Truck is looking great Gwyn, really well weathered

Weathered the bumpers! Some antiquing medium goop mixed with different proportions of black and brown worked great to get some streaks of engine grease out the engine grill. Also did the windows. Contrast Leviadon Blue over Abaddon Black deepens and evens out the black, then two shades of gray for light reflections. Forgot to do it on the back window then!

Home stretch, just the rear window, headlights and taillights left to do before we have one zombie-apocalypse-ready escape vehicle (fuel and keys not included, gotta get those through the gameplay!)

Ok, that improved indeed greatly. well done chap.

Even with fuel and keys I wouldn't trust this car Nice work!

Lol, not much choice in a zombie apocalypse in small-town Ontario.

Did the back window, but I think I messed it up. Might need to redo it. What do you think, black it over and try again?

I think that a retry would be good, yeah. Not that it's terrible, but it can be better. The rope looks excellent, though

First of all, great rust effects.

I think the window would improve if you remove or minimise the lighter highlight on the top. Rest of it looks great to me though!

Lovely rust; subdued and realistic which totally fits the truck.

You were right, the second stab at the rear window still isn't as good as the other windows, but it's much better than it was. And the headlights came out fine, meaning we have a finished mini folks!

Front left


Front right


Back left


Back right

It looks pretty good to me Gwyn! The main difference seems to be the other windows only have a short line in the middle of the length of the long lines. The back windows seem to have both colours with lines of similar length. Not sure if that makes sense?

Nice work! makes me want to buy a tub of P38

Nice Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Next project was somewhat interrupted by loosening of shutdowns enough that I could visit my parents and grandparents, which was much-needed. Started back again! Got some Immortals started. Wish I had Indomitus but alas, money is tight. I decided that I didn't like my previous "green is gauss, blue is tesla" rule, having that much extra blue was one colour too many in an already fairly busy army (silver/purple/green with bone faces is already 4 colours, and I already have Crypteks and Canopteks painted up with red on top of that to make 5. Don't need to add that much blue for a 6th colour!)

Long time no paint! The third year of law school is supposed to be super easy. "3LOL". Not, apparently, when it's all virtual! This semester has been REALLY tight on me getting any painting done, so I've gotten barely any progress done on the immortals. I really want to get them off the table though so I can hopefully get something a little more interesting on the table. So I've been painting fairly sloppily, eh, sue me.



Just gotta finish off the purple (this is just two coats of the base Naggaroth Night), do the forehead stripe, OSL green and green for the Triarchy symbol, and base them.

Glad to see you found a few minutes Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Looking good. I like the extra attention paid to the chest vents.

Thanks CB and youwashock! I like the idea that the Necron chests are just bursting with power, that the ribcage protects the intense power source that runs their living metal bodies. Once they get OSLed it also means they're much more equal in terms of green-metal ratio.

Just a small update: finished the purple (I like how the lighter purple colour encircles and frames the head), cleaned up and got a layer of contrast white onto the head stripe. Didn't wait for it to dry to take the photo, next up is finishing the stripe, OSL, then basing and shouldermark transfers.

I really like the color scheme. Good luck with virtual law school, and I'm glad you got some hobby time. Also, very delayed reaction, but the truck looks great.

Good to see you get a little time of painting and seeing as you're studying law, I won't try to sue you for your painting progress as you suggest

Thanks DJ JJ! I'm glad you like the truck, I had so much fun painting it.

Viterbi would you believe that the joke was entirely unintentional? xD

A touch more work done: all that's left is to finish the basing and waterslide transfers!

Front


Back:


I think the OSL is a lot more subtle from the front because of the way they hold their guns, and I'm considering removing OSL from the eyes, what do you guys think on that?

I like the OSL, but don't think it would be a deal-breaker to lose it.

Did it! Got these guys off the table! The guns are still kinda sloppy, but I decided to have some fun and throw some OSL on to the base as well, which I think really kicks these guys up a notch.

Nice one gwyn! It’s always good to clear another unit off the unpainted pile! I like the OSL On their spines, it’s a cool addition

They are coming along quite marvelous.

gobert wrote:Nice one gwyn! It’s always good to clear another unit off the unpainted pile! I like the OSL On their spines, it’s a cool addition

Thanks gobert! The spine OSL is the laziest possible OSL, a single light brushstroke running down the spine between the protrusions.

Not Online!!! wrote:They are coming along quite marvelous.

Thank you Not Online!!!! (four exclamation marks, 3 yours, one mine).

We're gonna be switching up the game today! So because I've decided I need to rescale my Terminators (Terminators shouldn't be dwarfed by Primaris marines guys), I wanted to redo my Marines scheme. And however could I decide?

Well.

I made an excel table of all 407 chapters listed in the wiki (including those canonically destroyed or went traitor). I numbered them all, giving them weights so that if they were destroyed or didn't have a known scheme I was less likely to roll their number, and if they were First Founding or otherwise a "featured" chapter like the Crimson Fists, Space Sharks, Black Templars, Flesh Tearers or similar, they got a heigher weight.

Well, the random number generator made their decision, and I could not be happier.

That is a very interesting way to decide on a color scheme Excited to see what you will do with these!

Have to admit Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll, I have also not seen that color scheme or selection method used before.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Have to admit Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll, I have also not seen that color scheme or selection method used before.

Cheers,

CB

The colour scheme is Flesh Tearers! A darker red (airbrushed for ease), with black shoulders, helmets, backpacks, and chest ornaments. These specific minis however are the Dark Vengeance Dark Angels with Dark Angel insignia filed off I believe (except with different Sarge, Special and Heavy). I also have the captain and librarian from that set. I always liked the Dark Angel robes though, so I don't mind throwing some nice robed figures in with my Flesh Tearers. These guys will likely be Combat Squadded because, while I have 15 Tacticals, I only have 2 Sarges.

Oooh Flesh Tearers! Looking good, well done de-Dark Angeling them

Progress is slow. And currently ugly. But it’ll fix up, I think.

Decided to do up the Sarge as a template model for the rest. Make sure I like all my colour choices. And I'm glad I did, because I realized I want to use a different final highlight for the black aquilla and gun casings than I do for the armour and backpack.




So far we have, for the black armour: Abaddon Black, Eshin Grey, Administratum Grey, Nuln Oil. For the gun casings and aquilla: Abaddon Black, Eshin Grey, 50/50 Eshin Grey and Karak Stone, Nuln Oil.
For the red: Khorne Red, Nuln Oil (next is a medium red highlight, then Cadian Fleshtone final highlight).
For the robes, so far: Greyseer, Skeleton Horde, Seraphim Sepia (next is likely Screaming Skull, then Pallid Wych Flesh).

So my highlights on the gun casing were too thick, and looking at it there's still red bleedthrough so I didn't paint my black down thick enough in the first place; will fix that.

Just about finished up here. Need to redo the eyes (not happy at alll with them), do the gold/details, finish the chapter badge (serrated circles are hard!) and the base.

Fixed the shoulder emblem (mostly). It needs a bit stronger white for the "teeth" of the saw, but otherwise I'm very happy with it!

Nice glow effect on the plasma and good work on the freehand symbol. Excited to see the rest get more colors.

I also want to praise the freehand symbol. That saw blade is ready to tear some flesh.

Thanks Viterbi! Unfortunately on the whole the mini is finished, I'm keeping the colours fairly low-contrast. Just details and special effects left.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff! It took me like 5 tries to figure out a technique that worked xD

Speaking of special effects, I really liked having OSL red light coming out of my old Terminators, so I'm gonna keep that around on my Flesh Tearers, even for regular infantry. It works really well here when it catches a little on the shoulder with the chapter badge!



Edit: looking over the old pictures, I also didn't leave any margins in the book! I'll fix that, it should also help keep the red letter looking more like a single large letter rather than a whole word.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no margins, only full page justified text! Margins aside, the book looks great, I’d leave it and keep that lesson for the next mini! The freehand saw blade and the OSL are looking cool. The plasma glow on his hand works well to me. I’d maybe add a wash to his lenses to outline the lens a bit

Thanks gobert! I don't think it'd be too difficult to fix. For the lenses, I actually went and redid them entirely, as well as touching up the plasma. All other details done. Plus you can see the barrel weathering I did a bit clearer here.



Now to do up the rest of the squad (not gonna base the sarge until the rest are done).

The weathered plasma barrel looks well done. Kuddos on the freehand shoulder marking, nice as well!

Flesh Tearers are looking good, especially the freehand you've worked on and the burnt metal from the plasma pistol

Thanks Flapjack and Tyranid Horde! I'm very happy with both, especially for first tries. The burnt barrel effect will also appear on this unit's lascannon and meltagun.

I started the rest of the unit. This is the black highlighted up, awaiting a wash for it and the red once I clean the red up from brush mistrokes.

They start to look snazy.

They are definitely starting to look like they're ready to tear some flesh!

