Proper job! The guys look great Gwyn, the edge highlighting works really well on them, as does the OSL

Thanks gobert!

Switching back to some Necrons for a bit. These guys were already varying stages of metallically primed from the previous owners, so they already look decent with just the purple shoulders done!

The new Necron heads are so much more fun to paint, so much more character in them!

Ooh nice! Might try to do a couple of them just for fun.

They do look rather grumpy do the new crons, but so would I be after disturbing that long a sleep! Nice progress gwyn

Great work Gwyn. The Flesh Tearer bases look so pleasant and at odds with the chainsword wielding maniacs striding across them

Nice to see some more Necrons, the skull faces look great.

Thanks all! These guys have so many fun details compared to the old ones. And with the new wear-and-tear look of them, I couldn't help but stain them a little when I did the metallic!

More crons is always welcome, i just like your sheme.

Love the purple against the green. Super cool.

I know a slow trickle of grunts isn't exactly captivating blog-work, but it keeps me somewhat motivated so.

The best stage is always the green though. This is when they really turn into something real!

Wow. They're so green they're super green!!

Could it be?? Purest green!




They look brilliant Gwyn. Those blast effects are so good.

indeed, they look awesome.

It does make them stand out versus the metallic hordes.

Cheers,

CB

I like 'em, and slow and steady gets the job done.

That green motif you've got going isn't so much metallic glow (to my eye, anyways) as Mephistophelean flames. I forget which fantasy series had in it 'skeletons which 'flamed eerie green' but flames or metal glow, you've captured it well!

Good progress Gwyn, the green really does help them stand out super well. My plog is usually full of slow plodding through troops too, so no complaints from me! Keep em comin!

The OSL/Necrons work. I've never been able to get that to look cool

Thanks for the kind words all!

it's been a wild month: I don't recommend spreading a move out over two weeks, it doesn't lessen the stress it just means it takes more days.

But, at least I've gotten good photos of the finished Necron Warriors!

Front



Back

Looking great mate, almost tempting me to tackle some crons!

i dare say these are your finest crons yet Gwyn

Moving is always a pita! Good to see you’ve managed to finish up the Necrons in the new place, the first of many

Yeah, moving is hell. Awesome Necron warriors, and you need to paint up the grunts as an excuse to paint the exciting bits.

Thanks all! They were really mostly painted at my old place, it just took me a while to get to them for the finishing touches. You know how it is.

And yeah, grunts before exciting bits. Speaking of, it's time to paint a character!

Specifically, Hasmoteph the Resplendent, the Necron Lord/Overlord with a Staff of Light and Resurrection Orb.

With these, I decided to play with some wet blending on the orb. I tried two different schemes. The first was a dark green swirl, but then I added yellow sparkles in it which I wasn't so happy with it.




After that I had the idea to try it as a dark purple nebula orb with white stars. Not convinced yet. Might go back to the dark green swirl with wet blending just without any dots. Thoughts?




Also, I did the vanes on the staff of light, which is the same in both versions. I'm not super happy with them, I want to go back and try and get a smoother wet blended transition between the colours and figure out my colour placement better. This is a character, he should have at LEAST as good blending on the blades as the Lychguard got!

Moving sucks the big one, but at least the worst is hopefully done with!

I like the second orb, the night sky in the palm of their hand is a cool idea.

Thanks Olthannon!

Once the body is done up, I might do some purple OSL from the orb, which will be interesting with the green OSL coming from the staff...

Speaking of green, I got most of the green parts done up, excepting the staff of light vanes which I've reblacked to try again.

This looks really promising Gwyn.

Thanks!

There, aren't these Staff of Light vanes far better?

Shiny AND eternal. Very cool.

Looking good Gwyn, the changes up vanes do look better! Good choice. The purple orb will be even cooler with a bit of OSL too!

Thanks guys!

Did the bone faceplate and starting on the gold. This model is tricky with my scheme: how much purple and how much gold do I do for the face and chest? I’m unsure. Maybe the cartouches in gold but the rest in purple?



Edit: nooooooo I just saw the fleck of gold on the ball on the staff. Agghhhh

I think purple within the gold swirls maybe? Head(s) look ace btw.

Thanks graven! I went with gold for the full ornate pieces. I think it'll work. Can always redo if it looks weird once I lay the purple down.




EDIT: Oh no, he's covered in dust from my sanding project! Guess I didn't do as good a job keeping that contained as I thought... I've been building a couple tables for my apartment.

Dusted him off and laid on the purple now! He's now at least base-colour complete, and can confirm that I like how this worked.

Looks excellent Gwyn! Purple is looking good.

I think you picked excellent colors for them to play off each other, the purple and the green energy.

The shot of the completed warriors shooting gauss is really cinematic.

What do you use was a wash/oil sort of thing over the metal?

Olthannon wrote:Looks excellent Gwyn! Purple is looking good.

Thanks Olthannon! I'm happy with this go at it.

ph34r wrote:I think you picked excellent colors for them to play off each other, the purple and the green energy.

The shot of the completed warriors shooting gauss is really cinematic.

What do you use was a wash/oil sort of thing over the metal?

Thanks ph34r! The metal is being washed with nuln oil first to darken the joints, then alternating agrax earthshade and seraphim sepia to get the dusty grimy look.

Of course, no grime for a Lord!




Metal is highlighted and washed up now. Just need to do the base, the OSL, and the varnish, and he's done!

Looking smashing mate, lovely work.

And he's done!

Front



Rear

Looks great, especially the orb!

Nice job on the Necron lord! Really nice glossy liquid effect on the orb. The effects you used on the staff in particular are brill.

Thanks guys! I'm happy with him.

I have an Apocalypse game with my Flesh Tearers coming up. How fast do you think I can paint my portion of the Imperium team?

Let's start with a little someone to lead my shooty-infantry detachment. Here's an old guy!

Oh, what a lovely old thing that is! Nice capework, btw.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Oh, what a lovely old thing that is! Nice capework, btw.

Thanks Graven! I got 2 of these guys. This is the unbroken one, the other one was missing some parts. Don't know when I'll get around to doing a proper job on him, but we'll see.

Black is almost done and started the gold. In the background I'm also going crazy trying to get just the basic colours on an entire 135 PL portion of a team Apocalypse battle, wish me luck.

Spicy. I see Flesh Tearers are getting a new novel, you must be excited?

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Spicy. I see Flesh Tearers are getting a new novel, you must be excited?

You know I've never gotten into the novels or the lore side as much.

I did get that Apocalypse game in and boy was it a doozy!

I really quickly got base coats on all of the Captain I was working on:



I also very quickly did a couple key conversions.

I took my spare Bladeguard Lieutenant and turned him into a regular Primaris Ancient with a handy Blood Angels Banner:


And as soon as I clipped off that iron halo I thought to myself, "Well I still need a bunch of PL in my army what should I do..." then I looked over at my old Dark Vengeance Dark Angels Master with the wings on his helmet and inspiration struck.

