Cheers EDC.
No tape. Just did it by eye. Single brush stroke to keep it straight.

Gonna start doing them in groups of three now rather than just one at a time....starting.....soon

So much discipline on show here, Jan. Getting through those models very nicely...

 Azazelx wrote:
So much discipline on show here, Jan. Getting through those models very nicely...

Cheers Az - just got the Skitarii squad of 10 finished this morning - phew!


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Second of the Space Hulk termie finally finished and based. Big thx to MajorTom for the tips re: the sticky gore coming out of the 'stealer.
Camera and lights just weren't wanting to play nice today so not the best of photos but hey ho, there ya go
Hope you like him - Terminator Brother Goriel of the Blood Angels, attached to Squad Lorenzo aboard the acursed Hulk 'The Sin Of Damnation'



Off now to process all the photos of the squad of Skit Rangers I just finished this morning.......urgghhhh

good gravy that's beautiful.

What did you use for the nid boogers?

Hot glue gun! then Nurgle's Rot technical paint over that

Very nice! If I were in nitpick mode, I'd say Goriel himself could do with something to break up the red areas, maybe some white scrollwork or something, but that's really just picking holes in a fantastic mini!

He is amazing Jan. Love the red.

Cheers Para. Know what you mean about the endless red - but he's a blood angel. Endless red is kinda their thing. That's why I went with balck pauldrons and the white shoulder adn shin heraldry. He is one of the ...plainer of the squad but happy enough with the result......photos are bugging me though

Lovely job on Goriel. That reminds me I should really finish my Space Hulk terminators..

Thx AoV - yes - get busy you. Your termies await!!

Great work Jan! Love the basing and Nid goo as well as the model. I've already complemented the lovely stripe, so I want to say your gemstones came out very nicely too!

Many thx Bottle. Thhose BA really do like their gemstones eh - makes me wonder if ol' Sanguinius wasn't fooling around with an Eldar on the sly and his 'sons' ended up with a touch of Eldar DNA in their makeup

Great model Jan! the glue effect is really done well, it's something I want to try one day especially since I have a hot glue gun (you know, for keeping the romance alive in the bedroom) how did you apply the strands?

MajorTom was the genius behinf the hot glue. he did it on one of his a while back and was kindd enough to share the secret. Blob of hot glue fresh of the end of the gun on a cocktail stick. Pressed to the bese and then stretched it up to stick to somewhere on the 'stealer. Takes a few tries to get it right. Once cooled I just painted with nurgle's rot and nurgle's rot + a touch of rhinox hide in the shadows.

Looks great! I've followed MajorTom for ages and always loved the work he does but I may have missed that bit lol

Very nice. Especially the nid gore

EDC

Cheers. The gore was the last thing to be done when all else was finshed. Hadn't done that hot glue thing before so was a tocuh nervous that I'd banjax it up and feth up the fig but turned out pretty cool in the end

Great work on this guy. He's certainly come up really well, and the 'nid-gore creates a nice colour contrast with the deep red of his armour.

Cheers Az. Aye, I wanted a colour other than red to contrast nicely with the BA. Nurgle's Rot proved to be just the right colour (I very nearly mixed up a purplish goo but thankfully didn't) . I added a touch of rhinox into it later to give some bit a slightly shaded touch. Kinda soirry there isnt more dismembered bugs in the set now!

Easy enough to make your own, though!

true. Hoping that my new lightbox will arrive today so can get some better photos sans the light glare on his armour. Should make things so much eaasier than my current haul everything - lights, backdrops, boxes etc etc to the kitchen. I'm gonna reshoot Brother Goriel there but cant face reshooting all the skits again! They turned out fine the first time I think anyays

New light box arrived in rather tidy time. Gotta lively Korean delivery service; 26 hours from order to doorstep now to try it out!

Love the light box, It looks a lot more professional than my cardboard box one .

Just out of curiosity, I noticed the black backdrop your using here, and wondered which backdrop you prefer to use, black or white?
Although I guess it depends on what your actually photographing.

Aye - it depends, but in general I prefer black. The black paper I use is korean handmade paper called hanji. fibrous paper whcih a nice texture

Need to make more space hulk progress this month. Bases are Sulaco bases from Fenris games.

Lotsa base coating been done which is dull as but gotta be done. Trying to chip away at all the space hulk stuff and threw on a spryer ganger I found at home.


Out of nowhere and totally unexpectedly, Mrs Januine wandered into the painting room the other day and said she wanted to try painting a fig with me if I had any extra (lol) figs to paint. Took about an hour to prise my jaw off the floor! So built up two canalise warriors a certain superhero gave me a while back and they're all ready for the pair of us to paint together..........once this pisser of a hangover sods off!

The Mrs wanting to paint a mini is a real turn up for the books!

I like those Space Hulk bases, do they over lap the movement squares on the tiles?

EDC

Aye. Really nice bases but overlap the tiles just a touch. Not too much to feth up gameplay though

Ooo some nice ol' school stuff here

Those bases look great. I'm torn on what to do with my space hulk and by extension Blood Angels models. I like consistent basing, and I like basing that matches the playing field, or is at least reasonably neutral. Which leads to paralysis so I've just been painting different things instead.

Looking forward to seeing how your couples painting turns out!

Cheers Az. Really happy with those bases and even though they overlap a touch, they do go really well with the space hulk tiles. I suspect I'll do something similar with the DW:O figs when I eventually get them. I like to do theme bases. Doing the same with all the AdMech as that the ruined landscape of their forgeworld which they are defending against ....... Well, that's another story still being written

We started on the couples painting the other night. Just did some base coating and explained about layers, washes, wet palette etc. Was fun for us though she swears like a sailor in Korean whenever she goes over a line. Lol. I get scolded a lot for being a brushlicker. I give her a month and she'll be doing it too. Rofl

Well hello mr delivery man!!! Just arrived this afternoon. Guildball morticians guild players. Gorgeous figs and gotta doff my hat to steamforged; lovely clean crisp casts with barely a hint of flash to clean up. Next month's target is gonna be to get these guys and the two I bought when I was home in Ireland painted up. Need some old bits of wood..........

Damn, more minis you're going to make me want! I'm not normally one for sports games, but every GB model I've seen thus far has been amazing...

They are!! The Fisher's Guild figs are pretty awesome as well but I'm all for Mortician's at the mo. From what I've seen, the game looks pretty dmn awesome too. Watched a few on YT. Go on....treat yourself
I have a Dracosan arriving soon too to convert into a Skit APC. lol

Very excited to see you do some Guild Ball, Jan. They are lovely sculpts. Maybe it's the sort of game you can convince your wife to play with you?

We'll see lol.

Haha, I know that feeling. Fighting!

You have something for the wife to paint to enter the competition this month?

