I remember that hybrid on the right... great model!

Yep that hybrid is my fave also, great composition

I'm painting a terminator inquisitor today. I will take it slow so as not to buggr it up.

In other news as I was on my way home today I was soaked to the skin in seconds by a sudden blast of water and ice. It was like an entire battalion of riot hoses linked up to a lake full of icecubes. People were staggering around the street in a state of shock and it very quickly reached wading level and gale force winds whipped up waves on the pavements. I think a tree fell down. #2012endoftheworld.

Maybe this kind of thing happens all the time in america but over here we don't take kindly to it. No.


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especially when not wearing waders!

Climate change! -Get used to it, or do something about it!

Love the new stealer Weets.

A little preview of ongoing work. This is a beautifully detailed, neat and well balanced model from an era when that was exceptional and the normal run of things was just to bang sh*t together and hope for the best. Going to go grimdark on his ass.

Weety does INQ28 yeah ! That is brilliant , really moody and atmospheric paintjob, whats his name ? ordo etc..etc..

Windy up north too weets , but less rain by the sounds of it.

A name yes - he has one of those name scrolls on his shoulder so I better think of one.

Ordo hereticus I guess. And his name shall be...




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How about Inquisitor Idris Baal

Good name. Good work on the fig. Glad you weathered the storm OK. Not sure what the weather is like on the coast here... but usually if we (who live inland) get something similar to what you describe, it comes associated with a twisty cone of death to boot.

Oh, how I love that model! And I already like your muted tones on him. Can't wait for the end result.

That inquisitor has really stood the test of time! I can see him fitting right alongside today's models no problem. Love the muted tones and the metallics.

I just received in the mail a wondrous supply drop of Mordian reinforcements. I can't wait to get some paint on these guys.

Weety, I sent you a FB request. I hope you don't mind. If you do, just ignore it.

Aha - I was wondering why an unknown american man wanted to friend me - I thought it might be dakka. I tend to keep faceyB for people I've actually met. I mean there's photos of me looking fat and drunk and waving my assets about - its not very dignified. Seriously I'm drunk in every photo... Let me think...

I have an update for youse guyz inabit.


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Oh dear looking through these FB photos there's a lot of ones where people are all over the place and there's drugs and boobs and ass and people being sick - how did people continue to take photos when we were obviously so wrecked?

Ere is update - Its still not finished. But more has been done. Freehand and stuff.



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I should like it to be noted that I do not have an airbrush - just a very seasoned drybrush and a lot of patience.

Looks great, can't fault it. Good job.

really soft tones to him weets, Btw what was that about Drugs booze and boobs did I miss a monkey comment

When I look at that figure, all I can hear in my mind is...

"Bad dog! Sit. Stay."

Nice paint job though weety. Great work.

I think a lot of the older figs had that hunched over, leaning forward look to them.


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Oh, and no worries, Weets. I wouldn't want to have to see that kind of stuff anyway. Dang kids and your rootin', tootin' partyin' ways.

lol

I assure you I'm not drunk officer I've only had a few ales.

But no seriously now I'm older and have the pressure of full time work upon me I look back with incredulity at the plethora of drunk photos I'm in - I mean I've seen some drunks but my friends are the best at it and I used to be their leader.

I have no regrets - only a sincere wish for a time machine to take me back.

I say that but on the other hand I think its good to stay sober enough to stay in control of whats happening. Bad things can happen if you aren't in control.

yes gitsplitter he is totally telling off his pet chihuahua for pooing on the rug

I still love that model. If he wasn't $Texas, I'd find him and buy him. You do him great justice. But now you need to model the offending pooch.

That would be so hilarious...

I'm thinking of doing a checkered cross on his knee-pad in a pale-ish blue. Sort of greyish cornflower.

Its all about the greyish stuff - I blame migsula

Cheers neil - good to know that I'm the one that comes to mind when booze, boobs and drugs are being mentioned. I wouldn't be so bothered if it wasn't for the fact I've been teetotal for many years, and my moobs aren't particulary developed (not enough for me to have a pair to play with anyway )

Nice work weety, squat was great, and you need to watch Breaking Bad - by far the best TV show around And it is indeed Malc's old man.

Hybrid was cool too, good job on the OSL, I think subtle is the way to play that most of the time (look at the way that rolls of the tongue as if I know what I'm talking about with OSL ).

Inq Baal is looking very nice, certainly one of the sculpts that has really stood the test of time, really loving the muted pallettes you've been using recently, great stuff.

Waders and cobbled together walkways are the order of the week over here, the pathway that leads to our pontoon has been under water for a few days now, water level's higher than anyone can recall seeing.

I really like the way he looks, I'm always a fan of neutral tones.

...says the guy who blasts bright blues and other colors.

You have been absorbed into the Cult of Grey! Nooooooo...

I must say, that inquisitor has some very well-defined cheek bones.

I should start my own P&M blog over here. It might motivate me to do something other than glue IG guardsmen together.

I say do it. We will all subscribe!

Waders monkeytroll! Wow it makes me happy to live in the third floor of a building on a hill. Bit windy up here but no floods. The poor sods down near the coast by the river got flooded out so its no joke.

Thanks all for kind words. Chemical cutthroat apart from the blue you're fairly subtle.

Whats next? Consumermass is just around the corner so I might get some new paints and miniatures. Ifalna reckons 'Ard Coat is good and I need a shiny varnish for gems and stuff. As far as miniatures are concerned I'm a bit stumped - I really want to try my hand at something new. I love the inquisitor stuff but its spensive. And the new cultists are cool but everyone has them already. Maybe something old but not RT. 2nd and 3rd edition stuff maybs.

Anyway Xmass won't be totally awesome this year because of inflation in meat and booze prices etc. Plus we all know that its now illegal to be unemployed and you will be sent to the work camps if you loose your job so I will be sucking up big time and doing extra hours. This may cramp my style.

Work camps? Oh my.

I dont flash mah boobies on FB

That's good to know. Where do you flash them?

Boobbook.

I'm very tempted by some copplestone castings sewer scavengers and pig irons rebels. Perhaps its time to move away from citadel.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Boobbook.

I'm very tempted by some copplestone castings sewer scavengers and pig irons rebels. Perhaps its time to move away from citadel.

Gasp! Heart be still!

Did weety really say that?

I think I felt the world stop spinning for a moment.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Boobbook.

I'm very tempted by some copplestone castings sewer scavengers and pig irons rebels. Perhaps its time to move away from citadel.

Gasp! Heart be still!

GiraffeX wrote:Did weety really say that?

Valhalla130 wrote:I think I felt the world stop spinning for a moment.

Oh pooh! She already painted some Bob Olley minis and you lot didn't even blink. I say let her follow her muse.

My personal (non-GW) temptation is to paint a four armed green martian or a great white ape of Barsoom.

Lol. Everyone has to wake up and consider the wider world now and again. I'm going to have to get used to the idea of SMALL HANDS!!! and realistically sized guns (sometimes), long legs, correct proportions. Lack of gothic-ness.

Barsoooooom!! Who makes that then?

If anyone has any other suggestions that'd be great.

Well I got paid and it was good - time to make the decision. To buy or not to buy. I'm going to surf the net for minis!!

This model appeals to me http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=andreah~hfsf111&category=miniatures~sci%252dfi-humans

And I have to have this one - http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=alyx-%28rock-chick%2C-wizard-%26-misunderstood%29~hfa030&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers

A lot of hasslefree civilian minis appeal.

Whats next. Ummm whats that french post apoc company called? Black hat? Black cat?

well I just looked at reaper and although they are ultimate for variety, hasslefee is winning on sculpture. Reaper minis are a bit spindly and lanky. Hasslefree are more real looking.

Also reaper minis don't seem to wear much clothes - I disapprove, they will get cold nipples.

 JB wrote:
Oh pooh! She already painted some Bob Olley minis and you lot didn't even blink. I say let her follow her muse.

Aw, come on. We're just yanking her chain. She has done some wonderful figures from Bob Olley and I look forward to more non-GW minis. But you gotta admit, it's mostly GW stuff she's done.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Also reaper minis don't seem to wear much clothes - I disapprove, they will get cold nipples.

I don't understand. What's wrong with cold nipples?

