In a similar vein to the What are you doing today? Hobbywise Only thread I am curious what is currently on your desk being painted. Preferably in pictorial form.

If you don't have a permanent set up then in your drawer/shoebox etc.

Really intrested to see what you are working on and what it looks like before its finished.

I am currently jumping between several different Sengoku Jidai (Samurai) era models. They are in various states of unfinished and I wish I had taken more care with the mould lines.



Please Share what you are working on.

Right now I have a Land Raider Crusader:



I just started painting the tracks so those will be added soon. After that I have to assemble the hurricane bolter sponsons. It also needs a gloss coat and some decals followed by some oil washes and weathering.

I don't have any pictures of this stuff, but I have a Land Speeder Storm that I disassembled and cleaned up, primed, and waiting for paint plus 5 sternguard bodies primed and waiting for paint.

Soon my desk will be flooded with Imperial Guardsmen for a commission I accepted so all my goodies will be placed on the back-burner.

I got 3-5 I am working on. I usually do batches.

Working on a few different projects at the moment.

Fio'El Upgrayedd (spelled with a double-D for his double dose of pimping plasma):




Chop-top hammerhead with embeded speakers and flickering LEDs:


Tachikoma, counts-as Broadside:

AoBR Space Marines for now

Imperial knight....and a toblerone
Sorry. Posting on a phone and can't make the picture work right

Boba Fett themed Knight Titan

Terrain at the moment. It's a display base for my mate's and his wife's D&D characters.

Here is my work tray. I have another BA Drop Pod getting built, and a Storm Raven about half built.

My Land Raider Crusader, Legion of the Damned squad(s), a few Honour Guard, some Tactical Marines and my entire Ork army bar 4 models.
XD
I'll post pics once I figure out how to get my webcam to take pictures again.

Edit; There we go.
I think? First time using attachments, sorry.
Also added my Termies and I didn't photograph my Orkses.
For obvious reasons.

The Honour Guard will all look like the two that are painted in that picture.
The Legion are an odd colour because I cannot paint flames for my life, so I did my own chapters take on them; they're made up of the armour, bone and blood of their bodies, which were never recovered. The purple PC and black PG are going to become Legion members soon.

And yes, my army is Genestealer Purple.

Ork Boyz and Stormboyz I'm painting for my brother, and I'm starting on my Blood pact too.

Some really cool stuff here so far guys. Please keep it up.

I have my tyranids being painted currently! The two gaunts on the right are going to have Gulliman Blue Glaze on next, to test the result, if its ok I'll paint the rest with it on.

My desktop right now is 6x Fire Dragons and 5x Rangers for my new Biel-Tan force:






I should have those finished tonight and then move on a Farseer and Falcon tank. Just came back to the game after a 10 year break and decided to paint an army from scratch. Last week I completed 47 models in 5 days. Last weeks work:

Good idea for a thread, popping by to sub and I'll innundate you all with photos as soon as my tiny toddler master gives me half a moment to post them!

Here we go, as promised, forgive the lighting just used my painting lamp in a hurry:




And what you're seeing should be the undercoat for my first Plague strike team for deadzone: 4 large human-sized mutant guys, large dog, 2 beefy gorilla-like plague mutants, and the biggest first generation plague mutant in the front. You might also notice a strain necromorph (spot the zombie/mutant thing that doesn't belong!) who got prepped for painting just as my DZ stuff came in. There's also an Infinity Reverend Moira, she's got a mean sword, a big gun, and unreasonably revealing clo... optical diversionary camouflage . Also you can see the enforcer sniper also available in the deadzone boxed game, and two 3" cube structures built out of deadzone scenery tiles, these are destined for more time with the airbrush as they will end up light grey, but they were undercoated and available for photographing. There's a ton more DZ scenery waiting in the wings to see how these two small pieces go, but any more minis I'll have to assemble before I can paint.

I'll say it again, there's some really cool stuff here... land raiders, titans/knights, really neat conversions and what looks like some already very nice paint jobs

Currently drifting between Seekers:



Slaanesh Herald:



And when I get bored of painting white:



Progress lately has been slow to non existent due to Uni.

My desk is a mess I haven't finished a mini in soooooo long.

@Grimdork: I love the Plague gen 1. Every other plague model ranges from meh to dislike for me but the gen 1 is awesome.

@Markillius08Made: Cant wait to see that finished.

@Tyronus: I know how you feel. I rarely finish much either.

@cento: How did you achive that muted green on the rangers cloaks?

@bossfearless: Quite possibly the most bizzare thing i have ever seen. Love it.

@gohkm what character is going to go onto the base?

Well, I may as well chip in my own paltry efforts I've been getting sick of painting smaller models recently, but can't bring myself to burn a new Contemptor sized hole through my wallet without at least ploughing through some of the stuff on my desk. Hence, here's my latest efforts, a Death Company converted Salamanders assault squad (For the same price I get far more goodies in the DC box, at the expense of a lot of Blood Angel iconoclasm ). They're still WIP, as the pic quality indicates (They better in real life - honest!), but should be done and dusted tomorrow evening!

 carlos13th wrote:
@cento: How did you achive that muted green on the rangers cloaks?

I am rebuilding my paint collection after a 10 year break from the hobby and found myself without a proper shade of green, so this was a 50/50 fix of Reaper's Highland Moss and Green Ochre colors, and then thinned of course. I use to use Vallejo paints, but decided to give Reaper paints a chance when I needed to start over from scratch. Been pretty happy with them so far.

cento wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
@cento: How did you achive that muted green on the rangers cloaks?

I am rebuilding my paint collection after a 10 year break from the hobby and found myself without a proper shade of green, so this was a 50/50 fix of Reaper's Highland Moss and Green Ochre colors, and then thinned of course. I use to use Vallejo paints, but decided to give Reaper paints a chance when I needed to start over from scratch. Been pretty happy with them so far.

I like Vallejo a lot. Never tired reaper. The green looks good mate. Very earthy, great for a ranger.

Warpig1815 wrote:Well, I may as well chip in my own paltry efforts I've been getting sick of painting smaller models recently, but can't bring myself to burn a new Contemptor sized hole through my wallet without at least ploughing through some of the stuff on my desk. Hence, here's my latest efforts, a Death Company converted Salamanders assault squad (For the same price I get far more goodies in the DC box, at the expense of a lot of Blood Angel iconoclasm ). They're still WIP, as the pic quality indicates (They better in real life - honest!), but should be done and dusted tomorrow evening!

Looks good to me mate. Yeah I get that too had a period where I was buying way too much new stuff without ever touching the old. Kind of felt like whats the point, just collecting stuff to have it. So I sold a load of my stuff and tightened my focus.

I'm still battling with selling off some of my old stuff, though I doubt I'll ever be able to tighten my focus, as you say. Get manageable discrete chunks of a project done before swapping to something else though... I've been handling that somewhat better than in the past

A scratch built chaos spawn I'm smoothing with watered down liquid greenstuff, I'l post pics tonight (about 5 hours from now, I just wants WTO sub)
Also, some terminators I'm kind of working on, wraithguard I haven't Painted even tough I got them last June, some salamanders I'm going to strip, two 1/4 space marine tactical marines, a "dead" marine I need to do some green stuffing on, a genestealer who exploded, and a box of termagants I've been meaning to chop off, a jump pack I just stripped,a pipe I'm making for terrain, my terminator sergeant/captain, and a death company head. A whole lotta gak.

Got this sucker prepping up for basing soon!

Is that a kit or just something awesome you've come up with? Certainly keep us apprised of your progress!

