It'll be more obvious when its painted - its a candle with a candle holder and a flame. you can't quite see the candle holder from this angle

Love it weets, packed full of character! I'd love to try some stuff like that, maybe I should expand on my card terrain, speaking of which, did I spy a cardboard base?

The DE looks good too although I completely understand not wanting to revisit them, very dodgy sculpts.

Its all cardboard underneath yep. I've begun painting now - might be done later and then its time for some glamour shots.

Next on the dungeon furniture agenda? I could make barrels, or a throne, maybe an alter or a torture rack? A bed maybe for the sorcerer to sleep in (everyone else is taking the floor).

and then its time for some glamour shots

Are you really getting that desperate for money...

Next on the dungeon furniture agenda? I could make barrels, or a throne, maybe an alter or a torture rack? A bed maybe for the sorcerer to sleep in (everyone else is taking the floor).

That all sounds good, but don't forget the treasure chests... and a weapons rack... just re-make all the furniture that came in Heroquest and that'll be grand.

I'd like to see barrels next!

Torture rack/ back stretcher, because iCards are notorious for constantly leaning over their books and need something to help them stand tall

Not barrels unless they are open and have something cool inside them.

Really, every dungeon terrain company already makes barrels so I would like to see Weety do something outside the box...erm...barrel.

Perhaps a decorative fireplace mantel?

Something like this but by Weety.

Interestingly enough I have made an ungulate type skull - all I need to do is drill holes and add horns or antlers and mount it above a fireplace!

Busy harvesting the allotment today so no paint yet. We have a bag of onions, two pumpkins, courgettes and a sack of runner beans just from todays harvest. 5 Massive pumpkins up there being left to get bigger! Also picked a kilo of blackberries for the wine. A fine harvest. Need to drink lots of snakebite on ice now.

the cupboard is all finished. Also got some photos of dwarves having a drink with the sorcerer in his chambers. I don't know why they would have a drink with the evil chaos sorcerer, maybe he tricked them using magic and is getting them drunk so he can write "tw*t" on their foreheads in magic ink and shackle them to a stagecoach.

Also behold the dungeon playset in its ever growing glory.

Wow! That's looking splendid!

And Dwarves will drink with anyone (except Greenskins). They don't really need a reason.

Nice work Weety. The dungeon is looking better and better.

so we've established that a good dungeon set needs a fireplace, a torture rack, treasure chests, barrels with stuff in them, a sacrificial alter and a big old sarcophagus.

I'd also like to do backdrop walls for the big room - just 2 sides in an L shape. With shields on the wall maybe.

Brilliant set you're building up here, weets. A wall or two is a good idea for a backdrop. I'm guessing this is going to be the staging ground for many future photos?

Very nice Weets. I love the way all the bits and pieces come together to form a scene. You get those walls done and it'll be a fantastic back-drop for future miniature photography!

Damn Weets! That cabinet thing looks like it's a cast metal piece all painted up next to the table and stools!

Hi everybody thanks for stopping by.

Getting new vegas ultimate edition for my birthday! More apocalypse places to explore.

Wow. That looks excellent. Good job, Weets. In addition to the shields, the walls could use the aforementioned animal skulls or heads also.

Fur floor rug...but try something a little different, Chihuahua for example.

I don't see any roast beast on that table.

All fine ideas. I will attempt all these things!

Roast beast - hitchhikers guide? Do I get geek point?

Epic fail... "roast beast" is Dr. Seuss... "The Grinch that Stole Christmas".

-3 geek points for weety. :(

Vallhalla probably meant Dr Seuss, but in defense of my geek rep here is the Wikipedia article on what I thought he meant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Perfectly_Normal_Beast

The Perfectly Normal Beasts are a species that migrate across the Anhondo Plain on Lamuella twice a year (one direction in the spring then back again in the autumn). The migration takes about 8 to 9 days during which time they form a solid mass. They appear from thin air at one end of the plain then disappear again at the other. They are called Perfectly Normal Beasts because naming them normalizes the event of their migration and keeps people from worrying about its cause. It is likely that the Domain of the King was built to take advantage of this odd, mile-wide gap in the bi-yearly migration, situated as it is on a rather nice stretch of land that would otherwise be badly trampled every now and then (or, the space-time warp was specifically manipulated by the Domain's original builder as a matter of convenience).

The local Lamuellans capture the beasts and kill them for their meat. The method uses similar techniques to a matador but also requires use of the Pikka Birds to get their attention. The best of the meat is eaten straight away while the rest is salted and stored for consumption until the next migration. It was consumed on its own until the arrival of the Sandwich Maker and is now always placed between two slices of bread.

I immediately thought of the Dish of the Day... Btw, weety, I'd really like to see some pit trap/oubliette tiles in this mix?

Can do graven - they will have to be quite shallow pit traps. I did think about making one dungeon section raised up on polystyrene so I can cut into it and make a snake/spike/lava pit with a rope bridge over.

Whipped cream pit trap - most humiliating death of all.

Death by snu-snu!!!

Happy Birthday Weets!

Wear Benny's Ugly suit with pride!

Oh..and don't waste conventional ammo on the giant robot scorpions...just a word of advice

Thanks! It isn't actually my birthday till sunday and we are still waiting on fallout NV ultimate to arrive. Thanks for the tip. I will shoot them with magic bullets. That'll learn em.

I'm having a night off miniature painting. I'm trolling facebook's suggested posts instead. Hours of vicious hate filled fun. Advertising makes me so angry when they force it on me like that.

And to qualify my earlier post, I meant that I thought it would be funny to have a chamber for death by snu-snu in the torture chamber. Maybe not the most effective torture chamber out there.

Lol. Snu-snu.

I got tired of trolling and did something constructive. This has been slowly growing behind the scenes layer by layer. Can you see where I'm going with it? The sword's going to be the hard part. Tempting to carve the sword out of sprue. I intend to become good at this so I need to push myself.


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Looking at the photo now I can see that the knee needs bulking out and so does the torso.

