Boss Salvage wrote:Really enjoyed the reclamation process on the bike, props on the end result from the gnarly beginning. And that banner! Which I appreciate the tip for forming plastic, I've never been a paper banner person but cast plastic ones rarely fit the physics of a conversion (weird wind patterns and whatnot).

Cheers mate The heating plastic banner worked even better than I hoped - and it meant I could avoid that ' flat curtains' look where the flag or banner is hanging straight down like there's no breeze. Those sorts of banners dont look too bad stuck on a backpack with a static, standing model, but on the back of a moving model (like a bike) it just doesnt make sense.

Roknar wrote:One hell of a rescue.

Thanks Roknar

Did some more work on my Son's Son of Infamy model and worked on the highlighting.

Son's son? Son² of infamy?

Anyway - as I'm sure it shows, none of this is wet blended, as I didnt think I had enough time to really get work it on this model. I've used the 'feathering' light touch method instead, with my focus on getting some 'high contrast' highlighting to work.

They are not great photos tbh - I'll try to take some better ones tomorrow









Let me know what you think
Cheers
KT

Looking good kt. The blue works well but I feel that the brightest part of the red needs expanding a bit. One lucky son either way!

Great paint, as always. Bold scheme.

Nice work, dude. I'm always skeptical of variegated color schemes on paper, but you executed it perfectly. Great brush control. I agree with gobert that the red could be brightened up a bit, it looks like the blue half is a bit more reflective.

gobert wrote:Looking good kt. The blue works well but I feel that the brightest part of the red needs expanding a bit. One lucky son either way!

Cheers man I think you’re right & I gave the red a gentle touch up. It might be too gentle tbh (I might not have brightened enough) - but I reckon it’s done now. Knowing when to put the brush downing a piece is important to maintain sense of progress.

youwashock wrote:Great paint, as always. Bold scheme.

Thanks youwashock my son had painted half his army as Ultras & the other half as blood angels, so when he asked about a custom scheme I suggested the red/blue split to minimise any repainting

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice work, dude. I'm always skeptical of variegated color schemes on paper, but you executed it perfectly. Great brush control. I agree with gobert that the red could be brightened up a bit, it looks like the blue half is a bit more reflective.

Thanks DQH - hopefully the finished product has brought the red up to where it needs to be I thought the scheme would be fine, but with the highlighting & everything finished it ended up better than I expected!

Anyway- the finished model:



I’m pretty happy with it, I’ve not really worked this hard on highlighting before.



I *think* the red is better here, but maybe its not... let me know what you think. Maybe it’s how I took the photo too... hmmm.




Next time I’ll need to spend more time working out where the light source is to keep things consistent. Oh well.






And of course the obligatory close ups



And we’re almost into March! New month means a new challenge, I’ll pop back in once I know what that’s going to be

Cheers all
KT

March is always, Space Marines. The red on him works very nicely! It pops nicely, only way I think you could get more would be something like a spot white or hairline edge highligh white at a few extreme corners or tops of the orange streaks, but I definitely feel you on the "as far your confident pushing it" thing.

The red looks great! The highlight that runs across the backpack really helps tie the two colors together to a consistent tone. Nice job on the shoulder pads too, love that heraldry.

Amazing to see the finished bike champion, the contrast between "dirty" biker and shiny banner works really well. And agraxing really needs to be a proper verb. How does one contact those oxford dictionary people?
Reiver looks great to, colors work really well together and that's a nice chapter symbol.

Great job KT, the red looks much closer in brightness to the blue now. The contrast of the warmth and cold of the 2 colours makes it hard to tie together, but I think you’ve managed it. The key areas where the 2 colours are on the same plate match well. The chapter symbol is awesome, the colours coming through the stars outline are fantastic

Hi folks, hope March is treating you well!

Vejut wrote:March is always, Space Marines. The red on him works very nicely! It pops nicely, only way I think you could get more would be something like a spot white or hairline edge highligh white at a few extreme corners or tops of the orange streaks, but I definitely feel you on the "as far your confident pushing it" thing.

Thanks Vejut I *almost* put white dots on it but pulled back at the last moment lol

Don Qui Hotep wrote:The red looks great! The highlight that runs across the backpack really helps tie the two colors together to a consistent tone. Nice job on the shoulder pads too, love that heraldry.

Cheers man - I was very careful with the backpack (the line across the top and the dome on the back particularly) as I knew that this was where of the red/blue highlighting would either work well or fail utterly. I was worried about the sizing of the heraldry - so I googled and found a step by step 'how to' guide that helped https://dragoart.com/tut/how-to-draw-infamous-second-son-logo-21218

Viterbi wrote:Amazing to see the finished bike champion, the contrast between "dirty" biker and shiny banner works really well. And agraxing really needs to be a proper verb. How does one contact those oxford dictionary people?
Reiver looks great to, colors work really well together and that's a nice chapter symbol.

Thanks Viterbi - appreciate the kind words. As for adding words to the dictionary, according to my limited research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surgeon_of_Crowthorne) I believe a person needs to go be sent to a prison for the criminally insane after murdering someone in a delusion and then mutilating themselves. Adding words to the dictionary is surprisingly metal.

gobert wrote:Great job KT, the red looks much closer in brightness to the blue now. The contrast of the warmth and cold of the 2 colours makes it hard to tie together, but I think you’ve managed it. The key areas where the 2 colours are on the same plate match well. The chapter symbol is awesome, the colours coming through the stars outline are fantastic

Thanks Gobert - thanks and thanks for the recommendation to brighten the red. I'm much happier with it now
When I did the chapter symbol I felt the star just didnt stand out enough, so I traced around it with one of the colours I'd used as a highlight. Glad you like it!

Ok - new month means...

I dont actually know yet.

Ummm....

I know, I know, I have lots of stuff on the pile of shame, but... but. Where possible, I've been trying to tie my monthly activity into either the Iron Warrior discord challenge or the GW model of the month. But this month's IW challenge hasnt been announced, and I've not heard anything about the GW model of the month.

so... I've working on my 'things to do when I've nothing else to do' pile. This normally means Greenstuff work. Ive attached a few wip shots of my 'PoxWalkers' here just so I'm not leaving my blog fallow for too long, but keep in mind that once the challenge is announced I'll put these guys down and may not return for a little while.

Poxwalkers - these were old GW zombies, but I'm giving them a swollen makeover. I'm trying to show that are infested with gross parasites that grow in their bodies and spill out to infect others. Some of these parasites can get quite large...

I think I've posted this guy before? He's finished.




Big Mouth: I think this guy is close to done just a little blending in on the arms. You can see the parasite at the back of his neck with its tendrils entering his eye and nostril.






this guys still wip. Tried for a fungusy growth thing on the back of his arm...




The Bird - just started on this one. Need to work on that hand he has outstretched as he flips the enemy off lol




super swollen I only have a shot of this guys back - I think he's one of the guys I couldnt find a torso for, so I used... old sprue and a tyrranid weapon part I think?


I actually started all these guys (I have twenty to do!) back at the start of 2020 so they are going to take a bit of time for me to get through. I might paint one or two at some stage though just to see how they work out You never know your luck in the big galaxy!

Cheers
KT

Ok, so I’m not sure I can keep my breakfast down now! these guys are very disgusting, especially the tendrils in to the eyes chap! *shudders*

Ugh - I typed up a whole post discussing what I am doing at the moment and now I find it didnt post! Doh.

Ok - redoing with - mostly photos:

1) I've been on about a weeks holiday (Coobowie on the Yorke Peninsula, lovely place ). While on leave I worked on a Deathguard model







a good start, lots more to do though

2) the next challenge in the iron warrior discord is 'psychics and priests' - basically any model that can use the psychic round. I'm redoing my old Tzeentch Daemon prince ie



Plan is to do a more 'feathered' model as this feels more tzeentchy - note the wing change



Also replacing the hand holding a staff with a hand holding a book





(finger and thumb swap as I try to make a right hand left)


changing the head a fair bit too - going to give him a bird beak




Going to adjust the head-dress too - not sure what I'm doing with this one though...

Let me know what you think Any cool ideas I should think about?

Love your ideas for repurposing the demon prince, I think you've made good choices to get a more tzeentchian feel. Although as an avid Pratchett fan you have to add a second "z" to the "wizard" in the book

Cool stuff as ever darkkt, the feathery wings are much more tzentch and less night lords. The (I’m assuming) bread tag beak will look cool, though I’ve no idea where to go with the headdress. Scarabs maybe?

Death Guard chappy looks nice too, will he be getting the glowing green from his eye hole?

G'day everyone

Viterbi wrote:Love your ideas for repurposing the demon prince, I think you've made good choices to get a more tzeentchian feel. Although as an avid Pratchett fan you have to add a second "z" to the "wizard" in the book

Thanks
Damn, that would have been a great idea (although I have no idea how the hell I would pull fit another Z in...) anyway, I'm sad to say I covered up the word 'Wizard' with Greenstuff already

gobert wrote:Cool stuff as ever darkkt, the feathery wings are much more tzentch and less night lords. The (I’m assuming) bread tag beak will look cool, though I’ve no idea where to go with the headdress. Scarabs maybe?

Death Guard chappy looks nice too, will he be getting the glowing green from his eye hole?

Cheers Gobert Death guard will def get some green glow happening, otherwise he wouldnt fit in with the rest of the squad!

Hmmm... I havent done scarabs on the head (yet) but I like the idea of scarabs a lot. The model needs something to really tie the Tzeench feel together...

Progress has been slow - I think I'm dithering a bit really as I try to find a balance between what I want to do and what have the skills to achieve. Its easy to get discouraged by choosing something too challenging for yourself (as you get disappointed with the results), but if you dont try something new you never get better (and you get bored/disappointed with your effort). Sigh....

Lets see where I land I guess. Anyhoo - its pics time!

Spell book:
Things can get breezy in battle, so my DP has a heavy skull & bookmark in place to make sure that he doesnt loose his place:



And whilst its a terribly angled photo, I've added some armature (random soft bits of wire) that will form the basis of a spell effect 'drifting off the pages' . I'm thinking like a miniature 'age of sigmar endless spell effect' with *something* comeing off the pages (lightning, fire, smoke, .... something more interesting...) happy to hear to suggestions at this stage )(although keep in mind I dont want the spell book to 'steal the show' )



I'll keep the book separate from the DP for most of the build I think to get things as accessible as possible for sculpting. Actually, Maybe I'll keep it separate and magnetize it for easy storage... hmmm

Daemon Prince:
Assembled with minimal adjustments:


FYI - Adding those metal wings made me remember how much of a pain in the ass it was the first time I added them. Jeebus... thank you GW for plastic.

