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Popped in to see what an O'ot was and damn! Thing is like a giant chibi nightmare. Fantastic stuff. Actually everything here is pretty great. Definitely one to follow.

@EDC - Thanks, unnerving is the word i keep coming back to, i have to turn him round on my painting desk so I can sleep.

@ckig - Thanks for dropping in, and hahah i didn't think about the big head making it resemble a chibi, that cant be unseen! Damn!

 J-paint wrote:

@Valhalla - Dont put yourself down! your work is incredibly good, and its all about practice, im constantly amazed by how much you can improve over just a few years.

Wow. Thank you. I consider that high praise indeed. I am happy with how my painting has improved, but there's always room for improvement aND looking at stuff like yours helps motivate me.

So this is the state of paint on O'ot as of this morning, I think he is going rather well, going with the same muted colour scheeme with just touches of bright tzeentch colours.

The wings are the main area that i havnt even touched yet, they are going to be rather time consuming I reckon.

Of course he is nowhere near finished, but I will keep you updated, If i get him finished I may even take him along to warhammer fest for golden demon in a couple of weekends, he has no chance of winning anything but I guess it would be good to have tried to enter.

This is amazing and creepy. I could not sleep at night with that on the shelf.

So I have taken a bit of a break from Oot, but hope to get back to him fairly soon, in the mean time i have only had small hobby slots, so have been doing some quick experiments. I bought a cheap coffee blender and have been using it to blend spices to use as cheap basing alternatives, here are the results, I think they look pretty good, and when combined with other techniques will look even better still.

Anyway i thought you guys might enjoy this as an idea:




+ SPICES =

Great idea man! Have you painted any yet?

Those make for some seriously realistic looking grassland!

Bet your mini's smell lovely too

My concern would be if they'll fade or discolour with age, being organic. Had any thoughts on that or how to prevent it?

That is certainly an interesting basing method.

J, you are consistently impressive. Keep up the good work!

I want to smell your bases.

@ San - not yetm thats one of the nice things about them though, they barely need it. maybe just a wash and varnish to limit the smell

@ Possumcraft - Thanks, I have tried with just a light dusting of satin varnish and that is pretty good at entombing the smell as well, you honestly wouldn't know to sniff them (however weird that would look) and as for the discolouration I have thought about it, I very much doubt it will be an issue, these spices are already dried for exactly this reason to help preserve them, and with the varnish I think they will be pretty robust, I know people who commonly use seamoss to make scale trees and they havn't had issues with discolouration over the span of decades,but ill leave them in a warm humid place and let you know in a couple of years

@Whalemusic - I think in combination with other things at least, something to add to the arsenal as it were.

@Heretic Tom - hahah, I'll take that at face value and ignore the creepy undertones


So just a small update today, been working on the base for Oot, which i have to say I have enjoyed alot more than Oot himself, it sounds strange but I am struggling on such a large scale, I keep finding my hands get in the way and the painting chipping off and the task of keeping the same level of detail on such large spaces is exhausting, i'm not happy with him but I will probably call him done tomorrow regardless so I can move on to something I can get a bit more enthused about.

Hi all, I have pushed on and got O'ot finished, I think he has come out reasonably well, he sure is creepy, but the technical painting is a bit hit and miss, i compromised on quality for the sheer size of him, anyway, gorge on some pictures:

That thing is creepy as hell. What are you planning on using it as? Or is it just a killer display model?

Thanks, it really is! And i don't really play but if I did it would just be a lord of change, if you can have 'just' a lord of change.

That... is what a forest god should be... terrifying.

Nothing short of brilliance.

Whatever it is that you've missed hasn't harmed the final result. Looks great.

Absolutely stunning mate! that first image looks so good, it's like an illustration from some weird fantasy book! just has so much to take in and explore and the balance between all the parts is spot on perfectly executed, the tiny hint of red with the bloody fingers and the frame of icy blue works wonderfully, it all puts me in mind of something i'd expect from a cross between Pan's Labyrinth and The dark crystal. you are an exceptional hobbyist and an inspiration to all of us, thanks for everything you show us!

fantastic! For starters, Love the model you put together.the painting is top notch. Great colours, smooth blends. And those eyes! You've outdone yourself J.

I'm in awe of your photography too...

Brilliant! Way to crush the big guy out, he looks really quite stupendous And I keep going back to how you built up his owly head, so awesome - annnd just saw the gribbly black tentacles at the back, sweet!

Anyway, a hearty high five dude

- Salvage

Amazing blog man, love those minotaur constructs and pretty much everything else as well.

O'ot is badass. I didn't like it at first but I think it's literally because he creeps the f**k out of me! I think he looks like some kind of ancient monster, something that would fit in the Witcher world, that made a pact with Tzeentch for intelligence/mega powers

@ Gits - Thanks, i think.

@youwashock -

@Dr H - thanks!

@ Nerdfest - Ooh nerdy, the pans labyrinth connection leads well into todays post, remin you of anything?

@ San - Thanks man! The photography was very kind to the paint on the wings to be fair.

@ Boss-salvage - *hearty high five*

@boundless - Thanks very much! glad you like the minotaurs, they are some of my favourites as well. Glad you came round to the Oot concept too!


So a small update for you Dakka, I have been busy making some suitably creepy minions for O'ot, as NErdy pointed out pans labyrinth is influencing this project quite a lot as you can probably tell from these pink horrors, hope you enjoy:

Ugh, genuinely unpleasant! Mission most definitely accomplished there! You have such a talent for making GW's cartoony chaos sculpts into the terrifying, discomforting madness they're meant to be!

So so so good, J-Paint!

Creepy as hell, filling up the eyes is a neat idea I might steal ! Congratulations.

I think you already know my stance on these guys already!

That was definitely intended as a compliment. Love the minions!

Great work, J'. Very nice.

Wow, they are freaky!