Tempting to carve the sword out of sprue.

Yay!

I intend to become good at this so I need to push myself.

That's the way to do it. Keep at it.

That's the only reason my painting looks as good as it does. My earlier stuff is being stripped to rid me of the shame, and I'm no master painter, but I'm better than I was, and confident enough now to tackle the Imperial Fists.

I'm hooked, I don't know what it is yet but you've won my intrigue. I'd like to get my sculpting up to scratch too, so far the most important part for me was collecting extensive references, I don't trust myself to freestyle it yet.

I have a picture in my head of what I want this to look like - I'm not sure where it comes from - probably fantasy art rather than historical images - Although perhaps the scale armour does look a little like something from the ancient Hittites or Assyrians.

I hate that, when you have a really strong image in your head but you can't figure out where you conjured it from. Occasionally I stumble upon the source while I'm working but it's always in the last place I would have guessed and too late to help as a reference.

So I'm guessing we're getting a human warrior type lad?

I do lots of research for all my modelling and I'm always saving pictures that crop up on people's blogs for future reference.

Trouble is, I now have so much, it's hard work just sorting it all out into folders so I have a chance of actually finding something when I come to look for it...

and the other day, looking for inspiration for the Auspex, typing things into google and looking over the pictures... and I get a load of my own pictures from my blog...

Haha! I've done that too! Can't find it in my own Photobucket, but google finds my stuff

Howdy y'all.

Went shopping with my dad today - I have the distinct feeling he's going to get me the lidl parkside airbrush for my birthday. If he was better at internet shopping I would direct him to a better one but I don't think he wanted to spend more than that anyway. A fairly simplistic piece of kit but it will allow me to finally paint up my wraithlords and bikes, maybe redo the rhino etc.




Anyway the important thing is that it has a 3 year guarantee so with any luck it will break after I have had a good practice with it and I can put the money towards the better one - always keep the receipt!

Congrats weety, you'll love it!

Armature's looking ace, Weety - love the chainmail!

And happy birthday for when it happens

Sounds brilliant, weets! We seem to be on the same wavelength so often, I've just been looking into selling an old army to fund an airbrush.

I've got a feeling you'll take to airbrushing like a duck to water but I'm looking forward to seeing how you progress with it.

I used to use a larger version (paint spray gun)all the time to evenly apply glaze to my pottery. Used to get some great colour transitions. Can't be that much different. We will see.

Technically scarper that is scale armour not chainmail. Its important to know the difference or you may lose geek points! Thanks though. Its tuning out better than expected.

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

I knew buying all those Dungeons and Dragons accessories would come in handy one day! Especially the Arms and Equipment Guide.


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Actually, are you sure that's not more like splint mail? lol

No splint mail is made of long 'splints' of metal rather than shorter scales. Perhaps you are thinking of lamellar armour? Specifically scale armour is where the scales overlap in layers and are attatched to a fabric under garment at the top of each scale. In lamellar armour the scales are sewn to each other at all 4 corners. Of course some armours are combinations of different types and I have heard scale armour referred to as 'fish-mail'

Trust me I spent hours reading wiki articles on all the different types of armour and weapons.

Yeah, it's been years since I read up on all that stuff. I dedicate much more time to bolters and plasma these days.lol

I ain't dead.

I'm trapped in giant dome surrounded by disembodied brains.

I have also been testing the airbrush - nothing worth showing yet, although I can report that it does a smooth base coat. I think I will get a better quality double action brush soon.

Yeah, once you go to Gravity Feed/double action, you won't go back More suited to our hobbyist needs, but at least you have a compressor and hose now.

My first commission pieces have arrived! I've been trimming and filing and finally they are ready for assembly - I had forgotten how much flash you get with brand new miniatures.

Very cool models, very gothic. I'm going to enjoy painting these. Bit of assembly to go yet.


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Hmmm I seem to have accidentally applied a weird digital effect to one of these pics. Dunno what happened there.

Look forward to seeing what you do with them Weety.

Interesting graphic effect there weets! Looking good. Model clean-up is always one of my least-favorite things to do.

Its so important to getting a professional look.though. Gotta do the ground work.

Everyone should take note - no more cleaning up mold lines, just pay me to do it!

Assembly is coming along. Techmarines need a lot of assembly! 4 mechanical arms!! I am doing them two at a time to be on the safe side. Mostly the sockets they come with are enough (plus a little GreenStuff) but I will have to do a bit of pinning here and there.

Unfortunately I won't get any painting done tomorrow. Everyone has to stay in work until we have counted all the stock and it will probably take 12-15 hours(its a big shop). I'm worried that I will find mice. Retail sucks.

But then I have a day off. Planning to making the servitors quite rusty and dirty. Pale unhealthy skin with red raw bits where the tubes go in. I've seen other people do servitors like that before quite well. Very grimdark and gothic.

The techmarines are huge. So many arms. I will do the servitors first to formulate my ideas before I decide how to do them.

Ah well, keep in mind that it's recreation you get paid for. Not too bad when you put the cleaning, building and painting in that context!

360 or PS3?

I may have a simpler model available if you're looking to broaden your portfolio of more modern models - one of the last batch of commissars that was released.

Miss dee - 360. I like the controllers better.

I'd love to paint a new commissar Dysartes. PM me if you would Like to discuss it. Its good painting all these modern miniatures, they are so consistently well sculpted on the whole.

Nearly finished the first servitor.

Have you played Injustice yet Wheetie?

No, just googled it and it looks cool.

We are retro gaming at the mo. We have a pile of playstations from car-boot sales. I'm beating my boyfriend up in street fighter II turbo, he is gak at it. Got a whole pile of old games to check and all the leads, cards, controllers and consoles need testing so we are going to be busy. Later on we will make Lara Croft drown...

He is better at gran turismo. Its three races to him and 3 to me.

Can you play time crisis without a light gun? Turns out you can, but it sucks.

I bet it does.

