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Yeah, the retail box is looking pretty cool. I kind of wonder if/how they'll be selling the other kits too, should be neat to see what they come up with. Especially the battlezones, I may need some more in the future!

I probably went in way, way too heavily for deadzone... but I love the models, the game system seems awesome, and I've been after sci-fi city terrain for years. If I get a big pile of stink I'll just wash my hands of the company, but I really don't see it happening.



As to general progress, I got flesh on a couple of the zombies but it's been a slow day. If the girls don't stay up too late tonight (and I'm not exhausted by that point), I plan to finish the flesh and maybe get a good start on the leather.

Gotta say it, the rattle can undercoat is 100% better than using the airbrush, at least with the paints I have. Its more durable, and the flat finish is rougher and holds paint better. Airbrush is still awesome for basecoats, but I'm gonna stick to krylon for undercoats wherever possible.

As to the direction of things... I think after the BGC girls, I'll probably work on something Imperial. Either I'll finish constructing (easier to do the inside when its apart) my vendetta and paint it in corporation colors, or I'll see about fleshing out my fledgling backburner marines project.

*update* Flesh done, metals blacked, brown 1/3 done. Got a little effort in, but too tired to push to finish them tonight. More later.

Boom.

Just gotta finish the bases, combine, and seal. Gotta sleep now though! More shots when they're fully finished, as well as a postmortem on the project as a whole including what happened to (or may still happen) some of the side projects I came up with along the way. Hopefully I'll take some more shots of everything as well. Then the first post or two will be getting restructured to make way for the deadzone project thats coming up!

Well done

Hey grim, long time no speaksy. Your zombies look killer .Deadzone is looking awesome. Having seen some of the minis in person, they are even better. Goodwork as always mate! "

Great looking zombies, can't wait to see the deadzone stuff. The real question is, what are you going to do until Deadzone gets here?

Thanks everyone! I knew there was a reason I pushed to get those done last night

Been a while BMB, too to hear on deadzone, looking awesome.

@Squall the Knight Sabers are up next, 4 power armored ladies from an anime in the 80s/90s. After them, I may try to work out a method to dip Marines and get them looking like my current guys. Was gonna buy some Infinity, saving that as a reward for deadzone progress.

With any luck, finished zombies tonight. Till then, happy hobbying!

Wooooot.

Probably need another coat of sealer, most things probably do. Done though. Better update later... I gotta sleep.

Counter terrorists win.

Nice job defusing the bomb... errr finishing your painting goal!

lets see some marines.

HUZZAH! Well done! They look as great as the previous ones (love the helmeted one. Zombie or an evil mastermind blending in?)

This calls for an epic congratulations moment! I present you the end message of the Ghostbusters game:



You truly deserve it!

Now let's see some cool girls in kicka$$ armor

Thanks guys! Will make fancier update after work. Plans to take more shots of project as a whole etc.

@LBM, I missed out on counter strike and it's various incarnations, but I see what you did thar

Gah no fancier update. Work has left me in a place where I'm not really comfortable sitting in my chair to write out a lengthy update, so I'm gonna try that tomorrow, or the weekend at the latest. I took some pictures, but the cable is in the bedroom with sleeping wife (of course)

Here, at least, is the completed TODO or DIE sheet:


Woohoo!

Till later, happy hobbying!

Smashing goals like a boss grim

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...Gah no fancier update. Work has left me in a place where I'm not really comfortable sitting in my chair to write out a lengthy update, ...!

I admit, I lol'ed. I blame my dirty mind.

Again, "Congratulations!", it's great to see the sheet 100% complete!

Heh... not sure what you think I do for a living TDL...

Its good to have it all done. Looking forward to some smaller projects for a while. I may even paint my deadzone models one at a time.

Got a sunlight lamp coming so I don't get SAD. Meh, its for painting, hopefully it will let me get closer with the camera without those lines the fluorescent lamp does. Got mars attacks to get in the kick starting mood as well

Well done! Looking forward to the next project you set yourself up.

You've inspired me to paint a crap load of my Mantic Undead I had sitting around by the way, cheers.

Thanks da boss! But, pics or it didn't happen! . I may put together some zombies to paint just for the sake of it, and the skeletons are pretty cool too.