@GrimDork

It's a kitbash from Soul Grinder + Lord of Skulls leftovers + Juggernaut (on the otherside, I should get a back pic up tomorrow), Bloodletter on his back leg, annnnnd a Zombie Dragon from the Vamp. Counts line. I got this idea from MWG about a bi-pedal defiler, and I didn't want to miss the chance for a Soul Grinder form.

Uh... Everything

 GrimDork wrote:
I'm still battling with selling off some of my old stuff, though I doubt I'll ever be able to tighten my focus, as you say. Get manageable discrete chunks of a project done before swapping to something else though... I've been handling that somewhat better than in the past

If I dont think it will ever get painted or used I am getting rid of it.

Helps that I use sales of old stuff to fund new stuff.

I've only recently cleaned up my desk but I've been playing with crushed glass and ended up making this:


The idea is for it to go on this guy's base:

Ok technically this isn't being painted yet but I can't be bothered to take a photo of 20 daemonettes, 5 seekers and a seeker chariot. So here's a photo of my still being converted Soul Grinder.

Building my Living Artillery Node.

Just the base and Carapace to go on the Exocrine




And his support Warriors, fully magnetised.

My smurfs



And my hammerhead

 soitra wrote:
My smurfs



And my hammerhead

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How did you do that hammer head? Looks weird for a military plane-tank thing, but that must have taken forever to paint.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

How did you do that hammer head? Looks weird for a military plane-tank thing, but that must have taken forever to paint.

It's Tau so they can get away with it and it was done with an airbrush and a screen to mask with.

Yeah pretty much, sprayed yellow and orange then layed a mask out with abit of netting and sprayed liche purple over that

There should have been an assembled Chaos force on my painting desk at the moment.


However, thanks to the Dutch postal service, this is not the case, and it's empty. Gah!

Well, the Rangers and Fire Dragons of my post earlier today are all done and moving off of my desk to be sealed:



Next up, a Farseer, then maybe a Falcon for this weekend.

I basically stopped playing (and painting) about 10 years ago and have recently dived in again full force. I had a bunch of Eldar I had painted for my army in the past, but I decided to start completely from scratch with a single unified color scheme (Biel-Tan). My stumbling block in the past was that I usually painted for display more than play, and always had trouble fielding a fully painted force. If Yakface happens to stumble across this, he would remember since I used to play with him so, SO long ago. This time I decided to challenge myself to aim for a table top level of painting and find the discipline to stick with it and produce an ARMY instead of a collection of figures. So far, I started painting 10 days ago, and currently have 58 models done.

That's some impressive speed

There is some really awesome work in this thread!

Here is what I'm currently working on (sorry for crappy cell phone pictures):


I just finished up the missile launcher and am now moving on to the power claw...

They look really good together, the paint schemes make them look like they belong to the same army despite their differences. Don't knock them off the desk whatever you do.

Airborn Smurfs!!! Almost done but still have some highlighting and detail work left to do! Then on to a Dreadnaught.

Taking a short break from painting my Ultramarines. I’ve had this guy staring at me for a while, half painted. Time to finish him off.



What’s happening on my desk is documented on a mostly weekly basis on my blog over in the P&M section. Link in my sig.

This objective is the only thing on my table at the moment.


Sorry if it's sidewards, I'm posting from my phone.

What is it going to be?

Not sure yet, but I'll probably just throw some miscellaneous bitz on it

Is it going to be for 40k?

 carlos13th wrote:
They look really good together, the paint schemes make them look like they belong to the same army despite their differences. Don't knock them off the desk whatever you do.

Thanks! And I have knocked the reaver over twice now, hopefully never again lol. I see everyone seems to have much better painting stations than I do... I just paint on my couch.

Sorry, no photos atm, but I've got the UA for my Cryx Bane Thralls unit based black with the first layer of Zenithal metallics, a Deathjack that's getting some green OSL, and a Black base-coated Venethrax.

And 4 pathfinder goblins that are based black, but haven't decided which direction they're going yet...hehehe...

 carlos13th wrote:
Is it going to be for 40k?

It is, i had the Fantasy basies left over from my Chaos Daemons, so I decided to do something with them.

bladeiai wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
They look really good together, the paint schemes make them look like they belong to the same army despite their differences. Don't knock them off the desk whatever you do.

Thanks! And I have knocked the reaver over twice now, hopefully never again lol. I see everyone seems to have much better painting stations than I do... I just paint on my couch.

Mine is a fold up desk. Something like this.

http://www.officefurnitureonline.co.uk/shop/titan-folding-exam-desk.html?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=XMLbase_feed&utm_term=Exam+Desks&utm_campaign=Titan_Folding_Exam_Desk&gclid=CMvMo9Lpg70CFSETwwodqxMALA

cento wrote:
Well, the Rangers and Fire Dragons of my post earlier today are all done and moving off of my desk to be sealed:



Next up, a Farseer, then maybe a Falcon for this weekend.

I basically stopped playing (and painting) about 10 years ago and have recently dived in again full force. I had a bunch of Eldar I had painted for my army in the past, but I decided to start completely from scratch with a single unified color scheme (Biel-Tan). My stumbling block in the past was that I usually painted for display more than play, and always had trouble fielding a fully painted force. If Yakface happens to stumble across this, he would remember since I used to play with him so, SO long ago. This time I decided to challenge myself to aim for a table top level of painting and find the discipline to stick with it and produce an ARMY instead of a collection of figures. So far, I started painting 10 days ago, and currently have 58 models done.

Please make a thread for these! They look great and I would be really interested in seeing this army grow

Details are up next on this one!

Given I have an almost 2 year old toddler, I've been painting where I can lately. I was going to make a lap tray of sorts but I sat down at the rolling kitchen island one day and she left it alone so I've been using that since. It looks a bit odd but I can roll it around and park it in the living room or kitchen and pull up a chair to paint when she's in a permissive mood

I don't have anything that I'm painting right this instance. But earlier today I primed two tactical squads, a ten man squad of Sterngaurd, 5 Vanguard Veterans, and 6 drop pods that I made from PVC.

Some assorted Reaper Bones models - more in my PLog.

 bonz wrote:
Please make a thread for these! They look great and I would be really interested in seeing this army grow

Why thank you. Perhaps I will do just that. I might want to get my old real camera out for that though instead of all the phone pics I have taken so far.

Today's just started project so far is a single fig instead of a squad, my farseer. Hoping to finish him before dinner:




Edit to add: And done!



Time to go grab dinner and run errands. Tonight, after my kids are asleep, I'll probably start in on the Falcon. I have never actually painted a full size vehicle, so it'll be a COMPLETELY new experience!

Got a somewhat decent picture for scale, for those wondering, and sorry for the quality of the picture. Tonight was a good night in my group.

 Indestry wrote:
Got a somewhat decent picture for scale, for those wondering, and sorry for the quality of the picture. Tonight was a good night in my group.

What IS that? It looks Khorne-y, so I'm guessing its some kind of chaos knight or titan?

This fella'. I'm being really lazy with it, but it's not far off now. Legs, lower torso, pilot and a couple more grots to go and then it's all done.

Bleakswords and Darkshards as usual. I try to keep the prospect of painting them less depressing by mixing in the new RXBs with the old warriors/shields but when that fails I'll make a start on stripping/priming the odd collection of shades, executioners and beastmasters I've picked up on eBay. There's a Dark Elf Reaper to do as well (definitely not High Elf, honest!), along with a Wych I'm converting to a lvl1 sorcerer.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

 Indestry wrote:
Got a somewhat decent picture for scale, for those wondering, and sorry for the quality of the picture. Tonight was a good night in my group.

What IS that? It looks Khorne-y, so I'm guessing its some kind of chaos knight or titan?

