Bad things come in small packages

Besides, he is a head taller than a space marine, and the other models in Zombicide are smaller and actually realistically scaled rather than heroic

Some more Zombicide stuff!

Started painting up one of the trays of zombies! Gone with 3 different skin tones so far; green, blue and purple. If anyone has a fourth colour that would look good for zombie skin, let me know

Anyway; the horde so far:


The green team have had the top coat of sepia added to their "flesh" while the purples and blues have just had their base colours washed on.


Green fatty "Buuuuuurgerrrrrsssssss.....":


It is almost like some kind of dance off is about to take place...



And my abomination from above posts with base colour coded to the threat level:

Good luck with getting through that lot...I'm half-dreading the painting of these, I know it's going to have to be batch painting at some point

How about some sepia washes for the fourth skin tone?
And are you going to vary the skin tones between trays?

I was thinking "pure" sepia might be a possible fourth colour, but I was not sure

I have 3 trays of zombies and the above is just one tray :(

I was going to paint up a line of each colour zombie for each tray - to be honest I can't really think of anything more than 3-4 zombie skin colours

The only thing that I will try to vary is the clothing colours and combinations.

The reason I have laid them out like that is so that I can go top to bottom with skin colour, then side to side with clothes colours. By randomising the order of the zombies I should hopefully end up with a nice mix of "like" models with different skin tones and different clothing colours.

I was also planning on painting the bases depending on zombie type - my wife and I have found it kind of difficult to tell what is what when shifting around huge mounds of zombies on the board

Planning on blue for walkers, yellow for runners, orange for fatties and as shown, red for abominations (though I was thinking of repainting his base white then washing and inking red so it looks more like blood ).

Yeah I noticed you'd colour coded the abomination's base, I'm thinking I might do the same with the rims. I've not come up with a plan on how to paint them en-masse yet, just playing with one row for now Using washes for most of them with a bit of paint here and there. You could get some variation to the skin tones by basing in deneb stone and rotting flesh (or whatever they ae now) as well as white.

Yeah, I might just paint the rims in the colour coded shades as it is a bit too much of a big blob of colour that it overwhelms everything else

As for the skin tones... I think that might be a bit too subtle for what I was going for - I plan to use reasonably cartoony colours as I feel it fits the kind of flavour of the game and sculpts. Plus it means more painting, which I don't like anyway, and certainly not when I have a million zombies to paint

I will almost certainly go with a plain sepia as my fourth colour, unless you can think of anything else.

But I certainly recommend doing a tray at a time - as I say, being able to have rows made from 4 random model types means you get a lot of colour variation in your base clothing colours without so much repeating; I find it hard to be deliberately random with my colours when just painting things one after another; by blocking things to paint all the same colour it makes it much easier as you only have 8 blocks to vary, rather than doing each model as an individual.


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Started blocking in some colours now - you might be able to see my system; 2 rows with the same colour, the first on the bottom half, the second on the top half (where practical) - you can also see how "quick" it is too (well, you would be able to if it did not append my post about an hour or so to finish off the skin and block out one colour on all but 8 of the zombies)

are those all just washes over a white basecoat?

Bolognesus wrote:
are those all just washes over a white basecoat?

Yup. Some more colours and details will be added with paint, but I love painting mostly with washes

Now with colour coded bases and some more paint

Hey, that guy second from right, three rows back? I've got him too

Coming on nicely, way ahead of me now.

That is because I am awesome

Possibly.


More likely to be because I'm slow as feth though

Looking good buddy. I hear the game is super fun.
When do you want to come over and play? I'll have the beer and food!

It is pretty fun

If I ever head out that way, I will be sure to pop round

No updates in here for a while, would love to see some more progress pics on your Infinity terrain and Nomad models...what Ive seen so far is really nice. Also, did you finish painting your Zombicide? Sorry if I resurrected an abandoned P&M thread...if there is a newer one can you point me too it?

Thanks for the post

I actually have some time off over Christmas so I might have some time to do some painting!

