How small are those flames of war stuff? They look tiny! They look really good though.

Woohoo, 3 FoW projects on the main project log forum page at once

Soviets look great, congrats. Once again I'm very jealous of your speed!

Dude, how many armies for how many systems do you have? I won't ask how many minis you have, since that seems pretty academic at this point

Thanks guys.

Armyman, not answering your question yet, but I'll get around to it.


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Slappywag wrote:How small are those flames of war stuff? They look tiny! They look really good though.

Flames of War is 15mm, or 1/100 scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flames_of_War

Death Gear wrote:Nice flames of war stuff

QFT, looks real malf

Also, i love the orange on those guys

Thanks. I've had bad orange in the past. Trying to redeem myself.

Nice orange colour.The flames of war stuff is looking good,as are those winter guard for marmachine(they are winter guard right?).Again,keep up the good work.

malfred wrote:But look at your minis. Which ones have you sealed. Are you sure? Really?

Yep! I run for the sealer as soon as I am done and often seal part way though various phases. But I am a pain like that.

Ah! I never thought about sealing mid process before. Something to try in the future.

I'm not so happy with the execution on my Wave Serpent, but I still like the colors. Now
that I've done other things I think I know how I'd layer it differently both for effectiveness
and without feeling the tedium of painting a large vehicle.

Looks table ready enough to me.

QFT, i think it looks fine

Some of the stuff I picked up at Gencon.

Retribution of Scyrah

Malifaux Miniatures

Orphans

A free mantis plastic elf piece

Tree templates (exciting!)

I like the trees, magnets are a good idea.

More terrain in progress, and a picture of my wet palette.

Some of the progress shots of my Retribution models.

The terrain is looking good.So is the retribution,the greeny colour looks good.

Awesome greens malf.

Thanks. The Retribution models are the first time I think I've ever not used a wash on a model.

This is a last looka t my Exemplar Bastions before they were completely done.

The bastions are looking good, the gold and green look striking on the shoulder pads.

How are the Malifaux sculpts? Thinking about getting on board that boat and haven't seen the figs first hand. Is there much flash/ miscasts?

Metsuri wrote:The bastions are looking good, the gold and green look striking on the shoulder pads.

How are the Malifaux sculpts? Thinking about getting on board that boat and haven't seen the figs first hand. Is there much flash/ miscasts?

Thanks!

That, I couldn't tell you. I can tell you that I didn't have my tools with me at Gencon, so
I probably didn't have that much to fiddle with.

These are my painted Bastions completely done, and a wreck marker.

Both the Bastions and wreck marker look cool.I like the green trim instead of the usual gold.

Malfred paints faster / have more productivity then chinese factory workers . Someone should hire you there just to set the pace -_-

malfred wrote:That, I couldn't tell you. I can tell you that I didn't have my tools with me at Gencon, so
I probably didn't have that much to fiddle with.

Ok, that sounds good, I'll have a go myself as soon as the 500 pts of Skorne are painted (if i can keep my painter ADD in check).

The bastions and wreck look good. Coherent and clearly part of same force.

Those green dudes are kind neat looking. Very organic.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Both the Bastions and wreck marker look cool.I like the green trim instead of the usual gold.

Yeah, I started to realize about halfway through my Protectorate army years ago (ZOMG)
that the gold trim was disappearing since it was up against the bone white, so I started
to shift to a green trim. I still put gold trim on lots of stuff, but I look for places to add
contrast.

LunaHound wrote:Malfred paints faster / have more productivity then chinese factory workers . Someone should hire you there just to set the pace -_-

Not in September I don't. I haven't touched a brush since August. I'm just going through
my backlog of photos.

And how do you know I don't have someone telling me to slow down?

Metsuri wrote:

Ok, that sounds good, I'll have a go myself as soon as the 500 pts of Skorne are painted (if i can keep my painter ADD in check).

Painter ADD is fine. Painter bankruptcy is not.

scarab wrote:Those green dudes are kind neat looking. Very organic.

I love me some Angry Elves.

Kaelyssa stands amidst my trench terrain.

Some DnD figures I painted.

Progress on the Trenches.

Some washes on my Black (Red) Templars

Those trenches are cool man.

Got that right, great as usual mate

Some forest templates and warjack wreckage templates I was working on.

Got my WTF league kit in! Sweet.

Don't know if I took this picture for the trenches or the Dire Avengers.

malfred wrote:Got my WTF league kit in! Sweet.

Beyblades?

