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Oh yeah keep your current troll/wight setup, forgot about those guys.

I had that undead unit till recently, just gave all the undead to the brother in law that I play with occasionally. Even had some of the mordheim casualty figures in the batch to be fresh meat for the grinder.

The skeletal ogres look fantastic. What do you plan to do from the Gondor side to finish off your January quota?

Loving htose Wights Az - really nice sculpts with an even nicer paintjob. The armour tones got perfectly with the ethereally coloured robes - top job

Still love those wights! they look great :-)

Those wights are gorgeous! Can you tell us more about them -- manufacturer -- paint job details -- if you can remember?

Cool skeletons. I like the look of those Harpies too.

EDC

Thanks guys!

Archer - I'm renovating/repainting a unit of Gondor Cavalry that I picked up off eBay ages ago. They were somewhat painted, but no mould lines were cleaned, no gaps filled etc, so I've used them in games but they need basically a total repaint to be at a level where I'm happy with them - the existing paint is a base coat at best. I redid their bases awhile back, and I've been trimming them and LGSing them today. I've got a second unit in pretty much the same condition for Febor March or something, but I need to drill out the broken lances and replace them. Just ordered some new drill bits since I can't find my really fine ones.

Also doing a little bit of DS scenery, but that doesn't count towards the monthly total, just my "beat 2015" numbers.


Thanks for the kind words on the Wights, guys - the ones in the pic there are the two Citadel Lord of the Rings Barrow-Wights with one of the plastic(!) Army of the Dead guys in the middle. All really nice models. I've got the Otherworld Wights to paint at some stage which are also exceptionally nice models - (maybe as part of this down the road) but I'll need to find a third with the same kind of body size/proportions to make a third for them. I'm going to see if I can get a big batch of MDF bases made up, so once I do, I can build up some sort of cool barrow for each set of three to stand on.
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Barrow-Wights

Ian, I can't recall exactly how I painted them - it was well before the new GW paint range and nihilakh oxide, so it'd just be a mixture of mid-greens and blues. The metal again was before I discovered Devlan Mud, etc, possibly with Model Air metallics or even P3 - so it's probably various metals with paint wash and a bit of brown ink for the aging. Honestly, AP Dark Tone or Nuln Oil and so forth would probably work just as well.

Marouda's slowly working on the Harpies. Funny thing is seeing just how much slower she is compared to me. A combination of going much slower and more carefully and then taking 20+ minutes to do the stuff that takes me literally 2 and a half minutes. She also paints much less often than I am able to. I'd estimated having them finished around now to show off tomorrow, and they're still very much in the starting base coat stage.

Thank you. Think I'll have a go at getting a similar effect. It's nice to see something different to the usual black robes.

Whatever the misgivings about broken and warped models, the usual Mantic Missing items, and Jake's half-arsed co-op rules, the scenery items for Dungeon Saga on the other hand, are pretty damned good. The doors are made from a proper, hard plastic (ABS or HIPS, most likely) while the bookshelves, wells, barrels, and so forth are made from a softer PVC-type plastic. Both sets are actually pretty damned good - especially for stuff that comes in a boardgame - and I've got no hesitation in recommending them to anyone.



So I decided to start painting up a few of these pieces. Now, a word of warning. I purchased several cans of Rust-O-Leum sparay paint awhile back, since the cans read that they were a primer and colour spray in one, and that they have some kind of special formulation that binds to plastic. Great! I sprayed a bunch of my PVC scenery with it, and the stuff simply never properly dried. Even after more than a week of Melbourne's Summer Heat. This made my "quickly knock up some scenery quickly" task a lot more painful than I'd planned. The brown eventually mostly dried, but the black was still sticky and horrible, and so I threw them into some Simple Green a few days ago. I'll get back to those, later. The point here being - DO NOT USE Rustoleum spray paint on miniatures. At least the formulation that they sell here in Australia. Never had a problem with other brands, and so I'm back to those. On reflection, though - it seems similar to problems that people have had with Reaper's Bones PVC, so maybe it's not the spray after all. I'll have to do some tests on HIPS sprue and some resin offcuts....

As I have three wells in hand due to buying two of the sets + extras (I'm missing more scenery, too), I had an idea as I was taking them outside to undercoat. My first thought was to paint them all "dungeon grey"/bluestone but then as I was getting out the spray primer (damn Rustoleum) I had the thought to paint them differently. One to go with my desert mat, one to go with my green mat and one to go with the dungeon internals. I added a bit of Vallejo realistic water at the bottom of each to make them look a little nicer than just leaving the shallow sculpted bottom (which, again is quite decent for a sculpted model.) I painted the first one as pretty uniform sandstone, and the second one as field stone. I added a bit of variation between the stones, but that seems to have mostly disappeared after washes and highlighting. I finished the field well by adding some plant growth around the edges, and added a little more realistic water than in the desert well.

Seeing how well there turned out makes me a little less apprehensive about the amount of dungeon furniture I have to paint for my January goal. I especially like the idea of painting the well as something other than dungeon grey. We always need scatter terrain, and a well or two will look nice among the papercraft village I've been working on for the last couple of years.

