Manoknok, problem with a layer of elf flesh over black is that it has godawful coverage. Elf flesh is in general quite see through, so you are left with a slightly blotchy look and very dark shadows.

Weetys advice is great there so thats a good way to improve on flesh. Using Tallarn flesh foundation is also a god send. A slightly watered layer of it as a base coat with a heavy wash of mud/ogryn will leave you with a great base to then highlight up to whatever flesh tone you want.

On the subject of sealers, the only thing available in shops around here that I have any amount of trust in is purity seal, by gw sadly. Expensive but rarely leaves a powdery effect. It does however murder any shine or metall on a model, as a it dulls everything it touches.

I will try that next model. Currently I do Tallarn flesh and then wash with a sort of watery brown.



Btw...weety...I think you might like this...I am going to get some at Xmas....for you Squats...

http://www.olleysarmies.co.uk/psychicscrunts.html

Bob Olley actually did must of the Squats and a lot of the cool miniatures from yesterdecade. I think the Beastmen, Iron Claw, Space Pirates.

I love his miniatures.

Thanks!!! friggin evil squat sorcerers! Maybe some of the less evil lookin ones can be living ancestors. Thanks mano - I will run get my credit card!

looks like your blog is turning into a painting guide , which is very good for me :-) , @ Ifalna , so Tallarn, and Ogryn, got that, @ weety , small amount of paint and plent of aplications ,, Check!, Never did have much patience for painting minis, but will make the effort this time i think especially if i can glean top tips like this from ,esteemable Salient Figures as yourselfs . " bowing to grater knowledge"

The latest offering. He is one of my mercs. The mini is a bit of a mystery. A quick scan of the RT imperial and mercenary sections at solelegends shows up nothing and his tab is completely blank. he was sold to me as a chainsaw warrior. His gun and the general style of the sculpt are blatantly 1980s citadel miniatures.

Anyways - face is washed with a very watered down red wash, armour is ultramarines blue, mask; blood angels red and I made up my own colour for the leather from yellow, skin tone and brown. bit of a greeny brown wash over a grey base for the legs and arms and chainmail over greay followed by several thinck armour washes for the gun. More mercs are on the way and I have an RT techpriest in the post!! which makes me very happy


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He kinda reminds me of captain america but without the big shield

I like that star is that handpainted? very neat work if it is! i have a version of this mini on my blog , although i converted him to a catachan vet. i think there have being several versions of the chainsaw warrior mini ,from the original sculpt, and they have being sold as space pirates imperial guard and chainsaw warrior respectively.As far as i can tell, probably even more as well, I really like his guns, especially the big ripper autogun type one! He kind of reminds me of an American superhero, with that face mask and red white and blue scheme with stars and stripes, i guess that was the intention.
The red hood and green eyes work extreemley well together!
But if i was to critique i would have liked him in white pants and red gloves , to go the whole nine yards! looking forward to the RT techpriest , i dont think i remeber ever seeing one in the flesh as it were!

I'm pleased he's of some use!

I want to get my hands on those oop skaven jezzails they would be nice lootas in my 40k Skave army

Just wondering if he might be from dark future or a juve or perp from Judge Dredd.

Oh gamesworkshop...you have lost your soul.

A lot of their mass produced stuff is soulless these days but I have seen it converted to good effect. Forge world is pretty damn good though. Far too expensive for my megre pittance.

Thanks for the heads up santobell - still winning it so far.

thats my best ever free-hand star neil101. Others previous have been a bit wonky. Really pleased with that one though! I kind of agree about the white pants and red gloves thing. I am sometimes a bit conservative when it comes to gloves and boots. I always end up thinking they should be brown - but leather doesn't have to be brown. And gloves don't have to be made of leather.

More pretty paintwork as expected, loving the stars & stripes freehand these guys are getting Yeah, you should have gone for the whole Cap America thing, could have strapped a shield to his back

The actual mini looks familiar, have to have a root about and see if I've got one, might be listed under the adventurer range? When I get home I'll have a look through some of the old WD's too.

Definitely not Dark Future manoknok, they were a smaller scale.

Here is the tech priest dude. He is very odd looking and has a strangely wolf shaped head - If he didn't have mechanicus written on his base you might wonder what he is - paint scheme wize I'm going for something red with metalics and blacks. also wipupdate on the scratch build dred - both arms done. all he needs now is some

detail and some kind of back engine thing.


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the dred not the tech priest

I've always been slightly dubious of that ad mech mini, I have a couple but never got round to painting them as I never really felt they fitted in with anything else I was painting. Well, that plus my laziness

Dread's coming along nicely.For some reason I was expecting the second las-cannon to be mounted above the shoulder, not sure why. What did you use for the bolters, hard to make out, is that 2 of the old bolters?
Not completely convinced by the legs yet, think the upper and lower parts of the leg need to be a bit more even in size, looks a little too orky at the moment to me, but then again, my mind is pretty much entrenched in Orkyness at the moment Good job with the power fist, that looks cool, what sort of powerplant type thing are you thinking for the back?

the ad mek guy looks , super, loving the tassles on his boots, lol and check oout his backpack! I was wondering if the custom dread was going to be finished , i noticed it in your gallery. Is it a squat dread? or just regular, or neither ;-) as for the weapons twin linked lascannon and twinlinked bolters?

Found your latest merc in WD 95. He is a merc, goes by the name of Plunderino Pete.

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aha there he is.

I have made a lot of progress in the last half hour- got the green stuff out. the dred is for my SM chapter now. I had to make a decision on what emblem to do and I just couldn't picture how to make a circular cog out of green stuff without a tiny cog shaped cookie cutter! pictures arn't great in this kind of light but I will upload anyways. The twin bolters are from the plastic rogue trader SM kit. power plant is still a mystery and depends very much on what I can find in my tiny bits box. I have some plastic robots that are just the right scale for it so hopefully when I dig em out I will find something good.

The idea behind the dred is that I'm trying to combine my favourite design elements from the original RT dred and the more modern dred. Also I cant aford my own RT dred just now. And this is my first ever scratch build which I hope to learn a lot from

Nice work with the GS there. Actually like the legs more now with the shot from the front, from that earlier shot I was thinking the 'thigh' area was a block like the shoulders. Doesn't mater how big the bits box is if it's got plastic robots in it Robots beat dinosaurs every time in that respect (well, unless you're looking for a non-robotic t-rex head that is).

The fleur of your emblem...I bought a hole puncher with that shape a few weeks ago just from the crafts section of a department store for my Sisters of Battle. I have a sister. So Sister of Battle.

Might be helpful. Looking good on the dred!

Hooray for Monkey' on identifying Plunderino!

The Dred is looking good, maybe a little more development in the feet region, but I really like the shape overall, it's kind of scary looking, very intimidating 'face.'

YEah plunderino is a cool name. My plans for the dred are to redo the shoulder scroll and do it better, put some greenstuff in the gaps around the hips and maybe do more to the feet. oh and powerplant for the back - then its painting time!

I got a 40k beastman in the post today!

Not long till we see the finished article then

Is the beastman joining the mercs or will he feel the touch of chaos?

yay squats i love the models

I'm painting Kylla Condotti from the old catalog pic above at the mo. He currently has a pink helmet, which I'm not sure about.

Thanks moonshine! Many more interesting squats to come I'm sure.

The beastmen will be eeeeevill!! MWAHAHAHA! (evil laughter)

Hey I have that Shorty model. Never seen him painted before. I am guessing that squat Irn Bounce must be worth a fortune.

With the dred, are you planning anything for its hips? They look a bit weaker than the picture.

Which Beastman did you get? Interested to see how you paint him..

I think there are 3 types.


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Does your Ad Mech have a beastmans head or is that just me? Looks like he has horns....

its a helmet but it is weirdly beast shaped and does have horns

everytime they move the clocks I find myself waking up at 4. I have very productive mornings though.

The beastman I got has an autogun and he is holding it pointed up . You have some like him - he is really cool and I will call him fredrick the beastman. Or maybe Derik. I have other beastmen of the spiked club and shield variety but thats ok. A wooden shield, while completly useless for stopping bullets, does give me something fun to paint freehand designs on

Iron bonce is going for about 19.99 but you do sometimes see him cheaper. And that squat pirate I have with the peg leg is currently on offer for 29.99!!

Blimey....that is pretty pricey!

That beastmen is Gaxt...I think he is the rarest for some reason. I have quite a few of the non-40k looking 40k beastmen-the ones with a club and a sword somewhere.

Could you paint the sheild to look like a police one?

Hahaha well I could but thats not very slaneesh. Great Idea though I would love to see a converted beastman riot squad with metal shields, night sticks and little peaked police caps. specially if they were pig beastmen. Not that I've ever seen a pig beastman, seen owlman, dogman, birdman etc but no pigman yet


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This is Kylla Condotti. he has a very bright and cheerful paint job, hopefully reflecting my mood at 4 this morning when I woke up and thought I better do something. Note his ribbon things, he must be ex-military

looking godd keep it up

Bright and cheerful because you woke up at 4.00? That's a time for going to bed

Lovely green though, very striking, what did you use?

I think its called snot green! Its a very translucent green so I put it ova white. then greeny brown wash

he looks cheerfull ;-) that hemet reminds me of the starwars rebels, wonder if thats what inspired em! he also reminds me of this miniture Behind th mask just uploaded to his imunda blog


snot green ugh!

Happy Guy Fawkes day all the UK folks!
Erm... maybe I'm too late, isn't it always tomorrow where you people are? (Tomorrow People)

The colors on Condotti are great, it's a nice mini, nice stance for a soldier-type.

Hmm, today feels like today to me (did smirk at the tomorrow people ref though - you are single-handedly changing my views on what the average American watches )

My top floor flat is on a hill so I feel like I'm surounded by expolsions. BOOM! rumble rumble bangbangbang. Glad I dont have pets

Please, I cannot take any responsibility for what the average American watches. Nobody I know has ever heard any of the stuff I watch. All the classics, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, all the murder mysteries, the crime shows, Blue Murder and Rebus and all of that.
I honestly think that the UK audience has an ability to appreciate a more intellectual and abstract sense of drama and humor.

