Great color on the temple, the small touches really take it up a notch. Good show.

Nice job on the leather.

Paradigm wrote:Fantastic work on Scarecrow, he looks brilliantly menacing.

Thanks Para, lots more Batman minis to come as most of them are primed now.

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks proper nasty

Cheers Graven

Solar_lion wrote:Great color on the temple, the small touches really take it up a notch. Good show.

Cheers Solar I really enjoy painting scenery for some reason

Dr H wrote:Nice job on the leather.

Thanks Dr H....I like leather

As promised here's the young lady from last weekends painting session that didn't quite make it in time

The lovely but deadly Poison Ivy





More Batman minis tomorrow

Oh so pretty. Pretty pretty poison!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Oh so pretty. Pretty pretty poison!

She is rather nice

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I have even more Batman minis today, I seem to be really bashing these guys out for some reason.

First up is Deathstroke, really enjoyed painting his blues its not a colour I've really painted that much so was a nice change.



Then we have the Militia for the Scarecrow crew, wasn't so keen on these guys not really impressed with the models but they came out nicely I think in the end



I cant say I've painted camo before either, it didn't come out that well but will be fine!

Slade Wilson looking bad-ass

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Slade Wilson looking bad-ass

Cheers shas

Nice work, I like how vibrant you've made Deathstroke.

Great stuff dude, Really like the bright Deathstroke

Paradigm wrote:Nice work, I like how vibrant you've made Deathstroke.

JoeRugby wrote:Great stuff dude, Really like the bright Deathstroke

Thanks guys, I'm going to use Deathstroke with Scarecrow and his militia, he stands out really nicely in the group like a true hero

The batman crew look cool - they've come up well, especially Deathstroke. Nice contrast between the blue and orange/red. I really like that temple as well!

Blue was a good choice for Deathstroke.

Azazelx wrote:The batman crew look cool - they've come up well, especially Deathstroke. Nice contrast between the blue and orange/red. I really like that temple as well!

Thanks Azazelx they have been fun to paint so far, very different to what I'm used to which is always good.

Solar_lion wrote:Blue was a good choice for Deathstroke.

Cheers Solar I really like how he came out


I should have Hush finished this weekend coming, just need to do his base.

I'm currently considering entering a Bolt Action tournament at the end of Jan but I don't have any models or rules at the moment, not sure if I will go ahead yet or not but if I do there will be loads of Germans coming soon. I've also ordered the new Chaos Space marine supplement which I'm really looking forward to, my CSM's will be good again totally amazing , might mean some more 40k minis at some point.

Lots on the list as well, I want to do a 30k army at some point as well prob either T Sons or Wolves or both I cant decide

Its quite odd I buy loads of minis for skirmish games but no one plays them in my area, I find the larger games are such a money eater as I only play a few times a year.

Lovely stuff, and good to see you've embraced the real leader of a Scarecrow crew although he's much better post-FAQ. Hush is ace, I usually run him with Ivy myself as she's a bit of fragile blossom (even if she does have the single most powerful Special ability in the game).
Move to Glasgow, we're skirmish-happy

Liking Poison Ivy, very nice work.

Crew and ninja dude are looking cool too, the blue and orange is a great combo.

EDC


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Liking Poison Ivy, very nice work.

Crew and ninja dude are looking cool too, the blue and orange is a great combo.

EDC

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely stuff, and good to see you've embraced the real leader of a Scarecrow crew although he's much better post-FAQ. Hush is ace, I usually run him with Ivy myself as she's a bit of fragile blossom (even if she does have the single most powerful Special ability in the game).
Move to Glasgow, we're skirmish-happy

Its fun you mention that about Hush as I picked him up to go with Ivy

Glasgow's like a million miles away from me!

evildrcheese wrote:Liking Poison Ivy, very nice work.

Crew and ninja dude are looking cool too, the blue and orange is a great combo.

EDC

Thanks EDC

And here he is Hush himself, not much going on with him in terms of colours I seem to be painting all the darker models recently apart from Ivy





On other news the new CSM Traitor Legion supplement is really cool, it got me building some Death Guard Raptors today so that cant be bad



They need a lot more work yet!

Not sure if the Bolt Action stuff will be going ahead now, I think I'm going to busy over Christmas and I'm really interested in bringing my CSM armies upto date now

Gorgeous work on the figures, Hush is brilliant. They look some nasty Chaosy dudes.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Gorgeous work on the figures, Hush is brilliant. They look some nasty Chaosy dudes.

Cheers Cam, the chaos dudes will look better once they are all together and with better light

Great work on Hush, the coat is superb!

Looking forward to more Chaos!

Loving Hush, the leaves are an excellent touch.

Nice work on Hush and the Raptors.

EDC

Hush supported by Chaos Marines.. How clever.

I've got no idea who Hush is, but he looks good.

 Azazelx wrote:
I've got no idea who Hush is, but he looks good.

Learn more here, Azazel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(comics)

Also, I rather like these Knight Models. The only thing that I don't like is that they're metal.

Paradigm wrote:Great work on Hush, the coat is superb!

Looking forward to more Chaos!

Cheers Para

inmygravenimage wrote:Loving Hush, the leaves are an excellent touch.

Thanks Graven, I've gone for leaves for most of my Batman bases.

evildrcheese wrote:Nice work on Hush and the Raptors.

EDC

Cheers EDC

Solar_lion wrote:Hush supported by Chaos Marines.. How clever.

Yeah Joker will never expect that

Azazelx wrote:I've got no idea who Hush is, but he looks good.

I've no idea who most of them are to be honest I'm more of a Marvel person

angelofvengeance wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
I've got no idea who Hush is, but he looks good.

Learn more here, Azazel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(comics)

Also, I rather like these Knight Models. The only thing that I don't like is that they're metal.

I don't mind metal to be honest as I long as it doesn't have mold slippage... looks at huntress model

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Ok so this will prob be my last update of the year, I hope you all had a good Christmas and got lots of new toys

I've managed to squeeze out a few more Batman minis before I go back to work tomorrow.

First is the lovely Talia Al Ghul





And then we have Killer Frost





And I also have a picture of all the Batman miniatures I've painted so far minus Batwoman as I gave her away!



The focus is a little off but you get the idea

There's still more to come, I've just finished two ninjas but wont have any daylight until next year to take pics now.



These are the remaining undercoated minis for Batman, this was taken before today though so you will have to mentally remove a few I've also got the Suicide box and Huntress but they require priming which is the bane of my life at winter.

So normally I do a what I've accomplished and new goals around this time of year but as some of you are aware this year as been and is still continuing to be a nightmare for me. So I'm totally skipping that part of the hobby! I'm only painting what takes my interest, I have no goals for armies old or new at the moment its just having stuff to paint to get me through. So without a plan I have now ended up with a most bizarre collection of primed minis to take me through the winter period

As I say I've got some more Batman minis as above and the I have whats in my primed box



Yeah I told you it was a bit random! So in there we have two fleets for Man o War Dark Elf and Nurgle, some Darklands minis mainly snake women, some Black Templars and some other random bits and bobs.

Then we have the stuff that doesn't fit in the box

Some pointy Wood Elves for my KoW army



Some big monsters for Darklands



And a very large FW dragon that I'll be using for KoW



Plus of course so many models to put together its scary

So there we go thats what I have to keep me going for the next few months until its warm enough to prime, then I'll get the rest of the Batman minis ready to paint.

Nice work! Lots of villains there, need to get some heroes painted up!

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice work! Lots of villains there, need to get some heroes painted up!

Cheers Para, yeah I think I do need some heros

I have Batfleck and Huntress but thats it, I best pick up some more good guys then

Fantastic looking group shot, nice work on the girls.

The up and coming looks exciting, looking forward to watching you this year.

Is that the Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld? Paint that one next please. Looks awesome.

Camkierhi wrote:Fantastic looking group shot, nice work on the girls.

The up and coming looks exciting, looking forward to watching you this year.

Cheers Cam, I hope I can do the models justice

Archer wrote:Is that the Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld? Paint that one next please. Looks awesome.

Yeah it is Archer with Elspeth, its a lovely model. I'm not sure it will be next its a bit of a daunting model

Done a big catchup X. Loads of different stuff. Awesome!

You delight as always matey. Even the cheesecake

Sorry long time without posting its nearly been two months , real life still sucks for me at the moment! Updates will be very sporadic for goodness how long!