What are those o_o

It says "Warmachine" on the paper, so I'm guessing that's the "W"...

This should answer your questions.

Thx, Malfred.

Work on the Dire Avengers. Finally I give the wash/highlight blend a go on these models
and it's completely aggravating.

A little depressed right now because I totally screwed up a terrain project. However, the
following are old terrain projects that I finished in September.

The varnish came out in clumps. :(

aspaSE mARineZ!!!!

... "yeah!"

Dire Avengers.

Achievement unlocked. (Link forthcoming)

malfred wrote:The varnish came out in clumps. :(

Sub-optimal spraying conditions? Yesterday the sun came out briefly and I went and primed everything I owned in anticipation of winter.

No, it wasn't the weather. I removed the nozzle and cleaned it out, but sprayed with something
else in the meantime.

My condolences on the varnish.

Them Dire Avengers is purty.

Thanks guys.

Anyway, achievement unlocked.

Congratulations on getting to the goal.

You are really productive painter!

Gratz dude. That's quite an achievement. What do you have to paint now?!


Slappy

Really freakin nice!

Started some Flames of War stuff early in October.

You have a lot of minis... The BTs are looking good.

scarab wrote:You have a lot of minis... The BTs are looking good.

Speaking of which, I've updated my 520 article.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Malfred%27s_520_Models_in_a_Year_Attempt#Appendix_A:_Group_Shots

Ambitious, for sure.

Malf, I'll have you know I just went through this entire thread and am rather jealous of you. In the time you've done all this I've painted an IG platoon at min size and started converting Space Wolves. Oh, and you're making me want to start Flames of War again, thanks.

Thanatos73 wrote:Malf, I'll have you know I just went through this entire thread and am rather jealous of you. In the time you've done all this I've painted an IG platoon at min size and started converting Space Wolves. Oh, and you're making me want to start Flames of War again, thanks.

If it makes you feel any better, having painted stuff doesn't necessarily mean I get
to play more games...

Some pics of Soviet Shock Recon. I love the jumpsuits.

Pics of a SMG platoon.

Moar soviets.

Also have some Grenadiers and artillery primed.

Some hills I worked on.

Sweet! what material i that, polystyrene?

I take it they're regular 28mm mini's on the hills?

How are you so motivated to do the stuff you do - im guessing though that you really really love the hobby! I wish i had the balls to just try and make stuff like you.

I got to grasp basic modeling techniques yet though.


Slappy

Totally forgot these pictures.

The last picture was my wife's idea. She said I needed to take a picture and show "the scale"
of my project.

I love my wife

GAK! Bad pun alert! All thread readers within 6" get a -1 initiative modifier while their minds reel.

On topic: Those hills are of impressive dimensions... what are you using to cut them? A hot wire foam cutter, I presume?

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:GAK! Bad pun alert! All thread readers within 6" get a -1 initiative modifier while their minds reel.

On topic: Those hills are of impressive dimensions... what are you using to cut them? A hot wire foam cutter, I presume?

Two things: a utility knife and a hot wire foam cutter.

Here's how the hills look with paint and a coat of water based rosewood wood stain.

Those are looking nice. A drybrush or two and you are pretty much done, huh?

Malf , all those mini's are making me want to cry . Why ? Becouse i just hate how many they are , and how fast you've painted them . I could'nt finish 1/50 of what you've finished now .

Great terrain . Like Fox said , a drybrush or two and you should be good . Maybe add some piles of junk/rubble/stones ?

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:Those are looking nice. A drybrush or two and you are pretty much done, huh?

Yup. Although I'm way too lazy to actually drybrush properly.

gretar wrote:Malf , all those mini's are making me want to cry . Why ? Becouse i just hate how many they are , and how fast you've painted them . I could'nt finish 1/50 of what you've finished now .

Great terrain . Like Fox said , a drybrush or two and you should be good . Maybe add some piles of junk/rubble/stones ?

I'm still learning how to cut foam. At some point I want to create stone/rubble piles that
players can place on top of hills to create LOS blocking hills (more difficult to do in
Warmachine than in 40k, by the way), but I'm not there yet. Though some of the
linear obstacles in this set (You can see them in the fourth picture) will be good for
blocking LOS on a hill.

Hills with highlights. They're pretty much down at this point.

I did put down some flock later on. I don't think I have pics at this point.