There are loads of dlcs for injustice

My first commission piece and the prototype for the others. I'm very pleased with his crazy eye.

This is supposed to be a lower standard paintjob but I couldn't help doing all the metal nmm cos that's how I roll these days.

Very nice Weety. Good job. Really like the metal.

Amazing job weets... wow.

Fantastic work Weety!

Absolutely stunning.

Cool well I better finish the others then!

Awesome stuff! I do love to see what you can do with these (relatively) new models.

Stunning job on the Servitor weets, even your lower level is awesome.

Yeah - I'm setting the bar a bit high! Probably a mistake. I will have to pull something fancy out for character standard. The other servitors are nearly half done now.

I am always astounded by your ability to work fast and well. I move at a glacial pace myself, and the results do not reflect that. Your results are always amazing.

Very nice servitor, weety. The yellow is an interesting choice - is this an Imperial Fists commission?

Nope - mantis warriors...

Ooooooh weets how you tease and delight us! And a MW!

Dont you mean a Gitspitta?

Rumbled...

I didn't like the idea of green servitors so a warm yellow was next best. Also I wanted it to look like a faded prison boiler suit.

That's why I gave weets tech marines & servitors... she doesn't need to be bothered with trying to match my green. It's all reds and whatever other colors she wants to go with. I knew she'd do a fantastic job.

Well thanks! If your happy I'm happy.

Servitors ought to be complete and photographed by tonight. Got to go to boring old work right now. But the great thing about morning shifts is its all over by lunchtime and I can get on with things I want to do.

Hey dysartes, whats WAMP like? I might join...

Behold my painting and despair!

So good, so good.

Good job.

Lovely work Weety. There's nothing I don't like there.

Good Lord weets.... those a good. Makes me ashamed to be working on a servitor of my own. Once the competition I'm making him for is over... I'm going to strip him and send him to you for re-painting...

Whoa those are awesome. An incredible job!

Don't be ashamed gits, You are a great painter! On the other hand I will be very happy to give your land raider servitor a matching paintjob. I've been wanting to do that kind of conversion with an epic tank for ages so it will be fun.

Thanks for lookin!

Well, I plan on building a second one, so one way or the other you'll get at least one to paint!

Okydoke.

At a loss for what to do now - I should have got booze in to celebrate. When I finish the techmarines I will def have something on ice. Probably make a start on them tomorrow.

Very nice work on the servitors, weety.

Hah!! I'm glad I'm not the only one cruising dakka at 6:30 in the morning!! Thanks dysartes!

Stunning work on the servitors, very Borg vibe. And yeah, early morning dakka fix

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Hah!! I'm glad I'm not the only one cruising dakka at 6:30 in the morning!! Thanks dysartes!

6:30am is better than yesterday's 5am, weety

Crazy models, awesome paintjobs... I Lurve your blog Weety

The skin looks nice and necrotic Weets!

great colours scheme! the yellow works great with the skin tones.

Today I have been polishing my bike in preparation for my second attempt at airbrushing. Using wet and dry paper followed by jeweler's rouge (powdered iron oxide) and an old rag. Not quite shiny enough yet, think I need to repeat? My theory is that an airbrush leaves a very thin layer of paint so its best to have a smooth surface - this was pretty granular before.

What colour do you all think I should try and paint it?

Really nice bike. Yep, smoother is better.

Royal blue with bone accents.

Red with yellow flames licking down the body


or black with neon blue or red highlights (i.e. Tron)

All excellent suggestions. Keep em coming. I'm continuing to polish, its getting blindingly shiny.

Jeweler's rouge is the perfect thing for smoothing models (If you don't mind getting really dirty). I can almost see my face in this now.

Shiny shiny.

I'm thinking mostly blue for the body colour.
Will it get racing-like markings?

Was looking at the bike again and it struck me head on how much it resembles the classic Sinclair C5, as such it should painted iPod white...

It also can't have escaped anyone's notice that it looks like Kaneda's bike from Akira

lol Ruglud.

Indeed weety. That's why I didn't say red. However, if there is ever a bike to look like, that's the one.

those servitors look awesome weety! the faces are worth a pack of cash for sure... i hope you get it too

the bike is a very cool thing...
funny fact, maus is working on a modern / scifi bike too... and he aims for that akira look too...

my vote is for red too... it always looks more business that way!

also... what is Jeweler's rouge ? and how do you get all your models so smooth these days?

Well I haven't been polishing them - this is a new development and soon they will be even smoother! Jewellers rouge is a dark red-black powder that's used for polishing silver - turns out it works on white metal too.

Actually Vik I'm keeping my prices quite low at the mo - although I will have to put them up at some point. Pricing is difficult!

Have you a link to the maus bike?

Thanks for all the suggestions - I better do some research on bike paintjobs.

Work on the techmarines begins. Its a challenge to prepare these beasts! Glad to get them ready for paint. I'm going to try for a dark terracotta for the armour and see where I go from there.

Those are just awesome looking figures... which is why I sent them to you for painting. The "master plan" is to build an army based on tech marines so your work will get featured big time.

Armour colour - 3 thin layers of P3 red ink followed by a wash of vallejo sepia with a little grey and flesh wash mixed in

Beautiful.

Wow man, I'm new to your work but damn, those servitors look fantastic and the Techmarine is just plain beautiful.

Hi Gitsplitta glad you like it! Do you fancy a little hazard striping?

Thanks for commenting Master Azalle! They're my first commission work so I had to make an extra effort!

I will keep taking photos as it develops.

Here you can see I've added a touch of sepia to bits that will be brass and the paper seals. Also more armour wash for areas that will be ferrous metal and some wet blending on the axe, which will probably be blue eventually.

Oh yes, please! Maybe on the machine arms? Something that would actually be a hazard in the industrial sense? He's looks spectacular weets. I'm going to have to re-think my MoTF. My current one is TOTALLY inadequate!

Maybe on the pincers... We'll see what happens.

So the next step is details, tricorder type doofer has a gauge and if created a nice colourful blend on the axe just using layers of vallejo wash.