Contrast between the red and black is really cool and a fine group shot!
Have you thought about how you will tackle the bases?

Back to work!

Thanks Not Online and amazingturtles for your kind words.

Viterbi, I haven't given it too much thought. I'm leaning towards a cool-hued blue-grey moonscape though. Light in shade and cool in hue to best show off the dark and warm Flesh Tearer colours.

Speaking of warm Flesh Tearer colours, got the red highlighted up! Next gonna finish up the guns, then the eyes, then the gold, then gonna do a go-over on each one for details.

Moonbases.. yeah that is something i am interested in

Glad you approve!

Got the gun bodies finished.



Next: fun details!

Your Marines are looking good. Digging the OSL from the backpack vents. The detail on Sarge's book is awesome, and a litttle late here, but the chapter symbol turned out great.

Ooh, I agree. The backpack osl makes me want to repaint all of my marines. I probably (likely, definitely) won't, but I want to.

Great progress, always nice to see a bunch of minis getting closer to the finish line. Your base idea sounds really cool and fitting.

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Progress trickles on. I got:

Gold details! Look at the gold details on the backpacks here, oooooh


And we got: purity seals and barrel scorching. Though I didn't overlap the washes well enough I think, and they both need a bit of brown-black at the very extremity imho.

now they start to come together nicely.

Really like the metal on the melta and lascannon, how'd you get that effect?

Good progress, the gold accents tie the minis together well and break up the black nicely.

Again, very nice heat effects on your heavy weapons!

Cool heat effect and I wouldn't worry about them not blending more together, looks fine to me.

Maybe I'll leave them then, it's less work xD

Eyes done! I think they went pretty well, there's a couple eyes that I'm not too happy with but on the whole.



So here's the next question: should I do a little light OSL from the eyes? Or leave them lens-y and not glow-y?

Last big pre-basing step: the OSL on th

Super productive day yesterday! Eye AND backpack OSL, a few details, and all the shoulder freehand (including adding squad markings to the Sergeant and a forehead blood drop)! I got overly excited and thought I had finished and was ready for basing, but I forgot that I still need to do the kneecap squad number!

I decided that this is 3rd Company, 1st Squad.

Front: eye OSL and chapter insignia!


Rear: Backpack OSL and Company/Squad Role insignia!


Close up on the melta-gunner, with added effects on the barrel!

Looking good.

Good update, the OSL is looking good and nicely done insignia. How do Flesh Tearers work for squad markings and insignia? Do they follow a different company marking structure to the usual codex astartes?

The osl looks pretty good, not too overpowering.

Barrel looking HOT! Nice work all around.

Great job, they are nearly there, can't wait for their finished bases!

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I finished them off yesterday, gotta find the time to photograph them proper today so you can see the finished result!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Good update, the OSL is looking good and nicely done insignia. How do Flesh Tearers work for squad markings and insignia? Do they follow a different company marking structure to the usual codex astartes?

Flesh Tearers use a mix of Codex and Blood Angels heraldry. The traditional white role symbols on the right pauldron, overlaid with the Blood Angels Company heraldry (only 3rd and 7th companies are red instead of white). So here we can see a single red drop over the "battleline" symbol.

Flesh Tearers don't use the Blood Angels kneecap-heraldry for squad numbers though, they use simple numbers on the right knee pad (not yet pictured). Similarly, Flesh Tearers don't follow the Blood Angels inversion of the left pauldron to mark a Sergeant, but there's no canon markings. Rather I've chosen to mark Sergeants more subtly with a black right knee-cap (not yet pictured). I've also added a blood drop to the Sergeant's helmet. I've yet to decide what to do with Lieutenant, Captain, and Veteran iconography, which I don't believe is canon either.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll,

Keep up the battle against the unpainted.

Cheers,

CB

Victory!

Here's the finished Flesh Tearer tactical squad!

The whole crew!


The Sergeant (the front-on photos were all out of focus unfortunately, but you can see him in the group shot)


The Lascannon and Melta-gun carriers


4 of the boltgunners (+ a bonus eye-level low-light threatening shot)


The other 3 boltgunners



And of course now that I've posted them, I've noticed not just a handful of paint flecks that need fixing (especially on the bases), but also an entire purity seal and scroll I apparently completely missed!

Victory, indeed. They look ready for action. Eyes and weapons are my favorite bits. Maybe the freehand symbols. They are all great details.

I really like your painting style on these marines. Great choice of chapter for a start. (Classic stuff right off the old 2nd ed SM chapters poster iirc.) But the way you're painting them up while its not real crisp it's bold and super effective.

Congrats on finishing up the squad! A lot of really cool techniques going on here, from the plasma and melta effects to the eye glow to the parchment and the cloth on the sergeant plus some really nice depth on the red.

Looking really painterly and unique - I would love to play against them!

Photos are the great revealer aren't they just when you think you're all done...

Can't wait for more

youwashock wrote:Victory, indeed. They look ready for action. Eyes and weapons are my favorite bits. Maybe the freehand symbols. They are all great details.

Thanks youwashock! I find that the models always look super disappointing until the details are on them. In this case, it wasn't until the freehand symbols were down to break up the black that I was really happy with them.

theCrowe wrote:I really like your painting style on these marines. Great choice of chapter for a start. (Classic stuff right off the old 2nd ed SM chapters poster iirc.) But the way you're painting them up while its not real crisp it's bold and super effective.

Thank you! I'm still a long way from doing super crisp edges or smooth blending, but every unit I paint I get a little bit closer.

tzurk wrote:Congrats on finishing up the squad! A lot of really cool techniques going on here, from the plasma and melta effects to the eye glow to the parchment and the cloth on the sergeant plus some really nice depth on the red.

Looking really painterly and unique - I would love to play against them!

Photos are the great revealer aren't they just when you think you're all done...

Can't wait for more

Tbf I did know about the stray paint flecks, but was being lazy. But once I saw a whole missing purity seal, and on one of the feature models of the unit to boot, I had no excuse.


I reorganized my display shelving a little bit, now the top has LAYERS. Like an ONION. I do intend to redo the terminators eventually, but that's low priority.

Excellent work on the Flesh Tearers, the crimson is gorgeous and I’m a fan of the layered osl, as well as the heat effect on the meltagun barrel. Little things like that bring a model to life.

A great looking shelf of painted minis gwyn. The Tearers came out well and look like they’re making a final stand against the Necrons with your terminators. Will the Termies be joining the Flesh Tearers or just getting an update?

 gobert wrote:
A great looking shelf of painted minis gwyn. The Tearers came out well and look like they’re making a final stand against the Necrons with your terminators. Will the Termies be joining the Flesh Tearers or just getting an update?

They will eventually join the Flesh Tearers, but I'm prioritizing un-painted miniatures first. Speaking of which.

Remember this Flayed One concept, from way back on Page 3? Literally from November 2019?


Well guess what's next on the table.

My best friend got me the Recruit box, and with it came a bunch of extra skulls. "Perfect for my Flayed Ones" I said. Well, It's time to actually build them.
Scale wise, they're likely a solid bit bigger than the new Flayed Ones (Immortal behind them next to the tallest of the Flayed ones for scale), and I put them on 32mm bases (no way those legs would fit on 25mm). I'm hoping that the new Flayed Ones are also up-based to 32mm...

Flayed One 1 is taller with a damaged head, looking as if it's recoiling from damaging hit.


Flayed One 2 (with Immortal for scale) needs some cleaning up on the head (which I dropped after it had been glued and so the glue got everywhere and started stranding. This is the test mini that I had done the legs and arm already from ages ago.


Flayed One 3 is really clean!


Flayed One 4 has this interesting hunched-over looking-over-one-arm look that requires two photos.



Lastly, Flayed One 5 is just asking for a skull to put in his hand.

Well done i'd say on the posing.
A great fit for flayed ones.

Thanks Not Online!!! They're a lot of work and, especially now there's new models, likely a good bit more expensive (Glaive Wraith bodies may be pretty cheap on ebay, but the AdMech parts aren't!), but I think they're gonna be a little more interesting.

I got some green stuff gap-filling done, and hole-hiding with a couple extra strands of flesh hanging over the arms to tie them into the piece. The next big challenge is to make and attach the second arms without screwing over the poses!

Wow, those Flayed Ones conversions are awesome! I never would have thought of combining nighthaunt with necrons, but now that I see it is both obvious and awesome.

Those Flayed Ones are looking pretty snazzy!

Great job on the tac squad, great feeling to get them into a display case and move on to the next project!

Keen to see your NightCrons progress, I've been sitting on my own nighthaunt and there's a definite temptation to go down a necron or dark mech route with the unbuilt ones I have. Flayed ones were a good start!

Thanks everyone! Let's hope you keep the enthusiasm now you see the second arms!

Unlike the first arm which was stock from the Sicarian Infiltrator/Ruststalker kit, I built the second hands from a mix of Idoneth, Daughters of Khaine, Canoptek Wraith, and Nighthaunt bits, built onto a Sicarian arm.