What about Dad's Army and Dr. Who?

We Americans never watch those shows.

But don't panic. I sure you can get them to change their TV watching ways. Just threaten them. It'll work. They don't like it up 'em.


Weety, I'm really enjoying your blog. Lots of minis that I haven't seen in many a year. Nice to see them getting attention again!

Dr. Who from an early age, MAJOR influence on my life. I believe I've seen every episode that exists (BBC trashed a bunch from the late 60s - gone forever). Not crazy about the new ones.

Anyway - I second JB's statement - about the classics getting attention. You think any of the old sculptors are out there, maybe checking in on these blogs, seeing their classic work brought to life a-fresh? Or maybe they've all become bankers and Tesco clerks (don't ask me how I know about Tesco) and forgot about their amazing works from yesteryear.

Bob olley Just joined dakkadakka. He is on the best conversion blog plugging his new 'squats' or scrunts as he calls them (hes not employed by GW anymore so they cant be squats but lets just call them cool space dwarves) I said hi so maybe he will have a look.

You know about tesco? have you been spying on us? espionage!!

@ Ambul. I would just like to take this opportunity that despite what Frost, Morse, Midsummer Murders, Cadfile, and the one with Robbie Coltrane say we don't have that many murders here.


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Also. We don't have a large red mining ship in deep space.

Have to agree with you on Doctor Who there Ambull, early stuff was classic, not fond of the few new ones I've seen - far as I'm oncerned jelly-babies and a scarf are essentials for a good Doctor

As to having more intellectual and abstract TV over here, we had to come up with something to make up for a lack of production values After all Carter and Reagan burning around London in Rovers doesn't have quite the same sense of glamour as Crockett and Tubbs swanning around Miami in Lambos and Ferraris

dont forget wycliffe the cornish detective. It was pretty awful, we used to watch it just to see places we know on the telly.

Red dwarf and blackadder get my vote. along with father ted, spaced, green wing and one for the Americans and canadians here, due south. It has a mountie and a deaf wolf, doing the fish out water act in gangster city chicago. what more could anyone want.

But seriously I am actally painting stuff and will be getting back on topic soon

Oh my god the dred is fantastic. They are such amazingly old school models, you did a brilliant job of making one from scratch!

Also, kudos on captain america mercenary, lovely strong colours as always from you

Cool I'm glad other people like the dred and not just me. I still want one of the original ones though.

This guy is fun - I'm not sure if he should be a cultist priest or a short rich mercenary. Or maybe even a member of the administratum come to audit the battle. He sort of has the look of a self-important little hitler. He is of course meant to be a space pirate...

Mercenary, no cult is cool enough to have threads that fab.

Oh I don't know, some of the Slaanesh cults round these parts have some fancy threads.

Not the administratum though, hasn't got a clipboard

admin guy for sure

Love those glasses/goggles! That headgear is pretty wild, kind of Flash Gordon style.

Again, Weets applies a wonderful range of colors that are very suitable yet very dynamic: The touches of yellow/ochre/gold throughout make the whole fig come together very nicely.

(Cadfael and the Granada Sherlock Holmes are of my favorites, I came to learn about Tesco through my fan-ship of the original industrial group Throbbing Gristle [London Late 70s] - oh and the one with Coltrane [also Young Ones alumnus] is Cracker, seen 'em all - I just love your British television! - And I have always found it so ironic that the best murder mysteries come from the UK, where murder stats are very very low compared to even single states from the US - and Spaced was the greatest show ever - anyway back to the minis, don't want to take away from the energy of this awesome thread)

Well this will be the last one for a while cos I'm of the wales till next weekend to get my free potters wheel. Going to have to trailer it back through mountains which I'm a bit worried about.
But anyway one last merc before I go:


I have tried out my insane detail army painter brush on his pads and I like it. Hope it stands the test of time

Very nice once again

Been meaning to ask about that wheel, good news. But have you done anything about finding a studio?

Enjoy the trip, hope everything goes well, see you in a week.

yep I gotta studio too - its a poky little old granite shed which will be pretty cold in winter - at least until I put the kiln on!
but I think it'll be a dequate for my needs - want a troll with a fishing rod? or maybe wielding a lascannon, go-on it'll add rustic charm to your barge

40k pottery? That'll be a niche market then

Great to hear you're good to go though! Do you put any of your work in shops, or do you rely on your website and word-of-mouth?

weetyskemian44 wrote:Well this will be the last one for a while cos I'm of the wales till next weekend to get my free potters wheel. Going to have to trailer it back through mountains which I'm a bit worried about.
But anyway one last merc before I go:


I have tried out my insane detail army painter brush on his pads and I like it. Hope it stands the test of time

I used to have this guy, I always felt he was a port over form GW's Judge Dread days I have one of those old model catalogs (it's got the Emperor in it so yeah old... Oh and Primarchs too) and he's very similar to them maybe same sculpter.

monkey troll - Was relying on word of mouth till now but that seems to have dried up a bit so I need to expend the website, join other artist sites like deviant art and such like and face my demons and go back to the galleries. Last time I did that I got a frosty reception. but it was years ago and all I really had at the time was sunsets and some vases.


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Thanks santo. he is very 80s cyber punk isn't he. I can imagine him as a mega city block militia or something

the Knee star is even better on this than the last one!

Loving the clay work, checked your FB page and eye was straight away drawn to the amazing acrylic Budgie, but then I found chavtastic and was won over

Some of the static sculptures like the feet and courgette(?) are really clean and very nice.

Deviant art is a pit of teenage popularity contests and filth, You can use it for advertising this kind of work but it won't get any attention on it's own unless you start making sculptures of Twilight characters with their willies out. Shame really, as it started off as a decent art site.

HAHAHA sorry - I had to laugh. I don't know much about it - someone recomended it the other day - I dont like teenage popularity contests. I think all teenagers should be unpopular as it is character building... on the other hand I do like filth. Perhaps If I make a line of ceramic cock sculpture it will go down well. But yes I should spread my self widely and not rely on one site.

Thanks for checking it out!

I can't believe that I managed to miss this blog! The squats are brilliant (and are giving me an idea for what I should do to the ones I aquired). The latest additions are fantastic (like the mercs). Looking forwards to seeing some more RT goodness.

Yours, Gathering Storm

Are they all snobby galleries round your way then? Shame. My Mum's a photographer and my Dad paints and makes stained glass sculptures, they've both found a few places that will take a few pieces from them. Recently they hired out a local hall one Sunday, displayed some of their stuff, got good results, made a profit and got a few people interested, believe my Mum got at least one commision through it. I know there'll always be a few peeps who like to think your sculptures aren't 'art' purely down to the subject matter (obviously they'd change their tune if you were 'known') but can't see why they wouldn't like the throw stuff, some of that looked gorgeous, and from a local artist. Some people.

Well since then several 'crafts' orientated galleries have opened which might be good for a go. I've been psychologically scarred by artistic rejection though and I will have to force myself to get over it and try again.

Thanks gathering storm - I'll look forward to seeing your work. I love that noise marine you have and I want one!! I will go find one right away

@weetyskemian: well.... I do have 4 of those noise marines.

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cant find any on ebay at the mo

I'll mull it over. They were given to me in good will so I'm not sure whether or not I could sell them. I think I may be able to find a fifth one though (I know some people, so I'll ask around) and if I can get one I'll be sure to let you know.

cool.

well I lied, that wasn't the last mini before I go away - this one is, cos I got bored of packing and tv doesn't occupy my hands



He is probably worth revisiting and adding highlights and free-hand to. But for now I am very happy and he really pops and zings when I put him with the other marines

She gets bored so quickly just paints a figure

Something bright to tide us over too Yellow's very nice as always, and once you highlight the blue that'll look really vibrant

Libby's colourful!!!

I wish I had a RT Techmarine for my Iron Hands Medic.

The challenge of being an artist is that one has to really push hard to exploit ones' self (in a good way), these days it's tricky because of the internet, but the best thing to do is keep on going, don't give up.

Anyway - best of luck with the wheel-moving and be careful in Wales!

Stealing, well, attempting to steal those sun glasses on that merc.

Really nice colours, love the one above.

Blue and gold - gorgeous!

can you believe it, they don't have wi-fi on trains! Or at least not the ones I was on. Well I'm in wales at my mums place with all the family and we go to look at the wheel tomorrow. Thankyou all for your kind comments and feedback. Hopefully I can manage to churn out pottery and keep up my mini painting at the same time. And maybe do the odd crosover piece - If anyone wants any life-size busts of monsters let me know! I am missing my paints and minis already. how did I ever go for 10 years without them?

Hah, we get wi-fi on our buses round here Glad you arrived safely, but disappointed you didn't pack a couple of minis to paint, you'd probably knock a couple out over breakfast or something Hope it goes well tomorrow

Well I don't want to get paint all over my mums kitchen - I try not to make a big deal out of mini painting with my parents - I think they always thought I was a bit odd painting model soldiers when I could be doing "proper" art that people might pay money for. But thats probably what I like about minis - there is no pressure.

Don't be jealous of my swift painting technique monkeytroll - I know your probably turning out some brilliant conversion piece while you eat your cocoa-pops. With you modelling skill and my fast paint jobs we could rule the world!! (bits of it anyway)

Ahh, the old ' no, I don't play with toy soldiers any more mum' routine eh?

Mine still think I'm a bit odd - but then again, I don't think that has anything to do with toy soldiers

I'm not jealous, no, not me, no way. As it happens I've just been chatting with a very nice red chap with horns, says he'll have me painting faster than anyone by this time tomorrow, only wants the sole from my shoe or something in return..

Just let me know which bits we'll take control of and I'll meet you there (I do hope it's somewhere warmer than here) Once I've finished my brekkie that is

Wow, this thread is chuggin right along! How's your home-made dread progressing?
I must say this thread is pretty inspiring, I may start putting up pics of my rogue trader marine collection!