I decided he needed a tail.




This is both an aesthetic choice and a cheat - I like the look of it, but it also provides a nice extension of the work I need to do to merge wings with the guy's normal armour. By making the area bigger, I *think* I can do a better job of blending the metal and the flesh. When I was doing the sorcerer on a bike, I extended the GS mutation over the chest armour because the 'fleshy arm sticking out of space marine suit' looked a bit lame.

Fingers crossed that it works lol

And now the work on the head -



I took the step of removing most of the simple headdress part and played around with some different options. Honestly, some of these looked better than the one I eventually ended up with, but they were far too large and probably wouldnt have fit with the wings.

This is what I've settled on


So, let me know what you think



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oops, forgot to post my attempt to crew feathers!



From an old Dave Taylor blog:
http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2010/11/making-feathers-tutorial.html?m=1

Hmmm...

I like the wing change and tail. Cool to see that Inquisitor figure get a second life, I was thinking of doing something with the daemonhost model. I really like the helmet you ended up with, looks dangerous and functional - just like an Iron Warrior.


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 darkkt wrote:
Hmmm...

HMMMMMM

The new horns certainly look cool, better than the original ornament imho. I like how the tail seems to extend up to his helmet too, a nice chaos-y detail. How did you do the base? Did you carve the GS before or after it went off?

Don Qui Hotep wrote:I like the wing change and tail. Cool to see that Inquisitor figure get a second life, I was thinking of doing something with the daemonhost model. I really like the helmet you ended up with, looks dangerous and functional - just like an Iron Warrior.


HMMMMMM

Cheers DQH This guy will remain a Thousand Son, although I'm thinking about a token nod to the Iron Warriors - sort of like he is an aligned DP, but not part of the army.

See below for more Hmmming

gobert wrote:The new horns certainly look cool, better than the original ornament imho. I like how the tail seems to extend up to his helmet too, a nice chaos-y detail. How did you do the base? Did you carve the GS before or after it went off?

Thanks G - whilst I was happy with it at the time, the original helmet suffered from my general impatience. Glad I'm finally having a second crack at it. The base was a little of both - I 'scultped' the soft greenstuff into rough cobblestones, then drew on a symbol and cut that symbol. I wanted it to look like the symbol was carved into an older floor.

The symbol is the Seal of Metatron again - the symbol I used on the front of the chaos sorcerer on a bike. Its both simple to do and suitably 'mystical' to suit

And we have progress!


Did some work on the 'spell effect' coming out of the book - decided I'd go for a spectral demon or spirit coming out of a glowing smoke emanating from the pages...

Hmmmm





Starting to build up the smoke





And then pu tting on some ghostly robes - the next step will be to blend the robes and the smoke to be 'seamless' and to sculpt the claws and sleeves







I did a little more to the base - adding in some candles. These are more rubbish (chuppa chup sticks and bits of plastic tube) cut to size and topped with greenstuff:







Wait a minute... what's that on his belt?



Its my attempt at a scarab! Not sure how happy I am with it at the moment. I'm leaving it so I can get used to the idea. Ultimately if i figure it doesnt work I'll just scrape it off and pretend it never happened.

and finally, some helmet progress:





Let me know what you think

Loving the work on the book!

All great to be honest! The scarab is really cool and I love how neat the candles look, nice one!

The work on that book is nothing short of phenomenal.

 darkkt wrote:

Don Qui Hotep wrote:I like the wing change and tail. Cool to see that Inquisitor figure get a second life, I was thinking of doing something with the daemonhost model. I really like the helmet you ended up with, looks dangerous and functional - just like an Iron Warrior.


HMMMMMM

Cheers DQH This guy will remain a Thousand Son, although I'm thinking about a token nod to the Iron Warriors - sort of like he is an aligned DP, but not part of the army.

See below for more Hmmming

Ah, gotcha, makes sense! Yeah I love details like that in an army. It instantly adds narrative; what kind of bargain did they strike; and who will break it first?

Great trick for making candles. Adds perfect atmosphere. I quite like what's going on with this book!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Loving the work on the book!

youwashock wrote:The work on that book is nothing short of phenomenal.

 gobert wrote:
All great to be honest! The scarab is really cool and I love how neat the candles look, nice one!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:

 darkkt wrote:

Don Qui Hotep wrote:I like the wing change and tail. Cool to see that Inquisitor figure get a second life, I was thinking of doing something with the daemonhost model. I really like the helmet you ended up with, looks dangerous and functional - just like an Iron Warrior.


HMMMMMM

Cheers DQH This guy will remain a Thousand Son, although I'm thinking about a token nod to the Iron Warriors - sort of like he is an aligned DP, but not part of the army.

See below for more Hmmming

Ah, gotcha, makes sense! Yeah I love details like that in an army. It instantly adds narrative; what kind of bargain did they strike; and who will break it first?

Great trick for making candles. Adds perfect atmosphere. I quite like what's going on with this book!

Hi everyone, thanks for the encouragement Glad to hear the book generally viewed positively - hoping I can keep it heading in the right direction as it progresses

Speaking of progress, it was a pretty productive weekend, as I finished the greenstuff work on the model, started and finished painting the base, and continued my Greenstuff work on the book

Lets start with the... base. Because this is finished. I think.

So I posted this one last time:


Then i did an undercoat of light grey:

(some of the black marker still showed through - but no big deal).

Then I did a few washes of nuln oil:


Then I laid down the magic symbol with blues and white, trying for a very subtle glow effect. I also did the candles in a wraithbone and agrax wash.


And finally, to finish it, I highlighted the candles with a mix of wraithbone and yellow:


I'm thinking its pretty much done right now. thoughts?

The book - was more robe work, not a heap of new stuff to be honest...I did however magnetise the book and the hand:

In this pic you can also see the layered 'crest' I put on the top of his head.

The bottom of the book still needs to be tidied up - but Im focused on the top part first


My connecting work was... less than impressive tbh - but I was silly trying to put two magnets so close together. Lesson learned.


Still - as shoddy as the work was, the guy still holds the book well enough:




Ooh, I added pointy claws to the 'spectre'


And I did a bunch of details on the DP model
work on his back:




I made and added a chain to hang around his leg for... reasons...






I added some rings to his left hand to cover up my shoddy greenstuff work

skull ring


Ring and a decorative chain

fancy work around the wrist:



And (although I dont have a pic right now) I have just undercoated the DP. Its shown up a few little... flaws? I might need to fix those and then re-prime. Better to do it now I guess than ignore them and try to paint around the problem.

And that's where I am. Let me know what you think!

Cheers
KT

Well I'm impressed at least. Thats some nice greenstuff work.

Wow those little details add so much to the miniature! That chain is fantastically well done two, thanks for giving us the WIP of the chain as well so I can see how you made it!

Looking great kt, the chain is amazing! Most people I’ve seen have just used cheap jewellery, so kudos for sculpting yours, impressive!

excuse me while I try something here:

normally I post pics in order of activity - from stage 1 to stage 5 - but ive found the thumbnail when it shows up on the 'Project Logs' is then always the least impressive. I figured I'd try the alternative by posting the best pic at the top - and then posting progress below.
Marketing 101 baybee!!!!

ahem - back to the blog

Vejut wrote:Well I'm impressed at least. Thats some nice greenstuff work.

Thanks V

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Wow those little details add so much to the miniature! That chain is fantastically well done two, thanks for giving us the WIP of the chain as well so I can see how you made it!

Cheers GcG I think its the attention to little detail that are what most people love about GW miniatures, so I try to replicate this as best I can where ever possible. It also helps that adding a little Greenstuff to certain parts covers up ugly joins and unfortunate gaps

gobert wrote:Looking great kt, the chain is amazing! Most people I’ve seen have just used cheap jewellery, so kudos for sculpting yours, impressive!

Thanks G I've used cheap jewelry chain myself in the past - and and given its size it works a treat for larger items (i.e. vehicles or terrain):




the stuff I got however doesnt work well on normal models however, even the really large ones like daemon princes. At 28mm a jewelry chain would be like a shipping anchor chain. You can get proper sized hobby chain, but I'm working on a budget at the moment. (and lets be entirely honest - I just wanted to see if I could make it work )

So, time for the progress update (even though posting the pic at the beginning gives the game away lol) - I've undercoated the head again after smoothing down an error I saw, and have started on the wings as I wanted to try the following tutorial from @savage_ork_guy on instagram (Louise Sugden - a GW illustrator I follow - https://www.instagram.com/p/B81niG5HYJ9/?igshid=hsyrr637q0jm)

Step one - Primer baybee!
Working with the new primer still - light grey. Going to try for a brighter model this time around.





Step two: check the paints I have against the reference pics:

Of course I dont have an airbrush, so we're blending using my wet pallet.

Step three:
Slap that paint down!


Step four (maybe step 7 because I was focusing and forgot to take interim pics):
Check against reference material

Pretty good. Happy with this It's Not exactly the same, but I only wanted to replicate the blended effect, not to copy the exact colour structure of the wings.

Step 8:
re-Post the glamour shots that have already technically been spoiled by posting one of them at the start:




So - overall pretty happy!

But...
The wings need more depth in the textures. I think I'm going to have to go over them with some washes, then rebuild (redo) the blending to brighten it up again, and then do the highlights. If I had been thinking ahead I would have done the washes first, then tried to the blending of colours - there would be less re-work.

Me - that's a pretty tiny problem to be honest, and even if I end up having to re-do the wings completely, I know I can do it (it wasnt hard as it didnt involve being too smooth with the blending - almost dry-brushing really) and I really like the effect.

let me know what you think!
Cheers
KT

Man, that is mega-rad. An epic mini, for sure.

Super conversion work. I really like the look of the wings so far, so will be interesting to see what you do with them.

Amazing work! I don't think it needs a wash and redone blending, I think bringing out highlights shoudl be enough to give it depth personally!

Prime pulled it together nicely, and those wings are looking great!

Priming always helps pull conversions together doesn't it? Blend on the wings is nice as well, may have to try that one.

Great work on the wings, the blending worked well. Hopefully the washes and highlights come together nicely. Now the body has been primed he could almost be a bought model

That's one hell of a pop-up book.

Reeally interested to see how the paintwork on this develops further. Greenstuff work was great, and painting thus far looks like it is going in the right direction!

Thanks for sharing

Hello and Thanks to everyone for checking it out and commenting

I spent most of my holiday long weekend trapped with enjoying time with family and friends, but I did get a little time to paint and greenstuff the TzDP.