But I have been dipping my brush every now and then and have quite a few things to show you today

First off Batman minis, I've finished a few more to add to my collection.

A couple of ninja's



And the very lovely Nyssa Al Ghul, pics aren't great for her!





Then we move on to the Death Guard Raptors these were so fun to paint, you cant go wrong with Nurgle














I was painting them to use in a tournament last weekend for my Death Guard army using the new Codex Traitor Legions which is class by the way lol, I didnt place but thats to be expected I did however walk away with best painted army

How cool is that! Got a little trophy and a gift certificate for £10



I also did some undercoating some when in the last few days, some more Batman minis undercoated ready for painting and some Dark Lands skeletons which I'll talk about in a minute. I think theres also Sara from Willy Miniatures for Blood Bowl, very cool mini!




So whats up next well, there's another Batman mini on my table who's nearly finished and will be in the next update which hopefully wont be another two months away . After that I'll be concentrating on my next project which is a Death army for Age of Sigmar which needs to be done for a tournament in June or July, I cant remember but never mind lol. So I'll be using a mix of Dark Lands and GW minis, no idea what I'm going to be using yet as I want to wait to see if the new generals handbook is out before then so I'm just going to paint everything I've got thats undead

I think I have the following
30 Spearmen (mix Dark Lands and GW)
2 Screaming Skull catapults
5 Black Knights
Neferata, Mortarch of Blood
Vampire on Zombie Dragon (will be using Elspeth on Carmine Dragon to represent this from FW)

I think thats it not sure what else I should pick up, the FW Mourngul looks interesting but that would be three monsters and there isn't a tournament pack out yet so I'm a bit unsure whether to pick him up at this time.

All ideas are welcome

Thats all I have for now, I'll hopefully be back soon!

Those raptors look terrifying. Great job!

Awesome raptors, great conversions and paint !

Thanks guys they were really fun to convert and paint.

Nice league mate, great job!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Nice league mate, great job!

Cheers Graven, I've got Shiva and her girls still to paint for the league. I need to pick up Ra's at some point prob both versions so I get the other ninjas and I think DKR Bane just to round them out. I still think we need an Anne Hathaway Catwoman model

Congrat on your Paint win. Glad to see your back.. Hope things pick up for you.!

Nice work and congratulations on the win (the painting is far more important than the gaming ).

Solar_lion wrote:Congrat on your Paint win. Glad to see your back.. Hope things pick up for you.!

Thanks Solar it makes all those hours behind the brush worth it.... yeah me too!

Dr H wrote:Nice work and congratulations on the win (the painting is far more important than the gaming ).

Thanks Dr H I totally agree

Painting went well last weekend and I bashed through a load of minis!

First from the Batman miniatures game is Killer Croc





And then is a horde of Jute skeletons from Darklands



This I spent today assembling more Darklands skeletons, they seem to take forever to put together

Love those Skellies! Awesome work!

Cheers Para theres going to be tons of Skeletons over the next few months!!!

Those skellies are class. Love how the rust and purple work so well together.

I like your croc but he's a bit dark all over? Maybe ramp the pic contrast a bit?

Zambro wrote:Those skellies are class. Love how the rust and purple work so well together.

Cheers Zambro

inmygravenimage wrote:I like your croc but he's a bit dark all over? Maybe ramp the pic contrast a bit?

Thanks Graven, hows this with the contrast ramped up lol





You can just about see the green on his trousers in these pics, when we have some proper daylight I'll try again!

Much, much clearer - lovely!

Well that's all looking brilliant. Great job on the cloth work on all of it, really smooth looking figures.

inmygravenimage wrote:Much, much clearer - lovely!

Thanks Graven

Camkierhi wrote:Well that's all looking brilliant. Great job on the cloth work on all of it, really smooth looking figures.

Cheers Cam

good job on Croc.. the green is perfect!

 Solar_lion wrote:
good job on Croc.. the green is perfect!

Cheers Solar

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Back again with an update on what I've been doing in the world of modelling. I've mostly been in assemble mode, I'm signed up for an Age of Sigmar tournament in June so have been assembling an impressive hoard of undead!

I was planning on using Elspeth on Carmine dragon as my vampire on zombie dragon but shes not well! It appears the model is covered in release agent as all the primer started to come off, heres the poor girl not looking so hot after a rub down!



So I've emailed FW and they said to bathe her again and then spray with sealer and undercoat and spray with seal again and see how that goes!

Here's Elspeth having her bath



And after her final coat of sealer out and about enjoying the sun today!



She's in the window now taking advantage of the last of the afternoon sun, so we shall see how she fairs after that!

Assembling models is what I said I've been doing, lots of models and many more to go when the other half of my rambling horde arrives!

Here's the metals Batman Suicide Squad and more Darklands skeletons



The plastics



And the finecast! Theres another of these to assemble still, was a bit of a pain.



Oh I also have some painted models from Malifaux as well, This is Dr Grimwell from the starter set with his guys and nurse



Next up will be more assembling I'm afraid I've the other catapult and 40 skeletons to go, they all need to be painted by mid June so I say I should have enough time but you can never tell!

After that I might be going to an Infinity tournament so you might see some Nomads pop up every now and then to break the wall of undead, thats in June as well. I have a bring and play thing the local club is doing next month as well, i listed all the games I have armies for and of course I seem to attract the Xwing people , not to worry though as I picked up a striker the other day which I blame Graven for! Will be fun to try out I might try two they look pretty nifty.

I think thats all, lots of undead to look forwards too

What! Where! When! Why! WOW where did that lot come from, OK. Fantastic work but, looking forward to that lot.

Looking great, love those malifaux minis (I'm not a fan of wyrd as a rule)

Camkierhi wrote:What! Where! When! Why! WOW where did that lot come from, OK. Fantastic work but, looking forward to that lot.

Cam theres so much more where that lot came from, I paint a lot slower than I buy!!!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looking great, love those malifaux minis (I'm not a fan of wyrd as a rule)

Cheers Graven, they came out a lot better than I expected, theres not much detail on them though.

What a cool combination of everything. Poor dragon. Still it was nice to see green grass in the picture. I miss that !

 Solar_lion wrote:
What a cool combination of everything. Poor dragon. Still it was nice to see green grass in the picture. I miss that !

Cheers Solar, dragon is now happy the under coat is staying on and I've started painting him.

Green grass, its all that rain we have

And here's my progress shot of Elspeth and her dragon.





My painting calculator says I have to paint 1 1/2 models a day for the next two months to have my AOS army ready on time, well I didn't finish one today!

I also have to paint models for an Infinity tournament which is before the AOS one, this is going to be a really tight deadline for me as I'm only painting half a day a week at the moment!

No work on the dragon tonight, instead I've been basing my initial lot of undead warriors for my death army!

Here's my little painting area covered in undead there's a few other minis there as well but who has one project on their painting table at a time!!!



my one armed contemptor made it into the picture as well!, hes waiting for me to order a second arm from FW, that is the first mini for my 30k Thousand Sons army That project is a long way away really, waiting to see what happens with 8th edition first and you cant buy the latest FW book anyway as its out of stock awaiting a re-print!

Elspeth looks fantastic GiraffeX.

love the white on E.

Damn undead everywhere.. Git off my lawn!

Oh... oh! Plants vs Zombies undead army?
Zombies with football helmets, pole vaulting poles. Various flowers on the bases and a nice, lush lawn.

Sleep deprivation must be getting to me... I think that this is a good idea.

Yorkright wrote: Elspeth looks fantastic GiraffeX.

Cheers

Solar_lion wrote:love the white on E.

Damn undead everywhere.. Git off my lawn!

Thanks Solar, the dragon is going to be a dark purple so she will stand out quite well!

Damn Undead, there like a plague on my painting table

Anpu-adom wrote:Oh... oh! Plants vs Zombies undead army?
Zombies with football helmets, pole vaulting poles. Various flowers on the bases and a nice, lush lawn.

Sleep deprivation must be getting to me... I think that this is a good idea.

That would be funny but not something I'll be implementing for this army



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Had a spare hour tonight so undercoated all the bases,not much fun but it has to be done!



Onwards!

A few WIP pics on the dragon this week, not sure I'm going to get everything painted in time for the tournament but I will continue





It looks a lot better in real life but thats what you get for doing quick WIP shots

Wow, that looks fantastic Gir...

