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I admit I am curious how the hound would look with some sort of marking. The color is great, and the paint is well done, but it could really be cool to add that extra bit.

Nice work on mini no1 of 2020! The gryphon hound looks really cool in blue. I don’t think they need stripes/spots, especially if they’re half dog half bird. Ok, maybe Dalmatian spots?

Thanks for the comments guys, I think I'll wait until I've finished the Stormcasts before deciding on the hound markings. If I like the Stormcasts then I'll do a bit extra on the hounds.

Well, this blog has made it to page five, so I've picked another old model to paint up. This time, as Gobert didn't get his way with the painting challenge mini, I've gone with a High Elf Swordmaster


There has been a little progress on the Farstriders and Assassin but no pictures

I've enjoyed looking at other peoples' 2019 summaries, so thought I'd put together a picture of last year's efforts. Overall more than I thought I'd done with 88 models completed if you include the buidings and scatter terrain. Looking at the goals I set myself last year, there were two abject failures and a couple of successes:
50% of the painted models should be for my slaanesh army - big fail, only managed 3 models (3.4%). The Ad Mech army took priority here as it was easier to finish for a couple of events and I didn't want to rush the chaos. That and the fact I'm not always in the mood for painting space marines. Maybe this year will be better for these guys..
Paint twice as much as I buy - well, I painted 88... and bought around 150 Disappointed with this one, but at least keeping a record has made me notice. Must try harder next year
Enter the painting chalenge regularly - 12/12 success, although sometimes this challenge dominated my painting instead of projects I was planning on. Adds some nice variety to the painting desk though
Keep this blog up to date - Made it to p5, so seems a success. The odd gap here and there but overall good


goals for 2020
Paint twice as many models as I buy (and this time I mean it! Maybe I need to come up with a penalty of some kind for if I fail?)
Up the number of modes painted, 100 seems like a reasonable target with 150 as a stretch goal
Continue with the painting challenge (at least 10)
No specific projects this time, just paint what I feel like. Ideally this will be chaos 40K and catching up on Warcry and Underworlds. Contrast Nids could help with the painting numbers

Thanks for looking

Getting a swordmaster done with Teclis being shown coming soon. I think your doomed . Nice job on your 2019 paint work.

Big Blue in the center makes for a great pic. Congrats on your 2019 minis. Best of luck on bringing the paint/buy ratio together. And the gems on the swordmaster are unreal.

See, I knew the high elf would be a good choice! Those gems are fantastic! That’s something I need to work on this year I think! Great varied haul in 2019, best of luck with the not buying more than you paint... it sounds so easy!

Wonderful work on the Swordmaster! As others have said, the gems are brilliant, but the rest of the model is no less impressive. I think he wouldn't look out of place with the studio minis!

Getting a swordmaster done with Teclis being shown coming soon. I think your doomed . Nice job on your 2019 paint work.

Oh , I hadn't thought about the new elves. Not too worried as I don't play AoS and I've not been too interested in high elves in the past (this one has doubled the number I've painted in my life), though I did enjoy doing this one... And the new models look quite nice, apart from Teclis himself. If the rest of the range turns out good I could be in trouble.

Big Blue in the center makes for a great pic. Congrats on your 2019 minis. Best of luck on bringing the paint/buy ratio together. And the gems on the swordmaster are unreal.

Thanks Youwashock. Most pleasing thing about the gems was how quick they are to do, probably spent more time shaking/opening paints and brush washing than actual painting time!

See, I knew the high elf would be a good choice! Those gems are fantastic! That’s something I need to work on this year I think! Great varied haul in 2019, best of luck with the not buying more than you paint... it sounds so easy!

Thanks Gobert. I nearly changed my entry to a high elf as the assassin is a little fiddly and was getting a bit annoying - I was cursing Youwashock and Captain Brown for voting for him, but also thanking them because the deadline of the painting challenge stopped me from leaving him unpainted on a shelf forever. Definitely give the gems a go, fairly easy as long as you have a small brush

Wonderful work on the Swordmaster! As others have said, the gems are brilliant, but the rest of the model is no less impressive. I think he wouldn't look out of place with the studio minis!

Thanks Mcmattila, though the eyes definitely need some more practice


Limited progress since last time. Assassin just needs the cloak and trousers finishing, only a couple of days left to get this done on time


and the Farstriders are pretty much basecoated and shaded, next up some drybrushing


I've also finished building the rest of the first season of Underworlds, so expect more of these warbands shortly

I'll take my share of the blame and the credit. The armor on the assassin is looking fan-tastic. Best of luck wrapping him up by the deadline!

Nice old High Elf Maharg.

Good rule to follow on the number of models you paint versus those you acquire.

Cheers,

CB

Nice purple highlights in the assassin. I loves me a bit of gold and purple!