The only Infinity model I have painted since the last update was finishing off a Zero.

However, I have a lot of WIP's - about 50 Eldar Guardians, 30 true scale Space Marines and I have also started assembling a baneblade I bought abouta year ago (and also started converting it so it can be a stormlord as well).

As to the Zombicide - I have not completed painting everything yet - it did not get much more advanced than the last pictures unfortunately! I may paint them a little more as I will be playing a few games of Zombicide over Christmas.

Finished Nomad Zero:


Quite happy how well this one came out



WIP Intruders:




Brenda de Castro:


Converting him to a female - got to change his face a bit and widen the hips. Will also be sanding down the boobs to a smaller size when they are fully cured as they are a bit big at the moment



The whole group:



Got 3 Intruders, 2 Prowlers, 2 Zeros, 2 Spekters, a Reverend Costodier and Brenda de Castro

If anyone in the Staffordshire area of the UK wants a game, let me know. I would love to actually use these models

A WIP of my Eldar tanks. Still drying hence they look a bit more patchy than they will when dry



Decided to push getting these painted so I can finally sell them off as an army.

The zero came out great! I love the basing. You've got a nice little Nomads crew going on there now. I have yet to get paint on a single one of mine...though I only have the Nomads Starter Pack and a half dozen other models or so. Really I've only cleaned and assembled my HMG intruder and a couple of the Aguacils :/

Your Zombicide is much further along than mine too...I have base coats on half of the survivors, and that's about it. Too many projects....ok, back to Necromunda terrain...

Nice job on the zero Silver

Is that some kind of giant eldar Aegis line you're making with the Falcons

On a selfish note, glad you've not finished your zombies up, I'm no further with mine either

Ok, not really done much painting recently but I did do some more work on my Eldar before Christmas.

Continued work on 40 Guardians - the front 10 have their blue eyes and gems done, the rest all have their orange and black blocked out (the black shoulder pads and knee pads are different for each squad). Need their guns doing gray, then detailing, then a universal wash.

My Falcons have been sprayed with unit markings (I have one left to do). Shine is from the gloss varnish protecting the orange from the tape combined with the flash - it should hopefully go with a matt coat later on.

I've found your thread! Yeah, I'm a little slow sometimes :S

I am going to read through this properly after work but can I just say I really like your Nomad Zero - the paint job and basing reminds me of the old 1990's style White Dwarf minis!
Good luck with your mass painting - you are going to feel very smug once those zeds are all done and swarming nicely

Thanks Ragsta

I played with my Zombicide zombies over Christmas so they are all packed away at the moment.

Been working on my Guardians a little bit at a time. Finally finished a squad!

Moving house and so on meant I didn't have my camera with me for most of the first half of the year to capture my (very slow) progress on my Eldar.

Almost all the guardians are almost finished (the 40 featured in the images below need basing and a couple of extra bits of colour on the cloth ties, runes, etc that some of them have and then they are done), with just a handful needing painting to start (support weapons and crews etc and a couple of misc guardians who didn't make the cut into the 5 main squads ).







I also retouched my Banshees (annoyed to hear they are apparently not that awesome still, but eh, I think they are great models so I will field them if I ever play my Eldar army ).




Continued the very slow progress on the Fire Dragons. How could it have taken me this long to half paint just 5 guys?!?

Sorry about the sideways picture - not sure why my phone uploads them like that...

However, my first WIP's of a terrain puck gun emplacement:





A small mound made from broken up packaging, pinned with cocktail sticks and covered with PVA and tissue paper. More cocktail sticks poked through to form spikes. Some resin pour gates to form anti-tank style dragons teeth. A bit of MDF spure from some laser cut terrain, along with some injection moulding inlets from model bases to form a telegraph pole.

Once it is dry I will add some sand to the mound, add broken wires to the telegraph pole and mount the gun on the ring. I hope it can be entered into both Briancj's contest and also the -=]_=- terrain contest

Well, after experimenting on some of the Reaper Bones models that I didn't really mind destroying () I have primed most of my standard sized figures (overall grey prime, then a white prime from above - going for my usual painting with washes, so this should give some extra shading on most figures ).

