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whalemusic360 wrote:I got the battlefoam for travel games, fear not. Only concern would be the long ride back, I think I can handle some glue though.

Aha I might stick on the base then as thats safe, but I think it would be better to wrap the sails seperately in the box just in case. Mail can be rough so you can never be too careful in my opinion!

Briancj wrote:Hi, Dad!
Still, the 'real world' picture rule still applies. Prevents you from being lost in the world of painting FOREVER.

Haha, indeed! Also makes it feel a bit more homely and welcoming which I like, like having photos on your desk at work

Alfndrate wrote:Wow, almost 100 pages of awesome miniatures... Iffy, your work is stunning as always, and even more so with these tiny tiny details that are coming out amazingly well..
Great job

Thanks so much Alfndrate! I know, nearly 100 pages, it's crazy! I'm glad I managed to get an average of a pic or two a page as well, that should make it not horribly boring to read through

I got lots of work done on starting the final space wolf top halves, the other halves are attached to their mounts



These will look very different as work continues, eventually looking like these -



so I figure I will upload WIP shots as I go as people have expressed interest in how I painted the SW models before. Guy on the bottom with double claws will be to showpiece standard, but it’s quite hard to tell at this stage Their basic metals and shoulder work has been laid down, after this comes the huge amount of weathering and careful highlighting, then skin and glow effects come last.

Off to bed now! Looking forward to getting more done tomorrow.

EDIT :

OH. PAGE 100.



PARTY TIME.

I love the wolves alot, but I think the perfection comes between the balance of puppies and kittens on this congratulatory message

CONGRATS IFFY!

My god, it's full of stars!

Wait, a terminator is riding on a thunderwolf?

woo 100 pages, great wolk Ifalna! the thunder wolf cav look to be coming along awesomely!

happy 100th pageday.

100 pages of sheer awesomeness! Congrats Iffy! It's truly been a joyous ride. Thank you for providing so much inspiration and support to your readers. We do appreciate it.

Haha, cheers all

I wish I had something great to post on page 100, but I don't think these wolves will be finished by tonight!

I'm also starting on a tiny squig, the next ship, and assembling some interesting mini's for later.

A friend is dropping down a brass scorpion and Luft Huron today, and I have some freaking AMAZING mexican orks on the backburner.

Busy busy!

Congratulations on getting to 100 pages.

The TWC look interesting, I didn't realize the SW have such different weapon options (a pair of lightning claws seem an odd choice when mounted on a dire wolf).

I look forward to more squig goodness and Mexican Orks--are these converted using the heads from Puppets War? With sombreros, a rattle, a pistol, and a flaming bottle of tequila?

is this Huron pre or post BOOM-Headshot?

Grata on the centenary. That vallejo liquid gold really is amazing. And bring on the gringorks, they're amazing figs, about to build some up myself.

Aghhhh..cat with crazy lights!....I stopped having a seizure in time to say congrats for your 100 pages. May the next 100 be as good!

PS.. This is what a cat sees after a catnip treat!

Dicrel Seijin wrote:Congratulations on getting to 100 pages.
The TWC look interesting, I didn't realize the SW have such different weapon options (a pair of lightning claws seem an odd choice when mounted on a dire wolf).
I look forward to more squig goodness and Mexican Orks--are these converted using the heads from Puppets War? With sombreros, a rattle, a pistol, and a flaming bottle of tequila?

I'm not sure about how the Orks are converted, all I know is they look absolutely amazing
I think the wolves are just for display so they are more about just looking cool as opposed to being kitted for gameplay.

inmygravenimage wrote:Grata on the centenary. That vallejo liquid gold really is amazing. And bring on the gringorks, they're amazing figs, about to build some up myself.

The gold is awesome but it is so.. so messy. I always have to apply it early on with the figure so I don't ruin anything :(

Solar_lion wrote:Aghhhh..cat with crazy lights!....I stopped having a seizure in time to say congrats for your 100 pages. May the next 100 be as good!

Woo I hope they will be too!

CalasTyphon216 wrote:is this Huron pre or post BOOM-Headshot?

I was totally wrong and it is not Huron at all, it is this -



How GORGEOUS is this??

Thats Sevrin Loth

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Red_Scorpions/MAGISTER_SEVRIN_LOTH-CHIEF-LIBRARIAN-OF-THE-RED-SCORPIONS-WITH-HONOUR-GUARD.html

Gonna look forward to seeing this.
Peace Spud

It's such a nice sculpt. Hopefully the cast is good as it's a pain to clean him up with all the details

I can not wait to see the brass scorpion.

