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Nice work! I love the Mortarch models. I don't see many of them!

Have no idea how you can put out such quality work in such short time, they all look great Gir. Someone is going to have a fabulous looking army.

Very nice... I just got the skeleton horde starter (though it feels very light on actual skeletons...) How do you like your 3rd party ones?

Loving the dragon, looks fantastic.

angelofvengeance wrote:Nice work! I love the Mortarch models. I don't see many of them!

Thanks they are really nice, I was going to go with the book scheme and do the mount black but carried away with the bone colour and remembered afterwards

Yorkright wrote: Have no idea how you can put out such quality work in such short time, they all look great Gir. Someone is going to have a fabulous looking army.

The only reason is because I have to get them all painted by June for a tournament, I don't normally paint this quick!

Thanks

Anpu-adom wrote:Very nice... I just got the skeleton horde starter (though it feels very light on actual skeletons...) How do you like your 3rd party ones?

Yeah I felt it was a bit light on skeletons as well! I really like the Darklands skeletons, the sculpts are excellent and they are metal as well. If I had the choice and funds I'd just use Darklands skeletons.

filbert wrote:Loving the dragon, looks fantastic.

Cheers Filbert its a great model

You did a masterful job on the the bone color. Very convincing.

 Solar_lion wrote:
You did a masterful job on the the bone color. Very convincing.

Not had much chance to work on my undead horde recently due to real life issues again, one day my life will be back to normal!!!

I did get my supply drop though and have a ton of skeletons all still in their boxes though!

My estimate is that I'm a week behind schedule now, fun times....

Lots of goodness to be held





Hopefully I can get some of these guys assembled today, depends what happens as I'm off to see Katatonia (band) tonight.

I did manage to squeeze this guy out at some point last week, I didn't have any undead primed so just picked something out of my primed box.

This is a Wastrel from Malifaux





Quite a nice mini, the pic didn't come out too well but never mind!

Looks like my back log of minis to paint..

Pretty sure you will get those skeletons done in time, if you can paint up a skull catapult in a day a few skeles will be a drop in the bucket.

Wastrel looks good, your colors are bright and vibrant, I have a question though what did you use for the base? I like that sandy look.

Yorkright wrote:
Looks like my back log of minis to paint..

Pretty sure you will get those skeletons done in time, if you can paint up a skull catapult in a day a few skeles will be a drop in the bucket.

Wastrel looks good, your colors are bright and vibrant, I have a question though what did you use for the base? I like that sandy look.

I wish that was my backlog

The base was Vallejo sandy paste with a bit of cork painted up, I use sand paste on nearly all my bases!

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Nothing painted to show this week but I do have all those skeletons assembled !

This is them waiting to be primed, with a few Sisters keeping an eye on them, to make sure they all go through the cleansing primer!



Theres one skeleton left that needs to be finished but he requires a GS whip so will be the last model for the army that I do as I hate using GS!.

So yep you will be seeing lots of skeletons over the rest of the month, they are GW ones so don't have many cloths on so should be quicker to paint, theres just a lot of them

The sisters are going to be for a Shadow War KIll Team my next project I think to be finished by July, the Infinity stuff just isnt going to happen, I seem to end up buying stuff and never using it!

Well so much for going on a painting spree, life has been rather poor again lately and I couldn't face painting again

But and there is a big but I managed to get a bit of mojo back last Sunday and a few evenings during the week and managed to bash out 44 more skeletons, painting line from hell they seemed like they would never end

This leaves me with a skull catapult, 6 crew, Krell and a skeleton dude I need to convert to have a whip to be done by the 24th, seems like loads of time but it all depends if I loose my mojo again or not. I will crack on today and see what I can accomplish!



The never ending dead!



Hopefully I might have something to show tomorrow!!!

Looking good. Crack that whip and find that mojo!

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Looking good. Crack that whip and find that mojo!

Cheers consider the whip cracked

Yesterdays efforts, the second screaming skull catapult and two sets of crew



Only two models left now of which I shall be starting Krell this afternoon!

You are smashing it. They look great for what seems like little effort so that is a huge plus. I can sympathise with the mojo waning. But hopefully you can keep going and be ready to get these bad boys on the table top.

It's going to look stunning all arrayed for battle.

Looking good! That model is an absolute mess to assemble (coming from someone who assembled the old metal bloodthirster - twice), hope it'll stay together!

Looks good! Sorry to hear about RL :(

Your getting everything done so quickly, keep the mojo going! RL can get in the way but I have found getting back into the hobby helps with the stress.