Say hello to Gabriel Seth!



The rest of the army got base paints as fast as I could. I couldn't cover all the primer, but I got minimum 3 colours on everything (red, black, steel).

Here's everything divided into its 3 Apocalypse detachments! On the left is the firebase detachment. On the right is the heavy survivable detachment that shoots infantry and punches tanks. In the centre is the deadly mass, playing all the assault intercessors as Death Company for lack of Apocalypse rules (I heard tale of a fan-rule update for the 9th edition models though).



On to the table! On the Imperial side: the Angels of Death! We had 135 PL of Flesh Tearers, 135 PL of Blood Angels, and 135 PL of Dark Angels.


Opposing them, the dark forces of Tzeentch had corrupted a T'au Sept and manipulated a small Drukhari raiding party into joining their assault. Oh yeah. And they had a titan.



They had three (3) super-heavies: a Warhound Titan, an Atropos Knight, and the corrupted Stormsurge (I wish I knew his handle so I could give him cred, those Chaos T'au were just jaw-dropping). Plus Magnus and a Riptide. So yeah our 3 infantry-heavy armies had their work cut out for them.

Especially when the T'au deep-striked 2 Commanders, a Ghostkeel, some Crisis Suits, and... I can't remember what the last model was...right on our flank, forcing me to divert my Terminator/Gravis detachment to prevent them from stopping my friend's Blood Angels shooting detachment from taking on the Warhound.



In the centre, my other melee detachment tried to pin down the Drukhari from engaging the Dark Angels, but they had given their Warmaster a bubble of fall-back-and-shoot/charge, which meant they were able to just hop around me.



Eventually, that entire detachment was cut down except for the characters (the Titan just kept walking to our backline). Sadly, once the Drukhari counter-charged, only the Librarian was left.



We ended up losing 9-7 at the bottom of the third round. It was all of ours' first time playing Apocalypse, but it's a great game. We could have gone a lot faster if we knew the rules better, and we only actually played 5 hours including set-up.
We thought we were going to win when the other Blood Angels player deep-striked their Death Company and Sanguinary into the enemy rear line, stacking 2 brutal Blood Angels Command Assets on them (+6" move and +1A on the whole detachment is brutal, but when combined with the card that adds 2 additional hits to every Death Company hit...). Those guys quickly took their rear objective and merked one of their Warlords (which also counted as a VP for us). However we couldn't land a hit on the Warhound Titan so it survived with 1 wound remaining (denying us 3VP). A really clever move with the Atropos Titan took out both of the Dark Angels warlords (2VP for them there), and through a combination of a clever play (a venom darting in to a tiny gap in my formation so that my Terminator Captain, who was our Warmaster with the Warmaster ability that he could only be targeted as the closest model, was the closest model) and bad dice rolls (seriously, all I had to do was roll a 4+ on a d12, he only got a single small blast on him...) gave up another 3 VP. After that point, we had to call the game for time, but we were definitely on the backfoot.

It made me wish that Games Workshop had kept supporting Apocalypse. It really went smoothly for large team games. This was the culmination of a Crusade campaign (which opened up to some others such as me to fill space), and it worked really well. It was fast, engaging, and the back-and-forth strategy worked really well.

Didn't take too long to finish this guy off. First full proper power sword! Won't be the last though.

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Right


Left


Back

Super Snazzy and great Osl.

Wow excellent work Gwyn, that captain is awesome. The OSL is really nice and the cloak is great.

Thanks Graven and Olthannon! I'm definitely looking forward to doing more power weapons.

I quickly knocked out a couple Cursed City objective markers:

That apocalypse game looked like great fun Gwyn! Good work getting the 3 colours down on your minis, should help them get painted up in the not too distant future. Just like their dapper Captain! The Seth conversion worked nicely btw

 gobert wrote:
That apocalypse game looked like great fun Gwyn! Good work getting the 3 colours down on your minis, should help them get painted up in the not too distant future. Just like their dapper Captain! The Seth conversion worked nicely btw

Thanks gobert! Though maybe not as soon: I'm doing an Age of Sigmar escalation campaign in the new year, so there will be a big fantasy focus coming up!

While I still debate what army to run, I've started painting up the current centrepiece of one of them: the Idoneth Deepkin Akhelian King! Such a good model, so satisfying to paint (but would have been MUCH easier to paint in sub-assemblies...)

Yep, I know the horror of trying to paint that guy fully assembled!

Something to this day i regret was painting some of my HQ not in piecemeal.

Great job on him Gwyn

That makes me nostalgic for Assault on Black Reach. Nice work on him

aku-chan wrote:Yep, I know the horror of trying to paint that guy fully assembled!

Not Online!!! wrote:Something to this day i regret was painting some of my HQ not in piecemeal.

Great job on him Gwyn

I still don't learn though: for some reason I hate having unbuilt models...

Syro_ wrote:That makes me nostalgic for Assault on Black Reach. Nice work on him

Thanks Syro! The OSL makes a difference in making an old model look modern I think here.

More work on the King! Turned my attention to the Deepmare. First off, getting a nice skin-to-belly transition.

Thanks Syro! The OSL makes a difference in making an old model look modern I think here.

Agreed, it does look more modern.
The deepmare is looking cool so far

Oh, loving the look of that aquatic beast, thecol9rs are really pleasing.

On the unbuilt models. I know excactly where you are coming from. The model just seems to look at me, accusingly.

Lovely stuff Gwyn. I like the blue on the sea creature.

Syro_ wrote:

Thanks Syro! The OSL makes a difference in making an old model look modern I think here.

Agreed, it does look more modern.
The deepmare is looking cool so far

Thanks Syro! It's a really fun model to paint (difficult-to-reach bits notwithstanding)

wyomingfox wrote:Oh, loving the look of that aquatic beast, thecol9rs are really pleasing.

Thanks wyomingfox! I'm trying to play around with a mix of cool and warm tones here which hopefully works.

Not Online!!! wrote:On the unbuilt models. I know excactly where you are coming from. The model just seems to look at me, accusingly.

Exactly! I guess it's because my meta doesn't mind the occasional grey plastic on the table, but if it's not assembled I can't bring it to a game...

Olthannon wrote:Lovely stuff Gwyn. I like the blue on the sea creature.

Thanks Olthannon! The good news is, there's a lot more blue on the sea creature yet to come!

Did a bunch of work on the scales... like a LOT of work. Scales take forever! Cancelling any plans for a Seraphon army rn.

Looking good Gwyn, the brighter colour on the scales is a nice touch. What colour are you going for the fins? Something that's more of a contrast?

That's looking scale-icious. Lovely work.

Oh wow, you painted each and every scale!! It adds a very nice effect.

Olthannon wrote:Looking good Gwyn, the brighter colour on the scales is a nice touch. What colour are you going for the fins? Something that's more of a contrast?