Soul Grinder conversion to make it a standing bi-pedal monster.

Here's my current disaster desk ;p. stuff ranging from tau, space marines, eldar, dark eldar, necrons, and vampire counts.

Currently working on the vampire counts dire wolves, eldar warp spiders, and dark eldar hellions.

Ork boyz, with some completed ones watching on to remind me they wont be base coated forever.

Now on my desk - 1 Eldar Falcon tank and 3 Eldar Vypers. These are the first vehicles I have ever painted, and sadly I have no airbrush or airbrush experience.

Also, as suggested earlier in this thread, I made a painting blog thread following the progress of painting this army from scratch. Now on day 13 and have 59 painted figures completed.

Blog thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/584114.page

And current WIP:

On my desk currently ... 3 Nobz (Cybork) 20 Boyz and a heap of bitz (GW and nonGW) for a couple WIPs

Working on my first real army, SW with IG allies. Pretty new to painting and would love any feedback. Also this is a great thread, a lot of great pieces!

Making some snow Tau. I figured I'd get the infantry out of the way first, since that's the most time consuming for me. Got the torsos and legs pinned and primed, heads primed, bases primed...starting to paint the bases, paint the feet and then pin them to the base.

My wraithknight warlord
Hope the picture is visible
Edit: Now this is why you don't do it on a iPad is ther anyway to flip images

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
My wraithknight warlord
Hope the picture is visible
Edit: Now this is why you don't do it on a iPad is ther anyway to flip images

It looks fine from the northern hemisphere

Just kidding. iPads are finicky with pictures. When I take pictures with mine, I need to have the bottom button on the right, or else it flips it, even if it looks correct in the preview.

 Nevelon wrote:

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
My wraithknight warlord
Hope the picture is visible
Edit: Now this is why you don't do it on a iPad is ther anyway to flip images

It looks fine from the northern hemisphere

Just kidding. iPads are finicky with pictures. When I take pictures with mine, I need to have the bottom button on the right, or else it flips it, even if it looks correct in the preview.

Thanks I'll try that next time, either that or I'll move to the opposite hemisphere so it's the right way up for everyone else

These are the two biggest things I am working on right now.

 hiveof_chimera wrote:
My wraithknight warlord
Hope the picture is visible
Edit: Now this is why you don't do it on a iPad is ther anyway to flip images

Photoshop has an option for it, I think
Edit: Also, shows up just fine if you open it in a new tab.

Nice work here, as ever.

This is currently waiting for it's companions to be assembled, and then painted.

About 150 orks, plus vehicles, for my stepsons army.
Plus my own personal projects.

Currently working on my soon- to be shelf dweller knight errant.

about to get to the stage where I seal the armor plates, then i need to prime the weapons... this model was a bit harder than i was expecting (due to the scale) but that just made it more enjoyable. Also, I LOVE the new typhus corrosion technical paint, it makes grime and mud so easy to do, the trick is to apply liberally, then wipe it away before it dries.

I love typhus corrosion and ryza rust. If you aren't going for a painting competition those two are all you need for rust and gunk. Blood for the blood god is nice too, haven't had a chance to try the others. That's a lot of giant checks

Nice blog! Some pretty cool projects here!

 GrimDork wrote:
I love typhus corrosion and ryza rust. If you aren't going for a painting competition those two are all you need for rust and gunk. Blood for the blood god is nice too, haven't had a chance to try the others. That's a lot of giant checks

The special effects paints are the greatest things to have happened in my ammeter-painter life. I'd never have been able to pull of blood before, but with BFTBG I can do it easily. Probably gonna pick up the rest of the set.
Wow that sounded like an info-mercial


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 Boba Fett wrote:
Nice blog! Some pretty cool projects here!

Out of curiosity, why is there what appears to be green stuff on the bottom corner of the flap thing (Forgot what it was called)? It doesnt look like it was altered, but then I dont know space marines much

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:
Out of curiosity, why is there what appears to be green stuff on the bottom corner of the flap thing (Forgot what it was called)? It doesnt look like it was altered, but then I dont know space marines much

I obviously cannot fully speak for him but the most likely reason you see some green stuff there because that half-tabard is from the Deathwing Command Squad box and looks like this:

He removed the broken sword icons (which are heavily involved in Dark Angels iconography) to make it more suitable for use for a pre-Heresy Emperor's Children model. The green stuff was probably just to smooth out the cloth on the tabard a little bit.

Just finished making the molds for my custom tracks hope to start casting tomorrow fingers cross now I going to start working on the bases for my burna boyz and assemble as much as I can before painting them

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:
Out of curiosity, why is there what appears to be green stuff on the bottom corner of the flap thing (Forgot what it was called)? It doesnt look like it was altered, but then I dont know space marines much

He removed the broken sword icons (which are heavily involved in Dark Angels iconography) to make it more suitable for use for a pre-Heresy Emperor's Children model. The green stuff was probably just to smooth out the cloth on the tabard a little bit.

After removing the icons, the tabard was pretty scratched and i had to repair it. Exactly how scootypuff wrote

@TableTopJosh - Just because I noticed you were asking for C&C, for a beginner, those IG and SW are looking pretty decent. To be honest the only improvements I can offer are a second sharper highlight on the guardsmen, and possibly thinning your paint a touch on the SW - other than that they're looking pretty ace, especially that Manticore!

I'm rather enjoying this WIP thread, less pressure to put out a finished image! (Making me think, yet again, about a blog...)So for my own efforts, having finished my assault squad (I'll get round to some professional pics soon), with the exception of one plasma pistol yet to be done, I've moved onto a Rhino - my first ever tank. So, I decided to suitably Salamanders it up, starting with a small scene some of you may recognise from Nick Kymes recent Novel 'Vulkan Lives'...

The finished assault squad - Ignis Gladii (The Fire Swords):



The start of 'Nocturnes Wrath':




(Yes, I know the writing is slanted - that will be rectified!)

Working on my 2nd Rhino for my 500 point army. Done with the edge highlights, thinking I'll do some freehand iconography next.



And put the finishing touches on the Squad 2 Sergeant, just needs the squad number decal applied.

Well I finally got some work done on this bad boy... He his mostly built, primed and ready to be put together to start the actual painting!



Please excuse the filth lol.

bladeiai wrote:
Well I finally got some work done on this bad boy... He his mostly built, primed and ready to be put together to start the actual painting!



Please excuse the filth lol.

Is that a knight? If so, knights look fething weird pre-assembly.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

Is that a knight? If so, knights look fething weird pre-assembly.

It appears to be a DreamForge Leviathan Mortis. Definitely a cool model.

Some zerkers I finished up tonight. 1 more for the squad. I only wish my camera phone was a touch bettah, and that I was capable of removing mold lines.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

Is that a knight? If so, knights look fething weird pre-assembly.

Lol no... ScootyPuffJunior (looove the name btw) is correct, but I use them as knight proxies. I actually made my first one up before all this Imperial knights business to use as a corrupted knight with my own homebrew rules and GW was nice enough to make actual rules. If they hadn't been stupid and denied Chaos the use of them I would have been really happy. I haven't had any issues getting the first one in game as an allied Knight, so it's all good. I am intersted to see what they come up with once they actually make a FW or GW Chaos knight though. When the mortis is finished it will look something along the lines of my crusader gone Hell Knight:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/570038.page

They are admittedly a little over scale for a knight, but I still love the model.

Some really cool looking stuff here. I've finally got around to starting my Kingdom Death Flower Knight. I don't have anyway to take pics, sry.

Straight out of the Blood Angel Codex. I figured out the bits with some help from Warmongers on Twitter.

