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Hey guys,

I haven't painted in about 8 years since I was about 15.
Would be interested in getting your feedback...be as brutal as you want

I've painted a 10 man mortifactors tactical squad for my 40k army and 1 gutrot spume for my first foray into fantasy (or should I say age of sigmar?)
If you guys like them, I might put some back story to them as well.

Peace out!

Don't you just hate these newbs who waltz in after 8 years and their minis are better looking than yours?

In seriousness, these look excellent. I would be over the moon if my army was painted to such a high standard. More pics of the marines and some close ups would be nice to get more of the detail, but from what I can see they look great. Looking forward to seeing more.

D

Great work, especially considering the time spent away.

One small matter of personal taste is that Gutrot's skin looks incredibly clean and healthy for a guy with a giant tentacle mouth tearing out his side. It still looks great, but making the skin look more dead and diseased will take it above and beyond.

Gutrot's tentacles are my favorite part! the colour banding is perfect and I can almost imagine them wiggling away on their own accord, that's some great painting!

Stellar work, and full of personality.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Don't you just hate these newbs who waltz in after 8 years and their minis are better looking than yours?

In seriousness, these look excellent. I would be over the moon if my army was painted to such a high standard. More pics of the marines and some close ups would be nice to get more of the detail, but from what I can see they look great. Looking forward to seeing more.

D

Thanks for the kind words In my defence I spent hours getting the shop staff to show my every brush stroke first.

I would like to try and get some close ups, I've been fighting with my camera but alas I don't have a macro lens :(
I'm painting up some scouts at the moment, hopefully they'll be ready soon!


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 nerdfest09 wrote:
Gutrot's tentacles are my favorite part! the colour banding is perfect and I can almost imagine them wiggling away on their own accord, that's some great painting!

Thanks! It's the first time I've tried that technique. Really pleased how it turned out!


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 Tim the Biovore wrote:
Great work, especially considering the time spent away.

One small matter of personal taste is that Gutrot's skin looks incredibly clean and healthy for a guy with a giant tentacle mouth tearing out his side. It still looks great, but making the skin look more dead and diseased will take it above and beyond.

Thanks!

Likewise I would like to work some more bruising into my nurgle miniatures in future. I was a little nervous as I was doing multiple washes and then blending them in to the flesh, which I've never done before so I think the effect was probably more subtle than I would have liked.

Just a little update on the scouts, 3 done 2 to go!
Will post better photos when they're all finished

Whoa, whoa... bro. Pics of your 8 year old minis now or I'm straight up gonna assume ur scamming us!

Haha all jokes aside these are fantastic!

Pretty fething awesome for your 1st minis in 8yrs lol. Nice work!

alex87 wrote:
Whoa, whoa... bro. Pics of your 8 year old minis now or I'm straight up gonna assume ur scamming us!

Haha all jokes aside these are fantastic!

Thanks!
I'll see if I can find my old minis next time I'm home! I suspect they're pretty atrocious, I was young and had didn't listen to any painting advice.

So here are the scouts all finished! Pretty pleased with how it went.
I also entered a "lucky dip" painting competition. A character is chosen at random which I then have to paint. I got the tomb banshee, so of course I nurgled the crap out of it!
Sorry for the poor quality photos, the light is crap in my house and so focusing is a serious issue :(

Not only are his skills awesome after a 8 year gap, his diorama making skills are top-notch too.

The God of Painting really plays favourites

Welcome back to the fold. Great work!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Not only are his skills awesome after a 8 year gap, his diorama making skills are top-notch too.

The God of Painting really plays favourites

Thanks for the kind words! The God of painting favours those who live near a warhammer store with really god teachers I'm lucky those guys were willing to show me the ropes when I came back.


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Falhurk wrote:
Welcome back to the fold. Great work!

Thanks XD
It's good to be back!

Welcome back. You haven't lost much touch. Great Work

Sorry it's been so long since I last posted! Things have been busy but I've managed to finish a few things.

I finally painted my kit bashed chaplain. As my girlfriend puts up with my painting, I decided to name him schatzi which is a Swiss word. Therefore, I have a space marine chaplain called Sweetheart!

I've also painted 2 out of 5 putrid blightkings. Really pleased with how well they've turned out! Let me know what you think


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Oh, also please click on the photos as dakka dakka compresses the file into thumbnails and they look awful!