Everything from tech servitors to the latest priests are brilliant ! love the marbling on morrisey too.. great to see dkok on your blog weets .. checked out the other forum you mentioned earlier , some brilliant painters on there too.. i am wondering what skeemian madness your cooking up for Halloween myself.

Yes, just yes! that Chainsaw weilding madman is great!

You are all too kind! Thanks for stopping by.

I think I may have made the NMM chrome too subtle for fear of overdoing it. Next time brighter colours!

I'm not sure about doing hazard stripes on that chainsaw - I don't think it would look right.

Has anyone noticed that the morrisey priest has one hand twice the size of the other? Damn citadel and their giant hands!

Next up I'm repainting the redemptionist leader type dude. Here is how I painted him last time, I did a great job considering my relative inexperience at the time - but this is such a great miniature I had to have another crack at it! Say goodbye to the old paintjob;

OLD PAINT-JOB NOT A NEW ONE!

I'm trying to get the first stage as creamy smooth as possible these days by doing a little wet blending with white after the usual process of primer, wash, drybrush. Getting a model smooth on a macro scale is hard but needs to be mastered. I should get to grips with my airbrush.

Lol, Dammit Weety! now i cannot unsee that giant hand :-( it's like someone blew up a plastic fake one and popped it on! Aaargh!

Yes - Its a great model if you ignore the hand - but now you cannot unsee!

Anyone have any suggestions to what free hand techniques etc I might try on the redemptionist? Marble worked out very well (thanks for the suggestion dysartes) so I feel like trying more stuff out.

My marble recipe. Mix up P3 green ink (emerald green colour) and some armour wash until its darkened enough and apply a thin layer, then take a little of the mixture and stir it into white until its just off-white green and draw gently curving lines roughly parralel to each other, then add another layer of the ink and another layer of stripes, repeat.

How about you try for a velvet effect on the robes? would make them look heavier and richer for the model? Pyriel did it on one of his GK's I think or it may have been Coteaz? i'll see if I can find it if you want?

weety very beautiful ma'am. Lovely marble, and nice to see another marble fan out there it sure is fun to paint! This project line is drawing you to some really cool artistic places! I love the mood you are in
AS to what nerdy mentioned on 3 third mini up...the gun..?..i have to agree just a bit that the sky/earth effect, which i think it is, is coming across not super strong simply because the palette is so muted, which works perfectly for the overall mini, but i think the previous gun came out better because you didnt use a skyearth effect and the nmm worked as it was with the palette as well. Just my thoughts. But gorgeous nonetheless!
Cheers
BB

Nerdfest - yes please do send me a link - I like to look at other peoples stuff - learn things etc. I did go with a velvety look in the end.

I agree beebop, brighter colours wouldn't have worked so well on him - next time will be better!

A close up on the redemptionist. I wanted to do another subtlle job but somthing told me to use bright colours and try and make him subtle anyway. I'm pleased with him, especially the NMM melta barrel.



Group shot!

Nice NMM mate! Didn't even know it until I read your post ;P

Lovely selection of miniatures weety. Lots of character. Nice work!

They make a fantastic group weety.

Those are wonderful!

What a spectacular group of figures weets... a feast for the eyes!

You are seriously talented madam. You've got me thinking all about your red methods.

For the record, in case I forget Its P3 red ink in layers, followed by a mix of green and black wash, with wet blended flesh tone for the highlight.

NMM seems to be default for me now, but maybe I should get some of the new fancy metallics like vallejo liquid gold?

Here ya go Weety! and those models are fantastic together too! so enjoyable to see :-)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/506440.page

Hate to get on the wrong side of those priests!

Awesome Necromunda and throw back minis. I would've like to see more checker patterns, but they are all seriously good!

Hi moltar good to see you! I've been thinking about a checker pattern for the next priest's chainsword.

So I've been doing gits commission and I've hit a wall, What to do with the mantis shoulder pad. I will hop over to his gallery and see how he does them - this is what I've got so far.

Wow that power axe is lovely weety, so colourful and yet grim dark.

Very nice as always. That axe head is very cool, Going to have to try that myself at some point.

I can help with that weets... (beautiful job on the figure BTW)

Loving the rainbow axe!

I don't think rainbow axes are to everyone's taste! Like Marmite. Glad you four like it. I can also do lightning for those who hate rainbows. When I painted this I was thinking of the way hot iron in a forge goes from yellow to red then to blue as it cools.

Thanks for that picture gitsplitta that gives me a clue.

amazing work weety. i just love the muted but colourful tones, your models have a really sophisticated feel to them.

i particularly like the redemptionist . the NMM on the melta barrel is amazing, but i also love the shadin. g on the cloth (especially the chest) and the finish you got for the book he is holding is perfect.

the tech marine also looks great. is he an older model or a custom built piece?

Hi San76 and thankyou for the compliment! I've come a long way. The techmarine is all from the early nineties excepting he has a custom mantis warriors shoulder pad.

Weety if anyone is going to pull off a rainbow axe blade with the feeling of grimdark its you. I will refrain from any overly obvious rainbow jokes. It really is lovely, but i have to say, the handle i almost like more. It looks a bit like jade or some such semi precious stone. Really has fantastic depth.
Gorgeous work as usual madame
Cheers
BB

One down, two to go!

Beautiful work Weets. I am truly impressed!

Wonderful work - interested to know what you did with the Mantis shoulder pad.

One critique - and can't believe I'm going to say this, but the hazard stripes on the bolt pistol are a little too much - I wonder if the yellow should be dulled / dirtied somewhat or possibly just go for either plain black or metal similar to the servo arm?

Perhaps I could dull the stripes a touch - they are a little luminous. A thin layer of grey wash oughta sort it. I will get some pics of the mantis head in a mo.

First though here is a very old techmarine. My first NMM copper on the blow torch. Maybe he needs something? Suggestions?

Black crenelations on the bottoms of the lower leg armor?

