Daughters of the Burning Rose - resins from Anvil Industry

My chums down at Anvil Industry sent me some miniatures this weekend. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. 

Paint jobs in the coming weeks.

The kickstarter has closed now but take a look and see... they should be available for retail in the near future:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/daughters-of-the-burning-rose

Daughters of the Burning Rose

I was lucky enough to get some of the initial test casts from Anvil Industry for their Daughters of the Burning Rose kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/daughters-of-the-burning-rose

As to be expected from Anvil by now these are superior miniatures - solid design and perfectly cast.

Do note these are not the production miniatures (I don't expect anything to change between these tests and the actual production miniatures).

I'm a backer on the project so will get another of these Inquisitor miniatures... I'm glad of that, I'd like another chance to paint this miniature it's definitely up there as an all time favourite.

Martial Orbital Fusiliers: Heavy Weapons

The Anvil greatness continues. I seriously recommend this range.

So far these have been straight builds of the kits as they come... next up I get to do some conversion work! Assault teams with shields, commanders, and I'll raid the Afterlife range for a mech or power suit... or two.

http://anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/regiments-full-squads/regiments-martian-orbital-fusiliers

http://anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/regiments-heavy-support-weapons/regiments-portable-phase-cannon

http://anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/regiments-heavy-support-weapons/regiments-tesla-annihilator-heavy-support-weapon

http://anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/regiments-heavy-support-weapons/regiments-heavy-weapon-gun-tractor

Anvil Industry Regiments - Heavy Weapons

Hobby time has been woefully short as of late, any spare time has been spent learning zbrush!

I have however managed to squeeze in a few bits and pieces...

Heavy weapons for the Martian Orbital Fusiliers from Anvil Industry. Excellent kits as usual. And, some undercoats for my greek mythology test sculpts.

Afterlife by Anvil Industry - Ephraim Bolivar "the Mechanic"

This guy has a real comic book manga feel to him, the muscles immediately reminded me of Colossus from the X-Men.

He's described as a weapons developer, obviously a little mad who likes to test out his creations in the field. With that in mind I went for a simple metallic colour scheme. The white casing on the leg power assist rig is brand new - no damage to the paintwork, yet.

Anvil have already stated their intent to expand the Crane Corporation line next year, I hope we see some one off mechanical abominations to take to the field with this guy.

Pick him up here - http://anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Unity-Council/Ephraim-Bolivar

Here's the next Afterlife unit I'll be painting up soon... (started ages ago).

Painting tutorial: Afterlife C-48 Warden Autonomous Mech

Here I'll go through the steps I take to achieve these rough and quick paint jobs!


1. Undercoat

I used Uniform Grey spray from the Army Painter

2. Colour Blocking

In this order based on layers and physical depths (to minimise mistakes):

• Skavenblight Dinge for rings and washers.
• Leadbelcher for metal areas, including features on the base
• Ceramite White for the armour plating
• Mechrite Red for the eye lenses

3. Wash

Nuln Oil over everything, even the base!

4. Highlight (the make it pop stage)

Fine edge highlights for this stage, I sometimes call this 'mechanical' painting - it's all straight lines.

• Ceramite White for the armour plates, and a little dot at the top left of the eye lenses
• Russ Grey for the main casing of the Mech
• Evil Sunz Scarlet for the bottom right half of the eye lenses
• Runefang Steel for all the exposed metal areas

5. Battle Damage - OPTIONAL STAGE

You can skip this if you want! I use this step to add character to miniatures, and to tidy up any mistakes I've made along the way.

• Skavenblight Dinge - Paint some chips and scuffs. Pick out the edges and the corners: areas where the paint will get chipped off during a stumble in a concrete warzone, or where stray bullets make contact.
• Runefang Steel - Paint thin streaks of silver on the Skavenblight Dinge, leaving the dark grey showing around the edges.

6. Finish it! (Base)

Before we do the base paint a tiny dot of Macharius Solar Orange in the bottom right of the lenses.

• Drybrush the base texture with Adeptus Battlegrey.
• Drybrush the metal base features with Snakebite Leather.
• Do a final drybrush on the base texture with Ulthuan Grey (see the final note regarding line dynamics on this).
• Chaos Black for the bevel edge of the base.

DONE!

Appendix. Line dynamics

If you look at the light grey drybrushed lines below you'll notice that they generally follow the direction of travel or attention of the miniature.

• On the left one, less noticeable, the selective drybrushing conveys a forward movement - the light grey runs parallel on either side of the right foot touching the ground. 
• On the miniature on the right, there's a very clear light grey line that runs parallel to the gun arm taking aim. This line is so pronounced it could be a pavement or road marking.

Either way, there's a method to the highlight - it's selective in such a way that complements the miniature and suggests action and direction!

The Crane Corporation. I'm pretty sure Anvil Industry are expanding this faction next year...

Afterlife - Unity Council C48 Warden Autonomous Mech

Another treat to paint from Anvil Industries Afterlife range - the C48 Warden Autonomous Mech.

I've omitted any markings for the time being, I might come back at a later date and add some detail. I have 3 more so will do a tutorial for them in the near future!

Pick up some for yourself here ; http://anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Unity-Council/Warden-Mech