I really like the stitched hood on that one cultists - it's got a very "painterly" quality - like cover art from a 1980's or 90's White Dwarf or something.

And now of course I need to buy those cultists next time I do a UK order...

Yeah I highly recommend them. There were loads of head and arm options I didn't use so you can make loads without them looking too samey.

Thanks hk1x1, I love the old skelies too.

Nice work on the cultists. Liking Mr. orange hood best.

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice work!

I’m quite fond of the not-quite old school wights and armored skeletons. I think that era is a sweet spot between sculpting quality and character. Modern stuff is technically nice, but often soulless. Ancient stuff is full of character, but often soft on detail.

Heh. "Those Undead are Soulless." I imagine they are, Nevelon.

Greetings and salutations.

These goff orks asked nicely if I would hurry up and paint them so:



Goff orcs are a pleasure to paint. Red and black, black and red, add checks... done.

So perfect, so pretty, so miss the good old days.

I love your stuff, it's like reading WD as a kid. Bliss.

Looking lovely too.

Those orks look lovely weety, very old school.

Nice work, and as noted - very old school.

The painting matches the models perfectly weets.

Those oldschool orks always get people right in the nostalgia-oblongata. Thanks for commenting y'all.

Next project is modern plastic plaguebearers, which will be FOR SALE on feebay once completed as I am running out of space and what space there is in the display cabinet is reserved for 80s-90s nostalgia models...

I'm wondering how to paint the plague bearers, I liked how ifalna painted her's - http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/732756-Bearer%2C%20Colour%2C%20Daemons%2C%20Nurgle%2C%20Plage%2C%20Plaguebearers%2C%20Rot%2C%20Sigmar%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.html

But then again I might do them more traditionally rotting flesh coloured.

Maybe a bit of both then. Mostly rotting flesh and then bring attention to certain areas with brighter colours to show just how far the "blessing" has gone.

That sounds like the best option all round Dr H.I've just got to decide what colours to chuck in the first wash. A base with a hint of green is traditional... but I could start with a grey blue or a pinkish brown and work up to a green glaze at the end, make it more interesting.

Cool cultists, I really like the choice of colours.

EDC

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I love your stuff, it's like reading WD as a kid. Bliss.

this !

Plague bearers would look good in a pale base with patches of both styles of colouring, the purples really work to highlight areas of rot ( whatever is is )

This is what I've got so far... not done yet though... More bright colours and highlights needed I think.

I started with a mixed grey, green and sepia wash. Once that was dry wounds were picked out in german orange and boils were highlighted in beige and pale rose, teeth are a pale flesh and a mix of green ink + metallic medium did for the plague-swords. deep areas are shaded with black wash, particularly around the belly and armour wash is applied to the swords. Cherry red wash is liberally applied to wounds, boils and swollen areas:

Those are really stunning weety. Wow! I think you've found your calling...

Do you mean nurgle? Less a vocation, more an infection...

Actually speaking of art I'm having one of those terrible urges to spend 100 pounds right now. Deathwatch Overkill is preying on my weakness for genestealer hybrids. Cant really afford it yet.

Excellent work on the Plague Bearers!

Thanks master azalle.

I've just spotted some bare patches in the picture, better go back and touch em up. Wip pics can be useful like that.

Weety , they look the dogs ! Nice one !

Totally nailed them. You really have a flare for these old models. Seeing these and the old orks, reminds me of the excitement of all those years ago, looking at GW books and wishing I could do that, beautiful work.

Hey thanks camkierhi, but those plaguebearers aren't all that old surely... or maybe I am so old that ten years looks recent to me now... get off my lawn!

Anyway I'm still young enough to paint fast, so here are the finished bearers



These will be for sale soon on ebay as I'm running out of room to store or display. If anyone should be interested in buying them off me direct and depriving ebay of their cut, please PM me.

I have no idea on the age of those Bearers, but your wonderful art work is more what I would be getting at. Things have changed so much since the early 90's when I first picked up a anything GW, but your painting reminds me of that buzz, honestly it is a wonderful thing.

Oh and the verdigre on those swords is perfect.

Thanks... looking at them I would say they are some of my best work.

If it goes well I am going to do this more. Now my collection of 80s stuff is gradually becoming (bout 80%)all painted up in the cabinet I can spend my hobby time painting and selling new stuff. Maybe get a bit closer to the dream of being a pro.

Yeah weets, those plague bearers are just wonderful!

Moving swiftly back to the eighties, here are more gretchin! They are definitely not for sale. Notice the ones with big heads; they are space crusade, I shortened their legs so that they would fit in. Its worked so well I might get more.



Deathwatch overkill is in the post...

Nice Gretchin !
I'd like to see how you go about the Deathwatch set !

Lovely job on the plaguebearers.

Nice gretchin too. Nowt wrong with a bit of size variation.

Still no sign of my overkill, hurry up postie!

Doing the chaos chosen from dark vengence to pass the time. This is my prototype:

The plaguebearers have come up really nicely. I love the subtle colour blends (which you also do with greenskin lips). The Chaos marine looks good as well, but the plaguemarines take it for me.

Just love the orange on that marine weets. You totally nailed it!

Ooo, always interesting to see someone else paint a model that I have already done (doesn't happen as often as you might think).

Nice take. Like the colour.

Dr H I'll be doing the cultist militia as well soon. I notice you did most of the dark vengeance set.

Thanks gitsplitta and azazelx! The orange is vallejo german orange glazed with sepia.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Dr H I'll be doing the cultist militia as well soon. I notice you did most of the dark vengeance set..

I did the whole set (although not the limited edition piece), which are now spread thinly across Europe.
While I'm not much of a fan of the bling-tastic Chaos marine sculpts, the cultists were quite fun to paint.