Dang, Weets. You've got to stop getting better so the rest of us can catch up!

Those techmarines are looking great!

Are they primed black and then drybrushed with white primer?

Wow weets that Axe is superb!

Weety you master you! that is brilliant work mate! the axe is a great point of interest and using washes has worked like a charm, i'm really hoping to see these finished soonish :-)

Hey thanks everyone

JB - not quite - I prime white, ink with P3 armour wash quite thickly and then I drybrush white with my special brush. Its just a stout short haired old brush that just happens to be perfect.

Will be finished real soon nerdfest - I've gotta finish these before more turn up!! Probably tomorrow.

Weets, your totally excelling yourself these days. Some serious bar raising is going on. I'm not even going to begin to make any specific comments on the paint jobs because I can't add anything remotely worthwhile.

If you haven't had a go at that bike yet by the way, I noticed it was quite animal like in profile. I mainly see shark actually so I'd maybe considers blues, whites and greys? Could be fun to try out.

That's very tasty indeed. In the best possible way, it's great to see you excelling yourself in commission work

I think its the extra pressure of getting paid makes me try harder to impress!

Haven't done the bike yet no. Silvery blue grey maybe. I'll probably have to roll a dice to decide, so many possibilities.

Going to crack on with those techmarines now.

Loving the step by step techy, you make it sound easy! ,
....sure it isnt! hah.

Eye-watering pink it the only way to do with the bike, with far too many sponsor tags.

Did you ever try out or get the airbrush and compressor from Lidl? I'm after an airbrush set up myself and I'm not 100% what to go for.

Dont get the lidl one! Its ok but it's a bit unreliable (occasionally spits paint) and you don't have very much control. I think I will be able to do a smooth base colour and highlight with it - we will see cos that's how I'm planning to do the bike.

Thanks for the heads up! You get what you pay for perhaps? The search continues! Though I would like to see how the bike comes out sprayed.

Its all done!

I enjoy commission painting very much, it gives me a warm glow of achievement. I hope to do more. Somewhere out there in the world is someone who needs me to paint stuff!

This is the one you've seen me working on. I added watery blue-grey washes to the ferrous metals and some terracota wash for rush was dabbed here and there. Everything metal got loads of freehand highlights. Lots of finishing off details etc




And here's the other chap with his huge load. You can click to zoom I think.



A little group shot

They are looking really nice weety, I love the colours on that poweraxe.

Awesome work Weety. Loving all the details.

Phenominal Weety, can't wait for your next batch!

Beautiful! Next batch should be on it's way on Friday!

Hope you charged extra because they're awesome!

Nice job!

Outstanding work weets, and I love the W logo!

They look insane! Such impressive skills!

Its important to have skills! Napoleon dynamite thought so. Its odd - when I'm completely sober I pick holes in them but now I've had few ales they do look proper nice.

Thanks graven - it was a very quickly done thing using paintbrush because I wanted to get the photos up. But simple is best for logos

Thanks jimsolo, love your avatar.

SJM - Thankyou. This kind of work on models of this size is 20GBP at the mo. That's a pretty low price per hour. I'm probably going to have to charge more soon...

Thanks everyone!!

Weety Enterprises

^ yes! Or Skem's Studio. I don't actually have a studio though - just my half of the coffee table!! I doesnt look much like a coffee table anymore with its micro vice and cutting board and ranks of paint pots.

I should probably get a special commission work blog and a website with terms and conditions etc. So much to do.

Right now though I have to get ready to go to the big city (plymouth) for a drunken reunion with old friends.

Thanks everyone for commenting, you are the bestest commentators in the world.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I enjoy commission painting very much, it gives me a warm glow of achievement. I hope to do more. Somewhere out there in the world is someone who needs me to paint stuff!

*whistles innocently*

Very nice work on those, weety. I'd agree on the need for a website with price breakdown, gallery and, as commissions start getting completed, testimonials for satisfied customers. Might be worth picking up with Ifanaan on the T&C side of things, to see if she has any suggestions.

Special delivery arrived today. A limited edition warrior priest! I will start tomorrow as I'm a bit tired out by partying in the big city all night and the long train journey home.

Todays progress so far.


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He looks a bit like that bald guy out of alien 3 - oh wait they were all bald. The one who is actually bald.


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The crazy one who lets the alien go cos he thinks its a dragon.

Looks like he is off to a cracking start, weety - can't get over that face, which is a really nice sculpt getting what it deserves.

I'm on holiday at the mo so I can carry on with it today. The face is looking proper. He just needs his eyes picking out and a little redness around his ears and nose to bring him to life.

He is such a detailed sculpt - I also can't get over that face - the ears are so fine I was worried I might cut them off while doing mold lines! (I had that song from reservoir dogs playing in my head). And the tiny skeleton on the hourglass is unbelievable. Sculptors are like surgeons these days huh.

Its Hammer time....m

I find the mail really impressive on that figure. No idea how they do that!

Gits': You make thousands of tiny rings and then capture a pixie and make it attach them all together into the mail. You then dress up the model, glue it in place and then cast it and bingo...

It is a very nice sculpt. Look forward to you working your magic on it Weety.

Really Dr H? I thought they had a giant shrink ray like in 'Inner Space' and then they shrink the sculptor down to size and he makes the mail out of extra fine rice noodles. Either way its entirely plausible.

Well, maybe that's how they make the rings. But it's definitely pixies that make the mail, it's the only logical explanation...

Today's progress update. I emphasise that this isn't finished - I'm going to paint the fabric a colour, but just not sure which. Also the weird candle arrangement on his shoulder needs to look more like wax - maybe beeswax??

Very nice progress!

What Gits said - I'm impressed with how good he is looking, and how quickly he is getting that way.

I love the rust the most.

I think I'm done now.

Very nice Weety. You've done a special sculpt justice.

Don't forget to update the title of your blog weety, so your followers know you've got something new to show.

Thanks Gits. I'll do that right now!

