I always love to see tattoos! Nicely done Weety!

Nice work on the tattoos on the beastmen. They've come up very nicely, as have the cultists.

Hiya dakka-naughts. The tattoos are nice, which was a surprise as it was a bit of a stretch painting that small. Do you ever find yourself taking a deep breath and holding it before you do a really fine bit? I find it helps with the very fine motor control. I'm gona try and make them awesome by adding highlights soon. To tired to paint that small tonight. I'm butting base colours on the lizards, the guns are going to be blue-grey NMM because its sci-fi.

Some of said lizards:

Skinks looking great, can't wait to see the finished product

Glad to see you still cranking out vintage lead Weets!

Lizards looking good there weety!

Dave! you're alive!

weetyskemian44 wrote:...Do you ever find yourself taking a deep breath and holding it before you do a really fine bit? I find it helps with the very fine motor control...

All the time. I nearly turn purple with some of the models I make.

Good progress on the lizards.

 Dr H wrote:

weetyskemian44 wrote:...Do you ever find yourself taking a deep breath and holding it before you do a really fine bit? I find it helps with the very fine motor control...

All the time. I nearly turn purple with some of the models I make.

Good progress on the lizards.

This ! ^^

I have personally mastered the art of breathing through my toes, to enable the rest of me to stay still.

Love the skinks, and the tattoos on the beasty boys are sublime.

A very useful skill Cam... we need a tutorial on that! Well I've been busy and here is the deathwatch fast assault section.



Well that's it then, I've painted everything in the box bar the the little communications stick thing... I might not bother with it.

I don't know what should be the next big thing after the lizards and the robot it is a toss up between dark vengence dark angels, that horrible chaos dreadnought thing or sicaran rust dudes...


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oh or I have a box of those dark eldar with spiky hoverboards!

Does anyone else feel that the popularity of dark eldar has peaked? I used to see a lot of em about but not so much now and the sets are selling cheap on feebay.

Very nice looking group weets!

Nice work on the marines.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
... that horrible chaos dreadnought thing ...

That it is.

When was the last time we saw you do Dark Eldar? I vote for them.

I have never ever even seen a dark eldar as the box is still shrink wrapped! Probably more exciting than the flesh-nought yes!

Wow. Tribal tats look really cool, I especially like the ones on the faces.

EDC

Stunning work. Really nice. And black is wonderful, all of it is great but the black is nice and deep.

Your DE might suprise you how thin and detailed their limbs and weapons are. Space Elves and all.

Hello all. Its been a hell of a month during which I've only had two days off work so that's my excuse for not touching the brush... retail is a real alien queen of a job.

But is over now and I'm into time off so I finished up the beastmen:



And for fun I recycled some 90s issue chaos marines with some chaos warrior hand weapons, stick em on a nice scenic base and they look lovely:

Those beastmen are lovely weets.

Very cool beasties!

Awesome beasty boys. Great colours.

Those Beastmen are awesome, they've got a nice old-school feel about them. Looking forward to seeing the lizards finished too.

wow, that Soviet Tank green really looks good on those lasrifles. Well Done Weets!

Its been a while but I finally finished something.

-Tropical lizardmen with metallic blue guns
-a rusty robot
-oldhammer pedler and blacksmith

Great to see you about, lovely work, great colours and detail. Love the variety of models too.

Good mixture, and all looking nice.

Thanks chaps - the robot and lizards deserves a bigger picture I think:

How about a little freehand on that peddler's jug? a simple XXX would do. Image search 'moonshine jug' if you don't get it

The space lizards are fantastic.

Liking the space lizards! they came out very nice!

Lizardmen are lovely the guns really work nicely.

Some nice work there, weety - given you're in retail, are we going to lose you to the *shudder* Christmas shopping rush in the near future?

Oh man, I love what you've done with the Sci Fi Lizard men, they look really awesome.

EDC

Dysartes you will lose me to retail over xmas but get me back double time in january! Everyone is on a diet so food sales go down!

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Anyone else here work in retail? The festive season is upon us.

First one of the doggies I got a while back. I need to dig out the rest of the pack, they are tucked away in boxes. This one is some kind of mastiff I think.

weetyskemian44 wrote:Anyone else here work in retail? The festive season is upon us.

I have worked in a supermarket and in a few pubs (once even on Christmas day) in the past, so I know what you will be going through.

Good job on the dog.

Good dog. Stay!

I've worked in retail before, so I know your pain.

EDC

Sit Ubu, sit. Good dog!

I found the other dogs... and a pack mule. But first some experimental chaos marines - its hard to see from the picture but they are painted with a base coat of metallic pink.

They look great, really old school chaos colours.

