all the painting on the Hemlock Wraithfighter. Also painted the second wave serpent. So much black paint, going to have to paint something else after I'm done with eldar / dark eldar, something more colourful. Here are the pictures:

and the finished wraith knight.

and the wave serpent with it's finished brother:

wip of dark eldar squad

These two are something new I have been doing for the last couple of nights. One night a model. They are still WiP but I think only the base is missing. C&C are welcome.

Dreadnought progress

Still not done with this guy, haven't found a name to put in his center banner. Still thinking of a proper greek/roman name for him but my mind always drifts into something else. I have been working on him faster than I normally do but he is a lot easier for some reason.

Still need to work on the exhaust pipes, they need more of a brownish tone. Gonna work on that
I really like this arm, just need to drill the holes for the multi-melta
I need to take a better picture of the details on this arm. It has a lot more than the melta one.
So what do you guys think of this WiP? I still need to do the metal on everything to make it look like the paint has fallen but it's almost there.

Eldar Guardians

Update time. Now with more grass :D

Ok so I managed to work and finish the entire squad, well almost finish. The weapons platform still needs work but it's oh so close. First picture three eldar guys from Ulthwé

Second picture of more Ulthwé guardians. The witchblade or whatever it is that guy is holding in his hand still hasn't been painted. I needed a break from the Eldar stuff and his sword was left behind, gonna work till completion soon.
More Eldar guardians I have come to love. Raiden absolutely adores these guys, they are turning out exactly how he planned them to be.

Weapon platform and last dude. Weapons are all still very much just with a base white plus some skull white on top to make the whiteness more white I guess.

A look at the gems, I really really like making blue gems, I think they look better than the red ones.
Thats all the Eldar in this squad, probably won't post pictures of them finished till I add something else to them...

Terminators almost done, and a little something something

While I didn't like to paint the white, the rest was a blast. I really enjoyed this squad and I'm glad its almost done. Ready to move onto more eldar now.

Need to tidy up the checkers on this one, the ultramarines U needs to be fatter and a bigger round hole in the middle, gonna work on that tomorrow. Also on this picture the promised drilled guns.
Oh power weapon, I read online how to do this red effect and couldn't wait to put it on Mr. Termy here.
Writting with a brush is a real pain. Not going to bother with fixing this :P
I did the shield on this one second and it looks a little bit better.
I liked the way the terminators on the AoBR read me had letters on the shield so I copied it.
Same
They are moving to get some sand beneath their feet :D
And this is the little something something. Gonna have a blast painting this SM Predator :D :D
Next up 3 eldar :D

Announcements

Raidengard, my cousin and I decided to just update one blog for the three of us. That way updates are more often and you don't have to visit 2 or 3 blogs in order to see what's going on.

Since we are playing Eldar Tau and Space Marines/Imperial Guard I chose that title, it's subject to change and I can take suggestions (I forgot about the evil Necrons I bought too.)

Also Raidengard and I started working on some Eldar and managed to take pictures of 3 of them (out of four.)

Hope you guys like them.

Update from black Reach

Holy week is over. Lots of beer were drank and pounds gained and no space marines were painted. Sucks cause I wanted to paint all the tactical SM, oh well. Before Holy week I managed to paint a couple and I'm about to finish space marines 8 and 9. Hopefully before sunday's game.

I decided to take a group photo. The camera didn't want to focus on anything so this is the only picture that had any focus at all.

This one I like very much. His helmet looks very cool, I tried to paint it well but I feel like I'm rushing them.

backside of cool-helmet-space-marine.

This one, I noticed there are some parts unpainted.
Backside


I "finished" the sergeant and added the text on the scrolls as suggested.

I added some text on his knee and a number on his shoulder too.

Also, I left the back skull gold but I added more wash until I was satisfied.
Here is a photo of my photo booth. Very simple... don't laugh :P

I have only started using washes and they are awesome. I want to paint orks so I can use them more often.

What do you guys think?

4th Space Marine

Ok I hope this week I get 1 Space Marine done each day or two.
I think my highlighting improved on the face of the space marine at least.

I made a mistake by not being careful with the brush and painted the face with tin bitz. It was promptly fixed :P (in the top picture: face painted with tin bitz >_<; )

I really liked the way the seal ended up but I didn't want to take three pictures (back front side) so a half side half back picture will have to do.

C&C are always welcome