Sweet warrior priest. A lovely paint job.

That is all.

Graven that is the highest compliment. A dropped jaw is worth two in the bush.

Hi again comradepanda and thanks.

We're drinking black forest cherry schnapps to celebrate. Washed down with lashings and lashings of cider.

No comment

Oh snap. I said s rude think by mistakes! Lulz

Very nice indeed, weety.

What's next on the list, once you recover from tonight's drinking?

Food i think

Food does usually help.

Urrgh why am I awake at 2:30 in the a.m. stupid schnapps.

Paintingwise today I have no commissions ready so I might do something for fun - I got some space orks ready to paint? Gazgul thraka is around somewhere...

But sleep first.

I'm painting for fun today!

Loving that skin tone. Enjoy Enjoy.

A timeless classic! Can't wait to see what you do with them!

Go Makari! Whatever happened to him, anyway?

Ghazghkull musta stepped on him.

Weety,

I know you outline your process earlier and I can't find it, how do you go about getting to your black/grey startng point on your models?

Warrior Priest is stunning, great job Weety

Master Azalle, First white primer, then a couple of coats of armour wash, then lots of white drybrushing - but be delicate, don't just slap it on but build it up slowly in layers otherwise it can get grainy.

Cheers Ruglud!

Hmm, I'm not familar with armor wash, which company makes it?

GW used to make it but these days I recommend privateer press P3 paints armour wash. Its like black but its more of a very dark grey really.

I'm going to disagree with you on smooth for airbrushing, because the primer you use is very important, it fills small imperfections and textures, which the thin layers of paint then stick to.

Warrior priest looks good - with that face you could enter it in 2nd annual Nerdcademy award painting competition!

Interesting possibility Arakasi. I could couldn't I - Is that fair do you think??

Anyway here's gaza. He is a traditionalist so he's getting the classic heavy metal paintjob - or as I remember it anyway. Click for big pic.



We just got an inkjet printer so I can print out a flag for Makari

Wow weety... that's simply amazing. It's like traveling back 20 years in time!

Lol - If someone can find a decent size pic of the old 'eavy metal Gazgul I would love to see how close I got!

I think weety's version is much better.

The skin on wheeties is as not in ya face like the gw painted one .

Weety's fig just needs better lighting. She 's a goddess.

I like Weety's better too! And she didn't base it in Goblin Green either! ugh, I hated that base!

That picture nearly blinded me. They use a lotta lamp. I've been using just one lamp recently. I should get the other one out.

I'd forgotten how bright everything was in the 90s. I'm so lucky to have grown up in such a great decade. We will never again be so decadent!

Thanks for finding that Valhalla - all I could get from google was a thumbnail pic.

Goblin green - they were all goblin green in them dayz. We had a big piece of goblin green carpet to play on so it seemed appropriate.

Thanks for liking mine better everyone! I think I'm using a more natural colour palette than GW did. I mostly use vallejo, with a little P3 on the side.

GWs one is great but its hard to look at on a computer screen.

Oh my eyes - I just tried to look at it again. Its exacerbating my hangover.


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Maybe I should repaint commissar yarrick?

I have a bad head too but its not from drinking

I hope we both feel better soon. Owieee my brain!

I had to get really drunk because my BFF is going to new zealand forever (for the second time) and it was her leaving party. It sounds nice over there. I wonder if they need miniature painters?

It's official I'm painting Yarrick today.


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Does anyone have a clue where I can get a proper pic of his flag to print out. I'm in no state to draw that small.

I've got the 2nd ed Imperial Guard book kicking around here somewhere, weety - I'll have a look this afternoon.

Thanks dysartes. Hes just gotta have his flag!

Here's a couple of links to some ok(ish) images of the banners - I also have the 2nd edition Ork Codex which has uncoloured vesrions of both banners. will see if I can't dig it out and scan them...

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ghazghkull_Mag_Uruk_Thraka

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Space_Orks_-_1994-5_Banners

Unfortunately the IG book doesn't have a flat image of the banner, only it on the model.

So I broke into the Googlecave, and found a source on Dakka - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/236128.page. Take a look about 60% down the page...

Fantastic!! Work on that ork Weety. Brings back memories it does. Youve got such a unique approach to color. Are you a professional artist or painter? Back on those mechanicus ffigures, the blues and red in the skin tones....why? is that just how you see it or is there a deeper reason for them? i love it but im curious as to your thought process when imagining something like that. I even see unique tones in the ork blade.
Cheers
Bebop

I think so beepbopdrums2424 I even have a degree to prove it. I specialised in contemporary crafts. And I've always liked painting and drawing. There's some art in my gallery that I thought was vaguely relevant if you want to have a look.

Thought process... hmmm. Well I wanted them to look a little bit dead, but the blue on its own looks too dead. The red was to make the skin look sore and alive. It was a cherry red i used so it blends well with blue. And that contrasts well with the yellow which I think makes them eyecatching.

Looking at it again I don't think that gazgul's sword is finished really. Needs more work

That link seems to be broke dystartes.

Thanks ruglud that's great.

Try this link to the image, weety - http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/462097-WD%20152.html

The link to that thread works when I follow it from Google's search results, but not from this thread, which is weird.

Just realised, I thought you were asking for Ghazgulls banner !! My bad !

Oh its ok - I needed that one too ruglud!


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That one works - thanks dysartes

Progress so far - I would have gotten further but the washes took forever to dry and I am still not quite un-hungover.

Commissar Yarrick Noir?

I'd recognize that weedy git anywhere...

I hope he never gets an itch on his junk

In other news, weety, I've found the bits to make the bases for the Commissar and QM, so I'm putting them together tonight. Should have them painted this week, and hopefully in the post by Friday.

I'm going to check the second QM, but the first one has a couple of mould lines down the chest detail - do you want me to do clean-up, or leave it to you?

That's really good news dysartes I'm looking forward to painting those. They're amazingly detailed models.