Maybe not this month Nevelon. Just starting out

Day trip to Seouk with Mrs. Jan for a spot of shopping and that and I did a bad bad thing. Lol

Awww yeah! Looking forward to seeing what you do with that!

EDC

Just opened her up......new smell!!!!!! The Sprues......THE SPRUES!!!!! Had to carry around all day while we did 'other' shopping and ....stuff......torture I tell you - lmao

Can't wait to see what you do with these... Are they jumping the queue at all, or are you going to try and clear more of the backlog first?

Bit of both Para. I need to order up resin bases for them like I'm using for the Space Hulk figs. I may go with Fenris Games again or I might try a differnt company - same style of bases though. Very keen to try adapting my genestealer paint scheme across from the Space Hulk purestrains to the DW:O hybrids. Gonna have a wee think about it first - how and where to make some pallette changes to show the more 'human' side of the 3rd and 4th gens especially. The marines though will defintely be getting some painty love sooner rather than later

Look forward to seeing you tackle the Overkill models! Be very careful when you clip the chain (chest)off for Cassius! Very fragile that bit!

Oh man, not sure how I missed this. Won't continue that mistake.

lol and welcome

Well....with a few recent purchases....gonna need to make some changes to the list of doom I guess - haha

On the bench:

V̶o̶x̶h̶a̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶o̶ ̶S̶k̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶(̶T̶B̶B̶)̶ ̶ Done
Yeld Rig Hive Spyer (primed and based)
T̶a̶n̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶D̶i̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶,̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶d̶)̶ ̶ Done
F̶e̶m̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶s̶a̶r̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶(̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
Harlie Shadowseer (boxed)
Harlie Troupers (2) (basecoated and shading)
V̶r̶o̶s̶h̶ ̶T̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶ ̶S̶g̶t̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
Librarian Turmiel (highlights, detailing, base)
Kranon the Relentless (primed)
Gaunt's Ghosts (5) (boxed)
Gaunt
M̶a̶d̶ ̶L̶a̶r̶k̶i̶n̶ Done
Milo
Dorden
Corbec
R̶u̶s̶t̶s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶5̶)̶ Done
S̶k̶i̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶1̶0̶)̶ Done
T̶e̶c̶h̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶e̶s̶t̶ ( Done )
T̶h̶a̶n̶a̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶m̶a̶t̶a̶ (Done )
The Nurse (built&primed)

In The Cabinet:

Inquistor (boxed)
Psyker (boxed)
Swordbearer (boxed)
Herald (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Ghast' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Silence' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Obulus' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Dirge' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Cosette' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Graves'(boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Casket'(boxed)
Possesssed CSM (5) (boxed)
CSM Sorcerer Lord (boxed)
Chaos Familiar (boxed)
Callidus Assassin (boxed)
Vindicare Assassin (boxed)
Eversor Assassin (boxed)
Culuxus Assassin (boxed)
Chaos Cultists with autoguns (10) boxed)
Space Hulk Terminators ( 11 ) (boxed)
Space Hulk Genestalers (18) (boxed)
D̶o̶o̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶2̶0̶)̶ Done
DeathWatch:Overkill Space Marines (11) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Patriarch (1) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Cult (38) (boxed)
Eldar Wave Serpent (boxed)
Solar Auxilia Dracosan Armoured Transport (converted,built & primed)


Total fig count (incl vehicles etc):

45 /160

So much for the no buying vows, I guess

Nice additions to the pile nonetheless, and you'll surely make them look good once on the painting bench!

Oh man, if my list was no more than 159 figures... I would be one happy camper! I think I'm at least double that...

 Mymearan wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Those bases look great. I'm torn on what to do with my space hulk and by extension Blood Angels models. I like consistent basing, and I like basing that matches the playing field, or is at least reasonably neutral. Which leads to paralysis so I've just been painting different things instead.

Looking forward to seeing how your couples painting turns out!

My idea for Space Hulk Terminator basing is to make 40mm bases that the integrated bases can just slot into when needed for 40k games. I'll probably put a big blob of green stuff on the 40mm, press the integrated base down into it to make the slot and then build up the rest of the base around it to match my other Space Marines.

I've just accepted that I'll never complete everything...partly because I keep stripping stuff to repaint. Negative progress!

EDC

40K Terminators are usually on 40m bases iirc. The Space Hullk ones fit on 32s....just. But with the 32s they'll fit the Space Hulk tiles pretty much perfectly. The 40s work fine though

I got inspired to count my minis (already had them listed on my Kanban board) and I've got about 600 unpainted

Sweet mercy!!!! I was kciking myself for giving in and buying DW:O as it's kicked my 'cabinet dwellers' count up by 50 as I'm trying to whittle it down......600!!! Woooo - next time my wife says that I have too many unpainted figs to buy new stuff.......I'm just gonna point at YOU!!!!!

To be fair I think I'm a lightweight compared to much of dakka

What is it about us and buying new models before we have painted the ones we have? I have at least 2 more months of modeling on my current army but have already started buying stuff for the next. Oh well, I guess buying is part of the fun I mean why let those cool boxes just sit on some shelf in some store when they would be much happier with us, right?.

Everyone knows that when a painter completes their backlog, they die... buying more minis is thus a medical requirement.

Aye 300 unpainted here and that does not feel that bad. Couples painting sounds interesting, the missus once tried to teach me knitting...it did not end well.

Mymearan wrote:I got inspired to count my minis (already had them listed on my Kanban board) and I've got about 600 unpainted

Snap

Paradigm wrote:Everyone knows that when a painter completes their backlog, they die... buying more minis is thus a medical requirement.

That would be such a horrible end - spend a lifetime completing backlog only to snuff it when you think you are gonna get to enjoy them!!!

 Januine wrote:
Day trip to Seouk with Mrs. Jan for a spot of shopping and that and I did a bad bad thing. Lol

Haha, knew you wouldn't hold out much longer!

It was inevitable!! I have a Dracosan on the way as well! That's my buying done for a while then......well - been eyeing up some FW tech thralls too.......lmao

Man, I sold off a ton of stuff to bankroll my Warlord, and still have 4 digits of crap.

4???? Sweet mercy....I'm feeling like I just started hobby a week ago!

Welcome to my world, guys. I've probably got hundreds of minis waiting their turn patiently for some painting love. Still, I'd rather do a good job on them slowly than rush them and have them look like crap.

Aye- totally agree. Take time and do a proper job is the way. Meanwhile the hordes grow - lol

Over 1000 minis Whalemusic? Never mind being swap shop mod you should just give them away .

I kind of do not mind a quick and simple paint job on mass rank and file, but obviously a painter of Jan's ability is never going to settle for that.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Man, I sold off a ton of stuff to bankroll my Warlord, and still have 4 digits of crap.

Now that's impressive!

EDC

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Over 1000 minis Whalemusic? Never mind being swap shop mod you should just give them away .