Cool mini or not?
COOL!

so I've got back from wales with wheel in tow. after a whole days drive I certainly wont paint anything but when I opened my mail I just couldn't resist doing a quick sketch conversion job on these lovely blood bowl beastmen. They arn't stuck together so comments are welcome. Someone somewhere did a friggin cool slaneesh paint job on these but I'm afraid I will have to strip them as they are chipped and I want to do my own thing - but I may take inspiration from it.

Cool beasties! I like these guys a lot, very creepy - but do strip them - you can do much better coloration.

Glad to see you and the wheel made it back. Nice package to come home too, love the guy with the hood, don't recall him.

I have one more but he has a missing arm so will require a bit more work - I have an arm lined up. The paint job is old schooland awsome but I think I can do something a bit more new and detailed. Pictures of my new studio tommorow - and if I do anything fantasy inspired I might post it here as it is sort of relevant

the colours on those beastmen are very nice, " I look at colourfull things now, no more monotone for me" they look like they belong to your pack already. and do post our work in here, if its not that relevant post it on imageshack and then in here , so you dont plug up your gallery. well thats what i try to do anyhow , although its more of a hassle. As for commisions ... Life Size John Blanche Please , with spikey biker helmet and harley , with bad moons in his beard,

EDIT they are free right....!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE no not free. But I will try and find a price between cheap and expensive

Hi Weety - yes defo strip them.

I guess the question of what to arm them with is whether you are planning to play them as Imperial or Choas. If you have some GS you could easily block out that tiny symbol on the hood.

I think in the fluff Beastmen were slightly less intelligent than ogryns....and they were produced in these combos:

Leader of the Pack: Chainsword Plasma Pistol
Bray: Mace and Big Fudge Off Knife
Gaxt: Lasgun



Wait....I have an idea.

weetyskemian44 wrote:cool.

well I lied, that wasn't the last mini before I go away - this one is, cos I got bored of packing and tv doesn't occupy my hands



He is probably worth revisiting and adding highlights and free-hand to. But for now I am very happy and he really pops and zings when I put him with the other marines

I have one of those

Actually...

I can't do my idea. I was going to post the army list for beastmen from RT but my pdf is corrupted.


Noooooooo

For your information, you may need to zoom in.

Mano

Like that. Beastmen want to say sorry to the emperor for being dirty, smelly and ugly. Well I'm afraid my beastmen are proud of being filth and will crush the emperors followers beneath their hooves. Mainly because the imperial army is pretty big already but my chaos warband is still tiny.

I did actually have another idea - I have some really old school witch elf assassins (some kinda dark elf thing with lots of curvy swords, punch daggers and mini cross-bows) who could be converted into dark elf renengades to swell the ranks of my warband. But I am loath to convert such venerable minis.

thankyou asherian command - is he in your gallery? I will have a look. I have two of them already - dont know what to do with the other one

very nice freehand work!

Wohaaaaa the Slaaneshi Beastmen are great!!! I'm so jealous I don't have any!!!

Your bright colours especially fit them!

Thanks guys. I will certainly try and keep those bright colors when I repaint them.

I really wish I could have painted something tonight but I had to go and support some friends who have formed a band - they were playing down at the local booze pit. Good times were had by all!!

The studio is filthy as hell at the mo so no pictures. I am right pee'd off as I'm gona pay rent and I was hoping it would be sorted out - but thats what happens when you conduct business deals with friends and in her defense she was ill. Also had to unscrew the potters wheel to get it through the door so difficult day.

booze + friends + music = cure to difficult day

Well yep. Awsome end to a long hard 2days really - what with driving for 9 hours the day before with a gale blowing - I was worried that the trailer full of ceramics equipment would blow away.
But I feel like I'm still to young to sink back into an easy life and accept the place society has granted me (shop worker). After all I have a degree(3rd class) in crafts! I would feel like a big tool if I didn't at least try.

Go for it!

As long as its interesting, its good.

You have the talent, you just need the perseverance. It definitely won't be the easy life I understand what you say about being scarred by previous experience, I'm sure you can find your way past those inner demons. Look forward to studio shots and some bright kinky beastmen.

Y'know, some things in life are just wonderful...things like 90's hip hop, mexican coke, Star Trek, Wolverine in maroon/yello, etc. This thread is wonderful for the same reason. No school like old school.

Thanks all. Old school to the max!

I like to paint things before I show them off but I'm having trouble gaining momentum. so I've done a bit of conversion work with an orlock who I got cheap cos someone had robbed out his weapons. Also undercoated a whole load of new arrivals including the beastmen - not all of them are having guns cos they would be diffucult to do and I like the idea of having a few shields to paint. I guess some of these beastmen are just traditionalists and prefer to hit people with things because its more fun than shooting them.
In the other group theres some newer models (by newer i mean 1995-1997). redemtionist priest and imperial priest will provide spiritual encouragement. tech priest dude will fix my non-existent vehicles and the little guy is an RT medic. Actually he just looks short compared to the longer legged later models. I think maybe they get fed better, or they are just slightly different genetically because of eons of inbreeding

Beastmen, Orlock ganger, Trooper, some cool stuff there.

MEDIC!!




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Not the best painting in the world but I needed to get something finished to get my momentum up

The 'v' needs a bit of a touch-up, but other than that looks good, my freehand's not that good with a pen, let alone a brush

The green looks a little darker than your usual, or is that just the light? Winter sucks for model photography - along with a whole bunch of other stuff obviously

I don't think your momentum needs any help! You put out more work more often than nearly any other blog I've seen here.

If anything, you could do with maybe sharing out some of your painting time with those less fortunate. /cough cough

Those Minis are just wonderful, is it just me or does anyone eles find the purist beauty of white undercoated models akin to The Elgin marbles, like they are statues in a long forgotten museum of 40k! the green and white works well on the Medic, and just out of curiosity , is he here to cure Ifalna's cough ;-)

Still suffering huh Ifalna. Well you can throw some of your commissions my way if they are small - but maybe you are kidding? I think your painting is better than mine still. But I get a lot of practice so maybe I will improve! Hope you feel better soon

Well spotted monkey troll the greens been washed with dark green this time instead of the usual olive green wash.


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hey thanks neil - Yeah I agree about the undercoated models they do just look perfect when they are like that. So perfect I find it hard sometimes to start painting!

With a small pic and a netbook I cant see that well.


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I hate space wolves !!!!!!!!!!

But miss dee there are no space wolves!
I wouldn't have them in my blog - not because I hate them they just don't fit in with the plan. To much In-disciplined bravado and drunkeness for my straight laced imperial army.

The chaos warband on the other hand will be real f***ing high on drugs.

I went a bit crazy this weekend - Sold a little art and had some extra cash to blow - so I brought some mutant psycic scrunts from bob olley's website - they will be my chaos squat psykers. also got one of his scrunt walkers to be a sentinel for the loyalist squats.
Then I went mad in e-bid and got some old space crusade dreads to turn into sentinels - used to do this a lot, its really easy to do - just pull off their heads and create a sort of seat out of GS and plastic bits. Then take a guards man torso and pop it in stick one of the big guns in front and wack some engine bits at the back. It looks pretty good.
Boughts some more RT mercs and squats. Followed by some escher gangers for cultists. I think I blew all of the money in one go!! good times.

lol

Well, spending spree sounds interesting at least Scrunts sound good, and I like the sound of the space crusade sentinels. Some of the Escher stuff is great for slaanesh cults, most of mine started to get changed to guard 'swamp rats', then started switching allegiance to chaos.

It's a nice green, contrast well with the white, but personally I prefer the old green on these guys. For some reason the colour seemed old-skool to me, can't really explain it but there we go...

Lovin' that Imperial army trooper. That being said, I love this entire blog.

Thanks dude!! Your avatar looks strangely familiar - fishy I might say!

Are You hiding space wolves from us Weety? lurking inbetween the lines somewhere! real small like so only people with huge moniters can see them? I love that feeling you get when you know you shouldnt have spent that much money on bits of plastic and metal ( albeit venerable plastic and metal) its like weeing in a flower pot at party when drunk , so wrong but feels so right! lol I also have had a hankering to convert my old space crusade dredy into a sentinel of sorts! although i thinking more along the lines of penitent engine! will be interested to see how that goes...

Im doing a commission and want to throw them in the fire as the guy who want 'em aske to have them in wd colours ....

you mean space wolf colors? I can see how that would suck if you hate em so. I would probably feel the same if someone commisioned me to do ultramarines. Or necrons


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and looking again I think my medic needs a very thin red skin wash just to stop him looking pale

Ultras aint that bad if you have a blue primer.

that would save on blue paint - but I find prolonged exposure to blue marines makes me depressed

I just don't like painting to someone else's colours Had a summer job when I was a youth working for a toy soldier company that sold pre-painted figures, thought it would be a dream job painting figures. Hated it. Got bored painting exactly the same thing very, very quickly. I should point out the painting just had to be neat and consistent but flat, no shading involved, which is why I could do it
Don't think I could paint a smurf-marine, shied away from doing a looted bike part on my cyborks blue, although...hmm, maybe I could paint one, no two, yes, possibly might see a couple of smurf-marines from me sometime


Maybe as a medic he's aware of all the dangers inherent in going outside, just stays in hunched over a monitor trawling through dakka...

I can really imagine that job sucking hard - Maybe its sub-concious trauma from that job preventing you from painting quickly! sorry I do love to rib. But no - definatly no, unless they paid me at least 15 an hour then maybe. They wouldn't though.

I could manage one or two ultras but then I would need a long break from blue.

I can think of all sorts of reasons for our medic to be pale and anemic looking but I think he would be more aesthetically pleasing when he is ruddier.


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could just be the lighting though - I will get another shot of him in daylight

Well, when I say summer job, that's probably an exagerration, I only did a few batches before jacking it. You took a buch of figures away, brought 'em back when they were done and got paid a set amount per figure. If you could do that sort of painting it would be easy to knock out some units watching tv in the evening, which is what a lot of their painters seemed to do, but couldn't get my young head round it - wasn't painting all about creativity? I got docked for a few when I gave the hands and faces a quick wash, and they had to be re-done

I think he looks the pale, worried type, but you may be right, nothing like a rosy-cheeked, healthy looking doc to cheer you up as he cuts your arm off

Droooooooooool

Mutant Psychic Scrunts! I really want some. I will order some at crimbo. I feel like that guy in the leomenade advert...