If you feel confident about putting a knife to such nice models then go for it but if you do feel like letting me do it I will. I've got a plethora of tiny blades and files for the job.

I'm not sure its fair for me to enter the warrior priest into the nerdcademy competition, which is a shame cos he has the bestest face. But its a commission piece and I didn't paint it with the competition in mind. So maybe I will enter yarrick. He doesn't have much face on display but I can make what's there look good. What does anyone think bout that?

WIP pics of yarrick.

I think you should enter the priest. It's stunning work and the fact that it's a commission is neither here nor there.

It is the perfect piece for the comp. I suppose I better look at the rules.

Anyway. Yarrick is developing. Non metallic gold is coming along. I'm in the mood for documenting progress today so here's another pic

Seeing your yarek, I probably shy away forever to paint mine...amazing work weety!

More colour and highlights. He is really starting to zing.

Aw thanks vic, but don't be shy of painting. Anyway maybe I will sell this one on ebay to raise some rent money. You could buy it.

Now some work on the power claw. I'm not sure if it quite shouts enough - maybe it needs yellow.

Hmmm I quite like the crustacean looking red claw...butof course hazard strips never go out of fashion...
And bbuying your yarek would solve one problem and bring two more...my rent and a still unpainted yarek

I know the feeling!

I went with blue for the lightning. I still haven't got my printer to work so no flag yet.

Oh yeah, nice sparkling claws!

Very nice weets... the little crackles on the claw are wonderful and the colors are jumping quite nicely off the grey.

Apparently printers need ink and a cable to attach them to the computer so I have to draw the flag or print it in the library tomorrow. Drawing flags is hard. I think I need another few tries at this:

Still looks good wheety and i love the commisar

Its always great seeing old figures painted so well

Hello and thanks for the compliments, miss dee and dreadclaw69.

Today my holiday is over and I have to go back to my boring till and sell boring things to people who are often boring. If you do just one good thing today, liven up the day of a checkout slave by falling over in a slapstick way, go shopping in fancy dress, ask me where the condoms are, anything to make it less dull!

Back later on to try more tiny flag drawing. I'm sure its possible I just need smaller hands.

I dunno if your serious or just fishing for compliments here. Banner looks brilliant, it has everything: drama, great pose, and a slight comic content to the scene... The torn arm of the commissary reminds me of the monty python black knight, fighting on as its only but a scratch...

Well I do like compliments - But no I'm not quite happy with it because its just a bit wonky and messy - I think if I try again a few times it will turn out better. Its been ages since I tried to draw a battle scene on a 2cm square!

But the basic composition is sound - it must be cos I copied it from GW's original Yarrick flag!

You need to sharpen that pencil

The claw is wonderful, that lightning effect is amazing.

And retail work, yeah, i've been there, hated working the shop floor and tills, stock room was a great place though - fun times

Have you decided if you were going to enter the priest in that competition, weety?

 Ruglud wrote:
You need to sharpen that pencil

The claw is wonderful, that lightning effect is amazing.

And retail work, yeah, i've been there, hated working the shop floor and tills, stock room was a great place though - fun times

been there done that put the manager down for keeping calling me Dave ...

Lol. Manager's suck - I get on with a lot of them but if one has it in for you you have to be tough and hope that they quit of their own accord or get fired for some reason.

I don't get to go in the stock room anymore ruglud I'm tills now - But we used to have fun. My old boss used to put a web of tape over the door frame and then use the radio to call the deputy managers

I went ahead and entered the priest dysartes - Maybe I should have asked you?

No, not at all, weety - your paintwork, your call. I was just interested so I'd know if I needed to keep an ear out to see how you did.

Good good. If I win a prize it'll be great, I've never won a prize for anything, ever (a tiny violin playing just for me can now be heard).

I think the only times I've won anything for painting was when I was entering to make up the numbers in a category, so there was at least a top three...

I did manage to accidentally win a WM tournament several years ago, and a release event for a L5R set, but that's about it.

You put the manager down for calling you Dave? How? a double tap to the head??

Its always struck me that if I lived in the USA and had access to guns I probably would have double - nay triple - tapped the manager - unless other staff got there first. It must be a terrible temptation having all those guns...

Please don't see this as an invitation to restart the gun control debate in my blog.

I totally feel your pain here weety, if I could I would probably be in quite some mean problems right now...
Just the other day a neighbor was yelling around about my kids playing ball on the backyards lawn...@#$%&

What the hell is a back lawn for anyway?

Well we have here many old folks... Too old it seems to recall how they wanted to play in their youth...it really was all I could do to not go Neanderthal on him... I had three kids with me that were just enjoying themselves... No harm done... But that fella is like a lawn manager...

We also have a lot of old folks and some of them can get quite stroppy about the lawns. Most are fine though and in many ways its better than living on an estate full of younger people - old folks have less all night parties - I feel like a hypocrite as it was only a few years ago that I was the one making the noise and bringing the drunks home!

I know that feeling too... Two days ago during nap time for my kids workers started chopping down a tree in said backyard... I was quite furious then... And on Saturday night's neighbors have allnighters parties too and now I sit on the other side of the trench....

I wonder how many people I kept awake back then - thankfully most old folks are hard of hearing!!

I am reminded of the huge, all-night parties we held at our apartment in college. It's amazing our apartment wasn't fire-bombed by our neighbors early on some Sunday morning. The worst we ever got was our upstairs neighbors banging on the floor (our ceiling).

I was trying to sleep and the peeps above me must have a pet elephant

Nice work on Yarrick, the paint job is looking good!... I just hate the model :(

 Miss Dee wrote:
I was trying to sleep and the peeps above me must have a pet elephant

A pet elephant would be cool, if the floor would support it...

How goes the banner, weety?

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Its always struck me that if I lived in the USA and had access to guns I probably would have double - nay triple - tapped the manager - unless other staff got there first. It must be a terrible temptation having all those guns...

Please don't see this as an invitation to restart the gun control debate in my blog.

