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Gonna paint up some good old fashioned footslogging Primaris

This month is rumbling along at an alarming pace so I've got one model lined up for footslogger.



Mighty Matilda from my new Yaegir Kill Team.

Daia T'Nara - Xenonian Guardswoman


If we're being honest, I didn't enjoy this one much - drab paint jobs just aren't for me. Luckily the rest of the box is going to be traitor guard, so they can dress for pride and we're all good.

If you have the minis, and nothing else fits the theme, and you can prime them . . .
Maybe you can paint . . . the A-Team.



Been a while since I've entered a comp., but I'll through my hat in the ring with these models from Crooked Dice.
I also bought a resin version of B.A.'s van, but it's not exactly the right scale for the models (about 80-90% big enough), and then they wouldn't be on foot either.

@Daia T’Nara I really like the way you’ve done the creepy alien plants; where are the models from?

 Jadenim wrote:
@Daia T’Nara I really like the way you’ve done the creepy alien plants; where are the models from?

Those are just the basic 'Barbed Bracken' GW does. Good little set, they're very thin but the plastic is flexible and springy, I can't see them taking damage from anything that wouldn't just pulverise the miniature anyway. The website says to use superglue on them, but I hadn't bothered checking that when I assembled the mini and just used plastic cement, and they seem pretty firmly anchored. It's pricey of course, but I'm too lazy to go looking for cheaper options online, and since I'm only using it for one-offs like this, not a whole army, the four sprues in the box are probably going to last the rest of my hobby life.

Steadily painting my ninja, half a paint layer a day. It's not fantastic speed but should get me there on time. Of course I expect to get a good day in before that. A month can't be all bad days, right?

Month is half over. Time to check progress and adjust schedules and goals! Get that paint down.

Also time to start kicking around ideas for next month.

I managed to get some work done over the weekend (caught covid last week and have been feeling like I have been hit by a bus)

I did get some new hobby supplies in the form of oil paints while down in Newcastle last week getting infected and have been trying those out for this months challenge.

First time using oil paints, think I have went to baby blue tone, need to try darken him up a little I think, going for an undead trio of freshly resurrected giants.

I had the first week of July off from work, so I'm nearly done with my genestealers.

My pitch for next month: "Absolute Units!" (Something huge. Or, a squad of soldiers!)

Having had no painting mojo at all this month, finally settled on something:

Setaris Ravagers- not so much footsloggers as tail / wing sloggers! Nasty scavenging alien Dinos, from Brimstone but also ideal for 2000AD, Stargrave, you name it.

And having found a bit of mojo, some colour!

Halfway through the month, but I can see quite a few others are only just starting too, so I reckon I've got no excuses not to join in...

I was planning to finally put together some Death Korps veterans for Kill Team, but I looked at the sprues, and how many pieces they were in, and basically lost the will to live. So I've put them back on the shelf.

I've dug out an old 1/35th scale Maschinen Kreiger SAFS toy instead. I saw these at Salute a while back, when South London Warlords ran a big display game using loads of them. So I bought some, and, like 99% of my planned projects, put them in a box and ignored them.

But I've found one, and it was a bit broken, but fixable.



I chopped it up a bit, to repose the legs, to give it a bit of movement:



Then I glued on a few bits and bobs, and slapped on some putty:



I always think of SAFS as being fairly slow, plodding, lumbering things, so hopefully it fits the 'Footsloggers' theme OK. Now I just have to decide on a colour scheme, and go crazy with over-the-top weathering!

cheers,
Michael

Finished.







Cheers,

CB

Tomb King is coming along:

Despite a bad prime, I think he's gonna look okay, at least from tabletop distance. I need to figure out a good way to paint his undead flesh though. I'll think of something, I'm sure.

Great work, Captain Brown! Love that axe-head!

That Tomb King's looking good too, Zergsmasher - classic colours! I feel maybe a pale blue-grey wash would go well on the flesh, and help tie it into the rest of the colourscheme?

I've been cracking on well with the SAFS thingy... I'm trying a new weathering technique, where you basically do all the rust first, then paint over it. We'll see how it goes!

Basecoated with black, then oversprayed with a tan brown. I figured that'd be a good base for the rust.



Then I just went crazy with the rust paints!



Hopefully the next stage will tone it down a bit...

cheers,
Michael

Well, here we are.

Lots of early progress this month. I dig it.

Mandos done.







Keep.up the good work, everybody!

Genestealers: DONE!

 Lovejoy wrote:
...Hopefully the next stage will tone it down a bit...

Well, the next stage is done, and it did tone things down! I used an old chopped-down brush to scrub on some bluey-grey, then a bit of highlighting, and a few scratch marks.



Next is a couple of unit markings or something like that, and a bit of grime, I guess.

cheers,
Michael


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...and I reckon this is about done! Maybe a bit of stuff for me to fiddle with still, but I should be able to take proper pics tomorrow.



cheers,
Michael

Here's my entry for this month;

Looncourt gnomeskins

(I don't like grots)



Selected the 5 on-foot minis out of the 7 total of the looncourt.

 Geifer wrote:
I'll enter this freshly sculpted cyber-ninja.

I love this

He's finished!
Here's one of the pics without the spoiler tags, just for visibility...






And the formatted spoiler-taggy bit:



Lovejoy - Footslogger

Basic, bright and colourful. My Dwarfen footsloggers are done.





Nothing very uniform, just a variety of styles for players to choose in a dwarf skirmish game.

Wow, their bases even match their uniforms!

Suggestions for next month's theme:

Slow and Steady

The Last Drop (Drop of liquid? Supply drop? Drop from orbit?)

Taste (Paint?) the Rainbow - whatever you paint, it should be colourful.

Sun, Sea & Sand - in honour of the summer holidays, paint something that features one or more of those themes.

Wow Lovejoy, that weathering is a thing of beauty

If it's suggestion time, I've got a couple (that totally aren't things I've assembled but haven't started painting yet so it'd be convenient):

I Understood That Reference! - Something about this mini and/or how it's painted is a nod to something else. It might be built in from the start like Sly Marbo or Mad Donna, homemade like an Ork Flyboy wearing aviators because he feels da need fer speed, or just take your word for it like a scout with a shotgun he calls his Boomstick or a Wych with blond hair because this Barbie is queen of the fighting pits. Dakkadakka, their brushes ready.

Beep Boop - Villains who are more machine than man, or your plastic pal who's fun to be with (unless he's feeling very depressed). Doesn't have to be bleeding-edge quantum computing in a body made from pure unobtainium, to our distant descendants on feral worlds clockwork and a steam engine could've been enough to turn a hunk of scrap into a metal beast. Robots, cyborgs, labour-saving devices or smart weapons.

Beep Boop sounds really good, I would like to paint a robot

But I'm already painting my Beep Boop this month because she's on foot!

I understood that Star Trek reference in there But given that General Grievous is getting built right now, I'm all about the beep boop