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You could always get creative with greenstuff, and maybe tubular sprue? Skarbrand and the Balor Demon both look very nice. I'm tempted by both, and I think my next Reaper order is going to include that Minotaur Demon if he's finally released. Does he have many bendy issues?

The Carnosaurs up top look great, and no little thanks to you, I've had two of the "Start Collecting" Seraphon boxes turn up in the last week.

Minotaur Demon is definitely out in the wild, as I bought mine at the local shop. Bendy issues were with the horns and weapon. I solved the bendy problem by just gluing the shaft of the weapon against his thigh, as the thing kept warping and curling. No problems since. The horns weren't too big of deal. I just left them as is.

Not sure how much of a hurry I'm in to be sculpting demonic genitalia.
I've got a fair amount of Darklands stuff arrivign soon as it is, so that ought to keep that urge in check.

Those Seraphon starter boxes are crazy deals. It's basically buy a box and get everything besides the Carnosaur for free. I'll be getting one eventually to build up as a Troglodon.

Just need to get through my Tau and Khorne boxes first, and then possibly a Skitarii one, because why not?

First Menoth, now Skitarii? Quit trying to muscle in on my territory. What colors would you do Skitarii in? Just go with the plain Mars colors, or go with one of the other established schemes? Or will you do your own? And what about the Tau? How are you planning on painting them?

Tau I was going to go with blue-grey armor, yellow sept markings. Kind of like this one.



I really like that piece of art too. Very evocative of old Gundam box art.

I may just get started on that Commander this weekend. I'm getting anxious to get to work on him. Only thing is I need some ideas on how to clutter up his base, as I'm probably going to have him on the flight stand.

I'm in no rush on the Skitarii. Just something I might pick up for the hell of it to build. Probably would get a Ghostkeel or Riptide before them though, unless the price was REALLY right. I'm thinking of bringin more stuff down to the hobby shop and clear even more space out of my shelves this weekend. Want to tag along?

I'm always down for it. You may also be a bad enough influence to make me buy a minotaur demon as well.

So while I haven't posted many photos recently, I certainly have been putting my glue and red paints to work.





My two Khorne personalities, the Herald of Khorne and Skulltaker.




Also managed to finish a few of the Bloodletters from the Start Collecting: Khorne box. Speaking of that Khorne box, everything has been built and glued, with the exception of the Throne thing for the Herald, which is semi- built so I can paint the interior parts of it more easily.

Here's all the Bloodletters base coated and waiting for more.



Finally made up my mind on what colors to do the juggernauts in, so they're going to start getting base coated as well today, and hopefully I'll be getting their bases prepped while I finish up the bloodletters and complete Skarbrand's as well.

Nice, more red demons

Perhaps blue is a color more to your liking?



Not sure why the picture came out super gigantic.

This was supposed to be a February stretch goal for finishing more red demons, but I couldn't help myself and wanted to paint something besides red.

Got a bit of the Gundam TR-1 Hazel Custom in mind I think while I was painting it.

Still needs some work done obviously. Going to finally paint that Rangers Project Salamander I got from another Dakka member at that swap n' shop last spring.

Well... I mean I wasn't being sarcastic, just terse since I was on the phone Nothing wrong with more red demons, all the better to harvest the souls of skulls of the man-dudes.

That Tau suit *is* pretty cool, however. I thought he was taking a poo as I slowly scrolled down but then I got to the flight stick and it made a lot more sense

Is that a regular (new) crisis suit or is it something else?

Hey man, those are my first daemons, like.... ever. Was never super keen on the old metals as I was way more into shooty space men at the time and was much more strapped for hobby spending money (as it was really at the whim of what my dad like enough to purchase).

That suit is is one of the new plastic "Tau Empire Commander" kits. I think it replaced the old finecast one. It has parts to build it as some sort of crisis variation, but all the fins and wing extensions make the commander variation a way more cooler blinged- out kit.

No way, you totally painted at least one or two big ones first!

Ahh that explains the suit, it looked vaguely like a crisis but it had more going on.

I'd be curious how it compares to a TAG.

I'd imagine a Commander suit would be Titan sized compared to a TAG obviously.

It's definitely a bit taller than a basic crisis suit.

I like the red demons. I have been experimenting with my demons coming in a large variety of colors, and the traditional red looks nice. May I suggest a red wash on the skin, and a black wash on the gold? Both would add depth. Your seraphon look very nice too btw.

The finished red guys actually did get multiple washes- it just didn't photograph well. Problem I have is when I use a new ink it tends to come across as real glossy before I give it a dull coat. Hopefully that will help. That's the plan for this weekend, as my shelf of items in need of coating is starting to overflow!