Those are some really cool models.

EDC

The blue really does interesting things to the pink. Nicely done weets.

They look kind of translucent like that. Might be a good technique to remember for creepy things in the future.

Nice work on the recent-ish stuff, Weets. Deathwatch and Admech robot look particularly good, and the Space Skinks are also very cool.

The blued pearl pink is a nice look. Its a mix of vallejo metallic medium in about a 2:3 ratio with some rose pink, applied in several thin layers, then I added a little white to the mix and used that quite thickly as a highlight. Then the whole thing was doused in a blue-grey-purple wash.

Thankyou all for keeping the blog rolling with comments. As you may imagine Iceland Stores has me firmly in its frosty winter grip and there is very little time for hobbies, but lots of lovely money for presents, this year I have bought for myself a troupe of 80s chaos thugs, a regiment of 90s savage orcs with command and shamen, an old orc dreadnought missing a foot, metal night goblin regiment with 2x shamen , 2x goblin doom divers, a modern rhino, some tyrannid warriors, another box of ungors, 3 kataphron destroyers and a squad of 30k spez mrinz.

I got it all for a song because blackfriday/cybermonday seemed to have overwelmed the normal high rollers on fee-bay. After gorging all weekend on a constant stream of tempting auctions they just weren't there to catch the badly photographed joblots at 7am in the morning. Postman looked very miffed at me having carried several sacks of lead up 3 flights of stairs. Don't know when I'll get around to painting any of it but January is coming so chin up!

Still not done on these but more progress - I had a go at making my own brass colour by mixing biege, gold and sepia into the metallic medium - looks quite nice but needs washes and highlights - done some electrical effects on the power weapons but they need more contrast to look convincing:

Classics, come out to plaaaay!

Its a great old kit, very good conversion fodder. I love the tiny snouts on the helmets, very porcine, goes well with pink.

Looking good. I wasn't sure about the pink/blue, but your brass sets it off nicely.

Its my last day off work till xmass tomorrow. I've got the gaming chair all tuned up and I'm already drinking overproof cherry wine heavily.

Some things got painted this morning:

Chaos Mureeens get a delicate splash of dark wash in their crevices...



My kit-bashed foot knights are ready for me to get indecisive about heraldry on...



In case you missed it these guys are made from leftover empire knight heads and arms attached to the old halberdiers used to come with that game - I forget whats its called - it was one of those licensed things from waddingtons or spears... Battlemasters! - had to look it up.


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I'm all out of cherry wine - onto the brandy...

Foot knights are looking excellent, and almost ?cute somehow in all the oversized armour but without the horses? Maybe just me...
Are you thinking individual heraldry for each one, or a unit theme? Should be a fun freehand exercise

I'm even indecisive about that... Maybe individual yet also with a common theme?

Looking good Weety.

I'll just leave this here for inspiration

Moustached sun. It's decided.

The fat angry chicken is also quite nice!

Nice work on the CSM, they're looking super cool.

EDC

Scarper wrote:Moustached sun. It's decided.

King Arthur for you eh?

weetyskemian44 wrote:The fat angry chicken is also quite nice!

And that's Sir Robin. Who bravely ran away.

Very belatedly getting the joke here Dr H. I'll have to use those shield designs now for the Lulz.

January sweet january is here and I've gotten the basic scheme done on the dark angel squad. Its been ages now since I last picked up the brush. I started with watered down vallejo dark green which was a "surprisingly" good match for dark angel green. On the third coat I added some p3 armour wash for shade. I need to neaten it up in a few places and do highlights.

Good to see you back at the table again weets. The DA are looking very solid. Like the contrast between the bright red and mellow dark green.

Thanks gitsplitta. Even with xmass out of the way I'm probably not going to get these finished for a few weeks. The cold and darkness slow me down. January apathy. I should get the fur hat and coat outa storage again.

Next to do are highlights in pastel green, eye details, insignia on the knees, metals... if I can just get out of this cosy duvet nest...

They (meaning the fur) do look quite luxurious!

A luxurious deep green! I've got a real soft spot for the beaky helmeted models, they look great.
When I get a slow period like that, I often find it's reinvigorating to try something different - a touch of sculpting, a weird model you've been putting off for a while, or even building some terrain.
Also, psshhhh, complaining about the cold in sunny cornwall

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Very belatedly getting the joke here Dr H. I'll have to use those shield designs now for the Lulz.

I like nothing better (well, there are some things) than sneaking in a joke/reference and seeing if anyone picks it up.

Good start to the DA.

Nice work so far on the DA.

EDC

Hi all an thanks for comments!

