Nice job on all the marvel stuff

youwashock wrote:Certainly looks the part, doesn't he/she? Perfectly, in fact. Nice work.

Thanks youwashock! It's nearly the weapons on him (I finally gendered the pit fighter Captain Brown seems to see it that way too), that are in the book, if we assume that mace is in fact an extractable morningstar Sadly it looks like we won't be playing this year anymore, but you'll never know.

Captain Brown wrote:The more I look at he/she, the more I think it is a male figure...

My two cents,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown, it's now Pat the male pit fighter

inmygravenimage wrote:Well, gender is a spectrum these days. Cool, regardless.

Thanks Graven!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:You are smashing through the Crisis Protocol figures, I must admit that I know little of the Marvel Universe bar the obvious characters but these are all looking like great fun.

Great to see some more Mordheim from you as well. The fist spike on the pit fighter looks brutal!

Whoever came up with the idea of using the Infinity figures as statues is on to a good thing as well.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! Painting the Marvel figs is mostly really relaxing. Contrast and maybe an edge highlight works well on them and because they all are different it doesn't get stale.

In the book he has a spiked gauntlet that also let's him parry. So works quite well modeling-wise.

The problem was to get Infinity figures, they are mostly sold off everywhere. Snatched a 3-pack for 10€ and gave Black Widow and Thor to my kids for playing. Because of the Lego Shorts they know and love all the Avengers

gobert wrote:Wow! Your board looks awesome. Did I miss you painting all the cars or are they models?

Thanks gobert! They are model cars, I would not in a million years have the motivation to paint so many

monkeytroll wrote:Nice job on all the marvel stuff

Thanks monkeytroll and good to read you again!

No real progress, but built the last Marvel minis and primed them (before the first frost tonight, talk about timing) and will try to get them painted up as quick as possible.

Ooh, Mr Sinister. Not a fan of the character, but great sculpt. Interested to see how you tackle Cable, I don't have him but have seen some great versions using cinematics impacting off his shield. I also wondered about using squares of glitter (as I've seen done for Harlequin shields) to make it super sparkly.

I'm not entirely certain, if I have read anything with him. I believe I only know him from the Xbox 360 Deadpool game (awful game, great cutscenes!). But he looks fun and the first time I left stuff off, to be able to paint it better. Same thing with Cable's gun (and he doesn't get the Cape, does no one listen to Edna? ) Regarding his shield I will probably go the lazy way as I did with the Imperial Elf from my Sister's army and use Contrast over metallics and some OSL drybrushing where the grenades hit it.

Looks pretty sharp to me

Looks good. The colours remind me of X-Men comics circa 2005. It’s that metallic aqua blue I think. Sounds like you know what you’re doing with the shield too.

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks pretty sharp to me

Thanks, if only I knew which colors I used But testing will commence

theCrowe wrote:Looks good. The colours remind me of X-Men comics circa 2005. It’s that metallic aqua blue I think. Sounds like you know what you’re doing with the shield too.

Thanks und I hope I do know what I'm doing

Quick update, started on Spider-Gwen and Kingpin, Miles has to wait a bit to get his base finished. I'm going for a black suit for Kingpin, to have him more in style with the animated Spider-Verse movie.

These are going to look snazzy. I like how you're matching his shirt to her pink also.


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I was looking to see who else is on your primed pile, and then I spotted the whisky poster I'm an Islay single malt man, myself (benefits of living in Scotland).

"You got 24 hours."

Looking good. Nice, clean work on Gwen.

Another snazzy looking Kingpin! Everybody seems to do such a good job painting him.

inmygravenimage wrote:These are going to look snazzy. I like how you're matching his shirt to her pink also.


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I was looking to see who else is on your primed pile, and then I spotted the whisky poster I'm an Islay single malt man, myself (benefits of living in Scotland).

Thanks Graven! Although actually his shirt & tie and her pink are three different Contrast paints

For Islay Whisky you have to talk to my father I like some, but if I drink peated I'm more inclined to a Benromach with a more barbecue smokey flavor than the Islay one. But the Talisker 57° North was excellent.

youwashock wrote:"You got 24 hours."

Looking good. Nice, clean work on Gwen.

Thanks youwashock! Need to watch that movie again, visually perfect and the first look at the sequel looks cool too.

aku-chan wrote:Another snazzy looking Kingpin! Everybody seems to do such a good job painting him.

Thanks aku-chan! He's a breeze to paint so far, because he's so big and Contrast colors really help

Did a little more work, Wilson got his skin finalized and some dark grey highlights on his suit. Rings and buttons are next tomorrow.



And I was very apprehensive on doing the blue lines on Gwen, but jittery hands still succeeded and she's practically done by now (my fingers for scale )

Nailed the color on those crocs. And the fine line-work.

Well done indeed. Gwen is a bugger to paint

Fisk looking pretty suave there, good job on the suit highlights. And fine work on Gwen's arms.

youwashock wrote:Nailed the color on those crocs. And the fine line-work.

Thanks youwashock! Thankfully the lines were pretty raised so not as hard as I thought.

inmygravenimage wrote:Well done indeed. Gwen is a bugger to paint

Thanks Graven! I actually found it less hard than I thought, but I used the magnifying glass all the time.

monkeytroll wrote:Fisk looking pretty suave there, good job on the suit highlights. And fine work on Gwen's arms.

Thanks monkeytroll! Even gangsters dress to impress

And I managed to put the finishing touches on both spiders and Wilson. Very happy with all, great sculpts and nearly fun to paint... nearly

Nice job on each, love the new spider menace copy on the bugle.

Got to watch your step in NY, there's blood on them streets...

That newspaper is a fantastic little detail. They all look good. Ready for all the Spider-goodness on it's way.

Nice work Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Love the bases on those Marvel figure and good job on this tiny spidey webs

imagine Kingpin on amazon searching purple shoes mens, size XXXL

Lovely work as always.

It somehow escaped my attention that the Marvel figures are plastic.