Here's the whole squad, then I'll go through them one by one again.


Flayer 1 (not the same numbers as last time just the order the pictures are coming up).
This one got a really "hand-shaped" hand, and some extra skin flaps on his big arm. I'm very happy with this guy generally!


Flayer 2 has a kind of bladed spike with extra hooks and protrusions? I'm considering snipping off the hook and the "thumb" and replacing them with less protruding blades tbh. I wanted this guy to look like he was stabbing somebody off to his side.


Flayer 3 was the one with the messy head. I gave him a bit of a flesh hood to hide the mess underneath when I did the greenstuff. I'm quite happy with his pose!


Flayer 4 is still a little "Horatio", but also a little "Kamehameha" now. One really big claw though!


Flayer 5, the recoiling one, got one MASSIVE blade. It still has a thumb though, and a smaller blade on the other side of the blade opposite the big pitted and rusty blade.

Keep it up Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Gotta say, these do give off the spooky vibe as they are supposed too.

Also their non uniformity shows just how deranged they have become.

I'd say you did the unit justice

Thanks guys! I was dreading this project, but now I'm super excited for it! It just needs one last thing then it's ready for prime-time...



Ok it's sideways and I can't figure out why after multiple attempted uploads, but now this one is using his thumb to turn around a skull he's holding in his other hand! I said he was "Horatio"!

To be or not to be...
Actually is a question in regards off Flayers that could be interesting to answer, considering they are allready soulless but flayed ones are also nuts?

And i'd say "horatio" turned out well

Cool conversions Gwyn, they look work really well as part robot part ghost

Very cool concept and execution, those are some scary- Flayed Ones. Can't wait to see them painted.

The Flesh Tearers look great. Onion layers are a nice addition.
The GS cloak conversions are a nice touch. Give a little bit of variation.

Those flayed ones look cool, looking forward to seing them painted

Every addition makes them look better. I wish the kit looked like this!

Not Online!!! wrote:To be or not to be...
Actually is a question in regards off Flayers that could be interesting to answer, considering they are allready soulless but flayed ones are also nuts?

And i'd say "horatio" turned out well

It's a question generally more applicable in WH40k; is we consider warp presence to be a "soul", than many sentient and sapient creatures are "soulless". Do they "exist" in the sense that Shakespeare intended Hamlet to ponder? I would argue yes - Hamlet posits the existence of an afterlife for the soul after death. He ponders not the end of "being" of the immortal soul but the end of "being" of the mortal mind. Additionally, if one accepts the Flayed Ones to be "mad", then can they be "mad" without having a mind for which that madness to exist in? In this essay I will-

gobert wrote:Cool conversions Gwyn, they look work really well as part robot part ghost

Thanks gobert! I think some of the ghostiness will disappear when my painting reshapes the ghost-body into a flesh-cloak.

Viterbi wrote:Very cool concept and execution, those are some scary- Flayed Ones. Can't wait to see them painted.

I hope my paint job satisfies and heightens the scare factor!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:The Flesh Tearers look great. Onion layers are a nice addition.
The GS cloak conversions are a nice touch. Give a little bit of variation.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff. That's a lot of Js. DJJJJJazzyJJeff. I'm hoping to vary the skin tones of their flesh-cloaks to give a little bit more variation.

Guardling wrote:Those flayed ones look cool, looking forward to seing them painted

You're in luck... Thanks Guardling!

Da Boss wrote:Every addition makes them look better. I wish the kit looked like this!

Thanks Da Boss! Personally I also prefer my look to the kit (even though the new ones are a marked improvement from what I've seen), but we'll see.

I got my first bits of paint down on them! I ran out of primer just before I was able to prime the underside of all of them, but I think they're primed enough to take paint.
Started with the metal. Unlike my more pristine minis, I've done something new with this. Leadbealcher base, then a single wash each with Seraphim Sepia and Agrax Earthshade. Corroded metal shows how little the Flayed Ones have been taking care of their bodies, more concerned with covering up their metal "bones" with skin and flesh.


I do intend to give these guys a dry-brush after to bring them back a little bit more vibrancy. But not too much.

I'm considering expanding this scheme to varying degrees across my army to deviate a little bit from the boring "steel with accents" look that Necrons get. If I do, I would tint more the lower in "social class" and less in the upper classes, with no tint in maybe Lychguard and up (Flayed Ones/Tomb Blades/Cryptothralls>Warriors/Destroyers>Immortals/Pilots/Deathmarks>Lychguard/Royal Warden/Praetorians>Lord/Crypteks>Overlords, roughly). It's a tempting idea.

Cool idea on changing the tarnish on the Necrons. Kind of a marker for their standing in society. The flayed ones are already looking the part

Nice start, metal looks nicely aged.

Gotta say,that is a nice aged metal indeed.
How'd you achieve that?

gobert wrote:Cool idea on changing the tarnish on the Necrons. Kind of a marker for their standing in society. The flayed ones are already looking the part

Thanks gobert. Another advantage is that because I can do it with just washes and dry-brushing, I can update old models really quickly if I decide to do that.

Viterbi wrote:Nice start, metal looks nicely aged.

Thanks Viterbi!

Not Online!!! wrote:Gotta say,that is a nice aged metal indeed.
How'd you achieve that?

Leadbelcher, Seraphim Sepia wash, then a light Agrax Earthshade wash. It won't stay this aged, but it will be notably aged compared to my other minis when I'm done with it.

Here you can see the lightened and final metal, as well as blood effects on the claws, the skull-masks done, and starting work on the eyes!

Yeah. I think that are some nice fredynators
And the highlighted bits really did help it.

Thanks Not Online!!!

Did a ton of work in the last go. Finished the eyes, and got the first coat of contrast or base-and-washes on all of the flesh! I'm aiming that each Flayed One has two different "tones" of flesh on them. Like an onion or an ogre, they have layers!

I find all of the contrast washes are very similar and all very light, so I always have to add my own darker tones non-contrast.




Next, gotta highlight the skin, add blood to it, fix up some odd tubes on the legs, and base them!

Do you think they cut onions well?

Also, the dual layering for contrast seems like a great idea.

They're looking better and more creepy with each post!

These flayed ones are looking tops and the conversion is a great idea for those spare heads (...hmmm now i think about it my son has the recruit box....).

Not Online!!! wrote:Do you think they cut onions well?

Also, the dual layering for contrast seems like a great idea.

Fun fact, Flayed Ones are the only Necrons known to cry!

amazingturtles wrote:They're looking better and more creepy with each post!

Thank you! I hope the finished product is the creepiest!

darkkt wrote:These flayed ones are looking tops and the conversion is a great idea for those spare heads (...hmmm now i think about it my son has the recruit box....).

Also a good use for those awkward AoS starter "5 Glaivewraiths" when glaivewraiths come in units of 4 xD
The legs are the only INCONVENIENT part, and you can sub those out for any robot legs that aren't too big that you can get your hands on! I personally think the Sicarian legs are best because they get across an animalistic feel, but any work if you can figure out a way to put them under the robes!


So I DID finish the guys, bases and everything (though I'm just about out of Agrellan Badlands). And I did my photoshoot. But then looking over my photos, there were a few where the skin highlights were clearly "this is a line of off-white paint on top of a darker tone", not nearly as thin as I thought they were when I was doing it. So I deleted all the photos and gave them a wash to subdue the highlights and blend them into the rest. Sooooo, pictures pending!

I did start on the next project. Firstly, I put some Aggressors with flamers in Green Stuff to strip to turn them into Flesh Tearers. I think Aggressors are pretty decent in Flesh Tearers. T5 Sv 3+ W3 is good enough to hopefully survive to T3. T2 12" Assault 6d6 auto-hit S4 AP-1... well it's not great. But hopefully it's enough weight of fire to get rid of a screening unit to get at the big boys that they really want to get on T3. But once we hit T3, that's 16 attacks (3 each, +1 for sergeant, +1 each Savage Echoes, +1 each Shock Assault), 4+ to hit hurts (-1 to hit), but S8 w/ +1 to rolls (Fury Within), AP-5 (Fury Within and Assault Doctrine), D2 will RIP apart pretty much anything.

Unfortunately the main bit of the next project requires me to get my hands on new primer. I had already primed the minis, but the gaps in the fit were too big for me now, so I had to green stuff gap fill them, and now they need a touch more primer. I guess it's small enough that I can paint on the primer though, because the Flayed Ones ate up the last of my can!

Nice job mane, those Flayed Ones are a brilliant concept and they're painting up nicely. Super uncanny and unsettling - looking forward to the finished pics!

Flayed ones finished pictures!

From the front!


Left shoulder


Right shoulder


Head-on at eye-level.


A slightly higher view of the right shoulder, so you can see the spines poking through the skin cloaks.


A close-up in different light.


