40k: Painting a Blanchitsu-Style Warband

We all have an artist, scientist, or engineer we can’t stop talking about if someone makes the mistake of prompting us. Tesla. Lovcraft. Marcus Aurelius (I have friends who can’t stop talking about Marcus Aurelius). For me, the person I’m most inspired by these days is John Blanche. His art, and even more than that, his approach to art and lore-building.

Blanche’s 40k art is particularly mad. Here are some examples of his work:

You might have wondered why such mad art leads to Ultramarines… why doesn’t it, instead, lead to more mad art?

A lot of other people have thought this, too. Not content to sit on their brushes, they used them instead to create the art style known as Blanchitsu.

Desaturation. A jaundiced palette. Warhammer Squalor. Here are some examples:

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Picture Credits: DeathZap.Co.Uk , SpyGlassAsylum.blogspot.com , PuttyAndPaint.com , and the incredible Nicky Grillet at NickyGrillet.com .

Now, you can imagine we don’t get a lot of requests to paint this way. We have no pictures like this on our site to invite this sort of work. GW does nothing to invite it either; its official art shows clean, clear painting depicting miniatures as realistically as possible.

So naturally, I had have it done on my own minis. Below are shots of an Inquisition warband done in a Blanchitsu style. It’s a mix old and new minis (1st edition Chaos Obliterators as servitors. New Sisters of Battle Arcoflagellants). Also, GW and non-GW figures - three are from Battle for Antares.

They’re so different from what we normally do, I feel like I’m looking at an art crime. I utterly love them.

These were done, as far as that makes sense given the art style, to Exhibition Quality.

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40k Kill Teams: Some Black, Black Ops Kasrkins

These were a gift I did for a friend. He’s always been a strong supporter of the studio, especially in the beginning when were nobodies just trying to keep the lights on for another month.

We play a lot of One Page Rules Firefight in the studio these days (it’s like Kill Team, but much simpler to get into). It’s become the heart of a little wargaming community that’s sprung up around us.

If you ever wonder what the quality of painting looks like at our studio games, here you go :) .

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

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40k Kill Teams: Is that a Kroot rifle or are you happy to see me?

Got to do a Kroot Kill Team this month. The Kroot are fantastic and I’m glad they’re finally getting themselves a practical army. Not just some footnotes in Chapter Approved and some resin kits.

Can’t wait till a full army of these turns up in the building.

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

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And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

40k: Pink Battle Sisters!

Well, mainly white, but that just frames the pink. A little tricky (white always is), but the gold offset the pink and the purple, and the basing grounds the whole look. Nice to see Arco-flagellants in this army; I feel they’re underrepresented. These (even with pink) remind me of the terrifying artwork of them in the Inquisitor rulebook.

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

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Some Leagues of Votann Miniature Painting

Another month, another Votann order.

These were done to Showcase and Exhibition Quality.

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And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).