I'm gonna need a Kingpin, oh yes.

Your stuff is really great thanks

Great work! They really look the part.

Very nice, lovely set of figures

Very nice Viterbi! Kingpin looks pretty dapper with the black suit Instead of the usual white.

Good work on the Marvel models Viterbi - you're getting pretty prolific with them!

Going back a or two page, your Sisters look great! Shame to hear the sculpt quality on the faces isn't great though. I was looking at those Serens models for the future, but maybe I'll keep looking.

Gotta get one last post in, before 2022 comes a-knockin'

monkeytroll wrote:Nice job on each, love the new spider menace copy on the bugle.

Got to watch your step in NY, there's blood on them streets...

Thanks monkeytroll! When I paint minis, there'll always be blood somewhere

youwashock wrote:That newspaper is a fantastic little detail. They all look good. Ready for all the Spider-goodness on it's way.

Thanks youwashock! Printed five versions of the newspaper because I didn't know, which one would fit

Captain Brown wrote:Nice work Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

zahnib wrote:Love the bases on those Marvel figure and good job on this tiny spidey webs

Thanks zahnib!

theCrowe wrote:imagine Kingpin on amazon searching purple shoes mens, size XXXL

Lovely work as always.

Thanks theCrowe... especially for that image in my head when the shoes have the wrong color and he has to chat with customer service

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It somehow escaped my attention that the Marvel figures are plastic.

I'm gonna need a Kingpin, oh yes.

Your stuff is really great thanks

Thanks Kid_Kyoto! And go get them, for the most part they are lovely minis and paint up quite quick.

Ezki wrote:Great work! They really look the part.

Thanks Ezki!

Slinky wrote:Very nice, lovely set of figures

Thanks Slinky!

Yorkright wrote: Very nice Viterbi! Kingpin looks pretty dapper with the black suit Instead of the usual white.

Thanks Yorkright! Was debating quite some time with myself, because the white suit is so iconic, but the Daredevil Series and Into the Spider-Verse showed that black could work as well.

Thumpingbear wrote:Good work on the Marvel models Viterbi - you're getting pretty prolific with them!

Going back a or two page, your Sisters look great! Shame to hear the sculpt quality on the faces isn't great though. I was looking at those Serens models for the future, but maybe I'll keep looking.

Thanks Thumpingbear! The models are fine overall, it's just compared to GW LotR minis, that there is a difference in face detail. I made a quick pic, there are details on, maybe I should habe thinned my paints




And sadly I did not managed to finish the apartment building in 2021 (not painting for nearly two weeks might have something to do with this ), but I did a little more work and it is slowly coming together.

Still not sure, if I try some white stripes on the windows to imitate reflections



Left side practically done, wanted it to look like the windows have been painted all over. May try some small stripes of duct tape on the one at the fire escape.



Forgot to put Ardcoat on the garage door thingy and now the decal stands out a bit But it is my favorite graffiti of the whole bunch. Needs a lot of work on the windows, those will get the same treatment as the front.



This side will probably get a big graffiti. Gonna try to print me a stencil of Bender, he deserves a wall to himself, after what happened to the one he sprayed himself on in NNY



And the roof that is finished since November



Well, see you all in 2022

I really like your take on the apartment, got it for Xmas myself.

The apartment is awesome, very realistic effect

inmygravenimage wrote:I really like your take on the apartment, got it for Xmas myself.

Thanks Graven! And I highly recommend leaving the fire escapes off to spray them separately. Was cursing trying to get some layers of Leadbelcher on them

Slinky wrote:The apartment is awesome, very realistic effect

Thanks Slinky! I hate painting terrain and am glad, that at least it looks the part

Finally managed to get some pics together for my 2021 recap. I believe I set myself some goals and highly likely achieved none I don't like painting and it showed this year, having enough Marines and Sisters for 25-50 PL games. Only painted a handful of new units for those.
But the tally is still ok with 75 infantry models and one vehicle. And I like the diversity, building a new warband for Mordheim (my most played game system) and making a big splash with the MCP minis. They paint up fast, especially with Contrast paints.

Everyone together:



The 40k section, Sisters in the lead:



He hasn't taken to the field, but still very happy with my SM Captain "on bike" conversion:



The MCP minis:





Cursed City (need to tackle the rest of the box this year):



Sisters of Sigmar Warband, mercs (Pit Fighter and Gandalf on square base) and the first two Rohan minis:



Last but not least five minis I painted up for a friend so his Mordheim warband is completely painted:



For 2022 I will try (as said) to get the Cursed City Box done, all the MCP I've been collecting, some more Sisters/Marines loitering on my shelves and maybe a further Mordheim warband (contemplating Vampire Hunters, so I can use CC minis and base them on squares).

Looks like a great year, Viterbi. All the Marvel minis look really cool together.

What a great round up dude! Looking forward to many more!

Sweet year in review! Looking forward to seeing you tackle the Cursed City minis

Thanks for the recap Viterbi It's enjoyable to see.

Nice work on that apartment. And a healthy selection painted over the last year

For someone who doesn't like painting you do a damn fine job And 75 minis and a vehicle is a very impressive amount! Great selection as well. I hope you had a good festive season Viterbi, look forward to seeing what you tackle in 2022

youwashock wrote:Looks like a great year, Viterbi. All the Marvel minis look really cool together.

Thanks youwashock!

inmygravenimage wrote:What a great round up dude! Looking forward to many more!

Thanks Graven!

gobert wrote:Sweet year in review! Looking forward to seeing you tackle the Cursed City minis

Thanks gobert!

Syro_ wrote:Thanks for the recap Viterbi It's enjoyable to see.