Still haven't done anything, waiting on the new lamp for pics. Weekend coming though, so there's that. I've been too busy ogling reaper bones II and now mars attacks kickstarter. Do t plan to throw much at either but both have a lot of interest for me.


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Also considering doing 5 more zombies to make a nice round 25 for use as an imperial guard infantry platoon.

Well, nice work here. I've been reading through this P&M on and off for the last 2 days and I've finally gotten to the end. Finishing a project like that is certainly to be congratulated, nevermind 2 1/2 months early! The Guardsmen turned out nicely, but the zombies really look great.

What's next? Back to the Forgefathers? Marines?

Thanks I made my due date far out in case I hit creative block/burn-out, or if the growing baby/toddler became ever more demanding of my time. All but stopping playing video games and actually focusing helped quite a bit in terms of getting done. I think having a concrete goal looming helped too, but I'm gonna take it a bit slower for awhile, burnout is lame and I've lost interest for months at a time at a few points.

Its actually kind of funny that you point out the zombies being more awesome than the not-guardsmen. I kind of feel the same way, the funny part being that the zombies take less than half the time to paint as opposed to the marines. I did churn out 5 of the marines in one day, so neither set was all *that* labor intensive, but the zombies just take so much less work. Especially the last couple of batches. Spray white, airbrush ancient mummy bone (bleached bone equivalent made out of minitaire ancient bone and mummy colors ), 2-3 thin layers each for skin, armor, leather, then do metal and details. I never timed the zombies but it was fast. The marines took more layers overall, and most of those were slower steps where I had to be careful. But yeah, zombies probably do look cooler so yay for zombies

As to whats next... That's what I've been deciding. I've got nearly two months before Deadzone hits due to its new earlier ship date. What with living in the states, I figure I'm still looking at late late November, or early December... of course, I was originally thinking it would roll in just before Xmas, so definitely ahead of schedule.
Anyway; I have one project determined, and then some wiggle room. First up: Knight Sabers! What's a knight saber you ask?


Anyway, those four are next. They are tiny, and while I'm gonna try my best, I'm only gonna be able to do so much with my abilities. That said, it won't take long

Next up will probably be some more shadow knights. They live in my gallery, I'd dump them here but then they'd get excited and I don't wanna get their hopes up I may paint that techmarine, or I may paint a tac/scout squad. I may also finish my storm talon. It is *quite* possible that I'm gonna repaint my vendetta in my corporation colors to go with that detachment. I do have some more forge fathers, got extra bits a while back on eBay due to dirt-cheapness and all that. I may save them for next year when I get the second shipment from Deadzone though, since I'll only *need* more if I want to unlock additional special choices in a Warpath forge fathers army. They do paint up ridiculously fast, so it could happen sooner :p

TLDR? Its in the air Knight sabers and then TBA!

I'm also gonna update this here blog. I think I'm gonna make a P&M showcase thread in which to dump the new pictures I've just got done taking (if they don't suck!) and I'll probably duplicate that post here and make a link directly to it from the front page so newcomers only need to troll the blog if they want to see how things progressed, and not just the results of the effort.

I've gotta crop and touch up some of those aforementioned images now, I'll likely dump them here tonight time permitting. Ooh, yeah I think I'm gonna make myself a snazzy banner out of some of the images too (if they don't suck!), but anyway. BBL Happy hobbying

Alright, I got a little over half of the shots edited and uploaded. I still need a proper light box and a proper camera. The new lamp is alright, but there isn't much difference over the old one. Still worth it, two helps saturate enough light and all that. Spoilering due to many images The rest tomorrow probably:

wow. space dwarves. epic win. where have I seen them before?

Well there were squats in 40k ages ago. These guys have kin in deadzone as well. Beyond that I dunnoz, I know there are more kinds elsewhere.


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Alright, second wave of images incoming:

Got a little work done on Priss. I did the base colors. I got them as close to the pictures I found as I could. I think the grey parts are meant as metallic, but I didn't wanna just slap some silver on there. I think I can do an edge highlight on the blue to make it pop a little more, but I'm hesitant to try blending on something so small. I think the red bands on the legs got a little blue on them, I think I'll have to repaint them pure white and then go back in with the red. Overall, I think I got the colors close, I just need to sort out highlighting/shading them to look good.



Shouldn't take too long to finish this one, just not a lot of area with which to work.

