He definitely did !


Today, I finished painting John McClane. Machete is not complete yet, the biggest remaining part will be to paint his skin.

Coming into focus nicely!

Thanks Gits.

I had no time to paint these days, I plan to paint Machete's skin this evening. And I'd like to draw some tatoos on his arms.

Problem is that I have never painted tatoos. So if anyone has tips on how to paint them, like what colors to use to get that typical dark blue tatoos are generaly made off, it would be really helpful. ^_^

(I already asked about that earlier, but maybe a new reader has the answer ! )

Can't help you there, though I know I've seen tattoo'd figures on dakka before.

No prob Gits.
I have to learn how to paint them. I'll probably sacrifice some WHFB orcs for this purpose. ^^

Except the tattoos, then, Machete is totally painted. He and McClane have joined their friends :



Hope you'll like them !


EDIT : I added the picture to my Dakka Gallery.

Wow, those survivors look totally awesome! My favourites are the second and third ones from the right; you are an amazing painter. But hey, no females in the group? Also, I think the skin of #3 from the left could do with some more depth....

other than that - AH - MAY - ZING!

 MrMerlin wrote:
Wow, those survivors look totally awesome!

Thankies.

 MrMerlin wrote:
My favourites are the second and third ones from the right

They are my favorite ones to. It's quite funny because I really disliked Josh (the man with the Slayer hoodie) as long as it was unpainted, and he is now one of my favorites.
I quite like Machete too, I had no idea how to paint the skin of a latino, not ending with a yellow guy. I'm pretty happy with the way he turned out.

 MrMerlin wrote:
But hey, no females in the group?

There are two girls in the group. And believe me, they are badass. Amy is a goth girl with katana, the other one, Wanda, on the contrary is really girly (I'll paint her pink ^^ ) and she packs a chainsaw...
And they are good characters "in game", their abilities are very helpful.

 MrMerlin wrote:
Also, I think the skin of #3 from the left could do with some more depth....

Sadly, his skin doesn't look as good on my photos as on the miniature.
I don't know why, because I used the same colors on him as on Rick (the cop).

 MrMerlin wrote:
other than that - AH - MAY - ZING!

I'm happy to read that !

I would love to see in detail how you do your Ultra Marines. Your highlight lines are so crisp!

 Minus wrote:

 MrMerlin wrote:
My favourites are the second and third ones from the right

They are my favorite ones to. It's quite funny because I really disliked Josh (the man with the Slayer hoodie) as long as it was unpainted, and he is now one of my favorites.

I think it's their clothes that make them look so good. The depth and masterful blending you managed to archieve really make the "pop", stand out....

 Minus wrote:

 MrMerlin wrote:
But hey, no females in the group?

There are two girls in the group. And believe me, they are badass. Amy is a goth girl with katana, the other one, Wanda, on the contrary is really girly (I'll paint her pink ^^ ) and she packs a chainsaw...
And they are good characters "in game", their abilities are very helpful.

Nice to hear that, looking forward to seeing them painted up!

Those look fantastic Minus! Very well done.

nold wrote:I would love to see in detail how you do your Ultra Marines. Your highlight lines are so crisp!

Would you be interested in seeing WIP pictures, or maybe a tutorial ?

MrMerlin wrote:I think it's their clothes that make them look so good. The depth and masterful blending you managed to archieve really make the "pop", stand out....

Haha, I wouldn't say "masterful" about my painting. But thank you, I get the idea.
And even if I repeat myself, it's really pleasuring and motivating to read such comments.

Gitsplitta wrote:Those look fantastic Minus! Very well done.

Gitsplitta, always present !
My pleasure, I hope you'll like the last ones too. I am currently painting Wanda, and my Girlfriend has decided to paint Amy, because she is her favorite survivor ! I couldn't say "no". ^_^

I do very much. Acutely interested in how you're going to do the tatoos. My marine chapter is supposed to be rather tribal in nature with tatoos but I've never had the nerve to try it.

And never thwart a lady if she wishes to participate in your hobby...

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I do very much. Acutely interested in how you're going to do the tatoos. My marine chapter is supposed to be rather tribal in nature with tatoos but I've never had the nerve to try it.

For the moment, I really have no idea how to do it. I'll have to use some "crash-test" model, before trying this on Machete.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
And never thwart a lady if she wishes to participate in your hobby...

NEVER.
And as SHE asked me if she could paint Amy, it was not an option to say "no". I hardly believed it, actually. ^_^

A WIP of Wanda and her chainsaaaaaaaaw !

Chainsaw and roller skates.... OMG...

That is not really safe... is it ?

I only have the skin left to paint, don't know if I'll have the motivation to do this this evening, but she should be done by tomorrow evening.

I just finished basing Wanda :



Isn't she cute ?

Very... she needs eyes!

Thats one waitress you don't want to upset, love you're painting skill great work, really bring miniatures to life, those zombies are great and that blood is the most realistic I have seen

I am so subbed

Your painting looks almost photo-realistic, beautiful stuff! It's wonderful to see what these models have the potential to be in the right hands - I think Phil is probably my favourite of the characters that you've tackled so far.

Really minor detail compared to most of your stuff, but something I feel like I might actually be capable of emulating () - is it cheeky to ask how you weathered those newspapers on the bases? And how you made them look so real?

Keep it up, this is a brilliant blog!

Gitsplitta wrote:Very... she needs eyes!

Yep, people said the same on a french forum. I won't paint her eyes 'cause they are tiny. I mean really tiny, as they are half-closed. But I have added shades so they are better defined, it looks better now.

lone dirty dog wrote:Thats one waitress you don't want to upset, love you're painting skill great work, really bring miniatures to life, those zombies are great and that blood is the most realistic I have seen

I am so subbed

Thank you !
When painting blood, the trick is to use the transparency to get darker areas where the blood is thicker, and to ensure you have a shiny result. I use a mix of old GW inks and gloss varnish, it works well as you can see.

Scarper wrote:Your painting looks almost photo-realistic, beautiful stuff! It's wonderful to see what these models have the potential to be in the right hands - I think Phil is probably my favourite of the characters that you've tackled so far.

Phil is my favorite model too. I'm really happy with the way he turned out. And that's a good point since he's one of my favorite characters "in game" too.
Painting the skin and the clothes was really the funniest part of the process. Most of the models I paint are either space marines or orks, so I don't have so many occasions to paint blue-jeans, cops uniforms or frying pans. ^^ I've learned a lot with these models.

Scarper wrote:Really minor detail compared to most of your stuff, but something I feel like I might actually be capable of emulating () - is it cheeky to ask how you weathered those newspapers on the bases? And how you made them look so real?

No problem, of course can you ask. ^^
So first, I have downloaded newspapers from da internet. You can use images of real newspapers and resize them. As I am lazy, and friends did it for me, I simply downloaded them "ready to print" from these sites :
- Belisarius : http://jeuxdefigs.canalblog.com/archives/p10-10.html
- Poule75 : http://petitsbonhommes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Zombicide_print.pdf
- Gurutz : http://www.warhammer-forum.com/index.php?showtopic=185193&st=25

(they also paint Zombicide, have a look if you are curious)

I only have a B&W printer, so I printed the newspaper black and white. But a color print would also work. Now the real work begins :
- first apply a wash of brown ink on the sheet of paper. I personnally used old GW flesh wash ink (with lot of water), but a newer wash like devlan mud, ogryn flesh or agrax earthshade should work perfectly too. Dont forget to wash BOTH sides of the sheet.
- once it dried, cut the newspapers.
- pick one.
- drown it into water for a few seconds
- now, the paper is flabby. You can fold it, tear it and give it any shape.
- using an old brush put some PVA glue on the base and glue the newspaper
- apply PVA all over the newspaper.
- wait until it's dry

You now have a great looking old newspaper. Let me know if you have any question.

Scarper wrote:Keep it up, this is a brilliant blog!

I hope you'll keep watching it then.

Hello all !

I have posted a picture with every survivor I've painted :



Enjoy !

They look stunning together Minus. You really set the bar with these minis. Been a real pleasure watching them come to fruition.

My pleasure Gits.
Hope you'll enjoy what comes next too. ^_^

Yes great job I wish I got a set now, my favourite paint effect has to be the worn jeans that is so cool but they all look pretty dam fantastic

Minus, I would give my left foot for a video tutorial of how you paint the ultras, or ANY tutorial for that matter. The highlighting is so smooth!!!!!

lone dirty dog wrote:Yes great job I wish I got a set now, my favourite paint effect has to be the worn jeans that is so cool but they all look pretty dam fantastic

I was like "omg what am I doing ? " when I started the washed out effect on his knees.
Happily it did turn out good.

nold wrote:Minus, I would give my left foot for a video tutorial of how you paint the ultras, or ANY tutorial for that matter. The highlighting is so smooth!!!!!