I love the mimic and it was the first model I took aside to get some paint on it - just need to paint the base purple to show the "flesh" lifting the rest of the creature forward to attack.


Perhaps my favorite model of the range is the chap on the left.




"What do you mean my bird is on fire?!?!

I don't know what has happened to me - two updates in two days?!?

Anyway, did a little more painting on my first batch of models:

Because mages need protection (the guy on the right I think I will repaint his butt cape as it looks too close in colour to his armour (somehow ):


It hasn't quite come out in this picture, but the colour on the dragon head actually looks really impressive


And because I like this model, another shot - unfortunately again the colours have not quite come through - the blue on the staff is an ink so it is glossy like a gemstone and not as flat as pictured:


Still plenty to do - this first group has about 10-15 models in it... I think from now on I will only do 5-10 at once as it is a little overwhelming with this many to do at once - also think I will use some of my air brush paint for the armour/silver as my old GW chainmail is behaving a little bit strangely...

The skin and tattoos on "Perhaps my favorite model of the range is the chap on the left" look like they came out really well - well done! Looks like a good range for practising painting skin on...

Cheers

Yeah, there are a few models in the range which would be good for practicing various things on. Plenty of cloaks for practicing freehand, certainly!

The good thing is there is a real mix of races/creatures too, so you get a little of everything.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Well, after experimenting on some of the Reaper Bones models that I didn't really mind destroying () I have primed most of my standard sized figures (overall grey prime, then a white prime from above

Sorry if I missed it in previous pages, but what did you use for primer on the Bones? I'm having a hard time getting paints to stick and I've read spray primers have been hit or miss when used on Bones.

Thanks,

- H8

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Well, after experimenting on some of the Reaper Bones models that I didn't really mind destroying () I have primed most of my standard sized figures (overall grey prime, then a white prime from above - going for my usual painting with washes, so this should give some extra shading on most figures ).

I love the mimic and it was the first model I took aside to get some paint on it - just need to paint the base purple to show the "flesh" lifting the rest of the creature forward to attack.

I KNEW IT! I KNEW OPENING RANDOM BOXES COULD GET YOU KILLED!



Looking good, Silver. I'm sure the wife is absolutely loving having all this stuff around.

Hatemonger wrote:

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Well, after experimenting on some of the Reaper Bones models that I didn't really mind destroying () I have primed most of my standard sized figures (overall grey prime, then a white prime from above

Sorry if I missed it in previous pages, but what did you use for primer on the Bones? I'm having a hard time getting paints to stick and I've read spray primers have been hit or miss when used on Bones.

Thanks,

- H8

I'm actually using automotive primer - I used a generic (Halfords own brand) grey primer so that I could see that the entire model was covered, then I hit them with a white primer when that had dried (again, a generic Halfords white primer). The grey primer is not bad but some of the models were a little grainy with the white spray - it might have been the air when I was spraying though as it was very humid.


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 Kanluwen wrote:
I KNEW IT! I KNEW OPENING RANDOM BOXES COULD GET YOU KILLED!

It is when I am DM - I love traps

Looking good, Silver.

Cheers

I'm sure the wife is absolutely loving having all this stuff around.

I bought some foam trays in anticipation of the Bones KS arriving, so they can all (apart from the giant things) be put away neatly... though about half of them are on my painting table at the moment having been primed and waiting to be painted

I think she likes these ones more as they are not 40K figures

Those are looking great. Quite a big batch, but then with my own ADHD I know the feeling. The mimic is looking good.

Cheers!