Thanks Syro_

monkeytroll wrote:Nice work on that apartment. And a healthy selection painted over the last year

Thanks monkeytroll!

zahnib wrote:For someone who doesn't like painting you do a damn fine job And 75 minis and a vehicle is a very impressive amount! Great selection as well. I hope you had a good festive season Viterbi, look forward to seeing what you tackle in 2022

Thanks zahnib! Still don't like it, but I like that other people like it. That's enough like for one sentence

Bit of radio silence here, used up my hobby space to sort my movie collection and than the motivation waned a bit. Got slowly back into the swing of things, but first *drumroll* my foothill of embarrassment (not enough for a pile of shame):





Pretty manageable. Wanna try and get the MCP, Sisters and Cursed City/Warcry stuff painted. Of course, I already bought some more Marvel and the two AoS Witch Hunters, but those and some of the Cursed City minis gonna go on square bases and do double duty in Mordheim.

On the painting front this guy got me started again. Spray white, use Contrast, mini practically done I corrected the staff today and need to finish his base. Other than that I'm very happy with this look.



He's tiny, but should paint up quickly too. Glad the eyes worked out, hope I don't ruin them when painting the other colors of his fur in the face.



He is Groot. Kept it simple with drybrushes over Contrast.



Mostly Contrast, just some Dark Reaper on the black and Stormshield over the whole mini. Not entirely happy with the flesh on the mouth, but good enough for gaming.



And this weekend I need to visit all your plogs, been away too long.

Nice comeback post! Moon Knight does look very cool already, as do the others.

Pile of shame seems like it should yield a nice variety of projects. And might be done in a lifetime.

Nice progress on the WIPs.

Foothill of embarrassment! I like that, need to get mine to that sort of level. Some cool little projects you have in the pipeline. The MCP stuff is coming along at a great rate now your back on the wagon, the Guardians of the Galaxy are pretty cool

That's your 'pile of shame'? It looks like the start of a couple of small projects to me

At least there's a reasonable chance of completing that lot.

Groot and Rocket looking good, Moonknight is very cool

Your venom is delightful! Very manageable, contrast clearly the way the truth and the (moon) light

Quite the collection! Sure got your work cut out for you, but I'm confident you'll be able to tackle them.
Will especially look forward to the sisters!

Nice work so far.

“Foothill of embarrassment”, so good, hahaha Looks like a good variety you’ve got, I’m sure that’ll keep you busy for the rest of the year

youwashock wrote:Nice comeback post! Moon Knight does look very cool already, as do the others.

Thanks youwashock! Love his pose, that cape flowing is just great. And everybody loves a one-paint-coat-mini

Nevelon wrote:Pile of shame seems like it should yield a nice variety of projects. And might be done in a lifetime.

Nice progress on the WIPs.

Thanks Nev! I'm glad too that there is still a little bit of everything and not just Sisters oder Space Marines left.

gobert wrote:Foothill of embarrassment! I like that, need to get mine to that sort of level. Some cool little projects you have in the pipeline. The MCP stuff is coming along at a great rate now your back on the wagon, the Guardians of the Galaxy are pretty cool

Thanks gobert! It was quite liberating taking stock. I also sold a bunch of stuff last year, sometimes still in boxes, because it made me somewhat anxious. I'm not predisposed to amass stuff

monkeytroll wrote:That's your 'pile of shame'? It looks like the start of a couple of small projects to me

At least there's a reasonable chance of completing that lot.

Groot and Rocket looking good, Moonknight is very cool

Thanks monkeytroll! Always need to see the light of the tunnel. A real pile would drain all my energy by just being there

inmygravenimage wrote:Your venom is delightful! Very manageable, contrast clearly the way the truth and the (moon) light

Thanks Graven! Contrast is so great for the Marvel figs (as can be seen later in this post).

Ezki wrote:Quite the collection! Sure got your work cut out for you, but I'm confident you'll be able to tackle them.
Will especially look forward to the sisters!

Nice work so far.

Thanks Ezki! Need to get to some Sisters, they feel a bit neglected

zahnib wrote:“Foothill of embarrassment”, so good, hahaha Looks like a good variety you’ve got, I’m sure that’ll keep you busy for the rest of the year

Thanks zahnib! I'm not entirely certain if I came up with that or more likely read it here on Dakka somewhere But I love that phrase.

Some little update (and more in the pipeline).

Latest shots of Venom and Moon Knight finished. I realized to late, that the wind is blowing the other way so the comic on the Moon Knight base shouldn't be in that position. Ah well... And contemplated putting blood akin to the stick on his suit, but git scared And it's a magic suit so probably self-cleaning




Really happy with the Dark Reaper accents on Venom. Makes him look a bit like the 90's comics colors





And some WIP, gotta love Contrast. Thor will get some highlighting with normal colors, but only Contrasts is already working well.




And I started a new project (although painting is a bit off). New Mordheim warband, Vampire Hunters. Luckily only needed to buy the ven Densts, all other minis were already at hand.

The complete warband


Vampire Hunter leader and Priest of Morr (because he is called Octren in Cursed City I couldn't resist and he will travel the streets of Mordheim as Ogden Wernstrom )


Three Slayers


Four Pilgrims (the arms I had left weren't ideal for posing)


The Villagers (the story is that the priest revives the vampire's victims and let's them fight as zombies)


And the wolfhounds

Moon Knight looks Aces . Never got not into him as a character, but now it seems I missed out.

Vampire gang is looking good, using the monsters tools against him seems appropriate.

WERNSTROM :shakes fist:

Looking good, yeah the contrast blue is very good, Beast shaping up nicely too.

Nice work finishing off Ebony and Ivory for MCP. New guys off to a great start. Cool batch of minis for the Mordheim band.

The beast! Funny how some marvel characters (many in fact) are just meh to me but every now and then I have a surprising reaction to one I never thought I was such a big fan of. Turns out I’m a beast fan. I think maybe because he always got the witty lines in the comics. Nice to see him again.

The Marvel stuff is coming along great!

I bought some MCP last year, and seeing your finished models is inspiring me to get on with mine - great stuff! The buildings look really daunting though...

Also liking the Morheim minis, looks like a great excuse to paint up some random models, and looking forward to some battle reports for these

Theophony wrote:Moon Knight looks Aces . Never got not into him as a character, but now it seems I missed out.