Painting:
I spent an evening on the wings -I decided to follow through and it hit with a wash:
(wet)

(dry)


It knocked back the colour, but really did bring out the depth a lot better.
I then hit it with a gentle dryrbush for highlights.


Hmmm....

Current feeling - I sucessfully added depth, and the drybrushing added some highlights, but it lost some vibrancy - particularly around the dark purple and brighter peach wingtips. Im debating whether to go back and address this or whether I should be happy how it is. I left the wings as is for now anyway, and moved on. No pictures of the rest of the model at this stage as I'm just laying down some base coats and it looks pretty dull to be honest.

More interesting (I hope) is the pop up (as ShadowsandDust described it) spell book.

Firstly, I felt that the bottom of the book was a bit plain. Yes - this is the bottom of the book that will almost be entirely obscured by the hand holding the model. Yes, I am a fool.
As its on the bottom, and details wont really show up I thought might try to do some decorative stuff and practice my greenstuff neatness. The results:







Thinking I was done, I decided to hit it with primer - and immediately reconsidered and got back to work:




The odd 'texture' has only been done on one side - I dont know if this is a good decision or not. as no-one will see it, I'm sure it'll be fine
fingers crossed

I also revisited the face and the body of the spectre. You might recall the face looked like this


I got progressively less happy with this every time I saw it, and decided I needed to make a change. Firstly I worked on a sideways mouth with sharp and irregular teeth (multiple rows), but it just looked... weird. Weird but not chaosy weird.

So I carved it back, leaving in one back row of sideways teeth:


And constructed something different - attempting a 'longer face' or extending jaw:


I feel this works better and I'm pretty happy with how it looks now (even though the nostrils look a bit orky).

You can see on this pic I also added more tattered robes - mostly to tie in some of the rough edges on my greenstuff work.



And finally I thought I would how it looks when I pose it. to be perfectly honest I think its way overbalanced (visually at least) But I'm still pretty happy with it





Let me know what you think! is the more substantial spectral face a good move or a mistake? Happy to hear criticism too
Cheers
KT

More face is good! The proportions are very weird, make it very clear that this is a spell and not an actual creature.

Oh my god lol, that's sick. How did you even get greenstuff that small to stick while moulding those squigglies Oo ( also dat star....I'm envious)

Great job on the GS, really impressive getting such fine details. The revised Daemon looks great. I see what you mean about the balance, if it’d have come out more vertically it might look more evenly balanced. Then again it wouldn’t be as threatening. Great sculpting either way!

Lovely work on the feathers, I think that last drybrush really helped sell the blend of the colors. I'm curious to see how they look next to the rest of the model, depending on how saturated the armor the wings might be fine as they are.

The book and demon both look good, the detail on the cover looks right out of Evil Dead.

I agree - the final drybrush has made it all come together nicely, and whilst less vibrant, it looks far more natural in its cohesiveness

Sculpting is looking great as well

Thanks for sharing

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:More face is good! The proportions are very weird, make it very clear that this is a spell and not an actual creature.

Cheers that was kinda my original goal for the long extended face. I’m much happier with the new face, I reckon it’s got a ‘ghost librarian’ vibe now lol

Who you gunna call?

Roknar wrote:Oh my god lol, that's sick. How did you even get greenstuff that small to stick while moulding those squigglies Oo ( also dat star....I'm envious)

Thanks! I used very fresh GS so it would stick & The ‘squiggles’ were just tiny worms of gs squished into vaguely interesting shapes with a pointy thing. The star & the Tzeentch symbol were harder & needed a lot of trial, failure & redoing

gobert wrote:Great job on the GS, really impressive getting such fine details. The revised Daemon looks great. I see what you mean about the balance, if it’d have come out more vertically it might look more evenly balanced. Then again it wouldn’t be as threatening. Great sculpting either way!

Thanks mate hadn’t really thought about balance before this build - every new model is a learning experience!

As per the earlier pic I’ve Hit the spectre with the paint, I’m liking it so far I think?

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Lovely work on the feathers, I think that last drybrush really helped sell the blend of the colors. I'm curious to see how they look next to the rest of the model, depending on how saturated the armor the wings might be fine as they are.

The book and demon both look good, the detail on the cover looks right out of Evil Dead.

IGtR= wrote:I agree - the final drybrush has made it all come together nicely, and whilst less vibrant, it looks far more natural in its cohesiveness

Sculpting is looking great as well

Thanks for sharing

And thanks to you both as well I’m working the armour right now, hopefully I can brighten it to match the wings!

Here’s the current progress:





So slowly moving forward, trusting it all works out!

On completely separate point, thought I might share my 9 year olds sanguinary priest -





I think he did a good job

Blue armor is looking nice, and liking that little bit of shoulder pad peeking at the edge there.

9 year old's model is excellent, I'd be pretty happy with that level of result myself.

Really great shading on the armor, looks like the armors twisting a bit. Nice one on your son's Blood Angel!

Thanks Guys

Quick update because Im at work and... probably should be working lol

Progress on the armour:



as a nod to this Tzeentch DP being currently aligned to my Iron Warriors, I figured he needed a few hazard stripes



And some work on the spellbook:




This model marks my first real attempt at NMM - the star on the book, the cables on the armour, and the chain around his leg. Lots of practice still required, and I'm not entirely sure it carries the desired 'metallic' effect across to be honest, but I still like it and I'm going to continue regardless

Cheers all!
KT

The gold is pretty good. I haven't tried NMM myself, but I've always read that the key is to push the darks much darker than you're comfortable with, and push the lights much lighter than you're comfortable with.

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
The gold is pretty good. I haven't tried NMM myself, but I've always read that the key is to push the darks much darker than you're comfortable with, and push the lights much lighter than you're comfortable with.

Thanks man - push the contrasts hey, sounds like good advice. I'll have to try it on the actual mini itself though because I'm done with the back of the book:





I've just started the trim on the DP himself, hitting the smallest bits first... ugh, my photo is blurry. Damn. I'll take another one tonight.


Cheers
KT

Amazing transition on the back of the book!

Really impressed with your work on that book, my dude, especially on the Sigil. The Prince seems to have just the right amount of hazard stripes. I like how you're tying in both legions throughout the design process.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Amazing transition on the back of the book!

Thanks Gwn, I spent too long on that book cover considering that you cannot actually see the cover lol. Still, its proved a spot to practice techniques

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Really impressed with your work on that book, my dude, especially on the Sigil. The Prince seems to have just the right amount of hazard stripes. I like how you're tying in both legions throughout the design process.

And thank you Don - I'm very happy with the sigil, I think it turned out nicely . I wasnt sure about the hazard stripes when I put it down, but now I've added more yellow Im far more comfortable about how it fits in.

Today's update is for me
One of the benefits I've found from keeping this painting blog is the fact I have something to refer back to if I forget exactly how I have done something. As such, I figure I'll use it to outline my NMM steps for my own future reference:



Now, my current process has a lot of opportunity for improvement, but I'm happy with the current results as a first attempt and keeping this record will give me a base to work from.

Paints:




And just a couple of broader progress shots




I think its getting there now... let me know what you think!

Wow! I’ve been away a minute and you’re smashing out NMM all over the place! Looks great, as does the volume highlighted armour plates. Nice nod to the IW with the striped knee

Great work on the DP - I too love how you have tied in the IW's without it being a complete mish-mash.

NMM looking very good for a first proper outing!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks folks, Gotta say I was getting discouraged at the start of this month - Converting these large metal minis is not an awesome experience tbh - but I'm loving how the paint is going down (and thus way more updates)

I think I'm done with my gold nmm now:

Here's a close up of various nmm parts:



Full body shot:

this shows off the front view and the helmet crest

wrist and Hand-bling (that I greenstuffed on to hide the crappy joins):




Sword hilt and spurs



And another full body and spellbook shot



I'm now onto the sword blade, the patch of human skin around his leg and other misc final details (the yellow cable under his arm). Hoping that I'll have the guy done in a week tops!

Cheers all
KT

He's coming out very nice, loving the gold.

Really great work, the beaky helmet came out fantastically.

Wow, and this was your first mini to try NMM? It looks great!

Tzeench Daemon Prince is FINISHED!

Whew, at 1 1/2 month, its great to finally get this bad boy off the desk! Thanks to everyone who watched as I posted the process, the kind words always help me to stay enthused

And here are the pics:







The book:




Bookless:


NMM highlights:




The green-blue glow:



ahhhh... feels good to post these

Anyway - let me know what you think, C&C is always welcome!
Cheers
KT

Ended up coming together nicely!

Finished model looking the business! Creamy blends, lovely spooky blue-green, NMM looking mmmmm tasty!!

Just one bit missing - paint the base rim black!!

Thanks for sharing

Looking great KT, the Nmm and armour highlights are the winners in terms of painting. The beakie helmet and of course the book are the sculpting wins imho! What next?

Fantastic work as always, my dude. Those brights are popping off of the armor. I really like how the glowing bits on the sword, shoulderpad, and psychic manifestation tie together.

Hello Everybody! Hoping everyone is going well and hobbying hard. Its been a few days between posting for me as work has been crazy, but I'm back in the painting saddle and elbow deep in Agrax Earthshade (which propbably explains why no one sits next to me on the bus)

Vejut wrote:Ended up coming together nicely!

Cheers Vejut - appreciate the support and glad you liked it

IGtR= wrote:Finished model looking the business! Creamy blends, lovely spooky blue-green, NMM looking mmmmm tasty!!

Just one bit missing - paint the base rim black!!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR, I'm very happy with the NMM, lots more to learn but I felt good watching it come together . Painting the base rim black though... hmmm... I tend to keep the bases rimmed in grey, but maybe its time to try something new. I'm going to leave this as is, but I might try it on my next few models and see how it goes.

gobert wrote:Looking great KT, the Nmm and armour highlights are the winners in terms of painting. The beakie helmet and of course the book are the sculpting wins imho! What next?

Thanks Gobert - as always, I appreciate the kind words I do like the opportunity to try new things with the sculpting as well as the painting, and trying to get the book guy to look 'kinda ghostly' (instead of nurgly) was a challenge.

What next?... well I'll show some stuff i'm working on below, but as a quick one I punched out the April Model of the Month over two short nights recently - I present the Pink Horror!




Now, there's nothing too exciting with this guy - although I think its perfectly serviceable and tabletop ready - but it was my first attempt to paint a miniature almost entirely in contrast paint. That stuff's got a learning curve for sure, but I can see the benefits of it re very vivid colours and quick yet solid results.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Fantastic work as always, my dude. Those brights are popping off of the armor. I really like how the glowing bits on the sword, shoulderpad, and psychic manifestation tie together.