And now for something a bit different - I know that most of my stuff is junk, but this is meant to be - my first WIP for the junk pile contest:

Some of my junk:






Bits used so far:
+ Resin gate from FW Assault Ram
+ Pipes and gantries from the Urban War biotoxin plan
+ Some matchsticks
+ Some wire from an old PC
+ Leftover wooden spru from my MAS buildings
+ Plastic inflow gates from some 40m bases (the power couples on the telegraph pole)


And as a bonus you can see some of the Bones models I am currently working on in the background as well

I reckon that beholder has his eye on your junk Silver

Haha, I wondered where it had all gone

So, it turns out that London ate more of my time than I was expecting, so the junk pile is on the "to do at some point" pile

But, I have been playing with my airbrush for the first time in ages today and painted up the main colours on a large fire elemental (I think it looks pretty good, but I think I might redo him and play with the pressures a bit more to prevent so much splattering on some of the colours, and I need to paint his face) and have put a fair amount of paint onto Nethyrmaul - one hell of a cool model

I didn't even bother using thinned GW paints in the airbrush this time - just went straight to Vallejo and had zero problems with paint blocking the nozzle even with prolonged periods of spraying. Looking forward to getting some more colours with the Bones II kickstarter

I also used an old fashioned brush to add some blue wash to the skin of one of the storm giants.

Forgive the lighting; I think the wall socket has blown a fuse so most of my lights were not working. Also could not find my camera so had to use my phone



Large (Reaper) Fire Elemental:





Nethyrmaul:





Storm Giant:

Yeah, see what you mean about the elemental splatter, maybe just some washes over that will blend those in a bit? The colours look great though.

Nethyrmaul looks lovely, looks like a nice model too

I think I can repaint it a lot better - I want to get a much hotter looking flame so will try to keep more of the white next time. I also think I will sculpt in the join between the right arm and the body a bit better so it is not so obvious.

Yeah, Nethyrmaul is a great model. Trying to decide whether I should stick with the quite muted tones I have, or to put some brighter colours on there. At the moment I am toying with the idea of adding a few bright patches of yellow on the wings, and some bright green slime for some of the wounds and seeping out of a few of the scales.

I think keeping the muted tones with contrasting bright slime effects would be a good look. Adding brightness to the wings will detract from it I feel.

Hmmm.. I'm not sure. I might add the slime and then see how it goes.

However, I've not done any painting... but I have started assembling/converting the worlds largest dragon - Kaladrax!

The original model:


The "as supplied" pose was a bit too static, so I have been chopping and changing him to be "in flight" - I think it is going well so far. I removed one of the tail sections as when it was straightened out the tail is about 2ft long... which is a tad too long



I have to reheat the tail section as even with boiling water it has settled back part way to its original position; if it still won't stay, I will have to cut and pin it.





Also started pimping the skull a little - I wanted the mouth open so I could have it shooting flames out, so I cut the jawbone and added some extra teeth as the existing teeth are a little weedy. Added some extra beefy bone ridges as again the original skull was a little weedy. Will be adding corresponding ridges under each eye so I can make the eyes seem evil and squinting at the prey

Umm...Big

Yeah, it is pretty damn big

In fact, it is bigger than the tray I use whenever I do any hobby stuff while watching TV



Reworked my flame elemental - still not 100% on it somay do it again



Also did some work on the Storm Giant - repainted him using an airbrush rather than just washes and he is looking reasonably cool.



Also done a bit of work on a flesh construct - going for more of a rotted look so did a nice base in a rotting green:



I also did a few zombies in variations of this colour, some darker and some lighter and a couple with a slight purple tinge. They will all be getting a flesh colour over the top, with some areas of rot showing through.

Did the bones and bandages on some mummies and skeletons - the newer models are so much better than the old style basic skeletons



And last but certainly not least, some bugs:

My WIP for the LoER terrain comp: R 9 contest.

Done a little work sticking stuff together for my entry - got a way to go but there are parts of the entry that I think are done.

So, a little Dust Tactics - going for an urban winter scheme and using some of my Anarchy Models airbrush stencils. They worked pretty well - got a little bit of polishing to do to remove a little bit of paint build up along some of the stencils but other than that they worked great. Unfortunately the colours I chose didn't really come out very well but live and learn!