Vampire gang is looking good, using the monsters tools against him seems appropriate.

Thanks Theo! I know next to nothing about him, but the Trailer for the MCU series looked good enough.

inmygravenimage wrote:WERNSTROM :shakes fist:

Looking good, yeah the contrast blue is very good, Beast shaping up nicely too.

Thanks Graven! I'm rewatching Futurama right now Not every episode is great, but I dig the characters and zany future stuff.

youwashock wrote:Nice work finishing off Ebony and Ivory for MCP. New guys off to a great start. Cool batch of minis for the Mordheim band.

Thanks youwashock and damn, didn't realize it with Moon Knight/Venom and their colors

theCrowe wrote:The beast! Funny how some marvel characters (many in fact) are just meh to me but every now and then I have a surprising reaction to one I never thought I was such a big fan of. Turns out I’m a beast fan. I think maybe because he always got the witty lines in the comics. Nice to see him again.

Thanks theCrowe! I love that this big hairy blue dude is swinging around while dropping wisdom (although I've read not much X-Men comics). He always slightly reminds me of the Discworld's librarian.

aku-chan wrote:The Marvel stuff is coming along great!

Thanks aku-chan! And there's is a lot more to come

Maharg wrote:I bought some MCP last year, and seeing your finished models is inspiring me to get on with mine - great stuff! The buildings look really daunting though...

Also liking the Morheim minis, looks like a great excuse to paint up some random models, and looking forward to some battle reports for these

Thanks Maharg! They are just lovely to paint, because they are one and done Excited to look what you will do with them! And yeah, I don't like buildings, but they paint up quite nicely, if one musters the motivation... which I don't

Battle reports will take a bit. Our match this weekend was postponed, because of sickness all around Maybe weekend after next we'll play again.

And a small update, finished some more MCP minis, firstly Rocket and Groot:





Not super happy with the gun and OSL, but overall quite pleased.

And the God of Thunder, 80% Contrast paints:



Jenny and Bruce. Feel like Bruce needs another highlight, but my greens don't have the needed hue and I don't want to mix.



Finally finished Bob (he was 90% done last year) and of course Mr. Pool couldn't wait then:

I love your Deadpool, but all looking great. Highly recommend Vallejo livery green for highlights

I love the little comic book covers on their bases,
Are they the first issues the character turns up in?

Very nice - I spotted some Middle Earth in your foothills, so looking forward to seeing that come up

Man, that's cool. Love the Hulks. Great work, all around.

Nice job on the hulks. I quite like the green he’s at right now, it works I think, though we could all use more paint . Great touch on the discarded comics too

Bob and Deadpool look great as do Groot and Rocket.

inmygravenimage wrote:I love your Deadpool, but all looking great. Highly recommend Vallejo livery green for highlights

Thanks Graven! I may try that green, but looking at my track record, I believe I have never touched a mini again I counted as finished in my head

Guardling wrote:I love the little comic book covers on their bases,
Are they the first issues the character turns up in?

Thanks Guardling! It's not first appearances, but the covers I liked most when doing a Google image search.

Slinky wrote:Very nice - I spotted some Middle Earth in your foothills, so looking forward to seeing that come up

Thanks Slinky! Yes, there is quite some ME stuff, but unfortunately the other three M are at the front of the prio list: Marvel, Mordheim, Moresisters But the new painting comp is "age before beauty" so I may try my hand at Gollum.

youwashock wrote:Man, that's cool. Love the Hulks. Great work, all around.

Thanks youwashock!

gobert wrote:Nice job on the hulks. I quite like the green he’s at right now, it works I think, though we could all use more paint . Great touch on the discarded comics too

Thanks gobert!

Theophony wrote:Bob and Deadpool look great as do Groot and Rocket.

Thanks Theo!

Here are the glamour shots of Hulk, Rocket and Groot for the painting comp:

"We got him cornered, that'll be an easy 50.000 credits from the Grandmaster!"
"I am Groot!"
"I don't care if he won over a hundred fights, those are rigged anyway."
"I am Groot."
"You're just a pessimist and of course he looks angry, because we'll have him bagged in 5 minutes, mark my words!"







And the next batch of WIPs:



Still to stupid to use Contrast skin colors, but gonna layer over them anyway. Sabretooth will get some highlighting on the fur, looks to similar to the yellow suit right now. Not in love with his character or sculpt, but contrast made painting him so far bearable Taskmasters cloak will get some "real" yellow on the cape once I've done the suit. That looks very splotchy at the moment. Viper gets some green highlights and Valkyrie is just standing there, because I was painting blond hair anyway

If I can keep that tempo up, I may be done with most of the Marvel minis sometime in March. Fingers crossed!

The only one out of those four that I am familiar with is Sabertooth and he looks really good. I do like contrast paint, especially when it is used in conjunction with other paints to help out.

Yeah, I would be OK if the other three turned on Sabretooth and turned him into a fur coat.

Looking good! Love that green on Viper.

The washes and bright colors give it a good cartoon look - perfectly marvel and good on the table top

Keep it up

Theophony wrote:The only one out of those four that I am familiar with is Sabertooth and he looks really good. I do like contrast paint, especially when it is used in conjunction with other paints to help out.

It can make painting a lot easier. I really like sloshing it on and then putting a layer paint on top. Works well very often.

youwashock wrote:Yeah, I would be OK if the other three turned on Sabretooth and turned him into a fur coat.

Looking good! Love that green on Viper.

They got the swords to do it

Stevefamine wrote:The washes and bright colors give it a good cartoon look - perfectly marvel and good on the table top

Keep it up

Thanks Steve!

Seeing how I'm on sick leave this week (second bout of Corona, but this time fully vaccinated and boostered, so a lot more common cold than the first time ) I start every morning with a little painting session.

Finished Sabretooth and Viper (not happy about her eyes, she looks more Picasso than human. Although I realize they aren't visible on the pic ).