Now scarper its a common popular misconception that cornwall is in any way sunny... but that may cut no ice with you up there in Edinburgh. I feel a little exposed up in my drafty unheated 4th floor flat overlooking the bay right now with the storm coming. But again it'll probably fall as snow where you are so I'll expect noe sympathy.
I shall take your advice and paint something odd today to mix things up.

Having lived in both, I can vouch for the fact that indeed Cornwall is sunny, for exactly 3 weeks a year, the rest of the time it rains, which is quite amusing, as when I moved to Scotland many years ago, they told me it rains all the time up here, and though not sunny, it does not rain half as much, but we do get snow, not had a good winter in a couple years now, but even this mornings inch of the white stuff, would be a show stopper in Cornwall. In many ways I envy your loft looking out over the bay.

Lovely work as always here, sorry did not comment sooner, been struggling, look forward to some weety goodness later.

I'm happy to be envied! It'll be lovely when it dries out.

Today I painted a dude I've done before - the original space marine scout. I seem to have a few of these kicking about. I've been playing a lot of borderlands so this is a vague homage to the vaulthunters and bandits of that game.

Love him. The blue on his chest is my favourite bit.

He looks great! Great homage - love the burns and the tattoos. Have you met Face McShooty ingame yet? Most bizarre quest in the game. Did it help with your painting funk at all? Certainly looks different to the DA

My Dad's actually from Polperro (near Looe on the south coast), so I'm certainly familiar with how drowned Cornwall gets for most of the year! Seafront flat does sound pretty jealousy inducing... And we've indeed had a wee dusting of snow here, really pretty.

Oh wow! Like the tats on the mini, steady hand helps!

A dexterous hand is an asset Shaz, and idle hands make light work or something. I would insure them but that would cost money.

Scarper don't be too jealous its more of a council tenement block on a hill, but absolutely stunning views! I don't believe I remember shooty mc face but I shoot a lot of people without checking the name - I'm halfway through number 2.

Thanks graven I had to hold my breath to do that bit.

Well I have to go to wales tomorrow for some family gathering which I feel obliged to attend. But even so I can't believe I'm driving to wales in January during a cold snap it is so dumb.

This is how far I got on the Dark Angels, they are so close to being finished:

Dark Angels look pretty nice, Weety. Not far to go on them now. Also very cool to see the old Scout model as well.

Yeah the Dark Angels look great. It inspires me to paint mine!

Nice work on the DA squad.

Safe trip.

Thanks ya'll, home tomorrow for more painting hopefully! Wales was actually not bad for january... mostly dry and just a bit freezing.

I wouldn't have thought white primer would have worked for Dark Angels but you pulled it off ! Nice one !

"Mostly dry and just a bit freezing " ??? ☺

Salutations dakka. Not had much time for the hobby recently, real life. Very dull.

Decided to keep my hand in by finishing these two, who've been languishing on the alcove of shame for years:

That cloth-work looks fantastic

Dang! They look awesome!

EDC

They look really nice Weets, particularly the knives !

Very nice. I especially like the color scheme on the hoods.

Well thanks! They got a bit more care in painting than the average skaven as they're all I've painted in weeks.

Hello dakka and happy vernal equinox. Having emerged from the winter hibernation period I decided to clear the desk of half finished stuff;

These thieves had been sitting around gathering dust so I finished them off and tried my best to paint their eyeballs without making them crosseyed:



These chaos marines also just needed bases finishing and eyes painting.



Some Goblins for the horde



Next I have to finish those dark angels.

Hopefully this will free up space for new things.

Great to see you still at it, weets! I had a big catch up on your thread when I came back, it's been two years since I was here last! All brilliant stuff!

Good to see you back at the painting table. Looking good, and not at all cross-eyed.

I'm glad you think so. Maybe they are a tiny bit off but we're talking nano-meters. Its good to pick up the brush again!

Having a House MD marathon atm. Maybe its Lupus?

Its never Lupus.

Cool liking those thieves are they destined for Frostgrave?

At last...about blooming time. Nice work, one on the left keeps looking at me funny.......JK

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Its never Lupus.

Or twins.

The desk clearance continues - dark angels are go:




I'll be selling these sometime.

Only the knights who go neep are left on the painting desk.

Nice blend of a more conventional style with your own, I'm sure someone will snap them up.

Those thieves are beautiful, Weety! Are the capes / shawls etc all green stuff? Seems a shame to sell the DA after so much work...

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 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The desk clearance continues - dark angels are go:




I'll be selling these sometime.

Only the knights who go neep are left on the painting desk.

Really beautiful, Now I want to see you do all the classic RT marines - especially rainbow warriors!

Space Sharks always made me laugh...