That looks quite good . Oh and , for LOS rubble piles : Just cut down some sprues , and glue them to it . Then but lots of PVA glue over them(make sure they're stuck) and sand over that . Can also be customized with bits'n'pieces . For some small rubble piles for bases fx. link's here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253068.page pages 1 and two , the bikes have very small . Now just max those up to around 200% and you got an LOS rubble pile !

Thanks for the link. I can see how that might work. I'm going to make some big rocks
first and then figure out rubble later. Maybe. (LOS in WM requires 1.75" for small based
models and 2.25" for things like Warjacks, iirc).

These are some Cygnar models I started trucking around to various game stores to
paint while I sat around.

The future is primed!

I spy some Flames of War!

And Eldars!

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:I spy some Flames of War!

Yups. I think I'll hit those in November.

JohnHwangDD wrote:And Eldars!

Haha, you're so cute when you're trolling my warmachines

HEre's progress on my Cygnar stuff.

Nice long gunners! They remind me that I need to get mine done, too much unpainted metal in my drawers.

Who is that guy with stick in his hand in the middle of the gunners?

Metsuri wrote:Nice long gunners! They remind me that I need to get mine done, too much unpainted metal in my drawers.

Who is that guy with stick in his hand in the middle of the gunners?

That's a Reaper Wizard. I plan on working on solo DnD models in the midst of my
assembly line stuff.

How come you put your guys on a short stack of pancakes?

malfred wrote:I plan on working on solo DnD models in the midst of my
assembly line stuff.

i agree that it is good to break the painting rhythm with some different time to time. It keeps it becoming a chore.

man I wanna paint something! You make it look so easy, malfred!

JohnHwangDD wrote:How come you put your guys on a short stack of pancakes?

They're the butter to my breakfast.

Metsuri wrote:
i agree that it is good to break the painting rhythm with some different time to time. It keeps it becoming a chore.

Yeah, I have a hard time working on 40k and Fantasy stuff because of the large number
of models. Breaking them down into manageable chunks helps.

Tacobake wrote:man I wanna paint something! You make it look so easy, malfred!

My friend has threatened to come over and take good pictures of my miniatures. I suspect
my poor photos hide the flaws in my models.

Attached:

My Retribution models with their base colors done.

Some washes and highlighting on the Dawnguard.

Me like a lot

How many have you painted now? I know you've beaten the target but how much time until the deadline?

Deadline is end of the year Vitruvian

I think I'll hit 600 easy, but everything beyond that is icing.

A closer look at DAwnlord Vyros and co. with Sepia ink wash on:

Anastasia diBray

So here are two Long Gunners side by side. One of them is an older one. Can you guess which?

Progress on my wizard.

Recent models are looking good malf. What system is the wizard for??

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Recent models are looking good malf. What system is the wizard for??

Dungeons and Dragons. Or rather, it's for the Dungeons and Dragons that I play in my
head. I don't have an actual game going , nor do I regularly play at all. I just like painting
the figures.

Here's Dawnlord Vyros, nearly complete:

I like the bird on his hand, but i think the cloak could use some work. It looks like the wash has stained it brown, a gradual blend from black to grey would look better imo.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:I like the bird on his hand, but i think the cloak could use some work. It looks like the wash has stained it brown, a gradual blend from black to grey would look better imo.

Yeah, I'm used to working the birds with browns, probably because I tend to do a lot of
work in browns. Maybe my next furry creature I'll learn to do a black to gray blend better.

Here's a pic of the Phoenix. The highlights are rough, but I like where I put them this
time. When I worked on the Manticore I think I was just guessing at the highlights.

Not going for the fully magnetised warjacks with the plastics, Malfred?

Dysartes wrote:Not going for the fully magnetised warjacks with the plastics, Malfred?

Not at this time, no. I might want to try in the future, but while it saves me money/time in the long
term, magnetizing isn't a familiar skill yet and I'm doing what I can to keep the models moving
through the assembly line.

Also, magnetizing means I have to keep parts safe, and I'm less likely to lose them if they're firmly
attached to the model in question.

Attached:

Pictures of some Line of Sight blocking terrain I was thinking about building. One is a rock
formation, one is a ridgeline of sorts, and the last one is a fence. I haven't decided whether or
not I'll go through with these projects.

The bird looks great, it was the cloak i was saying would've looked better from black to grey.

Terrain looks good, i prefer the rock pile and fence over the second pic.

And here's that same model in the scale shots of terrain all done up.

The start of the Searforge Project.

Posting this here now so that I can figure out a color scheme.

Go Searforge!