I actually do quite often. Mostly older, used models or stuff like AoBR marines to help people just starting out get a decent sized force without breaking the bank.

Took a painting break tonight but couldn't help but wander back over to the desk and get a little hobby done finally got The Nurse from Thirdman Studios put together. Not the hardest of builds but a little fiddly at points. Minimal flash and only 1 or 2 mound lines to trim. Little gap fill needed. The pipes were a bit of an arse but nothing swearworthy!! Lovely crisp and varied details and a beautiful sculpt overall. Hoping to get her primed next week and then started on next month. She'll be a comp entry this summer - fingers crossed

gorgeous mini. Looks like it'll be a ton of fun to paint. I'm quite jealous.

She's really rather gorgeous. Pretty sinister with lots of great details. Can still get them over on CMON's website shop. Looking forward to getting some paint down soon

Great mini. Will be great to tag along while you get some paint on her.

Hopefully get her some zenithal priming done this weekend. HAve some other stuff ahead of her paintwise so next week or so to get her started proper

Cool, but somewhat terrifying model.

EDC

How are you going to Zenithal prime? I've read of a method using the evil airbrush......

......you've not turned to the dark side I hope

Hahahaa - no. Rattle cans. Light spray of black then a zeni coat of white from above after.

 Januine wrote:
Hahahaa - no. Rattle cans. Light spray of black then a zeni coat of white from above after.

That's how I do it too makes life easier

So what's the advantage of zenithal priming?

EDC

It's handy for a few things. Give you an immediate guide in balck and white so to speak, as to where the shadows and highlights are going to be (presuming you are wanting to paint as if the light is coming from above). Everything that is going to be hit by 'the light' will be primed white while everything thats in shadow wiull stay black(ish). I like it especially for skin as (for the nurse) I'm going to do the skin mostly in glazes. So folk refer to it as 'pre-shading' or 'pre-highlighting' even I guess.

Heads up Jan, your Solitaire is featured on the GW Blog for Thursday

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/blog/blog.jsp

Awesomeness - just checked it out. First time I've been featured there - really chuffed - Cheers AoV

Congrats dude, well deserved.

Congrats on getting featured on GW's site, man! That must make you proud! It was indeed well deserved, that mini is spectacular!

Many thx folks. Aye - was a really nice surprise to start the day off with. Totally chuffed they chose to put it up

Yeah, a massive 축하합니다 to you mate. It's about time really! And it truely is a fantastic mini (and base).

 Januine wrote:
It's handy for a few things. Give you an immediate guide in balck and white so to speak, as to where the shadows and highlights are going to be (presuming you are wanting to paint as if the light is coming from above). Everything that is going to be hit by 'the light' will be primed white while everything thats in shadow wiull stay black(ish). I like it especially for skin as (for the nurse) I'm going to do the skin mostly in glazes. So folk refer to it as 'pre-shading' or 'pre-highlighting' even I guess.

Ah yes, that makes alot of sense. Congrats on the getting featured on the GW page!

EDC

Aye! Big congrats on being on the blog. Saw your mini and was like - "that's my friend, woohoo!". Revel in the glory, you deserve it!

Very cool! Congrats Januine. You're internet famous

Ta muchly lads. Week off work next week so loadsa painting time on the cards

Great work, and well deserved, mate!

Home and back to painting. Got the Reds done on another group of space hulk termies. Should've finished these guys last month but ah well, they'll get there

I should really go back and finish my SH termies at some point. Soo much bling though.

Gotta love that bling. They're like a bad 90's rap group......with reeeeeallllly big guns. And armour. ......And blood lust.......ok - they're nothing like rappers :/

 Januine wrote:
Gotta love that bling. They're like a bad 90's rap group......with reeeeeallllly big guns. And armour. ......And blood lust.......ok - they're nothing like rappers :/

Really? Cause they do go on about shooting people a lot. "Shoot dat n a" appears pretty often lol.

 Januine wrote:
Gotta love that bling. They're like a bad 90's rap group......with reeeeeallllly big guns. And armour. ......And blood lust.......ok - they're nothing like rappers :/

If only I could Exalt this more than once. Brilliant.

EDC

Lol. They really are gorgeous figs. Everyone different and individual. There is a lot of bling but it's pretty cool bling and loadsa scrolls and purity seals which I love to paint

I made a thing! Good bit of stuff done today as the headaches decided to cut me a break and sod off. Got a good start made on the vignette for Larks. Still loads n loads to do but the framework is down. There will also (eventually) be a stained glass window in the window frame.

Glad to hear. Looking the part so far!

Looking great Jan

Yep, nice initial progress shot!

Got the doorway sorted, the cobbles outside and the first layer of texture and seal done. Watered down liquid greenstuff is aces for this.

Funky use of greenstuff Jan. Diorama is looking good.

Cheers ckig. Liquid green is handy for texturing and a first seal. Anyways - built and primed and ready to go

Looking good. Watered-down LGS also works as a very effective primer coat for PVC models, like the D&D boardgame figs or Bones.

nice - fairly handy stuff. Good for giving a bit of texture to those way tooooo smooth SM cloaks as well

That thanatar is fantastic dude!
3D Art i recon.

Also, top marks on the scratch-build lightning cannon it looks so close to the original ones i think that's how they made them in the fist place!

Cheer Sir D. Lightning cannon should look pretty tidy when it's all assembled and mounted. Base sprayed the tank earlier today. Looking forward to getting to it. Never done a tank/apc before so should be a bit of fun need to be getting a move on with Larkin and his dio first though.

Woke at stupid'o'clock so decided to make a start on the vignette paint. First couple of layers done on the floor and sketched in the tones for the walls

Great looking marble effect, Jan!

Cheers Az. Just the first steps. Need to add some shadows and then rubble on top

Looking superb already. If I'd done it The floor would have been far less ostentatious.....

.....good job you're doing it.

Lovely job so far, Jan

Thx folks. Happy with how it's going. Not going to do much more on the marble as I don't want to overwork to and bugger it up. Will deepen the edges between the tiles, shadow back towards the corner (where Larks will be ) , finish the little decorative tiles and leave the floor at that. Hoping (he says with raised eyebrows ) to have the whole vig base done by the end of the weekend

Not as much done today as I'd hoped due to an errant hangover. Lol.
However, did make a start on the broken stained glass window, more or less finished the marble and started on the rubble. Hope y'like

Awesome!

The stain glass window looks great! How did you make it? And is the yellow glow on the floor OSL painting or actual light from the window?

Cheers Bottle. The yellow glow is light shining through the stained glass window. Works pretty nice with the right light. It's just made for an old green stuff blister pack and a little bit of 'oh crap, how the hell am I going to do this???' Lol
This the base nearly finished. Few more touches to do and then it's on to Larks

More information on stained glass please mate, that looks awesome.