Oh, I can assure you, there is gun control in place, I went to get a shotgun the other day and had to make sure I had 2 proofs f residing in WV for them to even consider selling me the thing. Trigger lock was also involved as there is a soon to be inquisitive 8yr old(he is ending his 7th yr and getting older) in the house. Gun safe and such. So getting a gun of any kind legally one must jump through many hoops, hand guns especially, it is the illegal guns and the nutters or criminal minded that are a bad mix. Most of the crimes committed are handgun related. some are or were modified assault rifle related. I can no longer fight hand to hand as I used to, so a home defense shotty is all I want and a decent rifle for some deer or game taking. Just wish it was at least as hard for the criminals to get guns as it is for honest, law abiding folks.

Anyway, back to Yarrick!

I was joking. I would never shoot my manager honest, it was early in the morning and I always type rubbish first thing.

Well, my question was for Miss Dee anyways.

For my sins, I'm an operations manager now (not in retail) and I'm sure that i annoy the hell out ofmy staff at times, just hope it doesn't get to the point where they're hiring a hitman though... It can be lonely at the top

Wow... you have a really beautiful style.

So you undercoat black and preshade with drybrush before layering and washing?

Nothing new but you execute it so wonderfully. I will be watching.

Yeah pretty much - I actually prime white and then use several layers of P3 armour wash, and then drybrush etc. Seems to work for me! Thanks.

I've even adopted Weety's method for terrain, 'cept I've been using really light grey primer rather than white.

nope an Atomic knee to his ....

How's Yarrick's banner coming, weety?

 Miss Dee wrote:
nope an Atomic knee to his ....

excuse my pun here: very ballsy miss dee

sorry... i keep by gob shut from now on *sniggers*

Bases for the other two commission figures are finished, weety - should have the package in the post on Monday.

Looking good!

As for Yarrick's banner I have been procrastinating over that. It'll happen soon I promise.

I keep meaning to do (or, technically, redo) the write-up for how to make such bases - think people might be interested?

I asked in my plog on here, but I suspect I'm talking to myself in there...

I think its worth the effort - I'm always interested in basing tutorials as its not my strongest skill.

Gits next commission seems to be being held up by congress and the president atm. Bloody politicians. They'd better come to an agreement soon and reopen the post offices over there.

In other news I had thought I was free and clear of skyrim addiction but then the other day I realised that I never did get to level 80 or complete the main quests. Then I heard hunting horns and nordic sounding opera singing playing in my ears and finally I couldn't take it. I'm going in for a second helping, I'll be back by spring.

I subed

Mind the arrows. It's so easy to get a leg related injury...

Post Office is working, but not sure about customs people.

Speaking of the Post Office, weety, I understand a package may have been delivered today?

Certainly did!


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That'll be it dstien, need to get those customs people back to work, and the rest

Work in progress! I love these finecast minis.

Oh, quite nice!

These models practically paint themselves;

Absolutely lovely Weets! Your leather is particularly beautiful! I never had any problems with finecast either. I'm glad to see someone else with good casts too.

Very nice job Weety. Looks great.

That, weety, is downright superb.

I didn't think he was Finecast, though.

DKoK are regular resin, aren't they?

I'm certainly not the one to ask, I can tell the difference between lead, pewter and white metal but I'm completely at sea with resin. But even if its not finecast it's definitely a fine cast.

I suppose the point is that its a beautiful miniature and it all looks in proportion compared the the older models I'm used to. The hands are the right size!! I may have to get some of these new miniatures myself.

More pictures

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Progress so far on Commissar,

Forge World does make some nice models - I'll check in with you before the next open day I go to, weety, and see if you want me to pick anything up for you.

Fantastic work on the Quartermaster

If you're still having trouble with Yarrick's back banner have you considered printing it out and then painting it?

All FW minis are regular resin not finecast.

Really like the Dkok weety, your colours always come out really nicely.

Love the clsasic yarric! You nailed 90s eavy metal Brings me back to my youth and dreaming about painting while sitting in algebra1 ... LOL. ... now about that commissar wip. Mind sharing your black mixes? It looks like theres some brown in there? Really great, and i have a limited vision when painting black cloth, so id love to hear about your approach.

Bebop

Well bebop I suppose I rely a lot on P3 armour wash, which looks black but isn't really. I think it has a touch of brown in it and a touch of blue. I put it on in lots of thin layers (maybe 3-4) and I finish up with a layer of thinned down coloured wash, usually blue, just to stop the brighter areas looking too grey. Adding colour to your black has to very subtle, make sure you water it down plenty and if its too much, wipe it off and try again.

Thanks dreadclaw69, I've been trying to get around to it - I just picked up a second hand printer for free but its got no input lead. I'm sure I will find one on ebay soon.

Thanks Girrafex I do love mixing up the colours. Its what its all about!

Here is the first picture. I may go back and tweek a few things before I take more. His back needs a little work.

Someone might ask how I did the velvety red. So here it is: First I basecoated the area white (see previous WIP pic). Then I built up about 4 layers of P3 red ink until it was glossy pillar box red. Then I edged it with armour wash. Finally I mixed a green wash with a umber wash and put it on in two fairly think layers. I often find that a contrasting colour wash can really work to give subtlety. For example on the quartermaster's green trousers and helmet I used a terracotta wash.

Anyway here's the pic

That's some really nice - and impressively fast - work again, weety.

Lovely.

That DKoK mini is Forgeworld, so their brand of resin.

If that Commissar is resin then he would be finecast.
I thought earlier pics showed he was metal?

Finecast replaced metals and well, not all are as good as Forgeworld, many FC casts had bubbles, miscasts, issues with flash, seams not set right, all symptoms of rush jobs. I will now add lasck of consistency in material consistency.

My Necrons sadly were perfect looking, the sad part was they were far too delicate at first to handle, let alone paint or use on table top. I have to be very careful as they were made from a brittle and pale colored finecast. I have seen dark colored finecast that was near perfcetion, flexible, could be dropped and bounce like rubber, yet take no damage, these were skaven Jezzails, and had my Lords of the old Dynasty been made from that same dark grey finecast material, I would not have had to replace parts with plastic bits is my beef with Finecast.