Really love the blue so may strip and retry using the blue and a darker grey. May just finish it off though just to see what it looks like. Will certainly be giving it a directed wash and pin wash to bring out some of the details as I think that will really make the camo colours look better.





The washes on the infantry haven't really come out but they have a very light wash of blue applied to the armour, and an olive green/grey to the fatigues.

Stencil seems to have worked well, reckon that'll look great with a detail wash and some weathering

Infantry look like they need another wash to bring out the colours - and now I've seen close ups of them I'm more tempted to get some, reckon I have a use for the gas-mask/cararpace armoured type dudes.

Cheers monkeytroll. Yeah - the stencil itself was great - but my colour choices were pretty rubbish looking at the finished product

The infantry look OK in the flesh - I have to admit that when I put on the blue wash it looked really heavy but has dried to pretty much nothing

The models themselves are pretty nice. Slightly larger scale than 40K (probably something like 32mm). They are also in a softer plastic, almost bones-like in consistency.

Damn. Saw a really cool conversion thread on an Imperial Knight and now have one on order. Quite a sad day as it breaks my long run of "do not buy GW" (other than a CSM codex so I could keep on playing).

At least I got some more magnets and plasticard with it from Element Games.

So, a few days ago I was minding my own business reading the forums when I saw Nykidemus' Knight reposing thread. He linked to the Queen Bee Knight on Bolter and Chainsword.

This unfortunately got me thinking and I broke down and purchased my first GW item in about 3-4 years (other than mini-rule book from ebay and a couple of codexes so I could keep using my stuff).

I knew that I wanted to do three things with the Knight kit:
1) Have a nice interior cockpit with pilot
2) Have an extensively converted, very dynamic pose
3) Create, as much as possible, a very unique looking model that has lots of hidden things to find on it that reflect the background of the machine and its pilot


I knew as soon as my mind clicked into "must do this project" mode that I was going for an Oriental looking Knight, along the lines of a masterless samurai. I have prepared some fluff below but a brief outline of my background is a dispossessed knight pilot who had to effectively exile themselves in order to protect the honour of their Clan. They now travel to distant warzones with a small retinue, fighting as far from the eyes of their Dynasty (effectively the Titan Order of the originating world) as possible.

I knew that I wanted to replace the weapons melded to the elbows which reduce dexterity with fully jointed arms holding upscaled weapons - this would significantly increase the range of practical poses it will be possible to arrange the kit into as well. I wanted to seriously make the appearance of the legs more visually bulky - my current thoughts run along including a series of armoured plates cascading down from the chest/waist plate similar to the armour worn by Samurai. I am going to attempt to make the weapons interchangeable.


Some fluff:



A few inspirational images:




And, a brief shot of some early WIP on the cockpit:



I will be covering the majority of the walls of the cockpit with gubbins and cables and controls - I want to make it seem cramped and confined and retain the impression that the majority of the Knight it filled with equipment. To this end, the front wall will be swept very close to the command chair - I will be adding ladder rungs which will match up with the escape hatch on the Knight's top surface.

I will be modifying the pilot slightly to match my fluff.

Always nice to see other people detailing the interiors of their vehicles.

Did you have to remove much material to make space or is that large hole in the middle already there for the use of?

Nice fluff too.

The entire inside of the torso is hollow so it is really easy to put stuff inside. The top plate is also really easy to pop on and off - you dont even need magnets or pins.

Thanks for the thumbs up on the fluff

Intrigued by the idea of a samurai type knight Looking forward to seeing how you go about it.

And always nice to read a bit of good fluff

Cheers monkey - assembling the bare bones of the main kit and then will be attempting to samuri it up.

Dry fitted the other side wall after drilling all the exhaust stacks and other vents justbto check it all still fits together before adding in any other details:

Done a little work on the cockpit.

Looking good buddy. Did you mold the walls or is it your own sculpt?

I look forward to watching your progress . Are you going to light the cockpit?