And with a bit of the rest of the army!

i'd say, those are your best models yet.

They fit perfectly what Flayers are.
They look like the mechanical mad horror that they are supposed to be.
In short, they have charachter.

Nice work, those are exceptionally creepy!

Goodness me, those are gross! The skin looks freshly flayed, especially in the army pic. Well done!

They're a great contrast to the bright colours of the rest of the army. Really cool unit.

Not Online!!! wrote:i'd say, those are your best models yet.

They fit perfectly what Flayers are.
They look like the mechanical mad horror that they are supposed to be.
In short, they have charachter.

Thanks Not Online!!! I'm glad they look sufficiently underpants-on-head!

aku-chan wrote:Nice work, those are exceptionally creepy!

Thank you aku-chan! I'm a little creeped out myself tbh.

JoshInJapan wrote:Goodness me, those are gross! The skin looks freshly flayed, especially in the army pic. Well done!

All credit to freshness to the wonder that is a light and indiscriminate brushing of Blood For The Blood God. Plus I always chicken out when my highlights are too light, but making it look paler would make it look more aged.

I'm realizing now that flayed skin probably wouldn't bleed more when it's "pierced" by the spines like I painted, which either adds to the freshness or makes it look like the skin is their own skin being pierced, but good enough for me and the girls I go out with.

theCrowe wrote:They're a great contrast to the bright colours of the rest of the army. Really cool unit.

There's no purple on them anywhere either! They really are "aside" of the army. They don't fit into the Lord's Order of Battle, but fit their fluff of a gaggle of hangers-on who follow the army around and pick opportunistically at the edges of the battle.

Now that Novokh is a pretty hot sub-faction for Necrons, mostly because it gives Gauss Reaper Warriors (who are going to be close-up and personal anyways) a little staying power in melee, I wonder whether we might see more Flayed Ones on the table? I also admit wondering how much the new Flayed Ones will fit in next to mine. The painting was super easy and flew by, but the conversion really was quite a pain. But 10-20 Flayed Ones is so much fun...

Anyhow, who can recognize the next project?

I would say the finished flayers are indeed the creepiest. Well done!

No idea what the new project is but the bases look fun!

Great work on those Flayed ones, quite inspiring looking through the process

I have no idea but considering the flayers, this also will turn out great i'd assume

amazingturtles wrote:I would say the finished flayers are indeed the creepiest. Well done!

No idea what the new project is but the bases look fun!

The bases are fun, it's a bit of a shame I'm gonna be obscuring them a bit...

maxwin wrote:Great work on those Flayed ones, quite inspiring looking through the process

I'm glad my slow blog pace isn't THAT dreadfully boring! I paint in really tiny batches normally as I work, so y'all get many many updates on single project!

Not Online!!! wrote:I have no idea but considering the flayers, this also will turn out great i'd assume

They're surprisingly going to be very similar to the Flayers...

Another hint, I've painted stone that looked like this before (Athonian Camoshade still drying):

Love those flayed ones, they fit the background much better than any of GWs attempts.
Those bases look like the banshee bases to me, you've made the right decision to paint the bases before putting the banshees on - there are some very hard to reach bits if they are all built as I found out when I painted a set. Then I built some more and did the same again

Finished Flayed Ones look amazing, very nice contrast between the metal and flesh tones. But what really sells them are those bone-colored faces with their green glowy eyes.

Maharg wrote:Love those flayed ones, they fit the background much better than any of GWs attempts.
Those bases look like the banshee bases to me, you've made the right decision to paint the bases before putting the banshees on - there are some very hard to reach bits if they are all built as I found out when I painted a set. Then I built some more and did the same again

*dingdingdingding* we have a winner! The bases are Myrmourn banshees, which I will be painting up in my "skin-veil weeping-eye" scheme to match the Chainrasps further up in the scheme. Their "bodies" underneath the veils will be more white and less violet, however, to get more "bride" across.

Mostly I separated the bases because I had to do gap-filling on the ETB main bodies, but I wanted to paint SOMETHING while I waited. But now that I have I'm glad I did. Even though, like the Chainrasps, I'll be putting a layer of mist or fog (cotton ball fluff) over the base... I think I'll go lighter than I did with the Chainrasps though! Make it more "wisps" than "cloud".

Viterbi wrote:Finished Flayed Ones look amazing, very nice contrast between the metal and flesh tones. But what really sells them are those bone-colored faces with their green glowy eyes.

Thank's Viterbi! I think the metal and flesh are both interesting tones, but the clean-ness of the faces and the eyes draws attention to them. Tbh I wasn't as happy with the eyes this time around, I'm glad you liked them!

Another colour laid down and finished on the bases! Nice bright green vines, creepers, and leaves. Though I'm realizing now I should redo the leaves in yellows, oranges, and reds, especially considering my roses are going to be on the pink side. Soooo, I'll go back and redo those after I finish the pink roses and the bones.

Those Flayed Ones turned out rather nicely.

Banshees.
HA and here i thought something ghostly

Those flayed ones turned out amazing! Definitely feeling like I need to kitbash at least a couple of the nighthaunt I have. They're creepy sculpts!

Looking forward to your banshees too.

youwashock wrote:Those Flayed Ones turned out rather nicely.

Thanks youwashock! I'm hoping the skin on the banshees will turn out as nicely!

Not Online!!! wrote:Banshees.
HA and here i thought something ghostly

No points if you didn't say it out loud

Tyranid Horde wrote:Those flayed ones turned out amazing! Definitely feeling like I need to kitbash at least a couple of the nighthaunt I have. They're creepy sculpts!

Looking forward to your banshees too.

Nighthaunt sculpts generally are quite good, but they're very thin and fiddly, which makes converting them hard.

Bases are coming along. Just need to put some highlights on the bone and flowers, then fix up the leaves, then on to the bodies!

Highlights done on bones and roses. Would be done at this point if I didn't decide to redo the fallen leaves, which luckily enough would be undercoated in the same pink that I used to finish off the roses! Gonna do that pink undercoat for the orange and yellow that I absolutely love.

Oohh, those are some pretty bases.

The bases are looking good! Those ETB Nighthaunt have some well detailed bases, you'd think they're models on their own!

I was drawn in by the Irish in the thread title. Well played! Those bases look awesome.

Not Online!!! wrote:Oohh, those are some pretty bases.

Thank you!

Tyranid Horde wrote:The bases are looking good! Those ETB Nighthaunt have some well detailed bases, you'd think they're models on their own!

They really are very detailed! I have the ETB nighthaunt horsies as well and they're just as detailed.

Da Boss wrote:I was drawn in by the Irish in the thread title. Well played! Those bases look awesome.

I'm surprised by the plural of "women" myself, had to triple check it!

I have a question: Do you guys think the "leaves" are better painted as fallen autumn leaves, or as fallen rose petals! I can go either direction from where they are now, but I'm torn now between them!

Gwyn,

Aren't you a little worried that the bases for the Myrmourn banshees are going to be too bright for an army of the dead?

CB

Not particularly. Firstly, the base will be seen through primarily a gauze of mist and fog. Secondly, Myrmourn banshees have this "bridal" thing going on, so I want them a bit brighter than other Nighthaunts. Lastly, my Nighthaunt scheme isn't that "ghostly" so much as it is "horror". Less ephemeral, more apparition, if that makes sense. All physical "objects" are painted as if they are real, limbs and faces are paid quasi-skeletal, and the "bodies" have a layer of flayed skin, with only the "under-layer" of the body-robes being a transition from ghostly purple energy (again seen largely through the mist and fog cotton-swab) up to a white.

Yeah, Mná is women in Irish. It's funny sometimes when it's written on the doors of pubs (Fir is men, so you often have Fir and Mná) and non-Irish speakers will often choose the wrong one, since Mná is at least similar to Man!

Looks like you’ve moved on rapidly! The Flayed Ones came out fantastically well, a really insane macabre bunch they are. I’ll second the praise for the bases, they’ve got fantastic detail on them. I think having the leaves/petals as petals works well, so I’d stick with that

Da Boss wrote:Yeah, Mná is women in Irish. It's funny sometimes when it's written on the doors of pubs (Fir is men, so you often have Fir and Mná) and non-Irish speakers will often choose the wrong one, since Mná is at least similar to Man!

One of those very important phrases to look up before you travel I see!

gobert wrote:Looks like you’ve moved on rapidly! The Flayed Ones came out fantastically well, a really insane macabre bunch they are. I’ll second the praise for the bases, they’ve got fantastic detail on them. I think having the leaves/petals as petals works well, so I’d stick with that

I agree, I did them up as petals and it looks so much better than adding another colour! Need to clean this up and start on the bodies now!

Skin and bone/flesh done (other than Blood For The Blood God). The bone-coloured arms that clearly aren't skeletal are still weird, but I'm sticking to it. They're creepy ghosts, not literally skeletons! Also my excuse for why the "flesh veil" seems to be phasing through one of the tombstones. Not literal flesh (unlike my Flayed Ones), but ghostly apparitions that appear to be wearing skin-veils.