Thanks Olthannon! The next photo should answer that for you.

inmygravenimage wrote:That's looking scale-icious. Lovely work.

Thanks graven!

wyomingfox wrote:Oh wow, you painted each and every scale!! It adds a very nice effect.

Thanks Wyoming! Yeah, it was a lot of work, but I think totally worth it for the detail.

Did some work on the face (realizing that I had completely forgotten to do the face), and put down the base colour for the fins!

Coming along Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Are you planning to highlight each scale individually? That's some serious attention to detail, not to mention eyestrain!

Captain Brown wrote:Coming along Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB!

JoshInJapan wrote:Are you planning to highlight each scale individually? That's some serious attention to detail, not to mention eyestrain!

Thankfully this is as highlighted as they get, and they're nicely raised so it wasn't too bad.

Orange done! Now that's the main contrast - well, that and all the gold/brass/bronze metallics!

Lovely rich orange, really vibrant.

Wow nice Gwyn, that orange is wonderful. Such a warm colour, looks great against the blue.

Loving the orange against the blue as well as the tie in to the rider.

The sea horse is looking fabulous gwyn! Kudos for individually highlighting the scales, I’d have given up and switched to dry brushing

Thanks all! Last major colour is done, being the gold/bronze/brass. Just details left! Well, that and the cape. And the base. But anyways!

Oh wow, nice job on the non-metallic metals! Over all the color scheme came together beautifully.

Wow, looking really good so far!

Fabulous. Really love it. Great job.

Looks excellent, I particularly like the cloak. That pearlescent effect is brilliant. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the base.

wyomingfox wrote:Oh wow, nice job on the non-metallic metals! Over all the color scheme came together beautifully.

Thanks! It's not actually NMM though, it's metallic paints. I've never tried NMM yet, I think that's still beyond me!

Flapjack wrote:Wow, looking really good so far!

Thanks Flapjack

inmygravenimage wrote:Fabulous. Really love it. Great job.

Thanks graven!

Olthannon wrote:Looks excellent, I particularly like the cloak. That pearlescent effect is brilliant. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the base.

Thanks Olthannon - the cloak is unpainted though! That's just a bit of glare reflecting off it.

I spent some time cleaning up and redoing the face. Still tricky to do helmeted faces, but I'm content with this where it is (realized that one of the reasons that the one side of the face was feeling weird was that he has an eyepatch!)

And the capes more or less done. Just finishing touches now!

A cool white on the inside:



And more blue on the outside:

My mistake I thought you'd gone for a slightly speckled style with the cloak. But I like the look of it painted up!

This is one awesome seahorse and rider Gwyn!

Great job on the sea horse Gwyn, I love that the rider has a pirate eye patch! Yarr!

Sorry it took me so long to actually post this - work got insane for the last month. But I did finish the King! And I think he looks very kingly!

Right flank:


Head-on:


Left flank:


Back:

Lovely. I especially like the creepy pale skin on the rider.

Really creepy and very cool. Nice job.

lovely job there!

Thanks all!

Good painting is on hold for a mo- as I just try and get enough Stormcast Eternals painted for this year's Age of Sigmar escalation league. So the story for the next little bit is "bare minimum"

I'm doing SCE, with the self-imposed caveat of only running 3e era models.

First up, to get the base 750 pts.

The first unit, of course, being the Vindictors!

Good luck with your league, looks promising!

The "bare minimum" looks great good luck on the timeline.

Thanks all!

Squad 2 of the shield wall:

I like the banner, especially the trailing pennant. How did you paint the pennant by the way? What paints did you use?

Thanks wyomingfox. The banner pennant is actually just seraphim sepia over wraithbone primer, nothing else!

So those were the anvil, here's the hammer!

Those guys look suitably burly. Nice work!

Blurry photo, but whatever I'm just trying to get these on tables!

Knight-Vexillor with Banner of Apotheosis

Rapid progress Gwyn, and they look pretty decent. Once you hit the targets you can always go back with some washes and highlights too

Wow, you are really cranking them out and they look great! Are you highlighting the gold armor or is that just the light reflecting off of the model?

Ah the rush to table. Nothing quite as motivating as that to get models done.

Keep at it Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Last part of the 750 pt army: the Lord Imperatant to combo with the Annihilators:




And the full force:

Sweet cape work dude.

Very nicely done; the results belie the speed with which they were created: first-rate work!

Neat and clean paintjobs!

Is there anything better in this hobby than an army shot? I’m yet to be convinced! Nice work

Lovely looking unit. Well done and in such a short ammount of time. Bravo good sir.

Battle pics from the first two rounds of the tournaments!

The way this escalation league is set up is there are two rounds at each point level. At the 750 point level, each round is two games against the same opponent. So I did two games against the Nighthaunt to start, which consisted of both of us forgetting half our faction rules, and for some reason we played it on a 40k or kill-team map. The first game was basically a perfect Stormcast game; first, my turn 1 Annihilator charge out of deepstrike took out her entire Dreadscythe Harridan unit just from mortals.



Meanwhile my Vindictors got on each obejctive, and I barely lost any units after that.



The second game I didn't take photos of, but it was almost a perfect Nighthaunt game. Remembering that she could place units into deep strike, those Dreadscythe Harridans got a charge out of deepstrike, and almost entirely decimated my army when I was still in my own deployment zone. Technically I won the round because my score total across the two games was more than hers, but it was low compared to others who won the round, so solid middle-of-the-pack in the rankings after round 1.

Round 2 was against Slaves to Darkness (5 players are Slaves, 3 are Skaven, and another 3 are other Chaos factions..., so expect a LOT of Chaos opponents). I lost both games, but still scored fairly high in my second game. The first game my Annihilators failed their 7" charge even with rerolling charges, and that's just game right there. Plus, 9 wounds with a 2+ armour save REALLY doesn't last long against a unit of Chosen...



Second game was a lot better - Annihilators did decent damage to the Chosen before being, well, annihilated, and I played very conservatively, by not charging when I didn't need to to control a point. So I did well on points (partially because my opponent threw his Sorcerer forward, which was a fairly easy kill, but not well enough once a key Rally brought back a couple of Chosen and the Chosen once against ripped through my lines.

You can see my conservative play here: I just sat back to control point #2, which counted as two objectives, and I fell back/retreated from point 1 where the Chaos Warriors were to capture the point behind the tomb, because I didn't need to control Point 1 to get full points that turn, and I didn't want to risk losing models at that point.


I'm currently sitting at 14/24 going into the 3rd round at 1250 points, so wish me luck! Round 3 is against a Marauder Horsemen Cabalist list, so I'm intrigued. It does have another scary unit of Chosen. But first, gotta get up to 1250 points painted!

The Stormcasts look great on the battlefield Gwyn! Sounds like you need to invest in something to deselect the chosen

You've been a busy bee since I last had a peek in here Gwyn, amazing work! The Stormcast look great, sounds like you had a great time playing!