The chaos marines are quite tiresome to paint... so much baroque detail and sharp points. I've blocked in the german orange and the metallics and its taken 5 hours! Cultists will be a breeze by comparison.


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What kinda price did you get if you don't mind telling? What ballpark anyway? I'm probably selling them so curious.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The chaos marines are quite tiresome to paint... so much baroque detail and sharp points. I've blocked in the german orange and the metallics and its taken 5 hours! Cultists will be a breeze by comparison.

Yeah, the 6 Chosen models took me over 30 hours in total, whereas the two 10 man Cultist groups took about 40 hours in total. 20 models vs 6...

What kinda price did you get if you don't mind telling? What ballpark anyway? I'm probably selling them so curious.

As I keep track of these things I can give you exact numbers for the whole box:
These were all sold through ebay (in a friend's shop), so I didn't really get the best prices for all of them.
Excluding my time, I did make a good profit on the boxes' cost though.

Bronze level models;
SM Tactical squad = £40
SM Bikers = £35
Chosen = £40
Cultists (Tetchvar) = £45
Cultists (Anarkus) = £40

Silver level;
SM Terminators = £55

Gold level models;
SM Librarian = £35
SM Company master = £25
Kranon = £25
Helbrute (Heavily converted, magnetised, with all the extras) = £175

I found the squads were much easier to sell compared to the individual characters, but as it's ebay, results may vary. Good luck.

Thanks that's good to know. I've a lot of experience ebaying books and other media so hopefully it'll work out. I probably wont ask much for the

Here's a link to the plaguebearers sale if anyone wants. If its not gone by the end of the month I know someone who will buy them so get it while its hot! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182054334365?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I'll probably sell the chosen for a lot less - there's less of them and the models themselves are very common on ebay.

Well this has taken quite a while! I need to take some closer pics but here are the chaos chosen in all their baroque glory:



My deathwatch overkill has arrived!

I've got some of these guys sitting on my desk right know, so I know their some nicely detailed minis, but your paint job really makes them stand out, Beautifully work .

Beautiful work weets. An amazing job on very intricate figures. The added detail to the cloak is just wonderful.

Very lovely indeed, and a reminder that old skool paintjobs can look amazing on contemporary models.

Those are fantastic, Weety. I love the orange armor.

Those plague bearers are amazing and really suit your painting style. I'd love to see more.

Those chaos marines look sweet Weets , nice one. I'd have gone darker but you make them look really good !

Hiya peeps. Yes the chosen were much duller in their official GW photo. I went with my gut on them rather than looking at source material and so ended up lurid. I've considered a final wash of dilute umber-grey to give em more grimdark shadow, but I'm indecisive. Your thoughts dakkites?

I always end up replying at half five in the morning for some reason. I was too busy sticking my overkill together yesterday. Another box of dark vengence is due today as well so expect cultists and dark angels.

...

Overkill is rather tempting be interested to see what you do with it.

Awesome work on the Plague Bearers, Grots and Chaos Chosen.

EDC

Nice job on those Chosen!

Definitely copying that green axe blade when I paint mine.

The plaguebearers are stunning, awesome stuff! And I'm so jealous of your chosen CSM - they're better'n mine by a country mile! My excuse is that I found them too detailed (if you catch my drift)... Found it hard to get motivated to do a bang up job on them...

Nice job on the Chaos Chosen chaps.
I particularly like the skin tone you have on Mr. blue mace's head.

Look forward to your progress on the new hoard.

Hello dakkites. I am drowning in miniatures at the moment and had a wide choice today. I decided to hold fire on genestealer hybrids and go for the order and simplicity of space marines. This is how far I got today, a wash of sepia-grey and some nice bright green and silver on all the metals, then I worked armour wash into the lower legs and feet for a dirty battlefield grime. Next I'll ink in red on the guns and insignia.

Lovely green against the bone.

Looking good so far, Weets. Are these for your own collection or the 'bay?

These are going to be commercial work. If(when) I paint a space marine army for fun, it'll be the 80s beakies I've got stashed away probably. Not that this isn't fun. Its nice to paint something large, plastic and simple, restful for the fingers after the chaos models.

There is a bunch of us all weeping right now, I lay down a thousand layers trying to get a realistic bone feel, and you come along and do a fantastic job in 3 washes....

Look great so far, and that green really pops.

Nice start on the Deathwing termies.

EDC

Thanks camkierhi I hope you get that bone feel down...
I cannot recommend these washes enough - http://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Wash-Set-17Ml/dp/B004RO3UCU%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-ffnt-uk-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB004RO3UCU

Of course when I say I applyed a wash, its not enough just to splash it on and hope for the best, you need to control the wash and keep an eye on it while it dries, adding extra here and there or taking it away as necessity demands. I use a brush and sometimes my fingers...

Thanks EDC

Oooooh yeah. Old skool Deathwing termies - the best colour scheme out there in my book and I know you will do them the justice they deserve demand

I spent far too long on those Terminator models when I did them.

Good start, look forward to seeing how they progress.

Hi Dr H and Ruglud.

I think I spent the most amount on these just making sure they were perfectly smooth before I started. For some reason bits of dust and fluff had landed on them while they were freshly primed so I spent half an hour with a pair of tweezers on them! True story...

Progress, metals washed, red inked in, eyes dotted, purple added. I used winsor blue, which sure looks purple to me.

I get that sometimes. The fluff/dust/lint thing. I think it is from clothing. Moving your arms about dislodges it from the fabric and it floats around and eventually settles precisely where you do not want it to. I've taken to painting in short sleeves. I'd rather it just end up in the lint trap in the dryer, TBH.

Its a pain when it happens.