Loved the gigantic sets of pics and my favorite "pack" is the 2nd Ranger Squad. Love their armor, love their style, love their weapons and yes, their visors are much better than the ones in 1st Squad.

Priss is looking lovely so far You are doing a great job painting that tiny, tiny miniature

But concerning what you said, they are a bit of a pain in the a$$ to figure them out:


They are all metallic but the only big representation of this seems to the gigantic light reflection they do with loads of highlights all around her as shown in the pic. Maybe you can represent this "Shiny-effect" with a varnish other than matt. Satin is already very shiny but doesn't reach the extreme of GW's "'ardcover".

Yeah, I could see highlighting her/them to get that sheen if they were mounted to a display board in a static way, with an obvious light source etc.

I think I'm just going to try my best to lightly edge highlight what I can, with maybe a little extra work on the grey/metal areas to make it a poor mans NMM. That technique is a bit much for me especially to attempt on such a small figure, but I think if I paint those parts straight silver paint they're gonna look tacky as hell.

I just don't think I'll be happy with the high gloss, it would make them shiny, but I think it wouldn't translate well.

I will say that I'm quite impressed with how faithfully these models represent the original series suits, definitely matches up well. But now I see that there's some red above the eye lenses on the helmet? Gasp! I may just have to print a couple of group shots out, looking them up on my phone is proving to be a bother!

And damn! That nice, clear, shot makes me realize I picked the wrong color for part of her armor. Will have to sort that out :p

As always, thanks for the feedback TDL! I'm really looking forward to painting up deadzone, I hope to keep the standard of the Deadzone minis on par or better than those last rangers who had the accumulated experience of the previous marines to refine the scheme.

Yeah, those Zombies came up great. The wash/dip technique works wonders for them. The Forgefathers look good too, but the yellow/ochre of all their weapons and armour makes them kinda blend into one another - not helped I must say by the nature of the sculpts/castings. Your basing certainly makes them look a lot better than standard Mantic plastics though.

Nice work on the fine lines of the Knight Saber. I know nothing about them, but you're doing a great job, especially considering how tiny they are!

@Azazelx thanks. I didn't take my time with the Forgefathers since there wasn't a lot going on there. I'm sure someone else could make them look better, but I just got a set cause it was on sale and would unlock some of my Deadzone specialists for Warpath. May be that I should have painted their guns all metal, or black, or just different, I considered that. I was kind of figuring its a future/space game and the materials in the armor and gun may be similar, or the fact that they were all just painted to coordinate. The blending is something that I'll have to consider in the future though, as I agree.

Priss is done except for her base now, was waiting till she was completely done for more pictures.

Then there was brother-in-law's wedding this weekend. And either the two drinks I had yesterday, or perhaps it was a "don't drink the water" scenario... made me sick lol. Like a low-grade stomach-bug sick. Both ends... etc TMI as it is. So I'm not sure if I'll get anything done today, but I'll work on Priss's base if anything.

More later, happy hobbying!

OK been about a week or so. Whoops. I've been taking it easy and playing a little Skyrim to relax. I did get a little done though:












Still short, but the base helps a bit!

So there you have Priss, all finished. I decided after working on Priss that I would rather airbrush on the basecoat to get it done quicker and smoother, and then repaint anything that was going to be red (or other misc light colors) white manually. I went over the lines on Priss enough to have to repaint the stripes white again anyway so there wasn't much point to doing the basecoat by hand anymore. Linna is a bit light at the moment, but a coat or three of green ghost tint will hopefully get her into better shape:



WARNING: Varied and random musings to follow, those here simply for pictures may continue on to the next update

And a note about all that stuff I said I was going to go over... Still gonna Just got sidetracked with no little help from two crazy Kickstarter campaigns: Bones 2, and more expensively Mars Attacks. Bones is tugging at the part of me that's always out for a good deal, while simultaneously appealing to my desire to paint more and different models. I'm somewhat torn as I don't currently play D&D and the models would be more or less strictly for painting (and a long time in arriving too!), but the value is growing daily and there are some neat models to be had (would incidentally have more than enough characters for a Kings of War undead army, for instance). Mars Attacks is just beating me over the head with awesome at every front. The game is a lot like deadzone, but simpler and with more random silliness. When you really dig into the models being produced though you can find a lot of synergy with Deadzone (and maybe Infinity). The terrain has some promise, although I'll shortly be swamped with that from deadzone. The truck has a lot of applications as will the incoming wrecked car. And the martians with their various specialist units, flying saucers, and inbound giant stompy robots are just too cool! I said I was done until warpath, but those fiends at mantic have gotten to me again! I'm just waiting for them to sneak out a dwarf kings hold kickstarter after this one... Anyhoo, I've been agonizing over which pledge to keep/increase/whatever so that's taken up some of my forum browsing time :p