I'm just gonna... you know... put this... here...

http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/facciones/

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Lol. Everyone has to wake up and consider the wider world now and again. I'm going to have to get used to the idea of SMALL HANDS!!! and realistically sized guns (sometimes), long legs, correct proportions. Lack of gothic-ness.

Barsoooooom!! Who makes that then?

If anyone has any other suggestions that'd be great.

Well I got paid and it was good - time to make the decision. To buy or not to buy. I'm going to surf the net for minis!!

This model appeals to me http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=andreah~hfsf111&category=miniatures~sci%252dfi-humans

And I have to have this one - http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=alyx-%28rock-chick%2C-wizard-%26-misunderstood%29~hfa030&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers

A lot of hasslefree civilian minis appeal.

Whats next. Ummm whats that french post apoc company called? Black hat? Black cat?

well I just looked at reaper and although they are ultimate for variety, hasslefee is winning on sculpture. Reaper minis are a bit spindly and lanky. Hasslefree are more real looking.

Also reaper minis don't seem to wear much clothes - I disapprove, they will get cold nipples.

I like Reaper and Hasslefree! That Alyx mini looks like a very good deal.

The non-GW figures that appeal to me lately though are:

Bronze Age Miniatures' Green Martians and White Apes of Barsoom He's not the best sculptor but no one is doing these types of minis. He is located in Utah in the States.

Victoria Miniatures Vic is sculpting fantastic non-GW customizable guardsmen. She is in Australia.

Otherworld Miniatures Because I am a softy for the old Dungeons and Dragons...and crustaceans. This company is in the UK.

Heresy Miniatures His minis have character and some actual characters.

Brushfire I'm not really a fan of anthropomorphic fantasy but Warhamsters and Red Wu were too much to resist.

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
I'm just gonna... you know... put this... here...

http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/facciones/

CC that was very bad of you

I'd love to see weety do some Infinity minis.

I know! It would be great. I think she'd be in danger of falling in love with the product line though. Now that I've started painting them I look at all my Man-Hands Minis and go... "How... why?"

 JB wrote:

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Lol. Everyone has to wake up and consider the wider world now and again. I'm going to have to get used to the idea of SMALL HANDS!!! and realistically sized guns (sometimes), long legs, correct proportions. Lack of gothic-ness.

Barsoooooom!! Who makes that then?

If anyone has any other suggestions that'd be great.

Well I got paid and it was good - time to make the decision. To buy or not to buy. I'm going to surf the net for minis!!

This model appeals to me http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=andreah~hfsf111&category=miniatures~sci%252dfi-humans

And I have to have this one - http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=alyx-%28rock-chick%2C-wizard-%26-misunderstood%29~hfa030&category=miniatures~modern-adventurers

A lot of hasslefree civilian minis appeal.

Whats next. Ummm whats that french post apoc company called? Black hat? Black cat?

well I just looked at reaper and although they are ultimate for variety, hasslefee is winning on sculpture. Reaper minis are a bit spindly and lanky. Hasslefree are more real looking.

Also reaper minis don't seem to wear much clothes - I disapprove, they will get cold nipples.

I like Reaper and Hasslefree! That Alyx mini looks like a very good deal.

The non-GW figures that appeal to me lately though are:

Bronze Age Miniatures' Green Martians and White Apes of Barsoom He's not the best sculptor but no one is doing these types of minis. He is located in Utah in the States.

Victoria Miniatures Vic is sculpting fantastic non-GW customizable guardsmen. She is in Australia.

Otherworld Miniatures Because I am a softy for the old Dungeons and Dragons...and crustaceans. This company is in the UK.

Heresy Miniatures His minis have character and some actual characters.

Brushfire I'm not really a fan of anthropomorphic fantasy but Warhamsters and Red Wu were too much to resist.

I want those Victoria Minis IG-ish troopers.


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I set up my own P&M blog here. It's mostly just copied from my old P&M blog on another site because I was feeling lazy, but I hope to use it here to goad me into posting and painting more.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/492068.page#5032835

Thanks for the links!! I will run out of money before I run out of ideas by the looks of it.

Infinity looks awesome but also looks difficult to paint. All those armour plates and visors. Hmmmm.

Going to go look at fantasy hamsters! Fun.


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I give up I cant keep a straight face when looking at those. I mean "marmot medic" and shrew hussars mounted on kiwis, its just daft. The hamster berserkers are adorable though. One day when I'm going crazy in old age I will collect brushfire

How do you get a blog view on these threads?

And what does it mean when someone exalts a post?

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Thanks for the links!! I will run out of money before I run out of ideas by the looks of it.

Infinity looks awesome but also looks difficult to paint. All those armour plates and visors. Hmmmm.

Going to go look at fantasy hamsters! Fun.


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I give up I cant keep a straight face when looking at those. I mean "marmot medic" and shrew hussars mounted on kiwis, its just daft. The hamster berserkers are adorable though. One day when I'm going crazy in old age I will collect brushfire

Truth be told I thought the same thing about the Infinity minis the first time I picked them up. I was all, "How the hell an I going to paint this?!" and "There are no skulls!"

But once you put a brush to em' you're like, "Oh... right. I can do this."

I haven't looked to see if it is clear on the Hasslefree site, weety, but they do have a couple of offers on at the minute - 10% off code on any order, or you can have a free goody bag on orders of £45 or more.

Whats the code? I must have 10% off. Free goody bag - I was thinking of spending 30 squid but maybe...


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Its ok I found the code!

Their goody bags are normally pretty good, weety.

I didn't want to spend that much unfortunately.

I have purchased a cheerleader with two uzi's, three armed school girls, a guy in a very sharp suit and that space pirate chick. They will make a lovely family group. I was tempted to get elvis. Next time. Got some paints on the way too.

The post-apocalyptic Scooby gang are tempting.

soon they will arrive...

In the mean time a sci-fi related update, after carefully considering all the options here is my gift list of sci-fi for my boyfriend.

The man who fell to earth - its got bowie in it so it must be good
a boy and his dog - sounds weird and post apocalyptic
they live - john carpenter so it should be funny
soylent green - charlton heston "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!"

I wanted 'tetsuo the iron giant' and 'repo man' but you can't get them cheap anywhere and I'm running out of funds


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The best thing about these presents is that they are a gift to me as well!!

Soylent Green and They Live are awesome. A Boy and His Dog is pretty good. I don't know The Man Who Fell to Earth. I'll have to watch that.

Its got david bowie so it must be good surely.

I read a bad review of 'Labyrinth' once. I decided that anyone who could write a bad review of that film had obviously never been a child and had simply sprang into existence as a fully grown b*stard

LOL Weety... My wife would agree with you!

It's like my neighbor lady- she lacks anything serious in life to worry about, so she obsesses over the bushes between our yards. The negative reviewer is probably a similar person

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

I read a bad review of 'Labyrinth' once. I decided that anyone who could write a bad review of that film had obviously never been a child and had simply sprang into existence as a fully grown b*stard

This made me laugh.

Anywayhere are some atmospheric pre-paint photos of my selection of hasslefree. I just noticed that the guy looks like dirty harry - must be why he appealed to me. The space pirate lady with the dreads is made from blue resin and is much taller than the rest. Didn't realise this when I bought it. The whole package came with a free packet of popping candy - which was bizzare but fun.

For some reason my superglue doesn't want to work when its cold, so these where difficult to assemble and Green stuff was required.

Beautiful sculpting.

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Wow how do you like that - they seem to have sculpted pupils in the space pirate lady's eyes.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

The man who fell to earth - its got bowie in it so it must be good
a boy and his dog - sounds weird and post apocalyptic
they live - john carpenter so it should be funny
soylent green - charlton heston "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!"

'Man' is...trippy. It is a mix of Bowie, transitioning out of his Ziggy Stardust period into...god only knows, really.
Boy and his dog is GOD AWFUL.
They Live - BEST MOVIE EVER. Ever. So quotable. BEST.
Soylent Green - Everyone knows the quotes. No-one remembers to bring kleenex. You will cry.

The chewing gum quote in They Live is one of the best one-liners in the history of cinema.

I love that movie.

Cool Weets! I have the Dirty Harry guy too, except I replaced the hand cannon with a sniper rifle to turn him into Allistair Tenpenny.