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Hiya Scarper! Yes the capes are all green stuff. I think I have a talent for it, but it is so time consuming its hard to be sure. It seems to consume all my mental energies fiddling it into the right shapes. Capes are easy though, nature of the medium works in their favour. The hard part is rolling out the green stuff flat without leaving finger prints (mine seem to show even through latex gloves) or sticking - petrolleum jelly must be used in just the right amounts. I think I ended up rolling it out with a paintpot smeared in lube.

As to the dark angels I would keep them but I've run out of room in my flat. We're going to buy a place soon, we're just waiting for the brexit and other crazy 2017 stuff to destroy house prices first... not long now.

Some cool plastic stuff I'm ready to prime and excited to paint:



These knights have been bugging me for months so I went and did some heraldic colours just to get them started. Is it just me or do they look like the tellietubbies? Need more working on...

Are those Battle Masters Men-At-Arms with arm and head swaps?

Yep, well bitspotted.

Cool. I got started back in the early 90s with Battle Masters, so they are really ingrained in my gaming memory.

Cool. You'll remember this cannon and crew then;



They are often for sale at great prices I find

Very nice!

Also this knight and then that's all my battlemasters stuff. Not such a bad way to make a cheap empire army really.

When did you get back? Great work, nice to see some weety goodness.

I was gone a while, now I'm back! I was very busy... I had painters block for three months to be honest.

Going to get started on those models in the morning.

You've really been knocking them out quickly now that you're back! Or have you been painting up a storm while taking a bit of a posting-break? Either way, great stuff here. I really like the neat lines on the heraldic shield devices, while the Dark Angels just look great in their own right. Might it be worth just putting them away for awhile if you'll be buying a house soon?

Meh - I bought the dark vengence box with commerce in mind and I've already sold the chaos chosen and the terminators. I'd rather sell them. I've still got tons of retro 80s stuff that will fill the shelves of any hypothetical house so I wont miss them.

llove the battlemasters stuff weety!

Thanks Mr Az.

I've genuinely been painting but there's nothing much to show yet as its all just shades of grey at the mo:



I think they are going to be rusty. I imagine them being out in all weathers waiting to ambush the enemy, out of touch with the main army and unable to polish their metal bits.

Metallic grey and grey grey.

Well that's creepy as all hell. :Thumbsup:

Is this all just preshading?

It's beautiful work, looking creepy as Graven said.

They must be ghost cataphrons. I'm in two minds but I think I should paint the hulls a colour. I hate decisions. Red would be obvious choice...

Cool. Really digging the metallic silver and grey.

EDC

Oh nooes! I put the wrong heads on - I really want them to have the right heads with the triple lens darnit. Going to have to rip their heads off. Fnark blorp.

Looks great Weety. Are you achieving the effect with successive washed coats?

Lets see - one thick coat of mixed vallejo washes - mostly grey. Then I used a black wash in the crevices and the metal is a mix of metallic medium with grey and a hint of oxford blue.


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Used the leftover metallic paint mix plus a little wash medium to start off the infiltrators

I tell ya weets... those are one of my favorite units in the skitarii army... both in their looks and the way they play. Don't know if you're doing them on commission or on spec... but they are well worth their points to a potential buyer & not just a vanity project.

They are probably going to be on sale at some point. I'm taking a huge break from internet selling, but its time i started again and made some space.

I did look up how they played before I assembled em, which is why I gave them this load-out. Otherwise I was going with the power sword and carbine for asthetic appeal - Still this means have loads of cool guns and swords going spare... hmmmm

You chose well. These can be devastating in assault, especially if you give the boss the special relic taser-goad... and they're fast too.

Well I yanked the heads off with clippers and put the right ones on...
This is the next two steps - a rusty mix of red brown and grey washes followed by highlights in a mix of metallic medium and sky blue.

So today I decided on some colours, german orange with a touch of blood red, then grey and red mixed wash. Lots of sky blue for SFX:

Nice colours they are, you have there too.

Really nice so far, these new guys should work great with your paint style.

Progress today - lots of armour wash in the crevices, lenses blued, brass bits brassed:

Nice progress weets.

Very nice work as always! I really like the paint jobs on those Battle Master miniatures in particular, you work your best magic on those older figures. The newer stuff looks great though, nice to see some variety!

Wow, that blue really pops!

Its all finished I think... bar the odd mold-line I just noticed...



Some tyrannids I knocked up for fun.

Love your work, dude.

The oldest models i have are the weird pointy-mask cultists.

Very nice weets... excellent work on the AdMech.

Thankyou. Next I'm painting dark eldar kalabites and a newish space marine squad I found at the charity shop. I don't know what chapter to do them, but they are vanilla marines on the box and I do have a pot of ultramarine blue. Any requests?