Agree that is looking fairly stunning for a start.

Cheers guys, I was a bit daunted at first but finding it a really fun model to paint so far

Yikes. Ee's a big'un.

Dragon is coming along nicely, whats your technique for the horns and scales on the back very realistic looking.

inmygravenimage wrote:Yikes. Ee's a big'un.

Yeah sure is and I'm using the smallest paint brush

Yorkright wrote: Dragon is coming along nicely, whats your technique for the horns and scales on the back very realistic looking.

Thanks Yorkright

The horns and scales are painted using the feathering technique, lots of watered down thin strokes built up takes ages!

Colours all Vallejo

Base over black with Charred Brown
Then using feathering and watered down paints starting a bit further down the part you are painting for each colour change to give a gradual change in colour-
Mix 50/50 of charred brown and Heavy Goldbrown
Heavy Goldbrown
Mix 50/50 Heavy Goldbrown and Bonewhite
Bonewhite
Then sometimes I add some watered down black lines with Black!

Wow that scales do look really good. Purple coming along nicely. will be a stunning piece for sure.

And here's the finished model Elspeth on Carmine Dragon by Forgeworld.

I'm really happy with how the model came out lots of late nights on this beast







Next up skeletons, skeletons and more skeletons!!!!

Nice work on that Elspeth, like the old-school look on that dragon

That's awesome Gir, though you definitely need a bigger photo backdrop. FatMat makes one... you might look into it.

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Love the purple. It doesn't have that radioactive in your face quality that is easy to get with such large areas of purple and that one work is great.

The colours of Elspeth are a really good choice to give her a presence against the dragon. Very nice job.

Lovely work Gir, it all comes together beautifully. Thanks for the info on how you did the horns and back scales.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Nice work on that Elspeth, like the old-school look on that dragon

Cheers, it is a lovely dragon

Gitsplitta wrote:That's awesome Gir, though you definitely need a bigger photo backdrop. FatMat makes one... you might look into it.

Thanks Git's, yeah I really do need a bigger backdrop I dont normally paint models this big, will check out FatMat's thanks

Archer wrote:Awesome, awesome, awesome. Love the purple. It doesn't have that radioactive in your face quality that is easy to get with such large areas of purple and that one work is great.

The colours of Elspeth are a really good choice to give her a presence against the dragon. Very nice job.

Thanks Archer glad you like her, I wasnt sure how the purple was going to look and just made it up as I went along

Yorkright wrote: Lovely work Gir, it all comes together beautifully. Thanks for the info on how you did the horns and back scales.

Cheers Yorkright, no probs on the painting info

Good job on the dragon, Gir'. Looks nice.

 Dr H wrote:
Good job on the dragon, Gir'. Looks nice.

Cheers Dr H

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And so the start of the undead horde is upon us, been painting into the dead of night and will be most nights now until I get this lot finished

So here's the Black Knights, I really like how they look stat wise on paper so would like to boost this unit up to 10 models in the future.



Next up more skeletons, the next batch is nearly finished, will be ready for picture taking next weekend hopefully

Those are just lovely! The colour fades on the purple and slightly gold armour really hint at once-opulent but now decaying barding.

 Paradigm wrote:
Those are just lovely! The colour fades on the purple and slightly gold armour really hint at once-opulent but now decaying barding.

Thanks Para I really enjoyed painting them.

Foot troops next.....I will probably never want to paint another skeleton ever after this!

The Black Knights at exceptional. Are you carrying that scheme through the whole army?

Creepy. Love em - and that you're painting at night

Beautiful stuff on that dragon! the right kinda purple! :-) everyone seems to want to paint purple these days! the rifer is done nicely too with a lovely contrast that's not too cold, I really like what you've done mate!

Those black knights are looking pretty nice. Nice colour choice with the purple/bronze!

Archer wrote:The Black Knights at exceptional. Are you carrying that scheme through the whole army?

Not entirely the main scheme is purple, but for these guys I wanted them to have a lot more black being Black Knights

Thanks glad you like them Archer

inmygravenimage wrote:Creepy. Love em - and that you're painting at night

Cheers Graven, yeah painting at night is kinda strange not had to do that for a long time, really helps me sleep though

nerdfest09 wrote:Beautiful stuff on that dragon! the right kinda purple! :-) everyone seems to want to paint purple these days! the rifer is done nicely too with a lovely contrast that's not too cold, I really like what you've done mate!

Thanks Damo I'm really proud of the dragon, just managed to get the purple right. I was a bit daunted to be honest that I would get it right but I wasnt going to re-paint it thats for sure!.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Those black knights are looking pretty nice. Nice colour choice with the purple/bronze!

Thanks the whole army should look quite impressive when (if) its finished in time. I think I'm behind schedule already!

I should have another 10 skeletons done in the evenings this week plus the ones I did last week which are waiting to be photoed.

That leaves me a skull catapult and Neferata which should have been painted this month, next month is 50 skeleton warriors and another catapult! Oh and 200 points of Infinity Nomads. Of course this all depends if the place I ordered from actually posts the skeletons and Infinity models, they are being a pain!

Busy busy busy

The advantage of skellies is that you can churn them out at an amazing pace (I have Tomb Kings, so I know what I'm talking about ) Good luck, and hope the order works out!

Yes good choice for the color pallet on the knights. Very appropriate. Nicely done.

I've been cranking out the undead since the last update, my painting area is covered in skeletons

My order of yet more skeletons is now on route so all is good although that does mean I have to paint them all, so much fun! They should be easy though GW skeletons don't have that much details (clothes)

So lets have a look at the new recruits

First up is a Screaming Skull Catapult



I've got another one of these to build, was lots more fun painting though

Then we have Neferata, Mortarch of Blood



And then we finish off with a ton of skeletons, the never ending horde, these are a mix from Darklands and GW.



Next up more skeletons (about 50!) another catapult and Krell

I think the Infinity stuff wont happen (even though I've ordered the models) as I have a commission coming in as well that needs to be done by July. I've been asked to paint another Carmne Dragon, seems people liked the last one!

This is the busiest I've been for painting in a long time....

Nice work! I love the Mortarch models. I don't see many of them!

Have no idea how you can put out such quality work in such short time, they all look great Gir. Someone is going to have a fabulous looking army.

Very nice... I just got the skeleton horde starter (though it feels very light on actual skeletons...) How do you like your 3rd party ones?

Loving the dragon, looks fantastic.

angelofvengeance wrote:Nice work! I love the Mortarch models. I don't see many of them!

Thanks they are really nice, I was going to go with the book scheme and do the mount black but carried away with the bone colour and remembered afterwards

Yorkright wrote: Have no idea how you can put out such quality work in such short time, they all look great Gir. Someone is going to have a fabulous looking army.

The only reason is because I have to get them all painted by June for a tournament, I don't normally paint this quick!

Thanks

Anpu-adom wrote:Very nice... I just got the skeleton horde starter (though it feels very light on actual skeletons...) How do you like your 3rd party ones?

Yeah I felt it was a bit light on skeletons as well! I really like the Darklands skeletons, the sculpts are excellent and they are metal as well. If I had the choice and funds I'd just use Darklands skeletons.

filbert wrote:Loving the dragon, looks fantastic.

Cheers Filbert its a great model

You did a masterful job on the the bone color. Very convincing.

 Solar_lion wrote:
You did a masterful job on the the bone color. Very convincing.

Not had much chance to work on my undead horde recently due to real life issues again, one day my life will be back to normal!!!

I did get my supply drop though and have a ton of skeletons all still in their boxes though!

My estimate is that I'm a week behind schedule now, fun times....

Lots of goodness to be held





Hopefully I can get some of these guys assembled today, depends what happens as I'm off to see Katatonia (band) tonight.

I did manage to squeeze this guy out at some point last week, I didn't have any undead primed so just picked something out of my primed box.

This is a Wastrel from Malifaux





Quite a nice mini, the pic didn't come out too well but never mind!

Looks like my back log of minis to paint..

Pretty sure you will get those skeletons done in time, if you can paint up a skull catapult in a day a few skeles will be a drop in the bucket.

Wastrel looks good, your colors are bright and vibrant, I have a question though what did you use for the base? I like that sandy look.

Yorkright wrote:
Looks like my back log of minis to paint..