Archer wrote:You are smashing it. They look great for what seems like little effort so that is a huge plus. I can sympathise with the mojo waning. But hopefully you can keep going and be ready to get these bad boys on the table top.

It's going to look stunning all arrayed for battle.

Cheers Archer these guys are so easy to paint I think I picked the right army!

I'll try and get an army shot when everthings finished

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good! That model is an absolute mess to assemble (coming from someone who assembled the old metal bloodthirster - twice), hope it'll stay together!

I know what you mean the first was a pain but ok, this one was a nightmare!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks good! Sorry to hear about RL :(

Cheers Graven, always the way I'm afraid with RL for me at the moment!

Yorkright wrote: Your getting everything done so quickly, keep the mojo going! RL can get in the way but I have found getting back into the hobby helps with the stress.

Will do Yeah its good when you get into painting puts you in your own little world

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And Krell is finished whoop whoop, one more model to go! I've decided to source a whip instead of going through the stress of making my own

All my pics look a bit rubbish at the moment not sure why that is.





His armour is my test for my 30k Thousand Sons, I'm not sure if it worked that well!

Such an awesome model. I think he has turned out rather well. There does seem to be a slight out of focus on these photos. Maybe check your camera hasn't chosen to enter a manual/auto setting you don't normally use.

Wow .. you pumped out a lot of skeletons. for someone with no mojo.


I like the green jacket choice on the wastrel. Nice touch!

Really beautiful work on that guy, nice model, and you have really done a great paint job.

Those skellies look awesome too.

Looks like the mojo is back! Undead are looking good, Krell looks great love the fur and cloak.

Wow so its been 6 months since my last post! As you might have expected life hasn't quite gone to plan to say the least!

I split up with my partner after 19 years and moved out at the start of December.I'm in a much better place now at a friends, but that does mean I've gone from a house to a room to keep all my stuff!!!

So yeah I've been really busy but haven't had the chance to pick up my brush, I have a paint area all setup ready to go when I feel the mojo and have the time to start again. Haven't checked all my boxes of models for damages from moving too scared to do that at present

I've been keeping my eye on your blogs so haven't missed anything from that side. I've seen a lot of cool models been released as well over the last few months the new Great Unclean one looks awesome.

If you remember from when I last posted I was painting a Death army for a tournament, the good news is I completed it on time but I never went, life took a turn at that point which I haven't regretted.

So a bit of a recap from 2017 I wasn't expecting I had done much in the 6 months I was painting but I didn't do that bad I don't think.

So here we go

First up were some models for the Batman Miniature game





A squad of Nurgle Raptors, I also one a best painted award for my Death Guard army at a tournament



Back to Batman with Killer Croc



Some skeletons



Half of the Malifaux starter



Elspeth Von Draken from Forgeworld



Some Black Knights for Age of Sigmar



More skeletons



A screaming skull catapult



Neferata, Mortarch of Blood



More skeletons!!!



A Wastrel from Malifaux



Even more skeletons



My second Screaming skull catapult with both crews



And then there was Krell



Plus the last skeleton who was needed to complete the army who's picture must still be on my camera, he must be a bit shy!

I think I did ok considering I've missed half a year.

Not sure whats in store this year if anything, I really hope I can edge back into it but I'm not rushing it, seen some really nice pearlescent paints by Greenstuff World, really want to get those bad boys

There's probably tons of new cool models that I've missed as well, I don't think I'll be going to any tournaments in the near future although I will probably still add to the armies I already have.

There is a cool model on my painting area all primed ready to go so when the time is right she will adorn some paint!

Sorry to hear about the move Gir, but if you are in a better place that is good news. Hoping that 2018 will be better overall, looking forward to you getting your mojo back.

Wow busy boy, commiserations but hopefully things moving forward positively now. Moar Batman !

Great recap. Great work.

Ah life hey? Onwards and upwards mate. Let us know if there is anything we can offer in the way of assistance.

Nice recap you had some quality work in a pretty short time which is a nice reflection of your abilities.

Very good work my friend... nice to see so many high quality projects from your brush. Keep up the great work!

Nice recap of the year. I especially like the Death Guard Raptors. The color pattern is disgusting rot and the conversions illustrate the concept of mutated chaos.

Has to be one of my favourite blogs of 2017, just beautifully and stunning work. Tons of inspirational work. Thanks for sharing.

As for other issues, here's hoping we all have a great year ahead.

Thanks for all the comments guys, I intend to make a come back. I’m just fnding I have a lot less time these days for painting.

My fingers are itching to get a brush in them again, I have a week off soon so hopefully will get some time then