I love how nice the flowers look, i'm sure that's going to contrast well with the banshees when they're all painted up.

And "skin-veils" is... yeah, that's creepy. They're going to be good.

Seconded amazingturtles.
Allzeit gute banshees pretty well

Ghostly skin-veil and bone apparitions will contrast nicely to the bright, living roses. Going to be another neat looking unit.

Great job on the bases, the petals work great. The creepy skin veils are, well icky!

amazingturtles wrote:I love how nice the flowers look, i'm sure that's going to contrast well with the banshees when they're all painted up.

And "skin-veils" is... yeah, that's creepy. They're going to be good.

Thanks amazingturtles! I just hope that the flowers are still visible through the fog once I attach that, but can't do that until literally the last step so, onward!

Not Online!!! wrote:Seconded amazingturtles.
Allzeit gute banshees pretty well

Danke schon!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Ghostly skin-veil and bone apparitions will contrast nicely to the bright, living roses. Going to be another neat looking unit.

Thanks DJJimmyJazz

gobert wrote:Great job on the bases, the petals work great. The creepy skin veils are, well icky!

I hope to push the skin veils just slightly higher on creep factor still!

But first, I want to finish the elements that tie into the base. I did the rose petals, started the stonework, then realized I missed a whole rose, so you get to see this partway through a rose and partway through the stonework!


Obviously it'll require some cleaning up on around the petals too.

i see my autocorrect did correct it

The base-connection parts are finished now, but for the metal railing which will be done in corroded bronze.

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Turned out really well imo.

Fancy bases Gwyn, the roses look great, make sure you go sparingly with the mists so as not to obscure them too much

Not Online!!! wrote:Turned out really well imo.

Thanks Not Online!!!

gobert wrote:Fancy bases Gwyn, the roses look great, make sure you go sparingly with the mists so as not to obscure them too much

That's the plan gobert! Execution is always up in the air though xD

Started the metals. Balthasar Gold + Sycorax Bronze + Agrax Earthshade. Next, another layer of Sycorax Bronze, then a silver highlight on the blades, then Nihilakh Oxide!

The bright colours of your bases look great with the muted tones of the Mna (I'm also Irish so nice to see the language used!) and I like the idea of an ethereal flesh cloak, very grotesque!

well these ladies certainly will make any swamp, (un)-inviting

Tyranid Horde wrote:The bright colours of your bases look great with the muted tones of the Mna (I'm also Irish so nice to see the language used!) and I like the idea of an ethereal flesh cloak, very grotesque!

Thanks Tyranid Horde! I'm hoping having a cool-toned "dress" will connect up with the cooler flowers (compared to a normal deep red at least) and the blue discolouration you can see below on the metal to also give a nice cool/warm contrast.

Not Online!!! wrote:well these ladies certainly will make any swamp, (un)-inviting

Thanks Not Online!!! I've been really enjoying painting them, they've been surprisingly super easy.


Aaaand, re-highlighted and oxided, the metal is all done! Gotta do the main "bodies", then odds and ends, then blood effects, (especially on the eyes), then mist!

They are looking great!

nice oxidation effect.

This blog has been a very enjoyable binge this morning

I especially like your ghostly undead and the Flayed Ones.

It's funny, I'm just about to start a Necron and some Chainwrasps myself. Synchronicity!

Those banshees came along very good, really pays off that you took your time with the bases, they contrast really great with the flesh veils (a word never meant to be exist ).

amazingturtles wrote:They are looking great!

Thanks turtles!

Not Online!!! wrote:nice oxidation effect.

Thanks Not Online!!! It got a bit heavy on the first one I did it on, I forgot that on my Chainrasps I dotted it rather than washing it. But it came out ok and just gives some variance!

KidCthulhu wrote:This blog has been a very enjoyable binge this morning

I especially like your ghostly undead and the Flayed Ones.

It's funny, I'm just about to start a Necron and some Chainwrasps myself. Synchronicity!

I'm glad you enjoyed a binge! I hope you enjoyed my growth from my wince-worthy first page.

Viterbi wrote:Those banshees came along very good, really pays off that you took your time with the bases, they contrast really great with the flesh veils (a word never meant to be exist ).

Flesh veil! Flesh veil! Flesh veil!

School picked up the last little bit, but I managed to find time to put in the tonal scale that will underlay the purple wash on the ghost-bodies. Found some fence that I missed, so started working on that. And I started working on a couple details; one has a pale sash, another has an hourglass.

I'd say the füll Oxidation Looks a bit more fitting maybee?

Anyways all of These Look fantastic.

They look cool so far. Coming along nicely.

Very nice Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Cheers,

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:I'd say the füll Oxidation Looks a bit more fitting maybee?

Anyways all of These Look fantastic.

I'm glad you think that the full oxidation looks good! I admit that I panicked when I saw how much I globbed on, and I wiped a lot of it off, but I agree I think it worked out.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:They look cool so far. Coming along nicely.

Thanks Warboss! I hope the finale below doesn't disappoint

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain! I think you'll be pleased with the final results:

All done! Bloody eyes, beautiful purple dark-to-white, and a light mist that still allows the base to shine. I'm very happy with these banshees!



Myrmourn 1


Myrmourn 2


Myrmourn 3


Myrmourn 4

Nice work! The misty bases are very cool and the transition with the purple is well done.

Excellent and super creepy! The eyes really make them look like they've got a cold fury thing going on

Flesh-veil. Now that's grim stuff. You really went all out on these spectral nasties. Great work.

Those look great. Really like the bases and the extra touches.

Tyranid Horde wrote:Nice work! The misty bases are very cool and the transition with the purple is well done.

Thanks Tyranid Horde! I'm quite pleased with them.

amazingturtles wrote:Excellent and super creepy! The eyes really make them look like they've got a cold fury thing going on

Thanks amazingturtles. The eyes I'm still having difficulty on. I'm not sure how clear it is that they're "bleeding" from the eyes. Hard to make that clear.

youwashock wrote:Flesh-veil. Now that's grim stuff. You really went all out on these spectral nasties. Great work.

Thanks youwashock! I love this real horror-movie take on Nighthaunt, though I admit I have no idea how to deal with the horses...

RobertsMinis wrote:Those look great. Really like the bases and the extra touches.

Thanks RobertsMinis! I had fun painting them.

Next up: a high school teacher in dire straights!





This is him primed and washed so the details are brought out. And the details are quite good! It's almost a shame though because his mold line is gonna be very difficult to reach in some places where it dips into the details.

That mist turned out great Gwyn.

That's a neat figure! A shop teacher... of doom!

Pretty fitting with most shop teachers I've known.

A bit late to the show, but great work on the ghosties! The mist hasn’t masked the bases much, so they still shine through nicely. I still love the bleeding eyes and the skin veils are creepy

Finished banshees look really creepy, great job!

Not Online!!! wrote:That mist turned out great Gwyn.

Thanks! It's definitely different from the mist on my Chainrasps, but that's ok.

amazingturtles wrote:That's a neat figure! A shop teacher... of doom!

Pretty fitting with most shop teachers I've known.

I thought the thing in his left hand was a molotov, it's a fire extinguisher! Much more reasonable, but a little less "of doom!"

gobert wrote:A bit late to the show, but great work on the ghosties! The mist hasn’t masked the bases much, so they still shine through nicely. I still love the bleeding eyes and the skin veils are creepy

Thanks gobert! I'm glad the mist worked out. It's always nervewracking to start something at the end of a project that could ruin the project xD

Viterbi wrote:Finished banshees look really creepy, great job!

Thank Viterbi! Next mini should be a nice break from two units in a row of flayed flesh.



Finished jeans, boots, flesh, hair, and apron. Face is a bit out of focus but that's ok because you'll see it better once I do his glasses anyways.

Apron and flesh are contrast (2 and 1 coats, respectively), jeans are the awfully named Stegadon Scale Green and Sotek Green with a dark blue wash. They're not green. Awfully named paints. But I gotta say they're beautiful tones, and they make AMAZING blue jeans.

I think the flesh turned out really well

Not Online!!! wrote:
I think the flesh turned out really well

Thanks Not Online!!! Single coat with a lightly gray-scaled undercoat worked pretty well.

Finished Mr. Hyde here! In case anyone was wondering, he's from the zombie board game Last Night on Earth. His special abilities are he's better at fighting hordes of zombies, and he can protect Student player characters.

Front


Rear - I can see a few spots where the colour from the straps bled onto the white shirt that I missed. Might have to go back and fix that.


Bonus: scale shot with some Tactical Marines. Also highlighting (heh) that I clearly need a more matte varnish, because he looks SHINY here. It works for my Marines and Necrons, but on more naturalistic models like this it's a bit jarring!