Pretty sure you will get those skeletons done in time, if you can paint up a skull catapult in a day a few skeles will be a drop in the bucket.

Wastrel looks good, your colors are bright and vibrant, I have a question though what did you use for the base? I like that sandy look.

I wish that was my backlog

The base was Vallejo sandy paste with a bit of cork painted up, I use sand paste on nearly all my bases!

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Nothing painted to show this week but I do have all those skeletons assembled !

This is them waiting to be primed, with a few Sisters keeping an eye on them, to make sure they all go through the cleansing primer!



Theres one skeleton left that needs to be finished but he requires a GS whip so will be the last model for the army that I do as I hate using GS!.

So yep you will be seeing lots of skeletons over the rest of the month, they are GW ones so don't have many cloths on so should be quicker to paint, theres just a lot of them

The sisters are going to be for a Shadow War KIll Team my next project I think to be finished by July, the Infinity stuff just isnt going to happen, I seem to end up buying stuff and never using it!

Well so much for going on a painting spree, life has been rather poor again lately and I couldn't face painting again

But and there is a big but I managed to get a bit of mojo back last Sunday and a few evenings during the week and managed to bash out 44 more skeletons, painting line from hell they seemed like they would never end

This leaves me with a skull catapult, 6 crew, Krell and a skeleton dude I need to convert to have a whip to be done by the 24th, seems like loads of time but it all depends if I loose my mojo again or not. I will crack on today and see what I can accomplish!



The never ending dead!



Hopefully I might have something to show tomorrow!!!

Looking good. Crack that whip and find that mojo!

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Looking good. Crack that whip and find that mojo!

Cheers consider the whip cracked

Yesterdays efforts, the second screaming skull catapult and two sets of crew



Only two models left now of which I shall be starting Krell this afternoon!

You are smashing it. They look great for what seems like little effort so that is a huge plus. I can sympathise with the mojo waning. But hopefully you can keep going and be ready to get these bad boys on the table top.

It's going to look stunning all arrayed for battle.

Looking good! That model is an absolute mess to assemble (coming from someone who assembled the old metal bloodthirster - twice), hope it'll stay together!

Looks good! Sorry to hear about RL :(

Your getting everything done so quickly, keep the mojo going! RL can get in the way but I have found getting back into the hobby helps with the stress.

Archer wrote:You are smashing it. They look great for what seems like little effort so that is a huge plus. I can sympathise with the mojo waning. But hopefully you can keep going and be ready to get these bad boys on the table top.

It's going to look stunning all arrayed for battle.

Cheers Archer these guys are so easy to paint I think I picked the right army!

I'll try and get an army shot when everthings finished

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good! That model is an absolute mess to assemble (coming from someone who assembled the old metal bloodthirster - twice), hope it'll stay together!

I know what you mean the first was a pain but ok, this one was a nightmare!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks good! Sorry to hear about RL :(

Cheers Graven, always the way I'm afraid with RL for me at the moment!

Yorkright wrote: Your getting everything done so quickly, keep the mojo going! RL can get in the way but I have found getting back into the hobby helps with the stress.

Will do Yeah its good when you get into painting puts you in your own little world

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And Krell is finished whoop whoop, one more model to go! I've decided to source a whip instead of going through the stress of making my own

All my pics look a bit rubbish at the moment not sure why that is.





His armour is my test for my 30k Thousand Sons, I'm not sure if it worked that well!

Such an awesome model. I think he has turned out rather well. There does seem to be a slight out of focus on these photos. Maybe check your camera hasn't chosen to enter a manual/auto setting you don't normally use.

Wow .. you pumped out a lot of skeletons. for someone with no mojo.


I like the green jacket choice on the wastrel. Nice touch!

Really beautiful work on that guy, nice model, and you have really done a great paint job.

Those skellies look awesome too.

Looks like the mojo is back! Undead are looking good, Krell looks great love the fur and cloak.

Wow so its been 6 months since my last post! As you might have expected life hasn't quite gone to plan to say the least!

I split up with my partner after 19 years and moved out at the start of December.I'm in a much better place now at a friends, but that does mean I've gone from a house to a room to keep all my stuff!!!

So yeah I've been really busy but haven't had the chance to pick up my brush, I have a paint area all setup ready to go when I feel the mojo and have the time to start again. Haven't checked all my boxes of models for damages from moving too scared to do that at present

I've been keeping my eye on your blogs so haven't missed anything from that side. I've seen a lot of cool models been released as well over the last few months the new Great Unclean one looks awesome.

If you remember from when I last posted I was painting a Death army for a tournament, the good news is I completed it on time but I never went, life took a turn at that point which I haven't regretted.

So a bit of a recap from 2017 I wasn't expecting I had done much in the 6 months I was painting but I didn't do that bad I don't think.

So here we go

First up were some models for the Batman Miniature game





A squad of Nurgle Raptors, I also one a best painted award for my Death Guard army at a tournament



Back to Batman with Killer Croc



Some skeletons



Half of the Malifaux starter



Elspeth Von Draken from Forgeworld



Some Black Knights for Age of Sigmar



More skeletons



A screaming skull catapult



Neferata, Mortarch of Blood



More skeletons!!!



A Wastrel from Malifaux



Even more skeletons



My second Screaming skull catapult with both crews



And then there was Krell



Plus the last skeleton who was needed to complete the army who's picture must still be on my camera, he must be a bit shy!

I think I did ok considering I've missed half a year.

Not sure whats in store this year if anything, I really hope I can edge back into it but I'm not rushing it, seen some really nice pearlescent paints by Greenstuff World, really want to get those bad boys

There's probably tons of new cool models that I've missed as well, I don't think I'll be going to any tournaments in the near future although I will probably still add to the armies I already have.

There is a cool model on my painting area all primed ready to go so when the time is right she will adorn some paint!

Sorry to hear about the move Gir, but if you are in a better place that is good news. Hoping that 2018 will be better overall, looking forward to you getting your mojo back.

Wow busy boy, commiserations but hopefully things moving forward positively now. Moar Batman !

Great recap. Great work.

Ah life hey? Onwards and upwards mate. Let us know if there is anything we can offer in the way of assistance.

Nice recap you had some quality work in a pretty short time which is a nice reflection of your abilities.

Very good work my friend... nice to see so many high quality projects from your brush. Keep up the great work!

Nice recap of the year. I especially like the Death Guard Raptors. The color pattern is disgusting rot and the conversions illustrate the concept of mutated chaos.

Has to be one of my favourite blogs of 2017, just beautifully and stunning work. Tons of inspirational work. Thanks for sharing.

As for other issues, here's hoping we all have a great year ahead.

Thanks for all the comments guys, I intend to make a come back. I’m just fnding I have a lot less time these days for painting.

My fingers are itching to get a brush in them again, I have a week off soon so hopefully will get some time then

Well its been 10 months now since my last mini

I'm going to try and paint this mini for Para's monthly painting comp, I have two days! Yeah it probably wont get done but its a start.

I also have another mini I started when last posted, she's nearly done so I might have a completed mini this year



I've replaced her bendy sword in the pic, finecast is so rubbish!

Welcome home. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Nice to see you again Gir! Welcome back! Looking forward to whatever wonderments you have in store for us.

Welcome back Gir, I have missed my weekly dose of topiary and samurai.

Welcome back. I have gone long stretches with next to no hobby (see the last half of 2016 and most of 2017). Good to have you back man.

Camkierhi wrote:Welcome home. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Cheers Cam, its going to be a slow start but I would like to get back there.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice to see you again Gir! Welcome back! Looking forward to whatever wonderments you have in store for us.

Cheers Git's Its nice to be back I've missed all my friends on here, we shall see what I can come up with, I just hope my painting is still upto the same standards as it was!

Yorkright wrote: Welcome back Gir, I have missed my weekly dose of topiary and samurai.

Thanks I have no idea whats going to come up, I was looking at all my models that are in my undercoated box, man so many are broken in bad places resin does not travel well with metal thats for sure!

I dont dare check my painted stuff some of it was just dumped into a box as I didnt have anything to put them in :(

Anpu-adom wrote:Welcome back. I have gone long stretches with next to no hobby (see the last half of 2016 and most of 2017). Good to have you back man.

Cheers looking forward to a return of sorts, don't think I'l be doing the army thing again anytime soon.