I'm also hugely unhappy that you and i have the same theme for this month, just means that mine will look terrible

Clear/transparent paints? Like Tamiya's range of Clear Acrylics? Vallejo and Minitaire have some as well.

lol. Been planning this one for a while. Still have the rest of the Gaunt's figs to think up/plan/design/rip my remaining hair out over for little vignettes for them too. Lark's was an easy one so started there.
The stained glass is just a piece of a blister pack cut to shape. The black lines and white wings are GW paints (abaddon and palllid wych) but the clear bits are done with Tamiya clear paints. Stinky stuff and defeintely NO BRUSHLICKING with those paints, but they worked out pretty well.
The black lines fgor the 'cames' are painted on one side of the plastic while all the colours are painted on the reverse.
Had to come up with it on the fly as coudnt find any tutorials or other methods on the interwebberies for doing stained glass on such a small scale - but think it worked out pretty well. The yellow glow will cast down on Lark's back which should look pretty cool when all assembled

the tamiya clears are horribly stinky - but very effective, beautiful window that is Januine!

That is the most annoying yet detailed answer. Thanks Jan, I'm going to give it a go

Ehmmmm .........sorry...????!! o.O

Hahaha, I just meant that I was hoping you'd have some magic instead of pure talent

Thanks for the detail though, I'll definitely try

Ahh lol. Just a bit of experimentation which thankfully worked out. The tamiya just need a layer of varnish over them after drying though as they crack and chip off the plastic easily enough

Not totally happy with the first stained glass window, so making another! Got the cames done - next to add in the colour.
Looking better so far I think

Amazing Jan. Reminds me of the classic banners on Dark Angel backpacks from my childhood and 2nd Edition! :-)

 Januine wrote:
Took a painting break tonight but couldn't help but wander back over to the desk and get a little hobby done finally got The Nurse from Thirdman Studios put together. Not the hardest of builds but a little fiddly at points. Minimal flash and only 1 or 2 mound lines to trim. Little gap fill needed. The pipes were a bit of an arse but nothing swearworthy!! Lovely crisp and varied details and a beautiful sculpt overall. Hoping to get her primed next week and then started on next month. She'll be a comp entry this summer - fingers crossed

That's a truly great looking model. I can't wait to see it all painted up.

Second attempt at th stained glass. Liking this one better. Finer detail and a more limited colour range. Think I'll go with this one. Few more highlights and stains and a poster on the base, then I'll fit and fix the stained glass panel in and the base is done!! Larks' skin is done as well - just need to finish he's eyes and add the tatts then it's on to his cloak and combats. Getting there!!

beautiful

(send me the old window k? )

lol

Soz Guildenstern - I did a breaking test on it to see how tough the Tamiya enamels are(were) - it's kinda fethed now!!!
Seeing the photo now - pretty happy with how Lark's skin turned out. Wanted that lined, old haggered look and seems to have come out. Need a little more shadow on thelower part of his hand though. easiuly fixable

That's awesome. I've loaded up on clear paint and self doubt, I'll have a crack tonight

Nice!!! There are a few wee tricks that I came up with last night that help.....ooopp - classtime; gotta go teach!!! ;laters

YOU MONSTER

lmao!!!!
the Tamiya clear enamels paint onto the clear plastic no worries but GW/acrylic paints dont - they try adn escape and runaway - so dip your brush in some dish soap before mixing up your colour (the liquid stuff for washing the dishes) you dont need much at all but it fixes the paint so it goes on and stays in place perfectly.
As for the cames (the lead lines in stained glass windows) you'll need a steady hand for this as you need to go over them several times to get a solid non transparent black line. I did the cames on the front side of the window and then the colour on the backside - like the way way they used to paint old cartoon gels/frames.
Gloss varnish both sides after to seal in the paint and prevent the enamels from cracking/chipping off. waitr for a few hours thoughas the enamels take a while to dry
That's basically it for the way I came up with to do them. Comes out pretty cool but it is a bit finicky and needs a steady hand and good brush (for the cames. Dont use \you W&N S7 with the enamels, they'll arse it up). Good luck and hope that helps. I may do a proper pic tutorial later after all is said and done.

Another way to do stained glass which I tried to find on my blog to no avail is by finding a design online that you like then sizing it and printing it out on clear acetate then using a black gel pen (used for scrapbooking) trace the lead lines and it leaves a raised satin black line, this is pretty quick to do as well :-)

*don't mean to hijack Jan, just thought i'd offer a different approach.

aye - tried finding acetate sheets over here but to no avail. Shops either didnt stock them or hadn't a brass-eyed scooby what i was talking about )ah the joys of language barriers). the blister pack plastic has a nice thickness and rigidity to it though you need to get around the surface paint adn ink rejection

Oh btw Nerdy - forgot to say; thx again for the method tips a while ago now on the Thanatar mortar lenses. Used it and worked out great. Cheers again

Feth me, this diorama is looking awesome.

EDC

Cheers EDC. Getting there. Hopefully finish the base and Larks tonight. Hopefully ........

 Januine wrote:
aye - tried finding acetate sheets over here but to no avail. Shops either didnt stock them or hadn't a brass-eyed scooby what i was talking about )ah the joys of language barriers). the blister pack plastic has a nice thickness and rigidity to it though you need to get around the surface paint adn ink rejection

Oh btw Nerdy - forgot to say; thx again for the method tips a while ago now on the Thanatar mortar lenses. Used it and worked out great. Cheers again

Anytime Jan! always happy to swap tips mate

Got a bit done on Larks this morning. His skin and tatts are pretty done and got a start on his trousers. They will not be so bright grey in the end - just highlighted up bright to start and then will be shadowed down a bit with a few final glazes. Trying to get that creeped out jittery feel that Larks always had (well, at least before Gereon!!)
Clipped his pin and dry fitted him into the vignette base (oh that's totally finished now and off the desk so I don't try and do anymore and feth it up!!) - looking good

Coming along nicely Jan. Lots of character in the face. I am enjoying the arched eyebrow.

Awesome job on the stained glass, I can't wait to see this finished!

Cheers Bottle. Was really chuffed when that came out - a single strong of AP strong tone..or dark tone.....whatever the black one is!!
Thx Tom. Not long now.....although

I went looking for the final thing I need for the scene..... a bolt pistol, to sit on top of a torn strip of white cloth. Bolt pistol shouldn't be hard to find in a bitz box right? WRONG. Not a singel bolt pistol in all of my 40k annd hobby stuff. Boxed sets, blisters...whatever......no damnable bolt pistol........ 아이씨발개새끼!! I'm raging now :(

Here's where we are with Larks. Excuse the horribly overexposed photo. The green in the camo cloak is way way more subtle irl. Just need to put a final glaze or two onto his cloak to deepen the shadows and he's pretty much ready to go. Love halfday Wednesdays. Get so much done

Looking great there. if you can't find a bolt pistol, I'm sure I could find and post you one?