Blood Angel Drop Pods coming along.

That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

bladeiai wrote:
That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

Chaos can have drop pods. Use the dreadclaw rules from Forgeworld! 100% Legal!

On topic: I'm doing some Plague from Deadzone, Dark Angels/Dark Eldar and Necrons. Busy busy busy!

 angelofvengeance wrote:

bladeiai wrote:
That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

Chaos can have drop pods. Use the dreadclaw rules from Forgeworld! 100% Legal!

Yeah but that is more of a big ass space ship than a drop pod and cost as more than a landraider, not exactly what I was looking for, but I suppose could work.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

bladeiai wrote:
That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

Chaos can have drop pods. Use the dreadclaw rules from Forgeworld! 100% Legal!

On topic: I'm doing some Plague from Deadzone, Dark Angels/Dark Eldar and Necrons. Busy busy busy!

Some places don't allow Forgeworld rules.

bladeiai wrote:
That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

I'm sure you could Chaos-Iffy a drop-pod with out anyone taking issue.

bladeiai wrote:
That drop pod is looking awesome. If only Chaos had drop pods.... sigh.

Thanks man! I hope so, I can't wait to have half a dozen on the board!

I'm working on some minis based on the film 'Cross Of Iron'. They're white metal 28mm and were an eBay purchase.



** Leutnant Meyer, Feldwebel Steiner and Obergefreiter Kruger **

These have been block painted and are waiting for Quickshading.



** Schutze Kern, Schutze Maag and Gefreiter Anselm **

These have been block painted and Quickshaded in a dark tone. They need to be drybrushed and highlighted and then sprayed with matt varnish before their bases are finished.



** Obergefreiter 'Schnuurbart' Reisenauer **

Primed in black and waiting to be painted. This was actually the first mini that I completed, but when it was being dipped in Quickshade and shaken dry it fell off its holder and landed on the floor. It was easier to strip it of paint and varnish, than try to pick off the cat hair and dust that was now sticking to the Quickshade.

Each mini was epoxied to British one penny coins for basing, and the bases built up with Humbrol model filler.
When finished they'll be put into a custom basing tray and displayed.

Am I a 'Cross Of Iron' anorak? Probably.
Nothing wrong in appreciating a classic war movie, though.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Cross_of_Iron

Land raider changes. Took some advice and came across some extra berserker parts. I have some skulls on order as well.

here is the current look for my Leviathan Mortis gone Hell Knight:

Looking great mate.

Well I unfourtunately don't have a picture of what I am painting right right now but I do have this sitting on my desk right now (bad lighting in this picture):



It provides me with a little bit of Skaven inspiration while I paint up the nest horde of rat things!!!
I did also just finish painting a custom Warplock Engineer with Doomrocket but right now I am 90% complete my Doomwheel. I just have to paint the banner and drybrush the base (and glue the model to it).
I tend to get about 90% done a model where it is nearly complete and can field it but wait to finish it because I always move onto something else haha
After the Doomwheel is a block of 25 clanrats. Once I do that I might move on to painting some Tau. I have so much Tau and Eldar to paint (3 models for space marines left tho!!!)
I also have a piece of terrain in the works right now tho!

P.s
Some people have some CRAZY messes on their desks haha If I have more than 3 or 4 models on my desk I am like awww damn this is to much on my desk (plus like a bazillion paints but I try to keep them in the drawers unless I am using them)

Mixture of Dark Angels Space Marines and Terminators:

Work and model prep has slowed down my painting, but I spent the weekend prepping for another furious round of slapping on paint!

Representing a weekend of cleaning, building, basing, and priming (and of magnetizing weapon mounts), phase 2 of my army is now sitting on my work table:

My entire army is in a stage of WiP, barring on or two models. Between work and a 6 month old baby though, it's hard to get stuff done, as many of you know!

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
My entire army is in a stage of WiP, barring on or two models. Between work and a 6 month old baby though, it's hard to get stuff done, as many of you know!

Babys are cute little life/time vortexes though. Nice to see stuff on your workbench. Any chance of you revisiting your blog? Always fun to see what you are working on...

Are all those boxes full?

 Nevelon wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
My entire army is in a stage of WiP, barring on or two models. Between work and a 6 month old baby though, it's hard to get stuff done, as many of you know!

Babys are cute little life/time vortexes though. Nice to see stuff on your workbench. Any chance of you revisiting your blog? Always fun to see what you are working on...

That they are, she's definitely the best project I've made though.
I'm doing some work on my Knight tonight, I shall post pictures later if I get a chance. And thanks for the kind words, I'll have it up and running properly again soon.


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carlos13th 583432 6640165 3f1253c1cc982c019d1984f710a wrote:Are all those boxes full?

No, they're empty, I just like the look of the boxes stacked up, one of the Centurion boxes is full though, and one box of Tacticals is mostly full too.

My first attempts at airbrushing. Using an old Chimera as a test model. So far so good, I think! I have the base color and highlights done, about to mask it off for camo and then its off to fine details, varnishing, decals, washes, weathering, etc.!



PS - any comments or critique is welcome as I'm an airbrush noob!

Alas, I am an even greater airbrush noob and cannot likely help you!

Baby does keep me away from hobby stuff, but totally worth it.

I'll stop by later with some scenery pics if I can get around to it before naptime is over.

So, here's my 90% finished 'Nocturne's Wrath' - my first ever tank. I must admit, for the largest model I've painted to date, I'm surprised that it's also my fastest painted model. Anyway, enoguh rambling here it is, including the completed image some may know from 'Vulkan Lives':





It's not fully done yet, as I'm struggling with what to do on the front Glacis plate. It's got some Salamanders transfers to go on the front-side black segments,and the black needs highlighting, but other than that I'm stuck - any ideas Dakka?

Nice flames on the Rhino Warpig

Well I couldn't resist posting a pic of my messy worktop after reading through and seeing all the excellent work going on.

I was originally working on a Dwarf Man O War fleet but they have been pushed down the painting list for a pair of Vengeance Weapon Battery's for my Skyrar's Dark Wolves army for a tournament at the start of next month.

You can see the base of the first one nearly finished towards the back of the photo.

Finally got bored of Guild Wars 2.... Time to start painting again



Excuse the crappy picture; taken with a phone camera, then re-sized by the gallery to make it even more blurry

I've been messing around with a new recipe for nmm gold and, despite only having about 30mins to work on it before I went to work, i'm pretty happy with the results. I might add a bit more low-lighting on the fleur-de-lys symbol though as it has too much flat colour for my liking. Blue looks crap, but it's just base-coated and washed so i've got a nice solid foundation and, I keep telling myself, all the shadows are in the right places!

Give me a couple more days and the mess on the desk will start to look more complete.


Edit: Ah... If you can be bothered to click on the image and zoom in a couple of turns of the mouse wheel, you get a much clearer pic!

@ warpig: awesome. the helmet of the fallen guy on the back looks a little weird, but still. awesome.

GiraffeX wrote:Nice flames on the Rhino Warpig

Well I couldn't resist posting a pic of my messy worktop after reading through and seeing all the excellent work going on.

I was originally working on a Dwarf Man O War fleet but they have been pushed down the painting list for a pair of Vengeance Weapon Battery's for my Skyrar's Dark Wolves army for a tournament at the start of next month.

You can see the base of the first one nearly finished towards the back of the photo.

Thanks dude - same goes for that weapons battery in the background, can't wait to see the finished thing!