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Here's the new sword on my Sister, you know I don't think I'll get it done for the painting comp, don't want to rush her and spoil it for myself. So I'll continue working on the model in the background on the right

And here she is finished Mira the Reckless from Confrontation first mini of 2018!

I cant find my backing paper at present and my light source is a tad different so its not the best and neither is my painting

I love the shading on the red tabard. Nice mini to come back with, may many follow it!

Awesome. Confrontation is always good and Mira is a model that I am never sad to see. Nice work!

CommissarKhaine wrote:I love the shading on the red tabard. Nice mini to come back with, may many follow it!

Thanks I've been wanting to paint her for ages but had no reason as she didn't fit into any current game system.

I've based her for Age of Sigmar nd it should be pretty generic for other skirmish games!

youwashock wrote:Awesome. Confrontation is always good and Mira is a model that I am never sad to see. Nice work!

That's cool, glad you like her

She looks great Gir, really loving that cloak the blend up to the bright red is something I am going to have to try.

Yorkright wrote:
She looks great Gir, really loving that cloak the blend up to the bright red is something I am going to have to try.

Thanks Yorkright I really enjoyed painting the cloak, always love doing deep shades.

Welcome back.

And good job on Mira.

 Dr H wrote:
Welcome back.

And good job on Mira.

Thanks DR H, it feels good although I seem to have less time now days to paint but we shall see,

I have a very large back log of minis I found out when packing everything up

Theres quite a few I've seen over the last few months that look cool as well like the Necromunda Eschers and theres a few Infinity minis and Batman ones. Darkoath and Morathi from AoS looks cool as well. Is there anything else thats really cool thats come out in the last 10 months thats worth considering?

Also the new colorshift paints from Green Stuff World look very cool but expensive!

Great work, saw you back on the book of face, love me some classic confrontation.

Great job on her. Love that cloak. Damn glad to see you kicking about.

Wow it’s nearly been two years since I last visited my painting area. Yesterday I woke with the determination to start painting again, no idea why!

So I have stirred my painting has been cleaned up and he dust shovelled off, it really was that bad!



I too a look at what was left on the table from two years ago a collection of Mierce monsters, some batman minis, my goodness they look so small now! There’s a Sister of Battle and an Imperial Assassin. I’ve not looked at any thing else as it’s all still in boxes from when I moved and I do t want to see the damage!

Today I started to paint as I say it’s been nearly two years so I’m rather rusty. I decided to start on the Assassin probed the easiest of the miniatures, here’s a little WIP, I’m actually quite surprised that all the paints I’ve checked so far are still ok’



Yeah I have a long way to go to be back on form! Albeit this wAs taken on my phone I had to dig my camera out of storage as well so that’s currently on charge although it might not help much!

So there we have it I took a year off to rebuild my self and last year I was out and about going to loads of music gigs all over the country. Progress will be really slow at first as I’ve got lots of gigs planned for the first half of this year but then the painting will start to make a come back after that, I’ve really missed my falls family!

Welcome back. Excellent choice of mini's to start with. And done well.

Cheers Solar good to hear from you Yeah is a nice ini!

A pic with the camera this time, will take a while to get the right lighting

Welcome back to the drug that is painting mini's.

I do very much like the new sculpts on the Assassins, although that plait must be a serious impediment.....

Great to have you back you fabulous boomerang !

Excellent start! Great to see you back too.

Thanks guys it’s good to be back, just need to sort out wher I can take good photos as h thy e mini looks much better in real life so far! Haha

Anyway Next it onto her base but you may have to wait a few weeks for progress as I’m tied up at the moment but I made the initial step and really looking forward to wetting my brush on the next session!

Woot Woot I've finished my first mini in two years!

Really happy to finish this young lass, it's going to take a while to get back my painting skills but that's life!

Speaking of life with the current world in disarray I thought I would have loads of time to crack down and paint some minis, but this was not going to be as I work in a hospital so for me life continues as normal.

So here we have the Callidus Assassin



I also started on something a bit easier today a Death Guard Sorcerer that was in my primed box,









Stay safe everyone and stay home!

Good man, great to have you back and... Papa Bless!

That's some lovely looking corrosion going on there.

And welcome back.

Sorceror is looking great. The torquisey green cloth sets off the rest of the dirty model. Without it, I think it would look a bit bland and samey, but with it, top notch.

That’s a cool scheme. Really is a “natural” take in the horror that would be Nurgle devotees. Really like it.

Welcome back. Good work.

Welcome back! Great mini to jump back in with.

Thanks everyone I'm working on the base at the moment but haven't had much time for painting, too busy at work!

I did dabble with my brushes last weekend and painted these little Treasure Chest's, I'm sure there is a fifth one hiding away but I couldn't find it!



Just taking things slowly to start with

I must admit I've not dared look in my painted minis box's since I moved over three years ago, I really dread what I'm going to find some models were just piled on top of one another for a quick exit. Just makes me feel ill with all the work I put in over the years. One day I will check them and repair but I think it will be a massive project, makes me feel queasy thinking about it not that I have anywhere to put them yet!

Excellent stuff! I want another one with a tongue hanging out and vicious teeth...

Haha that would be cool

I finished my Death Guard Sorcerer today base is all done.

Really getting in the mood for painting at the moment which is cool







I started this big guy from Mierce Miniatures today, its Vaak, moraine beast. a big ice creature. one of the paints I was going to use has dried up so I've had to put an order in so no idea when that will turn up so I might move onto to something else but we shall see what the week brings. There was so much dust on this bad boy where it has lived on my painting area for years untouched.





I found another box of resin delights today from a kickster no idea now where they came. I've got a few boxes kicking round now so I'm not going to go short of models, just need to get some glue which is on order and primer which sees to be the holy grail at the moment!

Hope you all are doing ok

That sorcerer makes me want to properly break out the powders for mine. Great job.

Cheers Graven I didn’t think to use powders. Hmm I need another project I’ve not used those in such a long time!

That's a lovely grimy sorceror!

 monkeytroll wrote:
That's a lovely grimy sorceror!

Cheers felt so rewarding to paint this guy!

Time for a little update as we go further into lock down in the UK, I've decided to list some projects to hopefully kick me back into painting.

I've manage to source some black primer which is in stock, I've put in an order for two cans, its been like gold dust!

My parents dropped off a few things yesterday hobby related, I get all my post delivered to them, they love it!

A few models of interest





So thats Black Widow and Captain Marvel from Crisis protocol and a few models from Mierce Minatures.

But they are for later I want to pick up a few other Marvel models before I start painting them like Hulk and Venom, these are just for painting.

Project wise I will be looking into digging out my Betrayl Of Calth box set and painting that which will be a huge project but I think Space Marines might be the easiest way back into the hobby. I've thought long and hard what chapters to do them as, I dont want to paint the same colours as any of my other armies. So I decided to do the loyalists as Dark Angels and the traitors as Night Lords, I have already taken the Preator and contemptor out of the box and used them for other armies so will replace them with swanky FW versions Just need to wait for FW to open

Second project I'm really interested in doing is painting up forces for the solo Age of Sigmar rules. I already have an Undead army thats never seen the light so they will be battling it out. Looking forward to painting some trolls thats going to be great.

I also have one of the Elder Scrolls: Call To Arms: Bleak Falls Barrow Delve Set on order, no idea when that will arrive!

There was something else but I cant remember it which is why I'm writing this post so I dont forget!

I might try to get my hands on Black Stone Fortress as well as thats one player but its a tad expensive in one hit!

Does anybody know of any other solo player games that have cool models?

Hellboy. Super cool, amazing gameplay. Where the heck did you source black primer?

Cheers Graven, will have a look.

I got Army Painter black undercoat from these guys https://lvlupgaming.co.uk/

A restoration project today which goes back to March 2011 when I first made a come back to the hobby, this troll was the first model I started as part of a diorama but never finished.

With the new troll solo player campaign rules for AoS I decided to remove him from the diorama and re-base and touch him up (that doesn't sound right )for the first of my troll adversaries, I'm going to keep an eye out on ebay to see if any of his friends come up as it would be nice to have the original three sculpts in one unit!

So here he is in all his glory

Timothy the troll!







I hope you like him, I'm struggling to get any painting time in so may be investing in a lap painting station to see if that helps push me forward!