That's very kind Az but the postage just for a tiny piece doesn't seem right. Thank you very much though. I'm gonna try and sculpt/build one and see how it goes

Larks is looking great dude.

EDC

thx EDC - rather chuffed with him. Soz about the gakky out of focus photo.

Cruddy phone photo of the Final Wip with Larks in place. Just need to make and paint the piece of white cloth and then proper photos at the weekend

That looks fantastic Jan . Love the stained glass window and the marble floor. Maybe have some reikland flesh shade and carroburg crimson for dried blood on the floor?

Amazing work there. Stained glass is epic. The fact that you did it by hand more so.

I know Staples caries printable transparent sheets. Found them on their website under Projection Parts and Accessories. “Transparency Copy Film” seems to be the buzz word they are using these days. Overhead Projector Sheets is what I would have gone with.

Cheers AoV. no blood on the floor. This is a fluff piece from the story 'the Angel of Bucephalon'. There will be a piece of torn white cloth lying across the floor still to be added as a final detail.

Really great stuff on.here. Will keep tabs.

Cheers Sage and thx for looking in. Should be some finished pics up in about 30 mins as the vignette is finally finised and photos taken

 Januine wrote:
That's very kind Az but the postage just for a tiny piece doesn't seem right. Thank you very much though. I'm gonna try and sculpt/build one and see how it goes

It wouldn't be a hassle to do so - More than happy to send one if your sculpted one isn't to your liking.

That'd be really cool Az. The vig is all finishsed now but the bolt pistol is kinda part of the story and would be a great addition down the line


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Done and Dusted
Everyone's favourite mad sniper - Hlaine 'Mad-as-feth' Larkin in a wee vignette showing my take on his short story 'The Angel of Bucephalon'
Loved making and painting this one, so much. Bringing one of my favourite characters of the 40Kverse to life was a real treat. Huge thx to BC
Here he is folks - hope you like him as much as I do.
I'm not 100% happy with the photos but am pretty knackered so I think they'll do for the now

Cheers for looking in

Jan

Top work as ever. The marble flooring looks particularly awesome!

EDC

Wonderful! Very atmospheric piece.

Incredible work Jan!

Thx so much guys- really kind. Glad you like him

Above and beyond awesome, the lighting effects look awesome, really add an atmosphere to the piece!

Beatiful work!

Space hulk door holders. Loads of 'em!!

Beautiful though!

And are you doing gore too or leaving it at this?

I did more after that shot and after purity seal arsed a few of them up. powders, more grim adn rust, some blood and ick adn finally scratches. i'll try and get a snap up later

So. Fething gorgeously icky and gorey doors then?

In one day?!

Good man, good man.

Finally got the camera out and here's some doors....from Space Hulk....yay!!! No tmuch more to say really

I wasn't sure at first about the fire, but yeah, you nailed it. I am gonna do the painting on mine, base a couple of SH minis and then come back and use weathering and gunk as you have done. Well worth it.

Fire????

Gore, stupid iPhone

Those are superb! All I'd suggest to really complete the look is to follow TP's lead in gong round the edges of the door pieces in black pen just to stop them standing out so much.

Aye, the raw card does stick out. Need to pick up an acrylic paint pen at some point and go over them

with your steady hand you probably could do it with a brush I'd imagine.

Liking that blue and hazard striped one (3rd from left in photo).
All look nice.

Awesome! those look so nice!

Time to update and bring the list of doom forward. Slowgress is my name! Really need to start making more solid progress on this lot - so June is going to be all about clearing the paint shelf. Loadsa stuff sitting there in various stages of progress. No big or new stuff this month, just clearing the decks!!



On the bench:

V̶o̶x̶h̶a̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶o̶ ̶S̶k̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶(̶T̶B̶B̶)̶ ̶ Done
Yeld Rig Hive Spyer (primed and based)
T̶a̶n̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶D̶i̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶,̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶d̶)̶ ̶ Done
F̶e̶m̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶s̶a̶r̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶(̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
Harlie Shadowseer (boxed)
Harlie Troupers (2) (basecoated and shading)
V̶r̶o̶s̶h̶ ̶T̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶ ̶S̶g̶t̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
Librarian Turmiel (highlights, detailing, base)
Kranon the Relentless (primed)
Gaunt's Ghosts (4) (boxed)
Gaunt
M̶a̶d̶ ̶L̶a̶r̶k̶i̶n̶ Done
Milo
Dorden
Corbec
R̶u̶s̶t̶s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶5̶)̶ Done
S̶k̶i̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶1̶0̶)̶ Done
T̶e̶c̶h̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶e̶s̶t̶ ( Done )
T̶h̶a̶n̶a̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶m̶a̶t̶a̶ (Done )
T̶h̶e̶ ̶N̶u̶r̶s̶e̶ Done

In The Cabinet:

Inquistor (boxed)
Psyker (boxed)
Swordbearer (boxed)
Herald (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Ghast' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Silence' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Obulus' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Dirge' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Cosette' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Graves'(boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Casket'(boxed)
Possesssed CSM (5) (boxed)
CSM Sorcerer Lord (boxed)
Chaos Familiar (boxed)
Callidus Assassin (boxed)
Vindicare Assassin (boxed)
Eversor Assassin (boxed)
Culuxus Assassin (boxed)
Chaos Cultists with autoguns (10) boxed)
Space Hulk Terminators ( 11 ) (boxed)
Space Hulk Genestalers (18) (boxed)
D̶o̶o̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶2̶0̶)̶ Done
DeathWatch:Overkill Space Marines (11) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Patriarch (1) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Cult (38) (boxed)
Eldar Wave Serpent (boxed)
Solar Auxilia Dracosan Armoured Transport (converted,built & primed)
30th Anniversary Space Marine (boxed)
AdMech Tech Priest Enginseer (boxed)


Total fig count (incl vehicles etc):

46 /162

Terrain looks fantastic Januine! Can I ask how you did the door slot holders? I really like how they turned out! As someone who needs to paint a similar sort of base for my space marine, any help would be appreciated

Cheers ckig the door bases were metals, washes, powders, technicals, drybrush, technicals
Metals - to get the base colour down - on top of black spray coat I drybrushed warplock bronze then ghenna gold then necron compound.
Washes - washed everything with nuln then added spots of agrax and coelia greenshade
Powders - different earthy and rusty FW weathering powders then fixed them with purity seal
Technical paints - typhus corrosion in the corners and recesses. Ryza rust on top of that (or maybe the other way around)
Drybrushed lightly in places with ironbreaker to show scratches chips through to the metal
Final technicals - half of them got BFTBG and the other half got hot glue gun gore strands which was then painted with nurgles rot
That's about it

Very informative and helpful! Thanks Januine! GW washes and Technicals are great.