Things got hot fast gwyn

Nice work Gwyn. His sunglasses look really cool, as does his fire extinguisher

Not Online!!! wrote:Things got hot fast gwyn

Lol let's just say that fire is a very dangerous but very useful thing in the game if you can use it right.

gobert wrote:Nice work Gwyn. His sunglasses look really cool, as does his fire extinguisher

Thanks gobert! I'm glad those details work for you, I find details like that make or break a model.

Moving to the next, another small project. Just a really simple base.



I think this is gonna end up going with a Flesh Tearers character of some sort. Chaplain or Lieutenant likely; doesn't really fit my Librarian, Captain has a molded base, and my OldMarine characters are on smaller bases.

Easy peasy wash-y

I love that shot of the shop teacher in with the Space Marines. He looks ready.
These guys have power armor? Yeah, I've got my shop apron.
These guys have plasma rifles, heavy bolters, and rocket launchers? I've got my acetylene torch. We're all good.

And the base is finished! It works well as an objective marker too.

Great work with the shop teacher of... well, peril at least, if not of doom.

A nice and fancy but not over complex base there.

Shop dude looks good with the deep shading on the apron.

The lion head base is very interesting. What will you use it for?

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:


All done! Bloody eyes, beautiful purple dark-to-white, and a light mist that still allows the base to shine. I'm very happy with these banshees!

Gwyn,

They turned out wonderfully.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Mr.Hyde and the base are looking great. Mad to see the scale of the mini beside the space marines, great job.

amazingturtles wrote:Great work with the shop teacher of... well, peril at least, if not of doom.

A nice and fancy but not over complex base there.

Yeah it's a nicely balanced base.

The Riddle of Steel wrote:Shop dude looks good with the deep shading on the apron.

The lion head base is very interesting. What will you use it for?

So far my best idea is the Indomitus Lieutenant, but maybe my Primaris Chaplain would be a better idea?

Captain Brown wrote:
Gwyn,

They turned out wonderfully.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Mr.Hyde and the base are looking great. Mad to see the scale of the mini beside the space marines, great job.

Ask and ye shall receive



Edit: Wait, just realized you weren't requesting the Base scale, you were saying that seeing the human next to the old space marines was funny. Lol oops well have the base scale anyways xD

Knocked out another base really quick!



This one will be most likely for the Indomitus Overlord.

Nice pair of bases there Gwyn. Those banshees are the highlight of the page though, they look great. The misty bases have worked really well

Lovely verdigris on the big base, and like your nighthaunt scheme very much. My eldest plays nighthaunts and I shall have to share your basing technique with him

Maharg wrote:Nice pair of bases there Gwyn. Those banshees are the highlight of the page though, they look great. The misty bases have worked really well

Thank you! Next project (while I wait for more primer) should build on what I've learned from the banshees.

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely verdigris on the big base, and like your nighthaunt scheme very much. My eldest plays nighthaunts and I shall have to share your basing technique with him

Please do! It's a really easy way to add interest, though it is nerve wracking once you've put down the PVA glue and are trying to tease the strands of cotton into place!

And now I get to do it again on a high stakes figure!

I started Lady Olynder years ago, and now it's time to do her properly! This is the undercoat tonal transition of the ghost bodies and the contrast layer of her veil put down. Note that her handmaiden's don't have the second "layer" that almost all Nighthaunts have, so no flesh for them! There was also a bit too much pooling near the ends of the tattered veil, but I intend to drybrush a much paler colour over the veil, so I'll try lightening those up. Maybe even a light-coloured thin wash.

All the other colours are remnants of my first base coats I put on them ages ago.

Well, the next bunch Nice roses

She's an excellent model. Good work so far.
Like the bases.

I love the bright colours. The boy is stealing your mist for the craven king, he was trying to figure out something unusual

I love the Overlords base, it looks great. Great start on the ghostly lady too

More solid work Gwyn, that base for your overlord looks very cool. Keen to see Olynder in your scheme, I think it'll be something special.

Not Online!!! wrote:Well, the next bunch Nice roses

Thanks Not Online!!! I love the roses on this model, they should be a lot of fun to paint.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:She's an excellent model. Good work so far.
Like the bases.

She's one of my favourite GW models, I've been looking forward to doing her for ages!

inmygravenimage wrote:I love the bright colours. The boy is stealing your mist for the craven king, he was trying to figure out something unusual

Fantastic! An especially dense layer will work great for the Craven King, as he really floats high above the base!

gobert wrote:I love the Overlords base, it looks great. Great start on the ghostly lady too

Thanks gobert! Actually using the base might wait a good while.

Tyranid Horde wrote:More solid work Gwyn, that base for your overlord looks very cool. Keen to see Olynder in your scheme, I think it'll be something special.

Thanks Tyranid Horde! I think Olynder is gonna be quite the centerpiece, here's hoping!

I got the purple on her, and I dry-brushed the flesh veil. Those being the two most important steps, I think this is a promising result! I think I'm going to need to do more highlight on the white, it's still coming out really flat, the Apothecary White Contrast isn't quite enough on it's own, especially around the filigree.

Yeah, promising is not an understatement

Very promising indeed Gwyn!

Digging that purple fade big time.

Looking good Gwyn, if you want some definition around the filigree, would the purple you used for the cloak be a good recess wash?

Not Online!!! wrote:Yeah, promising is not an understatement

gobert wrote:Very promising indeed Gwyn!

youwashock wrote:Digging that purple fade big time.

Thanks Not Online!!!, gobert, and youwashock

Tyranid Horde wrote:Looking good Gwyn, if you want some definition around the filigree, would the purple you used for the cloak be a good recess wash?

That's an interesting idea. It'd have to be watered down I think. That or make a really light gray wash.

While pondering that, I re-did the bone arms and faces.

Very evil looking Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Very nice indeed. She is coming on well!

Captain Brown wrote:Very evil looking Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

RobertsMinis wrote:Very nice indeed. She is coming on well!

Thanks guys! Lots of small updates today. Did base coat and washes on the bronze and gold (difference is the gold has a red wash as well as a brown wash, and will get different highlights), the wood on the casket, the glass of the hourglass, and a white highlight on the white (which fixed the details too, though my brush was a little less accurate than I could have hoped).

Glass front:


Glass back:


Box:


Whole thing front:


Whole thing back:

Gwyn,

That hourglass in quite neat when you see all the detail.

Cheers,

CB

That is looking very pretty indeed, hourglass looks superb

Oh, that is really nice work on the hourglass. The whole figure is coming along great. She will make quite the creepy centerpiece

I agree, the glass makes this even more spooky.

Captain Brown wrote:Gwyn,

That hourglass in quite neat when you see all the detail.

Cheers,

CB

inmygravenimage wrote:That is looking very pretty indeed, hourglass looks superb

amazingturtles wrote:Oh, that is really nice work on the hourglass. The whole figure is coming along great. She will make quite the creepy centerpiece

Not Online!!! wrote:I agree, the glass makes this even more spooky.

Thanks everyone! I'm happy with the hourglass, I think it makes a fine detail on the mini.

Did a little bit more work. Highlights on the bone, and finished off the bronze and the gold! Also put a blue wash on the hourglass glass, because the white on the broken bottom bulb was a bit too bright. Looking at it close up, I need to do a paler Skull White on the teeth.

Time at my right hand


Wealth at my left hand


Glory behind me


Death to those before me

Looking good Gwyn, the hourglass is great, it looks properly shiny

The hourglass is so good, great work.

gobert wrote:Looking good Gwyn, the hourglass is great, it looks properly shiny

RobertsMinis wrote:The hourglass is so good, great work.

Thongs gobert and Robert! I'm really happy with the hourglass. Funnily enough I didn't really spend that much time at it, I basically just threw paint at it instinctually. Wait, does that mean that I might actually be getting to understand how to paint light and glass now? No let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Super exciting update today, because I got BLOOD EFFECTS!





I'm very happy with how this came out, especially with the "tears" from Olynder herself!

Olynder is coming on very nicely indeed. As others have said, really good job on that hourglass. I've heard this model can be a pain to paint - very wobbly due to few and thin attachment points. How have you found it?

Really stunning, superb work and very inspiring (to me and the boy).

Great work so far on Olynder, gotta echo the others, the hourglass is amazing. And I never realized before, how she lifts her dress, that doesn't even touches the ground. A proper lady all around

Very well done i'd say.
Especially the bridal wear.

That praise for the hourglass keeps echoing, as I'll add to the chorus! Blood effects look awesome too, the glossy shine adds a really nice visual interest.

Maharg wrote:Olynder is coming on very nicely indeed. As others have said, really good job on that hourglass. I've heard this model can be a pain to paint - very wobbly due to few and thin attachment points. How have you found it?