Congrats on the 100 pages Iffy.

The cast seems fine, thats a shot of the actual mini I was given Only probs I can see are some basic tiny bubbles, not a huge issue.



Space wolves about 50% through weathering, top have their first layer of edging down. Gonna need another 4 layers at least. Hehe.




Scorp is.. larger than I expected and weighs quite a lot. Like.. a LOT.

He is gorgeous though, we are totally going to be best pals.

Wow, this thread moves fasta than mine! The bone..OMG the bone on that Dreadfleet ship..simply STUNNING! I'll catch up and comment on the rest.

It's...much bigger than I thought...wow Should be fun to paint!

cant wait to see what you come up with for that scorpion!

Ive had the pleasure of handling one of those in the flesh, such a gorgeous model.

Yay more wolves! Is all the shoulder pad work brush? It's looking amazing...

Im just floored at how nice the DreadFleet ship turned out. Holy hell, that looks pretty good, and its on a tiny ass boat! Keep it up. And was that a Geodude on top of your desk I saw? If so, your at least 2 steps up the cool ladder for that

dsteingass wrote:Wow, this thread moves fasta than mine! The bone..OMG the bone on that Dreadfleet ship..simply STUNNING! I'll catch up and comment on the rest.

It's getting a bit out of control isin't it? I mean no complaints, I am SO HAPPY that I managed to reach 100 pages and that people are actually remotely interested in my tiny arty thingies!
The bone was lots of fun, bloody hard to gt it to look right considering how tiny the mini was though :O

prime12357 wrote:It's...much bigger than I thought...wow Should be fun to paint!

It's bloody huge, it weighs so much! I think it's solid resin. No way can it be shipped anywhere, he had to come up from Cork on the train, holding it in a box on his lap! Crazy.

Rogue Wolves wrote:cant wait to see what you come up with for that scorpion!

As I said on Tumblr, I think I'm gonna spray him poop brown, then sprinkle on hundreds and thousands and some glitter. Maybe photoshop in some anazing lens flare. Aww yes.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Ive had the pleasure of handling one of those in the flesh, such a gorgeous model.

They really are. It feels like a warmachine, it's so solid. Gorgeous thing, real work of art.

Hobofisherman wrote:Yay more wolves! Is all the shoulder pad work brush? It's looking amazing...

The only thing that won't be brush work is the basic 3 colours and maybe some osl from the airbrush. The pads do in fairness have some insignias already on them, but I can't wait to continue dirtying up those metals!

They should end up like this dude, so as you can see, they have a lot more filth to get added It's fun when the only armor colours you paint are on the bottom and everything you paint on is just dirt and wear.

Just a question what is your process to paint golds? Mine always look to flat or unrealistic

Bacms wrote:Just a question what is your process to paint golds? Mine always look to flat or unrealistic

It changes a lot depending on what end result I want, for the wolves it is pretty complicated. I start out with a base layer of vallejo liquid gold - old gold, then start washing it down with watered black, sepia, and mud in different areas to shade it with some basic kinda gradients. I rehighlight it back up to shining gold and then mithril silver in a lot of varied layers then start painting on dirt, streaks, dents with mithril etc.

For clean gold I would just highlight all the way to mithril and shade a little afterwards with some nice rich brown ink, which always looks nice

So I ended up painting for like 8 hours by accident today, heh. Wow it's nearly 3 am. This is crazy.

So the dwarfy boat, nothing as horrible as base metal with no shading or highlighting, but here we go anyway!
Obviously a lot of work to go, but the green is about done and it should be shaded and a lot nicer looking tomorrow!



And the wolves. Metal weathering is near finished, one more wash layer to darken it down and a rehighlight, then it’s on to power weapons and rune glows. Golds need to be retoned down as they are too bright at the moment, and the shields need some final touches to make them look less geometric. There will be some OSL on some shields.

Sword looks very basic on purpose, it will be nearly entirely glowing so theres no point spending a huge amount of time on the silvers. Chain swords still need a fair bit of work.

Fur has basic layer down, not really started on it yet though. Bone is at about 70%. Blocked in the power glow areas, want some glowing runes too

Loving the weathering on the wolves.

Those wolves are sick! Boats not bad either