No worries. Glad it was helpful. The main thing is just building up colours and depth to the bases so they look the part. The technicals at the end just place them into the game a bit more

Nice work on the SH doors, Jan. I wish I had the willpower to keep my list more like yours...

Larkin's diorama on the other hand just looks beautiful. An absolutely lovely piece of work. PM me your postal details for that Bolt Pistol when you get a chance, and LMK if there are any other small conversion bits you'll need for upcoming pieces that I might be able to help you with.

Cheers a million Az. Yeah....really am so happy with Larks. The stained glass came out better than I'd hoped.
Hobbying in Korea.....can be a little frustrating at time. It's just not big over here (ha - understatement of the century) - there's only one GW stockist in the whole country for instance. Get bitz and materials for basing/dios et al is not easy and a lot of 'repurposing' skills become a big requisite. But I get by - lol. The insane import tax makes ordering in stuff a bit of a no no as well; anything over $150 US gets hit with a 30% customs tax so FW lovlieness gets the boot. Ah well.....

Getting some decent progress in this weekend (5 day weekend ftw ) Turmiel isn't far off done (not the most enjoyable fig to paint) and another 3 SH termies are well under way. Lotta bling on these boys!!!

The SH Termies are looking good there Januine. I'm probably going to have to return to the marines at some point - I have got loads after all!!!

I like where you're going with the Space Hulk terminators. Sort of agree with you re Turmiel. Lovely model but he's a got some annoying bits to paint.

Cheers lads. Termies are coming along but until the golds start to go down they don't look like I'm getting anywhere.
Not sure what it is about Turmiel.......nice enough sculpt and all....just really haven't felt it....meh. Lol

Ever get those things that you love and hate but still love painting .....SH termie armour scrollwork. Think another shade up for the highlight and then a glaze to bring it all together. Tricksy scrollsesss

Lol

That's a bit better. Nearly there......writing is a bit sloppy up close though :/

Feth yeah. Nice shield work.

EDC

Sgt. Gideon is getting close to finish. Just the seals, stones and scripts plus final highlights to go. Was hoping to get him finished today but been a long day painting and my elbow is totally shot :/ beginning to look good though. These SH termies are gorgeous (save the odd annoying bit of detail stretch) but damn they have an insane amount of detail!! Worth it though

Looking great!

Cheers Para. Hoping to get him and two of his compadres finished up this week

Rubbish wip shot but work continues on three of the SH termies. Sgt Gideon is 90% done, then onto the other two

Can you come on holiday to Australia so I can watch you paint for like half a day?

lol - would love to be able to pop over! Never been actually. The wife has a friend in Sydney so will get there eventually someday!
The main thing for this guy was to try out a new way od doing power weapons. I'm not a fan of nmm or of those really colourful coloured weapons but I still wanted to try and get some electrical effect on a metal ....think its a starter as a method. Needs some more experimentation

Gideon is coming along excellently, when everything is done you are going to have one hell of a Space Hulk set.

I like what you've done with the Thunder Hammer; looks totally rad.

EDC

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Gideon is coming along excellently, when everything is done you are going to have one hell of a Space Hulk set.

Cheers T - hoping so. The operative word there is 'when' - I'm seem to be taking forever to get through the SH box - mostly due to not being a fasdt painter and constantly getting distracted with other figs/projects - lol. Will get them finihsed.....some day

evildrcheese wrote:I like what you've done with the Thunder Hammer; looks totally rad.


EDC

Thx EDC - been trying to think of a way to do power weapons that I like for a while...not a big fan of the usual blue/green/red wetblended power weapons look. Think this way will suit for me. Need to refine it a bit yet

Sgt Gideon is now finished and based and its onto brother Scipio. He's pretty straightforward and minimum bling so shouldn't take too long to finish up

Brother Scipio nearly finished.

Nice! Awesome stuff Jan

Cheers AoV. Rubbish pic but am shattered so wil finish him tomroro. He's the plainest of all the SH termies so not much too him

Dangit, Januine, you're making me want to get Space Hulk now! I really don't need to spend my money on that at the moment.

Seriously, awesome painting!

Thx Zerg - you should; if not for the game (which is awesome) then for the figs. Really sweet sculpts - some of the best

Lovely work on both Gideon and Scipio!

Cheers Az. Tbh, while I'm happy enough with Gideon...Scipio is annoying me. I knwo they're just for TTS but something about Brother Scipio isn't right.....There's a few transitions that aren't right and I think I need to redo the lettering on his chest scroll. I'll leave him for now and come later after finihing Brother Zael I think

Brother Zael well underway. Bugger wears a lot of script - thank feth that's one of my favourite bita to do! Starting blocking in the precious metals. Think I'll leave it at that for tonight.

Always thought it was strange the dude with the Flamer was covered in paper.

Lmao - I must be getting dopey in my old age; I'd never even thought of that!!! Too true!!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Always thought it was strange the dude with the Flamer was covered in paper.

If he's in terminator armour I doubt he'd be that bothered lol. Blood Angels are all about their bling.

He looks awesome - they all do!

Paper plus flamer omg yeah... lol

Well, re-adorning him gives the chapter serfs something to do on slow days. Plus, walking round a battlefield on fire? Badass.

Still suspect the big ones are lists of what he needs to pick up on the way home; bread, milk, cheese, pack of ciggies, promethium et al

Maybe he's taken one too many wounds to the head and needs reminders of what can be burned:

Gribbly with claws - burn

Unnecessarily large shoulder pads - don't burn

Poor Brother Zael......
"If found, please return to......
Don't get wet, don't feed after midnight".......

no wait..... o.O

Brother Zael just about ready for basing and finishing touches. Nice broke, lot of lists about though!

Stunning work buddy!

Cheers AoV - happy with this one. Gideon is still bothering me so I'll need to go back and see what I can do with him. Taking a break from Termies after I get these 3 all finished up. And onto something..... a little bigger and darker

So my painting area and hobby area has been getting on my wick recently. It needs a good reorganising, sorting and all that. Have decided to have at it and totally redo the whole thing. Here's how it looks at the mo



Paint are all in those wee drawer units to the right and drives me nuts rooting around trying to find the right one even though they're semi organised by colour. Immediate painting glass shelf at the back and so on. The monitor never gets used as its not compatible with my laptop.
Decided first thing needed was some proper paint racks which then led me to ordering these........



100 of them......ordered off eBay......which arrived today. Yup - in for a penny, in for a pound as they say. On the same day also ordered one rack from Modularterrain in Spain which holds up to 50 bottles of varied sizes which has been dispatched and Is currently winging its way here and 2 dropper bottle racks from Back2Bas-ix, who have so far (acc to my order on their website) done feth all with my order except take the money. 'Processing' my arse.

Anywho - that's what's going on. Hopefully decanting 70+ GW paints into the dropper bottles won't send me too far into the abyss!!

The hedgehog couldn't care less......