Thank you DQH I'm glad you noticed these 3 glowing bits as the placement of these 'points of focus' was intentional! Late last year I showed my Death Guard model of the month to the dude at my FLGS and he pointed out that I'd managed to accidentally hit some painting rule about spot or focus colours (my term). From what I recall about the 10 second discussion he was saying that having 3 points of a colour that will attract focus on a model will help tie that colour into the model as a whole instead of (possibly) distracting from the model.

In the death guard model I'd gotten the three points of Tesseract Glow (although one of those is well hidden from most angles lol), whilst in the DP it was the aethermatic blue with white highlights



He didnt mention using it on the base as well, but I wanted that mystical circle to glow and having a different glow colour would have been distracting imo.

Ok - so what now? well I'm between challenges (again) so I've attempted to point my ADHD addled mind to finishing some of my older half painted projects. recently Ive spent some time on my old metal Raptors - finally getting some hazard stripes on them and moving them towards finished.

Not a great shot but here is how I had left them for the last decade:


It's worth remembering that I had actually considered these finished back in 2009 -


but now... not so much. I still like the red and the bronze or brass colour, but I think they are almost done - not genuinely finished. Time to fix that!

Stage one - the yellowing:


Stage two - time for stripes:






Stage 3 - all the other little bits that need to happen to call it done - highlighting, glowing, adding some super subtle patina around the rivets (maybe too subtle) etc
This lad is actually *FINISHED* and so far he's the only one.




The rest are a lot closer than they were though

So let me know what you think! I'm expecting the next challenge to drop pretty soon, so I may put these guys down again soon, still - feeling pretty good about having finally gotten them moving.
Cheers
KT

I would have considered the old state pretty finished, but the new one is definitely an improvement.

A worthy upgrade!

Raptor is looking snazzy!

Thanks for sharing

The stripes certainly tie these guys in to the IW. The Pink Horror is looking snazzy too with its bling jewellery

Hey all - time for a quick update:

Firstly - two more finished raptors:







And my kids (9 & 7) have (almost) finished their own model of the month Pink horrors. My son decided he wanted tattoos on his, so both me and my daughter decided to follow his approach so they looked consistent

Mr 9 (left), Me (centre), Ms 7 (right)




We also went and picked up this month's model - the Gravelords


And I have a new competition - another two month challenge this one is either Slaanesh or Nurgle, Perfect opportunity to finish off another Daemon Prince!:



And that's it for now, back to work for me!
Cheers
KT

The extra stripey raptor look good kt. Did you redo the face on the helmet-less one? As for the Pink Horrors the kids did a great job, it’s hard to spot which one is yours!

Good on you for working to wrap up an old project. Raptors look great. Awesome work from the kids, as well.

Edit: looking back a page, Daemon Prince turned out phenomenal. The book is a work of frikkin' art.

gobert wrote:The extra stripey raptor look good kt. Did you redo the face on the helmet-less one? As for the Pink Horrors the kids did a great job, it’s hard to spot which one is yours!

Hi Gobert - thanks

yes I did redo the face although I ummed and ahhhed about it first. The old 'face' kind of had a smooth and shiny tanned leather look that I didnt hate... in the end though, I think it was a good move. more importantly I redid the eyes - he is now looking where he is reaching and his pupils arent a stretched out line going from the top eyelid to the bottom one

youwashock wrote:Good on you for working to wrap up an old project. Raptors look great. Awesome work from the kids, as well.

Edit: looking back a page, Daemon Prince turned out phenomenal. The book is a work of frikkin' art.

Cheers youwashock - the kids are pretty pleased with the kind words (as am I of course)

I've got a quick Nurgle Daemon prince update... with little to nothing done on the DP himself. This is because im not sure if I want to keep that much of the work Ive already done (as little as it is), or if i really want to strip all the gs off it and 'start again'.

although these tiny wings (from the chaos spawn sprue) are definitely going


A cork and a mysterious coathanger have entered the chat...


My wife asked me to put this coat hanger in the recycling, but when I checked it I saw (you guessed it) its's PolyStyrene! yeah baybee!

So coathanger went in the "I can do something with that" pile and I came up with this:

...the least impressive axe or scythe ever:


after some refinement


and after breaking it and having to do some minor repairs:


lots more to do, but I think its heading in the right direction

I used the cork on the base






I think I'm going to try and fake some dripping ooze from the pipe, and possibly do a glossy layer across the bottom (like the the rocks are jutting from a swamp or pool).

Catch you all soon!
Cheers
KT

Great start, the base is full of interesting little details already. The dripping pipe and oozy swamp sound really cool additions too

Another triumph of found-object modeling on the way. That base is going to rock, too.

ok, back for another update!

We have some progress in a few areas, lets start with... the Scythe.

Sigh.

The damn scythe was - is - a pain. I had no clear idea what I was going to do with it for ages - I glued bits on and then cut them off, I slapped down greenstuff and removed it afterwards... two or three times. Just directionless.
Anyway, I finally decied that I'd just hack into it and see what happened. I attacked the blade with a round file and was suprised that I was pretty happy with the result - and last night I laid down some greenstuff again and I dont hate it. I think its working....



Ive still got the other side and the handle to do, but I'm feeling this is probably the direction I want to go in, and that at least gives me some confidence.

I've also progressed the base a bit. I liked it but felt the mildly textured black bottom of the base itself was a bit dull, so I tried the 'wet PVA glue + Superglue' trick to get a super-quick gross-rippled texture going.


(Nurgling was briefly added for gaks and giggles)





I figure I paint the base completely, then figure out a way of adding the clear epoxy I've decided on and then see how it looks. hoping for a 'gross slime' effect. Of course if I stuff up the base with the epoxy glue I'll need to completely start it again, but fate favours the bold...

I've decided on the wings - although Ive done little work on them:


And I did some work on the chest 'armour', moving from this:


to this


FYI - the white bits of plastic are cut and shaped from a shampoo pump dispenser.






All mostly smooth and neat at the moment - I figure I lay down the basics and then nurgle it up. I find that if I go fully nurgle on the greenstuff from the outset then it can look a bit 'sloppy' or 'lazy' - like Im covering up errors rather than intentionally sculpting something.

So, let me know what you think!

Just backlogged your entire blog, this is full of awesomeness, congrats for this twisted band of heretics !

Keep it up !

Raptors and Pink Horrors are looking great! Can't wait to see how the sculpting goes - I suspect it will look epic with the wings!

Congrats to the young painters. Really nice work.
That base you’re making is really cool. Can’t wait for the finished piece.

The previous daemon Prince is absolute hobby gold -?every aspect is really nicely done!! Some excellent stuff in progress too - the refurbed raptors are looking spiffy.

KernelTerror wrote:Just backlogged your entire blog, this is full of awesomeness, congrats for this twisted band of heretics !

Keep it up !

Wow! Thanks for taking the time and welcome aboard

RobertsMinis wrote:Raptors and Pink Horrors are looking great! Can't wait to see how the sculpting goes - I suspect it will look epic with the wings!

Thanks RobertsMinis I've shied away from the wings this week and focused on other things. I want to think a little more about the way I do this.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Congrats to the young painters. Really nice work.
That base you’re making is really cool. Can’t wait for the finished piece.

Cheers DJJJeff I did do some progress on the base - pics below (spoiler - Im very happy so far)

Ragsta wrote:The previous daemon Prince is absolute hobby gold -?every aspect is really nicely done!! Some excellent stuff in progress too - the refurbed raptors are looking spiffy.

Thanks Ragsta, I enjoyed the NMM process on the Tzeentch DP so much I decided I'll try it again on this one!

But firstly... I finished my Model of the Month Grave Guard banner bearer!









Pretty happy with this little fella - a bit like the horrors, I wanted to try another 'quick' scheme, a paint job that I figure could be slapped on without spending hours and hours per model, whilst still looking quality on the table top. Contrast paints were to the rescue again here. I didnt take photos of these steps, but:

1) Base coat with a light grey
2) Hit the main armour pieces with retributor gold.
(optional 2 - Drop a darker gold into the recesses and a brighter gold/silver on the highlights). I did this, but I’m not convinced this step is necessary.
3) Hit the trim and the outer skirt with black.
4) Highlight the highest black parts with mid tone grey and then pure white (I also did more steps in here, again, not convinced it is noticeable enough)
5) Paint over all the gold and all the black and the pale grey under-skirt with contrast blood angel red (undiluted as I don’t have any contrast medium)
6) Boom. Red stuff is done. Then hit the bones with a bone/cream and the other steel parts (blade & chainmail with ledbelcher).
7) And then its all over the whole model (red bits and all) with the athonian camoshade wash (it’s a lighter effect than the agrax and adds a mouldy green tinge to the bones).
8) Bone and steel highlights and boom you are done!
Surprisingly quick for a reasonable effect imo. I’d probably make the highlights in step 4 more prominent than I did, but I think it works

uhhh... not sure where the rest of my post went, but it well here it is now!

The start of the banner was similar:


1) black base then progressive grey to white highlighting - you will note this not neat at all:

rough and ready.

2) then the contrast red


Then I did the moon (I used a round sticker as the template) in cream/bone and then did a super light drybrush in a glow around the moon. (I did a thin link of contrast paint carefully around the moon creating a 'halo'). I stenciled out the silhouette really roughly in light grey, corrected where necessary and then blacked the whole thing in and boom you are done!



Pretty confident I could belt out a bunch of these guys in no time at all. I dont actually plan to do any such thing of course - I'm still not allowed to buy new models XD

Back to the DP, Ive been continuing my progress (a little) - here is the other side of the scythe



And I hit the base with some washes and tried a rusty nmm on the pipe - let me know what you think!

1) base coat


2) camoshade wash again - heavy all over!


3) Then the rusty iron NMM pipe attempt started with a grey


4) then progressive and agressive stippling of brown, brown orange, orange, and a light spanking of a 'tan' colour i made out of camoshade and wraithbone - all tied together with an agrax earthshade wash


5) Then in spots where i decided there had been some rust worn off, I placed a stripe of dark grey, a highlight of brigher grey, and then just a touch of white:




only three steps of NMM here and nothing that was very hard to do - i figured its not worth really working the highlights on an ancient pipe in a swamp. If anything is going to be grimy & rusty, its going to be that!


I'm so pleased with how the PVA+Superglue texture on the base worked out - its far better than I hoped (and my expectations were pretty high already)! basecoating and adding the wash really bring it out.