Hmm, yeah it does need something extra on bare leg armour... Gits could be onto something with the crenalation design and possibly a freehand icon or skull on one or both legs?

The NMM looks really good weets. It looks so natural that what I was looking at didn't sink in until a second, highly magnified viewing.

Is the third Techmarine another rather old one, weety?

Hey weets... I found another tech marine that I'd missed earlier. Same era as the last one you posted but a different figure. When I get that other servitor built I'll send them both along.

Oh cool! I like those old ones.

Crenelation is possible - as are skulls, but first I thought I'd get the third techmarine on the go. The third techmarine is a modern one - he looks better IRL honest! A bit grainy in the pic. Not finished yet. In fact none are finished they all need a bit of last minute touching up and stuff.



I spent a whole hour last night dusting one shelf of miniatures over the sink (two shelves left to dust!). What a chore. I must get a glass fronted cabinet for them.

I love the old school techmarine, looks top notch...Not sure if you are aware of this or not, but back in the day the rule for that clawed hand shoulderpad is it was yellow no matter the chapter...It was is badge of office...

I didn't know that no MechHaven. I did read the rogue trader book of rules and fluff once, but I probably skipped bits. I could certainly do it yellow if the client agrees - its just white atm cos I couldn't decide

Blaarrrp

I think I'm done with this one.

OK....you've obviously not been slacking like me whilst I've been caught uo in the warp/locked in Neil's dungeon.....

Liking the techies a loyt, and the latest is no exception...great stuff as usual

Very nice work weets!

Blaarrrp, indeed! He looks great weety. I especially love the weathered look of his servo-harness.

I'm confused, why did I type blaarrrp? That's a rhetorical question of course, we'll never know.

The servo harness is my favourite bit too. Its a hell of a big thing to try and do NMM but I think I pretty much nailed it.

I'm glad you like it gitsplitta, I think this time they really will be done by monday! I'm just trying to do some freehand on the old school techie now.

MONKEYTROLL!!! good to see you back in cyberspace! What happened to you? ? I reckon you got washed away in the storm and washed up on a desert island where there is no internet and you had to make models out of coconuts and then you swam back one day because you were so fed up with coconuts

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Oh cool! I like those old ones.

Crenelation is possible - as are skulls, but first I thought I'd get the third techmarine on the go. The third techmarine is a modern one - he looks better IRL honest! A bit grainy in the pic. Not finished yet. In fact none are finished they all need a bit of last minute touching up and stuff.



I spent a whole hour last night dusting one shelf of miniatures over the sink (two shelves left to dust!). What a chore. I must get a glass fronted cabinet for them.

That's a gorgeous model! the techi from the Thunderfire Cannon or some such right? I must have it!

That's the chap yes. I've done two of them now! Hell of a thing to paint, so many arms.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
That's the chap yes. I've done two of them now! Hell of a thing to paint, so many arms.

Well you did one hell of a job!! I could use that model and his kit in my army, you inspired me to go ahead and get one. Now if I can just get him to look half as good I'll be happy!

Thanks for replying back, I would have found him eventually but you made it easy.

Have fun with it!

Just for fun I have painted this space eunuch the same way I did gits servitors. Check out his lobotomy scar. I need to redo the blood with darker red bits.

My god your quick ...

The tech marine is superb some of the best nmm I have ever seen. Your painting is really impressive weety. As is the model choice.

Ooooo I like that space eunuch a lot.

Great work Weety. Loving it all.

 neil101 wrote:
My god your quick ...

The tech marine is superb some of the best nmm I have ever seen. Your painting is really impressive weety. As is the model choice.

Really? Wow... I'm not sure what to type now! You are a superlative kitbasher and terrain artist Neil so you must know what you're talking about. So thanks! I will keep at it.

Glad you guys like my lobotomized space eunuch. He was fun to paint.

today is a lazy day, but if I get bored I might paint a couple of random guardsmen I picked up the other day. I have a metal stormtrooper (the ones with the gas mask and night vision goggles) and a 2nd edition cadian.


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Oh and I dulled the yellow on this guys bolter - looks less luminous now.

Here's my days fun practice piece - imagine if I had a whole squad, they would look great!

"Put on your war face soldier!"

Sorry... channeling Arlee.

Very nice. Like the armour colour tones.

Nicely done

Love the old Cadian Weets! Although I wonder why the Eunuch needs that armored codpiece?

That's a cyber-catheter, saves no end of time when in a hurry to do master's bidding.

I think you hit the nail on the head there, he probably recycles it into drinking water, hey didn't we have this very same conversation last time I painted the space eunuch?

Anyway I'm all done with the techies. I chose to go with a simple cog design to finish off the RT era tech, simple to look at anyway, bloody pain to paint!

Haha perhaps..but how many times is too many for that convo really? Did you add orange to the red? It's a lovely shade. I can never get red that bright.

Its a bright red with a sepia wash which gives a hint of warmth.

You know, that does ring a bell

No Commissions left to paint now. I need a commission soon or I will starve! Honest. Perhaps it will help if I am less cagey about prices.

Roughly speaking I am charging minimum wage for my painting ATM. That's £6.31 an hour. As a rough guide it would take me 4 hours to do a normal sized character standard work so that's £25. Or I could probably knock up a 5 man squad of high tabletop standard in 10 hours so £63.10, if they were squats it would be quicker, say 6 hours (£38). I also charge for postage back to you, and an extra £2 per model for clean up and assembly (unless its a techmarine with 6 arms, then I will need to charge more). I am extremely perfectionist about prep so you can expect to get you moneys worth there. If I like your model I may even polish it with jewelers rouge for free.

I will accept payment by paypal in which case I will want half upfront (non-refundable) and the other half upon delivery. If you want to pay by cheque I will happily accept but I will need all the payment at once and will have to wait for it to cash before I post.

Finally I would just like to say that I will do my best to paint everything to the highest standard (roughly within the time agreed) and I think this is a real bargain. I'm keeping my prices low atm because I would much rather be doing this for minimum wage than shop work. At some point if my work proves popular I will increase prices so get em while they're hot!