I stole the idea from TwoSpartan, (I actually stole all three of these ideas from him )

and I stole the sniper rifle from Brother Vinni's Wasteland sniper fig.

Nice conversion dstein - tenpenny maybe has on older face but you could mix some grey into the skin tone and have stark white highlights.

Briancj I was hoping a boy and his dog would be awful in a good way. But it was only 1.80 so I'm not bothered.

I had a feeling that They Live would be a classic.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Nice conversion dstein - tenpenny maybe has on older face but you could mix some grey into the skin tone and have stark white highlights.

Briancj I was hoping a boy and his dog would be awful in a good way. But it was only 1.80 so I'm not bothered.

I had a feeling that They Live would be a classic.

It is awful in a good way. Have plenty of popcorn to throw at the tv.

they live... classic... and bubblegum quote... wasn´t this one used by snakes on a plane too? or am i recalling things in a weird way???

and ...i watched a boy and his dog... around twenty years ago... man... that is a weird flick... some utterly weird scenes in that one...


and weety... i envy you about your hassle free minis... the lil ones i have on my to get list for quite some time... little kids with guns and teddybears...an awesome combo...

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Anywayhere are some atmospheric pre-paint photos of my selection of hasslefree. I just noticed that the guy looks like dirty harry - must be why he appealed to me. The space pirate lady with the dreads is made from blue resin and is much taller than the rest. Didn't realise this when I bought it. The whole package came with a free packet of popping candy - which was bizzare but fun.

For some reason my superglue doesn't want to work when its cold, so these where difficult to assemble and Green stuff was required.

Beautiful sculpting.

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Wow how do you like that - they seem to have sculpted pupils in the space pirate lady's eyes.

That has got to be one of the best female sculpts i've seen in the wargame mini 'verses, not overly sexualised and the proportions aren't utterly unbelievable.
and what's with the pupils, that's just freaky

Very real isn't it. I suspect that some kind of digital sculpting was used but who knows. Maybe it woud be rude to ask and it might spoil it if I knew.

I received some new paints from vallejo today. Yellow and lilac washes and some shiny varnish. Oh and yet more P3 privateer press armour wash. I use it on all my models because it gives such a fine definition of shade.

I haven't been painting because until today we resisted putting the heating on. Npower shall not have our money!! But my hands are cold... So it must be put on.

As far as I know Kev does all his work by hand - and Sally is there to sense-check what he's working on

I have some nice Reaper paints in drop bottles, inside these plastic cases that are cushioned by foam that were gifted to me last year during the Penny Arcade secret santa. How long do those things last? Because I haven't used them at all. I had just dropped $300 on Citadel Paints when those came in the mail and I've been using those since.

If they are anything like the old citadel paints I still have - forever, so long as you keep air out. Didn't know reaper did paints.

Good to know dysartes. I'm even more impressed now.

I think they're Reaper. I'll check after I'm good and awake.

Reaper paints last forever. I'm still using some open from at least 2004.

Anything painted yet?

And how do you get a blog view from these threads?

Yeah, we need more painted goodness!

You can find the blog view if you go onto the Blogs main page, the button is right next to first unread.

Yeah, but if I set up a thread in the P&M Blogs section, shouldn't it show "Blog View" next to my thread title like all the others I am subscribed too? Or do I not see it because it's my own? Or did I screw up?

Your blog isn't long enough yet - it will get a blog view button after it has exceeded a certain number of pages. You'll be there b4 you know it.

I will paint something soon. This time of year is not the best for painting though - sloth takes over.

Tell me about it. Between Yule activities, work, and my daughter coming to live with me and just noooooot wanting to do her homework, I'm up late every night, and cannot get to sit down and paint. Hmmm... I have lots of excuses. I need to turn that around.

It is a bit like that - whenever I do have the spare time to paint of an evening I usually end up getting drunk on the various Xmas beverages available and then I can't hold my brush steady.

However I can say that I have grey-scaled clint eastwood, the cheerleader and space pirate lady - now I just need a tiny pinch of motivation to start building up colours...

After 3 hours of concentration I've come up with this. The eyes still need defining but I'm done for tonight. Maybe an watered down darker wash on the trousers and some final highlights as well. It feels nice to paint something where the surface is new and smooth - old GW models all have an ever so slightly bumpy surface.

I like.
I like the hair in particular.
Skin tone looks good too. How do you do it?
Actually how did you do the hair an' all?

The general grubbiness works well. Good job.

She is awesome Weets! I especially like her hi-top Chucks!.

Thanks dave! Loving your brick phase by the way.


To answer your questions Dr H first obviously as I do with almost all my minis I grey scaled the whole model with black wash followed by white highlights with a very soft dry-brush. Then the skin is wet-blended with flesh colour. Basically using a very fine brush and some moisture to delicately blend the colour in - then a wash of skin tone plus grey, then highlights with lightened flesh colour.

The hair is a base of a warm yellow with white highlights followed by sepia wash.

I think a lot of the credit has to go to the sculptor for doing such a smooth job.

Cool.
Interesting thanks.

Yeah it is a cool sculpt, as is the others you got with it.

Yeah, I go thru a lot of phases don't I?
It's part of choosing to remain 14 years old mentally in a 35 year old body I guess

I think weets, you should look closer at the toy section of your pound shop. Do they have any toy cranes or any sort of plastic girder beams? Your BG photos are cool, but I think you should branch out into terrain with a photo backdrop diorama piece of some kind. Make it so it fits on your shelf for storage. For your close-ups, it wouldn't need to be too big.

That looks great, Weets. I think I've finally found how I'll do the blond hair on some of my Valhallans.

That's some fine looking filthy young lady.

Sweet! As always, loving your skin tones and the general grubby vibe.

Could be the wine but hasn't she got holes in the backs of her gloves? That should be more skin rather than black? Moar skin!! Always a good thing.

Well, almost always

Very hot weety!

Thanks for the suggestion dstien - I believe we do have some cranes in stock and xmas discount is in effect.

Monkey you are correct I missed those holes - but she is not finished yet so there is still time.

Thanks all - hopefully she will return later with eyes! Eyes are bloody awkward to paint so I will require massive levels of concentration and will probably loose the ability to see anything more than an inch across for a few days.

Xmass gift for myself. Expensive.

I nearly have almost half the RT era inquisitors now. Just missing 5 or 6 I think. Funny looking one this.

Eh, not their best sculpt. Still, I'm interested in what you can do with it.

Its tempting to convert him - make his stupid hands smaller and reposition the arms, maybe gun-swap for a something a bit more believable - he could look great! I think he looks more like chaos than an inquisitor - maybe he is turning to the darkside. The problem I have with that is that he is worth about 15 quid and that makes him a valuable antique compared to most minis so cutting him up is hard to contemplate. Monkeytroll would know what to do.

I wouldn't cut him up. This is exactly why I don't go after these older models, though. I follow the Prof. I. Jones school of thought: "It belongs in a museum!"

He does have some big mitts, doesn't he? lol

Definitely not a top-of-the-range sculpt.

Well, I know what I'd do with it, but that's not what everyone would do with it Don't forget that I have no compunction about cuting up rare and limited edition minis, I'm far more interested in what can be done with the parts unless it's a vey cool sculpt...and even that's no guarantee of safety.

He really doesn't need those arms at all, he'd be far more comfortable some writhing tentacles in their place I feel - although to be fair, that could just be because I'm on a tentacle tip at the moment (not literally I hasten to add - I've not converted the boat into some kind of hentai theme park).

But yeah, me, I'd lose the arms for a start - that's some fugly weaponry he's kitted himself out with. Hat needs a bit of work too

At the very least I'd say you need to swap the weapons - but do you want him as a cool mini, or as a bit of history? That's where you'll find your answer.

He's obviously a Radical Inquisitor, using those demon weapons and strange alien weaponry to fight the Imperium's enemies. Looks like he might have some of the taint in him.

Uncle Remus?

I like him a lot. His hands and weapons are his weak spots though. That's for sure.

Changing them may be a bit harder than normal. The hands come off of his wrists at an unusual angle.

Nice work, weets!

If your still thinking about diversifying I'll second both Infinity and Brushfire. Infinity is unbelievably beautiful, even more so in person. Brushfire is great too and very lighthearted, plus Emily is a joy to deal with and DCM's get a lovely discount! Oh and OTLG have Endless Fantasy now too which looks sweet, it would probably be right up your street.