I take it you're waiting for Mk 2 rules for Hordes before getting Brun & Lug and the drunken Ogrun guy?

Dysartes wrote:Go Searforge!

I take it you're waiting for Mk 2 rules for Hordes before getting Brun & Lug and the drunken Ogrun guy?

I had considered getting them for the project, but yes, I'm waiting for MK2 rules.

Herne and Jonne are more of a Durgen Madhammer kind of thing.

I <3 the bear and the wandering Ogrun, so I probably should have gotten them anyway,
but this way I have something to start with.

edit: Maybe I should include them anyway, given my theme. I just don't normally
buy a whole and complete army by itself.

your big warjacks always look awesome

krusty wrote:your big warjacks always look awesome

I blame the models.

This next one is a young wizard model.

Im not liking the skin tone :/ looks like a crossover of leather and poop imo

One question though ..

How many game systems do you play compared to those you paint ?

gretar wrote:Im not liking the skin tone :/ looks like a crossover of leather and poop imo

One question though ..

How many game systems do you play compared to those you paint ?

You won't like the majority of the things that I paint then. I use either Reaper Dark Skin or
Reaper Olive on most of my models these days (the exceptions being Khador, Wood Elves
and High Elves and the odd Dwarf or two).

What I play regularly:

Warmachine/Hordes.

What I play sometimes:

Warhammer Fantasy

What someone is going to teach me to play:

Flames of War
Field of Glory

Here's pics of the Phoenix all done.

well, I would not say "cross of leather and poop", but I do think that the skin could use a highlight after the dip.

And I hate Reaper bases.

Dawnguard Invictors

Those look nice . Where do you get the bases for those(the ones with the smooth edge..) ?

gretar wrote:Those look nice . Where do you get the bases for those(the ones with the smooth edge..) ?

For Warmachine and Hordes, they simply come supplied with the models.

This is a Warmachine Solo, Anastasia diBRay. I'm not sure I like how it turned out, but I'm
also not quite sure if I'd have done it any differently. Maybe I would have blushed her cheeks
with some light pink...

Lovin the black highlights

Your volume of minis and quaility of painting are amazing.

Have you tried Malifaux?



take care

albinoork wrote:Lovin the black highlights

Your volume of minis and quaility of painting are amazing.

Have you tried Malifaux?



take care

I have some minis primed, but I haven't really been inspired to paint them.

These are Dawnguard Sentinels with their baseball bat swords of doom!

Those sentinels are pretty cool. You're actually kinda' making me want to start this. Kinda'.

Malfred, do you dip, or wash? What's the difference?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Those sentinels are pretty cool. You're actually kinda' making me want to start this. Kinda'.

Hehe. Fieldtest for Hordes drops today! (fyi)

randomfrog wrote:Malfred, do you dip, or wash? What's the difference?

I think the difference is that dipping uses that wood stain, and you shake off the excess
when you're done. I use a heavily glaze medium laden Vallejo Ink and brush it in. If I'm
feeling industrious, I will wash and highlight simultaneously, attempting to wet blend.

I'm usually not so industrious.

Anyway, this is Dawnlord Vyros.

Seaforge, cool. I don't like the green to be honest. But it is different and well painted.

Tacobake wrote:Seaforge, cool. I don't like the green to be honest. But it is different and well painted.

Searforge has been fun painting so far. Sorry you don't like the green. Guess you won't
be borrowing my models when you come down to Adepticon, right?

Some terrain progress, but I don't think I've done much with the pieces since these pics:

The trench sections are looking good, chief - how much of a slope is there on the other side of them?

Dysartes wrote:The trench sections are looking good, chief - how much of a slope is there on the other side of them?

The straights are 4" x 4", so the foam is 2" across. It's clearly an abstraction as when you put
the model behind the fortifications they appear from the waist up. The foam is 1" so I decided
not to slope it at all to make lining up the pieces easier to do.

Soviet artillery.

Soviet Artillery with base colors.

Always nice to see some FoW, malfred - at some point I might even dig my Brits out

Dysartes wrote:Always nice to see some FoW, malfred - at some point I might even dig my Brits out

You totally should. Legoburner makes it a point to notice FOW projects

Here's the Searforge project fully primed.

Trollbloods Primed as well. I cycled my time between the Searforge project and these Trolls.

Soviets!

Two Komisar teams and a lone SMG team that I missed somehow the first time around.

Wow, i love the look of FoW models, they're so cool!!

Great work as usual malf.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Wow, i love the look of FoW models, they're so cool!!

