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VItterbi: Thanks, hoping i can get it the rest of the way done well.

Don Qui Hotep: I've yet to get to play War Gods, will be interesting to play around with. Possibly if Cold Wars goes forward this year, I might finally catch the convention game.

Wirecat: thanks, I keep trying get good shading on it, eventually I might succeed.

Feels like a slow week, but I did actually get done all three Marauders. Tried to simplify my schemes a bit, feel like some of my issues are more layers and shading than my skill can support. May do some more markings on them after some thought, but for right now, radio codes TM-BG, RH-CP, and KD-FM are good to fly:



And a bit of a goofy pic of a dakkajet having a bad day:



That said, only minor other progress, a little shading on some of the rats:


And some further work on the Harbinger. Kind of want to punch up the cloak a bit, but not sure where to go with it, especially the yellow. Think otherwise, he's about done except the base:




Hopefully get him done this week...

Another week down. Mostly been trying to clean up projects for the month.
Thethru is done, or at least as done as he's going to get. Still need to take better final pictures for the challenge, but ended up not going much further with him:

At this point, I have entirely too many harbingers painted up with no warbands to lead. Really need to do something about that at some point--got enough different follower units, just need to get painting.


Also got the latest set of rats almost done. Just need to do a power sword, some basing, and possibly erase a few stray marks where I missed cleaning up their fur:

Hoping to have them done this week, we'll see how motivation feels.
Also started in on this guy:



A 2nd commissar for some leadership assistance. Idea is to try my hand at doing some better flesh, and washing down the coat as a blue-black. Going to try to clean up and improve my first, power fist carrying one as well. Theres also a bit of UK azure I threw on some rat-ogryn and the last set of squaddies for this veteran platoon when I dropped a bit too much in my pallet, but dunno bow far I'll get on them--may try shifting back to some basti or animal adventurers, feeling like I need a change from the rats for a bit. Admittedly, the skeleton in the back is part of a unit of 4 old Ral Partha skellies by Judy Guthrie, wh8ch should help. Hoping to also get them painted up for next month's Halloween edition of the painting challenge...

Good to see another rat squad nearly done. That should feel good, it's always more fun to paint single minis, at least for me.
Nice work on the harbinger, good luck in the comp!

Great final effort on the Harbinger. Excited to see some spooky skeletons for October!

Viterbi: Thanks! Finally did get the rats done today or at least done enough (could probably use a few little paintovers for missed mispaints, and the power weapon kinda needs the antenna redone after blending, but kinda been dragging on hobby enthusiasm in general:


Don Qui Hotep: Thank you for the compliment. Two colors down on the skellies, a whole bunch more to go:


Also did some more work on the commissar, though really setting myself up for failure here, I think--was going to try to work more on the face and skin tones, and instead I've started shading everything but the them, the plasma pistol and jacket interior before I even finished blocking in the eyes or doing metallics. Dunno how the heck I'll manage to not screw up the already done shading when I go in for the skin...


Dunno how much progress I'll make this week, especially with IRL stuff going on, or what'll land on the desk next. Maybe start the last set of bulk Veterans needed for the ratlings, or possibly start in on some of their Chimeras, though that'd mean repairing all the storage damage. We'll see how it goes.

Love that sword. Good luck on the skin!

DJJazzyJeff: thanks, I'm kinda proud of it, even if it could probably be a bit better blended.

Actually managed to get everything but the base done, and somehow didn't screw up the face or sword (yet):



Also re-did the face on the old commissar while I was at it, and added bronze trim. Even with the cleaned up areas, really struck me how nasty the older paint job was in comparison. Gotta still clean and punch up the reds, khakis, and black, and of course washes and highlights on the metallics but should be downhill from here on him, which'd give me the leadership for this little force. May have to convert up a command squad for these guys and the old company commander to tag along with...

Nice work on the commissar and good thing you managed to get the face painted acccident-free. And I love the other commissar sculpt, nice of you to give him some touchups.