P.S. It'd be cool to see you take part in the Great Marine Swap too!

Superb mini that one weets, Its a great collection of Inquisy guys your are collecting , I would no doubt convert like monkey , but i do love seeing your sympathetic painting and the original sculptors visions re brought to life within your collections .

have you seen the stuff of legends page on these guys ?

http://www.solegends.com/citcat89autumn/c89aut-072117-1-01.jpg

looks like he most probably is a radical. Do you know who sculpted him ?

the paintjob on the new girl is lovely. I see your illuminated style has moved into a realist phase proper.

Interesting. I like two of those commissars at the bottom of the Solo Legends page:

1. The one with the tie because he's pretty odd and unique

2. The one with the book raised above his head because I like books.

Dude with the tie!! Amazing. The shear unfocused genius of it.

I love books too.

Thanks neil. I am totally into realism now - at least when it comes to humans! Eldar and such are exempt from realism. I really enjoy making them look real - I'm going to look up some pics of dirty harry before I paint that dude so I can get the colours right.

Casy I might have to get some of the remotes - but then I will have to get some of the people too or it will look silly. So I might wait till I get an airbrush. And brushfire has to wait till I have dementia and a house full of cats. Or not. We will see.

Monkeytroll I knew you would think he needed tentacles. Nothing wrong with hentai so long as all the cartoons are over 16. Actually there is a lot wrong with hentai but whatayagonado.

somehow I forgot that I was meant to be finishing the cheerleader and got stuck in to dirty harold. Hes not quite done - I'm contemplating a pattern on his jacket and obviously sharper focus pics would be nice, but I'm very happy with progress so far.

Very nice and you get bonus points for realism! The fabrics particularly stand out to me. How do you do that? It's something I greatly admire in Minus' miniatures too.

As for Brushfire, I have a rather large box heading to the UK in the next few weeks and I'm sure there is room in it for you to fill if you change your mind. That's free shipping and you can make use of my discount... Just sayin'!

I'm just not ready for weasels badgers and stoats yet! I'm wishing I had bought more from hasslefree now as I'm really enjoying painting them. As you say I made a special effort to make the fabric look real (aided by the fact that it was sculpted realistically) The wooly sweater specifically got some subtle work with the brush to give it woolyness and I tried to make the trousers look smooth and ironed and nylon.

Looking forward to you posting up a brushfire blog - send us a link when you do.

That sweater looks great. Heck, the whole mini does. I wonder what you could have done with this though:

Outstanding job on the clothing weety... they look... real. Wow.

I say a little tutorial is needed soon! Who is with me?

Superb looking mini anyway, the subdued tones work really well for him.

Even looking at a not quite finished version on my phone whilst suffering heavily with Mayan flu (the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a sniffle people...) he looks bloody fantastic weety - fantastic job!

The last two minis you've painted are fantastic your painting skills have suddenly gone up to the next level and beyond for sure.

Every time you make me raise my game, you go and up the ante. Damn you vile woman!
Also, don't listen to monkeytroll, that's his old man hangover talking...

Love it Weets! I'm giving mine a Heff-style smoking jacket

I really dig your painting style weety, your stuff is looking really nice. I really like the sculpts that come out of Hasslefree and Heresy as well...one of these days I will splurge and get some of those trench coat gang figures...

I am anxiously awaiting your painted Andreah model by Kev White...she would make an excellent Escher leader!

Also, I keep seeing your Blog title and excitedly jump in hoping to see some genestealer hybrids...any more coming on that front in the near future?

HI Fango! There are two hybrids left to roll out (and a whole box full of crappy plastic space hulk ones which I might try converting). They are near the top of my "want to paint" list (space marines are right down at the bottom I'm afraid). I assume the heresy models you mean are the ones that look like delaques. Heresy seems to me to be an exercise in dodging copyright - which I'm all in favour of of course. More variety for the gamer and profits for the small business.

Thanks for the complements everyone, they make me smile. They do look rather good don't they. I've been trying to improve my skills and stuff. Obviously it helps that Kev the hasslefree guy is a superb sculptor, and that vallejo make excellent paints. I will keep on trying to improve (because I may as well).

I'm Going for a more colourful palette on Andreah. I'm thinking purple, but I'm not quite sure yet - I wonder if anyone else has painted her recently. A search shows one example by "painting possum" who has given her a shiny (rubber?) black coat and purple dreds - I may swap that around for mine.

Monkeytroll I love the way you've equated man-flu with the end of the world!! Get well soon.

Moving on swiftly here is Amoy. She is a little more colourful as befits a teenage skateboarder. I wanted to draw a little smiley face on the yellow badge but I just cant do it - I need micron pens!
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Nice work on the Hasslefree minis - their stuff is great and reminds me I need to get some paint on my stash.

Have you looked at the finepoint Sharpie pens? Come in a variety of colors and are dirt cheap. They would work pretty well for you I think? They do for me.

I just purchased my first Squat mini. It's all thanks to you, Weets. I used to think Squats were dumb, but you've shown me the error of my ways. Unfortunately, I don't beleive I'll be able to afford an entire squad of the little guys, so he's destined for hard time! He's to be a member of my penal squad.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
I just purchased my first Squat mini. It's all thanks to you, Weets. I used to think Squats were dumb, but you've shown me the error of my ways. Unfortunately, I don't beleive I'll be able to afford an entire squad of the little guys, so he's destined for hard time! He's to be a member of my penal squad.

You should make/paint him up as a prison guard holding a shotgun to marshal the convicts around!

Hobbycraft sell the micron pens. If you don't have one near you pm me and I'll get you a set.

 rustbucket wrote:

 Valhalla130 wrote:
I just purchased my first Squat mini. It's all thanks to you, Weets. I used to think Squats were dumb, but you've shown me the error of my ways. Unfortunately, I don't beleive I'll be able to afford an entire squad of the little guys, so he's destined for hard time! He's to be a member of my penal squad.

You should make/paint him up as a prison guard holding a shotgun to marshal the convicts around!

I would, except I already have an Arbites officer for that role. Besides, we can't have those dirty abhumans in any role of authority, can we?

LOL! True that, true that!!

Lovely, I love some of the hassslefree miniatures and you really bring them alive, weets.

Oh, if you want to paint that smiley badge and can't wait to get the pens, try a pin, needle or toothpick with a little paint on the end. Good luck!

Pins! I will try.

Glad to hear you got your first squat Valhalla. You should get a beastman for your penal squad too. And maybe some other mutants.

Hello rustbucket welcome to dakka!

How well does your fabric painting style hold up to batch painting? I have a horde of LotR elves to paint and they all need black robes, some tips would be much appreciated!

Hey commander I think the style should hold up - I paint almost everything except skin fairly quickly - washes are very quick to use and batch painting will allow time for drying. For black I have P3 armour wash (very similar to the old GW one. I like to apply it in layers and occasionally tint it slightly with a colour depending on the look I want. I think of it as like painting with watercolours - you use the underlying white primer as your highlight and move the wash around to where you need it don't just let it stay where it will. You need a steady hand. Sometimes I apply it over grey primer instead of white. Gives a less stark highlight.

I got a Micron pen from the shops today! Hooray and it it is only 0.05mm!

Ahh, that makes sense! Shame all my guys are basecoated black so I will have to stick to my old ways for now.

Come to think of it I have never tried to paint anything with a white primer, this opens up a lot of possibilities...

Weety... I blame you... its all your damned fault...

Yes thats right, you heard me, its your fault.



I decided to revamp my ogre army, and more specifically my gnoblar units Weety style... I'm going to collect classic Warhammer Fantasy models come new year for slaves instead of gnoblars... and DAMNIT ITS YOUR FAULT!!!

I'm happy to be at fault in this! Are you using a drybrush? I will pop over your plog and have a look

I'll blame you more often for then for things

Its all part of my dastardly plot. Mooohahahaha

My dastardly plot is to do all these things, but not get blamed for them.

Hurrah for micron pens!

Micron pens are useful for eyes.

The face is down.

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Exquisite work weety. Really.

Fine work indeed...looks great against the monochrome as is

Hope you're doing ok down your way..more floods and storms this weekend I see.....

