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Some things are hard to capture on camera! They look great though.

Very true Gwyn chan'r Gwyll, and thanks a lot ! I have a not sooo bad photo setup, but since I got addicted to fluo paints and white skinned demons, it shows its limits. The grey background helps, but I think I need to be able to push the lighting even further away.

Anyway, here is my Lord Discordant :


And also spoilered because of gore, some wracks for my pointy eared ally !

I really like your disco lord. For my photos I use a lightbox with a white background. I've found that with my camera's built in white balance feature, it automatically underexposes my photos and then I have to go into Photoshop and up the brightness to fix it.

Very good job Kernel.

Many thanks my friends !
@ShadowsAndDust, I have 3 backgrounds, but I mostly use the grey one, as indeed the white messes with the balance. Maybe I need to find a clearer grey to have better results with the fluos...

Anyway, finished some spawns today !

Those are disgusting!! And greatly executed, actually I think they are inspiring me to do something similar for my chaos army.

Thanks a lot Muette ! Spawns are really fun to build, hope you have a blast too.

Allright, so with these last models, my thousant points of EC are ready to head out to a team tournament. Last time we were second to last, so it is almost impossible not to progress right ?

Good luck at the tournament! Lads certainly look great at least

On the spawn, did you kitbash those together? Or are they set sculpts? Great look, and nice size too.

Thanks a lot Boss !

The spawns are based on the infected by nocturna models, but scaled up between 200 and 150%, while keeping the claws at regular side. I also greenstuffed the top maw, and added the heads, mostly from Yagasan's emperor children heads, gain upscaled to roughly 2cm height.

What your EC really need are some Slaanesh babes.

The cyclops to the right is just 10/10 for a chaos spawn.
I wish GW would go more in that direction for chaos spawn, alas.

Congratulations on finishing the group! One hell of a theme that is. I can only dream of what that feels like as my pile of shame grows yet again :lol

Good luck in the tournament
Does the tournament have any voting for armies with great conversion work, theme, and painting?

Many thanks my friends ! Well we had a brilliant time, but still ended up second to last, mainly due to being tabled in our first two games. We had absolutely no answer against Astra militarum or tau firepower, and paid dearly for our mistakes. The two other games were much closer, and pretty back and forth. We were in particular pretty happy with how we improved on deployment and on the management of secondaries. In any case great opponents, and lots of fun over the weekend.


@ShadowsAndDust: Well some of my noise marines are actually ladies. But I do have plans to reinforce my demons in order to get something playable...

@NotOnline: Much appreciated, yeah, I love how the shape of the head still reminds of something that might have, at some point, been human...

@Roknar: Well, such tournaments are quite the motivator to get some stuff painted in due time. But do not worry, I also have quite the physical and digital pile of shame...

@Syro_: There was indeed a painting prize with a jury, but it was not for me this time. Seeing the army of the winner however, this was absolutely deserved, as it was professional high grade painting. I do feel that I would stand more of a chance on conversion or oddness voting, but that is not something I often saw.

Alright, shaming time.
I normally print/assemble/convert a limited set of model, then paint the whole set entirely before I move on to new models, limiting the backlog.

But Have I direspected this ! Since july I have moved projects on top of the backlog, to attend tournaments, get into bloodbowl, then frostgrave, or just to make gifts.

But now all of this seems clear, time to get back on track !

It happens to all of us. Also I'm intrigued. Do I see some Battle Fleet Gothic ships in that first picture?

Indeed, picture 1 has some BFG chaos ships, three slaughters, a styx and a repulsive, I have a couple of light cruiser not far. And there are also some parts of Fulgrim's gloriana, but I have not finished printing it either.

Picture 4 has some BFG as well, with some mechanicus escorts and light cruiser, plus a gloriana based on the Eye of Night

all this does is making me envious of your 3d printer

but when you have the world at your fingertipps...

Hehe well some of this pile is over a year old, but yeah, I am really happy with the investment. If anything it is getting me back into tabletop play, as it allowed me to pop the entire (filthy xenos) army of my main opponent/teammate.

 KernelTerror wrote:

Picture 4 has some BFG as well, with some mechanicus escorts and light cruiser, plus a gloriana based on the Eye of Night

Is the gloriana the absolutely massive ship on the right side of that fourth picture?

It is yes, this thing is ludicrously big !

Wow, 10 days since my last update !
I have not been idle though, but mostly assembling/gapfilling all the above pile of shame, a lot of progress was made.
There is still a bunch to go, and two scratch build that I want to complete in the near future.
Still, decided to treat myself and paint a few characters to avoid getting even more hooked on cyanoacrylate glue an greenstuff:

Some more frostgrave characters for my warband


Some evil knights


And finally Loragara and a loyalist scum

Been a while, but progress is being made, mostly assembling stuff.

In particular, I made a ship out of my toothbrush

That's cool!

Toothbrush ship is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Super creative and funky.

Spawns are very distressing - in the right way, and love all the colours/lighting on the disco lord - really bringing his namesake to the fore lol.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks a lot gents !

The entire backlog is now assembled, back to painting !

Starting with some much needed reinforcements for my frostgrave warband, with a knight and an apothecary:

Slowly getting back into painting, with these three knights complete !

Those are some awesome knight models you got there!

Thanks a lot friend, pretty happy how creepy they turned out !

Really great creepy knights! (Where they from?)