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Not Online!!! wrote:
The wood bits are my favourite.
Especially the imagifier

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if I should have done the armor in that wood color.

Tariana Palos, Canoness with Blessed Blade and Fusion Pistol, and Amalia Novena. So much fiddly bits.

Ooh, the candles on the last lady are great. There can’t be much left to do?

Another John Prins Christmas classic, I don't know how you manage to pull it off over such short periods! Sisters are looking great, I like the unusual colour scheme

 gobert wrote:
Ooh, the candles on the last lady are great. There can’t be much left to do?

Waiting for texture paint to dry on one Mortifier, have a 2nd Mortifier basecoated and shaded, and an Immolator basecoated.


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Maharg wrote:
Another John Prins Christmas classic, I don't know how you manage to pull it off over such short periods! Sisters are looking great, I like the unusual colour scheme

I gotta say it's hard to keep the painting discipline. I'm trying to get 5 hours of painting a day stuck in, and I've mostly managed it, on the average. 1250 points of sisters is taking a lot longer than 2000 points of necrons!



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Last mini of 2020, but I've got 5 more days of vacation left and one Mortifier and one Immolator to go.

I was curious how doing the exhausts as just smoke rather than flames would turn out, and I like the end product well enough. Mortifiers aren't my favorite model overall but I do think Sisters kind of need them as a heavy CC unit and twin heavy bolters is nothing to sneeze at. But I was surprised at how relatively easy they are to paint given how fiddly they are, there's not a ton of detail that needs more attention than just a wash and some edge highlights.

Some old jungle tree stems work nicely with the barbed bracken for some extra dense foliage.





And no, I didn't bother with detailing the syringes on the back.

Looks nice and rustic with the wooden panelling! the tree stumps add to the look for the larger base. Cool stuff as usual

Anchorite done, so squad done!

And the final piece is finished, the Immolator!



Yes, it's a big green brick. But it's got lots of fussy detail (OMG the fussy detail). I may just buy Space Marine Rhinos for sisters.



I tried something here I can't remember seeing before, just painting headlights silver. I don't know why I can't remember seeing it, it makes sense to me as most headlights are backed with shiny reflective metal. I quibbled a long time about leaving the window off entirely. It was a lot of work - I sprayed it with contrast medium, then painted black primer, then the INSTAR Army Grey, followed by diluted Skeleton Horde Contrast. I didn't want the stained glass standing out too brightly.



I do regret not doing the wood in brown, but the shrine was assembled before I thought of it and there is no way I was going to do something that fiddly around the inside of the shrine. I tried doing the door icons with drybrushing like the statuettes but it just wasn't working so I put in a solid layer of my wood color. Too big, too flat.



And since the project is done, here's a full army picture.



1250 points in 3 weeks! Thanks to everyone for the comments and well wishes, I hope to do something like this again next year.

Incredible work as always mate. Don't sweat the small stuff now, they look fantastic as a group! Really unique take on sisters and you pulled off some inspiring techniques and ideas here all in a fraction of the time it takes most people to settle on a scheme.

Congratulations, I'll be looking forward to the next one...

Great work, very clean paint jobs all round and that army shot at the end is sweet. Keen to see your next thread where you paint an absurd amount of minis in record time!

That's such an interesting concept - kinda reminds me of recent hyper-stylized video games like Ashen which use modern shading tech without 'realistic' textures.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Great work, very clean paint jobs all round and that army shot at the end is sweet. Keen to see your next thread where you paint an absurd amount of minis in record time!

Thanks, but I think this is the kind of output most commission painters manage, so I don't think it's that extraordinary. I will say that doing these projects have forced me to think a lot more about how I go about things and forced me to make compromises that I wouldn't do on other projects. But I put a lot of planning in before I get started and I'm assembling minis for weeks beforehand! It might be fairer to say I took 2 months to do this project, it's just that the painting took place in 3 weeks. And even then, I'm on vacation, so I have 5-7 hours a day I can hammer away at the project, not a couple hours after a day at the job. It's a lot easier to do a week's worth of normal life hobby when you can sit at a desk for 6 hours and paint!

Even then, I had to push myself. It's easy to think "Oh, 3 hours is enough today" and then you run out of time (and steam) towards the end. Blogging about the project is a really big help, especially the encouragement you get (from Dakka, but also Twitter and various Discord servers). If I was just doing it for myself I'd probably do an easy 500 points over Christmas and take it waaaaaaay easier.