Okay, send me your foot, I'll see what I can do.
No, seriously, I can't do a video tutorial since I have nothing to record myself painting, but I can make step by step pictures to show how I proceed. I'll do that next time I paint an Ultramarine.


Since I have painted my complete Zombicide set, I took photos of the whole batch of minis :








Now I'll paint something else. Don't know what yet, I have so much projects to work on.

Looks just amazing laid out like that... you must feel pretty satisfied with your efforts!

Okay, send me your foot, I'll see what I can do.
No, seriously, I can't do a video tutorial since I have nothing to record myself painting, but I can make step by step pictures to show how I proceed. I'll do that next time I paint an Ultramarine.

That would be SO FANTASTIC. Your minitures are breath taking. I hope to one day achieve your proficiency with brush and paint! Can't wait to see what your turn out next.

Well living the zombie capitol of the world... I have to appreciate a good zombie apocalypse.

I could never play/paint SM's let alone Ultra marines... I hate the transfers, never have any luck with them and painting the markings... And no markings feels to half assed, so your army is amazing.

Those zombiecide minis look awesome when they are painted, and doubly so with the job you've done on them

I haven't used it myself, but there is a great tutorial on painting tattoos here:
http://www.bushido-thegame.com/articles/painting-tattoo

The main advice seems to be that when you highlight/shade, you mix the skin paint into the tattoo colour (e.g. if you highlight the skin with Elf Flesh and the tattoo's basecolour is Enchanted Blue, then the tattoo highlight would be a mix of elf flesh and enchanted blue), not the best example but you get my drift.

Truly excellent job, nice to see it all come to a very pretty conclusion. I can't wait to see what gets the Minus treatment next!

Gitsplitta wrote:Looks just amazing laid out like that... you must feel pretty satisfied with your efforts!

I do !
Playing games "in Colors" is way more satisfying than with grey plastic bitz ! Another gaming evening is planed this week, can't wait. ^^

Tags wrote:Well living the zombie capitol of the world... I have to appreciate a good zombie apocalypse.

Anyway, Zombies is the best theme ever.

Tags wrote:I could never play/paint SM's let alone Ultra marines... I hate the transfers, never have any luck with them and painting the markings... And no markings feels to half assed, so your army is amazing.

I hate decals so much that I praticed freehands in order to don't have to use them. That says it all.
Thank you.

Leigen_Zero wrote:I haven't used it myself, but there is a great tutorial on painting tattoos here

Didn't know about this tutorial. I'll give a try, thank you for the link !

Casey's Law wrote:Truly excellent job, nice to see it all come to a very pretty conclusion. I can't wait to see what gets the Minus treatment next!

And now, the whole game is painted since my GF took care of Amy. It is her first time painting models. I'm really happy with what she did, and to be honest I'm quite impressed :




Right now, I'm working on something bigger. I mean, REALLY bigger. Pix to come when I have done enough to show.

That is impressive. I especially like how the shading of the legs make it look like she's wearing fine, black, nylons or some such. Did she paint a seam down the back of the legs too?

Your zombicide figures have inspired me to return to painting my own

Very nice looking figures. Are you adding any kind fo matt varnish to protect them during play?

Also, your GF's Amy figure looks very nice.

Gitsplitta wrote:That is impressive. I especially like how the shading of the legs make it look like she's wearing fine, black, nylons or some such. Did she paint a seam down the back of the legs too?

No, she didn't. I wouldn't have had the idea myself ! ^^
Nice idea though, I'll keep it in mind, just in case...

SilverMK2 wrote:Your zombicide figures have inspired me to return to painting my own

Good to read ! Have fun !
I always add matt varnish on my minis.

SilverMK2 wrote:Also, your GF's Amy figure looks very nice.

Thanks for her, she was happy to read this.


Okay, so now I'm painting something... way bigger. Friends of mine offered me the fortress of redemption. I love my friends.
I couldn't wait so I stopped everything I was painting and started building and painting it. Right now, only the angels statues are made :

The girlfriend did a nice job on Amy! And I'm looking forward to seeing you work on something so huge!

That... is really impressive!

I don't think I ever painted anything that big. Well, except my house's walls.

But Hobby-wise, this is obviously my biggest "model". It's very impressive when you start building it and realize how much place it will take on the gaming board.

This is truly a great body of work, I love the occasional ol'school mini, brings me back

 Skumle Rafte wrote:
This is truly a great body of work, I love the occasional ol'school mini, brings me back

I love mixing old models with newer ones in my army. It's quite fun to paint them !


My Fortress, still in WIP. The main colors are done, it takes longer than I would have believed. It's really big.



I think it starts to look good.

A little more WIP :




And Merry Christmas to everyone.

Lookin boss, mate! And Merry Christmas to you too!

Love the mottling on the stone.

Merry Crizmuz, Minus! And that Fortress is looking damn impressive, kudos!

Merry Christmas Minus... beautiful work on that building too.

Really impressive painting there, mate!

Thanks guys !
@ Casey's Law : nice avatar. ^^



Ok.
Today, I - really- needed to change my mind so I sat back in front of my desk, took my brushes and worked a bit on my fortress.

And I'm almost complete. I tried weathering powder and it worked out pretty well. I still have to paint a few details, but my fortress is almost finished.

Very nice work Minus. That's looking quite spectacular.

Thanks Gits !
I'm eagger to use my fortress in a game. But first, I need to finish it. ^^

Hi folks !

I've finished painting my Fortress of Redemption. I just have to paint the 4 heavy bolters, but it should not take too long. I've taken several pictures, showing the entire fortress but also some detail views. Hope you'll enjoy !

The fortress :




Zoom on the Utramarine markings :




The lascan bunker :



The other side :




The laser canon :




The entrance door :




The missiles battery :




The top of the tower :




On some of the images, we can see the Dark Angels symbol. I'll hide them later, but I haven't decided how yet.

Have a new years eve everybody ! Have fun !

Spectacular!! That is a masterpiece of a fortification if I've ever seen one. I love the muted blue tones it has, especially in contrast with the winged statuary.

How did you apply the brownish weathering to the outside of the fortress (near the base)? I just can't quite decide what I'm looking at.

Thanks Gits !
I'm really satisfied with the general tone of my fortress. The main color really matches what I wanted to get.

The weathering is a wash of weathering powders. I mixed Dark earth and orange rust from the Forgeworld range, and diluted them with water. I applied them like a wash, with no special care.
And when it had dried, I rubbed the areas with both wet and dry cotton swabs to remove the excess and smooth the transitions.


I had never used weathering powders before (except on one or maybe two bases) and it's quite easy and fun to do.

Looking excellent indeed

I've made pastes of weathering powders before, but never a wash. Very interesting.... end result is excellent too. Nicely done.

Thank you SilverMk2 !

@ Gits : I used the "wash" method because I wanted the pigment to remain mainly in the recesses. I thought it would be the most appropriate way to achieve this result. But I had never used powders for washes, nor for such big surfaces.

After it dries, I had to smooth the transitions though, because on several spots I had a clear border with no transition. ^^
You should have a try. As you probably know, pigments are removable as long as you dont fix them. So if it doesn't look good you can erase and redo it all ( Ctrl-Z )

That... is a very good point my friend. I'll have to give it a go!

Any chance of some action shots of the fortress with your minis inside?

Great work on Zombicide! It is a daunting task.

Gitsplitta wrote:That... is a very good point my friend. I'll have to give it a go!

^^
I wouldn't have tried this directly on my fortress without this property of the pigments. I'm crazy, but not enough to use such a big kit for crash tests.

I hope we'll see your trials in one of your topics soon, then.

Eldercaveman wrote:Any chance of some action shots of the fortress with your minis inside?

Yup !
I'll make shots during my next game and post them here.

Jormi_Boced wrote:Great work on Zombicide! It is a daunting task.

Thank you. It was a full time job, postponning any other painting project for a few weeks. But playing full painted games was definitely worth it.


I now have a brand new fortress, and also a bunker that I painted this summer. Some of my sceneries look old and dull beside these, so I have decided to upgrade some of them.
I had an old home made wrecked rhino, that you can see in this in-game picture :




I spend some time on it yesterday evening tu upgrade it to this 2.0 version :




Now I'll do the same with my crashed Aquila shuttle.

Wow, that's superb!

Thanks Gits. Here's some more for you !

The crashed Aquila lander :



And details :

Pretty blue! After painting almost exclusively green and yellow for the last several years I find myself being quite envious of other colors!

Whenever I see your thread I want to bust out and start painting some of my old ultramarines again. Everything looks excellent, as always. And that Fortress of Redemption is ridiculous. I would HATE to paint something that enormous! At least to the level of detail that you did.

Gitsplitta wrote:Pretty blue! After painting almost exclusively green and yellow for the last several years I find myself being quite envious of other colors!