I love the old stone trolls, such classic and fun sculpts. Great job on him too

Lap painting stations? Why would you paint your lap? Are you some sort of exotic dancer? I just don’t get it

I love that retro bugger, he's just the right mix of dynamic and dumb. Ace.

Theophony wrote:I love the old stone trolls, such classic and fun sculpts. Great job on him too

Lap painting stations? Why would you paint your lap? Are you some sort of exotic dancer? I just don’t get it

Theo I thought it would be cheaper than getting a tattoo

inmygravenimage wrote:I love that retro bugger, he's just the right mix of dynamic and dumb. Ace.

He’s great will be interesting to see what I end up with in my troll units. I’m going to pick up the new plastic kit as well

Good job on Tim*

*Some will call him thus.

Timotheee! Put that rock down and come in for tea. And wash your hands, you don't know where that rock's been.

 Dr H wrote:
Good job on Tim*

*Some will call him thus.

Tim for sure, thanks Dr H

A small update from today I took the time to do a bit of modelling outside

This critter had a nasty case of release mould which I had sitting around for the last five years, I cleaned him up again today and re-selaed (which took hours!) so hopefully when he next gets under coated he'll be ready for a lick of paint alongside his twin. I've ordered some special paints for these



Also today I put together this young lass Black Widow from Marvel Crisis Protocol, I don't have the game just intend on picking up a few minis to paint.



And thats my bank holiday Monday not much but I'm happy with what I've achieved.

I like big bugs and I cannot lie....hit the music

I like the marvel figs. I bought the core and a few others, but really haven’t looked at the game and some models are just sub par. If the deep cuts marvel x-men are good then I might use those instead.

 Theophony wrote:
I like big bugs and I cannot lie....hit the music

I like the marvel figs. I bought the core and a few others, but really haven’t looked at the game and some models are just sub par. If the deep cuts marvel x-men are good then I might use those instead.

I must admit some of them aren’t great, the deep cut ones look interesting I’ve not heard of them before.

Some WIP on my next model today Swamp Thing.

He looked a bit better before the wash so i'm going to go back and re-highlight all the vines again just to make him really pop.

I'm working on the base at at the moment, hopefully if all goes well it will have some cool water effects!



Hopefully I'll have some more progress soon

Likin' the Swamp Thing Gir!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Likin' the Swamp Thing Gir!

Thanks Git’s he’s getting there highlights now done but I think they need a wash to blend in a little better!





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Nice job on old Swampy Look forward to seeing him based.

Super duper, love me some DC!


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Also, I think the face is especially good.

monkeytroll wrote:Nice job on old Swampy Look forward to seeing him based.

Cheers mt, was just doing the hazing this evening everything going well, went to add the water effects but they haven’t survived the test of time, one big white piece of resin! So sadly the wait starts as I need to order some more!

inmygravenimage wrote:Super duper, love me some DC!


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Thanks Graven, yeah I really like how his face turned out as well!

Swamp Thing never disappoints. Looks very good.

 youwashock wrote:
Swamp Thing never disappoints. Looks very good.

Thanks

Well Swamp Thing is now finished I couldn't get Vallejo so went with AK Interactive water instead, must say its so much nicer and easier to use.

I also dug out my camera for some proper pictures, its amazing how much better it is than my Phone!





My parents were also kind enough to drop off all the stuff I've had sent there over the last few weeks.


I'just finished building the trolls today just before it started raining so they haven't been undercoated yet, typical but I'm hoping to have them done so I cant start painting on the weekend. I went for an menagerie of trolls from different places so it will be a nice mix!



With all these solo player rules comming out for different games its really giving me a buz as that was always my issue not having people to play now I don't need any!

Hope you are all doing ok and have lots of cool projects on the go.

Good job. Looks swampy.

Swampy looks great .

What is that Reaper model in your haul?

Swamp Thing looks really good Dr H. Nicely done.

Very nice, definitely captured the swamp.

Dr H wrote:Good job. Looks swampy.

Cheers Dr H, he came out well in the end

Theophony wrote:Swampy looks great .

What is that Reaper model in your haul?

Cheers Theo, hes a rock troll

Gitsplitta wrote:Swamp Thing looks really good Dr H. Nicely done.

Thanks Git's

monkeytroll wrote:Very nice, definitely captured the swamp.

Cheers mt he was good fun to paint I wasn't sure what direction he was going in at one point but it all pulled together!


This weekend I assembled some Wolves from Mierce which I'll use for Frostgrave I expect, these are the original sculpts not the new ones.



I also undercoated and started the base layer of blue for the first three trolls, progress is dead slow but its better than none at all.



I cant remember the paints I used one the first troll as it was many years ago so i'm going to try and mix and match I still have the same paints so it possible I may get it right!

Laters all

That's a lovely rich colour there

Cheers Graven

Some more work done on the skin tones this weekend, slowly getting there!

The Trolls are coming along well.

Today I managed to finish the Reaper Bones troll who will be my Dankhold Troggoth.

Its my first time painting a Bones mini and they aren't as bad as I thought they would be.









The other four trolls arent behind hopefully I'll have them done for next weekend.

Nice job on the Troll.

I think he's one of their newer Bones Black minis, they're not so rubbery and tend to have crisper details than the older Bones stuff.

I probably wouldn't have guessed that was Reaper Probably due to size and gnarliness of the sculpt, both of which are great. Good call for your dankest of trolls, and solid paintcraft

aku-chan wrote:Nice job on the Troll.

I think he's one of their newer Bones Black minis, they're not so rubbery and tend to have crisper details than the older Bones stuff.

Cheers there’s no bendyness with this troll he’s as hard as a rock!

Boss Salvage wrote:I probably wouldn't have guessed that was Reaper Probably due to size and gnarliness of the sculpt, both of which are great. Good call for your dankest of trolls, and solid paintcraft

Thanks it’s going to be a nice mix of trolls when they are all done.

Nice work on the troll . Skin looks great.

 Theophony wrote:
Nice work on the troll . Skin looks great.

Cheers the other trolls look better I think, just need to Finnish them!

I I manged to finish the next four trolls this weekend, Really happy how they are progressing, waiting on the last two to be dropped off at the weekend from my parents.

Its a mini project but probably the best to start with, really happy with how things are progressing heres the four from this weekend.



Individual shots of the units





And a group shot of all the painted trolls so far




Feel like I'm finally back now

These are great I love the blue fading into white.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
These are great I love the blue fading into white.

Cheers Graven I’m really happy with them

Some more minis under coated, hopefully I’ll have a supply drop of more trolls before I start these.

Half of the Elder Scrolls starter, the other minis are still waiting to be assembled and some wolves for either Elder Scrolls or Frostgrave!



See you soon!

Great work on the trolls. Agreed with IMGI about the blue.

Those trolls are fab, always liked how the Warhammer troll designs sat somewhere between slightly goofy/comedic with the gangly limbs and exaggerated faces, and just plain imposing.

The trolls make me smile Gir, nicely done!

Good trolls.
Don't feed them...

Thanks everyone the trolls have been really fun to paint!

Had a massive supply drop on the weekend of all the things I’ve ordered over the last few months!

Some rule books for solo play, these will give me so many more done projects to plan, really excited!

Here we have Frostgrave Perilous Dark, the Elder Scrolls rule set, Rangers of Shadow Deep and Palaeo Diet for some caveman action!



Some more models, the last few trolls and the other two box sets for Elder Scrolls.



And lastly a drop load of scenery for all these games!



I managed to get both the trolls built and one of the woods. I also put together the second half of the ElderScrollsBleak Fall Barrows set and a couple of Darklands miniatures which I’m going to use for my adventure party for Frostgrave!



Exciting times I’m back for good now!

Trolls are fabulous. Love the color.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Trolls are fabulous. Love the color.

Cheers Solar looking forwards to getting the next two painted and the woods then they will probably smash my undead a new one!

I This weekend I managed to finish the last of the trolls for my Troggoth Slayers campaign.

The great Troll Boss and his buddy Mollog who is standing in as a Rockgut Troggoth.

Both very fun minis to paint although the Troggboss had a few issues poor fella, first off he got stuck in my dogs tail while painting and lost an ear which the dog found before me and decided to eat it! Then when painting the critter on his base I decided to try out my new chameleon paints, I had issues getting the paint out of the bottle and the bam the top came off and paint went everywhere lucky for me most of it went into my paint palette and I was able to poor it back in. The trolls came off unscathed thank goodness as that was the last part I painted. So does anyone know if the bottles need the ends pushed though or anything? My paint palette now looks amazing and changes colour when the light shines on it!