Great work as usual malf.

Thanks. I rather like the scale very much.

Pic from my Searforge tutorial: first base color.

Huzzah for Lug (and presumably Brun) turning up!

Out of interest, what do you think of the Basher sculpt?

Dysartes wrote:Huzzah for Lug (and presumably Brun) turning up!

Out of interest, what do you think of the Basher sculpt?

I do like the Basher sculpt very much, and its rules make it very efficient. I might use it
to replace the Driller on Gorten, though I might not even buy it until long after the
Mercenary book is out and we see (or not) what Gorten's theme list consists of.

Yeah, Lug is awesome. Brun is somewhere in that picture I thinks. Here's another
picture of the cuddly bear pre-assembly.

I think the FoW models keep getting better.

It still amazes me the amount of stuff you get finished.

Nice to see some mercs in there. I'm considering some myself, though I really don't know anything about the game and how to get an army together yet. Kinda waiting for the new books on that end though.

Looking forward to seeing the hammer wielding guys finished ^_^.

The Horgenhold Forge Guard? They're pretty cool, I must say.

grey_death wrote:It still amazes me the amount of stuff you get finished.

Nice to see some mercs in there. I'm considering some myself, though I really don't know anything about the game and how to get an army together yet. Kinda waiting for the new books on that end though.

Looking forward to seeing the hammer wielding guys finished ^_^.

Yeah, I should have pics in the next week. They're done, but I mostly post only on
days that I paint to make sure I'm able to maintain this blog

Tacobake wrote:I think the FoW models keep getting better.

Dude, they're exactly the same. It's one reason I don't get more of it done in one
setting. It's all earthtones and military issued colors. Blech. The only thing appealing
about it to me is the scale.

More of the Searforge. You can see the rest of the pics in the article about the Searforge:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Three_Color_Searforge_Army_for_Warmachine

(Did you know that a google search for searforge army brings my article near the
top of the list? Legoburner's got Dakka humming like a cabana boy... hrm...nevermind)

The Warriors I stared work on at the Game Shop.

malfred wrote:It's one reason I don't get more of it done in one
setting. It's all earthtones and military issued colors. Blech. The only thing appealing
about it to me is the scale.

Yeah, but the colours look so awesome!!

New models are starting to look good!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

Yeah, but the colours look so awesome!!

New models are starting to look good!

I'll take your word for it on this one

This is progress I made on the trolls at the game store that Saturday.

4 hours of Thanksgiving gets me to the point in the second picture. Again, this is all
stuff from the article.

A picture of the Trolls by the end of Thanksgiving.

December is going slowly.

A group shot of November's accomplishments.

That's "going slowly"? Dude, I don't think I finished a figure in November

Dysartes wrote:That's "going slowly"? Dude, I don't think I finished a figure in November

Well, that's what I managed in November. I'd like to get further along so that I can buy
more minis.

Kriel Warriors with their UA.

Always nice to see more Trolls, malfred - from what I've been told, Hordes Mk2 is looking good for Trolls, which is handy (though possibly expensive )

Dysartes wrote:That's "going slowly"? Dude, I don't think I finished a figure in November

I hear ya. I finished all of two models in november.

I quite like what you have done with the Soviets, Felix. Your paint style is rather well suited at that scale. With how quickly you can paint, I am thinking that a very infantry-centric Soviet force is within your grasp.

Which is saying something because many people here have tried doing just that

They tried and failed?

They tried and died.

Only one person here has pulled it off (John Reddman, owner of Tower Games), and he most certainly is the Kwisatz Haderach of FOW Soviets. Perchance you could be Leto II, god emperor of FOW.

Malfred , you paint like 1 complete army every few weeks , can we see how many painted thing you have piled up total?
I wouldnt be surprised if they can cover your whole bed room floor o_o...

Dysartes wrote:Always nice to see more Trolls, malfred - from what I've been told, Hordes Mk2 is looking good for Trolls, which is handy (though possibly expensive )

The Kriel Warriors were technically "free", as in Privateer Press has a compensation program
for its Press Gang volunteers. Though I suppose for the price of those Warriors I could have
requested a crap-ton of MK2 books and accessories (okay, small exaggeration. I could get
the hardcover, softcover and the faction decks for the price of those models).

Hellfury wrote:
I quite like what you have done with the Soviets, Felix. Your paint style is rather well suited at that scale. With how quickly you can paint, I am thinking that a very infantry-centric Soviet force is within your grasp.