I know what you're talkin' about. ^^
My Ultramarines army is pretty big now (maybe I should take pictures of the entire army). I've painted tons of blue, and sometimes I feel like everything's blue. So I paint something else like my orkses or anything that is NOT Ultramarines blue. ^^
But I love that color, and sooner or later I want to paint some more.

Awesomesauce wrote:Whenever I see your thread I want to bust out and start painting some of my old ultramarines again. Everything looks excellent, as always.

You should paint them ! No. You MUST paint them. I love Ultramarines. Paint Ultramarines.

Awesomesauce wrote:And that Fortress of Redemption is ridiculous. I would HATE to paint something that enormous! At least to the level of detail that you did.

In fact, I enjoyed painting it, because it doesn't require too much care. It changed from the Zombicide heroes.
The main problem with such a huge "miniature" is that it is sometimes hard to turn it the good way to access details, without accidently hitting your desk, an open paint-pot, your nose or anything you wouldn't hit with a miniature. Yes, painting the lights on top of the tower was the worst part.

That fortress looks amazing. I like the weathering at the base, not over done but enough to show it's seen some use and has been there awhile.

The marines look great, not over done, which is usually what I see happen to most UM armies. By this there is not an overabundance of gold trimming everywhere. I like that.

And the zombie models are ace! Is there a points limit that goes with the game?

Mat

 combat engineer wrote:
That fortress looks amazing. I like the weathering at the base, not over done but enough to show it's seen some use and has been there awhile.

Thanks.
Weathering is rather easy to do. What is not is to decide when to stop, to not "over-do". I'm happy if I succeeded in making my fortress used but didn't make it look too-much.

 combat engineer wrote:
The marines look great, not over done, which is usually what I see happen to most UM armies. By this there is not an overabundance of gold trimming everywhere. I like that.

That's the reason why i avoided the Second company. I went for Fifth (black shoulder pads borders) because I like the color scheme and it was not a company we see much for Ultramarines.

 combat engineer wrote:
And the zombie models are ace! Is there a points limit that goes with the game?

I'm not sure if I understand the question. But there is not "points" in Zombicide, no lists, and in fact no winner. All the players around the table are survivors and stand together in a world infested by zombies. Those zombies being played by the game, against the players.
There are no zombies (or only a few ones) on the board at the beginning of the game, and they appear each turn on spawn zones, and when a survivor breaks into a building.
Generally comes a moment when the map is litterally covered by zombies. And when there are no more zombies in the box, don't believe you're safe. Each time a kind of zombie is generated and no more available, the zombies on the board get an extra activation.

All the players win or lose together, in our case we generally lose I have to admit. ^^
I really like that game.

Hey folks !

After my old sceneries, I decided to finally take some time to FINISH two of my Ultramarines units that were partially done for years. I had never painted markings on them since I didn't have the skills do do so at the moment I painted these units.
So basically all the paintjob is from like 3 years ago, I only added the markings and few corrections here and there. And NOW these squads are complete, I can play them without feeling ashamed.


My veterans :



My assault squad :

They look great. Nice job on the extra details!

Thank you Gits !
I'm now painting some harpies for WHB. I have no idea how it should look like in the end, but at least I've started them. Hope they will look allright...

Awesome dude! Your zombiecide minis look great, as does everything else!

The crashed lander has some sweet rusty grimy details =)

Thanks a lot Two Spartan.
I'm always happy when people like my models.


I'm back with a bit WHFB. My buddy paints his Dwarves army at the moment and I need something to silence his canons.
What about a few harpies ?

Here's a WIP pix :

Curious to see how these turn out, I know the paint job will look awesome, because you are painting them, it's just I have to see a WHFB model that I would say I liked, hence why I've never really bothered with it, but maybe your models could wet my appetite....

Also have you ever thought about painting any Nids? I would love to see what you could do with some of those models!

Nice scuplts!

...

Er, I mean paint jobs!

Eldercaveman wrote:the paint job will look awesome, because you are painting them, .

I would love if things were that simple. Anyway, that's a nice compliment, thank you.

Eldercaveman wrote:I have to see a WHFB model that I would say I liked, hence why I've never really bothered with it, but maybe your models could wet my appetite....

Now I'm under pressure. I hope you'll like these models when they're done, then.

Eldercaveman wrote:Also have you ever thought about painting any Nids? I would love to see what you could do with some of those models!

Nope. I don't play tyrannids so I never painted any of them. Maybe one day, if I ever have a reason to paint one I'll do.
The only tyrannid things I ever painted are bitz on some of my bases, like on my Tornado Land Speeder :

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice scuplts!

Is this how you spell "boobs" ?
It's quite disturbing to paint 6 totally nude female models in fact... I usually paint Marines (über-trained-killer-monks-in-adamantium-panties) and orks (agressive-mushrooms-from-space), this has nothing in common with the curves of female bodies.

Do you dip the marines? Do you use ultramarine blue as the base or a darker shade? LOVE how crisp they look!

No, it's spelt bewbs. At least if you're speaking to American geeks, which by and large we are, right?

Loving your painting style, just the right balance of crisp and battle-worn for my eye

So much loveliness!

The Fortress turned out amazing, you struck a perfect balance for me between ornate and functional. Could you please tell me how you painted the stone on the statues? It's wonderful.

I would really like to see an army shot of your Ultras and any other armies you have. Don't hold out on us, man! We need our fix!

I somehow haven't seen those Harpies before, probably because I don't play WHFB. They are pretty good models, they remind me of Dracula's Brides in Van Helsing, in their vampiric form obviously. Still feminine but repulsive creatures all the same, I could see them in a Slaanesh daemon army.

Keep it coming!

Hi !

nold wrote:Do you dip the marines? Do you use ultramarine blue as the base or a darker shade? LOVE how crisp they look!

I don't dip the marines. Hey, I don't dip everything. ^^
I only dip my orks - except vehicles that are painted as usual - and I also dipped all of my Zombicide zombies. That's it. Marines, Dark Elves, BFG, Mordheim and devious models are NOT dipped.

For my Ultramarines, I'll do a tutorial someday, but I can tell you the colors I use now. The main color is Ultramarines blue indeed. In GW books they are generally darker but I love the specific shade of this blue. I use old references, though it shouldn't be too complicated to find equivalences in the new range.
- I start with a black primer
- Necron abyss
- Mordian blue
- Ultramarines blue
- 50/50 mix of Ultramarines blue and white for intensive highlights on edges and so on.

For the vehicles, I also add Ultramarines blue + snakebite leather and then Ultramarines blue + scorched brown on the lower side of armour plates. It gives more depth to the blue as it creates a shading and also a weathering at the same time.

Million wrote:No, it's spelt bewbs. At least if you're speaking to American geeks, which by and large we are, right?

I'm not a Geek ! I'm a grown man that plays apocalyptic battles with his friends, using tiny plastic toy soldiers that I spent tons of hours painting... Hmmm...
Well...
Maybe I'm a Geek...

Million wrote:Loving your painting style, just the right balance of crisp and battle-worn for my eye

Good. That's always the balance I try to reach.

Casey's Law wrote:The Fortress turned out amazing, you struck a perfect balance for me between ornate and functional. Could you please tell me how you painted the stone on the statues? It's wonderful.

And it's so simple...
All I did on the angels was drybrushing. I used three colors, a neutral brown, a beige and a white. Started with brown, then added beige to this. Then beige, beige plus white and then white.
I didn't use GW paints, given the size of the fortress, but the colors I used are very similar to the both on the right of this image (neutral brown bottom right, beige top right) :

Casey's Law wrote:I would really like to see an army shot of your Ultras and any other armies you have. Don't hold out on us, man! We need our fix!

Oh yes... I have to do this.
All I need is to find time to unpack the whole army, place it, make correct shots and store everything back. I'll do this as soon as I can at least for the marines. Can't let you without your drug dose !

Casey's Law wrote:I somehow haven't seen those Harpies before, probably because I don't play WHFB. They are pretty good models, they remind me of Dracula's Brides in Van Helsing, in their vampiric form obviously. Still feminine but repulsive creatures all the same, I could see them in a Slaanesh daemon army.

Yeah true, they look like those vampires ! Good point !
In fact, they're not GW models, they're from Gamezone because GW's harpies are... well... add any negative adjective here : _____________

I painted a bit more of them yesterday, and I think they start to look good now. ^^
Hope I can finish this unit soon. I'm eagger to start the next project !!

That's great, man. I'll need to try that stone on something now, thanks for posting that chart too, it'll make it easier to match.

Looking forward to seeing those marines all set up, there's something brilliant about seeing a full army painted up to a high standard.

I haven't checked out Gamezone I don't think, I'll have to look them up because I'm rather impressed by those harpies.

Well, your dipped orks look FANTASTIC. I paint my marines in a similar fasion. I airbrush a black primer, Mordian blue basecoat, then shoot ultra blue fron the top and front. Still learning with the aiebrush though!