Anyway enough business, back to the miniatures. I have been painting this storm trooper because he seemed lonely and I felt sorry for him.

Old school Storm trooper looks old school! and also looks like he hopefully will threaten other commission painters so you can eat :-)

I don't recommend trying to polish resin figures...

I did find one more tech marine & will build one last servitor... to send. Not sure what I'm going to do with them all but at least they'll be painted dam*it!

Great job on the storm trooper weets. Maybe you should play around with some more IG models, just for your portfolio... any idiot can paint a space marine, but it takes a special touch to do a great job on an unarmored model.

Pricing seems very fair Weety. Good luck.

Storm trooper is very nice.

Beautiful work as always, weets! You never fail to impress. I'd love to get a commission from you at some point actually but I'm probably too skint this month. I'll tell you if that changes pal.

That's good to know Casey'sLaw. Thanks for the replies everyone - and don't worry dysartes I promise not to polish any resin! Not good for the health I heard. And anyway they are usually perfectly smooth, or the ones you sent me were anyway.

I have a feeling I might paint something today as I have to wait around for the fire alarm inspector.

Hey averyone I have a blog now on blogger/blogspot thingy whatsit. Please pop over and have a looksee tell me whatcha think and bring your friends! Its not quite finished yet I still need to get the customer feedback thing sorted and tweak some bits, but the day job calleth.
Click on it, go on you know you want to just do it nownownow.
http://weetyskemian44.blogspot.co.uk/

Amazing paintjob as always, but that model - looks like he's had an ACME 10 ton (tonne) weight dropped on his head

LOL Ruglud....

From weety's blog:

I now live to paint your miniatures.

Nice touch... subtle.

Nice, professional looking site there weety Best of luck, at some point I may have to accept I'm never going to get all my stuff painted and send some your way

I notice you mentioned your sculpting on there too, does this mean there's plans to get your kiln operational again?

Ooo monkeytroll I would love to paint a cybork one day! I'm afraid the kiln is still a no-go, but in an emergency I could always sculpt in chewing gum or blue-tak.

Good morning dakka! I've got a good feeling about today. I think I'm going to need a better airbrush and some more paint soon.

Anyway to start off the morning I spent some time getting a creamy base layer on these foaming at the mouth priests. I used to do this base layer fairly automatically with bulk washes and drybrushing, but these days I like to wet blend the white and apply the wash in layers to get it just where I want it.

Looks great, Weety. Really smooth.

More stuff I'm doing today - models from reaper.

Nice start to the mad priests (as if there's any other kind ).

Are the Reaper girls re-paints? I seem to recall you doing those deadly disco divas before....

Yeah I did them before - they are in the gallery somewhere - probably in with necromunda.

Disco gals, one with a revolver, any ideas what the one wearing the chaps will get weapon wise?

You've reminded me that I want to do a 'counts as' Escher gang w/ those Reaper miniatures. Foxy Brown looks sassy and daring anyone to check out her .44 magnum

Nice start on those, looking forward to seeing how the finish up.

Tech Marine is my favorite recent work.

shasolenzabi I hadn't thought about it - all the 40k guns will be vastly out of scale. She previously had a shortened laspistol I made but its not ideal. Maybe I will sort out a random object for her to hold.

Hi skalk! That was her name yes. I'm still deciding what colour to do the flares.

Priest alert!

The power of the Emperor compels you!*

Looking good, Weets!

--B.


*to buy more miniatures!

amazing work weets; love that trooper!

Briancj - buy more! NO I shall just keep repainting until all your base R belong 2 us. Actually it being xmass I might just get a couple more, we'll see. No one buys me models but someone might give me cash (fingers crossed, touch wood, drop hints to parents that I'm poor).

Thanks san76.

I thought it was probably time to assemble my junk for the junk pile contest. Some interesting bits here - the propeller type bit is a spinning top that came out of last years xmass cracker, theres some old rhino parts, a piece of a space crusade dread, random metal pipe bits, a defunct fuse and some broken toys. I'm thinking air vent/turbine with random machinery all rusted up and stuff. Obviously I need more junk.

Those two Priests exemplify why the Imperium frightens me. Very well done.

Junk pile off to a decent start. Looking forward to seeing where you take it.

Before I call it a day here's the finished reaper miniatures. Sleepy now. Need to work on smoothness next time. Gotta get better and improve etc etc... right now its time for sleeep.

Very 1970's.... nicely done weets.

Hah, nice - just need an Austin Powers and Dr No...

Like...groovy baby!

Ohh, behave!

shagadelic! Yes they are just like the austin powers girls (2 and 3) Foxy Cleopatra and Felicity Shagwell.

Any smaller mini gun ranges that would be more resonable? if you had the weapons from the zombie survivors from WGF they have plenty of good weapons not at the comically oversized GW weapons scale. (Like GW is compensating?)

But anyway
http://wargamesfactory.com/webstore/dark-futures/apocalypse-survivors-men#

and
http://wargamesfactory.com/webstore/dark-futures/apocalypse-survivors-women#

different weapon kits for the groups, leaving a large number of spare weapons of proper size and such.

I'd love to get both of those kits they look right up my street. And like you say, realistically scaled weapons! As for felicity I think I might get her a knife in the meantime.

Interesting collection of junk you have there.

The girls look great. I really like the red and the denim work.

Excellent denim effect. Really sells the hip-huggers.

Its Xmass time! A time to give and to receive. And if you buy pressies for yourself you can give and receive at the same time!

This year as a special gift to myself I bought some plastics (for variety). I got a box of 4 skelingtons amd two tomb kings champions (without chariot sadly), you know the ones with the big bendy swords. I got an empire duelist made from bits and a plastic multipart chaos warrior, two of the old high elf plastics, spearman and archer, and a plastic high elf mage. Finally I got a random bunch of drek, I can see an old dark eldar and a mutant scavvy, not sure what the rest are maybe someone recognizes them?