Well I've been working on the terminators and they're pretty much done to my tabletop standard, but I'm probably going to take them to the next level with some highlights and wotnot, do somthing funky with the power sword.

Also base washed the whole genestealer hybrid gang in a dark lavender gray. Aprox 10 parts grey, 5 parts black 5 parts blue and 3 red.

Terminators are looking good so far weety

Finished! They will be for sale soon if anyone's interested

Looking very good. Appropriate with Genestealer Culists as well if you've ever read Deathwing.

Beautiful, if a bit weird to see you doing something quasi-recent

Love the look of that hybrid. Gives a really creepy almost disturbing feel to it.....as if they're not nasty enough already

Thanks ya'll! Hybrids are next, they already have a few layers on em.

Here is the sale listing for those terminators - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/182097959065?

Good job on the Terminators, Weety. Looking nice.
Good luck selling them, a very very fair price.

Agreed - that's a nice looking Deathwing Squad.

Nice deathwing, the gritty look suits them over polished fresh armour!

Cool, thanks.

I've given the smaller hybrids the treatment, drawing entirely on the pictures on the side of the box for inspiration for some reason. I'm gona make the bigger hybrids more prettier colours. Just seen what major tom did to the aberrant - amazing work that. I've gone for more of a bulk paint approach to these. I'm planning on burning through the box in just a few months as there is so much to paint and so little time...

Hybrids look pretty ugly, but I mean that in a good way (they're alien mutants, they are supposed to be ugly!). They are awesome minis, and I bet they were fun to paint!

Great work on those hybrids, Weety - they look amazing. The sculpts really lend themselves perfectly to your painting style and they combine to create some outstanding looking models here. I think these might be my favourites of all of the things I've seen you paint recently. Really well done!

Top stuff Weety. Hybrids look cracking, Mine are still in the box waiting their turn sometime next godknowswhen!

Very good have you seen the Macrocosm range by the way? Some of those models will appeal to you.

Excellent work, they look brilliant.

Good good dude. Both the DeathWing and the cultists.

EDC

Wow lots of love for the f3 hybrids, f4 is next to paint.

Januine when you do it'll look the bomb.

Llamahead I just checked it out. I bet GW have tried to sue them on occasion. They seem very 80s retro in style. If I need more squats I know where to go... Plagiarism aside they make other hilarious minis - check this out http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/685203.page

Thanks for stopping by.

Oh my word, that is truly wonderful brush work - really good to see some newer models painted up in your style and makes me very tempted to invest in a set as they ooze character.

Those Hybrid's look stunning , beautiful work.

Hey Weety, I used to think we painted in a similar style, well just to correct myself , we do but you are at the top end of the scale !
Beautiful skin on those hybrids !!!

Well I am trying really hard! Lol.

Halfway through the larger three armed hybrids now. I'll try and take some progress pics in the morning.

Very nice painting style!

The latest commission project is empire troops. These are painted to a tabletop standard, which basically means I don't paint the eyeballs or do any fancy highlights.

These feature an interesting way of painting faded black fabric, which was to start with blue and add several washes of black mixed with red and brown. The client's suggestion. Worked very nicely.

Nice work, Weety. I'm sure the client will be pleased to have them on the table!

Excellent work on the hybrids, Weety.

Colourful little soldier types there.

Thanks Az and Dr H for bigging up the empire chappies. I reckon everyone else is waiting for genestealer hybrids, which is good cos they be nearly finished, dreckly. Monday at the latest!

The empire chappies are even better in person
how come you've not finished the hybrids yet ???

Love the washed out pink and blue of the Empire.

I like that blue-as-black look quite a bit! I will be trying that myself one of these days! Thanks!

Hello Dakka! Feels like I've been away awhile.

I said the genestealers would be ready by monday and it is a monday so...

Nice. Really top notch Hybrids


EDC

Thanks! Just the character models, purestrains and aberrants to do now.

Very nice skin tones on them Weets !

Cheers Mr Big H. I reckon what I need are some bigger pictures of these. Tomorrow I shall do this.

Nice job, Weety. Look great as a group.

Great looking genestealers

Am I the only one who thinks about a strange poker game when someone says (3armed genestealers hybrid)

Stranger things have happened theophany!

Those big pics I promised ya'll

Making a start on the deathwatch marines. Getting the black armour down first. Getting this shiny black is hard and needs many steps, but I'm commited to this technique now. It'll probably take forever.

Great looking Hybrids, Weety. I really like the skin tones you've achieved on them, especially the mottled effects. Well done!

Hybrids look amazing, loving the skin tones and blotches.

Interested to see how you do with the deep black, have tried this kinda thing, and failed. Patience being my downfall. Watching intently.

Well thanks chaps.

More work in progress, black is hard, it shows up any small lack of neatness. But I think its coming together slowly

A little progress on the patriarch... so fresh its still wet. Mostly took the photo to try and isolate any problems and come up with ideas. I feel maybe he is a bit too bright purple almost. He looks a bit like a blueberry. Might need to employ a little colour wheel thinking.

Next step;

Very nice work on these weety. I particularly like the salmon/red that offsets the colors that are closer together. Great work.

Perfect timing with the new spacehulk video game coming out with hybrids like those you did

Nice work, Weety, good progress.

Looks like the sculptor liked "that" tail scene from Alien, perhaps a little too much.

That blue-and-lavender scheme is classic Genestealer. I really like what you did with the exposed brain- very subtle.

Agreed. The Patriarch is lovely.

Nice work on Patriarch. He's looking great so far.

EDC

It's a classic scheme done well Weets ! If you still feel unsure perhaps try some little dot "mottling" around the colour change junctions ?

Good Morning Dakkadakka!

Thanks for all the posts.

Shaz, yeah, I've seen the trailer it looks really excellent.