The thin attachment points are definitely a problem, and she's on a bit of a spring. I broke off, as you can see in my WIP images, the vine that is "inside" her body, and I HIGHLY recommend anyone painting this model to paint it in sub-assemblies. Do the handmaidens separately. Do each layer of vines-veil-hair-body separately. Ultimately my style of painting minimized the issue with the wobble. I paint and finish each "section" before moving on to the next, which allows me to handle the miniature itself rather than hold the base. If you do all the base coats then all the layers then all the washes or in whichever order, then yeah it'd be a pain to do like that.

inmygravenimage wrote:Really stunning, superb work and very inspiring (to me and the boy).

I'm glad that my work can inspire, I think your (and your boy's, his Mourngul work was very cool!) work is inspiring myself so your words mean a lot!

Viterbi wrote:Great work so far on Olynder, gotta echo the others, the hourglass is amazing. And I never realized before, how she lifts her dress, that doesn't even touches the ground. A proper lady all around

Yes she's quite proper, isn't she! Very elegant and ceremonial!

Not Online!!! wrote:Very well done i'd say.
Especially the bridal wear.

Bloodal wear.

Tyranid Horde wrote:That praise for the hourglass keeps echoing, as I'll add to the chorus! Blood effects look awesome too, the glossy shine adds a really nice visual interest.

Thanks so much! I noticed that there appears to be a bit of "reflection" in it. It's honestly a fumbled brush-stroke that just happens to look like a reflection of the handmaiden's, well, hand. Fortune favoured me with this mini!

And she's done too!

"Even spoken in a whisper, it crept into the ears of everyone in the observatory. 'The crypt-court of Lady Olynder.'" - excerpt from Lady of Sorrows by C L Werner.

At a human's eye-level, she does not even deign to look down upon the mortals, gliding eerily above the wall of fog. Her handmaiden's have no such compunctions; beware their freezing touch!


Behind her, her tattered veil of bloody flesh floats suspended in the windless air. Her raven hair is flung behind her, underneath it, caught in a wind that no other feels.


Her handmaidens carry the arcane Grave-sand Hourglass; the sands of the lives of bold heroes silently fall away before her.


Tears of blood well through the flesh-veil that covers her mysterious face. None who have seen whence the tears flow and lived, and her ghostly entourage will not tell her secrets.


She leads the Nighthaunts, an unending nation of spirits, against any who would oppose Nagash.

All those flesh veils look awesome together. What a ghastly force.

Very spooky, good job. Even the holes on the back side of Olynder's veil now look like pulled off from screaming faces *shudder*

Very cool indeed. The mourngul was a fun project, worth trying to do. Love the basing... And the rogue necron!

That is a great looking force, Gwyn! The extra ghostly fog on the bases really works and adds to the impact. My money is still on the Necron though

Love it, the paint job is great and manky flesh veils are gross but awesome! The model terrifies me, but more that I'd be afraid of dropping it!

Really well done.
I think your whole ghost army did turn out well but that bride...

Thanks so much everyone! I'm still waiting on primer so we're gonna stick on theme for the next bunch of minis!

Yeah, the vines on some of those Nighthaunt minis are super brittle, I broke the one on the Underworld's warband leader without even trying. Love Lady Olynder, such a unique take on her. From black at the bottom of the dress to pure extreme white highlights is a really brave colour choice and you did really well with it.

Is the primer on the way? Some varieties of spray can primer are proving very elusive.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Yeah, the vines on some of those Nighthaunt minis are super brittle, I broke the one on the Underworld's warband leader without even trying. Love Lady Olynder, such a unique take on her. From black at the bottom of the dress to pure extreme white highlights is a really brave colour choice and you did really well with it.

Is the primer on the way? Some varieties of spray can primer are proving very elusive.

Thanks ListenToMe! Yeah the Underworlds Briar Queen is also terrifying because the vines *stretch out*. Just nerve-wracking.

Unfortunately it's not, I intended to go get one from in-store, but when I went last week to check if the store was open, I discovered a) it was, but b) it closed super early. And now we're on a quote-unquote "lockdown" in Ontario. I mean, technically I can still go into a store to buy spray paint, the only restriction is 25% capacity, so *insert politics here*, but I intend to treat it as if it's something a bit closer to the actual lockdown it should be.

I have 10 Necron Warriors who are going to jump to the front of the queue once I get the primer, and I also have 10 Necron Warriors in the background there that I'm cutting off old-style guns and replacing them with Gauss Reapers. I haven't figured out quite HOW I'm doing that yet, but that's what's happening.

In the meantime, I did the wood and stone on the second batch of Chainrasps



If I want to expand this army, I'm gonna need another 10 Chainrasps at least, and some other troop choices. Though I do love painting Chainrasps.

Great job on the lady. She really is a serenely terrifying character. The bloody skin veil works wonderfully, with the screaming faces in the back. She looks fabulous ruling over the rest of the ghostly host

Good luck on getting the primer, hobby supplies here have taken a hit, can't get my regular army painter brushes anywhere and have to try a new brand... the horror!

Love the group shot of the Nighthaunt, great and unusual color scheme all around and can imagine the Necron asking, what this is all about: "Do you also want to kill all humans?"

Something to consider for primer, if you can get them, is Kobra sprays. They're graffiti acrylic sprays, and give excellent coverage, and are much less expensive than a lot of hobby paint. I get mine through Amazon to

gobert wrote:Great job on the lady. She really is a serenely terrifying character. The bloody skin veil works wonderfully, with the screaming faces in the back. She looks fabulous ruling over the rest of the ghostly host

Thanks gobert!

Viterbi wrote:Good luck on getting the primer, hobby supplies here have taken a hit, can't get my regular army painter brushes anywhere and have to try a new brand... the horror!

Love the group shot of the Nighthaunt, great and unusual color scheme all around and can imagine the Necron asking, what this is all about: "Do you also want to kill all humans?"

Lol yeah I need to get some extra shelves so I can spread out my minis a bit! I have an overflow shelf rn too for minis that I don't mind getting dusty b/c I have to clean them before priming or stripping anways.

inmygravenimage wrote:Something to consider for primer, if you can get them, is Kobra sprays. They're graffiti acrylic sprays, and give excellent coverage, and are much less expensive than a lot of hobby paint. I get mine through Amazon to

I was gonna go for the Krylon satin finish, I heard that the satin finish works with contrast paints.

Finished the metallics! Just purple, then blood then basing.

Purple down!

Gywn,

Lady Olynder was very well done with loads of great detail. She also has more color like the rest of your host, which I think is more attractive than the traditional almost monochrome hosts you often see.

Cheers,

CB

I second captain brown.
Also the new ghosts do seem to come along nicely aswell.

Captain Brown wrote:Gywn,

Lady Olynder was very well done with loads of great detail. She also has more color like the rest of your host, which I think is more attractive than the traditional almost monochrome hosts you often see.

Cheers,

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:I second captain brown.
Also the new ghosts do seem to come along nicely aswell.

Thanks for your always kind words, Captain Brown and Not Online!!!

I finished off the last of the Chainrasps. Gonna have to find myself some more Nighthaunt Battleline if I want this army to be playable! Photos aren't that great, I had REALY trouble getting not blurry pics with these guys.

Eye-level view - actually quite scary viewed like this!


A more usual view to see in a game.


An even MORE usual view for ME to see in a game - the unit's backside!


And lastly, the Court so far. Only Nighthaunt I have left are the various Characters, and the weird half-unit of scythe ghosts.

Ohh what a snazy collection of swamplurkers ready to snag you

Well done gwyn

Those look great. A spooky looking force and they seem to have killed the Necron as well!

Fabulous collection of spooky bastards!

Cool, that mini-eye-level shot really is spooky. I think it’s the mist that adds to the creepiness of the flesh cloaks the group shot is fantastic, a really ravenous horde you’re putting together Gwyn

Love the eye-level shot. And I'm sure, they just wanna play and be loved, nothing spooky at all

 Captain Brown wrote:
Gywn,

Lady Olynder was very well done with loads of great detail. She also has more color like the rest of your host, which I think is more attractive than the traditional almost monochrome hosts you often see.

Cheers,

CB

Agreed. I like all the colour in there. Makes the figures way more impressive and spooky.

Lovely Nightahaunt fellows you've got there! That cotton wool for the bases is an awesome touch.

Not Online!!! wrote:Ohh what a snazy collection of swamplurkers ready to snag you

Well done gwyn

I'm really excited to paint some more of the character, Nighthaunt units are ok, but their characters are especially gorgeous!

RobertsMinis wrote:Those look great. A spooky looking force and they seem to have killed the Necron as well!

Lol, I took down the Terminators to strip them so they can join the Flesh Tearers later, which meant a reshuffle of models on my display cabinet.

inmygravenimage wrote:Fabulous collection of spooky bastards!

Thanks graven!

gobert wrote:Cool, that mini-eye-level shot really is spooky. I think it’s the mist that adds to the creepiness of the flesh cloaks the group shot is fantastic, a really ravenous horde you’re putting together Gwyn

Thanks gobert! I've been really enjoying them.