@ Nold :
You're lucky if you've an airbrush ! ^^
When painting marines, I think that the intensive highlight on edges really makes it all.

@ Casey'law :
You're welcome.
And I've made a photo for you during my lunchbreak. Just for you. The picture is not so good, I hope I can make a better photo later.

This is my Ultramarines army so far :



(and the direct link if your browser resizes the photo : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/1/10/451029-Ultramarines%2C%20Ultramarines%20Army.jpg )

I have around 6,000 points of blue armours painted. That's 94 marines (not including additionnal marines for weapons options) plus 18 vehicles.

That's spectacular Minus.... off to vote on it!

Holy frak nuts that's pretty, thanks for taking that picture. It's nice that you have a few older models in there, the classics deserve a nice paint job like that!

My pleasure.

I made some close up shots of the army, before packing it :




The direct link to see it full size (warning, 4000 pix wide ) : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/1/10/451124-Blue%2C%20Calgar%2C%20Cassius%2C%20Fortress%2C%20Marneus%2C%20Redmption%2C%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Tigurius.jpg

Whoa, love it. Couple of quick questions:

The tactical squad in the middle with the back left rhino. Where are the sergeant's arms from? I recognise the pose and the sword but I'm not sure where from.

Also, I know you freehand many of your symbols. How many of those are transfers or did you paint them all by hand?

Keep it comin'!

 Casey's Law wrote:
The tactical squad in the middle with the back left rhino. Where are the sergeant's arms from? I recognise the pose and the sword but I'm not sure where from.

It's an ooooooooold conversion I made like 10 years ago.
The arms are tactical marine ones that I cut and replaced. The blade is a Space Wolves power sword. Simple and efficient.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Also, I know you freehand many of your symbols. How many of those are transfers or did you paint them all by hand?

Well.
On every marine the markings are freehands. I didn't use any transfers one them.
On the vehicles, the big symbols like the top doors of the rhinos are also freehands. The smaller ones are decals because it's easier to apply them on flat areas than on lets say... shoulder pads. However I repaint all the decals because white decals don't look really white, and it looks better when painted over.
I use them as a guide to paint my markings. Some of the vehicles have there name written on their hull, this is also a freehand. And the white "V" in the black circle as Compagny marker is also a freehand (well, it's a simple one) because there is no decall like this.

That's it.


Edit : see the name on some vehicles :

Hey Minus, what are you using for those two dreads in the back? I see the OLD RT dread... but the other two are unfamiliar models.

Hmm... not sure wich ones you're talking about.

So these are from Rogue Trader :





And these are from Space Crusade :

The RT ones I recognized... used to have a couple myself. It's the Space Crusade walkers that I was unfamiliar with. Thanks for the close-ups though... nice! Love the squinty little eyes on the SC ones!

Aah, I figured that since you don't convert much it was a kit I didn't recognise. As for the freehand, colour me impressed, that's some serious talent!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
The RT ones I recognized... used to have a couple myself. It's the Space Crusade walkers that I was unfamiliar with. Thanks for the close-ups though... nice! Love the squinty little eyes on the SC ones!

I was not 100% sure wich one you were talking about, since both models are quite old now. So yeah basically they are Space Crusade (or one of its additionnal sets) Dreadnoughts. I changed the weapons to have the possibility to play them in regular 40k games. The good news is that they are almost exactly the same size as current plastic dreadnoughts.

Oh, just so you know, I started 40k at the beginning of the 3rd edition, so I wasn't in the hobby during the RT, Space Crusade or 40k 2nd Ed. But I love so much these old miniatures that I can't help but add them in my armies and mix them with current models.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Aah, I figured that since you don't convert much it was a kit I didn't recognise. As for the freehand, colour me impressed, that's some serious talent!

Thanks Casey.
For the freehands, to be honest I'd say that it's more about time and practice that about talent. You should have seen my first markings... I had terrific handshakes and was absolutely unable to draw my Chapter symbol .
Now, with some practice I can draw my reversed Omega without screwing too much. The main difficulty for me now is that the ultramarines markings are white, and white is almost impossible to paint with only one layer, so all my markings require at least three steps.


Well, I just went to the gallery and couldn't believe the notes my army photos got so far ! Yesterday evening, I had 10 votes and 10/10. This morning, I'm at 9,75/10
In a world of Ultrasmurfs hatred, that's incredible. Thanks to anybody who voted, it's really motivating to see that a long time painting project deserves the time I spent on it !

Great work sir, and votes were very much deserved

Hey Minus! I saw my first game of Zombicide today. Definitely on my "to purchase" list! Then I'll have to put my own spin on the painting too. What a fun game.

Practice makes perfect, eh? I'll keep at it and hopefully drill down the freehand stuff one day too.

I'm glad you got a good response, it's well deserved!

inmygravenimage wrote:Great work sir, and votes were very much deserved

Thank you Inmygravenimage !

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey Minus! I saw my first game of Zombicide today. Definitely on my "to purchase" list! Then I'll have to put my own spin on the painting too. What a fun game.

Great ! I love that game. I played games with my brother last holidays. We played like 12 games in a few days. First thing he did when coming back home was buying one for himself.
This week-end he played with some of his friends, they now want their own copy too.
I think that the cooperative aspect of the game is something that people appreciate. Add a good quality material and a strong visual aspect and it's a very attractive game. That, and the fact that zombies are trendy these days....

You should not be disappointed if you buy it.

Casey's Law wrote:Practice makes perfect, eh? I'll keep at it and hopefully drill down the freehand stuff one day too.

Practice makes the hand more precise, for sure. Perfect ? I need a bit more training !



I have finished my harpies, I'm so happy !
Hope you like them :

Wow... the blending on their skin is simply amazing.

Very nice job, mate. Beautifully painted and very vibrant.

Your ultramarine army is excellent!

And your harpies look fantastic.

Damn you!

Gitsplitta wrote:Wow... the blending on their skin is simply amazing.

Thanks Gits.
I had never painted so much skin on any model before. I was a bit scared at the beginning of this unit. The blending is not perfect, but since these are models that are painted "to play with" it looks good enough. ^^

Casey's Law wrote:Very nice job, mate. Beautifully painted and very vibrant.

Thanks Casey's Law. I'm glad you like them.

SilverMK2 wrote:Your ultramarine army is excellent!

Today I have 21 votes, and still 10 for coolness. I can't believe it.

SilverMK2 wrote:Damn you!

I have uploaded another image of the harpies in the gallery, but I forgot to post it here in my blog. So these are details shots. My friend plays Dwarves, his color scheme is red and gold.

Hi folks !

I'm preparing new models that I'll paint in the future.
Here's a preview :

Oh Lord... where did you get that female figure??

Yes she is one really nice sculpt, the scene is quite interesting with the dragon looking towards his intended victim

Looks like the blonde from sucker punch. Is it going to be a diorama?

Gitsplitta wrote:Oh Lord... where did you get that female figure??

Well...
I was quite lucky about this one. In fact, I have the chance to know a very talented sculptor and painter (he won golden demons, that says it all). This is one of his personal creations and he offered me a copy to paint.
This is the finest model I have ever had in my hands. It's incredible. o____O

lone dirty dog wrote:Yes she is one really nice sculpt, the scene is quite interesting with the dragon looking towards his intended victim

whalemusic360 wrote:Looks like the blonde from sucker punch. Is it going to be a diorama?

Yup, the lady is directly inspired from Suckerpunch.
But this won't be a diorama, the dragon is for my WHFB army. I only had these 2 models on my desk and liked the "Beauty and the beast" theme I had there. The lady will be perfect for my Zombicide team.

How well does it scale with the zombicide figs? I've been interested in some alt sculpts for them for some time.

Candice (it's her name) is a bit small compared to Zombicide models. However I love her so much I will play her anyway.
I know that some people added Hasslefree miniatures to their zomicide survivors team.
I have ordered some, but since I don't have the models yet I can't tell you how it fits with zombicide scale.


I just uploaded my Dark elve Lord in my dakka gallery, I don't think that I ever posted him on here. So please welcom Lord Karhaedron :

That's a beautiful sculpt and I like the obvious suckerpunch inspiration. Would this friend of yours consider selling casts of her and does he have other similar pieces? Also any idea how she scales with infinity? I'm building an all female Bakunin force and I'd love to fit her in.

Looking forward to seeing the dragon too. I like your work on the Dark Elf but I must say it's not a model I'm fond of to say the least.

 Casey's Law wrote:
That's a beautiful sculpt and I like the obvious suckerpunch inspiration.

He is a very good sculptor. I'm amazed by the anatomy and the details of his pieces.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Would this friend of yours consider selling casts of her and does he have other similar pieces?