Dr H its for sure a lethal tail and very alien 3 esque.

Cheers all

I feel that I'm done now, many washes and highlights later:

Fantastic job, like the colour scheme, and excellent job.

Great work. Lovely tongue

Thanks!

One more pic

That is a beautifully done model weets. Love the colors and shading.

Yeah, that Patriarch has come up really bloody nicely.

Cheers dudes. only 8 models to go and I will have completed all the genestealer hybrids. Gotta pull something special out for the magus, then there's the leader dude, the abberants, the purestrains and those 2 little tiny genestealers (familiars?)

Nearly done on this terminator, brother watsisname.

Wonderful job weets. Really love the flames,.. nice, delicate touch on the color transitions.

Thanks Mr splitta.

So now I know what I'm doing with black armour I made a start on another. It needs work but shows promise:

I really like how you've handled the black there. The bright colors really make the model pop against the dark too.

A bit more done - highlights, glazes, the black needed neatening on the left-side shoulder. Next I'll paint the eyes

Nice work so far on the Deathwatchers

Cheers azaz!

Slow incremental improvements are beginning to show:

He looks beautiful weets.

lovely work!

Finally I think I'm satisfied:

Nice work, Weety. The black (as well as the rest) looks great.

cracking job Weety - the charcoal black really works well. nice

Yep. That looks awesome.

EDC

Great work! He's come up really nicely.

Its true they are going to be a fine looking bunch of marines. Two more WIPs today. Painting Black armour is no longer a mystery.:

Genestealer Patriarch coloration is sweet! Nostalgia hit me, oh the old days of the genestealers and spacehulk of the past!

Xeno-hunters also looking fantastic!good mix of different chapter models as the fluff indicates.

Hello dakkadakka peeps, how bout that brexit vote huh? I'm sure there's no reason to panic. Its all part of the great boulder of history, slowly rolling down the hill.

More work in progress:

Nice work on the marines, loving the metallic feel about them.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Hello dakkadakka peeps, how bout that brexit vote huh? I'm sure there's no reason to panic. Its all part of the great boulder of history, slowly rolling down the hill.

But but but, I've already started preparing for war with France /jk
They might have well just given everyone a piece of paper with 2 boxes and no further information on and asked them to tick one at random, would have given the same result (within statistical error margins)... as opposed to 2 boxes and a mountain of conflicting information. Yeah, good job there.

Anyway, nice work on the marines. Looking nice.

Excellent work on the Deathwatch Marines, they look ace.

EDC

Don't worry Dr H I'm sure retaking Calais is probably going to be one of Boris's campaign promises.

It was a bit too close to 50/50 wasn't it. Feels like a bad omen.

well thanks for the comments, I only wish I had more time to paint. Real life is real busy; I'm getting married in two months. Congratulations me.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
...It was a bit too close to 50/50 wasn't it. Feels like a bad omen.

Too true.

Congratulations. All the best.

Minis look great. Waiting to get squashed by boulder of history...

Congratulations weety! A new chapter in your life begins.

Congrats, Weety!

Also, great looking Deathwatch there. You'll have to worry about partition with Scotland before you worry about taking Calais. Which in turn will mean Tory Governments for the rest of GBR for eternity...

Well I was joking about calais... And people can sometimes vote in unexpected ways if you goad them enough, as we have just seen.

Anyway no point letting it ruin a sunny day!

Congratulation, soon to join the rest of us dafties trying to explain away the bill for the modelling to the loved one, or have you found the rare and illusive "enabler" partner!

Personally the Europe thing is all a non-sense, and until we all get over our tribal roots and start thinking globally instead of selfishly (me included) people will suffer, and poor will be poor and rich will be richer. No doubt the shops will up the prices, we will pay more taxes, some will always take advantage. But I will still have to go to work on Monday, and life will go on, still with nowhere near enough time to do our beloved modelling. So it really counts for squat.

Now whats next on the master painters bench then..

Oh and have you seen this...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/694730.page

You have so much to contribute, would love to have you there.

Thanks for the invite!

I agree with your assessment - not much will change but there will be an economic downturn, probably europe wide. But that's the nature of history its full of ups and downs.

I'm going to keep at the deathwatch overkill box until I'm done I think.

More WIPs. These are nearly done so I though I would take some photos to check everything looks good and I didn't miss anything out:

Looking good, weety.

Hiya Dysartes! Wotcha.

I was sure I'd missed a few unimportant finishing touches yesterday when I took the photos, so I subjected them to my inner school marm for marking:

Looking great so far.

EDC

Shocking, 6/10, see me after class Nonsensne, they look excellent, though impressive to see your self-critique.

Hyper-critical-ism! Its the only way, when painting this many figures at once I could easily forget to paint their teeth and eyes... I know I know who is going to care if the teeth aren't painted but they have to be perfect or else how will I ever get an A+.

Nice report card, weety.

Side point - have you seen that Ifalna is streaming painting on Twitch these days?

Twitch huh... Is that like a new face-tube for the kids or something? These things keep slipping by me. I think its because I still have a mobile phone with buttons.

I'll give it a go.

She's on at the minute, weety - https://www.twitch.tv/ifalnasminis

Well I corrected my mistakes and I think it worked, I should give all my work the critical treatment:






The two jump pack marines are next on the table.

I love those Deathwatch minis. Good inspiration for me too, especially since I will soon have a set of them to paint for myself!

Congratulations on your engagement!

The teeth made all the difference great job!

Fantastico!

EDC

Blood angel wip. Hes looking very bling. Just needs a little neatening up on the chainsword and a few other minor quibbles.

This guy is handy in the kitchen, juliente vegetables, chips, topiary etc

Don't suppose he could pop around I got a hedge needs trimming!

