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@Igice - It was pretty fun and I'm glad you visit some as well Keep that geek spirit!

@Largeblastmarker - OI! That's my line when threatening GrimDork, damn it! ... *grumble*, I will, but only tomorrow


So yeah, I *WAS* going to start the NE Druid, the last WoW miniature but long story short, a friend returned recently from Japan and tonight we met up and talked about his life, experiences and the paradise on Earth that Japan seems to be.

To make this even shorter, he brought some goodies, one very cool lookin' Evangelion book filled with short stories unrelated to the main plot and a Rei figurine.



So, yeah, ever since I saw that god-like show that was Neon Genesis Evangelion (so many, many years ago) I have been a fan of this fantastic char that's Ayanami Rei. I *MAY* be entering an area that *MAY* be considered creepy. I bet I can scare a lot of good people if I add candles or an altar to the following scene. It would be an interesting experience but I better not

(*SPOILERED* for massive impact once you open it )



I swear to the God-Emperor I don't own any body-pillow or anything like that! Don't look at me like that, damn it!

So yeah, no painting updates for today! Tomorrow I'll hopefully start the NE Druid!

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Alright got that out of my system

I have many <3's for Evangellion, but I've never been able to reckon the anime/manga aesthetic of 13-14 year old children with super model figures (that also do jobs adults should probably be doing, at that). That said, neat collection, cool show, remember no candles!

Japan is pretty cool. There's a lot of scenic countryside to be seen, and shrines and stuff. And Tokyo was crazy big (of course I haven't been to the middle of another proper city, anything I've had to do with Chicago has been on the outskirts so yeah), with city as far as you could see (even from the tower). The only souvenirs I managed to come back with were pictures and a Duel-Maid action figure thing (it was Japan, I had to get some kind of quirky anime toy).

And now, I second LBM's *whipcrack*!

Considering your reaction with such innocent figurines, I really better not After all, there's a lot of Rei figurines I saw over the years there were very... interesting, yes, let's go with interesting, it's a good adjective and sometimes they were interesting together with Asuka.

Glad to know you enjoyed Japan, I'm hoping to go there one day. Ofc I will have to restrain myself, because I think there's no way I could resist many of those beautiful collectibles.

And you have no reasons to use that whip! Where are those finished zombies, uh, uh?

Edit: Damn it, he did post those zombies right after posting here. Curse you, GrimDork!

Whuh? Look thee to mine blog goodsir! There be the zombies of which thee speakest! Verily there are zombies, and soon to be five more, the last five at that!

And I was just being funny about the figures, those are all pg and tame, I can only imagine what the deeper bowels of google would assault me with should I search for Rei and Asuka

Really, we didn't get to do a whole lot of shopping, or I probably would have had more junk to bring home I got some stuff for other people, I just didn't keep a lot (besides it was rough lugging around what suitcases I had!).

I have never seen that paticular animie I will have to check it out after work today!!

Neon Genesis Evangellion? Yes. Watch it now.

Please do Igice, It's one heck of a show that'll probably will leave you scratching your head thinking "what the hell just happened?"

I honestly don't know if you should just watch the new movies, the Rebirh of the Evangelion. According to friends, who love Evangelion as I do, the movies are spectacular. The first 2 movies are the entire anime. They removed some of the more, er, irrelevant angels and the end is somewhat different.
The third movie is when things get new. I'm hoping to watch all of them this next weekend I have always been afraid of watching them thinking I would be completely disappointed, but I have recently heard too many positive opinions to ignore them any further.

Anyway, concerning our familiar Wow miniatures, NE Dr00d is done!



Lots of greens and browns to represent good ol' Mother Nature! ... She's a scary b*tch

Done and done, I don't want to see more WoW miniatures for a long time, I rea- *looks at the extra 4 WoW board game miniatures another friend asked him to paint* - well... frak.

There'll be no updates for a while: they are the same as some of the already painted previously: Orc Warrior, Undead Mage, Human Warlock, Dwarf Hunter, and they are probably going to be painted in the same way, or close. So yeah, a bit boring

Until next time!