I don't think he'll sell this model. He sculpts models for his own, in general. Original pieces that he then paints and brings to painting contests. Some examples of his - incredible - work :
Vespero, from the WHFB universe : http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5104/vespero2.jpg
Green Lantern : http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8563/dscn1827o.jpg
(THIS ARE NOT MY MODELS !!! )

If he ever producess copies of Candice, I'll tell you.
He made a few sculpts for companies, like Viktoria Skivlana for WarForge, or Sophie Bigoude for Maow Miniatures. Viktoria is one of the models I preferred to paint, that's the reason why I'm really happy to have a chance to paint Candice.

My version of Viktoria (wich I already posted at the beginning of this topic) :


(click for larger image)

And concerning Infinity, I have to say that I have no idea about it, because I have never seen Infinity minis for real. ^^

 Casey's Law wrote:
Looking forward to seeing the dragon too. I like your work on the Dark Elf but I must say it's not a model I'm fond of to say the least.

I love it, that manticore is SOOOO old school.
I've only started the dragon, I don't know exactly how I'll paint it but I think it will be fun to paint such a monster.
Right now I'm painting new ships for my BFG fleet.

Thanks for that info, he's an excellent sculptor. If he ever sells Candice please get in touch and/or ask him to put one aside. I actually have use for two I think, If she fits with Infinity, which is 30mm true scale.

I remember you working on Viktoria, it's a great paint job! Can't wait to see what's next!.

Oh and there is going to be an Infinity Painting Comp here on Dakka really soon. More details are available in the sub-forum. Might be time you tried it out?

That's a stunning model Minus. Thanks for re-posting.

Casey's Law wrote:Thanks for that info, he's an excellent sculptor. If he ever sells Candice please get in touch and/or ask him to put one aside.

Yup, if I hear about copies of Candice I'll tell you.

Casey's Law wrote:Oh and there is going to be an Infinity Painting Comp here on Dakka really soon. More details are available in the sub-forum. Might be time you tried it out?

I'd love it because some Infinity models are wonderfull, but I'll never have the time for it.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's a stunning model Minus. Thanks for re-posting.

I love it so much that I recently got a second copy of her. I have no idea when I can find the time to paint her, but well... just in case, you know...


These days, I'm trying to finish projects that were started for too long and need to be closed. So I'm working on my BFG Imperial Navy fleet.
This afternoon I made the most complicated step of my ships : I painted the prows.



Next step is to paint all the golden areas !

Excellent! I love these. In fact i think i originally found your blog after seeing your BFG fleet in the gallery. I think we need a repost of that.

Hi !

I don't really like to repost images, unless I have something to say about them. Like for Viktoria a few posts above.


I finished painting my fleet. I'll take detailed views of the Emperor class ship, and if I can, I'll take photos of my entire fleet.

The latest ships I painted :



Hope you like them.

Wow. Seriously pretty and the bases lush.

Agreed. Nice basework Minus.

Thanks guys !


Another view of the Fireswords :




And the masterpiece, my home-made Emperor class battleship. I don't really like the "official" model, and I am not confident with the idea of glueing (gluing ?) a masssive metal miniature on top of a fragile transparent plastic rod.
My battleship :

That is impressive... massive too! I'm not familiar with BFG, what's home made about it?

Just pages and pages of unadulterated awesome. I love your Orks.

So, so good! Another hit.

Thanks guys.


Gits, the battleship is normally a metal model. However I can't imagine putting such an anvil on top of those tiny fragile plastic rods. Plus I don't like how that ship looks. So I basically cut and glued 2 ships together, to have a bigger yet very light (thank you plastic, you're fantastic) battleship.
These two views show the Emperor class beside the Lunar ship :






And my fleet :

Very nice fleet indeed.

Wow... that's really impressive. Great job on the conversion too. Frankenstein's got nothing on you my friend!

Thank you both.
Now I'm ready to kick some heretics asses. ^^


I still need a name for the Emperor battleship, if you have any idea of a cool name from any movie/comics/tv-show/book you can make a proposal.

Shiny awesomeness I like how the purple is used on the bases in a subtle way.

What are the names of the other ships?

@ Flashman : people generally love these bases, or hate them. ^^

@ Whalemusic360 : that's a suitable question. The name of my other ships are :
- gothic class : Prometheus
- lunar class : Nostalgia for Infinity
- dominator class : Ender
- mars class : Nostromo

My escorts squadrons are named Sidewinders, Darksiders and Purgatoy.

I don't look for a specific origin or type for the names, the common point is only that they all are a reference to a book/movie/CD that I like and that fits the spaceships theme.

A few culture related related names:

- Pitch Black (movie of same name)
- Space Ship Zebra (Ice station Zebra)
- Astral Sovereign (Sovereign from ME)
- Bright Empire (Elric novels)
- Light of Tanelorn (Tanelorn from Michael Moorcock)
- Blade of the Orb (Orb of Aldur from David Eddings)

Those lootas look exactly like some on for sale on ebay.

SilverMK2 wrote:A few culture related related names:

Some nice names. I might pick one of these, I don't know wich one yet since several sound good. Thank you !

Nafarious wrote:Those lootas look exactly like some on for sale on ebay.

Do you have a link to those lootas ? 'cause mine are not for sale, so if they are really identical then there's a problem.

Hi all !

I play a tournament next week where painting note will be decisive, so I have made some little improvements to my army.
Hope the judges will like my minis, and hope my army will fight with honor on the battlefields.

Its a team tournament, with 2 Vs 2 games, 1000pts per player. And this is what my opponents will face :

Really nice. Have you considered redoing the base rims in a grey? (since the rest of your painting is so good I have nothing else to comment on! ).

Beautiful work Minus! Love the Mk-1 whirlwind and dozer blade. Should be formidable.

This awesome love your pint style and your BFG fleet is a amazing!

Thanks !
I'll keep the bases rims black, I tried several colors and I definitely prefer to have them black. I like when the rim has a different color from the top, and black has a sober finish.


For the upcoming tournament, I needed 3 objective markers on 40mm base. Of course, I had none since mine are on 25mm ones. So I made this :

 Minus wrote:
Thank you both.
Now I'm ready to kick some heretics asses. ^^


I still need a name for the Emperor battleship, if you have any idea of a cool name from any movie/comics/tv-show/book you can make a proposal.

Pillar of Virtue (or anything): halo
Forever's End
Light of Tomorrow
Emperor's Ire

I like the objective and oldschoolness of the army in general.

Love the left one... what is it??

whalemusic360 wrote:Forever's End

I really like this one ! I'll name something like this, for sure !
Where is it from ?

Gitsplitta wrote:Love the left one... what is it??

It's an antenna-communication-anything.
No idea what this is supposed to be, to be honest. I think it comes from the Imperial Bastion sprue. It looks good so I wanted to paint it.

Hope the judges will like my minis, and hope my army will fight with honor on the battlefields.

Well, tournament was last week-end, and... I lost all my battles.
But the good news is that the judges liked my army, and I got a prize for painting ! (not the first prize, uh !)

It was a team tournament (4 players per team) with 2Vs2 games. Here's a photo of my last battle, with my eldar allies :




And today, I started painting my second zombicide abomination :

Congratulations on your success and hopefully a fun day's playing. I've never won a painting competition either... not even the tiny local ones. Some of us are destined for other glories I think.

Great skin tone on that abomination!

Love the BFG work, shame there's only a few blogs with stuff this good in it

Gitsplitta wrote:Congratulations on your success and hopefully a fun day's playing. I've never won a painting competition either... not even the tiny local ones. Some of us are destined for other glories I think.

Haha, it's a friend of mine who won the "best army" prize.
And yes, it was a very good day. Although we lost every game we played, we enjoyed pushing our armies on the tables and launching dices all day long.

The prize for having one of the best painted armies was a surprise, and I'm pretty happy I got it !

inmygravenimage wrote:Great skin tone on that abomination!

Thank you. The abomination is fully painted now, hope you like it

Valkyrie wrote:Love the BFG work, shame there's only a few blogs with stuff this good in it

Yup, we don't see that much BFG. It's sad 'cause the models look great and it's a game I really enjoy.



And my second abomination is now done :

Hmmm... looks like you don't really love big green angry men. ^^
Well, let's see if you prefer this...


What about a pretty girl with a katana, ready to kick some asses ? Hmm ?



This is only the first WIP picture. Nothing is finished for the moment !

Showing promise!

Thanks Gits !
Before I come back to Candice, I had to finish this little guy :



I played a First Compagny list yesterday so this made me want to paint him.

Awesomesauce of many varieties! It all looks great, very interested to see where you go with Candice. The BFG stuff in particular just blows me away. I will definitely have to get round to playing that system some time.

Thanks mate !
Happy to see you back there. You should try BFG, I really love that game.


I kept painting Candice a little bit tonight :




Still a lot of work to do. I hope I can finish her before saturday evening.

The shading on the muscles is fab...