Tasty mech', Weety. Good job.

Nice nid's too.

As for chapter, I have no particular favourite. Although I do enjoy the half or quartered schemes.

So those tyranid warriors are carrying your children, then? Heretic!!!

As always, excellent work, weets. How did you get the blue so bright on the Admech guys?

Dr H, I was thinking of doing nova-warriors actually, which is a quarter scheme.

Valhalla The blue is vallejo sky blue. To get it that bright is all about layers. I first painted it pure white, then sky blue, then a blue wash followed by several more layers of sky blue with some white added for the highlight layers. It helps that the rest of the model is contrasting dull greys and dirty reds.

I've been distracted from the dark eldar and marines by these groovy old chaos thugs I rescued. Also found some really rare 1980s transfers for the shields, they were all stuck together but I saved a few.

This guy is a cyclops. There are lots of fun mutations in this crew. I painted his shield with a big spiky eye. Took loads of photos and this was the least out of focus:



Also painted this ones shield as its a funny shape:



This guy wins the prize for looking mental:



Dude who looks like Conan:



A punk rocker



Unlike the others this guy is a satyr and has a genie outfit... used one of the old transfers on his shield:



Skeletor lookalike, this guy is the unit champion I reckon. Another cool 80s transfer:



Dog man with a tentacle arm...

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Lobster boy:



Dude from dragonball Z



Group shots

Cannot Exalt this post enough.

Exceptional work.

Very nice. I don't think I've ever seen the skull-face guy.

Quite the classic motley crew there!

Thanks all!

Dsteingass: They do remind me of Motley Crue...


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I'm painting my marines ultramarine today because I have the right type of transfers... Anyone any advice on getting the stupid shoulder transfers to lie smooth?

Nice work on all the mutant-like dudes.

For transfers you want a gloss surface, micro-set, transfer, micro-sol (multiple applications until conformed to the surface), varnish, matt varnish.

hmmm. Will have to look into those for next time. I muddled through as best I could - here is a WIP shot of some smurfs:

Good start. Very vibrant blue.

If you don't varnish over them now, you can micro-sol them later to get the same benefits.

Winterdyne did a good step-by-step on the use of those solutions here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/333331.page#2221241

These are very nice indeed!

There blue, do, dee dee da da dum!!!!

Sorry, great start, nice colour. Don't tend to use transfers, so no help.

 Dr H wrote:
Nice work on all the mutant-like dudes.

For transfers you want a gloss surface, micro-set, transfer, micro-sol (multiple applications until conformed to the surface), varnish, matt varnish.

The Dr is correct, you'll get brilliant results is you use micro-set and micro-solutions.

Hello again. They must love me at work as they keep putting me on the rota and I have had hardly anytime to paint. But I managed to squeeze some painting into evenings and produced a colour scheme for my dark eldar:



The armour is a very complicated colour. I made a metallic green with a mix of metallic medium, yellow and green ink. After several coats of that I glazed it with watered down turquoise ink. After that was dry a coat of sepia wash. Then highlights with more of the metallic green. Finally a coat of armour wash

Very cool color weety... worth the work I'd say.

Ooh, very Dark Elf, in a very good way. Maybe switch to darker skin tone, go full Drow?

Both very sinister and very futuristic looking effect on these guys

Very nice armour, weety - any plans to push the contrast a little higher on the energy bits of the dude on the right of the picture?

Cheers chaps. Everything I'm painting right now is edging gently towards completion, but its another mad retail week bank holiday/half term so don't wait up!

They look so good, fantastic colour choice, really top notch stuff, really dramatic.

BTW I have joined the ranks of retail delivery personnel. Don't think we will see each other on the road, but I will wave anyways.

Weety, as always amazing. Just love those admech

Hi Dysartes how do. Yeah they aren't finished yet and pumping that energy coil up to max brightness is definitely going to be part of the plan.

Camkierhi The hardest part is finding peoples houses. Well most houses are easy to find, but then you will get one who lives down the third track on the left after the cattle grid, or doesn't have a house number because it fell off etc... and then you end up running late. I don't drive the vans anymore they bought these huge automatic Merc vans and I drive stick only. I just handle bagging and tagging now. Good luck!

Thanks San76. One of these days I'm gona do some imperial fists, I love that yellow.

I really like those Dark Eldar. I may well steal that armour idea for ...something. Very nice!

Nice colour you achieved on the armour.

Another rare day off. Finished the ultramarines:



These will be for sale soon, if anyones's interested.

I sold the genestealer hybrids, finally making enough room on the shelf to put these ultramarines up.