Viterbi wrote:Love the eye-level shot. And I'm sure, they just wanna play and be loved, nothing spooky at all

Yeah, the chain-rattling cursed souls of the dead are really just misunderstood!

Sigur wrote:

Agreed. I like all the colour in there. Makes the figures way more impressive and spooky.

Thanks Sigur! That was 100% my intention. The traditional "ghostly" nighthaunt are effective and WAY easier to paint, but I'm a fan of painting intricate details. Sometimes too much, I need to cut down on my palette on some other projects!

Speaking of cutting down on palette, I basically painted this guy in a single day.

introducing Deputy Taylor, a 10th Anniversary exclusive for Last Night on Earth. He starts the game with a shotgun, and is extra good at searching for new items. I painted him entirely monotone browns-and-khakis, which honestly was a lot of fun to come up with different ways to shade different parts.




Edit: I also updated the first post to have an index to all "completed" minis!

Very cool indeed, like a bit of the apocalypse I do!

Next up: a pile of scarabs!



Trying a new carapace technique here, gonna try and stipple it. I think it worked for some scarabs, but some look more... polkadotted. Gotta see if I can fix that

I don't see the polka dots? But my eyesight never was particulary great.
Still i think they look cute.

I like the stippling, I think it works well

The scarabs look cool, the stippling looks to have had too much paint on the brush? Isn’t it meant to be nearly dry brush levels?

 gobert wrote:
The scarabs look cool, the stippling looks to have had too much paint on the brush? Isn’t it meant to be nearly dry brush levels?

Yeah I think that was the issue. I tried doing it with a drybrush, but all my drybrush brushes are too thick and would make a mess elsewhere on the model, and I don't want to ruin my nicer, finer brushes by stabbing them into the model like that! I think next time I'll use the drybrushes anyways, and just accept that I'll have more cleaning up to do afterwards.

Not much progress to report, just a cleaned up the metal and threw a wash on. Not really noticeable tbh.

Great work on the Nighthaunt from the previous page, they look great assembled as a procession! Digging the scarabs too, they're looking good.

Thanks Tyranid! Great thing about Scarabs is they're really quick to paint!



I had so much fun painting the glow on these little guys, but MUCH less fun doing the base. I had to carve off the glued-on scarabs (wasn't me, the guy I bought them off of glued them on) to get to the base below them!

Next Project!

My sole, lonely, Ossiarch that I picked up when they were new to see if I liked them. Certainly fun to paint!

This is the bone, eyes, and glow done! Flesh has been done with Contrast but not highlighted or cleaned up yet. Not sure yet about the black bone protrusions on the black scythe handle.

Ohhh snazy. Also great job on the scarabs!

Good job on the scarabs, the OSL is very neatly done on them. Bone reaper chap is shaping up nicely. Not following the black bone protrusions? Do you mean the handles? If so they look good in black, matching the shaft

Wow the difference the green lighting makes to those models is incredible. They looked great in the previous photo but boom! really pop into life. Nice one.

Good colour choices for the Scarabs, I really like them. The glow effect is great!

Another nice start to a large model there Gwyn.

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:Ohhh snazy. Also great job on the scarabs!

Thanks Not Online!!!

gobert wrote:Good job on the scarabs, the OSL is very neatly done on them. Bone reaper chap is shaping up nicely. Not following the black bone protrusions? Do you mean the handles? If so they look good in black, matching the shaft

Yeah, the handles. Something about them just still isn't sitting right with me.

Olthannon wrote:Wow the difference the green lighting makes to those models is incredible. They looked great in the previous photo but boom! really pop into life. Nice one.

Thanks Olthannon and welcome to the blog! I'm glad you like the OSL, I've been doing a LOT of practicing to get it that smooth!

RobertsMinis wrote:Good colour choices for the Scarabs, I really like them. The glow effect is great!

Thanks Robert!

Captain Brown wrote:Another nice start to a large model there Gwyn.

CB

Thanks! It has a lot of promise, I have some /ideas/.

Of course, as this is a Death mini, got to keep my flesh cloth going! So here's the finished flesh, and base coat and wash on the armour. I am torn (ahahah) as to whether to add blood effects to the flesh this time. Thoughts?

The OBR is coming along nicely, they have some cool characters in their line-up.

Thanks Viterbi! They're really fun to paint too, the details make washes and contrast very effective.

Armour plates done! I really love this blue I got going here. Metallics base coated and washes. Decided that the handles should be gold, because otherwise there simply wasn't enough gold for a blue-and-gold scheme to work on a character model.

Solid job on the blue highlights there Gwyn

Also his eyes have seen some stuff.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Solid job on the blue highlights there Gwyn

Also his eyes have seen some stuff.

Thanks! I'm really happy I got the scratches nice.

I finished the metallics, but the scythe is looking way too rusty. I'm gonna have to go back to that.

Next, the GHOST! Which I've laid down the black-to-white transition that goes under the purple.

Easy update. Purple smoke magic effect. I decided that when there's a particularly prominent ghost face, it'll get the same bone that I use for my Nighthaunts' faces.

Wow really well done!

Lovely color combinations on this model, awesome job, thanks for sharing Gwyn!.

Seriously cool, love the blades

Looking good Gwyn.

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:Wow really well done!

Thanks Not Online!!!

Clouds wrote:Lovely color combinations on this model, awesome job, thanks for sharing Gwyn!.

Thanks Clouds! I was worried that both blue and purple would be too busy, especially with all the warm yellows and oranges that dominate the rest of the model, but I think they're both close enough to just being "cool" that it works!

inmygravenimage wrote:Seriously cool, love the blades

Thanks graven! I'm still not quite happy with the blade, it's nice but it's not what I envisioned. Gonna change it when I do my basing.

Captain Brown wrote:Looking good Gwyn.

CB

Thanks CB!

Last item (before I change the scythe blade) on the model itself, the little soul canisters! Spent a lot of time on them bringing them up through various shades of purple, all the way from a 50/50 Abaddon Black/Naggaroth Night through to pure Pallid Wych Flesh highlight. Pay special attention to the gem on his belt, I'm especially proud of that one!

Next is to fix the scythe blade, and do the base! I've decided no blood effects on him, to set him aside from the blood horror Nighthaunts. The Ossiarchs are a bit more refined, and they CLEAN their skin-cloth!

Between the eyes and the patina you have some great details going. Nice work.

Thanks youwashock! I had a lot of fun with this mini.

And now it's done!




What do y'all think?

Ohh snazy, turned out really well

He came out great Gwyn. Has he tempted you in to more bone reapers?

 gobert wrote:
He came out great Gwyn. Has he tempted you in to more bone reapers?

Not quite, though their bone is really easy to paint, and I did REALLY enjoy doing the blue armour. But I think if I pick up another Death army it's far more likely to be the new Soulblight.

Such a cool looking crown/crest/bone/jaw thing. Nice work on the blue and the purple.

He looks great!

Congrats on finishing the OBR, lovely color scheme overall and cool contrasts.

Excellent work Gwyn.

Sincerely,

CB

Very pretty indeed!

I like all of the purple! He's a good bone fellow.

Who wants to see the next project?

I think you do!

The bone, blue and purple scheme works well on the Ossiarch to make the magic stand out and the body to have a nice undead feel to it. The highlighting and shading is nicely done as well. Very cool project.

Thanks TRoS. It's honestly the mini I'm most proud of right now.

Much less sure about the blue on the Namarti Thralls I just finished. Leviadon Blue contrast + macragge blue highlights. What else can I do to bring these up a bit in quality?

I really like the skin tones. How about either baharoth blue at the edges of the cloth or carbourg crimson wash to shade? I often shade blue cloth with red and vice versa.

Great start on the Namarti Thralls. What might help is pick out the elevated bits on the cloth in gold or a contrasting color. Otherwise I'm at a loss with ideas. But excited to see more.

Good progress Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

inmygravenimage wrote:I really like the skin tones. How about either baharoth blue at the edges of the cloth or carbourg crimson wash to shade? I often shade blue cloth with red and vice versa.

Don't have carroburg crimson, I tried adding some red to my flesh wash, but I couldn't get it working right. I might have to look up a tutorial on how to work with it. I did a blue wash instead, which helped, and then I'll pick out more edges in Baharoth.

Viterbi wrote:Great start on the Namarti Thralls. What might help is pick out the elevated bits on the cloth in gold or a contrasting color. Otherwise I'm at a loss with ideas. But excited to see more.

Mmm, I considered the contrasting colour, but I want these minis to be very simple in scheme. Everything is either shades of cool blue, or gonna be warm oranges, brasses, bronzes. I don't want to risk that.

Captain Brown wrote:Good progress Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB! I do really like these minis.

Fish elves! I agree that the blue still needs a little something, maybe just a tough of a lighter aqua blue on the details? I'm not sure.

I really like their eyes!