Walls are moulded from necromunda bulkheads. If I had more time I would have done my own.

No plans currently to light it - the kits and conversions has already cost enough already

Did a fair bit of work at the weekend and have now almost completed the cockpit (need to finish off the front with ladders to the roof hatch and tidy up a few of the seams) and am pretty happy with it.

Got some heads from Statuesque and decided to replace the torso with a wood elf torso as the Statuesque heads are realistic rather than heroic scale and it looked really small even on the trimmed down IG torso



A small shrine in the cockpit:


Side wall just placed in but not glued:


Cockpit mounted on the heavily converted legs:


Fully armoured and the start of the power sword - the arms will both be converted to feature hands rather than have built in weapons:


Because one weapon is never enough - magnetic weapons!

Sweeeet.

Haha, thank you

A few more pictures of samurai armour - hope to reference them when making the shoulders, chest/torso and leg guards.



Some more fluff:

Nice work, Silver. Cockpit looks good. Looking forward to see how you do the arms and hands.

Good work on the cockpit. Liking all the details.

Nice pose. Look forward to how that turns out.

Good fluff too.

Thanks Yellowbeard and Dr H

I am planning on doing hands that are a slightly lower tech looking version of something like this:


I hope to tie this in with the rest of the samurai style armour by adding traditional looking gloves/wrist armour:


I really want the armour to look like it is removable - armour that is able to be taken off between battles and repaired, with replacement parts hooked into place. It makes sense to me that something like a Knight with so many moving parts exposed to fire would need armour that is well fitting meaning that damaged parts would have to regularly be swapped out to stop them fouling the motion of the Knight. This is especially the case with the smaller armour parts and I think it really suits the Samurai style armour which is made up of multiple small plates.

Silver, did you ever finish your true-scale marine army? I was just curious as I was following it for a possible next project after.....finish my BA army, finish my second terrain table, finishing my 5+ terrain pieces that need paint, finish my Bolt Action Army....uhh and probably 8 more projects due to my ADD

Nice work buddy. I have to Knights ready for assembly and I love what your doing.
Keep up the awesomeness

 MadMaverick76 wrote:
Silver, did you ever finish your true-scale marine army? I was just curious as I was following it for a possible next project after.....finish my BA army, finish my second terrain table, finishing my 5+ terrain pieces that need paint, finish my Bolt Action Army....uhh and probably 8 more projects due to my ADD

Haha! I know the feeling!

I have not finished them, but I have about 20-30 of them mostly assembled and just waiting for details to be added before painting. They are probably number 3 or 4 on my to do list after the knight, my eldar and possibly kaladrax as he just needs a little bit doing to finish one wing and then painting.

Cheers Mike

Got most of the main assembly done on the body, and working on the hands and sword and gun. Also trying to figure out exactly how to samurai things up in terms of armour

Run out of blazing orange mix for my eldar so mixed some up from different colours and think it is pretty close. Also had a play with some of the anarchy model stencils - pretty good but my paint had a bit too much flow improver I think

So, I decided to press on with some Eldar tanks after fixing (kind of... it is now a little too thick and kept on gunking up my airbrush - possibly a combination of using a GW foundation paint as my starting point and spraying a large amount of paint) my paint mixture. Have to say that I am reasonably happy with the results so far - need a wash to hit the recesses, some dirtying up of the engine intakes (and perhaps leading edges?) and all the detailing doing but we are getting there

Really happy with how well the Anarchy Models stencils worked out. Some of the smaller ones will have a very limited number of uses before they die (mostly as I was using some quite fiddly shaped ones which were really thin) but the rest should be good for longer.

The full group with all the stencils I used:


Some of the Falcons:













The Wave Serpent:

Looks good - the stencils do their job alright

Cheers monkeytroll. Yeah, they kept the paint out well and are really easy to use. Just wish there was a little bit more variation in the pack I got and that there were a few more generic swirls and spirals etc.

Looking good buddy. The basecoat Orange came out really nicely.