'I'm a secret mutant psychic scrunt buyer, at night' or something like that. Please post pics of them...

Also, really keen to see what you do with your Gaxt and Redemptionist, as I have both and will likely steal your ideas :-)

It'll all get done eventually! and hopefully scrunts will be on their way soon. We will se if Mr Olley is as good at prompt postage as he is at sculpting in a shed.

Heres medic looking a bitmore fresh faced. He is such a tiny model - he even looks short next to the taller squats.



And my first priest. I love these sculpts - so very very gothic. I cant quite figure out why, in the 41st millenium, would anyone with access to proper weaponry chose to use a big stick with nails in it. But maybe he took a vow or something.
"oh great emporor I pledge to thee that I will do penance for my sins by using this holy stick to beat thine enemies, with these big consecrated nails sticking out to further hurt the foe! With this great stick which representeth thy holy wood, I shall cause blunt force trauma and brusing, flesh wounds and concussion. Amen"

Beastman with the autogun.... lucky sod! i want one of those


looking ace.

If you have access to a big stick with nails in, why bother looking for anything else?

The priest looks fantastic, excellent work on the face and hair, makes me think of some old punk who now serves the Emprah.



'Corpsman Smith, have you been out in the sun again? What have you been told about staying glued to your monitor lad?'

Yes! Thats the ork in you talking I'm sure. Orks love blunt force trauma...

Thanks I busted out on the priest - it is definitely true that painting the later, larger minis is easier. Rogue trader pieces sometimes are very small which makes painting tricky and have lots of little flaws and ambiguities in the sculpt which I often only notice once they are painted. Love them anyway warts and all.

The blood bowl beastmen have been stripped and stuck together so it won't be long now. Depends what I feel like painting though.

Thanks again for all the support.

~SMACK~

'Oi, Jenkins, nah. Don't hit da target wiv it, use it proppa like. Look, come 'ere. Right, you take dis power-pak, and den you puts it in dis 'ole 'ere see. Den you points dat end at da target, you lines it up, and den you pull dat bit an' da target goes whoompf. Got it? Giz it another go.'

~SMACK~

You created a grimdark morrissey ( although technically he is rather grim and dark already)
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great work on him , you can tell they are better sculpts and he really does your work justice! one the best painted models i have seen you produce. the colours suit him very catholic!

Good Lord - the resemblance is really very incredible. Priest looks great - you should do a group shot of all of these figs together so far, it must be an amazing sight.

Jebus crist!! Thats an amazing example of convergent evolution there. Or maybe the sculpter was a morrisey fan!.

Monkeytroll - jenkins the ork sounds like he's a traditionalist!!

Converted the last beastman - he came with a missing arm so I gave him a goblin one which seems to fit.

Is that the space crusade power sword? looks pretty good if it is.And a hand flamer. That model looks fun to paint! have decided the paint scheme yet? all brown and traditional , or you gonna do something a bit more weetyskemian .

Is that a lobsided boob on the beastman? If so, excellent.

Brown? NEVER!!! well not that brown anyway. Bit of pink, probably turquoise and flame orange too. But who knows - I dont yet or I would be painting right now. I think I should start out with duller colors and work my way up.
It is the space crusade sword! Got a little pile of the old marine bits from that.
I think I should do a few large group shots. It does look good all together. But I will wait till sunup


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definate boobage in the beastman

"I am a beast ladieee, i'l have you know!, and i demand pink!"

hello weetyskemian44 ,

i have just surfed through your great artful blog. and all i´m able to say now is that you bring the brightness and color back to the grim darkness. love your tribute to the characterful oop models. i always wonder where you people get these fine models from. i have searched through ebay for lots of times and never truly have i found such legends...
well i recently bought me a piece: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130452712130&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

would that count as some relique from the older day`s? guess not.
i haven´t watched your blog for a long time but i will be watching it now very closly. maybe i can get me here some inspirations for my armies...

show us more of the bright side in 40k, best wishes vik

I love this blog so much, takes me back to flicking through the old rulebooks and white dwarfs staring at the mad colours! The blog is a testament to your dedication to the old school, keep it going.

Thankyou! Everyone is so nice about it. I like that.

Update. Studio is ready. follow the link at the bottom of the post to my art page and there will be pics soon. Still no kiln but thats the only thing missing. Maybe a compressed air spray gun would be nice too. I've got to stop buying minis now and concentrate on the ceramics but dont worry I have enough unpainted to last till next spring at least.

Bob olley's wonderful scrunts arrived today. Speedy delivery and well packaged. Here are the mutant psychic scrunts and their completely mutated brothers. Also the scrunt walker which will require much assembly. I have a choice of male or female space dwarf. I will save on for another conversion project.




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http://www.olleysarmies.co.uk/home.html if you want some for yourselves

congrats on the new studio! hope you make loads of money so you can keep this blog well supplied with wonderfull 40k antiquities! the bob olley minis look real nice also.

Heh, those scrunts look pretty cool. Fast service too.

Those ceramic bikes look really realistic, how'd you do it? And why do you have a pair of doll's feet as mascots?


Oh, and you just earned about a million bonus points for your hair too

I admit it I'm a ginger redhead!

I might try and paint something

As opposed to all those blue redheads out there

Anyway, I'm firmly of the opinion that males are ginger and females are redheads

So, as you were thinking of maybe trying to paint something, now many figures have you just finished?

Hey, you like The Prodigy?
'Charly says...' Big into The Prodigy from way back, I saw them in New York in, ...I think '95... great show.

Your dungeon space looks awesome! I would rock out in a space like that, It looks quite cozy!

Its not bad is it! Not expensive either. Its a bit dark in there right now - sorting out an extension cord today so I can out up some lights and check the wheels working. And the prodigy are great. I missed seeing them because back in the day I was reluctant to shell out for expensive tickets. I wish more bands would come to cornwall and save me the trek. I've seen aphex twin - but he lives in cornwall so no big deal. (I'm assuming everyone's heard of aphex twin but maybe he is not so famous outside of cornwall)

Monkeytroll, only two last night as I got started at ten. I thought I would see about a colour scheme for the beastmen. So here they are the little beauties:
I probably should make a bit more effort on these - highlights and freehand etc, but I just wanted to get these done as it was getting late.

"Who's that trip trapping over my bridge" i think there giving me the big red horn! celtic and viking shield look cool, the red and gold makes them seem quite mystical, although that could be your backdrop, they are nice minis are'nt they. So i ordered some old school IG orderlies , the ones with the breastplates, for the praxian guard yesterday. Your pic you posted of the Imperial Army , and your blog really fired my imagination , and i always wanted them orderlies, got my eye on some necro brat juves and an old school inquisitor, but they will have to wait l. So now i can say your Blog is truly inspirational.

Old school orderlies. The ones with the shiny breastplates? Yes I like those!

you always post fully painted minis, weety. how do you do it? how many steps do you do to complete a mini? you either paint with realy thick colours so that the get finished quite qucik or what??? your colors look smooth and not thick at all so i cant understand why your so damn good and fast at the same time? where is the trick? your using one of them gimmicks of hermoine granger from hogwarts?? would be my only guess...

the current minis look really good. like mebers of the yncient pagan society^^

cheers mate, vik

p.s. redheads are really nice, my wife was redhaired when we met^^

Well I suppose its all about knowing exactly how long you have to wait for a layer to dry before you can go over it - I usually do two very thin coats as these dry faster and then I can slap on a slightly thicker coat. To give you an idea how long to let a thin coat dry, if you start at the top and carefully apply a thin coat then by the time you get to the bottom you can start at the top again. i will do a step by step one of these days.
Right now its time for some group shots.

ha, i knew i got some old ones too. the smtermy comander in the back i got^^! wondeful paintjobs on the lot of them. bright and colourful and optimistic in a way.

as for a step by step on how you paint. cool, count me in for being glued to my desk when you do it. sound like i can really learn some good tricks in painting from you.

and your freehand looks very precise, i like it very much.

vik

This is so gloriously Second Edition, I could weep for lost, perhaps better, days.

Thank you.

-B.

Beastmen are pretty cool, love the woven shield. I'm now regretting the fairly plain colours I used on my slaanesh beastmen, may have to re-do them as I'm playing with the idea of kick-starting them again. (Like the way you ONLY did 2, as you started late ) Group shots look nice, had to go back over your thread as I'd missed the army dude with the cap and scoped las behind the commish, don't remember him at all from back in the day (tbh suprised I can recall much of those days, but minis seem to stick for some reason), any idea what he actually was?

Bands don't come round your way? Aren't there at least 2 festivals round your way, the Lizard (although that may not still be going) and some other one I forget the name of (but I have a mate who DJs there).

Think you need to get a kiln in quick if you're going to spend any time in the studio during winter - I take it you've not been affected by the flooding? Obviously your penthouse suite won't get wet but still...

(Didn't Aphex drive around in a tank at one point? Know his tunes well)

Group shots! Excellent! The Beastmen look great, I like that woven shield.

Is is so wild to see all those classic marines together, and to know that they have been very recently and freshly painted, it really is like a time machine.

No the flooding only effects the low lying cornish - My best advice to anyone looking for a place in cornwall is - love this sea and the rivers but live at least 10 meters uphill from both! My studio is more than that high out in the hilly west.