The sacrifices we make for our friends!!!

CHARGE HIM COMMISION PRICES!

Druid looks good. Will be impatiently awaiting new stuff!

WOOT! They are only missing some final touch-ups and base clean-up + matt varnish but they are pretty much done:


I think some of them look better than the ones from my first attempt.

Now I am going to take a small break from painting WoW miniatures. As I briefly mentioned previously (unless I dreamt it), I'm probably going to sell most of my Necrons so I can start Space Marines. I really wanted to avoid an army that sells more than the entire Fantasy range, but I am and always have been an Imperium of Man fanboy and this new codex, oh boy, I'm loving it far too much.
I'm going to use these next days to search the interwebs for potential prices and finally watch the Evangelion movies and plenty of new cool videos at miniwargaming. Lots of new painting videos I still haven't seen!

Until a next time

Kickass! Looking great as always. Those were some cool necrons but marines are always in style

Let us know about the spesh mahreens, looking forward to seeing you workin on them

That dwarf is amazing!
my only C&C is the orc skin... it maybe just the lighting/photo but it looks one dimension no depth to it
just my thoughts!!

@igice knowing TDL, its probably the photo. Even when he speed paints his layers have layers

 GrimDork wrote:
layers have layers

did you just quote Shrek? also TDL nice to see you have finally been (brutally and horribly) Assimilated into the imperium. have fun xeno scum (ironic cuz i'm getting tau right?)

I really like the purple on the human warlock???s dress btw.

@GrimDork - Thank you, I hope I eventually do the IoM great justice

@Igice - Haha, thank you Igice. It's probably the photo, his skin is probably the thing I layered the most using Warpstone Glow and Moot Green but all C&C is more than welcome, thank you!

@LBM - Nothing wrong with some Tau heresy! Eventually I would love to paint a riptide Giant Mechs <3. Thanks, I really enjoy painting purples. They are good lookin' and easy to boot! Nothing like those damned yellows, whites and "bone".

I figured it was I know I have enough problems with mine some days

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
@Igice - It was pretty fun and I'm glad you visit some as well Keep that geek spirit!

@Largeblastmarker - OI! That's my line when threatening GrimDork, damn it! ... *grumble*, I will, but only tomorrow


So yeah, I *WAS* going to start the NE Druid, the last WoW miniature but long story short, a friend returned recently from Japan and tonight we met up and talked about his life, experiences and the paradise on Earth that Japan seems to be.

To make this even shorter, he brought some goodies, one very cool lookin' Evangelion book filled with short stories unrelated to the main plot and a Rei figurine.




So, yeah, ever since I saw that god-like show that was Neon Genesis Evangelion (so many, many years ago) I have been a fan of this fantastic char that's Ayanami Rei. I *MAY* be entering an area that *MAY* be considered creepy. I bet I can scare a lot of good people if I add candles or an altar to the following scene. It would be an interesting experience but I better not

(*SPOILERED* for massive impact once you open it )

Spoiler:

I swear to the God-Emperor I don't own any body-pillow or anything like that! Don't look at me like that, damn it!

So yeah, no painting updates for today! Tomorrow I'll hopefully start the NE Druid!

I apologise to all of you, and I have no idea what this anime is, but the first picture looks like it is touching itself
Ps- dl, why have you stopped with the evil zombie death robots? I really liked.

Haha, no, no, no touching herself, I don't collect that kind of anime figurines She's just being Rei. She's from Neon Genesis Evangelion, an anime first aired on 1995. I still think it's one of the best.

Well, don't be sad mate, there's a lot more of awesome zombie robots IN SPAAAACE here in dakkadakka. Here, this blog has absolutely amazing ones. The big reason I stopped is because I have been painting all kinds of stuff and I really want to move on to Space Marines. As I said previously, I have been an Imperium of Man fanboy ever since I first heard what a Space Marine was and I don't want to resist it any longer

Anyway, a small announcement: The "hobby" side of my life has taken a big hit because something else has been keeping me very busy. No, thankfully it's not work, it's something I absolutely enjoy. I'm finally learning Japanese. Saturday was my first lesson and wow, this is an absolutely hardcore language and I LOVE IT. Hours of my free time have been consumed with me writing hiragana symbols over and over again.
In short, I'm hoping to keep on "hobbying" but at a slower pace.