First fully plastic model in years. I love the way my razor goes through it like it were cheese. The new plastic stuff is very pose-able, I like it.

Oooooh this is gonna be good Weety! I can feel it in my bones ;-)

Like plastics... fantastic for we kit-bashers. Makes us feel like we know what we're doing.

For reasons unknown I've started out by painting him all over jade green. I'm not sure I meant to do that! Oh well better roll with it; "those paint splotches are birds now" stylee.

So it's begun then Weety? that's good as it means we'll see an update in Oh lets say about an hour? :-) and I might add your painting of Gits Techmarines inspired me to buy a new version myself to paint! damn you woman!! :-)

The two at the back are scavengers from em4! They still exist - you should check out the range. There are a few others you'd probably like and they're super cheap!

Oh yes scarper they look a bit like copplestone castings - but with a slotta.

I would have been back with you quicker nerdfest but unfortunately had to go to work. Bummer.

Now why the hell did I paint it emerald green? Why? I was mixing up a weird base wash and I put a bit to much green in it and it looked black to my eye in a puddle. It looks nice though.

...

I really like that Weets!

Yeah, nice colour. Go with it.

Definitely a cool color. So far it looks great and gonna get better. looking forward to seeing this finished!

Yeah, I'm liking that green. Can you recall how you mixed it?

That is actually a damn good effect Weets! really nice colour, would be good for an Aztec themed marine force ;-)

Its 1:1:2 parts P3 armour wash, P3 red ink and P3 green ink. I was supposed to do equal parts and get a sort of pains grey colour. Yeah I like it too so I'll roll with it.

Interesting that the red seems to have accumulated in the cracks... or did you apply each wash separately?

Oh no they were mixed.

While I was deciding what to do with the green marine I finished off a random scavvy.



He is a duplicate - so here he is with his doppleganger I painted a year ago - there is some improvement in smoothness and lots of new techniques.

Blood for the Blood God! Khorne favors red, black, and brass. Brass weathers green over time. So you're all set. He's a really (really) old World Eater Champion that went with 100% brass armor.

Scavvies look ace! Very well done!

Good work on the boils.
And the gun is very nice.

Yeah, what the doc said

I like the "Patina" effect on the chaos marine.

The story so far... chlorophyll for the chlorophyll god...

That's looking brilliant, Weety.

Thats Lovely

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The story so far... chlorophyll for the chlorophyll god...

That does look sweet! Also, copper based blood works for Khorne too

Stunning, simply stunning.

Great work, loving the metal tones.

serendipity wins the day!

Looking forward to all the other plastic models arriving now. Especially tomb kings skeletons.

That 'zerker rules, Weety! Lovely use of colors.

Unfortunately Tomb King skeletons (the basic ones, that is) are pretty rubbish. They're relics from 10 years ago (or something- like two or three editions anyways).

The Tomb Kings special models, though... Mummies, Tomb Guard, the various Statuary and the Carrion... Top Notch, perhaps some of the best models GW has made for the Fantasy line.

Nice colour there Miss Wheetie

Anvildude The ones I brought look pretty cool - they are chariot champions and a bit more interesting than the basic skeletons. I got a box of the basic ones too anyway, on the basis that you can never have to many skeletons. Unfortunately the cool mummies I was bidding on escaped out of my financial grasp.

Thanks miss dee its a nice shad of green isn't it. I'll be using that one again.

Speaking of relics from many editions ago I picked up these for next to nothing, just for something to mess about with.



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Lots of skeletons arrived today. Just the bog standard ones. Here's one I put together - I will make a little GS skull for his shield boss.



And heres some more ink experiments, once again I was trying to make a sort of grey colour by mixing red and green ink. It looked perfect when it went on but then it separated as it dried giving this weird effect.



I've been developing something of a passion for the empire recently and I have a fancy to paint an character on a horse. I've never painted a horse.

Experimenting over for a while. Going to do a nice paintjob on these just so I can say I've painted high elves. A couple of coats of armour wash and some careful highlighting puts them back on the right track.

Interesting experiment. Looks quite cool on the upper part of the bow.

The scavvy with his skin complaints is top notch and a great comparison of your evolving skills / styles from the earlier version (both great in their own rights though).

Plastic Chaos Warrior is epic, the armour colouring is so so smoothly done and really complements the brass / gold.

Your expiremental ink wash would look great on gun barrels and vehicle exhausts as it has the effect you seen when metal gets super hot...

Agreed, that is a great effect for exhausts etc.

Hi there!

The next stage on the elves was to wet blend in Vallejo flesh tone (basically beige) in all the skin, gold and hair areas.



Next I added the first layer of colour washes to the cloth, wood and leather, using blue, sepia and a red/sepia mix. As it turns out I think you can still see the results of my experiment shining through in the armour - if you look close you can see very pale warm and cold tints, which I think makes the illusion of reflective metal more convincing



Next are highlights to the gold and the wood, flesh wash, and gems.

Close up on the face:

Looks real nice weety. I've got a bazillion of those high elf models from whfb box if you decide you want more :p

Thanks. I reckon I could batch paint these. But I don't really have room for regiments.

Anyway I finished em off. Highlights and gems and shield. They look pretty good for what they are.

So pretty
Great job. Like the blue/purple colour and the metals are excellent.
and the wood is nice...

Just imagine a whole row of them. Shiny...

Glad you noticed the wood - bit of a special effort on the bow.

I've won a few more bits on ebay; a dark vengeance librarian, a Tomb King, an empire drummer and I've still got my sights set on painting a character on horseback.

Tomorrow I go back to painting ugly things. Here's the skeletons assembled

I am tempted, Weety, to send you an Imperial Guard Praetorian Rough Rider for commission.

Well if you decide to do that, send me a pic of the figure and I will make you a quote. It sounds like something I would enjoy painting. I just have the urge to paint horses, with dappling and socks and all that other horse stuff. I think I saw a model where the painter had really captured the dappling effect and now I have to try it.

The extra effort on the bow really shows, but is nice and subtle.