Which is saying something because many people here have tried doing just that

They tried and failed?

They tried and died.

Only one person here has pulled it off (John Reddman, owner of Tower Games), and he most certainly is the Kwisatz Haderach of FOW Soviets. Perchance you could be Leto II, god emperor of FOW.

The Soviets I'm painting are a bit more elite than that, though I might re-visit them now that
I have enough models for a nearly completed army. Maybe start painting up the prison conscripts
in 2010 as part of my FOW expansion. Currently, however, my force is for Udarny Strelkovy.

Thanks for the comment, though. I look at my Flames of War stuff and don't see anything
special. I have my tanks now, and the part about them that bothers me will be trying to
apply the decals. I always mess that part up.

I'm also not much of a treadhead (Blasphemy!).

LunaHound wrote:Malfred , you paint like 1 complete army every few weeks , can we see how many painted thing you have piled up total?
I wouldnt be surprised if they can cover your whole bed room floor o_o...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Malfred%27s_520_Models_in_a_Year_Attempt

I am NOT going to take those last pictures ever again. The miniatures now safely rest in
foam trays stacked in the basement. Three Warmachine / Hordes armies permanently
reside in four Sabol bags. It took me hours to set up those group shots and hours to take
it down again and place the minis back into the trays.

*Thinks about the accusation*

I think you're wrong. If I had to, I could possibly paint an entire army every few weeks
only once in a while. After that, the psychological grind of painting and modeling the
same models would wear on me and I'd go play with my Playstation in disgust.

Besides, I string out my image postings so that I can do regular updates. You know,
I take three to four pictures and spread them out across three or four days.

You know, make it *seem* larger than it actually is.

*Waits for the punchline*

Anyway, Attached are Madrak and the Whelps for his Warbeasts.

Close ups of the finished searforge. You can now see where my laziness shows through. I
advise all perfectionists to view these models from three feet away in real life.

Luna, stop hitting on malf.

I want Sobol bags. Actually, I just want to paint something.

Tacobake wrote:Luna, stop hitting on malf.

No YOU stop hitting on me.

The searforge stuff looks good, kinda reminds me of the fruits of labor of some socialist laborers. Olive green and red just makes that image to me.

The flame effect on Steinhammer looks excellent.

Metsuri wrote:The searforge stuff looks good, kinda reminds me of the fruits of labor of some socialist laborers. Olive green and red just makes that image to me.

The flame effect on Steinhammer looks excellent.

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was going to work, but I also didn't want to risk a
indistinguishable piece by using a red/yellow fire.

These are the Ogruns for my force. I have a third Bokur done from a long time ago, but
he's not in this particular picture.

Would you believe that I still forget which one is Lug and which one is Brun sometimes?

Now that is one bad-ass bear, malfred - mine is currently sat on my painting desk, glaring at me

I think you should buy some display case for them , its a waste to stuff them inside transport boxes...

i mean they are PAINTED!

Dysartes wrote:Now that is one bad-ass bear, malfred - mine is currently sat on my painting desk, glaring at me

It burns like blue fire going down.

LunaHound wrote:I think you should buy some display case for them , its a waste to stuff them inside transport boxes...

i mean they are PAINTED!

I'm sure when the day comes to burn down this place for insurance...um. Oh wait, the minis
would have to go with it. Guess people would have to "borrow" them from me or I'd have to stage
a fight with my wife and rent a storage space for them.

There simply isn't any room. And display cases are expensive.

Will you be expanding those to two full squads, malfred, or keeping them at minimum size?

Looking good, though, looking good.....

Dysartes wrote:Will you be expanding those to two full squads, malfred, or keeping them at minimum size?

Looking good, though, looking good.....

Some day they'll expand out. I want to see what kind of theme armies mercs get
before I commit to anything like that.

This here's the pics of the High Shields.

So finally I catch up to my current projects. These pictures are images of my work on
a smattering of miniatures. The progress is very slow, as it's almost the end of the year
and I think I took on too many minis at once. I'm making headway, though.

Here the pictures show the assembly of some of the minis. I actually pin some of them
for once.

20 Days ago, I took a bunch of models out to prime. Seems it was a good idea now that
I see the ice and snow and how difficult it would be to get time to prime.

malfred wrote:So finally I catch up to my current projects. These pictures are images of my work on
a smattering of miniatures. The progress is very slow, as it's almost the end of the year
and I think I took on too many minis at once. I'm making headway, though.