 Minus wrote:

whalemusic360 wrote:Forever's End

I really like this one ! I'll name something like this, for sure !
Where is it from ?

Dunno, just thought it sounded cool. I googled it, and nothing came up that I would have seen before, so I guess just my ability to generate random names.

I love the termi. I don't usually even like UMs, but yours are so well done its hard not to.

Oh man are the skin tones good on her Minus... it's like looking at a photograph.

I love reading your comments guys. It's so motivating !


This evening, Candice looks like this :




She's still not finished, of course. ^^

Exquisite.

There's a whole sucker-punch vibe there I'm digging big time.

Done !

Just fantastic!! (Applause)

Really like the dark blue dress vs the light skin.

Thanks Gits !

Oh my goodness that's beautiful, top of the class. If you don't enter the painting competition it'll be criminal!

Btw. Steve hasn't replied yet, do you know if he got my email?

The dress looks real man.
Outstanding job.

@ Casey : I didn't. ^^
I'm an army painter, not a brush godlike. I saw the WIP version by Skiv (the guy who sculpted her) and mine is way faaaar from his painting level.
I'm still happy with my version, though. ^^

@ SelvaggioSaggy : thanks !


I just finished painting Malekith. Next I'll paint his dragon you can partially see on the left.

That's so pretty it makes my face hurt.

Graven: Speaking the truth and providing the rofls since '09.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Graven: Speaking the truth and providing the rofls since '09.

Made me laugh !

Oh god poor guy has been impaled

cant unseen

Well! This is quite the battle, and quite the models. I like all of them as well as the excellent terrain.

That looks... *really* uncomfortable...

Hahaha.
Now you all know why he hates everybody that much.

Well...
Let's see what's next.




A dragon... few more ratmen for my Mordheim skaven gang, and something totally new for me : Askaris for Eden.

Oooooh! Aaaaah!

How wonderful! Those figures in the front are really cool.

Wow, what a blog you have here Minus, so man great pieces. Zombies are fantastic and the BFG is eye popping - love the bases on these... My favourite at the moment though is your female commissar. Beautiful sculpt with a top notch paint job that complements it. Keep up the good work

Casey's Law wrote:Oooooh! Aaaaah!

What part makes you so... happy ?

Gitsplitta wrote:How wonderful! Those figures in the front are really cool.

They are from the "Eden" range. It's a skirmish game in a post apocalyptic world.
I had an initiation game with a friend few weeks ago and we really enjoeyed it. Plus the models are great so we decided to start playing Eden.

Ruglud wrote:Wow, what a blog you have here Minus, so man great pieces. Zombies are fantastic and the BFG is eye popping - love the bases on these... My favourite at the moment though is your female commissar. Beautiful sculpt with a top notch paint job that complements it. Keep up the good work

Thank you Ruglud !
The female Comissar was sculpted by Steve Party (keep this name in mind, you could hear about him sooner or later ) and is available on eurobitz.com. He also sculpted Candice.



I have some new candies for your eyes !
I just finished painting my ratmen for Mordheim. The new warriors :



And the (now) full band :




Enjoy !
Next : the dragon and the Askari warriors for Eden.

 Minus wrote:

Casey's Law wrote:Oooooh! Aaaaah!

What part makes you so... happy ?

All of it! I'm particularly interested in those Eden miniatures though. I'm always happy to see something new and characterful and they certainly fit the bill.

The Skaven are brilliant, a great job as always!

P.S. Paid Steve for a couple of copies of Candice, can't wait to get a hold of them!

Very dynamic, love them!

Casey's Law wrote:All of it!

Casey's Law wrote: I'm particularly interested in those Eden miniatures though. I'm always happy to see something new and characterful and they certainly fit the bill.

I'm currently making some trials on pices of paper to try to find appropriate colors associations. I know I want the clothes to be purple (who said "AGAIN" ? ) and make some searches for the other textures, and particularly the skin tone. I don't know if I go with normal skin tone and variations only on the mutated bodyparts, or if I use less common colors like a palid green... or maybe I'll use completely crazy colors like on my second Zombicide abomination.
If anyone has ideas, this could help !

Casey's Law wrote:P.S. Paid Steve for a couple of copies of Candice, can't wait to get a hold of them!

Nice.

Gitsplitta wrote:Very dynamic, love them!

Thanks Gits. I'm happy with the way the rust turned out. Quite funny since it was the easiest thing to paint on them.


I have one general question : it's not the first time this happens to me, I have people coming to my dakka gallery and giving me zero notes and this drops the average note drastically. I noticed this since I have models whose notes decrease by 2 points with a single vote... I don't post on dakka for the notes (I paint for my pleasure ^^ ), I post here to share and discuss, so I don't really care about the notes themselves (I know what my painting level is) but I'd like to know if this is something common.
Can't believe people have nothing else to do than dropping our notes...

Happens to all of us. It's how pathetic people get their jollies I guess.

I don't have any suggestions on the paint scheme. Just do what you do so well!


That sucks that people are doing that. There is supposed to be some sort of system to block that from happening too severely but Lego might have to give it a shunt to get it working again. Sadly the world and therefore the internet is full of hateful wastes of space. Don't let it bug you too much though, just remember how sad and pathetic their lives must be if that's what they do for kicks.


Now get some paint on those cool minis!

 Casey's Law wrote:
I don't have any suggestions on the paint scheme. Just do what you do so well!


That sucks that people are doing that. There is supposed to be some sort of system to block that from happening too severely but Lego might have to give it a shunt to get it working again. Sadly the world and therefore the internet is full of hateful wastes of space. Don't let it bug you too much though, just remember how sad and pathetic their lives must be if that's what they do for kicks.


Now get some paint on those cool minis!

Is this people just flicking through the photos and not voting at all just looking, or is it people voting deliberately low?

It would have to be deliberately low voting with malicious intent. As I say, there is so supposed to be a block against the odd very different vote so one really low vote should get discounted but if multiple people do it it'll probably start to have an effect. Not voting has no effect on the gallery unless you hit the N/A vote which is still technically a vote. That said, voting is good for the health of the gallery, as is being thorough when you upload images.

Back on topic though...

Okay, so that's not just me. ^^
Don't worry, I don't bother that much about those notes. As I said I paint first of all for ME. I know what my painting is worth. ^^


I have just started putting colors splashes on my first Askari warrior (for Eden). I think I love these models already. They seem to be a real pleasure to paint. I'm eagger to paint them all !
First I have to finish the first mini to validate my color scheme.


I'll post WIP pictures later.

Everything you have on here is incredible. I am so jealous, well done xxx

Thank you Bubble !
If you like my minis, then for sure you have good tastes. ^^


I have started painting my first Askari warrior. I applied the baseoats to see if my main colors matched together. I have almost finished painting the skin, but other areas are only a basecoat.




And since I had the question on another forum, this is a picture of Candice and Viktoria side by side :

I think the green is a great choice for the skin. It's hard to say how the rest will come together but I'm sure you'll do a grand job.

Thanks for the scale shot too. I got a couple of Candice because I'm hoping she scales up well with Infinity though I'll be holding on to one until I can do the sculpt justice as it was intended.

Askari is coming along nicely. I think the colors work well together.

Boy, those are two formidable ladies!

These ladies are awesome. They are among the models I had the most pleasure to paint.
I have already plans for the next ones I'll paint, but I can't tell for the moment. Keep watching this thread.


I have painted the purple clothes on the Askari yesterday. I wonder if it requires a wash to make it a bit smoother or not. Any advice (about the wash or about anything else) ?

Looks great to me. If you aren't happy with the purple, a wash could be good to bring the highlights down closer to the base. What are the plans for the metal?

Yup. I applied a purple wash on the pants, it looks better now in my opinion.

I also painted other stuffs, such as the metal parts. I had loads of fun using all sorts of washes I could find on my desk :

Love the color scheme, It works perfectly.

Brilliant! The purple looks great now and I love what your doing with the rest.

Thanks guys !
For the color scheme, I made trials on paper sheets. I painted splashes of different colors, to see what worked well together.


The Askari Warrior is now finished :




I feel like the colors are not as in reality, I don't see him so green IRL. I'll see if I can make a better shot of him later.
Anyway, this gives you a good idea of what he looks like.

*chuckle* That photo series makes me dizzy...

Nice work Minus, he turned out great!

He/it is really nice! Great job, Minus. What's the story behind the game?

Just great, also the metal is amazing.
You have class, sir!

Gitsplitta wrote:*chuckle* That photo series makes me dizzy...

Nice work Minus, he turned out great!

Not sure how I should understand the first sentence... (WHY is my english not fluent ? )
But I understand the second one very well, so thank you Gits !

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Just great, also the metal is amazing.
You have class, sir!

The metal was the part I really wanted to improve on this one. I had a massive use of washes, on my Eden models I want to have metallics with high contrasts and deep colors.