Exceptional paintjobs - the DKoK figure is a wonderful sculpt, so much detail and really crisp casting - must be a joy to paint. Love the Commisar as well, the red of his jacket lining is so rich and sumptuous, while the blue gem on his belt really pops and draws the eye... Is that NMM gold you've got going there?

That is NMM gold yes, I've got the hang of that now.

shasolenzabi the commissar is metal yes.

Dysartes - I'm very motivated when it comes to painting professionally, especially when you send me such beautiful models. I used to collect models based on how old and rare they were.but now I think I will buy for quality.

I've got no commission work today so I thought I would have some fun with necromunda cawdor types. I'm thinking of doing a quartered colour scheme for these - sorta heraldic, inquisimunda, grimdark gothic, quasi medieval stuff. But what colour to pick - It will probably come to me in a flash, it usually does.

That DKoK officer is the bee's knees, weets. Very well done. As is the commissar.

Thanks Valhalla!

I'm not sure about the colour scheme for this chap but I'm just messing about - I like how the autopistol and chainsword turned out.

Weety, you have an amazing style. You really capture the grimness of the figures while still being vibrant. I am incredibly jealous.

Love the quartered, court fool out fit on this latest figure.

Subbed.

Such beautiful and inspiring work again Weety! I agree the autopistol came up very well! and I love your work on the Commissar too, makes me want to bust out the one i have to paint! :-) in fact......

Is he calling out his shopping list?

Yes miss dee he needs some chain oil and gun polish, and by the look on his face maybe a laxative. Or do you mean the commissar?

Thanks all, welcome to my blog San76!

I bashed out another one!

I really like the grimyness of that chainsword weety.

Nice work! Now paint a guy throwing clay pigeons for him, he's not constipated, he's yelling "Pull!"

That's a nice couple of Cawdor, weety.

That auto pistol looks fantastic!!!!!! Damn, I might steal this approach from you....gorgeous work madam

Bebop

The commissar

Very nice! Love the tones in the metal of the gun

Looking awesome.
Good work on the general grubbiness but that chainsword is my favourite part.

cawdor and commissar looking great! particularly like the quartered cloth on the close combat guy

The Cawdor pair are really great, gritty and grimy like they've just crawled out from the Underhive

Makes me want to get my gang out of their box and do something similar...

Hi thanks to all of you for commenting. I'm glad you like them! I'm trying to push my painting skills forward with a lot of practice pieces before the next commission arrives. Next up some 2nd ed 40k imperial priests. A very drimdark subject matter.

Here's some pics of them so far. If anyone has any thoughts on what colours they should be feel free to comment. I had a feeling I might make the younger one a redhead and try and draw freckles. But I'm not sure on the robes, maybe some freehand? All I'm certain of is I want them grim and dark and to look about 40,000 years old.

Just to clarify, weety, the one on the left is a 2nd edition model (released alongside Codex: SoB), while the other was part of an Inquusutor retinue set, though I can't remember whether he was a Daemonhunters or Witchhunters release.

I quite like the idea of a sackcloth sort of look, possibly contrasted with a marble effect on the icon of the guy who is about to go clubbing...

That's good - I love inquisitorial retinues. I think he has 'confessor' on his tab? Been a while since I saw his tab though.

I really want to push myself to the next level. I've been looking back over the whole blog and I've realized that the last year has been a big learning curve. I need to consolidate what I've learned and find new techniques to master. I've been reading some professional painters blogs, the kind of people that I aspire to be like, such as Meg Maples of privateer press arcanepaintworks.blogspot.com/‎ and ifalna of course (although sadly I will probably never work for zenimax software).
Meg says you never stop learning, and she recommends entering competitions to stay relevant and up to date. I should do that probably.
Also another key thing to improving my work is the smoothness of the miniature. I've started rubbing the models down with jewelers rouge and I have some needle files, I also need to get some 300 sandpaper. Looking back on my old work its striking to me how grainy the models are.

Anyway I better get to poundstretcher and earn my pittance, see you on the flipside!

Have you been on Platoon Britannica? AFAIK, a lot of the serious Golden Demon painters (including luminaires such as MattParkes) post on the site and there’s a board designed for different critique styles – ranging from ‘be nice’ comments to ‘hyper –critical’ http://www.platoonbritannica.com/index.php?threads/3-tier-criticism-sections-explained.63/

Thanks ruglud! I'm checking that out in the last minutes before I have to go work. Looks pretty super.

I love those two models Weety! especially the dude with the Chainsaw! really a lot of character modeled into mini's that era! and the way your painting style is evolving suits them perfectly, makes them even more entertaining to gaze at and most probably introduces such beauties to some of the young 'uns :-)

Cheers Nerdfest!

I've been beavering away at the priests - here is the first one. I didn't dare do freckles but I did make my first attempt at marble and also chrome NMM, I'm trying to show off on this one so I can impress them over at platoonbrittanica - they have some amazing painters and I feel inspired to try harder.

Nicely done marble Weety! at that scale it's very difficult to get an accurate representation that still looks good and you managed it! :-) the nmm is well done too but seems a little dulled in the pic?

now, it's time for me to encourage you to do the chainsaw dude! :-)

Judas priest (lol) looks awesome. Good job on the nmm and marble, and the face.

Priest is looking good, weety - was the smudge in the bottom left of the picture something on the lens?

Love it! the icon looks amazing.

Dysartes - Nah When I had the picture up on the computer I realised that there was a weird ball of dust and fluff that was ruining the illusion of scale in the corner of the shot so I crudely edited it out. I should probably dust the light box and take the shot again, it looks silly.

Progress on chainsaw man. I think he's finished maybe.

He looks great weets!

Wonderful paint jobs as always - the marble is gorgeous - will you be going with the classic hazard stripes on the chainsaw?

That marble is very nice weety.