They look good weets!

Nice blue - got a lot more depth to it than most of the ultras you see. Was it wash based again?

Wow, lots of great stuff here. I love everything, but the Skeletor Chaos Guy is my favorite.

Nice Ultras there, Weety. Have you left off the usual gold/yellow trim so people can customise them to their own Ultras force?

Mmmmm Ultras. Nicely done!

Thankx Nevelon, Grass4hopper, gitsplitta and Dr H for positive comment.

Azazelx that's right these ones are for sale so I didn't presume to pick a colour. And actually I like em blue.

Scarper no I started with a base coat of ultramarine blue. Vanilla marines + vanilla painting style! There's a few washes after that - one big wash with a dark-blue grey and a final crack+crevice wash of armour wash, and highlights in sky blue.

Ah, so that's why they look so blue; no edge colour. Couldn't work out what it was.

Nice tidy job, Weety.

Congrats on the sale, hope you got enough that you are happy.The Ultras look stunning, really nice work, hope they sell soon.

Less than I hoped but still an order of magnitude more than I bought them for. Well worth it. I enjoy painting but have no room for actual gaming so its win-win.

Raven wing are pretty much done! Its hard getting good pictures of these long models... Now I look at em in the photos there are some scrolls and seals that need squiggles:

Lovely work on the Ravens here, Weets!

Good work, Weety. Keep it up.

Great work on the bikes, can't wait to see them finished.

I'm getting a holiday soon and I will spend some of it finishing these and the dark eldar.

Its pretty damn hot and sunny right now and I have been selling a ton of beer, ice and ice-cream. A nice thing about working in food sales is doing fridge/freezer duty in hot weather. Can't wait for that holiday, but I will miss the walk in. No aircon at home.

What do I have in the potential paint pile (ppp)?:

a rhino tank
4 old high elf swordsmen of somewhere or other
Some more 90s plastic chaos marines
Hoverboard dark eldar dudes
a regiment of plastic halberdiers/spearmen/swordsmen

In the stripper are many 90s imperial guard mostly mordian iron guard and catachan jungle dudes along with ecclesiastical types and a leman russ.

This seems a little poor in choice so I'm going to go buy more stuff immediately.



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Any recommendations welcome

Nice work on the Ravens wing.

I vote for the Chaos Marines next!

EDC

Thanks chaps

Here are the dark eldar, looking very iridescent:

Lovely!

Nice work. Like the flag (could do with a better look of it )

Yes - a better look at the flag - It is rather good. I'll get on that dreckly


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What was I supposed to be doing? Oh yes a photo of the flag... while I get round to that here is a dreadnought I finished yesterday, one of the really old but still recognizable as a dread ones, solid metal so it weighs a tonne. This one was found at the car boot sale lagged in paint. Whilst stripping it its leg fell off and I re-posed it slightly to give it a lil' swagger.




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I should put some grass on the base before I call this finished, it looks a little empty.


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Now that flag - I got two old transfers of a hand in a circle from the 80s, unfortunately they were different colours so I had to heavily overpaint the second side.

Nice work, Weety. The Dark Eldar look the business. I also like the old-school BA Dread.

Thanks Azazelx. It's a classic old chunk of metal. I hand painted all the symbols! Well except the right hand scroll which is some mars techpriest transfer cut in half upside-down. His name is Lazm because I ran out of room. Seriously I should redo it but I need to think of a spez-muron 4-5 letter name first.

Cyrus
Uriel
Azrel
Saul

Actually I have some modeling dilemmas if anyone feels like shoving their oar in. I'm making some modernish fantasy models which I'll probably sell and I'm wondering whether to do them old fashioned regiment style on square bases or put them on larger rounds in the new style?

Dilemma two; picked up a very unusual space marine squad with special metal pads, packs and guns - they could be imperial fists or crimson fists? They are all covered in fists anyway. Also ten models but no heavy weapon? why would someone want to do that? I reckon I can hunt down a lascannon or heavy bolter to spice them up.

Those are some bright deldars! I bet the Harlequins approve of their aesthetics

Great job as usual Weets! I love the DE, are those 3rd edition DE? Lovely!

I'm excited to see your Old Guard Stuff! I'm 75% of my way through my quest of having one of each pose of the old Guardsmen. I also have one minty in-box, old-school Leman Russ kit I've been saving for last. The old kit is far superior to the new one.

@Dsteingass hell no - nobody likes the 3rd edition dark eldar. I could snap a whole army up real cheap but I don't like them either - the newer ones are much better. I always usually do older stuff but not dark eldar they are shonky looking.