Gorgeous skin tones! It seems that you and Iffy are painting the same model, 'twill be interesting to compare the two!

I'm sure she will pull something impressive out of the hat! I'm interested in what she will do with the geisha - I must get more hasslefree they are well cool.

Don't worry bout me monkeytroll I live quite high above sea level! We are battening down the hatches and have stocked up on candles.

Heres my micron pen smiley face - this photo is fairly low resolution - She is so small its hard to focus. I need to sort out my camera skills

Well, yeah I know you're in the penthouse, but still....

The scenes on the news are pretty scary! We are not leaving the house though - cooking le rosbif a la yorkshire puddings and making home-made marzipan. The wind is low so we are safe up here.

Wow, the skin tones and "makeup" on that first pic are great!

So weety... exactly how are you using your micron pens to do some of the face details??

I think she means the smiley face badge Gits

Smiley face is great! I gotta get me one of those pens..

But also gitsplitta I used them for space queens pupils. Using the power of interlocking hands to get really steady I just very slowly pushed it against her eyes. Also have now wiped gloss varnish over the top of the eyes and lips to give glistening effect. Good stuff now Ijust have to try and decide what colour her clothes and hair are. Really hard decisions need to be made now..

Thanks vallhalla I used lip gloss and blusher and tons of mascara.

However you want about it weets... it's stunning. Far better than anything I've ever done with skin or faces.

That may be so gits but you've done some beautiful things with Armour plates.

But I am really into doing skin atm and I think its my best thing. I hope I can make the rest of her look good.

Thankyou for inspiring me dakka-peeps

Wow... I remember when I first started following your blog, your work was brilliant, but now, it's just a whole new level of beauty. You improve your skills quicker than most people paint their miniatures!

I can say, without doubt, that in my opinion, this is looking to be your best so far. I can't wait to see her finished.

So Iffy is painting the same model right now? I'd like to follow that in parallel, could someone throw me a link please? That's the Irish, commission painter lassie, yeh?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/3630/307516.page#5104985

You have the right of it ...

Thanks, bud!

Yowser. Amazing, and great tip about interlocking hands. Going to try that.

Great skin tones weety , hope you get plenty of of oop presents fro crimbo ;-)

always interlock the hands graven! When learning to throw pots on the wheel they teach you to interlock the hands to get really steady as its essential for symmetrical pottery - for just everyday painting resting one hand against the other is enough - you may find that you've been doing it anyway subconsciously. But to get a really steady brush or pen fully lock those hands together.

Thanks Neil I hope so.

I shall ask my mum to demonstrate she used to pot. Thanks for the tip, as I say!

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I didn't know either till I saw this - I bet it takes a while to play though (just like the real thing!)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/131678.page
Freshly minted new-look squat. I've got a few squats left to paint - heavy weapons and bike. They will be painted like this. I may strip some of the other painted squats and re-do them.

This is the squat I just received in the mail from ebay. I couldn't find it on Stuff of Legends, so I had to searcht thru your thread to find the right one. It may be a while before it's painted. All my stuff was stored in the closet while my daughter is here so she has a place to do her homework.

Your painting skill has improved. Not saying it was bad to begin with, it's just noticeably different. Flesh tones are very well blended, colors subdued but still sharp, very clean and defined lines... great job all around!

Hello - long time since I was ere. I have been ill with the flu. Terrible excuse I know but the constant shivering and strange visual hallucinations threw me off my game. But I feel better now. Whatshername the space pirate lady has a nice new hair colour and I've begun work on her glowing power sword. Hopefully I will get some pics up soon. Sorry for not responding to all your kind comments sooner.

I think I am suffering from rain sickness - is this why people from Scotland are so dour? An excess of wetness? I'm hoping for a drought.

An update of todays painting - major colours done - still can't decide what colours for her clothes and jewellery - going for bright and funky. My hands are not steady enough for the details today and I blame alcohol. New years was fun.

She's coming along nicely, weety.

Very nice indeed. She's going to be a beauty.

Spent a lot of my holidays reading all 146 pages. Some beautiful pieces here Weety your painting was good to start with but the blending has got smoother and the faces more realistic with time.

Great to see so many rogue trader minis painted up. I am a bit of a rt fanatic myself but they are almost all still unppainted. This log may just be the inspiration I need to get started.

Keep the updates coming...

Looking good so far. I'm liking the green inside the coat. Look forward to the details once your shakes have stopped...

Hi mutant dale and thankyou for looking. I always strive for perfection as the title suggests. Its an unattainable goal in reality, but I can always get just a little closer to it.

I wish you luck with your rt minis - leave a link if you get around to starting a thread.

Dr H it is a metallic green although this is not as obvious in the photo as in real life

Looking great so far Weety. I would say that her earings look great white. Very remanicent of 1980's faux pearls. Can remember that my Mother wore them alot back then. Big, dangly and rediculous! On this fig, as white, they are subtle and put the emphasis back on the models face and not on the jewelry. Would still go for gold on the necklace though.

Looking great, weets. Do you always start with preshading now? It sounds like a good way to go. You've probably answered this before but how do you go about the preshade stage? It looks like white bascoat, black wash, white highlight but I could be wrong.

You are correct Casy's law. It seems to be the way to go - has to be done carefully though so as to achieve subtlety.

Not painting atm. Don't know why. I think I'm tired of straining my eyes. January sucks and I just want to hide under blankets and play skyrim.

On skyrim I have a strange way of playing in that when my character gets to level 40 or so I get fed up and start again - I just find the game so much more fun when the weapons look realistic, the bandits are dangerous and the map is full of empty spaces. Also I find being interupted by dragons all the time a pain in the ass so I generally leave the main quest these days. My boyfriend moans at me whenever I start again - he is the kind of player that used the oghma infinium cheat to get max stats and then spent the rest of the game being practically invincible. I like to play on a knife edge where blocking an attack is the difference between life and death.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
You are correct Casy's law. It seems to be the way to go - has to be done carefully though so as to achieve subtlety.

Not painting atm. Don't know why. I think I'm tired of straining my eyes. January sucks and I just want to hide under blankets and play skyrim.

On skyrim I have a strange way of playing in that when my character gets to level 40 or so I get fed up and start again - I just find the game so much more fun when the weapons look realistic, the bandits are dangerous and the map is full of empty spaces. Also I find being interupted by dragons all the time a pain in the ass so I generally leave the main quest these days. My boyfriend moans at me whenever I start again - he is the kind of player that used the oghma infinium cheat to get max stats and then spent the rest of the game being practically invincible. I like to play on a knife edge where blocking an attack is the difference between life and death.

Yeah I get that. There comes a point where you stand there surrounded by 10 soldiers, 5 stormcloaks, 3 Ice wraiths, 2 dragons, etc... you've not got a scatch and think "this could maybe be a little more challenging".

I will try and max out the stats on the current character (by natural means) and the first few playthroughs I did set about completing all the quests and once that's done I'll go out and try to find everthing on the map. After that it just becomes "collect everything" which I do anyway as it is my natural tendancy.

Hope to see some painting here soon, when you're ready.
If you want some inspiration, and haven't yet, go watch the interview on Ifalna's blog. Edit: I see you have!

I'll be trying the technique out for sure, it'll be tough to get that level of subtlety though. Do you use watered down black wash and layer it up?

I think the best thing for me was having my Xbox break. But then I got a new computer. So... status quo, I guess.

Crickets...chirping in a field...getting bored...piling in to their Dad's car and driving into town...playing a set at the pub on the corner...getting free drinks...playing less and less coherently...trashing the place during a fist, wing, and leg fight...ending up in the lockup with Herman the Bald Kneebreaker for the night.

...when they sober up, they ponder the meaning of life and wonder whether Weety has migrated for the winter...

Just to reassure everybody I am not dead, just hibernating. Recently looked at my collection and remembered vaguely that I used to "paint" them with a thing called a "brush". I even noticed a few under a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and alluvial silt. I can assure everyone that when my fingers defrost in the spring I might just pick up where I left off halfway through a miniature. In the meantime -brrrrr its cold - get my hands back under the covers - wish I could type with chopsticks. Price of gas is up and npower will not have any b*starding money from me. No I will keep it all and put it in a pile and burn it for heat.