And as usual the dog wonders what the feth I'm up to and if there will be any food for her in the whole deal!!

Yay! dog pics! :-) I love dog pics nearly as much as Brother Zael loves purity! :-)

lol. That's ma wee angel right there. Love her to bits. Rescued her when some *censored for understandably strong, viscous and foul language* threw her out on the streets when she was a few months old. She gets a bit spoiled by the wife and me but.....feth it, she deserves to be

I'd be tempted to cancel the b2b rack and get hobbyzone.pl ones - I just replaced my b2b stuff with hobbyzone, sooooo much better

Shame they don't do acrylics though

Hmmmm - just had a wee look. Very nicely priced! Not mad keen on the design but totally functional and price is bloody excellent. I'll give b2b till monday to get a move on. They were on holiday till tuesday just past apparently. If nothing happening by Monday - cancel cancel time

Either way, swapping citadel jars to bottles is the best thing I have done. Don't forget an agitator and some flo-aide, stop dri while you are at it!

Aye - just did a couple bottles to see how easy/pain in the arse it was gonna be. Liquitex flow aid and plastic BBs at hand. Piece of cake. Hopefully get the lot done by the end of the weekend. Realsiing I'm running low on a few different paints though......balls....more shopping to be done....lol

Oh my god your dog is amazing :O

Best dog ever. Her name is Skye

What breed is the pooch, Jan? Looks like it might be a cross of something?

She's mostly longhaired doxie, we think. But there's a touch of something else in there as well. Absolute wee gem. Sneaky, daft and so loving all wrapped up in one hairy package

Sorry, my IT guy self is being triggered. Why doesn't the monitor work on your laptop? I bet with the right adapters, you'll be watching Netflix while painting in no time.

My laptop is fairly new, the monitor isnt. HDMI plug on the laptop, monitor is the old 15(?) pin. I got an adapter but still no joy - spent an afternoon trying to get it to work but even with the adapter doesnt want to work. something to do with the freq or something. really annoying. :/

Made a quick start on decanting into the dropper bottles. Don't they look smart. lol. Actually really easy and painless to do and kinda cathartic in its own way

I stuffed up and printed labels for them instead of using the existing labels...

They also won't be big enough for the big bottles of shade, which is a bummer

Not sure if I'll bother decanting the bottle of wash/shade. Haven't really decided yet as there's no problem with them and the wash gumming up around the collar. Just transferring base and layers for now

fair enough, I just went decanting mad

Lol. It is a bit of fun though eh?! Definitely worth it

I would not have wanted to decant that lot...ouch.

Your fur/spine technique on the dog and hedgehog look amazing.

Lol. Hahahha. Cheers T

Awww... what a gorgeous little doggie. The Hedgehog looks like a spiky ball of cute as well.

Skye's an absolute darling. The hedgehog.......'grumpy' is putting it kindly- lol

Brother Zael looks great. He loves his paperwork.

How long did it take you to decant all the paint?

EDC

@ EDC - cheers fella. I'm still decanting the paints - just doing a few at a time. It's gonna be a while yet till my new paint racks arrive so I'm in no really hurry. Decanting is turning out to be pretty easy....except for Dawnstone......Dawnstone was a complete ass!!!

Anyhow...... Calling these 3 boys done now. Happy how they turned out. Managed to blend that odd ripped floor that Brother Scipio is having at into the resin base well enough.







With those 3 finished, I started on The Nurse. Nothing major - just rebased the skin and started sketching in the shadows. Need to get my skates on with this one as she my entry for this month's comp



And can update this damnable list too - lol

On the bench:

V̶o̶x̶h̶a̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶o̶ ̶S̶k̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶(̶T̶B̶B̶)̶ ̶ Done
Yeld Rig Hive Spyer (primed and based)
T̶a̶n̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶D̶i̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶,̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶d̶)̶ ̶ Done
F̶e̶m̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶s̶a̶r̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶(̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
Harlie Shadowseer (boxed)
Harlie Troupers (2) (basecoated and shading)
V̶r̶o̶s̶h̶ ̶T̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶ ̶S̶g̶t̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
Librarian Turmiel (highlights, detailing, base)
Kranon the Relentless (primed)
Gaunt's Ghosts (5) (boxed)
Gaunt
M̶a̶d̶ ̶L̶a̶r̶k̶i̶n̶ Done
Milo
Dorden
Corbec
R̶u̶s̶t̶s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶5̶)̶ Done
S̶k̶i̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶1̶0̶)̶ Done
T̶e̶c̶h̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶e̶s̶t̶ ( Done )
T̶h̶a̶n̶a̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶m̶a̶t̶a̶ (Done )
T̶h̶e̶ ̶N̶u̶r̶s̶e̶ (Done )

In The Cabinet:

Inquistor (boxed)
Psyker (boxed)
Swordbearer (boxed)
Herald (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Ghast' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Silence' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Obulus' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Dirge' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Cosette' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Graves'(boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Casket' (Started )
Possesssed CSM (5) (boxed)
CSM Sorcerer Lord (built/primed)
Chaos Familiar (built)
Callidus Assassin (boxed)
Vindicare Assassin (boxed)
Eversor Assassin (boxed)
Culuxus Assassin (boxed)
Chaos Cultists with autoguns (10) boxed)
Space Hulk Terminators ( 8 ) (boxed)
Space Hulk Genestalers (15) (boxed)
D̶o̶o̶r̶s̶ ̶(̶2̶0̶)̶ Done
DeathWatch:Overkill Space Marines (10) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Patriarch (1) (boxed)
DeathWatch:Overkill Genestealer Cult (38) (boxed)
Eldar Wave Serpent (boxed)
Solar Auxilia Dracosan Armoured Transport (converted,built & primed)


Total fig count (incl vehicles etc):

53 /160

Fantastic stuff Jan. Gideon and Zael are my favourites here.

Cheers AOV

Some fancy space hulk shenanigans hereabouts. Lovely work.

Yes, great work on those Termies!

Cheers folks. Only another 8 of them to go. Lol

Up early this morning to continue on the nurse. Bit more work on the skin - building and strengthening the shadows and tones. Taking a break from the skin now but will add some stronger zen highlights later. Onto her leather coat - reinforced some of the strongest point highlights with white and started laying down initial glazes. Love this fig. Keep finding more little cool and hidden details

The decanting continues - only about another 30 to do

Got a little more done on our lady of mercy here. Finished off the feathers and added a little texture to them and made a start on the metal tank and exhaust on her side. Liking how the metals are looking so far. I do love playing with Metallics

Cheers for stopping by

Lovely job so far buddy! Great stuff

Cheers AoV. Really am enjoying painting this freaky lady

Hmmm - Not much love for 'The Nurse' eh....she probably not everyone's cup of tea I guess. I'm loving painting her actually - trying out some new things and its refreshing painting something really quite different to what I usually do.

