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Hello! These guys get their own topic because they're both an entire army, and not my usual work. It's a progress log for just Adam's Skits.

These are not by any means finished. This is literally what I did inside 24hrs so that my friend could take part with a fully painted army at Nottingham HQ. I started them on Wednesday afternoon and I stopped on Thursday night because I then needed to paint my own army for Saturday morning.

They were already built, which was a bitch in itself, because well, they’re awful figures to try and paint fully assembled... And my friend is not a good modeller. Most of them were badly aligned, broken or unglued in parts. Any and all cracks, gaps, mould seams are as they came, I didn’t have time to sort that out on top of the repairs I had to do. I will go back and sort that out very soon. The priority was getting things on the table.

The basing is inconsistent because I discovered at 2am on the Thursday, that he had given me only one pot of snow paint to do the entire 35 models. At which point I went, “You can have snow or you can have a rimmed base, you’re not having both.”
Why're they snowy? Because they hang out with the Vostroyans that the owner hasn't actually painted yet.





I don't know what any of these guys are called. So I'm going to call them by what they look like. You may deal with that as you wish.

I like the little red dudes the best. I'd like some of these myself some day.


I tried to give them all a little bit of individuality with the brass, whilst both rushing and not really wanting to spend too long.


These guys got a little longer because they're the ones that everyone looks at.


I am actually very happy with the base metallics - this isn't steel over black. It's steel over very very dark blue. As you can see, this gives the metals a very different finish that will tie in well with their blue armor when I get to it.
I would love to say this was deliberate. It was not. I basecoated them at night, and thought "Hm, my black is very milky. Huh." I woke up and read the bottle the next day and realised I'd been using blue paint.
So, grey primer > All over very dark blue > Airbrush Vallejo Model Air "Steel" from above and 45 degrees > another quick blast from below with the blue if necessary > nuln oil. I will do some cleaning up and drybrushing.


Ooooh, accidentally moody picture.


Next up will be going back and basically spending more than half an hour on each. I'm a little burned out so it may take a while.

They are Lucius pattern (eventually) with a bit of my own brass mix.

The creams are awful and make me wince, they're first on the correction list. I just didn't have time to layer them repeatedly so had to stop.

Oh my machine god Buttery is doing Ad Mech.

I'm going to sit over here and watch this glorious tale!

Looking at the ranger without the backpack (dont know if that was intentional) I may have to go backpackless for the rest of mine (link in sig shameless plug). They look more similar to the pre-skitarii dex skitarii art. The metal (fething METAL AS feth MAN) ruststalkers and infs look very cool too!

Hm, I think I might try a blue silver metal myself, nice look.

Also, you be crazy!

I owe the owner a lot, he is a good friend. The stops you doing stupid things that ruin your life friend.

Can't believe you did all that within 24hrs...I'm very impressed.

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 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I owe the owner a lot, he is a good friend. The stops you doing stupid things that ruin your life friend.

It’s good to have friends like that.

That’s still a crazy amount of work. I’ve painted a couple thousand points of SoB for a good friend, but I did it over a year-ish. It’s the 24 hour crush thing that makes you gloriously mad.

looking good so far. keep it up.