J.Black wrote:Finally got bored of Guild Wars 2.... Time to start painting again



Excuse the crappy picture; taken with a phone camera, then re-sized by the gallery to make it even more blurry

I've been messing around with a new recipe for nmm gold and, despite only having about 30mins to work on it before I went to work, i'm pretty happy with the results. I might add a bit more low-lighting on the fleur-de-lys symbol though as it has too much flat colour for my liking. Blue looks crap, but it's just base-coated and washed so i've got a nice solid foundation and, I keep telling myself, all the shadows are in the right places!

Give me a couple more days and the mess on the desk will start to look more complete.


Edit: Ah... If you can be bothered to click on the image and zoom in a couple of turns of the mouse wheel, you get a much clearer pic!

Wow, that NMM is looking good! Would you mind sharing your recipe at all? I like the way I do gold now, it's sort of NMM using metallics (Nerdfest 09's recipe ), but I'd like to be able to do 'proper' NMM - I've just never known where to start!

the shrouded lord wrote:@ warpig: awesome. the helmet of the fallen guy on the back looks a little weird, but still. awesome.

Yeah, on the original image, the fallen marine (Captain Nemetor of the 15th Reconnaissance Company) is being cradled by Vulkan, so his head is limp and falling back - hence why my image is like that, although on this scale against an already black background I've found it hard to emphasise the shading.

Done a little more on these guys.

Here's what's on my desk lately. I'm running up a brand new Ork army. It's been almost ten years since I painted a 40k army. Here's my first offering: Bikes for Nobs and a Warboss.

Finally got some time to start painting some more:




Also, did a quick and dirty color test (both figures slated to be stripped) with the goal of doing Imperial Fists:



The one on the right is Army Painter Demon Yellow color primer. It came out was to thick when I used it like I would any normal primer, which I have since read on these forums is common. The one of the left is a random stab at Rustoleum's 2in1 color and primer in a "Summer Squash" color. The actual figures are more yellow than the photo makes them look. I don't think the one on the left is yellow enough, all the same. I think I just need to keep working with the Army Painter brand of yellow and try to get enough mastery that it isn't so thick. Even though it claims to be a primer, I am thinking primer in white or grey and do a light dusting of the yellow?

I dunno... The Army painter one looks good if you want to build up a rich yellow colour, whilst the other looks great if you want a more stark finish :S

I quite like the yellow one.

 carlos13th wrote:
I quite like the yellow one.

Yeah, I think what is going to work is grey primer first, then the Army Painter yellow over. I have been practicing and think I got the application down better. Now I just need to strip all the practice runs and start over.

Nothing quite as impressive as some of the other stuff posted prior to now, but here's what's in front of me at current.



Third (and final, for now) Vostroyan Heavy Weapon Team with a Lascannon. I've already finished to of them off and decided to go ahead and do a few more infantry models. I recently completed a Grenade Launcher (second of a pair) and wanted to go ahead and knock out this HWT. Next on the chopping block is the Sergeant w/ a Power fist pictured next to the Lascannon HWT I'm working on. After that, I'm not sure if I'm going to paint another few infantry models, or if I'm going to get started on more vehicles. Currently have two Valkyrie/Vendetta flyers to paint, a pair of armored Sentinels, as well as a Devil Dog and a Leman Russ Vanquisher to paint still for vehicles. On top of that, I've still got a good ~20 infantry still to paint. Trying to make headway, slowly. Getting this HWT finished will help get me motivated, as they take so much longer to paint vs. a standard infantry model.

That's my contribution. Thanks for looking

-Red__Thirst-

He needs to be sealed and then probably a little blood for the blood god goreification.

They won't all have blue pants/jeans. The spikes on his back are the same color as the gun, you can kind of tell from the shoulders. Not sure if I like the implementation of red for the eyes.

Need to finish the other 7-8 guys from the team since I'm happy enough with this dude to move forward.

The stuff I brought along for spring break.

and proof that I'm single

Here's a more recent post of WIP...

Currently a wip imperial fist tactical marine and the cockpit of a Stormtalon gunship.

Currently, a Land Raider Redemer, a Mumakil and a Daemon Prince's wings. Most of my chosen and my cultists.

 GrimDork wrote:

He needs to be sealed and then probably a little blood for the blood god goreification.

They won't all have blue pants/jeans. The spikes on his back are the same color as the gun, you can kind of tell from the shoulders. Not sure if I like the implementation of red for the eyes.

Need to finish the other 7-8 guys from the team since I'm happy enough with this dude to move forward.

I'd also recommend some Nurgles rot for gore-ification (Assuming its a zombie. It looks like one)

It is a plague mutant. It's not far off from a zombie, but it still reasons on some level, enough to use technology and especially spacecraft to get the bigger more virulent plague monsters off the planet and to another one. The guys that don't mutate into a useful form like this can still animate as a kind of zombie, mutant spikey zombie, but truer to the archetype. I'll consider it, I've got some nurgle rot that I'd like to try out. May wait for the proper zombies too though.

This guy, as a color test for the rest of my IW Berzerkers. I'll clean up the logo on his shoulder pad a bit more, and his feet, and he'll be ready for action.

I currently have a Broadside, Hammerhead and a singe pathfinder in various stages of painting. I have only got my phone so no decent pictures, but...

Fantastic thread, great idea, and some great work on here, very inspirational stuff.

For me.....

Between two projects. This.....


And this....



The last one is for the LoER Terrain competition round 9, currently running.


Thanks for this opportunity. Keep it coming people, brilliant.

I'm gonna have to start following the terrain comp threads... That looks stellar. No way I have time or ability enough to compete... but neat to follow.

I've got some strides made on a 2nd gen plague, will round some things up and come back with pictures when time permits.

My current work slate:



Probably won't have time to paint tonight, but should have these done tomorrow. So far, I have painted 100 models since I started painting again 27 days ago.

Just out of curiosity, what are these Paint-jar looking things with clay on top? I guess some are paint jars, obviously. But what purpose does the clay hold?

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what are these Paint-jar looking things with clay on top? I guess some are paint jars, obviously. But what purpose does the clay hold?

The jars themselves are old paint pots from the Polly-S acrylic paint line that I used in... sometime in the early 90s. Probably 91-93ish. By 95, I had switched to mostly GW paints (and then to Vallejos just after 2000). I kept all of my old Polly-S dried up jars because they are the perfect size for GW circle bases stuck on with blue-tac.

As to the... clay? I am not sure what it is the looks like the clay (since I am so used to what they are). The tops were all painted with the colors that were in them at the time. Most of them have a ring of black slop paint from me painting the bases of previous figures. The lids are also metal, so they work well for holding onto my magnetized swappable weapons as well.

Since I am posting, here is that same group of figures tonight:



I need probably another 2 hours to finish up the lot.

Working on some death company with fully magnetized options. Sorry for gakky pic quality.

This is my first airbrushed vehicle. Did base coat and then a highlight for each color in the camo. I achieved the pattern using masking tape. I could have been a tad neater with the tape, but I didn't know any better and am learning from experience. Now that the camo is done its on to the details.

Would love to hear your guys' thoughts - all comments and criticism are welcome!

 cento wrote:

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what are these Paint-jar looking things with clay on top? I guess some are paint jars, obviously. But what purpose does the clay hold?

The jars themselves are old paint pots from the Polly-S acrylic paint line that I used in... sometime in the early 90s. Probably 91-93ish. By 95, I had switched to mostly GW paints (and then to Vallejos just after 2000). I kept all of my old Polly-S dried up jars because they are the perfect size for GW circle bases stuck on with blue-tac.

As to the... clay? I am not sure what it is the looks like the clay (since I am so used to what they are). The tops were all painted with the colors that were in them at the time. Most of them have a ring of black slop paint from me painting the bases of previous figures. The lids are also metal, so they work well for holding onto my magnetized swappable weapons as well.