Casey's Law wrote:He/it is really nice! Great job, Minus. What's the story behind the game?

The game takes place on Earth, during the 23rd century.
Political and environnemental events lead to a WW3 wich ends in 2137 - due to the use of viral bombs, nuclear missiles and sismic weapons - with an almost complete annihilation of the human race.
A few people survived on the planet surface, most of them are now mutants and degenerates. But there were also shelters built underneath the surface by different factions, each of them having their own interests.
For example, the Askaris - the faction I chose - were scientists and rich industrials that burried themselves in bunkers before the war started, and made researches about genetics and bio-mechanics in order to create the absolute human being, the perfect warrior. However they had to speed up their studies due to the war, so it didn't work as well as they hoped it would and the result is an underground society of mutants that are barely humans.

A few years after the apocalypse, the survivors started to leave their shelters and discovered the new face of earth : a wasted land.


The game presents the fightings between gangs of survivors between 3 and 6 members. It is played on 60 x 60 cm boards and a game takes around an hour. Each faction has a very typical aspect, visually it's a pleasure.

Excellent, I'll have to look into the game some more it sounds fun.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Excellent, I'll have to look into the game some more it sounds fun.

It is fun.
Well... if we can say so about the end of the world...


This is the link to the official shop. You can see every mini they released for Eden : http://www.taban-miniatures.com/shop2/index.php?cPath=48

Great job as always. You should post WIP shots for your next mini. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see how they progress from step to step.

I don't really like the mini, but it is more the style of the mini itself, not the painting.

nold wrote:Great job as always. You should post WIP shots for your next mini. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see how they progress from step to step.

Thanks Nold.
Do you mean that I should post more WIPs of my next mini ? Or that I should keep up posting WIPs ?

whalemusic360 wrote:I don't really like the mini, but it is more the style of the mini itself, not the painting.

To be honest, the warrior is not my favorite model. He has a very static pose. I started with this one for this reason. So I could try my color scheme on the models I liked the less, and do better then on the other minis.
I have started the Defender this week and I definitely prefer this model to the warrior.


A WIP picture :

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So far, only his mutated hand and his purple clothes are almost done.
Any thougts?

Superb work minus! Just love the vibrant purple and ghostly green! The use of washes is really outstanding

Thank you !
(your Kroots look really good btw )

Another WIP picture :




I finished the skin and the mask. I have basecoated the metals, next step is to work on them.

The defender is complete !
Here's a pix of my first two painted models :

Very nice pair. Man... the jewel on the defender's belt is unbelievable. Looks 100% real.

Also love your treatment of the eyes... kind of a washed out pale blue, very sweet.

Thanks Gits.
At first I painted the gem on his belt purple. It looked reaaly good by itself. But sadly it didn't pop due to the purple scarf he wears around his waist.
Then I choose this bright green, and it works pretty well with the rest of the scheme.

And the eyes are painted with scaly green and white. You can't be wrong when you add scaly green on a model.

I'll keep that in mind. Who's color is it? I'm not familiar with the color.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'll keep that in mind. Who's color is it? I'm not familiar with the color.

Scaly green is an old GW color and I think Vallejo is still making their equivalent in the Game Color line.

Ah, I'll look for it.

Just dug out my Vallejo version and it's called "Scurf Green."

Epy is right, it's a GW color from the previous range.
I don't use this color a lot (I mean I don't use it on large areas) but I use it really often. It's a very vibrant blue-ish green so it's perfect for gems, glowing effects and so.

I use it for the plasma engines on my BFG ships, as light source on bolters scopes and so on. The flames on my skaven sorcerer's staff is also painted with scaly green.

I'll definitely get it on my "buy" list!

Two WIP steps of Aïcha the Janissar, the leader of the two fighters above.

Nice work on the defender, Minus! I love the mutated arm on him it reminds me of Wikus' arm mutating in District 9. The leader is coming on really nicely too!

Oh and I received the two copies of Candice btw. The detail and quality is incredible and Steve is a really nice guy too. Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks Casey.
It's good to read that you got your Candices and that you're happy with them. ^^
I didn't have District 9 in mind when I painted the arm. But it's true that the main character had this kind of mutation too. I need to see that movie again.


I finished to paint Aïcha, my Askari Janissar :




And with her bodyguards :

The set looks great together!

They are looking really nice Minus I really like how you did the skin tone on the big claw guy and the armour effects look really nice and worn on all three.

I didn't realise how big the bodyguards were until you posted the pic with Aïcha in the middle.

Excellent, I'm really impressed with your skin work, all that subtle blending and realistic colour change. The red, inflamed areas actually look sore!

Beautiful skin tones, and love the subtle source lighting. Wasn't too convinced on the colour scheme at first, but they look stunning together, so consider me converted. Wonderful stuff!

The guy on the left is probably my favourite - looks like he could have been a forest ranger in another era Shoulderpad looks ace - really looks like stamped metal!

Nice group shot!
Great paint job as usual

I'm not convinced by the green respirator and tubes on the last model tough.
Metal would look better IMHO.

Gitsplitta wrote:The set looks great together!

Thanks Gits.

GiraffeX wrote:I didn't realise how big the bodyguards were until you posted the pic with Aïcha in the middle.

Yes, they are pretty big.

Casey's Law wrote:Excellent, I'm really impressed with your skin work, all that subtle blending and realistic colour change. The red, inflamed areas actually look sore!

The two points I wanted to improve on these models were the skin since I don't have such large surfaces to paint really often, and the metallics. I'm happy if I succeeded.

Scarper wrote:consider me converted.

Scarper wrote:The guy on the left is probably my favourite -

It's my favorite too among the three that I posted above. The fourth model that I haven't painted yet is really great too.

SelvaggioSaky wrote:I'm not convinced by the green respirator and tubes on the last model tough.
Metal would look better IMHO.

It looks better IRL, to be honest. I first painted it as normal metal, bu I added this "glowing" effect in the end because the model has to pop between the others. Aïcha is the leader, but her bodyguards are huge compared to her. With this fluo green, she catches the eye more.


Oh, I've taken a better photo of the first two models for an online contest so I post it there too. I'll do the same with Aïcha later :

Hi all !

I took better photos of the whole band now that my 100 points are painted :

The Askaris are walking toward their ennemies :




Ready to fight :




Say Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese :

They look brilliant as a set, well done mate!

Man, the purple cloaks really jump off the screen!

The three minis look just fantastic next to each other. Grats. Is this the final pic or are there more minis t be painted?

Ok!
I see in the first pic the way the tubes and mask are glowing and the difference with the skin

You were right man, awesome job

Thankies !
I have one more model, but he has no rules. He is an objective marker for a special mission. I'll paint him soon.
For my faction, there are for the moment only 2 more models. I'll buy them the next time I'll go to the shop.


I had my first games this afternoon with my buddy. We had a great time and are convinced by the ruleset. We probably made lots of mistakes, but both games were really fun.


And to conclude, we bashed zombies on a Zombicide game.

I started to paint the fourth model yesterday. But I also made something else.

Eden is a game that involves cards, one per model, wich presents all of its rules and is used to locate the wounds. The cards look good, but well... that's not MY models on them. So I replaced the original images with my own :

Aww that's really cool man, I'm hoping to do something similar when I get my Infinity miniatures done. It looks brilliant!

OK... now that's just showing off!!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
OK... now that's just showing off!!

It is a little, isn't it.

Haha, thanks.
Custom cards are useless, that's why they are so necessary !



Some WIP of the next mini :

This mini is awesome and You did a wonderful job on the skin.
It'sthe one that I like the most so far.

Oh man that's nasty looking... (not bad painting... I mean it gives you the shivers).

Yeh, I think this is my favourite miniature of the four. The painting is coming along nicely too.

That is a nice mini, I really like how you've done the skin tones so far.

Agreed, the veining on the right hand is extraordinary.

Thanks guys.
This model is my favorite with the Defender.


I finished painting him this evening. I'll take better photos of him later, on a nice background. But for the moment, here's a first pix :

Really nice work, bud. He looks fierce!

Love the pinkish areas around the implants.

I thought that these implants should have caused damages to the bodies. I wanted them to look painful.

Better images :




And the whole starter :

Great group shot and awesome addition, the best skin/wounds paint job so far IMHO

Wonderful group shot!

They look really great, you've excelled at the skin work in particular. Wonderful blending and wounds that make me wince!

Thanks mates.
I have painted the whole starter set for Eden, so I'm back to square bases. Old world, here I come.

Hi all !

I'm painting a sorcerer for Mordheim.



It's a WIP, only the purple and the beige are finished.

Yay! Strangely I just put down my specialist miniatures catalogue to check Dakka. What are the chances of all that Mordheim nostalgia in one evening?!

I do enjoy your work with pink, you pull it off very well. The orks are a prime example.