Until a next time

Just remember to paint something once in awhile and pop back in to check on us nerds!

Grim, don't you worry, I'm always checking what's happening around dakkadakka and I'm anxiously awaiting the completion of certain Knight Sabers

Muahaha, they're coming, getting a bit side-tracked without a dedicated list! Just don't forget about us as you learn all of your kanji and such forth.

Ahoy, mateys! Long time no post!

So, I have been slacking off a lot thanks to other hobbies (those darn videogames, and anime and japanese studies ) and an enormous laziness when it comes to pick up a camera and photograph my progress but I managed to beat said laziness yesterday. So, what's new in the hobby world?

I'm currently tackling with a Space Wolves commission that's going to keep me busy for a long while. Besides this, I'll probably create another blog to document my eventual Infinity army painting.

So, on the top of my head I remember I have the following SW to paint:
- 20-ish Gray Hunters
- 10 Blood Claws
- 5 Long Fangs
- 1 FW Venerable Dreadnought
- 1 Rhino
- 1 Drop pod
- 6 Thunder wolf Cavalry

This is what I can recall. I'm sure I'm missing something but I think it's good enough to show how I'm going to be busy for a while. So, without further delay:

Fenrisian Wolves

To spice things up, I decided I would paint half the wolves as Timber Wolves and the other half as Gray Wolves. I figured it would look more colorful and eye-catching on the tabletop.



Details:



Since they were Timber Wolves, I figured it was the perfect excuse to attempt to add some remains of trees for the first time. Surely there's a lot of blown up bits of trees in the middle of a battle with lots of bolter rounds flying around. I like it, it breaks the white and gray just fine



Details:



No trees for the gray wolves, the poor guys come from a much colder region of Fenris only snow, rocks and ice.

The pack, it hungers!


Wolf Guard Terminators - Old School

I wasn't the one painting these guys. They have their original paintjob, which means it's around 20 years old and personally I think it looks damn good. No, what I did was replacing their bases: The bases were old school ones, 25mm, instead of the current Terminator sized ones, 40mm. Not only that, they were the same style everyone used back then, the horrible, just GOD-EMPEROR AWFUL green bases. They looked good, but they look even better with a proper base:





Njal was the only miniature I previously fully painted for this army, do you think he can look forward to what's coming?


That's all for now! Thank you all for looking, C&C is always welcome and happy hobbying!

Welcome back!
I really like those wolves, especially when they are all together in the full pack, and I love the basing on them, looks exactly how a cold planet should look... Cold! Tree stumps look great aswell.
Im looking forward to seeing the marines now because Njal looks great!

Looks to be up to your usual standard of awesome! Be sure to let us know here when you start your infinity blog so we can watch that bucket of awesome too!

@HoeJarris - Thank you I'll try not to disappoint

@GrimDork - Haha, thanks! I'll be sure to link the infinity blog once I start working on it! I hope they have already been dispatched to my FLGS so I can get my hands on them soon

Those wolves look great!

Those old school Termies and Njal look awesome as well.

Lucarikx

Waiting to see the vendread!

@Lukarikx - Thank you. Now go work on some more Gundams!

@LBM - Your wish is my command *bows*



Fine, he isn't exactly painted, but it's a nice action shot of "grandpa" and his "kids". They were primed with GW's new spray "The Fang" and I'm quite happy: not owning an airbrush, this spray really saved me some time. I need to paint with the brush several areas I missed with the spray, but it should be much easier and faster than if they were primed black. I bet it's gonna help me a lot with the Rhino too.

Spot the Wulfen, I think I made him "berserky" enough But no more hobby for today, gotta study Japanese. Hopefully, I'll start painting the dread tomorrow night.

Happy Hobbying everyone!

How do you say "awesome!!" in japanese??