Hope that the blue on the wings will hold, forgot to put some varnish on first May tackle her today or tomorrow, need to paint all the black bits. Should be strong enough to go over the yellow.



And he is the best at what he does... Tried to paint the X-Force color scheme. Eyes are to dark, put bright red paint over them after the pic, but because of no small brush available I now need to redo the black a bit And tried something new with Taskmaster's cape, put Quickshade over the Grey Seer and than painted over with Grey Seer again to give it a smudgy look.

Cool costume choice for Wolverine. Taskie's cape has turned out well. Hope you get well soon!

Very exciting, and you're definitely keeping me on my toes with your output!

All coming along well. I have switched to cheap brushes from Walmart. They are 12 for half the cost of a GW brush , and I get a variety of sizes.

I have managed to keep clear of the Rona, I’m fully Vaxed and boostered as well, but others are not as lucky. One of the Doctors in my office who is also fully boostered and Vaxed is sick with it a second time, lots of coughing and weakness. My wife’s grandmother is fully up to date and also has had it twice. No rhyme or reason.

Get better buddy.

All looking good, and the cloak worked great.

Hopefully you'll recover quickly.

The colors you are using are perfect for all these superhero figures. I only see Citadel, et al, in the background of the photos but it is as if you bought a palette of colors specifically for Marvel. Excellent effect!

youwashock wrote:Cool costume choice for Wolverine. Taskie's cape has turned out well. Hope you get well soon!

Thanks youwashock! Already feeling better and if it stays that way I can leave the house on Monday.

inmygravenimage wrote:Very exciting, and you're definitely keeping me on my toes with your output!

Thanks Graven! Once this week is done, I won't be able to keep this up, so no worries

Theophony wrote:All coming along well. I have switched to cheap brushes from Walmart. They are 12 for half the cost of a GW brush , and I get a variety of sizes.

I have managed to keep clear of the Rona, I’m fully Vaxed and boostered as well, but others are not as lucky. One of the Doctors in my office who is also fully boostered and Vaxed is sick with it a second time, lots of coughing and weakness. My wife’s grandmother is fully up to date and also has had it twice. No rhyme or reason.

Get better buddy.

Thanks Theo! Virus be crazy, my grandma also didn't catch it while a lot of my family already had it. Luckily without complications.

monkeytroll wrote:All looking good, and the cloak worked great.

Hopefully you'll recover quickly.

Thanks monkeytroll!

Meer_Cat wrote:The colors you are using are perfect for all these superhero figures. I only see Citadel, et al, in the background of the photos but it is as if you bought a palette of colors specifically for Marvel. Excellent effect!

Thanks Meer_Cat! Contrast Talassar Blue is my absolute hero of the bunch. It's such a perfect bright comic blue, it's amazing.

And because the motivation still hasn't waned, I finished Logan and Tony Masters this morning. Not so happy with the inside of Taskmaster's cape as with the outside, but it's at least the same style Quite happy with the shield and the general rough and dirty look on him.




Really happy with him, exactly how I had planned. Can't wait to paint up Domino and Cable and have a X-Force team ready to go.




These two are on my list for tomorrow, Beast is nearly done, waiting for the dark blue contrast paint that should arrive tomorrow. Wasp "just" needs a lot of black overpainting, hope I don't mess up the yellow.



And everything Marvel primed and yet to paint (and Shuri/Okoye NiB lying around). Want to try and tackle Bullseye, Sin and Mystique on the weekend, they should paint up pretty fast. After that there will be some Hobbits on the menu for the painting comp.

You're a speed demon. Good luck building Shuri, she's an absolute bugger.

Wolverine looks the business. The blood is very fitting from what I remember of that run. Much love for the choice of cover on his base. Taskmaster also looks good. Yellow's a little patchy, as you said, but the shield turned out great. Plenty of super-heroism to come, too!

Looking good, and have to join youwashock in loving the issue cover for Logan's base, absolute classic.

inmygravenimage wrote:You're a speed demon. Good luck building Shuri, she's an absolute bugger.

Only for this week, once work commences next week, it'll all be over and I'm back to slow(er) painting I will steel myself when I assemble her. And such a shame, the pose looks so great.

youwashock wrote:Wolverine looks the business. The blood is very fitting from what I remember of that run. Much love for the choice of cover on his base. Taskmaster also looks good. Yellow's a little patchy, as you said, but the shield turned out great. Plenty of super-heroism to come, too!

Thanks youwashock! I've read some X-Force (had an omnibus), but it got weird very fast with time travel to kill Apocalypse and all team members having PASTS with one another. So I dropped it But the costume is just great and it was clear pretty quickly I would try to emulate it.
I'm torn on further painting Taskmasters inner cape, but it was bugger enough to get everything under there and I fear I will splotch everything with yellow... eh, he's a gaming piece anyway

monkeytroll wrote:Looking good, and have to join youwashock in loving the issue cover for Logan's base, absolute classic.

Thanks monkeytroll! It's had not to know that cover, even if one has never read a single issue of Wolverine. And fits perfect with his "coma at me" pose.

And the next batch is done. Finally my Leviadon Blue Contrast arrived so could finish Beast. Blue is perfect for the shorts and more importantly: That is exactly the blue I need for Bullseye. He will practically paint himself
It's not good to see, but Beast is reading "Cult of the Emperor". Couldn't resist a little crossover, now that Marvel produces 40k comics.





Wasp. The tiny version was easier done though as I thought and for the first time used one of the cans for the base. Tried some color splotches to create a can of my favorite softdrink. It's highly addictive Little sad I didn't realize the wings weren't filed done properly on the big version.

Wasp looks great! At both sizes! Beast catching up on his 40K is priceless.

Looks great, love the slurm beast is top notch too.

Missed the opportunity for him to be reading the Codex Ultramarines as he sure is a Boy in Blue

Wasp(s) look great, I know you were fretting using the black over that yellow, but all looks like it turned out well.