Anywho... in other news - busy weekend ahead (save any mad gak popping up and brexiting my plans )

First of my new paint racks arrived so need to get that built up - oohhhhh arts'n'crafts time - yay!!!



bigger than I thought it would be

Then need to get the last third or so of the GW paints decanted......it's been......cathartic actually - who knew?!!!



And more arts'n'crafts - turn this pile into a vignette base for the nurse.....plan is in my head but it's gonna be tricky.....need to do some sketching/plans first I think



Glad the weekend has arrived - that was one gakky, icky, gakinfested week. Have a great weekend everyone and hobby on mes amis

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Am on that too Az!!!

Today though is a day for building some stuff - namely a vig base for the nurse. Could be the most tricky one I've done yet......

ooooooooooooo spiral stairs. Is she shoving someone down the stairs?

nah - there may be a few point details on the stairs though. kinda feeling my way through here - still a shaky on how i'm going to get these stairs right as they are made from metal grating and not easier to work plasticard...... I-Beam girder work is done though. Onto the wall next

Progress! All day at this - the wife was less than happy with all the saw dust but getting there

Intriguing! Can't wait to see it all come together!

Should be pretty cool when all done. Need to attack the spiral stairs yet which is gonna take some delicate pinning And that clear plastic rod is not the easiest to drill into. Then onto treating the wood, adding a pool and other stuff.

This might put it into better perspective

Looking very promising,

Those display bases of yours are really a sight to behold!

Cheers Littletower. Looks a bit rough at the mo but the main structure is now built and just needs the stairs and some other hard details. Should look much better once primed which (hopefully) will get done this evening

Here's where we're at now with the base for The Nurse. Snuck home from work at lunch time to make and put on the steps and nearly put the Dremel through my finger! Built and primed now onto the painting!

That is looking great Jan. Love the model as well, very creepy.

Cheers Mym Base has come together pretty well. I love this fig though she might be a bit out there for some folk. Such a shame that the KS didnt suceed as Thirdman Studio had a whole pile more beautiful sculpts in line....ah well :(

Nice stuff Jan

Cracking work, I really envy those with scratch build/modelling skills...I am just useless in that regard.

Awesome base and model! I like the idea of the pool at the bottom.

Cheers All this was the trickiest build yet. Usually the base I make are floor based so wanted to do something suspended. Was a bit fiddley at times - making the interlocking girders/I-beams and locking them on to the wall and those fething steps but has come out grand and not wonky which I was afraid of. Painting starts tomoro. Lots of ideas to put in for that still need to actually finish the bloody nurse as well!!! And I've got ......3 days!!! Oh goody!!!!

Snuck home from work at lunchtime to get a little painty painty in (Tuesdays; 4 hour lunch break - I'd be mad not to ) and Mr Postman delivered my new paint racks. Buildy builds and we've finally got the hobby area sorted and from this .......



To this.......



So much better now. Still have about a dozen paints to decant but that's easy enough.

Did get the base metals down on the base as well. Next comes the filthification!!!!

Nice setup there!

Man thats a great hobby area. Ive been meaning to set one up myself. I manage to crowd everything Im using in one corner of my table and end up with a 4 inch work space.

Very nice hobby area, so clean and crisp

Ta folks. Aye - so much easier and more comfortable now with everything in place. Drawers are still a disaster but will get to those.....laters
Meanwhile the base progresses

That is awesome! I was hoping to see a warehouse 13 reference there but alas

lol. I considered it along with a whole pile of others. I was even going to throw in a Firefly nod but cutting a hanji stencil is .......just no!!!!. Silent Hill is an obvious one too but......well, there's some more creepy stuff yet to be put in

Base is looking great.

Cheers Tom

Great looking work in progress. The stairs have come up well.

Cheers Az. Haven't made stairs before so decide to start at the deep end and so spiral ones. Had to actually do some ........maths!!!! Eww. Just need to weather it now, attach to the plinth and fill the pool! Have a few little.....bits to add at the end too very happy so far. 2 days to get it And the nurse finished up......bugger :/

Wednesday halfday. Waheeey. Made a solid start on the weathering, grime and rust. Usually I'd do this with weathering powders but they're out due to the crazy humidity here at the mo and therefore I can spray seal them as usual. So haven't to do it the brush way. Working out nicely I think. Gotta stop for now to take the hound to the vet.
Cheers for looking in, hope you like the progress

I don't look a this thread for a few days and look what happens!

Awesome work on the terrain, really loving that stair case and the weathering. Incredible work.

Also the Nurse is looking awesome, looking forward to seeing more on that soon.

EDC

Cheers EDC. Plan is to have everything done by the 30th GMT............

Hope the pooch is ok Jan, this is looking great already. The clickis ticking but I bet you get it done with time to spare .

Ah the little one is grand - just the monthly visit for her; heartworm meds and a checkup.
Should hopefully get all done in time. It's the final touches where I start faffing about and burning time !!!

Splendid piece of terrain there, should frame the model nicely. Does the Nurse have its own base, or will it go directly on the vignette?

She does come with her own base but it's pretty naff so I'll mount her directly onto the vig base and the original base will go into the 'bases' drawer!!
Just finished doing all the weathering and rusting. had to do it all by brush as with this weather the weathering powders are a no no. 30min job has just hit about 3 hours! but ....i much prefer the result. very very happy with it. next......time for a little bloodwork methinks - have to take the scissors to the dog's toothbrush again

90% done, at last of the top half. Bit more blood splatter and then onto the bottom half plinth. Photo is a bit gak but you get the idea

I actually use a pigment fixer from secret weapon miniatures that is a brush on, you may want to give it a try.

Aye - heard of them - AK and MiG have them too. Tried to find out here in Korea...............nope :/

The weathering has really made this piece shine, can't wait to see it finished.

Cheers Tom. Base is 90% done now. Finishing up the nurse at the mo.....

Well The Nurse and her vig base is pretty much done finally. Lookin at photos now there are a few things I still need to do aand clear up. And I need to take some proper photos but after a hellishly gakky trip to Seoul yesterday, Ipad pics are the best I can manage for now!!

Aside from that absurdly nice base, that monkey is the star of this show. Great work dude!

Lol. I like the little doll - creepy as hell

That's a bit fethed up Jan lol

That a good thing or a bad thing AOV?!

I have to agree with AoV, that is one f'd up fig! Genuinely disturbing, which is not something I would say often, even with all the OTT 40K stuff I see on here all the time.

I love the base (it's spot-on for creepiness) and The Nurse herself is splendidly done. The only thing I found myself wanting was another figure on the stairs, reeling back in utter horror as she spins around and fixes her gaze upon him.

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That a good thing or a bad thing AOV?!

Looks like something from John Blanche's artwork.

Hmmmm - nice idea NLC......gonna have to have a wee think about that.......... cheers