Here the pictures show the assembly of some of the minis. I actually pin some of them
for once.

What are the plastic minis in the first pic. They look really cool, I think I want some, lol!


Slappy

Slappywag wrote:
What are the plastic minis in the first pic. They look really cool, I think I want some, lol!

Those are the Legion of Everblight Warspears from Hordes. The plastic isn't styrene, and
the pieces are pegged. Their base size is 40mm.

Here they are started out.

Ah, Hordes. I was recently looking through their site. Awesome mini's. Do you play the game then, what's it like? I know it involves cards and stuff.

Keep up the good work

Slappywag wrote:Ah, Hordes. I was recently looking through their site. Awesome mini's. Do you play the game then, what's it like? I know it involves cards and stuff.

Keep up the good work

The game...not sure how to call it.

It's a tabletop miniatures game that is very WWF. You have these powerful personalities
leading troops and warbeasts on the battlefield, and only one of these characters is going
to leave the ring alive. Killing the commander wins the game, period. Even in scenarios,
gameplay is usually all about defending the primary condition but going for the assassination.

A game can get turned on its head because of this.

You could be winning all through the game, but "winning" does not inevitably lead to
victory. Thus you can't commit your most powerful resource, the warlock (or "warcaster" in
warmachine) to battle unless you're certain that things will go your way.


Primed some Skorne stuff some time ago. Currently trying to alternate my painting
between the two jobs. Might fail miserably.

Some progress I made maybe a week after I started.

The Reaper Dwarven Bear warrior on a resin base.

The Malifaux stuff that I picked up at Gencon. I *think* I know how I want to paint it.

Progress on the stuff as of last week (mostly skorne)

The Warspears taking shape.

This never happens to me. I swear.

http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/12/spray-can-spillage.html

Anyway, progress on the Malifaux and Spinespur models.

One of these days, I swear I'll be able to keep up with your pace....

Good lookin' stuff all about, though. How're the new PP plastics?

Jin wrote:One of these days, I swear I'll be able to keep up with your pace....

Good lookin' stuff all about, though. How're the new PP plastics?

Thanks. Hoping to slow things down in 2010.

The plastics are okay. I mean, they're really well sculpted (loving the Warspears and
the Bastions and the Fennblades so far), but the pegged system means that you
have to really cut stuff if you want them custom, and I really don't care all that much.

In a game where you only ever have one or two units of a thing, it's enough to have
two or three poses for grunts.

This is how far I got by the 24th. I was happy to get this far so I brought something
different with me when the Mrs. and I went to visit the families.

I stand in awe.

Tacobake wrote:I stand in awe.

Of what? And don't lie. I know you're sitting down.

This is a pic of what my niece and nephew painted when I brought minis to work on. While
I worked on 15mm Japanese Field of Glory stuff, they painted my extra Guardian weapon
teams. I think I'll bring old GW minis to these things all the time from here on out.

Later that night I went to my parents' and in-laws' places and got to work on the
Japanese armies I was working on for Field of Glory.

And you still churn models out apace, i hope you're going to take a rest after the year's up!! Great work though, some serious dedication in this blog!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:And you still churn models out apace, i hope you're going to take a rest after the year's up!! Great work though, some serious dedication in this blog!

Thanks. Yes, slowing things down in 2010, for sure. What will I do when I run out of
minis? The correct answer: buy more minis.

Here's the Bushi and Followers with a sepia wash.

Almost done in this picture...

Looking good, malfred.

I'm thinking of doing some form of 520 challenge next year - see what multiple of 52 figures I manage to complete over the course of 2010

Hmm - do FoW (or smaller) bases count as 1 figure, or 1 per infantryman?

It's more impressive if you count base stands

Well, given I think I've completed roughly 6 figures in 2009 (and two of those were penguins), even managing an average of 1 per week would be a good start

Dysartes wrote:Well, given I think I've completed roughly 6 figures in 2009 (and two of those were penguins), even managing an average of 1 per week would be a good start

I saw a group blog where some people were trying exactly that. 52 minis in a year, 1 per week.

Nice Japanese, malfred - any chance of a group shot of them completed?

And will you be trying to achieve any painting goals in 2010?

Those samurais are awesome, good painting as well!!

I was wondering which scale you preferred painting in?

Dysartes wrote:Nice Japanese, malfred - any chance of a group shot of them completed?

And will you be trying to achieve any painting goals in 2010?

Dysartes: Probably eventually. I don't have the figs for the completed army.