Love the little comic books everywhere!

Wish I could use Contrast paints, they're really helping you blast through these Marvel minis in record time.

Loving all of the comics on the MCP stuff… helps me figure out some of the less popular ones . Genius touch to have a easy reading a 40k book too

youwashock wrote:Wasp looks great! At both sizes! Beast catching up on his 40K is priceless.

Thanks youwashock! You never know, when you will fall through a dimension/time portal, gotta know where- and whenever you land, what the customs are

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks great, love the slurm beast is top notch too.

Thanks Graven! Was quite fun searching the right colors and doing only some splashes and trying to capture the essence of the can.

Theophony wrote:Missed the opportunity for him to be reading the Codex Ultramarines as he sure is a Boy in Blue

Wasp(s) look great, I know you were fretting using the black over that yellow, but all looks like it turned out well.

Thanks Theo! Needed two coats, but in the end black prevailed over yellow... that sounds weird

aku-chan wrote:Love the little comic books everywhere!

Wish I could use Contrast paints, they're really helping you blast through these Marvel minis in record time.

Thanks aku-chan! Was the easiest way to get something interesting on the bases without much effort Without Contrast I would've gone mad painting those minis.

gobert wrote:Loving all of the comics on the MCP stuff… helps me figure out some of the less popular ones . Genius touch to have a easy reading a 40k book too

Thanks gobert! I know most of them, but have only read some of the characters, mostly Deadpool.

And with me being 99% healthy again and work resuming tomorrow, I end my Marvel Mayhem. Managed to get the last three planned minis done and made a huge dent into my Marvel pile. Very simple paintjobs (and not the best with Sin and Bullseye), but they're done.

Sin: The scar over the eye was not planned. Put some more color on the face before the dot from the marker in her eye had dried. Instead of repainting it, a scar was easier And her spaghetti top is not perfectly separated from her skin




Bullseye: Easy to paint, although I should have gone for Basilicanum Grey on the white stuff to get more definition on the inner rings. Ah well, the Contrast White was out because of Mystique, so I got lazy. And realized while painting that I did not remove all the mold lines But hey, at least he got eyes.




Mystique: Really happy with her (although blown up pics show small stuff that irks me now). Great classic 60's spy pose, love the surpressor on the gun. And also two eyes, looking in the same direction

I really like bullseye, so comic-faithful.

Marvel-ous!

Mystique really turned out well and the blue/black on Bullseye works great.

Glad you are feeling better.

More nice work Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

I'm really enjoying your Marvel stuff. From this latest batch, Bullseye is my favorite. He's got crazy-eyes (appropriate for the character), and you nailed the smirking smile.

Nice work, I always love a bit of Mystique. I think you’ve done a great job on them all, and kudos for getting their eyes pointing in the right direction

Good lord, has it really been over a month I was mostly online in the painting comp thread and have somewhat neglected the plogs. Need to remedy this and see what marvelous stuff everyone has been doing these last weeks. But first things first:

inmygravenimage wrote:I really like bullseye, so comic-faithful.

Thanks Graven!

youwashock wrote:Marvel-ous!

Mystique really turned out well and the blue/black on Bullseye works great.

Glad you are feeling better.

Thanks youwashock!

Captain Brown wrote:More nice work Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

JoshInJapan wrote:I'm really enjoying your Marvel stuff. From this latest batch, Bullseye is my favorite. He's got crazy-eyes (appropriate for the character), and you nailed the smirking smile.

Thanks JoshInJapan! The eyes weren't intentionally crazy, but they do fit

gobert wrote:Nice work, I always love a bit of Mystique. I think you’ve done a great job on them all, and kudos for getting their eyes pointing in the right direction

Thanks gobert!

So, did I paint nothing that "missing" month? Of course not Did I paint very little... Yes

I only painted one more mini, Gollum eating his supper:







I'm really happy with him, especially being able to do his eyes, because is that one small model.

The rest of the month I'm trying to do some more models for my 40k armies. These terminators are for the painting comp:



And it is embarrassing, how long these sisters are standing around after I painted the test mini. Need to get the squad done.

i said it before and i am going to say it again, i love that little Gollum (and the cage he is in).

He's a creepy little one. We loves it!

Great job on Gollum, extra points for getting his eyes painted so well

Are some of those Terminators from the Space Marine Heroes set? They should be a cool addition to your Legion (surely it’s too big an army now to call it a Chapter?)

Nice work on Gollum. LotR minis are small, but lovely. Looking forward to the Terminator squad.

We only wish... to catch a fish... so juicy sweeeet!

Late to the party but nice work. Bullseye is awesome. I love how he's just shooting his finger gun. And nice detail putting the comics on each of their bases. MCP stuff might have to get added to my pile of shame.

Very nice Gollum there Viterbi. You did manage to do those miniature eyes.

Cheers,

CB

Nice job on Gollum! I almost feel for the little bugger. Looking forward to seeing more of your converted Sisters.

Oh my, lazy posting cycle it is atm. Hopefully I'll keep once per month going

pInkLight wrote:i said it before and i am going to say it again, i love that little Gollum (and the cage he is in).

Thanks pInkLight! He's standing on the (more than slightly) to big Warcry terrain, but it wouldn't be out of place in middle earth.

inmygravenimage wrote:He's a creepy little one. We loves it!

Thanks Graven!

gobert wrote:Great job on Gollum, extra points for getting his eyes painted so well

Are some of those Terminators from the Space Marine Heroes set? They should be a cool addition to your Legion (surely it’s too big an army now to call it a Chapter?)

Thanks gobert! Yes, the mini is from the SMH set, got the whole box (and had all the limited minis in it too ). I actually don't know how much the marines tally atm, but I'm sure they are still just a chapter

youwashock wrote:Nice work on Gollum. LotR minis are small, but lovely. Looking forward to the Terminator squad.

Thanks youwashock! And those damn halflings even smaller

Slinky wrote:We only wish... to catch a fish... so juicy sweeeet!