All looking amazing as always. I am a bit torn on the actual sculpts, but your painting is excellent.

Very nice dude. The NMM on the Blood Angel is looking good.

EDC

Ca - They're alright... maybe they are a little on the chunky side, a little OTT on the hereldry. Also black and silver are tricky for me. I'm using vallejo game colour silver on these. Does anyone think those special metallics are worth the price and the smell?

I think I made a mistake with these in starting with a midtone. Starting black would have made it simpler and quicker.

Evil doctor cheese - Its not really NMM on the blood angel its metallics but with highlights and shades in NMM paints. I think I got that idea off nerdfest.

These guys all look fantastic. I haven't tried the "true metal" type metallics (yet), but Model Air and Game Air metallics are both very nice to work with, and so are the new (white cap) Citadel metallics.

Its just the bike guy that needs a doin now!


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Just bought some of the newer skink spearmen and I'm thinking I'm giving them lasers, making them 40k aliens... Anyone thoughts? Need to think about appropriate looking guns - I was thinking of remodeling tau guns but if anyone can think of a non GW-source of sci-fi lasers let me know.

Oh man, those are looking great! I'll have to pick up my game to catch up to your skilled DW! I love the character of them all!

You'll do fine TheLastTemplar. Just remember to take a photo and nitpick!

Today my skinks arrived and I tried my hand at Space Slann! Skinks make great aliens and I made them these phaser style pistols out of chopped up tau pulse rifles. I'm wondering if I should give them uniforms or just leave em naked? Any thoughts?

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

Today my skinks arrived and I tried my hand at Space Slann! Skinks make great aliens and I made them these phaser style pistols out of chopped up tau pulse rifles. I'm wondering if I should give them uniforms or just leave em naked? Any thoughts?

I think giving them uniforms would humanize them too much. If you are up for it, I might go for a bandoleer or utility belt though. Just because they don’t need extra hides like those soft-skins does not mean they don’t need a place to store their tech gizmos.

that sounds about right. I'm thinking they will be a bit like the AAnn, if anyone is familiar with Alan Dean Foster's comonwealth series.

So basically a lizard race, who communicate their emotional state with gestures, bathe in warm sand and have a complex hierarchical society based on ancient ritual and law. Every AAnn knows their place in society and secretly seeks to advance it. AAnn, sounds a bit like slaan, I wonder...

Love the idea, been many moons since I read any ADF but I can remember where you are coming from.

Not 100% on the guns, I think the aesthetic of the eldar weapons maybe more appropriate. But I really like the idea of just bandoleers and utility belts.

I toyed with the idea of eldar weapons, but felt they were too distinctive of the race. The tau stuff feels more anonymous. I might go eldar for the special/heavy weapon skink. Need to do some bitz browsing...

More skinks ready!!

Yeah I agree, reptiles would not wear a "uniform " per say, may same color for the "loin cloth" and bandoliers/utility belts. Lizards have their "naughty bits" hidden inside their bodies, hard to tell male/female anyway. Now space suits though, they may use those for harsh environments.

Those space skinks are nifty. I may have to borrow this idea.

Nice start to the skinks! Any plans for bigger dinos with space weaponry?

I'm considering the saurus box... but I didn't want to end up building and entire army... famous last words.

Squad leader wip, making him a larger laser carbine.

Nice skinks! I have been toying with the idea of Lizardmen in 40k for many years, but never gotten around to it. Your skinks are inspiring, I really like the phasers.

Ooh, I love them! Titchy Tau guns look so cute!

Those Tau guns are excellent Hasslefree and Heresy might have something else also The Assault Group has n excellent range of weapons to 40k up.

Cool lizard alien things. I like the pistols.

EDC

They are kinda cute aren't they Linsay40k. I'm not sure what colour and style to use on them. Lizardmen from the future can be almost any colour... I can't decide...
Lemon yellow with bluey purple scales and red eyes? That'd look proper mad.
Green, a perrenial favourite for lizards, is right out as I get bored of it and I have more orks and dark angels to paint anyhow.
Alternatively I could do a firey orange matched with baby blue scales and black eyes.
Neither of those choices is very subtle!
Thanks for the gun suggestion llamahead I'll check it out.

Photos of lizards would be my first port of call! We get some in our garden who have shimmering scales, like a rainbow trout - I've not yet seen Lizardmen done like that, so there's a potential new approach

Good idea! I was thinking of poison arrow frogs with the yellow, but they are amphibians...

Hey Weety, love the new skinks! I'm a big fan of the phaser pistols - they look far enough removed from the Tau tech to look like something new and interesting, and suit them very well. I agree that uniforms would be a little much, but maybe some armour plates or something scavenged here and there?

When it comes to colour schemes, the sky's the limit when it comes to reptiles! Especially if you go for something chamaeleon-y - maybe some natural camo?

Nice guns.

I agree with the lack of clothing; what's a lizard got to hide anyway?!
But maybe something ceremonial/official, to show rank could be added to one or two. Just to give them a bit of character.

And/Or some additions tech' items. They have high-tech' guns, where's their tricorders etc...

Oh yeah dont panic I'm definitely making utility belts! Just need some time off from work and stuff to really concentrate on it.

Thanks for the chameleons scarper! They are helping.

Awesome stuff weety. Been wanting to make some loxatl and skink could work nicely as the base model. Great stuff

Hi Januine do it they are great models, or maybe the saurus would be better?

Had a bash at the utility belts today. My greenstuff-fu is weak today. but I'm happy with the bitz I chose and the overall effect.

I love utility belts! They're so 1990s X-Men

Very cool stuff. Really excited to see how this project develops.

EDC

Very cool Space Skinks build so far, Weety!