Obviously a man who is comfortable with his sexual identity.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Obviously a man who is comfortable with his sexual identity.

Or a man who is comfortable with painting pink.....

@ Casey : that's a funny coincidence, do you play Mordheim too ? ^^


I think Gits was talking about the sorcerer, who's wearing a pink dress, not about me.
Anyway I feel comfortable with my sexual identity, and I feel comfortable putting crazy colors on my models.


I don't know if you've seen it in the rumours and news section, but Warforge - the company that made the Commissar model - releases a new model this month.
And it's incredible.



Can't wait to get one.

Wow... that's nothing short of spectacular. (and yes, I was talking about the wizard...)

Haha, no my cousin played Mordheim back in the day but I never have, one day I'll get round to it!

That new mini is really something! Any idea on the sculptor?

The sculptor is Graphigaut : http://www.graphigaut.fr/
I know he already sculpted models for Eden and for Bushido. Check his work, he improves his skills incredibly fast. The sister of battle you can see on his page is his entry for last year's Golden Demon. She's based on a Dark elve sorceress.
And she is :


@ Gits : I was sure you were talking about the sorcerer... anyway, I don't wear pink dresses. I only wear yellow ones.

Oh man... That guy is good! You introduce me to some great sculptors!

My pleasure.
His work deserves to be shared.

And I WANT ONE OF THESE ! I'm already thinking of a color scheme.
Maybe I should finish the models I am currently painting first.

I saw her the other day its a fantastic model and was really tempted but I dont think I could paint her to a standard I would be happy with.

You should not say that GiraffeX. Get one and have a try !


On my side, I have finished my Sorcerer :




I spent too much time on this one for the result I get, but I'm still happy with the result.

I like It, time well spent (even if pink/light purple is not my color )

As well you should be. Very nice indeed!

That guy has a bad ass gorilla I want to use as an oversized Jakaro. Thanks for the link!

The sorcerer looks great, mate. I'm particularly impressed you made an old model like him look that good!

Old models generally look damn good when painted to current standards.


I'm painting my dragon for Malekith I posted a few weeks (months ?) ago. It's a long hard road since I have no choice but painting the scales one by one...

WIP shot :

I wasn't that excited about this model when you first posted it but now it's seen some paint you have converted me. Very pretty!

What range and era is the dragon from? It looks like a modern WHFB kit but I don't follow that system much so I'm bot sure.

Man that dragon is awesome! Fancy giving a tutorial on how you achieved the colours?

Brilliant red!

Casey's Law wrote:What range and era is the dragon from? It looks like a modern WHFB kit but I don't follow that system much so I'm bot sure.

It's a WHFB dragon from 6th edition. It's Seraphon, Malekith's mount.
So I think it was released around 2001. The body and wings are common for several dragons from this era, and the head, hands and tail are specific metal parts.

Eldercaveman wrote:Man that dragon is awesome! Fancy giving a tutorial on how you achieved the colours?

No problem.
I used an army painter red can as a base (pure red), but a brushed basecoat would work as well. Then :
- apply purple wash everywhere to shade (GW leviathan purple)
- GW mephiston red (red gore would work as well) avoiding the lower part of the scales
- Army painter pure red (GW blood red is pretty similar) on upper half
- GW blazing orange on edges

That's it. Is it clear enough ? Or should I make a step by step picture ?

The black is just 2 washes of black over the army painter red. It'snot finished yet. ^^

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Brilliant red!

Thank you ! I love painting red.

That is one cool looking dragon the paint scheme is brilliant almost oriental in theme

Thanks for the info mate. Your doing a lovely job, I love the fireyness of the red.

You're welcome Casey.

@ Lone Dirty Dog : This oriental style was not intentionnal but yeah that's true. ^^


One more WIP picture of the dragon :

That is one outstanding paint job I so want this just to look at

I cant believe that a paint job has improved the detail so much, this has tempted me to dig through some of my old models

I'm with LDD, could stare at this for hours. The red on the dragon absolutely pops, wonderful paint job thus far. I'm also amazingly impressed with the claws, they look so real...

I love the way that's coming out Minus! The midnight blue/purple with the red is just spectacular.

You sir, have a gift!

lone dirty dog wrote:I cant believe that a paint job has improved the detail so much, this has tempted me to dig through some of my old models

I love to read that my painting makes people want to paint. Let me know if you dig one and paint it, I'd love to see it !

@ Ruglud, Gits and Eldercaveman : thank you !


The dragon is almost finished, so I have started working on the next project. I'm gonna try to build a new army for a 40k tournament in september.
I don't know if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try !

A teaser of what's coming :






Of course, I'll post pix of the dragon as soon as it's finished.

That looks oddly like a nemesis clone from Rackham's confrontation. You going niddly on us?

3 boxes and loft checked but still no High Elf dragon found now where did I put it

 Minus wrote:
I'm gonna try to build a new army for a 40k tournament in september.
I don't know if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try !

A teaser of what's coming :






Of course, I'll post pix of the dragon as soon as it's finished.

Please be Nids, please be Nids, please be Nids..........

inmygravenimage wrote:That looks oddly like a nemesis clone from Rackham's confrontation. You going niddly on us?

I have NO IDEA what "niddly" means. (and google translate says it means "niddly" so... yeah ! )
It's not a Nemesis clone, but it's from Rackham and it's much bigger. However, the project involves Nemesis clones to.

lone dirty dog wrote:3 boxes and loft checked but still no High Elf dragon found now where did I put it

Hope they didn't disappear into the warp !
I imagine you running everywhere and screaming "Where are my dragooooons ?" .

Eldercaveman wrote:Please be Nids, please be Nids, please be Nids..........

Won't be Nids, I'm sorry.


Oh, and I finished the painting of my dragon yesterday, just in time for tommorow's 2Vs2 game. Hope you like him !

AWESOME !!!!!!!!! JUST AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh for the love of all things holy! Thats an awesome dragon! Very well done

 lone dirty dog wrote:
AWESOME !!!!!!!!! JUST AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing to add

Very nicely done Minus! *applause*

Niddly - in the style of Nids. Abomination then I take it, and the big one at that? You doing dirz should be awesome!

Oh I guess I know why google didn't translate that one.
"Niddly", like tyraNIDs, sounds logical. Thanks for the explanation.

So yes, it's an abomination. And yes there'll be Nemesis to. But no it won't be niddly. It's more... let's say... torturated. And now that the dragon is over I'll have the time to try my color scheme. I have an idea of what I want already, but I need to paint it to see if it works, and how I can do to get a color scheme that is fast. I need my army done for the beginning of september. (why didn't I decide to play orks on that tournament ? )



And I am REALLY pleased by the comments on my dragon so far. It took me so much time, it would be a pity if it didn't look good in the end. So thank you all for support.

Dirz as deldar? Nice. That's where all mine went!

 Minus wrote:
Oh I guess I know why google didn't translate that one.
"Niddly", like tyraNIDs, sounds logical. Thanks for the explanation.

So yes, it's an abomination. And yes there'll be Nemesis to. But no it won't be niddly. It's more... let's say... torturated. And now that the dragon is over I'll have the time to try my color scheme. I have an idea of what I want already, but I need to paint it to see if it works, and how I can do to get a color scheme that is fast. I need my army done for the beginning of september. (why didn't I decide to play orks on that tournament ? )



And I am REALLY pleased by the comments on my dragon so far. It took me so much time, it would be a pity if it didn't look good in the end. So thank you all for support.

I think what we can all take from this is.............. you should paint Tyranids.

inmygravenimage wrote:Dirz as deldar? Nice. That's where all mine went!

Yep !
Dirz have the perfect look for Dark eldars.

Eldercaveman wrote:I think what we can all take from this is.............. you should paint Tyranids.

Problem is : I don't have any of them.
If someone offered me a tyrannid army, I'd have no choice but painting them.


Today we had a 2Vs2 WHB game at home, and it turned out to a complete slaughter. The facing armies (dwarves + ogres) had such firepower that all my monsters were wiped out of the board in 2 turns. My dragon didn't do anything.
But we had a great time, so that's what matters the most. I'll see if I can post photos of the game later.

Whoa, that is stunningly beautiful, Minus. You are a king, sir! A DE army from you sounds exciting too, looking forward to it.

Thanks a lot Casey.
A preview of what's coming. I'm still preparing my models but my two talos are ready for painting :




Can't wait to try my color scheeeeeeeeeeeeeme !

Wow! Amazing upright conversion. Very excited.

Those are going to be fething awesome!

Those are very pretty! Consider me intrigued.

I'm preparing all the models for the painting (removing mold lines, little conversions, rebasing it all and so). I'm almost done with this so I should start painting the test models today. I need something that catches the eye AND that is pretty fast to paint. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED !

I'll most probably need your opinions to validate my color scheme before I start the mass cloning process. So keep an eye looking in there.