Buy a bottle, just one, of Minitaire airbrush paints. You will NEVER have a clogged brush again.

Keep up the awesomeness buddy

Hmmm... Never heard of that range before! Would you say they were better than VMA?

I bought the entire range.
Wargammer Jay does a full review on his YouTube channel. You can also brush it on.

VMA has a nice line up but Minitaire is imo the clear winner. Bottle size, color range, price etc.

Just buy one bottle, trust me

Picked up a couple of models for my Eldar quite cheap... Painting one now. Sorry for the pants picture quality but my tablet camera is shocking

I appear to have failed to comment on the orange-ness. Nice scheme. Good job. I like those kind of designs.

loving the orange and silver on the vehicles : )

Ok, which one of you goblin lovers stole my body?! I bet it was you Dave... brains of an orc's arse!


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The airbrush has been busy today. Repainting the Revenant in a much better orange.

Knew there was someone who I hadn't seen in a while

That does look like a nice orange.

And Jack the Bodiless looks like he'll be fun to paint.

Nice to see you posting again too!
I love my airbrush and that orange is awesome looking.

How big is the dwarf bust? That looks like a lot of fun

Yeah, been too cold over winter to sit in the utility room and paint

The dwarf bust is from scibor and is about 22cm tall in total, with the head being about 10cm

Little more work on the dwarf bust - modulated the skin a little and have started on the face details. I plan to fully paint the face before masking it off and doing the beard.

Looks great buddy. The flesh tones are top notch

Cheers - it is actually really easy to paint as it is so detailed the colours are really easy to place

Almost there now - a little more work on the beard, some cleaning up around a few places where I have manages to put paint where it should not be, etc, then a nice copper/gold to go on the beard rings.

Pants picture but I brought it upstairs to show my wife and the light is pants

Looks a little greenish in that light....but great nevertheless

Yes, he almost seemed to turn into an orc... :s

Anyway, some better pictures:




An annoying drip from one of the cuts on the side of the head occurred when I left it to dry - grr!

Because D weapons are better than friends (apparently!). Fully magnetic with all options and a break at the waist for ease of transport/storage. Kept a lot of the gubbins off as I wanted a sleeker looking model.

Kinda looks like he tripped. Or stepped in something.

The angle is a little off in thr picture

He is actually leaning backwards slightly - tried toi make it look like he is mid-landing.

What would really help with that impression would be some basing- if you can get a little bit of a ground-layer on that base, and put in both a small skid-mark behind the foot and some piled-up dirt in front of it (or cobblestones or whatever), that would seriously help with the feeling of 'halting' forwards movement.

Anvildude wrote:
What would really help with that impression would be some basing- if you can get a little bit of a ground-layer on that base, and put in both a small skid-mark behind the foot and some piled-up dirt in front of it (or cobblestones or whatever), that would seriously help with the feeling of 'halting' forwards movement.

I was leaving the basing until after I had done the majority of the painting, but I like your thinking!

Well, work is progressing on at least some of the millions of ongoing projects I have...

Kings Of War goblin army, with trolls to be used as part of a larger combined orc and goblin army. This in turn will be part of a larger "evil" army with my Abyssal army arriving at some point next year.

The armies will be winter themed, with the Abyssals from the Ice Peaks themselves "Children of Winter"), and the orcs, goblins and trolls from the far northern steppes. All forged into a force to rekindle (if one can use the term!) Winter's grasp on the world.

My Eldar are finally getting repainted to match the infantry (and about the 4th or 5th repaint on some of the Falcons...). But now I am happy with how they look when done!

I also made some riders for the 4 jetbikes which were riderless as well as gunners for the Vipers and am currently manufacturing more windows for the vehicles which need them.

You can probably see some of the stencils which are just showing through the white paint, and those which overhang models. Have to say they are great and most of them are still going strong after multiple uses. Some of the ones I practised with at the start are dead however!

Very glad I saw the second kickstarter and have jumped on it to get some replacements and additional designs.