Since I am posting, here is that same group of figures tonight:



I need probably another 2 hours to finish up the lot.

Yours didnt have any clay on it, but pretty much any painting tutorial has it. I guess its just to hold the figure in place while rotating it.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:
Yours didnt have any clay on it, but pretty much any painting tutorial has it. I guess its just to hold the figure in place while rotating it.

Ah, ok, almost certainly it is blu-tack then (or some similar product) like in this pic I found online:



More about the product can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-Tack

(Blu-tack is also what is holding all of my guardians to the top of my paint pots, you just can't see that in the pics I have posted.)

Blue tack is great. I use it for that, as well as trying poses for minis. Sometimes I even use it as makeshift gap filler, just a light coat of super glue on top.

Used to use blue tak as we now use Green Stuff, back in the day, like you say, coat of superglue and you are golden.

You can also now get Black Tak, which is much stronger.

This is my current wip. I just posted him in the conversions thread but I feel he deserves more airtime haha. Once the last of the GS has set by tomorrow he will be ready for painting proper. Hes going to be a pale green skin colour with rusty metal plates, as im currently playing fallout 3 B-)

After taking a break for a few months due to work, I've finally been able to get back to working on my Knightworld guard. The fact that we can actually have knights now is just icing on the cake!
Now if i could just find where my wife stashed the rest of the platoon and get them based, I'll be back in business
Also you can see in the background my vets, a combo of Empire greatsword, SM scouts, and Cadian kits with bits from anvil industries. (on a side note I have trouble getting their resin to stay glued to things, i washed them but should I be using something other than plastic or standard superglue?). Also the faceplate of my knight, I'm thinking of naming him the Jack of Blades but I've kinda hit rut and cant decide on design for the back plate.

Currently this and a bunch of grey knights..

That green looks great.

 Capamaru wrote:
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Looking good so far! Add some scratchs, make the soul crystals a different color and your good.

This weekend's workbench:

Should finish these in the morning:




Just built this guy tonight. Still have some fill work and details to add, but won't be able to paint him this weekend - weather is too wet for priming:




After I finish the Wraithlords, I will try finishing the 3 Vypers I got half done a couple of weeks ago.

I'm working on some objective markers for a mate's space marine army - my first attempt at cutting and reposing models as well as my first green stuff use. It's not great an I'm aware I need more practice, but I'm still pleased with how they're looking so far.

Wasn't up to doing anything that needed a steady hand this past week so I decided to finish off some old mantic elves I had by dipping then varnishing them. Bit of a rush job but they were looking ok until I managed to frost them with the varnish. Cest La vie.

Don't think I can see the frosting from here, they look good to me.

Got paint chips and decals done for my chimera. Gave it a coat of gloss varnish before bed and I'm hoping to bust out the oil paints this evening and hit the recesses and rivets. Comments and criticisms welcome!

Looks good mate, cant wait to see it finished.

AngularDeath wrote:
Got paint chips and decals done for my chimera. Gave it a coat of gloss varnish before bed and I'm hoping to bust out the oil paints this evening and hit the recesses and rivets. Comments and criticisms welcome!

Thats actually starting to look like the best tank I've seen. The real metal look helps that alot

Other than batch paitning anyone have any tps on painting quicker?

@ carlos13th & Hive Fleet Cerebus - Thank you guys! I'm hoping to finish it up in the next week or so and will keep posting updates.

As for faster painting without working in batches, I am probably one of the slowest painters ever. It doesn't help that I love the IG, either. I would say my motivation for a finished product is what keeps me on track and working at a good enough pace when I actually am sitting down and painting. Sometimes I keep a few finished models on my desk as a reminder that what I'm working on will look like them soon enough.

Here's the latest update to the Chimera. Experimented with oil paints to create rain streaking effects for the first time last night and I feel pleased with the results. I think it looks a bit greasy here because of the gloss varnish and I don't think the oil paint had quite dried when I took the picture. When I'm done with the whole model it will get a nice spray of dullcote. What do you guys think of it?

Got this Got this mini from hi tech minis .was very disappointed on the quality of the cast but gotta make the best you can I guess

Archfarther Mortimer

I tend to keep all the models i want to get done... on my desk. So it forces me to paint to get it cleared lol. but yeah. Long way to go. xD




Hopefully they will all be done by the release of the new codex xD

Recived my order from warbases they look great. Gonna work on painting them up when I can't focus on detail work.

Looking good everyone! I did some more work with the oils last night... think I might have gone a bit too far on the right side of the hull. What do you guys think? Hoping to finish off with the oils and have a go at some rust effects this weekend.

Some after work relaxation

There's my laptop painting station.

Here's what I've been painting on it:

One of the guys at my FLGS asked me to paint this bad boy up for him. So its been primed and its curing right now.

Blimey, my poor models put to shame. Here's the state of my bench at the mo. The part of the house informally referred to as 'the missus' exasperation'.

Edit:arrrrgh, cannot get this to work posting multiple images. Cos they all have the same file name on iPad, it just posts the same pic over and over. Will have to try again tomorrow.

My work bench as of today:



Spent the day building vehicles and wraithguard in prep for my next round of frantic painting...

Khorne Biker Conversion from Dark Vengeance Box set. WIP

Well it's 05:16 am here in blighty, so the picture I just took look awful, and my micro USB cable has gone walkies, but I have a random FOW german command team leaning against a stone wall talking about something being worked on atm. It's amazing what you can do with fish bowl stones, picture WILL come soon!

A bunch of Soviet tank destroyers and German heavy tanks (right)

Got to get the airbrush out tomorrow and give the Germans their camo and hit the Soviets with green.

Nice monitor set-up I have to have mine pretty close to the same level on the bottom though or it drives me crazy.

Working on my space wolves at the minute got 5 assault marines and a rhino, my very first attemp with my airbrush that came on Friday

 Markillius08 wrote:
Boba Fett themed Knight Titan

did you see my fett knight?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281298409479?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_1250wt_1176

My crazy 'try a bigger needle in my airbrush' plan somehow mysteriously worked, so I got some more pieces worked on and undercoated:


I tried to use the airbrush to add some shading as I went, or well not-not add some shading. Leave parts of it darker.. same thing. Working?


Dice tower in the back, crates stored in the little cube building.

 GrimDork wrote:
Nice monitor set-up I have to have mine pretty close to the same level on the bottom though or it drives me crazy.

The difference can be kind of annoying, but I've grown used to it.

Just a quick update, painted my Tartoros terminators as far as I can, as the rest of the bits are at home, the yellow is much better blended than the picture suggests

Might go back and re-do the crux terminatus.






Next on the chopping block: Justaerin terminators converted to Wolf Guard



Let me know what you think of them

They look superb, nice feel to them, looking forward to them painted up.

I love this thread, great idea...

Just working on my LoER Terrain piece.

This guy is how I feel.


And painting a roof.


Thanks for the opportunity, great work everyone keep it coming.

Cam, your work can be summed up in 1 word: EPIC!!

I have been plugging away at my terminators, got the browns done and almost doe with the reds, then on to gold and metal



A question though, the autocannon guy, should he keep the centre of his belt all gold, or should I paint it like a big giant gemstone???

 dantay_xv wrote:
Cam, your work can be summed up in 1 word: EPIC!!

I have been plugging away at my terminators, got the browns done and almost doe with the reds, then on to gold and metal



A question though, the autocannon guy, should he keep the centre of his belt all gold, or should I paint it like a big giant gemstone???

I'd say gold. Are those Space Wolves?

