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Hi all, so, I'm trying something new out. I'm plagued by unpainted minis, and have trouble finishing projects in one go, so, I'm going to try and see if a painting blog will keep me honest.

With the two waves of Sedition Wars, I'll be getting around 100 minis, that I hope to finish within a month of the second wave being released; I'm hoping I can get the first 70 or so from the first wave done well before the second comes out, so I won't have a backlog. This is on top of painting commissions, illustrating a graphic novel, and regular old freelance work.

So, getting things rolling, with the first bit of paint on my Vanguard, and a test model.





(I'll be putting these all on my hobby blog with a bit more info, too: http://spiralingcadaver.blogspot.com/2013/01/bug-hunt-sedition-wars-vanguard-test.html )

Digging the color scheme, sir!

Very nice - still assembling mine

Thanks!

Next update...

(more words here)





I decided to give the heroes a little more time and not do them with the bulk painting, so that update will need to wait...

I'd say my favorite infantry sculpts were the Reaver and the Grenadier.

I commented on your work on the sedition wars forums. Still loving it. Glad to see you post it here aswell! Still loving the highlights. Can't wait to see what you do with the characters(and the strain for that matter). I think the helmeted female is the weakest of the sculpts. It's not a bad sculpt. Just looks out of place amongst the other sculpts.

By the way I'm stealing the way you paint your bases!!!!

Thanks!

Yeah, I like that Dakka is a kind of all-purpose site; where it makes sense, I like to cross-post here.

I agree that the female/unhelmeted sculpt is the least consistent with the rest of the line: trendy bangs are probably not the most utilitarian.

I've already got my first Strain mini mostly painted, though I'm not sure it's quite right, yet...

Looks great!

Thanks!

So, I had a bit of time here and there, so I managed to get out a test strain model.

I'm not entirely satisfied with the look, though, so I'd like feedback if you've got any advice (or if you think it works). I've written a bit about my thought process on my blog.

Thanks in advance, for any tips!

I'm pretty happy with how this group turned out, decided to go for a rougher feel and some alternate colors. (Link for more info, and a bit of a review.)

Next up, Corpsman Vade (with writing on my thought process here)

Again, they look great dude. The subtle lie glow looks really good on the strain. Something I'd not considered but it works well and suits their techo-zombie vibe. Cool looking vase aswell. The light source painting works really well. Definitely gives mood to the character. Is it just the hero character left now?

Thanks!

Not quite just the heroes.

I've got

the heroes plus all of the promo minis (the only stuff I didn't pick up was the terrain and the heavy suit)

the biohazard small units (6 drones, 6 scorpion things) that are coming in the second wave

the strain phase 4 & 5 beasties

IIRC, it actually comes out to around 35 more minis...

They are all so clean and consistent. How are you doing this!?! Good job.

Thanks! Regarding consistency, batch painting is the best (and least fun) way of doing it. I'm doing a chaos army soon, and these guys were a trial run of sorts.

Regarding clean, most of it's experience, I guess, but this was the first army I painted with only white undercoats. I've found that I can get a way more consistent base color with white than black, and am probably going to only use black undercoats on ongoing projects. It's to the point where I'm selling off smaller forces I've painted so I can start over in white.

I'm pretty happy with how Akosha came out. Maybe a little exaggerated, but I'd never tried red OSL before.

(more words here: link)

Looks really stealthy. I think the osl works nicely and isn't to heavy. Who needs 'lights out' anyway???

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
I'm pretty happy with how Akosha came out. Maybe a little exaggerated, but I'd never tried red OSL before.

(more words here: link)

Wow... great job on all the minis, but this one in particular...

I've always wanted to try this on a miniature (in particular, a grimdark Batman I'm making). Your Akosha just sold the "under-light" look that I've been mulling over for some time.

Subscribed!

-Remi

Thanks! Yeah, also a big fan of Batman (the animated series may be the best kids' show ever made, and there are a number of great stories in the comics).

I imagine Batman'll look pretty awesome with under-lighting, and be more forgiving than Akosha on his face (really hard to do harsh lighting on a female face w/o it looking funny)

Going for some more subtle lighting (more info here)

Wow these are awesome, is this a boxed set game? I've got a few sedition wars blisters, they're quite nice. On-par with Infinity sculpt quality, and your excellent paint job has really brought them to life!

Nice models, ur paint for the coperation models remind me of eldar for some reason. ur zombies(?) look very horrid indeed.
Very good.

@Cave_Dweller, Thanks! Yeah, with the exception of the helmeted Kara (limited edition), those are the boxed game minis. All I've got left from the core game is Barker (the weapons specialist) and, I think, the big 4 strain beasties.

Yeah, having painted infinity, these are slightly less subtle than their most recent stuff, but definitely of the same calibre.

@Novelist47, probably because of the combination of rounded/organic/form fitting armor and a bunch of colors that don't appear in nature very much, also, a lot of eldar players seem to go for the glossy look (I know I did, back when I played them). I hadn't thought about that, but definitely agree.

Re: strain, thanks, yeah, the official scheme is impressive, but I liked mine looking extra organic and gross, thanks

Another post, it's been a while...

The Grendlr came out very different than I planned, but I'm still happy with it. (More thoughts here

Looking very good bro. I can't wait to finish painting my sedition wars (well I can lol)

Oops, didn't notice you wrote. Thanks! What look are you thinking for yours?

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Oops, didn't notice you wrote. Thanks! What look are you thinking for yours?

Right now I've got my Vanguard sorted into fire teams to be color coded. I did my lights out pack already, really love how they took the washes. I did all of my phase 1/phase 2 strain mostly with a dirty nasty look. When I do the bases in the future I'll post them up for you to check out.

Cool, had considered that, re: squads. I may still do that, since I'm retouching mine now. (How are yours coming, or has your general frustration w/ SMV put that on hold?)



After a long break, finished my BfA set:

(With more words on my blog)

Started cleaning up/repainting my BfA infantry:



(and a few words about them)

Also, some thoughts on painting and strategic scenarios

My next blog post, including figuring out the probability of exploding dice and durability by cost.

Also, pic for the link-disinclined.