Here are a few withnail quotes to illustrate my predicament

Withnail: This place is uninhabitable.
Marwood: Give it a chance. It's got to warm up.
Withnail: Warm up? We may as well sit round this cigarette. This is ridiculous. We'll be found dead in here next spring

Withnail: [after having entirely covered himself in muscle embrocation] Have you been at the controls?
Marwood: What are you talking about?
Withnail: The thermostats. What have you done to them?
Marwood: I haven't touched them.
Withnail: Then why has my head gone numb?

Withnail: How can it be so cold in here? It's like Greenland in here. We've got to get some booze. It's the only solution to this intense cold.

So cheer up and tell the crickets to go on without me, I'll only slow them down.

Widdly-woo widdly-woo widdly-woo .......life signs detected captain.....


Get warm soon.....

Stay warm as you can weets, we can be patient.

What he ^ said. Wear plenty of jumpers. We'll be here when England gets warmer (and starts to rain all the more).

You should try my place ..... 2 wall heaters (Single wall mind) and an oil filled and its still bleeping cold ........

Glad to hear your just hibernating weets . ;-)

HA! we had actually lots of sun today... tho...the weatherman on tv says we are in for cold days next week...again... damn... i want my money back... this winter i haven´t ordered...

It is actually getting warmer over here (and its raining again OF COURSE!!!!) so I no longer have an excuse really - except that I have forgotten how to paint. I will practice on something unimportant.

forgotten how to paint? isn´t it like riding a bike?

Nope its riding a Jet Bike

hurhurhur

I'm still thinking about jumpers

wooly jumpers?

I was wondering if you call it a jumper because of the bouncing effect?

a certain image froms in my mind...




spoilered for those of a more delicate state of mind

Haha, I thought a jumper was a sweater LOL

dunno why... but i instantly thought about long johns^^

The British should really learn to speak English properly, you know..like us, a German and an American

LOL... yeah... we´ve invented that language at east...together with the french^^

(and the romans and the vikings....sheesh...what major part was from the english concerning the development of their language anyway???)

From what I know the parts of the language that are anglo-saxon (old german) are the short fricative words and the long complicated words are Latinate (french/Italian). The norse throw a spanner in that simple dichotomy and of course There are many words from india that came in during the empire.

Its fun to speak a really complicated language.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
(and the romans and the vikings....sheesh...what major part was from the english concerning the development of their language anyway???)

Picking the good/useful bits from each source, and blending them into a coherent whole?

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
From what I know the parts of the language that are anglo-saxon (old german) are the short fricative words and the long complicated words are Latinate (french/Italian). The norse throw a spanner in that simple dichotomy and of course There are many words from india that came in during the empire.

Its fun to speak a really complicated language.

It is that. When kids/colleagues ask me this question I get very over-excited and start talking about indo-european languages... But, yeah, the lady has the nub of it (less so the fricative bit). Compound words tend to be latinate and higher-status. Go on the Norman invasion.

 Dysartes wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
(and the romans and the vikings....sheesh...what major part was from the english concerning the development of their language anyway???)

Picking the good/useful bits from each source, and blending them into a coherent whole?

nice repartee

Amazingly I have painted something. About time too.

This character is a very old 80s techpriest. For some reason everything metallic steel has come out grey in the photos - oh well - maybe I need a direct light source as well as the diffused ones to bring out the glint of the steel. It was a fairly relaxed paintjob as I try and ease myself back in, but I think it works well.

Here it is;

That's pretty sweet Weets! I especially love the fading color of the gold in the shadows, and the axe head too. That's just pure nice!

Glad you're back! I really like that piece, the axe head and the pipes break up the metallic really nicely.

I'm glad that you are finally warm enough to paint!

He looks fantastic! I'm particularly fond of the axe. Looks like he is ready to take on any dust bunnies.

Yay, Weety's painting again!
Looks really good. You've certainly not forgotten how to paint.

Very nice. I love that model, and excellent painting. I love the shading on the red/orange.

I think it's stunning weety, I'm going to vote on it right now!

Thanks y'all. I'm glad you like him - he seemed to just fall into place.

I probably won't return to my previous high output for a while but I have broken the artistic block now. And it is a little teeny tiny bit warmer now that it is spring.

Wow, she's back, and with bang. Lovely model that.

welcome back to the land of painting!...that marine is definatly some one that is back from the classic scifi and fantasy times of the golden age...love the composition of colors...

a really good come back piece!


cheers, vik

Excellent stuff going on here. Inspiring.

Welcome back to the land of the living, weets.

Just to prove that I'm still a painter and not a dried out husk I have done a miniature.

he is a space pirate, with new melta gun to replace a damaged one.

also finished my inquisitor - gave him dirty white hair and a few subtle tones.

I will be painting more hopefully, I think the muse is back.

Thanks for looking.


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Should have drilled those barrels! Damn.

Hopefully you've found your muse again, weets! That pirate looks really grisly, in an awesome may of course. And that Inquisitor is really nicely done too, cool model.

Glad to see you back, Weety!

I like the Pirate's face but he needs a spot of color. Maybe the melta hose or a bit of his bling?

Love the Inquisitor, but I keep following his gaze and pointed finger downwards and then expecting to see a tiny kitten there.

Sweet! And you still make my favourite ever model (the =][=) look awesome. Love the muted tones.

Why does he remind me of The Dude from Warseer?

Good to have you back weety! I can just hear the space pirate going "Arrrgh". Amazing job on the inquisitors face.

Nice Job Weets!You can still drill if ya want to

Great work Weety. Welcome back.
The Inquisitor's head is really good.

Thanks all.
Arrrrrrrrrrrr Jim lad, batten down the airlock hatches and splice the main drive.

Amazing stuff!!!!!!! Love the rogue trader era myself!

that fur clad fella is rather creepy and filthy looking

but the inq is very good looking...the face and hair looks very impressive!

He has a very leery face and massive buck teeth, its a scary looking combo. If I saw him hanging out at the bus station I would probably go get the train instead

Thanks for the praise on the inquisitor - I think he is another step towards realism.

This is probably my favorite p&m-blog of them all! It's so much fun seeing all these awesome old RT-era minis and what not brought to life with more modern painting techniques! So I'm glad to hear you are somewhat back on track!

Great job on the inquisitor and the space pirate btw!

Weety I love the colours on this. Beautiful

Thanks c0un7_z3r0 I'm flattered. Plenty more left to paint if I ever get around to it.

Thanks sneakychris - you look new, welcome to dakka and my blog!

Cheers PDH I am pleased with the colour too - Subtle use of colour is what makes me love miniature painting. I just love the deep red shadows in the yellow, I suppose he is meant to be an ochre colour, always a good colour for an ancient suit of power armour. And the power axe fade is becoming a favorite of mine. I will get a full rainbow on a power weapon one of these days.

Unfortunatly my new camera has died - I think its battery died and now it won't turn back on even though plugged it into the charger for hours. So its back to the old standby and you may notice some loss of image quality.

I've been making bases out of GS and sand which are going to be for the hasslefree minis - kind of an urban thing with kerbstones and asphalt.

Also finished a delaque jumping over a pipe. definitely don't lake the way my old camera has taken this one - looks odd.

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Bases are good. Simple but effective.

and the delaque looks good. Face is very good and that's a very PURPLE purple coat he has (in a good way).

Great update, Weety!

I really like the bases and the ganger. The curbstones are probably the best part of the topmost bases. They have a good thickness and the slightly variable heights and edges make them look more interesting. They kind of remind me of some of the curbs that I saw in Iraq, where uniformity was a rarity.

The ganger is a lot of fun to look at. His skin tones, goggles, and grimace are especially appealing. I like the purple coat though it makes me think of the phrase, "See the violets inherent in the system!". Odd, but that's me.

He has a nice base too. Did you make that one as well?

Nice bases! Very universal-looking too! The Delaque looks great, maybe your old camera is more light sensitive? Try backing the lamp up some? His forehead glares like my 5th grade English teacher's did

gotta agree....the bases look very good...and would work on almost any table!

Nice job on the bases Weety, ingesting but not difficult to mount a figure on.

Very cool, mouth is exceptionally good; and JB, you are very silly

Going to put little tufts of grass on the dirt side of the kerb...

Thanks for the in depth feedback JB!

Gitsplitta - ingesting? I think that's a typo.

