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You’ve been busy hobbyist! The old school ultras are fantastic, really great paint jobs, even if some of the have never done leg day! . The spartan base was really cool too, kind of like a mini diorama, especially with the mown down word bearer

Cheers! I have been trying to get regular painting in and focus on trying to learn something new each time. Once I get the airbrush setup up and running in it's new location I'm going to try some old vehicles, but in the meantime it'll be some more oldschool infantry!

Added a Techmarine with two small references to a British TV show that was contemporary to the model's release:



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Loving the red on that techmarine!

thanks for sharing

Excellent paintwork, all around. Very clean and well defined, and I think the modern bases and some weathering really top these vintage models off!

Thanks guys!

Well, this guy isn't going to be part of the Ultramarines but I thought I'd have a crack at green. Dark Angels Captain:



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That techmarine is great (I don’t get the tv references though). All of the lenses came out really well. I like the captains sword too

Thanks! Yeah, the reference didn't go as well as I had hoped, I need to work on my freehand. I had a go at bettering my freehand on the DA kneepad, still got a ways to go.

Maybe I’m just a Smeghead, but is that a Red Dwarf logo on his box?

Ahhh someone picked the logo! Awesome. There's a 14C on the wrench too in reference to the 14C/14F argument in the first episode too.

I was a little over ambitious with the logo - gotta keep pushing that freehand!

I lost all of my hobby time through October to building a 3D printer but it's done now and I'm back. Painted a Necromunda Orlock for a change:



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Nice work on the Orlock, love the little warning label on the lasgun!

Cheers! The label I cheated with and used a decal off the Cadian transfer sheet... I wanted to jazz it up a little and couldn't decide between the spades symbol or the warning label, but in the end the yellow/green combination sold me on the latter.

Painted the 1990 Blood Angels Captain.



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Classic mini! Really nice work on the gems, I love how the blood drips on his shoulder almost look translucent. Excellent!

Thanks! I'm keen to finish off the rest of that Captains series but a couple of them have some old paint that is particularly stubborn - so far 100% isopropyl, acetone, Simple Green, scrubbing and an ultrasonic cleaner have failed to get it all off. I'm going to have to resort to chemical paint strippers at this rate...

Juve done:



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Took a detour through a different scale and painted up an Imperial Knight Warden.

That's an awesome warden. The caution stripes and splash of yellow on the head are perfect.

Is that a tiny kill tally in white on the carapace?

I also love the warning icon on the orlock. Immediately gives it the right sense of scale, plus your painting is spot on.

 ph34r wrote:
That's an awesome warden. The caution stripes and splash of yellow on the head are perfect.

Is that a tiny kill tally in white on the carapace?

I also love the warning icon on the orlock. Immediately gives it the right sense of scale, plus your painting is spot on.

Thanks! I'm keen to pick up the other old Wardens (one of which is tracked!) but there's not a lot of them locally.

It was meant to be a kill tally - the 5-tally on the left which makes it most obvious is outside the depth of field in the pic, unfortunately, but it's there!

And thanks re: the Orlock. The warning decal was a bit of an impulse add but I am really glad I did it.

Brother Lestrade/Leanman:



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Brother Potter:



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Brother Slater!



Tried to do OSL for the first time... I'm not 100% happy with it but happy enough to leave it and try again on another mini.

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Last mini of the year!



This guy I actually bought new back in the late 90s and thought I had lost a long time ago; turns out he's been at a friend's place in a box for a couple of decades and I recently had him returned to me. I thought I'd have a crack at something other than red flames...

So I was wrong, I fit another one in. The actual last mini of the year - complete with needle gun!



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This guy had recessed lenses so I thought I'd have another go with the acrylic inks to get a glow effect. Not super happy with the outcome, but not unhappy enough that I want to repaint it, so he's done!



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What a way to resurrect some ooold sculpts, results are amazing! I'm sure you are having a blast painting those.

 muette wrote:
What a way to resurrect some ooold sculpts, results are amazing! I'm sure you are having a blast painting those.

Thanks! Yeah, I'm really enjoying the character of all of these old sculpts - every model is so different, each has their own slightly different bolt pistol, and slightly different pouch setup, and never-seen-again radio thing hanging off their belt... and that's before the pose and weapon variations!

Another one of the Armour Variants done! I really dig this sculpt's style - I'm not sure exactly what it is about it but it's one of my favourite RT sculpts.



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