Let me know what you think
Cheers
KT

Base texture looks interesting, rusty pipe looks smashing... here's hoping the epoxy goes well and really takes it into the stratosphere!

Love a good simple contrast scheme for the grunts. It really is the advantage of the system - pumping out a decent 'opposition' to your main army, or 'chaff' for the list.

Thanks for sharing

 IGtR= wrote:
Base texture looks interesting, rusty pipe looks smashing... here's hoping the epoxy goes well and really takes it into the stratosphere!

Hi IGtR, thanks I'm actually of two minds about the glue epoxy now - it wasnt easy to manage and once its on you're pretty much stuck with it. I've decided to try a layer or two of ardcoat gloss varnish to give the base and the creatures a 'glossy wet look'. My thought are that it will either work perfectly and it will look excellent, or it will just look shiny - in which case I can just drop the epoxy over the top.

In any case, apart from adding the wetness I think the base is now finished, with the critters coloured like a nasty bruised looking flesh.



Pleased so far, so fingers crossed applying the ardcoat tonight works out
Cheers
KT

Bruised flesh looking suitably grim. Good luck with the 'Ardcoat!

Yowza, paint really pulled that base together! And props on that banner, great result that doesn't seem to have cost your sanity / hours upon hours of work.

That banner is really sweet. The work on the base is really turning out well. And I can't wait to see how you paint the scythe.

Cheers folks

Ok - last pics of the base as Im sure you're all sick of it - ardcoat applied:




Quite happy with how slick and slimy it looks now, feeling that I dont need to add more epoxy on top as its pretty much where I think it needs to be.

A little detail I added is the 'ripples' around the fat tentacle - hoping that this adds an impression of depth to the swamp although it might be too well hidden.


Anyway, back to the Daemon Prince, his scythe and some green stuff practice now.

The ripples are subtle, but now I notice them it does make the water look deeper!

I’m constantly impressed by your attention to detail darkkt! The swampy nurgley base is full of win, then you throw some great but simple nmm too. Great stuff!

The Skelleybob is fantastic too, a really atmospheric scheme that sounds relatively simple too. The freehand on the banner is spot on too

G'day all, sneaking in a quick update while at work as I wait for a software update to download

First up - after doing the base I was still in the painting mood and so I decided to paint up the head. Took a few attempts, but finally settled on an approach I think works:









I took a few photos of an earlier version - I dont hate it, but it isnt of the quality I want to put out on a challenge or competition piece.
First off some white dots over black:


Then a wash of red contrast.


Far too pink (I'd need to hit it with another burst of red contrast) but I decided to go down the yellow-to-red option above- do you think I made the right choice?

Otherwise things are moving slowly - the scythe continues to slowly progress




I hope to finish this soon so I can paint it.

and I've put the arms back on the model with some shoulder pads




I've wasted a lot of time (and a non-zero amount of greenstuff) on the wings, and struggling to get anything of quality out of them... If I can't pull off the insect wings (pun intended) soon, I'll switch to the metal bat wings that I took off the Tzeentch DP and replaced with feathered wings.
(the ones at the top here)


They are reasonably 'worn' and ratty looking to be a nurgle conversion, so I wont be horribly upset if this is where I end up

On a different note, I thought I'd do a quick post on my hobby set up. I do not have space for a full desk or room where I can put gorgeous painting racks, so I need something I can pick up and put away conveniently. Enter the SnapBox:



I bought two of these from Spotlight (Australian sewing and hobby store) and each came with 3 trays



I've started the process of magnetising one for my son, and I'll magnetise another for myself sooner or later


The rest holds bits

and paints


It's good enough for moving stuff around my house, and is modular so I can take some but not all of it with me (so I took 3 on holidays with me last year - paints in the top 2 rows and unpainted models on the bottom row). If I was taking it to a game store or comp I'd probably need to strap it with something - the clips on the side a good, but my faith only goes so far...

Anyway, software installation has finished and I need to reboot!
Cheers
KT

Nice work on the Nurgloid, the big eyes and head look really good. FWIW I think the colours you chose work well, the spots seem a bit twee for Nurgle.

The mobile hobby set up works well, I’m amazed you could take it on holiday with you. I’d be looking for a new Mrs gobert if I were to suggest such a thing!

 gobert wrote:
Nice work on the Nurgloid, the big eyes and head look really good. FWIW I think the colours you chose work well, the spots seem a bit twee for Nurgle.

The mobile hobby set up works well, I’m amazed you could take it on holiday with you. I’d be looking for a new Mrs gobert if I were to suggest such a thing!

Thanks Gobert My wife is very forgiving of my hobby, something I greatly appreciate

Super quick update today
1) I finally pulled the pin on the bug wings. If I had been able to dedicate more time and more greenstuff (or a cheaper alternative) to the project I think they would have looked great, but were simply not coming off as well as I hoped and were going to take waaay too much time and materials. So, metal bat wings it is:





I also started the true nurglification of the DP by gouging a hole in his breastplate and spilling out some guts:





converting is great, but Nurglification is the *really* fun part of this build expect more updates soon!

I think you made the right call. It was a cool idea, but the current version looks better. Going to be an awesome piece!

Looking good darkkt, the gribbly bat wings work well. The guts spilling out is a cool and necessary touch for one blessed by papa and your GS skills continue to serve the dark gods well!

Cheers folks I like how its coming together right now, got a good feeling about it.

Time for a super easy game of 'Guess what this little purple bead is going to be':

A great unclean one? Maybe when he grows up?

A Salvation Army Santa Claus?

gobert wrote:A great unclean one? Maybe when he grows up?

DJJazzyJeff wrote:A Salvation Army Santa Claus?

Ho... Ho.... Ho...ld up.
Its not a discount Santa.
It's not (as my daughter once called it) a Great Uncle.
It's... a nurgling!



what do you mean everyone knew it was a nurgling?

Very happy with how this guy is looking at the moment, its got a more 'current nurgling' shape to it than my previous dude who was (whilst I'm still happy with him) was far further away from the current 'pear-shaped' lads.

Quick step by step of the process:

1) Armature (a kid's bead and wire from a champagne bottle top)



2) Rough shapes


3) Refinement and details (teeth etc)


4) positioning (and a few more adjustments - including the bell ring-hold and the hand he's holding the horn with.



I think I'm nearly done on this guy to be honest. I've added a load of gross details to his back to fill in space:

and changed his boots for gross claw things


Only a few more details and I think he'll be ready for an undercoat... although the undercoat can reveal previously hidden flaws, so there may well be a new round of greenstuff after this too.

Can't wait to start getting paint on him! Havent figuredd out what colours he'll be, but I'm sure it will be fine

speaking of paint:


Cheers
KT

That’s one posh nurgling made of champagne bits, he must have slaaneshi tendencies! He looks really cool. The big chappy is cool too. Surely he should at least share a bit of his palette with your death guard?

Man, you got greenstuff powers...

Marvelous bit of sculpting. Bring on the paint!

gobert wrote:That’s one posh nurgling made of champagne bits, he must have slaaneshi tendencies! He looks really cool. The big chappy is cool too. Surely he should at least share a bit of his palette with your death guard?

Damn, I shouldve sculpted a top hat and a monocle for him (scribbles down notes for 'monopoly-guy' themed nurgling base...) Oh yeah, the big guy will definitely have some green and brass/bronze, but I'm not sure how much just yet.

youwashock wrote:Man, you got greenstuff powers...

Marvelous bit of sculpting. Bring on the paint!

Thanks

I've undercoated everything now and the paint is indeed coming on. I started with the scythe, as it was ready to go. This is where I'm at:


I didnt take many step shots, but First some brown and then lots and lots of brown-orange & orange stippling to give it a dirty rusty look:




Then I hit it with a wash of agrax in an attempt to tie the colours together, followed up by attempts at Nmm scratching using greys and white



This was ok, but the agrax went too far, and I needed to bring back some brightness. I did a light drybrush of orange and then tidied up the scratches again:





I think the after shots are pretty much where I want this to be on the rust. I *might* add the faintest little touch of blue to the scratches... the simple grey is just not feeling really 'metal' to me yet.

Apart from that, I did a quick bone base coat for Belly here:


Looking forward to hitting this guy with some more paint - Im very pleased with how its going

Cheers
KT

Thanks for the step by step on the rusty metal. I think you’re right on adding something else like blue, right now I think it looks a bit frosty. The nurgling looks like he’s about ready to steal the show though!

Great stuff!

 gobert wrote:
... The nurgling looks like he’s about ready to steal the show though!...

MOAR COWBELL!



Hehe, I'm pretty happy with this little guy





He's not quite done yet, but you can see the sort of skin tones I'm trying for - a deeper purple base with elf flesh and then a turquoise contrast colour in the shadowed areas. I need to make it a little more refined, but he's heading in the right direction.

Apart from this I've started hitting the main DP with some base coats




Much like the nurgling and the guy's head, I've started with a base of Volupus Purple contrast, then I'll shift to highlighting with elf flesh + random other colours (yellows and browns etc).

Apart from my fleshy lads I've leaned into the scythe and *tried* to drop a 'bronze' effect on the decorative parts... I'm not 100% happy with them yet, but I reckon they are pretty close.... Sigh.



Added some age to the handle


I think it looks pretty good - let me know what you think
















Otherwise I've been focusing

Looking good, the purple base for the little guy has worked well. I like the bronze effect, but maybe it’s a little on the dark side?

 gobert wrote:
Looking good, the purple base for the little guy has worked well. I like the bronze effect, but maybe it’s a little on the dark side?

See, I think that too. I'm thinking I need to brighten the brown in it a touch... At this stage Im going to leave it, and work on the body. the shoulder pads are going to be bronze, so if I can get a suitably bright effect on these then I'll revisit the scythe.

Anyway - time for for the body to get 'fleshed out'.







Early days yet, but these WiP's are encouraging, so I'm happy with my choices so far .
It gives me a weird kinda attack on titan vibe... not intentional, but I'm not unhappy.

Cheers
KT

Nice and sore skin tones you’ve achieved. I think he’s either rocking out on air guitar or doing a bit of an air grab

Ah... looks like I accidentally finished it.

(quick selfie with my bestie)


AAAAHHHHHHHH
feels good to get this dude done Here's the full body shots


Front


Right


Back



Left

And some 'highlights'







to be honest there's a lot of stuff I might have done differently (the armour paintjob is too busy, the freehand on the bottom of the robes is not really noticeable from a distance and the scythe still coould have been brighter) but all that said I'm pretty Proud of the end result and Im very happy to put it down and move onto something esle!