Look forward to seeing your DV libby, as that's a model I've actually painted.

A pirate came in the post today - I am super excited about painting pirates. I made him a little wooden deck base out of milliput.

Also a big snap-fit elven mage chap. Not quite so excited about him.

Tomb guard arrived yesterday. Very delicate miniatures, I had to pin him together through the spine. Fingers crossed more plastic bounty will arrive today!



I had a very boring day in work and did some doodles. This was my favourite. I want a model that looks like this guy.

If you are after pirate miniatures weety check out the Freebooters Fate, loads of nice stuff there.

Thanks for the tip. They have some nice things...

further progress on skelies and pirate man. I hasn't used armour wash on the skeles - I thought dark umber was more boney.

Fantastic as ever miss wheetie

Cheers! Still enjoying the stargate I hope?

My dark vengeance librarian piece turned up yesterday - a taxi driver found it under his car out in the car park. Lucky for me he came and rang the bell. In the post persons defense it was in the tiniest packet ever. Slight damage but its all in one piece.
I didn't know dark vengeance were all snap together! Looks like something out of a kinder egg. Still its quite good once its together, but it felt like my creative input was being left out of the loop.

Anyway I was very busy this morning and finished all the plastic stuff I'd started.

My pirate, I will call him jim the shiv.



Elevated pic to show milliput deck base.



Skeletons

Love dem bones xx.

Nice work. Pirate looks good, as does his base.

Good work on the Skeletons too.
It's a shame the others haven't told the one that picked up the wrong skull... he must wonder why they keep making "horny" jokes about him...

 Ruglud wrote:
Your expiremental ink wash would look great on gun barrels and vehicle exhausts as it has the effect you seen when metal gets super hot...

Completely agree, and it would never had occurred to me. Thanks Rug!

The skeletons are really decent! I've gone back through your older work and I'm always impressed with your work. The consistency from piece to piece is impressive, especially since you are all over the hobby with different miniatures, color schemes, etc.

Well Thanks skalk - I could never stick to just one thing.

Here's my last minute entry to yourr competition as I'm painting it. It is an air vent. Made out of junk - the propeller is a spinning top I got in last years Xmas cracker, around that is a pipe offcut, then there is a piece of an ork wartrack frame, a circuit board bit, a fuse and an old rhino box. Needs rust.

Well that's that banged out! I only managed to paint this so fast by baking it under a 60 watt bulb between paint layers! I'm pretty pleased - its not exactly a junk pile per say but its made of junk and its rusty so I hope it counts

Nice job, and done with typical weety speed too

That would look great placed on top of buildings

Nice job. Looks like it came in one piece. Nicely painted as always.

yes monkey it could be their air-con system - or you could put it on a death star at the end of a trench at a pinch?

Dr H - I'm not sure if that neatness won't count against me in a junk pile comp - I had hoped to get some small junk to have lying around the vent but in the event I just didn't have time - I'm too distracted by painting for this modelling malarkey.

The paint job was built up in layers using watered down ink for shade and grey and white spray paint for the highlights. I watered down the green ink to an almost homeopathic level to get that sheen of verdigris on the fan. The rust colour is just a bit of flesh wash splattered about.


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Some new stuff ready to paint!

Really looking forward to seeing that Musician! So many folds and creases, so many fiddly bitz. No doubt you are going to do something great with it.

Regarding the contest entry- you did a really nice job with it and I'd put that anywhere on my table. Clean doesn't count against anyone. Junk is junk. I never specified it has to be rotted and rusted, that's just how most people decided to do theirs. My son gave me an idea that has stuck since we talked about it- not everything has to be old, and even old things decay at different rates. Smart lad that one.

But if I'd had more time I would have added something more to it - small stuff, maybe some discarded containers or some ivy, just to bring it to life and suggest scale. I just plain forgot until I looked at monkeys thread on sunday!

The Drummer guy is great. I'm enjoying the empire's dress sense its very 16th century Landsknecht mercenary. I might have to get some more.

A wip shot of the drummer.



And this is my first horseman. Now I've got this I'm a bit daunted by it. Should I paint the horse and the man separately? I think I will loosely pin him in then I can do it either way. He arrived undercoated like this because I couldn't afford to get a new one.

It is completed! Happy happy, joy joy.

And it looks fantastic! :-) you can sure churn out the talent Weety! you have an interesting style! almost seems like you watercolour on 3d models or something like that :-)

That's one way of looking at it yes. I'd like to learn how other people paint with these thick paints! Just for variety of style. But for speed and subtlety I like my washes and inks, I get ease of application and it shows up detail well - I think it only really falls down where the underlying detail is muddled or badly cast. Then one needs something thicker to cover it up!

Stick with what you do best i say! it's something you learn individually and the response you get from all your painted mini's speaks for itself! what you do works well! :-) I can't paint like you and couldn't if I tried but I can damn well appreciate the talent and final product!

I think it's good to learn new techniques and skills to add to, but not change, the way you do things.

I, like many people, really like the way you paint, Weety and wouldn't want to see it change. Part of the appeal is that it is a unique look that you achieve.

But the addition of a different way of painting can only be a good thing as it will broaden your horizons and you may find a technique that will help or enhance what you already do.

I'm sure I was building up to a "point" there... I'll leave it with this: Learning is fun.

Drummer looks great too.

Do you ever sleep? The turnaround on that drummer staggers me, especially because of the quality. How many miniatures do you figure you've painted in your lifetime so far?

Regarding the horse / rider I'd say do them as separate pieces. You'll have more control of both and less difficulty w/ fiddly things like the space between the saddle and the rider.

Erm - somewhere around 500 at a guess, well since I started really painting anyway, experimental daubings aside.
Actually I sleep a lot. Got to keep the hands steady! Steady hands are important for fast painting and I do my best work when rested and in a meditative state of mind.

An empire general kitbash I threw together from some bits. He has a surprisingly large codpiece.

Bring me...THE BLACK RUSSIAN!