I will try moving the lights a bit next time. Lots of things in the pipeline.

Very nice work, weets!

Time for a massive update. Here we see another mercenary (v wonky model), I had some fun with the floor tiles on this one.

A genestealer hybrid - looking good on this one - It looks dark and shadowy and the blending is smooth...



Also these berserkers got some base love.

Here is Alyx from hasslefree miniatures. A bit of a showcase model. The thing I love about hasslefree is the cool poses and the way the model looks legit from all angles

Wow, loads of pretties...
The Girl looks amazing. Really well done on everything there. The bear looks really beat up, good job.
and it looks nice on your base.

and nice tiles on the wonky bloke's base.

The Hybrid looks great. How'd do the skin tone for him?

Really nice paint job on the Bezerkers.

Excellent update! I've always really liked the Alyx model and the baseball bat one. The rest looks great too, you did an awesome job on those tiles with the colour worn away. Classy work all round!

Well Dr H the skin tone is grey Highlighted with skin tone and then a wash of grey-purple-terracotta mix applied on top.

Very nice work Weety... Fantastic job on Alyx.

Good job! Alyx is such a great model, (which now got a matching paintjob) I might have to get that one. The hybrid looks fantastic!

Thanks guys. I can recommend hasslefree.

I can't remember who makes this mini.

I've gone for a desert and scrub type scheme and I really wish I had an apropriate backdrop - this will have to do for now.

The lizard colours are something I saw in a book of dinosaurs.

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Man, I love those old RT models. The 'zerkers in particular are awesome. Nice work, Weety.

Thanks for the skin recipe.

That's cool. Like the dino' scheme. Rider is good too. Will he get reins?

Damn I didn't think of reins! He needs them really.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Damn I didn't think of reins! He needs them really.

I just thought you'd left them off for ease of painting or in that way that some people do by not putting strings on the bows of archers.

Still looks awesome as is.

What a beautiful mini! Love the pose, and the colours you've chosen for his ride - the spinal markings in particular look very realistic! They really look like they're skulking quietly through scrubland. Ace!

That's a Viridian from Void by ikore, as was. Beautiful, subtle job!

Really nice, the miniature is very much RT style and you paint it so well!

Hi everyone - A quick flying update. I may be taking part in the infinity "two tickets to paradiso" competition. I'm having trouble finding a model though - It has to be under ten british pounds (inc. postage) as I'm on a budget. Preferably a lot under so can afford a jungle base. So many to choose from.

Also I painted an eldar to get me in the mood for smooth armour plates and high technology.

Good luck in the comp', look forward to seeing what you do.

Nice painting on the little eldar chap, That's a really nice gem on the chest, actually looks translucent (wish mine did).

Lovely! Nice, subtle coloration and excellent work on the gem.

I appreciate there may be one buried in the thread somewhere, weety, but would it be possible to go through how you get your gems to look like that at some point?

Really nice eldar! It's a good choice for sliding towards Infinity too.

Which Infinity factions do you prefer? I can give you some suggestions if you'd like. Also check out the Shae-Konnit thread in the sub forum, you might find a bargain.

He is very nice although I'm not 100% on the yellow - it's a bit samey. If I had any inifinity minis, I'd send you one! However, I do have brass etch jungle foliage, and will happily send some if you want?

Thanks Dr M and gitsplitta I'll tell you how I do it. Dysartes no I don't think I ever did do a tutorial.

Well I've got no pictures but basically I use the really viscous vallejo washes I've got, Hold the model upside-down, and then delicately paint on a droplet of the wash. Then gravity does its work sending the pigment to the top of the gem and giving a nice gradual fade. After its dry I tidy it up with smaller amounts of wash, add a darker tone to the very top of the gem and then find a spot for the white dot. Simples. The Upsidedown gem wash trick.

I think I like the sound of the aleph casy's law. They have less historical baggage than the others.

inmygravenimage If you can spare a few scraps and the price of the stamp I could definitely use a sample. The competition blurb mentions jungle and although Casy's law said it was ok to do any kind of environment so long as it looks hostile I'm not taking any chances with the fickle voting public - I have plans for greenstuff venus flytraps. Plans that will probably fall apart in the attempt.

No probs m'dear, re pm your address, and I'll pop stuff along to you. I may have some wee metal toadstools as well, I shall have a rummage.

If I had anything useful I'd send you it to help out but I just have bits and chopped up sections of bodies.

If Aleph is floating your boat then your in luck, I had a look and Shae has a lot of good stuff for about £5 each. P&P is 90p so you could get two nice minis delivered pretty quickly for under a tenner.

The greenstuff flytraps sound great. I don't think I've seen your sculpts before which means you are very subtle which is impressive or it's new territory which is awesome!

I have occasionally used greenstuff for repair on old, vandalised minis and you wouldn't have noticed it then I hope - the only real sculpting I've done is on my unfinished genestealer hybrid limo (main exhibit on my shelf of shame). I think I was getting quite good but then I got distracted. Here is a few pics to jog your memory



And thanks for the tip I will go have a look at that thread.

Oh yes! Thanks for the repost, I got really inspired by that at the time, you did a great job on it!

I hope you find something that works for you with Shae, he has quite a few cool Aleph models in there, Myrmidons and Devas stood out to me, Probots too which would be nice for a diorama type thing on a slightly larger base.

The main thing is to enjoy the challenge.

I'm still not decided what to paint for the comp.

But procrastination is good for getting other things done so I dug out some necromunda figures. Next to be painted is a goliath juve who I've converted a bit. And this is obviously an orlock juve - I've included a comparison pic of the last time I painted this figure so you can see the improvement in technique.

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Nice way to give two copies of the same figure very different looks weety. Amazing what a change in skin tone will do, eh?

That's a very Pvt. Vasquez look to the new one.
Good job and the old one ain't bad either.

Brilliant job and it's really nice to see your improvement over time! Those cloth pattern details are so delicately done!

Excellent work as always, I love, love, love the dino rider.

Thanks chaps I am pleased to get some feedback on the juve.

Gits - I like to think I changed more than the skin tone! The whole light/dark balance is changed. Also I have really been trying to pull the composition of the whole model together like a painting so that its more of a display piece. Come on, get with the programme gits!!! (I'm kidding of course)

Dr H yeah I debated whether to add a little lip colour or not but then I thought t'hell with it a good juve should look like private vasquez. Gets them them the ladies. Perhaps maybe I went overboard with the lippy on second thoughts.

Cheers Casey the fabric patterns are my favourite part of the model too. A lesson learned through practice I guess, I've painted a lot of orlocks. I'm trying to get a simplified feel of the classic crip/blood bandanna pattern I see in films.

Hey vallhalla I'm glad you loved the dino rider - I wasn't quite sure about him, the colour clash between the pale blue-white dinosaur and the sepia camo armour messes with my eyes a bit.

Ah weety, you're much too knowledgeable about art for me. I just see blue jeans, green coat, grey gun... OH look, the skin is a different color! Subtlety is lost on me. My idea of light/dark balance is a Black & Tan!

Having seen your best painting I think you're bluffing!


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I had to google Black & Tan. I'm guessing you mean the drink and not the royal Irish constabulary. I like to mix my beer with cider so I will not criticize.

I've finally made up my mind on infinity - But apparently I'm not meant to tell you what it is
Some lovely brass foliage for the base arrived today - thanks inmygravenimage!

I wonder what Infinity figure you are going to enter?

Thanks Arakasi - you didn't see nuffin right.


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I've got a wonderful idea for the contest and ordered the figures for it, but I don't think there's any chance that I'm going to be able to finish in time (with having to manage the end of my own competition). Just bad timing. Too bad, I thought I had a really cool theme idea and would have been painting wayyyyy out of my comfort zone.

... and yes, I was referring to the drink.

Haha, now Arakasi has a tactical edge!

Glad you found something, can't wait to see how you paint it!

Red autopistol accent FTW weets! That's pure Old Skool!

Red bits on guns is the distilled essence of old school isn't it.

You have a comp gits? I'm probably too late but I will check it out.

It'll be fine Casey - I may even change my mind anyway as I'm having trouble buying (bloody e-cheques and flippin paypal)

Some of my local friends have gotten me into Infinity. I'm building a Merc group centered around protecting a War Correspondent. It'll be /WRONG/.