What something? Going to try and get the June Model of the Month done so its a Sister of Battle. I've decided to move entirely away from the grim-dark chaos aesthetic and try for something more contemplative... ergo I've attempted to sculpt a bonsai looking tree with flowers on it.







No idea how its going to turn out, but I'm excited to try and get a nice clean effect in a short period of time

Anyway, let me know what you think!
Cheers
KT

That's one wicked looking tree.

the DP came out great, lots of cool details. I like how from a distance he looks to be coming out of the filth on the ground, then up close you get to see lots of details. That free hand on the cloak is something else though! Excellent stuff as usual

Love the DP!

Hello everyone!

gobert wrote: the DP came out great, lots of cool details. I like how from a distance he looks to be coming out of the filth on the ground, then up close you get to see lots of details. That free hand on the cloak is something else though! Excellent stuff as usual

Thanks Gobert, appreciate all the kind words and the ongoing feedback thoughout these builds

Stevefamine wrote:Love the DP!

ShadowsAndDust wrote:That's one wicked looking tree.

Thanks

Update time - work progresses on the SoB. Enjoying my colour choice here
First off a basecoat of Fulgrim Pink


Then applied a heavily diluted mix of Volupus Pink Contrast (using Contrast medium)

its really acting as a shade here, just pooling in the shadows and deeps



Now I'm working on some quick highlights:


My attempted marble effect on the base using spray cans did NOT work, so I'm going to try and redo it tonight.

Meanwhile I have looked ahead at the IW discord contest for next month and apparently its going to be Tzeentch or Khorne. Decided to go old-skool and drop in some 2nd ed Tzeentch flamers!

I painted this one years and years ago:


However he and his friends are looking just a bit shinier now...


Planning on doing minimal changes to the actual structure of these guys, just looking at minor touches by adding small flamey-bits in greenstuff.

Of course Flamers of Tzeentch come in squads of 3, 6 or 9 - so time to build one more flamer - this ones going to be a Pyrocaster (so fractionally bigger and more-flamey-ier?....*shrug*)


Armature first:


Then put down a base - this can be 'unrefined' at this stage.



Mind you, this is pushing the definition of 'unrefined'


Lumpy the Pyrocaster: "Father, why have you created me? What is my purpose? Why can I feel pain?"



Cheers all and catch you next week

Whoa. And whoa, again. That Prince is fantastic. Upcoming projects are quite interesting. Looking forward to the Sister and her bonsai.

Finished: Adeptus Sororitas, Order of the Falling Blossom

This was a lot of fun to build and paint, let me know what you think (C&C welcome)









The sister was painted using (mostly) these:

both contrasts were well thinned with contrast medium, and obvs there was some white mixed in





The tree was painted white first, then I messily detailed all the inner cracks with a dirty mix of brown and grey left over from my daemon prince build, then a wash of watered down agrax earthshade. all the flowers were then picked out in white again.



I feel it ended up reasonably organic looking

I then went over the flowers with fulgrim pink, a dot of thinned volupus pink, and an edge highlight of pale pink (fulgrim pink + white).

The base was painted white and then i hand-painted the marble lines in. One of the 'tricks' here was that I would sometimes wet the base before or after painting, meaning that any undried paint would be diffused/blurred. I like the effect



fallen blossoms picked out as per tree.


Tree and base





A little compulsory freehand


This was pretty simple too - squiggly grey lines with tiny pink blotches. I quite like the effect

Funnily enough the hardest part of this was her face - I redid this so many times I was worried I was going to obscure her face details - I eventually just got it 'fine, I guess' and left it at that. I've seen she's got a bit of a 5 oclock shadow lol.

Maybe I need to dedicate some practice to faces? Not a terrible idea actually...

Anyway - Let me know what you think!
Cheers
KT

Beautifully done sister Darkkt ! Love that you also did some petals fallen on the base ! And the freehand on the cape is a nice touch.

A full squad of these would be great to see ^^ !

Love the roses on the cape, that's a great detail.

I thought I recognised the post that Warhammer Community liked on Twitter! The sis looks great in pink and the hanami freehand is fantastic. A great use of the miniature of the month!

The base is beautiful and really sets the model off nicely.

Uh - I'm back!

it's been a busy couple of weeks at work, so I've had limited time to paint and have fallen behind on my dakka updates too. Finally got a moment to get back into it

First off - replies:

KernelTerror wrote:Beautifully done sister Darkkt ! Love that you also did some petals fallen on the base ! And the freehand on the cape is a nice touch.

A full squad of these would be great to see ^^ !

Thanks KernelTerror, I am very happy with almost all the model (I shoulda spent a little longer on the face - might revisit it in the future maybe). I think a full squad would be pretty cool too - im planning on getting the new kill team box for my birthday, so I can see me possibly picking up a box of sisters to make a sisters KT Spec Op squad ... in a few years once Ive gotten through my current box of shame of course lol

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Love the roses on the cape, that's a great detail.

Cheers GcG - I was looking for a really simple but effective bit of freehand, I think branches of blossoms nails it! It was really quick to lay down, and was random so I couldnt stuff it up.

gobert wrote:I thought I recognised the post that Warhammer Community liked on Twitter! The sis looks great in pink and the hanami freehand is fantastic. A great use of the miniature of the month!

Haha cheers Gobert - I spam my pics pretty much everywhere, wips go here and on insta, whilst reddit, facebook and twitter tend to get finished pics only. I was calling them Sakura, but Hanami sounds good too

youwashock wrote:The base is beautiful and really sets the model off nicely.

Thanks mate, appreciate the comment, it was a lot fun to do something pretty for a change

And now...
oh, I need to do my tax. damn. I'll post some pics tomorrow then I guess.... maybe I'll just drop off a really quick pic...



Cheers
KT

Cool flames! I think you might be correct on the being Sakura, Hanami is the enjoyment of the flowers. That’ll teach me for pretending to be cultured!

Did I say I'd post tomorrow?... ahahahaha

Well work has been tough over the last few weeks and my painting has been limited, but I guess Im ready to post some new updates.

First, my first finished olds school Tzeentch flamer:






here's looking at you kid


So I'm happy with how its turned out - its not a masterpiece, but sometimes you gotta call it done. The hardest part was choosing a colour scheme i was happy with. For reference, this is how they looked *before* i stripped and repainted:


I think removing the bright red and yellow was a good call, and I'm quite happy with how they tie my few Tzeench models together. The Blue and Purple colours bridge the gap between the blue 1ksons and purple pink horrors,


and the aethermatic blue magic effect is a consistent element of all three:


So I've got for more metal models to get done - and most of these are in a based coated state so I think I can get them done by the end of the month.

What else...

I did a Storm Cast model of the month last month:




this was a quick fun job, and convinced me that I really need to practice painting white

I also did a some nurgle sculpting with the kids. I started this guy with Sculpy clay (the oven cooked stuff) then went over in greenstuff, milliput and a GS+milliput mix. I didnt really expect much of it to begin with (I was playing with the kids), but I'm chuffed with the end result if my kids ever finish theirs I will post those as well

A nearly finished stage:



First coat of Pink contrast paint (still wet):



And final product:






Cheers all
KT

Very nice demons, especially the beaky flamer !

Awesome work, man. The sculpted guy is delightfully gross.

I do like the blending on that flamer! Very nice work and hoping you get more time coming up!

Nice work on the flamer and nurgle guy. The blue and red theme for your tzentch works really nicely. Your putrid flesh work is pretty nauseating too, which is what you want for nurgle right?

all about that base, bout that base,


Cheers all, thanks for the comments Time was indeed found and I have now completed all my flamers.



















so - I count these as done.
maybe even well done.
They are not the best paint job I've ever done, but they are not bad either by any means, so i reckon jobs finished.

What else have I been doing? Took the kids to the GW store again and got the grey knights model - and mine is very nearly done :



going to re-do his eye glow i reckon



Cheers all!
KT

Fighting fire with fire, he is. Those bases are perfect.

Yep, those flamers look great. The eyes on the base are fantastic too! Cool job on the grey knight too, a new army to go alongside the 1k sons in the box?

*Looks around - its dusty as hell and all my pot plants are dead*

Hello?

*echoes* hello...ello...llo...o

Damn.

Hey all - been a while I've struggled to find time to post do updates - work has been super busy (still is really) and I havent found the time at lunch to popping back into dakka to update! However, whilst I've been too busy to post I have not been too busy to paint!

And so with that get ready for a big dump of finished pics!
*big dump? ...perhaps I could have used a more appealing turn of phrase there...*

1) Finished - Model of the Month:
ORK NOB!







Very happy with this lad, particuarly as it only took me 3 days to go from unbuilt to fully painted! Now a few of those days had some long assed painting sessions, but whatever - that's a pretty good turnaround for me

2) Finished - Squad of 2nd & 3rd edition Raptors

these will look familiar because they were *practically* finished a month or so ago, but they fell off the to do list. Still, here they are:






Apologies for the not great photos.

3) Finished - Metal Khorne Lord
After spending weeks on the Tzeentch flamers for the Iron Warriors discord painting July August challenge, I pumped this guy out in a few days and liked him so much that I submitted him instead!
I thought this guy's axe turned out well:




4) Finished - Death Guard
Put the final touches on my Daughter's Death Guard model (a model of the month) that she decided she didnt want to paint.




5) FINISHED - Chaos Spawn
Here is my most recent submission for the Iron Warriors Discord challenge - 2 chaos spawn. These two guys were both painted using in 1) the same limited pallet and 2) the same 'mother colour' (Mephistion Red). What is mother colour?
This:









Pumped them out quick, but still very happy with the result. I think They work together and still look like a 'unit' despite the very different complexions.

6) FINISHED KILL TEAM ORK TERRAIN

As I think I might have threatened, I picked up the Octarius box and have been working through the terrain: which is all now finished:

















6) WIP - Octarius NOB

this guy is almost finished now, just working on the NMM parts (which are currently kind of blue):



anyway thats all I've managed to get done since the last post - I'll really try to get on more to post more stuff, as work settles down (fingers crossed).

Cheers all
*echoes* s all...all...all...ll*
KT

Nice bit of work, lotta stuff done,and the mother color stuff does look interesting.

Definitely have not been idle. Loving the Chaos stuff, especially the Khorne Lord. The ork fort is awesome, too.

Wow! That was a Bono of a dump! You certainly have been busy darkkt! Love all of it, especially the Orkses, who have a great skin tone. Their fort came out great too, the green lights are a cool touch. Hopefully work settles down and we get to see more awesome updates!

Cheers lads, as always I appreciate the kind words!