Next up for me is some woods to give me enough scenery for my first solo game!

Latest troll-kin look great, and loving the centipede.

I have a few of the GSW colourshifts and not had issues with the bottles - although in the past I have done similar with a couple of vallejo paints, trick is if paint doesn't come out straight away then check if the nozzles blocked before just squeezing really hard

That bug looks awesome. Giant centipedes. It's what's for dinner!

monkeytroll wrote:Latest troll-kin look great, and loving the centipede.

I have a few of the GSW colourshifts and not had issues with the bottles - although in the past I have done similar with a couple of vallejo paints, trick is if paint doesn't come out straight away then check if the nozzles blocked before just squeezing really hard

Thanks mt, I’ve learnt from that will be really careful next time!

Solar_lion wrote:That bug looks awesome. Giant centipedes. It's what's for dinner!

Cheers Solar crunchy on the outside but soft in the middle!

Really happy you like them, some trees next on the paint table!

Some scenery finished this weekend and the two missing treasure chests that I found, felt good getting it all this finished, enough for the first Solo Troggoth Slayers mission, very excirting!

Awakened Wyldwood



Azyrite Ruins



Treasure Chest



Next up on the paint table is the Elder Scrolls minis

Lovely stuff, need to crack on with our scenery for AoS also.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Lovely stuff, need to crack on with our scenery for AoS also.

Cheers Graven its really nice scenery to paint.

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I had my first game in years today, I've been working up to play the Age of Sigmar solo campaign Troggoth Slayers for a few months now painting trolls and scenery. I already had a undead AoS army that never saw the light of day. So Krell and his undead minions are going out to slay some trolls!.



They came a cross a waddle of trolls on the frozen lakes of strangelweed swamp.



The Black Knights to the flank slamming into the far unit or Rockgut's the nights managed to take a troll down ton the charge with tehir deadly lacnes whicle their horses took another troll to its kness through their stamped.



They Knights lost a two knights in the ensuing combat,

On the left flank Krell and his horde waded through the woods while the Trolls opposite tauntednted them throwing rocks into their ranks, bones went flying but Krell rebuilt them as they advanced.

Finally they made the charge crashing into the trolls





The Black Knights then charged in to assist, I must admit I did fear they would get wiped out by the trolls but Krell made sure their ranks stayed stable.



In the end the trolls were just over powered by the undead forces and were crushed underfoot. Krells abilitys to bost the 20 man unit just led to so many attacks they couldt loose!




For the next step in their campaign both units are down a member but Krell will take care of that, however we do have to put up with some torrential rain which means my army cant run.

And they we go I had lots of fun play this I really didn't expect my skeletons to do as well as they did! Victory!!!








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Good job on troll and terrain-y bits.

Thanks for sharing. That looks like fun.

Dr H wrote:Good job on troll and terrain-y bits.

Thanks Dr H

IceAngel wrote:Thanks for sharing. That looks like fun.

Cheers IceAngek it was fun I quite enjoyed it to be honest looking forward to part two which will hopefully be coming up soon.

So I have this week off from work which is a bit weird becuase I'm working from home a lot at the moment so instead of working on my laptop i'm sat in the same place painting models, so much more fun!

On Monday I cranked out another Awakened Wyldwood for the second part of my Troggoth Slayers campaign so now I have a forest!



Then yesterday I surprised myself and started on the Elder Scrolls Call to Arms models


I managed to get all of the undead finished in a day! So here we have the Draugr Overlord and his minions ready to slay some pesky heros!



Not bad going I've also started the Stormcloaks so hopefully you will be seeing them soon as well.

All going well so far in spite of this insane heat wave in the UK!

Some more Elder Scrolls minis from yesterday this time we have the Stormcloak's



Hopefully I'll have the Imperials finished today along with the Dragonborn and Stormcloak captain.

Yesterday was quite productive I managed to finish the rest of the Elder Scrolls minis, so here we have the Imperial starter, the Dragonborn and the leader from the Stormcloaks.



Today will be an assembling day!

You've been busy! Lovely work but the bases are particularly neat.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
You've been busy! Lovely work but the bases are particularly neat.

Cheers Graven I made the most of my week off!

Here's the guys I finished yesterday some Darklands Thacaldān,mound beetle's had them for ages (years!) and finially dug them out and painted them up for Frostgrave they are going to be my substitute for Giant Spiders, cant stand them freaky things!





I used the Cobalt blue colourshift paint from Green Stuff World on the head and wings, really nice paint.

Onto some more scenery next!

Beautiful colourshift blue!

Great job on the beetles, and excavating some Mierce backlog in general I've actually got quite a few beetle dudes to paint soon, have been wondering about finding a dark green / black color shift but dunno how much I love the effect, having not seen it in person.

Nice use of the colourshift paint.

Colour shift are excellent on bugs, I like the Martian green (shifts to purple), used it for Dreadball space beetles.

Nicely done. Good use of the color shift paints.

The Skyrim minis look great. Love how they're even posed to match in game animations.

The beetles are great. The iridescence is a nice touch. The caster from the previous group shot is also a very cool mini.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Beautiful colourshift blue!

Thanks it came and really nice and that was using a brush!

Boss Salvage wrote:Great job on the beetles, and excavating some Mierce backlog in general I've actually got quite a few beetle dudes to paint soon, have been wondering about finding a dark green / black color shift but dunno how much I love the effect, having not seen it in person.

Thanks, haha yeah I have a huge Mierce backlog as well!

They look so much better it person it really works from the two times I've used it, will be experimenting soon on more minis with different colours in the future,

Dr H wrote:Nice use of the colourshift paint.

Cheers DR H

inmygravenimage wrote:Colour shift are excellent on bugs, I like the Martian green (shifts to purple), used it for Dreadball space beetles.

Thanks Graven they do work really well on bugs, yeah the Martian green is nice as well, I might try it on some cars for Walkking Dead that I've ordered, see what it looks like with rust showing through!

Solar_lion wrote:Nicely done. Good use of the color shift paints.

Cheers Solar they came out nicely

Paradigm wrote:The Skyrim minis look great. Love how they're even posed to match in game animations.

Thanks Para I've not played the game so hope I've done them justice!

youwashock wrote:The beetles are great. The iridescence is a nice touch. The caster from the previous group shot is also a very cool mini.

Thanks I'm really happy with it. Yeah I totally agree I think the caster is my favourute model from the Elder SCrolls range so far!

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Ok not much to report on this weekend I finished the Azyrite Ruined Chapel, I really like GW scenery
but it always makes me think I could send my time better off painting more models! I think it came out ok, more than happy.

Next on the table for me is another set of Azyrite ruins trying to make sure I have a lot of scenery ready before I start the Elder Scrolls delves.

Thats me over and out for now!, hope everyone is having a good hobby week

I'm still debating the ruins. You make them look pretty tasty.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I'm still debating the ruins. You make them look pretty tasty.

They are nice Graven, I really enjoyed painting the bell!

I’ve started on my next project Frostgrave! This is my model pool for my warband minus two minis who have yet to be assembled. All models are free m Mierce miniatures.

This weekend I finished the first five models for my Frostgrave warband pool.

All models are from Miercie Miniatures



The young lady n the centre is my warband leader Maari the Witch

Hope you like them,

I do like some fantasy ancients. These look great, I'm sorely tempted by the fg cultists.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I do like some fantasy ancients. These look great, I'm sorely tempted by the fg cultists.

Cheers Graven, I really like painting fantasy miniatures I like all the earthy tones! The cultists are supposed to be really good models!

Just picked up my second edition rules for Frostgrave last week. I’m really excited. Also snagged a box of cultists cheap recently. I started to assemble them last week as well. Lovely kit, lots of variety with heads and stuff. I only wish they did NOT do the couple zombie arm/ heads and did more weapon options, otherwise great models.

Love the look of your warband. I have yet to decide which option for wizard to go with myself, so many varieties.

Mad props on doing a FG band entirely in Mierce They look great painted as well. Annnd now I'm wondering if it's time to do up my own crew at last, I know my club has messed with FG1 ...