I have one of the older russes too - sadly missing the side sponsons - I think that was a think once - a cheaper leaman with no side sponsons. Looking forward to seeing the mordians out of the stripper - catachans are already stripped so keep your eye out for them.

Actually for my very very next project it looks like I'm doing a ton of rogue trader eldar which I came across whilst tidying, but we'll see, holidays soon.

I feel you, Weety. Painting on that sarcophagus scroll in particular is a pain in the backside. Much moreso than others of the same size. Chapter icons look great as well, and at actual size I doubt you'd be able to tell without looking really closely.

For the fantasy models, I'd go round. Not because it's my own preference for fantasy, or any particular love for AoS, but it's the new, current, marketed, pushed thing. All those Start Collecting boxes have round bases, after all - and if anyone wants to play Oldhammer/8th/9th Age they're already used to rebasing models that they eBay. AoS is where the new players are, and also the ones who are more likely (IMO) want to buy and immediately play without needing to work on the models.

Also, games like Frostgrave, etc are base-agnostic, and a lot of people I've seen blogging it seem to prefer rounds purely on the aesthetics.

The Fists you speak of sound like this upgrade pack.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Crimson-Fists-Tactical-Squad-Upgrade-Pack

Paint them yellow or blue - the icons are the same so go with the one you prefer/feel will sell better. If it's a full 10-man squad, I cant think of why they'd lack their heavy, unless the seller decided against Fists but decided to keep the lascannon model, etc....


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 weetyskemian44 wrote:
@Dsteingass hell no - nobody likes the 3rd edition dark eldar. I could snap a whole army up real cheap but I don't like them either - the newer ones are much better. I always usually do older stuff but not dark eldar they are shonky looking.

The new DE are SO Much nicer. I've still got a bunch of the 3e ones. I plan to (eventually) build them using spare parts from my modern DE replacing a lot of heads, arms and weapons. So using the bodies as a place to get use from my modern spare parts, basically.

I'm not adding sponsons to my Armored Division.

In reality, you just want the battlecannons shooting and not moving much, The Infantry and AP stuff is usually in a line near it to keep everyone away.

Thanks for the advice. I think I will go round. Also I might think of them as a warband rather than a regiment and give some bows, some clubs, some spears? I think that is a thing now maybe.

Thanks dsteingass I'm reassured about my leaman's adequacy.

I think I'm keeping the 90s imperial guard so I'm going to need more display space. The cabinet is one of those with many notches, so I just need the right size piece of wood.

Nice work on Dreddy, and that is a pretty flag.

I have to ask - why do people prefer the old Leman Russ kit?

I dunno but I reckon dsteingass does? Something bout more detail (probably more RIVETS).

Whilst preparing the harlequins I noticed these five orks who got forgotten last year and were very nearly ready. Painted them as evil suns as i haven't done them yet.



Harlequins are drying off from their first wash, a delicate grey mauve.

LOVE THOSE ORKS!

Classics, and such good work on so many subjects of painting,
I do like the excellence here.

@lindsay Nostalgia, perhaps. The Leman Russ was designed in 1995 (retailed for $30), it had the larger, more comical lascannon and the Original accessory sprue (Hunter-killer missile in a big box launcher, spikey searchlight, etc.), but it was Nottingham Plastic, so it was the light grey plastic that got somewhat brittle over time. . It was redesigned with a different Lascannon and a completely new Accessory Sprue around 2000ish (Dark Grey Plastic era beginning) , and when 6th Edition Apocalypse (I think) dropped, they redesigned the entire kit to fit on fewer sprues, saving the company money, charging you the more, and removing most of the cool curves and details and replacing them with Space Mariney-angles.

The new Chimera kit is far inferior to the old Chimera Kit on detail though, although easier to build (the Old Chimera Kit was 5 Sprues + the Accessory Sprue, the new Chimera Kit is only 2 sprues, 80% of the box you buy is air.

@weets Orks Look Great! Even without the Goblin Green bases. I was digging through a box of shame yesterday and I found two old RT-era Imperial Army officer minis and a Standard Bearer, where they wore Roman-esque helmets.

@shasolenzabi thanks. I'm specialising in diversity. In the post this week are death guard and space wolves - better buy some space wolf paint I don't fancy mixing it myself.

Thanks Dsteingass, more orks where they came from soon. I love those roman helmets.

A good holiday - lots of pre-painting-prep got done but only a little painting; some harlequins:

Oh, a blast from the past! I love the pastel colors.

Hooray for classic Harlequins.

Lively work on the classic Harlies, Weets. I especially like the ice/shard pistol.

Nice work weets. You really did find the mark on these.