New week means grabbing a few minutes at work when the boss isnt looking and dropping a new post! First off - I finished my Octarius Ork Nob and belted out the bomb Squig:









Very happy with the NMM on this ork, even though it should probably be less shiney. You can also (kinda) see the different approaches I used to the NMM on the power claw compared to the gun - just trying new things really. Let me know which one you prefer!

Anyway, after finishing these two, the latest #ChaosDiscordComp https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/chaosdiscordcomp/ came out for October - This month its SPOOKY!
Spooky was a tough call, so I thought "what about doing a couple of skellingtons I have laying around/"
THEN I thought "Why not do all the skellingtons I have, including those I had attempted to make into a BloodBowl army about 10 years ago and those I had glued to tanks etc as decoration?"
AND THEN I thought "Why not a graveyard diorama?"

And so...


the boys are back in town

Lads that were previously statues:


Dancing sword boys


These guys are all looking at the same thing


Raise Shields!


Come on you sleepy-heads, rise and shine! I didnt have enough legs, so one had to 'make do'...


spikey bois


"I'm Putting the Band Back Together" hits different when the band is all dead tbh



And last up - the ORB and the Necromancer!


I'm thinking of going 'OSL-Heavy on this diorama', and I figure a bigass glowy ORB should result in a nice unhealthy glow.

What is the origin of the ORB? Who can say what the ORB really is? Leave your guesses in the comments!

The Necromance however has changed a little from this pic however - he was originally a metal ghoul that I had cut the forehead from to add a third eye about 10 years agao. I took the eye out as it looked lame, so I replaced it with an even lamer horn.

I needed to reposition his arm:

Add some decorations

Greenstuff

Boom - flambeaux!


But... still. The Horny Necromancer was not doing it for me, so time to clip and change.
Chromedome time - and some reading lights






More candles? More candles.







DId I mention I put magnets on them





And this is the current state of the board:


Anyway, that's the progress so far, I'll do more work tonight and update again soon!
Cheers
KT

Bomb squig is best squig.

That diorama idea really bloomed! Can't wait to see the results.

Loving the bomb squig and it looks like the nob stole some cabling from your Iron Warriors! . I think the claw NMM looks better for Orks imho.

The diorama looks amazing already, the candles on the necromancers back are inspired, will he have a pulpit in front of him with a big book on it? All the candles on the walls will give you plenty of chance to practice OSL on that’s for sure! Good luck smashing it out for Halloween

youwashock wrote:Bomb squig is best squig.

That diorama idea really bloomed! Can't wait to see the results.

Yeah, its a cool little model and fun to paint

gobert wrote:Loving the bomb squig and it looks like the nob stole some cabling from your Iron Warriors! . I think the claw NMM looks better for Orks imho.

The diorama looks amazing already, the candles on the necromancers back are inspired, will he have a pulpit in front of him with a big book on it? All the candles on the walls will give you plenty of chance to practice OSL on that’s for sure! Good luck smashing it out for Halloween

Cheers man I think I agree - the claw NMM is rougher and looks like 'rough worked steel' with a little rust worked in. The poles and the gun are almost a clean, stainless steel look. Anyway, we can see what the next Ork brings!

Big book? No, but that would have been a cool idea to include. The Necromancer Ghoul will be standing like this:



with the orb in his hand glowing the same colour (likely Blue) as the orb on the ground. the plan is for the ground orb to be bright and cast light on MOST of the scene, while the hand orb will hit those on the top. The candles adn the flambeaux will be casing a contrasting (and much dimmer) orange glow from the back and the sides.

...at least thats the plan I have in my head.



My thought is that a few closer to the back will be in very dim light indeed, and have very little in the way of osl (and correspondingly low visibility)



I could find out that this idea doesnt work at all, in which case I may pull up the ORB and just paint the scene as if its daylight

for the curious,
the ORB - was originally a roll-ball from an underarm deoderant bottle took a while for the perfume smell to go away, but its all good now



The blue box they are standing on is an old children's watercolour paint box from a 2 dollar shop. The paints were seriously terrible, but the box was a good size and shape
Candles are the old trick of lollypop sticks and thin blue tubes from a waterballoon kit, the wire wicks are garden ties with the plastic stripped off.
I hope to undercoat tonight and get a start on the base colours
Cheers!

Looking good, the OSL certainly sounds ambitious. I can see why you’ve marked up all the spots so you can figure out where the light will come from. Are they magnetised to keep their orientation right too?

That's a lot of candles! The candles on the back are inspired, excited to see how they turn out!

gobert wrote:Looking good, the OSL certainly sounds ambitious. I can see why you’ve marked up all the spots so you can figure out where the light will come from. Are they magnetised to keep their orientation right too?

no, not really. the magnetisation keeps them in place (and stops me from losing them!), but I need to manage the orientation myself.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:That's a lot of candles! The candles on the back are inspired, excited to see how they turn out!

Cheers mate, fingers crossed!



Quick update time

I finally started getting some paint down - I need to finish this by the end of the month, so Ive gotta get moving!


Step one:
Undercoat

Doing OSL, it just makes sense to start with Black.

Step two:
Base coat

A lick or two of necron abyss (an old paint - no idea what its called now)

Step three:
work on the light source



Step 4
and make it glowy


Step 5
Check what it looks like on a skeleton - this is my check to see if Im wasting my time here!






Pretty happy with the current progress, reckon I will start on the candle glow soon (for that classic Blue/Orange effect )
Cheers
KT

Really liking the skeleton even by itself.

Very cool table !

Awesome effect!

Thanks all!

very busy at work still, but I'm trying to keep things moving on the diorama. Decided it was time to hit the Ghoul/Necromancer with their orb glow. This will inform the blue colour at the back of the piece.



The back area is only about two highlight layers in, so looks very a bit flat at the moment. I'll hit it with some lighter blues and whites shortly to bring it up to the same as the front skeletons. Looking at it I might also need to darken it in a few patches too... not a big deal though.





I've focused the glow on half of the board as the other half will be lit by the flambeaux. Hopefully.

Cheers
KT

This is Seriously impressive so far kt, it really has the impression of a dark evening lit by the 2 sources so far! It’s going to be stunning when you’re done

Already looking very atmospheric. Great work!

Thanks gentlemen, the feedback is greatly appreciated

Didnt have a lot of time to do work over the weekend, but I *did* get time to dive into the flames on my Necromancer. I think they need to be pushed just a little brighter than they currently are, but I do like the contrast Im getting on this guy:









Let me know what you think!
Cheers
KT

Oooh fancy! The OSL from both sides looks really great, though I feel the flames should be brighter (but I don’t do grim dark/realism, so it could just be my eye!)

 gobert wrote:
Oooh fancy! The OSL from both sides looks really great, though I feel the flames should be brighter (but I don’t do grim dark/realism, so it could just be my eye!)

No, I think you are right, it absolutely needs to be brighter than it is right now. It's easy to be too conservative and make things dark when adding a contrasting colour - I just need to step it up a notch.

Quickly running out of time though, this has to be done by Sunday night, wihch leaves me 5 nights to get stuff done. Eep!
*insert sweating gif here*

Latest pics coming up. These ALL need to be brightened, at this point I was just blocking in the main colours. I also need to get some 'magenta' blends into these spots to show overlapping areas. These will be pretty discrete I reckon - I dont want too much of a third colour showing up and making things murky.


















Lots and lots of work yet to do... hope I get enough time to do it!
Cheers
KT

Quick update - punched up the brightness last night and here we are...




















Cheers!
KT

Awesome. Can't wait to see the final pics.

Yeah! That is looking so cool! The extra brightness seems to have worked well. Good luck bringing it all together

Beautiful work

Hi All!

Spooky Diorama is done!

Apologies in advance, but this is basically going to be just a big photo dump as I'm very proud of how this turned out, and it was a challenge to get all the various details into just a few shots.

Anyway:

The big guy




Crawling out of the grave and gettting toasty


I'm pretty happy with that sheild tbh


Candles, more candles (very happy with how they turned out too)





With the amount of fire needed to get this level of glow, those candles must last about 3 sseconds each

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

The mosh pit around the disco ball
Disco's had mosh pits right?




The better seats are closer to the band


And some arial views:




Cheers all!
KT

Mind blown.

Absolutely awesome work!

Cheers Youwashock - im pretty happy with how they turned out

But, its time to move on to Novemeber's new challenge which is...
...
...
...osl.



haha, no, its ok good chance to practices some more.

Anyway - time to revisit and old model that I am NOT going to convert. At all. Because the sculpt is just too good.


Yeah baby. He's coming back!

THis guy had a previous painted existence dating back to 2009 and was one of the earliest photos I ever posted here!



Unfortunately this lad was not able to survive a 1 metre drop onto a hardwood floor (this is why DP's with wings are better lol) and he has been sitting like this in the warp waiting for a chance to return to realspace.



A little acetone and he's both stripped of paint and gently moisturised (according to the bottle of acetone I used) and ready to rock and roll



I originally planned to put some wings on him, but every pose I tried just looked worse than the DP itself. Its a classic, seems reasonably popular and it'd be tough to get another one for a reasonable price in Australia.

So no conversion on the min.

But the BASE tho...

You can see from the earlier pic that I've mounted it high on a decorative base that I'm making at home. This base is a lasagna of garbage and trash i.e. the following:
1) The lid from an empdy drain cleaner tub (its quite thick plastic), trimmed and sanded down
2) a thin *real* 60mm base superglued on top (superglued so it can be 'cracked off' reasonably easily if I *REALLY* want to play a game with it in the future).
3) a rough disc of HIPS polystyrene plastic (cut from the lid of the crappy watercolour paint dish - I used the blue base in my last diorama)
4) 'shards' - i.e. offcut bits - of HIPS left over from other builds (the aforementioned lid and crystal CD cases)
5) otehr scraps of polystrene - mostly sprue, a bit of leftover coathanger (from the nurgle DP) and a busted dental floss holder
6) I then covered most of this in aluminium foil (from yogurt lids)
7) the 'cables' are left over bicycle brake cable
8) a mostly complete layer of Milliput (this is obviously not trash of course)
9) and back to garbage - bits of garden bark I stole from the front yard of a house I walk past every day. not quite finished with this bit yet.



Current state:





So, do we have any guesses at this stage about how I'm planning the OSL?

(on a little kill team update - progress is hindered by these challenges, but does continue. current wip gretchen dude:





Cheers all!
KT

A quick base update:



I finished the bark, added the spikes and now its time for the flames!









And I took some time to get a photo of the DP with some bright light from the bottom - hopefully giving some guidance on where the light is going to hit








Cheers
KT

Wow! The diorama turned out great kt! Excellent mixing of the light sources, the extra brightness on the flames worked well.