Nice!! Im pretty sure that drummer is a Bebop drummer. Hes got some nice left hand technique Seriously great paint job though

Ah blackadder jokes! thanks briancj.

The drummer can bebop, He also lays down some mean scat

Mon Capitan is done I reckon.

Hear the drummer get wicked.....

Empire figures have some nice clothing details that suits your style

And some lovely pimp hats too. Zoom in on the face of that captain folks...the bags on the eyes are fantastic.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the knight....you should look out for the old green knight mini, you could work some magic on that....

Sweet job Weety. Love the colours.

Wonderful work, the drummer sure is ahappy little dude, singing away - I imagine he's singing the Todd Rundgren song 'Bang on my drum all day'

As for Captain 'Black Russian' (great reference Briancj) he looks great (and fully loaded, if you know what I mean...)

Thanks all - here is a bigger picture so you can see his eye bags better.

His face is excellent Weets! the bags under his much fatigued face look superb :-) and his armour is tops!

Wonderful work on the face and eyes weets.

I don't know about the armour actually I think it might need more work. I'm happy with the face though.

Not sure if it's the pic but the armor looks grainy.

Maybe you should zoom in more? But seriously I might just go back and give it some wet blending and washes - I am supposed to be questing for perfection after all, and he is a captain.

Hit the drummer get wicked.

Right so I've upped the level of shading and highlighting on the armour and now I'm happy with it:

Very nice weets. You really brought up the highlights nicely.

It was good before but now it's WeetyWowed! :-)

Merry XXXmass y'all! Back in a few days...

Have a good one weety!

Try to limit the homemade alcohol to ensure you remember some of it

Actually this year we are only drinking the finest red wines. we did go out picking but I have bought a freezer which has taken the urgency out of the blackberry wine process. This year I'm having a nice wolf blass yellow label followed by some cassillero de diablo and rounded off with a little newcastle brown ale! because feth it!

Good job perfecting the armour.

Happy Christmas. Hope the hangover is mild.

Oooooh! Gone all upmarket now have we?

YuS! So up market I have a glass.

Thanks Dr H I will hope for the best.

You wouldn't believe how many times I had to retype this to get it right. Have a good time everyone!

Merry Christmas weets. Enjoy yourself, you've earned it!

Merry Cthulhumas wheety xxx

Merry Christmas Weety hope you didnt drink your self under too much.

good work on the fantasy models cant wait to see what youc ome up with next.

You know you're gonna have to do 9 more of those Drummers Drumming.

And possibly some Ladies Dancing, Maids a Milking, Lords a Leaping, and the like...

Time lords a leaping?

Here's what I've been up to since xmas.

I've been trying to put together a small empire force, here's some troops I came up with:



Also I finally got around to starting my river troll (a gift from inmygravenimage).

First I inked him up:



Then flesh tones followed by a red wash:



He will get a lot more work. Also check out the skull buried in the base.

Nice. I like the flesh tone you gave him. After the first picture I was expecting him to be green Colour theory at work.

Still love the wood you paint. Tempted to send you some of my boxes just to see them painted better than I can manage.

Thanks H, I wanted him to look like he is covered in a slimy layer of pond goo. So he is just green tinged.

The wood is quite simple atm its just an umber wash and a white drybrush. I'm thinking of washing it with some grey mixed with olive green and then I will sepia up the binding rope.

The teeth need more highlights and some yellowing, I need to pick a colour and style for the eyes (they are quite big so I can go to town on them), the hair needs more black and I might give the skin a skin wash to tone down the bruised pink look.

Ooh, that's a lovely troll. I found the rest, finally, yesterday, if you still want them?

well it would be pretty cool to have the whole set - if you ever need anything painted graven I would totally do you a free one for all this treasure you keep sending me. One good turn deserves another and all that.

Oh-ho-ho, I'm totally gonna take you up on that offer I shall pm you m'dear.

More empire stuff turned up today. Look at these fancy lads with their get up. I read today that the reason the original greatsworders dressed like this was because as crack troops they benefited from a relaxation of the sumptuary laws, which forbade commoners from wearing anything fancy, or purple.

Weets, I'm really liking this Empire phase you are in! Very inspiring!

Ah thankyou dstein! I'm really liking it too. I love the historical pastiche of The Empire. I've been reading all about the history of the holy roman empire so as to get a feel for it. Apart from hippogriffs and the colleges of magic they pretty much pinched from history wholesale. There were even flagellants and witch-hunters...

Precious little progress painting wise - I've basically done this standard bearer's armour and also designed him a flag, made up of some holy roman empire flags I've spliced together - going to go library tomorrow and see if I can get it printed (maybe even get yarrick's flag done too).

cool looking flag

Yeah- the Longswordsmen from the Empire are basically based on the Landschnekhts of the real world- and they did specifically dress super fancy to show off that they were skilled enough to be given a pass on the sumptuary laws. They were also called Doppelsoldner, possibly due to being payed double the going rate, or that they used double-handed swords, or that they were twice the man compared to other men.

"My sword is bigger than your sword" :-P

twice as big!

I never made it too the library so no flag yet - I had to help out with redecorating. There's always something falling apart in our flat and today its the paintwork.

I prefer to paint tiny things so I found time in between scraping window frames to put a lick of paint to the standard bearer. I'm very pleased with the results and I absolutely promise to go get that flag soon. I'm really inexperienced with flags.

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Looking nice Weety.

Happy New Year.

happy new year H. And to the rest of you! Here's hoping 2014 is less eventful than 2013.

Batch painting time! I've got four more of these, but I've run out of bases for them.

Fantastic hun xxxxx

Weety, these empire pieces are fantastic . Flamboyant yet still grim.

Love the river troll, especially the colour gradations on his face (particularly the nose). Looking forward to seeing it with the eyes done!

I may have a load of warhammer fantasy bases if you want them

Cool thanks!

Anyways, speaking of grim flamboyance, I finished a greatsworder.