Thanks Slinky, I just had the earworm out of my head

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Late to the party but nice work. Bullseye is awesome. I love how he's just shooting his finger gun. And nice detail putting the comics on each of their bases. MCP stuff might have to get added to my pile of shame.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff! MCP is very good shamepilewise, because every mini is it's own army, so paint one and you're immediately happy that you don't have to paint another 29 of them

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice Gollum there Viterbi. You did manage to do those miniature eyes.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown! I use a 0,05 mm fine tip (someone recommended this on here) and it works quite well (if you let it dry properly, which on occasion I haven't )

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice job on Gollum! I almost feel for the little bugger. Looking forward to seeing more of your converted Sisters.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! And your last wish may be my command:

Finally managed to finish those 4:




And as is the way, they came on the battlefield, freshly painted and were wiped out by three shining spears before firing a single bolter shell

I also finished one terminator from the melee squad:






For MCP I ordered some 4ground terrain last year and assembled the first piece... pretty badly, need to be more careful next time. But for a broken down bus stop it looks good enough

Great adverts on that bus stop especially for Marvel love the armour colour on the sob.

Love the Terminator and bus shelter, but those Sisters are such a simple but cool kitbash.

Terminator rules, Viterbi. Sisters, too.

Terminator is sweet, and I like the posters on the terrain

Very nice work on your sisters and termites...
Been staring at the bus stop for ages trying to figure out how it's broken down, then I realised, I haven't ever seen a bus stop that wasn't broken in some way...

Loving the bus stop - It's amazing how a small printed poster really makes a difference to the realism of these pieces.

inmygravenimage wrote:Great adverts on that bus stop especially for Marvel love the armour colour on the sob.

Thanks Graven! In the MCP universe the Batman movie would probably count as a documentary

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Love the Terminator and bus shelter, but those Sisters are such a simple but cool kitbash.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! Although one suffers from really bad greenstuffritis The others I found angles so it mostly looks like the arms and hands fit together. But was glad to not waste the enforcer bodies.

youwashock wrote:Terminator rules, Viterbi. Sisters, too.

Thanks youwashock! Let's see when I will find the motivation to finish his four pals

MegaDave wrote:Terminator is sweet, and I like the posters on the terrain

Thanks MegaDave! Always love to print some stuff to make the terrain look more like mine.

Guardling wrote:Very nice work on your sisters and termites...
Been staring at the bus stop for ages trying to figure out how it's broken down, then I realised, I haven't ever seen a bus stop that wasn't broken in some way...

Thanks Guardling! And equal parts and re: real life bus stop experiences

Slinky wrote:Loving the bus stop - It's amazing how a small printed poster really makes a difference to the realism of these pieces.

Thanks Slinky! There were some posters with the terrain, but they looked not that interesting, so printing my one it was.

And at least one more miniature made it across the desk this month. My Living Saint kitbash from Ydra... Ynd... the Sigmar winged lady She's the end form of my canoness once my friend and me restart our crusade campaign that ground to a halt last year. Not entirely happy with the flag and the wings, but on the whole glad she's done now.







For May I will try to finally get my 5 Seraphim painted (they have been sitting for months now in the primed pile) and can use my four Repentia for the painting comp theme.

She's turned out cool. Digging the wings, and how well the backpack meshes with them.

Very nice Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

I like the converted sisters, sorry to hear about their fate on the table. Cool termie and living saint too

Sweetness! The SMH terminator looks really cool in your colours as does the Stormcasts Sister. Her wings came out great. They look darker towards the bottom to me, is there a zenithal prime underneath the contrast?

youwashock wrote:She's turned out cool. Digging the wings, and how well the backpack meshes with them.

Thanks youwashock! Got lucky there, just needed to trim the wings a bit and no green, brown or other stuff was needed.

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Syro_ wrote:I like the converted sisters, sorry to hear about their fate on the table. Cool termie and living saint too

Thanks Syro_! They are at a better place now, dining at the side of the mighty God-Emperor

gobert wrote:Sweetness! The SMH terminator looks really cool in your colours as does the Stormcasts Sister. Her wings came out great. They look darker towards the bottom to me, is there a zenithal prime underneath the contrast?

Thanks gobert! Now I just need to find the motivation for his 4 brothers And nothing fancy going on with the saint, just primed her with Grey Seer, no zenithal used, just Contrast colors that faded out to the top.

And I hate how little hobby time I spent (the motivation eludes me, seeing how I have enough minis ready for gaming), but I'm planning to start Necromunda with our 4-man-group. I'll start with Orlocks, although a friend asked, why I didn't play Cawdor, if I'm already using Sisters and the church in 40k. So I need to speed through those biker gangers and find the funds to build some religious zealots
But seeing my glacial speed atm it could be some time. But at least the first Orlocks got some color. Not convinced about the method of priming black, than some white (spray and drybrush). Will probably prime the next ones differently.

Your Living Saint looks gorgeous... I love the conversion work, and your paint scheme continues to deliver awesome results. I'm really excited for your pivot to Necromunda!

Good to see you again, Viterbi. Have fun with those gangers!

Ooh, the orlocks look cool minis. The zenithal looks to have had something up with the white. To me it looks a bit speckled, was it the end of the can? The contrast looks good on the bloke to the right though a bit flat on the others

Huh, I really like that bus stop

Yass! More Necromunda people!
Looking forward to seeing your Orlocks done!

And again a month has gone by

MacPhail wrote:Your Living Saint looks gorgeous... I love the conversion work, and your paint scheme continues to deliver awesome results. I'm really excited for your pivot to Necromunda!

Thanks MacPhail! Very excited about Necromunda, hopefully we can start at the end of summer.

youwashock wrote:Good to see you again, Viterbi. Have fun with those gangers!