I have been away from the forums for quite some time so nice to see some familiar faces still pumping out good work.

Really like that Temple, stone looks impressive.

The Frostgrave warband is looking good, strikes me as very Celtish from the models. Apart from the bloke in full armour with the giant axe....

Theophony wrote:Just picked up my second edition rules for Frostgrave last week. I’m really excited. Also snagged a box of cultists cheap recently. I started to assemble them last week as well. Lovely kit, lots of variety with heads and stuff. I only wish they did NOT do the couple zombie arm/ heads and did more weapon options, otherwise great models.

Love the look of your warband. I have yet to decide which option for wizard to go with myself, so many varieties.

Cheers Theo I've not picked up the second edition yet, I'm pondering if to just run the solo campaign on the 1st Ed will save some cash as I've not ued it.

Boss Salvage wrote:Mad props on doing a FG band entirely in Mierce They look great painted as well. Annnd now I'm wondering if it's time to do up my own crew at last, I know my club has messed with FG1 ...

Cheers Boss S, haha I have so many Mierce models around and never used them for anything they are just sat in a box! So I thought this could be the perfect chance, I really love the sculpts.

Archer wrote:I have been away from the forums for quite some time so nice to see some familiar faces still pumping out good work.

Really like that Temple, stone looks impressive.

The Frostgrave warband is looking good, strikes me as very Celtish from the models. Apart from the bloke in full armour with the giant axe....

Cheers Archer I've only just started to venture back into the hobby after a huge break, its good to see familiar faces!

I'm really liking how the warband is coming along more below.


So here we go the second part of the warband pool, this is the apprentice and his buddies. The poor blonde lass I fear wont survive very long she's already had three mishaps before seeing any action, I've managed to drop her three times while painting each time taking her head off! not a good omen!



And as a bonus I have painted these two as well my Paladin and Knight for the heard hitters, such nice models and again tehy are al from MIerce Miniatures.





Hope you like them, I've got the week off at the moment I was planning on painting more but I made the mistake of starting to watch season 1 of Batwoman, man that is class! I've got half way through so far!

Nice collection Gir. Good work!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Nice collection Gir. Good work!

Cheers Git’s it’s slowly coming along, my painting is slowly coming back as well!

Over the last few weekends I’ve been working on some snakes for Frostgrave, I think they came ok. Really happy to have painted this many models!



More bits and bobs to come!

Love the snakes! Look really good.

Great colors on those snakes GiraffeX.

That's a lot of snakes on a plain. Where are they from? I need one for Beast Boy.

Well that was a wonderful catch up, lots of variety and so much great work. Love the snakes.

Its been a while since I last posted, been having a lot of PC problems. I've not been idle though I have a ton of minis to show you that I've been working on over the next few days.

First are some models I've painted for Paleo Diet which is a solo skirmish game based in prehistoric times.

The first is my warband which was painted a while ago, the pictures no the best, nothings changed haha!



And here are some Raptors I've painted for the same game, there's some dinosaurs next in my painting queue as its looking like I'll have all the models painted for this before Frostgrave.



All being well I'll be back tomorrow with more pictures

I look forward to catching up on all your blogs!

Lovely to see you back, and your clever girls

Glad to see you back posting, have always enjoyed your painting and model choices (the games you play are different to mine so I get to live vicariously through you).

The cavemen are AWESOME such great models and really have that proto-human look without looking silly.

The Dinosaurs are terrific as well. Love a Utah Raptor. How did you paint them? I really like the green.

Great to see you back, and with Dinosaurs!! What a treat

Thanks for sharing - looking forward to more

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely to see you back, and your clever girls

Thanks Graven its good to be back, theres always room for more clever grils! I just cant stop myself!

Archer wrote:Glad to see you back posting, have always enjoyed your painting and model choices (the games you play are different to mine so I get to live vicariously through you).

The cavemen are AWESOME such great models and really have that proto-human look without looking silly.

The Dinosaurs are terrific as well. Love a Utah Raptor. How did you paint them? I really like the green.

Thanks Archer yeah musty agree they are the best proto-humans I could find lovely models.

I may have an airbrush now so that would be the trick on the blends on the raptors, I would have to check which greens they were, I painted them a while ago.

IGtR= wrote:Great to see you back, and with Dinosaurs!! What a treat

Thanks for sharing - looking forward to more

Thanks, There's three huge dinosaurs waiting to be based and painted on my work space at the moment.


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Ok here's the next round up on the painting front this time we have all the models over the last few months I've been painting for Frostgrave, still haven't painted all the models required yet!

First up is another Thug for my Warband



Then we have a few bits of scenery and Objectives









And then the monsters, there is an additional 20 Gnolls as well but I don't seem to have a picture of them but they weren't that good anyway!











I thought I would finish with the minotaur really proud of him.

These aren't on order that I painted them but you can see the improvement as I get back on track which I'm now happy with with the models you'll see over the next few days


Gir out!

That is some great stuff Gir! Puts a smile on my face to see more of your fine and varied work. Keep it up man, your peeps need to be fed!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That is some great stuff Gir! Puts a smile on my face to see more of your fine and varied work. Keep it up man, your peeps need to be fed!

Thanks Gits varied it is for sure!

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So today I have something a bit different, this was a present from a close friend for Christmas that I painted up, its the Slave 1 Revell kit, was really fun to paint and was really good experience for using my airbrush although I'm still a long way off mastering that!!!



Nearly upto date now, there's a mega update for tomorrow!

Excellent weathering that man!

Love the DnD bits and bobs! I must get around to painting my stuff - always better to have a fully painted encounter

Thanks for sharing

inmygravenimage wrote:Excellent weathering that man!

Thanks Graven

IGtR= wrote:Love the DnD bits and bobs! I must get around to painting my stuff - always better to have a fully painted encounter

Thanks for sharing

Yeah it is, I decided to paint all the models for the perilous dark solo missions before starting to play them, I didn't realise it was so many models!

This is the last update bringing us up to date and its a big one, two models I painted for my dad for his porch so they don't have bases but they do have attitude!

Both from MIercie Miniatures

Gol Gul, Barrow Spider





The second is Selkiias Skorpion Major







I thikn my painting is now back on form after these two, really happy with how they came out!

That spider is creepy. Would be hard pressed if you just walked past it to not think it was real.

Hurrah for giant mutant scorpions! There's a lot of it going around

Really beautiful beasties, keeping me on the hook for getting them myself some day Enjoyed watching them come together on IG as well.

Archer wrote:That spider is creepy. Would be hard pressed if you just walked past it to not think it was real.

Yeah it is well creepy I don't like spiders myself, my dads going to put it in his porch for that exact reason!

inmygravenimage wrote:Hurrah for giant mutant scorpions! There's a lot of it going around

yeah there is I think that was perfect timing!

Boss Salvage wrote:Really beautiful beasties, keeping me on the hook for getting them myself some day Enjoyed watching them come together on IG as well.

Thanks they are both really nice models, thanks for the Instagram follow, I must admit I find it a lot easier to post on there straight from my phone so it tends to get more progress updates.

Well these would be terrifying until one remembered they had been painted! Scary enough on the screen when I had the forewarning they were painted...

Thanks for sharing

NOPE NOPE NOPE oh they're not real they're painted.

IGtR= wrote:Well these would be terrifying until one remembered they had been painted! Scary enough on the screen when I had the forewarning they were painted...

Thanks for sharing

No probs the spider terrifies me every time I check the box he’s in too make sure he’s not wondered off in the night!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:NOPE NOPE NOPE oh they're not real they're painted.

thanks glad they are looking realistic!

You've been busy!

Love the giant bugs, they're very realistic.

 aku-chan wrote:
You've been busy!

Love the giant bugs, they're very realistic.

Thanks yeah I'm really back into painting in a big way now, thanks

Its been a while so its time for a super big update for you on on what s been happening on my paint table!

First some beats for Palaeo Diet









Then a few new tribe members



Then we go up in size!!! These are all mounted on Knight bases to give you and indication of size!











Then we go back to Frostgrave, it seems like an endless stream of models are needed for the solo campaign, keeps me busy though!

The first box of dungeon has been painted





And then some Giants Rats





Which brings me upto date with the Werewolves I'm currently painting!



Its been a while but I hope you enjoy the models, not got around to any sci fi models for ages but there are some in the plans!

Take Care