Thanks Viterbi! Actually kept chugging on them, and actually just got them both done:




Names indicate I may have listened to a bit much NPR as a kid, and I probably should have saved those names for some techpriests, but eh, not changing them now.

Those two look brilliant together! It's great to be able to see a before/after of the "old" commissar. You did a great job on bringing him up to match the new one! I'll echo the praise for the sword, it looks brilliant. Both their faces are nicely done and the bases are interesting without looking crowded.

The ratmen themselves are great too - I don't think we see enough space skaven! Nice work on the reds.

Whatever you end up painting next, I'll be excited to see. Keep it up!

Nice work. They turned out really well.

Great work on this pair, Vejut. I think most of these models in the gallery here on Dakka suffer from being "over-washed". Yes, some bits still can be improved, but overall You have more than done justice to them with enough bright spots to break dark and plain parts. Thumbs up!

Thank you Tzurk and Nevelon! It only look something like 11 years to get to them, but still feels kinda nice making progress on them!

Wirecat: Thanks! I do use a good bit of washes, but started trying to keep them in more specific areas, or go back over after. Starting to get results I'm at least not horrified by at arms length anyways.

Gah, almost forgot--made some progress on the skeletons, base coating is done, now I just gotta start the washes and such--probably going heavy on washes for the bones, a lot of texture there, more than I think I can manage fine-brushing. Hopefully don't go overboard on them.

They remind me good old Confrontation where necromancers were such an equal opportunity employers. Nice/

Thanks wirecat! I do like when you've got fantasy undead that take more than just human and ambigously elf skeletons!

Actually got the basing and all done over the weekend:



Will probably try to take better photos by next weekend, but for now, into the cabinet and mark 'em as done. Actually kind of tempting me to find some animal heads and or pre-animal headed skeletons to expand out into an undead army, but already got two and a half-dead project on the go for armies and several more where I've got a few models and desires to expand, so that'll wait I think (carefully covering the giant pile of skeletons and skulls just downloaded from thingiverse...)

I did start another animal adventurer though: Dark Sword calls this guy "'Harrek', otter cleric", but I'm kinda thinking of him as a Servant of Cod:


needs a couple more metallics laid down--I want the fish in his hand to be silver I think, plus I'd like to layer on a mid-gray-blue metallic over the dark so its less of an obvious blue-- and a cleaning up on his fur, then I can be off to wash and highlights...

Otter looks very nice already, great sculpt and nice color choices!

Thanks Viterbi! Kinda ruined it with the shading, but I think it ended up...enh, OK.

I think it actually added a lot! I like the three tones on his face, very naturalistic, darker towards the snout and lighter under the chin. Silver was a good choice for the fish also.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep.

Kinda was mentally all over the place this week. Tried moving the rats and the glaive kitties forward, but only got maybe one color each done on basing--was like pulling teeth and I was making mistakes all over, so I set them aside for the moment:

Also did a very little bit on the gnoll you can see in the background there.
Started in a bit on some reaper pizza kobolds, and also threw some paint at a dinosaur warrior, also from reaper, I put the red skin base on forever ago. Going to try getting them done over the next week or so:



Also primed and cleaned up another Dark Sword animal adventurer, need to start in on it, but its detailed enough to go towards the rear of the pile, more in a quick dopamine hit from finishing easy subtasks mood right now:



So of course between last night being up to late, and today being off, I assemble, prime, and finish a khorne dog. Moderately happy with this one. Base could use more blending, and not sure it matches well with either my khorne rat-terminators or any future non-Underworlds flesh hounds, and the bone color flesh is kinda blotchy, but I feel like I did decently with the red skin (even if admittedly something about the red colors I have temds to make them blend easier than other colors I've tried.) Also leaves me with 7 to go for my 144 painted target for the year.



Lets see how much time I get next week, and if I remember to take final pics of the skellies for the challenge.

Did a bit with the pizza dungeon kobolds:


Getting there. Feels like the bodies need more contrast. Thinking either a green or midbrown wash and then an aluminium edge highlight, but not sure. Any opinions?