Thanks youwashock! Let's see, if I can make at least a bi-weekly rhythm happen in the near future

gobert wrote:Ooh, the orlocks look cool minis. The zenithal looks to have had something up with the white. To me it looks a bit speckled, was it the end of the can? The contrast looks good on the bloke to the right though a bit flat on the others

Thanks gobert! Yeah, it didn't work as I wanted and it was to light. The primers in themselves were good, but the grey one attached to lightly. We live and learn It's probably also why the colors look a bit flat, brighter white would work better with contrast. But the Orlocks will get a fast treatment in the future, can't be bothered more with them as with the Cawdor (as you will see at the end of this post ).

Sherrypie wrote:Huh, I really like that bus stop

Thanks Sherrypie! Was not fun to build, but doing the posters was a joy.

Guardling wrote:Yass! More Necromunda people!
Looking forward to seeing your Orlocks done!

Thanks Guardling! Really excited for the game, looks cool rulewise and am currently looking to get all the "Book of" books so we have a good base for campaigns.

Not a lot has happened in June, but did those two minis for the painting comp. I love Discworld and for the theme "Underdogs" no one is more fitting than Fred and Nobby. Lovely sculpts based on the Paul Kidby drawings:








Have more sculpts ready, but seeing as they probably will not be used in a game, it's hard to find the motivation to paint them.

And nearly immediately lost motivation for Orlock after looking more closely at Cawdor. They are a much better fit for a Sister's player Got two boxes and the weapon pack and built the first eight minis:

Word-Keeper Malekai (Leader)


Deacon Vorbis and Amesbry (Champions)


Zebediah and Jebediah (love those polearm/gun weapons)


Noah and Joah (one will be a Juve)


Keturah (Ganger)


Really happy with them (even if they have lots of detail and layers of clothes). Their chose name is the Ordo Soror Amator, as they are big fans of my Sororitas. Hopefully no one gives either side a latin dictionary, could end in bloodshed

And painted up the first Ganger, Noah:






Really happy, will vary the colors a bit on all Gangers, but will always have colors of my Sororitas on them.

And the first terrain bits are gaming-ready, need some more dirt and posters:

Looking forward to seeing your Orlocks Cawdor done!

Liking the Discworld models, I too am a fan of the Kirby drawings, there's alway something to find in them...

I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld too, I like what you did with the city watch's two "finest".

The highlighting and edging on Noah are first rate.

Necromunda guys look great, absolutely love The Watch minis. Poor Nobby Nobbs! He certainly looks like he was disqualified from the human race for shoving.

Not seen those Discworld models before - Very characterful!

And the first ganger is v nice, a group all painted like that will look ace

Love the Discworld minis, you don't see people painting them too often!

Nice work on the Ganger too! He looks like he means business.

Nice ganger Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Ooh , the guard minis are fab! Great job painting them up, I love how Nobby has found the broken bit of the pavement too, seems fitting!

The Necromunda setup looks cool, good luck getting your gangs ready. You’ve made a great start on the Cawdor already

That whole discworld range is great fun, and you have done Nobby, Fred and The Watch justice.

Cool Cordor scheme as well, I really like the pops of colour on the different fabric on the minis.

Oh my that has to be the longest pause yet... But I aten't dead, but somehow only looked into the painting comp and news threads those last weeks. But here I am and first thanks for your comments and I will be going through your plogs in the coming days to get up to date.

Guardling wrote:Looking forward to seeing your Orlocks Cawdor done!

Liking the Discworld models, I too am a fan of the Kirby drawings, there's alway something to find in them...

Thanks Guardling! More Cawdor's at the end of this post

Syro_ wrote:I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld too, I like what you did with the city watch's two "finest".

Thanks Syro_! They deserve it for all their masterly policing

Meer_Cat wrote:The highlighting and edging on Noah are first rate.

Thanks Meer_Cat! I find it a bit rough myself, but it's the finest I will get to with my patience and brushes.

Olthannon wrote:Necromunda guys look great, absolutely love The Watch minis. Poor Nobby Nobbs! He certainly looks like he was disqualified from the human race for shoving.

Thanks Olthannon! Would have been lovely if he carried his certificate that he's indeed human

Slinky wrote:Not seen those Discworld models before - Very characterful!

And the first ganger is v nice, a group all painted like that will look ace

Thanks Slinky! MicroArtStudio has those and other minis. They are quite nice and I have some more watch minis but need to buy some more wizards and other characters in the future.

aku-chan wrote:Love the Discworld minis, you don't see people painting them too often!

Nice work on the Ganger too! He looks like he means business.

Thanks aku-chan! The "axe" definitely looks serious...

Captain Brown wrote:Nice ganger Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

gobert wrote:Ooh , the guard minis are fab! Great job painting them up, I love how Nobby has found the broken bit of the pavement too, seems fitting!

The Necromunda setup looks cool, good luck getting your gangs ready. You’ve made a great start on the Cawdor already

Thanks gobert! The base wasn't intentional but apparently a happy accident then

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:That whole discworld range is great fun, and you have done Nobby, Fred and The Watch justice.

Cool Cordor scheme as well, I really like the pops of colour on the different fabric on the minis.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors!

And I haven't been completely idle the last weeks and my Cawdor gang is at least a little bit bigger now:



Already one of my favorite minutes because why wouldn't you strap a blunderbuss on a meat hook thingy:







And the gang loves their doc. He's always talking and praising the emperor. Sure, sometimes he says something about four arms but maybe they just misunderstood him.






Again love those Cawdor DIY pole weapons:






The rest of the gang question his color choices but no one was brave enough to tell it to his face yet (or told him that he has some skin color on his boot ):

Loving the colours. Big and brash. Works a treat. Fab.

Very nice and worth the wait!

Of all the new Necromunda minis, the Cawdor are definitely some of my favourites. I really like the bright yellow. Great to see you back updating!

Good work on the Cawdor minis. Liking the more colorful approach.

Good to see you’re still knocking around Viterbi! The Cawdor are pretty cool, I like how you’ve given them bright colours and still they have a dark and dingy vibe… plus those pole mounted guns are nuts!