This is a painted Anima Tactics fig. A bunch of Anima Tactics stuff went through a bad
shot of primer that was grainy, and like an idiot I decided to paint it rather than put it
through the simple green. Went with the red/green on this one because I thought the
light green on the fig might help pull off the color combination without making it too
gaudy.

Anyway, if you know what the name of the fig is, a post here would be nice. I haven't
looked at the anima tactics stuff in a good long while.


Goal in 2010: Learn to take better pictures.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Those samurais are awesome, good painting as well!!

I was wondering which scale you preferred painting in?

Bah, forgot to answer your question.

15mm is VERY easy and lets me be sloppier than normal. (colors, wash, highlight).

28mm has prettier minis.

Prefer? Dunno.

Stuff I like from the Malifaux line:

Perdita
Judge
Nino
Samael
Santiago

Ramos
Myranda\
Baby Cade (will get Teddy)
Viktoria
Convict Gunslinger
Hans
Misaki
Taelor

Ever since I saw the orphans on ttgn I've wanted to paint up a set. Picked them up at
Gencon.

No swearing in pictures, please!

Very helpful, Farmer.

malfred, your unidentified Anima: Tactics figure is Tsubasa Kuokami - fourth entry on this page.

Are the orphans Malifaux as well, or are they a different range?

They're from Spinespur by Comfy Chair Games....

Dysartes wrote:Very helpful, Farmer.

malfred, your unidentified Anima: Tactics figure is Tsubasa Kuokami - fourth entry on this page.

Are the orphans Malifaux as well, or are they a different range?

Achilles wrote:They're from Spinespur by Comfy Chair Games....

Thanks you two. Very helpful.

I plan on painting more Anima Tactics stuff just because the models are so sweet. Maybe
I'll put some of them in the simple green though. I had a bad batch of spray.

Going to try to close out this blog for the year between today and tomorrow, posting
final pictures of the last models completed.

Here's the start of a Skorne block of pictures. First, the Tyrant and Standard Bearer.

My Brute!

Nice looking Skorne, malfred.

Your skill at painting is good. How do you keep it looking so clean and crisp for lack of a better word. You can't see splotches or primer underneath the paint. How do you accomplish this?

Nice Lady Justice by the way

man those are some _nice_ looking Skorne.

Dysartes wrote:Nice looking Skorne, malfred.

Thanks.

binky wrote:Your skill at painting is good. How do you keep it looking so clean and crisp for lack of a better word. You can't see splotches or primer underneath the paint. How do you accomplish this?

Tip 1: Never take close ups of your minis and never let anyone within the 3'
zone of your mini. There are splotches. There are places with primer showing
through. No, I'm not going to show you with my camera

Seriously, I don't paint for competition, just for the tabletop. There are a number of
things I'd have to do if I wanted to compete, and I think the most important rule was
given to me in a class run by akarenseth (Mat Fontaine) "Display pieces are not game
pieces."

I paint game pieces.

binky wrote:Nice Lady Justice by the way

The contrasts don't work out so well, unfortunately. It's hard to tell where her arms
begin and end, especially since I didn't paint those long gloves white like her top to
contrast off the olive skin tones. Ah well.

Tacobake wrote:man those are some _nice_ looking Skorne.

Thanks, Taco. I can always count on you to bump a thread.

Anyway, here's another Skorne piece, the Cyclops Shaman. I believe there's several goofs
in this model, one of which being his eye. I just never finished it and forgot in my rush to
complete all my 2009 projects. Anyway. The Shaman.

Molik Karn. I do think the mask thing that everyone thought looked strange looks
fine as long as you can tell that it's a mask.

If you paint the skin color a similar color similar to the mask people are going to get confused.

I don't do these minis justice. I don't mean the photos, I mean my paint job doesn't
really show how cool the minis are. It's my usual get it done quick schemes.

Anyway, three more posts and this blog ends only for a new one to begin. Don't know
when I'll be able to get started on paint stuff.

Two left.

The Raek is a light warbeast that got some upgrades in Hordes MK2. Should work really
well with 'Locks that want you tied down to a certain spot so they can pounce on you
with their 'beasts.

The Angelius.

There is on random mini after this. Let's see if I'm around to post it. Have to get ready to
head out soon.

And that's 2009.

Happy New Year, all!

Happy New Year Malf, and what a great acheivement it was for you. Fantastic.

Nice work on the figs Malf!

And the skorne finally look purple in the pics

You saved your best painting for last, dude. Or should we call you MR AMAZO.