Necromunda Goliath Gangers

Finally finished my first gang for Underhive...the Goliath Gang. Well not totally finished. Need to do the base surrounds, probably a light grey colour to blend with the gangs colour scheme.

Escher and Orlock gangs to do next.

House Goliath

Just a few more Piccies of some of the Goliath Gangers

Underhive Goliath Gang

Hi guys,

Been quiet on here recently, but I have been busy unboxing and assembling and carefully painting my first gang for Underhive.

Now, I had Underhive for Christmas, mainly because my immediate family and friends idea of Wargaming is limited to Games Workshop....bless 'em. Not complaining though. What you actually get in the box is well worth the money and the sculp quality is excellent, so even if the rules "dont pan out", the figures, terrain and templates etc would be useful for another scifi type setting.

I have assembled both gangs (Goliath and Eschers) and decided to do Goliaths first. I have painted them based upon the box images for colour scheme etc and I dont think they have turned out bad at all.

The first five front shot

....rear shot

second five front shot

...and rear shot. Just have to do the bases now. They will probably be a suitable grimey industrial look with some minimal alien vegetation attached. I will provide the finished shots next weeks with some progress shots of the House Escher Gang.

Games Workshop (Citadel) Painting App

A few weeks ago, I downloaded the Citadel Paint App....thought it might be slightly useful...and it is free.

This was for iPad.

Anyhow, I set aside an hour to browse through its various functions.

I am actually well impressed. The main menu has 4 options

1. GET STARTED this shows you a list of various techniques and paint types available and also different brush types to use for said techniques
2. PAINT BY COLOUR this option provides a list of 16 main colours...red, orange, green,blue, brown,grey,gold,bone,pink,yellow,turquoise,purple,black,white,silver and flesh. By selecting a colour (say, Red), you are then shown some shade variations. So for Red you get Scarlet, Dark Red, Bright Red,Red, Blood Angels Armour, Farsight Enclave Armour, Behemoth Flesh and Flesh Tearers Armour. By selecting one of these you are given a "recipe" of which colours are required to achieve the result...Basecoat, Shade, Edge Highlights. At the top are the options to select a Layering or Drybrush technique...this will give you differing results. On the right hand side of each Paint name is a Pot with a Tick icon and a Pot with a Star icon. If the Pot is a black colour, then you have it in your inventory ( more later ) and if the Star is black then it is on your wishlist / shopping list....which you can print out ( more again later ). At the bottom is a picture showing a Marine backpack shown in the colour / technique you have selected.
3. PAINT BY MINIATURE this option shows you a library of GW painted miniatures....ok...ok...so its all GW stuff, but just pick out the "theme" you are looking for, never mind the actual shape and size and type of miniature. There are over 80 pictures to choose from, so you should find something suitable for your Viking or Gangster figure. When you select a figure, you go down a level to a larger picture with arrowed paint descriptions of areas....then by selecting a colour, you are presented with the same colour recipe as mentioned above.
4. PAINT BASES this option gives you a range of 15 different basing style to select. Similar to the figures above but just bases.

Ok...got all that?

It took me a bit of navigating, but I eventually stumbled across the Inventory / Stock Control listing.
Well useful...took me about 30 minutes to select from the Citadel Paint range, all the paints that I had including shades, technical, washes and glazes. You may need to print off an Old to New paint name list from, say, Tabletopgamers website.

Having done that, I decided upon a few schemes for different projects to give it a go. When i reached the paint required list, it showed me what I had and what i didn't have, so I selected the ones I didn't have. When I got back to the Inventory screen again, you also have a wishlist...which you can print out for shopping purposes.

Thats it really. It is obviously totally GW biased, but just look beyond that and use it for painting schemes that you have in mind.......AND ITS TOTALLY FREE.....

I must admit, over the past few months, I could be blamed for being a bit of a GW fanboy