Thanks all! Yeah those Chosen were a real issue, but I have a plan at higher points levels.

In the meantime, I really quickly got some magic eyes - maybe this time I'll stop forgetting all their innate magic abilities (like the first 2 games where I completely forget that they do mortal wounds on death!)

Ok let's get up to that 1250 points!

First, we need someone who can deal with Chosen and similar, at range. I know!



Yeah, he'll do!

These are great! The detail painting is precise and the colors work together wonderfully well. The bow is tall enough to double as a foot bow- twice the range!

 Meer_Cat wrote:
These are great! The detail painting is precise and the colors work together wonderfully well. The bow is tall enough to double as a foot bow- twice the range!

Thanks Meer Cat! It's already a 30" range, I don't know how much bigger it can even get!

'nother character up. Need some magic up in here!

Second unit of Annihilators!

You've been busy! Look great, nice eye glow btw.

Some awesome minis Gwyn, love the dude with the bow and bird dogs.

Stop...hammer time. Wow, you are really pushing out some good looking units!

Cracking progress Gwyn! You’ll be at 2000pts in no time. The glowing eyes look good, hopefully they help you remember their magic tricks

Thanks for the kind words all! Here’s the 1250 pt army, ready for battle, with the addition of the 3 Praetors! I’ll get better shots of them soon.

Very nice squadron you have there. Will you be adding some dried scrub grass to the bases?

I love all the little details! Thank you for sharing.

Dead cool army Gwyn, they look great all laid out.

Nice to see the army Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Turning in to quite the force Gwyn!

wyomingfox wrote:Very nice squadron you have there. Will you be adding some dried scrub grass to the bases?

Thanks wyomingfox! Yeah I have like 3-4 different swamp grasses or swamp flowers to add to them. I’m not doing that until a mini is totally finished though - all of these guys are only painted to base tabletop, they all need more detail work before I’m 100% done with them.

makeitorky wrote:I love all the little details! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks makeitorky!

Olthannon wrote:Dead cool army Gwyn, they look great all laid out.

Love me an army shot eh!

Captain Brown wrote:Nice to see the army Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain!

gobert wrote:Turning in to quite the force Gwyn!

The step after this is a real doozie - I have 23 miniatures to paint to get from 1250 pts to 1750… but then that also takes me to 2000 with the same minis just on different configurations so

Anyhow, the proper unit shot of the Praetors, sorry for missing them earlier!

And on the table!

Round 3 was a 1250 battle against Slaves to Darkness (so much chaos...). I won this one 25-15, as the Knight Judicator just threw out so many wounds. My Chosen-hunter! Otherwise I was just able to play the objectives and retreat where I was overwhelmed to avoid losing models that didn't need to be lost.



After round 3, I was 7/24.

Round 4 was a 1250 battle against Maggotkin. Those guys are so tough and those mortal wounds from disease really hurt! We tied 17-17, tied again on grand strategy (he made the mistake of fighting in the big fight in his last turn before fighting my Gryphhounds, so my Gryphhounds were able to retreat and make sure they ended the game without disease points), but he got 1 more battle tactic than me so he won on the second tie-breaker.



Time to add more to the army!

Escalation leagues provide a really nice excuse to start and expand armies
Your friend by chance likes Tzeentch?

Yes, strategic retreat can often be a good strategy. Something I still need to learn . . .
Golden Boys are looking good.

Looking cool on the battlefield! The scenery looks very nifty too.

Not Online!!! wrote:Escalation leagues provide a really nice excuse to start and expand armies
Your friend by chance likes Tzeentch?

I think only the Ogroids were Tzeentch, most of that army was Nurgle or Khorne iirc.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Yes, strategic retreat can often be a good strategy. Something I still need to learn . . .
Golden Boys are looking good.

I mean, it does mean more things of the enemy alive next turn...

Olthannon wrote:Looking cool on the battlefield! The scenery looks very nifty too.

Thanks Olthannon! We got it printed and painted up special for this league.

Time to start building up to 1750k. First, a Knight-Relictor! This time with a fancy base!

And a quick 1500 pt game trying out a combo against Slaves to Darkness. Lost, - the mission denied me my subfaction ability - but close still, and the combo was cool!

oh it's the good looking chaos warriors, from an universe that isn't anymore.

That is indeed a fancy base btw, made it yourself?

Not Online!!! wrote:oh it's the good looking chaos warriors, from an universe that isn't anymore.

That is indeed a fancy base btw, made it yourself?

Thanks Not Online! No, it's from a GW set of scenic bases.

One archer-hero with a massive bow isn't enough, especially cuz he only hits on 3+. So clearly he needs some archer friends who also coincidentally give him +1 to hit!

Looks like the league is bearing fruit, loadsa minis your painting! The bowman looks good with their posse. That base is damn fancy

More bow posse is called for in that case:

That does seem like a pretty decent number of bows! And well painted ones at that.

Nice 10 bow strong posse. They’ll look good softening up the warriors of chaos for sure

Thanks all! That deals with light infantry and heavy infantry, so now I just need something for monsters!

Ooooh, I know...






I did this entire model in approximately 2.5 hours from a zenithal prime.

Also, I actually took the glowing eyes to the full extent here - the others I only have put down the blue glow and not the white at the heart of the eyes that will really complete the glow. Eventually they'll all look like this!

Wow, looks great. Really liking the wings and the eyes. Subscribed

That is amazing

Looks great. Snazzy osl. You're going great guns, buddy.

What I like about this piece is how balanced the colors are- nothing clashes and the composite whole has the right amount of 'pop'.

The wings and eyes are impressive painting and I love the squirrel addition for a bit of humor and life.

Very nicely done.

Wow Gwyn, impressive number of Stormcast you've painted up over the last couple of months. That latest one makes for an impressive centrepiece for the force. Loving all the battle shots too

Nice Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Very impressive Gwyn, love the wings!

Thanks everyone!

Sooooo... I painted up another 10 Vindictors. Buuuuuut I then immediately got them all mixed in with the first 10 in a game and I have no idea which are which anymore.

So.

Army shot?



This is just over 2000 pts of Stormcast, and both my 1750 and 2000 pt lists in the escalation league are made out of these models. The only Stormcast I have left not here are 2 dragon boys, and a unit of Vanquishers, but I have some other plans for those Vanquishers...

I love such army shots. i know that feeling, of intermingling. If it is any consolation, they look all awesome.

I had to learn the hard way, that unit markings are a necessity

A nice little army!

Your army looks great! I really love the shading and tone of blue that you used.

Love the army shot. It's lucky for us that the models got mixed together.

Cracking looking force! I keep mixing models amongst different units too, maybe I need to come up with unit markings as well?

Good army Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks all!

I took some breaks while painting all of the above to build a couple Space Marine characters... who immediately got screwed by 10th edition lol.