Those are great AZ, nice rich tones on the wood.

At one time I pointed out the bones like nature of furniture but apparently not enough to save you the grief of finding out for yourself. I just needed up painting directly onto the tackiness with my chosen colors and hit it with testors dullcote lacquer, sorted that issue right out.

I must have missed your warnings, sadly. I ordered both sets of the Reaper HD paints the other day, in part to use for basecoats and also in part so I can get more Bones painted without BS. I guess they'll also be perfect for Mantic's furniture.

Surprised to hear about the primer not drying probably, but it looks like you salvaged them.

EDC

These were done with the brown, which seemed to (mostly) dry. The ones I sprayed black are the ones I've got a real concern about.

Damn, Grim - now you've got me wondering if I should wait until my Reaper HDs come in sometime in early Feb before doing the bookcases....

I have a can of rustoleum.. haven't used it yet. And bullet dodged from the sound of it though!!

To be fair - it might be the material. I'd test it on some sprue if I were you. In fact, I'll test it on some sprue here as well, when the humid, thunderstormy weather abates and we get back to regular heat.

That's a real shame about the primer - I didn't have an issue with the Army Painter ones I was using, but I did find that the washes I used on mine tended to bead away from some areas on the models.

Yours have come out very nice though. I share your enthusiasm for the set - I hope they do another bunch at some stage because I would definitely buy it.

If its just like bones wash it t hourougly with soap first that helps with beading. Also hand prime with paint or possibly gesso, it may take an extra coat than you're used to. Usually once you get past the first layer it's more or less like painting normally.


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THis is my plan for my own items after i get through the first tacky set.

Primer that never dries? How odd. Am interested to see if it is the spray, material or maybe the two just do not mix like oil and water.

Good job on the other DS furniture, I am glad that you have salvaged something from a project that tested your support for Mantic.

It isn't the primer, it's the stuff under the primer. And bones (and maybe the DS furniture too) is weird in that when I spray it with my usual go-to krylon matte sealer... that dries tacky and almost never gets all the way dry to the touch. My minwax dip will eventually, though in the case of my big dragon thing it took better than a week.

Testor's Dullcote lacquer (the brush on kind, haven't tried the spray variety for this purpose) has been able to, so far, fix any tackiness issues by being applied liberally to the model to seal and dull it. Dries nice and smooth, and in just minutes. Smells like it causes three kinds of cancer though, gotta use it outdoors almost it's so bad.

Going to go with material not primer I use UK Rustoleum and it's fine

I'll update on the rustoleum issue when we get past this run of rainy days.

I hope it's just the PVC in the formulation I have here, since I bought about 6-8 cans at once when I got them. I'd rather keep a use for them than have to turf them...

Well bones/DS stuff that's taken spray from Krylon has been tacky, hard plastic or metals that have taken the same sprays have not been. So that's a thing.

Nice scenery there!

WIP stuff of the moment -



6 Gondor cavalry - total repaints. The casual observer probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but I can, and that's the important thing. Filled the gaps, repainted the horses, a bit of wet blending of their hide, some variation on the socks of one of them, and then washes. Knights themselves cleaned up, mould lines and nubs where they were clipped from the sprue trimmed and cleaned up, new metal over the top. Pennants trimmed, de-lined, repainted in more of a silver-grey.

Still needs a bit more work on the knights armour, horse manes. Need to redo the black cloth of their skirts and the horse blankets. Small amount of re-detailing on the shields and add the tree and star back in on the pennants. Probably 1-2 hours work or less for the first three and then ready for varnish, but I just can't get motivated at all.



WIP on Marouda's Harpies. Some colour tests on different variations of the dark blue-black that she wants, with some stark highlights showing through. Tests using Army Painter Dark and Blue tone, vs Minitaire Ghost Tints in Midnight Blue with (regular) Blue over the top again in a second, defined section. Also combinations between the two.


After these Gondor Knights are done, I can get back to work on the December models, and then some more half-painted backlog stuff from the past N years, though in a lot of ways I just want to do something completely different and paint some Space Marines...

Loving those Gondor Knights Az - well tidy. You should reward yourself after they're done and paint something you really want to and feel like doing

I use rustoleum as well, and the dungeon saga stuff got tacky, but none of my other items did, so it's another Mantic......Fill in the blank

I dunno if its mantic exactly, anymore than it is bones. The dungeon furniture seems to be largely the same material as bones which also can't can't most spray primers.

A quick warning woulda been nice though.


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Sweet knights BTW.

Chipping in on the primer issue: I've used Rustoleum's Ultra Cover and Plastic Primer without issues on Mantic's hard plastic Kickstarter Deadzone, aswell as on "standard" PVC pipes.

I did have a non drying/stickynes episode on some soft, flexible plastic piece on a sratch build (sadly, of unknown origin or actual material), though, so the "soft" part might be the problem.

Hope further experimentation solves the matter.