Lovely build. They need some space skaven to fight in SpSkace Wars!

Yeah I saw a really cool space skaven army once. Cant seem to find them in the dakka gallery. But looks like a dakkite called Korrben is making 40k beastmen by combining skaven with plastic guard. Cool idea may steal/borrow.

Linsay40k Agreed but they need more pockets gadgets and gismos b4 they're finished and properly utilitarian utility belts.

Anyways I added hand guards to the larger phaser to make it more phasery, and boss lizard gets another arm and a muzzle on his gun.




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I imagine these guns going PEOWM PEOWM PEOWM when fired...


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fresh lizards, inlcuding alternate laser carbine.

Looking great, Weety. Nice variety on the weapons.

This ones got a phaser rifle with obvious star trek influence:

They are turning out super cool. I've seen Saurus as marines before. I'll be watching this project!

Thanks spacewolverine!

One more before I go. I need more lizard arms now.

I'm really impressed with how well you've made those arms work with the 40kified weapons. Especially the two handed ones!

Was the skaven group you were talking about BLACKHAND's ones, by any chance?

No those aren't the rodents I was thinking of. It was fun to look through those again though.

No these ones had white-grey armour plates and lots of cyber-warpstone guns converted from dark eldar I think. They were cleaner looking too, like lab rats...

Mow there's an idea, 40k skaven with pure white fur and blood red eyes.


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Now I suddenly want to make a 40k beastman squad. I did it ages ago with blood bowl beastmen, but now I want to try it in plastic and I'm fairyly sure I can get the beastman kit on discount at the moment...

This kitbashing is much easier in plastic!

My old 40k slaneeshi beastmen for you amusment.

They look fantastic. Long time ago I did an albino skaven army, was whfb though. Seriously thinking about doing some space rats myself at mo, got some skaven on my bench at mo.

Space skinks are looking spot on too. Nice balance.

Thanks cam. Do the space rats!

On 40k beastmen the only question remaining is will they be cultists for chaos, independent mercenaries or some kind of imperial penal legion... I lean towards penal legion as broken imperial stuff is easy to find on ebay.

Well since your skinks have tau ish weapons, and the tau are all about assimulating anyone, maybe make them tau ish too. You could use them as count as kroot. Eventually keep going you could have a nature based 40k army of mercs.

Though I enjoyed the good old days when in my head at least the imperium was made up of all sorts. Not just cadians. Creation is a wonderous thing and in an infinite universe all is possible. Goat men with laser guns no bother, just look at the platypus.

Lizards are looking great. Those 40k beastmen look wicked too.

EDC

I haven't seen those sculpts before, they're actually pretty nice. I really like the "staple gun" style pistols you've made. They rather remind me of the gun thingy the Dead Space characters have, and aren't obviously from any of the other 40K factions.

Right on weety!! I really love these, especially the guns. The ones tha look like handles are exactly like the weapons the doctor class in the game wildstar uses. Check em out! Can wait to see how you paint these as well

The Space Skinks look great, and I think affiliating them with the Tau is also a perfect idea that works well with canon. Similarly, I'd go for Imperial Beastmen, though if you wanted to go crazy you could do a set each for Imperial as well as Chaotic.

Maybe... what with all the extra heads and arms that could work.

Whilst waiting for lizardmen arms I got some more paint on genestealers, just work in progress skin/chitin colours:

Purestrains

Aberants

Familiars

Hello! I've been a follower of your blog for ages, but since I'm trying to forge through the DW:OK stuff myself, thought I'd make a comment on how great the skin tone is looking on your cult figures, especially the familiars. Given that they're supposed to be summoned from the warp I was thinking of trying to give mine an ethereal-sorta-vibe but had no idea how I'd achieve it. I reckon I might just copy yours!

PS just noticed that the familiar on the right is missing a claw. Mine broke in exactly the same place :(

Yeah I should fix that. It was like that when I opened em I think.

Cool I saw your DW;OK and there pretty damn good. Might be helpful to list the paints I used although I paints em in vallejo and I'm not sure there's equivalents in citadel.

Its a base coat of old rose, wet blended broad highlights in sunny skin tone, a stippled highlight of pale skintone, heavy wash of pale grey wash in a 5:2:1 ratio with purple wash plus dark blue. After that's dry do top highlights with more sunny skintone and pale skintone ontop. And thats as far as I got but there'll be more highlights and stuff.

Nice start, Weety.

Some of them do seem to be quite attached to those skulls, nearly as much as The Predator.

A skull in the hand is worth two in the bush they say.

I've got some time to paint today so I added more to the aberants. Highlights of sky blue and then pale blue for the chitin, basic fleshtone for the claws and bony protrusions, a terracota wash on the metal, flesh wash on the transitions between bone-skin-chitin.

They're looking fantastic weety. Really fine work

They look superb, love the pastel blues for the carapaces.

EDC

Thanks very much for your compliments.

I added more rust colours and detail with dark washes; umber and black, went over the models with a scalpel to try and get rid of tiny lumpy bits and then highlighted the bones and claws with pale flesh.

tried to get the photos in focus this time

Marathon painting today. I'm not quite ready to show the purestrains yet but the rest is finished!

Great job, Weety. I like the pale blue of the chitin.

Great work, Weets. Loving the purpley-flesh tones.

Top class. They're really something special.

EDC

Cracking work on the skin on the various Aberrants, you are certainly rattling through the Deathwatch: Overkill set with unnerving speed and quality. Keep it up!

Those are some pretty awesome skin-tones!

Hi - thanks for comments

Two new gun types for the space lizards:

Bit of GS work on the heavy multi-laser dude. Hes getting some wire feeds to a backpack battery next.

Those Aberants are ridiculously good. Space Skinks (Spinks??) are also shaping up nicely, looking forward to your laying down the paint on them...