WARNING: Shameless plug hawking my old armies, feel free to TLDR

I've also been working on reducing my defunct minis collection. Preferably, I'll find them all a home with other gamers who have more time/interest and will make better use of them. I think the Tyranids tentatively have a home lined up already, but I've still got over 2000 points of vintage 3rd edition dark eldar, 3000ish points of last edition WHFB empire, and 2000ish points of last edition Skaven to find homes And of course I have too many space marines to reasonably finish given the rate at which I paint things. So half to two thirds of those could be getting adopted in the near future too! Anyone interested? I'll be sneaking galleries of those up in the coming months but it will all be shots for prospective buyers and no new hobbying technically.


Hmm what about some of those other projects? Well, the dwarf army is probably dead. I got pretty excited about it for a week or two there, but if anything, those dwarfs may become forge fathers eventually. Eventually, maybe. There just isn't time! I may *may* eventually put together an undead army. I have lots of various undead (loads more if I stick with Bones 2!) and I wouldn't mind working on some of them at some point. Unless my buddy who was showing interest calls me and says he wants to play, my Infinity plans are on hold for now. All the money that I could have spent there has been absorbed by Mantic and possibly Reaper for their kickstarters. I still fully expect to use Infinity as my "complexity plus" rule set to take Deadzone 'to the next level', and I'll pick up some of the models at some point...just maybe not as soon as I had though originally. I think the foam/DZ tiles kestrel is grounded pretty hard. I may revisit the plans some day, but for now I'm going to focus on other things. I do want to get my two imperial flyers painted up though. I've got a Vendetta and Stormtalon that would be great for sitting on my DZ landing pads, as scenery and possibly in some kind of scenario. If I sell off my skaven and or dark eldar the Dark Skaveermdar project (wait... did I even mention that one to you guys ) will necessarily be ended. The last thing I can think of for now is my found items terrain project. I think I will still do some work with plasticard to enhance and stretch out my DZ tiles and accessory sprues, but I probably won't use a whole lot of found items to expand the set initially. I didn't get very far along and a pile of dismantled computer parts that *could* be terrain doesn't HAVE to be. Its not like I wasted a lot of money or even time working in that direction and the Infinity thing has been a slower go than I had initially figured.

In addition to deadzone, you may hear some more of mantics (and possibly others as well) other board games in the near future. I'm trying to instigate a "board game night" with my wife, sister, and my sister's boyfriend. We played munchkin this thursday night and it was fun (when isn't munchkin fun though!), and I'm going to mock up a Mars Attacks board for us to try. It being 1v1 we'll have to do teams, but it should work out. All of this has me looking into Dwarf Kings Hold, Project Pandora, Dreadball, and even wondering what games like Zombiecide may cost retail.

Alright, I think that is quite enough out of me. If I'm not totally exhausted when I move on from here, I may go hack up some skeletons and make a couple of mars attacks disintegration terrain pieces for fun

you should put up a swapshop thread for your stuff.

I intend to, but I will have to unpack sort and shoot everything so people know what they're getting into. And I still have to figure out if the marines and skaven are getting out on the block. I may just store those two. Trying to decide if its worth piecing the armies out or just presenting them as bulk deals too. But yeah, totally gonna do that .

Priss looks great, specially for such a tiny model. Look at that, it's absolutely tiny!

I understand what you mean with old projects. I have some unopened Necron boxes I'm trying to sell but I'm so fething lazy when it comes to this. With watching animes, practice Japanese, and overall spending the weekend with friends (and now I'm back to the painting game), gak, I honestly haven't done a thing. I wish you the best of luck with your possible selling frenzy, it's such a PITA when you just want to use your free time to do cool stuff

Btw, there's a lot of cool board games out there, no need to grab a 1v1 game and do teams

(P.S: One of our FLGS is gonna start selling Infinity I'm hoping to finally get a demo so I can finally decide if I really like it or not )