The lizard festival was one of my favs, but I havn't looked into it since the cornish eclipse (1999). That time they fully went bankrupt and so did most of the sellers (I was working in a cafe) because the original estimates of visitors were grossly over-exaggerated.
I've seen a few bands - eatsstatic, man with no name, hallucinogen, ozrick tenticles, apollo 440, levelllers, ronny size, a plethora of cornish metal and funk bands (leftfield were ment to play but didn't). Aphex twin...
All of my friends go to download festival in donnington each year and I maintain that I cannot afford it. Maybe this next year. They always have loads of god oldschool metal and rock. (extra brownie points if you have actually heard of any of those bands I mentioned)

The studio has been cocked up by the wheel not working - all the wires look sound - so I will have to get a washing machine repair man in - its the same thing if you think about it - all it does is go round and round and round and round


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A time machine!!! yes. I dont remember aphex in a tank but I will be sure to check. I am glad the old aphex twin is known outside the county of cornwall



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lets see other festivals around my way? well every town worth its pasties has a little mini festival (not so little in the case of penzance's mazy day gollowan festival. Maybe it is past truro and therfore not really cornish


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I would have done some painting ut instead I watched futurama movies and lamented my stupid pottery wheel being broken. I need an easy going electrician


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Oh that dude with the cap and scoped las is meant to be a scout - or a sniper - I cant uite remember either

Bummer about the wheel :( Glad you're safe and dry though

Went to the lizard once, think it was 98 but not sure (only act I can remember from that one was ADF, all my mates left a day before me as I wanted to catch the ninja tunes show, but missed it anyway ) Hectic week, I was at dance valley in Amsterdam the weekend before, came home Wednesday to grab new clothes and crap, went down to Cornwall on Thursday Good times.

Never been to download, but went a couple of times to the old Monsters of Rock, in fact think the first time I went (Maiden were headlining - as they were the second time I went ) was my first concert. Have Leftfield, Roni, Apollo and Aphex on either vinyl or Cd, probably have a few mp3s for the others somewhere.

A time machine - that's how you paint so quickly. Right where's my DeLorean ?

Great groupshots , i see how they all come together now

Saw Maiden in 2008 in New York, very inspiring, I think it may have played a role in getting me back into older cooler stuff, like 40K minis and such.

I think Weets definitely has a time machine - how else are all of these completed minis posted so quickly?

All I can say is, I will do a step by step to prove that no flux capacitors or deloreans are involved! lol. Not sure how fast this one will get here though. if I dont get it done today then it wont get done till sunday cos I've got a busy weekend ahead! (fun busy)

then have some fun^^ it fills the batteries^^

well its half done already!! I think I will get it painted this morning and then there's plenty of time for other things.

Great group shots, I love the way the old spacemarines are smaller than guardsmen.... just as its ment to be, little people in cans!

yes they were much smaller back then - I suppose the desision to make them a bit bigger back in the 90s was a good idea as it makes sculpting and painting a lot easier and allows more detail.

So this is my step by step picture essay: "what I did when I woke up early and got bored"

First a wash of armour wash over the white primer

Then base colours, Liche purple mixed with a little white, crimson, crimson mixed with purple, bestial brown, yellow wash on the bits which will be gold

Then dusty green for the priestly scarf thing? and blue wash on the gloves.
Then hit it with some watered down armour wash.
Then highlights - gold, chainmail, tenticle pink for the robes, more dusty green and just a smidge of white on the skull mask.

Undiluted armour wash on metalic areas, flesh wash for face. Thats that one done. 4hours including drying time when I was just fiddling about with facebook and playing solitaire.

So thats my trade secrets revealed. But I try and do em all differently so as to learn new things.

so this will come in handy when i start painting again. but...

i have a question. what is armor wash? i had a quick google search and all i was given was armor wash for car protection. so i would guess my research was not right, right?

as for the model , i think i would buy the mini even in nonpainted firstwash state^^. looks very cool just then.
my fihures i mostly dont prime, well i use some color called smelly primer from citadel...but i guess thats no real primer...when i start the paintorama for my steampink army i will certainly begin priming as i see now what effects you can create when primed. i understand why you wash. and also you have quite good, no! exelllent brush control. you seem to have no need in repainting certain areas...
well thats something i have to get learned too...

thanks for the step by step.
vik

I remember smelly primer just because of the name - don't remember what it was for though. The primer I use is Hi-coat matt acryllic car primer because to be honest I cant tell the difference between that and gw.
As for brush control, when I do get paint where I don't want it I take a slightly damp clean brush and immediatly wipe away the offending paint before it dries which mostly eliminates the need for repainting.


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I highly recomend the use of a spray primer and washes. It makes all the difference.

Armour wash is a dark grey-black wash that GW used to do - maybe they call it something different these days. But vallejo still sell it as armour wash.

ah, thats something then to look out for. i love playing with washes. if you have looked into my earthangels then you saw some verrrry heavy washed minis there. got some old fleshwash i love to use. also i have nearly deepleted my sepia and my orgyn flesh wash. need to by more i guess.
also i got some ork flesh wash(?) i would love to use but i dont paint in green at the moment...

for now i have a mostly unused grey carpaint primer, you think i should use it on minis too, never spryed minis before...
i´m sure it will get messy for me...

and for getting away with brushmistakes, i have a box of earsticks(?) always on my desk for quick corrections...which i have to do often but not so often as when i started. guess i get better after all^^.

vik

earsticks!! we call them cotton buds or que-tips. But I like that expression; earstick.
I have used ork flesh wash to shade red before!

I will have a look at some of your models. I have only seen whats in your blog yet

Good use of washes weety, thanks for the step by step guide. i'm thinking I should make more use of washes.

Nice one.

well i have some blogs, some of them a re on hold while i´m busy with the steampunk stuff...

ork fleshwash to shade red??? green to shade red? well thats some new way of thinking for me... have to try that out...

as i will be doing lots of redcoats for my redcoats^^

vik

I did tone it down a tiny bit by mixing in a little brown - so it was greenish. But you should try it it might look nice.

Thanks hangfire!!


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heres the chap - as you can see I shaded his boots with green too.

hmmm nice effect. maybee i should go for my upcomming minis with a red and dark angels grren look instead of red and black look....would that stil be british enough?...

by the way a very nice mini. as usual^^

vik


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by the way had a quick look in your gallery... the Fantasy/sci-fi Art gallery of yours. some of the sketches look mightly like tatoos?
well they would make good templates for one anyways^^

vik

Great Tutorial Weety , i will certainly be taking notes! And he looks great to boot!

Today I pinned this bad ass walker together - Its another of bob olley's scrunt (squat) walkers (sentinels). I just lov these and wish I could afford more than one - but I get bored painting the same model twice anyway.

from the front it looks like the robot from lost in space...

"Danger Will Robinson Danger Danger!!!!"

Very old school , just as i would expect, its gonna take a lot of paint though!

fear not weety, for i sincerely doubt that in your collection there wont be any doubles of minis, or are there?
repetition is also something i don´t like. even in talk i dont like it. makes me edgy and i think i would waste time...
as my old teach` told us:
the minister is not preaching twice...

vik

p.s. cool model. are sqauts the fun side of 40k or what?^^

Nice painting again You don't fool me though, if you examine the starfield behind the mini, it's obvious there were weeks between shots, it's quite evident you've constructed a rudimentary flux capacitor from a potter's wheel two bikes and a plastic dolly

The servo-grots have started bickering about the best way to loot a scrunt walker now.

I think your grots would love a scrunt walker it is just the right size for them. As for the flux capacitor I think I may be living in a 1980-1990 time warp which is causing temporal flux.

Vic I agree with you on repetition- If I have more than one then one must be converted - or just sold on ebay.

I've just put together a 2nd edition sentinel ive had kicking around for ages and the dread has his engine so I've got three walkers to paint and I'm going to make another soon - a whole army of walkers!!

The second edition sentinel is funny looking. Badly posed If you ask me - maybe if I put some extra guns on it?

thats what converting is for to make hordes armies still worthwhile...otherwise i would crack. it´s why i ended up playing with a guardsmen army anyway. got far more nids in my cupboard than i got currently guardsmen...but the nids freak me out when i think about making hordes of gaunts that all look exatcly the same...

I agree - I just couldn't do it - unless I was being payed maybe

Ohoh, so is the dread done now? Pics before you paint?

More dakka is always good And chainsaws.

And dakka.

And maybe a stick with a nail in it? Just to be sure.


Vik - convert all the 'nids too

thats the prob, with nids i havent the foggiest wher to start and what to use...despite the obvious GS which i´m still afraid to use...expensive stuff and i tend to be very much a scrooge when it comes to my materials...

vik

i like repetition ,i like repetition in nids makes them seem like ants or termites , millions of creatures with one alien objective . the fact there is no individuality makes them seem more alien and scary . but from a creative point of view i agree

Large swarms are great but a drag to paint. It rhymes!!

if one had an airbrush it might actually be fun. otherwise...

Multiples can be really exhausting. Unless you're really driven it can wear you out.

That walker-thing is really cool, that is going to look great painted. The pilot looks like a long lost cousin of the guys from ZZ Top.

Some more wips. I'm trying out coloring with washes for a more subtle finish (I hope) I started with building up layers of red wash, 3-4 of em and then finished with a layer of purple - not sure where to go now - I could leave it bright and cheerful but I think a techpriest deserves a bit of grime - They dont care for hygiene so long as their bionics are well polished and greased. So I think I might add a layer of green-brown wash

here we go - a little more grime

A bit more - all this is done with washes so far (except his face and the red incense censor) - then I'll add highlights

well if thats waht you can achive only with mostly washes, then i should try that too. cool^^

how many layers up until now?

vik

Wow don't know how I managed to miss this blog before now, I'm going to spend some time here next free hour I get, so good to see those old models painted up so well and I'm liking the look of the Bob Olley scrunt walker I may have to investigate further. Subscribed!

Thanks mu - hope you enjoy it.

Victor - The yellow and blue is pretty much one wash - The green had 3 washes, brown 3 and the black 2. the cloaks got about 5 washes. It needs hghlights now

the efect with just washes is immpressive, i would never have known! nice model as well

well the proof is in the pudding - I'm hoping that it will give a very deeply shadowed effect. But I dont really know.

is there an effect of overwatered details? or does the use of washes give a very smooth coverage to the paint. all the water evaporates/dries and the pigments of the wash stay behind. is that the methode behind this?
is a wash only water with pigments or is there more to it?

thanks, vik

There is more to it than just water and pigment - If you try an do this by adding water to paint you get a more blotchy effect. there is something in ink/wash that helps it spread more smoothly. you can get wash medium online which you can then add paint to I think. I've got all the old citadel washes myself. I'm not entirely sure what the effect will finally be - but I was hoping for a very smooth blending effect. I think for a model like this where the colours are predominantly metallic it will work very well.

well I'm pleased with the result - I will use it again for a lot of bits.