Doesn't help that my phone's camera sucks as well. I'm getting a new camera this afternoon, so maybe that can help with the photo taking, what with being a dedicated camera and all.

That's assuming the manual is in English... knowing my wife it probably won't be.

Would it really be that difficult to figure out a camera? Lightning bolt controls the flash, the flower shape is the macro setting, and that's pretty much all you need to mess with.

When everything is written in obscure kanji I don't know, yeah, it's not that easy.

So I'm supposed to be painting daemons, but other things keep ending up getting painted instead.

I did this guy the other day for some reason. I think it was to prepare myself for the box of metal beastmen that seem to have accumulated at my house downstairs.



And as you can see, I got back to work on this Myrmidon for Retribution.



He frustrates me because you can't see any depth in the paint. It's there! Damned camera!



This lady frustrates me also. Same issue with the Myrmidon- there's a variety of paint that's been put on her, you just can't really see it. The mixture of greys, white, and off whites make it look like it's just unpainted plastic, but it actually isn't. Maybe I'll do a close up to prove it. Anyways, I pulled her out and started trying to finish her up since it seems the Kingdom Death expansions will be coming sooner rather than later. Those are some of the Gripping Beast arabs that have taken a liking to the lady.

I started trying to finish up my Blood Crushers or whatever the daemon riding juggernaut users are called. Underbellies are all done in metallics, just need to do the brass and bronze detailing on the tops of them, glue the riders on, and I'll have actually completed my painting assignment of my Start Collecting: Khorne box.

What is that goat guy? I don't think I've seen him before.

Nice work on the Khorne guys, and the Tau's colour scheme seems to work quite well. It does have a Japanese mecha quality to it.

Odd. For whatever reason Dakka wasn't showing any posts here. At all. Weird.

The goat is from the Bones 2 campaign. I think he was in the base pledge, so yeah, he should look familiar as you probably already own him too.

Almost done with all those Bloodcrushers too. Will post pictures this weekend.

What's your plan this weekend Barzam? You up to anything or are you still all super sick?

That's a Bones guy? I don't even remember him.

I'm still pretty sick. I'm getting better though. Who knows, my coughing might actually be under control by tomorrow. So far, all I have planned is trying to get tickets for SDCC.

Needed a break of painting red daemons and grey tau suits.



For some reason I decided to paint up one of the Shadows of Brimstone figures. I think he's a Marshall. I don't know. This was one of the red KS exclusive guys.

The details were TERRIBLE. He had no face, and he seems to be wearing an oven mitt and a gun glove that is attached to his coat. I tried to make the best of the super soft details. I actually kind of enjoyed him, in a super simple way. Will probably just paint the base in a single color and use an ink to bring out the texture of the base itself and call it a day. May end up grabbing a few more Brimstone guys off the sprue to paint.

On the opopsite end of the spectrum, I have this figure.



Not the greatest photo, but I really tried to blend a few colors in there to make it decent looking. Happy with how she looks in person. That cloak of hers look one color here, but there's at least three that I know I used on it. I'm trying to figure out what to do with the base. I'm thinking I'll highlight all the edges in a neon green or something, put a bunch of weird runes down that obelisk thing she's standing on, maybe do the same for the base itself? Not sure.



Here's Becbunzen, a Confrontation character Goblin of No-Kan-Dar. I like him. He's an older sculpt, so he's all squished up (he was a single piece) and it's hard to figure out sometimes where one part ends and another begins. I was a bit miffed that I lost the auction for the 2nd edition sculpt of him. The later goblin sculpts are pretty cool actually. I think if nobody ends up buying my Goblins on eBay, I may just paint them all myself.

Guess I should get back to painting my Tau Fireteam...

Nice stuff! Yeah, finish your fireteam so I can swipe some ideas

These seem a bit outside your norm. It's nice to see something a little different. You did a really good job on that Brimstone guy considering how soft his details are. We really ought to play rhat again. But yeah, paint up your Tau. We need to have a shooty game.

Got distracted from starting Tau by trying out more Brimstone figures.



Both spiders and the tentacle thing (Strangler?) have pretty simple paint jobs. I think I can probably go through the whole lot of them.

I'm thinking I may do the other box up in alternate colors to represent some of the variations. Maybe light blue spiders for Targa's?

Maybe that's what I'll do for my March goal....

The Brimstone stuff really has the old-school D&D feel to it. Confrontation GOblin looks ace, and of course, I'm a fan of Khorne.

Cool. I like that spider creatures and think the stangler is an awesome model. Simple but effective paintjobs.

EDC

I'm painting a batch of those spiders at the moment too. The purple on yours looks like a great choice

Haha old west + cthulhu they weren't joking.