Before 10th was announced, I decided I would build a Terminator Captain for use as a Death Company Captain. Well, not only is that not a thing anymore, but with the new-scaled Terminators I'm gonna have to take him apart, cut him up, and rebuild him!

Bursting through a wall into battle!


Wielding a dangerous chain-glaive (no idea what that is in-game now... guess I can more or less run it as whatever I want?)


I originally had another piece of the wall attached to his shield something like this, which made it clear that he was smashing through the wall, but it fell off and there's no point fixing it until I fix the Terminator's scale.


Tune in soon for the second character I built, in which I correctly predicted some aspects of 10th, but... not others...

Action shot! I can't keep track of the 10th stuff right now but he looks excellent. Even if he is committing vandalism.

Cool concept. I like the snapshot of him bursting onto the scene.

Excellent animation to the vignette you set, good luck rescaling the figure for the new rules set.

To each his own, but it was the many changes to the rules to enhance sales that got me actively building 'Not Warhammer' Warhammer alternates. I hate to tell the kids "get off my lawn" but I started playing as Rogue Trader was transitioning to full-on Warhammer 40k. Back when we were making land speeders out of deodorant stick containers. A Rhino (which any Imperial faction could use, not just Space Marines) was 250 points, when most games were being played for 500 or less. The incentive was to buy the infantry models that the company was actually putting out. Then the Rhino model kit came out, and suddenly Rhinos were only 25 points to play in a game and a lot weaker than they had been before.

The point for me is moot really, as there is no place convenient to game. I'd like to get back into that side of things though, and admire you'ns that keep up with these things.

Rock on!

Love the terminator smashing through the wall, such a good pose. Good luck with the painting!

Gotta agree with the others, the Captain smashing through the wall is cool! Have you considered a tactical rock to stand him on instead of giving him some more growth hormones? You could build the floor inside the building and steps going down outside to really add to the vignette

Thanks all! I think a tactical rock will help, but I'm gonna be doing some slice-and-dice regardless.

The second unit I built which 10th Broke was also, almost, a complete hit. I built me a Bike Captain out of an Outrider using a jet-bike conversion kit:







I was scared when I learned Characters were mostly going to be attached, because I don't have traditional Bike Squads, only Outriders. But then I got lucky and Bike Captains go in Outrider squads!

...and then I saw that, even though the index card has the stats for a thunder hammer on it, technically Bike Captains don't have the option to take one. So for now that hammer is gonna be run as other weapons. So close!

Both models look fantastic so far, even if they are not 10th-friendly.

I had the two Praetors from the Horus Heresy box cut up and ready to convert into a Company Ancient and a Techmarine. When 10th was getting close, I decided to just leave them on the desk and focus on my Tau army for 10th. I've only played one game so far, but I liked it. I'll look at all the Space Marine stuff eventually, but for now they are mostly on the shelf.

Good luck with the new rules/codexes.

Very nice conversion works!

Heck yeah! They fixed the thunder hammer on bikes issue!

Took my Necrons into a crusade battle against the Grey Knights. Very little died, but it was a mission with disappearing objectives and the ones which disappeared kept being mine! Still was closer at the end than I thought it would be.



Olynder in the centre was a mysterious anomaly the GK had accidentally awakened in their previous battle and which was hostile to both of us. It ended up mostly going after me until I captured it - an excuse to use Olynder as a Transcendental C’tan in my next battle!

Another Age of Sigmar battle. The map ended up fairly dense which made for some very interesting choke points.

The key photo is definitely this one, of my shield wall closing off a mountain pass defending an objective.

Really cool basing on that jetbike!

Love the line of Sigmarines closing off the pass! looks like you’ve had a fun couple of battles. The jet bike kit is awesome, but he’s cutting the corner a bit around that pillar!

Scarper wrote:Really cool basing on that jetbike!

Thanks Scarper!

gobert wrote:Love the line of Sigmarines closing off the pass! looks like you’ve had a fun couple of battles. The jet bike kit is awesome, but he’s cutting the corner a bit around that pillar!

If I could figure out how to model sparks flying I would (I saw once someone do something fun with a clear sheet of plastic to show sparks being kicked up by a biker dragging his chainsword against the ground, but I can't find it now to link it). Alternatively if I had some more rubble I could have falling to show that his scraping the pillar is breaking it...

I'm kinda bumping around projects a little right now. My sister sent me this adorable mini to paint, and I've had a lot of fun learning how to paint fur effects on a smooth surface for it.

Just gotta do the OSL from the magic glowy mushroom and I think it's done.

That's a lovely model, had my eye on it for a while, looking fab.

Good stuff Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Awesome looking rodent!

Wow that is awesome Gwyn, such a cute mini and you did an superb paint job!

Cool little rodent Gwyn. I think you’ve certainly captured the fur texture well, especially on its face. Good luck with the OSL

I love the mouse, it's good to do something different too.

Well unfortunately I wasn't able to do OSL on the mouse in time for my sister's visit, and I didn't take any better photos, so that's all I got for the mouse! She still loved it though, and I'm very happy with the fur texture which was the real feature of the project. Maybe it's for the better anyways - OSL would have hidden some of the fur detailing.

Next up is a bunch of minis for the fantastic board game, Horrified! Gonna go through a few of them I think. Each one is a classic Universal Movie Monster.

First up is the Mummy:

Great Job gwyn, what did you use for the bandages`?

Not Online!!! wrote:
Great Job gwyn, what did you use for the bandages`?

The bandages were primarily Seraphim Sepia over a primer of Wraithbone, but then I went in with all sorts of off-white highlights and light-brown washes here and there so that some bandages would look more aged than others. Otherwise, the entire mini would just look... the same!

Next, up: Dracula! Modelled after Bela Lugosi's classic version (because of course, it's the Universal classic version).



I decided to keep his eyes in shadow, but from this angle I don't know if the shadows are dark enough for that to work. Thoughts? I feel like I could also benefit from a taaaad more shade on his lips.

Spooky Gwyn! Nice cloak on Drac. I think you might be right on the shade for his eyes, it could also be expanded out to the sides too?

These look fantastic Gwyn! The bandages on the mummy are really spot on. The eyes are a great touch.

Yeah, definitely going back and fixing the eyes - will repost later once I do.

In the meantime, have a Wolf Man! Painted in the colours of a poster for the movie which I found online (which I'm now realizing was really more blue than green but oh well).

Cool wolf man! Using movies as reference is really tough as the lighting makes things look really different

Keeping the green theme for a minute:

the Creature from the Black Lagoon!

Cool mini, painted up nice too

Ooh, he's up there with mummy for me! Great job!

Last of the ones that I'm doing right now (the others will have to wait for another time).

Frankenstein's Monster!

This one was surprisingly simple. Based on a promo image from Boris Karloff's original Frankenstein, he's wearing all black! Nice and easy. Also, in the promo still, Boris' face is more yellow thangreen, so I aimed for a much more yellow-tinged green to differentiate from, well, all the other green I did in this project. Very happy with his yellow eyes as well!

Very cool Gwyn! Love the different colours on the skin.

Thanks Gobert! I had fun getting it to have that right impression.

Fixed Dracula's eyes, I think. Much more threatening now that they're darkened.

New project, whole new faction!

"Tyranids will be so fun, with contrast they'll be so easy to paint"

"..."

"..."

"... I'm going to do an annoyingly complicated scheme, aren't I?"

Starting to block off the sections of the scheme.

I'll be following this with interest; nid's is one o them armies that i've never had a desire to paint but I am always fascinated by the schemes people come up with.

I can't say that I came up with this scheme; I think it's gonna be obvious pretty soon what I'm doing with them.

I am Dracula...bla bla bla!

Looking good and spoopy in here. Are these going to be the coco crab spotty dotty nids? Colours are looking lovely and bright - are these just a single layer of contrast?

Hi tzurk! You got it in one, we're doing catgutt's coconut crab spotted 'nids! I got the test model done up here (good enough that I'm happy with the scheme and my handle of the technique).



That's not contrast for the darker colours - a brown-black and a red-black (I can't remember the name, but it's a layer paint). Then I did contrast Skeleton Horde over it for the yellow portion. Quite happy!

The hard part is done:

Lovely job on catbarfs sheme. They are awesome.

Catbarf has given such great guides and directions to doing his scheme, so I definitely can't take any design credit. But it is a very fun scheme to paint!



Did some bolder highlights on the carapaces (because why not spend way too long on horde minis), and the rest of hte shading and detailing (teeth, eyes, etc). I think the exposed muscles is a bit more subtle than I was aiming for, but not worth going back and redoing. I also tried to get subtly different shading on the gun body, the carapace, and the main body parts. Don't really think those differences came out as well as I wanted, but still.

That's some lovely patterning on their shells!

Nice Job on the coconids! Such a cool scheme and you’ve done a great job of recreating it! :thumbsup

Gwyn,

Good progress on the Nids. Yes, Catbarf is a master at painting great numbers of wonderfully done Nids.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks all!

Almost done, just one final touch left.

You did it more than justice, they look awesome.

They look amazing, good job on those!!

They look spectacular. I want to do a giant monster crab in this scheme for Carnevale. Great work.

I personally think you're a madman for making such a complicated and good looking paint scheme for a swarm of gaunts
But keep up the good work

Great work on the nids Gwyn! That colour scheme is very cool and I think you did a great job replicating the Barfy coconids!

Not Online!!! wrote:You did it more than justice, they look awesome.

Thanks NO!!!

muette wrote:They look amazing, good job on those!!

Thanks muette!

inmygravenimage wrote:They look spectacular. I want to do a giant monster crab in this scheme for Carnevale. Great work.

Thanks graven! That Carnevale monster crab would look so good, you should do it!

Syro_ wrote:I personally think you're a madman for making such a complicated and good looking paint scheme for a swarm of gaunts
But keep up the good work

If I wasn't a madman at the start, I am after doing all those dots.

Olthannon wrote:Great work on the nids Gwyn! That colour scheme is very cool and I think you did a great job replicating the Barfy coconids!

Thanks Olthannon!

Aaaaaand, done! Basing elements and little extra muzzle-flash/worm bullets added. These give little sparks of colour to my otherwise camouflaged nids!

They look amazing!

Great work on the unit, that purple lichen is an excellent choice.

Chefs kiss.

Simply well done.

Thanks everyone! I was aiming for more red-to-pink, but it's surprisingly hard to airbrush moss and stopping it from flying all over the place so it ended up much more pink/purple. Still looks good!

I definitely look forward to expanding my Tyranids.

But first, my Flesh Tearers need reinforcements. And because my goal isn't necessarily working towards an actually functional list, the next unit will be a group of Reivers with carbines.



I got these from a friend (hence the interesting range of heads) and did a little surgery to stick grapnels on their backs, and to get new arms on the sarge. Because the Sarge in this unit can have a carbine as well as a knife, he's gonna be hte one with the shooting grapnel while drawing his knife. These guys are black done, and next gonna do some other colours before I go back to the red, clean up any overspill, and highlight it.

Looking good so far! Good bugs

Ooh love the take on the colours. Gritty.

Thanks all! This time it's contrast over zenithal.



Main bodies are almost done; the red is highlighted (and looking good), the various heads are done (save for the eyes). Overall looking good!

Final touches time. Got some microsol and microset and it's wild how easy they made it to stick a transfer to something this folded!

Gwyn,

The Nids look good.

Cheers,

CB

Yup- Microsol, solvaset, etc are wonderful products!

I first got acquainted with them applying decals to the sides of model railroad cars (HO scale); as fine as the detail was on those- especially the rivets- you could get the decal to snug right down. Your application is so good you can't tell there is a decal present!

Thanks guys! Yeah I can't believe I was doing transfers with only water and varnish before like a madman.

Reivers are more or less finished. I didn't want to put as much effort into them, because... they're shooty reivers... are they really gonna hit the table anytime soon?

Flesh Tearers,10th Company Vanguard, Squad 1. I am actually pretty happy with the company/squad role badges. I put a black transfer on the black shoulder and then outlined it in white.

Great work on the nids Gwyn. They look perfect, especially with the work bullets! The Reivers are cool too

Thanks Gobert! Looking forward to painting more Nids.

But first - have to pay for my sins with more Necron Warriors!

Blitzed my way through most of the process already; purple is done, green is done, bone is done, just have to shade and highlight the silver, than do weathering, finish the base, and OSL.

Progress is progress Gwyn

Cheers,

CB

Snazzy bunch of bots!

Thanks all!

Gun casing highlighted, silver done and weathered. OSL next!

Amazing work Gwyn!

Looking great. What's your method for doing OSL?

Thanks Paddy! Nothing special on the OSL - I just do glazed shades, using more repeated layers and brighter layers closer to the light source. Maybe soon I'll experiment with using airbrushed OSL, but I'm still not very confident with the airbrush yet.

Finished warriors though!



The great painting journey continues...

Cool warriors Gwyn, must be a sizeable Necron horde you have now.

Altogether I think I own about 5000 pts of Necrons (obviously not all painted, and a sizeable amount barely painted to Battle Ready). I also own about 4800 pts of Space Marines, but most aren't even Battle Ready yet.

Complete change up time. It's time to try out painting some sneaky marshy orks! I've done the skin, scars, and lips. You can see my one "block out the colours to see how it works" guy as well to see how the larger scheme will go; brown leather cloth, armour and weapons will be black drybrushed metallic, and the shields will be a dull red drybrushed metallic. Very excited to watch these develop!

Great work on the skin tone Gwyn, that looks excellent.