As everyone is saying those pure strains are AMAZING!

Great work on the Space Skinks, really bringing those guns in as well, they really look like they belong to them, rather than borrowed.

Great work with the aberrants and familiars, Weety .

Interesting ideas there with the Skinks . When I first saw them, I thought you were converting up some Tau Empire auxiliaries.

Yeah I'm definitely looking for a fairly star treky type look with the guns, not tau really athough probably tau are the closest in style to star trek - we're bulk watching DS9 at the mo and I love the bajorian and cardassian phaser pistols.

Cool stealer models, and the Lizard force is getting stronger!

Thanks shas.

The final lizard (for now anyway). He has a bionic arm made from an old eldar guardian arm.

Good morning dakka! I am now married! And my beastmen came in the post! The good times roll.

I think I drank my own body weight in white wine spritzer!

Now would be an excellent time to do some kitbashing surely...

Congrats on the Nuptials Weety!

Kitbashing sounds like a nice way to do some time spending, I think.

Interesting use of a spare Eldar arm, looks organic enough, but the 5-fingers though, where did the space lizards get that idea from I wonder? Makes for different space lizards than just the Tau, who many mistake as a fish race. I once thought of converting the larger lizard men into Tarellian "dog-soldiers"

It was the best wedding ever! Actually it would have been better if I'd shelled out for the klingon wedding but then the bridesmaids would have had to have a batleth fight over the bouquet.

Good point didn't notice that. Maybe they are jealous of the extra finger...

Well I've been pretty damn hungover, but I did a bit of cut 'n' shut on this ungor. Seems that with a little re-jiggering its going to work. Also testing out photography with a black background... I think I need to fiddle with the ISO or sumat as its over exposed.


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Oh and this is the first member of Penal Legion squad IX of the Xanthus Punishment Battalion, Mutant cohort. Purged from the toxic underhive of Xanthus prime, these mutants are marked for death on the front lines against the xenos scum...

I'd better slap some green stuff in that crack! And I've nearly got this photography against black thing... just needed a more diffuse light.

Congratulations, recovered yet?

Beasty Boys are looking great.

Space Lizards! Now you have my complete attention!

And penal mutant troops!

Congrats on getting hitched! Love the Stealers.

Cheers!

Definitely not recovered yet... We are going to the zoo today which should help!

Happy wedding Mrs !

The zoo was fantastic although I don't recommend the smell of penguins to anyone hungover...

The squad leader and his number 2 are assembled... but they need wargear yet, they would have all the best grenades and stuff you'd think... now which box are the grenades in?:

Two more mutants for the legion are assembled. I'm having to cut these quite a lot to make em fit - looks fine from the front but the back needs major GS filling.

Congrats on tying the knot, Mrs Skemian . Wish you all the best!

On a dolly related note, loving the beastmen! With all these nice new out of the blue things like Stealer cults and Deathwatch armies, I hope GW does some Lost & the Damned stuff like mutants and whatnot in the future!

Yeah its nice when they do something weird. If only they could find it in their hearts to do some squat asteroid miners. I'd buy em.

I've reached an impasse with the penal beastmen. Does a punishment squad deserve special or heavy weapons? Surely they should be punished further by being all made to fight with lasguns... Anyone know what the codex says?

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Yeah its nice when they do something weird. If only they could find it in their hearts to do some squat asteroid miners. I'd buy em.

I've reached an impasse with the penal beastmen. Does a punishment squad deserve special or heavy weapons? Surely they should be punished further by being all made to fight with lasguns... Anyone know what the codex says?

Penal legionnaires do not get heavy or special weapons, they do however get rules that change how their weapons work.

Thanks shas, that's what I would have thought. Can't go trusting mutant convicts with a flamer, they'd frag their officers.

The rest of the team are ready to rock. Next I need to fill a multitude of cracks with GS.

Congratulations again, Weety.

Beasties looking good. Get fillin' those cracks.

Ooh, I like these. Got a similar project on my shelf. Gonna have to get cracking on it soon.

Found a discussion for them

Desperadoes
Basically before deployment, roll a D6 for each Penal Legion.
1-2 Gunslingers ( The Penal Legion's lasguns count as Assault 2 )
3-4 Psychopaths ( Grants Furious Charge, Fleet and the Counter Attack rules )
5-6 Knife Fighters ( All Penal Legionnaires count as having an extra close combat weapon and they have the Rending rule )

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So if you have multiple squads of penal troops, roll to see which of the three skills they get.

Well I've been busy filling the cracks and adding wargear and GS pouches tto these beastmen. Then I had a little play about with leftover knight heads and some ancient warmaster halberdiers and came up with empire foot knights...

Do they still use explosive collars in the penal legions? Human bombs? Nice looking work on those conversions.

Is it my dirty mind or was saying "filling cracks" followed by a picture of the rear of the beasties on purpose?!

Good additions, Weety.

Excuse me, that is a married woman you are talking too! They don't do jokes about such things.

Excellent work on the Beasty boys. Coming to life nicely. One question on the knightly fellows. What's with the ridiculous ploom on no. 4. That is crazy! He should be bright yellow and the feathers be brilliant pink.

I really like the penal beasties! I gotta say though, when I read "Good morning dakka! I am now married! And my beastmen came in the post! " I thought for a second I had read it backwards and you had mail order husbanded a few burly fellows. Then again, maybe you did!

Congratulations!

A bit slow, but congrats on the wedding.

Beastmen are looking fab, really great kitbashing and converting.

EDC

wehrkind; Hes not a beastman but he is a beastly man...

Cam I had to shorten all the other plumes, they looked ridiculous on these short bodies, but that one looked just ridiculous enough so I left it.