WIP pic:



Mr Fancy-pants

Very fancy.
I like the feathers.

Very Landsknecht-looking!

They certainly ARE Fancy pants aren't they!? if anyone was going to Fancy Pants Paint them it's gotta be Weety!

Not enough color. His hose need to be green...

I thought I'd limit the number of colours just a little, I don't want it to look like I couldn't choose a paint scheme!

Now there are two;
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That second guy is a lot more sensible in the protection department...

They look really good weety, looking forward to a whole squad.

Edit: Did I really say squad meant unit 40k has me well and truley in its evil clutches

Regiment!

Unfortunately I can't afford a whole regiment, gotta wait for funds. That's definitely in the pipeline though.

Hey Weets! For inspiration look up "german landsknecht"





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 Gitsplitta wrote:
Very Landsknecht-looking!

Yeah, WHat Gits said^^

 dsteingass wrote:
Hey Weets! For inspiration look up "german landsknecht"





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Very Landsknecht-looking!

Yeah, WHat Gits said^^

Hehehehe Silly LARP-ers they do get into it don't they

I think these guys prefer the term "Historical re-enactors" but it's basically the same thing

't'aint silly. Tis Manly. I'd like to see you with the brass ones to go out in public dressed like that.

Also, FLASH.

Anvildude wrote:
't'aint silly. Tis Manly. I'd like to see you with the brass ones to go out in public dressed like that.

Also, FLASH.

Not only would I have the brass ones to go out in public.... i'd probably have my brass ones OUT as well!

weety, pm your address please. If you want the IG bits that is

Cool thanks bebop.

I used to know a LARPer. Always dressing up. When he wasn't in full plate armour during the everyday he used to wear a black leather biker jacket with chainmail sewn to it, said he felt naked without some form of padding.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Cool thanks bebop.

I used to know a LARPer. Always dressing up. When he wasn't in full plate armour during the everyday he used to wear a black leather biker jacket with chainmail sewn to it, said he felt naked without some form of padding.

Like the guy in the bottom pic above?^ he certainly likes to head out with some padding *cough cough crotch cough*

 dsteingass wrote:
I think these guys prefer the term "Historical re-enactors" but it's basically the same thing

In Germany, at least, it's a pretty serious thing that people will spend thousands on to achieve a perfect, period authentic, costume. I've been to the Königsberg castle event in bavaria, and LARP is not really descriptive when you have thousands of people there and the jousters go full tilt and bash the hell out of each other. Army encampment hundreds of people strong, medieval stalls (none of which sold the typical fairy, new age, or other schlock that would have seen you burnt in the middle ages), full jousting arena that seated thousands of people and jousters from around the world that went at it full bore.

See all the annual Battle of Hastings reenactment. I was there in 2012, and there were over 1000 guys on the battlefield with horse included. There were maybe 50ish knights on horse, and somewhere around 600-700 Norman foot vs say 300-450 English foot at the top of the ridge. Out either side is a full military encampment with nothing not period authentic.

Also Sherwood Forest's Festival of History, with encampments dating back to the Romans up through modern british military. All perfectly authentic.

Comparing them to LARP or US Ren Faires isn't really fair. They aren't the 'I use my plus three longsword of slaying....' scene (now there are plenty of those people who also do this sort of thing, but there are also plenty who don't).

That's true..no foam swords etc. Around here, we have American Civil War re-enactments like that, all the muskets are really packed (without lead of course) and shot, full cavalry with Horses, etc. Quite a sight to see. Those guys spen the weekends camping, eating, and living like they did as well for the whole experience.

That sounds like something I'd like to see someday.

I've been trolling today:

Lol trolling bits will be in post monday

Spectacular!

Very nice, Weety. Great job.

Thanks peeps.

Cool miss dee - shall I post pics of the model when its assembled?

There will be a few more trolls soon, I just need to make a troll foot out of greenstuff and find a large square base. Work has begun on the prosthetic troll foot. How hard can it be?

Got a 1993 vampire in the post today. I shall give him the classic blood red and black silk look, with very pale blue-tinted skin

Also more skaven! They are in the stripper under another river troll. Pics later I promise!

Bloody hell Weety that Troll is brilliant! I am especially in awe of the way you've done the scales on the back! very nicely done and suits it spot on! :-)

Beautiful work! more goodies in the post soon.

That's the prettiest ugly troll ever!

that troll reminds me of his look of the vogons of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy... you feel almost sorry for trying to bash him ...

happy new year weety, i too like that fantasy theme you´re vibrating with!

cheers, vik

On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.

you say?....

I'm glad you're all liking the troll because there are more.

Hey cool graven. The post will be watched closely!

Now onto some troll restoration work.

One of these feet was not sculpted by citadel miniatures in the early 90s, but by me, just now. Guess which one!
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I can't tell which foot is the Weety special! great job!

Great job, Weety. Looks perfect.

Thanks! Its very gratifying to restore this rare old model it to its previous state (visually anyway, hope no one ever tries to strip it, the green will crumble).

It was the one on the left.
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I don't think there's a single person that would feel the need to strip something you've painted of late.

Ooo flattery! Me likey.

I just checked ebay and some swine just outbidded me for a bunch of old metal empire troops. Oh the humanity! Cruelly jilted me of my prize, damn them, damn them all to hell.

Oh well I suppose I could use the money to buy something practical...

You've got plenty of spoons and underwear I'd guess..BID AGAIN!

But I'm short on forks, knives and overcoats.

I didn't win I'm afraid. Its January so I just don't have the spending power. Eventually they will be mine. These are the ones I'm after: (but its getting to the point where I might go plastic to save money)

Let me take a look through my stash of old metal Empire models - I may have a couple of them going spare... Will check Saturday morning and let you know if it's Yay or Nay - most likely will be the handgunners...

Such generosity! That's pretty cool of you.

Of course I might end up with some anyway because I went straight out and bid £5 for four handgunners (someone is almost guaranteed to outbid me for £5.50, and I need the money for food at this point)

I have succesfully bought a greatsword champion though! Before you know it I will have a very small army.