Thanks Olthannon! Skin is basically slapchop with some extra highlights for muscle definition.

The metallics and shield all came out great. This is a promising project.

Eyes, red accents, and some little more variation on the metallics with slightly corroded studs.

Brown leather and wood parts done (minus the stitching).

Pretty much just basing to go!

Wow! They are coming together really quickly and looking most excellent too. Some of these new minis really are made for slapchop as you’re demonstrating so well.

Quite an impressive points haul on the Necrons (and space marines), seems like a good milestone for an army pic too?!

Thanks gobert! Actually I'm just finishing up touch-ups on a unit... I still have a lot that's only barely table-top playable, but maybe worth doing a "state of the army" post.

Gutrippaz are finished! I had so much fun with these. I played with some light water-effects for the first time to get some murky swamp puddles. I need to do more shaping to be able to do actual banks for the puddles to make them even more realistic next time.

Lovely looking unit of orcs!

Just a quick update on a unit of Lychguard I did ages ago. They had metallic scythe blades, now I've updated them to be the same black-green with OSL as my more recent units.

Nice work on both units gwyn

Solid progress Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

State of the Necrons:

Top shelf:

My Monolith, Night Scythe/Doom Scythe (needs finishing), 10 Lychguard with scythes (now updated), 5 Lychguard with shields (need another 5), 20 Warriors with flayers, and Zandrekh and Obyron (need rebasing to use as generic Overlords; Obyron I might model some special effects around him to use him as an Overlord with Translocation Shroud), and an old Heavy Destroyer (which I need to rebase and then just use as a normal Lokhust Destroyer).

Middle shelf:

6 Canoptek Scarab bases (I have I think at least another 12 unpainted), 5 Deathmarks, 5 kitbashed Flayed Ones.


from the back: 10 Warriors with flayers (need rebasing to 32mm), 20 Warriors with reapers, 10 Immortals with tesla, 2 Cryptothralls, old Szeras model (need to repaint the staff replacement and then use him as whatever type of cryptek), and Lord Hasmoteph the Resplendent (Overlord with staff of light and reanimation orb).

Bottom shelf:

This shelf is pretty much all painted to just-below-battle-ready (I don't like putting basing materials on until I'm not gonna be splashing paint around because I find it difficult to tidy up on those surfaces).

Ghost ark, 2 Lokhust Destroyers, Lokhust Heavy Destroyer with gauss, 3 Wraiths (need rebasing), a damaged Reanimator, 5 Tesla Immortals, 5 Gauss Immortals, and a pile of characters. Imotekh, Orikan, Plasmancer, Chronomancer, Technomancer, an old Cryptek model, a Royal Warden, and 4 Overlord models (one off-camera to the left, oops, but it's just the classic voidscythe model, nothing fancy).

Oh, and a Nightbringer proxy.

I like your Necron force. It's a pain and a shame having to re-base so many of them for current rules.

I don't have super high motivation to do most of the rebasing - I have a large number of properly based Warriors, and 3 Wraiths isn't much on the tabletop, need a block of 6 to make it worth it, so...

Speaking of having a large number of properly based Warriors.

Let's paint another 10.


Primed silver and purple done. This time, put a few old Scarabs as basing decoration (to use them up, more or less).

Busy boy!

I'm in a Crusade league right now running Silver Tide themed Necron lists. At 1000 pts I was running 40 warriors. The challenge is how high can I push it without completely losing.

Weapon casing done.

Faces done!

Green glow done! Just need to touch up the silver, weather, base, and OSL.

I am loving these Gwyn, such an interesting scheme

Lovely seeing it all come together

Thanks IHateNids!

Aaaaaand they're done! Another rank or two of warriors to add to the collection.

Front


Head on


Back

It's hard to make Necrons look really interesting IMHO, but you did a great job making them look interesting. I like your color choice.

Thanks Shadows and Dust! The challenge is finding a scheme which has points of interest but isn't too visually complicated for what are at their core simple models (battle damage on the new warrior sculpts notwithstanding). I still iterate on how to do the purple panels.

Time for a break though; back to Tyranid land!

Sorry for the bad photo - finished the highlights on the armoured carapace.

Gwyn,

Nice work on the Necrons.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB! At this point they're pretty rote, but I find enough little areas to focus on to have fun on them.

Surprisingly these Tyranids are flying by. Just some detailing and basing left I think.

These little guys really did go quick, they're done now!

Front


Rear

Love the color scheme of them nids!
Blending into their environment well.

 Mothsniper wrote:
Love the color scheme of them nids!
Blending into their environment well.

Thanks Mothsniper!

I normally do contrasting bases, but with 'nids that have a camouflaging scheme, it made more sense to put them in an environment where that scheme makes sense.

Moving on; Radukar the Wolf from Cursed City! My Soulblight scheme is going to be red and green (patterned after the box art for Radukar, but it does work well). Colour placement will be inspired by 18th century Russian military uniforms (which was clearly also the inspiration for Radukar's box art).



This is the pants almost done, and the green cloak started.

Good progress on the green cloak, and largely done the skin. Started the various leather items, and a start on the beard (though I think I'm gonna go change it from blonde to brown).

Few more highlights, starting the gold, starting the wolf. Skin is finished and bloody gashes done. Sword rust is started - I'll go over it with metallic so only the pitted area looks rusted out.

I'm loving this guy.

That is looking sweet Gwyn, loving the boldness (but then I'm a sucker for Green, so....)

 IHateNids wrote:
That is looking sweet Gwyn, loving the boldness (but then I'm a sucker for Green, so....)

Thanks IHateNids! Every time I go back to it I think "you know what I can kick that boldness up a bit".

This round was dedicated mostly to fur, and finishing up the metallics.

And Radukar is finished!

Eye-level


Front


Rear

An impressively angry chap! The cloak is particularly strong.

Nice blog, Gwyn! Liking those Flesh Tearers especially. You'll be a true master of OSL when all those Necrons are done, lol.

Nice work on the whites on that Radukar mini.
Is it that Apothecary white contrast?

inmygravenimage wrote:An impressively angry chap! The cloak is particularly strong.

Thanks graven! It's much better than previous cloaks I've done - I think part because I like my colour palette more for this cloak!

Adrassil wrote:Nice blog, Gwyn! Liking those Flesh Tearers especially. You'll be a true master of OSL when all those Necrons are done, lol.

Thanks Adrassil! My OSL technique is still very primitive, but I find it effective enough for my purposes.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Nice work on the whites on that Radukar mini.
Is it that Apothecary white contrast?

It is, with some light grey drybrushing and I think I did some thinned nuln oil in spots to change up the consistency.

I liked doing this vamp enough to do a second!

Great work Gwyn! Love the Necrons, you really brought out their damaged portions well.

That coconut crab scheme always looks good and you’ve done a great job on them.

The soul blight stuff is looking superb, Radukar looks to be one of your best yet!