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I might add a final wash to tone down the robe

well the model look really good to my, especially the robe.
may i give you some advice for this special model?
i would break up the metal parts, as this model has quite a lot of it. i would use flesh wash to do some of the hydraulics stuff in brass. just minor points like the bolts and so on to give the viewer something more to look on when he reviews the bionics. also i´m not that fond with the blue color on that mechanic axe. though the paintjob is exellent i think its not the right color, but that might just be me. if asked i would say use the red also there...

after that much critics one thing there is to praise:
i absolutley love the effect you did on the (search-) light. its really good looking and the blendingeffect is so smooth...i´ve read so much about that technique but i cant pull it off...seems i am way to hektic when painting and wanting fast results, but with that you need to take your time.

despite my view suggested critsisms a very outstanding model

thanks for sharing the step by step again^^, vik

You are probably right about the hydraulics. I might try doing that before I start another. I dont know - winter blues.

I complained to my stupid brain dead new boss about always being on sundays. I said why cant he rotate the shifts (the answer is because he is brain dead). So now he has out me on every saterday as well. I hope he gets cancer.

sorry about the complete lack of anything - not keeping up my reputation as a fanatical speed painter am I. Its only been three days and it feels like an age - I have more chaos squats and chainsaw warrior types in the post today. But I'm all out of car primer and the local harware shop only has black left. Its no excuse as I've got tons of undercoated minis just waiting but I have been busy self publisizing the art on various forums and my head is full of ceramic figurines rather than gothic sci-fi lead ones. Winter seems to have a draining effect on the artistic soul as well. Maybe I will do some painting tonight and have updates tommorow. Thanks for your support everyone

Winter blues , the weather just saps the spirit. But glad your ceramics are not missing out, They are really very good! remind me of hobbits , some of em. I can't believe its only been 3 days , see what happens when you update regularly , feels all the more spartan when you dont! lol. but don't stress over it , real life always takes precedence, and when your new minis appear we shall appreciate them all the more.
good luck with your promotion!

Hahaha yes I am the new weekend slave in work - its ok everyone else hates the new boss including the area manager so he will probably get fired (maybe I can help things along).

I

You have the most devious mind ! but you see saying fired in a 40k forum immeadiatley springs the most horrific grimdark connotations to mind.

There we go - I feel better now. She will be with my cultists.

My pottery wheel is working! It was the on off button - It was really jammed so when I thought I was switching on nothing was happening! silly thing.


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I need to take a daylight shot anyways - I will do it b4 then

cool mini, is that a necromunda escher model? looks a bit tank girl^^

cheers, vik

Yeah she is a escher juve. The last time I painted this mini she was the girl next door - white top, blue jeans and blond hair (the girl next door doesn't usually carry a pistol and a pick axe but you get the idea). So I guess my style preferences have changed a bit...

personaly i would love to see a a van saar mini done by you. i plan on purchasing some of them for a hitteam of my steampunk army. the do look like assassins without to much converting anyway...i think...

vik

I like van saars but I dont like the way they all have the same facial hair- some of them should have just side burns or a twirly mustache.

thats right they do look like they get the machine hearcut for five quids once a coupla weeks... one after the other...

but i guess that could be solved...

vik

- yes! of course I can cut em up with me craft knife! I'm a bit new to conversion techniques

its kind of morbid dont you think to chop heads of and arms and the likes^^
but all we take we give back, as in the old saying:

what goes around will come around...

i am quite good sometimes i think in converting. the only one thing that i truly lack of is plucking up enough currage to do GS work
i tried clay (the air dry thingy) and used childred putty and got wuite good results, but i´m rather afraid to use my GS stock...
its so damn expensive and i dont want to waste it... also you have to time your work very well with it as when you get disturbed i guess you cann fully well ruin your work... and i got kids that run around the block in our house it feels like 24/7...


vik

well yeah actually I can understand completely - I have nieces - when they are around they demand attention!

GS is great for doing in small doses - that way you get around the time problem - When I did my dreadnought I started with milliput beacause you can carve it when its dry - I only did the detail in GS as it seems better for small detail

bought a portion of milliput a coupla weeks ago. stock would be pretty set to go...just starting is the thing to do...

vik

More -

that weapon looks very steampunky, if it werent for the hairdo and the bare chest i would consider them also a good fit for my upcoming army...maybe i have to invest in some orkheavy weapons...to make it look more british...

you made them eyes really good, the look in them is very capturing...

vik

ha ha i knew you couldnt keep away! is it wrong to fancy a mini , because she is hot blue hair purple boots , and a big gun
i think i said too much lol
them heavy goliath punks are so mad max its scary!

i know there were times i fell in love with a comicchick but to have it happen to minis...

cool down neil, take a shower^^

vik

lol guys. I'm very please with their eyes - cant stress enough how important it is to have a really really small pointy brush!

The gun really is a bit steam-punk retro isn't it - nothing like a bit of brass.

I used to have friends with blue hair and purple boots back in college - the best one was my friend Tegan who used to have a purple velvet trench-coat. Everyone's gone conventional now just to make life easier (less catcalls from chavs and the police don't automatically assume your a pothead) Oh to be young and crazy again!

i was never that young... more like a born granddad with stupid childlike ideas^^

quite the mixture^^

vik

Lol i had purple satin pants with black paisley flowers , that were far too tight for my own good! though never blue hair to my recolection, which to be fair isnt that great. ( And not even my disco dancing pants either lol) well untill my Fiancee knicked them , and i got too fat .... oh to be a 28 inch waist again.......

The eyes have it ! thats why i fancy her big open wide eyed expression gets me everytime!

@ vik "born grandad" like benjamin button , now i have another new name to go with all the others

and i thought being mental would sum it up pretty good...

i lke the brow of hers. i lkie that in a womans look. to many women shave and trim their eyebrows to a too thin line for my taste. i don´t say all women should look like Bert from sesame street but if a natural look is achieved i´m the first to be stunned by just looking a women in the eyes...seriously!

but taste is something one shouldn´t argue about anyways...

vik

My priesthood is expanded with a redemptionist brother

I also got hold of the old confessor model - the one with the double handed chainsaw - he needs stripping!

Might spend the day in the SNOW! and then do another mini later - Maybe a chaos squat sourcerer

My boss Got fired - HA-HA! I just knew we would shift him - shop assistants who have been with the company for 6+ years trump rookie manager who we think bribed someone to get the job! so I'm a happy bunny and we can all share out his hours like greedy vultures feeding on a corpse

And i thought redmentionist's were all heart! , nice bible bashing god squad you have there, do they want to join Ignacious aleron and the imperial vulgus reformationists.

Take it you got plenty of the white stuff down your way then? (that would be snow I'm refering to )

Not as many minis up as I thought there would be considering it's been a week or so since logging on, you must have broken your flux capacitor. Obviously the ones that you have done are shiny, so all good there Priesthood collective looking good (that's not a phrase expected from my mouth).

Glad to hear the wheel's not actually broken, just need to get some heat sorted now - preferably in the shape of a kiln

nasty boss gone =

As to your friend's clothing making police think they're potheads I used to have dreads hanging past my backside, that seemed to get the attention of the authorities 90% of trips abroad involved me getting stopped

HAHA yes the massive dreadlock problem - a lot of my friends have that - went to a pub once with a group and after they had already insisted on searching 4 of us we decided maybe we should choose a pub without so many bouncers. They searched the wrong ones first- apparently Coco Chanel smells suspicious to big dumb security men.

Its really great to have a working wheel - going to try and drive to my studio through the snow later.

Meanwhile I have dun another juve

congrats for the boss getting fired...
but remeber:
the more things change the more things stay the same..
same with bosses...

like the priest of yours, looks like clint eastwood .375 magnum and an uzi he´s holding^^

and then the piesce of string as a last resort...

priceless^^

vik

See lyrics for "Wont get fooled again" (the who)

Ooh, a kinky redhead with a gun, me like. Nice job on the kneepad, and good work with the eyes again.

edit: and if you braved the snow to go to the studio hope it was a fruitful time and the travel wasn't an issue.

she has a nice pair of tats too , or is it just the one tat can't see from this angle !
Like the way you have your red to orange blends going on with some of these models, looks very effective! i take it your not painting them in just washes anymore, would you recommend that technique ?

to an extent yes I would recomend it - the purple leggings / boots and the jeans underneath are done in just wash, priests leather hood is a wash job. It really depends on what effect you are trying to achieve - the nice thing about washes is you can generally paint faster with them thn ordinary paint ( but longer drying time so swings and roundabouts).

The red to orange is red wash over yellow paint - blending is often easier with wash too. you just have to be real careful how much you have on the brush.

Miss dee was it the end bit - "Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss" that has me worried - but it would be real hard for any new boss to be as dumb-ass stupid as the one we just got rid of - I hope

monkeytroll - the snow seems to be very localised over my flats and the surrounding car park...? odd but at least I can drive.

Really great job on getting the expressions on the faces down so well, especially on the ladies!

Tattoo is great freehand too, please share some of your speedy work skills kkthx D:

Your own personal snowfall? Sweet. Not looking forward to the rest of winter, our pipes froze today leaving us without water on our pontoon, that's only happened twice before in the last 4-5 years, 4 days in January this year and for a few hours one morning the previous winter. Does not bode well for the winter when the marina starts freezing in November.

Does losing the old boss mean you get some of your weekend back? I only have to work one in three Saturdays normally, and as it's a six-day week then it kinda ruins the weekend for social stuff as I just can't be bothered.