I'm feeling productive today. Here's my other juve - I'm going for a pale gothic look.

Nice. Like the pinkness of the skin around the studs. Good job all round.

Very nice, weets. A return to form for one of the best painters on the site.

Very nice weets! I'm playing about with a load of marine bits right now to try and get something very reminiscent of 3e art out of them. I'm going to be using a very similar pallet to the Juve but even more extreme, I'm throwing realism out the window. I'm banking him for inspiration if you don't mind!

You are an artist yeh? Have you ever been in a situation where you've had to compromise your vision? I'm feeling very down and frustrated about having to 'make do' right now to get a small army on the table and could use some advice from the experienced...

compromise my vision? No we usually wear safety goggles when using the dangerous chemicals... but joking aside I suppose my entire artistic education has been a process of compromise. I've been through years of changing my ideas to get the grades and sell the work. I'm fed up with it now which is why I only paint miniatures. Because I don't actually play wargames they are just for fun and I can do whatever I like. One day maybe I will return to painting and sculpting on a larger scale, when the market is more buoyant. I don't really mind painting and sculpting to order as there is money and an ego boost if the customer is pleased. Anyway enough rambling on about that. The thing is you can't always do your best work if you are under time pressure. You have just gotta paint and be damned.

Thankyou all for looking. Infinity soon.

Has there been any update on the ceramics situation, weety?

Aye up weets , loving the Goliath Juve and the Stealer hybrid..

as for your ceramics ...
Well for the record i still love my prototype Inq mug its sits on my painting table these days as my paint brush holder and occasional water holder . and I still love it :-)

Looking forward to seeing your work on infinity...

Nothing doing yet on that front - the equipment is in storage and I'm waiting for better circumstances. I'll just have to concentrate on making things that don't require thousand degree heat to finish. Next time I have a studio I'm going to make things from stoneware as this is much more hardwearing (I've had a lot of my mugs chip in the wash). Stoneware needs a 1300C heat and is actually vitrified (turned to stone) by the heat.

I'm trying to make a start on some more models today, another juve and an old imperial agent. Having some trouble with the agent, he appears to have had a base coat of something black and hard that won't come off easy.

Problems with buying an infinity miniature are solved - I went with wayland games in the end because they let you pay by debit instead of bloody paypal. Apparently paypal will only do instant transfer now if you have a credit card. I try and avoid the things. Debt is very bad for peace of mind.

Thanks for the advice weets! It's a struggle but I'll likely throw up a thread and vent my frustration while I try and find a compromise that doesn't make me hate what I'm doing.

I hope you do get your stoneware on, I really liked the mugs you did and would be interested in something like that. I'm looking forward to more minis and eventually seeing your Infinity entry after the competition!

For some reason I failed to look back through your blog when I first found it. So I've just caught up on the 139 pages that I missed out on. So much awesomeness.
Nice to see you develop your painting style from when you started.

I wonder if there's other blogs I've subscribed to and have failed to look through...

Probably - the blog view thing helps!

Thanks yeah I had a very different style when I began. Very bright colours and also I used to take my photos without a lightbox so they tended to be very brightly lit and have odd colour casts to them

More juves in da house. I don't know if it shows but I've been spending a lot of effort on skin tones with these to get their junior weight lifter muscles looking ripply. I thought I would thow in another photo of the previous juve because one photo is never enough.

It does show weety. Your skin techniques have really advanced as of late.

Yeah, really liking your skin tones Weety.

Well I will let you into one of my new ideas - I've been mixing a light grey into my skin washes as this stops the shadows from being to harsh and abrupt. And I have been watering down my flesh paint and applying in layers like you are supposed to instead of slapping it on in spades.

GOOD NEWS! Infinity competition model has arrived today and my holiday starts tomorrow so I've got a whole week. I bet I get artists block and procrastinate. The model is so tiny its got me worried.

I agree, the skin work is clearly brilliant! I really like these juves, you could keep this going for a nice little gothic Goliath gang.

Glad you're getting your Infinity on now. I swear the scale will become addictive too, it's hard to put down those tiny, little details!

Anyone know anything about water effects?


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What I am hoping is that there is some product I can pick up from the local hardware store for cheap?

PVA?

Its a shame I can't do a photo update of my infinity entry - having a lot of fun with the scenic base today. Its all coming together nicely.

I think I'm going to use the vallejo varnish I have kicking about for a water effect - it doesn't need to be deep water so this should be adequate.

The leaves graven send me are fun - but brass is hard to cut! The only thing that will go through it is the stanley knife.

Can't wait to see it, weets!

I use a set of heavy duty flush cutters, although proper jewelery snips work well, too, if that helps?

I wonder what happened to my jewellery snips? I probably put them somewhere safe and now I have no idea where that is.

Anyway - having a lot of fun - its like making a tiny diorama and is good practice for when I do a proper size one - been looking at all the different etched brass you can get - giving me ideas.

This no update thing is killing me, so if you'll excuse me a I will waffle on without pictures for a bit.

The whole competition thing is going well and I was eyeing up the prizes. I like contemplating the infinity voucher - I hadn't really thought of collecting infinity before but presented with the possibility of a free hand I'm beginning to like a few of them.

I have absolutely no idea what I would do with the zariart voucher - there don't seem to be any pics of models on the site and I had never considered wearing airbrushed clothes b4 and I have never even pretended to skateboard.

Of course that's assuming I win something, there's some heavy dudes entering the competition.

The base of my infinity model is totally finished and I am pleased, All my minute plans came together and it is looking verdant. Vallejo Varnish does make good water effects!

The model remains primed and ready - I have put aside the whole of tomorrow if necessary.

There will be pretty colours.

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Sooooooooooooo Much...

It is very nearly done - but of course you will have to wait till monday to see pics. I would have taken more time over it but our local town's pagan festival/carnival starts tomorrow and there is outdoor street drinking to be done. It is traditional to get blind drunk and watch a big procession of giant paper mache objects, last year there was a shark, several pirate ships, a giant and a leopard amongst others. And they close all the streets so you won't get run over. Tens of thousands of hippies will descend from across Cornwall and the police turn a very blind eye to the ensuing fun. I will not be able to hold a brush steady for several days after this.

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It is very nearly done - but of course you will have to wait till monday to see pics.

Mondaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! But that's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages away!

and there is outdoor street drinking to be done.

Go to it Have fun.

It is traditional to get blind drunk

a big procession

And they close all the streets so you won't get run over.

and the police turn a very blind eye to the ensuing fun.

Until someone gets run over by a giant shark...

*evillaugh*
Everyone falls for Infinity eventually!

I'm glad your enjoying this weets! And it's always fun to figure out what you'd do with a prize if you win, like the lottery. Zariart will airbrush pretty much anything he can get paint to stick to so there is a lot of scope, he'll work on canvas too. I imagine most stuff would require some additional funds but I'm sure he can work with the winners to come up with prizes that work within the voucher.

Enjoy your Gala Day type thing and finishing your mini!

Taking photos now with a Fujifilm Finepix HS20 EXR

My other half is such an ass when I use his camera - He pretty much took over halfway through. Its like his baby. Very expensive camera.

Haha, people are so protective of cameras, what do they think is going to happen?

Excitedly waiting for my phone to tell me I have mail...

I have a bit of post production to do yet - also he has gone out to watch the fireworks so I'm getting more pics... Sneaky style.


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That phone should be beeping. I'm off to hit the bottle.

Beep! Awesome work weets, I love it. I won't say anymore until after the judging is over since I'm one of the judges.

Wow this is awesome! Very cool

Well thankyou Color Sgt. Anything in particular or all 150 pages? I find that thread view thing invaluable nowadays.

Returning to the oldschool to try and redeem an old figure, this is an imperial agent from the RT space adventurers range. He suffers slightly from stupid clown shoe syndrome. If I knew what I was doing I might have tried to shave them down to size but I'm afraid of lead poisoning. Something to be aware of when cutting old miniatures.

Here tis

A great tool is to simply glue some sandpaper to a piece of wood or thick plasticard, and then rub the offending pieces (in this case, the bottom of the mini's feet) along the sandpaper. Then, dispose of the sandpaper. You really have to lick up the residue to worry about lead poisoning.

--B.

Ah well I think I can generally avoid licking the table...