Thanks for the comments Youwashock, Captain Brown and Gobert. CB, the paint more than you buy goal is only good if you stick to it! More on that later...

First up, I did get the assassin finished in time. Not the best pictures due to only having the phone camera (seems to exaggerate the differences between highlight layers more than other cameras/real life) but will do for now



A little more progress on the Farstriders, not as much as I'd hoped but I've been putting off finishing the gold which is going to be a long step


So, only three models finished this month, well behind the two per week required for the 100 models this year target. Still, at least I've not been buying anything right?
Wrong! This arrived in the post last Friday so I'm behind on the paint more than I buy target too

I've built all the ghosts from these and, while the bases were drying, tried out the paint scheme on a spare component - mainly Shyish Purple contrast paint and contrast medium with a couple of other paints.



Final project on the go is for this month's Dakka Painting Challenge - 'Final Boss'. I've decided to go with this daemon prince


Hope to be back soon with a few more painted models. Thanks for looking

The assassin came out well, do you have any head on shots to see his face?

The purple ghosties look lovely, simple and very effective!

Damn, everyone has such appropriate models to paint for the Dakka Painting Challenge - 'Final Boss'...

Good luck this month Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

The Assassin turned out swell. I really like the look of the ghost, too. Daemon Prince is a veey cool conversion. Looking forward to the paint.

The assassin came out well, do you have any head on shots to see his face?

The purple ghosties look lovely, simple and very effective!

Thanks Gobert. Unusually, given the face is normally the focal point on a model, this one does a good job of hiding it's face behind its arm (which also makes it hard to do much with the face as brush access is limited). Here are a couple of front views, one too dark, the other too light

Damn, everyone has such appropriate models to paint for the Dakka Painting Challenge - 'Final Boss'...

Good luck this month Maharg.

Thanks Captain Brown. It's one advantage of buying more than you can paint - there are always plenty of options for the painting challenge in the cupboard. Would need to be a very obscure category for me not to have something!

The Assassin turned out swell. I really like the look of the ghost, too. Daemon Prince is a veey cool conversion. Looking forward to the paint.

Thanks Youwashock. It's a simple conversion but I'm pleased with how it turned out.

I've finished my first two ghosts, contrast really speeds things up. I only went with two as I was trying out a couple of slightly different shades for the cloaks. Now that's sorted (going with the bigger of the two) I can get on with batch painting the rest. Picture is a bit out of focus and the models look less purple than in real life. I might need to add an improve photography goal for this year

That assassin looks......killer!(puts on sunglasses)

Ghosts also look really nice. I have to say there are so many ways of making them look ghostly......it’s spooky

I see what you mean about him hiding his face. Quite appropriate for a paid killer though I suppose.

Ghosties are looking great! Sadly I can’t compete with Theo’s level of dad joke, so I’ll just say good work!

Love those chainrasps. I have painted my totally differently. If I had seen yours first, I might have considered this scheme.

The ghosts are pretty rad. An interesting departure from the spectral/glowy versions. These are more corporeal grim reapers.

Thanks for the comments on the ghosts Theo, Youwashock, Fifty and Gobert. In a rare burst of activity I've now finished all the spooks from the first two Mortal Realms issues. First up some more chainrasps

and the banshees

and a group shot of the fledgling force

That's...awesome! The banshees especially are twanging the ol' "buy AoS models you will never use" nerve.

 youwashock wrote:
That's...awesome! The banshees especially are twanging the ol' "buy AoS models you will never use" nerve.

Well those Banshees are a warband for Warhammer Underworlds....so you could buy them for that .

Great work. Love the candelabra glow.

So many ghosts flying around Dakka and I'm amazed what is possible color-scheme-wise. Really nice work, especially loving the candle flames on the one model.

Wow! They look spooktacular (sorry). The different shades of purple work exceptionally well. I look forward to the horde growing as you get more mortal realms magazines

Very nice work and a strong theme there Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Been a bit busy at work the last few weeks so not a lot done on the painting front, but there has been some progress.

First up, after weeks of procrastinating, I've finally finished the Farstriders



They are the first underworlds warband I've finished, despite having models since it was first released two and half years ago! I have several half finished bands but have always been distracted after the test model so this time I forced myself to do them all together.

I also finished my Daemon Prince for the painting challenge - a bit rushed on deadline day so there are some things I would have done more on with more time, but I'm calling it finished anyway


Up next are more ghosts, some tyranids and a space marine for the March painting challenge

Thanks for looking

Sweet Prince. That really is a fantastic use of that model. Good luck!

Amazing how the addition of the Daemonette claws and some wings really changes that Ctan miniature.Great colour choices really well executed as well. I am envious of the smoothness of your work.

That surely is a slaneesh daemon prince, if ever I saw one Nice clean work, had already seen it in the painting comp thread, the texture on the claws is superb!