Any of these take your fancy?



Only handgunners, no swordsmen.

I have no particular need for them and while I could sell them on eBay, I really can't be bothered at the moment... If' you can work your wonders with them I'll happily donate to the cause...

A whole regiment of my favourite things to paint! They've got slashed puffs in their doublets, feathers, beards and arquebuses. Please do send them! I'll PM you.

Great work on the Empire stuff really fripperyey reminds me of the 5th Ed army.

PM received, will pop them in the post hopefully Monday morning

Cool!

Another troll has been spotted, lurking under a bridge.

This is how I do the trolls



I wanted to give my river trolls a greenish tinge to give them that slimy look, so I started with a wash of P3 green ink, P3 red ink and P3 armour wash in a 2:1:7 ratio. After that's dried I drybrush with white and wet blend vallejo skin tone into the fleshy areas. Next a wash of vallejo red wash (a very cherry red), followed by vallejo flesh wash and more red ink worked into the shadows of the skin and the mouth, finally I pick out details like the teeth and claws, the eyes and his bones n stones.




Some stuff I picked up recently

vampire from '93



Ratmen! 1987 or therabouts,

Glorious troll weets. Expertly done!

Good job, Weety.
Nice to see the stages too.

lovely work weety; great to see the step by step!

I finished my first guardsman for the comp today! - go over to http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/567422.page#6436382 to check it out.

Some more empire stuff came out of stripping today.

Greatsword Champion and Gun Captain.

Bits in post

A can confirm the package arrived!

Coolnesxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for the bases, harley quinn is very cool, I'll get her prepped asap and on her way to you.

Now an example of what happens when someone trys to get me a hobby related xmas gift.



Voltagiers! somebody get Sharpe/Sean Bean back quick before they overrun us! Anyway I've chosen to take it seriously and make them look proper...

Dont get rid of the card please as it has her stats on

That troll looks fantastic! And I have that Greatsword guy, painted him about 12 years ago... haven't looked at him in months (since I had a game of Fantasy), I remember being proud of how he turned out, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how yours looks.

Thanks for the inspiration!

No probs D. I will send the whole thing back, it'll help cushion the model. Do you want it primed? I have a choice of white, grey or midnight blue.

Hi Hdbbstephen and thanks for commenting. the greatsworder will be fun to paint, hes already primed so maybe you'll see him soon.

Grey please


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And if you want to put up a pic of her please do so

No probs. I've got one more day of work to get through and then I'm on a break so I can get started on that.

Speaking of projects, inmygravenimage has sent me a commission, I owe him one because of all the free ogres and trolls.

Unfortunately. a kitbashed plastic mini doesn't post well when sent with a bag of metal ogres (but thanks for the ogres graven!). So it needs a little reassembly!

I'll go check out the pics in gravens blog later and see how its all supposed to fit together.



Looks like my cutting mat needs a wash.

The post must get through! Just not in one piece, apparently

Its shake it baby until it brakes


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Im gonna make a wooden floor for her and batman

Mah army of fancy pants is increased, big thanks to Ruglud for the majority of these troops. At this rate the empire may soon strike back.



And I took a little time off from being on holiday and painted the empire gun captain. He needs a couple of mortars to captain, but I need to eat and pay bills, its a conundrum.

You're in serious danger of having an actual army at this rate btw, were any of those guys I sent missing arms?

I think there may have been an arm shortfall - I'll get back to you.

I may have found them

Sorry I didn't reply for so long I was off enjoying myself in RL. If you don't mind posting them they would be welcome!

Miss Dee here's your Harley Quinn model ready for paint - I'll try and get it in the post tomorrow.



Graven here's the postman and his servo-skull.



And here's progress on the regiment. I have to decide what colour to do them now. Its definitely having red in it.

Baterup Bman ....

She looks sweet as

Prototype empire colour scheme.

Sweet! Excited about the postman and those colours are lush.

What grey do you use for priming?

Excellent, so glad to see a proper paint job on those Handgunners - I got those guys off a friend with truly dodgy paint work so stripped them down - then they sat in my box for ever more. Really exciting seeing them progress now

Lovely trolls weets , the internet can never have enough trolls.

All finished! no time for talk, watching twin peaks...

Do you have time for a slice of excellent cherry pie? That red on the tunics is certainly channeling that, also

Yes, and a great cuppa joe!

We watched 4 episodes yesterday and I think it destroyed my mind. I blew a funny fuse. David lynch. Mmmmm.

I was a bit worried about the bright colours on the handgunners, but sod it they will look normal next to the greatsworders. Does anyone else think the plumes look luminous?

Miss dee its just a matt acryllic car primer, Hope you don't mind its what I always use?


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Oh here's some more shots of the regiment. Nearly got a whole army now - I just need some spearmen and a cannon and maybe some knights.

I done my "Bman" in army painter grey.

Those boys are excellent, great job Weety, very Empire eccentric in their pink pyjamas - they couldn't have asked for a better home to go to. Would love to see them standing with the Greatswords...

I'll have to have another dig through my box of metal and see what turns up, pretty sure I have more unpainted Empire lads...

They remind me of rhubarb and custard sweets...

Those handgunners look beautiful, well done!

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
They remind me of rhubarb and custard sweets...

Hah, yeah now you say that, I can see the similarity

Let's have Humbug themed soldiers next

^Bah! That would make them Mint Imperials!

outstanding work as always. your're right, the plumes look great.

They look supurbe

Lovely Plumage...

Plum-age - fnar, fnar

No parrot scetch?

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

Oh here's some more shots of the regiment. Nearly got a whole army now - I just need some spearmen and a cannon and maybe some knights.

The plastic or metal spearmen? Same question regarding the cannon, for that matter.

Bonus points if you do Knights Panther. Any thoughts on Wizards?

 Miss Dee wrote:
No parrot scetch?

Are you pining for something there Miss Dee?

Chaps look good there, Weety.

Its a dead parrot