Plan on using the red over yellow for one of my chaos dudes, thought it was nice when you used it on the shoulder trim of your marine. I'd been planning how to do a similar fade on a robe, then when I realised how you'd done it decided attempting a paint blend was going to be much harder Obviously, don't expect to see it in the next week or so.

yes its pretty chilly - I went up into the moors today for a senic drive - the road was just all white - you could have gone skiing on it. and thats cornwall in november - earliest snow for a very long time so maybe its going to be a fierce winter.

I am sure my old manager who is back in charge now will rotate weekend shifts. They always used to.

Thanks Ifalna I will post a few more step by steps. The tattoo is just down to a very small brush and steady hands - and squinting helps - maybe I should get a jewelers monocle.

Will paint something later

Love the juve paint job! Maybe it's the orangy-reds with the right blues and purples or maybe it's the knee pad and tattoo or maybe it's just the nice application of the "Rule of Three".

Hair + buckle + kneepad

Belt + pouches + boot straps

Purple top + left boot + right boot

The only gripe (small one) is that your metals always look less finished than the rest of the mini. I'm not sure why. Do you highlight your metal bits on the minis?

Argle bargle...I need to pick a paint brush and paint something. Maybe some stormtroopers...they've been half-painted for years.

Thanks JB. The metal starts with my usual black wash over white - then a few layers of chainmail, then wash with black again - then I'm supposed to highlight with mithril but I get lazy sometimes and don't bother - well spotted...

I like doing things in threes, having just two predominant color types can be striking but it gets boring to paint and look at after a while

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oh wait I remember you've got the new ones with the cool body armour that look like star wars stormtroopers!

You know, if you get yourself a loupe we're just going to expect even finer detail on tattos and the like We'll be checking the iris and pypil are ok on the eyes, that each individual hair strand is blended from tip to root...

your right of course. I dont think I'm quite obsessive enough for that kindof detailed scrutiny. They are really cheap though, tempting...
Threw my first few pots today after a few more teething problems - The wheel's run by an accelerator lever like a little see-saw for the foot and its got no spring so I have to manually (footily rather) shift it back to stop. And it didn't occur to me that it wouldn't start if it wasn't set to the stop setting, so I thought it was broke again for a minute until I put 2 and 2 together.

This pic might get deleted for being irrelevent (but in my defense I intend to make mugs with purity seals, bullet holes, ork glyphs, chaos stuff (the nurgle one might be off putting) etc etc and try and flog them to you lot!)
Also a WIP of my first psychic scrunt - He has tenticle pink tenticles washed with watered down red and purple. His face is skin tone mixed with crimson and then extra crimson gently brushed around the eyes and nose. I'm thinking of either doing his high collar in a green fading to blue or a flame color.

Nice Mug shot

those scrunts are ACE! proper older school. back in the day i was never a fan of the bob olly stuff. i thought they were too gangly and deformed faces, but looking back at his stuff , now , i can see he had proper proportions , for the body , his heads were always too long though , for my tastes really good to see his stuff painted by you Weety and i think blue to redy orange flame would look cool on the collar , ..might be too many colours though.

btw hope there not too many bullet holes in the mugs , eles we wont get any tea

Cool yes - I must be sure to make them so you can actually drink tea from them!! thats important after all. MMM love tea.

I think I am a fan of gangly and deformed at least in this case! I think he has put out a selection of 'sci-fi ogres' (ogryns) which are pretty cool and I might get one

Nice Mug shot

LMAO

that scrunt looks hilarious...but a cool painjob nevertheless...

there is a blog here from someone who sells beermugs for a but 20-30$ with purityseals...
so you have definatly a market here...i would start a thread for that special purpose...
also i think your mug looks very clean lined. i like that, and also the handle is very beautiful.

i it werent for ridiculus posting fees i would actually be quite tempted to buy one...

but as you said thats rather wip. by the way what can it hold? will a pint fit in? that would be the least i would expect

love your work weety,

cheers, vik


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found the thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/330027.page

vik

"tenticle pink tenticles" - wow, where'd you get that idea from

Good to see you've started throwing, any news on a kiln yet?

The scrunt looks like Dungeon Master had a bad day with Presto I'd say the green/blue would be a nice contrast on the collar, but would need to be echoed elsewhere to bring it together - maybe on the staff and detail on the armour ?

"Presto Chango! oh sh*t I've got tentacles and a swollen cranium" - hopefully finish him tonight.

I'm buying a toploading rohde eco-kiln from germany. Having to buy quite a small one as it has to go in a small shed and plug into a 13amp plug socket. So no large sculpture. But I havn't paid for it yet as I have trouble parting with the required fortune in gold. It will be the most expensive thing I ever bought so I am raising funds.

Victor - the mug is a tea/coffee mug and wont hold more than half a pint. But I can do bigger ones if you think that would be popular? That guy who already does it is going to be peaved when he sees my masterpieces. I intend to actually scultp the detail on the side of the mug rather than use decals so mine will be better and probably the same price (I will send you one to germany cheap postage if you don't mind surface mail taking a while)


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Actually I dont think that guy will mind cos he is in America so will be selling to different market.

Saw this guy and thought of you

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1x-ADEPTUS-MECHANICUS-Warhammer-Space-marines-OOP-GW-/140482441333?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item20b567f075

he's possible my Favorite RT model it reminds me of the Adeptus Coloured art in the RT rule book a nice bit of art and a great mini!

He is great - I just took the bid from 6 quid all the way up to 9.50 but no joy. He is too popular for my spending power. Thanks through I didn't even know he existed! I can watch out for a cheaper version.

first you mug looks better even now...gosh again that joke...^^

second i like your idea more how to grim up that thing.

third hmmm coffey mug you say...what price have you planned on them then? would you consider something more apealing for my wife maybe? something eldar, that might work? so we both could have grim dark cofey mugs and still had distinguishable ones...

and if i say price, please what price can you make with p&P considered alltogether? would it still be in time to christmas?
seriously considering to add two to our ever groing mug collection^^

vik

Yeah, that looks a hefty wodge to drop at short notice even if it's the 20l, good luck with the fund-raising. (I had a look on t'internet, I'd don't know owt about kilns other than they get hot and those ones look shiny )

I would by one of your mugs weety, i am always breaking ours , so you prob get repeat trade as well lol, though could you sculp personalised ones? i was thinking of a praxian flower
royal seal of praxus on the side...? do you glaise em as well?

Within britain postage would be 3-4 quid. but for germany it would be more like 4-5 pounds or 7 pounds if it wieghs more than a kilo (my own coffee mug which I made weighs 400grams). It depends on the exact wieght and I like to send ceramic things in a firm tupperware style box which is usually about a pound in poundland.

But dont get all excited - cornwall was bulk snowed on last night and I dont think I can get out of penzance let alone get them to deliver me a kiln. Wait till it melts a bit. So its not looking too good for Christmas presents - Thanks for the interest though and I will definitely do requests!




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Penzance sleeps in beneath a crisp white blanket

so when your ready to have a range of designs your feeling to want to make or if i come up with an idea of my own i will place an order... after all after christmas i will be having my aniversary with my wife kind of (kind of first date anniversary)...
and after that there will be easter^^

all in all good excuses to buy a pottery piece of art^^

vik

I will be happy to have something constructive to do!! - Got to be careful not to violate any strong copyrights - no blood angels symbols for example as this is blatently GW property. However many other symbols etc are so generic as to be uncopyrightable.

Did a bit more scrunt. I think he needs a head tattoo though

Lovely bright green there, cat's eyes were a nice touch too.

What sort of head tat were you thinking? I'm all for body art, but the wrong design on such a focal point as the head may detract from the overall look.

he has a Canium Gigantus !

I'm thinking masonic tattoo - pyrimid with a star at the top? or an eye, pyramid with a sideways crescent moon? here are some concept things

hi weety,

i would go for the left lower tat but not do the half moon instead i would use more of that diamond shape things...

or whats with a more



astological tat design?

cheers, vik

Nice, not convinced on the 3 moon one, although the longer I look at it the more it grows on me Quite like the idea of the crescent moon cradling a star, or possibly another symbol. Small and above one eye, or large with the base at the nape of the neck and the star on the forehead.

well I was bored so I did some bits on compooter

Hmm, 2 or 3 I'd say. The star with no moon works pretty well I think. Are these guys joining the chaos warband or are they on their own? (I've forgotten if you have mentioned )

They will have to join the warband as I only have 5 chaos squats and 2 scrunts and they would be a bit lonely. As for the tats number two would be the easiest so I might go for that as I know I can do it - Painting the old techpriest at the mo - blood red and ork skin wash so far. not sure at all what I'm doing - I'm hoping it'll fall into place

Center of the forehead, definitely. That guy's colors are awesome! Lovely detail on the face. Weird mini made awesome by a very awesome paint-job!

Those arms.... Those tendrils.... Hang on, I think that's a couple of ymargl genestealers wearing a squat costume.

As to the tech-priest, sometimes not knowing what you're doing works best.

He does look a bit like he could be somekinda squat/genestealer magus!! Maybe he is - genestealer cults would often join forces with chaos cultists according to RT rules on cults.
Heres the ancient oop one himself


Something has gone very wrong with his axe - but I'm worried if I try and bend it back into shape it will break. It must have gotten a bit squashed in postage

straightened out the axe with needle nose pliers. Off for drinkies ina bit I hopes

Nice work. Like the shoulder pads and the cloth, looks good. Not sold on the green on the axe, but glad you straightened it with no damage

wow , that deep red is very mechanicus, he looks all corrupt and corrupting, with those baleful yellow eyes, sadly seeing , deeply staring , longing for his tortured bearings. Inky black with viscous fluids, draining through this soulful druid.Ponder logos of the maker, titan legions, Emperor breaker.
Toiling constant with rare fire, for , the ungod , false god liar.
I Tech Priest of Omnissiah.

How about the SG uniform badge with out the SG-1 etc...?

I'm liking the bright colours on the squat. As for the tattoo I'm not so fond of the central ones, I prefer a bit of asymmetry.