They look amazing, and I would go with a contrasting gem or metal, maybe a black! But that may not be in keeping.


Oh and thank you.

Just finishing a few dark elf bits as i have really slacked recently lol this my wip atm

I have been busy finishing off my Infinity minis, painting a Druze Shock Team.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

 dantay_xv wrote:
Cam, your work can be summed up in 1 word: EPIC!!

I have been plugging away at my terminators, got the browns done and almost doe with the reds, then on to gold and metal



A question though, the autocannon guy, should he keep the centre of his belt all gold, or should I paint it like a big giant gemstone???

I'd say gold. Are those Space Wolves?

Yep indeed they are Space Wolves I really like the FW models, but I am bored of the grey-blue colour so I had a crack at te old school grey instead and badged them up as the Great Wolfs company.

Tha way when FW finally do the Prospero book I will have a small force to start with and also in 40 K they are Logans elite bodyguar, wearing the oldest and best armour of the chapter and to reflect their status they keep the original colours... (why on earth did they change the colour anyway?

I am glad you like them. I will hopefully have them painted in a few more days, then I will start Gren stuffing pelts etc for them

Here is my Carnifex I've started

This bad boy!

Working on my chaos chimera that I picked up at the weekend and deathclaw

Its great to see a nice variety of models and painting styles here.

TIme for soot stains and weathering powders!

my space wolves and my first ever attempt at air brushing on the rhino also done a little bit of edge highlighting on the storm bolter, something I normally try to avoid relying more on washes.

I really like how you mixed warriors of chaos with the space wolves, nice and distinctive

I am also loving the tyranids.. such variety is awesome.

My desk, I finish working offshore Monday, so they will get packed away tomorrow night... That front row WILL be finished by then dagnammit!!!

That may be my new favorite chaos warrior/space marine (usually chaos) conversion. Awesome Maybe stolen :p

Lot of neat stuff all around guys.

I'm working on a looted imperial basilisk for my death skull orks. I'm trying to learn to paint nice rust effects, so this is also a trial and error vehicle in that regard. (If you press the image it turns right...)

Just about as done as I can make them until I get home to break out the Green stuff



Starting to become one of my favourite models, does the helmet look okay? It was just a very last minute rush-job before I head home from offshore.

Ideas for basing would be cool, as I dont like the current colour scheme.

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome

Nearly done. I want to add some soot/weathering to the exhausts on the hull, do some subdued lens effects on the headlights, and slap on the stormbolter. This is my first real go with weathering powders. What do you guys think?

Finished my death company currently working on the BA battle force I picked up. As impractical as it may be I love the look of a scope on a pistol.

@ Dantay. Looking sweet dude, loving the colour choice.
@ AD. That Chimera looks brilliant, great weathering.
@ cuss. Great start, let us see how they go.

This silly thing is nearly there.



Keep it coming people great things around here.

Up next, rust and sickness!


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Some Vostroyan armor in various stages.

Some killakans for me ... I know badmoons would usually have dags instead of cheks...
My army is a mix up off all clans, what ties them together is that they all have cheks, da boss is a goff, he likes cheks!

Bout 80-90 % there on these... some details that got missed, and some bits to finish... anything white will be cheks.

My current bench.... I'm not so good at getting things painted...

HairySticks wrote:

Beautiful paint work there!

Night Lords Chaos Knight!

I never get over how much I like that lightning pattern for Night Lords stuff. Looks awesome so far.

I'm doing something really far left field for me - a 1/44 Bandai Zaku. Never assembled this type of kit before, it's proving pretty interesting - no glue needed!

Great work all around everyone! Love the lightning on the Knight and the yellow on those killa cans.

Currently working on lots of things but this is the main one:

The model:


The base is finished actually:

>w< Minotaur's for me.

May have to zoom in to see much of anything but:


Just got the last six plague of my initial plague strike team dipped, so here they are along with the two finished minis to the right and a couple of wip terrain pieces. I'm really liking the little spot I've claimed out in the garage, can leave things set up and even stinky processes like dipping can be done and left alone. Worst case the garage door can be opened.

Have a Chimera sitting on my desk - airbrushed the camo, Steel Legion style. Just need to do the details like the guns, tarp, gas tanks, etc. Coming along nicely, though.

There, right side up.


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Oh aside from my complete inability to orient a pic, stellar work on that knight ZOTAC!

GrimDork wrote:I never get over how much I like that lightning pattern for Night Lords stuff. Looks awesome so far.

more to come soon! thanks glad you like it!

AngularDeath wrote:Great work all around everyone! Love the lightning on the Knight and the yellow on those killa cans.

Sasa0mg wrote:

>w< Minotaur's for me.

really like these so far, definitely looking forward to seeing more!

OLD PAINTER wrote:There, right side up.


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Oh aside from my complete inability to orient a pic, stellar work on that knight ZOTAC!

aha damn image uploading! Looking good so far, keep the updates up as they come! and much appreciated! my biggest project yet aha

This isnt exactly something being painted, rather its something still being sculpted. Though I'm sure it'll fit here perfectly
To be honest, I dont really know what the hell this is. Some kind of Nurgle Chaos spawn I assume. Gonna add some mutations to the legs, including some tyranid toxin sacs on them for flavor. Then, drop it in some paint thinner to get off the old paint job.

Thought I would pop these here, still PIP.

So I will let the pics speak for them selves, I am not happy with the skin tone at the mo, but you get the general idea.




Oh and his rifle....needs a suitable name....




C&C welcome as always, thanks for looking.

 cento wrote:

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HairySticks wrote:

Beautiful paint work there!

Thanks, theyre coming along still, theres always another bit of detail I can find that got missed! but theyre looking acceptable to me at the moment.





Still wip though; no bases yet And I might try some freehanded moons on any areas flat and large enough.

All WiPs and all except Warp Smith with a conversion of some sort (ya ADD :( ) and taken with phone cam sorry!

Gah that last thing is hideous! Nice

Busy weathering/rusting my Meka Dread and building some Lootas for my local shops "500 points a month new army challenge"

This is my abaddon almost done.. I chose him purely for the fact that hes a classic

This is my necromunda/inquisitor mutant pit slave renegade dude finished, and some wip additions to the mutant gang

Ok. I've posted this alraedy, but A: i like to share my work and B: im crossing my fingers to see if i can post a pic right side up.


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Ugh. Facepalms!

Yeah it always posts mine sideways too. Try cutting them down to instagram size squares

Upload the image to your gallery, then paste the link to the image here.

Great work guys, all looking brilliant.(even if I do have to turn my monitor on it's side.)

Just finished this guy up the other day, a tyranid harpy/crone heavily customized.

The biggest thing was to change his flight orientation from diving,to looking as if he is almost coming in for a landing.

Other modifications;
Custom flight stand (1/2" acrylic rod).
Lots of green stuff work to support head in new angle.
Modified tail (there are vector strike victims on the base)
Fully magnetized to be crone or harpy
Custom scenic base (not done yet in pic).
Crone has small claws instead of acid sac arms.
wings magnetized for easy storage.

davethepak wrote:
Just finished this guy up the other day, a tyranid harpy/crone heavily customized.

The biggest thing was to change his flight orientation from diving,to looking as if he is almost coming in for a landing.

Other modifications;
Custom flight stand (1/2" acrylic rod).
Lots of green stuff work to support head in new angle.
Modified tail (there are vector strike victims on the base)
Fully magnetized to be crone or harpy
Custom scenic base (not done yet in pic).
Crone has small claws instead of acid sac arms.
wings magnetized for easy storage.

Is that incredibly green paint, or did you green stuff 90% of its body?