Dr H did you notice I gave one a tasteful back cloth for modesty... I feel a bit of fluff coming on:

"AAAten-SHUN!" Screamed the lieutenant and the braying herd ceased shuffling about and made a nervous attempt to straighten up. Commandant Vaskundar looked on with increasing trepidation at his assembled penal legions. Putting on a bold face he strode down the ranks "Men... MEN! I am your new commandant! You will call me SIR YES SIR and I expect TOTAL obedience, and you'd better all smarten up!" The lieutenant trotted to keep up with the longer legged man "Beggin your pardon guv... but not all the 'men' really have a good grasp of imperial. I reckon they can manage to call youse 'Bossman' But I don't fink their lips will twist round sir" Grabbing the nearest beast by the shoulders he screamed "CALL ME SIR YOU ORRIBLE LITTLE BEAST!!" The terrified beast, his eyes rolling, managed a strangulated "Ssthhhurrr ess sthur" and the lieutenant threw him to the ground.
"I see what you mean, but for emperors sake get this creature a more concealing loincloth lieutenant! Then at least I wont have to see their backsides when I'm ordering them into the fray"
"Very good sir, back cloths all round sir, you should a seen em when I started sir, naked as the day they was born, cept for all those tooth charms"
Vaskundar allowed himself a sigh. What had he done to deserve this uncouth command, maybe it was that lady commissar he had tried his moves on, maybe a commander he'd snubbed at some party, whatever, he was here to stay till death or promotion...

Nevelon I think they do but the fluff says it depends and some have sub-dermal drug implants instead... Its up to the techpriest in charge I guess.

Fine fine, it's just me then.

I did notice indeed, Weety. Good job, nice and tattered.

Nice bit of fluff, and the command unit is looking good!

Weets, I really like to see you getting into some GS work. I think you've got the talent for it & I know you've got the creativity. I'm looking for great things to come in the future.

Hi dakkadakka hows it hanging. The happy world of retail has been keeping me away from miniature things recently. It has been the busiest tourist season for a long time and I have to sell them all food. Dirty jobs, someones gotta do it... (I loved that show).

Gitsplitta I hope I don't disappoint. Its just like ceramics but 100% more tiny.

Today I finally finishing the genestealer hybrids, with just the leaders to go. Here is my progress on the magus:

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You'll do fantastic weets. Speaking of fantastic.. Wow! Love the blending on the robe, the gradation of the blue and his skin! Just can't say enough good things about your progress on that magus!

Yeah, looking lovely, Weety.

That is stunning work. Really great.

How can anyone NOT trust that Magus? such bright and showy colors, like he has nothing to hide at all!

Excellent work on the Magus, especially the orange on the robe.

EDC

Thanks dakka people. Its a pretty luminous orange - two layers of german orange to get a nice solid colour and then a layer of blood red mixed with wash medium. Looks like rock-candy. I'm going to add a little shade to it before its done.

Got the leader dude ready to the same level today, same orange on his coat lining. they both still need details but that'll have to wait till thursday now.

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That Leader is looking real good so far, can't wait to see him Thursday!

It's thursday and I think I've finally cracked it!

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Looking great!

Stunningly beautiful weets, you've outdone yourself!

How did you do the bonesword, it looks fantastic?

Thanks all.

The Sword started white. First a thick dark purple-blue wash which was a mix of p3 blue ink, vallejo violet ink and vallejo oxford blue paint. Then I highlighted in sky blue and added several layers of yellow to the gems. Finally some very watered down p3 green ink which is really Aqua green verging on turquoise. I think maybe it still needs something no?

Great work on these two. Your hybrids continue to look fantastic.

Thanks Az

Well that's the lot of them. I'm going to put them up on ebay for an obscene amount of money tomorrow. Anyone care to comment on what you think they'll fetch?

In the post winging its way to me are some gnarly mechanicus cyborgs n robots, and tomorrow I'll be priming space slann, penal beastmen, chaos cultists and much more so I need the space. I put an extra shelf in the display cabinet and immediately filled it with oldhammer.

Good luck with the auction

They should bring a tidy sum weety... good luck!

Here we go - it's a lotta money but that reflects how much work it takes to get a genestealer cult to look this good - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=182270587247 - in fact it's a bargain considering how much work it took! Hope someone's interested.

My cultists are done. I've gone for a nurgle-ish theme of dirt and grime and sores.

They are cult-tastic! The pinkish tones contrast beautifully.

Very nice! Papa Nurgle will be pleased!

Good luck with the 'nid cult dudes. Very worth it.

Nice work on the Nurgle cult dudes. Liking the unifying army green.

Thanks ys'll. Here's something else I'm working on :

Cultists look awesome. Cracking scheme

30k AdMech... fantastic!

wow weety and 30k thats very exciting

Nice job on both cults!

Excellent work the genestealer cultists and choas cultists looks awesome.

Really fantastic palette on both.

EDC

Hiya thanks for replyin. I love the ad-mec stuff so I'll be painting a lot of it over the next year or so. Already got a box of ruststalkers!

A little progress report, first the space slann, after long deliberation, are going to be yellow, with green scales and red eyes. Not sure what colour to do the guns yet, probably gold...

Next is a representitive sample of the progress on the penal beastmen. They need rust on their guns.

All showing progress. Look forward to more.

Thanks Doc.

Bit more progress on those beasties. They look done but I've a mind to put some tribal tats on their big catachan shoulders.





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Went ahead and gave the beasties some ink! Might put some highlights on them yet. Time to call it a day today though.

Tatoos really look good on the beastmen weety, nicely done.

Love your new work Weets!

Yes, give them tat...Oh, you've done it.

Good job.

Nice Tats! the guns look decent too! Love the bot!