Keep it up!

 gobert wrote:
Great work Gwyn! Love the Necrons, you really brought out their damaged portions well.

That coconut crab scheme always looks good and you’ve done a great job on them.

The soul blight stuff is looking superb, Radukar looks to be one of your best yet!

Keep it up!

Thanks gobert! I hope this next vampire will be even better than Radukar - I think the cloak has a lot of promise, and I'm gonna have fun with this armour!

Face!

Coo. Very nice.

Thanks graven!

Big progress! Armour, cape, finishing touches on the face... Next need to do details, metallics, the black tabard etc.

Loving the latest Vampire where is he from?

 Llamahead wrote:
Loving the latest Vampire where is he from?

Thanks Llamahead! She's "Karlina von Carstein", one of the Warhammer+ subscription models.

I forgot her eyes lol

Coming along nicely Gwyn.

Cheers,

CB

Small update; bitsies on her leg, and I cleaned up the black cloth tabard.

Love it - A good green cape is such a visually striking element. great job on the face details too

Great work mate

Some fab updates Gwyn, the 'stealers and vampire look spot on!

Thanks all! I absolutely love this shade of green I'm using for these vampires.

And she's finished!

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Rear

That is one tasty looking Vampire! Great work gwyn

Thanks all! Sorry for being AWOL the last month or so. Little vacation and then starting a new job ate up a lot of time.

Meanwhile, I am moving on to doing 20 - TWENTY - hobgrotz.

Wish me luck. I did a simplified version of the complicated skin I did on the full orruks though, because I'm not insane. I never liked the yellow-skin hobgrotz either, so I went with a slightly more yellow-tinged green.

Skin looking good on those gobbos. There are so many AoS models that I don't know!

The green on the vampires is gorgeous. This is probably a weird compliment but it is the least Christmassy red-green combo I've ever seen, really suits her and pops against the armour (which looks amazing by the way - the way you've highlighted with pure white plus the dark shadows really makes it seem metallic).

Thanks for sharing!

Man- they're already looking good!

Is that contrast paint or have your already started applying washes?

Hope you had a good holiday. You’ve made Good start on the grots

tzurk wrote:Skin looking good on those gobbos. There are so many AoS models that I don't know!

The green on the vampires is gorgeous. This is probably a weird compliment but it is the least Christmassy red-green combo I've ever seen, really suits her and pops against the armour (which looks amazing by the way - the way you've highlighted with pure white plus the dark shadows really makes it seem metallic).

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks tzurk! Hahaha thank you for the compliment! I was worried about the red-and-green being too christmassy, but figured if I got the tones and shades right it would be ok.

Meer_Cat wrote:Man- they're already looking good!

Is that contrast paint or have your already started applying washes?

This is contrast and a wash, very limited highlights.

gobert wrote:Hope you had a good holiday. You’ve made Good start on the grots

Thanks gobert!

Got the metallics started. Keeping with the same scheme as my Gutrippaz; black for most things, metallic red for spot colour (in this case, the grenade heads and the banners). With the main colours blocked in, this is more or less the big-picture of what the unit scheme will look like.

Hobgobs are coming along nicely!

Thanks! It's slow going. 20 minis is too many. Not doing this level of batch again.

Decided that despite that I would go back to the skin and add more depth, and especially do the pink highlights on the mouth which worked so well on the full size orruks.

Small update - scars done. They add a lot.

Looking good Gwyn! The red on the lips is great, what was your recipe?

They look suitably nasty

I would not want to be facing them in any type of combat myself!

gobert wrote:Looking good Gwyn! The red on the lips is great, what was your recipe?

Thanks gobert! The lips are taking the flesh recipe, doing a 25/75 Warboss Green/Zandri Dust layer to lighten them, then Volopus Pink contrast to redden them, then Kislev Flesh highlight to lighten again, then Reikland Fleshshade wash to redden again, then a Volopus Pink contrast just on the gums and inside the mouth to bring those to a nice warm darkness. I did a similar recipe on the horn-blower's cheeks, just to a lesser extent, as below.

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:They look suitably nasty

Thanks Cap'n!

blockade23 wrote:I would not want to be facing them in any type of combat myself!

Tbh they're probably my least favourite of all the Kruleboyz units but eh. Though the ability to freely retreat from combat at the end of any turn and and do a mortal when they do is nice.

Here's the hornblower, almost finished. Got the blue tarnish down. Now 19 more to go!

He's really going for that trumpet solo there!

And a finished unit of grotz! I didn't bother with much for the basing on these guyz, because they're just grotz. I much prefer my full size orrukz.



Eye level:

Looking good Gwyn, the pink lips and cheeks add a good bit of interest to the grotz. Thanks for sharing the recipe btw

Looking Grand!

Great and menacing unit! Loving how you have done the skin.

gobert wrote:Looking good Gwyn, the pink lips and cheeks add a good bit of interest to the grotz. Thanks for sharing the recipe btw

blockade23 wrote:Looking Grand!

muette wrote:Great and menacing unit! Loving how you have done the skin.

Thanks all! I am going to enjoy doing the rest of these orcs over time.

Next project is a quick little side project. I had a small group of Necron Warriors that were only half-painted, so we're bringing them up to snuff.

The satisfaction that comes from clearing things that are half done (and half remembered) is so very sweet (Less so the feeling of looking into the project boxes and realizing how many things you have half remembered). Loving the purple on the Necrons.

Do you use any tool to track your progress on painting items? I use Kanbanflow and I really like it (although I can forget to keep updating it sometimes, so then I add like fifteen things to the 'to build' category and feel very defeated.)

Good to see the Necrons returning, the purple and green always looks so good. Maybe I should paint up a few warriors next too

@blockade, I love that you’re using a kanban tool! I’ve tried pileofshame.com but got fed up loading everything in. My Space Marines have a spreadsheet broken down to Built, Primed, Painted. But that is more about building the rig by loadouts to fit my plans

Thanks guys!

I actually just keep an excel file of all to-do items, which I also use to randomly decide what my next project is. I weight them by how-close-to-done they are; the further they are from done, the more likely they are to be up next. Also weight by model count, so that large units (which are otherwise not exciting to do) are more likely to come up, so that when a monster, vehicle, or character comes up, it's a treat!



Green is done, started OSL on one of them before I realized I needed to do basing before I could do OSL!

Looking good Gwyn, I hate it when I forget a step, throws me off balance for a while.
Using your spreadsheet to choose what next is a good idea. Mine doesn’t have that functionality but I’d probably go the other way around and finish whatever is closest to being done for that endorphin rush!
Good luck with their OSL

Gwyn,

Really liked the hobgrotz.

Doing the larger group makes the completion all the sweeter.

Cheers,

CB

Aaaand, done!

Nice! Great job. I like the glow on the ground from each of their guns. Cool effect.

They are delightfully creepy. I love the one with the cooky head.