I know the one - like a baseless pyramid with a circle on the apex. Well We'll jut have to wait and see what my brush hand decides to do when the time comes. I'm painting an orlock up as a mercenary/paramilitary dude at the mo. I find it hard to get around to picking up a model again once it is on the painted shelf - I think I need to put aside a day for improving finished models.

nice poem neil...
the techpriest loks good painted but the hunched look makes him apear a bit as he would be better off with a not so roughage rich diet...

Yes that was a great little poem, thanks Neil, and it describes the tech priest well. He is a mysterious creature whos brain is no longer protected by a mere layer of bone and who's optic nerves are attached to nothing so crude as biological eyes. He appears to retain the form of a man but beneath his armour much is made from the superior strength of steel driven by sacred electronics which connect him to his machine self. He has embraced pure logic and surrenderd to the Omnissiah.

As for roughage I expect he longs for the day when he has finally shrugged of the mortal coil of his digestive system and runs on batteries instead...

ah that reminds me of that almost forgotten discussion on what diet dreadnought pilots are...

Heres my orlock. He has a bad case of oversized gun syndrome. It looks like it would snap his wrist when he fires it. I don't really mind though as I think it works as a conversion.

That's why he's got that wrist bracer on
The blue-shaded green is pretty nice, but the dirty yellow jacket looks great.

Deamon painter weetyskeemian44 strikes again, with multyple minis painted in minutes! you really should do a speed painting tutorilal.
Like his skin tone! and the yellow compliments it as well!
i think the gun looks fine. but i do have a tendancy to make things that look good from a tabletop disatnce as opposed to macro camera shots. massive one handed guns just screem 40k to me . the necros are comming along nicely

I think a big part of it is I have almost zero distractions when I'm at home. No kids... so when my friends go home my hands need something to do or I get bored.

Washes are important too. Much quicker painting with washes so I can get basic colours done proper quick. And once you've started don't let it alone for any longer than it takes bits to dry. I do sometimes get a block when I can't decide what colour will work but I usually just go for it.

anyway good news, now my old boss is back and she has taken me off Sunday without my even having to ask and is gona try and get me Saturday off too. I suppose in thanks for my continuing support.

so it seems sometimes loyalty gets rewarded...thats good^^

also nice mini and i dont think a massive bolter could harm your wrist as there would be little recoil as i´ve read?

No distractions! Pottery wheel, healthy social life , Job, oh and er .......DAKKA. who are you kidding ,
@ vik i didnt know bolters didnt have recoil

ahem, as i´ve read they fire smallish rockets, the actual bolt then... and these only get an initial energy release as to get the amo out of the gun... after that propulsion from rocket tech... and then penetration and explosion---> end of sad xeno...

vik

well lets say I have less distractions than anyone with kids - when my nieces turn up nothing gets done except regular feeding and playing and a continual battery of questions. I think they should invent a robot who can answer children's questions.

What I mean is is that when I get home from all my distractions my time is my own to do with as I will, unless someone turns up at the door.

Dakka is my distraction

if i wasn´t posting i could actualy built something, but guess what its just as much fun sitting here and posting comments to you all as it is building and painting minis...
vik

well someone has to do some painting or you'll have nothing to comment on!!!. Lol. Well no painting today as I'm off out soonish for beverages and birthdays. My friend is 25 or 27 maybe somewhere in between I cant remember.


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I have to confess I have been hitting the scotch ratherrr hard. I hate waiting for people to be ready for partying when I finished work at 3 and just wana get out and make a mess of myself...

lol, but it's definitely their birthday right?

Have a fun evening !! dont mention age and you might get away with it.

Scotch .. ithought only hard northern lasses drunk the stuff , i am immpressed! but i bet your liver isnt

ha if i get the chance to get me paws on some sigle malt then i definatly cherish it^^ so i´m by far here the southernest one and i do like that stuff...its after all sacred water...

vik

Soft southern pansies stop at the cornwall devon border and then your into the wild west - anyway my dads Irish and my mums from the Ilse of Man - they both love a neat whiskey to warm the night up so I blame them!

Nothing like single malt - not that I can afford it but I like to have a nip if anyone's offering.

Do you know I'm not sure that it is technically her birthday anymore but she has only just got back from up country and we all owe her a present.






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You guys are helping me pass the time til drinkytime very wells

Thanks for putting me straight ..wouldnt want to offend , you cowboys and cowgirls! , stop talking about booze will ya all, your making me thirsty!

lol have one for me too, cause it will be a lang time when i will be in the position to enjoy some wee drop...with kids in the house the drink is not for me.. always viligant always on the watch... policemen, kings, even if they pull of their hats/crowns they´re still kings... same with being a father...

well the decisions we make define our drinking habbits...

weetyskemian44 wrote:You guys are helping me pass the time til drinkytime very wells

Thought you'd already started

yes... erm s. Just one more maybe! I likes famous goose

Now when you say one more, are you using a teensy-weeny shot glass, or something a wee bit bigger?

teeny - weeny. sometimes I like to sip and sometimes I like to down it!

Looks like I'm off for drinkys then - enjoy your evning chaps
!!!!!1

25 mins later she's still finishing her tenny-weeny one.

Have fun, whatever you celebrate

BURP... well I lasted at leat 5 hours. It was fun, the birthday girl molested a christjaddd treee aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Eh, what? Did someone say "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"?

The RT Magus is great!!! I had never seen it before, thanks for sharing...

Please stop painting that fast, I can't keep up with your updates!

lol You Lush!

Feel pretty fuzzy 2day. but not to worry. Sudden inspiration for what to do with my inquisitor. He will be peachy biege and a warm purple with red green yellow and gold detailing. I want to take my time over this and get it lookingreally as good as I can. Maybe do some tiny checkered stripes on his shoulder pads or something else like that. Maybe even give him a back banner?


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Not a very good photo

You want to take your time? Guess you are feeling a little fuzzy

Yeah, go to town on him, he's an inquisitor. A back banner would be pretty cool, checked stripes for sure.

Well I've worked out all the basic colors, done a wash and started highlights. I'm not quite sure about him yet. I might have overdone the purple. What does anyone think about the colour scheme?

Well i like the colour scheme especially your red to yellow knee blending, thee green book and tube thing is a nice contrast to the purple, purity seal looks ACE! are you gonna put lettering on it. Not sold with the yellow on the strm bolter housing, looks a bit lemony at the moment, gold skull is very dramatic, but if your unsure about all the purple , i would change the light above his head to match his lower legs, and the inner metal hood that is purple to a more complimentary colour like the gold maybe, but since i hardly paint i am not the best for advice!! i like him though! and i am celebrating i just won 21 oldschool imperial army dudes plastic for my diaroma yay! sorry just a bit excited!! btw have you sobered up yet

Yep sober and croaky. I Think I will make the bolter a bit warmer - to match the knee insignia maybs. And change the inner hood poss. Had to change the color of the mask a few times, first time round it was bright red and looked silly. Then I went for dark blue but I just couldn't resist changing it again. The purity seals will get writing on them - remind me if I forget as I am liable too.

I think change the armour hood to match the shins and shoulders if you want to lose some of the purple, and you probably will if you're warming the bolter up, which I think you should
So yeah, do what you were going to, hope that helps

One thing I would say is the gold detail merges a bit with the shin pads, maybe darken the area around the detail with sepia?

I wonder where is his psi cannon?

Oh my goodness, time, time... distractions are everywhere. I can't believe I once led an existence that was: sleep-class-studio-bar-repeat, now I'm lucky to squeeze a few hours desk time in a week.

Love the latest minis Weets, where on earth are you finding these things?! I've never seen most of the latest ones, I don't think people from Citadel even remember these!

Psycannon - thats what I need - well I suppose thats why I got him cheap cos he is missing his gun. One day I might spot one separately some where and snap it up.

Ambull - well In some ways I could say having plenty of time is a symptom of my lack of drive and ambition in life, so you can say that you have more of that than me! I like it that way though. Slower pace of life and all.

Getting rare and unusual minis is pretty random and involves a lot of searching - and to get the really rare ones I have been forced to abandon my policy of buying cheap. There was just no way in hell of getting a RT techpriest for less than 7squid as they are in demand and in low supply. Don't forget bob olly either - he used to sculpt for GW but now he is freelance and I buy things direct from his website. Very cool minis

well heres an update - I've been fiddling around with his hood and started detailing the shoulderpads, darkened the gold, and warmed up the gun. Not much else got done. I will have to ponder what to do next tonight. Maybe he will be finished soon. I want to drill his barrels but my pin vice was cheap and now its broken - hopefully the replacemet will arrive tommorow.

I've payed for the kiln and a load of clay and glaze and its arriving in 9 days so i will do up a whole pile of mug designs and stuff in the meantime to get fired when it arrives.

He really looks good... I like that mini, the hood adds the tiny "grimdark" touch for the 40k universe...

Sorry I didn't notice this before, but... Could you drill the barrels out?

Yep, still looking good. Is it the light or have you done a re-paint of the shoulder ? The detail looks silver and the pad looks lighter, but that could easily be the light.

That was some fast fund-raising - checks news-pages for reports of vault break-ins in the Penzance area.

Glad to hear it's all coming along though

I think its just the light. I think I added extra highlights but it doesn't make that much difference.

More like maxing out an overdraft than raising funds really! but I'm confident I can pay it off soonish. And its still free till august cos I was a student not so long ago. I will have to get some commissions and stuff to raise dollar. Maybe sell some of the GW stuff I seem to have ended up with which I don't want to paint - loads of plastic space marines, some of them RT. Crossbowmen, goblins, plastic... (I'm a metal mini snob)

Thanks Yggdrasil! Don't worry these ones are certainly getting drilled as he is a special model.

Hey Weety he 's looking real nice , i notice now his shoulder and legs are white, i thought they were a pale gold,(light and my monitor) i think the white gives him more class, i also like his I symbol on the hood , nice detailing! the gun looks Great with the orangey red blend , and his hood is a cool blue now!
i also notice the weathering on his book and the text on the scroll! Graet stuff , he is becominga real character. are you still planning on any chequers on him?