The reimagined daemon Prince should be cool standing over his fiery pit of doom!

Cheers Gobert, I'm pretty happy with how the skele's turned out.

Time for another super quick update and I like to start today's post with the BASE:



so the flames have grown since my last post


This was a multi-stage process, but very comfortable with the result
then undercoat

Then yellow


and finally the one I posted at the top with reds and oranges blended in


as for the DP himself:

Base coats

Nuln oil and volupous pink as a wash

added an old blue wash


and then I started mapping out the OSL


Might look a little odd at this stage, but
This is the angle that he light will be coming from, so I think It makes sense...



Cheers all!

Looking good kt. That skin colour looks gnarly, he should see someone about that! The fire pit looks great and the OSL looks to be coming quite well

Thanks mate
just a single pic update today - progres on the OSL highlights

Cheers
KT

Another epic in the making. Really digging the sculpt on that fire.

Cheers
Another super quick update:

He looks nice and toasty warm! You’re really getting on with this OSL malarkey

This OSL daemon prince is going to be amazing, if your OSL undead diorama is anything to go by.

gobert wrote:He looks nice and toasty warm! You’re really getting on with this OSL malarkey

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:This OSL daemon prince is going to be amazing, if your OSL undead diorama is anything to go by.

Thanks guys, the osl practice has been a lot of fun

But...
We interrupt this ChaosDiscordComp with a word from our Model of the Month.

SQUIG









We now return you to your normal Daemon Prince over a Roaring Fire programming

Progress?
Some.
The big lad is now attached to his base


It lines up... reasonably well. I dont think its perfect, but its a bit too late to change things now. Oh well. Still pretty happy

To be honest, I think it looks far better from a different angle:





The NMM turned out more yellow and grey than gold and iron, but I'm still pretty happy with my results so far. I will do some more touch ups, but nothing too significant.



That big wrinkly gun arm was hard work to get anywhere near NMM... lots more pracitice required!

Quick close up of the sword from both sides


And the backpack/skin



so I think Im at the finishing touches right now. I'm leaving it alone for a few nights, getting a little distance so I can come back to it later in the week - maybe even next week - with a fresh set of eyes.

Time to go back to my Ork Kill Team for a little while


cheers
KT

Looks great! Tho you could've made it harder by making the sword glow too

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Looks great! Tho you could've made it harder by making the sword glow too

Oh i thought seriously about it lol

Very nice work darkkt.

Cheers,

CB

Gorgeous OSL on the last couple of pieces

Thanks for sharing

Hi all
I forgot to post the final pics!

My final entry to the OSL challenge
















Tomorrow* I'll update on my new project!



*an undefined point in the future

The OSL is fantastic, obviously, but I do also like the colour change as the backpack mutates.

Ding-ding-ding! Winner.

That looks amazing. Fantastic tonal range.

Yep, like the others said, this guy looks great! Thanks for Captain Facebeard for pointing out the backpack too, your skin to metal has always been good, but this is even better!

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:The OSL is fantastic, obviously, but I do also like the colour change as the backpack mutates.

youwashock wrote:Ding-ding-ding! Winner.

That looks amazing. Fantastic tonal range.

gobert wrote:Yep, like the others said, this guy looks great! Thanks for Captain Facebeard for pointing out the backpack too, your skin to metal has always been good, but this is even better!

Thanks lads - I am *super* happy with how this bad boy turned out. Feels good to do a paint job that you feel does justice to the sculpt itself.

The skin-metal also turned out better than I expected, and better than my prior efforts, which was nice . Part of this is me improving (which is good cos I'm doing a fair bit of practice!) but I also think that the fact I didnt use true metallic paint here helped a lot. Blending tan & purpley coloured paint into TMM steel and silver is a reall challenge. Another reason to keep practicing my NMM!

And now - its time for a new challenge - or should I say - challenges. That's right, plural baybee.
hahah that is super misleading tbh - what's happening is that Im doing my monthly discord challenge AND im going to use the same models to submit to this month's DakkaDakka challenge (https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/802271.page)!

I only discovered the dakkadakka challenge the other month, and this is the first one that aligns with my discord challenge so its the perfect opportunity.

The theme for the challenges this month is "Open". No restrictions, go wild.

My Brain: - This is a great opportunity to knock off some models that have been lurking around for a decade! December is busy with work and family, its time to take the foot off the painting pedal and ease into the end of the year. Nothing too hard, no conversions, no OSL, no NMM, right. ...right?

Also My Brain: hahahaha greenstuff go brrrr

That's right, its "Biting off More than you can Chew" time once again - I'm doing an 11 person Traitor Marine Kill Team Squad.

First up - Icon Bearer

this guy is actually a mid-biold Master of Possesion (MOP) but the big assed icon means he will sit in this role nicely.

This guy started as an exercise designed to see if I could make a weird pointed pyramid head with teeth that a guy described on the discord.




I threw one together quickly, really liked it and then decided to make the whole MoP model.

Starting with a Dark Angel Veteran body I did some upscaling and am currently here:



It's not a MoP without a little hand flame, so he's got that too:

As an Icon bearer, this will be ignored.



Cant be an icon bearer without an icon tho Time for some sprue scraps and greenstuff


And I carved up a Dark Angels backpack for this:

Oh. Icon bearers need a sword I think...


I'm making a smoking censor too:


Final steps are to do his feet, legs and extend the robes a bit.

Next up is the Aspiring Champion. Not much done yet, but because I was raiding the bits box I grabbed this as its base body:


very little chopping and changing gets us this


and a start on the head:


The final space marine is... not started yet.
But will be a heavy bolter dude



These three will be my entry into the Dakka Dakka challenge - which is limited to 5 models max.

For the discord I have also committed to 8 cultists, which are based on these craptachans:


You can the work i started a decade ago as I was building a traitor guard force... sigh, i musta really drank a lot... anyway, they will heavily changed cos I despise the craptachan sculpts. I'm thinking of basing them around Mai Varnus (or at least how he ended up) in the Word Bearer's book Dark Apostle.

oh, lunch break is over, I better get back to work lol
cheers all
KT

Why didn't you pick something complicated to do?

Pyramid head is great, just creepy enough to not look silly.

Loving that sorceror man. Amazing work on that Icon, I find it pretty hard to come up with a design for those.

Cheers folks I think pyramid head’s head might be a fraction too wide, but I’m otherwise comfortable with it so imma leave it for now.

The icon needed to have most Of the spikes replaced as I made them too thin, glad I did, looks far more striking with chunky spikes

Quick update-
Storm cast conversion progresses:







And I’ve gotten a little further on the icon bearer:



Want to start on the cultists soon - I’m thinking two stubbers and 6 auto pistols + brutal weapon. Mostly because converting the brutal weapons should be fun

I’m planning on disguising the ugly heads by modeling them on the Varnus character from Anthony Reynold’s book Dark apostle.
Cheers
KT

Progress shots from the kill team build

Aspiring Champ






Begun work on the cultists
Start with ugly catacjan head


shave its head, add chaos star and get up in its grill (by adding grill).


Where are its pocketsess?


Never mind, armoured pockets!


And scratched together some stubbers from left over tubes and sprue + bits






Cheers
KT

Bringing those killer sculpting skills out again. The Champ's helmet is really sweet.

Oh yes, that is a beautiful smile !

Those heads are amazing, great sculpting!

You’re pulling together some nicely grotesque minis darkkt. The masks on the last 2 are particularly horrific! Nice work

So much good stuff!

Fantastic green stuff work, that Icon bearer's teeth helmet is impressive!

I always enjoyed the older Daemon prince sculpt, the armor and battered wargear always sold the "he was once a man/marine" a little better than the newer model.

I like the work you're doing on the cultist, most players just grab a few boxes of the repeat sculpt cultist, a kit that has diminishing returns when more than 10 are on the field at once. Any plans to expand the cultist group out more once you're through with this lot?

youwashock wrote:Bringing those killer sculpting skills out again. The Champ's helmet is really sweet.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Those heads are amazing, great sculpting!

gobert wrote:You’re pulling together some nicely grotesque minis darkkt. The masks on the last 2 are particularly horrific! Nice work

bbb wrote:So much good stuff!

Thanks folks, I've mostly finished the head for the third marine now - quite happy with how they all look

ValhallanWinter wrote:Fantastic green stuff work, that Icon bearer's teeth helmet is impressive!

I always enjoyed the older Daemon prince sculpt, the armor and battered wargear always sold the "he was once a man/marine" a little better than the newer model.

I like the work you're doing on the cultist, most players just grab a few boxes of the repeat sculpt cultist, a kit that has diminishing returns when more than 10 are on the field at once. Any plans to expand the cultist group out more once you're through with this lot?

Cheers mate - the old sculpt really nails the chaos space marine aesthetic that first attracted me to the traitors in the first place.
More cultists? Well I dont have immediate plans - but I do have 12 more catachans sitting around.
...and 20 cadians. I guess my Ultimate plans are to expand these guys into make a Traitor guard kill team - and a traitor Veterant guardsman team. After that, I'll round out to have a couple of full squads.

So - time for a few progress shots. Its been busy at work, so progress has been a little slow...

1) aspiring champ
quite happy with this pose, feels intimidating


side view




This guy has very few major bits left to do - mainly gap filling and coming up with some details. after that its done!

2) built the Heavy Bolter dude
I wanted this fellow to be tall so it uses old terminator legs and I've bulked out the middle a bit too.


the helmet is coming along



I dropped some Old Ogre bits on this guy too - can you pick where they are?




Cultists have been slow too. I've built the body for one of my stubber guys




and I started posing another dude



drama queen

let me know what you think! I need to get a wriggle on, ive still got more models to build and convert and I've only got until the end of december!
Cheers
KT

Sculpting is looking pretty good. I like the rhino horn, though I think the ogre vambraces on his legs make the arms look a little disproportionate--though very metal! And also very amused by the final guy's pose, reminds me of that scene from Platoon...

Ugh, hard to keep up with posting to Dakka at the moment (work has been busy sliding into the end of the year) but progress on the Traitor Astartes Kill Team has occured!

1) Icon Bearer (Master of Possession):




2) Heavy Bolter Dude:




3) Aspiring champ w power weapon



4) Two undercoated cultists:





5) Another heavy Stubber dude and friend


6)putting the brutal into brutal weapons

(Vejut - this is what the Platoon looking guy ended up with)

7) and the last two guys are off the chain



Undercoating a bunch more dudes shortly meaning i can finally start painting soon!


Cheers all
KT

All looks like it came together pretty good!