It is incredibly "green" paint.
I dip my tyranids to give them a "alien slime" look when done, the green turns into a neat looking alien flesh tone, and the orange paint turns into a color similar to a crab shell.
(it took a LONG time to find the right colors to achieve that effect).

As far as the green stuff work on him, I will try to post up a seperate thread on him in the P&M section - I just wanted them to look different, so I put a lot of work into altering the models.

 Sasa0mg wrote:


>w< Minotaur's for me.

Could you explain how you achieved your gold effects? Looks superb!

Worked on this one for about 4 hours tonight. I can see the finish line from here.

Looking great so far.

More updates on the Chaos Knight!

Waiting for a lazy Sunday to finish and seal.... wait! That's today!

So many things. Space hulk termies, crimaon slaughter chosen and hellbrute, tyranid venomthrope and some new tempestus scions.

Just got these undercoated, the white buildings may well end up dirty yellow, the black buildings will probably get painted like these:



And only the rightmost piece is finished, the other two still need blood, rust, maybe some metal on the little cube, and a flat coat. Everything will get some posters once I figure out how I want to do it. Probably some stenciled numbers too, since that seems appropriate.

my auto cannon teams, sorry for the quality there mobile pic's.

Those sandbags look nice and Emperor knows, guardsman can use all the help they can get

So Here's what I was working on today; Marauder Captain:

Needs a flat coat to mitigate the shiny dip, and a base. I'm fairly happy with the color scheme and look forward to replicating it on his minions with their simpler details.

Those sandbags look nice and Emperor knows, guardsman can use all the help they can get

there just a sausage of green stuff flattened a little and cut in to "bags" then just rammed on there covered in my finger prints. but it makes them feel like hessian bags.

Nearly finished my "ThundaOrk" New turret to paint.

Nice! I love things in 28 mm scale that are still ginormous. I also like the ridiculous amount of dakka, anything in front of the cockpit looks to be Swiss cheesed.

Abaddon finished.

This is next on agenda. Doom mancubus from reaper miniatures. Made a base for him using the 40k basing kit. I know you should do the base last but seeimg as hes already a full figure, I figured it didnt matter too much

Depends on how you want to do it, I usually paint my scenic bases and models separately and combine when ready. Otherwise, I think I'd do it like you've done that, prime them both in one go.

Really nice Abaddon too.

Aye, id just have tacked him to the base anyway.. His legs are pretty basic too so im not worried.. Il be able to go back and forth between the model and base as a paint it up. Thanks man, i m new(well reintroduced) to this, and I thought id give him a go just cos hes a classic. Im super happy how hes turned out.

Just about done with this one. Waiting for the Real Water to cure on the base, then a few touch ups here and there.

@QAR You should be, I would be, It's a nice looking Aabaddon with a deliciously OTT base

@darefsky I'm still not sure what that is, but it's mighty Impressive

 GrimDork wrote:
@QAR You should be, I would be, It's a nice looking Aabaddon with a deliciously OTT base

@darefsky I'm still not sure what that is, but it's mighty Impressive

Thanks! Its a Hyperion from Privateer press. Its about 6in tall.

The two with the brown bases are finished except for needing Matt varnish everywhere but the armour to take away the shine.

The other three need some matt varnish and need to be properly based. I also need to paint four more standard archers one unit leader and paint then flock the unit base itself.

They look AWESOME.

Harbinger of Menoth - Warmachine

Base with greenstuff and streaks


Giving base a plank look


Finished base


All the parts primed


Cloth:
basecoat - the fang
1st layer - the fang, ulthuan grey 50:50
2nd layer - the fang, ulthuan grey 10:90


coming soon:
3rd layer - highlight with ulthuan grey
edge highlight - ulthuan grey, white 50:50
edge highlight from above - white

Its all done! Finally! What do you guys think?

Sweet! Is that an autocannon? It looks very rough and tumble.

It is indeed an autocannon. Also got the track guards from FW. I kind of like the extra bits they have for chimeras. Thinking about the armored skirts and rear door they have available for my next chimera.

Some up and coming tasks Also have a Cadian Defense Force coming in the mail... plenty to do!

My Mantis Warriors. Nearly done, but I don't want to get any more just because of the fluff, but I love them.

Wraaaaaithguard!!!!

Slowly getting these guys sorted. Want to get them done quickly, there's another 5 coming in the mail soon...!



Also their big brothers...

These guys are mostly done, just a few details and such to finish up.

I dont normally like to have on-going projects, I prefer to do each model individually and just finish that model at once. But I currently have 4 Hormagaunts, a Dark Eldar Kabalite and a Space Wolf corpse (To decorate my tyrants base) to work on.

Samurai, Lots of Samurai

Not really war gaming related but fancied something different. It is mahoosive!!!

 soitra wrote:
Not really war gaming related but fancied something different. It is mahoosive!!!

That is awesome, where did you get it?

I got it from my local shop it's a revell kit so should be able to get it from most places that do revell kits. It was £25 much more cost effective than gw it's 540mm front to back dread to think how much something that big would be from gw

Mancubus

Painting up this fella

Mantic Z-corps for my Nurgle WH40k Army WIP first layer of basecoat , ink and drybrush done, pics were before ink.

Sweet! Always cool to see someone else rocking the z-corp.

Cleaned up, primed, assembled, pinned, and drilled DW squad from the DV box.
If these turn out nicely I will get a box of DW Knights on order.

100 zombies from the ZOMBIES!!! board game as cheap proxys for WHFB 30 primed, 3 painted (Poorly, just to get figure out if the color scheme would work) and 67 left un-touched.

....Where am I going to store them?

Just got a few Company Veterans primed and a couple in the stages of being painted. A ravenwing biker that needs some finishing touches, a terminator that just needs to be cleaned up a little after just being highlighted and also a scout bike primed (don't employ the scout bikes in my army but it was £1 on ebay with free postage so why not eh?). Also a few firewarriors awaiting painting.

Let's see...what have I got on the build/paint table?...

Painting/assembling 50+ Space Marines (Tactical, Devastators, Terminators, Scouts...)
Painting/assembling 31 Damned Legionaires
Assembling a drop pod
Painting 2 Mordheim War Hounds as my/my girlfriends dogs (German Shepherd/Rotweiler mix and a Labrador Stupid)
Painting miscellaneous Mordheim/Gorkamorka models
Painting miscellaneous Reaper Bones figures

Promised my girlfriend I was gonna set up my craft table in the basement while she's in Florida for her son's graduation. Think she'll appreciate meals with just us at the table - small as they are, those Space Marines take up a good but of table space.

Not strictly painting! But working on this for a friend...







Yup it's big!

WIP mawbeast and 'rainmaker' ripper suit. Still a ways to go on both.

Renegade/mutant guard plus multi variant leman russ and chimera

tomcat31 wrote:
Renegade/mutant guard plus multi variant leman russ and chimera

Are those space beastmen? Because that is an awesome idea, especially playing them as guardsmen.

 Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:

tomcat31 wrote:
Renegade/mutant guard plus multi variant leman russ and chimera

Are those space beastmen? Because that is an awesome idea, especially playing them as guardsmen.

Yeah. I plan on converting every single mini for this army to varying degrees. I'm thinking skaven/ratling snipers, lizard men guard. And possibly even some undead guard as conscripts.

Yeah, I dunno either. I'm some kind of yellow kick. Those two thing aren't even related. On the left is a deadzone building. The tiled roofs were just asking to be checkered. The right is what I've got fake titled as Project McD.

this is what's on my painting table

What IS that? It looks freaking awesome!

Angron

Looks sweet.

Just finished these for my pre heresy wolves now just my final squad of grey hunters