Still no final skeletons pictures, but I did get the kobots (or robolds?) finished up:


Gotta get the skeletons photographed tomorrow so I have time to post them. Also trying to to some with the triceratops, but also forgot to take a picture, we'll see how that goes.

Very cool updates, those little kobolds are looking mighty fine. And don't sell yourself short on the cod priest, he looks very good!

Thanks Viterbi! My main issue with the otter is the paint kinda broke and its more patchy than I'd like, especially on the metal (the blue is also patchy, but that's more failure to apply stuff at the right places)

Kinda bouncing around between projects right now, mostly working on stuff thats been laying around my desk for a while.



Started an Asar (human) witch and priest of Anubis, and a Basti priest of bast for the challenge. Going to try doing sheer fabric on the Basti (and admittedly, probably fail and drop working on the model like I did last Basti I tried this on...) The Asar I plan to practice flesh with--one darker, more Mediterranean, the other more caucasian. Also put some base coats on the Kartikeya model and the triceratops that've been knocking around in the background of my pictures for a good long while. Kinda feel I should have gone for more "molting scales" than "ripping flesh" on Kartikeya, as it'd help him fit better in my old Lizardmen army, but...eh, its more correct for the actual game he came from as he is a literal demon from hell formed from a man, and it does look a nice contrast I think. We'll see how my focus holds up this week.

Three cheers for the robolds! Brilliantly characterful little minis. Really love the variety of work in here.

In terms of focus, any paint is good paint and it looks like you're getting a lot of it done! Where is the triceratops man from out of curiosity? Looks like a fun mini for DND...

Thanks tzurk. The robolds and triceratops are both from Reaper Miniatures.
https://www.reapermini.com/search/triceratops/latest/03874
https://www.reapermini.com/search/kobold/latest/04005

They've also got a sci-fi version, and a more conventional fantasy style guy coming in the bones 5 series
https://www.reapermini.com/search/triceratops/latest/49006

I am always amazed by the variety in your blog Vejut, speaking of which have you got any Adeptus titanicus minis in the works? Would love to see more of them.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors, I try to keep my brain from getting frustrated, so I kinda have a bunch of stuff going at once to distract it. I've got a good bit more titanicus--A starter kit, some more warhounds, and a Warlord, Warbringer, and a box of questoris knights, but they're kinda back table, I'm afraid--doing that last set even to the basic level they were at was a serious grind and enthusiasm killer--I just could not get clean work on that trim or smooth coats on the green. I've been eyeing them a bit more recently, but I'd like to pull at least one of the big blocks I've got on the desk and preferably both down first, just so I don't completely lose them in the clutter.

And because I feel like I'm yakking a bit much for a P&M blog, WIP update on the active set:

Almost ready for metallics and shading. Basti is lagging as predicted, and I need to get in to clean the eyes up on the human scale models, but almost done base coats!

Nice update, most excited about the dinosaurs. Can't go wrong with big dinosaurs!

Thanks Viterbi. I do like the dinos. Made a bit of progress on 'em, but honestly kinda been a bit busy and a bit run down towards the end of this week.


Needs a bit more highlight and blending on the triceratops, and the loincloth done at all. Probably should also find the sheild at some point. Kartikeya needs a lot of smoothing on the skin, and to jump into highlights. He's also being a little annoying and spinning on the wire to the cork.

Also made minor progress on the challenge minis--did try on the sheer fabric, and already screwed it up with some stray red from blocking. Probably try to recover by putting solid colors in, we'll see. Also need to work on actually doing skin tones.



And of course, the game store that used to be local to me got in a KoW book after serveral months on back order, so I did a bit of shopping there, and of course, after saying I wanted to clear my desk last week, I start another project:


Magnetized them up so I can swap guns, though not the wing turrets (and of course, managed to get 3 of the 4 wing turrets glued in place accidentally...), debating between a black F-117/B-2 style scheme, and an anti-flash white Avro Vulcan inspired one. Currently leaning vulcan, though figuring out how to get color depth there will be fun.

Dino done, may go back and do the sheild for him if I ever find it:



And since I'm here, a little progress on the challenge models, starting in on the skin and shading: