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Thanks to both of you for the comments. Such feedback makes you keep going no matter the circumstances.

Since the beginning of this year I try to do some kind of review and planning for my projects each month and as the calendar tells me it's about time.

I finished my test Marine during the last days.
Did not add much on him. Mostly the base and some dirt.



Besides this and the dwarves I presented yesterday I also worked on some terrain pieces.
For example my water tower got an alternative lower section



and I did build some more modular wall segments. The bigger part still needs to be painted.
In case someone's interested, you can find a tutorial I wrote her: German version (original) / English version (Google Translate)



The progress on my Eden minis is unfortunately very limited at present, but Gretchen at least got a few more colors.



At the beginning of this month I also worked on my Winged Harbinger of Mennoth (a present planned for a good friend).



Next up on my "to do list" are:

Brewer of Ordrodir for my Nordgaard (Starter Box would be completely painterd then)



and on or two of those big beauties
Wishes and suggestions are accepted but I make no promises to fulfill them.

Ah, using my free time this week to catch up with some things. For example posting again here.

Last weekend I've been to a Massive Voodoo Beginner Class.
This is my Daemonette result from that event.
Learned a lot. It's not 100% finished unfortunatelly.



More angles:


Hopefully there will be more updates on other minis the next days.

Took a short detour to Deadzone (only one mini (so far)) and finished painting the Rebs Commander today.
Hope you like it.



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Looks good. I like the armour and the denim.

and good job on the Daemonette. Nice base.

I like your plog lots of fun projects with alot of different schemes and ideas! We share a love for kroot and I especially like the sniper and GS work you've done on them! If you're interested I'm working on a very very side project of an all kroot army. Here's the galleries if you care to look at my take on the little buggers:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-47942-37931_**Kroot%20Rebel%20Alliance%20Showcase.html
I've got more that I haven't painted up yet in a wip section of my gallery.
Anyways, great stuff again and looking forward to your hobby madness!
Cheers
BB

Thanks to both of you.

Bebop, I know your work (not only the kroot).
Nice stuff. Great ideas and and sone cool conversions.
I really like the kroot and their style. Would be interesting to get a codex supplement for them or so. But on the other hand WH40K is already complex enough.

Check out pekels blog. He's doing a great codex of his own on I guess photoshop. Would be so cool to see a kroot one. That's a labor of love for me so I haven't gotten real far with them haha. Keep posting stuff and ill be inspired and ill paint more kroot and then all will be right in the world!

Cheers!
BB

Sorry, I'm either too dumb or to tired to find this plog. Can you provide a link?
Thanks.

And before I go to bed: A quick WIP of the miniature I paint at present.

She's looking very nice so far, that's an impressive skin tone very realistic.

Thanks. Wasn't easy because the face is so damn small.
Inspiration/input came from CMON (Japanese woman): http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1310-ethnic-skintones

Basis is "Medium Flesh".
For shadows: Medium Flesh + some Chocolate Brown
1st light: Medium Flesh + Iraqui Sand
2nd light: Medium Flesh + Iraqui Sand + Ivory
... and a good portion of luck.

OK, the lady is finished (more or less).
I'm not 100% safisfied with the base.

Anyone any ideas how to improve it? I'm out of clues at present.



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Nice work. Really like the head. The skin and hair are nice.

The base looks a bit plain in spite of the texture.
It could do with a bit more finer texture. Maybe all it needs is something as simple as a dry-brush (the grey in particular looks like it's just two-tone, dark and light).

I feel like it could also do with a little plant-life. Just a little leafy thing, not too big to distract attention away from the model. But will bring a little something to the base and make it look less plain.
Unless, of course, you are going for a dead planet look. Then you want something that fits that.

Just some suggestions.

Thank you very much.
Your hint worked fine. So easy I simply did not think of it myself.
In German the fitting proverb is: Manchmal sieht man den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht. (Sometimes you can't see the woods because of the many trees). ^^



I even found some fitting leaves amongst my supplies.

The basing shall resemble an Asian Garden, Minimalistic by design you could say.
Similar to those from Secret Weapon Miniatures: http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=79_30_87&products_id=444

Yeah, English has the same saying.
and that is a common problem with this sort of thing and why we are here.

That looks much better. Good job and good choice to make the leaves red to match the cloth.

I see, zen garden. Check out Ramos Asura's thread, he's been experimenting with the same kind of basing. You may see something useful.

A very nice job on Yurika Oda. It was an interesting mini to assemble too, or so I hear. You have the Isobel MacGregor and the Comm Tech in your painting queue?

Are you going to put any sort of signage on your water tower?

Nicely painted but the leaves have the wrong color!

Dr H wrote:I see, zen garden. Check out Ramos Asura's thread, he's been experimenting with the same kind of basing. You may see something useful.

Thanks. I know his thread and bases already. Great soruce for inspiration.

Red Harvest wrote:A very nice job on Yurika Oda. It was an interesting mini to assemble too, or so I hear. You have the Isobel MacGregor and the Comm Tech in your painting queue?

Are you going to put any sort of signage on your water tower?

Thanks.

Yes, Isobel and ComTech are in the queque but not at the top pf the list.
Next mini will be one from Godslayer and then maybe a Dogwarrior, the Anaconda or a Fjell Gangr (another Godslayer figure).
Or even one of the many WIP Infinity minis I've standing around here (Foxtro LGL, 3rd Highlander AP HMG, Zoavre HMG Sapper, etc... )

Concerning the water tower: I did some work on rust a few days back but only on the top part. Maybe I can find some time to work on it the next days and post one or two pictures.

Jehan-reznor wrote:Nicely painted but the leaves have the wrong color!

Thank you.

Well, if it should be a Japanese Cherry you're right.
What I had in mind was more something like this: https://www.google.de/search?q=roter+f%C3%A4cherahorn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jJpXU7joGIXWtAaZ14HwBg&sqi=2&ved=0CGwQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=877
But maybe it's less traditional and a new breed from the 22nd century.

Don't see those much here mostly cherry tree's in the streets

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Don't see those much here mostly cherry tree's in the streets

Thanks for the feedback anyway.
Maybe I'll make it to Japan myself one day to check for myself.
TIll then (or till I find pink leaves in the right scale) I'll stick to the red ones and claim it's maple.

OK, back to another topic.

Today I worked on the next Godslayer figure. Still a lot to do but here's a WIP for you:

Finished the Brewer of Odrorid of my Godslayer Nordgaard today



More angles:


Which means that the Nordgaard starter box is finally finished.

Group shot:

Great job on the Brewer. Nice bunch of Dwarfs.

Thanks a lot Dr H.

New month, new plans.
I went through all the ongoing projects and mini-projects on my desk and I've put some of them into the smaller "good chance to be worked on soon" pool.

A while ago I started the weathering on my water tower but so far only the upper part (tank) met the dust... ehm... rust.
I'm quite satisfied with the rust but still unsure what to do with the wood or if I should keep it as it is.



I also re-worked the base of the "Winged Harbinger of Mennoth" diorama which I'm working on. It's going to be a present for a good friend who supports me a lot in my painting.



Before:


One of my next major painting projects will quite for sure be the Fjell Gangr for Godslayer.
The painting on the base is more or less finished and the figure already primed.



On the other hand "Gretchen" from Convoy (Eden) is pretty far in the painting progress. I think I will continue to work on her tomorrow.
I'm not 100% satisfied with the color of the base. The reddish sand looked well during the planing but now...!? Any ideas?



And there's always Infinity.

Worked on an attached gun plus ammo feed for my Anaconda.
Still very early stage because there was no time left before I went away to visit my family in northern Germany and as well haven't found enough time since I'm back home.
Getting my appartment into a "livable" state was somehow more important. Well advantage is I was able to make up a little more space for hobby stuff. ^^



Also I got this used Ninja Sniper for a good price and couldn't stop myself from working on a special base project.
Should become a Asian/Japan inspired roof scene.




And tomorrow?
Mmh, Star Wars / painting marathon?

Fast update.

Finished painting "Gretchen" my first EDEN mini today.
Feedback and comments welcome.
Base lost a little of its contrast on the pictures.



More angles:

Not much progress so far this week(end).
But I've built a new unit for Dystopian Legions: Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon.



and after some feedback in a German wargaming forum I did a few improvements on Gretchen's base:
- dried gras (darkened with a little bit of Army painter wash)
- lighter color on the bones (almost pure white)
- added a small lizard



Zoom:

Nice work. Yeah, liking the new base for her.

Thanks Dr H.
This weekend I got "distracted" by a lot of housework and similar activities.
But I was able to experiment on building cheap silicone molds and Hesco bastion modules. Still a lot of progress necessary but the path to go is visible.

Mainly worked on scatter terrain and experiments the last days.

For example I've build simple half cover terrain pieces from an Ikea silicone ice cubes form. The barricades are made from gypsum and are ~2cm high. On the picture they look smaler because of the slight birds perspective.



The other piece (the Hesco barrier bag) is another experiment I'm working on.
But I also tested a recipe for cheap silicone formes I found online.
Link to the google translated tutorial in my blog: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&langpair=de|en&u=http://pfiek.wordpress.com/
Direct link to the English tutorial I based my experiment on: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Your-Own-Sugru-Substitute/?ALLSTEPS

Works quite fine for non-complex objects and is a lot cheaper than pourable silicone.

I also painted a little bit on my Godslayer Fjell Gangr, but I did not get very far by now.

Did not do much painting the last days but worked on the next experiment fpr scatter terrain (and played a little War Thunder Ground ).

First I tried to build a very modular and flexible Hesco bastion by finding an easy way to create the individual Hesco boxes/sacks from gypsum.
Not everthing worked as planned and there are still some optimizations necessary but the current result looks quite OK to me.



If you are interested in my whole experiment, you can find the tutorial in my blog (Google translate to English): http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpfiek.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F05%2F25%2Fpeters-versuchslabor-hesco-barrikaden-moglichst-modular%2F&sandbox=1

During the experiment I also came up with the idea to build a variant with several linked boxes. In case I want to build a larger fortification it could be useful.
Please note that this wall is not build with the exactly same technique as the single one above.

Interesting experiments. Seem to be working out ok.

Danke, Herr Doktor.

On Sunday I continued painting on my Fjell Gangr but so far I wasn't able to finish it. Metal parts, braces, boots, etc still have to be done.



And after a major drawback on the gun for my Anaconda TAG (ammo feed made out of plasticard broke and I replaced it by a piece of aluminum) I could add a few more details to it.
The fotos do not show a lot. Maybe I can do better ones later this week.



But most imprtant of all: I did some big changes/progress on my Winged Harbinger of Mennoth.
First of all I did a few more things on the base. Glued some dirt on it for a little extra detail on the stone plates.
As well I finished the label and did a connection between the shaped aluminum and the wood socket.
I already primed it because I thought I would find the time to start painting it but I was wrong. Got distracted by several other things. ^^



The orginal model had a sword with Mennoth icons on it. Never liked it so I replaced it with a lance.
The tip is from a WHFB Chaos Marrauder Horsemen. The shaft is made from a 2mm brass rod.

"Before" and "after" shot:


Next step was to build a nice transition between the wings and the hood and the back.
A little tricky beause the wings still need to be removable for painting. The white mass is "Pattafix". Something like BlueTac.



And last but not least I used the rest of my Green Stuff to do something with the shield.
It's from the same Reaper miniature the wings are from (Deav Angel) and had a strange symbol on it. After removing this it looked a little naked so I modelled a trim and a new symbol on it.



No, the "U" is no reference to the Ultramarines. ^^
The future owner's names starts with a "U".

If you like my new creations, please leave a comment and/or a vote on the pics.
Thanks.