There's 15 more where they came from, painting up another 8 tonight. Got all of these http://solegends.com/citrt2/rtb06harlequins/index.htm and a few of these http://solegends.com/citrt2/rt4305harlequins/index.htm

Gotta catch 'em all!

Here are some more harlequins. I added an extra colour - a sort of luminous lime colour for the power weapons. I'm not sure about it though I don't think it fits and may repaint them with blue lightning, what does anyone think?

It's a nice green, but I'm not sure it even fits the muted pastels you used on the rest.

Beautiful work. The muted colours really suit the models, that green for the power weapons is nice, I like it, but maybe take the green toward the blue side instead of the yellow, might help fit in better. Though as I say, I like it as is.

Added more blue to those power weapons and I think it looks good:

Good call weets.

Love them!

Spot On Weets! as usual!

Great Harlies!

Very nice work. Were the lozenge patterns as frustrating as they look?

An absolute pig, which may be why I just did the one leg on each!!

Beautiful, really nice job. Look spot on. Love coming here, these old school types are just so wonderful.

I've got 8 more to go. Then its the guardian squads and the wraithlord dread which I'm going to do Biel-Tan green and white the old school way around; green bod, white helmet. I seem to have spontaneously segued into doing a whole army of ye oldie eldar. I've got eldar on the brain and a day off tomorrow.

Cant wait to see your guardsmen!

Lovely painting on some characterful old models. I envy your patience on the diamondwork!

I once did floral patterns on old Mutant Chronicle metal Mishima soldiers
That was also hard.

Nice work on those classic harlequins.

EDC

Blue to green works well on the weapons. Nice work.

Hey weets, just watching the news, everything ok your way?!

Hi graven - so many terrible things happen in the news I can't think what horrible news event might have you worried, but no I am just really really overworked and have had no time for painting. Holiday soon I hope!

AH I just got what you meant. All good here as my social housing tenement is made from solid concrete and has never been clad in anything flammable. Thanks for worrying though. Hope you live somewhere non-flamable too. I blame the tories.

^ Always Glad to hear, the weather has been frightful.

Aha! the flash-flooding? I have been nearly washed away a few times and I swear my workplace is due to be underwater before I get to retire...

Hope you are well too. Thanks!

I have been in desk clearing mode as I want to start my next project during holidays.

So here is what was cluttering the desk:

Some more evil suns boyz:



The last 8 of the harlequins:



Guardians:





I rushed the guardians a bit. I'll spruce them up when I manage to get more.

A deluge of classic Eldar. So nice to see.

Old school guardians look great. How did you get such a pure white? Layer after layer after layer, or do you have a secret technique?

Just like you say - a lot of layers!

edit - I didn't mean to reply to a seven-year-old post.

Good show Mrs.

One of those harli's looks like he's just stabbed his friend.

right in the armpit!

I like the consistent and repeating color scheme in the harlis. It makes them unified while each model is still unique.

@Kid_Kyoto thanks that's what I was going for.


Today I finished my Ork weirdboy, mech and runtherd:

Classic chainswords have never looked so snazzy.

Very nice work, Weets!

Really miss the good old days with the weird boys.

A cyb-ork!!! Very nice!

Nice work. Like that middle one, gives me ideas.

Crimson fist squad done:



I stuck my dark imperium death guard together today. Very cool figures!


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Before I forget I'd better write down my formula for crimson fists blue - it was 2 parts space wolf grey to one part vallejo blue wash and one part armour wash, add another part each of blue and armour for shading and sky blue highlights.

Really great classic vibe to the PSM, nice work on the blending. Looking forward to seeing you do the CSM.

Nice work on the Crimson Fists. That blue is a lot more vivid than you usually see on them. Is that the same blue you used for the Ultramarines?

Lovely fists there.

Thanks all.

@joshinjapan no it's mostly space wolf grey, watered down with some blue wash and armour wash.

Good job on the red-hand gang, Weety'. Looking nice.

Nice blues, Weety. I hope my Fists come out looking as nice, if more yellow.

Death guard got primed... But I wasn't ready to commit to a scheme so I did some more desk clearance.

One last thing from the dark vengeance box, the helbrute:

Nice work on the 'brute weets. Very formidable and very Khorny.

Such an ugly model (you've seen how much work I put into it, and even then I consider it "ok"). Good work on the painting.
Interesting choice on the fleshy parts colour.

Well I had a look at the GW scheme and decided that pink flesh was right out - I wanted it to look slightly rotted and bloody.

It is a hideous model, the pose is very sketchy and I don't quite get the horny armpit. I suppose the best I can hope for is it looks formidable!

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
... I wanted it to look slightly rotted and bloody...

That it does. Good job.
Certainly better than armour coloured or baby pink.